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[00:00:00] is under corrupt suspicion for
[00:00:03] precisely part of these NAB
[00:00:07] and SAP tapes, and this person first
[00:00:10] manipulated letters from military units to impersonate
[00:00:14] and present himself as a top lawyer, top
[00:00:17] human rights activist, and now Andriy Yermak
[00:00:20] has brought medical documents to the HACC,
[00:00:24] which state that Andriy Borysovych has serious health
[00:00:27] problems, and he cannot wear an electronic
[00:00:31] bracelet in any way, because it significantly worsens his
[00:00:35] health. It's
[00:00:37] absolutely strange, you know, because during Zelenskyy's
[00:00:40] era, we observed a number of high-profile cases, for example, the case
[00:00:44] of Roman Chervinskyi, and Roman Chervinskyi, by the way, spent a long time
[00:00:47] first in a pre-trial detention center, and then also wore an electronic
[00:00:51] bracelet, even was under house arrest, and somehow
[00:00:55] the person did not complain that his health had sharply deteriorated
[00:00:58] because he did not have
[00:01:02] this electronic bracelet. Moreover, I remember when
[00:01:05] the Kudrytskyi case just began, there was an attempt by
[00:01:08] the authorities to portray the top
[00:01:11] corrupt official not as Herman Halushchenko and all those people
[00:01:15] we heard in all their glory on the tapes related
[00:01:18] to Cooperative 11, but precisely the former head
[00:01:22] of Ukrenergo, and at some point, when
[00:01:25] this case was being considered, I remember
[00:01:28] meeting Mr. Volodya
[00:01:31] in the center of Kyiv. He was wearing a well-dressed suit,
[00:01:34] a beautiful coat, and was going to
[00:01:38] a meeting with Western ambassadors, and he had this electronic
[00:01:41] bracelet on his leg, and the person also did not complain that he had any pains in his
[00:01:45] legs, pains in his heart, and went to do
[00:01:48] his job explaining
[00:01:51] the state of our energy system and how efficiently
[00:01:55] we spend European Union money. And only
[00:01:58] with Yermak do we see these problems. Why? Because Andriy
[00:02:02] Borysovych is such a person with a very
[00:02:04] inflated ego, and he certainly does not want to be
[00:02:08] associated even in the slightest way with
[00:02:11] the fact that he could be imprisoned, he could be a convict,
[00:02:15] he could be a person behind bars. Moreover, there was
[00:02:18] a very telling story with
[00:02:21] graffiti in Poznyaky, when someone drew a portrait of
[00:02:24] Yermak there about a year and a half to two years ago,
[00:02:28] and then people for about a week entertained themselves by
[00:02:32] adding different images to Yermak, and one of the images was
[00:02:36] prison garb. And I remember that immediately after this drawing,
[00:02:39] this graffiti portrait was very quickly painted over.
[00:02:42] So these "green" leaders, these top corrupt officials and various violators
[00:02:46] of Ukrainian law, really do not want
[00:02:49] to be associated with the fact that they could one day
[00:02:53] be in the dock, and then would be sitting somewhere in a conditional
[00:02:56] men's colony
[00:02:59] and, for example, sewing military
[00:03:02] uniforms or some kind of work uniforms, that is, doing
[00:03:06] something for the benefit of Ukrainian society. And therefore
[00:03:09] it's not surprising that there are constantly these attacks on NABU and SAP. Moreover,
[00:03:13] information has emerged that David
[00:03:16] Arakhamia, in the presence of Zelenskyy, back
[00:03:20] at the beginning, when this scandal with a new batch
[00:03:23] of tapes arose on September 7th, they were sitting at a meeting with
[00:03:27] the heads of anti-corruption bodies, Menen
[00:03:30] Kryvonos and Oleksandr Klymenko, and there Arakhamia
[00:03:34] was precisely frightening the heads of NABU
[00:03:37] and SAP with the threat of criminal
[00:03:40] prosecution. And why? Because, friends, Arakhamia himself
[00:03:44] is very afraid that he might also face suspicion.
