1991, when the declaration of independence of ukraine was used by the russian elite in order to deprive mikhail gorbachev of power, dissolve the soviet union and create a quasi-state entity that, after russia emerges from the economic void, will become a real state under the leadership of boris yatsin, the commonwealth of independent states, russians say that they live in cis, you and i here in ukraine say that we live in ukraine russians live in the cis by the way, a large part of our compatriots with you, especially the eastern and southern regions of ukraine, also repeats after them that he lives in the cis because he lives in the world of russian television. it turns out that president leonid kravchuk is not ready to use the cis as a tool for the creation of this new union state under his leadership, but

instead perceives the cis as a tool for separation. russia's preparation for the fight against ukraine is already beginning when it becomes absolutely obvious that ukraine is preparing to introduce its own currency, that it wants to have its own armed forces, the year 1994 brings victory to leonid kuchma, a candidate from with pro-russian slogans and attitudes, it is expected that the commonwealth of an independent state will eventually become a union state, a union of sovereign states, but as soon as kuchu gets into the presidential office, he understands what opportunities are open to him from this moment , the years of the lost time begin, which many ukrainians perceive as golden years in ukrainian history, because after chris in the first half

of the 90s, relief begins, but it is during this relief that people who perceive leonid kuchma as the best president of the country is signing their children and grandchildren a death sentence, they are signing a ticket to war, this is wasted time, while ukraine's neighbors are stubbornly knocking on the door of the european union's nato and they are not refused, ukraine remains with the usual gray union republic that tries to maneuver between the west and the east in search of other people's money, cheap gas, this rope around the neck of a ukrainian seems to our compatriots and you to the majority of irresponsible ukrainians to be a golden chain, so the lost 10 years pass 2004

ukraine meets an oligarchic country with no prospects for future political and national development, the kremlin is already preparing a replacement for viktor yanukovych, a long-time agent of the soviet and russian special services, and here the kremlin makes the first mistake: it underestimates the very fact of the existence of a ukrainian elite that does not want to fall under the rule of the criminal donetsk authority viktor yushchenko who also worked as the prime minister who considers yanukovych, e.e., the times of leonid, much more than the representatives of this ukrainian political and entrepreneurial elite a safe and er reasonable option between the criminal yanukovych the kremlin cannot understand this

it seems that the trap for ukraine is already closing and it is not up to the representatives of the ukrainian nomenclature to decide who will be the president of ukraine and here the ukrainian elite turns to the ukrainian people for help a completely new political era is beginning it turns out that when parts the elites and the people unite moscow cannot win in russia they are allegedly making the right conclusions economic expansion continues corrupt part of the ukrainian eli and the oligarchs are seeking revenge in 2010, in fact, with the help of the same unchanged gas tools, but 2010 did not lead

to the desired unification option in the kremlin, nor yanukovych , too, before this, is fussing about it in search of other people 's money, trying to snatch it in brussels and in moscow and in berlin and in minsk, this greed becomes harmful for him, in the end vladimir putin has to lash out at his agent, which, if he understands, the nation refuses to sign the association agreement with the european union, but the level the expectations of the ukrainian people no longer meet this readiness of the authorities to change the foreign policy course in 24 hours, people believe that the association agreement will bring them the desired welfare, they do not even realize that this is only the first stage of the

european integration of ukraine, which will continue for many decades and which most of the people who living at that time in yanukovych's ukraine, people take to the streets under european flags, the battle of the ukrainian people with the gang instantly turns into a battle for justice when yanukovych's security forces beat students warming themselves on the independence square in anger everything seemed to be working out in ukraine completely pro-russian leadership the president of the country the prime minister of the country the first vice prime minister the minister of the interior the head of the security service the minister of defense the chief of the general staff the leadership from within national security and defense, all agents of the russian special services, the ukrainian state, which until that moment had no special subjectivity

, lost it finally and suddenly to putin again have to deal with material with which they do not know how to work with the people. the kremlin will lose putin's signal again. it is absolutely obvious that he blames this program on his own experts, who failed to calculate the explosion of popular anger against yanukovych, and a measure that does not give him the opportunity to restore his own historical territory . the signal is clear and understandable. it has been prepared since the first days of the maidan in 2014, if it is honest. congratulations, in 1991, the ukrainian crimea was annexed, but the west does not understand this russian signal, the president of the united states the states do not hold consultations with the aim of a change of power in ukraine, the return and the presidency of viktor yanukovych, he only demands from vladimir putin not to go to the ukrainian

mainland and threaten with economic sanctions, he does not understand this threat completely differently, completely differently, he understands that the measure is incapable or not i want to understand his signals and that it is necessary to start the second stage of the operation to return the historical lands of russia with the help of a not very large number of saboteurs to seize the ukrainian east to proclaim there is a quasi-state of novorossiya, and then it is possible with the help of this princely state to regain control over the whole of ukraine, then he again underestimates the ukrainian people's ability to resist even at the time of the regrouping of the ukrainian armed forces , ukrainians form volunteer battalions and begin to fight with saboteurs in order to

