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Zelensky’s Press Secretary Returns From Exile With a Message for the Tyrant

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Zelensky’s Press Secretary Returns From Exile With a Message for the Tyrant

A Ukrainian speaker shares a deeply personal and urgent critique of the ongoing war in Ukraine, arguing that it is both morally and strategically unsustainable. After being sanctioned and banned from speaking at the European Parliament, they detail how Ukrainian authorities have systematically suppressed voices advocating peace, using censorship, political persecution, and financial bans to silence dissent. The speaker emphasizes that over 30,000 Ukrainians die monthly in the war, leading to a catastrophic demographic collapse—Ukraine’s population has declined significantly since independence, with current birth rates far below death rates. They expose widespread corruption, including bribery in conscription, torture, and elite wealth accumulation, especially among Zelensky’s inner circle. The speaker points out that Zelensky’s government avoids free elections, maintains a war economy, and profits from war-related media and military spending, while ignoring the suffering of civilians. They argue that peace is not Russian propaganda but a necessary reality for Ukraine’s survival, and that Western support fuels escalation rather than resolution. Despite overwhelming public support for peace—confirmed by Gallup polls—the political and media systems in both Ukraine and the West continue to justify military action. The speaker calls on international audiences to reject war rhetoric, recognize the humanitarian crisis, and support a peaceful, democratic future for Ukraine, warning that continued conflict will lead to national dissolution.

