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00:00:00our defenders need such devices, thank you for
00:00:03understanding, glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes,
00:00:18Russian concert courses and books on display, and behind
00:00:21the doors, a spy nest in Kyiv, Russkiy Dom existed for 7
00:00:24years after the beginning of the occupation, in Berlin it grew
00:00:27into a whole quarter, why didn't Europe touch Russian centers
00:00:31and what comes with Russian culture in Africa, if
00:00:35Prigozhin is already standing opposite Russkiy Dom, well, and also
00:00:38an overview of Kremlin propaganda from Olga Len and the loudest fakes
00:00:42of the week from Stopfake. Watch in the new episode of
00:00:45Algorithm in Lies with Andriy
00:00:47Smoly.
00:00:54Hello, this is Algorithms of Lies, I am Andriy Smaliy. September
00:00:584, downtown Berlin, Friedrichstrasse. In front of Russkiy Dom, supporters and
00:01:02opponents of its closure. Stop the Russophobic madness, the
00:01:05largest group came with such posters. The Union of
00:01:09Sahra Wagenknecht, the Communist Party of Germany and the Society of
00:01:12Russian-German Friendship gathered about half a thousand
00:01:16people. Neither to read Pushkin, nor to drink
00:01:19samovar tea, the
00:01:20protesters complain.
00:01:26Let there always be a sky. The spy
00:01:38nest under lock and key is demanded by the small Russian
00:01:41opposition, suitcase, train station, Moscow, hurry up
00:01:44and pack your bags, Russian personnel are called upon by Ukrainians with the support of
00:01:48German
00:01:49Greens.
00:01:57The Berlin Russkiy Dom is the largest.
00:02:00Russian cultural center in the world. Seven floors,
00:02:0329 square meters, almost a whole
00:02:06quarter. This reinforced concrete behemoth was built in the late
00:02:09GDR, and it has long caused suspicion among journalists and
00:02:12intelligence services. In particular, due to
00:02:15anomalous energy consumption, which was associated with the possible operation of
00:02:19reconnaissance equipment. The last straw was a series of Russian
00:02:23sabotages and an attempt to blow up a Ukrainian plane in
00:02:26Leipzig. We must clearly tell Russia.
00:02:30If it plans such things, it will have consequences for our
00:02:34relations. This applies to diplomatic relations, but
00:02:37also to Russkiy Dom, which has long ceased to perform its
00:02:40main function: to be a cultural link between Russia and
00:02:44Germany. The French Ministry of Internal Affairs formulates
00:02:47it more harshly: Russkiy Dom is a cover for Russian
00:02:51special services. Paris handed over these data to Berlin during the investigation of
00:02:54the spy network of Ksenia Fyodorova, the former head of
00:02:58Rasheto Day France. It was them. Moscow planned to put at the head of
00:03:02the Berlin Russkiy Dom. After the protests, Russian
00:03:05personnel hastily left Germany. The center ceased
00:03:08its work. Moscow responded in kind, ordering the closure of
00:03:11German Goethe Institutes and the consulate in
00:03:14St. Petersburg. Today about the Kremlin's Trojan horses in
00:03:18Europe. Why are Russkiy Doma still operating in Europe, although
00:03:21Rossotrudnichestvo, which manages them, has been under EU sanctions for four years. Why
00:03:25Russkiy Doma, which European
00:03:28special services suspect. in working for Russian intelligence,
00:03:32remain untouched for years. What
00:03:35happens to the Russian network after high-profile closures and
00:03:39why Africa is becoming the Kremlin's new bridgehead. All this
00:03:43in the algorithms of Lies.
00:03:46The first Russkiy Dom was closed in Ukraine in
00:03:482021, although the SBU warned the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Security and Defense Council
00:03:51and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the destructive 2014.
