thank you, glory to ukraine! heroes! glory! verdict with serhiy rudenko, from now on in a new, two-hour format, even more analytics, even more important topics, even more top guests: foreign experts, inclusion from abroad, about ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback , you can express your opinion on the bad day by phone. turn on the survey and turn on the verdict with serhii rudenko every weekday from 20 to 22 at espresso. the espresso channel and ukrainian pen present the self-titled project with myroslava barchuk. a series of conversations with ukrainian and western intellectuals who analyze and comment on the most relevant social debates. what news will be analyzed by the guests of the project this week, and actually, who will be the guest of the studio? let's find out. this sunday, the topics

will definitely be relevant, the guests - special, proper names with myroslava barchuk. sunday 17:10 at espresso. dear friends, we are returning to ether, lesya vakluk, andriy saichuk are working for you in this studio, we hope that our guest can get in touch, this is the second time we are trying for this a week to contact her tetyana lisitsina, a medic of one of the assault battalions of aidar, but apparently now there are some again. communication problems, she is out of the zone , she is probably performing some task to save our troops, in the meantime, i will remind you that our gathering is ongoing, we are gathering for the troops of the 141st brigade, which is in the orichiv direction, that in the zaporizhzhia region, we have very little left, it looked unreal at the beginning of the collection, but it is less, we already need to collect about uah 90,000 to send everything to...

necessary for our military, and these are all kinds of starlinks, walkie-talkies, batteries for them, binoculars, rangefinders, scopes, detectors, detection of drones, many other equally important things at the front, dear friends, we have both cards, if you miss them, because you can see now on their screens qr codes and numbers of mono and private cards, respectively, if we miss what we managed to collect both there and there, then we don't really need much. collect, more precisely, we need to collect some 92 hryvnias. it seemed unreal at the beginning of the week that we would get to such an indicator at the end of the week, but as we can see, we are moving quite well, thank you for yesterday's meeting, because i understand that under the influence of what we have, we had sad anniversaries, somehow people remembered that war, and who first of all, it needs our support, this is our army, and this assembly

has moved forward a little, to be honest, somewhere on thursday, my hands dropped and it seemed that it was unreal, but nevertheless, uah 92 is all that separates us from the final goal of 1 million hryvnias. thank you for every hryvnia, i remind you once again that this is not necessary to be some kind of huge donation, the main thing is that everyone, everyone who is looking at us now, transfers some amount of money that they can afford, someone can... afford uah 5, someone 10, someone 5 thousand, someone 50,000, everyone has different opportunities, but the main thing is that you care about our army, that you remember, and that you do not just hide behind the phrase we believe in the armed forces, but actually do something to strengthen this faith, to each of you for everything for that we are grateful, well, now we will actually remind about... about these two years of full-scale

aggression, or 10 years of war, this, if we talk about two years of a full-scale invasion, it is already more than 730 days of pain, but also of heroism, and like any war, the russian-ukrainian confrontation on the battlefield does not lend itself to either analysts or forecasts , western politicians and analysts from russia's victory in a few days came to the conclusion that the struggle could last for years, so with what assessments and sentiments... among our partners, we are starting the third year of a great war. let's see. in the early days of the large-scale invasion, generals from the pentagon declared that kyiv will fall within a matter of days, already at the beginning of 2023 it was predicted that the armed forces of ukraine would reach crimea. the reality turned out to be different. now everyone is more careful in their forecasts. while the world may have been too optimistic. in 2023, it is important that

we do not become too pessimistic in 2024, the ukrainians managed to oust the russians from almost 50% of the territory occupied since the beginning of the war. another advantage is that they are capable of deep strikes and destroying key russian capabilities. today, most westerners analysts are rather pessimistic. uncertainty about american aid, the prospects of donald trump's return to the white house, the weakness of the european military. word complex, the ineffectiveness of the sanctions policy and the supply of weapons to russia from iran and north korea, all this gives reason to assume that in 2024 the war will not develop according to the ukrainian scenario. the first bell has already rung: avdiivka, which was

an impregnable fortress for 10 years, has fallen. for months, ukraine could contain the russians attacks until she started to run out of ammo, esp. artillery types of ammunition are necessary to prevent russian forces from reaching ukrainian defense lines and capturing these positions. the decision to withdraw from avdiivka is not related to the fact that the ukrainian forces, they say, are not courageous enough in their struggle, or lack military management, tactical courage or combat skills. we warned the congress that in case of its inaction, ukraine would suffer losses on the battlefield, which happened. the confusion of western leaders also affects public opinion in... on average, only 10% of residents polled in 12 european countries believe in the victory of ukraine. the most optimists are in poland, portugal and sweden. instead, they are twice as convinced that russia will win. and the most common answer was that the war would somehow end

