Why I Joined The 'Special Military Operation' - Russian Medic Interview Uncut - Part 1
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I continue with my podcast series and today we have Ivan who joined the 'SMO' as a Medic when his friends called him.
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I continue with my podcast series and today we have Ivan who joined the 'SMO' as a Medic when his friends called him.
I am aware this will bring a lot of hate my way, That said, As I have always said I will talk to anyone and are interested in other stories and people, even if controversial,
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Onya mate
Thank you Willy. This is one of the most interesting interviews I have seen. To hear how his opinion of the war has been shaped by Russian propaganda is extremely interesting.
Is there an independent fact checker that you trust that can explain why Ivan thinks the way he does?
Even the most wild and fantastical of conspiracy theories start from some “truth”. I’d love to understand the origin of these beliefs.
Again Great podcast mate. Keep up the good fight!!!
It's not unusual that a journalist gives everyone a voice. Zolkin, a Ukrainian journalist, does this when interviewing Russian POWs too. A bit different but still. I wished you would have asked him if he speaks from first hand experience and not give us typical Russian propaganda.
Your professionalism is shining through in this one. Thank you willy.
Got a monero wallet?
This is incredible, FINALLY someone talks to a veteran from the other side. More importantly, a frontline soldier.
It's funny how he was expecting to receive a lot of hate for this interview but after a quick read all I see is "Thank you!" and "You're a legend!". lol
Not a frontline soldier. He said he mostly worked in a hospital.
I joined because I wanted to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed kill. That you John Wayne? Is this me!!??
He wasn't a front line soldier, he mentioned he was essentially working in a field hospital, just making that distinction.
@@user-gi9se3mo1d No need for that, more than 100 other, like minded, jumped off the cliff already.
Well done Willy. A totally proffessional interview handled with grace, diplomacy and respect for your guest. A lot of journalists should take a leaf out of your book.
i am so happy to see the great feedback for willy, i will try to amplify everything that supports him doing what he does!!! Thank you so much for speaking out!!!! this is invaluably precious!
This is akin to interviewing a nazi German during ww2 and humanizing them, saying that there are 2 sides. That's a classic. The lack of perspective and reality, which strikes you in the face, is astounding.
It is not this serious
Bullshit.. Willy grills fighters of the international legion and puts provocative titles in the interviews - here softball questions and a platform for a nut job to speak unchecked.
@3way456 noting is that serious
Thanks, Willy. You're the best. I'm glad to see an honest journalist. You still have balls. True journalism is rare.
yep, by giving neo nazi from ruzzia a platform to speak. Next time ruzzia will liberate Alaska because fuck you that's why and the same ivan will justify it.
Nobody should be silenced, it's good to hear both voices despite the major differences. Thanks for providing an interesting video, as always!
yes we should hear what adolf hitler had to say when he wanted to kill all the jews
You legend! Will you are a legend! You interviewed someone from the other side of the conflict. Well done sir! Hats off!
Have you even listened to the softball questions interview yet?
@@JD-nf3rd So what? Does it change anything?
_if you are referencing to a different video, I am just misunderstanding I guess._
@@rantanplan178I think he's referring to Will not grilling this dude for his shit takes... And I'd have to agree with that.
I get wanting to give people a good faith interview. But, fuck that. Lol
@@TheImmoralNosferatuZoddWhy is it his job to grill people? Grilling probably would have been the wrong tactic. If his job is to produce something for journalistic posterity, putting the other guy’s defences up would probably have been a bad idea. He doesn’t grill fighters for Ukraine or Western “”””””””experts””””” either.
I would love to see more of these interviews from the russian side. It's weird that you can't find these anywhere on the internet.
There’s Eva K Bartlett (keep an open mind) and Graham W Phillips.
lol ive seen dozens and dozens of russian interviews. They are almost all uneducated
@@jessymurieland Rumble still has RT on its platform 👍
Patrick Lancaster is also brilliant
@@default5598lol he's such a muppet, brilliant comedian i give him that.
@@Relayzy1 he has balls, not alot of Journalists are in the think of it like him. Patrick is a decent bloke, but that is my opinion. And Willy would be the same is he was back out there.
Thank you, Ivan, a very valuable interview, very informative. It's always good to hear both sides, not always the same
Yes I'm sure hearing the ramblings of an SS trooper or camp guard would have been very informative during WWII for people who study criminally insane people :D
its like get interview from ISIS allready know what they say 😅
@@warhotspots7255 At least ISIS wouldn't tell complete lies. As the saying goes, how do you know when a russian is lying, his mouth is open. I didn't watch this cringe but I bet 100% he claims the US is not our enemy while every time he is watching TV while high on bath salts or drunk of his rocker he shouts hell yeah as Kiselov threatens to turn US into nuclear ash :D
@@hg7728 well actually yes, an interview with those kinds of people would be incredibly valuable. You underestimate how important it is to understand why and how someone becomes evil or does evil things. If everyone had your mentality, just lumping all bad guys together in one bin and excusing all their opinions as "ramblings" then this world would never be able to learn from its mistakes
@@lazarzivkovic3393 We haven't learned from our mistakes we let russia live 2 times already, we learned nothing, they told us we are subhuman trash who will murder neighbours and rape millions, did we learn, no US after WWII was the only ones with nukes and they just let russian take everything, they could have let russia collapse in the 1990s as it should back to its historic borders of muscovy, but they invested billions instead. Now we gonna give them a third times the charm ?
