Arms talks between Russia and North Korea expose 'Putin's failure', says US Ambassador to the EU

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Reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un plans to visit Russia this month to discuss arms supply with President Vladimir Putin are causing concern among Western allies.

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00:00 The US ambassador to the EU has told Euronews that any meeting between Moscow and North

00:06 Korea would mean the West's strategy vis-a-vis Russia is working.

00:10 According to Mark Gittinstein, Vladimir Putin has already lost the war.

00:15 For Putin to go to North Korea for arms is an indication that our strategy is working.

00:22 Our export controls and sanctions have just knocked his military back to the 19th century.

00:28 So he's going to another country that he would never go to otherwise to get military equipment.

00:34 And to me it's an indication of Putin's failure and our success.

00:38 So meanwhile we see Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, this week with the Turkish head

00:42 of state Erdogan threatening, saying that if you don't stop the sanctions I will not

00:47 sign up onto a new green deal in the Black Sea.

00:49 How do you react to that?

00:52 Look, the most important thing is not to believe Putin's lies.

00:59 He's bombing the silos.

01:00 He started this war.

01:02 He's the one that's causing the food crisis around the world.

01:05 People are starving because of his decisions.

01:07 And here in Brussels of course they rely on you as well.

01:10 Do you see the support there still?

01:12 Are Americans who will of course vote next year, are they still very supportive of the

01:16 Ukrainians?

01:18 Americans I like to believe are a lot like I do, like I am.

01:21 I watch television every day.

01:23 It's like watching World War II on Livestream.

01:26 I mean it's a, when you see Russians bombing maternity wards or blowing up apartment buildings,

01:33 your natural moral instinct is to say we've got to do something about it.

01:37 And I think that's how they act in the United States when I talk to them.

01:41 And even Republican senators who I talk to often when they come here say the same thing

01:46 to me.

01:47 We'll be with you as long as you need us.

01:50 Are you sure?

01:51 Are we seeing that in the campaign?

01:52 Not all of them, enough of them.

01:54 And we have all of the Democrats so I'm pretty confident we'll be fine.

01:59 Even though a lot of U.S. officials were critical as well of the counteroffensive, saying it

02:02 was too slow.

02:03 There are a lot of people who are very happy with the way it's going and understand how

02:07 difficult breaking a defensive regime like this is.

02:11 When you have a fascist government run by a military that will do anything, it's hard

02:17 to break that hold.

02:18 But, you know, just like we did in World War II, these Ukrainians will do the same thing.

02:22 I just got back from the D-Day beaches in Normandy and I saw how difficult that is.

02:28 I'm very confident the Ukrainians will win this.

02:31 And I already know that Putin has lost it.

02:34 (whooshing)

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