‘Putin will never press the nuclear button’: Top Ukrainian official Danilov
By France24
25 January 2023 |
7:46 am
As Ukraine asks the West for hundreds of modern tanks to defend itself against Russian aggression, the head of Ukraine's national security and defence council, Oleksiy Danilov, sat down with FRANCE 24 correspondent and reporter Gulliver Cragg in Kyiv.
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