Willy, once all this madness is behind us, you will be remembered by history as someone who, in the face of adversity, stayed true to the game. My respect.
Thanks Willy & thank you Ivan! I may not agree with a lot of the things Ivan said, however, even being able to hear the other side is really important. Being able to hear his motivation, what he believes in and how he sees the conflict progressing is an amazing opportunity. This is the first interview from the Russian perspective I have heard, it's honestly a complete rarity without the constant bombardment of propaganda. Keep up the great work Willy !
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Imperial_Movement#:~:text=Imperial%20Legion%20paramilitary,-Patch%20of%20the&text=In%202008%2C%20RIM%20formed%20its,dedicate%20themselves%20to%20defending%20Novorossiya.
He's a nazi
I agree. But Ivans narrative did seem to have quite a lot of holes, where it all ”depended on your point of view”, like the shelling of Donbas of which there is official and unbaised UN and OSCE observations - pure Russian fake news. And that the Bucha killings where a ”psy-op” from Ukranian Nazis. I think the interviewer did a great job and let Ivan talk and present his POV - even though he could have shredded him to pieces on a few occasions he obstained. Nice gesture.
Hey! I can try to explain you something from Russian side of you want to.
Two years into the conflict and there are some people whoare still unaware of the Russian perspective on it. Truly unbelievable.. It feels that people like Douglas McGregor, Scott Ritter, Patrick Lancaster, Jeffrey Sach, John Mearsheimer and many more live in the vacuum.
@@user-nf5ut9g1y You are misinterpreting what I said, The key word is "interview". I said it's the first interview of the Russian perspective I have seen, rather than pure propaganda issued from the state. Equally, Ivan is an intelligent guy, who backs up his sentiment with his beliefs and that I said was rare.
I may not like it but I appreciate the perspective. I have never seen an interview from the Russian side that wasn't a POW or propaganda. My mind is just spinning on how f'ed up things get. You continue to impress me. You have more journalism in your pinky than any corporate news organization. Well done sir, well done.
Task and purpose guy did an interview with a Serbian sniper volunteer a year ago. Try searching for that one.
It’s interesting to hear what these brainwashed Russian fools believe.
interviewing a Russian soldier today is like interviewing a Nazi 80 years ago.
especially after hundreds of cases of Russian shelling of peaceful Ukrainian houses, cutting off the head and castration of Ukrainian soldiers.
Such interviews want to show that Russian shit is not shit, it's a diamond
oh buddy.. that's funny.
civilians in russia are getting arrested and thrown in some gulag simply for answering questions to random people that are just filming and asking people for their opinion on the streets, and even getting arrested for holding up blank sheets of paper.. and you think that some ivanovitch just decided to give an hour long interview without the whole thing being arranged by his handlers over at the KGB telling him exactly what to say and what topics to avoid in order to not get locked up.
hahahah.
cmon friend. if you think this is anything other than english language propaganda that was put together by the KGB and their propaganda department to specifically target the slower and more retarded segments of our population here in the west that suddenly found a soft spot for these backward third world authoritarian communist regimes ever since part of us conservatives seemingly went full-blown retard mode and started praising dictators and parroting anti-american anti-freedom pro-authoritarian talking points because some brain dead steven bannon or whatever third rate internet "news" shows apparently said so, then i don't even know what to tell you. i suspect that you know exactly the kind of shows what i'm talking about. always some pimple-faced nazi youth looking losers doing their little obscure unknown low budget "news" show from their garage and filming love messages for dear vlad and being real careful to use the little kremlin-approved language and jerking themselves off by calling it a special adventure instead of a war and repeating the retarded talking points of whatever low level retired military officer that executives over at russia today managed to pay to come on and do little interviews talk trash about america and the west and go on and on about how great russia is, that way they can target both english-speaking audiences and then add subtitles and play it back alongside the clips of their big superstar tucker carlson to show their brain dead soviet-minded commie grandmas that "see, even the americans are saying what we have been telling you!" on the evening news on russian state-run media.
just tapping into the market of tens of millions gullible and easily-impressed losers that are extremely vulnerable to such third world authoritarian propaganda because they feel insignificant and desperately want to feel special, which pushes them towards always doing and saying and believing the complete opposite of everything that is normal and widely-accepted as being the reality in order to show that they are "not like the other sheep" and that they did the "research" and that they know all of the top secret qonspiracy theories that nobody else knows about. doesn't matter what the topic might be. the earth is round? nope, the earth is actually flat because NASA movie studios and blah blah blah.. there is a chinese cough outbreak going on? nope, nothing is happening whatsoever, big gobment illuminaughty bilderberg reptilian plandemic event 201 schwab great reset blah blah blah.. the united states is the first and only kind benevolent superpower that acts as a force for good in the world and always attempts to do the right thing even when it costs them insane amounts of effort and resources and blood and treasure and goes against its own interests? nope, america and freedom bad, orange man bad, and actually china and russia are the real bastions of freedom that are attempting to spread peace and cooperation and prosperity and democracy and human rights and law and order and separation of powers and government accountability and checks and balances and transparency and individual privacy with their beautiful communist authoritarian ideology that has done so much good for the world.. you shouldn't jump off a cliff? well, actually jumping off a cliff is really good for you and you should definitely jump off a c... wait hold up!
