The Sevan Podcast - #380 - Stories from Odessa, Ukraine with Yevhenni pt. 7
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Caleb,
Evgeny, Sevan.
You're in a country that's in the middle of a war.
Oh, you think it's middle already, yes?
Oh, good point.
Good point.
So two months more
we must see.
I guess not.
It's just nuts.
I guess it's not in relationship to time.
We don't know.
But it's just crazy.
Once again, here I am.
I'm sitting in a kitchen near the beach.
And you're sitting in the kitchen in a war.
Yeah, it's first time we're meeting in the daylight.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you for doing this. It's 7 a.m. there. What time is it there?
It's 5 p.m.
Oh, good. I wonder if your mood's going to be different. You always have a good mood, by the way. You always have a good mood, but with the sun, maybe it'll even be different.
Of course. In the daylight, of course, it's Sunday today. You know know we have a big holiday in Ukraine
now oh what's the holiday it's the Easter days we celebrate Easter on this
day people go to church to consecrate Easter bread it's like holiday bread, yes. And we gather with relatives
and friends
and celebrate the resurrection of Christ.
Oh yeah, I was going to say
that's what Easter is, right? He died and
someone saw him raised from the
wherever they buried him, they saw him
ascend, right?
Can we get a picture of that, Caleb?
Ascending Jesus, yeah. Crazy. can we get a picture of that Caleb ascending
Jesus yeah crazy
nuts
and will they stop the fighting
today or during Easter
no you still gotta fight still gotta kill
people yeah that's
very interesting when
first they killed
people and then you see the photos
of Putin in the church
and he's praying
for everything's good
this is like
this sign you know
yeah
and by the way the press
post photos with the Putin in the church
where he
say good words
yes and this is the photo from the last year so Putin Putin in the church, where he says good words, yes.
And this is a photo from the last year.
So Putin sitting in the bunker and don't want to show us.
Yeah.
Hey, can you type in Putin church and see what we get, Caleb?
Is that what's happening?
Is he hidden?
Is Putin hiding?
Is he somewhere in a bunker?
It looks like that.
Is he somewhere in a bunker?
It looks like that.
All the people who work with that, yes, who look into this say about it.
He is not in Moscow, yes.
And these are the photos from another record, yes, from last year.
I read the article about it.
Even though it says right there, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mayor Sergei Sobonyan,
attend the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, Russia, April 23, 2022.
That would have been yesterday, and what you're saying is is now and you can uh google uh the 21st year yes and there they are the such photos
how old is putin how old is putin 60 or 70 69 69 already um i saw yesterday, I saw press saying that Zelensky said that, hey, we have no control over the war.
This is all in Putin's hand.
All he has to do is stop and it's over.
Of course.
I watched this conference, yes, also.
And he said that they do whatever they can do, yes,
but the main actions, it's from other side.
So we just protect our land and try to do something.
And all these guys is thinking about rockets and other.
Yeah.
Hey, did I see correctly,
did Elon write a letter to the board at Twitter asking for them to reinstate Trump? Can you check to see if that's true?
Yevgeny and it was the Nelk boys they're like some comedians here
in the United States and they interviewed Trump
and one of them said hey if you're friends with Putin
why can't you just call him
and tell him to stop fighting
and I forget what he said
you did read about it
yeah yeah I'm interested
in Trump I see what he
said so it's
a good time
yeah I forget what he said it must it's a good time. Yeah.
I forget what he said.
It must've not been that profound because it didn't stick with me.
Um,
what are you,
what,
so,
so you sent me some videos this morning.
Is that,
uh,
that's Odessa.
That's just a few miles from you where buildings are on fire and bombs are
hitting.
Uh,
that was yesterday.
So it's, it's day that a day that turned out everything.
What do you mean?
We have a really calm situation in Odessa last week.
what I lately I told you that the half of people in Odessa sitting home when they heard air alarm yes right so the last days we was like this also when we
heard their alarm we just okay it's everything fine now And we can go to the corridor, yes, and the rule of two walls.
So if the missiles land, we know that outdoor wall destroyed
and we have some protection.
Yeah, it's what experts recommendation.
Or if it's in the night, late night, and you have good sleep,
so we just ignore it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And yesterday was...
You just hope you don't die.
Yeah, we hope that everything is fine and the theory of probability is,
and we will survive after that.
