Leonid Ragozin
@leonidragozin • 73,506 subscribers
Nationality: journalist. Freelancer, made in the BBC. Reporting what you need to know, not what you want to hear. Also, Lonely Planet guides.
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The new head of Ukraine’s National Memory Institute, Oleksandr Alfiorov, says Putin can’t be compared with Hitler because Hitler - he believes - was highly educated and influenced by German philosophy and art (fact check: Hitler didn’t have a university degree). He also adds that Russians can’t be compared to Germans (of the Holocaust period), because Germans are highly cultured and Russians are worse than Orcs and more like goblins. Alfiorov is an alumni of the original Azov and of the 3rd detached assault brigade which is controlled by Azov movement’s political leadership. The first neo-nazi in charge of a government institution in Europe, perhaps. Via Politika Strany
Leonid Ragozin230,017 views • 1 year ago
Police was called to a night club in Odessa and Zelensky-appointed military administration made a condemning statement after a Russian-language song was aired at a night club - and the audience sang it together rather enthusiastically, as you can see in the video. Making Russian a protest language for the Ukrainian youth will be an amazing achievement of ethnonationalist nation builders. Meanwhile, language ombudsman complains that children, including her own, use Russian language more and more.
Leonid Ragozin93,236 views • 9 months ago
Ukraine’s “completely de-politicised” 3rd Army Corps aka Azov movement stages a torchlit ceremony dedicated to its own military school, named after OUN leader Yevhen Konovalets. Starring the political leader of Azov movement who doubles as 3rd Corps commander, Andriy Biletsky.
Leonid Ragozin37,412 views • 3 months ago
Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy says that the impact of Oreshnik missile strike on critical infrastructure was horrible, but it would have been on a totally different scale had it been carrying a warhead. He also says the hypersonic missile didn’t show up on any radars and that Ukraine has nothing to counter this kind of weapon. Via Strana
Leonid Ragozin62,976 views • 6 months ago
Putin tells journalists - in passing - that he thinks the conflict is coming to an end. He also claims the West wanted to destroy Russian statehood a few months into the conflict. That must be his answer to “Kyiv in three days” meme. Both sides in this war grossly distort and exaggerate the other side’s intentions so as to claim they’ve averted something terrible through insane escalation.
Leonid Ragozin25,321 views • 2 months ago
Canada-based grandson of Stepan Bandera says - with heavy English accent - that Ukraine needs another Bucha for everyone to switch to Ukrainian. This has always been the gist of OUN’s strategy - provoking reprisals against innocent civilians in order to swell their ranks. Via Strana.
Leonid Ragozin43,846 views • 7 months ago
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A call for peace that’s more indicative than most political statements by senior leaders. Azov Movement leader and 3rd detached assault commander Andriy Biletsky says that ceasefire “on any conditions” effective on Jan 20 (Trump’s inauguration day) or later would not be a catastrophe, instead Ukraine could embark on modernisation and avoid sliding into anarchy. The far right are major beneficiaries of this war and Azov is a massive war business best comparable with Prigozhin’s former Wagner empire. Yet, he is calling for peace. Clip via Politika Strany.
Leonid Ragozin44,361 views • 1 year ago
Ukraine’s Western-backed anti-corruption body NABU has posted a teaser for the alleged 1000 hours of recorded conversations that happened in the apartment of Zelensky’s business partner Tymur Mindich and may have involved Zelensky himself. Having raided Mindich’s property today, NABU said it is uncovering a “high-level” corruption ring dealing with energy sector. The current recordings is a series of clips from different conversations between two men identified by code names who converse in Russian. The context of their conversation only makes sense to people in the know (as in Zelensky’s entourage) - the publication appears to be aimed primarily at them. At the end, there is a short remark by a third man code-named Karlsson who says in Ukrainian: “I don’t want to be notified of being a suspect”. All in all, Ukraine continues to live by the same rules as in Kuchma’s time quarter a century ago. Private conversations between leading politicians, recorded by security bodies, serve to trigger political crisis. Security bodies in question (or their elements) keep working as tools of political rivalry between mafia state clans - until of course one of them completes a Putin-esque state capture which Ukraine is perpetually on the verge of. In the fierce battle between the West-backed NABU and Zelensky-backed SBU, the latter is stronger domestically because it controls the entire system of political persecution and repression. But an all-out war on NABU will cost Zelensky Western support of Ukraine. That’s his core dilemma and the leverage the West (e.g. Trump administration) can use in order to achieve specific outcomes. We might have reached a critical point in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, in a gist.
Leonid Ragozin18,139 views • 8 months ago
Just like that, leading Ukrainian investigative journalist Denys Bihus admits that he works for SBU’s military counter-intelligence department. He says he is proud to work for SBU and will continue. Guess the attribution of his investigations, old and new, is kind of clear now.
Leonid Ragozin21,989 views • 1 year ago