“Hands down.” We have been fighting with one team for some time now, and the “rematch” with the Russian Federation will be scarier and without rules – interview with Syrotyuk

— Mr. Yuri, you and I once talked informally, off the air, about the situation in the war. And now we just need to hear the voice of the military: what gaps in the military component should we close in order to change the situation in favor of Ukraine? By the way, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, speaking about the stability plan in the Verkhovna Rada, spoke about changing approaches to management in the army. What do you think?

— Let’s clearly define what stage we are at: 1,000 days of a large-scale invasion, it will soon be 11 years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a thousand-year confrontation with our eternal enemy. This is the same enemy that has been attacking us for almost a thousand extreme years, with the same methods, with the same politicians. If we understand this war in this way – existentially, historically – then it will be much easier for us to understand why it was inevitable and how to end it.

You know, name me another nation in Europe or any country in the world that is capable of resisting Russian imperialism in such a war for almost three years now, with the enemy’s absolute superiority in everything, with the enemy’s absolute missile monopoly, with an advantage in manpower and somewhere tenfold [перевагою] in all other means. And we resist quite successfully.

It’s like comparing with boxing: an absolute outsider goes against the world champion and already somewhere in the tenth round on equal footing, at least, fights with this fighter, who fights not because of his skills, but because he is pumped up with various steroids.

Ukraine is fighting against the great coalition of Iran, North Korea, which is already personally participating in this war, against the informal secret support of China, with the very delicate support of our allies, who help us just enough so that, God forbid, we do not defeat Russia and destroyed Russian imperialism.

It seems to me that the biggest fears of the whole world are that, God forbid, Ukraine will win, the Russian Empire will fall apart and this will be a big headache for the world, because everyone is used to the kingdom of darkness there.

I understand that the technical situation is very complex. We see that now the multiplicity of the enemy’s advantage is being signaled, we see that this Vietnamese tactic works, when the enemy, sparing no effort, in small groups of infantry [наступає]. The boys saw that our positions were on crutches per moskal.

[Ворог] with small infantry groups, he is trying to wedge himself into our battle formations, penetrate our battle formations, cut off logistics, the front is very wide. I sometimes have the feeling, like in Game of Thrones, that we are standing on that wall against that kingdom of darkness, and there are no more people, and the enemy is more and more.

Therefore, there are objective reasons, we see them, the war forces us to learn very quickly. This war is not typical. This is a mixture of the Third World War with the First World War, when human flesh, cannons, and ammunition are pelted, and on the other hand, drones are working in the sky, they are developing rapidly, some new technologies are appearing, it is impossible to move either day or night. That is, there is a struggle of EWs against drones to at least somehow enable the movement of soldiers. And therefore, objectively, if we were so bad, we would have lost a long time ago. But there are objective things that must also be evaluated.