[00:03:48] And his hand-picked prosecutor general was a kind of
[00:03:51] insurance for Arakhamia and for other representatives of Zelenskyy's
[00:03:54] government, for all deputies of the Servant of the People
[00:03:57] faction, that because
[00:04:00] we have our own person there, that all our schemes
[00:04:04] are our own, cultivated,
[00:04:07] deputies do not receive their proper summons, and
[00:04:10] in this way it will
[00:04:12] be possible
[00:04:14] to save their people, to save this mono-majority
[00:04:18] and not to end up in the dock
[00:04:21] of the HACC himself. Moreover, I think Arakhamia was not particularly
[00:04:24] pleased with the case, for example, of the same Oleksandr Yurchenko,
[00:04:28] who, if... comparatively, perhaps, did much less harm
[00:04:31] to the Ukrainian state than David
[00:04:35] Arakhamia, but received his nine years in prison, and
[00:04:39] by the way, also received confiscation of the property that
[00:04:42] he earned with his hard work in
[00:04:45] the Verkhovna Rada. Therefore, undoubtedly, all these
[00:04:48] deputies and "green" leaders have
[00:04:51] something to lose. Well, and the most interesting wording, which
[00:04:54] came from the lips of David Arakhamia at this
[00:04:57] meeting, it sounded like, "But we can also
[00:05:00] detonate this Shahīd belt," and we saw this Shahīd
[00:05:04] belt, and the Shahīd belt, it was
[00:05:07] absolutely in the style of the green government, when
[00:05:09] your prosecutor general, or your close
[00:05:12] associate who knows many secrets, secretly
[00:05:16] leaves the country at night,
[00:05:20] and he leaves in a service
[00:05:23] car, which is also, by the way, a violation of Ukrainian law, because let's remember how
[00:05:27] the mayor of Chernihiv was dragged for the service car
[00:05:31] in which his wife
[00:05:33] left the besieged city.
[00:05:36] The person, by the way, was later even removed from office and the city was taken
[00:05:40] under control. And to this day, they pretend
[00:05:43] that there is no legally elected mayor in Chernihiv, who
[00:05:46] won the elections absolutely honestly, precisely against
[00:05:50] Zelenskyy's government. Therefore, Ruslan Kravchenko
[00:05:54] fled. His wife fled earlier, then Ruslan
[00:05:57] Kravchenko himself fled, and Ruslan
[00:06:00] Kravchenko also wrote himself a "business trip",
[00:06:03] he urgently needed to go to Paris,
[00:06:07] then to Pare, the person was very busy, but the person was actually
[00:06:11] not very busy defending the rights of Ukrainian children,
[00:06:15] she just wanted to escape and was looking for opportunities, and if we look at
[00:06:19] all those opportunities that Zelenskyy's
[00:06:22] government leaders are trying
[00:06:25] to find for themselves,
[00:06:27] the scheme is absolutely very similar. For example, the still
[00:06:31] acting head of the Antimonopoly Committee,
[00:06:34] Pavlo Kyrylenko,
[00:06:38] tried to leave the country using
[00:06:41] such a scheme. This person, by the way, has a lot of relatives in very
[00:06:44] respectable positions in the occupied territories. These
[00:06:48] people are absolutely such moderate
[00:06:52] conductors of the "Russian world", they repeatedly gave interviews to the Russian
[00:06:56] press and said that we like everything, we
[00:06:59] like ORDLO, we like this "Deneriya", we are connected to
[00:07:03] "Deneriya", everything suits us,
[00:07:06] and this public fact, yes, when your
[00:07:09] relatives generally work
[00:07:13] in positions related to the security system of these
[00:07:16] occupation bodies, it did not stop Zelenskyy from this appointment,
[00:07:20] and as a result, we got another such corruption
