Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
Vladimir milov in vilnius, lithuania. Welcome to hardtalk. Great to be with you. Thanks for having me. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. You know as well as i do that this war has now lasted for more than 18 months. It has turned into an attritional fight, which is proving to be terribly, horribly costly on both sides. Would you accept that that suits Vladimir Putin right now better than ukraine . On one hand, yes, because putin wants western patience and ukrainian patience to be exhausted and he still has a lot of resources to fight a lengthy war. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad news for putin. His army and personnel is becoming exhausted and depleted, too. Resources are also not endless. And here is where the western sanctions are working. So in the longer run, i think the odds are that ukraine is set finally to win this battle. But we need patience and we might see a protracted conflict. And patience is the key word here. Just on the question of the levels of s
We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i was not shackled. However, i dont want to continuously lament on this because there are several other zimbabweans who have gone through worse treatment by the same regime that has been there since 1980, others who went as far as losing their lives, when they were in a democratic, in the democratic strug
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