⏳ Tensions are peaking across multiple global fronts — and Alex Christoforou breaks it all down in this urgent analysis.
Key developments:
India’s military poised for a potential strike within 36 hours
Zelensky's cryptic warning about May 9 — Russia’s Victory Day
Lavrov’s 3-day ultimatum to the West — what’s the clock counting down to?
Can Putin still be trusted amid these volatile moves?
🌐 This isn’t just about headlines — it’s about the future of global order, diplomacy, and war.
🎥 Tune in now to understand the real implications behind these explosive developments.
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Key developments:
India’s military poised for a potential strike within 36 hours
Zelensky's cryptic warning about May 9 — Russia’s Victory Day
Lavrov’s 3-day ultimatum to the West — what’s the clock counting down to?
Can Putin still be trusted amid these volatile moves?
🌐 This isn’t just about headlines — it’s about the future of global order, diplomacy, and war.
🎥 Tune in now to understand the real implications behind these explosive developments.
#AlexChristoforou #PutinTrust #IndiaStrike #ZelenskyWarning
#May9Russia #LavrovUltimatum #RussiaUkraineConflict #IndiaChinaTensions
#GeopoliticsNow #MilitaryCountdown #WorldAtWar #GlobalCrisis
#VictoryDayMay9 #UkraineCrisis #RussiaIndia #TrustPutin
#DeepStateMoves #RTNews #ForbiddenNews #GlobalFlashpoints
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00:00You think he wants peace? You think Vladimir Putin wants peace?
00:03I think he does, yes. I think he does.
00:06Even with the raining missiles on.
00:07I think he really, his dream was to take over the whole country.
00:11I think because of me, he's not going to do that.
00:14Do you trust him? Do you trust him?
00:16I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people. I don't trust you.
00:19Look at you. You come in all shooting for bear. You're so happy to do the interview.
00:22And then you start hitting me with fake questions.
00:24You start telling me that a guy whose hand is covered with a tattoo doesn't have the tattoo.
00:28I mean, you're being dishonest.
00:30No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
00:31Do I trust? I don't trust a lot of people.
00:33But I do think this. I think that he, let's say he respects me.
00:38And I believe because of me, he's not going to take over the whole.
00:41But his decision, his choice would be to take over all of Ukraine.
00:46It's a war that never should have happened.
00:48This is my video update on this Wednesday afternoon,
00:55April the 30th, coming to you from Baphos, Cyprus.
01:00Let's talk about some news here at the Robin Hood pub.
01:07The famous, the world famous Robin Hood pub in Baphos.
01:13Looks pretty cool, I have to admit.
01:15All right, let's talk about some news.
01:20And things are getting very, very dangerous with India and Pakistan.
01:29It looks like we are heading towards some sort of a conflict.
01:34The reports are that Modi met with a top military command.
01:41And he basically told them that they have the freedom to operate in their retaliation against Pakistan.
01:59The freedom, the operational freedom to respond, full operational freedom to respond is the quote that we're getting from the media covering this development.
02:11Basically, Modi told the military command that they can choose a time, targets.
02:30It's, it's all under their, their control.
02:34It's their decision as to how, how, when, in what way they will respond to the terror attack that happened in Kashmir.
02:45And, and, and of course, if, if India does strike at Pakistan, you would have to imagine that Pakistan is going to, to retaliate.
02:57And well, then we get into, into an escalation, a full on escalation, maybe, maybe even a conflict or a war.
03:05Let's hope not.
03:06But, um, that's where things appear to be heading.
03:11What's up, my friend?
03:13Hey.
03:15So Pakistan, they, uh, they are saying that India is going to strike in 24 to 36 hours, India planning military strike in 24 to 36 hours.
03:45So that's the update there with India and Pakistan, very, very dangerous situation.
03:52Everyone knows that we're talking about nuclear powers.
03:55So I don't think I need to, to say more.
04:01An update on the, uh, blackouts in, uh, in Spain, Portugal.
04:06After, after, after an initial investigation, Spain found out that there was no, no cyber attack.
04:18Russia did not do it after, after a first assessment of the, uh, the blackouts that happened in Spain and Portugal.
04:25They have come to the conclusion that this was not a cyber attack, that Putin did not, uh, did not turn off the switch to, to electricity in, uh, in Spain and Portugal, nor was it Trump.
04:42So it wasn't Putin.
04:43It wasn't Trump.
04:44It wasn't Xi Jinping either.
04:45And so I thought I would update everybody on, on that bit of, of news.
04:51Look at this beautiful church, guys.