big dummy syndrome. the biggest dummies are convinced that they're the geniuses that know special things that nobody else has figured out. and it's not like they have just been tricked into believing a couple of specific retarded talking points. we're talking full-blown conversions to believing the absolute worst third world authoritarian propaganda and talking trash about our own countries and believing third world kremlin talking points over what is said by our own experts and officials from the institutions that make up the foundation of our countries and that have specifically allowed us to differentiate ourselves from the other third world authoritarian and war-ravaged hellholes on this earth. with all of that propaganda coming not from a bunch of spies or plants receiving directions from kremlin operatives, but instead being made organically and coming from within the homeland from your retarded purple-haired leftist coworker or your dumbass alt-right proud boys MAGA uncle or your brain dead qonspircy theorist neighbor and his wife that spends her days writing crap on some secret facebook page about "MK-ULTRA gang stalking survivors" and morgellon-infused chemtrails and quartz crystal energy or whatever homeopathic insanity.
really some of the most brain dead people on the planet. almost as bad as leftists. or actually, maybe even worse than leftists. because at least leftists just want to make their hair purple and put cow rings in their noses and save the polar bears and wave their stupid little rainbow flags and hold hands and sing kumbaya in their leftist fantasy bubble. they're not trying to dismantle our institutions and destroy our countries from within on behalf of their goddamn dear beloved supreme comrade vladimirovitch and chairman winnie the pooh and get rid of the american-dominated global world order that has given us everything that we have and that has given us eighty years of the most peaceful era in all of human history with the most freedom and the most innovation and the most economic growth and the most prosperity and the highest standards of living that rival those of even kings from a hundred years ago and the most access to western values for as many people as possible on this earth short of risking a nuclear war by straight up invading crapholes like russia, china, north korea, iran, venezuela, cuba, syria, etc. to liberate their poor citizens that have been enslaved and brainwashed for the last hundred years.
these are the same people that talk trash about america whenever a mistake happens or something goes wrong and a civilian is accidentally killed in a drone strike or whatever and "blah blah blah, gazillion dead iraqi civilians to steal the iraqi oil, go home american war criminals!" despite america being the most generous nation on this earth that values human life the most and that has the most insanely restrictive rules of engagement and that will literally spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to drop some fancy laser-guided hellfire missile with no warhead and just kinetic "blades" in order to take out some terrorist leader in a crowded area or take out some 300 dollar old rusty toyota pickup from the 1980s with a couple of worthless goat-humping terrorists in the back in order to avoid civilian casualties, and that will have a goddamn army of lawyers and investigators crawling up the ass of everyone involved in the operation if they hear so much as a whisper of potential collateral damage having occurred even if those reports come from the goddamn jihadists themselves. full-blown hearts and minds and nation-building and guys fighting with their hands tied behind their backs and having to wait for the jihadists that are intentionally dressed as civilians and that are clearly carrying weapons to actually not even just point the weapon at them but actually fire at them before they can respond and fight back. straight up useless united nations peacekeeper type of stuff. meanwhile you have the russians using their apartment-seeking and kindergarten-seeking cruise missiles to specifically target civilian infrastructure and goddamn restaurants and malls and hospitals and everything, and turning entire cities into piles of rubble with mindless indiscriminate artillery and multiple launch rocket systems barrages out of frustration for being incompetent and unable to achieve any of the military objectives, and these same third worlder and brainwashed authoritarian-sympathizing retards out here among us have the nerve to talk trash about how america and western countries fight wars..
some goddamn drunken vladimirovitch claiming that they felt "threatened by NATO expansion" because the poorest most corrupt country on the continent wanted nothing to do with their backward soviet commie bullshit anymore and was trying to start the process of maybe being allowed into europe and NATO in the year 3023 when they finally manage to recover from the communist stagnation and incompetence and ignorance and insane corruption that came from living under the rule of the third world commie soviet empire for nearly a hundred years and bring themselves up to the first world civilized western standards that are needed to be able to join europe and NATO.
it's wild just how clueless people can become, and how they can fall for propaganda that pushes literally the complete and total opposite of what is actually true.
@@julius43461 Unfortaly the translation was a little bit off, there was some missunderstanding.
This dude is solid, smart and honest. Any military would be happy to have this man in their ranks
Really? Repeating lies of russian nazi propaganda made you think so?
@@aleksklochkoall nazi surnames ended "ochko"
"we didn't clear the areas that we took so we got hit from the back.. because who could have guessed that we might get hit from the back? heheheheh"
indeed.. who could have guessed that the freedom-loving people that we were invading and trying to slaughter would hit us back? unprecedented stuff.
yep very smart. dare i say genius. a real russian specialist from the special institute of special medicine #6 outside the very special village of stalingrad-85. a perfect special asset for his royal highness supreme special-comrade vladimirovitch and his 72 hour special adventure.
