WEBVTT 00:03.842 --> 00:11.576 Hello everyone! I'm not a media person, but the catastrophe in our country forces me to make this video. 00:11.576 --> 00:16.133 My name is Volodymyr and I live in the Lviv region, in western Ukraine. 00:16.133 --> 00:22.837 Last week on Friday, August 21, there was another drone attack on another shopping mall in another city in Ukraine, 00:22.837 --> 00:29.812 in which dozens of civilians were killed and more than a hundred injured, including dozens of children. 00:29.812 --> 00:36.233 I want to ask: To what degree of destruction will we still tolerate this war? 00:36.233 --> 00:42.399 As long as I personally am still alive and healthy, as long as I have electricity, gas, heat, and water at 00:42.399 --> 00:49.023 home, I can still advocate for the "war until victory" and "peace from a position of strength." 00:49.023 --> 00:56.056 I can still rejoice when "our" drones destroy "their" storage facilities or oil refineries. 00:58.431 --> 01:06.720 But many people in Ukraine who have lost their possessions and were forced to leave their homes as refugees, to move somewhere 01:06.720 --> 01:12.509 and now live under I don't know what conditions, without hope of ever having any home of 01:12.509 --> 01:18.691 their own in the future, see all this differently. 01:18.691 --> 01:24.451 I myself, too, if I have to get by next winter without electricity, without heat, without water and 01:24.451 --> 01:32.553 sewage, will most likely think somewhat differently about "the war until victory" than I do right now. 01:32.553 --> 01:41.500 And this scenario is absolutely realistic, because not only do "our" drones attack "them," but "their drones" also attack "us." 01:41.500 --> 01:49.220 Moreover, "their" ballistic missiles are currently terrorizing us mercilessly, against which we have no protection at all, about 01:49.220 --> 01:56.397 which we have been told since the first weeks of the war that the enemy supposedly "has only enough missiles left for a 01:56.397 --> 02:04.548 very few weeks," because sanction package No. 38 is now really working and the enemy would bleed out at any moment. 02:04.548 --> 02:06.465 How long is this supposed to go on? 02:06.465 --> 02:12.527 How many people still have to die, how many power plants, shops, food warehouses, waterworks, and entire cities in 02:12.527 --> 02:20.036 general still have to be destroyed before we finally understand that a "bad peace" is better than a "good war"?? 02:23.977 --> 02:28.193 At the moment I have a legal exemption from mobilization. 02:28.193 --> 02:32.963 But even if this exemption should end, I will never go to the front. 02:32.963 --> 02:41.986 I would rather go to prison than to the front, because I have not the slightest desire to fight and die for foreign interests. 02:41.986 --> 02:47.028 This is not a war for the "fatherland," because millions of hectares of our fatherland were already sold 02:47.028 --> 02:50.512 to foreign agricultural corporations before the war. 02:50.512 --> 02:56.068 Even the largest Ukrainian landowners and "owners" in general are not fighting. 02:56.068 --> 02:59.329 Neither their children nor their closest relatives are at the front. 02:59.329 --> 03:05.390 Very often, precisely those who call on others to fight the loudest on television programs have already 03:05.390 --> 03:12.000 ensured outside the program that neither they nor their children have to go to the front. 03:12.000 --> 03:18.953 Member of the parliamentary committee for national security and defense Venislavsky sent his son to Hollywood (USA). 03:18.953 --> 03:24.596 His son is not rushing back to reinforce the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces of Ukraine. 03:24.596 --> 03:34.599 Of the 4 children of former president and member of parliament Poroshenko (including 2 sons of draft age), none went to war. 03:34.599 --> 03:41.151 The former head of the presidential office Yermak publicly promised after his dismissal in November 2025 to go 03:41.151 --> 03:48.387 to the front and fight, but appears there only sporadically for a short time and only for PR purposes. 03:48.387 --> 03:50.860 Far more such examples could be cited. 03:50.860 --> 03:56.933 Why must the common people be mutilated and die at the front while the "upper caste" can go about their 03:56.933 --> 04:00.960 business unhindered during this time and line their pockets? 04:00.960 --> 04:08.310 Do you remember the so-called "Mindich Gate," "Operation Midas," the current "Forrest Gump" affair (these are various corruption 04:08.310 --> 04:15.087 scandals of recent months) and the sums of money involved, as well as the fact that so far NO ONE has really been held 04:15.087 --> 04:21.920 accountable for them, even though it concerns the embezzlement of funds intended for protection against the war? 04:21.920 --> 04:28.375 In the past, those involved faced a military tribunal and often execution by firing squad. 04:28.375 --> 04:33.853 We have become guinea pigs for foreign weapons manufacturers and IT corporations, who test 04:33.853 --> 04:37.135 their latest military and IT technologies on us. 04:37.135 --> 04:40.766 I will not die for them. 04:40.766 --> 04:44.219 This war seems very strange to me for many reasons. 04:44.219 --> 04:51.503 I ask only one thing: Why, in 4.5 years of war, do most attacks hit civilian infrastructure, causing the common 04:51.503 --> 04:58.348 people to suffer, but there has not been a single attack on the so-called "decision-making centers"? 04:58.348 --> 05:04.195 There has not been a single attack on the elite villas of government members near Kyiv, 05:04.195 --> 05:09.637 while the homes of ordinary people burn every day. 05:09.637 --> 05:13.305 The residents of Kyiv notice a strange pattern: 05:13.305 --> 05:21.803 The most massive missile attacks come precisely when Zelensky is on yet another foreign tour. 05:21.803 --> 05:27.303 That means: "Zelensky abroad = brace yourselves for impacts." 05:33.188 --> 05:42.704 On August 24, Ukraine's Independence Day, the heads of government of the so-called "coalition of the willing" came to Kyiv again. 05:42.704 --> 05:46.536 They were not afraid of a missile attack during their visit. 05:46.536 --> 05:54.452 They once again promised us to support us and to pass the 150th sanctions package against the aggressor. 05:54.452 --> 05:57.866 But this will definitely not make things easier for us. 05:57.866 --> 06:03.513 This war seems to benefit the leaderships of both conflicting parties as well as very many 06:03.513 --> 06:07.540 others, but certainly not us ordinary people. 06:09.735 --> 06:14.322 Summary I raise my voice for peace. 06:14.322 --> 06:19.653 This slaughter and this senseless bloodshed must be stopped NOW IMMEDIATELY. 06:19.653 --> 06:25.793 Not to continue the war, but to immediately declare a ceasefire and begin negotiations on a 06:25.793 --> 06:29.717 long-term peace – that is the only right way. 06:29.717 --> 06:37.915 Every man in Ukraine should refuse to go to the front and not be afraid to openly stand by this position of his. 06:37.915 --> 06:43.136 There is a famous saying: β€œIt is war, but nobody goes.” 06:43.136 --> 06:49.442 May these words now come true for us in Ukraine precisely at this time. 06:49.442 --> 06:52.785 We will not fight for foreign interests. 06:52.785 --> 06:59.110 And precisely that is true patriotism nowadays: to stop the war immediately and rebuild Ukraine. 06:59.110 --> 07:00.626 May God help us in this. 07:00.626 --> 07:03.225 Thank you for your attention. 07:03.225 --> 07:06.515 And get involved at kla.tv/mitwirken.