04:59What a beautiful little church.
05:09Wow.
05:12Amazing.
05:45Incredible, absolutely incredible.
06:15Bafos.
06:29Bafos, beautiful city.
06:39Oh boy, okay, let's get back to the news.
06:42And Alensky put out another one of his TikTok Instagram video updates.
06:54And in this update, the Green Goblin, he basically threatened a strike on Russia for the May 9th victory day.
07:09That is what Alensky said in his statement, a threat to Russia, a threat not only to Russia and to Putin, but to Xi Jinping, to China, to FITSO, to Vucic, to Lula.
07:27I believe Modi's going to be there.
07:29All of the world leaders that are going to be in Moscow to honor and celebrate the victory day.
07:39Alensky is saying that he is going to strike at the Russian capital.
07:48That's what he hinted at.
07:50Let me find you his exact quote here.
07:55Let's see.
07:55Alensky openly threatening victory day terrorist attack.
08:00And I believe Maria Zaharova has responded to this threat, but let me read you what Alensky said.
08:06On Tuesday, Alensky described targeting Russian pressure points to push the country towards diplomacy, as he reiterated the ceasefire call.
08:17They are now concerned that their parade is in jeopardy, and rightly so, he remarked, referring to the event scheduled for May 9 in Red Square.
08:28What they should worry about is that this war continues.
08:35Warning? Was this a warning?
08:37What do you guys think?
08:38As I read you his exact quote, would you say that he is warning about a terror attack?
08:44Sounds like it.
08:46It does sound like it.
08:47Anyway, here is what Zaharova said.
08:49Zaharova reacted on social media on Wednesday, asking what kind of truce Kiev can offer,
08:54given that the Alensky government is literally planning terrorist attacks on air.
09:00She added that boasting about such intentions is exactly what typical terrorists do.
09:05That is what Zaharova, that is her reply.
09:10That's what she said to this Alensky statement that he made openly, openly in one of his video addresses.
09:21Actually, Alensky, his entire administration, they seem to openly be bragging about, accepting, taking credit for,
09:33taking credit for the assassination of the Russian general.
09:38I mean, they're more open about the attacks that are taking place in Russia,
09:43and they seem to be wanting to take credit for them.
09:49It's just very, very odd what's happening, but that's Alensky.
09:54He's starting to come out with these statements, threatening Russia, taking credit for previous attacks in Russia.
10:04Not good.
10:08If I was Macron, I would have a sit-down with Alensky and tell him to not make these types of statements.
10:17But then again, who knows?
10:18Maybe Macron is actually telling him to make these types of statements.
10:20I don't know.
10:20But the logic, according to Alensky, is that he is making these statements in order to push Russia towards diplomacy.
10:27I'm going to threaten to attack your celebration, your May 9th victory day,
10:35in order to get you to the table for diplomacy, to get you to a ceasefire,
10:41because he wants an unconditional ceasefire first.
10:43I'm going to threaten to attack you in order to get you to agree to an unconditional ceasefire.
10:48That's the logic being employed by the Green Goblin.
10:51So, Peskov, he said that Russia is open to negotiating with Alensky.
11:05He said this in a statement to reporters yesterday.
11:10Russia, he said, wants negotiations with Kiev, not a ceasefire.
11:17What's needed first is negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
11:23And the two countries need to sit down and get to the root causes, Peskov said.
11:29And the Russians deal in reality, and the reality is that there is no one at the moment
11:34other than Alensky who will be able to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine.
11:40So, Peskov said that even though we have problems with Alensky's legitimacy,
11:48we'll sit down with him.
11:52We will talk with him.
12:01Perhaps a bit of a change of direction from Russia.
12:04Perhaps they're moving a little bit away from saying he's illegitimate and there's no way
12:13we're going to be able to negotiate with him because he doesn't have any real power
12:16if he does sign something.
12:18And now they're saying, you know what, he's the only one in Ukraine at the moment
12:24who can negotiate.
12:28The only one in power right now.
12:30So, we're going to have to accept the fact that he's the guy that we're going to have
12:34to deal with.
12:35Anyway, that's what Peskov said.
12:37Russia ready to overlook Alensky's illegitimacy.
12:40Resuming direct negotiations with Kiev is a primary priority for Moscow, according to spokesman
12:46Dimitri Peskov.
12:50Lavrov was at the BRICS event in Brazil.
12:54And he said that what is needed right now is direct talks between Russia and Ukraine.
13:04None of this ceasefire talk.
13:06What is needed is direct negotiations between the two countries and Lavrov.
