ukraine says russian forces have resumed attempts to storm the azovstal steel plant the final pocket of ukrainian resistance in the city of mariupol. campaigning has ended in france s presidential election, as emmanuel macron and his far right rival marine le pen urge people to turn out and vote on sunday. downing street has confirmed that the prime minister has not yet received any further fines for breaking lockdown rules. supermarkets across the uk are limiting how much cooking oil customers are able to buy as supplies are hit by the war in ukraine. and tyson fury will take on dillian whyte later in what s expected to be one of the biggest all british heavyweight fights in boxing history. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. what lessons have the russians learned from the progress or lack of it of their military offensive in ukraine? right now, russian forces are focused on the east of the country the donbas. and what
Do you really believe that is a politically viable option for a country like germany? crosstalk. let me stop you there. because you are the former boss of yukos energy. you were once arguably russia s richest energy oligarch. you know that sector better than anybody. if europe, in particular, stopped buying russian oil and gas, how quickly would putin s war machine and the russian economy collapse? or at least no longer be able to function in the way it functions today?
But we are where we are. the german chancellor scholz says that if germany was to cut off the taps the gas taps from russia tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of germans would be thrown out of work. do you really believe that is a politically viable option for a country like germany? let me stop you there. because you are the former boss of yukos energy. you were once arguably russia s richest energy oligarch. you know that sector better than anybody. if europe, in particular, stopped buying russian oil and gas, how quickly
Crosstalk. let me stop you there. because you are the former boss of yukos energy. you were once arguably russia s richest energy oligarch. you know that sector better than anybody. if europe, in particular, stopped buying russian oil and gas, how quickly would putin s war machine and the russian economy collapse? or at least no longer be able to function in the way it functions today?
The taps the gas taps from russia tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of germans would be thrown out of work. do you really believe that is a politically viable option for a country like germany? crosstalk. let me stop you there. because you are the former boss of yukos energy. you were once arguably russia s richest energy oligarch, you know that sector better than anybody. if europe, in particular, stopped buying russian oil and gas, how quickly would putin s war machine and the russian economy collapse? or at least no longer be able to function in the way it functions today?