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we hear dire warnings, but we also see internal divisions. well, my guest is ukraine s defence minister oleksii reznikov. is ukraine ready for war and how will it respond? defence minister oleksii reznikov in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. hello, mr steve. minister, do you believe that war is imminent? i would say that. i would like to emphasise that war was started in 2014, then the kremlin occupied our peninsula, crimea, and sevastopol and after part of lugansk and donetsk. so, the war is going on eight years in ukraine. i guess what i m talking about is the possibility that there may be a major military offensive launched by moscow involving the 100,000 and more troops, and the massive arsenal that vladimir putin has put on the border next to your country. do you believe that is coming soon? i believe that in kremlin, they didn t make their decision yet. and i hope they will continue the diplomatic and political negotiations with nato ally, and i hope they will not come ....
it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. it s impossible to be certain about vladimir putin s intentions, but russia s actions suggest a major military offensive in ukraine may be imminent. troops and equipment have massed close to the ukrainian border, russian officials talk of losing patience. from the us and nato allies, we hear dire warnings, but we also see internal divisions. well, my guest is ukraine s defence minister 0leksii reznikov. is ukraine ready for war and how will it respond? defence minister 0leksii reznikov in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. hello, mr steve. minister, do you believe that war is imminent? i would say that. i would like to emphasise that war was started in 2014, then the kremlin occupied our peninsula, crimea, and sevastopol and after part of lugansk and donetsk. so, the war is going on eight years in ukraine. i guess what i m talking about is the possibility that there may be a major military offensive launched by mo ....
an announcement today. veterans who were forced out of the military because of their sexuality have welcomed a review into their treatment. and coming up this hour, labour mp dawn butler is taking on the trolls after a man was convicted of threatening to shoot her. the cost of good and services we buy is rising at its fastest rate for 30 years. the december figure for inflation showed that prices have gone up by 5.4% compared to the year before. that s up from 5.1% in november and is more than double the bank of england s target for inflation. energy costs and the price of food and drink drove the rise, which was higher than economists had been forecasting. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith is in scarborough. this is a lot of windows. a lot of windows, yes. and a huge, huge ceiling. yeah. the things that give this hotel its charm and character are the very things now causing the nightmares. put, like, a secondary glazing on this side, it spoils the view ....
associated orchestrated a coup. in the end, stress testing a democracy that ultimately held. but it revealed cracks. it revealed weaknesses. you saw them. the people trying to exploit them also saw them, and they took notes. and on this program tonight and in the nights ahead, we re putting those vulnerabilities under the microscope. tonight we re looking specifically at disinformation and the way that it is poisoning the well of the american experiment. we re going through looking glass to see how the big lie is getting bigger, as a math and science teacher in ohio who claims that he is uncovered an algorithm proving the 2020 election was stolen, is his so-called findings to willing conspiracy theory consumers across the country. we re also talking to the people who held the line a year ago and continue to do so, people who told the truth, who put their country first. we ll speak tonight with fox s former digital politics editor who was fired after his involvement in ....
they want out completely. at least one media outlet is calling for the national guard to round up unvaccinated americans who dared to leave their homes. we have more on that coming up tonight as he pointed out last night, almost everyone on all sides of the political spectrum lashing out at joe biden, even fake news cnn and many others i the media mob called joe biden 2022 off to a dreadful starts, prices at the pump make it worse , and here is the headline from the new york times, biden over promised under delivered o climate now travel looms in 202 on panic stricken journalist at the washington post complaining biden was feeling politically and needs to stop spinning his wheels. according to a report from nbc news, the white house, they are not concerned about the feeling policies or spiking inflation, rising gas prices, supply chain crisis, or of course the american they left behind in afghanistan we will never forget . the ministration apparently believes that the ....