But yesterday we're sitting at home and that was after 40 minutes like air alarm is start
yes look at sorry evgeny look in this video smoke's coming out of both sides of the building
it's after 10 minutes after explosion so the guy is coming just and uh take a video shot it's crazy okay sorry so
yeah yeah yes and after 40 minutes uh we heard two explosions somewhere it's far away yes
and we like oh it's it's not far from us we go to the two two walls so start to thinking about our safeness and after that after two
minutes it's another two explosions but near us it's not far from us and our windows was like
like shaking yes yeah and this is what a joke we We go away with our things and think what's happening.
And two more explosions, I think, that we heard, but actually it was 10 explosions.
And after that, we started looking in Telegram, and people say that it's Odessa and it's the
building with the people
just the complex
with the houses
and they attack
just like
every time a regular
building and write about
in their
press they write that
they destroyed the military
object
so basically
you're living in Odessa
Ukraine and yesterday there were 10 missile
strikes
yeah it was 10
missile strikes but most
of them was destroyed
but our defense of Odessa.
And there were four explosions.
One of the rockets.
What happens to that building that was on fire?
I'm going to ask you something so stupid.
I'm so sorry.
Does the fire department come and put that out?
What happens?
Is that still burning right now if you went outside with that building?
No, no.
The fire stations work already, yes.
And there was, after, hour after that, there was everything fine with the building.
But the people dying, two cars is fire up.
And already on the
one minute so there were there are people in that building who died there were people in there
right damn yeah there is 10 people who died in that in that one strike that building where the
black smoke's just billowing out 10 people died nuts uh and is And is that a military? Is that a government
building or something? Or no, it's just some random
apartment building? No, just
apartments.
Just people who live in Odessa.
It's not the military structure or some
government building. That could have been your house.
Yeah.
What's it say on the side of that building there?
That TNPAC. What is that?
It's the name of the complex.
It's the Trump Towers?
That's Trump in Ukrainian?
That's Trump Towers?
Like this, yes.
So I have like this on my building also.
So there was two men who died in their car.
They just fired up from the pieces
of rockets, yes, that
came to the ground.
Yes, and
in these 10 people was
a little baby,
three months child,
realized. Three months
and
it's enough to live
for Putin.
Ay, ay, ay-yi-yi.
Do they tell you why they're attacking Odessa?
Does anyone say why they're doing it?
They write about some military objects that they attacked.
It's a regular Russian write about all the the building that they destroyed so that's a military
object that's some infrastructure object so uh no civilians died just military um two days ago we
had uh armen surakian on he is a ufc fighter from russia he's armenian guy and i asked him why are
you training in the
United States? He said, because if you're in Russia training, you might not get out.
And he said, getting traveling in and out of Russia is difficult. And I said, do the people
believe the story that's being told them about the war in Russia? He said, no, no one believes
the TV set there. I said, so does anyone know what's going on? He said, no, we don't know.
But I think he did say that they were told it's not a war.
The Russian people are being told it's not a war.
It's a special operation.
Yeah, if I heard correctly.
A missile strike on a building.
I don't know.
How far is Odessa from the Russian border?
It's far, right border it's far right
it's far yes
yeah it seems
I mean at that point that's about as terrorist
attack as you can be
or you're at war
I mean what was the special operation to attack that building
it's not look like special operation
of course
no
Russia
Russian people can't say war it's the world that they uh
just to close for russian people if you say war uh you can go to the jail is crimea considered
russia now yes now okay so in that respect it's close but other than that it's not close at all
it's thousands of miles yeah it's only like this is all of uk respect it's close but other than that it's not close at all
it's thousands of miles yeah it's only like this is all of ukraine it's on like the far
western side and then russia's way the hell over there and you must know that uh not far from
crimea it's the herson region and it's not it's now occupied but by russians so uh from crimea yes they go with the troops
where is occupied now in ukraine show me that here's son region where the mariupol you can see
now yes her son is uh oh i saw it on the right side of the screen there. Mariupol. If you go back to that screen, I think I saw it on the right side there, Caleb.
Yes.
So they want to...
When you say occupied, what do you mean?
How many troops are there?
It's the territory that's controlled by Russians.
I don't know how much troops there, but they stay in there. They want to start
a referendum there
to create the
republic there,
yes? Right.