[00:07:23] case about illegal enrichment, when a person seriously
[00:07:26] tries to
[00:07:29] convince judges and Ukrainian
[00:07:32] society that all these penthouses, expensive
[00:07:35] apartments and cars that appeared in the Kyrylenko family
[00:07:38] came about because his grandmother traded raspberries
[00:07:42] somewhere in Donbas, and so there was such a moment when Pavlo
[00:07:45] Kyrylenko also tried, being in
[00:07:49] the status of the current head of the Antimonopoly
[00:07:52] Committee, to write himself an overseas business trip to Paris, so that later
[00:07:56] we could not catch him and would have to
[00:08:00] extradite him from abroad for a long time, but this did not work out for him, but
[00:08:03] for Ruslan Kravchenko everything worked out, he went
[00:08:07] on a business trip, took his wife and
[00:08:10] a service car with him, and now he is looking for political
[00:08:14] asylum, and this is precisely connected with his statements
[00:08:17] about the arbitrary actions of anti-corruption bodies. Moreover,
[00:08:20] these suspicions against the heads of anti-corruption
[00:08:23] bodies, which he did not
[00:08:26] personally deliver to these heads
[00:08:29] of anti-corruption bodies, but registered, by the way, in the system
[00:08:33] of the register of these summons, and then
[00:08:36] the Prosecutor General's Office had to make several statements that
[00:08:39] in fact, this is all a fake, and this person did not
[00:08:43] have the authority to do such a thing, but this residue remained. Moreover, he also
[00:08:47] tarnished the reputation of the same Semen
[00:08:50] Kryvonos, because he brought up a case from 2009,
[00:08:54] when Semen Kryvonos was still such
[00:08:57] an absolutely budding
[00:08:59] lawyer.
[00:09:01] This was an era when these young millennials were just entering the
[00:09:05] process and earning as they could, living as they could. They brought up this
[00:09:09] story of adoption and that, allegedly, this adoption
[00:09:13] helped Semen Kryvonos pass the integrity competition and thus he
[00:09:16] became the head of NABU. And
[00:09:19] now many people bring up this case, saying, "How can
[00:09:22] one trust NABU, because look at the reputation
[00:09:26] of these leaders, their own hands are dirty, so maybe it's not
[00:09:30] all so clear-cut." Maybe it's not all so clear-cut,
[00:09:33] but look, we see completely different career
[00:09:37] development vectors in the example of Ruslan Kravchenko
[00:09:40] and Semen Kryvonos. Ruslan Kravchenko
[00:09:42] also had very great
[00:09:45] opportunities to become a top
[00:09:48] and luminary of the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, because in his
[00:09:51] very young years, Yuriy Lutsenko,
[00:09:54] the then prosecutor general, decided
[00:09:57] that this young face
[00:10:01] of Ukrainian jurisprudence would be the ideal prosecutor
[00:10:04] in the case of Viktor Yanukovych, and so there, a person who in
[00:10:08] principle did not have any phenomenal
[00:10:12] abilities, received his portion of media attention
[00:10:16] and was positively marked with a fat plus in the Yanukovych
[00:10:20] case, because Yanukovych received his verdict, albeit
[00:10:23] in absentia, but we see how Ruslan
[00:10:26] Kravchenko nullified these past achievements and essentially
[00:10:29] repeated the fate and path of Viktor
[00:10:33] Yanukovych, because Yanukovych fled to
[00:10:36] Rostov, before that, by the way, he also very disgracefully signed these
[00:10:39] letters, by which he asked to bring
[00:10:42] Russian troops into the territory of Ukraine, to stop this
[00:10:46] chaos and this Revolution of Dignity, to finally
[00:10:49] overthrow it and return everything as it was and return the legitimate Viktor
