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not far from kramatorsk and sloviansk, so the front line is also not far from druzhkivka. so, mr. mykola, we would like you first of all ask about the operational current situation. on the front line not far from druzhkivka , well, as for the front line, you know that chasovyar, avdiivka and lyman are located around druzhkivka, and of course, in all these three directions, very great pressure is exerted on our armed forces of ukraine, unfortunately , avdiivka, well, i won't repeat the known things, it's a very difficult situation regarding the boys with whom i communicate. in lyman, on and to kupinsk, there is the 93rd brigade, there, too, all the boys say that it is incredible the number of tanks, armored vehicles has been accumulated by the russian federation, and apparently it is trying to make a breakthrough in order to take kupynsk

, the railway there, in order for the armored vehicles to be used for the occupation of the donetsk region in the future, as far as civilian... life is concerned, like the whole of ukraine, kramaturg today, yesterday as well as rocket fire, and we know that both kyiv and kharkiv are in mourning today, yesterday kramatorsk was once again hit by a rocket, and i chose such a location, now i am near the infamous riapitsa, where they died, remember in the summer, when our residents died, ordinary. ordinary employees of this facility, i cannot show the location when the rocket hit where yesterday, but there are also dead, and the dead are ordinary civilians who were passing by in a car, the driver died, the woman is in a very

serious condition, she is now in intensive care, as for of the current situation in the entire donetsk region, we are subjected to it every week... and if the region is taken as a whole, then every day every city is subjected to rocket fire, pokrovsk is constantly fired upon, and starting from that part of the interview where they told about such a general situation on the front line, along the lines of kramatorsk, drushkivka, sloviansk and so on, then in this, in this plan, i would like to say, very such ... about the local government of kramatorsk. on new year's eve , i saw asphalt being removed and tiles being laid near the fountain. our guys are now in the forests near liman, they desperately need drones, they desperately need weapons, they desperately need fortification, they need to hire

tractors, they need to make dragon teeth, yes called so that they do not break through here to kramatorsk, but we change gossip, repair secondary schools, and this is shocking. local population, we honestly do not understand how this can be. and how do the relevant authorities react to something like this. that is, it is also about the regional military administration, maybe the deputy corps was directed, maybe druzhkivskyi was there, maybe the raised settlements, yes, maybe they were directed to the office of the president or the cabinet of ministers. you know, we have all been deprived of deputy corps and what not us. all cities are governed personally by the head of the military administrations, both the regional military administration, and in each city one person is appointed, who personally makes decisions about the distribution of funds and what is now urgently needed, and to influence

this, this part of the distribution, the deputies now they can't, we don't hold a meeting, because we have absolutely everything... er , it is personally accepted, the mood of the population, i said, you see how the general education schools are being renovated, which obviously the children will not go to in the 24th year, or to see of course not cobblestones, tiles, of course on the sidewalks, instead of helping the armed forces, it just breaks the heart. mr. mykola , i would also like to clarify with you about avdiyivka, whether now people are really signing up for evacuation more actively, because we know that before it was difficult to convince them to leave the city, and now it seems that people are signing up three days in advance, is it known do you know anything about it? mrs. marta, i will tell you that the one who wanted to leave knew perfectly well two and three and four months

ago what it was going to, and of course that the part of the population that remained, i don't want to offend anyone, and among that part of the population... there are those people who probably want something other than a free ukraine, because any sane person, being in the environment, being constantly bombarded by this . with constant artillery shelling, not airstrikes, but artillery shelling, and drg groups come to stay in this place, then this is a difficult situation, obviously, having directly felt all the pleasant taste of the russian world, now those who had a headache , also now sign up for the that the country, in fact, should have thought more, mr. mykola, they would like to ask you. more about defensive or fortification structures, yes, what is the situation with the second, third line

of defense? mr. antip, here is what i want to say, once in the 16th and 17th years, i was showing my granddaughter how difficult the situation was with the occupation here, we were under occupation for three months, i showed her how we were buried in the 16th and 17th , 18 years ago, they were dug into... these hills, mountains, how they were arranged, trenches, bunkers, dzots and so on, and look carefully at the map of the donetsk region, most of all, just this one, the fortification was being rebuilt near the city of turetsk, konstantinka, and if you look carefully now, near the city of turetsk, the enemy has not entered, not a meter, since february 22 , so i will tell you that i do not see that... anything was changing, people are sitting in those trenches that were dug, dug in this period

of time from the 13th to the 22nd year, sometimes, yes, engineering vehicles go to the front line, yes , some things happen there, but it must be done globally , i communicate with the military and the main defense now is that of drones, both the russians and ours mine the remote. they cross the lines where a combat clash is directly taking place, petals are scattered that strike, they do not kill, well, they tear off hands there, inflict serious injuries, and this is one of the tests, the donetsk region will collide, but it will be liberated, because the amount of ammunition scattered is incredible and the amount of demining is unbelievable. thank you, mykola dovbnya, a member of the druzhkiv city council, was in touch with us and described in detail the situation that

