Joining me now is Daniel belac a Canadian lawyer living in keev and serving in Ukraine’s territorial Defense Force Daniel thank you very much for joining us today thanks for having me how is it there with this marking the the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion well I mean I’ll I’ll have to
Be honest with you we’re we’re tired I I hear about how fatigued people are in in the west and we can understand that um we’re fatigued from waking up every morning to find to tears and blood finding out which cities have been bombed and how many people have been
Killed uh were fatigued from running into bomb shelters uh every week a number of times I’m fatigued from going to funerals in my Village we’ve been to 22 uh already for people who serve with me in my in my unit um you know we’re we’re tired of of the
Unimaginable Horrors that we witnessed of tortures rapes uh deportations of children uh ripped from their the arms of their family members sent to Russia to be adopted by strangers and the mass Graves that uh that are discovered every time we liberate a village so you know it’s it’s it’s tough yet ukrainians are
Resilient uh we’re still resistant we have resolve and um 80% of ukrainians still say that they do not want to leave one centimeter of territory uh to the Russians of our ter teritory to the Russians because of all of these things we know that that you’re basically sentencing people in any place under
Occupation uh to slavery and Slaughter how does Ukraine win this war we win this war by getting weapons I mean it’s really simple uh the the math is not hard you know we we we’re we’re we we have begged and and pleaded for weapons for two years now and you know I
I I can tell you that had we received uh what we needed in the quantities that we asked for and in the time frame that we asked for uh after we took Haru and Kon in the late fall of 2022 this would have been over by Christmas because we had
Them on the back foot they were complete disarray and uh and and and we we really had them and unfortunately our our allies slow walked uh our uh our our demands we got maybe a 100 tanks uh we got 31 Bradley within that oh sorry Abram one tanks from the United States
Um and we were told to go on a counter offensive that last summer that that nobody no NATO country would ever have gone with because uh they don’t we were didn’t have any air cover and and so I mean it we can win this war this war is
Absolutely winnable uh We’ve proven that we can fight this war we fight it smart we fight it asymmetrical uh but we can’t fight it throwing stones at the at these guys um they they have you know they all they do is throw people at us but you know
There’s a there’s a saying that quantity has its own quality and uh you know we need the weapons to mow them down which we were doing they took them took two and a half months and 50,000 lives expended to take of dka which you know is is is is you know not hugely
Strategic it’s a it’s a win for them but the only reason they took it was we ran out of ammunition and every day that as as the Minister of Defense quite properly said every day that we don’t get what we need more people die and we
Lose more territory and um and and and that is a that is a huge tragedy and you know the important thing for people in Canada to understand is that this is this and I get tired coming back to fatigue I get tired of repeating this over and over again is this is not
Ukraine’s war against Russia this is a war of the the West against Russia because Russia has made it that and Putin was explicit last week when he said that Russia is in a war against the collective West led by the United States you don’t pick your enemy and you know
So you know the people of Canada are the are subjects of this war as well and you know we are we are all the stands between the Russian forces and the NATO uh our NATO allies in uh in the west and if weed fall he’s coming after you next
And that’s when Canadian soldiers die it’s a very small price to pay to help arm us now do you have any hope then for any kind of a settlement or is this a war that has to be resolved to a nasty end well no you you can have a
Settlement but only after the Russian army is completely defeated in Ukraine there there’s there’s no scenario whereby uh there is peace if if we if we are forced to capitulate at this at this time with him s sitting on Ukrainian territory he’s going to just rearm and
And come back as I as I said you know off my last comment we we are today the Eastern Shield of of NATO and and Putin has prepared his people for Perpetual War there’s a cult of necrofilia in Russia where you basically give birth to children so that they can die for Mother
Russia in our war against the west and you know the West just needs to stop being afraid and I think that the one major strategic victory in fact the only strategic victory that Putin has achieved to this point in time is he has weaponized the fear of the West we’ve been given all
Along enough to survive but not enough to win and now we don’t even have enough to survive and you know it’s like being on on life support and we never get off we never get off life support you can’t you can’t get up and walk and be free
Because that’s what we’re fighting for we’re fighting for the same values that you have and I and I I I just I just I just cannot understand I cannot understand how this uh this this is where we are today with uh uh with with not having the weapons to defeat this
This evil this is a war of good against evil Daniel thank you very much to for sharing your thoughts today we appreciate it God bless thank you to the people of Canada for all your support Daniel beac is a Canadian Ukrainian lawyer and a member of UK UK’s territorial Defense Force
Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces Member Daniel Bilak says Ukraine can win this war with Russia as long as they get the weapons they need.
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Whatever. We're still not giving ac dime.
Oh please
Why are Polish farmers asking Russia for help?
Nato created the problem and blamed Russia. Nato must be removed. War and weapons aren't the answer.
Fk it ! This is what Biden started ! Ucraine belongs to Rusia ! We don’t need to pay jack for them enough is enough ! Our taxes need to be spent on real American problems !
This guy is a great interview!
Let Ukraine fights its own war.
UKRAINIAN MILITARY IS ALREADY DEFEATED STOP DREAMING.