of a woman in custody. mahsa amini, who was 22, was arrested by the morality police, who d accused her of breaking strict rules on the wearing of the hijab. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has announced a partial mobilisation for this war which he claims is not a war and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so, what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? well, my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mp, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush tsintsadze in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you now have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukraine s battlefield successes in rece
and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukrainian battlefield successes in recent days, given that the response from putin in moscow appears to be a very significant escalation of his military commitment. definitely, you re putting it right. it is about escalation and readiness to escalate that we are seeing in this speech that was delivered by putin. and we see that he is probably trying to address several audiences, from my perspective, both internal and the russian federation trying to, not to accept that he is basically losing to ukrainian armed forces, but is trying to present this
move of nuclear weapons. are you telling me that in your opinion, what putin has just said will not make a blind bit of difference to ukraine s determination to push on with its counteroffensive, trying to take back territory in luhansk, trying to take back territory in kherson, it won t make any difference at all to your military strategy? why would it preclude us from liberating our people and our territories? again, it s about our people, it s about our territory, it s about international law, it s about justice, if you wish, and all the people who have been under occupation and who have got this blessing of being liberated by the ukrainian armed forces, they desperately want prosecution for all of those who have committed crimes in our territory, including their commander,
unprecedented solutions and actions. because, no one would believe back on the 24th of february the germany would totally change its doctrine and would be ready to provide weaponry to the country that is at war and that is what germany is already doing. so, unfortunately, some of the things are taking more time than we would like to happen. and unfortunately, that creates additional new graves and postponement and it s creating additional graves in a territory because of the people were dying from russian aggression and i m sure that all those political decisions are needed to be taken to protect not exclusive ukraine and i underline, it s not about exclusively us, it s about your well being, it s about your rules, procedures, values, your prosperity, your future
the west, think about our nuclear power. this is not a bluff. how do you in the ukraine deal with that? well, first and foremost, you have to understand that we are not naive people in ukraine. we ve seen so many atrocities over this period of time that we understand that he might not be just exclusively bluffing. but at the same time, we also believe that if there will be a clear understanding within russia that their attempt to use the nuclear weapons against any territory of our country will get the response with nuclear response from the west. that could stop this absolute madman that has started this aggressive, non provoked war and that could also stop his so called elite or his clique, rather, that is accompanying him there from using this