Dmitry Gordon's interview with Aleksey Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. 2022
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00:00 about Alexey Arestovich
00:41 Gordon and Arestovich examine the destroyed Russian military equipment
02:40 "War with Russia was inevitable"
04:14 "After Putin's Munich speech, Russia revived the pontoon engineering brigades - this was a sign of an offensive doctrine"
06:03 "The decision to invade Ukraine was made in July 2005"
07:36 “I realized that there would be an invasion at the end of October 2021. The exact date is constantly changing"
08:46 “Why did I leave the President's Office before the war? The last straw was the circus with Poroshenko at the airport”
10:31 am “On February 24, I got ready and went to the military registration and enlistment office. But on the way, Yermak called and asked me to come to the President’s Office.”
11:58 “All intelligence agencies assessed the likelihood of an invasion in different ways. The most complete scenario of the invasion was given by the head of the GUR Budanov"
14:25 "In the south of Ukraine there were many repurchased and undercover agents"
15:34 "In mid-December, covert deployment of Ukrainian armed forces began in Ukraine"
17:07 “I saw 5 wars start. Even the experienced colonels, who went through 7 wars, did not believe until the last, they thought that these were demonstration actions.
18:59 "We did everything we could, choosing between the collapse of the economy before the start of hostilities and the quality of preparation for hostilities"
19:26 Did Zelensky understand that the war would start on February 24
21:31 about the beginning of the war: “I told my wife to take the children and leave. I didn’t worry about myself - I was sure that it would be the end for me and everyone in the President’s Office. ”
24:38 "I assumed that there would be 2 weeks of street fighting in Kyiv, after which they would take it"
25:04 was there a panic in the President's Office in the first days of the war
26:20 about saboteurs in Kyiv
27:20 "Immediately after the shooting near the President's Office, Zelensky, Yermak, Shmyhal, Arakhamia and Podolyak went out into the yard and recorded the famous video"
28:14 about how he persuaded Zelensky to leave
31:05 why Zelensky did not leave
32:13 "The most dramatic moment of the war for me was the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol"
32:47 about the reasons for the hatred of Russians towards the civilian population of Ukraine
34:05 about the features of the war of the XXI century
36:05 will Ukraine be able to return "Azov"
37:16 "For the first 120 days of the war, I slept 2 hours a day"
39:36 "The war has changed Zelensky very much"
43:57 about Yermak, about how he was deceived and about his role during the war
47:26 is Yermak in fact the vice-president of Ukraine
48:07 about communication between Zelensky and Yermak
51:55 why Demchenko quit, who was accused of being an agent of Russia
55:23 Is Yermak an agent of Russia?
1:03:51 about Zaluzhny
1:06:43 about rumors of a quarrel between Zelensky and Zaluzhny
1:09:17 what is happening on the fronts
1:11:38 "Even the Russians can't answer the question of whether they can go on the offensive in the south"
1:12:16 what will happen in the Donetsk and Kherson directions
1:15:11 "The Russian army reached a plateau of its capabilities in mid-June"
1:16:31 about Russian nuclear blackmail using the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant
1:18:01 when Ukraine liberates Kherson
1:18:37 when the war ends
1:20:11 about the conditions that Russia wants to put in the negotiations
1:21:38 “On Ramstein, everyone shook hands and said to Reznikov: “Please finish off the vermin”
1:22:56 "The worst scenario that I see is a fuss until next summer"
1:23:31 who is the mediator between Zelensky and Putin today
1:23:56 on Abramovich's role in the negotiations
1:24:21 is Zelensky's meeting with Putin necessary?
1:26:20 "I knew from childhood that I would be popular"
1:28:07 "I will run for president if Zelensky does not run for a second term"
1:31:36 why he likes psychology
1:33:52 why do people sleep well under it
1:34:47 is it possible to piss him off
1:35:04 “I was born in Georgia. My father gave soldiers for filming in "Mimino"
1:35:18 “Thousand-year history is physically felt in Kyiv”
1:39:04 about the Golden Gate
1:40:45 Gordon - to Arestovich about his words that he was a swindler: “I was wrong”
1:44:03 Arestovich addressed the Ukrainians