stepping more than they are already doing it now, but i simply do not see these reserves, these resources in them, if we are talking about plus a few months, for example, about the summer, it may be a different story, it will depend on how they will go on mobilization processes and how they will go, will or will not go to us, but this is already about a little further perspective, if we are talking about the coming weeks, well, they will continue the offensive actions that they are conducting even now, they absolutely did not stop them and no... no frost, but what else are these attacks for? it could be strengthened, well, frankly, i don't see it, the point is that from the fact that we started at the end of last year, we can finally honestly say that we have serious problems, both with personnel, and with bc, and with iron , and from this you should not draw the wrong conclusion that our enemies have everything in chocolate, but the picture is completely different, both armies are exhausted by the battles of the 23rd year, and the russians... have exactly the same

problems as we have, in the same way problems with personnel, with bc, and with iron, especially, by the way, with iron, by the way, you are very correct, actually in the introduction to the question focused on the destruction of armored vehicles near avdiivka, so it is not only there, it is practically everywhere, right now, well, one of our strongest points is that we destroy russian armored vehicles, much faster than the russian defense forces have time to renew them, for example by ... the ratio is about 20 they flash new ones, about 50 are uncanned from long -term storage warehouses, that is, 70 cars arrive together, and during the same time 100, 120, 150 are destroyed in different months, that is, this difference, it increases every month, and we are already simple we can even see by the exact tanks that our defenders have to destroy now, they have already left in large enough numbers, t-55 and t-50 have already left on the front. four, and i will remind you that this

two-digit index, actually in soviet tank construction, it was the year of adoption, that is, all their tanks of the 80s were already burned, the tanks of the 70s are running out , and cars of the 50s are already coming to replace them, and on other armor, by the way, even worse than with tanks , you know, i never thought that i would actually see, with my own eyes, that i would see mataliga, for those who are not in the topic, mtlb, an army tractor, it’s not a military vehicle at all, it’s... it’s an army tractor for transporting cargo, here and there with light anti- bullet armor, so i’ll see one day a mataliga, on which a gun turret is welded on top, cut off from a ship, well, actually the last time this was done during the blockade of leningrad, but this does not mean that it is easy for our defenders now, it is very difficult, and there are not enough of them, in particular, from avdiyivka today there are very unpleasant signals about this, but the enemies also have big problems and.. what should they do now

to make a big offensive and what and by whom not now i see, after the next wave of mobilization it is possible, but now the creeping offensive that is going on will continue, and even he does not think that there will be many of them for long, well, there will definitely be enough of them in the next couple of weeks, but we will see how long, because the same avdiyivka, for example , it now works as such, you know, a huge scary meat grinder, and being inside the meat grinder is generally terrible, including for our defenders, but... in our favor, in this sense, avdiiv meat the chopper is definitely very profitable for us now, and it will remain so until now the track is held through the eagle. if, god forbid, the orcs manage to cut this route, well, then we will have to leave avdiyivka, but while the route through orlivka holds, besides, yes, it is shot through, it is used in an extreme mode, that is, at night and not in columns, but by individual vehicles , but the bc is going, the food is going , the wounded... we are taking out, accordingly, koksokhim -

a reliable fortress with very good concrete floors, which, in principle, even the cabins can withstand, thus this combination, as long as the track is working and ours are holding on to koksokhim, it is objectively beneficial for us, because the losses incurred by the orcs there are actually ten times greater than ours, this is not even a bahmut ratio, the bahmut ratio was one to seven, one to eight, here 1:10 precisely due to the koksakhi. there was simply no such fortification in bakhmut, so let’s look even further south, let’s look at krynyk, here is a village consisting of four streets, well, there is only one russian airborne division left there, and they can’t do anything, our marines are actually kept there in numbers , we won't even to voice in which, because it is far from even a full brigade, it is believed that there are brigades of marines, well, it is not a full brigade, it is closer to a battalion in fact, but they are holding on... for four months now they have not

