A truce that will not lead to peace. What will happen in Ukraine after the peace agreements.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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"Peace isn't the absence of hostility and battle. Peace is the absence of Danger" Well said 👏👏👏
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@@parabellum1643 I dont think there will be any negotiations unless donald trump is elected in november, and that is not looking likely at moment. also with us elections coming, i dont think there will be any changes in policy until then. but if harris wins like its looking right now, the good news is jake sullivan will be out, so there is a chance for a change i policy with a harris administration.
the americans and european politicians and military are not stupid. they know if putin is rewarded in ukraine, then it just means a bigger war likely on european soil in 8-10 years.
after the us elections i believe they will tighten sanctions even more. there is already talks of blockading the baltic sea to russian oil tankers going to st petersburg. that wil cut off the rest of russian oil revenue.
the glimmer of hope is the russian economy is starting to crack with inflation rising, and they cant fix that unless they cut the biggest expense which is the war. what it tells us is sanctions did work in forcing putin to use up his reserve fund where he has to now print roubles to finance his war, which is driving up inflation in russia.
also the russian war economy doesnt help russia as putin is printing roubles to make a 3 million dollar tank or 1 million artillery shells that gets destroyed in ukraine and doesnt bring back any tax dollars to russian economy. it only raises inflation in russia. so the russian economy is on a death spiral.
@@parabellum1643 the good sign is putin and lavrov asking for negotiations. you dont do that if you think you are gonna win. it says the russian economy is in worse shape than anyone realizes. and i dont think ukraine will agree to a false peace that gives territory to russia. i believe they will continue fighting knowing the russian economy is headed off a cliff. so i believe the ukrainian victory will be tied to a russian economic callapse where they cant afford to finance the war. just like the ussr had to withdraw from afghanistan in 1989 because they were bankrupt, and because of hyperinflation, the ussr ceased to exist in 1992.
why is this, because the russian reserve fund is used up, and putin is printing roubles to finance his war now. and inflation is spiking in russia. food prices went up in russia 40 percent in september. the only way they can fix this inflation problem in russia is cutting the biggest expense and that is the war. and putin wont do that, so he likely take the russian economy off the cliff. why will putin do this? because his biological survival of himself and his family is tied to a victory in ukraine that the russian economy cannot afford.
@@parabellum1643it know peace agreement on the table and we know it will be no peace until the borders return back to 1991 so here in America it up to Ukraine and the ukrainians people if that want peace
That way it important for us to win did election in November 5 2024becsue if Trump get into president he try to get Ukraine to make peace with Russia and Putin
Peace negotiations with Russia means that Russia dictates all terms and the other side has to accept them. There aren't really any negotiations. This has been the case throughout history. I'm from Finland, and we have our own experiences with Russia. The only thing Russia respects is power.
After every war the winner dictates the peace. That is totally normal in the world history. Do you think the USA, UK, France or other countries would do it different? The winner takes it all.
@@TwoForTwentyFilmsYes, they will do it differently. In fact, they did. After WW2 the USSR occupied many countries, but the UK and the USA left their part of Europe free. A little history lesson for you.
@@skymaster4121 They divided Germany and there are still US Soldiers in Germany and Japan. And they are not there to protect their freedom. The soviet-russian soldiers left Germany after the End of the cold war.
@@skymaster4121 If you want to talk about history then lets talk about the fact that Russia liberated his people before the USA liberated the african slaves. Lets´s talk about the US war against Mexico and Spain, about the occupation of the Philippines through the USA after the philippinians liberated themselves from the spanish occupation but the USA denied the independence of the Philippines. Let´s talk about the british occupation of Afghanistan in the 19th century only to keep Russia out of Afghanistan. Let´s talk about the french war in Indochina, the british-chinese Opium war, because China was against the sell of british opium in China, which led to a british Hong Kong for 99 years. We can do this for hours. Fact is that war is always the worst thing for the people and there is no just war.
Twoforteenty I have a better idea. Let's talk about Putin's totalitarian dictatorship today, and the kleptocratic chapter of the Muscovy empire trying to expand the empire using raw military brutality. Today. In Ukraine. The problem with saying behaviors are bad when others did them automatically means you are saying they are bad when the Kremlin does them. Except the kremlin is more brutal, more barbaric, with absolutely no positive vision to offer the world. You notice troll farmworkers never talk about how great the lives of its serfs are. But you have a tough job. Putin removed the illusion his crime group is a civilized country. Which was nice of him.
She has more courage than all the cowards in the West that are looking for a quick excuse to get out.
As much as we hate war, we need to listen to those who know what is at stake.
I'm calling & emailing my Elected Presidential & Congressional Representatives (House & Senate & White House) to HELP UKRAINE & LET UKRAINE STRIKE BACK
You go girl!
That means that you want a war between the USA and Russia?
Russia is a nuclear super power you do realise that?
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Peace to Ukraine❤
Her statement is 100% correct.
Groomed by the government
Nope
@@chriscalderin6677 go watch some rus propaganda then to get brainwashed, kid.
nothing is ever 100%, there never existed such thing
@@StanFalconer-y6d that's your opinion asshole,,, )[
Good Bless the brave people of Ukraine. You will win and there will be a just peace.
Thank you!
U must be kidding...There will be never peace as long as USA decides otherwise.
@@xaviart4727we won't.
The truce will likely lead to the same results as the previous Minsk agreements: Ukraine will be preparing for another round of fighting.
these 10 minutes should be in every news outlet, compact, to the point en so so true, well done Valentina
Thank you for the nice review!
Also an occupation for the Ukrainians is not peace my grandparents told me many times in the Netherlands sharing their WWII history with us growing up.
This girl took one side politically. There's another one in Ukraine which you don't hear about because expressing such views publicly is dangerous at the moment. There's a significant portion of population that doesn't give a damn whether it's Russia or Ukraine governing over them, because there's really not that much difference (I am a UA citizen that lived in both countries). These are the ones that didn't flee from the occupied areas. Some portion of them is pro-Russian, an opposite political camp. So if you ask all these frontline people whether they would prefer to be de-occupied with 90% chance of their house being destroyed or stay under Russia you'd get a definite answer they would prefer peace. The war mongers in Ukraine are becoming a minority fast.
