it will come to an end sooner or later. plenty more that we ve been hearing from putin. yet again of putin questioned ukraine s very identity by that ukrainians and russians were one people. he questioned ukraine s territorial integrity, claiming that huge swathes of south eastern ukraine actually belonged to russia. he painted a very rosy picture of how things were going for his forces and said that the situation was improving for them and for ukraine he described the situation as a tragedy. he also hinted at difficulties experienced in terms of logistics supplying his troops in ukraine and he said not everything was being delivered on time and he also hinted that russia was successful in circumventing western sanctions saying that some of the war supplies were being purchased from abroad privately. he is sounding as defiant as ever, saying russia s goals in ukraine remained unchanged, those are the same goals that he announced before the start of the invasion last year with
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about winter pressures. delays at hospital are a worry. we re worried about the system becoming overrun. so we ve got a category one call, a male who was unconscious. siren wails their first call of the day, and ryan and debbie from the north west ambulance service are on their way to see a critically ill patient. hello, are you 0k? please can we get some pads on him just in case? and then let s get some access. he was really septic and with his heart rate being so low, his blood pressure and saturations and recordable, i believe he was at the stage just before going into cardiac arrest, he was that poorly. right, we are good to go when you are. we re going to go on blue lights. our eta to wigan is six minutes, ever. can you open them eyes for me? hold my hand. ifeel really privileged to do ourjob. it s only a short distance to resus. within minutes of getting the patient into intensive care. do you think you could step out with us and we will get you straight into a chair? i
push us back. president putin went on to say. for more on this, we canjoin my colleague vitaly shevchenko who has been much of that news conference. we will go on to some of the other that president putin has been saying in a moment. what we just cut to was the president taking a question from a member of the public who appear to be at home, that s something isn t it? ~ , , ., ., it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of russia, - it? well, it might be unusualfor leaders outside of russia, but i it? well, it might be unusualfor. leaders outside of russia, but this is what vladimir putin has been doing for more than 20 years. he s been holding these 0 and a sessions called direct lines with members of the public, but the thing to remember is that very little is left unscripted during these events. whereas vladimir putin has taken difficult questions now and again,