The United States and ukraines other allies are, quote, Directly At War with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as, not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. 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 they just 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. My colleague Samantha Simmons spoke earlier to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. You cannot mention the ukrain
okay, thank you. let s go now to delete russia investigator, he has been put on russia s wanted list for his work uncovering the poisoned putin opposition leader, you can see all of that and then now oscar-winning documentary, also out front, phillips o brien, professor of strategic studies at the university of st. andrews who has been tirelessly chronicling and following the war. thank you so much to both of you. let me start with you, phil. fred mentioned putin s upcoming meeting with the chinese president xi. the u.s. believes the meeting is because china putin wants china to give him more weapons but i knew you ve been looking at a lot of this. how bad is putin s weapon shortage right now? we have to understand, russia is not a great power economically. it is really relatively small economy, not a productive economy, and resource extraction. it cannot make nearly the amount of war material that it
and then the ukrainians hit them where they were not, and blew apart the russian lines. what we have seen is the ukrainians, the russians with a very thin defensive line here, and the ukrainians just blew it open, and the russians ran away. phillips o brien, thank you very much for joining, us we really appreciate it. coming up, former ambassador to russia will join us next with a look at how russian state tv is losing confidence in vladimir putin. my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it s one pill, once a day, that s effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that s rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb.
to professional cricket, playing in the women s big bash league in 2015. i ll have more for you in the next hour. let s get ore now on ukraine and the new russian offensive focussing on the east of the country. earlier today my colleague joanna gosling spoke with phillips o brien, who previously ran the scottish centre of war studies and is now a professor of strategic studies at the university of st andrews. she asked him about the impact of fighting on ukranians in the donbas region. i mean, it s a fascinating region, because it has been the heart of what had previously been talked about as russian speaking ukraine, and it was the industrial heartland as