[000:00:00;00] military command, the system of military command, the commander-in-chief , general zaluzhnyi, has under his command three types of commanders of the armed forces, the ground forces , general sirsky, the air force, general aleschuk and admiral neishpa, the naval forces, in addition, there are separate branches of the military, such as the special operations, amphibious assault troops, revolution. and so on, where there are commanders through whom the task is carried out, so we know that actions on the ground are, let’s say, primarily the responsibility of general syrsky, not only on a separate directly where there was a place and he took part in management, in general, in all ground forces, which means other types of commanders, we already talked about

how successful they were in... successful this year at sea and in the air, so this before maryana became the leader of the armed forces, such a division was legalized and it took place, in addition, it means that general zaluzhnyi was repeatedly at the forefront of all these issues, although, i emphasize once again, the management of the ground forces must to be performed through the general. syrsky, well respectively, the air force through general lischuk and the naval force through admiral nyshpapa, so everything here should be like this, well, in order to draw conclusions about how appropriate it is to be there right at this moment, how to work, it is necessary to know the picture, hardly , which she knows, that is, at the level of the situation and

changes in the situation, it is me as the deputy... chief of the general staff , the former to know and be in the general staff to draw some conclusions, that is, i know this kitchen, but time has passed, i do not take up such matters because it is necessary to know the situation at the moment, to know its changes, and it is very dynamic, and therefore then draw conclusions, in addition, the supreme commander-in-chief is the highest official, if he believed, and they... should work together, whatever the working the circumstances did not arise between them, working , i emphasize the circumstances, he can set a task to go with him to clarify some issues directly, say, to avdiivka or any place together and the commander-in-chief went, if this did not happen, then he is the president the supreme leader does not think that this

should be done. and in general, that means, with these information processes, to ensure the activities of our two officials, the most important in these conditions, during a large-scale war, it is definitely necessary to manage everyone who is in the state structure, and not pour water into the russian mill in order to separate , on the contrary , our business is to unite. and focus all efforts on overcoming this enemy, so i believe that the behavior is destructive, it is necessary to change here or make appropriate decisions to the structures where she also works for the superiors she has, and i actually wanted to ask you for one such clarification, i think it is important, again, maryana bezuglai's attack concerns the fact that during the full-scale

invasion of valery. defends the thesis, does he have the right to defend the thesis with his position? the sound is lost in the studio, mr. igor, does commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi have the right to defend his thesis, that means he has such a right, another matter is whether it is appropriate... to do it... and this is the responsibility of general zaluzhnyi himself, that is, in those the conditions in which he is, what is the situation around, well, i defended myself in my time, but it was a time, as it were, of peaceful order, and a candidate's dissertation, and a doctor's, well, and so on, engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities, as far as it was possible to combine

, there is a question, because how our legislators can even pay for these funds, but the views from the side, well, were formed in this way, for example, and i made a decision, what kind of pedagogical or scientific... activity during the time when i i was the deputy chief of the general staff, i did not receive money, sent them there for activities there, the lyceum in baturin was building the consequences of white phosphorus and so on, that is, everyone accepts it himself, but now the situation is quite difficult, and that is why the general made such a worthy choice and it is his responsibility, ee in relation to... next year we have information, that is , on the one hand, we have mr. kamyshyn, who says that our own production of various types of weapons and military equipment has increased several times, but since we do not know the initial figures, well, for example, he

said that there is a mine, they have increased production 42 times, but we do not know if they made one mine before that, is it more or less than 42 mines, well, i am conditional, of course, i am joking, someone told the journalists, he was joking on this topic, the question is , that we, as a rule... sometimes even know, that is, the russians, for example, say , next year we will make 100 tanks there, they are not afraid to say it out loud, and to be honest, i am not sure that we do not have everywhere those russian agents, given how saturated the government was with russians agents for all the previous years, taking into account the strange behavior of bakanov, his deputy, they are still trying to return and so on and so on, less with that, but we do not know the data, but there are estimates that only 8% of our needs were covered this year from our production, for next year, do we, can we expect to be given more weapons and so on than