Like in Donbass
and Lugansk. Wow.
They really are going to try to take the Ukraine.
Hey, didn't they flatten Mariupol?
Pretty much, yeah. Please repeat.
Didn't the Russians flatten
Mariupol? Isn't it pretty much, it's toast,
right?
Yes, Mariupol
is destroyed totally, but now
there is
a plant, Azov
Stal, yes, and there is 2,000 people underground and the Ukrainian troops.
And they sit in there and Russia staying and wait till these people
dying from the hunger
and now
Zelensky tried
to talk about
green corridor
for these people
because this situation
without good decision
they
can do nothing
but Russians staying and waiting without good decision. They can do nothing there.
But Russians staying and waiting.
So they attacking this Azovstal,
but usually just waiting
and see like people dying underground.
Yeah.
So if I understand you correctly,
basically Russia is trying to take Ukraine
and Mariupol is going to be basically their home base.
That's the first city they're taking.
And from there, they're just going to spread and try to take the entire country and annex it and make it part of Russia.
Five years from now, all of Ukraine might be called Russia.
Probably.
Where is Zelensky? Do we know?
In Kiev.
He is. On yesterday's conference, he's sitting in the one of the station on the metro.
Yeah, on the railway underground.
Wow.
Do you have any thoughts and predictions on what's going to happen?
Now, every expert says that ukraine doing well and they try to hold all the east of
the country yes to that position that they can and many cities on the east ukrainian troops is
cities on the east. Ukrainian troops are taken from Russians already. But it's the best situation about Mariupol because you can't just go there, kill Russians and free our people. This is
a situation that must finish with diplomatic. But Russia don't want
to do nothing, they just playing
in their game and just
wait, but you can
see
I saw the news about
40 kilometers
40 meters
4 kilometers
cemetery near Mariupol
for the graves
that were done by Russians.
If you remember Bucha, a thousand people were massacred.
Now in Mariupol we can see 5 Buchas or 10 Buchas.
It's a big city.
It's a much bigger city than Bucha.
And the Russians stayed there for a long time.
How are you doing? A few weeks ago we talked to you and there was a chance you were thinking about going to leave, escorting your girlfriend to leave.
Do you have any plans now?
Since then it seemed like you were kind of just holding tight.
After yesterday's situation, we think much faster, yes.
And I want to go home now to the north of Ukraine, yes,
to see my parents and some friends.
And stay in there for a couple of weeks and see what what happened because
because i think it's it's not the one event with the rockets in odessa so the provocations
will continue and you don't know what the build what building will be next after that. So it's totally random.
They don't want to hurt a military structure. They just do some terrorist stuff, and it's crazy.
Do you see Ukrainian soldiers in the streets of Odessa?
Yeah, not usually.
But we see many policemen
and
territory defense
guys who stand.
Militaries, it's
tactical moves that
they take the positions.
Yes, it's
bad for city
in the war when troops
just look in the city. It's the provoc the city in the war when troops just look in the city.
It's the provocation for Russians.
You maybe don't forget about the Russian guys who just live in Odessa, yes,
and give information for militaries.
So it's a lot.
Every day we read the news about new guys who was taken
and who regularly send information and talking about the position of our military.
So this is dangerous games, you know.
Why not go to Mariupol and just attack?
Why not just bring the fight to them because of the citizens there?
There is no way. There is not too much
citizens, yes. I read about
a
big amount of people who
go away, but
they
they are talking about
two hundreds of people who
can be in Mariupol now. Right.
Not thousands, just hundreds. No, hundreds of thousands who can be in Mariupol now. Right. Not thousands, just hundreds.
No, hundreds of thousands.
Oh, okay.
Two hundreds of thousands.
Oh, wow.
It's very big cities.
Wow.
Like Odessa.
It's a city on the coast, of course, but not Black Sea.
There is Azov Sea, yes.
This is a big, big, strategical city also.
This is a big, big, strategical city also.
And what is bad is that from there, Russia can just take away passports and documents from the people and move there to Russia to work on some faraway territory.
And nobody knows where these people are.
This is what they did for all the history. They take people from their place and move it to work on the territory where there are not too many people.
Where the winter all the time, you know, Siberia.
Siberian territory.
Right.
There are a lot of territory, really big territory.
And they don't have money to do the good city there.
