ukraine never should have been separated away from russia. it is not that he wants to restore the old soviet union, he wants to restore sort of the czar-ist view, the peter the great era, when ukraine was a piece of russia, and russia a piece of ukraine, and he said as much in a speech a few months before the invasion. now, the war has first revealed his military to be relatively incompetent. that hurt his standing on the world stage. then the west rose up with sanctions that have hurt him economically, although there are many countries that still have not joined on. and now, it looks like he has cracks even within, internally, and that s the biggest danger to him, in many ways. you know, ukraine never posed a threat to the russian re fweem, a regime, and more importantly to putin s regime, to putin
together to support our heroes. everybody has come to help. they are praying for you. comrades, friends, veterans, today every family in russia is honoring the participants of the great war. they remember their loved ones and heroes and bringing flowers to war memorials. we re here in the red square on the soil that remembers the militia of warriors of peter the great, the parades of 1941 and 1945. here today, participants of the military operation, are soldiers and those who come to the ranks of army as part of the mobilization.