13:14He said that, you know what, the 72-hour ceasefire that Putin called for victory day from May
13:228th to May 10th, is the perfect opportunity for the Alensky regime to agree to negotiations
13:33with us.
13:34So, now we are starting to understand what this ceasefire is about.
13:40Yes, it is about humanitarian.
13:42It's for humanitarian reasons, as Putin said.
13:45And I'm sure it's for political, diplomatic reasons, because you're going to have many
13:50world leaders in Moscow.
13:52But it does look like this ceasefire was called by Putin in order to expose the Alensky regime
14:03and to basically say, you know what, there's a three-day window.
14:08Kiev should agree to this ceasefire.
14:12Kiev should agree to the ceasefire, according to Lavrov, and they should take the opportunity
14:17to agree to negotiations, which Lavrov said, as Peskov said, should address the root causes
14:25of the conflict.
14:29And if they don't, they don't agree to a ceasefire over victory day.
14:35And if they don't agree to sit down with Russia, well, then that shows that Ukraine is not serious
14:42about resolving the conflict.
14:44It does feel like this is a type of maybe a final offer from Russia to Alensky, from Putin
14:53to Alensky.
14:55You have a three-day window.
14:57Agree to negotiate.
14:59Forget about this unconditional ceasefire stuff.
15:04We're never going to agree to that.
15:07Why would the side that's winning agree to an unconditional ceasefire?
15:10Actually, Lavrov even said it in his statement from Brazil.
15:15Lavrov, he said that Ukraine wants an unconditional ceasefire.
15:19And they keep on going on and on about an unconditional ceasefire because Lavrov said that that Ukrainian
15:29troops were retreating.
15:31That's a quote from Lavrov.
15:34Alensky was pushing for an immediate ceasefire because Ukrainian troops were retreating, Lavrov
15:39added.
15:41So Russia is not going to agree to this.
15:43That's obvious.
15:44But what they are pushing for is bilateral talks, Russia and Ukraine.
15:51And it looks like the Trump administration is starting to move towards Russia's position.
15:55Bloomberg, they put out an article with the title, Putin is said to keep demanding Ukraine
16:04land despite U.S. pressure.
16:06And in this article, Bloomberg says that according to their sources, and Bloomberg sources are always
16:11correct, those Bloomberg sources, but they say that Whitcoff, when he was in Moscow last
16:18week, he basically went there to try and get one last time to try and get Putin to agree
16:24to Trump's peace plan, peace plan, the Kellogg, the Kellogg plan, Kellogg minus, Kellogg minus
16:32peace plan.
16:34Mostly Kellogg, a little bit of Whitcoff.
16:36I've gone over the plan.
16:37Alexander has gone over the plan in detail.
16:38We've talked about it on the Duran multiple times, but Whitcoff was in Moscow.
16:43He wanted to give it one last go to try and convince Putin to agree to the peace plan and
16:50to the ceasefire and all of that stuff.
16:52And Putin, according to Bloomberg and their sources, Putin said, nope, no way, not going
17:01to happen.
17:01Our minimum, according to the sources from Bloomberg, our minimum ask in order to get
17:09to some sort of a ceasefire, our minimum ask would be that Ukraine recognize the four territories
17:20and Crimea and leave the four territories and Crimea as part of the Russian Federation in
17:26their entirety, Ukraine must go, and it must be recognized that those four territories and
17:38Crimea are part of the Russian Federation.
17:41That is what Bloomberg reported.
17:44People familiar with the process told Bloomberg on Tuesday that Putin insisted any viable
17:49peace deal must include formal recognition of the four former Ukrainian regions that joined
17:55Russia after a referendum in 2022.
17:58Moscow has long said it is open to negotiations, but remains, but maintains that the status of
18:04Crimea, which joined Russia in 2014, and of the four other regions is not up for discussion.
18:09Moscow insists that the recognition of the reality on the ground is vital for a lasting peace.
18:15The reality on the ground.
18:18So Putin held firm.
18:20He said to Witkoff, nope, not going to agree to the Kellogg Trump peace plan.
18:29Peace plan.
18:29Not going to agree with it.
18:31Let's talk about the territories first.
18:33Or let's agree on the territories.
18:35Or you get Ukraine to agree on the territories, then come back and we can talk.
18:40And now it looks like Russia has said, before we even talk about ceasefires, let's sit down
18:51with Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine.
18:52Let's sit down together.
18:54Excellent play there from Russia.
18:58They kind of shifted the narrative.
19:00They politely said no to Witkoff.
19:03They're still open to normalization of relations with the United States, but they said no to the Kellogg
19:08plan.
