Can Russia Deliver on Its Threats?

Watch Can Russia Deliver on Its Threats? - AlArabiya English on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Well, so far, Russia hasn't defeated Ukraine. Ukraine is still there. So, I mean, you can

00:07make threats, but in fact, is Russia really able to deliver on them?

00:14Look, today, it was a change of the bodies of the killed soldiers. Ukraine gave 30 bodies

00:24of Russian killed soldiers, and Russia gave 1,000 bodies of killed Ukrainian soldiers.

00:33During previous half of the year, the proportion was the same. One killed Russian soldiers,

00:41and on the exchange to the 35 or 40 bodies of the killed Ukrainian soldiers. So, it's a great tragedy

00:48for us. It's tragedy, because for us, every Ukrainian soldier is Russian. He is Russian people.

00:55They are Russian. So, for us, it's civil war. It's what Vladimir Putin many times told.

01:00And, but we have to go forward, because we regard that it's not war between Russia and Ukraine. It's

01:07war of the Western countries against Russia, who made Ukraine, Ukraine's neo-colonial regime,

01:16and they use their Ukrainians, these Ukrainians as slaves in their Western war against Russia. It's

01:23our understanding. And frankly speaking, most of the Ukrainians believe the same. Most of the Ukrainians

01:29will be happy to have peace as soon as possible, under any conditions.

01:35Under any conditions? You think that's not what we've heard from any Ukrainians that we've spoken to?

01:40Zelensky very much against this war, because... We haven't spoken to Zelensky.

01:47...any peace. Because if peace happens, it will be presidential election. Vladimir Zelensky, who is

01:57hated by most of the Ukrainian politicians, for sure will lose his power, and then he will be under big

02:03threat because of high corruption. And because all Ukrainians believe that exactly Zelensky killed

02:11half of the millions of Ukrainians. Because when he goes to the election, he promises peace. And he

02:17moved Ukraine to this tragic war. That's why Zelensky absolutely gains any peace under any conditions.

02:27President Zelensky didn't invade his own country. Russia invaded Ukraine, and that's how the war started.

02:32No, no, no, no. Western countries overthrown last democratic elected president in 2014, imposed

02:43new colonial repressive regime, and those repressive regimes started terror against

02:51Orthodox Church, terror against Russian identity, Russian culture, Russian language, terror against those

02:58countries. There are millions of Ukrainians who believe that Ukraine and Russia should be afraid.

03:03So, and Russia sent a troop to liberate Ukrainian people from terror of the neocolonial, repressive,

03:13russophobic neo-Nazi regime. It's how we understand this war. It's liberation war. It's not aggressive

03:20war from a Russian point of view. This aggression from Western countries who make a new colony from Ukraine.