When SVT talks to Oleksandr on Wednesday afternoon, he laughs during the interview and says that it is important to keep the humor in the middle of everything.
- You do not have to be afraid, what happens happens, he says.
He finds it difficult to see that the sanctions now being imposed on Russia would make any major difference.
- It helps.
But they should have been deployed earlier, the situation did not start yesterday but in 2014. Now there must be much tougher measures.
"Putin does as he pleases"
He feels confident that Ukraine has a strong defense, but he does not feel as confident with the Russian president's words.
- When it comes to Russia and Putin, you never know.
He does as he pleases.
In the clip, he tells more about what life is like for him and his wife in the Ukrainian capital Kiev right now.