TONIGHT: A brief excerpt from my conversation tonight, Monday 28 August, with Professor Serhii Plokhy on his new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: focusing on the surprise to the Russians and to NATO that not only did President Zelensky refuse to surrender
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TONIGHT: A brief excerpt from my conversation tonight, Monday 28 August, with Professor Serhii Plokhy on his new book, The Russo-Ukrainian War: focusing on the surprise to the Russians and to NATO that not only did President Zelensky refuse to surrender or depart, but also the mayors of the attacked cities refused to run.
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Hardcover – May 16, 2023 by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191
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| 0:56.8 | Turned down from Belarus, in from Rostov on Don. |
| 1:00.9 | They were surprised, the world was surprised. |
| 1:03.3 | Not only did President Zelensky elect to stay into fight, but so did the mayors, some |
| 1:10.2 | of whom were murdered by the Russian forces, especially Bukka and missing mayors still. |
| 1:17.1 | But the mayors stood up, Zelensky stood up, and the Ukrainian people, as is now well |
| 1:22.7 | known, stood up to the invaders. |
| 1:26.2 | Professor Ploky on the surprise of surprises for the Russian invader. |
| 1:32.7 | This is late February 2022. |
| 1:37.2 | They certainly tried to do that. |
| 1:39.9 | They tried to get through Nikolayev, they couldn't. |
| 1:43.0 | They tried to bypass the city, go to another nuclear power plant, the southern Ukrainian |
| 1:49.2 | nuclear power plant, they were stopped there, and they were stopped as the result of |
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