peacefully we have to take action including military action but today, ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing, they have been dry to maintain their manufacturing capability but actually they have been importing things for free. free loading. but, you know, it will come to an end sooner or later. we can join my colleague vitaly shevchenko who has been watching the news conference, it s been going on for about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? so about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? about an hour so far and what are the main headlines? so far we have seen a very the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy focus the main headlines? so far we have seen a very heavy focus on - the main headlines? so far we havej seen a very heavy focus on ukraine. vladimir putin yet again defended his so called special military operation against ukraine by saying russia was forced to star
They ve been taking, so i mean i hope that the warnings that we ve been hearing from places like the british defense ministry and some of the, you know, concern among the russia watchers, i hope that s all wrong, but, you know, that s why we re all kind of holding our breath to see what happens on may 9th. i don t think putin is just going to walk away here. i think, you know, no matter what happens, it s this isn t going to end and we re not getting to the end of this. i want to read more from your piece and then i have another question for you, tom. you write this, if putin doesn t announce ang escalation what else might he say? one option is to declare a limited victory and then go back to grinding away at the ukrainians as he has done in the ukrainian east since 2014. he may simply announce in the spirit of a day devoted to the end of hitlerism he has, indeed, de-nazified ukraine given that precious few nazis were loose in ukraine in the first place. he might say that victory i
Campaign was not only to rescue russian-speaking people from oppression at the hands of the ukrainians but also the ukrainian nation had been captured by nazis and neo-nazis. i m in uman, a city famed as the shrine and tomb of a man who died 200 years or so, a very important figure for hasidic jews, a major pilgrimage place, enjoyed as a pilgrimage place increasingly over recent years thereby indicating there is no particular fear of nazis around here, and we spoke to the lawyer in charge of the community here for the in charge of the synagogue and representing the synagogue. she is ukrainian. she isn t jewish. but this was her reaction to the idea they were being de-nazified. everybody, every person was
Of an openly nazi organization. you mentioned it in your 60 second rant. the russian national unity. yes. and i quite recently, less than a decade ago he was filmed at these neo-nazi rallies on live television, and he s never been de-nazified. he currently leads russia s space agency. i hope that answers my question. keen observation may be at home rather than abroad for the russian government. alexi, thank you so much for joining us. i know it is late night. i appreciate you getting up for us and i hope you can stay safe. thank you. thank you for having me. coming up at the top of the hour with ayman mohyeldin, the political editor of the kyiv independent oleksiy sorokin describes day-to-day life. stick around we ll be right back, me and ayman chatting. ck,. time of the year,