Putin wants Ukraine to be demilitarized, allowing Russia to continue the war in its favor, the former director general of European Union military staff Lieutenant General David Leakey says.
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00:00The Kremlin would say, actually that's not the case.
00:04The Kremlin spokesperson is accusing Europe of being, quote, anti-peace,
00:09failing to support the Russia-US peace initiatives.
00:14They say Europe is militarising and is pro-war.
00:18How do you respond to all of that?
00:22Well, it's...
00:24One of the conditions that Putin laid down
00:28during his telephone call with President Trump two days ago
00:33was that there should be a cessation of external or foreign military aid to Ukraine
00:41and that there should be no opportunity for Ukraine to mobilise.
00:47That was Putin putting a condition down on Ukraine.
00:51What he didn't say was, I will do the same.
00:55In other words, there is no mutuality in this.
00:59So, for example, Russia is being supplied by North Korea, by Iran, by China
01:09and other countries as well with military hardware
01:13and also with support for military production.
01:19And so if there is no mutuality, and Putin is, as I've said,
01:25showing all the evidence of simply wanting to defer, himself defer, the ceasefire
01:32in order that he can continue to prosecute the war,
01:35both in the short and in the long term.