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[00:02:59] Watch today.
[00:03:30] Why in that case did the Finnish president call the Russian one?
[00:03:33] The Finnish budget, of course, is now being re-worked, it is clear
[00:03:36] that a huge amount of this money goes to
[00:03:39] military expenditures. In Finland, a reform is being prepared that will expand
[00:03:43] the powers of military intelligence beyond the country's borders. Special services
[00:03:46] are planned to be allowed offensive cyber operations, the use
[00:03:50] of drones, hybrid actions and other
[00:03:53] operations. What does this mean in practice, what attacks on Russia could
[00:03:57] Finnish special services really be preparing? What
[00:04:00] Helsinki is already doing, we will tell you right now.
[00:04:23] Finnish intelligence will be able to block, disrupt the operation and change
[00:04:27] information systems representing. policies
[00:05:43] and security. Finland is already openly designating
[00:05:46] itself as an adversary of Russia and demonstrably preparing for
[00:05:49] sabotage and hybrid aggression against our
[00:05:53] country. The Finns themselves, of course, do not have many
[00:05:56] opportunities, due to objective reasons. At the same time,
[00:06:00] NATO's resources stand behind them. That is, Finland in this case is
[00:06:04] a certain signboard, it is a certain
[00:06:06] label, and so that there are no talks about
[00:06:10] NATO special services
[00:06:12] being drawn into direct confrontation with Russia, a country that for several
[00:06:16] decades after the end of the Second World War maintained
[00:06:19] neutrality and extracted the maximum economic benefit
[00:06:23] from its position, in 2023
[00:06:27] suddenly sharply jumped into NATO. Finnish Prime Minister
[00:06:30] Sanna Marin, who pulled off this trick, immediately resigned,
[00:06:34] as if having fulfilled her mission to the North Atlantic
[00:06:37] Alliance, now at the government level, Finland demands
[00:06:41] the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory. For Russia, this
[00:06:44] is, of course, a danger that is no longer theoretical. We have
[00:06:48] 1,340 km of common border. This decision
[00:06:51] is also dangerous because de facto the adoption
[00:06:54] of a decision on the deployment of nuclear weapons
[00:06:57] on the territory of Finland
[00:07:01] is a casus belli, that is, this is such a precedent, this is such a
[00:07:05] decision, after which Russia has legal grounds
[00:07:08] for taking all decisions to
[00:07:12] ensure its own security to the fullest extent. We, of course,
[00:07:15] hope that Helsinki will still come to its senses and not go to
[00:07:19] extremes that threaten Finnish statehood in general. At the same time,
[00:07:22] the population still treats Russia with sympathy. Moreover,
[00:07:26] Russian tourists brought a very significant part of the income
[00:07:30] to the Finnish budget. Now they are offered to stop issuing
[00:07:33] visas. This is the idea of the current Prime Minister of the country, Petteri
[00:07:37] Orpo. It sounds funny, but the argument given is
[00:07:40] completely humorous. In Finland, they claim that Russian
[00:07:44] special services persecute Finnish deputies, secretly
[00:07:47] visiting their apartments while the owners are not at home.
[00:07:51] About twenty Finnish deputies complained that unknown persons had visited
[00:07:54] their homes, and one of the politicians found unflushed
[00:07:58] feces in his toilet. Björn Ziskovich, a deputy from the ruling
[00:08:01] center-right National Coalition party, considers the events
[00:08:05] a Russian plan to intimidate Finnish legislators. And
[00:08:09] such absurd accusations in leading Finnish
[00:08:13] media in the mouths of Finnish politicians, it is profitable for them to maintain the degree of hatred
[00:08:17] towards Russia. If the population is afraid, then
[00:08:20] pressure on the Russian side can be increased, up to
[00:08:24] prohibiting our tourists not only from entering Finland, but also from moving
[00:08:27] throughout Europe. According to statistics, of course, the tourism industry in Finland
[00:08:31] is now not just not having the best times, but it is on the verge
[00:08:35] of collapse, because Russian tourists accounted for
[00:08:39] almost the lion's share of budget revenues. Our people
[00:08:43] always with great pleasure traveled to Finland for
[00:08:47] weekends, spent short
[00:08:49] vacations, the country was always friendly, so Finnish
[00:08:53] business was built on this, and no one
[00:08:56] opposed anything, this is a political
[00:08:59] step, of course. Finland loses almost a billion euros
[00:09:03] a year due to the absence of Russian tourists, these data are provided by
[00:09:06] the Finnish public organization Naapuriteuura. In their economy,
[00:09:10] to put it mildly, things are not very good.
