"Of course, the US may be more." Interview with John Herbsto - about the dynamics of Washington's support of Kiev and Putin's plans

Video of the day - I will start with Zaporizhzhya NPP. The situation is very unpleasant, to put it mildly. Russian invaders are needed as a source of electricity both for the occupied, territories, for the Crimea, and most likely for the Krasnodar region. At the same time, it is a chance for Putin, as for Hitler, to say that "everything that is passionate is all mine and there will be no continuation of the conversation.

" It can be concluded that Putin will use the station to intimidate the event with a serious nuclear incident, including to reduce military assistance to Ukraine. How much in the West and the United States of America is the nerves to resist such blackmail? - I have repeatedly criticized the [US Presidential President] for fear of the Russian war against Ukraine and Russian provocations against America. But I do not think we are ready to worship Russia's rush on this power plant.

I think we can do more by diplomatically working on it. - Rosatom continues to build nuclear stations, including in NATO countries. If Finland, which de facto entered the Alliance, stopped the process, the construction of the nuclear station of Rosatom is under construction in Turkey. Are sanctions against this Russian company possible to limit Russia's nuclear influence in the region? We are talking about Europe now. - I can't specifically answer your question. Maybe it makes sense.

But I think that we can do more at the UN, make a noise about using Russia in this area so that they make all the weapons from there. - IAEA is an international organization where many Russians. It is possible that the participation of the United Nations in the inspection can produce positive results? - I do not exclude it. I was a skeptical about the Russian blockade of Odessa to prevent grain from removing. There is a problem, the threat remains.

But we have seen that there are already two ships that have taken out the grain from Odessa. Therefore, diplomatic pressure can also affect this problem in Zaporozhye. - On the other hand, the grain problem has caused a point of mitigation of sanctions against Russia. Is it acceptable? - As I understand, there were no sanctions on Russian fertilizers even before the blockade. Although people said that they had lifted sanctions on this product.

- There is a certain list: fertilizers, medicines, there were still some weakening of the removal of economic blockade from the Kaliningrad region. The turbine is transferred to Gazprom. Is it realistic to talk about strengthening economic sanctions through the capture of the Russians of the Ukrainian Nuclear Station? - There are still sanctions that can be introduced as I understand. And maybe we will use this to solve the problem of the power plant.