@@antonlevkovsky1667 Send them to Russia then. They can be Putin's property there not Ukraine.
@@antonlevkovsky1667 hmm polls show the opposite. but seems legit
@@Adonnus100 Polls are off for the same reason you don't hear about the opposite view publicly - people are simply afraid to express such views because there's massive witch hunt going on. Being in Ukraine in 2022 made me understand how the 30-ies in USSR must have felt.
@@antonlevkovsky1667 Imagine if the Ukrainian government had a program of resettling Ukrainians into Belgorod and decades later uses the significant Ukrainian population in Belgorod as justification for launching an invasion to protect Ukrainians that feel aggrieved whilst living in Russia. That's what Russia has done systematically for decades.
If you want to be ruled by Russia or are apathetic to sovereign borders, then move to BACK to Russia. Don't move to a different country then demand it to be annexed by your homeland...
“Peace is the absence of Moscow.” 💯💪🥰
Well, that's a two way street. Just remember not to complain when Moscow responds in kind.
@@alterego157 Except Moscow started this literally genocidal war of aggression. Find me a single war ever started by Ukraine. So your “both sides” nonsense is invalid, and you can remove yourself and self-fornicate.
Moscow has tried peace many times, but ukraine (USA) didnt.
@@xaviart4727 BS. Moscow can have peace whenever it wants by GOING HOME. R3T4RD.
@@xaviart4727 Putin's poodle chimes in once again
Your English is quite good! Thank you.
Hello Valentina, so the algorithm showed me your video today. I try to support Ukraine and the Ukrainian cause here in my EU-country. I also follow several pro-Ukrainian channels. Jake Broe does excellent work. Anyway - I think it is a good choice that you started doing videos in English.
I also think that your UA-cam channel has potential. The internet is sometimes very simple. A young Ukranian women - in the military - a serious and somber vibe. I don't think that I came across something like this.
I've subscribed, liked, and commented to help with the algorithm and also to encourage you to make more videos in English!
We need more Ukrainian voices. Thank you for your service - protecting the people of Ukraine but also we Europeans are grateful. (I apologize that there are many delusional, naive or just complecent people here as well.)
Усього найкращого та багато успіхів!
PEACE THROUGH POWER
A direct, clear and concise explanation of the dire situation and what needs to be done to drive the Muscovites back. God Bless Ukraine. Alex
Дякую Вам
Та немає за що)
Good video. NATO should have intervene in 2014 to secure Ukraine borders, our passivity was a strategic blindess
This is jist an opinion, but i wouldn't use the phrase "military industrial complex". Instead, I would just say "the military." The phrase military industrial complex is looked at negatively in the west, and for good reason.
Is it? Why? Never heard the term before.
@@FurchtbaresGaming MIC is the group of defense contractors that lobby the US congress to spend on new equipment. They make their profits hand over fist on conflicts around the world. Neocons in government want wars as their stocks gain value. Eisenhower warned the american people about it. During Iraq war, one contractor had the contract to supply everything for the military, food, water, logistics, billeting and manpower of contractors. Halliburton with subsidiary of KBR.
In the US the left has vilified this term, but it has a valid meaning: We could say “defense industrial base,” but it is not just military: Ukraine needs more money to fully utilize her own production capacity, and these Ukrainian made weapons have no restrictions on usage.
@@jpoeng Thank you...i still dont get it. Is it seen as bad, that Ukraine is producing their own weapons?
@@FurchtbaresGaming The term “military industrial complex” is used in the United States to refer to the cooperation between the corporations and the government but with the connotation that this is corrupt: They feel that wars are the result of this cooperation between government and industry. Most people who use this term in the US are on the political left and claim to hate “American imperialism” while ignoring Muscovite imperialism.
Peace must go together with justice!
Hahaha justice. What about justice for the people of Syria where 1/3 of their country is occupied by the US and its proxys. That is the oil and grain producing areas. ..what about justice for them...Einstein
The krembot is massively active on your little channel. Keep doing whatever it is you're doing, it's working.
Oh no, somebody disagrees with you on the interwebz. Quickly, hide in your safe space 😁
@@alterego157 🤣🤣🤣
Valentina is telling the truth. The thing that russia is afraid the most of is the truth. When kremlin detects the truth - they send their bots to counter it. They'll never understand it until it's too late - this is the end of the russian state. And we'll not cry about it. 😊
Unfortunately, the collision of such a strongly opposed national, historic and cultural narratives of the belligerent sides will keep on contributing to even harsher reality on the ground, without any stable solution in the long term, meaning this may easily become a deep-rooted, long-running and multi-generational conflict, just like the one seen at the Near East, between the Israelis and Palestinians. I feel sorry for all the innocent people who are suffering because of the Russo-Ukrainian War, no matter of their ethnic, racial or religious affiliation. War and destruction creates more and more chronic problems, especially in the landscape of the modern day global world. Please stay safe, and keep your life flowing as favorably as possible. Wishing you all the best of luck out there.
Thank you for the good wishes!
Our war is already a multigenerational conflict that has lasted much longer than the conflict in the Middle East. Here in the comments, I often write the same thing to people, because I see that many people do not know that the wars between our nations began almost a thousand years ago, one of the main episodes recorded in the chronicles was in 1169, and every century thereafter moscovian people attacked our lands. Today's war is just another war of the new century.
The only way to avoid this scenario: NATO membership for Ukraine.
Well, I don't think so. Joining NATO will require an end to the war, which means giving up our territories that are under occupation. I believe that Ukraine is capable of independently developing its defense power.
@@parabellum1643 unfortunately for you, the West is not what you think..... No, nothing will be EVER done in Ukraine without America's permission. They are your Masters and you better get used to it. That is your sad truth dear Valentina-- you fight only to change Masters and be slaves to the american Deep State (and their idiot lap dogs, the British).
You will see. Yes Ukraine has everything to develop industry, weapons, technology, yes, yes.
But you are not free anymore.
Ask about the F-16s you got. Ask people that REALLY know american fighter jets. Ask them if the Yankees released all their capabilities to you (of course they didn't, lol).
Your agricultural fields are already sold to western multinationals. Your minerals to big corporations. The war you fight now is Ukraine final grave Valentina.
Either you lose and you are slaves to the Russians, or you win and you are slaves to the Americans.
