On the one hand, you ve got president zelensky trying to get his message out to the world, giving interviews to western journalists. vladimir putin hasn t given interviews to the western media since russia attacked ukraine. but there s one thing the two men have in common publicly, at least, they both insist they re going to win. steve rosenberg. dmitry gorenburg is an expert on russian naval strategy in the pacific and the black sea at the centre for naval analyses. hejoins me now from boston. hello to you, thank you for joining us. we heard from our correspondent that this was a symbol of russian military might and power. it is now at the bottom of the sea. whatever the bottom of the sea. whatever the reason for its thinking, this has to be great for ukrainian morale and terrible for russian morale? absolutely. s mbolic for russian morale? absolutely. symbolic impact, for russian morale? absolutely. symbolic impact, i for russian morale? absolutely. symbolic impact, i especially
it s business. it s just business? how do you maintain hope in the future, given everything that s happened? translation: it s not hope, it s certainty. i that you will win. yes, of course. mr president, thank you. thank you so much. russia s defence ministry says the flagship of its black sea fleet, the cruiser moskva, has sunk a day after ukraine said it had been hit by missiles. russia has not confirmed ukraine s claim, saying only there was a fire aboard that set off ammunition. the ship went down as it was being towed back to port in stormy weather. it s being described as a big blow to the russian fleet. tim allman reports. the scourge of the black sea now buried at the bottom of it. the moskva, or moscow in english, was a symbol
Today, so we can fight. we cannot wait until some country decides to give or sell us weapons. some have still not decided on this, and we cannot wait two or three weeks or a month. the united states, the united kingdom and some european countries are helping, but we need it sooner we need it now. is it enough? we don t think so. in english: the priority word is sooner, the priority word i is quickly and the priority word now. he is a president who has been cut off from his people, a citizenry suffering unimaginable horrors at the hands of a ruthless adversary. he s full of hate, he says, for russia s troops and their leaders, gradually limiting the scope for peace talks. how do you sit across the table to try to stop the war? how do you do that?
In a country where you can be arrested for picking quarrels, they re angry about a local school being turned into another quarantine facility. police with riot shields forced them off the streets in the end. this was on a small scale but it s a sign of anger and frustration as this lockdown goes on. larger scale social unrest is what the ruling communist party fears the most and would likely tolerate the least. robin brant, bbc news, shanghai. lots more on our top story on the war on ukraine including extensive reporting on president volodymyr zelensky. head over to this website and you can always download the bbc app you can always download the bbc app as well. vladimir zelensky speaking to clive murray in his
As the symbol of russia s black sea fleet, the moskva was an enormous symbol, really. a symbol of russia s military might. and the fact that this symbol has been engulfed in fire, has been put out of action, has now sunk while being towed back to harbour that, i think, is a major blow to the prestige of the russian armed forces. and it kind of goes against what president putin was saying just a couple of days ago, when he declared that what he calls his special military operation was going according to plan. and talking of president putin, a couple of things struck me. the first thing is how different the presidents of russia and ukraine are. on the one hand, you ve got president zelensky trying to get his message out to the world, giving interviews to western journalists. vladimir putin hasn t given interviews to the western media since russia attacked ukraine. but there s one thing the two men have in common publicly, at least, they both insist they re going to win.