“Empty words”: Ukraine foreign minister on Russian threat

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reacts to threats from Russia about the consequences of the US Patriot missile defense system being sent to Ukraine. #CNN #News

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  1. The Russians have been helping North Korea with it’s missile program for decades, so now they don’t want the U.S. to do the same for it’s allies, consider the source.

    1. FRIENDS, VOLUNTEERS FROM EUROPE, ASIA AND THE USA ❗ UKRAINE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT IN BAHMUT, DONBASS, WE FIGHT AGAINST RUSSIAN AGGRESSOR, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD❗THANK YOU, SLAVA UKRAINE 💙💛👍

    2. North Korea missile program and its nuclear bomb created with the help of pakistan not russia. pakistani nuke created with the help of western power especially german and dutch and usa .because they wanted to counter balance India.

    3. You sure even if US allies want or whine, US will help (eg) Korea and Japan in laws and technical aspects to produce nukes?

      Hee hee hee hee hee… … …

      This is funny… Hehehehehe ~

      I mean, why not… … go ahead. Let the every state has nukes. Hahahahahahahaha… …

  2. Russia removed themselves from any negotiation table a long time ago.
    The sooner they get that fact, the better.

    1. @V A Russia is done. A rogue state with no friends. End Putin and you might have a chance. To support him is supporting a mass murderer.

    2. @OhNoNotFrank when Russia will be “done” that’s when the mass murder begin with nukes flying. I’m not supporting Putin because his mismanagement of 2014 nazi coup on southern border of Russia, but I’m afraid whoever replaces Putin in his current position you not gonna like even more if you still have your current mindset.

    3. @OhNoNotFrank What is your point? Due to prevailing circumstances Putin launched the special military operation with a set of clearly defined goals; goals which are being achieved. Some of the goals such as demilitarizing are not achievable quickly unless the Ukrainians choose to cooperate and send their troops to the slaughter, they have to be achieved by a slow grinding down of the forces which is what is being achieved.
      At the end of the conflict we will discover the true number of Ukrainians that have been killed. At the moment it makes sense for the Ukrainians to hide the numbers in order to keep up morale but when the conflict is over they will have no reason to keep that up, they will probably want the true numbers known hoping that the World will feel sorry for them and accuse the Russians of genocide or other war crimes.

    4. Russia just realized that it is pointless to negotiate with junkie pej0s ( west leaders ) their word is worth nothing .

  3. The best Foreign Minister I have ever seen in operation. Just like their President, Ukraine can be proud of their administration and their soldiers (From a retired Irish soldier who saw battle in Lebanon in the 1980s and the 1990s) We also lost an Irish soldier on UN peace-keeping duties in Lebanon yesterday. Glory to Ukraine.

    1. @Pisa Blavatski Because just like Russia they planted their unwashed there and gave them free land. Favorite British modus operandi for hundreds of years.Divide and Conquer and when u rape the country u leave the now divided people fight against each other………so they won’t fight you!!!

  4. Putin can make his threats, but he knows that if he makes a move like this and actually makes good on some of his threats, then he’ll make things even worse for himself then they are now.

    1. Russia does not bluff. If Americans take part in the war then Americans will die. Do you seriously think that Russia is going to put up a white flag anytime soon ? Don’t forget aircraft carriers make pretty good targets too as do offshore oil fields. Then what ? Russia has more nukes – is that what you want to happen ? The only way for Ukraine to attain peace is through peace talks. If it doesnt do this then it will see more loss of life, more destruction and loss of territory in the final outcome. Can you not understand that Russia CANNOT loose this war, it DARE NOT .. if it wants to retain it’s freedom and not be ruled by American hegemony. Can you not see their point of view ?

    2. America is courting nuclear Armageddon in Ukraine and these blood thirsty neo Conservative war mongers in Washington think they can do whatever they want all over the world, they overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected president and regime in 2014 and installed an ultra nationalist client state to act as a western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russia was never and is never going to allow this.

      All the moralizing from the American and Western media about Ukraine is hard to stomach, I understand that Ukrainian people are suffering, but Russia has gone to great lengths to avoid civilians casualties, that is why best estimates suggest only 20,000 civilians have died so far.

      You think America went to great length to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties? Because there are 1 million dead Iraqi bodies that suggest they most certainly did not.

      You think American spared Iraq’s infrastructure? Of course they fucking didn’t, that was taken out in the initial weeks of the operation before any troops set foot in Iraq, they used their ‘shock and awe’ tactics to utterly cripple Iraq’s infrastructure.

      Why did nobody moralize about Iraq’s infrastructure? Why were there no round the clock news reports about the million dead Iraqis killed in the war? This is the very definition of hypocrisy and double standards, and this is exactly how American imperialism works.

    3. @Carlos Garcia Patriots can take out poo-tin’s ICBM nuclear missile so they make things better for the world, not worse.

  5. Russia is acting like a violent husband angry at the neighbor finally giving the wife some long needed martial arts training and a gun to defend herself.

