Kate from Kharkiv
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BROWDER: One of big misconceptions among lawmakers and government officials in the West is that somehow Russian oligarchs are going to rise up and tell Putin what to do. I can tell you with 100% certainty that they're never going to rise up, never going to tell Putin what to do.
Kate from Kharkiv182,749 просмотров • 16 часов назад
Boris Johnson: You can't say Putin is going to escalate. I mean, how much more escalation can he do? He's bombing apartment blocks. He's in desperate hole. Escalation isn't the problem. We need to flip the switch in his mind and convince him that geostrategically it's game over.
Kate from Kharkiv172,709 просмотров • 17 часов назад
US Army Secretary Driscoll: 10-12 weeks ago I was in Germany on training with Ukrainians and I asked them, "Do you all have trouble syncing your sensors?" The look that they gave me was like 13-year-old looking at their 85-year-old great-grandparent who can't zoom in on a phone. And basically Ukrainians were like, "No sir, as long as it moves data through a wire and can access the network, we can hook anything." We often invite Ukrainians to be our 'red team' or our enemy in training because they're really talented and we learn a lot from them. So, what happened is, the day before, I was in one of the other Eastern European countries talking to President and Minister of defense. They had just gotten this new counter-drone technology and interceptor, but one thing wasn’t working. They were talking about how difficult it was for them to sync this new interceptor with their radars, sensors and command-and-control system.
Kate from Kharkiv451,749 просмотров • 2 дней назад
TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow? ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous. TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.
Kate from Kharkiv2,620,778 просмотров • 12 дней назад
Boris Johnson: One way to end the war is for Washington, London, Paris and other Western capitals to declare that Ukraine should join NATO. You don’t hear that now. Putin will respond to that by doing a deal because at the moment, he has no reason to think that we're serious. And he will keep wanting to push Ukraine, to carve Ukraine up, until he hears that it's game over, and that there's long-term strategic objective by the West to have Ukraine as part of the Alliance.
Kate from Kharkiv84,476 просмотров • 18 часов назад
John Foreman: Putin can't leave power now. He’s prisoner of system he’s created. He’s going to die in harness. Putin gets older, more stale, more detached from man he used to be, more surrounded by aging sycophants, drives Russia further into the ground, with no succession plan.
Kate from Kharkiv170,156 просмотров • 1 день назад
APPLEBAUM: Ukrainians don’t need D-Day style landing in Crimea. They want to make peninsula unviable, unlivable and unattractive in order to persuade Russians to go home, undermine Putin’s idea that Crimea is a permanent part of Russia. It’s a kind of politico-military invasion.
Kate from Kharkiv169,125 просмотров • 1 день назад
SEN. SHAHEEN: Russian economy is on the brink, and casualties unbelievable from American perspective. In less than 3 months, Russia is losing as many people on battlefield as we lost throughout Vietnam. Now is the time for us to take action, and get Russia sanctions bill passed.
Kate from Kharkiv72,616 просмотров • 16 часов назад
CIA Director, Ratcliffe: "Right now, Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine. When I came in as CIA Director 18 months ago, Russia occupied 19% of Ukraine. So, pace of their advance has stopped, because Ukraine’s mastery of drone warfare and asymmetric warfare is such a great equalizer."
Kate from Kharkiv319,453 просмотров • 3 дней назад
🇬🇧 PM Andy Burnham: There is no change. I will be 100% with Ukraine, as Keir Starmer has been. I’ve worked with Ukrainian mayors, built a network of support. President Zelenskyy will be left in no doubt that Britain’s support is steadfast, resolute and will be there for Ukraine.
Kate from Kharkiv50,062 просмотров • 10 часов назад
BROWDER: If we'd been tougher on Putin after he went in and took Crimea, if we'd imposed devastating sanctions, he might not have done full-scale invasion. He thought he could get away with it. He thought we were all so weak and cowardly that he could roll in there. He thought Ukrainians wouldn't put up a fight, we wouldn't help Ukrainians, and that would be the end of the story. Sanctions serve two purposes. They can either serve as a deterrent, or they can be used as a punishment. The problem is that we didn't use them as a deterrent, and so now we have to use them as a punishment. But when you punish people, you've got to punish them a hundred times harder than you have to deter them. And so, it's kind of too late. Too late in the sense that there are hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians who didn't have to be dead if we had been more robust, if we hadn't been concierges to Russian oligarchs.
