Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Shaun Pinner - Captured by Russians After Fighting in Mariupol, he was Tormented, Beaten and Starved" video.

At the 1:04:30 mark, Mr Pinner says all the ring leaders of the 2014 invasion have been locked up etc, well he's forgotten about Denis Pushilin, who is still in charge of the co-called DNR where my wife lost her Makiivka flat in 2014 when I first moved to Ukraine. He's right about the Vice news expose from back then, I recall it well, Simon Ostrovsky went round the war zone reporting about it. The most memorable one was when he went to Crimea and the Tartars told him they never got voting cards in that rigged referendum (so they couldn't vote, even though they were boycotting it anyway). In that same episode a bunch of Putin boot lickers form Europe were "over-seeing" the sham referendum and some German sounding guy Simon spoke to from that delegation said "I have not see any armed men with guns" - when that Vice news episode showed APC's and soldiers everywhere!
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Indeed, the closest language to what was spoken in Kyivan Rus is modern day Ukrainian, NOT "Russian", it's a cousin language that matured much later. The currency of Kyivan Rus was the Hryvnia (Grivna) not the Rouble!
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@betterdonotanswer I can roll with that, I used cousin to distance from the "nashi bratya" BS that gets peddled. I can't fault anything you said, it's no wonder Russia was always so well known for being backwards, they think Ukraine belongs to them, but, it's the other way around if you consider the realities of history - Muscovy was a "suburb" or the outskirts of Kyivan Rus, therefore Russia belongs to Ukraine and not vice versa!
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@betterdonotanswer haha, I stand corrected, now that you mention that, the Russian word for money is not a slavic sounding word, - "dengi" sounds Asiatic and is indicative of the horde's boots they were licking and paid tribute to, as you stated.
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@20chocsaday lol, Yes but you have to remember, the backwards Russians say on "Russia 1" etc that Ukrainian is a "southern Russian dialect", but it's actually the other way around. Russian is a northern Ukrainian dialect!
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@betterdonotanswer lol, yeap....butta bing, butta bang! BUTTA BOOM! 🙃
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@dmitryletov8138 We'll stop writing the truth when you stop writing BS. - " 95% Ukrainians speak Russian" - this is only because Russian was a langauge of Empire like English was too. If the languages as so similar as you claim and " 95% Ukrainians speak Russian" , then why is it that "0% of Russians speak Ukrainian" ? - are Russians so stupid that your one example is beyond their comprehension ? so tell me where is the "one letter difference between the basics like.... yes and no (tak/ni -da/nyet) greetings (zdrasvuitye - vitayu) thank you (spasibo - djakuyu) goodbye (do svidanya - do pobachneye) that's just the basics so, who's talking BS now ? 🙃
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@betterdonotanswer tak, tak, tak!! Slava Bogu!
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