"Vasiliy Vakarov: Volodia, you should understand, this is bad, all these statements, but what is the sense? What has been happening during the week and what has happened today, yes? Russian armed forces are destroying the energy system of Ukraine, maybe, not the entire…

Vladimir Solovyov: We will destroy the entire one.

Vasiliy Vakarov: And they are striking targetedly, consistently, what they know. And you know, yes, there are fatalities, unfortunately, each human victim is a tragedy. And if, I hope to God, you continue this work…

Vladimir Solovyov: Yes, we will continue.

Vasiliy Vakarov: then the entire Ukraine – just the light will switch off. And not just the light will switch off, but the socket will switch off, naturally, the entire system of what is called electric power. Moreover…

Vladimir Solovyov: Yes, Vasiliy Dmitriyevich, it will be like that.

Vasiliy Vakarov: Moreover, then the next, these are heat power stations. There, not far from there, is CHP plant no 3, one of the major ones, built in 1937.

Vladimir Solovyov: This will also affect the sewage, Vasiliy Dmitriyevich.

Vasiliy Vakarov: You see, Vladimir Vladimirovich, I have just said that these are terrible things which… And this is in Kiev. And what to say about Zaporozhye Dnepropetrovsk Region, Odessa Region, Vinniysta, and the entire Western Ukraine…

Vladimir Solovyov: Yes, we are going to switch off the light for everyone.

Vasiliy Vakarov: Do you want to switch off everywhere?

Vladimir Solovyov: Yes, we do, Vasiliy Dmitriyevich.

• a raised voice in the background* And in the Western Ukraine.

Vasiliy Vakarov: That is, it seems to me that you want to switch off Ukraine.

Vladimir Solovyov: Yes, Vasiliy Dmitriyevich. This is absolutely right.

Vasiliy Vakarov: Vladimir Vladimirovich said that you do not want the entire Ukraine, you want only…

Vladimir Solovyov: No, we want to switch off the entire one."