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So thank you for coming back and I just want to say I'm sorry I knew there would be repercussions for your first interview that you did earlier this year with us and apparently they were there were can you tell us what happened after that interview aired? Well yes actually thank you for giving me the platform first time and now because right now Ukrainians are facing huge censorship everywhere thanks to all of them on the landscape and our interview from me were the trouble I know that after our interview the landscape ordered to have some kind of so-called linguistic expertise and this is a corrupt practice that exists in the government of Ukraine that helps them prove something that they want to prove to execute their political persecution so this linguistic expertise is still ongoing however I'm already under sanctions if this linguistic expertise is finished I'm gonna phase the treason charges that in Ukraine under martial law can be from 15 years of prison to life sentence so this is absolutely crazy but let me explain why I am under sanctions I was invited to have a speech in the European Parliament by the alternative for Germany of the one of the most actually popular party in Germany and this was supposed to be a speech about the necessity of peace for Ukraine we announced this speech I think approximately September 10th and on September the landscape introduced imposed sanctions on me so what happened next was that when I arrived to the European Parliament on September 16th when my speech needed to take place I was buried from entering the European Parliament and we were told they didn't know the reason but that personally Roberto Mitsola who is the head of the European Parliament banned me from entering they also tried to ban the video transmission and they did not allow to translate my speech into German and French thanks to FD we managed somehow technically to have video transmission and I even answered the questions however this shows a very huge problem because I had a lot of questions from Western journalists why Ukrainians don't speak about the necessity of peace one journalist even told me that he had a feeling that no one in Ukraine except of U.M. and Del wanted peace but I see this growing tendency and I'm sitting here absolutely sure that majority of Ukrainians want peace as soon as possible because I get enormous support from everywhere but nobody sees that and I thought that it was the problem you know Ukrainians didn't have enough people to talk enough content enough you know experience or skills to reach the bigger platforms but it happens that there is just a censorship a huge censorship nobody wants to listen to Ukrainians who call for peace and this is to be frank this is so hard-breaking and so disappointing because Ukraine today is looking at the European Union and the place and the place of democracy or freedom of speech but in fact it is very far from the reality yeah so I'm under sanctions what it means it means that I cannot make any financial operations in Ukraine no buying or selling properties cars nothing my financial accounts are banned my business accounts are cancelled banned I cannot have any bank accounts today but there is another thing that Zelensky introduced in the sanctions my three accounts in social media it is Facebook Instagram and X and he requested that these accounts are banned from Ukrainian audience from the people who live in Ukraine and if it's possible I would really love to to appeal to address today to the people who work in matter company and in X not asking only for myself but asking for all Ukrainians who are on systematic basis are banned from talking to the Ukrainians in Ukraine this happens all the time I know the bloggers who repeatedly restart their pages because they call for peace and then the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine requests to ban their accounts from from Ukrainians and if it's possible I just would like to underline that for Ukrainians today social media is the only way actually to to talk about peace and if if these accounts are banned my accounts and accounts of other Ukrainians then it actually disrupts any kind of communication because Ukrainians today discuss what are the possibilities of peace how we see it what are the issues for post for Ukraine what we can accept this is the real matter and I really would ask you know to to to be attentive to this because this is our way to show the world to show journalists to show politicians that there is this necessity to have peace it's such a remarkable story um I remember our interview very well and in it you spoke as a Ukrainian as a Ukrainian nationalist to someone who loves Ukraine as someone who is very critical of Russia and Vladimir Putin you spoke directly to Putin in the interview and not in a friendly way you said please stop and so nothing you said nothing I've seen you say is pro-Russian or anti-Ukraine you're simply against watching your entire population male population get killed and so I don't understand how is that treason uh yes so this is the very corrupt practice in Ukraine that actually allows the the politicians to persecute this loyal people and Zelensky doesn't want anyone to talk about peace because you know GDevans once wrote a remarkable saying the New York Times where he said that the math in Ukraine does not adapt and over two years have passed through that since that say and the math in Ukraine still doesn't adapt will lose people every day will lose territories every day just uh for you the latest information that we got the prime minister of Poland said that uh our uh his Ukrainian's colleagues told him that Ukraine loses killed and wounded 27 thousand of soldiers monthly in the front line add to this only verified UN numbers of killed and wounded civilians and it is around three thousand so we get around 30 thousand of Ukrainians soldiers and civilians dead or wounded every month right it's a terrible number and um if you think about the number of population in 35 years of independence Ukraine has lost over half of its population right so uh to be frank the wolf attrition with Russia is nothing but suicidal policy suicidal war so I never justified what Putin has done and I call this the crimes against humanity and I will rate to rate this cruelty is unimaginable but it doesn't mean that what Zelensky is doing is good for Ukraine because his policies are also suicidal absolutely suicidal so uh we counted the population in Ukraine and right now maximum we have four million of men of of of conscription aged in Russia there are uh 38 42 million of men so ten times more I mean this is absolutely suicidal to continue this war and let me say you that many people who support Ukraine they think that if Ukraine continues this war we will stay independent and uh preserve our sovereignty but this is very much vice versa because we are following now Afghanistan path and