Former Russian deputy minister of energy Vladimir Milov tells Christiane Amanpour economic sanctions against Moscow are harming the Kremlin but warns that a crackdown on TV Rain in Latvia "helps Putin." #CNN #News
Sanctions having ‘devastating impact,’ says former Russian minister
Prayers to all whom are just going through this disaster, sure we’re all feeling in some way, but to be a civilian that chaos is so sad and fearful, prayers to them all, prayers to every going through this horrific experience, loss, fear, lost, sad…. I can’t fathom😢
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I am from Ukraine – I want to thank all the citizens of the United States of America, if it were not for your help, we would not have survived. Thanks to the citizens for supporting us financially and militarily. You are a great nation. And we in Ukraine will always remember who gave a helping hand when it was necessary. Freedom for America is not an empty sound.
We are so impressed and inspired by the courage of Ukrainians and your brave, relentless, liberators. I think I speak for most, that we support you wholeheartedly and I think about this war daily, wishing it ends soon. I’ve no doubt victory is around the corner, bless your brave soldiers. Putin is a war criminal and must pay reparations, and so many people are going to want to visit Ukraine in the future as you heal and rebuild. Prayers always, you are an inspiration to humanity. You are all heroic.
More of you would have survived if you didn’t fight against Russia on Americas behalf. Your people are dying because of Americas hate for Russia.
@Linda Kelley spoken like a true racist. Do you hate all Russians?
You are very welcome !! God bless Ukrainian people. 💙💛🇺🇸 big hug 🤗 from Southern California USA 🇺🇸
@Cruise Missile Just the war mongers , murderers, and mindless supporters of war crimes.
This gives me a good feeling. It was horrible to see Russia continuing to attack Ukraine with bombs and Ukraine not responding into Russia itself. This pleases me to no end.
Die Rusland imperialistische Staat , unabhängig davon wer das Land regiert sei es z.B.
Aleksey Navalny der früher im Moskau mit Rusischen Nationalistenhat marschiert ,glauben Sie wirklich das Russen sind in der Lage die Ureinwohnern von Sibirien zu entschediegen für jahrhunderten Ausbeutung von Bodenschätzen und die Unabhängigkeit von Russland zu gewähren, das werden die Russen nicht zu lassen!!!!
Thats because no one wil lgive Ukraine the weapons to reach russia. This war would be over by now if Ukraine could reach moscow and the kremlin.
CIA bot.
@William Shaw ….??? ….what’s your problem with the CIA ?? Their intellegence is being funneled into Ukraine’s war effort to defeat the orcs !
@William Shaw
FSB bot.
Putin now has to factor in the fact that Ukraine can hit Moscow, the political consequences of which would be catastrophic for Moscow.
But it would also be bad for Ukraine as Putin would likely drop a bomb in the center of Kyiv and possibly kill Zelensky and destroy the capital city. Not to mention that it’s all civilians in Moscow, so Ukraine would not do that. They are only going after military targets.
And for the world.
Striking a base that attacks civilian targets isn’t offense, it’s defense.
@Artstrologythe whole world knows Russians are in the wrong but changing the goal posts for Ukrainians isn’t good for the planet….Ukraine is a Authoritarian regime and I bet they won’t have elections for another decade….Zelenskyy is a opportunist like Putin
@Alex xelARussia does not have everything for its own—and if they did, why are their shortages in their military and other industries lol?
@ODST22 What are you talking about? A week ago, a factory in Primorsky Krai handed over a batch (for the Ministry of Defense) of the newest SU 35 fighters, an echelon of the newest T90 “Breakthrough” tanks is sent to the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQpuAwcFkC8 combat zone, so everything is produced in Russia, and in three working shifts – from a “Sarmat” rocket (with several “Avangard” combat units at a speed of Mach 28) to the night vision device. It is the West that “wants to see” emptied arsenals, but the desire and reality are radically different.
@Alex xelA
The link you shared is not an official info source. It’s just a robot 🤖
@Santa’s Mocha By the way, it was a Ukrainian channel with automatic translation. “Defense industry of Ukraine” (ОПК України) subscribers on their channel 344 thousand.
Stand with Ukraine Love Liberty Sovereignty
If there is such thing as a historical guilt for Germany, then right now we have a chance to pay it off. This time Ukraine is fighting fascism.
@Cruise Missile Russophobia? Yeah most people don’t like liars, thieves, rapists and kid killers.
