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
again. itjust never goes away. what is interesting is that the imf are saying, we cannot keep pouring in money to greece endlessly. the european union has to step up and give a lot more funds and bail out greece and we know germany is relu cta nt greece and we know germany is reluctant to do so. angela merkel is fighting a re election battle which is proving quite challenging. this is proving quite challenging. this is going to be interesting. greek ministers are seeing the reports are not true because the greek economy is doing well but they always say that. it is difficult because the imf has been saying for a long time, we think that greece should be allowed to restructure its debt and germany in particular has been digging in their heels, saying, no way, we will not do that because berry difficult politically for them so berry difficult politically for them so interesting to see how this plays out because clearly the scenario in greece is unsustainable. economically. the
peace deal, we will be working on it very, very diligently. nationalist, anti immigrant, in power. why poland s controversial government provokes protest but still retains great support. welcome to the programme. i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser s in london. nonsense is how president trump describes news reports that his campaign team were in regular contact with russian officials during the election campaign. he followed up with this tweet: information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes and @washingtonpost by the intelligence community nsa and fbi? just like russia. he was on a bit of a twitter storm this morning at a press conference in the past couple of hours, mr trump had this to say. michael flynn, general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he s been treated very, very unfairly by the media. as i call it, the fake media, in many cases. i think it s really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. i think, in addition to that, from intel
Political and military goals in ukraine, and the more he will be failing, the more he will be trying to escalate more. we can stop them together if we have all the instruments. but the key to that is we can stop them together and putin sees that ultimately, ukraine, for good or ill, is deeply, desperately dependent on the continued and increased flow of weapons, military assistance, more ammunition coming from the west, and if that flow cannot be sustained and, indeed, ramped up, then putin believes you have a serious problem, and if you look at the reality, look at germany which you raised with me, what we see and hear is a country still deeply relu cta nt. the german defence minister christine lambrecht said just the other day, quote.