with negotiations and compromise. however, during the two years of full-scale war, ukrainians well learned the truth voiced by kyiv native golda meyer. it is impossible to negotiate... peace with someone who came to kill you, so it's simple forced to be optimistic. after two years of the great war, 89% believe in the victory of ukraine. at the same time, the majority is definitely convinced of this. these are the data of a survey conducted in february by the kyiv international institute of sociology. the president told her about the vital need to win on the battlefield in an interview with the american tv channel fox news this week, although he admitted that the priority for 2024 is defense - the number one task: to continue our successful history on the black sea, we will do it. i will not go into details, but they, the russians, will receive surprises. the south is important, the defense

of the east, where they have more than 200,000 soldiers, is also very important. and of course, we will prepare a new counteroffensive, a new operation. of course, i 'm not saying we'll just...stand, it depends on a lot of things. there are indeed many factors that will affect the course of hostilities in 2024, whether the united states will approve an aid package for ukraine, whether europe will fully launch its military-industrial complex, whether collective action will finally decide to defeat russia, but there are things that depend on ukraine: increasing its own production of weapons, manufacturing the promised million drones, building fortifications . mobilization and reform of the armed forces is the minimum that must be done to survive in 2024 and win in the future. there are discounts on

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from the revolution of dignity to today's battles. if something happens to me, if it doesn't happen to me, then i know what i died for. 10 years wars, wars for our existence, this is the path that changed us. in the conditions of occupied territories, de-occupied territories, we have losses of the order of potential 7 million hectares of land, which are not... 10 years of war, war for the future, what price do we pay for it? 200 of our citizens were taken to russia. depopulation is not inevitable . intellectuals, specialists, patriots talk about threats and our future in a special project for the 10th anniversary of the beginning of russia's armed aggression against ukraine, 10 years of the war for independence. from february 18 on espresso. maria gurska meets every week

with the head of the committee on foreign affairs of the polish sejm, the representative of the polish government for the restoration of ukraine, pawel koval. as always, we talk about the most important things that happened this week in poland, ukraine, and europe. what is being said about ukraine in the eu, how should we perceive the statements of european politicians and what will our accession to the eu look like? the project is close to politics, close to the world with maria gurska. every sunday at 3:30 p.m. with a repeat at 10 p.m. in collaboration with au sisters. events events that are happening right now and affect our lives. of course, the news feed reports on them however, it was not enough to know what was happening. it is necessary to understand. antin borkovskii and invited experts soberly assess the events, analyze them, modeling our future. every saturday at 13:10 with a repeat on sunday at 10:10. studio zahid with anton borkovsky. press:

hello, this is svoboda ranok, an informational project of radio svoboda. top guests every day. this is the shipping district, kherson. turn on live. we are somewhere in the vicinity of bakhmut. we tell the main thing. the other day at 9:00, we are on the air again, we are back, we continue our marathon, i will remind you that we are working for you today throughout the day, until 10 a.m. our first part in the marathon continues, and at 2 p.m. we will return and continue, we have a huge list of interesting guests and topics for you, by the way, a press conference will be announced today , volodymyr zelenskyi is expected, as well as a big, serious dialogue to... everyone is invited, except for those who are not invited, not invited, for example, just now someone

from the audience wrote to us about what you know, why not include yuriy botusov, we actually include mr. yuriy , when there is an opportunity, that is, but, where yuriy butusovo will not be, so at this, again, at this press conference, yuriy botusov wrote that the president, i quote, president zelenskyy was again afraid to invite me to the press conference, the office again did not find a place, which means they will show off again, where... many questions will be staged by pocket media and telegram channels of the office, answer for lies, zelensky is afraid, afraid of questions about the surrender of southern ukraine, lack of preparation for war, lack of strategic decisions, now he will make a show again, to distract society's pr attention from real problems, but that is, the espressa tv channel received accreditation, this is already the second time in a row, i think that our journalists will not waste this opportunity and ask questions that no one will actually ask... for them. gentlemen, we already have our next guest, ivan tymochko, a serviceman and head

of the council of reservists of the ground forces, armed forces of ukraine. mr. ivan, good morning. congratulations, glory to ukraine, comradeship, glad to see you. glory to the heroes and we are glad to see you. mr. ivan, where are you, what do you have should we tell our viewers? this is a standard situation along the line of eastern ukraine, a standard situation. as always tries to keep us on our toes, the enemy, as always tries to advance intensively in order to actually fulfill putin's task to enter the donetsk-luhansk region, to completely occupy the administrative borders, to say that they are showing some know-how, no , but the fact that it is felt that they, they have tension... and someone is in a great hurry, but this is clear, it is observed everywhere, and