Nothing the West gives you is free. You are sold every moment you keep fighting.
And by the time the SMO is over.... no more Ukraine for Ukrainians.
(Your government hasn't declared war on anybody yet.... So it is a military operation, if we want to be true).
I am European all my life and with decades in the States.
Anyway, I apologize if I sound pessimistic.
Plus even if the war stops today (my opinion is that it will last at least a decade more), no Ukrainian will ever come back from abroad.
The thing most of your compatriots wanted was a way out. They are free to stay in our countries now (and Russia). So half your population will never ever return.
Even if you win Russia, Ukraine will be cut half population wise......
(Why always the future in Ukraine looks so dark??? Even before the war.....)
you cannot join nato with a frozen conflict. ukraine must keep fighting until the russian economy callapses which there is signs it is with inflation rising rapidly.
@@parabellum1643 after ukraine wins this war, ukraine will have to join nato. it is the only way to ensure russia never invades again under the nato umbrella.
it is why finland and sweden joined nato. its also why russia is saying ukraine cant join nato because they plan on invading again in 8-10 years if there is a false peace negotiated.
ukraine not being in nato will leave them vulnerable to another invasion, as no country will send troops into ukraine if russia invades again if they are not in nato. they will be in the same situation. it will take ukraine 10-20 years to rebuild and in that time they are vulnerable if they are not under the nato umbrella. if you look at russian history, they invade over and over again until they conquer the entire territory because they have a huge population. so to ensure no further invasions after the war, ukraine will have to join nato. its what russia does, it invades, takes a chunk of territory, and invades every 8-10 years after they rebuild their military.
@@parabellum1643 i am not saying ukraine is not capable of defending itself, but russia has more resources and a much larger population. if they build that new gas pipeline to china, then they wont have to worry about oil and gas revenue being cut off and will be able to finace a new war more easily. thats like 10 years away but that is the reality ukraine faces if they are not in nato.
I am American. I have been watching the situation with Ukraine since 2008, following Russia's invasion of Georgia. I noticed the disinformation Russia was employing to create divisions between Ukrainians, at the time in the east and especially Crimea. To me, that was foretelling enough then. However, most people outside of Ukraine are not aware of the history or tendencies of Russia. So for them, the standard solutions of a ceasefire and negotiations seems reasonable by default. In the case of Ukraine, we need to raise awareness of the ongoing killings of Ukrainians under occupation and that the only ceasefire Putin offered was where Russia takes large portions of Ukraine and Ukraine renders itself defenseless against Russia's next attack. The history of this behavior of Russia needs also be reminded in Transnistria, Georgia, the poisonings of Ukrainian politicians, 2014, and 2022. Thank for this video because it helps.
You're part of the problem Yank supporting Global Terrorism.
I think they are starting to figure it out..
Apparently no one told you that it was Georgia who wanted to invade and annex the South-Ossetian autonomous republic and they were the ones who declared war against Russia expecting NATO to back them up. When they didn't show up Georgia got more than Saakasvili had bargained for. Did Russia invade, occupy and annex Georgia even when they could have? No, bc that was never the intention. Somehow the Western media loves to say it was all about Russian aggression which simply isn't true.
That's what NATO does; incites these former Soviet countries to avenge the Communist past that they attribute to the modern day Russian Federation and then abandon them when they're no longer useful in the US long term policy.
The division inside UA didn't need to be invented and propagated by the RF because it was already there before and especially after the US led coup of 2014 and the ensuing hostilities by the Kiev regime.
When your not supporting Headchoppers you're supporting Jackboots, Yank!
@@anthonyraymond5718 Seldom in diplomacy is there ever a black and white choice of supporting the good guys over the bad guys. Usually, it's which is the lesser of the bad guys. So there will be those who seek to view the U.S. as having a history of supporting bad leaders. And, of course, you can always find evidence of this. However, it's a choice to look at it in simply anti-American terms rather than looking at each situation wholistically. Ukraine is a rare case in which the situation really is black and white where Putin simply has imperialistic ambitions and is willing to commit mass murder to accomplish it.
The west is slow in giving Ukraine what it needs which inevitably costs more lives.Ukraine should have the ability to use weapons where it sees fit.Personally I feel Ukraine is fighting a war to weaken and not defeat russia.There should never be a truce until russia is out of the eastern parts of Ukraine including Crimea.Ukraine is given NATO membership to stop the ex kgb tyrant from ever stepping on Ukrainian soil again.Slava Ukraini
Russia is a democratic state in which the norms of the Constitution apply. But the Zelensky-Poroshenko regime is unconstitutional. Zelenskyi, Poroshenko, the Parliament of False Ukraine were elected by circumventing the laws and the Constitution of Ukraine.
♠Zelenskyi, Poroshenko, the Parliament of False-Ukraine were elected by circumventing the laws and the Constitution of Ukraine.
♦Initiating presidential elections in 2014 and 2019, without ensuring the electoral process in Donetsk, Luhansk regions and Crimea, is a violation of the Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 69, 71, 92, paragraph 20, and the Law "On Presidential Elections of Ukraine".
♣Initiating elections to the Parliament of Ukraine in 2014, 2019, without ensuring the electoral process in Donetsk, Luhansk regions and Crimea, is a violation of the Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 69, 71, 92, paragraph 20, and the Law "On Elections of People's Deputies of Ukraine".
♠The statehood of Ukraine was destroyed by the coup d'état on February 22, 2014. On February 22, 2014, the chaotic deputies staged a coup d'état in Ukraine, they overthrew President Yanukovych, but they did it by circumventing the Constitution of Ukraine. The usurpers of power ignored Article 111 of the Constitution (impeachment), which would have allowed Ukraine to preserve its statehood and territorial integrity.
❤The new Constitution with new real borders is the only real peace plan for the new Ukraine.
