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Hello, it's 685 days.

685, I mean, we tot up the days and you don't it becomes normal but it's not normal

685 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine

It's an awfully long time, especially if you're in Ukraine, especially if you're in

the trenches.

And I thought we could start today's episode by listening to something President Zelensky said after that drone strike on

the Kremlin in May last year.

We don't attack Putin or Moscow, we fight on our territory. We are defending our religious and cities.

We don't have enough weapon for this. That's why we don't use it anywhere. For us, that is the deficit. We can't spend it. and we didn't attack Putin. We leave it to tribunal.

Now that was the 3rd of May wasn't it, 2023 and I'm really interested

Vitali and why you want to play that

clip of President Zelensky at the beginning of this episode?

Because President Zelensky's rhetoric, it's changed from trying to achieve peace to trying to achieve victory.

But whereas Ukraine has never said it started to attack Russia itself, Russian regions bordering Ukraine,

Russian cities not far from Ukraine, over the past few weeks and months they've been coming under attack.

And we've got to assume that's Ukraine, even though they're never going to acknowledge that.

No, and it's interesting that whereas Ukraine is experiencing, as we know, a shortage of ammunition

and officially Ukrainian commanders and officials are saying that we do not

attack Russia.

This is going on and last year in late December a more than two dozen Russian people were killed in Belgrade

in Belgrade not far from the border.

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