said, it's time to leave, because it's hell and , thank you very much, thank you very much, excuse me for interrupting musam ahamedov, people's deputy of ukraine, general director of the avdiiv coke chemical plant from the 12th to the 19th years. thank you for your attention, news from iryna koval and the espresso tv team. it's 8 p.m. in ukraine, news time on the spresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers. today in the morning. russian executioners

shot unarmed ukrainian prisoners of war in the area of ​​responsibility of the operational-strategic group of troops greyhound. the group's press service noted that the aggressors committed another war crime and once again showed their attitude to international humanitarian law. the incident took place in the lane of the 10th separate mountain assault brigade northeast of vesel settlement of bakhmut district. russian invaders shot six captured ukrainian soldiers at the position of the museum of the former zenit vavdiivtsi military unit. as the analytical public deep state informs, the brothers recognized the fighters from the video that muscovites recently shared on the network. 14 in february, small groups began to leave the zenit military unit, which was surrounded by raiders. and the severely wounded were to be evacuated on the 15th. there were four wounded boys who could not walk. and two

more pedestrians who had no chance to make their way without evacuation. the next day, around 12 o'clock , the russians came and shot the fighters. three of the dead soldiers were recognized by their relatives. the operation to withdraw ukrainian troops ended the day before. the spokesman of the tavriy army group, dmytro lykhoviy, confirmed that a certain number of soldiers who defended avdiivka, was captured. according to him ... the exit took place in difficult conditions and therefore verification of those who exited is required. during the four months of active defense of avdiyivka , the defense forces destroyed 47,000 soldiers and 1,365 units of enemy equipment, including more than three hundred tanks. general tarnavskyi emphasized that the ukrainian defenders destroyed a significant reserve of the russian occupiers, which they planned to use in other areas of the front. the russians shelled the nikopol

district of the dnipropetrovsk region, the enemy fired twice with heavy artillery, used hails and sent six kamikaze drones. a 56-year-old man is injured, he has a shrapnel wound to the head and a fractured forearm. doctors assess his condition as average, said the head of the region, serhiy lysak. shells damaged four homes and three farm buildings in nikopol. humiliation outbuildings, garages, cars and power lines. the fate of ukraine can be decided on the front in as little as three months. this was stated by the head of european diplomacy, josep borel, during the munich security forum. therefore, he called on european leaders speed up the supply of weapons to ukraine. many strategies, few actions - he noted. european politicians and society have not yet

realized that they are already living in war conditions, and there is no time for another summit. we hesitated for a very long time on the issue of the supply of weapons, they say, maybe too much, maybe too often, two years ago we were ready to send fairy tales, now we are transferring f-16, but two years have passed, if we had made a decision sooner, maybe the situation on the front would be completely... china will not sell lethal weapons to russia - assured the minister of foreign affairs under nebesnaya van-i, his ukrainian colleague dmytro koleba. the meeting took place on the sidelines of the munich security forum. china does not supply weapons to conflict zones, so kyiv may not count on military support from beijing either. at the same time, wang assured her that china will continue to play the role of mediator and peacemaker. in the confrontation between ukraine and

russia. passed preliminary inspection. ukrainian drones, analogues of lancets, are preparing for the first. combat tests, this was reported by the deputy prime minister of digital transformations mykhailo fedorov. according to him , two of the four drones were successfully tested. in the future , it will be possible to produce about 100 similar devices per month in a few months. the advantages of lancets are that they can work during the day, unlike large quadcopters, which perform tasks under the cover of night due to their size. in addition, the distance of the technique impression is 30-40. while fpv drones work only for 10-20, there really needs investment, there and in software, and there the camera costs it's not cheap, and well, it's already quite

a technological product, that's why it didn't appear there immediately, that's why it was necessary to launch the market, to give money to manufacturers for rnd, so that they could reinvest in this direction, and now we have the first results there. but now we will test on polyba and well, that is, all this i have already for myself there, i made sure that this is an irreversible story. another wreckage of the russian camikat the shakhead drone was found in moldova. this was reported by the employees of the moldovan border police. the wreckage was found near the village of etulia noua, which is closer than 2 km from the border with odesa region of ukraine. access to the area where the fragments were found was restricted because... a part of the russian drone detonated, as evidenced by the gap that formed after the explosion, torn fragments of the fuselage and other parts of the drone. the border guards noted that there is no danger for the community. release the defenders

of azovstal. a large-scale action by the relatives of the defenders of mariupol took place in the capital. their relatives went to the maidan in kyiv to remind that our fighters are almost two. years are in russian torture camps, and about similar promotions, they take place every sunday in different cities of our country. i am here every sunday because i have a husband, he is a maritime border officer, he has been in captivity for 21 months, i am waiting for him, my wife, my little son is waiting for him. we want the entire mariupol garrison to return, because they... haven't had a normal life for two years. heroes do not die. heroes of the heavenly hundred were honored in kyiv. a memorial procession was held. people walked along khreshchatyk street to the iconic places mykhailivska and european square. we stopped at the alley of heroes of nebesnaya

