Thank you for your work. May it be possible to get a second marrator? I find it a bit hard to follow the conversation for a long time when there is only one person speaking.

Thanks Rick, I stopped watching this channel because of the language barrier - You just brought this world to life for us all so we get to understand what's going on, thank.

Thanks for doing this bro! This way I can listen to the interview without having to read the subtitles for 30 minutes 🙂

FYI the channel @istandwithukraine_nataliya5461 used to translate this journalist's interrogation/interviews with Russian POWs until the journalist copystriked? her channel. This happened 7 months ago and he forced her to remove all of the content. You can still find a couple in her video library that were from different sources. All she did was put English subtitles on them. Hopefully your videos will fall under fair use. I used to watch all of them which is why your video got recommended to me. I hope this doesn't happen to you or you have his approval. She never credited him though. Took me awhile before I found out who he was.

Excellent video! I found it very interesting and informative. Every English speaking person need to see this video. Thank you!

But in Desert Storm we invaded Kuwait, not Iraq. Confusing

Fighting weak countries wins wars but most of the time the US loses them ie Afghanistan, Vietnam where you got the logistic wrong and didn’t realise guys in rags without shoes don’t give a shit about logistics their fighting for their countries freedom not US business interests

You were fighting a third world force whose prime source of weapons had disappeared.

That's one thing about us. US will cross seas to break knees. These guys can't keep soldiers fed half a state line away.

@@mitchyoung93 They can't keep soldiers fed 100 miles away when the US crossed half the world and brought BBQ

Glory to heroes! Thank you very much for all the wishes and for recognition of my work! I'll definitely do more of them. The amount of feedback under this video is the best motivator!😌

@@ricktheukrainian Hey man, well done. I hope you keep doing that, its really a pleasure to be able to listen to it.

@@AndenPMS Thank you very much! I'll do more of them!

I’ve tried to follow Zolkin like everyone else but gave up because it wasn’t understandable so very much appreciate your efforts!!! Can’t thank you enough.

CCP is trying to attack Russia now too lol.

I wouldn't be so sure that he's a poor man, he might been concealing his own crimes. 99% of them do. And I'm really glad that you like this format!

@@ricktheukrainian Funny..they came over and expected to kill Ukrainians..and when they get caught..they all give you the answers: I didn't know that I came here..or they didn't kill anyone. it's all bs. I am Russian..I live in France and I am rooting for Ukrainians to win and to end the war quickly. I have seen enough of the trash by Russian disinformation and Putin is destroying my country.

@rickkarl interesting. I was over here feeling sorry for him, thinking "wow, this poor kid is being forced out here by crazy Putin & his thugs." But I suppose that when Nazis were captured, they too were young and would claim it wasn't their fault. Some of the things he says are rather evasive. The journalist is doing an amazing job of countering the soldier's programming. The soldier seems to be having aha moments. That part where he explains the difference between Ukrainian & Russian propaganda ("we're not trying to take Moscow") was especially well said. I love this guy

@@ricktheukrainian Isn’t there a convention in war where you do not parade prisoners in public?! It is utterly repulsive to witness this - this man is obviously under duress .

@@Leonicles Awesome comment on this matter! Thank you!

Thank you very much! I'm finishing up the next one, will post it in the end of this week. Glory to heroes!

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Glad you enjoyed this interview, my friend! This one is short but very informative.

It's worse on the Ukraine side don't believe western media

Au contraire Mon Frere - the warmongers need this war to sell their f*cking weapons don’t ya think 🤔🫤 if no hostilities (fake or genuine) then nobody needs to buy weapons systems and ammunition. Follow the money… ask yourself who gains and who loses? And what is lost - lives of people with families of their own who were hoodwinked into “serving” are lost. And society knows this is despicable but most of us listen to the “News” propagandists on every side because most are occupied by caring for their own families in most cases. And there are those who don’t give a damn and are profiting on the dividends their stock portfolios are paying out. And what the f**k did our parents and grandparents fight all those past wars to preserve and protect?? Us, that’s what 🤨! I have a strong sense that we ARE our brothers keepers - or should try to be😣? How can we be the change that we want to see in OUR lives and the lives of OTHER FOLKS ?? The selfish, greedy, lying through their teeth elitist a**holes that are in positions of power and control have us so f**kin focused on which of our neighbors we need to be hating on that we can’t see the bigger picture. We are being played like a fiddle. Be kind to somebody today, huh, and YOU will probably feel better than whoever you are helping , which is a feeling the “elite” a**holes can never feel 😉😂😎.

