"The fight against Russia's war has only made me stronger as a person " -Daria | Interview Part 1

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Despite being situated just 10 miles away from the active battle lines and living under a perpetual threat of intense missile barrage,Daria from Ukraine was nothing but a portrait of courage,optimism and strength while appearing on my podcast interview. Even at a time when her region is in a tight grip of a deadly war and death can come knocking on the door at any moment,she was peppering our conversations with jokes,laughter and smile and in the end I could not help but feel inspired by her wisdom and resolve.


00:00 Introduction
02:04 Life in a war zone
05:02 Why Ukrainians failed to convince the world about a impending larger threat from Russia back in 2014?
06:38 Russians are a master in the art of Propaganda
08:03 The ethnic relations within Ukraine is a complicated thing
10:43 Viktor Yanukovych,the former Ukrainian president,bears a huge responsibility for the current situation11
11:38 Ukrainian government institutions were really infiltrated by Russian agents back in 2014
12:21 The Russo-Ukrainian ties are really complicated
13:38 Ukrainian identity had been solidified after the full scale invasion of Russia
14:23 Can you entirely blame Ukraine,with the lack of support from west, for not resisting Russian aggression in 2014?
16:11 how are Ukrainians reacting to Donald Trump's victory?
18:22 Why Trump is despised in Ukraine despite the one being accelerating the delivery of weapons to Ukraine during his first term presidency?
21:02 How are Ukrainians reading the deployment of North Korean troops in the battlefield?
25:23 World war 3 had already begun,only it is not obvious
26:44 The current landscape is eerily similar to the years that preceded the world war 2
30:18 Nothing short of complete evacuation of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory will be acceptable for the Ukrainians?
32:50 Crimea is a part of Ukraine and it should be returned
34:24 Culturally and lingustically,How are the Ukrainians different from the Russians?
36:13 Ukrainian culture is older than the Russian's
38:38 There was a free movement of people between Russia and Ukraine
39:44 Before 2014,People in the border cities of Russia used to travel to Ukraine for buying groceries at cheap prices
40:16 Why Putin is obsessed with Ukraine in a way that he is not about Georgia or Belarus?
43:50 Ukraine is the only country in the world that profuces harvest for 2 seasons in year
44:30 Nazi Germany stole Ukrainian soil during the ww2 occupation
46:18 Why it took an aggressive behavior from Russia to spur the defense spending of European countries?
49:03 Are Ukrainians living in a constant fear of imminent nuclear catastrophe?
50:53 Russians atrocities on the occupied territories were beyond evil
54:03 Why Russian army use Rape and sexual violence as a tool to intimidate the occupied people?
55:08 Even the Nazis were not as brutally atrocious as the Russian forces during the ww2 occupation
57:44 What was going through your head when you learnt about the launch of Russian invasion?
01:10 How this war has changed you as a person?