hundreds there they left flowers and lit lamps. the day before , a memorial service was held for the fallen in sviatomikhaivsk golden-top cathedral. let me remind you that exactly 10 years ago , the security forces called for forces to start clearing the maidan, then during the clashes 17 protestors were killed, 14 more were mortally wounded, i remember everything, and i could tell a lot in our terrible courts, those who ruled executions, those who were in charge released them, they ran away and... today they are releasing the last ones, because already today, tomorrow the cases that were raised finally against those leaders of terrible murders, i was on the maidan a lot, my girls were on the maidan, it hurts a lot, it hurts so

much that now also the railway, polish farmers are blocking the railway transportation of ukrainian agricultural products, they blocked traffic with placards... and flags freight trains. roughly, this protest will last until march 9, the state border service reported. in some border areas , the participants of the action do not allow civilian buses to pass. drivers have to maneuver and go around the area in order not to be delayed due to strike the day before, polish farmers on social networks appealed to those willing to completely block traffic from ukraine. including buses and humanitarian aid. poland's blockade of the ukrainian border will end when ukraine gains full access to the black sea. this was announced by the minister of foreign affairs, radoslav sikorskyi. during a joint speech with

the deputy prime minister of ukraine for european integration, olga stefanishyna , at the munich security conference. by in the words of sikorsky, warsaw is... a supporter of ukraine, but he does not want polish farmers to bear the brunt of this dispute. paying country. the biggest price of pan-european solidarity , which i generally support, and the two specific polish professions that pay the main burden are farmers and truckers, and we need to solve this in a way that does not overshadow the overall picture of greater poland solidarity with ukraine, and there is a solution on the horizon for both , this is ukraine's victory on the black sea. reason, why freight transport is so vital is that ukraine could not export its goods by sea. that was the news for this time, you can read more as usual on our website espresso tv,

a short summary of the main thing in social networks and watch us on youtube. i am iryna koval, i say goodbye to you and say goodbye, have a quiet and peaceful night, stay with the espresso tv channel. congratulations, friends, the politclub program is on the air on the espresso tv channel, vitaly portnyk is with you, two hours of conversations about the most important trends this week, and our first interlocutor, roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on security and defense and intelligence, colonel of the security service of ukraine. congratulations, mr. roman, congratulations, mr. vitaly. and let's start with avdiivka, because we perfectly understand with you that the retreat from

avdiivka is, no matter what they say, but it is an event in the russian-ukrainian war, and let's talk about the consequences of this event. well, here you can reveal, you know, the consequences for us in the first place, what will be and how we proceed we will continue to stabilize the fronts, as it was, and we understand that this is a big event in... including in recent times and the fulfillment of those tasks that the russian leadership set before itself, including, because just like e bakhmut was such an important factor for them even before the election of putin, to capture avdiivka, and this probably goes back to the time when they captured bakhmut at the cost of great sacrifices to the wagner unit, they needed it then. win over needed a win after since they lost uh

we recaptured kharkiv oblast, when we recaptured kherson oblast, they needed victories, and here it seems they won a victory at bakhmut, but it turned out this way, we remember that this victory was taken by prigozhin and pvk wagmer, and it turned out like this , that no matter how strong the russian army is, they ... had only defeats on their accounts, and the only victory that was given to them with a large number of victims was the victory of wagner, and again, the russian army does not show any victories, so it was important to them to take something, they looked for a place and for several months they found that avdiyivka has been in such a semi-surrounded state since the first days of the full-scale invasion, so maximum efforts and the best military units were thrown there, and for several months it went because... for this populated point, and we've seen lately that by using air superiority, using

artillery superiority, in personnel, they've still forced us back into position, so for them, i think they're going to spin this the victory is quite serious, just like the victory of russian weapons there, politically under putin, well, that's what they did it for, and for that they put a large number of soldiers there in order to make this theater. which we understand, at what price it got to them, as for us, it is important for us to regroup now, withdraw to prepared positions and take up the defense, because we understand that from a military point of view , the most vulnerable troops are the troops that are just withdrawing, and we we have to do everything possible so that we can keep in in the life of the positions to which the troops withdraw as much as possible, and yet one way or another it is the 2000 line... in the 14th year, the line of defense, and therefore the question arises, if the russians break through this line of defense, what