@@volodymyrv5897 Your 1st comment is laughable,russia a democratic state,just ask anybody who disagrees or steps out of line with the dictator,they end up falling out of windows,spending time in labour camps and eventually dying,hence prezzie p has been holding the chains over his people for the last 22 years.Democracy is clearly a word you use flippantly.Calling Ukraine false considering it was tied up with prezzie p mind set of corruption is an insult to all Ukrainians who have longed and died for freedom throughout their history prior to the days of the ussr to prezzie p war today.russia has always treated Ukraine with contempt and Ukraine has always paid a price ie Holodomor,it's time russia left Ukraine alone.Slava Ukraini!
weapons will not make anything different on the ground Russia is bigger has more money ,,remember leopard hYMERS CHALENGER F16 and othewr west sshit game changer hahahah did to shitt Ukraine is loosing at the end who ever thnks other wise is delusional
@@volodymyrv5897 russia is far from a democratic state which makes the rest of your points....pointless!Slava Ukraini!
you people are in dream land
Facts were spoken
All the best to you and your country! Slava Ukraini!
Thank you for good wishes! Смерть ворогам!
I breaks my heart that this war is costing so many lives, so many beautiful people in Ukraine, like you. This war must stop NOW so you can live on!
To be the enemy of the USA is dangerous. To be friend of the USA is fatal.
Seems to me that the friends of the USA are doing quite well in the last 70 years.
Explain what part of reality, that you have missed, comrade.
@@TheGreatStKat That is a quote from Henry Kissinger.
@@TheGreatStKat Just ask Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and almost every European or Scandinavian country, as well as Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Brazil, Ecuador and many many numerous countries. And then ask any neighboring country to ruZZia how they like their neighbor of orcs.
@@enriquelaroche5370 being loud doesn't make you right, it makes you imperative
Chamberlain and Molotov signed peace agreements with Ribbentrop and we know were that went. Learn from history so you don’t repeat it.
And the UK and France promised Poland that they would attack Germany within 10 days after a german invasion. Poland believed in this and resisted against the Wehrmacht for 4 weeks. But UK and France both broke their promise. The Ukraine belives it will get all the promised military help but it wil soon learn it will be betrayed like Poland in WWII.
It went straight to west-Ukrainian nationalist joining Hitler and creating SS division. And siegheil today the same way they did back then. Along with book burning, delusional supremacist ideology and language and all other niceties.
Smh... you wouldn't know history if it hit you in the face.
Heroyam Slava, yourself included🙏🌻🙏
Awesome name of your channel, "si vis pacem, parabellum"
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Hi from Kharkiv, beauty
You god damn right
Thank you for the real insite. It's important that the world hear it from you that are fighting and living this daily hell. Instead of an edited media version. You are so strong keep up the great work and only the best for your country. warm hugs from u.s.a. to ukraine
Thank you so much for such kind words!
Katsapi have never honored any agreement. Why expect them to change more when putler's life depends on it?
Love from Holland, Slava Ukraine!
Love from Ukraine) Смерть ворогам!
Free Ukraine in it's entirety is the only option.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -M.L.K Jr.
The second is true for the western countries.
You've got great hair, everything will work out.
Do you really think that people from Crimea and Donbas really want to live in Ukraine?
Of course!
They have no right to decide whose territory it is. This is the territory of Ukraine.
Otherwise any people in any kitchen can vote for new fake country in their flat or house. It's nonsense.
They already do since Crimea and Donbas are part of Ukraine.
If they dont want to live in Ukraine, they can leave and go to Russia or another country
Spokeswoman for NATO.
@@moffig1 Well, they did go to Russia. And they took their land with them. I bet it wont belong before Hungarians, Romanians and other minorities in the western part of Ukraine also decide to leave the crazy house. Inevitable outcome of braindead nazi ideology.
Hello. I like your site, Para Bellum. Good name. It's so annoying, all the dithering. Fly safe pb.
I believe you. There is no option when fighting the devil Except to stand your ground. Bullies are of low character. Putin has NO character. Character comes from standing against evil. There is no choice. I am doing this to fight against evil. 🙏 Do the same with vigor knowing that heaven is the reward of a faithful Christian.
The Courageous are in my prayers. ❤
Thank you for good words 🙌🏻
Peace and freedom
Russians are the remnants Mordovian tribes. The Russian language is artificial, created 250 years ago by Lomonosov. Russians as a nation never existed. The territory of the so-called Russian Federation is Asia. Do not confuse Russia and Rus, Russian and Rus language, Muscovy and muscovites have nothing to do with Rus. Ukraine is the modern name of Rus, Glory to Ukraine new Rus, glory to the Cossack heroes of Ukraine!
Ukraine needs a lot of help, because we are facing an enemy that is much stronger and has many resources, if Ukraine falls, then this red Russian plague will go further to Europe.
lol - this chick looks 100% mordovian - hair color/facial features. Are you against mordovians? lol
Are you on drugs or mentally ill? You need medical help if you believe this Bullshit.
Ukraine means 'border lands' LOL
@@JFJ12 I suspect your reply will be deleted soon - all replies which are not pro-ukr get deleted :)
@@realitycheck10863 days and it wasn't deleted. This is WEST ruskibot!!!!
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй
"Peace is absence of danger", well said. Keep it up, and well said.
Слава Україні 💙💛
Thank you for support! 🫡
Well spoken! I wish Germany and the US had strong political leaders who support Ukraine's fight for peace and freedom full force. Unfortunately, Biden and Scholz are weak and hesitant.
@@solconcordia4315 I actually think it’s the other way around. Continued support for Ukraine (and for most western democracies) depends on the outcome of the US election.
Slava Ukraini!!
The U.S.A. election hinges upon the support for Ukraine. All other issues pale in comparison.
@@solconcordia4315 I guess you didn’t watch the recent debate, but you’re of course entitled to your opinion.
Jassm for peace.
A warm hug..thank you for protecting us. God bless
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Good luck
Thank you!
The truce will have to lead to peace ukraine cannot force inhabitants of the Donbas to remain part of Ukraine if they don’t want to.
Inhabitants of Donbas are fighting with me in the dugout for their land, for their Ukrainian land. If someone love russia, they could go there. The land is Ukrainian, and the Ukrainian ethnic group lived on it for many centuries.
@@parabellum1643 Ok, than how you explain that citizens of
Vuhledar refused to evacuate from the town and are waiting the Russian army to "liberate them" after 2,5 years of war?! How you explain that Mariupol is flourishing and rebuilding itself fast. People in Mariupol didn't evacuate to Ukraine, I saw hundreds of interviews from the people in the streets, they all rejoiced when Russians came.