19:09They said no to the ceasefire.
19:10And then they shifted to bilateral talks and they called the three-day ceasefire and they're
19:15telling Alensky, here's your chance.
19:18Forget unconditional stuff.
19:20Let's sit down together.
19:21We have three days.
19:22Say yes.
19:23If you don't say yes, then we'll see.
19:26If he doesn't say yes, then he's not going to say yes.
19:27I think we all understand that Alensky is not going to say yes.
19:30But Trump is now starting to talk about Ukraine and Russia sitting at the table together.
19:35Even Trump is starting now to move towards Russia's position.
19:39At least that's how it looks.
19:41What else did Lavrov say when he was in Brazil?
19:45The ceasefire announcement stated that the Russian side reiterates its willingness to enter
19:52peace talks without preconditions with a view to eliminating the root causes behind the Ukraine
19:59crisis and establishing constructive interaction with international partners.
20:03A 30-day ceasefire in this situation is considered a precondition that will be used to
20:09further support the Kiev regime and strengthen its military capabilities.
20:13So Lavrov said the three-day ceasefire that Putin announced is a way to enter into peace talks.
20:18This is your chance to enter into peace talks.
20:20Your 30-day unconditional ceasefire is a precondition, and we're not going to agree to any type of
20:27talks with preconditions.
20:30We want talks without preconditions, and you have three days of a ceasefire to agree to
20:39talks without any preconditions.
20:41That is Lavrov's statement.
20:43I think I'm summarizing that correct.
20:45Anyway, that's Lavrov, that's Bloomberg.
20:51Well, let's talk about Trump.
20:54So Trump gave the interview to The Atlantic, which I talked about yesterday in my video update.
21:04The invincible, according to The Atlantic.
21:06Trump is invincible.
21:08I'm invincible.
21:09According to the Trump-friendly, the Trump-friendly Atlantic, right?
21:16Anyway, let's try to get to the beach.
21:19Let's see how, how can I get to the beach?
21:22I think if I go this, I think if I go this way and down, there's an entrance to the beach area.
21:29So in the interview with The Atlantic, Trump said that, I think that Ukraine, the nation of Ukraine, will be crushed very shortly.
21:47That is what Trump told The Atlantic.
21:50He said he's saving Ukraine.
21:53That's basically what he said in the interview.
21:55He's saving Ukraine because very shortly, Russia's winning this war and Ukraine will be lost.
22:02You know, he's not incorrect, to be fair to Trump.
22:08He is right.
22:08If he manages to get some sort of talks or negotiations going, if he can convince Ukraine to agree to sit down with Russia, he does save Ukraine.
22:21There will be a Ukraine that will exist without the four territories and Crimea, and it will be a neutral Ukraine never to get into NATO, and the Ukraine not allowed to build up its military, but it will exist.
22:37Trump will have saved the country.
22:38This is true.
22:40If Ukraine decides to follow Macron and Stammer's advice and Ursula's advice, then it's not going to be good for Ukraine.
22:51The president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, I think he gave an interview the other day, I think, to the Washington Post or the New York Times, and he's talking about escalation as well.
23:07Putin must be defeated.
23:08He must be defeated.
23:11Alexander Stubb, he said he's building up Finland to be strong enough to take on Russia.
23:19All right, all right.
23:23He also, Trump also gave an interview to ABC News.
23:26He's giving a lot of interviews because of the 100 days in office, and it was a good interview from ABC News because Trump said some pretty funny stuff.
23:38He blasted ABC News for covering up Biden's mental state.
23:48He said that directly to ABC News.
23:50He said, look, Biden, he was mishmash, mashed potatoes in the head.
23:56I knew it.
23:57Everyone knew it in D.C.
23:59The media knew it.
24:00ABC News knew it.
24:02And he said, you guys covered it up.
24:03He said it right to the ABC News reporter.
24:06Man, that was good.
24:09That was good.
24:10That was funny.
24:12And he was asked about Ukraine.
24:13I'll talk about what he said about Ukraine.
24:16And the reporter asked him about Ukraine.
24:20And Trump said that Russia is going to take all of Ukraine if we don't get a deal.
24:25And if Trump wasn't president, then what Putin wants is to take all of Ukraine.
24:29He said that.
24:30I don't know if that's true.
24:31Russia wants to take all of Ukraine.
24:32But Russia put out a deal on the table.
24:35You know, the territory stuff has been around since June 2024.
24:40The U.S. media, the collective West media and the Trump administration, they make it as if this territory stuff is something new.
