but will that be enough given russia s evident vulnerabilities? my guest is vetreran russian foreign policy analyst and kremlin adviser sergey karaganov. is putin s invasion turning into a longterm disaster for russia? sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome and let me ask you a simple question, after almost a year of war in ukraine is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is no question about that, the question is of course, the casualties, the destruction of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in order war of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in our war with the west, i sympathise with them. but it is their fate. i m surprised you say that because a month before the invasion began on the 24th of debris, on the 19th of january you actually said this i am sure we have no plans to invade ukraine because it would be and to quote your
the 27 year old s guilty plea came after his lawyers failed to have the charge dismissed on mental health grounds. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i?m stephen sackur. the war in ukraine is stuck in a form of bloody winter stalemate. but the expectation is major military offensives are coming as both russia and ukraine seek a game changing shift in the dynamic of the conflict. putin has a clear numbers advantage when it comes to fighting an all out war, but will that be enough given russia s evident vulnerabilities? my guest is vetreran russian foreign policy analyst and kremlin adviser sergey karaganov. is putin s invasion turning into a longterm disaster for russia? sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome, and let me ask you a simple question. after almost a year of war in ukraine, is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is
sergey karaganov in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. good afternoon. good afternoon and welcome and let me ask you a simple question, after almost a year of war in ukraine is russia ready to acknowledge that it is going badly wrong? it is a war. and we will be winning the war, there is no question about that, the question is of course, the casualties, the destruction of ukraine, ukrainians are used as cannon fodder in order war as cannon fodder in our war with the west, i sympathise with them. but it is their fate. i m surprised you say that because a month before the invasion began on the 24th of debris, on the 19th of january you actually said this. i am sure we have no plans to invade ukraine because it would be and to quote your precise words, senseless. at thatjuncture this piece was never published. iassumed. but you still wrote it? i wrote it. i accept that. i assumed it would happen later or else i thought that it should have happened earlier but it happened when it happe
ukraine ukraine s door step. he said ukraine is unvowed one year after russian president vladimir putin sent tanks and troops rolling across the border in a war that is still raging. one year ago, the world was bracing for the fall of kyiv. well, i just came from a visit to kyiv, and i can report kyiv stands strong. kyiv stands proud. it stands tall. and most important, it stands industry. two extraordinary scenes today of two very different leaders. president biden spoke just hours after his russian counterpart delivered his own address in moscow. during his peach, president putin blamed the u.s. for the war. he also announced he s suspended russia s participation in the new s.t.a.r.t. arms control treaty. cnn white house correspondent phil mattingly is in warsaw, poland. phil, president biden said the russian invasion was beyond ukraine. it tested freedoms and democracies everywhere. and says if there s one wore that stops these autocracies, that word is no. reporter:
it also caps missiles and other delivery platforms at 700. more on the agreement now. the agreement also allowed inspections of the weapons sites but those were suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic. now russia is accused of stalling. last month, u.s. officials said russia is not complying with its allegations under the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty to explore the facilities on its territory. bianna. and we should note that vladimir putin has just submitted a draft of this suspension law to the russian douma. it s going to be a joke really, it s going to be rubber stamped like everything else in his government. let s talk with jill dougherty an expert on russia. and now teaches at georgetown university. jill, it s great to see you. so, this really was for the most part a repetition of speeches putin has given leading up to the invasion. i thought it was rather stale. i turned it off after 45 minutes.