it seems a month or two ago, you and other senior russian diplomats were very keen to tell the united states and europe not to send heavy weaponry to ukraine. in the words of sergey lavrov, if they did so, there would be very serious consequences. and he said, indeed, it might raise the possibility of escalation to the point of nuclear confrontation. those heavy weapons are now being sent, including multiple rocket launch systems from the united states and from the uk, even heavy artillery now being sent by the german government. it is happening. so where are these consequences? i read a quotation recently of an assistant defence secretary of the us, who said that the us does not want to escalate the conflict but russia has no say in what the us can or cannot supply to ukraine. i would agree with the latter part of the sentence,
multiple rocket launch systems from the united states and from the uk, even heavy artillery now being sent by the german government. it is happening. so where are these consequences? i read a quotation recently of an assistant defence secretary of the us who said that the us does not want to escalate the conflict but russia has no say in what us can or cannot supply to ukraine. i would agree with the latter part of the sentence but he should have dropped the former one then. this is a clear escalation of the conflict. we said that if these weapons are there a ready supply being continued to supplied and it will make us to adopt a decision to move ukrainian forces as far from where they cannot reach territory either russia or donbas. this is a clear escalation,
but i know that zelensky declared the complete and total mobilisation of the country. and i know that he s sending young boys, young boys without any military experience to the front line. it seems a month or two ago, you and other senior russian diplomats were very keen to tell the united states and europe not to send heavy weaponry to ukraine. in the words of sergey lavrov, if they did so, there would be very serious consequences. and he said, indeed, it might raise the possibility of escalation to the point of nuclear confrontation. those heavy weapons are now being sent, including multiple rocket launch systems from the united states and from the uk, even heavy artillery now being sent by the german government. it is happening. so where are these consequences? i read a quotation recently
from the economy and officials? who so desperately wanted these weapons? that s right, jonathan. desperately wanted, before. i want to give you context. i know we were talking about the recovery of some of the suburbs around kyiv the other day. at the beginning of the week. this is another angle of bucha, this is a market, we haven t seen anything like this in the last month. this is life coming back. this was a huge mall, that was attacked as you can see. still some wreckage there. you have an apartment building right over here. which was also blown through, again, a lot of the cleanup is underway jonathan. but it could not look more different, of course, then the east. which is where he we have been focused on. and where those mlr s, multiple launch rocket systems are badly needed. when you talk to ukrainian officials today. they say it s too little too late. they ve been asking for these systems, these advanced rocket launch systems. they have really hoped they would come in time