@@patdaddymusic so what do you propose? The Ukrainian people should just say, “fuck it, we’ll just die so the military industrial complex makes less money.” Your argument implies the Ukrainian people have a choice on whether they’re invaded or not, which quite frankly they don’t. And regarding our grandparents, they fought for a world where sovereign nations aren’t violently invaded by their neighbours, now it’s our turn to fight for the same.

In the US we value each individual person. In Russia they still treat their population as serfs ( slaves ) worth nothing. They are facing a population collapse because no one wants to have large numbers of children in their conditions. Killing off all these young men is only going to make that worse.

Lmfao. ushita is doing this BS for years. Just because the recieving end don't look white, you americans turn a blind eye. Even praising your military men n women.

Who cares if they are sons or fathers they are ruzzians!! Brainwashed.

not many fathers, mostly too young.

It's sad but they are killing Ukrainian actual children

It of course doesn’t reduce the responsibility if they commit war crimes but one can pity many or most Russian soldiers. You can say they are in some sense naive. Now even more so than in the Soviet Union even though they in theory have much better changes to follow foreign media etc. They are strongly indoctrinated to think the state is more important than an individual and to believe state propaganda. Their concept of truth is different than in the west. They may accept propaganda as a truth even when they know it is not true if the “fact” is usable or beneficial. It’s difficult to gasp but the way of thinking is different. They accept more easily that the state can control their destiny and do what they are asked to do. Of course people in western armies submit to discipline (and in the end are actually more disciplined) but they generally need to know what they are doing and why. Russians don’t necessarily feel need to ask questions and they accept more easily if answers are changed (in Ukraine they have been told at different times that they are fighting neo-Nazis, gays, NATO or Polish..). Russian soldier is a strange animal. The reality is that they need to be shot in a battle or captured but pitying them is ok nevertheless as they really come from a pretty fucked up country).

He should be glad that hes not rotting in a field somewhere as he should, I have no sympathy for these animals and even tho this dude might never have done something wrong he sure as fuck didint stop his mates, so guilty by association. First mistake you all make is to view these animals as humans.

@@BeeTriggerBee Demonising the enemy too much doesn’t accomplish anything. Feeling sorry for them doesn’t change the facts they are responsible of their actions. Despite the indoctrination and all every Russian, civilian and soldier, should stand agains Putin and the war. Soldiers are responsible what they do in the war. If they participate in war crimes they are responsible (as you say watching them happen and doing nothing might count too). We have to understand the circumstances in Russia and what the people think but despite the state, society and culture all people are responsible of their actions. If one lives in an autocracy, dictatorship or whatever one has responsibility to find out how things really are and responsibility to resist. But there is no need to inhumanize such people totally. It’s not necessary to fight and judge them. Inhumanazing them might lead to wrongdoings (war crimes) agains them and at that point we’d not be any better than them. Also of we want to change them, we have to understand why they are like they are. First mistake is to see them as not humans but animals. That’d reduce us to the same level with them and that’s not what we want. We’re better. By we I mean everyone who is against them either killing or capturing them or helping Ukrainians some way or an another to do that.

@@BeeTriggerBee calm down Judge Couch. Moron.

@@BeeTriggerBee They have been treated like animals for all their life. The whole point of western society after ww2 is to avoid this kind of association, to avoid using cannon fodder and butchering young men: russian soldiers did commit atrocities, but the correct way is to save and educate as many as them as we can, rather than treating all of them as animals, so that they can start to bring russian society closer to democratic values. If you treat them as they treated Ukraininans, you will only make fuel for their internal propaganda, working for putler in the end. Think twice before you suggests retaliation policies in anger, cause they'llikely bite you in the ass.

