Ukrainian → English transcript

Training exercises after the events of 2022 in Ukraine have already, so to speak, clearly acquired

clearly delineated boundaries of perception, specifically cognitive ones. That is, they are already being perceived permanently

not as training, but as something, perhaps, more than just military maneuvers.

And that's precisely the problem. Right now there's a wave of escalation, and with the first days

of the start of the active phase — which, as I recall, will be on September 12 — there will be an absolutely insane wave

of informational escalation, if you will. Information dumps will come from absolutely every side,

you should also understand that about 90 percent will be Russian, ten percent, unfortunately, from others.

We all need to remember this well. And hysteria will be stoked.

The first thing I'd like to say is that these exercises, in principle — if we're talking specifically about the military

and the military-political component aims to achieve the following: to rehearse

individual maneuvers for, as stated in them, actions in the western direction

of the theater of military operations. That is, they will, so to speak, play out certain elements

of a future war already; this is not about Ukraine. Here it is, if you like, a symbol.

A symbol and a signal primarily for European countries, and the very first indeed are

the Baltic countries, of which you are now a representative.

And, unfortunately, you will come under serious information pressure with the start of

the active phase of these exercises, which will be accompanied by certain information drops,

information provocations, and so on. And they have already begun.

They mention Ukraine only in the context that it could pose a threat.

Basically, they openly say that we are near the borders of the Baltic states.

We'll deploy now, and everyone will see our strength. That's the problem,

that a cognitive process has already started to kick in here.

No one takes these maneuvers as mere maneuvers; they see them as a serious problem.