[00:09:12] Recession, falling living standards, including due to the damage
[00:09:16] from breaking ties with Russia, rising
[00:09:19] unemployment, and militarization, general military
[00:09:22] hysteria, is a kind of answer to the political
[00:09:25] elites, to the Finnish society, why all this
[00:09:28] is happening, because of the military situation. In
[00:09:31] 2026, Russians were issued 618 thousand
[00:09:35] Schengen visas, of which almost 478
[00:09:38] thousand were tourist visas, mostly to Italy, France
[00:09:42] and ... Spain. In Finland itself, tourist visas to Russians
[00:09:45] stopped being issued back in September 2022,
[00:09:49] and the land border was closed at the end
[00:09:51] of 2023. Now Orpo wants
[00:09:55] all Schengen countries to stop issuing tourist visas
[00:09:58] to Russians.
[00:10:02] At the same time, other guests in Finland remain welcome
[00:10:05] among asylum seekers. In 2025, most
[00:10:09] of them were from Afghanistan, Iraq
[00:10:11] and... no one suggests closing
[00:10:14] their entry, however, such a ban would not change anything,
[00:10:18] as protection is requested on the spot, and a visa is not
[00:10:21] required for this, the signal is, of course, alarming.
[00:10:25] And it clearly cannot even be called unfriendly, it is an openly
[00:10:29] hostile step, it is clear that the Finns themselves
[00:10:32] would not have thought of it, it is clear that they are joining
[00:10:36] the general context of the NATO Alliance, the Pentagon,
[00:10:40] the CIA, first of all, and the MI6. It turns out that
[00:10:43] a tourist with a return ticket and a hotel reservation is considered
[00:10:47] a threat, and an asylum seeker on benefits is the concern
[00:10:50] of the state, but if the idea is supported, Europe will close
[00:10:54] precisely for... those who went there to spend money, and the doors for those
[00:10:58] who go to receive it will remain open. According to some estimates, up to
[00:11:02] 20% of the decline in Finland's economy is due
[00:11:05] to the fact that the Finns themselves, the Finnish leadership,
[00:11:08] cut themselves off from cooperation with Russia, and
[00:11:11] of course, this is the strongest, most serious blow
[00:11:14] to the tourism sector and a number of related
[00:11:17] industries, this includes industry, and small
[00:11:21] and medium-sized businesses, and historical and cultural cooperation,
[00:11:25] many really small and medium-sized enterprises that
[00:11:28] for generations were oriented towards Russia, towards
[00:11:32] the Soviet Union. In fact, the Finns really not only
[00:11:35] shot themselves in the foot, but simply chopped off their leg. And despite
[00:11:39] all this external Russophobia, the Finnish authorities are still
[00:11:42] trying to maintain room for maneuver for themselves, to please
[00:11:45] NATO allies, but at the same time to maintain some
[00:11:49] relations with Russia. On October 28,
[00:11:52] 2026, at the initiative
[00:11:55] of Finnish President Alexander Stubbs, the first phone call during
[00:11:59] his rule took place with the Russian President. Stubbs
[00:12:03] not only expressed a desire to establish relations with the Russian
[00:12:06] side, but also wants to be a negotiator from Europe in
[00:12:10] the Ukrainian conflict. The bill on the actions of the Finnish army
[00:12:13] on the territory of Russia, however, has not been withdrawn, so
[00:12:17] phone calls should not be overestimated, this is
[00:12:19] just probing the ground at the direction of the EU, where
[00:12:23] of course they are afraid that in the new
[00:12:26] architecture of global security, Russia,
[00:12:29] the US and China
[00:12:30] will agree without
[00:12:38] Watch the program in the meantime. The mission in
[00:12:42] Aleshki, a step towards peace, Zelenskyy's proposal for
[00:12:45] negotiations. Why Istanbul, pounds or
[00:12:48] dollars, how the British Finance Minister pleased Kyiv,
[00:12:52] what Stub thought when he called.