Not Ukraine, you wouldn't know if he's gonna sabotage from the inside given he fought for the enemy.
Of course he is smart. This is an agent, approved by the Kremlin to spread propaganda, you think someone that educated would go to the front-line? Naïve, anyone who has met russian soldiers know what I am talking about, seen the scum in Syria, more than enough of them, terrorists and marauders.
Русский солдат Иван. Три простых, но таких понятных слова. Береги себя!
Флаг вверх ногами)) май нэм из иван😂
@@EeDodoсам ты вверх ногами😂. Всё правильно он висит.
@@EeDodoразверни монитор)
русский солдат ванек - хорошая надпись для пакета с вонючими останками, которые бросили " свои не бросатели")))
ruskiy pi*or ivan
AWESOME JOB! It doesn't matter if we agree or not with him, it's incredible that we had the chance to hear him in this polite and clear way. Thanks Willy!
He gave Ivan a platform to spread propaganda bullshit and never once challenged him on anything he said..a let down of an interview to say the least
@@chriswincek8672to be fair when he says things like “glohohomo” it’s obvious propaganda and bs.
@@ikematthews6866
Might be propaganda but it ain't bs, African leaders have been giving the U.S sh** recently for trying to spread homosexuality in Africa even 😂
The thing about Russian propaganda is that a lot of it ain't false, the West genuinely makes it hard for people to support them
@@chriswincek8672
Sounds like some boring CNN crap where the host is always interrupting the guest, let the man speak his mind, Its rare we get interviews like this. If you are so scared of his propaganda switching people to the other side, then your sides stance might not be so strong in the first place.
If it's not globohomo, then what the hell is it! It's great to see the Russians pick up our memes! Now if he'd just start referring to, "ZOG!"🤣🤡😎
Very good interview. An awesome to see both sides perspective and some good points. Спасибо большое.
Great Interview, opened my eyes to how Russian citizens rationalize the war. Although there is a lot of things Ivan said that I completely disagree with on a fundamental level, there is a lot of things he said that reminds me of the things my brothers, friends, and I said to rationalize Iraq and Afghanistan. I'll also admit that I've been caught up in the Russian hate wheel and this video is very humanizing. Thank you Willy for helping evolving my perspective. Cheers
Surprisingly you put yourself in the position where you are right and russians wrong. I bet you have little knowledge of why it started and how.
@@GuayusaPure Firstly, yes, It's a situation where we can agree to disagree. Following that, I do actually have a fair amount of knowledge about the subject and usually pull my info from peer-reviewed journals from multiple perspectives. From my point of view, knowledge, and experience I see Russia as the overall instigator and I also don't agree with many of Ivan's personal views, likely due to cultural upbringing. That being said, I can still respect and understand his perspective. I'm going to assume that you perceive the situation differently as I do, and probably for the very same reasons that I do for my perspective. The only thing we can do is to try and inform ourselves as best we can from unbiased sources such as Willy.
Cheers
@@maxmoanz6561 So what do you think about 4 Banderas statues in Ukraine?
@CA-jz9bm In short, I think it's bad. He was piece of shit that shouldn't be idolized. We can draw similarities to the veneration of Confederate generals in the Southern USA, men who literally bought and sold black people and fought a war over it.
Even though I view Russia as the aggressor, it does not mean I'm ignoring the pitfalls of Ukraine.
This guy has right-wing views, most of russians do not hold such views on Russian empire, borders and historical lands.
It's amazing to think this is the first Russian soldier perspective I've heard.. I really like hearing from the other side, it brought the conflict into perspective for me. I'd like to hear more. Great stuff from Willy!
its sad, not amazing.
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@Wylvien, No it’s not. We already know how these brainwashed Russian fools think and all the nonsense that they believe.
@Wylvientbf its all media, even Russia and China too
this is because for 2 years TH-cam has banned many channels that demonstrated a second point of view and continues to ban channels.
This war will end one day. Stories like Ivan's are going to mean something. Thank you, Willy. A soldier is a soldier, not a politician.
And after the end of war we’ll have another “deadly” pandemia…
yeah, they will be looked at by researchers looking into propaganda to see how retarded and brainwashed the russians really were and how they allowed some little 4 feet tall goblin in the kremlin to send their kids to get slaughtered as cannon fodder by the hundreds of thousands as part of his little 72 hour special adventure.
Problem that Ivan is idiot, not a soldier.
It's worse that he's intelligent and yet this gullible to Russian propaganda. Didn't need to hear anything past "special operation" to know this guy's a fascist pig.
@BatmanNoriega-jf7zl an individual soldier, does not pull the levers of power in a nation.
Thanks for the uncensored interviews!
Thank you for this. An extremely interesting view into the other side.
I love the way this guy explains his emotions and feelings behind everything. His descriptions are very detailed and colorful. It’s very different than the way a westerner would explain something.
