Good evening, dear friends. We continue our broadcast on the Solovyov Live Studio channel. I’m Sergey Kornoukhov. And we are now joined by the audience — the largest audience of the Vesti FM radio station. You know, last week on Saturday, I was also hosting a live broadcast. And right during the broadcast, we saw footage that Dmitry Steshin published at the time.

Back then, on Saturday evening, Donetsk was being shelled with incendiary munitions — the kind that burn through everything, burning twice as fiercely as phosphorus bombs. We were horrified by that footage and thought — and said — where is the line that must not be crossed? Because if a person crosses all lines, he loses his human essence.

And now today, cluster munitions are being scattered. So what is worse? Phosphorus bombs, from which one can at least somehow seek shelter, or these “petals” — the ones that hide behind every rock, every blade of grass, effectively paralyzing the city of Donetsk? And they’re hitting not only Donetsk. These “petals” are being scattered not just in Donetsk — they cannot be defused, and they are almost impossible to detect.

We are overwhelmed with photos and videos showing civilians being blown up — people going to work, walking with their children — losing legs, losing arms, suffering fatal injuries. It’s just sheer horror happening there.

What does all of this mean? In my view, it speaks to only one thing: maybe in the very beginning, there might have been a reason to try to talk to the Nazi regime about something. But now I fully understand — after everything we know about what happened to Ukraine and what this quasi-state has become — there is no one to talk to.

Any negotiations with Nazis are a crime. As for the borders of Russia’s special military operation — in my view, and I stress, in my view — they are absolutely clear: it’s where the tracks of our tanks go, where our weapons, our soldiers, and our military vehicles move. Dust must settle on the faces of Polish military personnel, next to whom NATO troops are standing.

We must reach the western borders of Ukraine and liberate this beautiful land, these beautiful people from the Nazis who are holding them hostage.