I would love to visit Hawaii someday! But we gotta win first. Glad you valued my work! I'll definitely continue dubbing them! Glory to heroes!

Ziggy ziggy HAIL to u too You do know the origins of this Slava Ukraina? If u don't maybe look into it before throwing around nazi sayings

Hawaii isn’t America.

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Thank you so much! I'll do more, I had fun making this one.

I agree!! Halfway through I remembered you were dubbing it…I also watch Zolkin’s videos religiously and might have seen this one but watching like this is so much better…frees up my mind to emerge in the conversation they are having, Thanks so much and keep them coming! I’ve subscribed! I have a comment on the content I’ll put in the main thread…love it!

@@katemcmyob339 Thank you! I'm glad you've enjoyed it! And "watching Zolkin religiously" is something I also do!😁 It's a great way to describe this obsession.😅

@@ricktheukrainian Got to second that and confess, I am obsessed too, trying to understand what the hell is going on in these Russian minds...

Thank you very much for watching and for the compliment! I've put some work and effort into this and will definitely do more of them!

@@ricktheukrainian One note: look up the pronunciation of "months" 👍

Thank you! Glory to Ukraine!

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Thank you so much for valuing my work so highly! I have a solid feedback that I did a great job! It motivates me to do much more of these!

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@@robwells5753 If Canada love Russia then why Canada is sending help to Ukraine ? Canada has problems with Russia in the Northerns territories and Nunavut because again those assholes want to steal lands to Canada.

Thank you very much for these words of appreciation! Hi to Vietnam!

Glory to heroes! Thank you for your appreciation! I'll do more of them!😌

+1 to that. Rick is dubbing better than any of the Ukrainian ones have ever managed. (hint, hint. 😉) And that includes the official ones for Zelensky's speeches. Ukrainians in general have a huge problem with their english proficiency.

@@Zoroff74 Thank you for this compliment. And I agree that some of our official's translations have a lot of problems.

@@ricktheukrainian - If it works out for you, I'll be looking forward to any good material that you can release with your dubbing. 👍😃 🇸🇪❤️🇺🇦

@@ricktheukrainian while we are on the subject of English: you got the stress of “content” wrong in your introduction. You said “satisfied” (stress on second syllable) but meant “stuff inside” (stress on first syllable). I think that was your only real mistake :)

Thank you for noticing both "Well done" and NAFO hoodie.😌 You can buy one of those at Saint Javelin's shop.

I'm pleased that you noticed intonation! I'm already working on the next one! More to come!

@@ricktheukrainian Inclination and intonation is everything, which I discovered while in Basra back in '03. A translator is very different from an interpreter. Just getting the literal meaning doesn't always convey the desired meaning. (Turns out the friendly British colloquialism, "How you doin', you bastard?" has different undertones in arabic. Which our civilian contract translator flown in from the U.K forgot...)

I'll keep them coming! Glad you enjoyed it!

As an American I really think this was a VERY useful video. It gives us some perspective we cannot get via media..which we don't fully trust ourselves. IF you will translate I will watch more. Cannot deal with captioning that doesn't give us accurate context to understand you.

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lol go back to school, learn how to read dude

Glory to heroes! Thank you! I'm glad you've enjoyed my work. I'm already working on the next one.

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Already working on the next one!

let hope US will still be helping Ukraine even if republicans will be elected. I am afraid that problems between democrat/republican parties may overshadow thihs war and the military help Ukraine needs.

Thanks a lot! It motivates me too doo more!

Thanks a lot for appreciating my work. I'm really glad you've enjoyed it! I'm working on the next video. More to come!

Glad you enjoyed my dubbing. I'll work on more. Thank you for valuing it!

Thank you for valuing it! In one of his streams he mentioned that he sees a lot of his videos reposted and he's ok with it because it helps more people to see them and it's his main goal.