get at least a part occupied territory , putin has to use regular russian troops for the first time to transition from a special operation to a war, however, that part of the territory to which he controls still looks pathetic from the kremlin's point of view from the point of view of russian ambitions in the kremlin thank you until 2014, that is the fourth year they are starting to prepare for revenge to discredit ukrainian national-democratic forces to compromise ukrainian patriots to force ukrainians to walk on words with the dirtiest boots own church, the armed forces, to convince them that it is not important, that the ukrainian political leadership is to blame for the war, that if the

ukrainians themselves had not given up in donbas, it would have ended a long time ago and would have planned a happy life, putin's problem is that he can no longer bring representatives of pro-russian forces to power in ukraine, discredit the patriotic national-democratic part of the political spectrum, he may have enough strength and opportunities for this, but he can no longer bring his part to power but he still cherishes hopes, hopes are connected with the fact that the pre-election campaign of the most successful candidate to write to the president, volodymyr zelensky , takes place with the same memes that try impress russian propaganda into the consciousness of an average ukrainian. zelensky himself is an average ukrainian who has never engaged in political activity and had no experience of communicating with people like putin. he understands very well that

in the eyes of vladimir putin and mainly in the eyes of most russians, there is no country. and that he himself is zelensky, an ordinary russian who must realize all these wishes and ambitions of putin and the campaign, he has no idea how he is looked at in the kremlin and with what eyes the kremlin looks at him fatherland putin gives zelensky a chance , he agrees to a meeting with the new ukrainian president in paris after several years of ignoring his predecessor in preparation for a possible military escalation, but something is happening in paris that the kremlin does not expect zelensky not only does not intend to capitulate he even surrenders does not understand why putin is meeting with him and what is expected of him, the presidents

of russia and ukraine talk like people from different planets, although in principle they talk to one another language, they are unable to hear and understand each other . putin talks to zelenskyi as a representative of a rebellious province, which eventually has to realize that it is the province that has to choose between the west, which occupies the territory, and russia, which wants to return it home. zelenskyi talks to putin, the head of a sovereign state that wanted b to live in peace and normal relations with neighbors, these are so different , so polar positions that putin is scared of such blatant misunderstanding and sincerely believes that zelensky specifically relied on meetings in paris in order to mock him or, as advisers in the kremlin explain, he is afraid of nationalists who can come to the bank with

their demands at any moment. putin gives a clear order to prepare for a special operation to change power in ukraine. he is sure that the ukrainian government is weak and that the first bars on the north of ukraine will lead to the seizure of kyiv in that something of the ukrainian president and the creation of a puppet of the state. his closest associate, deputy chairman of the security council of the russian federation, dmytro medvedev, says that putin will meet with zelensky and never again and this meeting cannot take place, then he will wait for the new ukrainian

president, but he does not agree that this new president, already appointed by putin himself, should come to power only after the ukrainian capital is occupied by the russians. that it may not be the new but the old president, viktor yanukovych, putin's special operation proves once again that the russian president is absolutely unable to understand which country he is dealing with and what are the real desires of the citizens of this country special operation breaks into a real big war not from the very

beginning, which we are now in, it may be surprising to many that i say exactly the beginning of 114 days, but such are those that begin with incomprehensible special operations, they usually continue for a long, very long time. there is no ukraine that its people are just waiting for russian tanks, and the government is ready to hit the russian community with the first shot, now vladimir putin is the russian armed forces and the russian people know that this is not the case and that they are fighting, who spoke out that the war must end in victory, that whoever is not with us is against us, that whoever considers himself a ukrainian must be

neutralized, expelled, destroyed, this is exactly what is happening, and that is why everyone was shot at buch indiscriminately believing that they will not make a mistake and will definitely kill a large number of ukrainians in kherson, occupied by russian invaders, they kill activists, persecute them, do everything possible to clear the city and the region from those who consider kherson region an integral part of the ukrainian state and so will be on each of the territories that will enter the

territory on the territory that the occupiers will enter , this is where we are, i just wanted to explain with such a long story a long story that all this was laid back in august 1991 and i will not say that it was inevitable or effective and the strength of the state is precisely to avert war, the maturity of the people is to realize the level of danger, for three decades we had neither that nor the other. and when we tried to reconstruct the state, another always happened the electoral shock that nullified all the efforts of the

active part of society and i am not saying that it will not be like this anymore, i only hope for it. because each such attempt to defend itself and the electoral shock after it reduces the chance of the ukrainian state to exist as such. i think everyone understands this, i will try to answer to the questions that came, ira prok saw the news where zelensky said that he had lost 60 soldiers for 500 wounded every day under this news there was an interesting comment how many civilians are we losing? suggest that you are even more than the military . this maidan is killing nations. they will just stupidly die unarmed at the hands of a russian. please comment on why people in general are only concerned about the losses of the military. and that the russians came to kill the

