Solo Along The Ukrainian-Russian Border ( One Day Before Invasion )

Unbelievable. To think that less than 12 hours after him being there at the border I was awake in the early hours of the morning looking at the huge traffic jams being reported on Google Maps at that exact same spot, extending in both directions of the border, while realizing that these are coming from the phones of russian soldiers in a motorized column. What a dark fucking day.

Polish lol, me too

The people of Ukraine being used as the pawns of the "Big Boys'" world geopolitical strategy. If you are old enough to remember the Cold War you know this is yet another example of the power games the worlds Military Industrial Complexes play. Empty words, puerile slogans, fake concern - its a continuation of Russia vs NATO, Wall St vs the Kremlin... Same bullshit, different decade, always fought in someone else's country.

Holy Crap!! This is the second video in a row where we walked the same path. I crossed at Medyka 19 days after you headed ultimately to the Bakhmut and Severodonetsk/Lysychansk directions. What a difference 12 hours can make.

Ben this video was in so many way a masterpiece. Just absolutely great work

Тепер це історичні кадри

what a fabulous video

glad the video is back up

these ukraine videos were down for 2 months... i wonder why?

You caught a moment in time before everything changed for the worse.

You are a Legend Benjamin. Amazing video!

So many Russian, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians slaughtered and blown to pieces since this video got released.
The calm before the storm...

Avdiivka and Bakhmut, little did he know how important those two city’s would be. Great content !

Slava Russia❤

Kharkiv is a war zone now

It is only about one and a half year later that I am starting to realize that this is some historical footage about the situation and sentiments of Ukrainian and Russian citizens before the war.

Z
with love

The village of Borisivka is basically exactly halfway between Kharkiv and Belgorod, and approximately 30 km from Shebekino. Now it is probably one of the most dangerous places on earth. Especially for some very curious Briton 😎

This is an outstanding historical document. The feeling of “Die grosse Ruhe vor dem Sturm” could not be shown better. Knowing what we know now makes this video really go under my skin.
As Bald said at the end: all living in a western country can’t be grateful enough.

I know this driver from Szegenii he is Andrej from Mostiska, very good person!!! ❤

This video will be used in history classes in the future. It has crazy historic value.

By the way , at the begining those bus stops are not comunists ones. Those were made in 90's and were awsome.... That was cutting edge technology :) as i remember Przemys was first city in poland to integrate bus stop with newspaper kiosk. unfortunately now the businesses died ( public transport as well) .

You are always welcome in Poland . Im happy to hear your grandfather was a Pole. Be save wherever you are my friend. God Bless you .

As a person from przemyśl (the town he was in at the start) watching 1 year later, this man has the balls

Soon as it is safe again and or you are allowed back into Ukraine and Russia, I would be interested to see the aftermath and how much this war affected the people and places you visited on this journey.
Hopefully the war ends soon. Too much suffering

Glory to Ukraine, Glory to Georgia🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪 dear Ukrainians you ar on the right side of history.

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You are very funny guy

The village isn't worried and I think it's mainly because they probably know the village is so small that there won't be battles nor airstrikes.
Otherwise, they'd know that Russia would maybe care more about Eastern Ukraine than Ukraine itself does.

💔 very sad

"I was a part of Maidan."

Oh, dear.... She didn't know a single thing, did she? Poor lady, misled one way or the other.

Skelle Bobo on the Beat

Where is the rest of the video man?

The people in the west are not grateful for what they have got... if only!

I contacted my Irish friend in Kyiv about the possibility of war just 2 weeks before the invasion. He was incredulous. "America is just trying to hype up a war. Putin is far too rational to do something like that." Well...

U sir made COVID not worth dieing for thanks so much live ur videos keep up the good work, I love all the Ukraine videos it at least u got to see it while it was pretty, now it's nothing but body's and the stench of death everywhere

This footage is so important. You captured a huge moment in European history

I watched one of the videos similar to your video before the Russian invaders occupied Ukraine, the video was about
Ukrainian food , is sad to see a beautiful country being destroyed within one year.

Putin is not crazy, he protects the Russians! You are a provocateur, we do not need such guests in Russia!!! You are looking for the dirtiest and most abandoned places in Russia!!! If you want to show the truth go to Donbass!!! Where Ukraine has been engaged in genocide for 8 years!!! Show terrible places in the USA there are a lot of them !!!

It's so sad to think that some of those you encountered in this vlog may has either lost their homes or perished

The liberation

The US is the biggest terrorist on the world.
This is the list of countries that have been bombarded or invaded by USA forces, since WW 2, with the excuse that it was done in the name of DEMOCRACY.

- China 1945-1946
- Korea 1950-1953
- China 1950-1953
- Guatemala 1954
- Indonesia 1958
- Cuba 1959-1960
- Guatemala 1960
- Belgian Congo 1964
- Guatemala 1964
- Dominican Republic 1965-1966
- Peru 1965
- Laos 1964-1973
- Vietnam 1961-1973
- Cambodia 1969-1970
- Guatemala 1967-1969
- Lebanon 1982-1984
- Grenada 1983-1984
- Libya 1986
- El Salvador 1981-1992
- Nicaragua 1981-1990
- Iran 1987-1988
- Libya 1989
- Panama 1989-1990
- Iraq 1991
- Kuwait 1991
- Somalia 1992-1994
- Bosnia 1995
- Iran, 1998
- Sudan, 1998
- Afghanistan, 1998
- Serbia 1999
- Afghanistan, 2001
- Iraq in 2003
- Libya 2011

The UK and Poland too, instead of being a lapdog of the US, should have its own policy and do business with Russia, China, India... There is youth, money and business to be done in Asia.