if this war continues we have many more chances to become a vassal state and actually to have enormous degradation of society economy and everything then if we try to find realistic path towards peace today and then try to restore our economy our democracy have elections you know try to return our people and maybe later with time if we have good diplomats at the table maybe you know just maybe we will be able to return the territories but right now we're choosing between the territories and people and we are losing boss but most importantly we'll lose our people so this was what I told in the European Parliament and um after that Roberto Mitsola sent her chief of staff to the FD he tried to apologize to the organizer from I.V.D. Hansinho and said that they were told that I'm going to spread Russian propaganda I'm a Ukrainian patriot I'm having a lot of support from Ukrainians from every region today writing you know messaging comments everything people wanted this to be out and another point of this before this speech was banned I tried actually to reach the chief of staff of Roberto Mitsola I wanted to talk to him I was eager to show him this speech but they didn't want to listen to anything. banned it based on getting information from Ukraine. Some Ukrainians were writing that this is personally Vladimir Zelensky who asked Robert Ametzola to ban me from the speech. And now I'm facing a lot of attacks on social media. My accounts are being attacked, a lot of votes are there, you know, they're even trying to ban my telegram channel. So I guess that there is a huge attention from the office of the president. All he's, you know, talking heads, we're talking about talking heads, they are attacking me, but there is this fight, at least there is this fight. And I need to tell you that our interview really opened a lot of things for Ukrainians. I got a lot of thanks, a lot of bloggers started talking more about what they see around about the necessity to stop the war. I got a lot of thanks. They said, thank you Julia for your interview to target Carlson, you opened our eyes. So I'm sitting here understanding that you are one of a few platforms where Ukrainians can scream about the necessity of peace just to preserve ourselves, our self-assonation as a country, as independent state. A lot of people are using peptides to get in shape, not all peptides are the same. If you take them, do you really know what you're ingesting? Probably not. 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How many Ukrainians do you believe have been killed or wounded since this war began? Well, I think there's hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and don't forget about millions of families that have been destroyed because they've turned into refugees or they lost someone or the right people with lost limbs and something also very disgusting happened on that day. So Ursula von der Land, the head of the European Commission, at the same day she decided to have a speech in the European Parliament too and she invited a Ukrainian girl, 10-year-old girl who lost her limb due to Russian shelling. She's a dancer and she continues dancing and Ursula von der Land showed this girl and made her and her and with this girl she justified the necessity to continue the war. In Ukraine it caused a lot of outrage because I look at this girl and this is the difference of perspective. I look at her and I back to stop this war that Ukrainian children don't lose their limbs, eyes, you know. My parents are doctors at frontline regions and the stories that they tell about children, you know, that they get in the hospital, they are terrified like, you know, wound in the head or a lost hand or for instance a 23 days old girl that was killed due to Russian shelling. And again, I'm not minimizing Russia's guilt. The thing is that if we want to preserve Ukraine, Ukrainian nation, we need to think about realistic ways of how to stop this war. But what I see the landscape doing, he keeps changing the conditions for the peace and he also introduces so maximally unachievable ways for the peace that I don't believe that he wants to get it at all. That's there have been calls from some in the neo-conservative foreign policy community here in the United States and in Europe to start drafting women because so many Ukrainian men have been killed. Draft Ukrainian women and send them into the meat grinder. Is that a popular idea in Ukraine, do you think? It's not popular idea to fight at all neither for men nor for women. Of course a lot of hatred, a lot of outrage and to be frank a lot of desire to leave the country. I will just remind you that after our interview I cannot return to Ukraine because there is a huge intention to that question. I believe that if they move with further mobilization of women and lowering the conscription age, there could be really a revolution and Ukrainians are at the word. Let me just describe a few facts about how the force mobilization is happening. So by onwoodsman data only 2-3% of men have been forcefully conscripted to the frontline actually get to the fight. All others pay bribes. We count it and the conservative only count of the bribes that exist in the sector of force mobilization to avoid frontline can reach up to 5 billion dollars annually. This is enormous corruption. This is so enormous corruption that we understand that it is covered from the top. It cannot just exist on the middle level. Another thing that was discovered after our interview was that actually in conscription offices throughout torture, beating some men die and this is so inhuman. Actually on the streets of Ukraine today, women defend men. There is fighting sometimes men need to use their weapons against the state that tries to drag them to the frontline or demand bribes and there is a huge opposition towards both the war and Zelensky's government. It is so terrible. So many men, they even do not get out of their house for weeks, months and some men sit in their houses for years just to be grabbed on the street, not to be beaten, not to be tortured and not to be sent to the frontline. I can't imagine this is my country. This is so painful. I can't imagine how anyone could say this is Russian propaganda. This is everywhere. Every Ukrainian is standing against it and I'm here to beg you to understand that only finishing this war can preserve Ukraine as a nation in the state. We have been told in the West that democracy, Ukraine, is fighting tyranny Russia. But there are no elections for president in Ukraine. How do you think if Zelensky were to allow an election, if he were to stand for election, let voters decide whether to keep him in office, would he win that election? I will tell you that inside that today was out, but I knew this earlier. In July or June, Zelensky was thinking about conducting elections, but he actually didn't want to have free elections. He wanted to have the manufacturing. So he invited the former commander in