risks that the west does not yet dare to take on in the general atmosphere. if it was a collective decision, then something could be done even in the un security council, but there is no such unity. there is no unity, not even on the question of joining some european armies to ukraine. there is no unity with the supply of weapons. watch the debate between scholz and macron. there is no unequivocal unity. there is no unity regarding the aid to the victorious end, which the american administration announced, and this is the main problem. in order to not to declare the election illegitimate, and as a conclusion derived from this decision, to act, there must be a general unity and a position that is not possible now. mark, well, i agree with that, yes, this is an extremely important point, well, going back to the exclusion of russia from the council of the un, it would be possible to simply freeze it there. its membership, so until

the circumstances are clarified, but, going back, so to speak, to one or another negotiations, we understand, at one time, when adolf loizovich began to really burn there, himmler began to rush, and nothing, they did not start with hitler, but with himmler began to speak and himmler began to offer, let me start releasing imprisoned jews in concentration camps, let me trade you this, let me trade you that, proposals and so on, well... it all started in just a couple of months to collapse, but we understand that the kremlin politburo has such powerful historiosophists, so they sent carlson, you know, carlson came with something unknown and left with a folder in which documents, correspondence, you understand, because of khmelnytskyi with oleksiy tsar, you understand, moscow and what, but what was actually there, it is not known, maybe there were some secret plans, proposals. i don't know, vouchers for a couple of

billion bucks, who knows who searched that carlson? look, all these negotiations or long-distance relations are tied to the long-standing connection and sympathy of moscow. and they are connected with trump. if, for example, we are talking about the elections, trump himself declares that he is ready and able to negotiate with putin within 24 hours on the issue of ukraine. personally, i don't understand what that means, because trump has one too a limiter that he cannot go to, due to a number of different important reasons. he, on the other hand , avoids the possibility of reaching an agreement in the form of a compromise, that is, a compromise as a tool, you are 20, we are 80. putin never negotiates like that. putin always demands 100%. this is his completely different tactic. therefore, to negotiate in the cayman

islands or elsewhere in the absence of methodology and principles of agreements, and this is a compromise, and what is a compromise? this is international law, which putin denies. trump, with all his claims to him and his eccentricities, to be honest, he understands the rules. however , the price of issues is different in politics than in business. in business - it's money costs, and in politics - war, it's a commensurate scale, and it seems to me that they will not agree, so the time for real negotiations has not yet come. moscow will wait for favorable results of the elections in the usa, and whether there will be an opportunity to come to an agreement will be seen, but from the point of view of ukraine, the situation, let's say, does not change for itself, and in the foreign office it worsens, but again everything will depend on those opportunities that arise a... they are not foreseen in connection with

the elections in the usa. i leave some percentage that trump will not be able to win the election. well, mark, here you see such a moment, if trump has already been allowed to go this far, and no one, so to speak, no investigating officer, you know , from the state of colorado came to him with handcuffs, you know, for all those miracles that were created, then he can calmly drive to the finish line. on the other hand. we understand that, well, in principle, the kremlin would be interested not only, so to speak, you understand, in trump, who is there i don't know, closes american membership in nato on the continent and removes certain responsibilities from the united states, there is still such a moment here , you know, oklahoma farmers who are starting to take to the roads, well, we see something similar now in poland, in france , in germany, we understand the energy of the masses, it has always been used by the kremlin quite, quite successfully. well, it is not predictable at all,

already here in the american press, in some publications, they write that the democrats also have their own plan, which is comparable to storming the capitol in case. trump's victory, that is, unrest cannot be avoided in one case or another. this should also be understood. there is an element of revenge. the republicans who can succeed, ie trump in the us elections, may well seek the satisfaction of revenge for what happened in the 2020 election and the related storming of the capitol. we cannot say for sure how this will be received by american society, overcoming. not this split due to trump's victory, because he is the one who splits, let's even say directly that biden's victory, if he had stayed for a second term, it would not have caused the kind of consequences that trump's return can cause. you see, the return of trump after what has happened

in recent years, i do not undertake to predict, because it is connected with the processes that go deep inside the american establishment, which is afraid of the arrival of trump. the supreme court will take it down or something else will happen, although i think it will be up to the voters, i think this is where american democracy works anyway, the case of john fit gerald kennedy, so to say, reminds us that american democracy is unpredictable and predictable, of course i don't wish that on anyone, but there are such incidents in american history. i meant that they can dare to take radical actions, but this is an exceptional option. they shot not only at kennedy, they shot at reagan, for example, too , go figure it out, then they admitted that the shooter was a madman. again, it may not be the theories of language that are implemented, but it may be the impulsive action of some separate from the tension of the escalating elements inside the camps, which

