‘It’s time to stop being naive - Putin will not give up while he's alive’ | Ukraine: the latest

Andrey Kurkov is a Ukrainian best-selling novelist, journalist and intellectual who lives in Kyiv.
In this bonus episode of Ukraine: The Latest, host David Knowles speaks to Andrey Kurkov about Ukraine's radical social change and defending their European future, fleeing home and adapting to war, and why Putin will not give up while he's alive.
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[@JoeyBlogs007]

That bridge is prolonging this war. Go figure that one. Common sense must surely prevail.

[@paulbuchholz9006]

As always ukraine, the latest from the telegraph producers, the greatest material

[@hassanas-sabbagh6562]

The word Ukraine must be capitalized. Even in English.

[@dianaknight600]

Thankyou for continuing to produce such excellent informative podcasts.I listen daily .

[@josecargil]

Keep at it! Don't stop doing this essential coverage, please! The World needs it.

[@hylimm]

Propaganda u mean?

[@lw1zfog]

pffffft. risible NAFO fan fiction fantasy.

[@LR-jk2jk]

Finally a title that gets it. If only western leaders realized it...

[@thematic3893]

Unaliving leaders that have nuclear weapons is not a good look. Behave yourself.

[@ThatKarol]

Excellent interview. Very powerful.

[@Olleetheowl]

The headline nails it. Finally, someone sees “The Problem “

[@stevenmoore3480]

Russia is weak and broken regardless of Ukraine or any war.

[@TheAntsh]

Being naive is thinking that it's only on Putin. The problem is Russophobic Ukr government and distant possibility of them hosting Nato nukes. It makes current Ukr an existential threat for Russia and any other president would not view it any differently.

[@AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv]

Grow up, he was elected.

[@DarkCriimes]

@@AnthonyCarroll-ue3uvelected 😂

[@Everythingisoktoday]

​@@DarkCriimes I love it, like most Western countries "elected" select their leaders right. Only the wealthy get up there but it's alright because they pay back their corporate owners.

[@peterpusey3206]

Excellent insight

[@azbatuk]

"There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil." - Ronald Reagan

[@tinayang3845]

Gee, I never thought I would agree with Reagan.

[@azbatuk]

@@tinayang3845Me neither. Not a Reagan fan, but he's spot on in this quote.

[@anjelikabaldjiyska5366]

Hahaha....morons...😜

[@poligon333]

Now we just have to determine who is less evil.

[@SuperMagnum2011]

Thanks for the report. 🇬🇧👍🇺🇦

[@mrpepe1408]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Martin-mc6hr]

A fascinating discussion facilitated by the usual excellent questions 🇺🇦🇦🇺

[@annetteroennow9694]

Wonderful interview! Opens our eyes to Ukranian culture!

[@Paulus8765]

Such a wise man.

[@johncromwell2529]

Thank guys Great eork

[@harryflashman4542]

Comment of the day.

[@johnquisenberry2402]

I do appreciate those who make this podcast get out.

[@skyer82]

I really enjoyed listening to this conversation ❤

[@user-ut6ji8my2h]

The guest was eloquent, unlike the speed talker in Ukrainian master of the obvious they had on yesterday.

[@andrewackerley9985]

That was an eye-opener on Russian & Ukrainian history & the differences in both character & psyche. Nay the twain shall meet. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@mitchyoung93]

Which is why the hit streaming series in the Ukraine right now is the Russian language Slovo Patsana, set in late 1980s Kazan, Russia.

[@Elizabeth-pg1rq]

Great podcast Thanks from Australia

[@marcokuijntjes4695]

Thanks!

[@mitchellbailey7030]

I HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING MORE TRUE! We are going to WW3 because we didn’t learn the lesson of WW2. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@plasticjock1090]

Humans never learn..

[@Steve-gx9ot]

World War 2 Never ended! Putin just extended TRUE! LOOK AT THUS Ukrainian situation from that perspective!!😅❤😮

[@bequemwaltz1990]

"Ukraine: the lastest" is, by far, the best news report about the unruled Russian invasion. First class journalism! Congratulations to The Telegraph team and glory to Ukraine!

[@tommylivingston6710]

according to Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of UN ,after the collapse of the Soviet Union , Ukraine never registered its borders with neighboring countries ,so it still remains technically and legally a part of the Russian Federation. The late John Pilger described Ukraine as a CIA theme park

[@DCxDemo]

​@@tommylivingston6710 watch these kremlin bots spread the same misinformation over and over again.