Have you watched any of the other hundreds of interviews that Willy has done with western fighters from the Ukraine side? Which of them lacked clarity of thought or poor explanation behind their decisions? This guy literally says we are liberating our land about a foreign country which has internationally recognised borders since 1991. How is this rational to you? If I come to your house and rape your girlfriend saying that I am liberating her from your oppressive relationship are you going to stand there and tell everyone how detailed and eloquent my reasoning is?
It is interesting to contrast this interview to the other ones.
I would like to hear from an AZOV true believer. (An actual Ukrainian, not a weirdo foreign fighter)
Russian people live by the soul, that's why our emotions and speech are so wide and deep
Yeah, sadly i couldnt listen to that brainwashed d1ckhead with the stuff he is saying. But i respect giving space to those people, rather than just spit on them ;)
Yeah he's confidently wrong. I'm in the first ten minutes but if he describes territorial defenders as drug addicts and brainwashed. I mean the level of lack of self awareness is amazing. Hope his way of thinking dies out
Willy you are a better journalist than 90% of the sources Out there, this is is important to get the other side as well. This is the essence of objective journalism and not the narrative / propaganda driven news we get from all the Mainstream media. Awesome work legend!!!
Which are the better or same 10%?
99%
i was about to write something similar....its great to see others appreciating this as much as i do!
100%
@@sisuluca13101%…1% extra credit bonus for having a Russian interview. I take this guy with a grain of salt of course, but the interview makes Willy a legend.
This provided a perspective I feel like many people are forgetting about. Thank you Willy for sharing this! And thanks to Ivan for being willing to explain his perspective!
Yes, after a year of uncritically repeating the butcher story, Willy seemed surprised that it doesn’t make sense for Russia to end a bunch of civilian collaborators.
Hmm let’s think is there a group that has made it clear that bad things will happen to anybody that collaborates with the Russians?
What perspective? This guys just another brainwashed Russian. To treat so many of soldiers for wounds they never needed to suffer because of a nationalist ego is astounding to still bark propaganda like this.
Приглосите на интервью Патрика Ланкастера. Он много лет живет в Донбассе и на чистом английском расскажет все из первых рук
Это будет сильный удар для любителей западной пропаганды )
Есть ещё Грэм Филипс. Или Гриша, как его на Донбассе зовут.
Yup. Would be interesting to hear Patrick Lancaster's views. Good to hear from both sides.
@@hamoudeallam645 да весь мир посмеётся с этого пророссийского пропагандиста.
@@user-user-user. кому интересен твой Гриша?
Thanks for this and thank you Ivan too for the interview, i miss the days when all of us in the world got along better and were able to travel between each other's countries.
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He's a nazi
Так приедь в Україну и посмотри как они освобождают людей от жизни
blame russia.
@@henryburby6077 I'd say blame the politicians. Most people you fight against we would be buying each other drinks instead of being at war.
@@henryburby6077 yeah not like the yanks regime changed Ukraine in 2014 and trained and equipped neo-Nazi filth or anything 🙄🙄
This is insane content. Thank you Willy. I hope everyone is safe.
Now THIS is independent journalism. Thank you for bringing all perspectives from an objective view. It is critical to hear all perspecrives, even if you disagree. The great Benjamin Ferencz would be proud.
US ambasador to Soviet Union in 1962 asked Kennedy in the midst of the Cuban Crisis:
"Have you considered their position, where they are coming from and how our nuclear missiles in Turkey pose an existential threat to their way of life?"
This question prompted Kennedy to open a direct line to Khruschev, one that he could converse with Khruschev 1 on 1, phone to phone, man to man. The crisis was resolved that same year.
We could learn something from that.
Russians have been trying to convey their point of view at least since late 90s. US was like: Nah, we do not care.
but american rockets are still in Turkey
@@diy-remont Not the nuclear ones. And I doubt they would entrust such weapons to Erdogan now.
@@diy-remont They retain nuclear bombs, plane deployed. Ballistic missiles were pulled. It takes a lot longer for a plane to scramble and fly to target than an ICBM.
@@TomislavPuklin-wz1bl and what? in fact, there is no russian bases and weapons in Cuba, but in Turkey is.
This was awsome!!! God bless you guys
Thank you Willy for doing this podcast. Seeing both sides of the coin is what great journalism is about.
Not only both sides but discovering who made the coin and why
He's not showing "a side", or at least not one that really matters. He's a soldier. He joined the front to help his comrades. Any soldier has war stories to tell. No different with Wehrmacht and SS soldiers during WW2.
To represent a side the person needs to make a political case for the war. He did not. In Russia that is solely in Putin's hands. At that level Russia has nothing to offer but lies.
RIP to all the fallen warriors in this crazed world.
just the real warriors fighting to defend their homeland - Ukraine. these orcs can rest in hell.... where they belong. thrown in the trash heap & forgotten by history.
Rip to soldiers. Nazi will go to hell
Except the invaders. They can rest in hell.
But not for the Nazis, including those the Russian army is fighting
@@user-ln1fp5zl3b don't forget the satanic genetically engineered insects.... that target russians 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant interview and perspective.
Outstanding Willy and Ivan. Thanks for this.
I certainly understand why this video will be controversial. But regardless of what you think of this it is always good to understand why someone fights regardless of the side. keep it up mate.
