officials and the pentagon. they said this would be a very bloody conflict for putin. what you find with leaders that have who are authoritarian and been in power as long as putin, they sometimes are not told what the mood is on the ground in places like ukraine. the estimates are that 50,000 civilians could be killed, 4,000 russians could be coming home in body bags and half of the ukraine military could be wiped out by the far superior russian military. those body bags coming home to russia, the fact that fine, you can take kiev in 48 hours and you can encircle ukraine and send in your military pulled from across russia, from the west to the east, but you re going to have to occupy that country. we have heard analysis that, you know, putin may take ukraine in
kind of mood. he s not totally buying any of it. the nato secretary-general, well, isn t either. or, by the way, ukraine s foreign minister who says his country has a rule. quote, we don t believe what we hear, we believe what we see. and so what we re still seeing, frankly, is russia moving forces around, amassing more than 150,000 troops circling ukraine and of course now belarus. and biden says the u.s. hasn t actually verified whether russian military units are really in fact returning to their home bases after their drills as has been claimed by putin and the like. and though putin may well, he may say he doesn t want war translator: do we want it or not? of course not. that s exactly why we put forward proposals on negotiating process which should result on agreement for ensuring equal security for all including our
the world has been discussing russia, the results of russian parliamentary elections, no recognition of legitimacy of state dumas has been elected. something very painfulfor putin. the world was discussing alexei navalny s poisoning. there was a request of 55 countries, led by great britain, in the 0pcw, the chemical weapons organisation, targeting russia, threatening sanctions, asking questions about navalny s poisoning. there was a lot of buzz around alexei navalny s new trial and his persecution, and also persecution of independent ngos and independent media in russia. that s all gone. so putin may. putin was able to divert the agenda completely, so something that was, like, very important and very painfulfor him. right, but. ..four months ago is not any more existent on the agenda. and. yeah, but it didn t take
so let s continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the ukrainian people, to our and forging a deep bond that connects our two nations, we stand with you, we stand with you. putin may circular kyiv with tanks but it ukrainian people. he will never distinguish their love of freedom and he will never, never wake in the free world. applause.. we meet tonight in america that had lived through two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, two of the hardest years this nation has everfaced, the pandemic has been punishing and so many families are living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food, gas and housing and so much more. i
independent media in russia. that s all gone. so, putin may. putin was able to divert the agenda completely, so something that was, like, very important and very painfulfor him. right, but. ..four months ago is not any more existent on the agenda. yeah, but it didn t take the invasion of ukraine to make it pretty obvious to me and many others that, as long as vladimir putin s in power, it seems highly unlikely that vladimir. that alexei navalny will ever be freed. would you accept that? and do you think that there is a real danger, given his health problems he looks gaunt, he s suffered the novichok poisoning is there a danger that alexei navalny may die in prison? there is a danger. definitely so. and also, because of this diversion, because the only things that kept alexei navalny relatively secure was the attention the world was paying, and now the world. it s completely understandable.