[@DaniRaj666]

Great interview. Very bright and interesting man mr Kurkov.

[@dorisshanks7295]

This is a profound statement of truth! It is past time for people to wake up and recognize the danger facing Europe and the West. We cannot repeat what we did in the thirties but some are certainly doing that. Fight Putin now in Ukraine or fight Putin in Europe with our troops in a NATO war in the next few years. Slava Ukraini! From a 92 year old American woman who knows history and remembers Pearl Harbor and WW2.

[@hylimm]

Truth can be manufactured

[@brianlewib5271]

Like Kremlin bots@@hylimm

[@midimusicforever]

Putin needs to be ousted.

[@lornespry]

Marvelous interview! Thanks for your effort. I learned more about Ukrainian culture, language, history and literature ... and of course about the appalling war. Mr Kurkov is articulate and concise but demonstrative of complexity.

[@tinayang3845]

Thanks for this, very interesting.

[@LeonardAshworth-xm8zi]

Operation Valkyrie Russia. Now.

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

More like never. Putin is great

[@yuglesstube]

Probably Barbarossa

[@stevenmoore3480]

@@kraizmerentertainment2121 Russia is weak and broken regardless of Ukraine or any war.

[@kraizmerentertainment2121]

@@stevenmoore3480 Russia is neither weak nor broken, your wishful thinking will be your undoing

[@DarkCriimes]

@@kraizmerentertainment2121. better to be wishful than delusional comrade.

[@andamookaliquorstore4407]

Boy this bought the Trolls out. Must have hit a nerve.

[@stream2watch]

What makes me smile about the trolls... is the fact that they live in the slum and get paid to do these things. Talk about never being able to amount to anything. Meanwhile I am in my comfy home and they could not even get a visa to visit my country 🤣

[@burritosls]

@@stream2watch Can we compare electricity and gas bills or gasoline prices? And which one of us lives in the slum how, lol?))

[@crimeajewel]

❤🇺🇦 🇺🇦 ❤❤

[@phooogle]

Keep this going, people need to know this is still happening.

[@KPsTboy]

Really? It took only 2 years to realise that?

[@ccchu3954]

😂

[@user-od1pe2ip2n]

the political system in UK is rotten 😂😂😂

[@Love.life.ashigzoya]

Excellent listening to this .maj gen IA

[@user-od1pe2ip2n]

🇷🇺Russian flying shovel is deadly 😅

[@mikebrown41182]

Ofc, thats why his end is coming soon.

[@ERIC-sg7ov]

stole my comment

[@user-McGiver]

@@s1nn1ck thnx!...

[@dimas3829]

If anything, more militaristic leader like Kadyirov will take the lead then.

[@s1nn1ck]

​@@dimas3829 That's what most fail to understand. The end of Putin could be a pretty dark scenario.

[@Everythingisoktoday]

I enjoy western propaganda, he was claimed to be dead how many times now. "I cope in different ways, it helps me sleep".

[@kevinn1158]

Then fix that problem. Take Putin out of the picture.

[@TheAce232008]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@perrydebell1352]

On 27th February, Red Bull posted a 22 minute YT video titled "World's Fastest Camera Drone Vs F1 Car (ft. Max Verstappen). Think on how a swarm of highly manoeuvrable 200+ mph FPV drones with AI would change the battlefield in Ukraine!

[@janaka861]

Thumbs up…

[@Sun-dh1ks]

No. So why did we insist in NATOfying it? Now of this was necessary. He warned us.

[@alwaystakethedetour3988]

Why does Putrid get to dictate what other countries do? NATO was not a threat to Russia and wasn't invading Russia. The countries bordering Russia have every reason to be afraid of the Russian threat to their sovereignty.

[@MM-fh6kp]

So Putin needs to go!

[@ccchu3954]

We have been told early on in this SMO that Russia's economy is crumbling, is running out of missiles with 90% of its soldiers wiped out. If so, why should we be worried about Putin? Did our media miss something?

[@lw1zfog]

they saved a lot of money by bulk buying the shovels & now the economy is looking up again

[@LeutnantJoker]

Yes, Americans being selfish cowards

[@hassanas-sabbagh6562]

Curiously Mr Kurkov hasn't written a single book in the Ukrainian language.

[@brb323]

hilarious how Jamie's Mushroom and Courgette Flatbreads video on the tesco channel gets 3x viewings of this bilge.