oppose probably, closer to the summer, we will understand where the movement will be, what the dynamics of the election campaign are, who has more chances, and the consequences for all players will come from this. also for the war in ukraine and for many other things, so we have to wait. look, mark, i also wanted to ask you about another, so to speak, false alarms and another smoke screen sent by some russian unofficial and official persons. and once again they all remind about how they were ready in the kremlin, so to speak, to give way, to go to a meeting and so on and so further, but no, insidious johnson, you see, spoiled everything for them, we understand that... that this is delusion and propaganda, but they keep coming back to it. the kremlin uses all the levers. as for individual statements, i would not pay so much attention to them, because the actions and strategies that the kremlin adheres to are important. and this

consists in putting pressure in all possible ways, forcing the west to surrender ukraine. surrender of ukraine can look different ways. this is an opportunity to use pressure levers not only in ukraine itself, but also in the west. and in this sense about the speaker of the chamber representatives of trumpist johnson , quite strange information about his separate connections with business and personalities is already beginning to appear. so we have to wait and see, in any case, i can't imagine that moscow does not act, does not use all the levers and resources to achieve its goal, they have always acted through their agents,

proxies, business and other sources. otherwise, we will never explain the perversions that are happening with elon musk. is it possible to explain it with some normal criteria? why is a person who deals with technology and business, suddenly gets into politics? why should he? he has no other business besides crimea, putin and everything else? why is this a mask? in all cases, information always leaks out that something was not clean here, that there were some connections, primarily material ones, that influenced these political issues. abramovich also had something to do with hershkovich and possibly navalny. and under other circumstances

, they would not have talked to the abramovichs. he would not be such an intermediary. completely different tools would work. in the end, direct contact is through the head of the special services. example, the american special services are negotiating with their counterparts from moscow through the same burns. therefore, why are there any additional elements? moscow. will not stop and will continue to act in this direction. thank you very much, mark, for this extremely interesting conversation, i want to remind our tv viewers that mark feigin, a figure of the russian opposition in emigration, a former deputy of the state duma, was working for them on the spresso broadcast. thanks mark. thank you, everyone, all the best. the time of our program has run out, stay tuned to the espresso tv channel. my colleagues will keep you informed about all the most important events of this day. take care of yourself and your loved ones. see you on air. usual tasks become unreal,

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stronger. 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? we will find out already this sunday. undoubtedly, the topics will be relevant, the guests - special proper names with myroslava barchuk. sunday: 17:10 at espresso. for two years now, ukraine has been undergoing a full-scale russian invasion on a front with a length of hundreds of kilometers. this is donbas reality. this time we decided to figure out how much the scale of aggression has changed since 2022. what resources are involved in the confrontation between russia and ukraine and what else will we have to deal with. push the ukrainian military. from a height of several

hundred meters, the ground is slightly covered by a haze. rostislav has to concentrate on looking at the picture on the monitor. but the haze lies, this it's already normal, they took off before that, it's not visible at all, well, you just fly up and there's fog. sometimes it rained, sometimes it snowed. it used to be, well, we went back and forth normally, it's just that today the weather in general is simply amazing, the weather is not normal, as for the middle of february, there is not a trace of snow, but the marks after the battles of two years of full-scale war have accumulated here. a military drone hovers over the village of zaitseva, until 2002 it was intact and controlled by ukraine. now among the ruins there are only russian ones left military i think under... i think there are basements, they live in basements, is this a village?

bring it up, yes, well, we flew here before, there was such a village , fly here, it’s a blessing, well, in the sense that there are also technicians here, oh yes, everyone, well, right now, but now... they give a little to ours here, so good, you can clearly see the silhouette of 12, another pilot, another pilot, here it is, here is another one, here it is, the extreme one is a mockup, then it is not a cannon, the second cannon is 100%, now we will look at the third one, for adjustments, the board is going to replace the battery on landing ... meets vladyslav, who was in the war for a year and three months, wanted to leave immediately after it began, but

mentally prepared his parents for this decision. well, i kept saying that i would go , they didn’t believe me and so on, they were worried, nervous , i reassured them, well, i said that in any case i would go to serve, to fight, and that’s what happened, i already went to the military, came back, i say , i have already been, she smiles, she says, i also... understood from your smile, and rostyslav is here as a mentor, he has significantly more experience, he has already been in the army for four years and all time flies on fury, a ukrainian drone, in general, i always fought on... in the donetsk direction, well, we don’t, well , it turns out that everything is always here, i just know that the brigade was also in sumy oblast, and yes, i did it in full scale at the beginning , yes, we were on it in the sumy region, in the kharkiv region, well, there, and in general