military and everyone in a row because military people can protect civilians from e- and those who came to kill so that it is not clear and something interesting, you protect the territory and you don’t kill on it, you don’t protect, you kill, that’s why you lose such important people among the military. i don’t understand why there is a problem at all kazakhstan has already made up its mind and does not support russia in the war, too. are there any allies left? i think it does not matter much . to be honest, kazakhstan definitely does not so much support russia in the war as it does not want to legally provide russia with the opportunity to bypass the western site, but russia's main allies are oil and gas, and kazakhstan and belarus, while russia will receive billions of dollars for the sale of its energy carriers and will receive them in smaller quantities if it sells them to asian markets, the russian economy can exist. we ca n't talk about the fact that the countries that buy

russian energy sources, such as china and india, are not real allies of russia and the struggle for economic survival, and these are not all states that receive russian energy products for several months of war. russia received from the sale of energy carriers more than it received before the war in connection with all these shocks, prices at the border are rising, of course, russia sells some parts of its energy carriers there at a discount to the economy on western markets but nevertheless, it cannot be understood that in the conditions of price increases, this discount means a higher price than the one for which russia could sell its energy carriers in europe before the war. from the society of the occupied country, the belarusians did not succeed in overthrowing

the authoritarian regime, they lost, you can say , the confrontation, and now the life of belarusians, the occupation of lukashenka, is no different from life ukrainians under putin's occupation in those regions where putin has deployed russian troops. so i don't think it should be assumed that belarusians will support this war if they don't go out into the streets. it seems to me that ukrainians don't really understand what it's like to live in an occupied state, but these ukrainians who live now in the occupied regions of ukraine they already understand for sure and believe me that when the demonstration is shot a couple of times with heavy weapons, no one will be held responsible for this, the mass protest ends in any country, fortunately for the ukrainians in our country has always not had a very strong slas- the power apparatus has always had different clan interests when the clans agree with each other and when the power

apparatus clearly serves the interests of this united force, the opportunities to resist evil are much less, as a rule, they are simply not there yet, i do not think that the reaction of the belarusian society or the russian society is of great importance, while the security forces, god, keep the defense, the force regime is not defeated vitaly, i often hear you putin's troops, the war was unleashed by putin , at the same time, they repeatedly said that 8% of russians support the war, solid sociological polls , such turns of steel - stylistics, although there is still a certain meaning behind it. i often say russian troops. i think that during the second world war, when they talked about hitler's troops or the war unleashed by hitler, it was also it is absolutely normal phrase the decision to attack poland

personally held the fate of hitler definitely there 87 90% of germans supported him in this decision but this absolutely did not mean that it was irresponsible in war there are two sides in responsibility responsibility of the society that supports military actions, that's why i often say russian troops and always use the term russians when i mention mass murders and so on, because it's russians, it's the russian army, at the same time, i also say putin's troops, so the war was started by putin , so because the decision to start a special military military operation with you is made by the president of the russian federation, the supreme command or the armed forces of russia, his personal responsibility for this is absolutely obvious i

i don't even think that it is necessary to explain it in any way, in principle, i will see now what else is available. if we have something or try to end this broadcast with something like this, let's try to predict the situation in the coming days from the point of view of our in this regard and tasks, i would just like to say that these days we will receive the decision of the european

commission on the status of a candidate for membership of the european union, i really hope that this will happen but again , just like in this part of the program, which i tried to conduct a kind of historical excursion, i want to say what you need to understand in principle is that the european integration of ukraine is a long process. the candidacy of members of the european union is an important symbolic happiness. these gestures will open the way for us to negotiations with the eu. these are important negotiations. believe me, they will continue for years if they are successful. i

really hope that in 10 - in 15 years we will become members of the european union, but in 20 maybe in 8 i won't. now it is very important for us that in 10 years the ukrainian state will exist at all . from 20 years on, the european union will lead victory, and membership in nato guarantees security. for our country to be under the nuclear umbrella of great britain, the united states and france, there are no other guarantees that ukraine will remain on the political

map of the world. enemy, we can even expel him from our land, as our leaders say about it, it was great, but if we are the next after that, nato, they will return, they will definitely return in three, in five years, all their efforts will be related to the need to return to strengthen our armed forces and return, i would like to remind you that after all, we do not have a match in human potential and that russia will be able to sell its energy carriers and then the ukrainian employees, which means to restore military technologies,

always prepare for war you must remember this and not relax. and not for a single day. as i already said, it's like winter in the game of thrones. winter just started on february 24, 2022. you must be sure that spring will follow and ice i absolutely promise you this, not as a political analyst, as a metro meteorologist, but the political winter will be very long, very hard, very spring with rain and snow and blizzards with cold disappointments , do not be disappointed, believe in spring. we were changed by the date that changed the world and now what interests us most is our victory, when we will defeat the enemy, how

to predict the course of the war, the saturday political club program returns to the air espresso to help to understand the events and predict the consequences that saturdays vitaly portnikov and maria gurska will discuss the most relevant to draw appropriate conclusions, you want to know how what is happening today will affect our tomorrow. see the subotnik that saturdays are not espresso on the fourth of april, the rrt concert illegally turned off the digital air ukrainian independent tv channels espresso p for the first time , a petition has been registered on the website of the cabinet of ministers of ukraine demanding that ukrainian tv channels be returned to the digital airwaves in order to sign the petition first you need to register, it's very simple go to the website petition.keugov.ua there

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