chief and his chief of staff will enjoy some kind of rating today in Ukraine and ask them not to run for presidency, but to support him as the only candidate of the potential alliance. At least one of them refused. Under any circumstances, it doesn't matter how corrupt the elections in Ukraine today are. Zelensky doesn't have chances to win them. He understood that he will lose elections. Now we hear the public statements that we cannot just conduct the elections. We have a lot of people out of the country. Then the next reason we have soldiers who cannot vote in front line. Then the next reason we have a lot of shallings, so we cannot organize elections. So he will be coming up with any kind of reason to explain to the public why elections are not possible. But I will remind to your audience that up for today, he is standing in power for seven and a half years. And for him, finishing this war is a suicidal policy because this is a political suicide. He's not going to stay in power. This war gives him money, gives him power and gives him gives him red card rates and the fame that he enjoys. Why doesn't the United States, which is making this war possible through the targeting information, it gives the Ukrainian military from our intelligence agencies? Why doesn't the Trump administration force Zelensky to leave? He's not an elected leader. He's eliminated civil liberties, freedoms in Ukraine. Why not just tell him to leave and have an election? Russia had wartime elections. You can have wartime elections that happens all the time. Why don't they do that? I can answer for President Trump. But maybe he doesn't want to meddle in their politics off another country. The problem is that since the last time we talked, President Zelensky changed the strategy, and he convinced the Western partners to have escalation, and this escalation has worsened situation in Ukraine enormously. So for us, for Ukrainians, it was really very weird to read the American news for the first half of summer, where American media outlets were saying that Ukraine is winning the war because we never have been even close to winning the war. We were suffering and in July, we had the record of civilian deaths and wounded people since May 2022. Actually, what happened, Russia started destroying our warehouses. We have over 90 percent of warehouses destroyed with all the everyday needs that, you know, Ukrainians. As ordinary people use, including food, including, you know, clothing, including gadgets and many other things. We have destroyed gas stations. We have enormous ruins in the infrastructure, etc., etc. So what Ukrainians are expecting is actually humanitarian catastrophic winter. And many are leaving today. So the West should expect more refugees. And to be frank, it is very inhuman to not accept them. Because I don't know how people will be surviving without heat, without light, without food, you know, in the country under shallowing, without a credit ruling where people can be grabbed on the streets and sent to the front. Most people don't like thinking about life insurance. It's one of those topics you tend to kind of put off. But if you're married, you've got kids, you've got people who depend on you. You probably should think about what would happen if you weren't around. 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Mertz and Germany, Burnham and in Great Britain, Macron and France, they all have said, we're going to join this war with Ukraine. Why? That's such an interesting question. So many people are asking me that. And I would really encourage my Western media colleagues, journalists, to investigate deeper what's happening there behind media publicity with all these drones production. But just for your audience to explain how the distribution of age for Ukraine works. So for instance, if we are promised 45 billion a year per year, like 30, for instance, 30 billion of this money goes to drone production or weapons production. And majority of this money doesn't go to Ukraine. It goes to the countries who actually distribute the money. So like Ryan Mital for instance, or French producers. So these weapons producers really enjoy enormous amounts of money. And to be frank, as a pure person, I was following this enormous PR happening in media. And I think that if we follow the money, we can explain a lot of things happening. Like for instance, just before NATO Summit in Ankara in July, there were all these messages that Ukraine was winning the war. And then Mark Ruta announced 140 billion euro of aid. And in a week, we didn't get any more messages about Ukraine winning. And in two weeks, we started getting messages that Ukraine is losing. Ukraine doesn't have interceptors. We have any humanitarian catastrophic protein, etc, etc, etc. Then at the end of summer, we started reading a lot of news about starting off world war three about Russia trying to attack NATO countries, though a lot of NATO officials were saying that they don't see any kind of preparation for this. And again, I don't want anyhow to flatter Russia or to justify what it is doing, but it is very strange to hear that the country that cannot cope with Ukraine, that is not in NATO, not in EU, and doesn't have even its own economy, would want to attack NATO countries. So then we understood that at the same time when there are these media headlines, media headlines, there is a discussion of the next seven-year budget from 2028 to 2034. And of course, the defence budgets, they are very tasty. So perhaps European Union just wants to preserve those defence budgets and to preserve them. They need to justify in the media and today people why their defence budgets are so huge. So they say about the world war three, you know, they escalate the rhetoric, and just afraid where it will lead all of us. Because when I see the taste of Europeans towards the war, I don't believe that Europeans want to fight. And actually, the rating of Mr. Mers, for instance, record low, 10%, and getting lower and lower tells about that. And then we have the party that promotes peace. And they grade the record of popularity because people don't want war. People want their leaders to talk to Russia. People want their leaders to guarantee that there will be no war. And as a Ukrainian, I will tell you that many Westernists, ordinary people, they look at this war as Hollywood movie. And it is not. It is a disaster. It is a degradation of morality, of humanity. It is death. It is the worst thing that could happen to you. I'll remind you the story, how one American professor advised an American student to go to the front line in Ukraine. The guy went there. He was shocked from the reality. He pled to get him out. And the professor just sent everyone who was makes history in their own place. What is that? I mean, how many professors they in America actually tried to send your students to the war? Don't do that. Help us stop the war. Well, how many professors in the United States are serving