00:03:55activities of the center since
00:03:58Reaction - zero. Instead. activists regularly visited
00:04:02Russkiy Dom, sometimes with tires and Molotov cocktails, sometimes
00:04:05they brought what, in their opinion, most accurately symbolized
00:04:09the content of the Russian center's work. Why are you in
00:04:12shit? Go wash yourselves, you stink of Russian
00:04:16world. The head of Russkiy Dom, Konstantin Vorobyov,
00:04:20was indignant and stubbornly repeated one thing: here
00:04:23is exclusively culture. We are engaged
00:04:26exclusively in cultural projects. For example,
00:04:29here... such a historian Petro Tolochko, who fled to Russia after the full-scale
00:04:33war, in 2016, within the walls of
00:04:36Russkiy Dom, tells about the triple people, about the fact that
00:04:40Ukraine is part of the Russian world, and also the historian consistently
00:04:43denied the Holodomor as genocide and condemned the Maidan. And what
00:04:47about you, Mr. Kolochko, against Ukraine or against heroes? In this photo, against the background of
00:04:51the inscription "Representation of Rossotrudnichestvo in Ukraine", under
00:04:54number one is a native of Kyiv, Oleksiy Selivanov. In
00:04:582000, he founded the organization. Cossack
00:05:00camps near Kyiv educated schoolchildren in
00:05:04the spirit of Russian great-power patriotism. In
00:05:082013-2014,
00:05:10he was an assistant minister. of defense Lebedev. After
00:05:14the beginning of the war, he fled to Donbass, where, together with his pupils,
00:05:18he fought against Ukraine. And from time to time he threatens to exterminate
00:05:21Ukrainians if they do not want to become
00:05:24Russians. Ukrainianism is a reverse process. I personally de-
00:05:28Ukrainianized people. The youngest member of the unit in Slovyansk is Andriy
00:05:31Savelyev. Author of the book "War at 16 from Cadet to Saboteur".
00:05:35This is my pupil, a Kyiv native. I gave him the right books, and he stopped being a Ukrainian
00:05:39schoolboy and became a Russian soldier. This is such a breeding ground. of agents and
00:05:43saboteurs worked in the very center of Kyiv for seven years
00:05:47of war from 2014 to
00:05:492021. After the full-scale
00:05:53invasion, other countries also began to see the light.
00:05:56Slovenia was the first in the EU. Subsequently, centers in Croatia, Montenegro, North
00:06:00Macedonia, Romania,
00:06:03Britain and Denmark closed. In Moldova, Russian drones
00:06:07put an end to it. On the night of February 13,
00:06:102025, they violated the country's
00:06:13airspace, two fell and exploded. The Russian ambassador
00:06:16was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and shown the fragments. On the same
00:06:20day, they announced the termination of the agreement under which Russkiy
00:06:24Dok operated. This was not a cultural center, it was
00:06:27a center with agents of influence. All those who today
00:06:30rush to defend the so-called Russian cultural
00:06:33center, traveled to Moscow, knelt there and
00:06:36received orders to act against the country. And this is
00:06:40Russkiy Dom in Warsaw. Behind these doors, in September
00:06:432025, a few days before the appearance of Russian
00:06:46drones in Poland, a film by sanctioned
00:06:50Russia Today, "Russophobia - A History of Hatred",
00:06:54is shown, in which Ukrainians are Nazis, Poland is infected with
00:06:57Russophobia. I am frightened by the stupidity and
00:07:00savagery of a huge part of the Slavic world, including our Ukrainian brothers,
00:07:03our closest relatives, and
00:07:07our once close relatives, Poles, the number of
00:07:10neo-Nazi manifestations in this society.
00:07:15And already in December, within the same walls, Poland
00:07:18is already called a Nazi state that collaborated with
00:07:21Hitler. After a series of scandals in February 2026,
00:07:25Russkiy Dom suspended its work. Officially, it
00:07:29was never closed. The tricolor still flies here, and Russian
00:07:32writers peer from the walls. Most
00:07:35of the center's functions were transferred to colleagues in Budapest. There, Russkiy Dom
00:07:39remains the most loyal to.