we know that they are trying after all deploy or develop an offensive in the odiyev direction, still have some hopes that they will be able to break through the defense line, well, but , but we are standing, standing, the very fact that they expected that after all, those forces that would be able to... . to transfer actions, whether to the turkish, or to the bakhmutyan direction, in order to break through the line of defense or create pressure, of course, this is still... the question is, we will watch what they will do next, because we see that even in the time of yar, partly became more active, they still see that on lymanovka in the kupinsky direction it is kupinsk again they are trying to pass in that direction, but so far it is all obvious, everything is clear, with what technique

they are advancing, with what they simply do not allow ours to breathe. the military, well, the real problem is aviation, aviation, cabs, that's what they're trying to use now, taking into account the same audio experience, well, their excitement is a little bit after the su-34 and su -34 were shot down -35, and on a and a50th, of course, their activity has decreased, we even observe some sensation. that the coordination of blows after all, they have really weakened, because they already hit more in areas, with these kababs they try to hit in areas, and not point -wise, that is, after all, it was immediately felt that the air support of the very same drone of their long-range reconnaissance aircraft plus

everything - it really weakened, and one can feel that with understanding there are still seven planes there... during the day we see that they still try not to fly close to the front line, to the zone affected by our air defense systems, well, but this , this is a trend, but it is not yet a turning point in to, let's say, reduce the intensity of their air force, and unfortunately, the kab air strikes are what are causing us very serious problems all over the eastern direction. well, in addition to this infantry, the infantry is driven with the expectation that they will still be able to occupy separate tactical positions in order to expand the bridgeheads, standard battles are already on drones, and plus armored vehicles, but again, in order to try to break through in specific tactical directions

with armored vehicles, to say that they are now deploying armored vehicles. there on the width front, let's say 10 or more or there is even 5 km of continuous line, there is no such thing, now they are trying to do everything point-wise, but en masse, i.e. in continuous waves at specifically taken points or directions, this infantry, who are they, who are they? and the infantry , the standard weapons of the russian army plus the front lines are the same mercenaries, these are all their leopards. this, this, even , again, it's just nonsense that they use their tro, because, well, what, what is their territorial defense, which can have an effect on aggression outside the country, but this is evidence that everything is not so it's really sweet of them if they use such units, but it doesn't matter what we observe more, after all, it

's more of a crowd, actually line brigades, paratroopers, their infantry, assault troops in this way, but there are a large number of stormtroopers, but let's say, if it used to be the dominant force there, at least during assaults, now they are used only as a force to detect firing positions, line units are still moving further, that is, they are still trying more now fight with troops regular forces , well, but in order to create tension and in order for this to happen in a continuous flow, after all, all these quasi-armies, they also try to use, well, of course, i will repeat again that the situation is under control, but if the situation is under control, then just in addition to the battles

, there is also an opportunity to fix their waves on the move. there is also an opportunity to support ourselves with logistics forces, this is important, we also have certain difficulties with ammunition, there are difficulties with the fact that they they are trying to prevent our brothers from resting, i.e. to keep up the intensive movement, but on the other hand, this is not the russian force that can break its own at this moment. on the battlefield, mr. ivan, regarding our actual strategy for winning this war, i often hear that the main idea is to destroy the russians... much more than they can destroy the ukrainians. again , the question of, you know, mathematical calculations, it is important, but it still does not demonstrate

those possibilities or that qualitative an indicator that can change the battles on the front line. if earlier even our even higher command predicted that with the loss of 100,000 russians there, they were wrong. can hold, they will not be able to conduct hostilities, as this will cause internal, internal misunderstanding, internal struggle in russia, but as we can see, they found a way out for themselves at a certain stage, that is, they used a very large number of prisoners, convicts, private companies, mercenaries, and they used a large number of mobilized from the occupied territories, then held a large... headquarters recruitment of actually mercenaries from other countries, if i am talking about mercenaries of private companies, that is , mainly russians, the same wagner, the same redoubts,

all kinds of pennants, torches, only there were no patriots there, but now there are a certain observation that they still try to hire absolute foreigners, there is the level of the countries of the middle east, asia. and also what we observed, they are trying to use the naturalized migrants as much as possible, i.e. those to whom they gave permission for residence or russian citizenship there, i.e. this mass population, or that mass of people who are marginalized in russia, or who for russian society do not have a high value as people, but they threw them in and they managed to do this, even reaching it... a figure of 400 thousand, as we can see, some serious internal riots did not happen, did not explode , but, but, what we are observing, we

