translation: iwould never renounce my conviction that| russians and ukrainians are one people despite part of the residents of ukraine having been brainwashed by the nazi nationalist propaganda. sergei lavrov he s russia s foreign minister has been speaking in moscow. he repeated the kremlin line that ukraine s aspiration to join nato is a threat to russia s security, and thatjustified the invasion. and he had this message. translation: they are listening | to us but they are not hearing us, and they are trying to force on us their own understanding of how europe should live henceforth. to be honest, the following comparisons come to mind for me. at one time, both napoleon and hitler set the task of subjugating europe. now the americans have taken over. on the russian government s position on its invasion of ukraine, here sjenny hill in moscow. the people around mr putin continue to justify this war,
i do think it s the right decision, although it has taken a bit of time to get there. on a human level, ifeel a massive amount of sympathy for russia athletes and belarus, they re not part of this, but it would be impossible to have those athletes in the village competing and part of the ceremony. i have a modicum of sympathy for the ipc because they were frightened of russia s appeal and it getting caught up in the courts, however i think you have to understand the atmosphere in the village and ultimately it was untenable. i wonder whether to some extent you needed all countries to come out and say this can t work to give a bit more power to the ipc, but it does feel like the right decision sadly. the issue of whether to allow russian athletes to compete was emotionally charged. i m going to play you this clip ofjournalist lee reaney at a press conference, before the decision to ban them was announced.
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military vehicles we ve been talking about it for a few days now because it s said to be on its way to kyiv has stalled. lyse doucet explains. we hear both from british defence experts, us defence officials and the ukrainians, they report there is mechanical breakdown, congestion. wheels stuck in the mud, shortages of food and fuel. all of this is sending an image to world that the brave ukrainian army, however outmanned and outgunned by the russian military, is still standing. so that convoy might have stalled for now but kyiv is preparing its defences. civilians have made barricades in the centre of the city made up of tyres, wood and metal scraps to stop russian tanks and these workers are making anti tank barriers. they ve changed their daily construction work to help with the war effort. one of them had this message for vladimir putin. you need to understand we are a nation of ants. everybody knows what to do.
a couple of people out for a stroll in the snow, but this is a city that s so much on edge, and all the checkpoints that we ve come across, the guards have come up to us. they ve wanted to check our papers, wanted to check if we re filming them. there really is a sense of dread and unease here, which is.which is frankly to be expected. and this is why. not far from kyiv, a column of heavy russian armour inches closer to the capital, waiting for vladimir putin s order to strike. we re going to take the next few minutes to look at russian gas and oil and how it connects to this war and the eu s efforts to disconnect with russia.