00:07:42outpost in the EU. The most paradoxical example is
00:07:46Brussels. Russkiy Dom operates 20 minutes
00:07:49walk from the European Commission. Journalist
00:07:51Liga. Milana Holovan found out that under the guise of
00:07:55language courses, culture and educational programs, they work with
00:07:58young people here, build a network of Russian influence and even
00:08:02send European children to occupied Crimea. According to the
00:08:06Foreign Intelligence Service, which the journalist received during
00:08:09the investigation, Russkiy Doma are used for... training
00:08:13agents and circumventing sanctions, and the Kremlin plans to
00:08:17almost double their funding, so
00:08:20why does this network still calmly operate in EU
00:08:23countries. The European Commission replies: each country
00:08:27must decide this itself. National
00:08:30representations are institutions that, in this case, represent Russia in
00:08:33EU member states. Obviously, these countries must
00:08:37consider this issue and assess the advisability of closing
00:08:40such institutions. These. representations
00:08:4715 are still active, but even the closure of Russkiy
00:08:50Dom does not mean that the network of influence built by the Kremlin
00:08:54disappears, Rossotrudnichestvo itself is under
00:08:57EU sanctions, but its projects and connections can
00:09:01be maintained through embassies, Russian state funds and local
00:09:05organizations of compatriots. How
00:09:08this system works was investigated by our
00:09:10OSINT team. houses are far from just
00:09:13libraries, they are part of a much broader infrastructure of Russian
00:09:17influence. Rossotrudnichestvo has 87
00:09:21foreign representative offices in 71 countries
00:09:24of the world, but alongside them Russian
00:09:27state funds, embassies and local organizations of
00:09:30compatriots also work, so the closure of Russkiy Dom itself does
00:09:34not mean that this network disappears. Thus, the functions of the
00:09:37closed house in Warsaw were taken over by the center in
00:09:40Budapest, and in Moldova - the Russian Embassy. In
00:09:44Brussels, we see another important detail. Russkiy Dom
00:09:48operates within a broader Russian
00:09:51diplomatic infrastructure, where Belgian intelligence has already
00:09:54identified employees of
00:09:56SVR, GRU and FSB, that is, cultural centers
00:10:00do not exist separately. They are embedded in a much
00:10:04broader system of Russian presence and influence.
00:10:07So in Europe, there are formally fewer Russkiy
00:10:10Doms. Instead, the Kremlin goes to other regions. The other day
00:10:14Rossotrudnichestvo signed agreements to open
00:10:1711 more centers, two in Armenia,
00:10:20one in Thailand and as many as eight in
00:10:23Africa. Among the countries where they plan to open
00:10:26Russkiy Dom is Kenya. There is no such center here yet,
00:10:30but questions are already arising about the activities of Russians in Ukraine. On
00:10:33February 18, 2026, in
00:10:37the Kenyan parliament, the majority leader reads out data from the
00:10:40national intelligence service. More than 1000
00:10:43Kenyans have already been recruited to fight on Russia's side against
00:10:47Ukraine. Targeting former military,
00:10:50police and civilians aged approximately 25 to
00:10:5450 years. They are promised about 350,000
00:10:57shillings per month, large bonuses and Russian
00:11:00citizenship. Most recruited Kenyans reported that
00:11:04they were forced to sign contracts. Some were trained
00:11:07for only nine days. In fact, they are simply given a machine gun and sent
00:11:10to die. And two days later, BBC Africa tells the story of
00:11:14a Kenyan who was lured to Russia with the promise of playing in
00:11:17a basketball team. Instead of
00:11:20a sports contract, he was forced to sign a document
00:11:23in Russian, sent to... military training, and then to
00:11:27the front against Ukraine. He was hit by a drone,
00:11:30was wounded and eventually was able to return home. The man
00:11:34hides his name and face. As far as
00:11:38I remember, there were people from Nigeria, South Africa,
00:11:41Morocco, Uganda, there was a guy from Zambia. I told
00:11:44the Russians that I am not here for military service, but for basketball
00:11:48training. When you directly got into combat
00:11:52actions, because you were subsequently wounded.
00:11:55After a week of collecting bodies, we went forward, we were sent
00:11:59to shoot at drones. Approximately two days later, almost 10 people from
00:12:03my group died out of 25.
00:12:06And here is another Russkiy Dom, which never managed to
00:12:10open. In Angola, Russians Igor Radchin and Lev
00:12:13Lakshtanov were detained on suspicion of espionage and
00:12:16attempts to influence the 2027 elections.