, always here, we are already here for a long time, which i don’t even remember, the drone goes to adjust the hits on the detected guns, but at some point the camera stops obeying the operator, the board has to be turned around to fix the problem, it is successfully brought to the right field, although they are quite far away, but they are planted, the destruction is postponed entirely, but the flights will continue, because this is our land, i live here, i am here, i am basically from the donetsk region, i was born, well, how, who, who will be, if not wash to protect what?

that year, russia occupied about 18% of the territory of ukraine, and the active front line stretches for 1,500 km. this was stated by the former head of the zsu valery zaluzhnyi. for comparison, the demarcation line in donbas before the great war was over 400 km. the front expanded primarily due to the invasion of russian troops from occupied crimea. the center of gravity of this war is crimea, in the donbass, the center of gravity for russia, that is, russia... is trying to prevent a strategic task that they believe they managed in the 23rd year with their task, they prevented the breakthrough of ukrainian troops on south, and they have what they consider success in donbas, although in fact, if you remember what they were doing a year ago, they were doing the same thing, they

were trying to destroy one of the cities of donetsk meter by meter, then they were doing... the nation bakhmut, now they are trying to destroy navdiivka, but if you look at the map, despite the huge resources they invest, the results, i would say minimal, and it is not a fact that they will continue this trend. in 2022, oleksandr pavlyuk was the commander of the ukrainian troops in donbas, these forces had to confront russian troops who crossed the state border and units of the first and second army groups of the ldnr, only the last two are about 70,000 people, including the mobilized on the occupied territories on paper, we acted out a lot of situations. what was dangerous for us was that we could get into the environment. therefore , we did everything to prevent us from having a corridor along which ammunition and

resources would be supplied, and the wounded could be evacuated, and we succeeded. we did not... we did not allow the enemy to suddenly enter the border, which would have given us a maneuver, i will say, the enemy did not expect such an encounter, so the russian units that were moving through the luhansk region, facing our reserves that were standing, they stood only focally on the main directions, but it gave time, they were stopped. this video is from the first days of the invasion, when vasyl, the platoon commander, in a group of several people restrained the advance of russian troops moving from the border in the kreminnaya region, then destroyed two bmps. well

, i've never seen such a big column before, only on tv, respectively, well, that's it, only the beginning is happening, that's it. i was the senior of this group, there were four of us, we took two rockets to the corsair in a pickup truck, respectively cumulative, and our task was at least somehow to stop this column, we destroy the second bmp, we watch the same thing, people scattered, the tower flew up, we are all so happy, hooray, it didn’t work out to blow up the bridge, at that moment we didn’t have such knowledge yet, if we had gone correctly to blow up bridges, two years after the full-scale invasion vasyl is already working as a battalion commander? they shouted, the cuttlefish beat the runaway on verkhnetroitskoy, ours flew to where two motzkals were right there , they smoked minus two, in short, now he answers in them. for the section of the front line in the toretsk district, perhaps the only one where the trench line remains unchanged since the time of the positional war in donbas, but here it is the same war and a huge responsibility for people.

i think that i should have been at least a deputy battalion commander, and at least a year to fully experience the work of a battalion commander, the work of a chief of staff, because directly, as a battalion commander, you should know not only your work, but the work of all your deputies. yes, in all directions, respectively, i did not have time to fully understand this, how each deputy should work correctly, and well, i came here to the brigade, became a deputy, i stayed four months as a deputy and became a battalion commander , that is, well, a little too quickly, in my opinion, such a rapid increase of officers in the ukrainian army is connected with the formation of new brigades and battalions, as well as with losses. by the middle of 2022, the ukrainian army has grown to... 700,000 people, while before the start of active fighting, there were actually about 200,000 in the army. every fifth of them, according to the ministry of defense of ukraine, was in donbas, where

russia struck several strikes at once. it half of the armed forces that were stationed here because we had 22 brigades somewhere at the beginning of the war, half performed tasks on the front line, and half were restored to combat capability. the directions of the hologodarians were... the main direction of the luhansk region, which went from the direction of luhansk along the border between shchytsia and trehbyonka, this direction, in the direction of exiting sever-donetsk, luhansk and entering the rear of our troops, and the second blow was along the border passing volnovakha, mariupol in order to cut off also. surround mariupol and also leave ours cities in addition to this additional several strikes, the main strike was on popasne,

the strike was also on starabelsk, the strike was in the direction of gurlovka. if you look at the map, they planned, of course, not only to occupy donbas, they created conditions for the rapid passage of donbas and further, in a more... systematic work at the strategic level , to combine the operations that were carried out in the south, north, in donbas and actually complete the occupation of ukraine, ukraine in a few weeks, well, two, three, four weeks, that is why failure in donbas, next to failure, in the north, they created the conditions when the north was cleared, including due to the fact that in donbas it was not possible to... well, that's obvious. the scale of the war can be traced from the example of officer vasyl's service. the same people have to fight on the widest possible front. he himself says that he has already been

