Putin’s reign will end with Ukraine’s battlefield success | Marina Litvinenko

war in Ukraine it’s uh very important not just Ukrainian people because they’re fighting for their uh independency for their identity for their future life but for Russian people too this war need to be uh worn by uh Ukrainian and if it will happen Russia will change too let’s now say a good afternoon to Marina lineno who’s an activist and the Widow of the former Russian agent who defected and became a Critic of Vladimir Putin Marina welcome to the studio hi good evening it’s good to have you here Marina listening to that seeing what you saw earlier today that ceremony of reinstalling Vladimir Putin as the leader of Russia seemingly secure seemingly impregnable in office for as long as he wishes to be there what were your thoughts and feelings seeing that yes when we’re talking about fifth term of Russian I don’t want to call him president now it’s like Vladimir Putin again Vladimir Putin but it’s not a president it’s just election of Vladimir Putin because he never had any alternative it was never never been competitive election when we’re talking about the March back to March this is like obvious uh we know is going to be Vladimir Putin but it’s not just his wish of course uh when you see these people who stayed uh in Kremlin this 5,000 people about try to um cheer Vladimir Putin when he came to Kremlin and some people outside uh they wanted him I mean this is some uh Inner Circle because they benefited from this regime and when we’re talking about oligarchs what we tried to bond to take under sanctions yes we know they’ve been benefited and they became extremely rich but these people inside of Russia even uh try to keep uh Putin as long as possible because they are the biggest benefiter of this regime yeah I mean those that gathered obviously had a stake in keeping Putin where it was it included administrators and others from Ukraine from those Russian occupied territories as well Marina what is the the state of opposition to Vladimir Putin in the Russian Dumas the uh the parliament the the legislature of of Russia there are opposition parties but they’re pretty loyal to to the Kremlin aren’t there the dissidents are outside they’re exposed to detention and possibly murder so what’s the state to the opposition uh when Putin became uh president in the first time in 2000 it was obvious people around him who wanted him to be president started to build completely new state without freedom of speech without freedom of election and unfortunately people all around the world realized it quite late but it was obvious in 2000 and when Putin was just a virtual person because nobody knew Vladimir Putin but they realized if you use TV on the right way if you use newspapers you can build any image what you want and people will believe and since 2000 all ordin Russian people will was brainwashed and everything what they saw on TV and read the newspaper of course it was just good things about Putin and of course it was not any uh system opposition in Parliament particularly after 2004 when Putin became second time President of Russia it was not any system opposition people became fighting just outside on the streets and we saw in 2011 the biggest uh protest when election in Parliament was just simply stolen and this was Tiny chance to make any change but it was not enough power to people or understanding what you have to do and now we have mostly people who against this regime outside of Russia or being in prison inside of Russia or afraid to say anything to Putin or to this regime I only believe to change in Russia’s society when we have a civil society when people will uh think we are not opposition we’re not interested of politics but when they realize they alive so poor so bad and you need to change something or anything and you need to see to other people not like Putin not people who support Putin it might make any change I would say it’s not opposition and it’s the people who don’t want to live the same life what they lived for last 25 years under Putin a mass change of sentiment of feeling in Russia about about the about the leader of Russia Marina can you can you envisage can you see the day that that happens can you imagine the day that Putin finally Falls from Power how would that come about when Putin started a war in 2022 uh he had to do this because it’s always he has a power or if he lost the power he need to do starting something Wars what what he did in 2014 when war in Ukraine just started it was obvious he uh benefited from this and uh he has a very high rank he has a a lot of supporters and 2022 he needed again unfortunately when he started this war he was been supported just the people uh quite a few like a minister of defense economy Minister but after he been elected as a president he decide he has a support of all people of Russia it’s now uh like a he made all Russian people been involved yes in this war when might that change how will that change I’ve absolutely believe war in Ukraine it’s a uh very important not just Ukrainian people because they fighting for their uh independency for their identity for their future life but for Russian people too this war need to be uh worn by uh Ukrainian and if it will happen Russia will change too there are many Russians who who may not be thorough supporters of Vladimir Putin but who are still sympathetic to the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine their family members it’s always happened uh and you know it’s not about even sympathy Putin’s regime is buying this sympathy they’re paying enormous amount of money and to people who never saw this money before because they’ve been very poor from very poor uh areas and now they received like a Millions to pay to go to fight and it’s not a sympathy and this is uh the worst things for Putin did to his country he spoiled people by money and he spoiled uh one people who became extremely rich and now he tried to buy this loyalty from people who who never been even uh middle class and but it can’t be for long time it’s not and meanwhile then how do you plan to carry on your your campaign your your your activism your raising your voice against the Putin regime to keep the hope of change alive uh when it’s all starts started of course I did this mostly for myself for my family for our friends but uh when we made it I I realize it’s because I live in a proper country and I have my rights for justice I have a lot of my human rights and this made other people think my way uh just supported and now when we have this war in Ukraine and I see so so many people suffered and they need help support and I just now doing this one is all my experience and all my uh knowledge what I have what I did before I now try to use to help people in Ukraine and you feel you’re taking a risk Marina we know that those who become a thorn of the side of the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin well some of them come to well serious problems some of them are at real risk I don’t think uh so many people have started to be vocal against Putin it means will have not enough Army to fight in Ukraine if he need to find against people outside of Russia no don’t be afraid and I would like to remind you this word of Alexa naal who was killed recently and he said I’m not afraid and you don’t Not Afraid Marina it’s been a pleasure talking to you thank you so much for coming in and sharing your thoughts on the day of the inauguration the fifth inauguration of Vladimir Putin for