00:12:19They themselves explained that they came to the country to
00:12:23create a Russian cultural
00:12:25center. The investigation, however, linked them to the
00:12:28Africa Politology network, which grew out of the structures of
00:12:32Wagner. In July, a court in Luanda found both guilty of
00:12:35espionage and terrorism. Radchin received 11 years,
00:12:39Lakshtanov - eight. Moscow did not even
00:12:43conceal the connection between Russkiy Dom and Russian military structures in Africa. In January
00:12:462026, the then
00:12:49head of Rossotrudnichestvo Yevgeny Primakov told
00:12:53Vedomosti. Russian. and the Central African
00:12:56Republic were opened by a well-known African
00:13:00PMC. Our OSINT team investigated how deeply
00:13:04Wagner's people managed to integrate into the network of
00:13:06Russkiy Dom in Africa. The most illustrative example we found
00:13:10in the Central African Republic. Russkiy Dom
00:13:14in Bangui is headed by Dmitry Syty, a comrade-in-arms of Prigozhin and
00:13:17the founder of Lobay Invest, associated with gold mining
00:13:21and diamonds. The center has been operating since 2021, and
00:13:25in 2024 it became an official partner of
00:13:28Rossotrudnichestvo. A monument to Prigozhin and Utkin was even installed near
00:13:32Rosskiy Dom. A similar scheme exists in Mali.
00:13:36A partner Russkiy Dom operates in Bamako, where the Africa
00:13:40Corps, formed from former Wagner mercenaries, is concentrated.
00:13:43The main goal of Russkiy Dom is youth, methods,
00:13:46teaching, Russian language, promises of work and relocation
00:13:50to Russia, and for some Africans, according to
00:13:53Ukrainian intelligence. This route ends on the front against
00:13:57Ukraine. Africans who are sent to the front are only
00:14:01part of this system. Ugur calls Russia's strategy in
00:14:05Africa neo-colonialism. The Kremlin
00:14:07needs loyal regimes, and announced the UN. Access to
00:14:11gold, diamonds, uranium and oil and opportunities to
00:14:15circumvent sanctions. And Russian Adamas are becoming one of the tools of
00:14:19this expansion.
00:14:22Beyond Europe and Africa, the network of Russkiy Dom covers
00:14:25almost the entire world. The largest number of centers are in the countries of the former USSR. Four
00:14:29each in Belarus and Kazakhstan, two each in
00:14:32Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia. Here
00:14:35they plan to open two more. Four centers
00:14:38operate in India, two each in Brazil and Egypt.
00:14:42Russian centers remain in the USA, China, Iran,
00:14:45countries of the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. But
00:14:49in Azerbaijan, Russkiy Dom was closed at the beginning of
00:14:522026 after accusations.
00:14:55Rossotrudnichestvo of espionage
00:14:57activities. Culture, as a convenient cover, is well
00:15:01known to Putin himself. In the 1980s, an officer of
00:15:03the KGB of the GDR was formally assigned to the House of
00:15:07Soviet-German Friendship in Leipzig. Behind the cultural
00:15:10signboard, intelligence work and search for sources. And when
00:15:14the Berlin Wall fell and the GDR regime collapsed, in
00:15:17the Dresden residency of the KGB, they began to destroy
00:15:20agent documents. Putin himself recalled: so much
00:15:24paper was burned that the stove burst.
00:15:28How such cultural structures really
00:15:32work is well known to Ukrainian special services, and
00:15:36Ukraine had its own Russian house in Kyiv even after the occupation of Crimea
00:15:39and the start of the war in Donbass. Why was it
00:15:43not closed then and what did the SBU know about the people around
00:15:46the center. We are talking about this with a person who at that time
00:15:50was one of the leaders of the Security Service of Ukraine. Viktor Yagun,
00:15:53Major General of the SBU Reserve, Deputy Head of the SBU in
00:15:572014-2015,
00:15:582014-2015
00:16:01joins us. Mr. Viktor, I welcome you. Yes,
00:16:05good health. Mr. Viktor.
