Putin's "real war" speech - what did he actually mean?
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Kremlin says this was a precautionary measure, citing security concerns, and Vladimir Putin told crowds in Red Square that "a real war has again been unleashed" against Russia, in reference to the Ukraine war which Moscow sees as a conflict against the West.
On the Sky News Daily podcast, Niall Paterson is joined by our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn and security and defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke to unpick Russia’s Victory Day parade and the display of Russia's military might compared against the backdrop of their weakened position in the Ukraine war.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Promotions Producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know what you're getting with a conference. |
| 0:04.1 | Laptop backpacks. |
| 0:06.7 | Security Pass Lanyard. |
| 0:08.2 | If you could just pop this on? |
| 0:09.5 | Being asked, how was your journey in? |
| 0:11.4 | How was your journey in? |
| 0:12.6 | An array of triangular sandwiches. |
| 0:16.1 | Having to deal with a small crisis back at the office. |
| 0:22.0 | Sometimes in life, you just know what you're getting, |
| 0:24.7 | like a great night's sleep and a tasty breakfast. |
| 0:28.0 | You know what you're getting with Premier Inn. |
| 0:30.1 | Pain in my hip. |
| 0:32.4 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
| 0:39.6 | There's another way to contact your GP practice by simply sending your symptoms and requests |
| 0:45.2 | through their website or the NHS app. We're delivering an NHS fit for the future. |
| 0:51.7 | Tap it, type it and we'll take care of it. |
| 0:56.8 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? |
| 0:58.6 | Oh, just tight pain in the neck. Yeah. It's something that I'm sure many of you will have seen before. |
| 1:18.6 | Flanked by medal-heavy generals and veterans of conflicts past, |
| 1:23.1 | Vladimir Putin sits impassively in Moscow's Red Square |
| 1:27.0 | as the annual Victory Day parade unfolds in front of him. |
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