President Trump has said he finds it more difficult to deal with Ukraine than Russia.
He’s calling on both countries to negotiate a peace deal.
CGTN’s Nick Harper has the latest
He’s calling on both countries to negotiate a peace deal.
CGTN’s Nick Harper has the latest
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00:00Paul Noah's comments suggesting that he's finding it much easier to get on with Russia
00:04than he is with Ukraine at this stage, seeming to side, therefore, more with Moscow than
00:09with Kiev.
00:10He said that the US is doing very well with Russia.
00:14He said it's easier dealing with Moscow.
00:17But I have to be honest, Friday we saw tremendous mixed messages coming out of the White House
00:21because those comments were made when he was speaking to reporters in the Oval Office.
00:26Just hours before that on social media, he suggested he was strongly considering large-scale
00:33sanctions and tariffs on Russia, that in response to that continued bombardment we've just been
00:39hearing about from Ross and Dasher.
00:42But then, in the Oval Office, he suggested that Russia's actions were perfectly acceptable.
00:48He seemed to defend them.
00:49He said anyone in that position would be doing that right now, striking Ukraine with that
00:55continued bombardment.
00:57But he did also say that he wants Russia to try and end the war.
01:01And he said in many ways his feelings are that Moscow is much more prepared to make
01:06that happen than Ukraine is.
01:08There is this continued pressure to get both sides around the negotiating table.
01:13And he said when that happens, he feels that President Vladimir Putin would be generous
01:18in peace talks.
01:19It's unclear exactly what he meant, but the suggestion being that President Putin would
01:23be much easier to work with, much more amenable than what he's seeing from the Ukrainians.
01:29And Nick, can you bring us up to date with this other development we've had about Ukraine
01:33losing access to some commercial satellite imagery that it needs to operate on the front
01:40line, for example?
01:41Yeah, this is a big change for Ukraine.
01:45It's going to make things much more difficult for the troops on the ground.
01:48We're told that this is just a temporary suspension.
01:51This is an agency that works within the Pentagon.
01:54It's the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
01:57They made the announcement that they are stopping Ukraine's access to this satellite imagery.
02:02They said that it was in accordance with the administration's directive on support to Ukraine.
02:08That's a big problem, though, for the soldiers in Ukraine, because they rely on this to give
02:13them an edge on the battlefield.
02:14They use that real-time satellite imagery to assess potential targets and then to see
02:20the damage carried out when they strike those targets.
02:24They also look at Russian troop positions and troop movements and monitoring those on
02:29an ongoing basis.
02:30And they also use it to determine routes that their own soldiers will take to assess whether
02:36the ground has been mined or whether it's been destroyed, really to work out the best
02:40route around those very difficult areas.
02:43We are told that this is temporary, but it's unclear when it would come back online.
02:47And, of course, that is on top of other actions that we've seen from Washington this week,
02:52including the complete freeze on shipments of arms to Ukraine and the ending of intelligence
02:58sharing, all really, it seems, aimed at trying to pressure Ukraine to try and get to the
03:03negotiating table.
03:04But all of those actions, all three during the course of this week, makes it much, much
03:08harder for them to continue the conflict with Russia.