@@ricktheukrainian oh, that is good to know. :)

I'm glad you've enjoyed my work! I'm already working on the next one!😏

Thank you very much! One step at a time, right?😁 Thanks to people like you who values the work I've done. And I'm glad to hear that my choice was perfect. I'm already working on a new one. It may take a few weeks but I'll be improving with each new dubbing!

Thank you very much! I'm really motivated to do more after many other comments like yours!

I'm really glad that you've enjoyed my work. And I'm already working on the next one. It may take some time because it's twice longer but I'm mega motivated thanks to all positive feedback I've received after launching this dub.

I'm glad you've enjoyed my work! Already working on the next one!

Yes, the actual information we get from soldiers shows an army that's sort of all over the place. The Battalion Tactical Group (BTG), for instance, is supposed to be sort of a mini-marching army, able to support itself, so you'd think these would have a rigid, established table of organization & equipment (TOE), but we saw some BTG with 500 soldiers, & some with slightly more than 150. There's these huge variations in quantity, quality, tactics, small theater of value strategies. They're a hodge podge of men & machines without much cohesion. This gentleman they mention, Colonel Bikov, who was arrested for stealing their supplies, his position as a political commander is what they call zampolit. Zampolit back in the USSR days were political officers; they were assigned to make sure soldiers, officers in particular, didn't stray from Leninism /Stalinism, that they follow noone but the Community Party. Zampolit left after the fall of the USSR. Sometime in ~2016 Putin brought zampolit back; today they police their soldier's ranks & make sure they follow noone but the Russian Orthodox Church (& maybe Islam, depends on the unit's origins, like if they're Tajik or one of dozens of Muslim minorities).

stay at home, get sent to prison, get conscripted as a storm trooper for Wagner. Go to Ukraine, get a gun, desert. Get sent back to Russia. Get executed.

I'm glad you've enjoyed it!😌

Thank you for your appreciation! It means a lot! Will definitely do more dubbing. Only problem rn is the lack of electricity here in Kyiv.😤

Героям Слава! Thank you very much for appreciating the work I've done and the idea itself! I also watch Lyubomyr's interviews on Lviv Media but I like them less because he doesn't usually get deep in their stories and bot arguing with them.😁

Thank you! I'm glad you've enjoyed my work! And Dima of course should be mentioned too. His approach is different and it is very good, because it brings diversity!

@@ricktheukrainian Fully and well deserved Rick! Just like Dima indeed! Really came to love and appreciate this guy. Only just how he glances, meaningfull towards the camera is pure gold for starters ( already looking forward to your interpretation of his parts ;-) I bet you found loads of inspiration and direction for a long time from now on seeing all the enthousiastic feedback. Of course yet subscribed and will be following you closely. One more good side to this downside; introduced to another great inspiring Ukrainian citizen. When I met the first Ukrainian man ever in my life, Dmitry , about 20 years ago I immediately felt and understood how well I, having South American/ African background, relate to you people. Only recently thought about visiting and hopefully will do now as soon as possible/ usefull.

I'm glad you've enjoyed it, David! Thank you for watching! I'll definitely do more of them. As for your observations... The thing is that most of them are just lying during these interviews when it comes to their beliefs or changes in their perception of reality. They just say what they think Zolkin whants to hear but inside they think that russia is right, that they are fighting NATO here and most importantly they think that Ukraine belongs to russia. So they don't care that russia abused them and will keep abusing them, they've got used to this, they'll cope anything.

@@ricktheukrainian Thanks for the reply Rick. I agree that they may say what they think Mr. Zolkin wants to hear and they have been conditioned by many years of misinformation from Russian centric media. I was trying to keep my original message brief, so your reply covered many of my unwritten thoughts regarding the interview.

@@davidburns392 No problem, I just wanted to extend your thought. Thank you for watching and commenting your thoughts! It motivates me a lot!

@@davidburns392 One pow has been 3 times I watched it a few days ago

@rickkarl I normally don't read comments, but yours have really added to my understanding. The first time I watched, I truly believed this young man. After reading your comment, I see how evasive and stilted his answers are. I can't know what's in his heart, but I appreciate the added context

Thank you, Fortuna from Finland! I'm really glad you enjoyed my work. I'm working on the next one already.