"No one listened to the warnings." Why Zelensky and Yermak did not believe in the Great War, and what was on February 24 - interview with tailor

Radio NV spoke with one of the authors of the publication - a journalist Roman Kravets to find out what happened on the eve of the invasion of power offices and what sentiment prevailed in Bank. Video of the Day - I want to talk to you about the facts that have become a discovery and a surprise for me. And then, perhaps, what surprised you when you worked on this publication. On February 22, the head of Ukrainian intelligence Kirill Budanov told what was cold in the veins.

And we remember that he actually spoke about it since the end of 2021. He said calmly and soberly that there would be a large -scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine. How do you think he was not believed? - President personally, it seems to me that he did not believe in this story. And, first of all, [the head of the Presidential Office] Andriy Yermak, too. For some reason, they were convinced that they would be able to negotiate.

Moreover, Andriy Yermak constantly went to negotiate advisers of the Norman four. I remember that at the beginning of the year there was a meeting of advisers of the Norman four in Berlin. They thought that diplomatic way would be able to solve this story somehow. And that in the winter [existed] a similar injection that was in the spring, if you remember, just before the meeting [President Joe] Baiden with [Russian dictator Vladimir] Putin.

There was a very large accumulation of Russian troops on the borders of Donetsk and Luhansk region. Therefore, our leadership thought that this time it would be missing, there would be nothing serious. In the course of preparation of this text, I directly asked Andrew Ermak: why did they not warn people? They also had intelligence data, right? And Yermak said that no one could believe that in the 21st century it was possible! So they could not just accept this horror.

And Budanov reported in Western media about a possible attack of Russia. And, as sources now tell me, at the beginning of the year, at one of the closed meetings of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Budanov also reported what he said to the deputies on February 22. That is, he unfolded the map and said that there was a great threat to Kiev that Russians can try to come through Chernobyl, there is a great threat to Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk regions.

He is the first, it seems to me who realized the threat of a large -scale war. - What changed the recognition of the so -called "LNR", "DNR"? We remember this absurd theater: the Russian Radbez took place, where each of Putin's associates went out, had to say that he or she supported it. Then there was Putin's statement (it was pre -recorded, like this Council), where they recognize the independent republics of Donbass.