on the front lines of the Ukraine war? How many neo-conservative think tank employees are doing that? Is Zelensky volunteering to go fight his own war? Of course not. None of the people pushing this war are putting their own lives at risk. They're destroying an entire population for money, popularity, power. But none of them are willing to die for it. Other people die for it. If I may add, when Zelensky was not the president, he was invited to join the front line in Donbass for four times. And he did not do that. He declined. He avoided conscription. And now he is grabbing men on the street and sending them forcefully to the front line. Zelensky himself avoided conscription. Four times. Yes, this is public information in Ukraine. So he's very far from Churchill that he is compared to. There is not a story. You know, I come from mainstream media. I respect my colleagues who worked there. But I had this very strange experience when I wanted to publish an article about peace. And I sent it to a very famous American media and they declined, of course, without any explanation. I didn't have any attack on Zelensky there. You may still read it online. You know, there was nothing political. There was just a Gallup poll that was saying that majority of Ukrainians wanted peace and there were argumentation why we needed to have either ceasefire peace because we were declining, degrading as a nation. So I was declined to publish that piece. And in some time, I saw how the same media published a London professor who actually was just to find this war because he was saying how Russia is suffering without mentioning how Ukraine was suffering, how much we were losing, you know, how many people were losing. So I just googled if this professor has ever been to Russia or to Ukraine. And I was shocked to know that no, he has never been to any of these countries. He just gets his information from social media. And that's how he has, you know, some kind of imagination in his head was going on. And he produces this to your people. And so your people believe that this war has any kind of justification. What I understood after Zelensky convinced Western partners to have escalation of this war is that in the West, many more people want Russia burned than Ukraine to be saved. Right. And this is a terrible realization to be framed because my country is dying in front of you. And you keep applauding one man on the red carpet who sells you. I'm sorry to say total nonsense, total bullshit. So I'm here to bat from Ukrainians. Please don't contribute to escalation of this war. Please do everything to stop it because we will disappear from the map. owning a home has always been the core of the American dream is the acid that families work their lives to build, place of stability, security, and actual wealth. 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And so it's possible in 10 years there will be no Ukraine. It's land will be owned by foreigners and it's population will be foreign. So nation gone. So even if we don't mention these facts, there is the math that just doesn't work. Like if we have around a little bit more than 20 million of people staying in the country down from 52 million in 1991, around 12 million of these people are pensioners and people with disabilities. If you count down children, then we almost do not have any workforce. And people obviously are living. We lose from 600 to 800 thousand of people only officially, only officially. Last year we had three times more deaths than births. This year in the first half of this year, we had four times more deaths than births. The demography is just catastrophic and I'm absolutely sure that every American who is a patriot to his own country, if he or she would be in this condition and see your own country in this condition, you would never agree to this. You would never agree to this. You would be also calling for peace to preserve American nation. This is very petrol what you call for peace. It's not Russian propaganda. Peace cannot be per Russian. I want this to be heard. Do you believe that Zelensky and his family have gotten richer during this war? So let's just stick to facts, right? The reason a company which is called Firepoint, and if you just Google, you will find that key of independence, it's a Ukrainian media plat, figured out that there is Voldemort Zelensky's long-term partner business partner staying behind this company. After our interview, there were wiretaps that were published unfortunately only in Ukraine and on these wiretaps produced by anti-corruption bodies. There were dialects between the Minister of Defense appointed by Zelensky and then the partner of President Zelensky talking about billions of years that were going to a fire point. Ukraine today is drumming in corruption. Corruption scandals about millions, tens of millions of dollars are sounding every day. And there are businesses that are created just for money laundering. Like for instance, call centers, businesses or gambling businesses where hundreds of millions of dollars can be money laundered monthly. So I don't know if Zelensky is banishing or he pretends not to know or he does not know what is worse than that, right? But I guess we will need to learn a lot about his bank accounts both small and I need to remind to Americans that almost every person near Zelensky is accused in corruption. For instance, his chief of staff, Andrew Yermak, former chief of staff is accused in 10 million of dollars money laundering. But this money he was building for luxury mentions in Kiev region. This mentions belong to three people who are very close to the Zelensky family and the last mention belongs to a person named Bova. Bova is the diminishing form of Vladimir. And in the country there is a big question who is Bova who was building a luxury mention in Kiev region and obviously for majority of the people, the answer is it's Volodymyr Zelensky's cottage. The other thing which is very disgusting what we've learned is that he was building those mentions before the war, then when the large scale invasion started he stopped and they restored building the house in March 2022. So while Ukrainians were just sitting under Russian missiles and dying and not knowing what to do next, losing their houses, losing their hope, running away, Zelensky and his friends started building luxury mentions in the Kiev region. For me personally, it's all the lot about a person. Well I mean it's it's beyond belief to do something like that during a war in which your entire nation is being destroyed suggests he doesn't care about the nation. Do you think that Zelensky does care about Ukraine and if he does why is he continuing this? I feel like he stands only for his own personal interests. Recently I was talking to one person who has known him for tens of years. He is very close and the guy said that he recognizes that Zelensky preserves himself sacrificing thousands of lives of Ukrainians. That's why the