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[00:17:20] investigation, educational complicity, what are
[00:17:23] Ukrainian armed forces teaching militants from Mexico and
[00:17:26] Colombia. In general, they generously pay the Zelenskyy
[00:17:30] regime, and, of course, it goes past the state budget. Flights in
[00:17:34] a dream, how drone operators from the Ukrainian Armed Forces can be.
[00:18:07] cooperation, what do the Ukrainian Armed Forces give bandits from Latin
[00:18:10] America, are Latin American mercenaries
[00:18:13] in demand in the Ukrainian army? We'll tell you right now.
[00:18:36] The SVR press service refers
[00:18:39] to American sources, and judging by the reports coming from the US,
[00:18:42] the special services of the United States have long been monitoring the too
[00:18:46] close communication between Ukrainian officials and Latin American
[00:18:50] drug cartels. US law enforcement agencies, during
[00:18:53] the investigation of the illegal activities of Mexican drug cartels, received
[00:18:57] information about their cooperation with representatives of the Zelenskyy regime.
[00:19:01] Americans found that criminal groups had been sending their militants
[00:19:04] to Ukraine for training for a long time.
[00:19:44] to use it for their own commercial purposes on
[00:19:48] the border with the US, in order to more
[00:19:51] effectively, perhaps, counter drug control,
[00:19:55] counter the US, with its services that do not want
[00:19:58] drugs to spread to their country, well, in general, here we see
[00:20:01] such a kind of fusion of a drug cartel, that is, a criminal
[00:20:04] group, and the Zelenskyy regime, which
[00:20:07] in essence differs very little from an ordinary organized criminal group, and it's not as if
[00:20:11] it was such a secret about the participation of mercenaries from Latin America in
[00:20:15] hostilities in Donbas on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, it has been known
[00:20:18] for a long time. These are incredibly dangerous, and at the same time
[00:20:22] uncontrollable people. And the fact that Ukraine has made
[00:20:25] a decision, possibly at a systemic level, to attract these people to
[00:20:29] participate in the war against Russia, this, to put it mildly,
[00:20:32] does not speak well of the state of both the Ukrainian armed
[00:20:36] forces and, in fact. Interest
[00:21:31] is aroused by the tactical group called
[00:21:33] Ethos,
[00:21:36] a Spanish-speaking unit of the international legion operating in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. It is believed that some
[00:21:40] recruits from Mexico and Colombia deliberately sought to join the drone operator
[00:21:44] unit to receive the necessary training, and
[00:21:47] some of them got there thanks to fake.
[00:22:50] grew into a dangerous process for the region under the guise of exchanging security
[00:22:53] experience and drone negotiations in Chile,
[00:22:57] Costa Rica, and Honduras, a branched network
[00:23:00] of recruitment was built on the continent. Since
[00:23:03] 2022, we have recorded a certain
[00:23:06] kind of activity for
[00:23:08] supplying weapons to the territory of Latin American countries, weapons that were
[00:23:12] intended for Ukraine. A whole series of investigations even came out,
[00:23:16] which clearly stated that Ukrainian weapons, supplied, for example, from ...