Yes, good infrastructure.
Right.
yes good infrastructure and historically they just move people there to say just try to live here yes and people right people move by us by theirs themselves so and zielinski yesterday say about
500 000 people who moved to russia yes and that ukrainians 500 000 ukrainians who moved to Russia. Yes. And that was... Ukrainians. 500,000 Ukrainians have moved to Russia.
Yes. And that was not just people who, okay, I go to Russia. No, this is people who take away,
stolen from Ukraine and go there. This is the first method. They sent people to these regions, yes, and there is a second part.
They mobilized these guys, the Ukrainians, and said to them to go and kill the Ukrainians.
So they mobilized their troops, yes, and. Yes, and say go and kill Ukrainians.
In Russia or in Ukraine?
In Ukraine.
In Ukraine.
So let me see this, if I understand this correctly.
500,000 Ukrainians have been moved out of Ukraine by Russian forces and brought to,
Ukraine by Russian forces and brought to and they're basically being taken to areas where that are underpopulated in Russia and saying okay this is now your new home like that and these
people without documents so they grab all the all the documents and you just I don't know some contracts or something so it's it's like slavery yeah yeah yeah that's
exactly you know this happened i'm sure it's happened all over the world but this happened
in a dominican republic and you know they share an island over there with the country of haiti
and tons of haitians were taken and brought to Dominican Republic to work. I think a million.
Man. Wow.
So how do they do that?
That's done with trains? How do you move that many people?
With trains? I don't know.
Aeroplanes maybe.
Do you know anyone? Do you have any
friends or relatives who've been taken to Russia?
I'm glad to say no.
Good, yeah.
Yeah.
Wow. Holy shit.
Have you, Yevgeny, have you had any breakdowns yet, you personally?
Have you had just like what the fuck is going on and you start crying?
Have you had any?
I sit in yesterday and just like here the fuck is going on and you start crying have you had any i sit in yesterday and just like here you know yeah i don't know what to what to do next i'm literally i forget about
the that we must meet today yes and yesterday i'm sitting at five o'clock and thinking that we must start podcast that time.
And then I'm just, okay, that happened.
And, you know, it's one day you sit in a totally bad mood and don't want to do nothing.
And next day you can have a good mood and go work.
Now it's simple for me to be in good mood when i go to work
because i have some schedule by classes and have some people so it's it's something that
give you to fresh brief and when i talk to uh relax air yes, it's usually when I'm in classes,
on outdoors, yes, or in the gym, I don't hear the air alarm just.
So I can go classes and just look on my phone,
and there is a half of hour like air alarm already.
So it's like a part of the life.
You live in this.
You live with the air alarms.
You live with this news.
You live with the explosions, yes, near your house.
And this is so scary.
Are the air alarms every day?
Mostly.
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slash petro dash canada conditions apply it was uh quite a little by less by last week yes it's one airline a day maybe two but the last last three days it's much more because of celebration yes russia want to uh uh like give us a present yes you want to celebrate guys
please go to this shelter and celebrate there
ma'am is any part of you like fuck this i'm out of here i'm gonna pack up my shit and go to mexico
city and start a new life uh It's not real now go to
Mexico because I'm
like a man, I can't go to the border.
You know? Right.
So it's
I can move
just in country. Yeah.
And not too much place
now in country where you can be safe.
So you're
talking to Lviv, yes, about Lviv,
but Lviv now
have such
air alarms
like in Odessa, yes. Lviv also
have explosions
time after time.
And the reality
is that all the Ukraine now
it's not
very safe place but
with this we have a lot of
people from
other countries yes
diplomats and
politicos who go to
Ukraine and like
talking with Zelensky
try to do something and
to
keep us motivated to
don't be in in apathy and negative.
Yeah, you're living in a country that another country is basically trying to take.
I mean, that's the objective.
I mean, I don't know.
The point...
What does that even look like if Russia wins?
Then it's just a bunch of Ukrainians living in Russia?
I don't want to say anything about that,
but what we see from the occupied territory,
the troops just kill all the men, mostly of the men, yes.
So it's just going to be a genocide.
It won't even be to occupy.
They're just going to kill all the Ukrainian people.
They rape women like animals, yes. So it's just to be a genocide. It won't believe in good life, but some life was Russia.