hatred towards Zelensky is so huge in the country. People don't accept what he is doing. They don't accept the escalation and that is why it's so important that the voices from Ukraine sound and the platforms like yours or like European Parliament. And so this is you know this is really our breaking that we have been that nobody hears Ukrainians want peace and this is the majority. Up to now the latest Gallup poll said that 66% of Ukrainians want peace as soon as possible. Every next piece deal for Ukraine is worse and worse because we lose more territories. It's more difficult to get more territories back and we lose more people and we're not going to you know return those people. Our economy is in enormously bad shape because European Union gives us loan after loan. We have our debt external debt already equal to 100 and 10% of GDP and here is another bad mess. Russia has not even borough for this war. So like how are we expected military victory from the country that doesn't have enough people that doesn't have economy that is losing democracy that is a cage and against you know Russia who has resources who still continues trade with the EU and who has so much more to win this war of attrition. Of course and you know we had we had a singer very famous singer in Ukraine just given the interview and she said that Ukraine looks for her like a concentration camp and so many people supported her she's got enormous support but after that she also got some call from political circles and she needed just to apologize and say that she did not mean that. So everything that is being said against policies in Ukraine or critical to Volodymyr Zelensky is announced to be a Russian propaganda. The same way is my speech was in the European Parliament and we're just banned to have this freedom of expression, freedom of speech, a criticised disagree, anything, and everything that Ukrainian good Ukrainian patriot can do is just die for his own country. That's what Zelensky suggests us to do. How do you think Zelensky thinks this will end? I don't think that he is thinking about ending this war because the same months he understood that elections are not possible. Mr. Jermak, who is still advising to Volodymyr Zelensky and meeting him at home, said that it's bad just to continue the war for the next two years because Zelensky and Jermak and his government are sure that they have got allocated age, military age for the next two years. It is a disastrous type of thinking because unfortunately they are very bad at math again because even in August and September there is this call that Ukraine lacks of 27 billion dollars for this year. So he wants to take the money from the next year, you know, and this is what he has done from the previous year. So Ukraine just doesn't produce any added value. Our metallurgy experts had been warmed out. Our agriculture is bombed out and severely restricted from the European Union quotas and many other, you know, for many other reasons. And these are metallurgy and agriculture where our two major experts use, so today which has done produce any added value, any innovation, any science, except of military drones. There is the huge militarization of society, radicalization of society, and what I see is not the Ukraine that I was proud of. It's just Ukraine that is degrading every day. So yeah, my point is that anything, you know, anything that can be done today to stop this war and to restore, you know, everything, politics, you know, elections, the country, demography, economy, democracy, it needs to be done today. And there is no better condition for the peace than now because the landscape promises you better conditions and but it will never happen. There is no better conditions for peace than now. My last question is if it's clear that Ukraine can't win because the numbers don't add up, as you said. And that's been obvious since the very first day. Why is Zelensky accelerating the attacks on Russian targets within Russia? Russian energy infrastructure, refineries, civilians? What is his thinking? Why would he do that? But this is how he gets money, right? He sends the fire point. Russia burns, he gets money for videos and photos of burning Russia. People are unprotected. 93% of our shelters cannot defend anyone. We don't have closed skies. The only thing that authorities today tell people on the frontline regions leave. They don't offer any kind of financial aid. They don't offer any shelter in any houses, nothing. What they offer is leave. Ukrainians are surviving by themselves. The money that Western people are sending, Western taxes. They don't help Ukrainians today. That's the point. What they help is to produce more weapons. Firepoint is the magic wand that Zelensky is advertising. But there are some other companies, you know? And so this is just business and this is the business on the blood. And this is also and disgusting. That's why I'm here, Taka. And thank you for giving me this platform. It's one of the worst the worst stories I've ever heard. And you are a brave woman for telling it. And you have the first hand knowledge. So I'm grateful. And I hope that many people see this. And I wish you safety. So thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Taka. Good luck to you too. Thank you.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The speaker was sanctioned by Ukraine’s government after a speech at the European Parliament, where they called for peace, citing severe censorship and political persecution of dissenting voices.
  2. Ukrainian authorities, including Zelensky’s government, have systematically banned or silenced social media accounts of peace advocates, disrupting public discourse and democratic expression.
  3. The war has caused catastrophic demographic and humanitarian losses, with over 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians dying monthly, and a shrinking population that threatens long-term national survival.
  4. Deep corruption exists in Ukraine’s military mobilization system, with bribery, torture, and forced conscription, while elite figures like Zelensky and his associates are accused of enriching personally during the war.
  5. The speaker argues that Zelensky’s policies are not driven by national interest but by personal power, fame, and financial gain, and that the war is a suicidal policy with no path to peace or recovery.
  6. Western media and political leaders are criticized for promoting war rhetoric, misleading narratives, and weaponizing aid, while ignoring the suffering of Ukrainians and the reality of demographic collapse.
  7. The speaker highlights that 66% of Ukrainians want peace, and that democratic restoration, including free elections, is essential to save the nation from collapse.
  8. Peace is seen as the only viable path to preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty, economy, and identity, especially as current military strategy leads to irreversible human and national degradation.