this year, or do we still have to bet on our own production? you have to make a bet on your own in any way, and this is the main one direction, and we can see in these two years how it all comes back, unfolded. and finally, whether they will give as much or more , and maybe less, we will see during the next two months, the relevant decisions will be made by the leadership of the countries that are part of the nato alliance and the united states, the 24th year is a year where in many countries have elections, there will be political changes, and that definitely has an impact from what we can predict. vat and analyze, it is known, but there may be events like how the war started in israel, and this is additionally, there are tense venezuela is lost, and in other cities , not exclusively, that is why there may be

events of this kind, it will divert informational, and most importantly, military and financial resources, which we really need, so i emphasize once again that our own first, but we must ... to work with our allies in order to build up our potential and determine how much and what we will have enough for next year, and therefore, if such a large-scale plan of a counteroffensive deoccupation operation is carried out, then we must decide to gather these forces and means, means are military equipment, its domestic and ... allies and also prepare personnel for this , and it is desirable that everything be ready there by the month of may in order to use the weather conditions, that is, in which it is better to carry out counteroffensive

, offensive actions, will it be possible if no , we will gather little, we will have to go into defense, this kind of defense, active insane defense, but anyway... otherwise combat operations, according to the objective laws of warfare, they require you to be rational, pragmatic and plan your actions, preparation and execution fighting tasks, the conduct of hostilities, should be based on the available opportunities, and therefore the country's leadership is preparing and political. ensures the actions of the defense forces of ukraine, and the military leadership performs military and political tasks, implements the use of the armed forces of ukraine and everything that is included in our defense forces of ukraine. such a scheme, and such

objective grounds for perspectives. at the very end, i will briefly say that in their first publication, valery zaluzhnyi and mykhailo zabrodskyi said that in order to defeat russia, ukraine had to go to... along the border of 1991, we also need to have long-range weapons, including long-range weapons, we know that we are preparing a mass launch, the release of long-range drones, which are not expensive, but quite powerful, and we... indeed, when yesterday president zelenskyi promised that there will be retribution for the massive attack on ukrainian cities, we now understand that he meant a rather massive attack on cities that are not regions bordering ukraine, took place, we understand that, from our side, there are already videos and pictures, for example , from belgorod, where there are a lot of explosions, a lot of smoke, they report about killed among the civilian population, even two children, i don't know if this is true. yes, well, in a word, this is a retaliatory action,

how important is it to capture russian cities, can infrastructural facilities, including russian objects, be under our attack, and are we not provoking the russians to an even greater mobilization if we simply symmetrically kill their civilians, they will carry out mobilization in one way or another, which means conscripting as many as they need and are able to. there are four times more of them than us, let's say therefore, on the one hand, on the other hand, there are objective laws of war, and history and theory , and most importantly, the practice of waging war, which shows that we need to use all opportunities within the framework of international law to launch this war, including striking by objects on the territory. of the russian federation, and we do

it within the framework, we conduct military operations, within the framework, within the framework of the requirements of this international legislation, but we reserve the right to use our capabilities in full for defense and for deoccupation in struggle with the aggressor country. mr. igor, thank you. ihor romanenko, founder of the crimea sky of ukraine charity fund. the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010, the lieutenant general was with us, now we are going on a short break, then we will return, and we have a special guest for you , who you know, our news anchor, iryna koval, but she will be with us not as a news presenter, in a different role she will talk about her charity project, which she managed to implement, and with the help of which she added a little, i don't know... maybe some kind of mood, a little bit of some positivity

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ukraine. dear friends, lesya vakulyuk, andriy saichuk , we are working for you in this studio, and now our colleague iryna koval, a news anchor, you know well, but will be in a different role today, will join us, she says that it is unusual for her to sit in guest chairs, iro, we welcome you, actually you are with us today in the role of a volunteer, because you are the person who is not the first month and not the first year. is engaged in all kinds of gatherings , but there is one, probably, one special such gathering, i don't know how to say it, the campaign you are conducting, which is called "i mykolay", uh, what kind of campaign is it, tell me tell us about it, when did you come up with it, how, how to implement it in general? well, first of all, i

