Highlights
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2025-01-06 09:54 1991 when Ukraine declared its independence and the Soviet Union collapsed.
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2025-01-06 09:54 Russia Ukraine relations were defined in large part by whether Ukraine aligned more with Russia or with the west, meaning Europe, United States, NATO and so on.
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2025-01-06 09:55 In 2014 on the politics front, Yanukovych was ousted and fled to Russia, leading to the election of a pro West Western President. Also in 2014 on the war front, Russia annexed Crimea and war broke out in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, which eventually killed over 14,000 people and continued all the way to 2022 when on February 24, 2022, Russian forces initiated a full scale invasion of Ukraine. This is when the world started to really pay attention.
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2025-01-06 09:56 Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the presidency in 2019 and he discusses in this conversation the ceasefire agreements he made with Vladimir Putin in 2019, which was one of many attempts at peace from the two Minsk agreements in 2014 and 15 to a series of ceasefire agreements in 2018, 19 and 20, all of which failed in part or in whole.
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2025-01-07 16:22 Or maybe he was always like this, but his rhetoric was different at the beginning. Remember, he talked about the EU and even about Russia’s future being tied to NATO. There were even talks of joining the European Union. NATO. He spoke about shared values with the West. That’s how it all sounded back then. And we must also look at Hitler, who was seriously before the radical idea of taking over the whole world. He actually made certain steps and everyone believed he was helping the economy. And to be fair, he did take some steps in that direction. But he was a terrifying person. None of those actions justify him, nor do they excuse his actions. And that’s why we cannot look at the Second World War as if it started in 1939. It didn’t begin in 1941 either. We need to draw conclusions. When did it start?
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2025-01-06 10:31 Missiles were launched from my territory, and Putin was the one launching them. These are his words.
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2025-01-07 16:23 Let me describe the situation to you. In December 2019, in Normandy, in Paris, at the Elysee Palace, Macron, Merkel, Putin and I agreed on the ceasefire. The US wasn’t there, and this, by the way, was a weak point of the meeting. If you’d like, we can later discuss why they weren’t there. It’s a security guarantee thing, in general, it’s Germany’s position, etc. We agreed on an exchange of hostages, an all for all exchange. We made a deal to exchange everyone for everyone. I think you know that. And there was also a meeting that lasted many hours, a meeting where we made, we made a deal with him. Everyone was tired, it was just the two of us in the end. And I proposed a ceasefire, by the way. No one in Ukraine believed, few believed in the ceasefire. And he wanted troop withdrawal. I calculated that if there were a withdrawal of troops from the line of contact, the way Russians proposed, It would take 20 years. I proved it to him just in terms of time, square kilometers, namely the length of the line of contact or delimination line. And we agreed on what? I told him that it will not work out.
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2025-01-07 16:21 I was definitely well prepared. But he wasn’t. No, he was not deeply involved in the process. What border? Where is it?
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2025-01-07 16:21 How long will it take to disengage troops? And why wasn’t he involved? You want to know? Because he wasn’t going to do any of this. This is what confused me.
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2025-01-07 16:21 If you are not deeply involved in the issue, well, then you. It’s. It’s as if you don’t really need the result. That’s what I think. So what happened?
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2025-01-07 16:21 We agreed that there will be gas continuation, gas transit in 2019. We agreed with him this was a security for Europe. Merkel asked me for it and this was extremely important for Germany. We agreed with him. Secondly, we agreed that for him it was just money.