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hope that you are safe despite the wartime and regularly do the ox test. didn't you hear, it should be done at least once a year, it's scary, maybe, but what's scarier is not knowing your status, giving the disease, causing hunger and infecting loved ones, so the ox test is about love for yourself and others, about the opportunity to save their lives and your own, because with modern medicine the disease is not contagious and not scary, knowledge about complex things is important, and the knowledge about vil... saves lives, well, the information day of the tv channel in rozpala, the enemy has launched additional missile strikes on the territory of ukraine, yes, the air alert continues, well, not all over our country,

we include oleksandr kraev, now, but before however, i also want to announce the important news that ukraine is being shelled in... world politicians are already reacting, and today the united states ambassador to ukraine, bridget brink, after another missile attack by the russian federation , stated that ukraine needs further supporting the event right now. early this morning, russia launched a series of missile strikes on kyiv, says bridget brink, in kharkiv and pavlograd, killing at least five people and injuring more than 40 , including children. ukraine needs our further support right now in order to... protect the civilian population from these harsh attacks, well, actually , we will talk in more detail about our, let's say, cooperation and our relations with the united states, their help, with oleksandr kraev. expert of the foreign policy council of ukrainian prism. glory to ukraine, mr. oleksandr, glory to the heroes, congratulations. well, that's what we're talking to you about just a few hours before the start

of the next ramstein meeting. so what, she flew in. this is good news, according to pentagon spokeswoman sabrina sink, so the ramstein-style meeting will take place at a time when the united states has no money and cannot send the ammunition and missiles ukraine needs to fight russian aggression, but the united states is hoping for help from its allies. that's it, you see, not too nice american elbow. comment. so. yes, the situation is really unpleasant, but you have to understand that the representatives of the executive power, the white house, the pentagon, the state department, they are now making such sharp statements, such a straightforward coverage of the situation that they are like, well, sorry, colleagues, there is no money. all this is done in the first place in order to clearly

show to the domestic audience and abroad who is to blame for this, because all such statements, it must be said in full, continue with the phrase about what will be done. sh the authorities did everything that depended on it , got all the necessary resources, simply took out all the additional fire extinguishers they had, and only the congress, namely the house of representatives, which is now led by the trumpists, cannot allocate the necessary funds either for ukraine or for other allies resources , that is, relatively speaking , the executive branch's rhetoric is so straightforward now, it is also part of the political struggle that is unfolding before the elections, and unfortunately, the topic of the international leadership of the united states now... has become part of this internal struggle, mr. alexander, look, trump's main competitor ron desantis withdrew his candidacy in favor of donald trump and actually declared his support, and we see the situation as follows, that nikki haley and donald trump are the two key possible candidates from the republican party, we understand that approximately somewhere up to 5

in march, the situation will be more or less clear, because there will be super tuesday, which can show... you are essentially the one who will run for the republican party, and we actually understand that nikki haley, she is more oriented towards such a different the electorate is more educated, on the other hand, donald trump, he still focuses his attention more on such a rural electorate, do you think that nicky gale still has a chance to defeat donald trump in the primaries and become the candidate of the republican party? it is worth starting with the fact that the new hampshire primaries, which are right now... are taking place right now, right now, they can become a signpost for us, that is, before we see these results , it is difficult for us to judge why for us new hampshire could be... a possible marker: first, compared to iowa, where trump had a pretty strong lead from the start, in new hampshire all the early polls show roughly the same

ratings for both trump and nikki haley, it about 40-45%, they're holding on to that in that balance within the state, and so whoever can take new hampshire will already be so well-charged for further wins in the primaries. second, new hampshire is a special state, and it is special in that firstly, there are a lot of... moderate republicans who just might support haley, and secondly, there are a lot of undecideds in this state, that is, the very electorate that will ultimately determine the winner in presidential election, plus the new hampshire primary is open , and so this electorate can affect the final result, so in addition to the fact that we will see the mood, well, the mood of the republican party, and not just the radical wing of it, as was the case in iowa , we will also see the mood of neutrals. voters, who have the deciding, deciding weight of the vote in every election in the united states, so basically haley still has a chance right now, all the early statistics indicate that this won't

be an easy win for trump, and that haley basically has quite a lot of room to pull away it's new hampshire, so we'll see today, but it's too early to write haley off. thank you and , unfortunately, we have to conclude, because an air alert has been declared in ukraine due to the flight of the russian federation aircraft. the expert of the council of foreign affairs will move to our studio in ukrat, politicians ukrainian prism was with us, now stay with the express, literally in a few minutes we will get back to you. on the air of the perspective program, approaching the second anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of ukraine by russia, today on the air i have the honor of talking with a person who probably has more depth than others. than anyone else. simon shuster is

a russian-american of ukrainian origin. he is a senior correspondent for the magazine and has spent the past few years tracking the situation in ukraine, with unprecedented access to zelenskyi and his teams his book, called showman, is inside the invasion that shook the world and made volodymyr zelenskyi the leader. thank you. those of you who have come to us today, first of all, tell us about the access you had to volodymyr zelenskyi and how you could get it. i got to know president zelensky even before he became president, namely in the spring of 2019 at the height of the election campaign. i was preparing a profile of his candidacy. at that time he was a comedian, an actor, a showman, and i got to beat him backstage at one of his comedy shows, which was, in fact, his pre-election meeting. during the reporting we introduced , i had a unique opportunity to meet