How you explain that the same people of Donbass spoke Russian language and were voting exclusively for pro Russian parties before the war?! Ukraine banned all their parties, banned all their media, banned the use of Russian language. You are not a democracy like you want to portrait yourself to be. What you are saying has no sense. I am Serbian, and in my language Ukraine means "borderlands". If you have 5 cents of common sense then you ask yourself why would a country and a nation who claims to be more than 1500 years old called itself "borderlands"?! And a border between who?! Historically it is a Russian border with Poland, and maybe Austro-Hungary and Turkey. Ukraine is just a communist artificial nation. And in Yugoslavia we had the same communist BS: (North) Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro. All just geographical regions that never existed in history before as a state/nation. It is so sad that you haven't learned anything from the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The West is just using you, they don't give a f about you. And you will learn that the hard way...
u re wrong. F.E. : I AM from Donetsk region and I WANT ..ussians go home from my home 😉 checkmate
@@yudzin88 😑 якщо ти не тролиш, то ... який же ти т..пий... аж шкода тебе.... (сподіваюсь ти просто тролиш) А якшо не тролиш - то розберись у питанні, щоб не позоритися, бо я-то посміявся вдосталь з твого коментаря - але .... асе ж є деякі, які вважають це правдою 😁😣😖 і ти своєю маячнею підкріплюєш отих "непевних" і малознающих
@@yudzin88 Thank you! The same bullshit and tragedy from the wars in former Yugoslavia repeats in the Ukraine.
Please make more videos in English so we can share them here in the US. Ukraine will win!
Very nice to hear this and get such feedback! I will make a video sometime )
Who is even asking for peace negotiations? You had negotations in 2022 and you rejected because you thought you can defeat Russia on the battlefield. No point being mad now when it turned out its not so easy.
just so you know there is no difference in mentality to Bibi and his ilk.
Why do you post so infrequently! Your content is great. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🦾🇺🇦
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to make many videos. But hope to do a little more. Thanks for support!
Darn the krembot is still going at it, beautiful to see.
Post something every week or two. The UA-cam algorythm will pick up your videos more often....
True, within limits of course, about posting more often helping to get more favorable treatment from the UA-cam algorithm. They say that reaching 100 hours of content per month can really help, and as one gets closer to the 100 hour mark, the treatment from the algorithm tends to improve.
There appears to be some type of upper limit though that almost no one ever reaches, as far as how many hours of UA-cam content one can post in a month and still get favorable algorithm treatment. Just as a guess, the upper limit seems to be about 300 hours per month. That's about 70 hours per week of content.
They say that a certain UA-cam contract gamer girl, who otherwise might get into algorithm trouble for too many monthly hours of content, about 2 or 3 times a week goes 24 or more consecutive hours without posting any content. Professional gamer girls who broadcast on UA-cam seem to know all the UA-cam tricks, since more livestream gaming content means more money of course.
People kind of need two days a week off anyway, so for most people, the upper hours limit on getting good algorithm treatment is not a limiting factor. If ever the upper hours limit does become a problem, just going 48 or more consecutive hours with no content seems to solve the problem for the next 3 days or so. 48 consecutive hours counts as two days off. Alternatively, if ever you would otherwise have algorithm trouble from too many monthly hours, you can do, and probably should do, what that gamer girl does, and have a day off after 2 or 3 days of many hours of daily gaming or other UA-cam content. That gives you 2 or 3 days off in a week, (or in the case of following a pattern of 2 days of posting content followed by 1 day off, then 1 week out of 3 you would have a week with 3 days off, the 3 days off being Sunday and Wednesday and Saturday on such a week.)
Normally, I wouldn't go into such detail on something that a UA-cam channel owner would eventually after a few years pretty much learn from her own experience by posting often enough on UA-cam, but in this case, I make an exception. I believe that the channel owner in this case more than the typical channel owner especially deserves to be heard.
One other trick has to do with UA-cam's analytics that becomes available to a channel owner for any livestream of 60.0 minutes or longer. What a channel owner wants to see from those analytics of a livestream is a lot of non-subscribers showing up to listen to the livestream, rather than just the channel subscribers. If it's almost entirely channel subscribers listening, then you aren't getting good algorithm treatment, usually due to less than 100 monthly hours of content. If it's mostly non-subscribers listening to a livestream, that's probably a very good thing, because that means the UA-cam algorithm is sending you lots of potential new subscribers.
I wish the channel owner well in growing her channel rapidly this year in 2024. Perhaps in a few years she will in turn learn some new UA-cam tricks that she might someday convey to me.
@@wendydelisse9778 wow, that is the most exhaustive reply I have ever gotten, and intelligent to boot!
Americans can only think of $$$$$ 🙄
I’m sorry, I couldn’t watch. I am old and it hurts my heart too much. I hope your terrible troubles will be over soon.
Peace is the absence of Moscow! Amen
Peace is the absence of Zelensky and the Azov Battalion.
@@notyetsilenced9746peace is the absence of kacap evil in the world
Exactly the absence of all Russians @@jpoeng
Beautiful girl
there is nothing more powerful than the truth & the will to act upon it. My heart and mind are with you absolutely. This is the epitome of the human spirit: confronting slavery & the inhuman misuse of power
I'm sure if you had been on the frontline for 2 years you wouldn't be so motivated to continue fighting a futile war. Over half a million dead Ukrainians and counting
Where do you get these figures of half a million Ukrainians? This is the first . And secondly, if we don't fight, russia kills many more Ukrainians with repressions, famines and concentration camps, as the last century showed. Our war with Russia has been going on for almost a thousand years. Every century they attack us and we do not give up our lands and we are not going to give them up. If someone has no honor and dignity, and the mind is filled with fear, then they surrender their territories and stop fighting.
@@parabellum1643 the war has been going on for over 900 days. 500k is a conservative estimate when in recent months the daily death toll is over 1000 most days. Many experts following the war estimate the number to be considerably higher.
Ukraine is being pushed back on all active fronts. The Kursk incursion has completely stalled.
You are outgunned, outnumbered, unable to rotate efficiently, pulling random men off the street to fight, constant frantic 'reorganizing' of military and government officials.
HOW can Ukraine win this war?
You are blinded by your self destructive patriotism and grandiosity.