everywhere. he had to defend himself in the hot spots of luhansk and donetsk regions, and also took part in the offensive in the south in the kherson region. 33 km, because we calculated how much it is, well, to break through such and such a volume, we thought that it was impossible, but we succeeded. on the first day... when we advanced in the direction of osukorivka, i did not think that everything would be successful and really work out like that, we really broke through the front line, the enemy just ran, well then it was really well planned, in the offensive, as they say, you you put your own music, yes, accordingly, as you see this offensive, this is what you do, accordingly, in defense, you are simply forced to endure, according to ukrainian intelligence, at the beginning of this year, the russian group in ukraine numbered more than 400.. . people, while at the beginning of the full-scale invasion it was about 180 thousand with equipment, besides, at that time they occupied a larger territory, kept

the north of ukraine under occupation and tried to capture kyiv, no such step, as they say from their side in conclusion there were no troops , there was a panic flight from our territory, in my opinion, simply by analyzing the forces and means that they had at that time... the moment they had to choose what to do, whether to finish the operation in the east, or to concentrate everything on kyiv , but since the east they could not to finish, because this was the main goal that was declared, this liberation, as they call the luhansk donetsk region, that is why all resources were thrown there, and those units that were withdrawn from the kyiv region after regrouping, before being equipped , went like this... there, and some of the east went there, he was more or less capable of fighting. despite the losses, the russian grouping of troops in ukraine, according to the british royal

institute of defense studies. consists of more than 2 thousand tanks, more than 6 thousand units of barrel and rocket artillery for support of several hundred helicopters and airplanes, so the most difficult challenge of waging war with a superior enemy has not disappeared anywhere. russia can provide a local advantage of about 4:1 in many parts of the front in terms of combat power alone, maybe even six to one or more in terms of munitions and... key supplies, and you know, even more in certain types of systems, e.g. in airplanes, even though they were less efficient and effective in their use. ukraine needs to respond to the threats of the big ones breakthroughs, trying to maintain the integrity of the defensive line, being under constant pressure. they carefully roll out of medivac.

wounded, he is heavy, one of the medics who meet him reacts emotionally. a blown limb in a bag, all the attention of the doctors is exclusively on the patient, he moans in pain, the doctors go to work behind closed doors. there are no emotions, emotions prevent everyone from thinking, if there is an emotion, you will sometimes perceive the patient's pain, we try to help reduce the patient's pain, not perceive, emotions at the end in fact, when it is easier for him, when everything is normal, when we can see everything steadily on the monitor, because then the emotions of joy, and that's right, but not at the beginning, at the beginning of work,

until the evening. several wounded soldiers at once: bruises, contusions, light wounds and suspected frostbite, all of them must be examined in detail, the medical team works with each of them with refined movements, although the doctors here sleep little. there is such a feature in the army, we do not have days off, we do not have an end of the working day, we work constantly, even if another shift happens now, if it is massively progressive, we work with those, the hardest physically and professionally. it was a day in bakhmut last may when we had 32 wounded for two people in one day, quite a few of them seriously wounded, it was in a basement in bakhmut, on yuvileyna street, that's right, it was a very difficult day , a long day, maybe it even lasted longer than the day i will name, i don't remember, darina works concentratedly.

tools over the soldier's wounded hand. she already has many years of medical experience, including as a surgeon, was a medic on the maidan, after that and in volunteer battalions, she did not expect to find herself in the army officially. the time has come, just during a full-scale war, when the armed forces of ukraine began to rise. dobrobats fulfilled their mission in the 14th year, when the zsu was not ready. that is, we have fulfilled our function, we still need to work further. on the development of one's own army, and here the good guys are not very suitable, if the army is weak, then the country is also, accordingly, i decided that i should join the armed forces, although in the 14th i promised myself that i would never join the armed forces, bunk beds dmytro constantly talks to the wounded soldier, bohdan: it doesn't hurt you, well, you generally feel what they are doing, well, they are spitting

something. it's just that they poke and it's normal, they can be in a different psycho-emotional state, when you talk to them, after that you give them certain anesthetic drugs, they go into them better, they come out better, they relax, that's why it's actually unusual, it's with that life , bohdan anxiously looks at his hand, the tourniquet has been on it for more than four hours, which is a risk, but today everything went well, look, now it will be... warm the kolchik may be a little throat, neck, main cage, stomach, stood in the trench, it was necessary to set up the anti-drone gun so that it worked, so that it could be removed, the guys did not beat, in short, i went out, set up that bed, did not have time to bend down, my hand was behind the trench.

the 120th flew by.