00:16:07You were Deputy Head of the SBU in
00:16:092014-2015. Russia had already occupied
00:16:13Crimea and started the war in Donbass, and Russkiy Dom in Kyiv
00:16:17continued to operate. Among its visitors were people who
00:16:21subsequently fled to Russia, or went
00:16:24to fight against Ukraine. What did the SBU
00:16:27know about this environment and why was the center not
00:16:31closed then? Russian humanitarian, cultural and compatriot
00:16:34structures cannot be considered simply as cultural
00:16:38institutions, they created an environment where
00:16:42pro-Russian organizations, so-called Cossack structures, carriers
00:16:45of the ideology of the Russian
00:16:48world, people who maintained constant contacts with
00:16:51Russia, were concentrated, and later truly open
00:16:54investigations confirmed this, for example, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
00:16:58documented the presence in the Kyiv center of the so-called
00:17:01Oleksiy Selivanov, who in 2014 went to the occupied
00:17:04Donbass and became an activist of the LPR structure, as
00:17:08well as Andriy Saviliev, who found himself among the militants who
00:17:12seized Sloviansk,
00:17:15but the SBU did not have the opportunity
00:17:18to simply come and administratively close this center, it
00:17:22operated on the basis of an international agreement between Ukraine and
00:17:25Russia from February 27, 1998,
00:17:28which was ratified by the Verkhovna Rada
00:17:31of Ukraine, this agreement provided for mutual
00:17:34activities. of the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Kyiv and
00:17:38the Cultural Center of Ukraine in Moscow, this is
00:17:41approximately the same, approximately the situation that was
00:17:44in Germany, where Russkiy Dom operated,
00:17:47in Russia, the Goethe
00:17:50Institute operated, so the decision had to be not only
00:17:53operational, but also political and legal.
00:17:56Denunciation of the agreement, government decisions, parliament and other state
00:18:00bodies. I would formulate it this way, the threat could
00:18:03have been, well, we saw
00:18:06it earlier than the state was legally and politically
00:18:10ready to liquidate the very mechanism of Russian
00:18:14presence, and this explanation
00:18:16is certainly not an excuse, but
00:18:19it, well, then looked the way it was at
00:18:23that time. In the secret KGB manual of
00:18:261968, which was found by
00:18:30journalists of WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung in
00:18:33the Baltic archives. Cultural representations are described
00:18:37as platforms for finding contacts, developing
00:18:41and agent work. What
00:18:44has changed in this model in almost 60 years, and
00:18:47what has Russia transferred to modern Russkiy
00:18:51Dom? Well,
00:18:55the technology has changed, the principle practically hasn't,
00:18:58that is, directly in that 1968 manual,
00:19:02it really, I even held it, true 1968.
00:19:05but a slightly later
00:19:08edition, but I really held it in my hands, and it directly
00:19:11described the use of cultural work to identify
00:19:15promising individuals, establish contacts with them, further
00:19:18rapprochement, I don't know, there
00:19:21agent work, control of immigration and conducting
00:19:25active measures, it even spoke of bringing agents
00:19:28under the guise of cultural structures, the tools have changed, the architecture
00:19:32remained Soviet, I spoke with a journalist who
00:19:36in Brussels... near such a building
00:19:40of Russkiy Dom met
00:19:43employees of the European Parliament and she was
00:19:46surprised, says, what are you doing here, says: we come here for Russian language
00:19:50courses, that's all, that's your answer to such
00:19:53questions. After
00:19:572022, Europe expelled
00:20:00hundreds of Russian diplomats, including special service
00:20:04officers under diplomatic cover. But the network
00:20:07of Russkiy Dom remained, how
00:20:10could Russia use these centers after losing part of
00:20:14its intelligence network in
00:20:16Europe?
00:20:19Well, look, precisely after mass expulsions, their
00:20:23potential value for
00:20:25special services could have increased, because
00:20:29a classical residency under diplomatic cover has one
00:20:32huge advantage, it is diplomatic
00:20:36status, but... it has a disadvantage, the counterintelligence
00:20:39of the host country roughly understands who
00:20:42is in front of it, controls the diplomatic staff and
00:20:46can declare a specific person persona non grata.