True. I was hesitant to listen to this one but after a few seconds i just said to myself "dude if i wish for them to lose i must know why they fight" so i just went fuck it and listen even if i just cringe at his awnsers like how they describe ukrainians and stuff.
@@beerten202 agree, it was hard to listen.
He feels 202% justified, I already knew these Arguments but it dawned on me that this kind of imperial thinking will continue forever :(
@@slippingsnake you probably believed IRAQ had WMDs aswell hahaha .... have you ever thought your opinion might be the wrong one ?
yea thought it shouldn't its important to show both sides
@@stefanradman7540It’s a fact that Iraq DID have chemical weapons, they used them on Iran and later the Kurds.
Berth of fresh air. Bravo for interview
Thank you Ivan for the interview
A challenging issue, well covered Willy. You'll get a lot of hate about it, but genuine people will appreciate what you have done. It is clear that he is not a "talking head" or spokesman for Russia, a very honest interview, like it or not.
Complete honest un biased journalism, well done sir, the new agencys could learn from you
This is nice interview. Great job
Thanks for this video!
Great work Willy, finally an interview of the opposing side. This is the first channel/media I’ve seen doing this with an open mind. It really is a shame that more people don’t do similar work to yours
Western propaganda is more contagious then covid
Why say “finally”. Patrick Lancaster has been covering the war for nine years.
@@harveydanielson- Lol Patrick Lancaster, are you serious! Let me guess, a big fan of Scott Ritter too? A western Vatnik
@@ZootyZoFo don't let the western propaganda door hit ya
@@ZootyZoFowhat is wrong with listening to Scott ritter and Patrick Lancaster? Do they work for CNN & BBC, if so then they are definitely bad eggs
awesome work Willy! Its grate to hear the other side as a Ret combat engineer myself from 1CER..
Why other side??? Our side )
Спасибо за интервью обоим участникам!
Good job to both Ivan and Willy starting the conversation!
Hope ya have more like these. 👏 great job and I admire your courage and professionalism. God bless your work so our kids can have a better understanding of this world 🗺️
Appreciate you doing this interview. Next level brother.🫡
Excellent interview, thank you
Incredible work man, this is why you're the best at what you do. Thanks for bringing on the Rus medic, loved hearing what the other side had to say
Excellent interview Will. Thanks for doing this. Very eye opening!
Interesting interview, thanks. As born in Ukraine but living in Russia, I want to add.
I was born in a small town near Kharkov and my relatives are there now. They are afraid to write to me, let alone to call. They might get tested and get into trouble and I'll never even see them alive, you know what. We can only correspond in Telegram, but even here they ask not to write to them, they write first. They are afraid, that is the reality. All Kharkiv speaks Russian. All of Odessa speaks Russian. All Nikolaev speaks Russian. These were Russian cities and they still are. Russia does not need Lviv, the Carpathians and Western regions. But my relatives pray to God for the Russians to come. Believe me, I'm sorry for the Russian soldiers, and I'm sorry for the Ukrainian ones. Whoever says what, whatever Western, American propaganda tells you - Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians - BROTHERS. Unfortunately, Western Ukrainians, for whom Bandera is a Nazi hero, carry this propaganda throughout Ukraine. For the Poles, Bandera is a criminal, but they are ready to endure the praise of Bandera, Poland forgot about its dead in the Volyn massacre, this is a Polish shame. And the shame of those countries who do not see Nazism in Ukraine in this, I say this as a Ukrainian.
I also want to add about the global homosexuality that Ivan spoke about. I'm gay myself and I understand what he meant. The point is that in the West there are aggressive attempts to draw underage children into the propaganda of homosexuality. Yes, there is such propaganda, there is propaganda (advertising) of Snickers bars, there is also propaganda of gay relationships. I hope every sane adult understands that it is unacceptable and dangerous to involve children in this, the child cannot understand what he wants, false goals can be set for him. Propaganda of gay relationships among children is prohibited in Russia, that's all. Like Florida, as far as I know. Otherwise, gays meet, spend time in gay clubs or at home (yes, we have gay clubs, and in Moscow and St. Petersburg they are very chic and glamorous, ask Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys or Elton John, they loved to spend time in Russian gay clubs) ))) I will also add that I understand that you are reading this in America, Australia and other Western countries. But what do you think America would do if Mexico allowed Russia to place a Russian base in the country? What if Mexico City wanted to enter into a military alliance with Moscow? Tell me what would happen? How many long hours or minutes would it have been before the US military entered Mexico? Hour? Two hours? Think about it. All the best!
Word for word RT propaganda. I was also born in Ukraine (now occupied Horlivka, which has almost no functioning gov except a few armed warlords, and fell into extreme poverty), govoryu po russkom just because someone is speaking Russian doesnt mean Russia can come over and take over. There's tons of ppl Speaking Russian in all ex-soviet states, and all of them will fight to the death if you will try to "liberate" them. Also fuck off with that "I'm scared of NATO" excuse, Finland just joined NATO with 0 issues. You only invade Ukraine because you think it belongs to you which it doesnt. Hope to see you conscripted and sent to the front.
