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<v Speaker 1>I think this year we have witnessed the fundamental failure

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<v Speaker 1>of the Russian state to insulate its people from the

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<v Speaker 1>war that it euphemistically calls the Special Military Operation. It's

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<v Speaker 1>hitting people's lives in all kinds of different ways, from

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<v Speaker 1>e commerce warehouses, we've seen fuel shortages, internet outages. Now

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<v Speaker 1>obviously Ukraine its gloves are very much off when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to these deep strikes, and we're seeing mounting casualties

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<v Speaker 1>as a result of that. And this is now playing

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<v Speaker 1>out politically this year. We're seeing anti war sentiment rising.

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<v Speaker 1>Putin's approval ratings are dropping, albeit from a very high level,

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<v Speaker 1>and with parliamentary elections coming up in September, the Kremlin

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<v Speaker 1>is now moving to stamp out the last vestiges of

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<v Speaker 1>political opposition. And one of those last vestiges is a

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<v Speaker 1>man called Boris Nadyezhdin. He has spent forty years in

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<v Speaker 1>Soviet and Russian politics and is now Russia's newest political exile.

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<v Speaker 1>This has happened so suddenly for you, one minute you're

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<v Speaker 1>running for parliament and now you're here.

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<v Speaker 2>It's all my life, is all my life. I have

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of adventures.

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<v Speaker 1>Boris Nadiagen Soviet bureaucrat, Russian opposition figure and former presidential

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<v Speaker 1>hopeful can now add exile to his list. We meet

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<v Speaker 1>in Paris a couple of weeks after he was forced

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<v Speaker 1>to flee Russia amid a mounting pressure campaign to bar

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<v Speaker 1>him from running in upcoming parliamentary elections.

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<v Speaker 2>When I was announced that for an agent in tenth

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<v Speaker 2>of July, I declared, for all of the world, I

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<v Speaker 2>will not stop my campaign. In Monday, I was arrested

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<v Speaker 2>by police, taking police department, etc. Etc.

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<v Speaker 1>He was convicted of displaying extremist symbols and given a

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<v Speaker 1>small fine. Then came the summons from Russia's powerful investigative committee.

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<v Speaker 2>Normally, after you go to this please you will receive

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<v Speaker 2>the criminal paper and go to the court, and after

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<v Speaker 2>court go to the jail. Leforto. When I have received

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<v Speaker 2>this paper about criminal investigation, I have understood that the

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<v Speaker 2>question of three d's.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes, I am alive and I am free, he announced

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<v Speaker 1>on telegram on arriving in France. Previous Russian opposition figures

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<v Speaker 1>were not so lucky. I mean there was namedsof who

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<v Speaker 1>you worked with Navali. But you try to do opposition

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<v Speaker 1>within the system, then the system can be.

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't cross the red lines for forty years of

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<v Speaker 2>my political biography. The red line number one is not

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<v Speaker 2>the critique is put in like a person, and cross

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<v Speaker 2>line number two to have no support from foreign governments.

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<v Speaker 2>I never crossed these lines. But these lines have changed.

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<v Speaker 1>Behind Putain's facade of stability, Russia is cracking down harder,

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<v Speaker 1>and Adjestion says, because it's the war drags on, descent

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<v Speaker 1>is rising. In early twenty twenty four, his campaign to

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<v Speaker 1>run for president on an anti war platform exposed an

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<v Speaker 1>undercurrent of despair and society. Long lines of his support

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<v Speaker 1>has formed across the country. A quiet legal protest that undercurrent,

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<v Speaker 1>he says, is now bubbling up. Just this week, demonstrators

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<v Speaker 1>gathered as Russia's highest court blocked Yablica, the only remaining

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<v Speaker 1>anti war party, from the parliamentary elections.

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<v Speaker 2>The understanding of that everybody wants to stop the war.

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<v Speaker 2>It's in the society, is in the elite and in

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<v Speaker 2>the nearest people around Putain, and of course the understanding

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<v Speaker 2>of what this war is really means for Russian economy.

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<v Speaker 1>It's putting understandings.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, you have to put people around here. It's quite

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<v Speaker 2>possible or freeze as the mutual strikes and the But

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<v Speaker 2>the question of how to be in peace with West,

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<v Speaker 2>be in peace with Ukraine is a question of next generations.

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<v Speaker 1>Nadegten himself is now in Limberg. His family is still

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<v Speaker 1>in Russia. On the day we met, he missed his

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<v Speaker 1>daughter's wedding, married his political project, one of the last

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<v Speaker 1>vestiges of Russian political opposition. For now, on hold, do

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<v Speaker 1>you worry that you've left Russia for good?

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<v Speaker 2>I think I could return to my country only when

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<v Speaker 2>the political situation will change.

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<v Speaker 1>So Nadegen believes Sma that if Russia were to stop now,

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<v Speaker 1>somehow pause or strikes, they would be able to fire

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<v Speaker 1>up the propaganda machine and successfully paint this as some

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<v Speaker 1>kind of victory at home. But look, Russian actions, Russian rhetoric,

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<v Speaker 1>none of that suggests that that is the intention. It

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<v Speaker 1>may be that they even plan to escalate at this point.

