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[00:03:44] Portnikov. Vitaliy Portnikov is with us online.
[00:03:48] Hello.
[00:03:50] Hello. Well, Vitaliy, as always,
[00:03:53] let's start with the hottest, most urgent news
[00:03:57] for us. And, in principle, we
[00:04:00] can say that this is exactly the news that
[00:04:04] is reported by one side of the telegraph, and on the other hand, Ukrainians living in
[00:04:07] Ukraine can see and feel it
[00:04:11] themselves. Putin took on
[00:04:13] the infrastructure, the bridges of Kyiv, and for this, General Surovikin with
[00:04:17] the nickname Armageddon was involved, writes the British publication and
[00:04:20] emphasizes that this Russian
[00:04:24] war criminal was involved in the destruction of the Syrian city of
[00:04:27] Aleppo, during which thousands of
[00:04:30] civilians died. Well, let's figure out why Kyiv is not Aleppo and what
[00:04:34] to expect in Ukraine?
[00:04:37] Well, I think that Surovikin can be considered
[00:04:40] quite capable
[00:04:44] military man, but I would not compare
[00:04:47] Syria with Ukraine for one simple reason, that in
[00:04:51] Syria the Syrian opposition waged
[00:04:53] a war, one could say, not on
[00:04:56] equal terms, with both the government army and...
[00:05:00] with the armies of Russia and Iran, it had no possibility
[00:05:04] to control the sky, it had no air defense,
[00:05:07] Ukraine is a state
[00:05:11] with an army. national, this is not
[00:05:14] opposition to some regime,
[00:05:17] Ukraine can protect its sky, which means the level of protection of this sky
[00:05:21] needs to be increased, how much of the bridge
[00:05:24] infrastructure in Kyiv can be destroyed at all, this is a big question,
[00:05:28] because this infrastructure was built, many
[00:05:31] bridges were built with the expectation of a nuclear war, of course, now
[00:05:35] technologies are changing very seriously, but we
[00:05:38] understand that Putin's desire to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure is
[00:05:42] absolutely logical from the point of view of the tasks he sets for himself,
[00:05:45] and by the way, this speed indicates that
[00:05:49] the Russian resource is running out, and Putin understands this, but it is clear
[00:05:52] how we need to defend ourselves, I hope, in such
[00:05:55] danger. Military experts are convinced that in order
[00:05:59] to stop attacks on bridges, it is necessary to strengthen Ukraine's air defense
[00:06:02] and shoot down jet drones on the approaches to Kyiv.
[00:06:06] The government has already made a loud statement about the construction of embankment
[00:06:09] dams, pontoons across the Dnieper, and according to... Minister
[00:06:13] Kalashnyk of infrastructure and transport, locations
[00:06:17] where such construction will take place have already been determined, the construction
[00:06:20] of the structures will take, according to this report, up to three
[00:06:24] months, do we, first of all, have three months, when it comes to the fact that
[00:06:28] in three months, it's already December, how
[00:06:30] to build something in such conditions,
[00:06:33] of intensified shelling, and why preparations for actions in case of an infrastructure
[00:06:37] crisis were absent until this moment? What
[00:06:40] is your view? Well, this is a very good question. This is what
[00:06:44] we always talk about when we talk about the professionalism
[00:06:48] of the leadership.
[00:06:50] You understand? When
[00:06:52] people do not understand what the meaning of professionalism is,
[00:06:56] they should look at the current
[00:06:58] situation. And ask, why didn't you prepare for
[00:07:02] one, for another, for a third? And do you
[00:07:05] remember that once the current president said
[00:07:08] that he had no time to think strategically. Well,
[00:07:11] if there's no time, then there's no time, so that's how we'll live, it's surprising
[00:07:15] that indeed the government,
[00:07:18] both at the national level and at the local
[00:07:21] level, but this is primarily a national responsibility, because the country has
[00:07:25] military administrations, including in Kyiv, and the leadership of these
[00:07:28] administrations is appointed by the President of Ukraine, so let's not
[00:07:32] increase the capabilities of local self-government in this
[00:07:35] case, why the government did not understand that such attacks could happen,
[00:07:39] but it seems to me that this is a people's government. Just as people don't expect the war to
[00:07:42] end soon, the government might also hope for it,
[00:07:46] about this,
[00:07:49] we must understand that the main thing that our
[00:07:53] efforts were focused on, always, I mean not the army, but the civilian leadership
[00:07:57] of the country, was to please, it's good PR, well, the words
[00:08:00] about 40 days - that's beautiful PR,
[00:08:03] 40 days of forcing Russia into peace, well, now this presidential phrase
[00:08:07] has been forgotten, as many of his phrases have been forgotten.