    1. ukraine started shelling on the territory of Russia in the Rostov region on February 19, 2022, or did they forget to tell you about it? Ah, american fascism, like any other, involves strict censorship.

    2. Russia is a good neighbour to East and South Ukraine helping them stand up to the fascists that live in Kiev and who conducted a military coup back in 2014

  6. Every time I see the Ukrainian struggle to live their life in peace and in their space n one man is against that always makes me feel very bad especially the fact that I can help

    1. But the people in Donbass have been so “cool, all these years, even though they wanted autonomy. Well, back in the 90s it was clear that the U.S. had a stake in Ukraine and in weakening Russia. The CIA worked well to raise the Banderites. Look at the movie Donbas Dnevnik, and the Black Sun of Ukraine, for the benefit of the subtitles and simultaneous translation.

    2. @Иван I know lots of Ukrainians from the Donbass and they hate Russia. Any affection they had for the Russian Orc is gone now. Russians make better fertilizer for Ukraine than masters.

    3. @Иван Regards to the Bandera’s, without Russian oppression, genocide and imperialism on the country, Ukrainians would never had felt the need to honor such a man. Russia created this. It seems like you have a distorted, anti-Ukrainian view about Ukraine.

    4. @Иван Why do you care about Ukrainians liking Bandera? Most rusians like Stalin who’s followers killed 1000x more than followers of Bandera.

  7. Russia has more people yes, but it lacks the will to fight in a Country that they know doesn’t belong to them. No negotiation until Russia pulls out of all Ukrainian land.

    1. You do not understand the situation nor issue wise words.. The people in the East and South of Ukraine want to be part of Russia. They are fed up of oppression from Kiev and they will fight Kiev and ARE DOING SO until their death. Russia itself has not even used 10 % of it’s manpower yet. Your hard line means that more Ukrainians would be used as cannon fodder and Kiev will loose more and more territory until it is reduced to a rump state

    2. the problem is they think it belongs to them. they all have miserable lives and want ukrainians to have that misery as well.

    3. How can you fight when you are starving and freezing and don’t have any water or power. Empty words for a social media post. Ukraine dosent care about their civilian population, they are nothing but a puppet of the US

  8. Wow, his English is superb. He really conveyed the thoughts and needs of his countrymen. I’m impressed. I’m just a random, I know. I’m just saying..

    1. @Kateryna Mr. Kuleba comes from a diplomatic background. His father was an ambassador to several countries. Dmytro has spent times overseas, that is why he has he speaks fluent English as well as other non Native languages.

  9. “Help Ukraine not to defend itself, help Ukraine to liberate its territories and win this war. The sooner it ends with Ukraine’s victory, the better it will be for all.” In a nutshell that is it.

    1. @synystershreds the dumbassess were force to do a pre emptive strike on a nazi forces and liberate towns and villages that were historically founded by Russians after failure to negotiate peace with puppets of western neo con elites.

    2. @Dave Cuddahy look at his YouTube name “bot” and when his YouTube account made? 3 months ago. He is Russian bot.

  10. Listening to this dignified foreign minister from Ukrain, I am starting to understand how jealous putin must be on the high qualified administration of Pr. Zelensky, and the fantastic army of Ukrain….!!!

  11. Chapeau! Ukraine is fighting for life and we should never give up to help them for their fight for liberty! Welcome to europe bravehearts!

  12. The Ukrainian government is the most impressive that I’ve ever seen. I wish our government here in the US was like them. Our government can’t even stop the criminals from getting in our government and not only holding us back but harming us all by manipulating the public against the rest of us.
    Ukraine couldn’t win this war and would have already lost to Russia if their government and justice system was like ours the US, if we were in their situation with everything the same.
    Ukrainians have shown us what is possible when a government and the people all work together for the good of the country and everyone in it.
    They arrested and removed the ones in their government and media that were harming their chances for success. We make excuses, file papers, and claim to need the very people in a party that are doing just what Putin would or does want.
    Glory to Ukraine!
    Zelensky and his government could be the government of the world, as far as I’m concerned. What they have done works.

    1. The Ukrainian government is about the most corrupt government in the World, it was the second poorest country even before this war started, it has been oppressing Russian speaking people within it’s borders for years, it has recently attacked the Orthodox religion in Ukraine. When it was under soviet control it was about the most wealthy of all the soviet block. Look at it now and understand how it became like it is.

    2. Thank god for old decrepit senile joe – in spite of it all He GETS
      STUFF DONE – aid to
      Ukraine – gas priced down – job report –
      Rising – inflation being held in check – its still
      A threat but its leveled
      Off – covid as well & 2
      New senators as well –
      Ok check u r Soc -Sec
      Check next month seniors !!!’

    3. America is courting nuclear Armageddon in Ukraine and these blood thirsty neo Conservative war mongers in Washington think they can do whatever they want all over the world, they overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected president and regime in 2014 and installed an ultra nationalist client state to act as a western bulwark on Russia’s border. Russia was never and is never going to allow this.