[00:10:53] Fedorovych. That's how it was. Ruslan Kravchenko also looks
[00:10:57] at his suspicions when
[00:10:59] you have already fled, but powerfully messed up for those
[00:11:03] people who are doing their job, and all this is because
[00:11:06] your scheme was exposed. Moreover,
[00:11:09] his wife, who was brought along, is also such, you know, an analogue
[00:11:13] of Lyuba Polezhay, who was Viktor
[00:11:16] Yanukovych's beloved woman, and Viktor Fedorovych, when
[00:11:19] he fled to the Russian Federation, he simply could
[00:11:23] not leave his beloved
[00:11:25] woman behind, and this is exactly how it is. Moreover, Viktor
[00:11:28] Fedorovych from Russia began very
[00:11:31] extensively and vehemently to talk about
[00:11:34] various political persecutions
[00:11:36] by the Orange government, and in the same way Ruslan Kravchenko tries to talk about
[00:11:40] the Orange government. As for Semen
[00:11:43] Kryvonos, this
[00:11:47] person worked everywhere in his youth, in elections,
[00:11:51] and
[00:11:53] as a lawyer there... in parties, there was this
[00:11:57] episode with adoption, however, later
[00:12:00] he abandoned this adopted child, because he
[00:12:03] had his own biological issues, there were certain difficulties,
[00:12:07] but let's be honest, this person has cleansed
[00:12:11] his tumultuous youth with his current
[00:12:14] cases and his current
[00:12:18] cases of exposing top corruption. This
[00:12:20] is a normal development, by the way, for a career, when you may not have been
[00:12:25] an ideal youth, but you somehow develop and progress
[00:12:29] in the future, but you can't say that
[00:12:32] about Ruslan Kravchenko. And now Ruslan Kravchenko has taken a very
[00:12:36] clear vector, he is not going to return to Ukraine, I think that
[00:12:39] our green leaders and Volodymyr
[00:12:43] Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy are also not going
[00:12:47] to bring him back to Kyiv. Moreover, they waited and waited
[00:12:50] to submit a proposal for his dismissal
[00:12:53] to the Verkhovna Rada, and finally voted for this dismissal only
[00:12:57] after Ruslan Kravchenko fled in a service car under
[00:13:00] the guise that he was the prosecutor general going on
[00:13:03] a business trip.
[00:13:05] And Ruslan Kravchenko's goal now is
[00:13:08] to obtain political asylum, to present
[00:13:12] himself as a victim of political persecution, and here, by the way, he
[00:13:15] is not alone in these intentions, because
[00:13:18] these intentions very strongly unite
[00:13:22] him, for example, with Rostyslav Shurma. Let me remind you... who is Rostyslav
[00:13:26] Shurma? He was the person responsible for economic
[00:13:29] policy and a kind of investment nanny, along
[00:13:33] with another very odious character from Bankova, whose name is
[00:13:37] Oleh Tatarov.
[00:13:39] By the way, Rostyslav Shurma is a very famous personality,
[00:13:43] his father Ihor Shurma is a long-time associate of Viktor
[00:13:46] Medvedchuk, and so close and intimate that they
[00:13:50] started together back in the SDPU(o), and
[00:13:53] then their paths ran very parallel in
[00:13:56] business matters and in politics. Shurma was a long-time
[00:14:00] deputy of the Party of Regions, and
[00:14:04] was famous for very strictly adhering to the line of this
[00:14:08] pro-Russian party. And he had
[00:14:11] a son Rostyslav,
[00:14:13] a kind of young star, who
[00:14:16] for a long time, by the way, worked in Rinat Akhmetov's structures, but
[00:14:20] as evil tongues say, he started
[00:14:22] to exceed his official
[00:14:26] powers in some places and he was asked to leave, because
[00:14:29] Rinat
[00:14:32] Leonidovych greatly values his business, and
