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May 16 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning assessment of Russia's war in Ukraine and his country's international isolation. It's fairly long but worth your time so I've added subtitles.
The exchange goes on for a few more minutes, and Skabeyeva insists that it's only the West against Russia.

He replies: "You will agree that this is not a normal situation. As for India and China, which you spoke about, their support for our country is not so unconditional."
Being the hero that he is, Steve has gone and translated the whole thing (4:20 is where my video finishes)

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