Protests broke out in more than 50 cities across Russia, according to an NGO. NBC News’ Keir Simmons is in Moscow, where some citizens say the invasion is “a tragedy” and are scared for relatives in Ukraine. Others are supporting President Putin.
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Evil all the way!!
Unhinged Putin or calculating?
I kind of understand why Russians are doing this,
Why they are protesting,
they are very close to the Ukrainian people,
they belong to the same ethnic group,
Eastern Slavic peoples.
They have been marrying each other for centuries,
they are related to each other by family.
They definitely do not want to go to war with their brothers and sisters next door.
With that being said,
I kind of understand why Putin is doing what he’s doing.
Yes,
If you can believe I do understand why he’s doing what he’s doing.
Russia,
And the Russians,
are in danger.
They have maybe two or three generations to go before they become an extinct ethnic group,
and this has been statistically documented by the way,
and I don’t think a lot of these Russians understand that.
They were once a huge Empire, ruled by the czars, Catherine the Great,
Peter the Great.
they had so much land
so much territory.
Extremely wealthy and prosperous.
They were a huge Empire,
and then a
super power,
military power.
Everything,
they were feared and respected
Now they’re literally on their last leg of survival,
they have a small economy,
decent sized military but,
not the threat that they used to be.
They’re not populating,
Russia not having children as much.
the economic situation is very limited. ( going to be even worse now )
Their power is gone.
No longer the Great Soviet Union
USSR!
They are no longer a superpower. And I think people like Putin and others understand that. And don’t like it,
They want to regain power,
Want to get that respect and Glory back,
And they look at their backyard,
they see NATO surrounding them.
NATO is on all sides of their house,
NATO is in front of their house, NATO is in back of their house, and they’re getting bigger and bigger.
Latvia and Estonia,
Lithuania,
these former Soviet satellite countries,
And Russian Empire .
are NATO countries now.
5 to 8 hours away from the Imperial City of St Petersburg.
NATO is literally right next door.
The last thing you want as a Russian is to have your fellow Eastern Slavic brothers and sisters,
join NATO,
when Moscow would be directly threatened,
St Petersburg is already directly threatened,
if Ukraine joins NATO,
Moscow is threatened,
very difficult to protect that whole swab of a land between Ukraine in Russia,
the Volga River could definitely be cut off from Russia that is a major trading route.
If Ukraine joins the West,
and the Ukraine hs natural resources like gas and agriculture.
The West would definitely choose Ukraine over Russia,
That would literally destroy the Russian economy.
So they will be destroyed economically,
And they will be destroyed militarily,
and this is what people like Putin and others see.
It’s sad to say,
I don’t think a lot of Russians see this or understand it,
but it is very possible,
three or four generations from now
there would be no such thing as a Russian person,
and I think Putin is trying to fight for his existence and sovereignty just a little bit longer…..
for the Russian people,
They have a few Generations left……
Pulling the Ukraine into the Russian spear,
Not only would ensure protection,
but it would definitely ensure the continuation of the Russian existence.
( just a little longer )
And this is what this is about..
And by the way,
Catherine the Great said the only way Russia can be truly protected is if she expands her borders,
and that’s always been sort of a Russian Doctrine.
itler 21 veka
World, open your eyes. Putin is the Hitler of the 21st century
Down with putin and his oligarchs. Destroy them all. GOD BLESS UKRAINE. Stay safe Russian innocent people 🙏
Some of these Russians would make better Americans than our on country men. I wish we could trade all Trump supporters for Russians.
Russian people: remove the fossil called Putin! He’s living in another era!
The strength of Ukraine is rubbing off onto the civilians of Russia. The stronger they stand the more opposition Russia will face.
It’s great to see that there are people in Russia that don’t agree with Putin’s invasion and are protesting it. It’s just good to know that there are people even within Putins country who don’t agree with him
Это не путинская страна.
@Shain Andrews English ? I’m sorry I don’t speak Russian
Russian should remove that lunatic from power. Start a people’s power movement revolt just like what happened to the Philippines 36 years ago.
Putin just plain sucks. Trump too. They are both terrible.
Russia has Putin and we got Biden 2 clowns 🤡
This will likely be the most effective strategy againts Putin’s Invasion. Yet. The effort of the Ukranians, in defending, their nation is moving and inspiring beyond words. Courageous people .
