sometimes block by block where russians will take a certain part of the city, and ukrainian forces will take it back. president zelenskyy has said they re going to continue to go on the offense where and when they can, and they certainly have shown a capability to do that armed with all the support they re getting from the united states as well as so many other nation sfls particularly those high weapons systems. putin is not stepping down. he announced this week an increase in the overall size of the russian military by 104,000 forces. is there any indication that the u.s. is observing that putin is making any preparations to pull back or head to the negotiating table? we ve seen no indications of either, sadly, jim. in fact, quite the contrary. everything that mr. putin is doing indicates to us that he s continuing to prosecute this war. you talked about him trying to bolster the size of the army.
a restore ration of the agreement and full implementation of course by iran would put that back up to let s just say many, many months, which would be an enormous improvement. okay. as you know, iran has many other ways of exerting aggression on its partners around the world. we ve seen details about a plot to assassinate john boltage in just recent months. what is your answer about those who say this will give billions of dollars of sanction relief to a state terrorist? first of all, that was the same argument that was used in 2015, and the fundamental issue is does one or does one not of course, president to bam that ma decided to move forward reach an agreement on the understanding that they would have additional resource sns now, in the meantime, the
laugh and everyone else at weddings is crying or looking, oh, it s so sweet. she is 100% inscrutable. and that is the way she has always been. but it must take incredible discipline to do that. because not only do we not know anything about what she thinks about anything, and these are big state matters, there will never be a memoir written by this woman has been at the center of international life. it s so different from our modern age where people who even seem inscrutable like a president, you know within five years you ll get a memoir that tells you everything. with her, there s never going to be anything. she has had this remarkable she has had this remarkable self-discipline, and she always had. the queen was always noted to be remarkably composed and serious minded.
president zelenskyy has said they re going to continue to go on the offense where and when they can, and they certainly have shown a capability to do that armed with all the support they re getting from the united states as well as so many other nations. particularly those himars weapons systems. putin is not stepping down. he announced this week an increase in the overall size of the russian military by more than a hundred thousand forces. is there any indication that the u.s. is observing that putin is making any preparations to pull back or head to the negotiating table? we ve seen no indications of either, sadly, jim. in fact, quite the contrary. everything that mr. putin is doing indicates to us that he s continuing to prosecute this war. you talked about him trying to bolster the size of the army. he s desperate for manpower because he s losing a lot of manpower in this fight. both killed and wounded. and morale and commander
particularly turkish officials several times now in the last few days hinting that perhaps the deal that was secured on grain can be made into a more significant discussion on the overall state of the war and possibly some kind of cease fire or peace negotiations. but from the top of the echelons of the ukrainian leadership, they have several times said that there is no way that at the moment it is the right time for any kind of negotiations. president zelenskyy himself several days ago said that russians must leave all of the territory that they have gained during this conflict to even start that conversation. so i think that at least at this stage diplomatically a long way from that point but still the death toll and violence continues. several more people announced dead in that devastating attack in the northeast of ukraine that happened last wednesday according to ukrainian officials. the death toll mounts here even