Summary:

A Ukrainian speaker shares a deeply personal and urgent critique of the ongoing war in Ukraine, arguing that it is both morally and strategically unsustainable. After being sanctioned and banned from speaking at the European Parliament, they detail how Ukrainian authorities have systematically suppressed voices advocating peace, using censorship, political persecution, and financial bans to silence dissent. The speaker emphasizes that over 30,000 Ukrainians die monthly in the war, leading to a catastrophic demographic collapse—Ukraine’s population has declined significantly since independence, with current birth rates far below death rates.

They expose widespread corruption, including bribery in conscription, torture, and elite wealth accumulation, especially among Zelensky’s inner circle. The speaker points out that Zelensky’s government avoids free elections, maintains a war economy, and profits from war-related media and military spending, while ignoring the suffering of civilians. They argue that peace is not Russian propaganda but a necessary reality for Ukraine’s survival, and that Western support fuels escalation rather than resolution.

Despite overwhelming public support for peace—confirmed by Gallup polls—the political and media systems in both Ukraine and the West continue to justify military action. The speaker calls on international audiences to reject war rhetoric, recognize the humanitarian crisis, and support a peaceful, democratic future for Ukraine, warning that continued conflict will lead to national dissolution.

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The speaker was sanctioned by the Ukrainian government after speaking at the European Parliament about the necessity of peace. The sanctions include financial bans, restrictions on property ownership, and the banning of their social media accounts from Ukrainian audiences.

The speaker cites demographic collapse, with deaths far exceeding births, a shrinking workforce, and massive losses of population and territory. They argue that the war is a suicidal policy that will lead to Ukraine’s long-term collapse.

The speaker claims that peace advocates, including bloggers and social media users, are systematically banned from Ukrainian audiences by the Ministry of Culture, especially when they criticize Zelensky or call for peace.

The speaker argues that Zelensky is not acting in Ukraine’s national interest, but rather for personal gain, avoiding conscription himself while forcing men into the frontline, and using war to maintain power and wealth.

The speaker criticizes Western media for promoting war narratives without showing the full scale of Ukrainian suffering, often citing reports from individuals who have never visited Ukraine or Russia.

The speaker states that peace is necessary to save the Ukrainian nation from demographic collapse, economic ruin, and social degradation, and that there is overwhelming public support—66% of Ukrainians want peace as soon as possible.

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