“This war must be won by Ukraine. And if it that happens, Russia will change, too.”

The future of Putin’s reign hinges on Ukraine’s battlefield success, says Marina Litvinenko.

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38 comments

  1. "Putin’s reign will end with Ukraine’s battlefield success"; Hope is NOT a Strategy. Just dream on and/or keep waffling away.

  3. People don't understand that Putin is just a puppet of the russian mafia, he has to be there where he is, this is now suitable for them.

  11. The only ground Ukraine is holding at the moment is the moral high ground! At the front their troops are gradually being pushed back.

    Putin is now playing a long game that will not only test Ukraine's resources and infrastructure to the maximum, it will also test Western resolve and support for Ukraine.

  16. Putin just won an election that was overseen by 700 international observers from 109 countries . Who deemed the election free and fair
    This woman works on behalf of the liberal west who wish to plunder Russia then divide it up into 36 smaller statelets . Balkanisation. All part of the Wolfiwitz doctrine .

  17. Russia is still a backwards nation.Most of it's people in the rural & country areas still use outhouses. Running water is in the creeks when not frozen solid.

  21. I used to think that anybody who used to read the Readers Digest were brain dead, but I was wrong – the correct diagnosis of brain death applies to someone who subscribes to this channel.

  22. What blows my mind is how the rest of the world is fighting for freedom and democracy while radical republican in America are fighting against it, absolutely unbelievable .

  27. I don’t trust the news outlets. The. IS destabilized the Ukrainian election in 2014, the Ukraine government started shelling the eastern Russian-speaking provinces of the Ukraine….

  28. That’s precisely right. Putin continues to sign his own replacement order every day he continues the Ukrainian war. Boy! Talk about a miscalculation. Yikes. 😳

  30. 1600 usd being paid to Russian soldiers per month , is about two weeks pay for a Vancouver Canada security guard, very amusing and pathetic Russians willing to lay their lives for security guard pay and a pathetic Russian leader called Putin.

  31. The worst thing Putin ever did was trust the west, people like Angela Merkel, The USA etc. to tell the truth and stick to the treaties they signed & wanting to try be reasonable with such vile creatures, also asking to join NATO was a bad idea as just made him seem extremely naive & out of touch with the extreme aggression that the West had never let go of. He makes up for it by dragging his country out of the ashes from The USA's meddling when Yeltsin was "in power" and raising his country up from the brink of despair and giving his people hope that had been ground down for many a decade due to the Soviet Union, cold war and frankly bad management. Getting rid of the oligarchy that was destroying Russia from within and finally getting round to dealing with the existential threat that had been brewing in Ukraine for decades, hopefully once this tragedy is over with he can deal with the gangsters that have had that country in its grips for so long, and rid it of the corruption that keeps its people poor and with little to no prospects, to finally break away free from the shackles of The USA and its hideous ambitions will hopefully see Ukraine finally flourish.

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