[@SilvanMarty]

Sadly western media and people not willing see and really accept pictures of dead, suffering and terror! Its good u writing about what people minds changing when some happening! Western not even willing watching dead, bombed and terrorised people. This its ignoring suffering and not want staying with suffering people, this its what i hate about free living. U knowing what people suffering, and great writing what it doing with people! Western are still not want know or see really. They scared then must reacting?

[@Maxfraga100]

Because most of the people on Earth live in their bubbles. That is very sad.

[@AntonioRomero-te4cb]

Ladies and gentlemen. Coming from an American. Been a while since I took the tube. I have asked directions to the most outstanding, beautiful British women ive ever seen and was addressed with respect and normalcy. Try this in a NYC subway. My point? Europe, Keep your heritage

[@dirtyharry6297]

Restoration of USSR 2.0 should never happens. Olaf Scholz making big mistake with Taurus , Now is the moment or one morning Germans will wake up in DDR

[@dimas3829]

as if they would complain. They already living in Turkey's enclave.

[@ronc7743]

Step away from MSM. Then ask yourself how many Russian military bases circle Nato or the US. Nearly none. Then how many Nato\US bases circle Russia? A lot! For twenty years we promised to not approach Russias borders yet we've done that non stop. The US and Nato are desperate to stop BRICS and keep the dollar and Euro as the world currencies.

[@abdulmazari9885]

@@dimas3829in Germany highest immigration coming from Russia ! More than 4 million Russian Germans are living in Germany now

[@olegsdvizhkov8182]

Russians are preparing to ruin the legal ground for existence of unified Germany.

[@karlslicher8520]

No one has ever doubted that. Putin is a very old man who's not going to see 2030 no matter what.

[@vinnym4480]

Hoe the ….. do u know -- crystal ball

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

The whole Ukrainian history isn't Russian history thing keeps being brought up by Ukrainians as if it's somehow unique. Many ancient kingdoms which are now part of the same country could say similar things. Of course that's not a reason for Russia to claim Ukrainian land etc. But I also don't think it's a strong arguement for independence either (as it's true of just about every country). The only arguement that is needed (because it is the most valid) is Ukraine IS an independent country, legally guaranteed by Russia and it wishes to remain so.

[@alwaystakethedetour3988]

By your reasoning, the U.S. should give the whole American southwest back to Mexico. That includes Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, etc. I'd like for Texas to be given back to Mexico. Unfortunately not happening. Slava Ukraini! 💙💛💙

[@yourbestguess]

It is not just Putin, no Russian leader will allow Ukraine to join NATO. Why do NATO even want Ukraine to be a member? In 2008 when it was announced that ‘Ukraine will join NATO’ there is no evidence that they had even asked to join. It is a total mess that could have been avoided.

[@richardmarsden5610]

Russian troops have hit one more Ukrainian US-made Abrams tank in the Avdeyevka area with the use of Upyr FPV drones, a spokesman for the drone manufacturer told TASS. "I have just been told by our soldiers that our drone can boast hitting an Abrams tank. The 30th infantry brigade damaged its caterpillar track and then it was hit by two Upyrs catching fire after the second strike. A PG-7V munition was used," he said. It was the third Abrams tank to be struck near Avdeyevka. The first Abrams was completely destroyed with the use of an FPV drone Piranya on February 26. In slightly more than a day, the second Abrams was struck by a drone. Its crew managed to get out. Russian troops employed Upyr FPV (first-person view) drones for the first time in the special military operation in Ukraine in May 2023. The drones proved their worth in combat operations: it helped Russian troops wipe out enemy boats with the assault force on the Dnieper River, adversary fortifications, dugouts and strongholds. Today, Russian troops are employing Upyr drones in all the directions of the special military operation in Ukraine.

[@Medic397]

Meanwhile Russian citizens are squashed in the streets for speaking out any negatives related to Putin s war and his imperialistic aspirations.

[@user-il2er3uo8h]

U must get your info from Putin 😂😂🤣🤣

[@richardmarsden5610]

@@user-il2er3uo8h

[@JohnSmith-ti2kp]

If Europeans would stop listening to women leaders and feminine male leaders and take the lead in their own destiny they would not be in this position. It was a show of weakness that caused this entire episode. If Europe had energy independence or close to that using crude oil sourced only from allies then Putin's oil exports could be cut entirely choking him off, but no, Europe's and Asia's need for his oil is what is keeping him in the fight.

[@ldhorricks]

If there were more female leaders none of us would be in this position...

[@Chrischos]

Go touch Grass incel

[@Victorsbzh]

Not the kind of stuff one would likely encounter on "єдиний марафон".