Putin is angry losing his cash cow and Ukraine people as human shield against NATO. If I can’t have you no one can
Russia need to stop war immediately…it not good for both country. alot russian people live in Ukraine too and they are has no peace.
Putin Please stop war Russia 🇷🇺 you are devil 👿
This is a fake news this people are not Russian they are neo Nazi supporter real Russian people are stand up with president Putin for making proud Russia is back
Putin will be assassinated.
Well done citizens of russia stop putin.
The Russian public is Putin’s first victim and his corruption. In case you didn’t know, his wealth is estimated to be around $50,000,000,000.00
That’s a little
Russian should fight the police . Its more russians than police. And they should arrest the police
Putin your died
Praying for Ukrainians, Russians who are standing against Putin. Putin has gone mad.
People are nice, leaders are a holes
Please look, who is making wars against peace, Russia. Is the one who is killing many innocent civilians
Ukraine 🇺🇦 be strong and brave 💪 ♥ 🙏 👏. My heart goes out to you all God bless you always
Putin is a hero. Support for Russia. Not ukraine
Nukes = end of man kind. It’s gonna happen humans are stupid. Just a matter of when what dumb leader is gonna fire it.
Putin is like the cheating crybaby kid, whom when he knows he is wrong, he threatens everyone with a weapon. And to believe I used to admire him.
Putin is lying to his rich people so they won’t go against him lol and NATO is not Afraid of Putin they just don’t want to start a War and Putin knows we have the best weapons only made in America (Area 51)
Listen to the people! We don’t want anymore death! Why are we killing our own over what is ALL OF OURS FREELY!! THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE NEED TO STOP ALL THIS GREED /POWER AND FOCUS ON TEACHING COMPASSION HELPING OTHERS NOT KILLING OUR OWN MAKING OUR WORLD A SAFE LOVING PLANET WERE MONEY ISNT THE PORPOSE OF BEING HERE!!!
Fight for your rights, just like we did over here back in 1776, old school.
Even Russians see the injustice while Tucker on Fox serves as a Putin apologist.
I don’t know how we deal with that. Hiding behind the constitution while pushing misinformation campaigns. Guess lawsuits. That’s what finally got Alex Jones off the air.
Good job Russians
Fight for your freedom. You are not prisoners!
Don’t let any poisoning, murderous, lying propaganda war criminal dictator oppress you!!!!
The world is not against you. The world is against Putin!
They should all pay for Putins. Where is bin Ladin when we need him
Putin is crazy he have Alzheimer
People won’t tolerate war anymore.
Condemned foolish Trump for supporting this mad mad call Putin. Trump should be ashamed of himself as a ex president.
Putin A VERY VERY VERY BAD leader…
It’s insane! When Putin is making his absolutely ridiculous filled with lies speeches and saying the Russian people, he is only speaking for himself and his wants. Nobody wants this but him and if this doesn’t show the world that he is a madman whom is out of control selfish and careless and needs to be stopped idk what will. We can’t allow him so much freedom and do nothing!! I’m worried that we didn’t learn from Hitler era that men like this can not be trusted or allowed this bc ITLL only hurt us all in the end! Putin’s hungry for USSR TYPE EMPIRE AND HE WILL NOT STOP WITH UKRAINE!!!
Hi
All of them are gonna either turn up in jail or dead!! Sad world!!😕
Thank you Russian citizens! The world sees this is the work of a dictatorship with too much power! Hopefully a real democratic system with ACTUAL term limits will happen soon.
LORD GOD 🙏🏽 PLEASE PROTECT AND SAVE UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS 😭😭
F putin
Thank you Russian citizens and any who read this comment
That’s a lot of people for Putin’s to arrest. It will be a time where the will of the people will be untamable. Then the arrogant evil trash will learn.
Give also ukraine artillery to hit russia. Just to be fair
No Biden plunged the Ukraine. Would the Ukraine want NATO if they weren’t paid 500M by NATO members? The US armed the Ukraine without any evidence.
Did the Russia people ignore the US the last 20 years? The Neighboring Countries get killed. Every conflict since 1776. Putin has to round protesters up. Historically pro-America supporters blow themselves up or open fire. That’s how the US justifies bombing and troops invading foreign countries.
Hey Russia. America had a leader that protected its people. We traded him for Biden. Don’t trade Putin for an American picked leader. Enjoy being safe.