[00:14:36] would not tolerate such a thing, as a person from the 90s, when some
[00:14:39] big shot tries to tell how to do things,
[00:14:43] and also build his career on
[00:14:46] the body of your business empire. Therefore, Rostyslav was taken
[00:14:50] by the President's Office, and this
[00:14:53] was very necessary at that point for Volodymyr
[00:14:56] Oleksandrovych, because at that stage of Rostyslav Shurma's appointment, he had his own conflict
[00:15:00] with Rinat Akhmetov, so
[00:15:03] this was
[00:15:05] also a jab at Rinat
[00:15:09] Akhmetov, saying, "Look, we took your manager,
[00:15:12] he knows all your secrets." And
[00:15:16] so Shurma and Tatarov were in many
[00:15:20] photos, met with our top businessmen and
[00:15:23] tried to tell something about the development of economic
[00:15:27] policy, but the meaning of this economic policy
[00:15:30] Rostyslav Shurma then showed when, by the way,
[00:15:34] under the guise of a full-scale invasion, and when, unfortunately,
[00:15:37] the Russian Federation occupied a large
[00:15:40] part of our Zaporizhzhia region, he decided
[00:15:43] to steal 140 million on the green tariff under
[00:15:46] the pretext that electricity was being purchased
[00:15:50] from those solar power plants
[00:15:53] that were already under occupation. And
[00:15:57] by the way, then, when suspicions of frying from NABU and SAP arose, what did Rostyslav
[00:16:00] Shurma do? He remembered that he was the father of three children,
[00:16:04] fled to Germany and... to settle there, moreover,
[00:16:07] Germany is quite a welcoming
[00:16:10] country for people, for Ukrainian refugees, for those who
[00:16:13] try, for those who have children there,
[00:16:17] three children, why not, and maybe
[00:16:20] good Germans will grow up from these children, and so, by the
[00:16:24] way, Rostyslav Shurma also brought his brother,
[00:16:27] who was also an accomplice in this scheme,
[00:16:31] Oleh. Oleh, by the way, even organized a third child
[00:16:34] for himself under this pretense, so that he could leave
[00:16:38] under the benefits of a large family father,
[00:16:41] but these esteemed heirs of Medvedchuk's
[00:16:45] associate and very powerful brothers did not take into account the fact that
[00:16:49] European law enforcement officers have long
[00:16:52] cooperated with NABU and SAP, and therefore, undoubtedly,
[00:16:55] July 15, 2025 was
[00:16:58] a huge shock when German law enforcement officers came
[00:17:02] to Rostyslav Shurma's luxurious house in the suburbs of Munich
[00:17:06] and began asking such details about
[00:17:09] corruption. And what did Rostyslav Shurma do? He
[00:17:13] quickly fled to Vienna and is now trying
[00:17:16] through his lawyers to prove that he is actually
[00:17:19] a victim of political persecution, he is simply
[00:17:22] a victim of this terrible
[00:17:25] arbitrary action by NABU and SAP, because NABU
[00:17:29] and SAP have completely gone off the rails and simply want to persecute
[00:17:32] people they don't like, but who held some
[00:17:36] positions during the Zelenskyy era.
[00:17:39] So this was the first pioneer
[00:17:42] who paved this path, as a political refugee,
[00:17:46] this political refugee of the Zelenskyy era.
[00:17:50] Also, look, when we talk about
[00:17:53] other such comrades, then it's worth mentioning
[00:17:56] such a person as Olena Duma.
[00:18:00] She was the head of such a structure as ARMA, an absolutely
[00:18:04] incompetent woman, but very arrogant, who has
[00:18:08] connections with various men, including rumors that she
[00:18:11] was a close friend of Oleh Kulinich, who is involved in
[00:18:15] a case of state treason and the surrender of the south.