[00:08:11] But I think that from the point of view of his PR managers, it
[00:08:13] looked effective, we should now
[00:08:16] prepare for electricity problems, it's
[00:08:19] tedious work, it's not visible, it's not interesting, so we don't
[00:08:23] deal with it, we will now return to the topic of protecting
[00:08:27] Ukrainian cities, in the meantime I read
[00:08:30] such news in Ukrainian media citing
[00:08:34] the main department of the National Police in Rivne region, that Russian special services with
[00:08:37] the help of Telegram recruited
[00:08:41] a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl from
[00:08:43] Rivne region, and at the behest of Russian special services, she killed
[00:08:47] a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that is, first
[00:08:50] she poisoned, and then killed, and right before our
[00:08:53] eyes, a hybrid war spills into
[00:08:56] cyberspace and
[00:08:59] involves in committing its crimes Russia with
[00:09:02] the help of its special services, including children, and I wanted
[00:09:06] it to be, but on the other hand, it looks like some kind of science fiction,
[00:09:09] honestly, I'm telling you that we live in a situation of
[00:09:13] PR, we don't know what really happened there,
[00:09:16] why, why would Russian special services recruit
[00:09:20] a child to kill a serviceman, what's in it? That's, that's the conclusions
[00:09:23] of the main department of the National Police in Rivne region, it's not me.
[00:09:26] I understand, well, the main department of the National Police in Rivne region also
[00:09:30] might want to show, I would say, the effectiveness and importance of its
[00:09:34] work, possibly, but I just, I just, why
[00:09:37] generally, why generally did I take on this message, because we
[00:09:40] are talking about this on the day when
[00:09:43] in Poland a significant part of schools and
[00:09:47] kindergartens are closed
[00:09:51] due to such a series of attacks in
[00:09:54] schools, I emphasize that as of now, over
[00:09:58] 10 people have been detained in these cases throughout Poland,
[00:10:01] and law enforcement officers checked over 10,000 educational
[00:10:05] institutions throughout the country, the police strengthened patrols and plan
[00:10:09] inspections directly in educational institutions, this was announced by
[00:10:12] the Police Headquarters of Poland and the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and
[00:10:16] Administration Szypański, and
[00:10:19] in fact, this is really shocking, because these attacks
[00:10:21] took place
[00:10:24] on... some part was preventively
[00:10:27] anticipated on October 9th, and all this
[00:10:31] is some attacks with the use of
[00:10:34] cold weapons, either carried out
[00:10:35] or planned with
[00:10:38] cold weapons, and by children
[00:10:42] in fact in schools against
[00:10:44] peers or employees of these schools, and in fact, it is very
[00:10:48] interesting to hear the results of the investigation,
[00:10:51] because all this forms some single story, and honestly...
[00:10:57] it looks very alarming, the security committee gathered
[00:11:00] in Poland, the Prime Minister spoke on this topic,
[00:11:03] the Minister of Education and
[00:11:06] law enforcement officials spoke, saying that this is actually the consequences
[00:11:10] of what is happening in cyberspace, and it is obvious that in
[00:11:13] cyberspace, Russia is actively operating in digital,
[00:11:16] well, and how you, but this does not mean that all incidents we
[00:11:20] encounter can now be attributed to Russian activity.
