lead to a nuclear response? i don t want to go any details, how nato would react. definitely there would be reaction because it would endanger nato as such. see, it s hard to imagine anything but more escalation, given what you have said about a resolution needing to recognise ukraine s sovereignty over all of its territory, and of course that includes crimea. put that against what the russians are saying about their determination, by all means, to keep their control over chunks of ukrainian territory, we are on course, are we not, for that most dangerous escalation? i think we have seen, even during this war, that even russia, a dedication to hold on something, has its own limits. we have seen it in the very beginning when the russian invasion wasn t able to invade
we are on course, are we not, for that most dangerous escalation? i think we have seen, even during this war, that even russia, a dedication to hold on something, has its own limits. we have seen it in the very beginning when the russian invasion wasn t able to invade kyiv. we have seen it in kherson oblast when russia left the whole khers. ..kharkiv. sorry, kharkiv, kharkiv oblast, due to the successful ukrainian offensive. so, i think ukrainians, they have a strong will to fight for their freedom. we need to provide them with help. and in the end of the day, russia will understand that
i think we have seen, even during this war, that even russia, a dedication to hold on something, has its own limits. we have seen it in the very beginning when the russian invasion wasn t able to invade kyiv. we have seen it in kherson 0blast when russia left the whole khers. ..kharkiv. sorry, kharkiv, kharkiv 0blast, due to the successful ukrainian offensive. so, i think ukrainians, they have a strong will to fight for their freedom. we need to provide them with help. and in the end of the day, russia will understand that international recognised borders are international recognised borders, and the charter of un is quite clear that those borders shouldn t be changed by brute force. i want to end again by sort of tapping into your
get what vladimir putin wanted but invasion wasn t necessarily real. on sunday i asked if putin would invade and you said blunt live bluntly. talk to me about diplomacy and a deescalation which we have seen none of. well, clearly the facts on the ground have not changed substantially. russia has put 60% of their ground combat power in and around the south and maritime potential attack. they have half their air power deployed. they brought forces from all over the giant russian federation. i was watching video purporting to show the withdrawal. those trains were half loaded. there s no reason to think that the reality on the ground has yet changed.
all-out invasion wasn t even possible. and yet the speech you just heard from him this evening was a remarkably different tone. this almost seemed to be a last ditch appeal to the people of russia, trying to circumvent. he shifted into russian saying, listen, your leadership has approved for nearly 200,000 forces to take a step across this border into the territory of a another country. frankly, it s unlikely most russians will even hear that speech, and its even less likely president putin is going to change his plans as a result of that speech. and so for the 1.4 roughly million people living here this feels like a pretty ominous time. as i said you don t see evidence of panic. you can see the streets behind me are very quiet. it s the middle of the night. most people are asleep, but i m not sure how easily people are resting at the moment after hearing that from their