      All the moralizing from the American and Western media about Ukraine is hard to stomach, I understand that Ukrainian people are suffering, but Russia has gone to great lengths to avoid civilians casualties, that is why best estimates suggest only 20,000 civilians have died so far.

      You think America went to great length to avoid Iraqi civilian casualties? Because there are 1 million dead Iraqi bodies that suggest they most certainly did not.

      You think American spared Iraq’s infrastructure? Of course they fucking didn’t, that was taken out in the initial weeks of the operation before any troops set foot in Iraq, they used their ‘shock and awe’ tactics to utterly cripple Iraq’s infrastructure.

      Why did nobody moralize about Iraq’s infrastructure? Why were there no round the clock news reports about the million dead Iraqis killed in the war? This is the very definition of hypocrisy and double standards, and this is exactly how American imperialism works.

    4. yes usa should hav sent the himars and atacms missiles way back in march. meritopol would still be i ukrainian hands.

    5. I won’t touch on US government… … just find this interesting.

      If Ukraine government is most impressive, why not have a tour and a month stay in Odessa or Kiev if not with the folks still living near the frontlines… …

      If Russia is struggling with the most impressive government given in such logic, it must be the next impressive that if so you should also migrate to Russia. They need more dicks for coming actions.

      That’ll be fun to see your development if you do make good of your idea and move there.

  13. Dmytro Kuleba is awesome! He has an accurate and inteligent answer forevery question.

  14. Give Ukraine what they need to defend the right to self determination. A most democratic idea. Slava Ukraine!🗽🇺🇲🇬🇷

    1. Russia has given East and South Ukrain the right to self determination. They do not want to be part of Western Ukraine, these lands have gone forever

    2. @Rob Surname nope. Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal on reassurances from Russia they would not invade. The problem for Russia is that Ukraine wanted to be an independent sovereign nation. Which was shocking but they gave up nukes and putin still invaded, because Russia wants to be right on the doorsteps of Poland,Denmark, Switzerland and Finland and a few smaller countries and Putin thought that he’d roll over in a couple months, Holodomor ring a bell when the starved the Ukraini people in 1911-13. Ukraine is a bread basket of eastern europe and Putin wanted all the bread

    3. 😂😂😂😂

      Yes the US is using Ukrainians and tossing them to the meat grinder to fight their war against Russia

  15. I can’t imagine the trauma inflicted on all the children in Ukraine. I was born in 1967 in the US and still remember the cold war threats against us, but we lived our whole lives with no war at home. I feel so bad for all kids in Ukraine that have to suffer from unrelenting artillery and missile attacks, they lost the best years of being a kid growing up without fear of death!

    1. Not a single bomb felt on usa soil. Things might change sadly. Empty words fine ukrianians will see hundreds of bombs shelling on kiev etc. Huge mobilization and usa media never said meanwhile ukrainians grabbing people left and right on streets.

  16. OUTSTANDING…you can break a country…with bombs…but you can’t break the spirit of the people who occupy, its original inhabitants, and the Ukrainians will win this senseless war because of strong-will men like this…I admire all those involved who are winning this unprovoked war…Glory to Ukraine💙💛, its leadership and its proud people👍

    1. The war was provoked by Kiev and their oprression of the Russian speakers in the East and South of Ukraine who now want to be part of Russia .. no you will not break their spirit and they will win, they will be part of Russia forever

    2. That is such a stupid statement for many reasons. Firstly do you believe that Putin doesn’t have strong will? Secondly strong will is no guarantee of success in a war; it can stop you from giving up and surrendering, but it cannot prevent you from being killed! It is still possible to win the war by simply killing all the Ukrainians who will not give up!
      Most importantly you are missing a very important fact; no matter how much resolve the Ukrainians have they are only able to keep fighting because they are receiving aid from outside. They would have already lost if not for they aid because they would have run out of ammunition and regardless how much will you possess, you will lose in a conflict with an army if you have no ammunition!
      The aid primarily comes from the US but you are really naive if you believe the US will retain their resolve like the Ukrainians; Ukraine was always a pawn for the US, sure they would like the war to continue to weaken Russia but they have already achieved their primary goal of replacing Russia as the source of energy to Europe and when the going gets tough (for example US citizens start to care more about their own problems than something which is happening miles away) they will stop the aid. Let’s see where everyone stands by the Summer, by then inflation and other domestic issues will have started to bite and we will see if US commitment remains the same! The US was banking on the sanctions having much greater effect; they didn’t sign up for long-term support of Ukraine with no end in sight!

    3. @ottoman stamper this talk about strong will is very important, so that people don’t focus on fact that USA and Russia are at war, somehow strong will is more significant than hundreds of billions in heavy and long range weapons and ammunition along with all the highly trained ex-NATO mercenaries/volunteers recruited and paid by USA.
      This is important cause that could give USA chance to still walk away from all of this, unlike if USA officially declared war with Russia.

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