[00:11:23] We need to carefully look at the reasons for all these attacks, maybe
[00:11:27] it's really some situation related to some
[00:11:31] community creation in social networks, some tasks
[00:11:34] assigned to children, these are all very dangerous moments, but you know, when
[00:11:38] we start blaming everything on the Russian Federation, then it
[00:11:42] actually destabilizes
[00:11:44] law enforcement agencies in our countries, I'm telling you again, when we
[00:11:48] say that a 14-year-old girl was recruited to
[00:11:52] kill a serviceman, then the question arises, why... would the Russian Federation
[00:11:55] kill a specific serviceman, when we have
[00:11:58] a million of them, with the forces of some 14-year-old girl, well,
[00:12:01] of course, if it's some, I'm with you, I'll argue, look, let's
[00:12:05] take the Parubiy case, with the murder of a Ukrainian
[00:12:08] leader, one of the leaders of the Maidan,
[00:12:11] a prominent pro-European
[00:12:14] politician, who died as a result
[00:12:18] of an assassination attempt on him,
[00:12:20] the father of a Ukrainian
[00:12:23] serviceman and veteran,
[00:12:26] and as Ukrainian law enforcement officers found out, this was also
[00:12:30] an activity, this person had absolutely obvious pro-Russian
[00:12:33] views, which could differ from the views of his son,
[00:12:37] once, a serviceman can also be a person with pro-Russian
[00:12:41] views, we don't know what kind of people are mobilized, I'm not even talking about
[00:12:44] that as a result of some self-appointed basification, the army can have both
[00:12:48] Ukrainian patriots and people who are waiting for Moscow to come and got into
[00:12:52] this army simply because... this is mobilization, it's not
[00:12:55] an army of people with specific political views, it's an army
[00:12:57] of citizens, but this particular serviceman, as you remember, was
[00:13:01] a Ukrainian patriot, and his father was not, and I'm not even talking about
[00:13:04] something else, we're not even talking about the perpetrator of the crime, but about a woman, but about
[00:13:08] a victim, it's one thing to kill a Ukrainian politician,
[00:13:11] a former head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, whom Russians
[00:13:15] always accused of thwarting their plans in
[00:13:18] Odesa, to take revenge for the fact that they failed
[00:13:21] to capture Odesa, the same... by the way, I believe, applies to Iryna
[00:13:25] Farion, I still don't believe that this Zinchenko,
[00:13:28] who was now imprisoned for
[00:13:31] life, to life imprisonment, who
[00:13:34] was sentenced to life imprisonment, acted
[00:13:38] independently. Iryna Farion,
[00:13:41] a prominent public figure with tough, I would
[00:13:44] say, statements that might not have been liked by either
[00:13:48] Russian special services or a certain part of society, we know this very well.
[00:13:51] And when it comes to an anonymous
[00:13:55] serviceman,
[00:13:57] there is no sense in spending
[00:14:00] such efforts on him, but there may
[00:14:03] be a desire of special services to increase the significance of their
[00:14:07] work as a result of such reports, this can also
[00:14:10] be, I repeat, instead of dealing with
[00:14:12] crime prevention, we will, we will create such
[00:14:15] stories, if crimes are controlled by
[00:14:19] Russian special services and committed... with the help of
[00:14:22] the Internet, in particular with the help of
[00:14:25] vulnerable groups
[00:14:29] of people, people
[00:14:33] with Maria, Russian special services are a highly professional
[00:14:37] organization that will find
[00:14:40] opportunities for destabilization in specific, absolutely thought-out
[00:14:44] actions, it's not some group of people who
[00:14:47] sits in a basement and decides something, it's a department that needs
[00:14:50] to report, and when you come...
[00:14:54] to the colonel of the Federal Security Service and say that a child killed some soldier,
[00:14:58] they will ask you why, what, what for what? And again, we
[00:15:02] do not know the identity of this serviceman, if it is some
[00:15:05] high-ranking serviceman, who participated in
[00:15:09] some serious matters, then of course it could be important for the Russians
[00:15:13] to eliminate him from any point of view, and we don't know
[00:15:16] the details of this story, I absolutely admit that we
[00:15:20] may be dealing with a domestic conflict...