[@Forest_Knight]

The most patriotic cities in Ukraine now are Kharkiv and Odessa, both previously quite sympathetic of russia. Getting shelled by russia made people change their worldview.

[@AL-ku1zq]

It is time for the global west to stop being naive and give Ukraine what it needs to drive Russia out of Ukraine and enable Ukraine to defend itself. If the global west does not do that then Putin will continue to push Russia to attach the global west.

[@alwaystakethedetour3988]

Agree, Ukraine should have been given everything, including fighter jets, from the beginning. This would've been over a long time ago in their favor and saved lives. Now Putrid is emboldened when he could have been knocked out from the beginning.

[@yourbestguess]

hmmm, so that is why Macron is keen on sending troops to Ukraine. To protect the Ukrainian borgoise, like this gentleman?

[@johnpolhamus9041]

Certainly not while NATO aggresses. Wake up.

[@jasonteem9917]

Well, we know what needs to be done, then.

[@user-vr3bk3cx2y]

SURRENDER

[@ForeverVillian]

great podcast

[@mattsta1964]

Test

[@user-od1pe2ip2n]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@domprz1]

I have a Ukranian moral bias because they are the ones being invaded but the Russian perspective is merely the other side of the same coin, both sides are similarly arguable. Unfortunately the toss of it is a lose-lose scenario.

[@elizabethkorobko1199]

it is other side of murderer and rapist not the same at all

[@domprz1]

@elizabethkorobko1199 My apologies. Sometimes I try too hard to see things from the perspective of those I disagree with.

[@olegsdvizhkov8182]

Funny writer.

[@dantebenedetti2889]

revenge isn't putin's primary motivation.

[@wesley135]

Slava ukraini

[@Tizzle001]

😂😂😂 what a bunch of B.S

[@JP-fn5xt]

Worst spy in history.😊

[@dwadd7528]

2 year late, mate.

[@markmclean3954]

Will NATO not give up?

[@pedtrog6443]

Why so many vatnik trolls have a four didgit suffix to their user name?

[@s1nn1ck]

NATO is being defeated.

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

The question, Ivan, is dishonest. It implies that Nato is to blame. But Russia invaded Ukraine, not Nato, troll. So go back to history 101 and get your FACTS straight. Then ask the real question. Will imperialist nostalgic Russia not give up?

[@davidbrancaleone3039]

@@s1nn1ck not true. Telling lies again, Ivan?

[@sebastianforbes1]

@@davidbrancaleone3039 - the short answer is 'yes'...

[@SuperPsydude]

David Knows nothing and again demonstrates his childish grasp of Geopolitics. He did get one thing right however, yes David, a conversation does begin with talking, well done! A Gold Star for that brilliant deduction! As for the rest, another piss poor effort to make your SSpecial friends appear to be everything they definitely are not.

[@ajsis]

Wait wait this man is speaking english with german accent hahahaha

[@JAROSLAV-tj7uj]

1812,1941,202? evacuation Moscow,Leningrad...? And what about Berlin,London,New York?

[@oleksiifrolov4074]

18:30 Didn't really answer the question. That passage is weird to me too.

[@richardmarsden5610]

With the claimed losses (by Kyiv, UK MoD and ISW etc, etc) to Russia over 24 months of SMO, U.S. led Nato can now reduce overall GDP spending upon their 'collective' militaries as Victoria Nuland has made it known that Russia has lost over 50% of it's combat forces in Ukraine. Peace dividend time is now due to the peoples of Europe, thanks to the pending defeat of Russia in Nato assisted Banderastan Ukraine?

[@stream2watch]

Joshua Paul alternate account. Copy pasting bot paid per post. Reported for disinfo.

[@attilamarics3374]

@@stream2watch which part was untrue?

[@johnmarshall504]

😂who’s naïve?

[@goldenoriolesilverbirch8220]

Andrey Kurkov said that ''30 to 40 % of Ukrainians have ( had ?) Ukrainian as a first language,'' and ''all Ukrainians understand Russia.'' In the light of this information, why was one of the first actions of the Post Maidan Government to supress the Russian language ?

[@abdulmazari9885]

Because Ukraine has been under Russian occupation since 19th century and Russian language were imposed to Ukrainians and ethnic Ukrainian language was neglected and forbidden to use in education and all public and government institutions! Russian language is a foreign to Ukrainians ! So as whole of Russia is also not ethnicity Russian lands and to all indigenous folks are imposed Russian language

[@guidobolke5618]

Exactly that doesn't make any sense. Maybe the surpression of the russian language has never happened.