been able to dislodge them from there, this same indicator, they understand the danger of that direction, they understand how critically unpleasant it is for them that ours was fixed 60 km from the trench. but they are simply not yet able to gather a sufficient group that would carry ours out of there, that is why i do not see a big offensive now, and this little creeper, of course, it will be all the following weeks, it will not stop, then there may actually even be a pause when they end, but it is such a pause, as there was, for example, in slobozhanshchyna in september, when they advanced there from june to august, and they were knocked out so much that they had to take... a month of pause, during this month they formed a new army from the reservists, the so-called 25th general army, and since september there has been a continuous offensive again, which has not advanced territorially, since september last year, but it goes on all the time, there every day these attacks have to be repelled, but

this will happen somewhere for the time being, in the meantime, the minister of defense of germany boris pistorius once again warned europe and the countries of the north atlantic alliance that... regarding the possible aggression of russia in a few years, in an interview with the tages spiegel newspaper, he stated that he wanted to wake up german society with this warning, and also demanded that the bundeswehr be ready for war. i will quote the minister of defense of germany. we must take into account that vladimir putin may one day even attack one of the nato countries. of course, we are obliged to come up with worst-case scenarios, if only for that. in order to know where we will lack in the event of an emergency and where we need to prepare better, i absolutely agree with this assessment that in 5-6 years without a war they will be able to simultaneously wage a war of such intensity in our country in 5-6 years and even in 8 years and renew

the combat capability of the army is not completely incapable, but if the war ends in us, then yes, they will take a break, at the same time, they will not go back to the peaceful rails from the military... which they entered last year, and in 5-6 years but on the military tracks, well, they will even resume, what is the second part of the answer, and what does it actually mean to fight with nato? the fact is that, excuse me, but fighting the bundeswehr is not such a difficult task, but fighting other europeans, as the chief diplomat of europe, joseph borel, very correctly called them, he very successfully expressed that europe has grown a bonsai army, that is, here it is you'. gives like a tree, but it grows half a meter high in the rink, this is really about the european armies, that is, in fact they not capable of fighting now against the russians, but from the word absolutely, no, well, the baltics will resist heroically, the poles are seriously fighting, the finns are probably, well, actually

no one is capable of anything at all anymore, the baltics are very small in number, the finns are the same, that's why , so in fact, when we are now talking about war with nato, we assume that nato remains as it is. now, where the main military power is the united states of america, and the russians are not ready to fight with the american army now, they will not be ready either in six years, not in eight, not in 10. the difference in technologies is already more than a generation, it’s already two generations faster, quantitatively the american army is comparable to the russian one, but qualitatively in terms of weapons it is two generations ahead, well actually the only one direct contact experience. we observed the russians and the americans in syria in the 20th year, when some towers of the kremlin did not share something between them, and there they angered the wagners through diplomatic channels, and they actually gave this signal that ours are not there, so yours are not there - they said the americans, they were gone, the actual battle continued,

the only direct confrontation between the russians and the americans in the 21st century lasted one hour, more than 200 wagnerians were killed, not a single american was killed. this is the difference between russia and america, even in a conventional war, not to mention nuclear. well, but we assume that america will fit in. and the russians hope that with trump coming to power, which they really hope for. trump will destabilize nato to such an extent that, in principle, he may even withdraw american troops from europe altogether, perhaps even leave the alliance altogether, as he threatened. but then, nato without america is a completely different story, nato without america, well, to be honest, on... even now it would not withstand a direct blow from russia, so actually here in order to evaluate it from a military point of view, here first of all, there is a question, what will be the big geopolitics and first of all the big geopolitics of the states. by the way, in addition to pistorius, rob bauer, the chairman of the nato military committee, warned this

