In the village of Lebedevka, Kursk Oblast, a Russian civilian talks to a Ukrainian soldier and shares her opinion about Putin and Ukraine.



by lacqueredcase762

34 comments
  1. Thank you for sharing the subtitled video, I’ve been curious to know what exactly she said.

  2. Wow. This lady tells it like it is. I hope for her sake and the entire Ukrainian population that the suffering ends soon. Slava Ukraini.

  3. Ah yes. The last sentence captures what I believe is a significant essence of the war: Putin wants to prevent Russians from seeing what could be possible without him and his entourage of cleptocratic cronies. The prosperity former soviet states could achieve outside the Russian world. Point on.

  4. “You are our people” is a weird thing to say. I hope she means something like “we are all from the same ancestry.”

  5. Respect to her for her comments,first Russian I’ve actually heard mean what she’s saying.Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧

  6. “Forgive me, God, for criticizing our dear leader Vladolf Putler! There’s a devil on his shoulder…!”

    My God HOW PATHETIC! No, lady, your guy, your dear leader *is* the effing devil himself, if anything!
    And you could all use your two brain cells once in your life and call a thing by its goddamn name!!
    God these people make me angry. Same thing all over the world “please almighty leaders, help us!” NO!! No friggin’ president, king, general or pope will ever save you! You yourself have to get the f involved, and stay the f involved!

  7. I hate to be devils advocate but she is talking to soldiers from an occupying force. Any unarmed civilian talking to armed soldiers will tell them whatever they want to hear to ensure their safety. She might have a very different opinion if talking to a few Russian soldiers

  8. In same time Putler brainwashes their children with fake patriotism. I hope those kids will not grow up stupid and the country will gather strenght to expel those criminals out of Russian government.

  9. Brave women! It just needs another £1m Russians to openly express this sentiment and march en mass to the Kremlin..

  10. Poor Lady that is correct about everything.
    I’m glad the soldiers are taking time to talk to the occupied residents (and not pillaging, torturing, raping and murdering)

  11. For once a Russian I have some care for, maybe I need to remember in amongst the majority of brain washed Putin lovers , there are Civilians of Russia who are victims through no fault or belief of their own. Let’s hope when an end comes she reunites with her Ukraine contacts and able to live in peace , maybe that would take a move to Ukraine or being absorbed into Ukraine via free and fair means.
    Change of land borders does though present potential areas of contention, conflict in years ahead.

  12. Wow.

    She’s like the ‘old man on top of the mountain’ that people travel to for wisdom…

    ‘We lived well, and now it’s like this’

    I hope Ukraine strikes deeper until all of Russia thinks this.

  13. This made me tear up. My eyes are stinging. You can hear the deep pain in her voice. This war is so evil, so wrong, and she knows it. He knows it, and all of us know it. Now she suffers, and he suffers. Both their families suffer for what? For what? We in the West, in the US, need to give Ukraine everything they need and put no limitations, trusting our Ukrainian allies to end this as fast as possible. This has to be over and done justly so both of them and countless others stop suffering. Makes me physically ill.

  14. She’s partially right. Putin’s bad decision did this to them. The part she’s wrong about is that Ukrainians are their people. The Ukrainians have definitely shown that not to he the case.

    Not that she necessarily meant it that way, but it’s worth pointing out the way it was said, because Russians do have a sense of ownership over other Slavic groups, and that sense of ownership is part of what motivates the Kremlin to do things like this.

  15. I fucking absolutely despise Russia and everything they stand for, the atrocious reprehensible things they have done and the depravity they continue to spread. But the Russian and Ukrainian babushka’s, are close to be one and the same. They are the ones that have to clean up the fucking mess, they are the ones that have to hold it together go about their lives as if everything’s normal while bombs are falling around them. They want the same things as what I’m saying, I’ve met quite a few in Ukraine.
    My dear friends, grandmother, lives in Chervonohrad. The woman has no hot water, but it bothers her not. She still has plants on her patio, walks up two flights of stairs to her apartment every day with groceries. Going to her apartment, you better take your shoes off, there’s candy in the candy dish and of course she’s going to offer you something nice, a piece of cake and tea. I asked my friend, why do you not help her a bit? My friend tells me everything she gave to grandmother, she gives to her son, my friends, uncle. She buys het a new television, it ends up in Kiev with her son. he’s not a bad guy, but he could send for himself more but you never get in front of a mother love for her son.
    So my friend just buys her groceries, things like that instead of giving her money or buys her expensive things because she has no need for it, she just turned around and give it to her son.
    The point of making is the babushka are the only ones that will make things normal again in Ukraine when this is over. They sacrifice, give everything for their families and never ever ever complain. She is right, Ukraine and Russia were never the same but close relationship existed, this is fucking madness. Now that is tarnished forever because of one man’s evil ambition. My friend grandfather, was in the Soviet union. I would bring him American coins, and he would give me old Soviet coins. He was so proud to show me his medals when he served in the red army. He is a good man, and I pray that he and his wife are safe. This woman reminds me very much of babushka I meet in Ukraine, and I have to at least pay her a bit of respect for honesty and speaking with heart. I wish Russian ears would listen, but they never have it never will.

  16. A lot of Russian people think this way. They just don’t want to go to prison for saying it.

  17. They are not ‘your people’ they are Ukrainians and they are their own.

    Part of the problem, as sweet as this lady is, is the mindset that Russians are the motherland of all ex-soviet states because they cannot understand those states since the breakup wanting fuck-all to do with them and their political rape.

  18. Caught in the crossfire,…Putin has been in power for over 20 years. Its time someone term-limits him out of office. Or an office window, whatever.

  19. Such a nice lady. So refreshing to see some down home compassion and common sense. Yes we want to be friends

  20. Ordinary people suffer whilst the elites swan around visiting other countries & driven around in limo’s.

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