stand. trump s time is limited and the judge wanted him to stick to the script he and haba agreed to and for the most part they did. let s go through the three questions haba asked him whil he was on the stand. first they asked trump do you standby your testimony in the deposition, the deposition he gave in this case. he replied 100% yes. then she asked did you deny the allegation because ms. carroll made an accusation. trump responded that s exactly right, yes, i did. she said something that i considered a false accusation, totally false. but then judge kaplan cut in. he wanted them to stick to the plan. he cut trump off saying everything he said after, yes, i did, is stricken. because remember they re not litigating here what is true and what is false in terms of what happened in that department store. that was litigated last summer. here haba s final question was did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll in your statements. trump, said, no, i just wanted to defend m
people the southern headquarters of the russian military is in this place. , rostov-on-don, prigozhin says he plans to lead his troops, quote, to moscow. speaking earlier this, morning putin confirmed prigozhin s claims. military and civilian functions within the city of rostov-on-don have been blocked. vowing to take, quote, decisive action to put down what he in the kremlin or calling the quote, armed rebellion that is being undertaken by a traitor. putin also vowed to not let the rebellion become a civil war. similar to the bolsheviks at the end of world war i. there are multiple reports indicating there has been small fighting along a major highway in the area. we presume that s between wagner and the russian military. as well as reports of convoys of military equipment being moved along that highway. russia s moving military into and around moscow and other major cities. you can see that mobilization on your screen here. this is moscow. these are pictures that were given
ironically, putin s denial of ukraine s identity has strengthened what he set out to destroy. my guest is olesya khromeychuk. writer, historian and sister of a fallen ukrainian soldier. even now, do ukraine s allies understand what the stakes really are in this war? olesya khromeychuk, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for inviting me, stephen. it s a great pleasure to have you in this studio in london. and you live in london. you re the director of the ukrainian institute here in london. you re an historian of ukraine and eastern europe. and yet, i am sure that a lot of your mind is in ukraine. what kind of a distance do you keep from the daily reality of your homeland being at war? perhaps only physical distance, i suppose. the distance that, i suppose, would take 2a hours or so to cross, because at the moment we can t fly to ukraine any more, and it takes about 2k hours to get to my hometown now, which the journey that usually would take me 2.5 hours to fly to my home