week that the armed forces of the north atlantic the alliance and the civilian population in the west should prepare for a total war with russia, listen. what rob bauer said. we must realize that peace is not a given, that we live in peace, and that is why we are preparing for a conflict with russia. but the discussion is much broader, it is also about the industrial base and about people who must understand that they play a role. mr. yevgeny, why is the world talking about a possible war with russia and not saying that the world should end the aggressive country and the aggressive leader putin, that the world should demilitarize russia, the deputization of russia, because the world is still afraid. russia, we overcame our fear , because we had no choice, well , we were afraid too, let's be honest, and then

the war started, and there was no choice left, and then it turned out that the devil is not so terrible as it is portrayed, so, they have not yet started, they are very afraid of a war with russia, moreover, these fears are very different, well , first of all, they are based on the fact that russia is a nuclear power, and they assume that the russian regime is so crazy that in in the case of a losing war, it will simply be launched nucleus in principle. was, but let them all die together with us, they are afraid of the unpredictability of this regime and its nuclear arsenal, so of course they understand that even if it is possible to avoid a nuclear conflict, then in a conventional conflict, as we as you just said, apart from the united states, no other country is ready to fight russia at the moment, but it is purely technologically not ready, that is , there are not enough weapons, he, for example, the commander of the army of belgium is also one of the countries. which is actively helping us, but now we are waiting for the f-16 from them, so the belgian commander directly said

that, based on the current consumption of shells in ukraine, the belgian army has bc for 18 hours of war, not for 18 days, for 18 hours, and they all have approximately the same situation in europe right now , and therefore, of course, they are feverishly trying to catch up with the results of their 30-year dream, they slept in a warm bath for 30 years, they did not see, did not want to see, that a dangerous monster was growing nearby, moreover, they fed this monster with their money, and eh, they did not believe that this monster once existed will be able to come to them, they have now understood it, but you cannot achieve 30 years of warm weather in one year there in more than a month, but they are urgently renewing their defense plant, billions of investments are currently going there, but in addition to money there is another dimension such as time, you can't buy it, they are trying to catch up with us, but they need time for this. well, what is particularly unfortunate about this story is that we are actually winning this time for them, that they have time to prepare for the future war with

russia, because we are now waging the current war with russia. literally in a week two facts that indicate that our western partners are ready to give us long-range weapons, and it is french president emmanuel macron who talked about scalps and solutions. because in kyiv he signed an agreement on cooperation with president zelensky, at what stage do you think the west will say: listen, let's already use long-range missiles against military objects, objects that are on the territory of the russian federation, because there is no other way out, because if you don't destroy these military facilities that are on the territory of erephia, then this war will continue for a very long time, eh. i think that is exactly where you said the word long correctly, i think that we have more chances to make

long-range missiles ourselves, i will still remind you that we live in a country that still has some 20 years ago, it was in the top three in the world for launching space satellites, and we launched these same space satellites with satan missiles converted for civilian purposes, this is actually an intercontinental ballistic missile. the nuclear missile that our yuzhmash made was about 100 units per year, yes, it was lost to us, it’s not, it’s not that the production line was standing all the time, and it’s enough to turn the switch and rockets will fall, it’s not like that, but still we are, in principle, a rocket and space country, we have a sufficient technological level , now the question is to organize it correctly, the money is already allocated, the missile program is working, and you know, i believe more in our... program than in the fact that our partners will finally come to their senses and say, well, okay,

we have these missiles for you we give without prior restrictions, but you can already use them at least in moscow, although in principle, in regard to britain, i allow quite even such a turn, and even quite soon. thank you, mr. yevgeny, for the conversation, it was yevhen dykiy, the former platoon commander of the aidar battalion, friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. please don't. buy, like this video in order for it to be promoted in the trends of youtube and facebook, and remember that during each program we conduct a survey, today we ask you about this, is it in danger? the russian rebellion against putin's regime. so, no, everything is quite simple on youtube. if you are sitting in front of the tv and watching us on tv, please pick up your phone and vote. if you believe that the russian rebellion threatens the putin regime. 0800-211-381, no, 0800-211-382. all calls are

