Full article and video of Mr Kim here :
WATCH NOW: Ukrainian politician urges cooperation on all fronts |
GB NEWS
Published: 20/02/2026
The Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast sat down with GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope
Ukraine is a “shield” for Europe against a full scale Russian invasion a leading Ukrainian politician has warned ahead of the fourth anniversary of the start of the war next week.
Vitalii Kim, the Governor of Mykolaiv Oblast which is a few miles from the front line, also said that British troops can learn from the experience of frontline Ukrainian soldiers, battle-hardened after four years of fighting the Russians.
Tuesday marks the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Speaking to Chopper’s Political Podcast, Mr Kim said: “From UK, you realise that we are a shield of Europe now, and we have the best army now, and we are defending the Europe because Russia will never stop.
“And we need… not only support, we need cooperation in our economy. We need the cooperation with our people.
“We need your experience because it is a common problem for now. It is the first time that rules of the whole world have been changed.”
He said: “This is not right because there are lots of small countries, democratic countries with happy people.
“And someone can come to your house, any time now, because if Russia will capture the Ukraine, it will end, but it will be a situation that anybody could repeat.”
Vitaliy Kim has told GB News that Ukraine is a ‘shield’ for Europe against a full scale Russian invasion | GB NEWS
Mr Kim – the region’s governor since 2020 – said British troops, which could be deployed on the ground in Ukraine to keep the peace if a deal can be reached, would be able to learn from Ukrainian soldier’s first hand experience of fighting Russians.
He said: “Your soldiers maybe will be learning from us how to operate in a modern war. So we need very close and deep cooperation in all spheres.”
Mr Kim said that he and other leaders were planning for how to rebuild Ukraine when the war is over.
He said: “We wish to recover Ukraine, to live in peaceful Ukraine [under] a free sky, to recover Ukraine, to invest in our people.
Mr Kim sat down with GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope | GB NEWS
“We want to have a highly technological country with good payments, and I think we deserve it.
“And we are planning to recover our country. We are inviting our investors already.
“So we are fighting with one hand, but with another hand we are preparing for recovering our country.”
GBN is the go-to channel for Faragistas.
Farage himself makes c. £1,000,000/yr from GBN for his presenting and punditry.
On top his other nice little earners, he gets 94 grand a year for being an MP, plus extremely generous expenses.
The cigar-chomping, champagne-swilling communist George Galloway (I nicknamed him Giorgi G’Allah – Weih long ago to reflect his putler-pali allegiances; one of his wives is a pali), worked for RaT for many years. He had his own show.
The only UK politician to appear on RaT almost as many times as Galloway is Farage. They become friends. They even appeared on platforms together during the Brexit campaign.
What links a far rightist with a commie? Devotion to putler.
That is why I don’t watch GBN.
So it was a surprise to see them give a fair platform to Vitaliy Kim; a favourite Ukrainian politician of mine. I hope this won’t be a one-off.
The comments are absolutely infested with vile kremtrolls: almost all of them members of Farage’s Reform Party. I won’t bore you with them, but here is a sample that reflects the level of support that Reform voters still have for putler.
In my view all these cuntz have got to be purged. :-
Alan Machin :
“Russia has no interest in invading countries in Europe. Putin did his best to avoid the conflict in Ukraine, Robert F Kennedy in his video entitled “ We provoked the Ukraine war “ explains what happened. Putin had got what he wanted by April 2022 but Boris Johnson persuaded Zelensky to walk away from the deal ready for approval.
If Starmer persists Putin will not put boots on the ground he could just send his Oreshnik to the House of Commons and punish the MP s who have been claiming his attack on Ukraine was unprovoked.
Perhaps Starmer is a warmonger and wanting to spend more on defence because Labour’s biggest donor is Quadrature Capital has made substantial investments in companies profiting from ongoing conflicts including two American arms manufacturers.”
Glad to be hearing something from Vitaliy Kim. I think the last time we did was back in 2022.
As for pro-putler scum buckets, I will never understand people in the West voluntarily climbing into the stinking shit infested sewer of fascism or communism, seeing the great harm and evilness they embody. History is full of negative examples from both ideaologies. I suppose it is the fate for some people to die as stupid as they were born.