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<v Speaker 1>And so his message is that the longer this goes on,

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<v Speaker 1>the weaker Prutin's grip on power.

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<v Speaker 3>Russia and Ukraine continued to attack one another, with civilians

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<v Speaker 3>caught in the crossflower. Ukrainian officials say Russian strikes killed

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<v Speaker 3>six people and wounded nineteen overnight in the southern city

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<v Speaker 3>of Zaparisha in Kiev. Officials in Ukraine say a Russian

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<v Speaker 3>missile strike damage to children, leaving craters outside the facility.

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<v Speaker 3>Patients and medical staff were taking shelter at the time

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<v Speaker 3>and survived the attack uninjured. The Russian assault came as

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<v Speaker 3>Ukraine continues its drone attacks on warehouses belonging to Russia's

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<v Speaker 3>largest online retailer, Knows. Nick Painton Walsh is following the

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<v Speaker 3>story for US from Kiev. So niked is civilians obviously

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<v Speaker 3>caught in the crossfire as Russia and Ukraine continue to

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<v Speaker 3>exchange aerial attacks. What more are you learning about this

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<v Speaker 3>latest attack overnight?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I mean hearing Kiev, as you pointed out, the

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<v Speaker 4>children's hospital hit, some damage done there, some quidramatic images

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<v Speaker 4>in fact of the impact on the building, but as

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<v Speaker 4>you pointed out, the children inside, the patients in the

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<v Speaker 4>shelter at that particular time. But in Zaparijia, the city

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<v Speaker 4>in the south that took the brunt of the Russian

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<v Speaker 4>assault last night, six dead, nineteen injured, apartment buildings hit there. Interestingly,

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<v Speaker 4>Ukraine pointing towards North Korean missiles predominantly being used in

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<v Speaker 4>this attack the kN twenty three suggesting further help from

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<v Speaker 4>Pyongyang and possibly also to limits maybe in the Russian

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<v Speaker 4>supply of their missiles, but does seem as though Moscow

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<v Speaker 4>increasingly has more ballistics to use on a nightly basis,

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<v Speaker 4>going from about sixty a couple of months ago to

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<v Speaker 4>close to possibly edging towards two hundred maybe at some

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<v Speaker 4>point in the months to come. But they're able to

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<v Speaker 4>fire over a month long period. So startling rise here

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<v Speaker 4>and aimed clearly to exploit the massive gaps in Ukraine's

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<v Speaker 4>air defenses now a huge lack of patriot interceptors that

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<v Speaker 4>Ukraine has made public the results of so many of

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<v Speaker 4>them being used during the Gulf conflict that there's very

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<v Speaker 4>few left for the United States or European nations to

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<v Speaker 4>potentially provide. It a real crisis there one the President

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<v Speaker 4>Trump suggested he might potentially fix when he during the

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<v Speaker 4>NATO meeting in Anchora suggested Ukraine might get a license

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<v Speaker 4>to produce them themselves. That simply hasn't happened. In fact,

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<v Speaker 4>his latest comment suggest that maybe indeed be very far off. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 4>if not entirely impossible. But at the same time, Christina

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<v Speaker 4>Ukraine is responding to this Russian nightly barrage that's been

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<v Speaker 4>going on for years a result of Russia's invasion. Ukraine

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<v Speaker 4>now able to take some of that fight back, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's the wild Berries distribution network kind of like a

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<v Speaker 4>Russian Amazon, so to speak, that's taken a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>the strikes over the past.

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<v Speaker 2>Weeks, one near Vorignage one hundred and.

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<v Speaker 4>Eighty kilometers inside Russia's borders being hit sixteen thousand square

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<v Speaker 4>meters indeed, officials they're saying had a fire on its

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<v Speaker 4>potentially while Bury seeing over ten percent of its capacity reduced.

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<v Speaker 4>Ukraine says it's a legitimate target as it's involved in

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<v Speaker 4>the logistics of the Russian military use essentially to deliver

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<v Speaker 4>the things indeed that they need, and also to overnight

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<v Speaker 4>in Orsk an oil refinery fifteen hundred kilometers inside Russia

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<v Speaker 4>also hit, so Ukraine continuing the exact a toll. We

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<v Speaker 4>have seen Russian civilians killed as part of these strikes

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<v Speaker 4>in the past week or so, and indeed in Ukraine

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<v Speaker 4>we've seen now the deadliest month last month in July

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<v Speaker 4>since April twenty twenty two for civilians. So these nightly

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<v Speaker 4>barrages suggesting the war is becoming less about the tiny

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<v Speaker 4>territorial gains that Russia hasn't made much of, frankly over

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<v Speaker 4>its past summer offensive, and more about the damage each

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<v Speaker 4>side is inflicting on the other in these nightly assaults.

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<v Speaker 3>Nick Bate and Walsh their reporting from that Kiev.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks, Nick, appreciate it.