Vitaly Shevchenko

It's very dangerous. We need to remember that occupied parts of Ukraine are a lawless territory and people have literally been killed for opposing the Russian occupation. And also Russia has a host of highly repressive laws designed to stamp out dissent.

It's very dangerous. We need to remember that occupied parts of Ukraine are a lawless territory and people have literally been killed for opposing the Russian occupation. And also Russia has a host of highly repressive laws designed to stamp out dissent.

So even if you don't demonstrate campaign, if you merely say something that the occupation authorities don't like, if you say it on social media, you can be in trouble, you can be fined, you can be jailed. And again, some people have been killed. If they choose to, they can charge you with, quote unquote, spreading false information, discrediting the Russian armed forces, supporting terrorism.

So even if you don't demonstrate campaign, if you merely say something that the occupation authorities don't like, if you say it on social media, you can be in trouble, you can be fined, you can be jailed. And again, some people have been killed. If they choose to, they can charge you with, quote unquote, spreading false information, discrediting the Russian armed forces, supporting terrorism.

So the mere act of distributing a newsletter or dropping a leaflet on a park bench, that is dangerous enough.

So the mere act of distributing a newsletter or dropping a leaflet on a park bench, that is dangerous enough.

Russia is pursuing a campaign of eradicating anything and everything remotely Ukrainian. In schools, textbooks are Russian. And the message this spread is that Ukraine is not a real state and Russia has liberated you from this neo-Nazi government in Kiev. If you don't have a Russian passport, you can be stripped of your parental rights. You can't get hospital treatment.

Russia is pursuing a campaign of eradicating anything and everything remotely Ukrainian. In schools, textbooks are Russian. And the message this spread is that Ukraine is not a real state and Russia has liberated you from this neo-Nazi government in Kiev. If you don't have a Russian passport, you can be stripped of your parental rights. You can't get hospital treatment.

Your car can be taken away. If you're travelling down the road, there's a roadblock and the Russian soldiers ask you for your Russian passport. You don't have it, that's it. Say goodbye to your car. So this campaign of pressure and repression and intimidation, it works on a million levels.

Your car can be taken away. If you're travelling down the road, there's a roadblock and the Russian soldiers ask you for your Russian passport. You don't have it, that's it. Say goodbye to your car. So this campaign of pressure and repression and intimidation, it works on a million levels.

And I'm Vitaly Shevchenko, one of the hosts of the Ukrainecast.

And I'm Vitaly Shevchenko, one of the hosts of the Ukrainecast.

And I'm Vitaly Shevchenko, one of the hosts of the Ukrainecast.

Well, to start answering all those questions, I'll say that there's absolutely nothing in what Russia has said or done recently to suggest that it's remotely interested in peace in Ukraine. Just this morning, authorities in Ukraine said that six civilians were killed and 46 injured in the latest wave of Russian violence.

Well, to start answering all those questions, I'll say that there's absolutely nothing in what Russia has said or done recently to suggest that it's remotely interested in peace in Ukraine. Just this morning, authorities in Ukraine said that six civilians were killed and 46 injured in the latest wave of Russian violence.

Well, to start answering all those questions, I'll say that there's absolutely nothing in what Russia has said or done recently to suggest that it's remotely interested in peace in Ukraine. Just this morning, authorities in Ukraine said that six civilians were killed and 46 injured in the latest wave of Russian violence.

Und wenn es um Russlands Rhetorik geht, hat Sergej Ryabkov, ein Abgeordneter, gesagt am Dienstag, ich glaube, dass wir alle diese Friedensinitiative von den Vereinigten Staaten mögen, aber was ist mit den unterliegenden Gründen dieses Konflikts? Und dadurch, denke ich, bedeutet Russland die Existenz der Ukraine als sovereignen Staat.

Und wenn es um Russlands Rhetorik geht, hat Sergej Ryabkov, ein Abgeordneter, gesagt am Dienstag, ich glaube, dass wir alle diese Friedensinitiative von den Vereinigten Staaten mögen, aber was ist mit den unterliegenden Gründen dieses Konflikts? Und dadurch, denke ich, bedeutet Russland die Existenz der Ukraine als sovereignen Staat.

Und wenn es um Russlands Rhetorik geht, hat Sergej Ryabkov, ein Abgeordneter, gesagt am Dienstag, ich glaube, dass wir alle diese Friedensinitiative von den Vereinigten Staaten mögen, aber was ist mit den unterliegenden Gründen dieses Konflikts? Und dadurch, denke ich, bedeutet Russland die Existenz der Ukraine als sovereignen Staat.

So all that tells me that we are nowhere near a lasting peace or even a ceasefire in Ukraine. And the visit by this senior Russian official? Dmitriev is the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund. So he's all about money. And it's telling that Russia chose to dispatch him to the United States, knowing that Donald Trump is largely about money and dealmaking as well.