are the furthest, closest opportunities they have , do they have them after the capture of the audio player, well , it is a little different, mr. vitaly, i think you saw on the map that it is not the same as in 2014, because in 2014 we introduced some reorganizations and the enemy still during in the 22nd year, he was successful at the beginning, they are a cool beam from the south with... from the north, they bypassed and created such a semi-encirclement, that's why the line wobbled a little and the positions were not the same as even in the same 14th year, because the enemy used a rather strong one. grouping and moved it a little , and what will happen now, this is again, i guess i will repeat myself, this is the question that now the enemy’s troops are concentrated most in two directions, this is the kupyansky direction, which they can then strike and try to push through it in large groups , because even according to

the instructions and reports of our intelligence, they they say that they are interested in this direction, because only this direction has... such a strategic importance, which can be used to make big or small decisions there, and avdiivka now, because many troops are already concentrated there, why is it dangerous from the point of view of the concentration of a large number of troops, targeted positions, and we do not know how well the lines are prepared for defense, so i repeat once again that the troops are vulnerable when they move away from the occupied positions, it must be organized. new fire system, new fortification systems, system of positions, to completely reorganize intelligence, and everything, and the enemy can use this moment, i will say that even according to the reports, the reports of our military, the most vulnerable, the most vulnerable moments in our troops, and what they are afraid of, we often say, even rotation is needed, rotation is needed, units need

to be saved, this is very correct, but the enemy uses these moments very often. or units that come in and haven't even been in prepared positions, they're quite vulnerable because they haven't adapted to the terrain, and every military knows that this is the time to strike, especially when they're gone, in answer to your question, they can mount now, the task now is to contain, but according to my information, we recently talked about including syrsky and budanov, but the day before yesterday they came to us in a small boat, serious reserves are going there under... i hope that everything will stabilize there and we will already enter a new line of defense, yes, we lost avdiivka, but it was very difficult even to hold from the point of view of military these ticks, if we level the line, i hope less force will be needed and the defense will be more reliable. and please tell me, all the same, where the russians can realistically move from here, relatively speaking, west to

pokrovsk, north to kramatorsk, which line is more favorable for them for... some possible offensive, or is everything wrong there at all simply? i think they will try, but now, when we are leaving for the widows, the troops are leaving, this may be a question, well, you know, here, here it is difficult to say, without understanding how now a line of defense will be built, i think the enemy will now try to find the weakest cities in defense, and they will... move both towards pokrovsk and towards kramatorsk to the north, for example, to try to connect there with the same troops that they are trying to push through from the time gap, so everything will depend on the situation, and they can anyway, on the plan of the opposition. tell me, but we can

say that the russians, after capturing avdiivka, removed certain dangers for the donetsk? well, from the point of view of proximity to donetsk, then in principle, yes, now our troops will stand further and we will, let’s say, drag the means of impression even further in order to strike, so you can say, but we have other places there, in that including from marian. that we have donetsk over there, well, we have other weapons, after all donetsk, it can be in the zone of impact, because if we are talking about 10-15 km there, if ours come out, it will be dragged further there, but there are missile, missile systems, they donets will be in the impression zone, somewhere, somewhere,

let's say so, they secured him, but i don't think that there are any forces and means that will be found there. can be in complete safety, and tell me, mr. roman, can the conclusion of military experts, in particular from the institute of war studies, be considered correct, which say that the russians managed to seize control of avdiika thanks to temporary air superiority. i also saw this information, tried to analyze it and came to the conclusion that indeed, the number of cabs that the russians used on this direction, they have, well, we just got knocked down on the last day. their planes, i understand, someone made the right decision, someone did not pay attention to it, but according to what the fighters said, even those who are there, what cabs, they had... and air superiority, they had one of those decisive factors, precisely in the situation that developed there, because

the enemy was simply them in this direction - this is the only time in almost the entire war, where superiority in the air was really created, where the russians felt quite calm and just used the maximum amount , i said that and i say that it can be dangerous, because the russians really saw that it was... effective, and now we see that they can continue to use such methods, and we need to think, how can we counter this, while with what we have, we cannot effectively counter it, not with airplanes, because what they throw from those aircraft 134, 135, they outweigh our airplanes and we cannot shoot them down with our airplanes , and those means that can, well, we have them in a limited amount, in a limited amount, that's why i i think that the enemy... after seeing this success, will try to continue this tactic, this tactic, and we should be ready for it now, and also, i think, this is a new such

turn in this war that the partners should pay attention to , already in my strategy, but i just wanted to ask if what happened will be a moment of truth for them? yes, i think that at some stage aviation was at all, let's say, that's where. even a year ago, i talked to many commanders and i was not at all interested in the role of aviation in the war, i saw, i saw personally, which it is, well, excuse me, it is not effective, compared to other forces and means, especially when you do not have modern aircraft, then there are rotorcraft, then to talk about some precise operations there, especially before we had missiles, the same storm shelters or others , let’s say it was doubtful, somewhere i asked the commanders, i said, how do you assess the effectiveness of aviation, they say , well, somewhere... 10%, about there, not having very large statistics there, but what i saw, i evaluated them in the same way, and our partners also saw that the russians could not capture them