@Cruise Missile
Your obviously overly sensitive. Russia was well loved until recently. In fact, I can go at length about Russian music, literature, and film.
But Putin’s unnecessary war of aggression is only going to negatively impact Russia. He should turn himself in, and Russia can finally have a real democracy.
@tpog France too, a nation of collaborators.
@mark johnson NATO is no threat to Russia but to russian expansionism.
@Will Smith, slapping Xi Jinping 193?5?
At Uralvagonzovad, the Russian tank factory, Putin’s lackey Medvedev threatened the workers with prison time if they didn’t figure out how to fabricate the parts that they couldn’t get because of the sanctions. Tanks are not being produced or upgraded like they were previous to February 2022. The sanctions are working right where they need to be working, and we need to keep it up!
@Dan Williams if you’ve ever experienced driving a car with worn bearings, you will understand more the problems Russians are facing. Russia can’t manufacture bearings they need for new tanks so the factory can’t ship any. Their railways are reportedly facing the same issue as they can’t get replacement of worn out bearings for their existing rail cars and carts
@Dan Williams Respect for ruZZia? You have to be joking!
@Dan Williams ruzzia deserves no respect
@hydrolife tech ……maybe if they pack those bearings with sand ?? and still roll them out on Chinese tires ! that country is a comedy of errors !
@Innocentius Lacrim They can still make air bags for their Ladas, you just have to blow them up yourself
I am American and this War bothers me more than anything else. It’s all I think about. I am 46 YO and grew up during the Cold War and always wanted to visit Europe when I retire.
@Senninha mcl fun fact- Even the west part of Russia is in the continent of Europe, the east part the continent of Asia. So… YES Ukraine is 100% a European country. Did you not know Europe was a continent? Further, it has applied to become a member of the European Union, & the EU has signaled being quite open to it. In June the European Council granted Ukraine the status of a candidate for accession to the EU.
@Senninha mcl the 8yr “conflict” was manufactured by Russia the same as Russia has done in many countries. No matter how many times “totally real” accounts like yrs try to flood the conversation saying otherwise. Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty & boundaries. Russia broke numerous agreements & international law to invade & steal land 8yrs ago. Ukraine fought the aggressors, including militants fundings, installed, & maintained by Russia. 🤥🤥🤥
🇸🇪👍🏻We are feeling exactly that 💙🙏🏻💛
@Senninha mcl fair enough
@Todd R
You support the ukraine Bandera neonazi’s I support Russia that is finnishing the left overs of WW2.
You are a disgace to the memory of our Fathers that fought that scum.
GOT IT👎🇬🇧🇫🇷
Still not enough. Make Russia an entire chapter of future history books on “how evil empires die”.
Yes! Enough is enough, and it was enough KGB/FSB madness ten years ago.
Support Ukraine in any way you can to stop Putler..
Wish strength to Ukraine
agree with stopping putin. but i wish people felt as passionate in holding our own leaders to account, who made up WMD lies to wage a war in Iraq, with no thought to planning what happens after. resulting in ISIS rising in the middle east, causing chaos to this day. Im from the UK our leader of the time BLAIR was knighted and given a title of sir , in the USA G.Bush and cheeny and the intelligence officers that knew IRAQ didnt have WMDs. At the time France and Germany refused to help and called it an illegal war, Its fine and right to want Putin held to account, but other nations look at how we dealt with our leaders that knowingly waged a war based on lies, which again caused innocent kids and women and sevicemen to die thinking they were dying to remove WMDs. It shames me how our nations reward our own war mongers.
Victory and glory to Ukraine – 💛💙 Slava Ukraini ! 💛💙
Exactly, let’s get German troops right to the border of mother Russia again, hopefully this time it won’t backfire
Slava ukronazi!
Mr Milov is hands down the most clear-eyed thinker on the planet right now. Quite possibly the wisest as well… Props.
Clear eyed? 🙂
The guy sees millions of Russians who are going to protest.
The guy is blind
@Dmytro Kravets everyone’s got their opinion 🙂
Its true, I’ve been watching Milov for 12 years now
Actually crazy how Ukraine has made such a fool out of Russia at every level.
@brutally_honest it wouldn’t have been less carnage. The only difference would have been the carnage would have been more towards Ukrainians. Putin keeps trying to take those countries that used to be part of the soviet union. They don’t want to. America is just helping them to defend themselves.
