Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine on Sports Olena Hovorova and Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President on Information Policy Mykhailo Podolyak recently held a meeting with Ukrainian athletes on the eve of the Olympics in Paris.
There are three months left until the start of the 2024 Olympic Games. Together with Mykhailo Podolyak, Oleh Havrysh, Georgii Zantaraia (judo), Yuriy Cheban, Marina and Vlada Alexiyeva (swimming), Sergiy Stakhovsky, as well as the director of the Svitolina Foundation, Hanna Popovchenko, they discussed the current situation in the Ukrainian and world Olympic movement, the state of affairs with the acquisition of licenses to Paris by our athletes, and our next steps to prevent representatives of the terrorist country and its satellite from participating in the biggest competitions of the quadrennial.
With faith in the good performance of the Ukrainian Olympians in Paris, they left to work further.
33:42 This is Evgeniy, from Zaporizhzhia. I'm about the duties of citizens. I would like to remind Mr Podolyak that all citizens of Ukraine have responsibilities. Absolutely everyone, not just the poor. And for some reason the poor are fighting. [Podolyak shakes head] I want to ask the question. Where is Bakanov [former head of the Security Service of Ukraine] now? Where is Yatsenyuk [former Prime Minister] now?
These people are not doing their duty, they are in the military age. Why are you sending Zaluzhnyi to London, a military man? You let Arestovych, a military man, out of the country, and you collect mechanics, welders, guards, grab them and send to fight.
36:42 There are a lot of questions. Well, it's clear, Arestovych was mentioned and it's predictable, we understand, that's how the information system works. With Arestovych, there's immediate reaction. I'll actually read a question from the chat. How did Arestovych manage to leave the country?
[Podolyak shrugs. You can hear that he's fed up]
He has three children. Look, people... I just want to point out, people don't even know. They just want to speculate; how did he leave the country. Please specify his social status. Another question, that Arestovych took a certain informational position, a very strange one when he left. This is another question. But the person left the country absolutely legally. That is, for this it is enough to make two clicks and get the information, not ask questions that are, you know, with such causticity, how smart I am, look, you are all stupid and I am smart. How did Arestovych leave the country? [He gives a toothy smile and shakes head]
44:47 Now in the Russian-speaking segment of YouTube, Maria Pevchikh's film about the nineties [documentary series “Traitors”] sounded very powerful. Have you watched this film?
I have seen the first part. The second part, not yet.
Well, in your opinion, does it explain what happened to Russia and what led to the war? Since the reaction is very big, the resonance is very big, I'm interested in your opinion and how it is seen from Ukraine now.
In my opinion, it doesn't explain, and doesn't even come close to explaining. The discussion itself, I like it, it is not bad that they are discussing their history and try to find the reasons that gave birth to such a monstrous image of Russia that we see today. Well, and that gave birth to such an absolutely, you know, not an intellectual at the head. Well, in principle, I would say that he is very similar to the same Stalin, also a poorly educated subject with hyper ideas, I mean Putin.
Discussion, yes, but to be honest, it's a bit mysterious for me because today there is a fact of the concrete war and first you need to sort out the war as such. Well, by the way, Khodorkovsky also talks about it, he says, look, yes, you can blame me, you can blame any of the oligarchs from the members of the so-called seven bankers of those who ensured Yeltsin's passage in elections and so on and so forth, but first you need to solve the problem of how to stop the war as such, how to ensure the loss of Putin here and now.
And then reflect on why in principle this arose. It is possible, for example, that the same FBK is considering that if we simultaneously reflect on how this all happened, this will lead to an understanding of how to stop it all. I think that this is a very long path. In my opinion, the path should be shorter. Look, as a cultural discussion or a discussion of cultural history, it's probably interesting. As a discussion that will somehow lead to the just finalisation of this war, no, it distracts attention. But people probably have nothing to do, they have the right. That is, it is their life. They see themselves this way. They see themselves in this type of discussion.
Moje serce to zło
Twoje serce problemy
Czekam tylko na sąd
Kiedy razem w końcu zginiemy
Chciałem mieć w życiu tron
Posadzić na nim Ciebie
Kocham już tylko to
Jak udajesz, że o tym nie wiesz
My heart is evil
Your heart has problems
I'm just waiting for the judgement
When we finally die together
I wanted to have a throne in my life
To put you on it
I just love it
How you pretend you don't know about it