the consideration of ukrainian issues, and of course , the future of american aid, you have already voiced all my questions about the united states of america, well, at least, well, i am very grateful to you actually for niki geli, she is really impressive, she is a person who continues to fight, as they say, as lesya ukrainka wrote, it was lesya ukrainka's birthday recently, it's already 153 and 1881 for her, but she said that without hope to hope, she would counterspeo this... that's what niki heli does, this in fact , it is important, well, in any case, it builds a political career for herself, she is a young politician, and so even if she doesn't win there, let's say, in this election, there will be another election, but, but she, i, i very briefly, by the way, how do you evaluate in general here this fighting spirit, no gels, and despite such obvious things, you know, she continues to fight, well , she has a chance, the only chance to become president, if trump does not have legal capacity. to do this if

the moderate republicans turn away from him, otherwise they have no chance, well , now, if you look at the numbers, during of these primary caucuses, that is, when republicans gather and vote in each state for a certain candidate, now she has 43 votes, while trump has 192. in order to automatically become the nominee of the republican party , you need... 1,215 votes, in total 2429 , we will wait and by and large, tomorrow will be a big day, the so-called super tuesday, where the fate of 34 % of the votes of the republican party will be decided , and for sure, if it does not get enough, then it will decide whether to continue to continue this struggle, because of course, elections are not only... the will of a person, but also

big finances, and before that she thought that it made little sense, some advise her to go separately, that is, not from the republican party, for now she refuses it, maybe, well, it's just, well, it would be very wrong for her now, being, let's say, one of the candidates for the nomination in the republican party, to say, and you know, i'm going to go in parallel, here, but she emphasizes that , that she is... more popular and has more chances to beat a that means joseph biden in this election, because joseph biden is extremely unpopular now at 56.4%, his rating is negative, and donald trump at 51.3%, respectively, and if biden were to compete now with nikigeli, the difference would be 46 to 42, 1, that is, almost 5%.

at a time when between biden and trump 43 and 45.8, that is , literally there, how much 2, 2% with pennies, that 's actually, that's why it's very good that she shows the traditional republican position, shows her will, and of course that i i hope that she will have a future, because to be honest, yes by and large the republican party as we knew it has ceased to exist as it has been absorbed by trump and there is a large base there. trumpians, who will vote for anything, even if he commits a criminal offense, and of course there are those republicans who want a republican president for anything, and turn a blind eye to the violation, to its nature, to the dangers that the united states, and of course the whole world is exposed to the armor of such a person, so this is a tragedy for americans, this is a crisis, here, but i believe in american... democracy,

i am absolutely sure that they will then pull out and, let's say, return to the framework of traditional politics, and not populist politics . journalist, it was the end of last year, they make such a forecast for the coming year, and there was such an interesting picture, so there was an image of putin on top. well, as if a candidate who is there one way or another, i will not say that he has contacts for or supports there, well, them they are connecting, but what, but on the other hand, there was zelensky on this cover from above, above him, well, it was like there was such a woman with a ponytail, well , there were such thoughts that if putin and trump are there, then there is obviously zelensky and who else , and maybe it's nicky haley, maybe they knew something over there, by the way, zaikonomi is a magazine owned by the rothschild family, and well, i think they're what... there, but it's interesting, it's interesting,

anyway, now i, we will come to france, and here emmanuel macron, as they say, is going to war, i mean it in a good way, because actually i was very impressed by this politician, the president of the french republic, by the way , we are... a teenager, that's why i 'm trying to understand him somewhere, because somewhere, well, there's a 5 -day difference in birth, and it's very cool to me that he is, well, if only he could prove this matter to the end about nato troops, but the french secretary of state for european affairs jean-noel barot, after the statements of french president macron about sending troops to ukraine, said that european countries should not rule out any options for action in the face of the aggressor, to quote: the struggle of ukrainians is and our struggle, resisting. invaders, they are fighting for the security of europe and france, because the imperialist fantasies of volodymyr putin are clearly not limited to ukraine. gathering 27 heads of state and government in paris, the french president demonstrated the unity and determination of these countries to do more, better and differently

to meet the needs of the ukrainian resistance. it is important, but this initiative, there are reactions of different leaders of different states of the european union. and not the european union, like, say, serbia, vucic said there, but will there be enough strength, charisma, influence, connections, arguments, financial, military , any of emmanuel macron's, to push this idea and still make it real, i 'm not saying that these troops will appear on the front line, but they could appear on somewhere not far from the front line, on the fourth line, and just give a signal that we are already here. everything, please, well, you know, i would like to, first of all, of course, there is a huge potential in france to help us, because france is only, it seems, in 15 countries in terms of the amount of its aid , the united states is after the european union ,

followed by germany, and in fourth place is the united kingdom, and i understand that the french give us some pretty good stuff, like the scalp cruise missiles or. so gauby caesar is there and some other things, but from the point of view of volumes, well, of course you could give more , if they believe that, well, in fact, the russian federation threatens the european continent as a whole, not only those who are outside the umbrella nato. i wish these statements, they were not an attempt to grab attention and leadership, because you know macron is not the first. the initiative where macron tried to be a leader, this is also strategic autonomy, this means the same negotiations, do you remember how he called, well, what every week, it seems, means putin and tried to prove something and so on, that is, i hope that this is a serious thing, and let's say