You know what the main point from the last weeks for me? I was the guy who listened to Russian music, who are following Russian coaches, yes, because of their
authority, yes, and some good points that I like them, yes. I've watched Russian bloggers
for years, yes, and Russian movies is very bad, yes but what what the statement so i i was like a part
of this propaganda for these years and uh i think about russian products like about the brothers
products and this was my mistake in this i i and now also on my trainings in Odessa, I use Russian language because it's useful for most people in Odessa, yes?
And this is how it works by the years.
I'm the guy who's 27 years old.
And for these times, I really good know about Russian bloggers, about all this stuff, about the culture.
But I realized that I know very little about Russian bloggers, about all this stuff, about the culture.
But I realized that I know very little about Ukrainian stuff, you know, how it works. So now I try to delete everything Russians from my life and to start thinking different.
Because if you move deeply in this question, so this is the points, if you remember, we're talking about the historical moments when they ban Ukrainian language, ban Ukrainian poets, artists, and Ukraine like nation, yes?
Right, right.
And nothing changed to this period.
So I look now more Ukrainian guys who are talking about that,
yes. And if we look on the famous Russian movies that we also watching, yes, that we also remember
from the childhood, yes. And if we looking on the portrait a Ukrainian in this movie, so every time they work in
propaganda to talk about Ukrainians, like some stupid guy who is funny, who likes to
drink alcohol, and just a little brother of a Russian.
And this line you can watch by all the stuff that they produced.
And I'm not building the theories.
Yes.
This is that we can talk with some Russian guy now.
And he says that Ukrainian is stupid and they Nazi and all this stuff.
Yes. he says that ukrainian is stupid and they nazi and other stuff that yes that that uh work on their
side and other side so we must think that we is the bad nation that we is with russian yes and
this is our destiny yes like this but it's a wrong wrong way and now i try to rebuild my views on on all this yes and
don't be a part of uh all this crazy stuff but this is me i'm the uh from the generation who
was born in the independent ukraine right it's just a couple years of independence is a really young country without some good
points, without a good love system. It was with Russia's protection all the time, yes.
But if I talk with my father, who was born inviet union yes yeah who live who live in this propaganda who
was the uh pioneer i don't know how it's called it's the uh organization for children yes okay
that uh that was teached by the ideology of soviet Union, that was taught by the Stalin portrait on the room,
that says that you must say if your friend is talking bad about the Soviet Union,
something like that, yes? must know must say fully about
the life of
Stalin, of Lenin
you must wake up in the night
and say in what year Stalin
go to school
and
this
that
kind of stuff that
just destroyed you like a human.
So you become a part of the system
and like in Orwell's 1984, you know?
So it's look the same.
So that was the kind of thoughts that i leave last weeks
um you're good and you know what now i'm going on youtube and uh there is a lot of videos from
the bloggers that i watched from russia and i feel like like the drug drug addict so I must look I'm interested in this and I'm just okay
delay this and don't think about it
so it's very crazy stuff
I wonder
I know there's a huge lesson there for Americans
too
we live with such brainwashed people
here in the States
and now you're having your
understanding stuff that we
could only imagine it's been years of that it's just years of propaganda yeah yeah yeah and you
well and even you can just do it in 10 years 10 years of i mean look what tiktok's done to this
country to the united states it's it's a joke it's a joke i you know what i did you have
getting this is a this is totally off subject this morning i went i went to a uh i got up at
six in the morning and i went and got a cup of coffee and i got it from a bar do you know what
a bar is where you drink alcohol yeah of course okay so it's i went to the bar to get a cup of coffee no one's there it's empty and the bartender is there and in in my i live um my house is 300
miles north of here where i'm at now and in my town i never see anyone with plastic surgery
never never never never in this town i i think i i'm hard i all the women look different they don't
look like my wife because they've all had plastic surgery it's just normal here i know what you're
talking about it's just it's just it's crazy it's just like normal and i'm like and i asked the
bartender i said hey you've seen me come in here every day i'm like do you trip on the fact that
my wife doesn't look like these women?
He goes, yeah, she looks normal.
She's like, we don't see a lot of those.
So it's crazy.
And think how quickly that could happen to a culture.
And so what you're saying is that the Russians have basically, through propaganda, been belittling Ukrainians forever.
They're the dumb ones.
They're the cute ones. They're the cute ones.
The weak ones.
