Do you think that a clash between Russia and the United States, a nuclear war is possible?
We have been the initiators of several statements.
This is a Russian-American statement, and a statement by the leaders of the five permanent
members of the UN Security Council.
This is about the fact that in a nuclear war there can be no winners and it can never be
unleashed.
This is our position.
And we will stand firm in this position.
At the same time, we have an approved doctrine that clearly explains in which cases Russia
will be forced to use nuclear weapons.
And to our partners, colleagues, rivals, as they now call themselves in relation to us,
I don’t know whether we are enemies or adversaries.
They know it well.
We have before the special operation, and now it is generally accepted that the West
cannot cope without us.
In many ways, this is true.
We see this now in the partial lifting of sanctions.
The package that was adopted this week, I did not understand whether it was a package
of new sanctions, or a package of lifting the previous sanctions.
It's hard to describe it any other way.
But what if they do succeed?
What perspective do you see?
Can the West completely abandon our energy carriers in the future?
Not for this winter, but for the next.
Or even later.
Do not launch Nord Stream 2.
Stop using the resources of Nord Stream-1.
Is there such a possibility at all?
How do you rate it?
At the expense of the announced next package of sanctions.
What it is is sanctions or exemptions from them.
This is both.
Because the West has already exhausted all possible areas in which it was ready to harm
us.
And now they are already forced to think about what they have done and how it affects them.
Right now they are starting to think.
Therefore, they made adjustments, as I understand it, that will allow servicing the export of
Russian food.
For months they told us that Russia was to blame for the food crisis.
Since food and fertilizers are not subject to sanctions, therefore, Russia, supposedly,
should not dodge, but is obliged to trade, because no one interferes with this.
We explained to them for a long time that although food and fertilizers themselves are
not subject to sanctions, but freight, insurance, visits by our ships that carry these goods
to foreign ports, the entry of foreign ships into our ports in order to pick up cargo,
all this immediately hit under the first or second package of sanctions.
But, they just lie to us in the eyes.
They say that all this is not true and everything depends only on us.
It's unclean.
Unfortunately, they tried, and still try, to drag the UN Secretary General into their
games.
When he became preoccupied with the food crisis, he came to Russia and met with Putin.
He offered a package deal.
There is Russian grain that needs to be freed from these artificial, illegitimate restrictions
that I mentioned.
And there is Ukrainian grain that needs to be cleared.
And he offered it as a package.
For example, I am Guterres.
I will ensure that Europe and the United States remove all obstacles to the export of Russian
grain, and Russia will cooperate with the West, with the Turks, with the Ukrainians,
to clear the Black Sea ports of mines in order to export grain from there.
We replied that, in principle, they can clear the Black Sea ports without us.
But if that's what you want, then no problem.
And he advertised this package, PR.
Last week, our colleagues went to Istanbul to negotiate this scheme.
They agreed on the basic principles in accordance with which Ukrainian grain will be exported.
But when the Russian delegation reminded about the second part of the package deal, the Ukrainians
categorically refused.
And the UN delegation just shyly kept silent.
Yesterday we sent a signal to the Secretary General.
We reminded him that it was his initiative.
He suggested first resolving the issue with Ukrainian grain, and then with Russian.
You understand, this is very unclean.
It is not decent to behave like this for people who are engaged in big politics.
But, this is a fact.
It means only one thing.
I am convinced that the Secretary General is under enormous pressure, primarily from
the Americans and the British, who have settled in the UN Secretariat around him as deputies.
And they are actively using this privatized structure to their advantage.
It is sad.
And how technically can this pressure be exerted?
To explain it to ordinary people.
For example, if you don't do that, will we put you in jail or what?
No, I don't think there is any personal blackmail involved.
For example, when there is a vote at the UN General Assembly, they approach the ambassadors
and say that there will be a vote, we submitted a resolution against Russia.
Don't forget, you have a bank account outside of Manhattan and your daughter goes to Stanford,
like that.
In your view, where should the military operation end?
We are not talking about the fact that Putin initially announced to us the goals, which
means that the future results of this operation are demilitarization, denazification.
This is clear.
Where is it geographically?
Where would it be reasonable, right and good for us, what do you think?
Well, firstly, about predictions and timing.
I remembered a very funny fact.
Here the other day, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kuleba announced that Zelensky
had set a deadline for joining the European Union.
But Kuleba said that he would not talk about this deadline, because many in the European
Union might get scared and start to slow down their accession to the EU.
Therefore, we do not have deadlines.
As for the special military operation and its geographical coordinates.
President Putin spoke very clearly, and you quoted him.
This is denazification, demilitarization, in the sense that there are no threats to
our security, and military threats from the territory of Ukraine.
And this task remains in force.
You know, when there was a meeting of negotiators in Istanbul, there was one variant of geography.
Our readiness to accept the Ukrainian proposal was based on that geography, on the geography
of the end of March 2022.
That is the DPR and LPR?
Yes something like that.
Now the geography is different.
This is not only the DPR, LPR.
This is also the Kherson region, Zaporozhye region, and a number of other territories.
And this process continues.
Moreover, this continues consistently and persistently.
As the West, I would say, in such impotent rage, in the desire to aggravate the situation
as much as possible, pumps Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons.
Here are the HIMARS.
Defense Minister Reznikov boasts that they have already received 300-kilometer missiles.
Well, that means that the geographical tasks will move even further from the current line.
Because we cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelensky or his replacement will control
to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory and to the republics that
have declared their independence and those who want to define their future on your own.
How to implement it technically?
This is our territory.
Here is the territory of those republics that will join us.
Yes, obviously they have already joined us.
Kherson, Zaporozhye region.
Further lies the territory controlled by Zelensky.
These areas are bordering.
Either there should be a buffer zone between them with a length of 300 kilometers, or Russia
should go to Lvov.
There is a solution of this problem.
The military knows this solution.
But, is it a secret?
Do you think there is a chance that we will leave without finishing?
Our subscribers and our viewers are very afraid of this.
I see no reason to question what President Putin announced on February 24th.
And he confirmed it again a few days ago, that all the goals remain the same.
And they will be fulfilled.