forces multireports of low morale among russian troops, sabotaging their vehicles. putin is self-isolating possibly firing advisers. not a lot going russia s way. how do you see this? not a lot going russia s way, don. but that worries me. because what worries me is that the russian do not still seem serious about negotiating. zelenskyy, to his credit, has been incredibly brave. he has been incredibly courageous. he has embodied the fighting spirit of the ukrainians while at the same time constantly continually holding out the olive branch for peace. he talked about now he is willing to meet with putin. if you recall when he was on my program, he talked about how he would meet with putin, make painful kwon sessions. he has even outlet outlined the nature of some contestings. willing to be neutral, right?
i mean, the human cost of this kind of a fight is very, very obvious. and so what you see with the russians is that they realize they cannot take on the ukrainian forces in a ground combat engagement because they are losing. and so the only success that they ve been able to achieve is through terror tactics, the use of dumb weapon systems. and they attack civilian targets. this is not warfare. it s criminality. yeah. yeah, right on. general, thank you. be well. i ll talk to you soon. thank you, don. be safe. thank you very much. so for big picture look at what all this means for the overall conflict i want bring to fareed zachariah. fareed, appreciate you joining us. thank you so much. since i ve spoken to you there s been so many twists and turns in this war. this fuel supply attack on belgorad, russia pulling back
so you re right. to what end, fareed? yeah, you know, don, we cannot allow ukraine to be destroyed to be saved. there has to be a better way. right. and. right. and one of the things i don t think a lot of people understand is that for russia this is almost a kind of colonial war. you know, this is not a great power thing between it and nato. ukraine for a lot of russians and for vladimir putin is basically a kind of colony of russia. and just as the french fought bitterly in algeria and the british fought in places like kenya, russia is the last great multiple national empire. and it we re living in a post imperial age but this is the last one. and they re desperately holding on to the possessions in their view possessions. fred. they can t stand the fact that ukrainian don t want to be colonial subjects they want to
intention they have to take a stand against putin. doug, thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us this evening. thanks for having me on, don. the kremlin accusing ukraine of attacking a fuel depot inside of russia. is it accurate, or is it an exexcuse to escalate thehe war? stay with us.
the russians are not biting. they re not engaging seriously in negotiations. and what that makes me worry about is that facing in exactly what you describe, this fierce resistance, setbacks on their part. are they going to get more and more brutal? because one of the things you ve been pointing out, don, this is this is going badly for the russians. but ukraine is slowly being destroyed. and i really worry about how much can the ukrainians take? they ve been so brave. and i just wonder whether we need to start thinking about what is it that will get the russians to the negotiating table? as you know, i ve always felt there needs to be greater pressure on them. we need to we need to sanction oil and natural gas. we need to give the ukrainians more so they can fight even harder because whatever we are doing right now, if the goal is to get the russians to the