I saw the view from your windows on the Instagram.
And you're now on the coast, yes?
Yeah.
And Odessa also on the coast.
So the women with the surgery that you're talking earlier, that's the kind of women that live in Odessa.
talking earlier yeah yeah that's the kind of women that live in odessa so you can go on the streets and see this is a plastic women with a little a little doggie on their hands yeah yeah yeah
and this is true they don't even look normal but but it is normal here but they all look like um
they come from a batman movie they all look like the joker like some sort of yes they're wearing a mask it's a and and and they did it just
for them not for for the men's men's don't like that so this is the culture that women like
between them so no no uh no i don't think they wow that's interesting i thought that they did
it because they thought it would get them more dick. I thought everyone's just trying to fuck so that they'd like do.
Okay, you like women like that?
No, it makes me a little uncomfortable to look at it.
What do you say?
I agree.
It looks uncomfortable.
It just looks wrong.
It makes me a little uncomfortable.
Yeah.
So they do this just just for for them it's like the the ticket ticket
to their club you must keep it up yeah yeah yeah and so if people if people will do that i mean
and it's a lot of work right you have to make an appointment you have to go somewhere
like i i don't even want like i don't even I don't even want to make an appointment to get a haircut.
I don't even want to put on shoes.
These people have to call someone and be like, hey, I'm coming in.
Then they got to get in their car, and they got to drive down there, and then someone has to inject them.
And it's literally like it's a surgery too.
Some of those are like legit surgeries where you get put under and sleep, and then they cut open underneath your breasts, and then you have to like it's and it's
like months of recovery and then you have to keep them in and then you can you can't do like certain
things for a suspended period of time and they can there's so many complications that can come
along with it and they're just like yeah sure i just want to look that way and don't forget you
can just brainwash a whole my point is that you can just brainwash a whole – my point is that you can just brainwash a whole group of people in no time at all.
Did you ever watch that video with Yuri Bezmenov, like the really, really old interview?
Yes.
It's like an ex-KGB agent.
Did you see that, Yevgeny?
Mm-hmm.
I'll send it to you.
But it's like a 13-minute long video talking about how – this was like back in like the 80s 20 yeah it's like 30 years
he's a russian kgb agent and they're interviewing him go ahead yeah so he defected to the united
states and now he's being interviewed on this news channel and they ask him like okay how do you
undermine a country and it's exactly what you're talking about they start like adding propaganda
they're like oh the little country to the south of us
they're not really like not really that smart they're just a bunch of alcoholics like you start
talking about how they just start changing the culture they're just little by little like adding
to their media like inserting their views into into everybody's um media sources and then
eventually you're just undermining from from like the youngest people as they grow
older they start to believe those same things over the years and continue and continue and continue
and then finally like they're they're voting age people and now they're voting towards basically
communism or or something like that and they just agree like oh fuck america like this is not the
this isn't how it should be we need to have have universal healthcare and all this other shit. It's crazy.
Yeah, Genny, in this interview that they do with him, it's from 1980. It's in the 80s, and now it's 2020.
And everything – it's talking about how China and Russia have infiltrated our schools, and now everything he said is true. It happened.
We can all look around and be like, oh shit.
And what's crazy is that the people won't even stop.
They think that this man is telling us you've been infiltrated by China.
That's why you're behaving like X, Y, Z.
And yet they just keep doing it.
It's like what you said. You just keep going back to the blog even though you don't want to.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Your English is getting better.
Oh, from one of my clients, yes.
It's from the Chinese, yes.
And we're talking only by English.
So now I have more practice maybe about that.
Yeah, you spoke for like five minutes straight and I understood everything you said. only by English. So now I have more practice maybe about that. Yeah.
You just,
you spoke for like five minutes straight and I understood everything you
said.
It was,
sometimes I struggle,
but you're learning English from a native Chinese speaker.
Yes.
I'm,
I'm realized that if I'm want to tell something about,
I don't know about not,
I thinking not, I'm feeling, yes, I can talk
normally, yes, but when I have a real statement and I just go and I can't stop just.
Say that again.
What's the distinction when you talk about what subjects it comes out clearly versus?
About that subject that I feel good and about.
I have a really strong statement.
So when I start speaking, I can't stopping.
Yes. So I I want to talk more.
I want to grab more facts about that.
