09/28/2025
Paul Smith, also known as Yurii, is a veteran of the US and Ukrainian armies, an entrepreneur, and a volunteer who has dedicated years of his life to helping Ukraine in its fight for freedom. From supplying bulletproof vests and medical kits since 2010 to serving 18 months on the front lines after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
In this exclusive interview, Paul will talk about how he first discovered Ukraine in 2008 and his journey from the US Army to the Ukrainian International Legion. We will discuss logistics, hybrid warfare strategies, innovations on the battlefield, and US policy under President Trump.
© UATV English 2025
It sounds mad that he was once pro-putler, but it is explainable, due to his lack of access to the real truth about Ukraine in the pre-2010 period.
I was myself quite well-disposed towards russia right up to the Nord-Ost seige in late 2022.
I simply did not understand the real truth about Yeltsin’s war in Chechnya, his terrible murder of the great Dzhokhar Dudayev, putler’s apartment bombings leading to the second genocide of Chechnya and the slow emergence of Putler’s fascism after that.
The apartment bombings, Beslan and Nord-Ost were putler false flag atrocities and the murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Nemtsov were key revelations of putler’s direction which could no longer be ignored.
“If Trump wanted to stop this war, he would authorise the use of long range fires.”
Right. Simple as that. Even Storm Shadows and Scalps can’t go to the extent of their range because Biden and now Trump restricts them due to the command and control systems being in U.S. hands.
“Focus on taking out russia’s economic lifelines.”
Exactly.
Unrestricted Storms, ATACMS, Tomahawks and Taurus’s would absolutely fuck putlerstan in the ass.
Paul’s monologue at the end was excellent btw.