Welcome everybody to the Gray Zone. Thanks for tuning in. Very excited to be doing this live

stream today here with Max Blumenthal, editor of the Gray Zone. And we are going to be talking

about this unfolding, whatever you want to call it, crisis or just drama in Ukraine,

with every day the U.S. giving us some new euphemism on a suggestion

that Russia is about to invade. First, it was imminent than it was maybe before the Olympics.

Now the latest one from CNN, I'll just read it to you, is U.S. intelligence indicates

Russia clearly advancing their ability to invade, whatever that means.

So to help us make sense of what's going on, we're very fortunate to be joined today by Dmitri Pollyanski.

He is the deputy Russian ambassador to the United Nations.

Ambassador, hello.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Aaron.

Thank you, Max.

I just have trouble in understanding what does it mean in English.

My English is not good enough to advance its capabilities.

To advance its ability to invade, yeah.

Well, we're all left puzzling as to what they're trying.

Such creative people we have.

Yeah, this is all ridiculous, of course. We're all left puzzling as to what they're trying to. Such creative. Creative people we have. Yeah.

This is all ridiculous, of course.

And well, we learn each and every day something about ourselves, about our alleged plans

to attack, to invade, and this comes to a total surprise to us.

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