[00:15:23] can be presented in such a report as actions of
[00:15:27] Russian special services, because it's easier than investigating such a case,
[00:15:30] well, but there is also the story in Polish Jarosław.
[00:15:34] where today it became known that
[00:15:37] a 31-year-old Ukrainian, who attacked
[00:15:41] Polish monks in a monastery, which helped
[00:15:45] Ukrainians from the beginning
[00:15:47] of the Russian full-scale aggression, and
[00:15:51] actually confessed to the crime, and Polish
[00:15:54] prosecutors appealed to Ukraine with
[00:15:57] a request for help in conducting the investigation and
[00:16:00] to help with the interrogation of the suspect's mother, well, that is, in
[00:16:04] this case, everything is also... very somehow
[00:16:07] mysterious on the one hand, and on the other hand, in our, that this person was sent for
[00:16:11] a psychiatric examination, as far as I remember, I think
[00:16:14] so, I don't know the results of this psychiatric examination yet, but the fact is that Polish
[00:16:18] law enforcement officers asked to speak, a person with
[00:16:22] a Ukrainian citizen's passport can be a person with any
[00:16:26] political views, from pro-Putin, pro-Russian, to
[00:16:29] Ukrainian, national, but imagine, this
[00:16:32] is not a sign of quality, it's just
[00:16:36] a statement of residence in a certain area,
[00:16:39] I say this all the time, when we talk about Ukrainians, about
[00:16:43] good Russians, I always remind, a passport, it
[00:16:46] testifies to absolutely nothing,
[00:16:49] a Ukrainian passport can be held by a Putinist who will
[00:16:52] direct
[00:16:55] Russian missiles at his own city, by the way, like now a Ukrainian citizen
[00:16:58] who directed Russian missiles
[00:17:01] at the Yavoriv military training ground died in prison,
[00:17:05] a Russian passport can be held by a true hero who will support
[00:17:08] Ukraine in the fight against Russian invaders, a passport is
[00:17:11] just a piece of cardboard,
[00:17:14] which allows a person to choose an identity, but also allows
[00:17:18] to abandon this identity. Therefore,
[00:17:21] when we start talking, a Ukrainian attacked monks,
[00:17:24] a citizen of Ukraine, who may have views
[00:17:28] absolutely incompatible with Ukrainian statehood, who may have
[00:17:32] mental illnesses,
[00:17:35] judging all Ukrainians by... a person with a Ukrainian passport,
[00:17:39] it's like judging millions
[00:17:41] of Muslims by Islamic radicals who destroy Palmyra
[00:17:45] or carry out terrorist acts, well, the priests of this monastery said this to
[00:17:49] their Polish parishioners, but I'm talking
[00:17:52] a little bit about something else, today on our air in the morning, Slava
[00:17:56] our colleague, a Polish journalist and cook, who
[00:18:00] constantly informs the Polish audience about what is happening in
[00:18:03] Ukraine, particularly in Kyiv, joins... from the shelling sites, tells Poles
[00:18:07] about the consequences of these shellings, about what is happening,
[00:18:11] talks with the victims of these shellings, he
[00:18:14] said that it had never been like this before, that Poles and Ukrainians would run around
[00:18:18] with knives and attack someone with such intensity, and
[00:18:21] if the Polish prime minister reports at a government meeting
[00:18:25] and says that this is actually the result of what is happening in
[00:18:29] cyberspace, and we know that Russia is intensely waging its
[00:18:33] hybrid war there, then all this looks
[00:18:36] very alarming and the question is how to counteract this,
[00:18:40] when, well, as if, let's
[00:18:43] remember that already during the Second
[00:18:47] World War, Russian special services actively participated
[00:18:50] in igniting the Volyn crime and
[00:18:54] dressed up, particularly in the uniform of Ukrainian
[00:18:57] insurgents to commit crimes, these
[00:19:00] are proven facts, which, in particular, the last historical
[00:19:04] Ukrainian commission handed over to the Polish side with newly
[00:19:07] disclosed archives, so this is not some news, it
[00:19:10] happened 100 years ago, it is happening today,