also congratulate you, colleagues, and i congratulate all viewers of the tv channel, i am really unusual here to sit, because it is somehow easier there than... in the role of an interviewer, in fact, i invented this action of lesya, let's say, seven years ago, that is, it was already the seventh year that i implemented it, an action for the children of fallen heroes , for those whose father or mother died in the war, in 2017, children began to write letters to nicholas, passed these letters to their mothers, mothers sent these letters to me, and... i was such an intermediary between nicholas and these children, that is, a person who tried to fulfill their dreams, actually then in the 17th year, or seven years therefore, you are still further, this is what year, this is the 17th year, the 17th year, and time flies, but then

there were probably such children, well, you can say units, dozens, hundreds, no, andriy, this is not true, so that this is the first year that i have held this promotion. and then in one of the kyiv schools, i gathered about 300 children, well, okay, okay , a few hundred of them are possible, but compared to this year, it should be, but today the year goes to a thousand, how did it change the activity of this action, in fact, i wanted to say this because the number of children has increased, and this year i am decided to expand this campaign, because i wanted to give children not only this fairy tale in gifts, but to give them a real miracle, to give them an opportunity... to visit a safe country, an opportunity to see how other people live, how other countries live, to learn history, well, of course, this is some kind of psychological recharging, let’s say, that’s why i selected 24 children, they were children from different regions of ukraine, they were children from kharkiv, luhansk, odesa,

kirovohrad, kryvyi rih, odesa, kyiv, we had ivano-frankivsk region and... the lviv region, that is, from different parts of ukraine, these were children, children from 9 to 14 years old, and together with my assistants, we went to austria, well, i think you understand why to austria, because this country is actually , during the new year and christmas holidays, it is fabulous, and i wanted to show this real fairy tale to these children, give it as a gift, well, we are all here really. great supporters of the old grandmother of austria, so in lviv it is impossible to do otherwise, well, but austria before the new year, but this is the empire to confess sympathy and nostalgia for which you are not so ashamed, because when you say that, oh my god, i love the old russian empire so much, then it was good under nicholas, well, it’s just an excuse, but in fact

i was not unlucky to visit moscow once or twice and was lucky to visit vienna several times in the same way, and well, there is a difference there, there is a difference, and you were only in vienna or somewhere else, we spent four days in linz, uh, i don't want to mention it, but surely everyone knows what is in linz. .. where hitler was born, that there are a lot of such iconic historical places, and i i wanted the children to get acquainted with the history, to find out, i imagine tomorrow 's simonyan and solovyov program, the presenter of the nationalist propaganda channel espresso took ukrainian children to the birthplace of hitler, the children were supposed to learn this story, because linz refused, hitler was once honorable. a citizen of the city of linz, but linz refused it, and the children had to learn this story, they had to know that

austria also went through very scary and difficult times, and this was also a very important moment, for them to see that this ukraine, it was able to rise, and it is one, now we know, one of the leading countries in the world, that is, it was the first country, it was the first city, it was linz, we spent one day in salzburg, and two days we were... in vienna, the children had the opportunity to visit museums, they were museums, a technical museum, a museum of the future, by the way, we visited a steel plant, it really impressed the children, because the plant was opened precisely during the second world war, and now the steel produced at this plant is used in different parts of the world, children found out how much steelworkers earn, saw how they work, they were interested in this profession, by the way, that's for sure... there was such a moment when we all laughed because they learned that a steelworker earns €45 . ugh, and they were

very surprised that in austria there are such people, not everyone wanted to become bloggers, and not everyone wanted to become bloggers, but thought about stalevaar's work. then we visited in salzburg the famous fortress, gon salzburg, which is located on a mountain, it was also very beautiful because we went up by funicular, we visited exhibitions, then we still went on excursions, on city tours, well, it was also vienna, of course, and also lenses. these children , you say that they are from different parts of ukraine, from 9 to 14 years old, but how exactly did you select these 24 children, what, what did they have, what is their story, what is this story, what distinguishes them from the rest, which did not fall into the number of these 24, well, first of all. it's that these children, they not only see the war, but they were very

