Of the Ukrainian Military intelligence. He said that basically nine people were killed and 16 injured. We are not clear how he got that information, we are not clear whether it is true, it certainly hasnt been verified yet. One of the things he said was that two russian generals had been badly injured in the attack. One is part of the operation in zaporizhzhia which lies to the north east of crimea and the other person is linked to russias north sea fleet. Both those people apparently, according to Ukrainian Military intelligence, badly injured. He did not comment on reports that the admiral of russias Black Sea Fleet was killed, so that certainly, even from the ukrainian side, hasnt stood up in any way. Ukraine Special Forces have also commented. They have said basically the attack was timed to coincide with a meeting of the leadership of russias naval forces but with a meeting of the leadership of russias navalforces but again with a meeting of the leadership of russias naval forces
Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then theyjust dont fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. Earlier i spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university, he told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weaknes
Meanwhile, russias Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has used his address to the Unted Nations General Assembely in new york to criticise the unites states, nato and the European Union for trying to force the world to play according to their own self centered rules. The collective west has a calling card and it has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then theyjust dont fulfill them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. For more on this im joined by phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at St Andrews University welcome to you. Good to have your own. What you make of the comments of Sergey Lavrov . To be as expected . On the one hand absolu
People were killed and 16 people were injured. We are not clear how he got that information, we are not clear whether it is true, it certainly hasnt been verified yet. One of the things he said was that two russian generals had been badly injured in the attack. One is part of the operation in zaporizhzhia, which lies to the north east of crimea, and the other person is linked to russias north sea fleet. Both those people apparently, according to Ukrainian Military intelligence, badly injured. Mr budanov did not comment on reports that the admiral of russias Black Sea Fleet was killed, so that certainly, even from the ukrainian side, hasnt stood up in any way. Ukraine Special Forces have also commented on this. They have said basically the attack was timed to coincide with a meeting of the leadership of russias naval forces, but again they gave no evidence for that claim and it hasnt been independently verified. Russia on the other hand has stayed remarkably quiet. In fact, they have go
Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones and then theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. Earlier i spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from the Point Of View of weakness on ukraine, that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion of russias right to invade ukraine, of russias annexation of ukraine, the parts of ukraine. So, in that sense, it was really running away from the story of the moment which is th