[00:18:19] So when Mykhailo Tkach caught her on tape, when she
[00:18:23] entered Mindich Zuckerman's
[00:18:26] office in a red suit, what did
[00:18:30] this lady do? She decided to become such an anti-corruption whistleblower
[00:18:34] against NABU and SAP and
[00:18:38] started her YouTube channel, which, by the way, is visited
[00:18:42] by some sane characters, I don't know what they forgot there, but she obviously
[00:18:45] wants attention, willing ears and to appear in an
[00:18:48] interview somewhere. In this way, this person is launching
[00:18:52] a rebranding of her career, so as not to be held accountable for
[00:18:55] her actions, her positions, or even inaction, because
[00:18:59] experts claim that during her leadership
[00:19:03] of the army, it was a complete disaster, nothing was
[00:19:06] done to make Russia somehow accountable for its
[00:19:09] assets that it had on the territory
[00:19:12] of Ukraine. There were not even attempts to sell these assets
[00:19:16] to some normal owners among local or
[00:19:20] Western investors, meaning the assets lay
[00:19:23] and waited, apparently, for the Russian Federation to return them
[00:19:26] back. So this is another such example
[00:19:29] of how a person who is connected to Zelenskyy's system, who was
[00:19:33] appointed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is now trying to pass herself off as
[00:19:36] a top oppositionist,
[00:19:39] an anti-corruption whistleblower against NABU and SAP, and
[00:19:42] is trying to claim that she is a truth-teller, she knows the truth,
[00:19:46] that's the pattern that
[00:19:50] characters like Ruslan Kravchenko and, by the way, Yulia Mendel are now trying
[00:19:54] to follow. Yulia Mendel is also such
[00:19:57] a star who is now also trying
[00:20:00] to restart her political
[00:20:02] career. By the way, Yulia
[00:20:06] Mendel is also such a very interesting person
[00:20:09] who wrote a book, "Each of Us
[00:20:13] Is President," wrote simply phenomenal encomiums
[00:20:17] to Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy,
[00:20:20] wrote about what an incredibly cool
[00:20:24] person he was,
[00:20:26] that this Maidan never even dreamed
[00:20:30] that such a leader would come to power, and this
[00:20:33] unhygienic Maidan didn't even suspect what kind of
[00:20:37] revolution 2019 would bring. This, by the way, is a direct quote about
[00:20:41] the unhygienic Maidan, and
[00:20:45] some passages, you know, are so bad that your ears shrivel,
[00:20:48] and even in those erotic Hollywood thrillers of the 90s,
[00:20:52] there were no such explicit scenes of one hero licking
[00:20:55] another hero as Yulia Mendel tried
[00:20:59] to lick Zelenskyy
[00:21:01] and even Yermak in this book. Moreover, there are
[00:21:05] public interviews, such as Yulia Mendel's appearance
[00:21:09] with Baba Natasha Vlashchenko, where she talked about
[00:21:12] what a phenomenal manager Yermak was,
[00:21:15] what a phenomenal leader Zelenskyy was, and now
[00:21:18] this woman is trying to befriend
[00:21:22] Alternative for Germany, which, by the way, is a pro-Russian
[00:21:25] party that was
[00:21:28] exposed for its ties to Russian, by the way, business
[00:21:31] circles, which very often produces Russian
[00:21:35] narratives, which openly talks about meeting
[00:21:38] Kirill Dmitriev and wanting to return Nord Stream,
[00:21:42] their leader, Alice Weidel.
[00:21:46] But Yulia Mendel also very much wants to receive political
[00:21:49] asylum in Berlin, maybe even get a job as an
[00:21:52] expert on Ukrainian issues for Alternative for
[00:21:56] Germany, and therefore she actively tries
[00:22:00] to portray herself as a victim of a political regime,
[00:22:03] a regime that she created with her employer
[00:22:06] with her own hands, because let me remind you, who among us silenced
[00:22:10] journalists, who among us tried to attack journalists,
[00:22:14] investigators of the "Schemes" project, who among us
[00:22:17] snatched microphones from hands, for example?
[00:22:21] Who among us filtered the lists of journalists who
[00:22:25] were allowed into press conferences, and who
[00:22:27] was not? Who among us wrote posts about what
[00:22:30] scoundrels such journalists as Yuriy Butusov
[00:22:34] or Mykhailo Tkach, or Roman Kravets were, because they dared
[00:22:38] to ask about Andriy Yermak, about the celebration of Andriy
[00:22:41] Yermak's anniversary, or about Oleh Tatarov. This is terrible, how can
[00:22:45] one live with such journalists?
[00:22:48] Well, and, what is interesting.