are observing that, after all, in russia, as we can see, putin, who believed that the elections would be just such a statistical moment, he faced what , dissatisfaction, let it be there in russian in such a distorted format, but the dissatisfaction of the wives. russian military personnel, russians, who go out there for some spontaneous rallies, we, by the way, putin is faced with a dilemma, on the one hand , to arrest them, it means turning the army against him, not to arrest them is to give an order to other rozh transitions to go out on the streets, what for putin is a priori unacceptable, we also observe, we observed an interesting thing with you, that the appearance of this hope. when, who gave, who allowed himself to carry out, let it be controlled, but the rhetoric that he is against the war was seen, which was activated

a large part of the russian population with support for him, and in order not to create a precedent, not to create the illusion that all russians are only for war, we see, he was quietly tricked there, immediately removed from the elections, and what an interesting trend. .. we saw that prigozhin’s rebellion is also in any and even navalny’s, i.e. opposition movements, which are still pseudo-oppositional among russians, but those that can be somehow very, you know, strainedly classified, he cleans everything up, because i think he has intelligence where he sees what after all, the tension in russian society is beginning to grow and they are trying... to nip it in the bud, the issue here is not even the mass of people, even if they call it up, even if they collect it there, the issue of mobilization resources is it can be in

a mathematical dimension and large, but this mass needs to be controlled, it needs to be trained, prepared, it is necessary to compensate those male population who are removed from jobs, to some, whatever... there were no additional demands for payments to the population, but what for sure for they are the most problematic, it is not officers and non-commissioned officers who would control this mass and actually lead it into battle, i am not talking about the fact that the iron, even the old one, which they remove is still there, but we see that the amount of destroyed iron is increasing every day, and the mathematical progression, and what does it mean? this means that what they cannot compensate for the losses they incur, especially there in armored fighting vehicles, we see that instead of bmps, they appear more and more often. these are mtlb,

i.e. these are mostly tractors that are very weakly armored, we see old tanks instead of new ones, we see a lot of towed artillery, which is now self-propelled in the russian army, and all this binds the troops, it creates additional burdens, it is not so much how much the russians can mathematically organize, it is important how much safety margin and internal unity we have in ukraine . the enemy has never defeated us on the battlefield, but russia has never, historically never, but unfortunately, due to our internal political quarrels, due to the internal political games of politicians, unfortunately, there were precedents when we either lost our will or found ourselves on the verge of negotiating with the enemy, although the army was ready to fight, so this is where it is important to count. mathematically, but

in our country it is still necessary to take into account the situation for stabilization, we need unity now more than ever, how to achieve this unity, which everyone is talking about, we need to realize that the enemy is not from within, the enemy is from without, this is the most important thing. there is a second motivation, all ukrainian politicians need to understand that elections are not parliamentary elections. the choice is or we stay alive, or we will disappear from the planet earth as such, all those who doubt this, please come here, see the eastern areas, starting from kharkiv oblast, sumy oblast, donetsk oblast, luhansk oblast, zaporizhzhia, kherson oblast, i think that in any direction , when they come here, they will understand, this is important, this is important to understand, and it is important for society and politicians to understand that they are playing. or to

the evasive, to the weak, they themselves become weak, the weak will not protect them, and the third option is the most important: no one will fight for us there will be no one, no one at all . from america or from anyone, even respect from the enemy himself. only we will be in quarrels, only there will be this problem of finding internal culprits, of trying to distinguish ourselves or make ourselves some kind of fighter for justice against ukraine in ukraine, we will all fall apart, this is what i tell you right away, why, because this is the biggest thing in the troops now is discussed and most of all is not tolerated and not accepted in the troops, here are all the politicians, here are all the political games that surround

the legislation, that... the attempt to create some kind of image at the expense of the unity, strength of the country, and this is important, this is important for everyone to understand and realize , no one will defend and fight for us, everything, mr. ivan, thank you for your words, servicemen and the head of the reservist council of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine, ivan tymochko, was with us, dear friends, stay with us, we will broadcast today throughout day ahead more one hour of the first part, andriy saichuk and lesya vakulyuk, we are working this sunday morning, the first day of the third year, actually the second day, and the third year of a full-scale invasion, we inform you, in the second part we will also talk about important topics, we have a list and a list of interesting guests, we remind you that our collection is ongoing, you can find all the necessary details on the espresso.tv page in the section: espresso

volunteers, and let me remind you that at 9 o'clock across the country we will observe a minute of silence in memory of those ukrainians whose lives cut off russian aggression. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.