And maybe this is this is the the key.
Look at look at what this lady saying things like this.
I can't even
could this possibly be true of those ukrainians that have been taken
120 000 were children this is disaster how come where can we see video of this how can you take
how can you take 120 000 people and their kids and they're not be videoed? Do you think that's true?
You think there's that many kids being taken?
Just realize that thousands of troops coming.
Yes.
And just cut a line where the government, police, some guys, yes, can control you.
You can do whatever you want.
Yes.
You just slash animals.
Yes, rape women.
Yes, kill children and men.
And this is not the problem for you to pack some amount of people
and take away that.
But this really hurts 120,000 children.
And this is Ukrainian children that can never see Ukraine again.
You know about Hitlerjugend, yes?
No.
This is the organization, the kid and the teen organization in Germany, fascist Germany,
that prepare children and teens for the Nazi regime.
So they have training, yes, have ideological subjects.
And then you see the movie The Rabbit Jojo.
The Rabbit Jojo?
Yes.
No.
By the way.
The Taika Waititi movie.
Give me one second.
There is an article.
I just.
Oh, Peter.
OK.
I just looked.
I googled Ukraine and children.
And it says Zelensky claims that 2000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped.
So not one hundred and, but 2,000.
I'm not saying it's okay.
But that's a big difference between 120,000 and 2,000.
Yeah, yeah.
Of course, it's a hundred of children that stole is a bad point.
Yeah, in this movie, there is a story about the Hitler-Jugend guy, yes,
In this movie, there is a story about the Hitler-Jugend guy, yes,
who lives in false propaganda and thinks that it's the best way to live.
It's like me and CrossFit, yes. And then you realize that it's nothing simple in this story.
So in Russia, they have the same organization,
like the army of young people.
And they also do some meetings, some striking training.
Yes. And I don't remember how it's called.
Yeah. They have very have very interesting outfit I want you to google this
it's Russian young
army like that
he lost me
is it
so it's like
it's like the boy scouts in Russia
but except they teach them they like indoctrinate them to communism essentially yes it's like the Boy Scouts in Russia, but except they teach them – they like indoctrinate them to communism essentially.
Yes, it's –
Communism or fascism?
Fascism.
Fascism.
Okay, okay, okay.
Racism.
You know, now we have the –
Here's the black kids.
How come there's no black kids in there?
Because they don't have a DE council right i tried to uh i tried to pace
that um an error occurred wait a moment while we try again i tried to uh post that video of the
russian kgb agent in the comments if you guys haven't seen it you should definitely definitely
uh watch that video that's a life changer.
Yeah.
It's getting worse for you, right?
Evgeny?
Uh-oh.
Alright. Fine.
I'm sorry. I wish I wouldn't have said that.
Strike that question
from the record.
Just like that.
Sorry, guys.
I'll just copy a link with the video and go away hey it's not it's not it's not getting um it's not things are getting worse for you
you're not you're not adapting to um to a war lifestyle you're not no it's it's's like I'm adapting, but you can like this.
So I'm adapting.
I'm leaving.
I'm going to work.
I'm trying to find good food.
Yes.
Try to celebrate something.
I have a birthday two days after, and I don't feel emotions, good emotions.
And I don't feel emotions, good emotions.
You know about today big celebrate, yes,
but you know about Eastern situation in Ukraine and there are 2,000 people sitting without food
and the children who died from the missiles,
explosions and all this stuff.
We're not talking about adapting
we're talking about
like
humility
yes
when you
can't do nothing you just wait
you know in the
on the start of the war
experts talking
so this is end about a week, so Russia would take Kyiv and take all of Ukraine.
After that, they were talking about Ukraine staying by the end of the month.
Now, nobody is talking about the end of the war, because you don't think about, oh, this is the start of
AES and we finish with that, it can come back to normal life.
There is no normal life in Ukraine now.
Even if war finished now, yes, this is years of rebuilding of country this is years of that pain
that you get
when you ride to that
place where my friend
died
in his car
in this place where
the tombs on the
thousands of people
and the
buildings where you
walk in just in Kyiv
and they destroyed now
so this is the pain that
all of Ukrainians
now live with
and even if I go in other
countries this pain will be
with me because
I'm the guy who
go through all this and it's not like the
like the stuff that you can just forget right so yes adapting is not not uh
possible in this situation.