[00:22:52] Yulia Mendel, by
[00:22:54] the way, went to another interview with
[00:22:58] a former escort and kept woman
[00:23:01] of rapper Kievstoner, Bagira, I think that's her
[00:23:04] name, and there she said that she herself asked for
[00:23:08] an interview with Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson, we remember
[00:23:11] this interview, he is a person who is
[00:23:15] a former Fox News person, but now he works as
[00:23:19] an ultra-right blogger, with such a pro-Russian, pro-Trump bias,
[00:23:23] and he is certainly very glad to have such hyped-up guests. And there
[00:23:26] Yulia Mendel, to the delight of Russian propaganda, didn't tell
[00:23:30] what a drug addict Zelenskyy was, how dishonest he was, what
[00:23:34] a dishonorable person he was, how scary it was to live with such a president, when
[00:23:38] we desperately needed peace. Moreover,
[00:23:40] look, now Yulia Mendel
[00:23:44] has befriended those alternatives for Germany, she
[00:23:48] doesn't hide that she is very comfortable with these
[00:23:51] alternatives for Germany and received from them
[00:23:55] an
[00:23:55] invitation
[00:24:02] to speak in the European Parliament
[00:24:05] at the invitation of Alternative for Germany about peace in Ukraine, and
[00:24:08] Yulia Mendel's narratives absolutely
[00:24:11] coincided with all these
[00:24:14] narratives that
[00:24:17] Alternative for Germany itself
[00:24:20] has long been publishing, about how we
[00:24:24] need peace, about how Zelenskyy is an obstacle to peace, about
[00:24:27] how this militaristic rhetoric only
[00:24:30] hinders,
[00:24:33] and generally, let's reduce spending on this
[00:24:36] Ukraine, then everything will be
[00:24:39] fine, by the way, despite the fact that she
[00:24:43] they were not officially allowed into the European Parliament, she
[00:24:46] had a speech there, she had a speech, by the way, via
[00:24:50] Skype, and in principle, what she wanted
[00:24:53] to say, she said, so this is also a plan, how to get
[00:24:57] this political asylum in Berlin, and here, by the way,
[00:25:00] these escapees, they are very similar
[00:25:03] to these current opposition members of many
[00:25:07] of the Russian Federation, when you ate normally from Putin's
[00:25:11] table, when you worked with Putin, when you were
[00:25:14] nobody, but thanks to working for Putin, you gained at
[00:25:18] least some fame,
[00:25:21] then you fled like a rat abroad, you portray yourself as
[00:25:25] a Russian opposition member, you essentially don't give a damn
[00:25:28] how an ordinary average
[00:25:31] Russian lives, you receive European grants, you receive
[00:25:35] European support, and you portray yourself as
[00:25:37] an opposition member, and here is a very similar
[00:25:41] case
[00:25:43] of how to flee to the West and not bear any
[00:25:46] responsibility, I will open certain points.
[00:25:50] From Yulia Mendel's speech. Ukraine itself
[00:25:54] hinders the end of the war, refusing allegedly possible
[00:25:57] agreements with Russia. What
[00:25:59] agreements with Russia? If... Putin
[00:26:03] at the meeting with Vidkov and Kushner
[00:26:06] once again stated that he is not going to conduct
[00:26:09] negotiations now, he is not going to.