Novorossiya is gone, and you will lose more if you don't push for a negotiated ceasefire.
@@parabellum1643 and how is Ukraine going to survive the winter? Your energy production capacity has been completely crippled and will take years to fully restore. Reality is going to hit even harder than it is already
@@Ltasty you watch too much Russian paid trolls on youtube. Russia has captured about 15% of Ukraine. Even Putin knows he cant fight forever over 2.5 years now. Five Hundred Thousand dead, you are a brainwashed moron, last time i checked it was RUSSIA conscripting its own Russian slaves to fight in Ukraine because it had lost so many soldiers. Russia is capturing territory at a snails pace. Lots of young Ukrainians have fled those parts of Ukraine, so i guess Putin will steal all the mines and farm land for himself, almost all those ethnic Russian Ukrainians that Putin said he was going to save are gone to other parts of Ukraine and other parts of the world.
Ltasty - you are a fool who believes the b.s. from Krumblin and TASS.
38,000 russian soldiers were slaughtered in May 2024 alone. June/July another 70,000 died.
The wives, mothers and sisters of russia will know the truth. And the hospitals will be stuffed full of amputees.
It don't matter about liars like you because the truth is hard wired into russian history already.
0:13 and yet we haventa seen a single video of them protesting, fighting back or saying in any interview that they arent happy (there were many independent interviews too, dont just say "they are afraid"). Look at Mariopul, rebuilded and looks 10 times better than when it was a part of Ukraine. If you claim its your territory and your people why you burnt 50 people in Odessa 2014? Why bombed civilians of Donetsk and Donbass, there are so many videos on UA-cam to prove it. 2.may2014?
Peace is the absence of danger and the ability to to have good relations with your neighbor nations, etc.
Being forced to submit to someone's will and having territory taken is only oppression!
During Vietnam, the draft age was between 18 to 26. But in your draft age starts at 26 year old.
The fighting is being done by 30s , 40s , 50s and even 60s year old.
This proves you are not serious. If WW 3 , breakes out a lot of 18 to 26 year old , poor American boys would be drafted.
We believe that people should first give birth to children. And achieve something. But there is a large number of young people, who voluntarily go to war immediately after reaching adulthood
Wise lady.
Truce means NATO guards Ukrane that simple😂😊
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I doubt there is an easy solution for this war. The problem is that there is a "disputed area" in Ukraine that Russia wants to take over and the people living there probably don't really want to be part of Ukraine either. (that's going to make things pretty difficult)
Unless Ukraine can push back the Russians or Ukraine is willing to surrender a big chunk of land to Russia but otherwise this war could go on for years and years. (I know, it's not what anyone wants to hear but it might become reality)
This war has been going on for a thousand years, we are fighting for our lands and will not give them up. People who love russia could just go there. The land belongs to the Ukrainian people, and if necessary, we will fight for another thousand years
Slava Ukraine , thank you for your information
Thank you for support!
3:43 as a proxy nation you received far more weapons in just 2 years than any other country in the world. And yet dont know how to used them, first Leopard destroyed the first week it arrived, first Abrams the same, first F16 had its 10 days staying in the base before it got smacked lmao
should of taken the Minsk Agreement, pure propaganda. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
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war, does not decide whos right or whos wrong........only whos left.
Please continue posting on UA-cam your voice is needed here. I agree with your statements about the false peace. There can be no agreements that can be trusted by them. Thank you for what you do both here and there in your country. I look forward to your updates. All my love to you and all of the Ukrainian people.
Thank you very much for your support and feedback! Peace to you and your country 🙌🏻
Great to see your channel on my feed, subscribed! I think you are 100% correct with what you are saying.
Best regards from New Zealand
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Вала are you still in Ukraine? My wife is from Dnipro.
Ukraine should not capitulate under any circumstances. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
I feel the resolve, and also a little despair coming from you, and I admire the first while understanding the second. It is the worst place for a country to be: reliant upon one country for the means to fight off aggression from the other. To me, it seems that in the case of my own country, there has been and still is very much anger at Putin for this incursion but the real or manufactured civil unrest and murders and riots have paralysed the new government, and along with the fighting between Hamas and the IDF, especially given the violent demonstrations supporting Hamas, a veil of other world events is being cast before our eyes making it more difficult to focus on Ukraine. That this has all blown up together shows that these events are in some way linked. I think Putin has been paying people to create diversions to keep us from looking too far east, and it's been working. You can rest assured that the western militaries and establishment are aware of your plight. Polititions are the problem here. They can't agree on simple definitions and think their job is to stay in power. The US always looks at the bottom line - what do I have to gain here? We Brits are so busy fighting among ourselves now we don't dare look away. Keep doing what you do, it works. I hope you and your compatriots will be successful and the people of the west see what is happening in time. You will win.
Realistically the Russians will never give up the territory they captured. Ukraine can never win this war, they should make terms with Russia now. This war should have never been allowed to continue since day 1.
That said please recall that the Ukraine army did commit atrocities against Russian peoples of the Donbas since 2014, so they also have blood on their hands.
Those people were Ukrainian citizens FFS. Poke the bear, live with the consequences or not.
Which atrocities in Donbas? Please elaborate. I lived there during that period, so I am curious.
@@tweeker216 enough atrocities that the militias from Luhansk and Donestk fought against the Ukraine army since then. I also don't even have to look that far back any more as Ukraine still shells Donestk itself and surrounding towns as recent as this year.
@@1247.ccccccformer Ukraine citizens of Russian ethnicity. Guess why they all voted to become part of the Russian Federation last year?
@@thathandsomedevil0828 lol, you have no answer. We were perfectly safe in Mariupol.
No one knows what will happen in the future. Peace is preserved as long as both side realizes there's nothing to gain by provoking or starting a conflict will only hurt themselves. This implies that both sides is about equal in it's capability and maintains the balance.
If you know Ukraine Russia history you will know what will happen
There is no “both sides” here. Muscovy wants destruction of Ukrainian identity, while Ukrainians want to *exist.*
Don't need a crystal ball, just need to look at the last 25 years under Putin. If there is any peace and ceasefire Valentina is 100% correct. Russia will use the lull to rearm and reorganise and then will launch another invasion.
May those who serve Christ have victory . It is the worlds only hope . Lord have mercy on us .