free for you to these numbers. at the end of the program, we will sum up the results of this vote. next with us is yevhen magda, executive director of the institute of world politics. congratulations, mr. yevgeny, i am glad to see you on our air. congratulations, glory to ukraine, mr. serhiy, today you have an opportunity to think desire between two eugenes. glory to the hero, i will do so, mr. evgeny, only you disappeared somewhere. please restore contact with yevhen magda, and now we will talk with yevhen about that. what is actually happening in ukraine, in particular in the ministry of defense of ukraine, because we see that corruption cases around the ministry of defense simply arise almost every day, and we see that the state bureau of investigation has already declared

roman hrynkevich, the son of the detained lviv businessman ihor hrynkevich, wanted. who had large contracts. 23 contracts with by the ministry of defense of ukraine, and we know that three of the five figures of the so-called organized criminal group, in which ihor yerenevich was involved, the court already yesterday chose a preventive measure, this is an arrest with an alternative bail of half a billion hryvnias, so when we look, mr. evgeny, on these corruption scandals, we obviously have to... talk about how it could happen that the owner of construction companies became the largest contractor of the ministry of defense and caused losses of uah 1.5 billion, well, that is, in the current conditions savings and understanding that every penny should be counted, how could this happen?

he carried it to the mountain, well, but the mountain is, well, well, when it comes to such money, obviously, the highest mountain should have looked at all these things, and not, not be a part of it all, and if this the mountain was a part of all this, then the sbu, along with the sbu and the prosecutor general's office, must also give some definite conclusions, if they do not give it, then what does this indicate? first, i will say one unpopular thesis: that in democratic countries war is often profited from, this is historical experience, it was profited from the first world war, someone profited from the second world war, in different ways, but you know, i think that such a scale of abuse as in ukraine, well, it is difficult to say definitively, because the war continues , and we probably don't know everything and can't

say, but it was still hard enough to imagine, we are still living. paradigm of the first and second world wars, in what sense? then, when everyone was feeling bad, there were products on cards, remember, well, how they talked about them, in any case, our grandparents, but by the way, in the soviet union, for example, there were commercial restaurants that people could go to, there in moscow itself, well, i'm not talking about that now, secondly, here.. .. the matter, well, the intensive informational promotion, i personally have the impression that there is a certain feeling of a false object, because a number of contenders for the status of a leader of public opinion, with such anti-corruption fervor,

are exposed as abusive on this matter. that i get the impression that we have after completion the russian-ukrainian war will bring not only new oligarchs, as the western press is already talking about, but also new anti-corruptionists, better than others. where did the previous anti-corruption activists go in their mass, who, as you remember, probably promised to demolish zelensky in any case, well, it was true from the beginning. shock-scale invasion, this must be understood, because in the conditions of war, any call for the overthrow of the existing government, in my opinion, will not be. will be useful, it must be understood absolutely clearly and absolutely by everyone, but the absence of these calls, it does not mean all permissibility for our government, because

the people who in their mask came to power in 2019, in my opinion, they simply did not stand the test of war, they did not stand the test of their own effectiveness, they failed the test. the fact that they actually turned out not to be ready for war. i am not saying any substantive things now. they were unprepared for the fact that the war would last, a large-scale war itself, for so long. and this is for today you and i have a serious problem. after all, in the conditions of war, quite natural things happen, i emphasize. the concentration of power in one hand, in the hands of the supreme commander -in-chief, this, by the way, is provided for to a large extent

by the legislation, but when phrases are heard from our powerful olympians that we have no opposition, i apologize, but where did it go, do we have it at all there is no opposition or something, it shouldn’t be like that, well, that’s how they... they also talk about the fact that there are no journalists either, you know that in 2019, when zelenskyi’s team came to the head of the office of the president of ukraine, andriy bohdan, said that we do not need journalists at all, we have bloggers, there are social networks, and we will directly communicate with people, and here we are actually seeing the consequences of this deployment of this thesis , and during the last five years it all happened, because we see... how drain tanks appeared in telegram channels, which were used in the office of the president of ukraine and began to be perceived as a means of mass