@brutally_honest Russia should just have stayed as it is. You know what is bullshit? Russia saying they went for Nazis, then switching to biolabs, calling Ukraine corrupt when their country is far worse, then saying is gay pedophile Satanists. On top of that stupid one representing Russia saying there are mosquitoes modified to infect Russians. Only an idiot would root for anything that Russia says.
@escutus in all honesty, both countries are corrupt and our democracies should just steer clear of that crap
@escutus but America needs to keep out of it. America is not a good example of fighting for what’s right. The only reason they are there is because of who the offender is. Ukraine is just a pawn in Americas/NATO war games
@Robert Marks What??
❤Slava ukraini 🇺🇦🇧🇪🇰🇷
The only thing Putin has achieved is to slowly destroy Russia!😂
@Will Smith, slapping Xi Jinping China has never explicitly said the they support the war. The most they’ve said is they” understand Russia’s position”
Apart from buying oil they’ve not offered any financial or military aid to Russia.
Chinese Red Cross has given millions of yuan in humanitarian aid to Ukraine
…..maybe slowly at first…..but sanctions are starting to take hold and by this time next year – Russia will be living in the 1880’s. No spare parts for machinery –
no high tech information systems – limited supplies of food and other basic necessities. But hey…..they can probably still access Chinese tires !
@Will Smith, slapping Xi Jinping And how about North Korea?
@Will Smith, slapping Xi Jinping I think China will be happy Russia is weaker than ever.
Ukrainian lives, security, and infrastructure too have been quickly destroyed. The west needs to go “all out” to support Ukraine. In equal measure, Ukraine’s pain needs to become Russia’s pain.
Long range rockets (Patriots?); cluster bombs restricted to military targets; Griffon aircraft from Sweden or F-16’s from the US; and whatever else Ukraine needs should be loaded up or ferried over immediately. End this BS invasion –> hold Russia morally, criminally, and financially accountable –> rebuild Ukraine.
Very courageous guy, respect.
I am surprised he has avoided a dose of Novichok, Putin’s favourite poison
The TV Rain situation is very complicated. What started this latest crisis was a presenter who stated that he was involved in obtaining winter gear and food for the most recently mobilized Russian soldiers. For Russians, including the ethnic minority in the Baltic states, the concern for soldiers, many of which were forcefully mobilized, was “there are our hapless relations stuck in freezing mud due to Putin” but for Ukrainians it was, well hell, why did they not join the 100s of thousands of others who fled to Georgia, or are hiding in the woods – for God’s sake, if they don’t stay stuck in the mud, they will be trying to SHOOT US!!! The problem with many Russians in exile is a failure to realize how much anti-Ukrainian sentiment is built into their own world view – with deep roots, e.g., the largely falsified history of Russia – seriously, Catherine the Great virtually created modern state propaganda when she demanded her historians to “revise” the history of Rus to elevate Muscovy by hook or crook, who destroyed the Ukrainian Hetmanate (self rule in South-Eastern Ukraine) to create “Novorossiya” – New Russia. Russians have never had to stare honestly into the past, from Ivan the Terrible to the Holodomor. That is why Russia must lose – unless, as painful and ugly as it must be, Russians are willing to confess to centuries of imperial delusion and terror, they will remain incapable of participating fully and honestly in a liberal democratic world . . ..
I do agree with you, its very contraproductive to say you are against putin and the war and start a campaign tah in the end will gather resources to support the russian army. If you follow this line you could also say, lets end the sanctions they are hurting the poor russian people that are just victims to putin… very complicated indeed.
thanks for the explanation!
A very nice concise analysis of the Russian social mindset.
As a person who was born and lived all his life in Russia – you are completely right. Even at school we were taught that the USSR did not attack Finland, but defended itself in 1939-1940. I watch the rain TV channel, but they made a lot of mistakes. They cannot accept that the Russian army came to Ukraine as a conqueror and yes, journalists should not feel sorry for Russian soldiers.
Well said. Thank you.
We are waiting for the Russian people to speak up. Anytime soon will be lovely.
Don’t think they are 😔 If they do not when their son’s are taken….They never will say anything but:apolitical,don’t know,no TV,don’t read,don’t care !! The ruZZki way?ruZZki Mir?!
This moment will be, but not yet soon
The Russian people are afflicted with “learned helplessness:” they just shrug their shoulders and avoid sticking their heads up.
Both the UN ambassadors of Russia and China, Vasily Nebenzya and Zhang Jun; self-incriminated their own Nations, in regards to the conflict in Ukraine.
It’s why 141 countries stand with Ukraine.