Vitaly Shevchenko

In defense of Waldemar Zelensky, he did try, he brought a U6-Boxing-Champion-Belt, didn't work.

Okay. As a Russian speaker who spent most of his life living in eastern Ukraine, I think I can tackle this. When Tony mentions Russians in Ukraine, I suspect he means Russian speakers, because the notion of ethnicity is kind of hazy in Ukraine. I certainly never felt threatened or oppressed, nor were my friends in Zaporizhia. We could speak Russian freely. It's not banned.

Okay. As a Russian speaker who spent most of his life living in eastern Ukraine, I think I can tackle this. When Tony mentions Russians in Ukraine, I suspect he means Russian speakers, because the notion of ethnicity is kind of hazy in Ukraine. I certainly never felt threatened or oppressed, nor were my friends in Zaporizhia. We could speak Russian freely. It's not banned.

Okay. As a Russian speaker who spent most of his life living in eastern Ukraine, I think I can tackle this. When Tony mentions Russians in Ukraine, I suspect he means Russian speakers, because the notion of ethnicity is kind of hazy in Ukraine. I certainly never felt threatened or oppressed, nor were my friends in Zaporizhia. We could speak Russian freely. It's not banned.

In official communication in schools, for example, yes, you're supposed to speak Ukrainian, but it's Ukraine. And this comes after decades and decades of Soviet communist Russian efforts to eradicate the Ukrainian language.

In official communication in schools, for example, yes, you're supposed to speak Ukrainian, but it's Ukraine. And this comes after decades and decades of Soviet communist Russian efforts to eradicate the Ukrainian language.

In official communication in schools, for example, yes, you're supposed to speak Ukrainian, but it's Ukraine. And this comes after decades and decades of Soviet communist Russian efforts to eradicate the Ukrainian language.

So we sort of accepted it and found it natural and after Russia started its war against Ukraine, so many Russian speakers in Ukraine speak in Ukrainian now, because it feels wrong to continue speaking Russian. Now, Russia's security concerns, I don't think any of them were legitimate.

So we sort of accepted it and found it natural and after Russia started its war against Ukraine, so many Russian speakers in Ukraine speak in Ukrainian now, because it feels wrong to continue speaking Russian. Now, Russia's security concerns, I don't think any of them were legitimate.

So we sort of accepted it and found it natural and after Russia started its war against Ukraine, so many Russian speakers in Ukraine speak in Ukrainian now, because it feels wrong to continue speaking Russian. Now, Russia's security concerns, I don't think any of them were legitimate.

I keep using this phrase because I try to stick to the facts and nothing in Ukraine's, NATO's, the West's actions or rhetoric in the run-up to the initial secret invasion of 2014 or full-scale invasion 2022. suggest that there was a threat forming against Russia. It's an excuse to attack Ukraine, because no aggressor wants to be seen as an aggressor.

I keep using this phrase because I try to stick to the facts and nothing in Ukraine's, NATO's, the West's actions or rhetoric in the run-up to the initial secret invasion of 2014 or full-scale invasion 2022. suggest that there was a threat forming against Russia. It's an excuse to attack Ukraine, because no aggressor wants to be seen as an aggressor.

I keep using this phrase because I try to stick to the facts and nothing in Ukraine's, NATO's, the West's actions or rhetoric in the run-up to the initial secret invasion of 2014 or full-scale invasion 2022. suggest that there was a threat forming against Russia. It's an excuse to attack Ukraine, because no aggressor wants to be seen as an aggressor.

Russia, Vladimir Putin, repeatedly presents this attack on Ukraine as something preemptive.

Russia, Vladimir Putin, repeatedly presents this attack on Ukraine as something preemptive.

Russia, Vladimir Putin, repeatedly presents this attack on Ukraine as something preemptive.

Well, not completely successfully, because it's still there.

Well, not completely successfully, because it's still there.

Well, not completely successfully, because it's still there.

It's also a numbers game. Because of the shortage of air defense systems that Ukraine has, it's a question of where do you deploy them? What do you consider more important? Which lives you choose to preserve? It's a very difficult choice, but the fact is, Ukraine can't build a dome, iron or any other sort of dome, over all of its territory, each and every settlement.