so, a positive signal is that, in fact, the ngsh is french, he informed his colleagues in nato, and... asked their opinion on the admissibility of the proposal to send ukrainian military personnel to ukraine - members of nato, in of what quality and so on, because actually mr. scholz, he himself, did a disservice to the british, he said that there are already british military personnel on the territory of ukraine who are helping, well, primarily with high-precision weapons, so why wouldn’t the french have such , the same scalp to bring, or ... to perform some other functions, that is, this is very good, correct news, it's a pity that they are so slow to get to it, it's a pity that it took eight or even nine years after the illegal annexation of the beginning proxy war in donbas, so that they understand what it is russia, that it is a threat, that diplomacy

is powerless with russia, diplomacy is powerful in order to unite in support of ukraine and provide everything so that we fulfill, as they say, job get done, i.e. fulfill those tasks. that are before us , so let's hope that these are not empty words, that france will give us more weapons, because this is the only language understood in the kremlin, the only, let's say, the only method to bring peace and victory to ukraine closer, by destroying the forces and enemy assets faster than they can generate them, then they simply will not be physically able to continue this war, they will have to either go in or try to use the same... the turks or the chinese for a ceasefire and then some diplomatic negotiations, of course i figured out how to run a cover, so let's hope that france eventually gets involved in a serious way and not only image-wise, well, even more so france

, well, if we are not talking about the napoleonic wars there, by and large, napoleon bonaparte did not plan to fight with russia, he tried to come to an agreement with alexander i, do you remember that peace of tirzytsia there, and he behaved very well he just decided to fight something, and that’s how it was, it was a campaign deep into russia, then the french themselves saw where they had gone, returned, having lost a lot, but the russians call it a victory, well, so be it, but the crimean war, 53 -th, 56th year, when france, britain, and the middle kingdom stood up for turkey. it demonstrated very well what can be done in the war against russia, then their emperor nicholas was there, he did not survive this defeat and actually, well, he caught a cold there and died, but very the words of lyvatalstov, a writer, or a count, who participated, by the way, in the crimean war there in sevastopol, are still very vivid for me, and he wrote that russia lost then not because it was weaker or smaller. was, or was there less desire, simply because he said that french guns shoot further and more accurately, and russian guns shoot

worse, this is the same in this war, it is french weapons, they could, they could simply win, simply because she shoots better, and more accurately, but this is what you have, this is that thin red line, this is when the british had better weapons and they, so to speak, lined up in one row, and not in three or four rows, as it was before. and how the british just looked down on the russian troops, and in fact it's a small handful of scots, she turned back the attack, that is, this is such a heroic moment in the history of the crimean war, that is, it shows that the will must come first, and show the picture again, please , and show the picture, we 'll show it like that, but here we see it, and this is what tolstoy described in the sevastopol stories, but... this is what i'm leading to the point that we can to repeat, we have to end here , i thank you very much for the conversation, it is always interesting and

, in fact, yes, he talks about it with you, oleksandr khara was with us, and the diplomat is still with us, we actually talked about the military, about international issues very important , we have not yet reached poland, but in any case i think that, but in any case i think that poland is a topic, as they say, continunyuus, so it will continue, we still we will discuss it, and now we are moving on to the conversation, this is oleksandr khara, i will just give i will give you his regalia, an expert on foreign and security policy , the center of defense, strategy, now we will go directly to the military topic, igor lapin, major of the armed forces of ukraine, special officer , people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation, mr. igor, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, heroes lava, well, we will start, probably with the operational situation on the fronts, from

what is known, i read yesterday, well, there are those who write tele, telegram, there on facebook, i don’t know if on facebook in telegram for colonel general oleksandr syrskyi, the head of the committee, they wrote that now the russians will be very active in spreading a lot of information about what is happening on the fronts, so trust only official sources, well, i always trust official sources, unless only there or friends or acquaintances tell something, then i understand for myself somewhere there... but on the other hand, i also understand that friends or acquaintances only have an idea of ​​a separate section of the front, but not of the whole, so from what you know, as of the evening, the key directions - of course it's avdiivka, bakhmut, well, it's over there robotyn, what is the situation there, and at least you can pay attention to the fact that, in principle , the russian attacks near avdiivka have decreased a little, i will not say that they have come to nothing, but they have nevertheless decreased due to the fact that... the use of aviation and if it was stopped thanks to our

air defense forces, this is no longer a secret, everyone is talking about it, and it gives our troops the opportunity to regroup and still gain a foothold on the lines where they are today. of course, i am very sorry that the russians built the so-called surovykin line for a few months, avdiivka was held for so long, and spare lines to which the 110th brigade was deployed. and other units , well, to be honest, the horse didn’t really lie there, if you look at it, trenches dug with shovels, these are not defensive structures that can protect against artillery, tanks, well, i’m not talking about aviation, and it’s very unfortunate on one side, and on the other side, well, to be honest, how long can you walk on that rake, we talked about it when there were operations near bakhmut, let's remember after the fall of bakhmut, to where added now are the russians, time keeps going like this, it’s good, because it’s an urban development, a boundary has really been made there to a certain extent, but

