an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenario through the winter. is this a signal that europe needs to do much more to offer ukraine military assistance? sadly, yes. we need to do more in terms of sending more air defence to ukraine to solve this, let s say, very specific issue of russia terrorism against ukraine s population. and it is a clear decision of vladimir putin to send drones, iranian drones to bomb civilian infrastructure and also to bomb civilians a
welcome to hardtalk i am stephen sackur. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has ordered a partial mobilisation for this war that he claims is not a war and is bringing up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mtf, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush-tsintsadze mtf, welcome to hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for invitin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a for inviting me. it s a pleasure for inviting me. it s a pleasure to - for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have - for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have
now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the front lines of the war in ukraine, russian forces are struggling, in several areas retreating, which is why vladimir putin is pursuing other strategies. trying to destroy ukraine s civilian infrastructure is one. attempting to undermine european support for kyiv is another. how s that going? well, my guest is czech foreign ministerjan lipavsky, an ardent supporter of ukraine in a country facing a deepening energy and economic crisis. is europe s pro ukraine stand sustainable? foreign ministerjan lipavsky in prague, welcome to hardtalk. hello and thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show, foreign minister. i m sure you as well as i have been watching the pictures coming out of ukraine, the swarms of kamikaze drones, so called, which are now targeting ukraine s civilian infrastructure, leaving millions of people without heat, power, and looking at a very dangerous, alarming scenari
of a woman in custody. mahsa amini, who was 22, was arrested by the morality police, who d accused her of breaking strict rules on the wearing of the hijab. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has announced a partial mobilisation for this war which he claims is not a war and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so, what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? well, my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mp, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush tsintsadze in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you now have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukraine s battlefield successes in rece
and is bigging up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. so what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament s eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i just wonder that if you have any mixed feelings about the speed and the scale of ukrainian battlefield successes in recent days, given that the response from putin in moscow appears to be a very significant escalation of his military commitment. definitely, you re putting it right. it is about escalation and readiness to escalate that we are seeing in this speech that was delivered by putin. and we see that he is probably trying to address several audiences, from my perspective, both internal and the russian federation trying to, not to accept that he is basically losing to ukrainian armed forces, but is trying to present this