00:20:50a cultural center, but we are talking about
00:20:53a cultural center now, but it is necessary to understand that there is another
00:20:56structure that operates in parallel in various
00:21:00countries, these are religious centers, and they
00:21:04are actually so similar that
00:21:08well, one doesn't even want to separate these two things. Russia
00:21:11is expanding the network of Russkiy Dom in Africa. Yevgeny
00:21:14Primakov admitted that the centers in Mali and CAR were opened by
00:21:18a well-known African. PMC, Wagnerites, and
00:21:21some of its people then transferred to
00:21:23Rossotrudnichestvo. What do Russkiy Dom give
00:21:27the Kremlin that Wagner, special services or
00:21:30embassies
00:21:32cannot?
00:21:35You know, recently I read that 25 such
00:21:39houses will be opened, and one of
00:21:42them will be opened in Armenia, and
00:21:46Pashinyan personally gave permission for its opening, I was... truly
00:21:50surprised by this, I think that they are just doing it on purpose,
00:21:53understanding what, what
00:21:56ideas will be propagated in this house,
00:22:00and they probably think that it's better to concentrate everything in
00:22:03one, in one place, than to look for them all over
00:22:06the country later, and they provide legitimacy and
00:22:09long-term viability, Wagner can protect the regime, train
00:22:12the military, control deposits or I don't know
00:22:16physically eliminate an opponent. According to Ukrainian intelligence, almost
00:22:203,000 citizens of African countries are fighting in
00:22:23the Russian army. Why is the Kremlin so actively recruiting
00:22:27Africans instead of a new wave of mobilization in Russia? And
00:22:31how realistic is the figure of 3. Or
00:22:34are these just established cases?
00:22:38Well, I would clarify
00:22:42the wording. The most accurate and publicly confirmed
00:22:45figure is at least 2,982
00:22:48African
00:22:52countries, that's what our intelligence can confirm, they were
00:22:55recruited into the Russian army, indeed and
00:22:59the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine also reported approximately
00:23:02486 killed and 35
00:23:06prisoners of war from 17 African
00:23:09states, these are official figures that we currently
00:23:13have, these are cases established by
00:23:16the Ukrainian side, and well,
00:23:19not... a complete census of the Russian army, so the real figure can
00:23:22indeed be much higher, an additional resource,
00:23:26their political price for the Kremlin is much lower,
00:23:30the death of a Russian can raise questions from the family,
00:23:33the region, the local authorities, the death of
00:23:36a recruited foreigner often does not get into
00:23:39Russian public space and statistics at all, who will look for him
00:23:43in Russia and demand compensation for
00:23:46the loss, moreover, the economic factor really
00:23:51works, a person from a poorer country
00:23:53offers a salary, education, work, legalization in Russia,
00:23:57some, some are recruited consciously, some
00:24:01through deception or misrepresented job
00:24:04offers, the Main Intelligence Directorate of
00:24:07Ukraine, well, the Ministry of Defense and the Coordination
00:24:10Staff reported that in 2026, Russia planned
00:24:14to recruit about 19,000,
00:24:1718,500, if to be precise, foreigners
00:24:20in total, so this is a way to get cheaper
00:24:24human resources, reduce the domestic political cost of the war and
00:24:28at least partially compensate for losses without
00:24:31announcing a new large wave of
00:24:34mobilization, cultural organizations instead of Russian state
00:24:38representations, it's
00:24:41cheaper, less noticeable and politically safer
00:24:44by far than dealing with the state, I
00:24:47here... I see another such strategic
00:24:51moment, Russia is losing part of its influence
00:24:54infrastructure in Europe and transferring resources
00:24:57to where the battleground for public opinion has not yet
00:25:00been definitively formed.
00:25:03Africa for Moscow is simultaneously resources,
00:25:07political partnership, votes on the international
00:25:10stage, arms market, human resources
00:25:14and influence on future elites.
00:25:17countries, so the Russian House is not a cultural center, in our
00:25:21understanding, yes, in the Russian system it is an instrument of long-term
00:25:25formation of an environment with which Russia will
00:25:28communicate, somewhere it will give a pro-Russian
00:25:31journalist, somewhere an official, somewhere a businessman, somewhere
00:25:35a military man, and somewhere a person who already
00:25:38can, who special services
00:25:41can be interested in, that is why the Russian one should
00:25:45not be viewed as separately Russian, well,
00:25:48separately from Russian
00:25:51special services, separately Wagner, separately
00:25:54the African corps, uh propaganda and economic
00:25:58expansion, this is all like
00:26:01one uh... of the chains, one of
00:26:04the links of this very Russian system, which it implements. Mr.
