Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview with BBC’s HARDtalk, hosted by Stephen Sackur (4 November 2024)

Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview with BBC’s HARDtalk, hosted by Stephen Sackur (4 November 2024) Key talking points: It is a coalition of Western countries that is waging a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine. It is a hybrid war, a very serious one, and we have every right to defend ourselves with all the means at our disposal. I don’t think that there will be a compromise, it will be the endgame. It is quite clear that Ukraine will be a non-aligned, non-nuclear country with normal relations with its neighbours. It will not be a NATO member, it will be demilitarised and it will finally abolish all the racist laws that it has adopted during all these years. Even if it happens [the deployment of the DPRK’s forces in the zone of the special military operation], we have thousands of mercenaries from different [Western] countries fighting on the side of Ukraine. We have thousands of instructors teaching the Ukrainians how to deal with foreign weapons, tanks and so on, intell... Source: Embassy of the Russian Federation in London