Russian troops are firing heavily on Ukraine. The overwhelming resistance is surprising – and is apparently due to a wrong decision by Putin, illustrating a major Russian problem, as one German-Ukrainian politician explains in the video.

German-Ukrainian Marina Weisband keeps in daily contact with her family in Kyiv. In a video conversation with T-Online, she described not only the dramatic circumstances in the Ukrainian capital. Politicians and psychologists also show why people in their homeland are able to withstand Russian troops – and to what extent Putin, the ruler of Russia, apparently did not expect a reaction from the population.

Marina Wiesband is a German-Ukrainian politician, campaigner and currently active in the Green Party. She grew up in a Jewish family in Kyiv and is considered a proven specialist in Ukraine.

You can see the important details that “anyone who knows Ukraine could have said to Putin,” what the Kremlin has failed to do according to dictator Weizband, and what politicians specifically demand from the West. Here Or in the video above.