authorities on both sides say they are taking immediate steps to end the violence. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in vladimir putin s mind, ukraine is a fake state manipulated by the west. his effort to drag it back into the russian world began long before his all out invasion a year ago. back in 2014, he showed his contempt for kyiv sovereignty in crimea and the donbas. ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is 0lesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? 0lesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and
killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. and we begin in the us where the department of defence says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. the pentagon press secretary brigadeer general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defence website saying the balloon is being tracked. he added: he also said: our north america correspondent peter boes joins me now. we heard from officials say it isn t a threat but what more do we know about the story? this is unusual we know about the story? this is unusual but we
a convicted italian mafia killer has been arrested in france after 16 years on the run. he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines and those conspiracy theories. we speak to the microsoft founder, bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their oversimplistic explanation. and we begin in the us, where the department of defense says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana, but haven t revealed its current location. these are the first pictures we have received, which are believed to be of the baloon. the department of defense says the baloon was most certainly launched by china, but there s been no word yet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying the balloon is being tracked. our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been follow
he was hiding out as a pizza chef. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories. we speak to the microsoft founder bill gates. i guess people are looking for the bogeyman behind the curtain their over simplistic explanation. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. and we begin in the us, where the department of defense says a chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over the northern us. officials at the pentagon say the balloon had flown over the state of montana but haven t revealed its current location. these are the first pictures we have received, which are believed to be of the balloon. the department of defence says the balloon was most certainly launched by china, but there s been no word yet from beijing. the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder posted a statement on the department of defense website, saying, our north america correspondent, peter bowes, has been following the story and gives us some more detail. this is
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home