24:50It's been around for almost a year.
24:51Putin's terms have been around for almost a year now.
24:57June 2024.
24:59And all of a sudden, Bloomberg and all of these outlets make it as if these terms, these four territories just kind of came out of nowhere.
25:07All of a sudden, Putin is talking about Hefson and Zaporozhye and the entirety of these regions.
25:13It's been out there for a year, man.
25:17Oh, boy.
25:20So let's see.
25:23Yeah.
25:24So Trump said that if he wasn't president, then Putin would take all of Ukraine because that's what he wants.
25:29But he said that Putin respects me.
25:31He gets along with Putin.
25:33And he's trying to work out a deal.
25:35He's trying to work out some sort of a solution to Project Ukraine.
25:42And then the reporter asked Trump, do you trust Putin?
25:46All the reporters, they love that question.
25:48Do you trust Putin?
25:49A better question would be, why should Putin trust the United States?
25:53You guys waged a war against us.
25:54That's what Russia should say.
25:55You guys tried to get regime change.
25:58You tried to overthrow our government.
25:59You tried to pillage and plunder our country.
26:01You have events and conferences in Brussels about breaking up Russia,
26:08balkanizing Russia and breaking it up into six different pieces.
26:10You've even given the different pieces of Russia, if you were to break it up.
26:17You've even given them names.
26:19And you've named the countries that they would become.
26:24Why should we trust you?
26:26You continue to supply weapons and money to the Green Goblin.
26:29You have CIA facilities all around Ukraine.
26:34Why should we trust you?
26:36You broke the Minsk 1.
26:37You broke the Minsk 2.
26:39Boris Johnson flew into Kiev on March 2022, and he broke that agreement.
26:43But they always ask, should you trust Putin?
26:47It's madness, man.
26:48Anyway, Trump's response was good.
26:50I think Trump's response was great.
26:51I believe he said to the reporter, I don't trust you.
26:55You're asking me if I should trust Putin.
26:57I don't even trust you, man.
26:59Which I think was a good way to respond without making it look like he's a fan of Putin
27:07because if Trump says anything nice about Putin, then we're going to get Russiagate 3.0
27:11or Russiagate 4.0 or whatever number we're on with Russiagate.
27:15So he can't really say that.
27:16He can't say I trust Putin, obviously.
27:19But he deflected nicely on that one.
27:22He says, I can't even trust you, man.
27:25I don't even trust you, Mr. ABC News reporter.
27:29So I thought that was a good response.
27:31Anyway, that was the ABC News interview with the U.S. president.
27:40I think that's everything.
27:41I can do a clown world.
27:43Today's video will be kind of short.
27:52So Trump, in the, I think it was the Atlantic interview, he, I think he talked about the
27:56Pope and he made a joke.
27:58He actually said it to reporters as well.
28:00Well, reporters asked him yesterday as well.
28:02Do you think you should become the Pope?
28:04Because he joked about it.
28:05I believe it was in the Atlantic interview.
28:07He joked about how he should, he would, he would make a great Pope.
28:11Perhaps not an appropriate joke, to be quite honest.
28:15Perhaps something that, that he shouldn't joke about, given the, the Pope passing away so,
28:21so recently.
28:22But anyway, Trump, Trump said it.
28:25He said, I would make a great Pope, something like that.
28:28And, and the media asked him, would you make a great Pope?
28:33And, and it's obvious Trump's joking when he responded to the media.
28:37But people are, are upset and they're saying that Trump wants to become the Pope now, which
28:42he doesn't.
28:42But anyway, they're saying that, uh, Trump wants to be the Pope and that's not the clown world.
28:49That's not the clown world.
28:50I think he probably should not have said that given, given the fact that, that the Pope did
28:57pass away recently, but, um, the clown world in all of this goes to Sir Lindsey Graham, Lindsey
29:11Graham.
29:12Yeah.
29:12Because Lindsey Graham thought it would be a good idea to post on X, his official account
29:19on X is what Lindsey Graham wrote.
29:22I was excited to hear that president Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope.
29:27This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic
29:33faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility.
29:37The first Pope U S president combination has many upsides watching for white smoke is Graham
29:50trolling or joking here, or is he serious?
29:53I don't know.
29:54I really don't know.
29:55What do you guys think?
29:57I don't know if he's serious.
29:59Then yeah, this is a, this is a pretty epic clown world.
30:03If he's trolling, then, you know, Lindsey's got a sense of humor, I guess.
30:09I don't know what else to say, man.
30:11Oh boy.
30:12I will wrap up the video there.
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