peacemakers, if you will, after years of warrior diplomacy. they know want to be peacemakers. but i think the more interesting piece of this, they recognize that russia is losing because they are, and they cannot afford to have their strategic partner lose this fight. they rely on russia for energy, they rely on russia for high ec the items, for military items, and they cannot afford to see russia fail, and i think that s at stake here for china. neil: so where this goes, i guess, is anyone s guess. but we re told that the ukraine would never, ever consider giving up an inch of ground to the russians, even extend thing it to crimea which, of course, russia had taken over years prior. is that an unsustainable position? no. we need to follow the lead of president zelenskyy. he s going to define what the outcome of the war is and neil: that s what he said his tactic is right. neil: not an inch of ground. right. they can win, crimea is part of
more explicit supply of military items so if you think ammunition, yes, a critical issue, guided weapons, another critical issue but also potentially advanced armoured vehicles and so on because the russians are having to dig deep, dig very deep theme into old soviet era stocks. we are seeing quite a lot of older soviet era equipment being fielded on the battlefield to try to equip some of the newly mobilised forces that the russians are putting into the field so any weaponry they can get of a good quality is going to be significant. we know they ve already got ammunition from north korea, we know about the significant supply of iranian drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, to the russian war effort but, you know, china throwing its weight, its industrial weight behind russia could be a significant
lost battles of kyiv, in the north. and refocused its forces on east and south. and since then, it has ground out in a grinding offensive with enormous use of rockets and missiles and indirect fire of all types, group out tactical gains, seized all of one of the oblas they focused on. and now it is refocusing to seize the rest of donets ins province, that is on going now, ukrainians are working hard to absorb the huge quantity of weapons and ammunition and other military items, it say real race inl terms of a war of attrition on the
lost the battles in kyiv, and the north, and refocused forces on east and south. since then it has ground out in a grinding offensive with enormous use of artillery rockets and missiles, direct fire of all-times, it has seized all of one of the oblas, they focused on. now it is refocusing to seize the rest of denets province, that is on going now, ukrainians are working very hard to observe the enormous quantity of weapons and ammunition and other military items it is a real race in terms of a war of attrition on the battle
from a few i don t need a ride, i need ammo. the 44 -year-old president o ukraine who has made a mark for himself and who has been known all around the world heard he s address the united kingdom recently he did the same thing in canada yesterday, asking for more help. it s amazing when you think about how elevated he has becom on the world stage. he s been called church hill entity church he is a former comedian. everyone takes him deadly seriously as the president of ukraine in a difficult position. fighting in a way no one anticipated up against putin an his army. he will be asking for a number of military items on his list and it s interesting to me, people might not recognize what they re seeing on the left-hand side of your screen right this is a new auditorium and congress . i think it s striking that this is the backdrop rather than the very grand backdrop we saw and the uk parliament.