my guest is ukraine s energy minister german galushchenko. battlefield gains cannot disguise strategic vulnerability. is ukraine ready for putin s escalation strategy? german galushchenko mtf, welcome to hardtalk. hello, sir. minister, you have had another day of air strikes in kyiv. these so called kamikaze drones supplied to russia by the iranians that are causing havoc right now in kyiv and in many towns and cities across your country, how worried are you about the fear they are spreading? well, we have seen, they started using drones and targeting the energy infrastructure and that is the massive shellings which started from the monday a week ago and the shellings continue every day and is not only this, several hours ago and shelled by missiles and the number of energy objects in all of ukraine and that is a new approach of russians against ukraine and the targeting of energy infrastructure. and i know you and ukraine are careful about giving too much information about t
wrong and what are your thoughts as you reflect on one year? president putin made two big strategic mistakes when he invaded ukraine. the first and the most important was that he totally underestimated the strength, the courage, the bravery of the ukrainian people. the ukrainian armed forces and ukrainian political leadership, president zelenskyy. and then underestimated nato. nato allies and partners. to support ukraine and the u.s. leadership in providing unprecedented military support to ukraine and that s also the reason why ukraine has been able to push back the russian forces from the north in kyiv, in the east kharkiv and in the south kherson. now we need to continue to support ukraine so they can liberate their own land. as we talk about what continuing support looks like, you said president biden s visit to kyiv sent a message of america s ironclad commitment to
new science shows it gets in between teeth to destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. listerine. feel the whoa! the streaks up there in the sky, you can see more artillery rockets apparently firing from russian territory towards the territory around kharkiv. i don t know if you can hear this right now. that was our colleague fred pleitgen on the ground in russia a year ago just hours after moscow launched a full-scale inv invasion of ukraine on the 24th of february, 2022. over the past 12 months ukraine has withstood attacks from a larger military force rolled back initial gains and held the line in hotly contested regions,
planning to take half in fact, they are planning to take half of ukraine at least kharkiv for three days, and it s what putin was planning and he failed and i m sure he will fail to stop us. i just wonder whether you feel that in washington, for example, they are calibrating their support for you. this really do not want ukraine to lose, but they do not necessarily want ukraine to achieve all out victory because asjoe biden says, the world is very close to what he called armageddon. nuclear confrontation. and he is determined in the white house to avoid that. i think without a victory, we cannot be safe. any kinds of agreements or whatever would be discussed with russia, they will solve nothing. he s talking about nuclear we already have the accidents in chernobyl and zaporizhzhia
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