00:00Due weeks ago, you said the intelligence was particularly gloomy
00:04when asked about the inevitability of a Russian invasion into Ukraine.
00:09Since then, the combination of the threat of sanctions,
00:13deploying troops to Eastern allies,
00:16diplomacy has failed to de-escalate this situation.
00:21Are you coming to the conclusion
00:23that President Putin actually wants this war?
00:27Thanks very much, Beth.
00:29Look, I think that this is...
00:31To answer your question directly about what I think is going on in Moscow
00:36and the calculations that are being made there,
00:39I honestly don't think a decision has yet been taken.
00:43But that doesn't mean that it is impossible
00:48that something absolutely disastrous could happen very soon indeed.
00:53And our intelligence, I'm afraid to say, remains grim.
00:58And we're seeing the massing of huge numbers of tactical battalion groups,
01:04battalion tactical groups on the borders of Ukraine,
01:0870 or more.
01:10This is probably the most dangerous moment, I would say,
01:14in the course of the next few days,
01:15in what is the biggest security crisis that Europe has faced for decades.
01:22And we've got to get it right.
01:24And I think that the combination of sanctions and military resolve
01:31plus diplomacy are what is in order.
01:35And...
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