President Zelensky

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The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky · 24 Apr 2025 podcast

to our soldiers the pensions that we pay to our pensioners and we have 11.5 million pensioners so the salaries and the pensions these are only paid from the ukrainian budget this only by the ukrainian money not because we didn't need the um kind of financial support uh or the or the support to the people there were different aspects infrastructural aspects etc

We needed all of that, and we are grateful to all that, but the United States have to know that they were not feeding our pensioners and our soldiers with regards to the salary or the compensation. Surely, you've provided the most important aspect, that is the weapons, the weapons we needed to defend. Now, those things are very important. Now, there are special programs or separate programs

And we have the clear figures behind those. When the United States were paying money for the development of a certain direction in the technological kind of development, like in new drones, and there were direct funding either in the private sector that was constructing the drones like that, what the United States have received, well, the exchange of information.

The United States, without the war, would never have received the knowledge. I'm not saying that war is good. That's horrible. But whenever we're saying what the United States have received, for example, when there were some programs, when the United States had funded the weapons and they were transferring information

the Patriots to us, and we are grateful to the United States, first of all, for this. They know that all the air defense systems that we had, different shells, there is artillery shells, even 155 shells could be different, the HIMARS, et cetera, all that Ukraine have been using, Ukraine provided the reports to the United States, and Ukraine has improved many of the elements and specifications

by our engineers, by our people on the ground. They've improved the specifications of the weapons. The United States have received a true report based on the largest land operation, land war in many years. So now the United States know where to invest the money, where not to invest the money. I know those conclusions, but this is not public information.

But the United States have received this knowledge, this data. And this knowledge could not be acquired without the live operations that the United States have provided money to the development of different drones. Surely it's all about our special forces, recon, intelligence, security service of Ukraine, foreign intelligence. These are the separate money. They are part of those $105 billion.

So this is where the scientists were working, the recon, the intelligence, the military engineers were working. Now, what the United States have received, when the United States have paid for those developments, the United States have received complete and open information on the drones. This is the new weapons that was not available to the United States, to Europe, and surely we didn't have it.

Now, the United States have received all this experience, all this know-how and developments. Now, I'm not... willing to say that it's a cheap price for all of those developments. We are grateful to every single cent paid by the United States. But this is the fair price, so to say. The knowledge, the experience, you know, that the whole world is based on the knowledge.

And I believe that this is what the United States have received. Then how are medics being operating on the battlefield? Everyone knows about this. There's medical points or medical stations close to the battlefield where the military surgeries have been taking place. There's medical assistance of different sort that has been provided.

Now, all this knowledge, all this experience were transferred to our partners. They've seen that they could make conclusions. They supported the people. The United States, together with Europeans, have provided the support to the people. And I can give you the conclusions. You can compare the number of killed and the number of casualties.

Now, I'm not comparing the Russian army with the Ukrainian army, but look at the portion of... the wounded in action and killed in action, we have the portion of the wounded in action the lowest. If we have 1 to 10, that is 1 killed, we have 10 wounded in action. Now, in case of Russians, in case of 10 casualties, there will be 5 killed in action or 6 by 4.

So we're saying that's a different level of medical support. And that knowledge was also provided to our partners. Now, what exactly the United States have received as well. This is the most important thing that I have not mentioned yet. Let's be frank.

The people in the world, they believe that we are a living kind of fence against Russia's invasion to the civilized world, including the NATO member nations. And we are kind of a living shield. We are defending this. So if Putin will come to the NATO member countries or when he will do that, I don't...

believe that I know everything in advance but let's just imagine because everyone see who they have case with so putting might go to the European countries now in this case there would be a need to defend the European nations or to leave the NATO. I'm not saying whether the United States should be doing that or not. That's the choice made by the people of the United States and other allies.

But this is a question that will definitely be on the agenda. So as long as Russians are not in any single NATO member nation, your families are not facing with this question. So there will be a major question for your families either to send your child to the war or not, to the other country, to some foreign country. So that's the kind of question.

Now, the cost of the United States not searching and the families are not searching for an answer to this complicated question of whether to send their son or daughter, whether they will return home, like, alive or wounded.

Nobody knows the cost of that question, whether the United States is the kind of the most, the richest economy in the world, whether this is the biggest amount paid for what's being provided. I'm not saying that's a small amount. I'm saying that this is the fair, this is fair. It's fair that you...

United States assisted and supported Ukraine, and Ukraine gave away a lot in return for that support and assistance. And of course, the most precious thing we have is the life of our people.

Well, first of all, I'm very happy that you're here, that you had a chance to take a look. And really, we have a meeting like that a couple of times per year, and I truly visit some of the church sites, and during the Easter, there's the Easter meetings, and we have a meeting with all of our religious institutions, and I believe that what Ukraine has, and that is the largest council of churches,

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