[00:19:14] the question is how to effectively counteract this, what to do
[00:19:17] with this cyberspace, which takes up more and
[00:19:21] more space in our lives with the development of technology, which
[00:19:25] Russia also actively exploits and allocates huge budgets for, which
[00:19:29] are disproportionate, incomparable with what
[00:19:32] the developed West can counter this with, this is
[00:19:35] the question, well, first of all... which again, and we always
[00:19:39] talk about information verification,
[00:19:41] what is happening, for example, with
[00:19:43] TikToks, the interest of teenagers in TikTok,
[00:19:47] and what can emerge there,
[00:19:50] if these algorithms are not controlled, they certainly become
[00:19:53] a tool of information warfare, and why in the United States they tried
[00:19:57] to ban TikTok, and then, when Donald Trump
[00:20:00] became president of the United States, as you remember, they agreed to sell
[00:20:04] the American part of TikTok to companies close to the American
[00:20:09] president, well, because they understood that they had ceased to control
[00:20:12] their own information space. Donald Trump interpreted this as that
[00:20:16] it is better that he controls this information space than the Chinese,
[00:20:20] but I think that this is a temporary situation, which will certainly
[00:20:23] change after
[00:20:26] Donald Trump leaves the Oval
[00:20:28] Office, because it cannot continue like that, but
[00:20:32] the most important thing is that the very idea
[00:20:36] of banning... TikTok in the most democratic country
[00:20:40] in the world, where an amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech operates,
[00:20:43] doesn't this tell you anything that such an idea generally
[00:20:46] arose? In the United States, you cannot...
[00:20:50] anything, no book,
[00:20:52] no extremist literature, well, in
[00:20:56] European countries, mostly the publication
[00:20:58] of the famous
[00:21:00] manifesto of Adolf Hitler: "Mein
[00:21:03] Kampf" is prohibited. And in the United States, you can freely
[00:21:06] publish this book, read it, reprint it. You cannot
[00:21:10] ban books there, because it is freedom
[00:21:13] of speech. And here with TikTok, as you can see, a completely
[00:21:16] different situation has occurred, because... we are starting to live in a completely different
[00:21:20] world, well, by the way, it's not only about
[00:21:23] Poland and the situation with cyberspace, in Ukraine the government
[00:21:26] itself made it so that
[00:21:29] it practically lost control over
[00:21:32] information flows, because after 2022, or maybe
[00:21:36] earlier, it relied on anonymous channels in Telegram,
[00:21:40] which are used to fight opponents of the current government and at the same
[00:21:43] time bear no responsibility for
[00:21:46] the false information they disseminate about these opponents.
[00:21:51] And in fact, the vast majority of Ukrainians
[00:21:54] use anonymous news, thus Ukrainian society can
[00:21:58] fall for any silly provocation, because people have already
[00:22:01] gotten used to the fact that they receive news from those who are not
[00:22:05] responsible for anything, and such people are certainly very
[00:22:08] vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation of any
[00:22:11] level. Look, how
[00:22:14] we even in the West see, when we open
[00:22:17] Telegram, a huge number of channels
[00:22:21] that you cannot read without a VPN, because Russian
[00:22:24] state Telegram channels, let's say, are prohibited from use in the vast
[00:22:28] majority of Western countries, in Ukraine there is no such thing, Maria, in
[00:22:32] Ukraine you can, in a country where Russian TV channels are officially banned,
[00:22:36] there are no Russian social networks, you can
[00:22:39] absolutely calmly, now I will open my tablet and read
[00:22:43] information from Ria Novosti, from TASS, from the channels
[00:22:47] of propagandist Solovyov, all this is allowed to me. in open
[00:22:51] access, and at the same time, we are talking about Telegram, from which
[00:22:54] 70-80% of the population has access to