Very sad that a lot of the soldiers from Russia are fighting this war for one man’s ego. They are not fighting for Russia, they are fighting for Putin.
Fyi history buffs 2008 Russia invaded Georgia under bush 2104 Russia invaded Crimea under Obama now Russia invaded Ukraine under Biden . Trump no invasion nothing losers.
Point well taken. Putin needs to be taken out.
So why is Russia invading?
women: brave enough for instgram likes, not brave enough to fight with their brothers and husbands! I guess all those gender pay gaps and all that feminist crap goes to trash. “Stop putin, stop patriarchy ” pathetic. Meanwhile men fight and sacrifice their lifes.
So what now for the U.S., NATO, and Allied? What are you waiting for?
9-years old Ukrainian Girl sings with tears
The world knows how citizens are just used as pawns for Government agendas.
GOOD!
Overthrow him. If he bombs my country with nuclear weapons, I will walk over the graveyard that was once Pycckn in a hazmat suit. Day and night I will walk. We spent 20 years Afghanistan after we were attacked and lost less than you did in 72 hours, Pycckn. DO THE RIGHT THING, MAKE PEACE.
No more war, no more bloodshed. We the people and us veterans are tired of it. We demand peace
Good
@POTUS From Wikipedia Kuwait and Gulf War
Kuwait … member of the GCC and a major “non-NATO” ally to the United States.
Gulf War …armed campaign waged by a “United States-led coalition of 35 nations” against Iraq in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
COVID and now war? This is so sad, prayers for Ukrainian people and thank you Russian people who don’t want this. Please stand up.
God bless you guys hope we can live in peace again we already suffer so much from pandemic
Hope it’s not escalate no more than this
USA, NATO, Europe, What are you waiting for!??????? All normal countries, join in Ukraine!!! Russia is a THREAT to the whole world!!! STOP putin!!!!!! If you don’t want to fight, give Ukraine weapons!!!!!! YOUR HOUSE WILL BE NEXT!!!! STOP CRAZY putin NOW!!! NO TIME FOR THINKING!!!!
Russians: “Stop the invasion, we do not stand for violence, we do NOT support Putin”
Meanwhile…
Some Actor: “I’m sorry I wasn’t your mother”
These protesters that push it to far. Will disappear…. They know they are putting there life on the line
Stand up to this bs Russian citizens .F PUTIN
Fake news peddlers, keep dreaming.
0:42 putin warned neclear blast. this is so horrible for the world 😭
Putin is a terrorist. He does not represent the great and glorious Russia and Russian people
You know that you’re a D-Bag when your own people are protesting and asking you to stop the onslaught.
So hitler came back
There is a story of David and Goliath. If you remember…
These are plants protesting
Funny russian meme man wouldn’t do this 😨
*Финский блогер шокировал Facebook, когда разместил эту статью:*
Вы спрашиваете о результатах “агрессий” России? Они таковы: половина Европы и часть Азии получили свою государственность из рук именно этого государства.
Давайте вспомним кто именно:
– Финляндия в 1802 и 1918 гг.. (До 1802 г. никогда не имела собственного государства).
– Латвия в 1918 г. (до 1918 г. никогда не имела собственного государства).
– Эстония в 1918 г. (до 1918 г. никогда не имела собственного государства).
– Литва восстановила государственность в 1918 г. также благодаря России.
– Польша восстанавливала государство с помощью России дважды, в 1918 и 1944 гг. Раздел Польши между СССР и Германией — это лишь короткий период!
– Румыния родилась в результате русско-турецких войн, а суверенной стала по воле России в 1877–1878 гг.
– Молдавия как государство родилась внутри СССР.
– Болгария освобождена от гнета Османской империи и восстановила свою независимость в результате победы русского оружия в русско-турецкой войне 1877-1878 гг., которая и имела это своей целью. В качестве благодарности государство Болгария в двух мировых войнах участвовала в составе антирусских коалиций. Сейчас Болгария – член НАТО, и на ее территории размещены базы США. После 1945 года на ее территории не было ни одного русского солдата…
-Сербия как суверенное государство родилась тоже в результате этой войны.
– Азербайджан как государство оформился впервые только в составе СССР.
– Армения сохранилась физически и возродилась как государство только в составе СССР.
– Грузия сохранилась физически и возродилась как государство благодаря Российской империи
– Туркмения никогда не имела государственности и сформировала ее только в составе СССР.