I'm looking, it says 5 million people have left the country, 5.2 million.
If there's 40 million people in the country, that's more than 10% of the country.
Much more. We have 40 million
in Ukraine.
So 5 million people,
what is that? 12%?
12%.
Yeah, that's nuts. That's so
many people moving. I also see this
other statistic here, and I don't know how they
come up with this stuff, but it says that there's
$70 billion in infrastructure damage.
And to put that in perspective of what
that is for people, so you know how bad
Black Lives Matter is, Black Lives Matter did $760 million damage. of what that is for people so you know how bad uh and black black lives matter is black lives
matter did 760 million dollars damage to ferguson a small shithole town yes i said it in the united
states so just remember that these people are in a war and our own people did that to their country
yes it's nuts fuck you guys who did that to fergus. Yes. It's nuts. Fuck you guys
who did that to Ferguson. But we're talking
only about
money, yes?
If we talk about the
emotional stuff,
yes, about the
situation that changed the
population, yes, totally. So this is much, much more that changed the population.
Yes, totally.
So this is much, much more than just the money.
Yeah.
Do you know what else the Russian guy said that we interviewed?
He said people are fleeing Russia too.
It's not just people leaving.
The people basically there don't feel safe.
And they're basically fleeing. He said specifically going to Armenia, but I've seen that.
I've seen a lot of Russians showing up in the capital of Armenia,
especially wealthy ones, right. Who are in the tech industry, who they,
as long as they can get in front of a computer, they can keep making money.
And you know, what,
what's bad that they left country and in other country where they arrived,
they say that they're Ukrainians.
Oh, wow.
To not be bull.
Right.
Because in the world now, it's not very popular to be Russian.
Right, right, right.
Wow.
They're assuming another gender.
I don't think you used that word right but who am I what do I know
it's very
fluid
yeah that's funny
Yevgeny before we leave you today
you said you have a
birthday in two days
you'll be 28 years old
yep yeah happy birthday
and do you think you'll make it to the
north to see your um mom and dad in the next couple days i think two or four days we're now
looking for the tickets looking for for plans to wait wait tickets why don't you drive because i
don't have car okay and this is not very uh can you do what i'm gonna ask you something crazy can't you
just go steal a car no not yet yes we wait for this yeah we must have more explosions on the
city to start uh go go on markets yes stole some food and cars okay and what are you eating fine? Of course, yes. Very good.
I have the fish week now.
So I love it.
And the Easter cakes, you know what this is?
I can show you, by the way.
This is what my girlfriend cooked.
Can I change the camera?
No, can't.
So I show you like this. You can look.
This is the Easter cake.
Are those real tulips?
Yeah, this is
a lot of carbs.
No, the flowers. Are those real tulips?
Of course real.
Wow.
Those are beautiful.
I don't see a lot of tulips in the States.
It's very popular in the spring in Ukraine.
Yeah.
So I live normal life, if we're talking about it.
I have good food.
I have my work now.
Mostly I sleep well.
But I have a war in my country.
Not in my city, 100%, because I'm happy now with that, yes.
But this is how we live.
All right, brother.
When we talk to you next week, will you be at your parents' house, you think?
Or do you think you'll go and come back? Maybe. back maybe no no no i don't come back on this time i want to if i uh go there
i sit in by two weeks i think okay like that i want to go to kiev i want to meet my friends in
in some other cities so i want to have some some little travel on this time i'm in odessa from the end of january
yes yeah this is a lot of times i'm regularly i like to go somewhere like to the home or to the
kiu uh early i have a lot of clients in kiev yes so i i live there yes and I train a lot of people online there.
And right to Kyiv, we have team trainings, yes.
We are out to different gyms.
So we have a good time like that.
The shirts didn't arrive, huh?
I sent you shirts.
They didn't arrive?
I think it's like a month.
I must wait in this situation
so if
I have it I'm just
change this
and you can see
will you take as you travel across the country
if you can will you take pictures and send them to us
of course and then we can talk about them in the
next week when we have you on
yeah all right brother
thank you so much for coming on always good you on yeah all right brother thank you so
much for coming on always good to see you you look great uh thank you for sharing your story
i think it's important for people to hear it's a good thank you guys i'm happy to see you
caleb beaver thank you happy birthday again thank you caleb thank you see you