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APPLEBAUM: There are certainly people around Putin who've already come to conclusion that war can't be won, that main goals can't be achieved. Namely, the goal of making Ukraine part of Russia, that's never going to happen, it's impossible. There must be people around Putin who are already saying, "If that's never going to be achieved, then why are we still fighting?" That's the same logic that drove the French out of Algeria and eventually drove the British out of India. It's the realization that this is a different country, we aren't going to win the war there. That we're just throwing people and treasure against a national force that isn't going to give up. The question is: at what point does Putin understand that the war is not winnable, and is it going to be him who understands it, or will it be whoever follows him? Which is often the pattern, by the way, in colonial wars: the person who ends them isn't the person who started them.
Kate from Kharkiv49,448 просмотров • 13 часов назад
PETRAEUS: Ukrainians have stopped Russians cold on the front lines. The areas are just blanketed with drones. Ukraine has better drones, better operators, and more of them, which is astonishing given that Ukraine is 1/5th size of Russia, and 1/10th or 1/15th size of its economy.
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![Boris Johnson: I want to hear [from Andy Burnham] that UK government will stick with Ukraine and will be even more resolute in support. Ukrainians scoring fantastic successes against Russians, killing more Russians than Putin can recruit. I've got no doubt they are going to win.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2079225833785380890/amplify_video_thumb/2079224312968458241/img/oNZy5i7titZYVXae.jpg)
Boris Johnson: I want to hear [from Andy Burnham] that UK government will stick with Ukraine and will be even more resolute in support. Ukrainians scoring fantastic successes against Russians, killing more Russians than Putin can recruit. I've got no doubt they are going to win.
Kate from Kharkiv46,081 просмотров • 18 часов назад
HODGES: When families in Moscow or St. Petersburg start seeing their little Ivan sent off to an army after mass mobilization, on top of gas shortages throughout Russia, on top of seeing smoke from burning refineries, then Russians will know that war has come to their front door.
Kate from Kharkiv123,119 просмотров • 2 дней назад
Boris Johnson: We should do other things to support Ukraine. We could do much more with shadow fleet. We don't do enough of that in the English Channel. There's about 15 billion dollars' worth of Putin's assets just in London alone. We could unfreeze that and give it to Ukraine.
Kate from Kharkiv39,814 просмотров • 18 часов назад
Boris Johnson: Ukraine is fundamentally different from Russia. In Ukraine, people genuinely don’t know the outcome of elections. In Russia, they know Putin is going to win. In Ukraine, they don’t shoot journalists, send opponents to Gulags, or poison them. In Russia, they do. They jail thousands of people. That’s why it’s so important for us to make the point to Putin about where Ukraine is going. It’s about direction, and we’re making a mistake by not saying it.
Kate from Kharkiv36,327 просмотров • 17 часов назад
BROWDER: Putin avoided mass mobilization because he understands the moment he does that people going to be very angry. This is Putin's worst nightmare. He could never have imagined situation getting so bad. Russians weren't angry when it was called 'special military operation', and when poor people from the regions were the ones getting killed on the frontline. But, they'll be very angry if young men are being mass mobilized. When they do that, they'll have to close the borders so people can't leave, which will make people even angrier. They've already cut off the internet and cut off Telegram inside Russia because they're afraid of people organizing against government. Putin thought that with Trump in White House, Trump effectively partnering with him in his efforts to get Ukraine to surrender, his situation would improve. But it turns out it hasn't. Trump can't solve this problem for him. And Putin is really being left hanging out to dry.
Kate from Kharkiv162,712 просмотров • 3 дней назад
KELLOGG: World has changed. In the future, Ukraine is going to be Sparta of Europe with battle-hardened army of 800,000. They’re very good at what they do, very proud of their nation. Putin thinks he can bomb them into submission. He doesn’t see Ukrainians like I do. He's wrong.
Kate from Kharkiv334,149 просмотров • 7 дней назад
Richard Gere: To have any kind of legitimacy, you have to rewrite history. Putin clearly is doing that, saying "There never was a Ukraine, there never was a Ukrainian language, there never was a Ukrainian culture. It's completely made up." Well, it's false. Exactly what Chinese have done with Tibet, they said, "There never was a Tibet, there never was a Tibetan language, there never was a Tibetan culture." I mean, you have to destroy history to create legitimacy.
Kate from Kharkiv432,872 просмотров • 9 дней назад