Why Russia Historically Lost by Starting the War in Ukraine

And haven't you changed your point of view in these four years?

I'm asking cautiously. About what? Your point of view on the so-called special military operation I haven't changed it.

You can compare them. It's been public since February 24, 2022.

I've already said that it's a catastrophic mistake and a catastrophe for my country, for Russia, first and foremost.

For Ukraine too, naturally. But as for the consequences of these actions, the consequences that were still only possible back then, possible, uh, it's a catastrophe, and we see that today.

Four and a half years have passed, more than five, we see.

You can compare Russia in 2021, despite COVID, and, uh, Russia, how people live, how people live.

Russia is a country for people, like any country, for people.

Have they started living better or worse?

We won, we lost, right? And a politically wrong decision.

I still think it was a mistake. I said then, I said twenty— even if we take Kyiv and even if we take Lviv and Odesa, we lost historically.

Russia lost historically when the Special Military Operation began.

I said that. So what changed? Nothing changed.

What is there to revise? There’s nothing to revise yet.

I simply see no grounds for revision. What did we win, exactly?

Well, under the conditions when the Special Military Operation began, and we saw that it was a mistaken decision.

At first, we saw it differently. We were wrong.

We were wrong. But that's a fact, right?

They sent a corps of two hundred thousand into a Ukraine of forty million Well, well, against the Ukrainian army.

Ah, so that was clearly a mistake. Well, it's a fact.

You could say, no, he had something else in mind.

But that’s a fact, yes, one you just can’t argue with.