him and say: listen, there are historical events happening around us, i would like to write a book about it, and he said: come on, i don't have time to write a book, but someone has to do it , you say that zelensky was a showman, or is he still a showman, i think this is his superpower, in the skills he has honed for 20 years as an actor. tv producer, director, screenwriter, who allowed him to attract and hold the world's attention in a way that, in my opinion, few other leaders, and no one , could do in this situation, and the nature of this war really required ukraine to keep the west and world democracy on its side, and not only the leadership, but and people in democracies, that 's what zelenskyy does admirably, but is that enough, we've seen cracks start to appear in europe and the united states? for example, in terms of funding, would that be enough for him to continue this thing, do you think? from the beginning of the invasion he understood how important it is to keep the world's attention. he

recognized that over time this attention could dissipate and felt it was his mission to try to draw attention to the real picture of the war, which he values, for the whole world to see, and thereby ensure support for ukraine. but he understands that time is ticking, and other crises, such as war, may arise over time. in israel, for example, he did not foresee this, but thought that some other crisis would divert the world's attention from the ukrainian issue, and this is really happening now. every day he faces challenges, trying to find new ways to attract attention, because other crises compete for the world's attention, and this complicates the task. there is a strong concern not only for the president himself, but also for the ukrainian people, right? yes, it is a fact, and we are approaching our second anniversary, as you rightly point out. now people... are showing more and more fatigue, which is becoming obvious on the streets of kyiv, this is palpable from the conversations, at the beginning president zelenskyi and many of his close advisers promised that

there would be a victory, that this war would not... continue so long actually when we first talked to him about it i said my book would be out in about a year he said do you think the war will still be going on a year from now we're approaching two years now the death toll continues to grow, as did worldwide disillusionment, weariness, and the desire for the war to end. you mentioned what happened 2 years ago, when we were in a situation where russia was building up troops on the... border, and a lot of people were saying that they weren't going to actually attack ukraine. what do you think was happening in in the head of zelenskyi and in the corridors of power in kyiv. the book takes a very close look at the moment that led to the decisions that zelensky made, essentially, to tell everyone to stay calm, that there would be no large-scale invasion, and that's what he was telling ukrainians. the reason was that, as he describes, he

ran into different intelligence. the americans presented a very extreme picture of the invasion, that in essence russia was planning to take over most of the country, if not all of it. at the time, european special services, european leaders told him that the americans might be exaggerating a bit, so he decided to believe the latter. and when it did happen, was there panic? yeah sure, i mean what if you were faced with a full scale attack by a nuclear superpower trying to kill the leader. countries, take them hostage and seize power, you cannot avoid panic. there was panic in the streets. do you think it was just a fluke that the first days of the invasion were a fiasco? i mean that at the beginning everything was very unfavorable for the russian side. book leads the backstage of the preparation that was going on at that time. the military in ukraine was preparing, and i also spoke with the military commanders who were responsible for that effort. so it's not about

coincidence. lucky americans told the general in one phone conversation described in the book, "you're very lucky you didn't get caught in the first days of a full-scale invasion," to which he replied that it wasn't just luck, but the plan and strategy of preparation. some of the your work has been controversial in the past.last year you published an article in time which claimed that zelenskyi felt his allies had failed him by not supporting ukraine's struggle. this is true, this is what... i heard from his close advisers, i spoke to all of them in kyiv, i met with many of them throughout the invasion, and the mood definitely changed, because the context of the war also changed. one of the advisers said that we are not winning, while president zelensky continued to promote his message of victory. he refused and still refuses to admit some difficulties on the battlefield, spoken of by his own advisers and military commanders. all he does

is push this message, promising his people total victory. was zelenskyi satisfied with your article, did you talk to him about it? not really, because it kind of contradicts the message he 's trying to convey, but he understands that i don't work for him, i'm an independent journalist, and his team respects that too. my conversations with him are... ongoing, i spoke with him this week, so the article was not the cause of the lengthy gap you also talked about the psychological state of volodymyr zelenskyi, isn't he perhaps becoming a little too dependent on the authorities? this is something that ukrainians and the world should pay attention to, as history shows, it is very difficult for a leader who received extraordinary powers, especially during a war, to return them, there are historical precedents from both sides, but...

in general, this is what should cause concern. in the conditions of martial law, during the last two years, president zelenskyi has had extraordinary powers, which, in fact, allow him to rule under with the help of decrees and orders. in the conditions of martial law, he has almost complete control over the mass media in ukraine, which is not easy to give up. this will determine what kind of ukraine we will have after the war, whether it will continue to be a democratic country, that's what really matters. and about the end of the war. as we said, no one expected it to last this long. are you still convinced that ukraine can go through this and win? i think so. a lot of pessimism, unfortunately, overshadows where it all started. russia started a war with the aim of capturing the entire country and removing zelensky. they clearly failed. ukraine held out, and therefore russia failed in its original objectives, but i also think that ukraine's ability to sustain

this war, even under the conditions. reducing support for the event to a large extent.