00:26:08Viktor, thank you for your thoughts and your
00:26:11expert position. Viktor Yahun,
00:26:14Major General of the Reserve of the SBU, Deputy Head of the SBU
00:26:18in 2014-2015,
00:26:21was with us on air.
00:26:24Russian houses have sold themselves to the world for decades as centers
00:26:27of culture, language, and education. But behind Pushkin
00:26:31and talks about friendship, propaganda,
00:26:34recruitment, agents of influence, and spies. Europe is slowly
00:26:38dismantling this network, sanctions
00:26:41against Rossotrudnichestvo have not made it disappear.
00:26:44Dozens of centers are still operating, and closed ones simply switch to
00:26:48another format. While Europe is gradually closing
00:26:51doors to Russian houses, the Kremlin
00:26:54is more actively opening them in Africa. This is what
00:26:58Russian neo-colonialism looks like: culture as a signboard behind...
00:27:02it, recruitment and the struggle for resources, and
00:27:06now I hand over the floor to my colleague Olha Len, who has investigated what
00:27:09exactly the Kremlin TV has offered its zombified
00:27:13viewers this
00:27:14time.
00:27:21Hello, recently talks have intensified
00:27:24about how to agree with Putin on ending
00:27:28the war, here is Donald's
00:27:31friend. Steve Witkoff and
00:27:35Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner went to Moscow, talked about something there,
00:27:38then went to Kyiv, met with
00:27:41Zelensky, and after that, Jared Kushner
00:27:45said that Putin needs to be given
00:27:48Donbas, and after that everything
00:27:52will literally end, because Putin no longer has ambitions to fight, and he
00:27:55wants to agree, well, in short, the usual such a story, well,
00:27:59our song is beautiful and new, we start again to talk about... the fact
00:28:03that Putin has no intention of any
00:28:06other attacks, and this is literally give him something, and he
00:28:10will calm down. Well, you know, at this point,
00:28:13it clearly shows this
00:28:15peacefulness, the reaction of Russian propaganda,
00:28:19the words of the Minister of Foreign
00:28:22Affairs of Poland, Radosław
00:28:24Sikorski, who said, in principle,
00:28:27an obvious thing, that the military
00:28:31power of the EU is greater than Russian, and this
00:28:34sitting and being afraid of Putin is not worth it, but it is probably
00:28:38worth just showing this power and making
00:28:42Russia understand that it can get hit on the head, well, that's how it
00:28:45was,
00:28:49if Russia attacks us and we take off our gloves,
00:28:53I think we will defeat Russia quite quickly. We
00:28:56have an advantage over Russia in air power.
00:29:00General, correct me if I'm wrong,
00:29:02but this is something like 2,500 aircraft,
00:29:06even without the USA, this advantage still remains
00:29:09overwhelming. And I haven't checked recently how many
00:29:12F-35s, JASM, and all
00:29:16other means for deep strikes we have, but if
00:29:20Ukrainians disabled half of Russia's oil refining capacity in 6
00:29:23months, we could do it in six weeks and destroy the other
00:29:27half.
00:29:30Well, obviously, if you hit with missiles, then... everything will be much
00:29:33faster, well, he said it
00:29:36obviously, well, he said in principle an obvious thing, here Russian
00:29:40propaganda literally started
00:29:42hysteria, well, such a
00:29:45well-known State Duma deputy
00:29:48Zhuravlev started saying that
00:29:51any world war should start with
00:29:55Poland.
00:29:59A great man Sikorski, who heads the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
00:30:40What's the problem with you, you
00:30:43were already part of the Russian Empire, well,
00:30:46everywhere, you should understand, it's better to be friends with Russia,
00:30:49дружити,
00:30:53well, the very fact that they were part of the Russian Empire should somehow
00:30:56hint to the Poles that it's better to stay away from Russia.