Спасибо большое за такие слова❤ Надеюсь, с Вашими родителями будет всё хорошо.
That is a daft comparison. The USA does not militarily threaten Mexico, so of course Mexico has no reason to position a military base for a foreign country there. Russia was very clearly a threat to Ukraine; they were literally just freed from the occupation recently, so of course they were afraid, and as can be seen now, they were right to be afraid.
@@RyanHellyer So, Ukraine chose to shell Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the East out of fear.
What would the US do of Mexico started to shell Americans?
@@RyanHellyerА что вы у Мексики отжали? Калифорнию? Не хотите обратно вернуть?
Excellent interview. Keep showing both sides of the story please.
His English is better than some who grew up speaking English.
Well done! completely respect you for actually getting other perspectives
Fantastic journalism 10/10 been waiting for this for a long time!
We need more video like this ❤
G'day legend. You are an amazing individual Willy thanks for your positive energy!
I would love to see more of this content! Interviews with Russian soldiers are what we need more of. Great job, best wishes for health and happiness 👍
Иван большое тебе уважение. Не знаю единственный ли ты англоговорящий русский принимавший участие в СВО на нашей стороне. Но ты настоящий русский. Надеюсь что наши журналисты сделают полный перевод на русский этого интервью. Очень хотелось бы тебя услышать на родном языке. Очень нужен перевод этой беседы. Для всех добрых русских людей. Тебе Иван огромный респект и уважуха.
Можно настроить автоматический перевод.
Твой Иван нацик. Флаг который за ним, флаг русского имперского движения. Они все нацики.
включи субтитры )))
I thank you Ivan for your service.. As an American Patriot, I know the enemy is within
Americans are the most propogandized people in the world... being separated and divided with woke politics, completely captured by Fascism..
I doubt I'll get a response,
I HAVE 0 FREEDOMM OF SPEEECH HERE..
FREE GONZALO LIRA
@@marianna9909 Яндекс безобразно перевел :(
Willy, you are a true gutsy Aussie and glad you are honouring freedom of speech which is worth its weight in gold these days. Let’s hope you’ve set a trend with giving the full 360 perspective of both sides in this conflict because there are human beings on both sides; geopolitical social nonsense aside. You’re a true blue making us proud ❤
So polite to ask if its okay to smoke. What a gentleman
Great interview Willy, thanks for letting Ivan share the perspective from the other side. I definitely learned a few things about how the Russians see things in terms of a big picture and the way Russia looks at Ukraine and Moldova in particular.
they see the world just as the members of the German Nazi Party in 1939 did - they want to attack and occupy their peaceful neighbours and kill hundreds of thousands . They believe Russia is sacred and superior in some way .... they are inhumane , murdering imperialists . . Modern Ukraine never attacked anyone .............. Russian people are stuck in a medieval , brainwashed nazified rage to attack neighbours
Before 1812 Moldova had nothing to do with the russians. This guy is a chauvinistic, imperialistic swine who deserves to be fought against.
When you say "the way Russia looks at Ukraine and Moldova". I am from the Czech Republic a you should understand that when Ivan says "Ukraine and Moldova can't exist by themselves", it is basically what my current Czech government says about our own country. Recently our PM literally said "there is no third way for us, we have to exist only as a part of Russian or western bloc" (which of course means the West is the only option in his mind and in the mind of our current fanatically prowestern government). So it is not that Ivan is somehow different in his thinking from how plenty of people of "free world" think by themselves.
@@flankerpraha Interesting, thank you 🤔☺️ I was hoping Europe would have a good relationship with Russia and Asia, and I'm sad that things have soured. Hopefully we'll get another chance... some day. 😔
@@flankerprahahe said Ukraine doesn’t have the recourses to become a super power. So they will have to align themselves with a super power. It is only natural that they would align themselves with the superpower bordering their country.
This actually just makes me so sad to see young men on both sides getting dragged into this mess. No “Orcs”, no “Ukrops”, just people.
Whoever doesn't think like that is evil
Guy literally has an imperial flag behind him.
still not gonna get trough to most people sadly
@@sisuluca13 we have to fight for that. its what we can do when we arent there where those poor guys are dying
i do get your point,but if it was your country and cities being bombed and burned,your family being killed and you being sent to the front lines because some massive neighbour country decided that your country wasn't really a country but part of them and should do as you are told or else,maybe you wouldn't be so understanding.the first things russian soldiers did in the first days of war,all filmed in cctv was looting shops and private houses,how would you feel if it was done to you.not to mention the crimes that were not filmed but also happened.
Chapeau to the Medic. So clear his convictions. Bravo and wish you and family all the best and God bless. Keep safe.
great english Ivan, as a native english speaker learning russian I understand how hard it is to learn
Made me almost cry incredible interview
Bravo Willy
HOLY SHIT WILLY YOU DID IT!!!! YOU FINALLY GOT A RUSSIAN!!!! GOD BLESS MATE YOU ARE A LEGEND
You mean a Ztard.
Ты тоже можешь взять личное интервью у русского 😉🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Yeah. Holy shit. It only took a year)
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Great interview
Thank you, Willy, for doing your part to revive unbiased journalism.
