The phrase comes from a widely clipped heated exchange involving Ukrainian businessman Igor Kolomoisky, linked in the source tags and description to comments about a corporate raid at Ukrtransnafta and Russian saboteurs. The full sentence asks why the interviewer does not ask how that seizure happened and how the saboteurs got in. Shortened to its opening words, the clip spread on Russian and Ukrainian soundboards as a universal deflection meme, used whenever someone sidesteps a question by demanding a different one be asked instead.
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A short voice clip of a man asking why you do not ask about the raid and saboteurs. Used in memes to deflect questions and change the topic.
This is a single agitated male voice speaking quickly in informal Russian, repeating "and why are you not asking" with rising impatience. The delivery is confrontational and rhetorical, like someone cornered in an argument who flips the pressure back onto the interviewer. Hearing it instantly creates a sense of evasion and deflection, which is why the clip lands as a punchline even without translation.