Greetings to the my dear former sister from Republika Srpska !!! Listening to Your sad story of Ukrainians living under occupation and it is necessary for you to acquire new weapons, (of course, by selling the land/chernozem to Black Rock and other investment funds - your "benefactors" for whom you will be cheap labor as soon as the war ends) fight and liberate them , the words of one of the greatest American philosophers from the end of the 20th century came to mind : Mr. Charles Barkley fought on the court with his greatest rival under the hoops - Shaquille o Neal, threw him to the floor and told him : "Why do you get into trouble when you're weaker?!"... Of course, that was hilarious because Shaq is one of the strongest basketball players ever :). Well, those words also apply to you : Why do you get into trouble when you're weaker ?!... But tell us, my dear ortodoq sis, what is the situation with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in your country these days?
I am pagan ;) not interested in christianity
@@parabellum1643 She is pagan :). Gothic or old Slavic tradition or both :) ?! I guess - both :)... I'm not a Christian either, I know the Old Testament and mythology too well to be :). Nevertheless, Orthodoxy was more than a religion for us, the only glue that kept us together during the centuries of struggle for bare survival in the Balkans. Serbs of other religions are no longer Serbs. for example, Bosniaks emerged from the Muslim Serbs about 30 years ago, and the Catholic Serbs were gradually absorbed into the Croatian national identity from the second half of the 19th century (and soon become our biggest enemies)... That is the tragedy of the Slavic tribe. We move very quickly to extremes/opposites, which our enemies have used to great advantage. Especially your new Anglo-Saxon friends :)... Anyway, I wish you the best young lady. I wouldn't have written you a comment for the first time if you hadn't mentioned the fight... Aside from whether the fight is justified or not - it's about the right moment. If you are weaker, you keep quiet and train. If you are stronger, then you fight. Even the old, bald Chinese Tsun Tzu knew and said that :). But Ukrainians know better than bald Chinese... Best regards !
Everything is up to Ukraine,the UK and US will back U up.
Thank you for support! It's important to us!
Everyone needs to write to their political representatives!
Not just for long-range permissions, but to invest in ukraine's domestic production of military equipment.
The recent releases from ukraine are frankly genius! as the MI6 and FBI article in financial times said, innovation, flexibility etc are the keys to this war (and future wars). USA, NATO, allies we are great at building expensive highfalutin stuff, but 1 ukraine needs autonomy with its own weapons. The guy with a top-knot who just became one of zelensky's advisors is urging for investment as that is the biggest thing holding ukraine back from expanding its production
SLAVA UKRAINI GIEROYAM SLAVA FROM POLANBD :-))
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Yes, and when Ukraine occupies other ethnicities' (Polish, Hungarian, Romanian) historical provinces that is supposed to be perfectly "normal". The tone-deaf and self-righteous arrogance of Ukraine is astonishing - but I suppose that's precisely why Russia is giving them a beating.
I see you did very badly with history at school. Before talking about the historical events of other countries, first study all the chronicles and the material perfectly, and then write something, or do not write nonsense at all.
@@parabellum1643 when you have no arguments, you resort to ad hominem attacks
Ukraine doesn't occupy any other country's territory and doesn't have any claim on any other country's territory neither. It's Russia that occupies and steals other countries land, and absolutely not Ukraine.
If the invader is seeking peace, it is because he knows he cannot hold what he has taken.
I had a dream. In that dream, there was no Moscow.
I had a vision of the future, in that reality there's no Washington
@@PrizrakVolkov-q9v Do you have your kids at university in Washington? They do...
@@maverick5863 yeah funny isn't it, the upper echelon of Russian society claim to be anti-west yet they all holiday in the west, a lot had holiday homes in the west, they sent their kids to be educated in the west, etc. The ordinary Russians that are anti west have been conned.
i did not have a dream that you have no brain... you really have no brain
And then you woke up and you saw Arabs walking in your street. LOL
Hi my name is Jimmy, I'm from America. Slava Ukraina!!! Ukraine is not dead!!! ❤🇺🇦
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Let Ukraine decide its own destiny. ! Never give up.
whos "our land" are you talking about ? yours personally ? odessa is 100% russian city the whole coast is russian actually
Bullshit. The internationally recognized country of Ukraine, nothing else. No other country has the right to steal another country's land, that's madness and what Hitler did.
No its not. 19% are Ukrainians and 22% are Tartars, 300k Tartars were remove by force in the past and many Ukrainians left. If everyone went back, it would be 50-50.
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Just get rid of putin, and it will lead to life without putin.
You are totally right, what Russia does is totally unfair because they promised to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine after Ukraine renounced to its nuclear weapons.
everything is always so black and white?
Maybe if the Kiev regime hadn't killed eastern Ukrainians(or Russian speaking Ukrainians) Russia wouldn't have invaded at all. People still believe in fairy tales. This conflict is between the USA and Russia and the USA wants the resources in Ukraine hence why they are funding the war. Why do you think they are spending so much money on this whole thing?
Yes, I can imagine that if the war stops, and its allies stop sending weapons and other aid to Ukraine, Russia will again be much more powerful, in comparison, to attempt to take what they want.
Thanks! It's just sad that exactly the people who should see this wont.
Seeing how my fellow countrymen voted in the last election here in Germany is sad and infuriating. Maybe we should do a letter campaign to personally address those who voted BSW or AFD to try and get them out of the echo chamber that tells them that stopping support for Ukraine saves lives.
In any case - Wish you all the best ✌
You do know that the US military bases in Germany would be the first nuclear targets in the coming war war with Russia? Did you learn anything from history? You want to fight against Russia again for the third time? And you seem to have a problem with democratic elections and other opinions. If you want to fight and die for the Ukraine, go ahead and volounteer for it. But the majority of the german people does not want a WWII with Russia. This is not our war.
The amount of weapons Ukraine got so far is rather impressive, this is more than $150 billion in military weapons and close to $400 billion in total aid. How is it possible that this could not be enough to liberate the whole Ukraine so far? A small country of Croatia with less than 4 million citizen had liberated it's territory along a thousand kilometer frontline from a much more cunning adversary in 1995. With no foreign aid, with its own resources and weapons aquired on the black market.