You cannot possibly be serious? Why do so many people in the comment section think that neutrality is objectivity? Just sitting there and throwing a couple softball questions is not journalism. No matter who is being interviewed, Ukrainian, Russian or Martian ... you need to ask uncomfortable questions and be skeptical about statements being made. Otherwise you'll offer both sides a platform to simply spew propaganda. Where is the value in that?
@EnnoMaffen this is exactly my thinking, respect for articulating these thoughts so clearly
@@EnnoMaffen the value is in hearing testimony from multiple eyewitnesses viewing the conflict from different perspectives. Willy is a former soldier who respects other soldiers enough to let them tell their stories. His interviews are never confrontational and he’s much more skeptical of the governments on both sides than he is of the guys doing the fighting. He’s not my only source of news, but he humanizes the conflict and provides information I’m not likely to find elsewhere. I’m an adult who is capable of filtering out the propaganda for myself and I don’t appreciate it when “journalists” take it upon themselves to be the judge of what is true and censor information that doesn’t fit their narrative.
@@EnnoMaffen He did asked some uncomfortable questions --> about the reason for the invasion, about the threatment of prisoners, about the casualties among civilians.
Very interesting, you should definitely have him back on. I find the guest Very interesting and his English was excellent.
Definitely a must see
First time I see an convinced westerner giving voice to Russian side.
RESPECT.
regardless of which side you fight for, respect has to be given to this man. it is incredible to hear Ivan’s story.
Thank you Willy, an amazing interview, i'm glad from how it looks you got no hate for this project.
This is what I've been waiting for! Thanks, Willy!
Great job ! Interviewing both sides !
An outstanding interview bro, appreciate the Russian view of the SMO.
Great interview, thanx man
One point. In 2014 there were 9 million ethnic Russians living in Eastern and Southern Ukraine and Crimea. Presently there are 4 million ethnic Russian Ukrainians living as refugees in Russia. They have all been given Russian citizenship.
Есть ещё один пункт. С 2014 года в Крыму стоит армия рф, и там нет войны. А на Донбассе не было армии рф и там война...
'given' should be read as 'forced to take Russian passports'.
@@Subher0 Explain to us how you can force someone to have a passport? If they dont really want russian passports, they just have to throw it away. It is grotesque but we are used to.
@@Subher0LOL ... I don't think you understand anything
@@orkamotorka Strong argument bro.
First of all, thank you for this interview, because you won't see stuff like this on TH-cam, ever.
Secondly, after reading the comments and seeing people compare this to Iraq I understood that they really know nothing about that side of the world and live off the bs their media are telling them. I hope such interviews keep rolling and that they are as provoking and controversial as this one, so that people could actually do their own research. Loved it how gentle and respectful you were ❤
@23:27 - "Why shouldn't I fight against the GloboHomo? Let's put it like that, yeah?" Wow, he's putting his finger right on the larger picture, much greater than a territorial dispute between two countries. Fascinating interview, Willy.
The Global American Empire, the GAE.
That made me do a double take. He talks about the NWO. He his opinion seems to have gone global now. It is no longer a conspiracy theory. It is world wide knowledge
Amazing content.
Gonna listen to this alone in the car tomorrow. Very interested. Well in for getting this interview Willy!
I think you are the first person to bring a Russian aspect to the discussion. Just shows how legit you are.
So you didn't know they had a retarded thieving view before the interview?
I mean on russian speaking internet there are a lot of Russian POV, often in the format of interview like Willy's
@vagusmaximus3711 think he means western.
The Russian politicians tell us everything that needs to be known "West bad...Ukraine is our territory. We'll nuke you if you resist assimilation". This guy just says the same.
hes not the first
Solid work Willy, Cheers.
Good journalism Willy, it’s good to hear the other side’s views to better understand them. Keep up the good work..
Most informative media on the “special operation” I’ve seen.
Good work Willy.
Brilliant interview! A breath of fresh air. Thank you!
Bravo, Willy!
Fantastic interview. And it seems your audience agrees.
Thank you Willy. Thank you to your guest as well.
Great primary source. Thanks for doing these Willy. History will smile on you. And his English is pretty darn good.
One of the key components to understanding any war or conflict is the ability to see and try to understand the perspective and motivations of all participants. Something which have been missing and sadly influenced many political decisions over the past century. There is still a long way from con-census or solutions, but at least through interviews like this we may get closer to an understanding. Well done
Witam! Świetny material Pan! Dzkuje pana!
Keep up the amazing work 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you guys!
Great to see interviews on both sides.
*Wow what a concept for a journalist, present both sides of a conflict!*
He's not representing "a side". He's a soldier. He joined the front to help his comrades. Any soldier has war stories to tell. No different with Wehrmacht and SS soldiers during WW2.
To represent a side the person needs to make a political case for the war. He did not. In Russia that is solely in Putin's hands. At that level Russia has nothing to offer but lies.
Really cool video. Agree or disagree its great to hear someone talking about both sides. Too many echo chambers these days no one can consider other points of view.
This is the realest honest interview. Well done both men.
Good interview, Willy. Cheers
Well done with this one, Willy. 👍
Great job, true journalism