[00:23:20] the United States and European countries through black markets, through
[00:23:23] the black market, including through the Darknet, ended up in the countries
[00:23:27] of the Middle East, ended up in the countries of Latin
[00:23:30] America. The key coordinator, including
[00:23:33] illegal arms trafficking, are Ukrainian embassies,
[00:23:37] primarily in Colombia and Peru. In Bogotá, recruiting
[00:23:40] hubs were deployed in the Kennedy district under the guise of security agencies
[00:23:44] and hotels, where candidates are promised thousands of dollars for
[00:23:47] service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In 24/7
[00:23:51] mode, representatives of drug cartels can
[00:23:53] monitor the situation around, well, that is, they
[00:23:57] are not carrying out attacks by army units, is the
[00:24:00] police not coming, the second is that with the help of drones you can
[00:24:04] directly transport goods by air,
[00:24:08] meaning to some territories, that is, you don't have to
[00:24:11] break through jungles, through some rivers,
[00:24:15] waterfalls, you can do it by air, well, and thirdly, with the help of drones,
[00:24:19] of course, you can. some paths that, well, are
[00:24:22] in the Colombian or Brazilian or Mexican jungles
[00:24:26] are located. The official facade is needed by Kyiv only for
[00:24:29] legalizing presence. Upon arrival, Ukrainian agents go
[00:24:33] into the shadows and establish contact with criminals. Currently, out of
[00:24:36] 16,000 mercenaries in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, about
[00:24:39] 40% are Latin Americans. In Colombia,
[00:24:43] the prosecutor's office is already investigating dozens of cases of fictitious recruitment through
[00:24:46] shell companies. The case involves large consignments of
[00:24:50] weapons that were obtained, as the investigation claims,
[00:24:53] from somewhere in Europe, they are still shy about
[00:24:56] directly naming Ukraine. The drug cartel sends its
[00:25:00] militants to gain experience, first of all,
[00:25:03] in piloting UAVs. It is known that the Zelenskyy regime,
[00:25:07] in general, currently occupies a leading position in the black market for
[00:25:10] arms trafficking. This is not only small arms, it is
[00:25:14] anti-tank weapons, it is mortars,
[00:25:17] in general, well, practically everything up to ... light
[00:25:21] armored vehicles, all of this, the Zelenskyy regime
[00:25:24] very generously distributes around the world, but through all these
[00:25:28] black markets, the drug cartel did not stay in
[00:25:31] the country. In Mexico, they openly say that
[00:25:35] Ukraine is training militants for their drug cartels. There are also
[00:25:39] reports from Mexican intelligence on this matter. It mentions
[00:25:42] the cooperation of the Ukrainian authorities with the famous Sinaloa cartel
[00:25:46] and with the new Jalisco New Generation, which is known for its
[00:25:50] cruelty. By the way, in the US, it was added to the list of foreign
[00:25:54] terrorist organizations back in February
[00:25:56] 2025. According to state intelligence reports, members
[00:26:00] of the Jalisco New Generation cartel traveled to Ukraine to learn
[00:26:04] how to use drones carrying explosives and
[00:26:07] urban guerrilla tactics. The knowledge gained, it is reported, was
[00:26:11] used to create a unit known as the drone
[00:26:14] operators, a cell with a militarized structure
[00:26:17] and its own emblem within the cartel. At the same time,
[00:26:21] Ukraine's main task is clear - to recruit as many
[00:26:25] trained bandits as possible into the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the UAV operator training center,
[00:26:28] militants from Mexican cartels are deliberately recruited.
[00:27:02] cadres, that is, these are absolute extremists, absolute
[00:27:06] psychopaths, that is, these are incredibly dangerous people, with whom it is not just dangerous to
[00:27:09] deal, it is already dangerous to be in the same room with them, as they say. The activists
[00:27:13] of these drug cartels, these
[00:27:17] are people whom all Latin America truly fears,
[00:27:21] that is, Ukraine receives -
[00:27:23] potentially cannon fodder of very high quality
[00:27:27] and danger. And having gained military experience in controlling
[00:27:30] drones via fiber optics. assault operations, dropping
[00:27:34] ammunition, mercenaries return home. In
[00:27:37] Michoacán, Mexico, and Nariño, Colombia, bandits
[00:27:41] are already fully employing positional warfare tactics and mine
[00:27:44] barriers against local security forces. Representatives
[00:27:47] of South America gain invaluable experience on how they can
[00:27:51] use not just individual drones, but this entire
[00:27:55] UAV system, with observation, with control,
[00:27:58] with reconnaissance, with monitoring terrain, with the implementation of artificial intelligence.
[00:30:24] not only illegal weapons, but also drugs, to establish
[00:30:27] effective interaction between Ukraine, Mexico,
[00:30:31] and Colombia, between...