[00:26:12] Second, military aid from the West is allegedly the reason
[00:26:16] for the continuation of the war. And this is exactly the
[00:26:19] repetition of the thesis of this
[00:26:21] "tsenokhrupaly" (price cruncher),
[00:26:24] that it is necessary for
[00:26:27] Germany not to provide aid to Ukraine, and
[00:26:31] then it will very quickly
[00:26:32] cease, moreover,
[00:26:36] look at what he
[00:26:38] said, that Ukraine should also pay
[00:26:42] for this alleged undermining of the Nord Stream pipelines by our
[00:26:45] hands, and that it is necessary to recognize Russia's victory in Ukraine
[00:26:49] against Ukraine. And so, Yulia Mendel went to her fresh
[00:26:52] interview and repeated exactly that we must admit that we have already
[00:26:56] lost this war. Western states and war lobbyists
[00:26:59] are interested in continuing hostilities. And
[00:27:03] here too, the work on these
[00:27:06] conspiratorial theories about
[00:27:10] there being countries interested in this war continuing in
[00:27:13] Ukraine, but reality tells us very clearly
[00:27:17] that the Russian Federation is even
[00:27:20] expanding this war into Central Europe,
[00:27:24] and even those leaders and those states
[00:27:27] that previously were so skeptical or
[00:27:30] somewhat childish about the Russian-Ukrainian war in
[00:27:33] Ukraine have already changed
[00:27:37] their position. For
[00:27:39] example, Hungary is refusing Russian gas, because it is clear that
[00:27:43] Russian gas is a very significant lever of influence on your
[00:27:47] internal politics, and you don't want to be associated again with
[00:27:51] a dialogue like the one that took place between Viktor Orban and
[00:27:54] Putin, about "Dear
[00:27:57] Vladimir Vladimirovich, I will be your rat in the European Union,
[00:28:01] but give us Russian gas." It's a risk
[00:28:04] factor, nobody wants Budapest to be occupied
[00:28:07] again, or for example,
[00:28:10] when Andrej Babiš, the current
[00:28:12] Prime Minister of
[00:28:15] Czech Republic, a person with a very
[00:28:18] colorful biography, ambiguous, with an ambiguous
[00:28:21] attitude, ambiguous statements, but even he said that
[00:28:25] Putin is an aggressor, and we need to help Ukraine, this is a fresh
[00:28:28] statement, because obviously, he thought it over and decided
[00:28:32] that he doesn't really want Russian tanks to roll
[00:28:36] through Prague again, like many years ago, and crush
[00:28:40] Czech citizens there,
[00:28:43] or when Patrushev comes out and declares that you
[00:28:47] know, we decided here that if we
[00:28:50] attack Poland, then Poland will be ours in two or three
[00:28:53] days. Did this statement scare sensible
[00:28:57] Polish politicians? Definitely, Tusk made
[00:29:00] so many statements that it is necessary to
[00:29:03] really prepare for hybrid attacks by the Russian Federation,
[00:29:07] And only Yulia Mendel and her friends from Alternative for Germany
[00:29:11] say that it's not all
[00:29:13] so simple.
[00:29:15] Another quote was that instead of supporting Ukraine's defense,
[00:29:19] it is necessary to bet on negotiations and diplomacy without
[00:29:22] a clear emphasis on the conditions that Russia
[00:29:25] puts forward to Ukraine. So what diplomacy
[00:29:29] are you missing? Exactly now,
[00:29:32] diplomacy is being done by Washington, the United States
[00:29:36] of America, so it cannot be said that the United States
[00:29:39] of America, even with Donald Trump's team, is a very weak
[00:29:43] state, absolutely not.
[00:29:46] They regularly travel to Putin or to Kirill Dmitriev or to
[00:29:49] other characters to meet and speak diplomatically,
[00:29:53] even promising certain
[00:29:55] business deals, the same Kushner
[00:29:59] and Vidkov, does Putin listen to them? Is
[00:30:03] he for peace? Absolutely not, because
[00:30:06] literally the next day after these meetings, Dmitry Peskov comes out and
[00:30:10] says that, well, look, all
[00:30:13] these truces, truces,
[00:30:16] energy truces at sea, it's all great, but we need you to
[00:30:20] lift sanctions, lift sanctions and everything will be
[00:30:23] great. It will be
[00:30:25] great in the event of lifting
[00:30:28] sanctions against Russia exclusively for Russia, because the Russian
[00:30:32] Federation will thus receive a lot of liquid money for the continuation
[00:30:36] of wars against Ukraine and for the sake of preparing
[00:30:39] for new wars against the rest of
[00:30:43] its neighbors or those countries it considers its own, including the Baltic countries,
[00:30:47] and Poland, and by the way, a large part
[00:30:50] of Central European countries.
[00:30:53] Another statement by Yulia Mendel: the Ukrainian leadership allegedly deliberately continues
[00:30:57] the war, benefiting from it.