neil: it s one thing for china not to condemn russia s actions in ukraine helping those actions in ukraine. mark meredith is more on china s role here. mark? good afternoon to you. china likes to flex their military muscles quite a bit. what we don t hear them talk about is their nuclear program. the wall street journal is hoping to grow their nuclear arsenal. they spoke with people fall already with government plans that say there s efforts to speed up their nuclear program. work has accelerated this year on more than 100 suspected missile so i lots in the west enregion that could house missiles that could reach the
For our independence and all support give to ukraine. without it, it would be impossible to fight russians. i hope that two hours ago, we received a statement from our army that putin used chemical weapons in mariupol. if it is so, i hope that putin will join qaddafi and bin laden very soon. it s ridiculous to use chemicals and nuclear weapons next maybe in europe. neil: thanks very much, minister. it s a very news days. be safe, sir. we re also following another development having to do with the ongoing conflict in ukraine. that is the role of china that might be finding means to get military aid to the russians in
The next thing is month vied some type of constant intelligence for zelensky. put up the j-star systems, just a little outside of ukraine to read the russian troop formations and pass that to zelensky. this is a fight to the end. i don t think putin will quit. i don t think zelensky will quit. it s going to come down to the fight in the eastern part of ukraine and right now it s going to be one of those 50/50 shots. ukraine will survive. they have proven that. putin cannot take ukraine. they have proven that in the fight of kyiv. this will be the fight for the eastern part of ukraine. neil: and this could be to the advantage of russians if it s on open land. it s a land battle. it begins to a merciless one at that. is that your worry? right. yeah. when you look at the way the
Charge who was the first general in syria for the russians. also was part of the chechnya war as well. just shows the pattern is changing. this is the one that the russians could do much better in than the earlier fight that they had. that s why it s so important that we give the equipment to zelensky that he wants. we don t need to provide manpower. the equipment that he wanted is more of a conventional set of equipment. the howitzers, the multiple rocket launch systems. how about the 29 migs from poland. we need to get this stuff there. i could have transited the ocean right now three times as long as the war has gone on. this should have gotten to him earlier than it had.
Extraordinary. he s very well known from chechnya and syria. now he will try to repeat the same story in ukraine. i would say this war in europe everybody saw the red army was unbeatable and they can do nothing with ukraine for the second month. we fight successfully. second thing that everybody thought that russia is a great power. russian gdp is 1% of world gdp. you know, i believe you have a lot of socks in your home. if you lose one pair of socks, you will never commit suicide. that s why i do believe that when european union and nato members will put full embargo on russia and will switch off from swift russia and will ban oil