00:08:11.600I mean, this is absolutely suicidal to continue this war.0.93
00:08:14.940And let me say you that many people who support Ukraine,
00:08:18.140They think that if Ukraine continues this war, we will stay independent and preserve our sovereignty.0.89
00:08:25.680But this is very much vice versa, because we are following now Afghanistan paths.0.87
00:08:31.200And if this war continues, we have many more chances to become a vassal state and actually to have enormous degradation of society, economy and everything.0.99
00:08:40.700than if we try to find realistic paths towards peace today
00:08:46.220and then try to restore our economy, our democracy,
00:08:50.640have elections, you know, try to return our people.
00:08:53.900And maybe later with time, if we have good diplomats at the table,
00:08:58.720maybe, you know, just maybe we will be able to return the territories.
00:09:01.940But right now we're choosing between the territories and people.
00:15:37.200And this is so enormous corruption that we understand that it is covered from the top.
00:15:41.300It cannot just exist on the middle or low level.
00:15:43.880Another thing that was discovered after our interview was that actually in conscription offices, there are torture, beating. Some men die. And this is so inhuman.
00:16:00.660Actually, on the streets of Ukraine today, women defend men.
00:22:23.960So many people are asking me that, and I would really encourage my Western Media College journalists to investigate deeper what's happening there behind, you know, media publicity with all this drones production, right?
00:22:37.380But just for your audience to explain how the distribution of aid for Ukraine works.
00:22:42.220So, for instance, if we are promised 45 billion of euro per year, like 30, for instance, 30 billion of this money goes to drone production or weapons production.
00:22:54.620And majority of this money doesn't go to Ukraine, it goes to the countries who actually distribute the money.
00:23:01.200So, like Ryan Meadow, for instance, or French producers.
00:23:05.660So, these weapons producers really enjoy enormous amounts of money.
00:23:10.000And to be frank, as a PR person, I was following this enormous PR happening in media.
00:23:18.100And I think that if we follow the money, we can explain a lot of things happening.
00:23:22.420Like, for instance, just before NATO summit in Ankara in July, there were all these messages that Ukraine was winning the war.
00:23:29.300And then Mark Rutte announced 140 billion euro of aid.
00:23:34.660And in a week, we didn't get any more messages about Ukraine winning.
00:23:39.260And in two weeks, we started getting messages that Ukraine is losing, Ukraine doesn't have
00:23:43.440interceptors, we are having a humanitarian catastrophe approaching, etc., etc., etc.0.75
00:23:48.740Then at the end of summer, we started reading a lot of news about starting of World War
00:23:55.800III about Russia trying to attack NATO countries, though a lot of NATO officials were saying
00:24:02.040that they don't see any kind of preparation for this.
00:24:04.460And again, I don't want anyhow to flatter Russia or to justify what it is doing, but it is very strange to hear that the country that cannot cope with Ukraine, that is not in NATO, not in EU and doesn't have even its own economy, would want to attack NATO countries.
00:24:21.360So, then we understood that at the same time when there are these media headlines, there is a discussion of the next seven-year budget from 2028 to 2034.
00:24:35.460And of course, the defense budget there are very tasty.
00:24:40.280So, perhaps European Union just wants to preserve those defense budgets and to preserve them.
00:24:46.540They need to justify in the media and today people why their defense budgets are so huge.
00:24:52.920So they say about the World War III, you know, they escalate the rhetoric.
00:24:57.200I'm just afraid where it will lead over us.
00:24:59.840Because when I see the taste of Europeans towards the war, I don't believe that Europeans want to fight.
00:25:07.660And actually the rating of Mr. Mertz, for instance, recordly low, 10%.
00:25:13.160And getting lower and lower, tell us about that.
00:25:17.140And then we have the AfD party that promotes peace.
00:25:20.960And they break the record of popularity because people don't want war.
00:25:26.740People want their leaders to talk to Russia.
00:25:29.380People want their leaders to guarantee that there will be no war.
00:25:33.180And as a Ukrainian, I will tell you that many Westerners, ordinary people,
00:25:37.860they look at this war as a Hollywood movie.
00:32:09.180Well, and as far as I understand, under Zelensky, the Ukrainian legislative body made it legal for foreigners to buy Ukrainian farmland, is now legal.
00:32:20.340And Zelensky has announced that Ukraine will be importing foreigners
00:32:24.360because they don't have enough manpower to run an economy.
00:32:28.940And so it's possible in 10 years there will be no Ukraine.
00:32:33.280Its land will be owned by foreigners and its population will be foreign.0.97
00:32:38.840So even if we don't mention these facts, there is the math that just doesn't work.
00:32:45.840Like if we have around a little bit more than 20 million of people staying in the country, down from 52 million in 1991, around 12 million of these people are pensioners and people with disabilities.
00:33:02.560If you count down children, then, you know, we almost do not have any workforce and people obviously are living.
00:33:10.760We lose from 600 to 800,000 of people, only officially, only officially.
00:33:18.700Last year, we had three times more deaths than births.
00:33:22.620This year, in the first half of this year, we had four times more deaths than births.
00:40:16.300That's what Zelensky suggests us to do.
00:40:19.380How do you think Zelensky thinks this will end?
00:40:24.380I don't think that he is thinking about ending this war
00:40:27.780because in the same months he understood that elections are not possible.
00:40:33.260Mr. Yermak, who is still advising to Volodymyr Zelensky and meeting him at home,
00:40:39.440said that it's better just to continue the war for the next two years
00:40:43.040Because Zelensky and Yermak and his government are sure that they have got allocated aid, military aid for the next two years.
00:40:55.680It is a disastrous type of thinking because, unfortunately, they are very bad at math again.
00:41:01.480Because even in August and September, there is this call that Ukraine lacks of 27 billion of dollars for this year.
00:41:09.400So he wants to take the money from the next year, you know, and this is what he has done from the previous year.
00:41:16.720So Ukraine just doesn't produce any added value.
00:41:20.260Our metallurgy exports have been bombed out.
00:41:24.840Our agriculture is bombed out and severely restricted from the European Union quarters and many other, you know, for many other reasons.
00:41:35.020And these are metallurgy and agriculture were our two major exports issues.
00:41:41.240So today, we just don't produce any added value, any innovation, any science, except of military drones.
00:41:49.040There is a huge militarization of society, radicalization of society.0.66
00:41:54.460And what I see is not the Ukraine that I was proud of.0.90
00:41:57.900It's just Ukraine that is degrading every day.
00:42:00.940So, yeah, my point is that anything that can be done today to stop this war and to restore everything, politics, elections, the country, demography, economy, democracy, it needs to be done today.
00:42:22.400And there is no better condition for the peace than now, because Zelensky promises you better conditions, but it will never happen.
00:42:30.280There is no better conditions for peace than now.0.80
00:42:34.840My last question is, if it's clear that Ukraine can't win
00:42:39.040because the numbers don't add up, as you said,
00:42:41.520and that's been obvious since the very first day,
00:42:44.740why is Zelensky accelerating the attacks