– Киргизия никогда не имела государственности и сформировала ее только в составе СССР.
– Казахстан никогда не имел государственности и сформировал ее только в составе СССР.
– Монголия никогда не имела государственности и сформировала ее только с помощью СССР.
– Белоруссия и Украина также впервые обрели государственность как следствие Великой Октябрьской революции в составе республик СССР. И лишь в 1991 году (также от России) получили свою полную независимость.
Также стоит учитывать роль России-СССР в рождении и становлении таких государств как КНР, Вьетнам, КНДР, Индия, Греция (была отбита у турок Россией в далёком 1821 году), Алжира, Кубы, Израиля, Анголы, Мозамбика и т. д…
Вот такая странная “агрессия” исторически проявлялась со стороны русских!
При значимом вкладе этой страны даже Швейцария добилась независимости от Франции. А точнее это было сделано благодаря Суворову (217 лет назад) и с тех пор Швейцария ни разу (!) не воевала;
Также имело место:
– Освобождение Австрии от Третьего рейха 1945 г;
– Освобождение Чехословакии от Третьего рейха 1945 г.;
– Позиция Екатерины II в 1780 г. с созданием Лиги вооруженного нейтралитета и фактическая поддержка Северо-американских Соединённых штатов в борьбе за их независимость от Британии.
– дважды за последние 2 века подаренная Россией независимость большинству европейских государств после уничтожения ею Гитлера и Наполеона;
– Позиция Сталина в переговорах с США и Англией давшая Германии возможность сохранить государственность после поражения в 1945 г.;
– Позиция Горбачева позволившая без лишних проблем в 1990 г. повторно объединить обе Германии;
– Помощь СССР Египту, после которой тот смог выстоять и закрепить свою независимость в войне с Израилем, Британией и Францией в 1956-57 г.
– Вмешательство СССР в 1967 г. остановившее войну Израиля и Египта (фактически спасшее арабов от разгрома в двух войнах в 1967-74 годах).
– Решающая роль Союза обеспечившая завоевание Анголой своей независимости в 1975г.
И наконец, главное. Именно СССР после победы во Второй мировой войне сыграл ключевую роль в том, чтобы большинство колоний Западной Европы получили свою независимость в запущенном Союзом процессе общемировой деколонизации.
Вся история России говорит о том, что она была последовательна при любой власти и строе в отстаивании принципов независимости и самоопределения наций и народов. Именно она всячески помогала созданию многополярного мира в любую эпоху и во все времена.
К сожалению, очень часто при этом, она жертвовала собственными интересами, и если бы политика России-матушки хоть на долю, была бы аналогична Британской, то сейчас полмира находилось бы в составе Российского Императорского Содружества наций, а русский народ купался бы в роскоши, как шейхи Саудовской Аравии, за счет освобожденных от других колонизаторов государств, стран и их капиталов.
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0:53 The West ignored Russia. I guess that means they gotta invade Ukraine.
Good guy protest him and his personal ego Russians have a choice to stop fighting putain is nothing with out people to do for him
Messiah
Fu putin!!!!! I am an American citizen but if I can Ill join Ukraine to fight u. This is 2022!!
WW III
The weak president called J Biden is only takl!!! Look how power plays. The next episode is Taiwan and China. will win?
Invading Iraqi was illegal too. Only small protesters.
I’m still against the invasion though , just stating facts
These protests are probably being controlled by the US State Department
People want peace!!! We’re tired of war
I suspect NATO is to blame, Putin’s hand was forced. An intelligent and Spiritual man would be agonized as such circumstances despite having preaccepted them as a remote possibility of the job.
We need to wait some 20-30 years more until old generation is gone and then we have some hope to see more humane russia.
Fake nbc media
I don’t understand how the Russian Soldiers can blindly follow these orders from a dictator like Putin. Don’t they have a mind of Their Own to realize what they’re doing is just plain wrong?
These protestors must take up arms. The US should supply them.
Because the USA has been wanting war for years. When there is war there is money is the west. They feed on it like maggots. Russia has been asking for peace for 30 years yet the USA never even ceased to fly live nuclear warheads over the Ukraine despite treaty agreements. They are skilled at breaking treaties, destabilizing nations to force them into war, and they are very skilled at keeping their society incompetent and easily influenced by propaganda.
Protest harder you complacent war criminals