traumatized by the fact that their father, some of the children's father died, there were children with us who dad went missing in the war, and there was also one boy whose dad was captured, and nothing is known about him for more than a year, these are all children who had this happen precisely in 2022-23, that is, this ... wound, let 's put it this way, it is still very fresh, these children, the vast majority , have not visited different countries of the world, they have not left ukraine, these are children who have many children, who grew up in large families, children from small settlements, that is, from villages , from the villages, that is, i wanted to show these children this fairy tale and show that it is possible to live differently, and we we must strive, we must... overcome and strive for more. did you notice any kind of metamorphosis, the first day, those children who just arrived in austria, and when they already

returned to ukraine? of course, we as a whole team noticed it, because actually it was very difficult, it was difficult, because, as i said, psychologically these children, they are traumatized, and at first glance, we think we see a child, he can have fun , play with other children, but when... you touch on the topic of war, when you touch on the death of dad or the fact that a child she doesn't know where her father is, she changes in the moment, that is, the children had real breakdowns, the children were crying, they have some problems of their own, because we understand that these are all teenagers, and they have some problems of their own at school , but this trauma of losing a father, it only deepens all these problems, and it happened that, for example, at the beginning... when we first went, the children did not even communicate with us there, did not eat, did not want to be photographed, then already when we said goodbye at

the train station, this moment was probably the most valuable for me, because at this moment the children were crying, the children were crying, they didn't want to leave, they were talking about how they wanted to go on the next trip, and the important thing was that they all bonded with each other, i think it's very important for such children, we remember, as before the war there were many, many ukrainians, especially in the east of the country, exactly where the war came the most, yes, who had never left in their lives. even outside their regions, and it's amazing, despite the fact that we've had open borders for many years now, and it's not that expensive to go abroad to austria, well , it is a much shorter way to get from lviv than to, i don’t know , any of the nearest russian cities, and those children

, in fact, they inherit this country, it’s true, and for them it’s very... it’s possible to see this example, why why now is such a high price paid for what this is all for, why this european choice is so expensive in ukraine, so expensive, well, in fact , this trip was very expensive, so i must say and thank all those who supported me , because to collect funds for the trip, we understand, there we collect money for the army, we collect money for weapons, we all see it. we understand, but to turn to people when you ask and explain that it is for children, believe me, it is much more difficult and complicated, so i want to remember those, in fact, who were with me, well, first of all, to remember my assistants, my assistant, who was with me, natalka, constantly day and night, while we were preparing this project, because we were preparing it for three months, and

it was very difficult, i would like to remember those who made his... contribution, this is mykola kmit, who supported me, oleksandr mysyshyn, this is the founder of the charity fund mission for ukraine, he generally connected his friends from france, and benedikt made a copayment for a hotel in linz so that we could live there sila rukh charitable foundation, agricultural company natasha, igor duma, who gave us a huge discount on transport, because they are children, and we had to constantly travel by our own bus, because... well, it was all moving and it was much easier that way, i want to thank you again point of ukraine oksana kuza, by the way, she is from lviv , she is a famous pianist in austria, here's to her and her team for organizing all the cultural activities that were in linz, they gave the children gifts, and they also

fed us dinners also on a free basis, i.e. she agreed on it. well, there is one more person who wished to remain anonymous , so i am also very grateful to him, and i want to thank all ukrainians, in fact, who donated for gifts for children on st. nicholas, because these funds were also, strictly speaking, spent precisely for these children, thank you to his team, to thank doctor oksana vegovska, because we were accompanied by a doctor, a professional, an infectious disease specialist, a psychologist was also in the team with us. natalka volyanska , who worked constantly with the children, and there were four curators who were constantly with the children, accompanying them both day and night, that is , we had a huge team of girls, curators, also ania, alyona, vika, ivanka, huge gratitude, so that the girls also cried when they said goodbye, and i really hope, these tears of joy, they were probably worth

it all, and in such a big big number. of energy and time and people involved in all of this just to get kids out of the country, but really, it gave them some hope, it's not just to get kids out of the country, yeah, that's a huge contribution, and i want to promise that i will continue to do it, maybe for these children it will be a turning point in their lives, thank you, thank you iro, iryna koval, host of the espresso tv channel, and now there will be another host of ours, anna eva melnyk, and we will watch the news, what happened there in ukraine and the world, anna, i have a word for you. congratulations, colleagues, thank you for your work, the news team continues to work, we will talk about the most important, i will start with how the armed forces of ukraine are strengthening our