Q&A: Taurus missiles, kidnapped children, and the state of Russia’s military

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  It's 1,191 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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  And Vitaly, we so often talk about the slow progress,

• 00:15

  the false hope we've had during this war.

• 00:17

  But then there was that explosive rant from Donald Trump at the weekend.

• 00:21

  He was furious and there was some reporting suggesting that the Kremlin is taking some steps.

• 00:28

  to flesh out potential details of the memorandum on future peace that we heard about from Vladimir Putin?

• 00:34

  I mean, what do we know?

• 00:35

  That's what the Kremlin says.

• 00:36

  They're saying they've been hard at work to flesh out this memorandum with conditions for talks and a ceasefire,

• 00:45

  possibly, and possibly a peace deal with Ukraine.

• 00:49

  Reuters...

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  It's quoting three unnamed Russian sources as saying that Russia's conditions include a written pledge from NATO not to expand eastward,

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  demands for some sort of protection of Russian speakers in Ukraine,

• 01:09

  the lifting of some key sanctions and release of frozen Russian assets.

• 01:15

  So essentially what we're dealing with here are...

• 01:19

  The same excuses and pretexts for invading Ukraine that we heard before.

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  And for the avoidance of doubt,

• 01:28

  I'll say again that Russia was never under threat from NATO.

• 01:31

  And Russian speakers, such as myself, were never under threat from anybody in Ukraine.

• 01:36

  Well,

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