What do you think is the problem of Ukraine and this liberation plan, besides poor chain of command and lack of ammo? I have seen so many videos of Ukrainian soldiers firing like there's no tomorrow, just spraying ammo around. Be it rifle ammo, cannon/howitzer rounds or missiles, there were so many videos when soldiers just fire without aiming or hit assesment. I will skip videos which show Ukrainian soldiers not trying to establish identification whether the target they are shooting at is friend or foe.
Don't you think it is time to review the sending of ammo and weapons to Ukraine? Forgive me for being slightyl critical about the waste of ammo and weapons, but what else would you need as a UAV pilot if all the aid so far has led to almost no results?
Different information is available for different tranches. According to one of them, it seems to the last, the following allocation:
23.2 billion will be used to replenish the American stockpile of weapons, 11.3 billion - for current US military operations in the region, and 13.8 billion - for the purchase of the latest weapons systems, goods and defense services. 7.85 billion dollars can be allocated for the budget of Ukraine.
Also on others- part is already in purchased weapons, part is in financing the energy sector, part goes to repair energy infrastructure damaged during the war, part goes to humanitarian aid, part goes to humanitarian demining.
It’s about money.
These are absolutely incomparable wars, what happened in Croatia is perhaps 0.0001% of what is happening in Ukraine. We are fighting one of the largest and quite strong armies in the world. I don't know how much you
you generally understand what a big full-scale war is and what it looks like. and what costs it requires. and I don't know if you can imagine the number of shells that Russia fires at our positions every day. only after being personally under such shelling comes the understanding of how much ammunition is needed to conduct combat operations on an equal footing. we never had enough. What about the infantry, how they fight and why it is so, can be understood only after fighting in the infantry. Sniper fire where every cartridge counts and fighting, repulsing assaults are completely different things.
@@parabellum1643 The highest number of Russian shells and missiles per day fired in Ukraine was 60k/day along the thousand kilometers frontline. Today they are down to 10k and you are down to 2k/day. Croatia was hit much harder than what you experienced from the Russians, the city of Vukovar was receiving 12k hits per day at its peak. Was any city in Ukraine hit that much so far? Bahmut was around 8k/day tops if my memory serves me well. Hopefully, you will never have a 12k/day hits experience in your life. Let's just say I know the difference between a 2k/day and 12k/day count.
This same little country named Croatia donated to Ukraine more than half a billion worth of weapons officialy, and double that unofficially. You got 14 Mi-8 helicopters, a lot of howitzers and field guns, millions of ammo, shells and missiles. In 1995 the Croatian frontline was around 1000 kilometers long and there were more than half a million Croatian men and women who fought a close to equal number of Serbian agressors. So this is very similar to what you got, there are around 350k Russian and 400k Ukrainian fighters on each side.
The difference is that Ukraine received a lot of military aid, Croatia had none. On the other hand, the Croatian Army had a pretty good chain of command which Ukraine seems to lack horribly. Your soldiers are admireable, squad and platoon level seems ok, but the commanding staff above (soviet battalion level and above) is simply terrible. Charles Maurice de Taleyrand said that he is more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than of a hundred lions led by sheep. Your problem might be related more to sheep than to ammo.
If you are looking to fund combat operations on an equal footing with the Russians, you risk of losing a lot of manpower. What you seem to lack is infantry combat and commanding skills, and a different perspective about strategy and tactics. The Russians are adapting to your way of fighting, they use small squad groups now so that they could trace your incoming rounds. It makes no sense to send a tank to blast a house with 20 rounds into which the Russians went in without checking wheter they left this house through the back door.
You will have to figure this out yourself, and fight this war for your freedom on your own. It might be wise to ditch some false asumptions like minimizing what Croatia experienced during the war. During the war in Croatia there were a bit less than 2 million mines which is close to what you got today in the whole Ukraine. In other words, you can fight and win this war but you got to make some changes in your planning and performance. You need to form strike brigades with a joint chain of command, with combat experienced high ranking decision makers.
This channel says you are Valentina, a UAV pilot. I guess the channel is managed by a team of young guys (and girls like yourself in this video) who have experience with UAVs. What kind of drones do you use on a daily basis? Where do you get the materials and stuff, how do you use them? Maybe You could make a video about that and then ask your locals for funding. You never know, maybe even someone from abroad might drop a dime or two for the materials you need.
@@DeksZagreb Have you seen our cities at all? Dozens of Ukrainian cities were completely wiped out, in some of them 99% of buildings were completely destroyed. Bakhmut, Rubizhne, Soledar, Yakovlivka, Popasna, Vovchansk, Mariupol, Moschun, Izyum, Kup'yansk, Volnovakha, Vugledar, Liman, Severodonetsk, these are just a few that I mentioned.
And since the start of the full-scale war, Russia has fired about 10,000 missiles at Ukraine. And that's not including artillery fire, it's just rocket fire.
Also as far as I know there were several armistices during the war in Croatia and no fighting every day for several years.
And from open sources, I read that there were from 70,000 to 200,000 soldiers on the Croatian side before 1995, and from 90,000 to 200,000 Serbs.
I also read from open sources that between 2,900 and 3,600 people died in the battle for Vukovar. And civilians were killed from 1000 to 1500 .
At the time when only in the battle for Mariupol losses among the civilian population amount to
20-22 thousand (identified), de facto ≈ 100 thousand dead civilians.
And the shelling of Mariupol and Azovstal, in particular, is difficult to compare with anything at all.
And in parallel, at the same time huge battles continued for Irpin, Bucha, and a number of other large cities.
This is not a competition about which war was worse. All wars are hard. Just there are incomparable things, in terms of their volumes, and intensity .
@@DeksZagreb This channel is managed only by me and no one else. Absolutely everything that I post here I do from beginning to end by myself and I will not let anyone into my UA-cam projects.
I was engaged in the material and technical support of the armed forces of my country before the full-scale invasion, after I became a drone pilot, I stopped doing it actively, and I am not going to return to it. Let other people do it, I have enough to do.
Does anyone really believe in de-occupation? If citizens so want de-occupation, then why do they have to be forcibly sent to the front?
Exactly. They can't find soldiers to fight because the majority don't want to fight. But these UA-camrs keep running their mouths about patriotism. Why don't they go to the front lines to fight?