[00:22:58] resources, and therefore to Russian information resources, what are we even
[00:23:01] talking about, Ukraine's struggle on the information
[00:23:05] front is already practically 100% losing to
[00:23:08] Russian information expansion, because Telegram is the main battlefield,
[00:23:12] lost by Ukraine,
[00:23:15] in the Ukrainian, if you want, segment of Telegram, Russian state
[00:23:18] channels and Ukrainian
[00:23:21] anonymous channels associated with the Office of the President of Ukraine and relevant
[00:23:25] propaganda structures working for this office are actively operating. And very often
[00:23:29] Russian propaganda channels pretend to be channels of the office, so
[00:23:33] that Ukrainians reading channels prepared in Moscow,
[00:23:37] directly in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, thought they were reading Balkova's
[00:23:40] channels. Therefore, one can agree with those
[00:23:43] Ukrainian people's deputies who emphasize
[00:23:47] that Telegram in Ukraine needs to be blocked,
[00:23:50] as this resource is connected with Russia and therefore in any
[00:23:53] case, one way or another, serves it, secondly,
[00:23:57] it is good that the Polish government, after a series of knife attacks in schools, called on parliament
[00:24:01] to urgently adopt legislative changes that will allow
[00:24:04] to quickly block illegal content on the Internet,
[00:24:08] including materials with calls for violence and murders, which is
[00:24:11] obviously now beneficial
[00:24:14] to Russia, well, and thirdly, here one can only agree with those
[00:24:18] European changes that will probably
[00:24:20] also be implemented in Ukraine, regarding the restriction
[00:24:23] of children's access
[00:24:26] to social networks and unlimited use of
[00:24:30] smartphones, because this is obviously
[00:24:33] also exploited and used by Russian
[00:24:37] hybrid services, and frankly, it's just harmful, you need
[00:24:40] to read books and
[00:24:43] study. Well, let's go back to our
[00:24:47] hot topics and let's watch
[00:24:50] the story prepared by the editorial board of Slava about
[00:24:54] how Russia terrorized
[00:24:57] Ukrainians this week
[00:25:00] with shelling, rocket and
[00:25:03] drone attacks, we bow our heads to all who
[00:25:06] died in Pryluky,
[00:25:09] in Kramatorsk, in other cities, and
[00:25:12] we will watch the material, we will return to the
[00:25:14] discussion.
[00:25:18] On the black morning of October 7, a Russian.
[00:25:21] residential building in Pryluky, Chernihiv region, turned two entrances
[00:25:25] of the building
[00:25:26] into ruins.
[00:25:30] If someone had been in our apartment, they would not have been alive, they would have been
[00:25:33] gone. Our walls cracked from the inside, this curtain,
[00:25:37] tulle, all of this was twisted, like this into the wall and the wall cracked
[00:25:41] in half. No one would have survived, even if they had wanted
[00:25:43] to.
[00:25:52] here from the city of Sumy in the hope of somehow protecting themselves and
[00:25:55] their family from everything that is happening,
[00:25:59] but now the situation is such that there is no safe
[00:26:02] place in Ukraine. The strike at six in the morning claimed the lives
[00:26:06] of 22 people. Among them five are children. More than
[00:26:09] fifty people were
[00:26:10] injured.
[00:26:17] Whole families became victims of the attack. 58-year-old Viktoria
[00:26:21] Bondarenko, her daughter Kateryna and one-year-old grandson Sashko died. The couple
[00:26:25] Daria and Oleksandr Maksyud and their one-and-a-half-year-old son Kyrylo. The Ivanchenko family,
[00:26:28] Yulia and Oleksandr and their children, are gone.
[00:26:40] In the morning, when people were still sleeping, Russian troops attacked Kremenchuk, Poltava region. This attack became the most massive for the city
[00:26:44] since the beginning of the war, more than 400 apartments were damaged,
[00:26:47] a whole street turned into ruins, two people died, almost
[00:26:51] fifty were injured. Were you under
[00:26:54] the rubble? The wall fell on me, and
[00:26:57] practically, the firefighters pulled
[00:27:00] out the house.
