President Zelensky
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The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky · 24 Apr 2025
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the largest in Europe. All of our churches are united, different religions, and everyone is united. So we are considering the question, there is the problem in military chaplains, the mobilization of pastors or in other... or priests. There's different questions. We help one another.
We believe that the religious actors, if they're on the front line, it could be only through their will voluntarily and they should be supporting military now. If those religious actors, if they're willing to do that, we are kind of considering every single question. We do not believe that these are the major challenges because we are having meetings.
And if you have a regular meeting, so if you have a regular dialogue, then all the big challenges, they kind of remain but only small ones, and in many cases we solve those challenges, but they're not catastrophic, they're not tragic for the country and for the religious unity that we have in Ukraine, and we are openly doing that. They advocate what you've heard abroad.
They have one single voice, different faith, but single voice. Nobody's pressing anyone. So today, Sviatoslav went to prepare to... He went to Rome, and there's all those ceremonies around the Pope Francis. So Sviatoslav went there, went to Rome. He needs that. That's correct. And I'm also planning, together with my wife, to have a visit. We'll have several meetings around the same dates.
Now, as for the pressure, there's no pressure, and you will never hear anything about the pressure because we don't have any additional dialogues with our religious institutions or religious leaders. There's no shadow practices. We're absolutely open, transparent. There could be cameras. We're no cameras. We're absolutely open. Everyone can tell you there's no pressure.
That's non-existent, and every holidays we are together. We have people from different religions, and we're always inviting everyone. That's important. As for the Moscow church, look, the question is not about the Moscow church. The question is that in case of Russia, Moscow is just another agency of the KGB. Everyone knows that Russia's special services are in control of the churches.
Well, this is how they have. That's their choice. And their people... either support that or not. Well, that's their choice. That's their right. And we've never raised this question before the war and during the war. But that's a fact that their special services are in control of the prayer church. The problem was that their special forces was in control of the churches in Ukraine. That's not...
the truth that the church should be equal and the Moscow could not be in control of our church. Their KGB, their intelligence could not be in control or could not be managing the Ukrainian church. Well, they shouldn't be here. So the legislative changes in Ukraine are related to the fact that there could be no connection in between of the Moscow and the church. Nobody closed
anything or anyone, but it can't be the case that Russia's KGB is in control of the church in Ukraine. Everyone is against this legal ties. So it's not only about the ties at the level of intelligence. There was a legal connection, legal ties for many years, but That shouldn't be the case. We shouldn't be having disputes or controversies around whose church is older than the others.
And Ukraine shouldn't be speaking about this. Look, we're sitting here close to the Sofia Cathedral. Sofia is older than Russia's capital city and any churches they have. This building is older than that. That's the answer. We shouldn't have any disputes. We have scientific evidence as we're just saying that our church should be free from any authorities. It's free for the people.
Every single case is scrutinized by the land forces, by the Ministry of Defense. They're the one responsible for the mobilization. And it can have a different attitude towards mobilization, but we have this mobilization from the beginning of the war. It's in accordance to the legislation, in accordance to the martial law period. So the country is in a war. That is why we do have mobilization.
We want the war to end. We want everything to end. We want to have a fair peace, calmness, and there would be nothing, not the mobilization, not the martial law. But as long as the war, as long as we have the law, there is the mobilization. That is why there were different aspects, like someone suggested money, someone took money for going or not going to the army.
There's different approaches or there are different cases, but we shouldn't be saying that this is the major phase or the main thing that describes Ukraine today, no. Ukraine has 800,000 right now, or 600,000 people who volunteered to go to the army. That was the law on mobilization, but the people were volunteering to go and defend Ukraine. Definitely, there is, well, there's different people.
And I think there's different people in every country. And the law enforcement personnel should be making sure that everything would be transparent. There would be no coercion or something. There are some kind of... disadvantages. That's a fact. We shouldn't be hiding that like a corruption. But if we have any anti-corruption bodies, there's the security service of Ukrainians.
If we are fighting with this on an everyday basis, well, of course, you can hide it like everything as in the case of Russia or some European countries. But Ukraine... clearly shows that it is fighting on a constant basis against aspects like that. But those are kind of singular cases. This is not massive. That's more important, and that should be reducing on a daily basis. We're doing that.
I want to thank all our European leaders for such signal, strong support, strong support from the very beginning of the war. And during all this period and last week, you stayed with us. And of course, from all the Ukrainians, from all our nations, big appreciation. We are very thankful that we are not alone. And these are not just words, we feel it.
Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future.
We'll be right back.
The war is in Europe and America is far from the invasion and I think that we need to share more details because to my mind there are a lot of different voices around new American administration and I'm not sure that all these voices are on our side.
In order for the war to end with a reliable and lasting peace, we must not make any mistakes. This is possible only when the negotiations are fair and Ukraine, America and the whole of Europe are represented at the negotiating table. Guarantees are developed with the participation of all who are really capable of giving them.
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