superiority in the air, we quickly built up air defense systems, and this did not give them the opportunity to fly into our territory to bomb, we are not talking about strategic aviation now, they are striking, just tactical there about fighters, and it is real that now the battle appeared for avdiv precisely here, i believe that aviation itself played one of the decisive roles, and it is precisely the partners who now need to understand how to counter this, because our own personal resources are unlikely to be enough for us, because the enemy can stretch our resources in such a way the entire line, and we will not be able to effectively resist and respond in time to all these blows of theirs. did they explain to you, mr. roman, why you didn't get in? at the conference in munich, no , they did not explain, i hope they will explain, it is a meeting in a couple of days, i

will ask directly in return, then i will tell you, mr. vitali, thank you, mr. roman, roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on matters of security, defense and intelligence, a colonel of the security service of ukraine, was in touch with us. our next interlocutor is roman bezsmertny, a politician, diplomat, former ambassador of ukraine to the republic of belarus. congratulations, mr. roman. good evening, by the way, what are your impressions of this very munich conference, do you see that some kind of security architecture is being built, or are the discussions going faster? most likely, some showed despair, some inexplicable confidence, from my point of view, if we talk about some european architecture, then what is happening is not even a building. architecture or some design project is a search for approaches, and not a solution, especially

realization of some positions. a contradiction is clearly felt, and if you take even the topic of the current conference and the report that was distributed, then the figures in it are also very contradictory. and if you look at the national sentiments, even in the big seven, then a number of problems arise there too, due to the fact that these are democratic countries and their establishment is very dependent on fluctuations, and it is obvious that especially this year, elections to the european parliament are unlikely'. reach some kind of solution, and if so, then dialogue with the united states america entering the election campaign with

messages. trump and the position of president biden will be even more difficult, so we can talk about what, god forbid, the wolf will eat our calf. in principle, if you look at the security guarantees that ukraine currently receives from western countries, how important are they from the point of view of our future? oh, mr. vitaly, well, if you get to know these three already signed. documents, then only an expert who is familiar with what the convention on international treaties is can refer it to a bilateral treaty or a bilateral agreement, because the content of these documents is communiques, memoranda, and the text often mentions such words as reminder, deepen, expand, and so on.

and the figures which are mentioned as a summary of such conferences are only a declaration of what happened. i am not talking about the fact that this document is not submitted for ratification by the parliaments, article 9 of the constitution clearly states that only those, ah, which are ratified by the parliament, are part of the national agreement legislation, not even part of laws, but legislation. and so, these guarantees should be treated as mechanisms of bilateral cooperation, in conditions of war and conditions of russian aggression, that's what i would say, but as for the internal content, i would most likely refer to it as declarative things like the memorandum budapest, whose role, well, from my

point of view... is clearly being undermined, due to the fact that he is simply ignored, and some of those who signed, who joined him, no more, no less, but from the point from the point of view of international law, all these documents are recognized as agreements, but the only thing that worries me is that the ukrainian law on international agreements requires ratification of a similar category of agreements. well, to give consent to their operation in ukraine, but this is not happening, as we can see, in the stack of documents themselves it is stipulated that they come into effect from the moment of signing, so what calls into question the guarantees as guarantees at all? well, one more evidence is that in terms of information , the situation is flowing, because some call these documents contracts, some call

guarantees of security, part of the security guarantee agreements, that is, it has not been worked out not at the level of legitimacy, not at the level of legal norms as such. and tell me, mr. roman, what you are hearing now from western politicians, they are afraid that russia will attack the countries of the west, in particular the nato countries, that it may invade the baltic countries, poland, how realistic are these assumptions? well, as far as the baltic countries are concerned... they are feeling the pressure very seriously, especially in belarus, if we look closely, i think that especially you do you remember this photo, where three heroes of russia are photographed with putin, where is the handsome utkin and the third, then one of them remained alive, and the group of wagnerites who remained in belarus, it is still periodically preparing and carrying out sabotage operations on the border with

poland with... yours, and it is obvious that anxiety is felt there. regarding the degree of danger in the current situation, well , here we have to refer to putin's interview with carlson. please note that in his historical excursion, which almost repeated 2/3 of the excursion two years ago before the operation offensive on ukraine on february 20. on february 4 , 1922, he added to poland, and having told there about the history around danzig gdańsk, which from my point of view is an absolutely clear target indication, if there will be this operation, then where it will be carried out, well, in the year, when there will be elections in two-thirds of the world, where 2/3 of the world's voters are.