[00:27:07] In total, on October 7, Russia launched almost fifty cruise and ballistic missiles and 130
[00:27:10] drones at Ukraine, attacked 12
[00:27:14] regions and Kyiv, specifically hitting residential buildings, warehouses and
[00:27:17] energy facilities.
[00:27:21] On October 8, a shocking attack in Kramatorsk in Donetsk region,
[00:27:24] Russians specifically hit two passenger buses and
[00:27:28] a stop with a guided aerial bomb, killing 33
[00:27:31] people. Seriously wounded in the European Commission in response to the attack
[00:27:35] stated that the perpetrators and accomplices of this and other crimes
[00:27:38] of the Russian Federation must be
[00:27:39] punished.
[00:27:42] The search and rescue operation in Pryluky lasted 27 hours. Rescuers
[00:27:46] worked all night and pulled 15 people alive from under the rubble.
[00:27:49] On October 8, President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy
[00:27:53] Sebiha, and British Foreign Minister Ed Miliband visited
[00:27:56] the attack site. He condemned Vladimir
[00:28:00] Putin's tactic of terror against civilians. Putin once said that he was going
[00:28:04] to win on the battlefield. He is trying to win
[00:28:07] by terrorizing the civilian population. I don't believe he
[00:28:10] will succeed. I don't believe he will win. On the same day,
[00:28:13] Great Britain imposed a large package of sanctions against the Russian Federation.
[00:28:16] Oil refining, the shadow fleet, financial institutions, and
[00:28:20] companies that help finance the Kremlin's war
[00:28:23] machine were subject to restrictions.
[00:28:27] Vitaliy, let's figure it out. Well, first, the Minister
[00:28:30] of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sebiha stated that on Putin's birthday, Russian
[00:28:34] generals presented him with his favorite gift, war crimes. Was such
[00:28:38] a truly terrible crime against
[00:28:42] Ukrainians in Pryluky connected with his birthday, or is it
[00:28:46] somehow just that every day they are
[00:28:50] ready to kill Ukrainians in such numbers, or did Putin order
[00:28:53] such a gift, or does this even relate to his
[00:28:56] birthday, to which, among others,
[00:28:59] former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder came?
[00:29:04] I am sure that this has to do with his birthday, I don't think he specifically
[00:29:08] ordered anything, but this was a special attack, the most
[00:29:11] intense attack in recent times, they gathered
[00:29:14] rockets
[00:29:18] and drones for this attack, so I am just sure that
[00:29:21] this was exactly for October 7, and I am not
[00:29:25] sure it was a custom gift, it was a
[00:29:27] surprise, well, on the other hand, you remember that Anna
[00:29:30] Politkovskaya, the Russian opposition journalist,
[00:29:34] who told a lot of truth about Putin, about
[00:29:38] the war in Chechnya, who was a harsh critic
[00:29:41] of the regime that was established in Russia after Putin became
[00:29:45] president of the country. The surname
[00:29:48] Mazepa. So she was, of course, of Ukrainian
[00:29:52] ethnic origin, she was killed on Putin's
[00:29:55] birthday.
[00:29:58] I remember this very well, because I met her just a few days before
[00:30:01] her murder. and we were just
[00:30:05] discussing what else they could invent, what else they could
[00:30:08] do,
[00:30:10] well, so it's, I would
[00:30:14] say, in Russia, it's generally a tradition on his
[00:30:17] birthday to come up with something that he would
[00:30:20] like. Everyone can
[00:30:23] make a gift to the President
[00:30:27] of Russia in their own way, let's say, some services,
[00:30:31] ensured the death
[00:30:33] of Politkovskaya,
[00:30:36] even from Grozny, they thought he would like Anna's
[00:30:39] death.
[00:30:43] The army that is loyal to him, the generals for whom he
[00:30:47] started the war, you understand that war for a general is happiness, because
[00:30:50] it's financial flows, it's new ranks, it's new
[00:30:53] orders, so they are immensely grateful to him for the opportunity
[00:30:57] to fight, because...