Mark Rutte

We have seen the Russians deciding to bring down the exports to countries like India and Turkey, oil and gas, etc.

And this is also because the Ukrainians are successful in targeting the Russian oil infrastructure.

And it is famously difficult to get an oil refinery up and running again after it has been hit by a missile or a drone.

So the Ukrainians are good at this.

I always thought that they had this fantastic central banker somehow in Russia who was able to paper over the problems.

But I think she cannot any longer.

And it's now the cracks are showing.

And the Russian economy is in difficulty.

You're totally right.

Well, I should not speculate about that, I think, in public media.

But obviously, we are in constant discussion, the Americans, the European allies with the Ukrainians.

How can we help you best?

And all options are always on the table.

But obviously, we should not...

speak so much about that in public.

young soldiers this is the first time ever anyone's ever tried to fight a war with old soldiers yeah but first of all it comes to the weapons with the the u.s supply the czech ammunition initiative you have the danes and lithuanians who started this initiative to directly source from the ukrainian defense industrial base there are some indicators now saying that ukrainians are able to up to 50 60 percent

source what they need from their own defense industrial base.

And then on the people side, I discussed this also with President Zelensky this week again, they are not doing that bad.

They really are catching up and keeping close to what the Russians are doing.

And the Russians are losing four to five times more people on the battlefield than the Ukrainians are.