information, although there are a lot of questions , who there he keeps these cisterns, what kind of information he spreads there, and now we see that in order to discredit those people who are engaged in journalistic investigations, it is the team of denis bigus, yuriy nikolov, who works with our money, people who write about corruption in the ministry of defense, people who say that public finances are spent on some stupid monitoring, and i'm sorry, i can't say it in another way, of dubious quality, let's say, monitoring, and millions of money go there, suddenly become the subject of her meticulous attention of unknown people, the sbu says that we will find everyone, the police say that we will all... find them, well, in this situation, the most important thing is that both the sbu and the police do not expose themselves, because when it comes to surveillance, we are talking about eavesdropping , about the systematic

harassment of journalists, the answers to these questions should be quite strict, timely and such that it would not be convenient for others to observe or spy on journalists, so how do you think it looks now? our state in the eyes of our western partners, given the facts of pressure on journalists? looks bad, that's why that one of the foundations of our opposition to russia is the statement that we are fighting not to become subordinate to russia, and we are fighting not to become a small russia. if you can say that, and accordingly, this is, well , in my opinion, a very serious point, because if we do not effectively prove that we are not

russia, russia light, or little russia, then we will not get support of the west, it is absolutely obvious, that is why we need to... remember that we are a democratic country in which democratic mechanisms work democratic things, and we can actually ensure effective interaction, well, it's not for nothing that journalists are called the fourth power, and social networks are called the fifth, and when they start social media through social networks, well , there are more messengers, it starts, well, from... accordingly, they replace the fourth power, then this is not a very good result. well, look, an interesting phenomenon, we have at the moment...

the printed press, i think you know this, is no worse than me, it is going through very difficult times, and why in the leading countries of the european union and in the united states, far from every newspaper went bankrupt, develt, figaro, financial times, the economist, these are both newspapers and magazines, they did not go anywhere, some of them remained as fat. it's just that people read the press there and they form accordingly the financial independence of these publications, which of course have owners and which of course have their own interests, but as far as i'm concerned, they don't promote them the way it's done in ukraine. in our country , what should be and create media interest for everything is replaced by telegram channels, anonymous telegram channels

society. why are we in this situation? this is not exactly good for us. well, because it is possible, mr. yevgeny, that the owners of media projects also suffer from the authorities, now i will not talk about the owner of the media company, but about the owner, or at least the head of the concord capital investment company ihor mazepo, who was detained at the border, he was driving it happened... the world economic forum , while crossing the ukrainian-polish border , he was detained, he appears in the case as the customer in the case of illegal privatization of land plots in the coastal zone of the kyiv reservoir, ihor mazepa was given bail in the amount of uah 700 million, and his brother uah 500 million. and today there was to be a trial that would choose a preventive measure. for

ihor mazepa, the trial was postponed, and let's listen to what mazepa himself said about what happened to him. this plot of land, which is owned, supposedly belongs to hes and is supposedly a water fund, it is three, with something a little over a thousand hectares. i am accused of illegal, illegal purchase of two hectares, not 2.2 hectares and for that the investigating prosecutor is asking for a bail of 700 million hryvnias, sorry, estimating the hypothetical loss to the state at 7 million hryvnias. mazepa is a well-known businessman and a person who is known abroad, since he has an investment company, and it is clear that he communicates with his colleagues in europe

and in general. in the world, again, how can we explain this whole story that is unfolding before our eyes, and obviously mazepa will not be the last businessman who will come under the attack of law enforcement agencies? well , you know, if the law enforcement agencies do work, then the question arises. somewhere , the connection with yevhen magda disappeared. friends, we will reconnect now. sir, mr. evgeny, please speak. well, i think that i should respond to that, to that, well, more effectively. but what is happening in the current situation, well, we have an investment climate, and without that, in the conditions.