[@indieanna4764]

Obviously it's taken as an insult, but I guess they need to assert their independence, remember, they have always been suppressed but Russia, but I believe it would have eventually settled down and no become a huge issue.

[@harryflashman4542]

​@@abdulmazari9885in other words Ukraine has been Russia longer than Germany has been Germany.

[@abdulmazari9885]

@@harryflashman4542 Russia only come to existence in 1991 ! Before that was USSR and before that Russian empire and before that Golden Horde

[@hmldjr]

what bs

[@EdwardPike]

I love your show but I canceled my sub because my feed was polluted by the rest of telegraph content. I am allergic to the word woke in my news content and the rest of telegraph is obsessed with it.

[@wishusknight3009]

It is a conservative leaning outlet. "Ukraine: The Latest" is about the only good thing they put out.

[@Hereford1642]

An author who writes in Russian and yet not a word spoken on the Ukraine language laws and the role this played in the secession of Luhansk and Dontetsk. He also blithely says that bookshops do not want to sell Russian language books but no mention of the law passed just last year that bans the publication or import of Russian language books without special government dispensation. He talks about Russia wanting to destroy Ukrainian culture but it is Ukraine, driven by strong nationalistic elements (that elsewhere would be described as far right for their actions) , that is actually carrying out a cultural cleansing.

[@wishusknight3009]

That is the biggest load of chowder I have read in a long time.

[@ldhorricks]

I have spent years in the donbas...I have many friends from that region...many of them Ethnic Russian (speaking) and none of them felt or feel persecuted nor want to be a part of Putin's or anyone's Russia.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@ldhorricks Same, most of my inlaws family are from Crimea. The insurgency was pretty blatant from the start.

[@Marvin-dg8vj]

​@@wishusknight3009it is the majority Russian view. These two nationalisms are directly competitive and slaughtered each other in WW2 and for several years afterwards .When CNN sent reporters into Kherson after the Ukrainians took it back they found split loyalties amongst the population .The Russian side is not reported much in the West.

[@richardmarsden5610]

WARGASM REPORT: Another BUK Lost | FPVs Busy | Mobilization Punch Up - 3 Mar 2024 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpbCenWFhdOIpck

[@stuartgraca]

The dilemma poised by Putin is in how to negotiate opinions. The EU as the base aim of creating a contract in which each partner can , through dialogue, attempt to gain approval for a motion. The use of force being kept out of all negotiations , so the initial response to Russian aggression as always knowingly been a call for dialogue, this is also known to Putin . Putin as always been aware that Europes inion also places calye on tge independence of each individual country, it is this limit on a central governing power that ensures Putin as plenty of time and freedom to maneuver and play on differences that exists in the EU and Europe as a whole . What is now happening, largely due to Russias failure in war, is there is an awareness that war cannot be avoided while Russia is still attached to its USSR heritage , this as finally started to sink in, quicker than climate change.

[@dimas3829]

Putin patiently waited for Ukraine for 8 years to stop massacring civilians of Donbass before finally going for full on liberation. Cope better.

[@SubvertTheState]

I don't understand how this got even a single like.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@SubvertTheState The AI always like their own posts.

[@sentowrite4562]

terrible , unsupourtables

[@antonioe6546]

bonus BS

[@terrific804]

They poked the bear.🎉

[@yuglesstube]

It's time to stop being naive. Ukraine lost. Get over it.

[@stevenmoore3480]

But Russia is weak and broken regardless of Ukraine or any war.

[@yuglesstube]

@@stevenmoore3480 clearly

[@suewood8538]

I thought I'd come and read what nonsense is being written. Are they a load of bots interacting with each other, Ukrainians, the 77th or delusional? Talk about an echo chamber.

[@wishusknight3009]

Russia lost the day the SMO was announced. Get over it. Ukraine can only gain regardless of what russia does.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@yuglesstube Russia lost the day the SMO was announced.

