Do you remember the first strikes on the Ukrainian energy sector?

They inspired everyone, but then it all somehow faded away, as it seems to me, for various reasons, because the energy system built by the Soviet power on the territory of the USSR has a colossal reserve of strength, so much dynamite would be needed to destroy it completely.

And the accompanying damage to civilians is quite significant. Well, we hardly see this now, but what do we see? We see strikes of unbelievable scale and systematic nature on Ukraine's military and industrial infrastructure on a daily basis.

The scale of drone strikes on Kyiv that occurred this summer has never been seen before. When everything that can produce, repair, fly, kill, and shoot iron is systematically destroyed, the turning point, in my opinion, was precisely on August 6, 2024.

I don't know how the Russian-American negotiations will end. Today we will discuss Whitcoff's visit. Apparently, he was given some cheburek for breakfast. We will talk about all this, undoubtedly. The process will continue.

But the strategic goal is absolutely obvious to anyone who can read, observe, and analyze even a little. The strategic goal is to resolve the issue of Ukrainian statehood.

And what's been happening, especially over the past year, it seems to me—I'll make it clear right away that this is just my opinion, meaning I'm not giving you any inside information. All of this must lead to the complete deconstruction of Ukrainian statehood, including in the foreseeable future. In the state in which the territory formerly known as Ukraine—in the state in which it can emerge from the war, but the war will end one day anyway—this must preclude any possibility of the effective functioning of the Ukrainian state.

Well, actually, there's nothing much to do here, because the same Ukrainian experts there—not only are they not pro-Russian, but they're actually very unfriendly to Russia, I'm putting it politely—they're simply stating that the scale of demographic losses, including people who left the country—well, let's call them refugees, of course—and the scale of military losses among the more or less, well, healthy male population, leaves this country with no chance of not disappearing from the political map in 20 years. That's how it all looks today. And in conclusion. All of this doesn't mean that, in general, everything is predetermined. Nothing is predetermined. It's August here. I'm not a superstitious person at all, but it's just that, so to speak, accumulated life experience,