visiting european allies with his focus firmly on the challenges to come. a new russian offensive is seemingly imminent. the west is arming ukraine, but still not at the speed and scale kyiv would wish. my guest is ukrainian mp kira rudik. can ukraine win a long war? kira rudik in kyiv, welcome. thank you so much for having me. a pleasure to have you. i would like you to reflect on president zelensky s message here in europe. do you think the focus from the ukrainian government
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minister of defence was supposed to be removed were recent claims of corruption that we are fighting. this is one of the huge challenges for our country. d0 one of the huge challenges for our country- our country. do you think. it should be our country. do you think. it should be clear our country. do you think. it should be clear to our country. do you think. it should be clear to everybody i should be clear to everybody that you are actually the leader of an opposition party in kyiv. the golos party. so in a sense, before the war began you were a harsh critic of zelensky when it came to allegations of corruption in high places in ukraine in the failure to take on the so called oligarchs. are you satisfied with what he has done in recent days and weeks? missing various senior officials fired, allegations of corruption, even within the defence department when it comes to the procurement of basic goods like foodstuffs for the armed forces. zelensky says he is not on top of it, do
fragmentation. 0ne immediate example, your defence minister was widely tipped just a few days ago to be removed. it was felt that zelensky wanted a new approach in the defence ministry. he made it plain that he was not prepared to budge and now there is a great deal of uncertainty about exactly what is happening. this is not good for that projection of unity, is it? fit good for that pro ection of unity. is in unity, is it? of course and this is why unity, is it? of course and this is why we unity, is it? of course and this is why we are - unity, is it? of course andj this is why we are working unity, is it? of course and i this is why we are working to make sure that media announcements are made before the decisions are made. because they hurt everybody. it is not a good time to change a minister of defence when you are on track to getting the weapons that you need and that you are preparing for a massive attack from your enemy. however, the reasons why the