Kherson

It, it really is...

I wouldn't say it's, it's affecting most of the middle strike, like in the occupied areas of like Donetsk, Kherson, you know, Zaporizhzhia.

I think Crimea, it's a bigger issue.

I know they put jammers on some of the tanker ships because they're hitting those FP2s with, with Starlinks.

honestly, you know, if there would be enough pressure put on Putin, right, this war could have ended in the fall of 2022.

If Ukraine would have got sufficient supplies when we liberated Kharkiv region, liberated Kherson, at that time, Biden administration was too timid.

to supply serious weapons, right? If we would have weapons at that time, this would be long finished and forgotten.

And it's been a problem of both administrations.

town.

But as soon as they left, the ballistic missiles rained down on the Ukrainian capital and other cities again.

Meanwhile, the infamous Human Safari, in which Russian drone operators hunt Ukrainian civilians in frontline cities like Kherson, is expanding.

with a similar campaign now being reported in Zaporizhia.

Putin wants nothing but the complete subjugation and eradication of anything that is Ukrainian.

And as I said earlier in this discussion, what is the evidence of that? In any land he has taken over, whether Mariupol or Donetsk or parts of Zaporizhia or parts of Kherson, he has eradicated anything to do with Ukrainian language, culture, anything.

And that is the evidence of what he will do if he took control of all of Ukraine.

There would be no Ukraine as we know it left.

In a 2025 interview with Tucker Carlson, Wyckoff said he liked Putin, called him super smart and said, I don't regard Putin as a bad guy.

In the same interview, he accepted the Russian falsehood that Khrushchev simply handed Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia to Ukraine when it was only Crimea that was transferred in 1954 and the other four were already Soviet Ukraine.

He of course ignores the long history of Crimea, independent of Russia and its empire as well.

He cited Russia's occupation referendums, which were held at gunpoint without monitoring and voided by the UN General Assembly, as evidence that the population wanted Russian rule, when they are evidence of nothing of the sort.

Why is it better? So Better than I think any time since the end of 2022.

So when the end of 2022 was really the high watermark for Ukraine, right, and just taking back Kharkiv region and taking back the city of Kherson, was advancing on the battlefield, was preparing for the 2023 counteroffensive.

When the 2023 counteroffensive was a total failure, a complete wash, Ukraine lost a lot.

And then ever since then, the Russians have had

Okay, this is just the same song, second verse.

Officers from Russia's Federal Security Service, FSB, abducted a 52-year-old history teacher in the occupied part of Ukraine's Kherson region on August 5th.

and her whereabouts remains unknown, according to the independent outlet Important Stories.

Yeah, she looks like a terrible threat, doesn't she? 52-year-old female history teacher?