he might do it, but maybe that was not the speech whereby he was going to announce it. what i found interesting was that he addressed sort of obliquely the problems with the russian military saying that in the next five years, how about right now, we have got to figure out how to get our military better than it is essentially, he was saying. we have to modernize. we have to do, you know, all these things that he was saying. clearly knowing, especially through the russian military bloggers on the ground, knowing there is a huge. am of criticism of the ministry of defense and russian military operation. huge amount of criticism not about the war but the way it s being prosecute bid the russians. and they flung a few salvos at the utter corruption, talking about people in their yachts and fleeing and, you know, having a good time with all their, quote, unquote, ill gotten gains abroad. he had a clear audience in mind. and we were listening to that
The latest US aid package is a direct path to escalating tensions, but it will not change the course of events in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
effectively, getting around the sanctions that have been put in place. isn t belarus sanctions as well? they are not as comprehensive as on russia. we have known that china was helping but not weaponizing. but this certainly is a big support to the failing russian military operation. let s talk about the tanks and the decision making here in the states. you are such an expert on vladimir putin and all things russia. whether russia was responding to the tank announcement, which was signalled from washington on recent days, our own reporting, or whether this was independently an overnight attack, in either case it s again civilian targets, civilian deaths and war crimes, arguably. and we are about to hit an anniversary. is there anything that s going to get vladimir putin to the table? will the tank announcement or anything else that the u.s. resolve is showing get vladimir putin to sit down and talk with
continues to suffer casualties at a very high rate. o not a complete surprise they would be looking for alternate ordential sources of man power. now, what that portends in terms of actual operations it s difficult for us to know. we don t have a crystal ball into what russian military operation plans are. i think we can all expect that the fighting will continue over the winter and as the weather improves we should expect and plan for the fact that the russians may try again to go on the offense in other places inside ukraine. mr. putin has not abandoned his larger strategic goals here. this isn t just about the donbas or town called bakhmut or kerrtion. he continues to talk about succeeding all of ukraine into russia. some of the additional classified documents found at president biden s office concern we re told the u.k., iran, and ukraine for that matter. does this sow distress among
so that ukraine can build on the successes they have had in september and taking back all of kharkiv region, and in november taking back the western part of kherson region. continuing that military success, because that is the kind of thing that will force the kremlin to reconsider its course, and perhaps get serious about negotiations. let s talk about negotiation, because zelenskyy in his speech, he did have words about a possible peace conference that he s willing to talk about this. but, it felt like it came with a big qualifier. it would have to be under certain terms. what would be the terms, do you think, that s walensky would be willing to discuss or negotiate? yeah, well, he has, been very clear, he wants all of ukraine s territory back including the peninsula of crimea. he wants reparations to repair the hundreds of billions of dollars of damage that this russian military operation was done to ukraine, and he wants russians held accountable for the war crimes and atrociti