[@richardmarsden5610]

In 24 months of warfare against NATO backed Ukraine, RuAF have lost less aircraft than the RAF have to Whitehall over the last five years. (add another x30 Tranche 1 Typhoon's by end of year to the loss of Tornado, Hawk, Sentry and Hercules from service with RAF)

[@marymarlow3646]

‘fewer’ aircraft

[@richardmarsden5610]

@@marymarlow3646 Total fixed-wing combat aircraft for Russia is 1,500. Total for UK is

[@joshuapaul2022]

Macron and Lloyd Austin are panicking. Zelenskyy regime is on its last legs and it will unlikely survive until the end of the year. Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself, ” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration . “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.” One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945. Zelenskyy "achievements" to date: 500,000 Ukrainians are dead, 3x that mangled and crippled for life, half of Ukraine's population is living as refugees scattered all over Europe and Russia right now, they're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport. NYT wrote about these mass kidnappings that were happening only in Zelenskyy Ukraine and Hitler's Germany in 1945 in an article ‘People Snatchers’.

[@pedtrog6443]

Oh the vatnic trolls are frantically hammering their keyboards again...

[@hardto994]

I heard 30 million Ukranians are dead

[@henriquemanuel]

Eles que continuem assim que entretanto o problema Ucrânia desaparece para o mestre Putin....possivelmente o Zeca terá de enviar a sua querida esposa, a tal que está relacionada com tráficos suspeitos, para a linha da frente😂😂😂😂

[@mycatspethooman5590]

​@@pedtrog6443indeed, I've seen that posted on many videos lately it seems to be thier go to hit piece.

[@SW-ok8qr]

Go away russuan bot 😂😂😂

[@elonthun8012]

More daily pure propaganda

[@user-wv8tm2iv9b]

Another kremlin bot

[@steffyscarpechi5864]

Bull. Putin talk cease fire, but Zelensky refused.

[@wishusknight3009]

pootin talked "let me rebuild my army so i can invade again later".

[@richardtaylor3280]

Putin is a liar - he said he wasn’t going to invade Ukraine - a week later he started his ‘special military operation’

[@WangAiHua]

Why Pootler no talk Budapest Memorandum?--Eh Comrade? BTW: Hitler and Stalin were allies when they both attacked Poland in 1939 to start WW2!

[@burritosls]

@@WangAiHua I've never heard such BS in my life

[@HallgeirRevhaug]

Interesting until the phrase "full scale invasion"...

[@trevorsutherland5263]

Ukrainian Nationalists tried this in 1941 too. At first it seemed like everything was going to work out their way, but then the Russians did not break and the tides of war turned against them. 80 years later they are trying again; and again, initially it looked like everything was going to work out their way, but again Russia did not break.

[@marymarlow3646]

But Putin tried everything before war. For example when his man Yanukovic stood against the western leaning Yuchenko for the presidential election in 2005, Yunchenko was poisoned. Who could have done that? 😳 But annoyingly for him, Yuchenko survived and won the election. So Putin hiked their energy prices to insupportable levels and got his man in at the next election with a promise to ‘negotiate’ cheap energy. The takeaway from this talk and one that I have been conscious of for some time is the difference between the way Britain gave up its colonies but kept good relations with them by not interfering in their politics and the way Russia saw its colonies as traitors when they rejected Russia and turned towards the west. This guy’s Make Russia Great Again comment is one that I have come to use myself from watching street interviews with Russians who love Putin because of his ‘foreign policy’.

[@elonthun8012]

Utter bull crap this is talking

[@user-wv8tm2iv9b]

Doubleposting kremlin bot

[@Chrischos]

then u can leave the video have a good one

[@user-zf9jc5yz7o]

‘It’s time to stop being naive - Russian can.t be broken - As long Russia is alive they wont bow down to the US-EU-NATO’

[@DCxDemo]

чем больше шкаф, тем громче падает

[@user-ms5vm5ws7d]

LONG LIVE RUSSIA A!!> FREE RUSSIA A!! // SLAVA LA RUSSIE !! GLOIRE A LA RUSDIE !! HURRAA AAH !!> HURRAA H !!

[@uku4171]

Least schizo russian bot

[@stevenmoore3480]

Russia is weak and broken regardless of Ukraine or any war.

[@richardtaylor3280]

😀😄😀😄 yeah .. right …

[@orangehairbrain8733]

What a useless writer. What a useless interview

[@vinnym4480]

less propaganda and more realism… swap out yr journalists they are crap…this channel needs more realism and stop the bs

[@thematic3893]

Ridiculous.

[@mbulelontseke5114]

🇷🇺Z🇷🇺

[@mitchyoung93]

Mazepa never called himself Ukrainian. And he couldnt even bring half of the Zaporozhian cossacks with him. This dude clearly swallowed Ukrainian nationalist historiography.

[@hassanas-sabbagh6562]

Let me guess it... Pushkin's history class?

[@mitchyoung93]

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