00:00What's your endgame?
00:02How deep is your army going to go, and for what effect?
00:05You said about the four regions that we consider ours.
00:09Well, on many occasions, I did mention that Russian and Ukrainian peoples are the same
00:17people, and in this sense, the entire Ukraine is ours.
00:21You said about the four regions that we consider ours.
00:25Well, on many occasions, I did mention that Russian and Ukrainian peoples are the same
00:32people, and in this sense, the entire Ukraine is ours.
00:44But look, we look at the realities on the ground, and obviously, there are people, there are
00:52many of such people in a neighboring country who seek sovereignty and independence, and
01:00I wish them all the best.
01:02I mean, we never, ever challenged their right, the right of the Ukrainian people to independence
01:10and sovereignty.
01:12Having said that, the grounds on which Ukraine became independent and sovereign were spelled
01:24out in the Declaration on Independence of 1991.
01:28And it stated very clearly that Ukraine is a non-nuclear, neutral state and not party of
01:36any blocs.
01:37I think it would be good to get back to those core values based on which Ukraine obtained its
01:42sovereignty and independence.
01:44Second, from the very beginning, when the conflict became really hot, we suggested to the Ukrainian
01:57leadership to seize all the conflicts.
02:01We suggested that we withdraw our troops from the territories, and they withdraw their troops
02:08from the territories where people are not ready to embrace the new regime and they want to live
02:16independently or become part of the Russian Federation.
02:19They said no.
02:21And again, those are not political decisions.
02:23And now the logic of combat comes into play.
02:26The military look at where they can better advance, where they can channel their troops to achieve
02:36the best outcomes with the lowest possible casualties.
02:41And this is how troops advance.
02:44You know, we have an old saying or story or rule, rather, whenever the boot of Russian soldier stands,
02:57it becomes ours.
03:01When we look at the national border, as I said, they encouraged into the Kursk region and they
03:06committed a lot of crimes there, including crimes against the civilian population.
03:12And we kicked them out with significant losses.
03:17And now we have to create security areas along the borders because they keep attacking from
03:23there.
03:24They use artillery, they use UAVs, security zone.
03:37In the Sumwe region, it's about 10 to 12 kilometers, in some places it's 8 to 10 kilometers.
03:46And then there's the city of Sumwe, the regional center.
03:50But we do not have this task of taking Sumwe, but I do not exclude this.
03:57I do not rule this out.
03:59Now, why?
04:01Why are we doing all this?
04:03Well, because they're creating threats for us.
04:05They keep shelling our border areas, our border regions.
04:09And this is an outcome of their ungrounded and ill thought.
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