again in the ovdiiv direction, well , it was necessary to do it, at least using natural heights, that’s at least, well, but we have what we have , unfortunately, the commander of the armed forces of ukraine, the commander-in-chief, drew attention to the miscalculations of the commanders on the ground, well , to be honest, for me it is a complete joke, why, because the commanders on the ground, there are 24/7 combat operations and. .. issues of logistical support or provision of engineering and technical means in our country is not what we want to be better, it is practically absent in our troops, maybe this is news for someone, but i want to say that the military are civilians. administrations are stupidly sabotaging the construction of defense structures in many directions, i saw it in donetsk region before bakhmut, and today i can state the fact that this is happening in many directions, if we recall now the zaporizhia direction, then we remember that from in january, if i'm not mistaken, 1.3 billion allocated for the construction of defense structures

in zaporizhzhia, they have been playing a tender for dragon's teeth for... 85 million in my opinion since january and they have not been able to play it for two months, that is, they have 40 km to the front line, and they are idiots or not idiots, is this already treason, i analyzed it in more detail on my channel, on the youtube channel, but i just want people to pay attention, at the same time i state the fact that a very good specialist was called in for the construction of defense structures, i apologize , i can't call it another way, but kyrylo tymoshenko now mr. umerov is a very frequent guest. the ministry of defense, i think that large-scale theft will now move to defense structures, because the citizens are already opposing the roads, they say, we have enough roads, give us concrete lines for the soldiers, well, this is a miscalculation of the authorities from a positive point of view, from a positive point of view i can state the fact that that no matter what, i emphasize once again, the enemy has already stopped in the avdiivka direction, well, of course

, avdiivka is no longer ours, but wherever the russians broke, they have, as they say, the movement on their shoulders... our troops cannot jump in it worked, and that's normal. as for the situation, well , kherson oblast, krynky, we know that our guys continue to score goals, and they will score as long as there is something to cover them. today, we cover the lion's share of fpv with drones, we have projectile hunger all over the front line, well , i don't even know what else can be added from such grandiose things. well, look, if there are no defense structures and there is not enough weapons, how should the issue of mobilization be considered , well, we are not speaking for it now, but we understand that it is complete trash, the one that happens today with mobilization processes, politicians have stopped, or rather not so, today's politicians, the lion's share of them have never become statesmen, they continue to think about ratings, they continue to think about whether to adopt or

park some popular norm, well, we have , that we have, the question of mobilization breaks down every day and every day. on time, well, i’ll just add from myself that recently i was driving here, i called a taxi there, and a military man, he came to e, well, to rest there for 15 days, he says he’s not at home not a young guy wants to sit and was driving, he says i’ll just pay a taxi there and then i’ll go back, he ’s a driver at the front somewhere, and i tell him, have you heard about the initiative to pay 200 uah for those who have been at the front for two years on the front, he he well , the person was really happy, says 200 00, cool, who would say that, he says, well, president zelensky, and she tells us, no one said something. well, but i lead to the point that people would be happy if it was really implemented, well, let people rest, there are many people who are at the front, maybe there is some financial motivation, they experienced, you don’t want to, we’ll make a rotation , you want to be there, but you have these 200,000, well, these people are really expensive, they have two years of combat experience, this is a gold fund, we won’t make such people in a year, please

well, my friend, i am leading to that and mobilization is also necessary, but you just see that 400 amendments to the law on mobilization are... i don't know how long these works will last, look, i want to tell you that i partially disagree with you , well , first of all, the gingerbread question of financial motivation, it does not definitively solve everything history, in the 13th year there was no financial motivation, we went to the front as volunteers, in the 22nd year at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, what motivation, people just went, said give weapons, there was no such thing, and therefore the largest motivated infantry of the there was no such... work anywhere in the world, we have already invested in raw land, they were replaced by those who did not leave the military commissariat, and after receiving a summons in good faith, went to war, and please tell me, who will replace them? 200 thousand questions, the lion's share of guys say, listen, naty take my 100, let me go home , you understand, the question here is not only financial motivation, i understand that if a mechanism were worked out, well, like,

a salary like this came as a volunteer, i don't know, i'm not talking about numbers now, but according to the agenda... .salary, but for this to happen, it is necessary that every iron, every television, and every refrigerator shout that everyone will fight, just some with such and such a salary, because they came voluntarily, and others with such and such a doll, because they were mobilized with a summons. maybe it is one of the elements, but i emphasize once again, people need to understand that they will have to fight anyway, either you fight for ukraine under the flag of ukraine, or the russians will drive you like cattle, putting a detachment behind you, and you like cattle. will drive towards the hated warsaw and nato. we saw this in the first and second army corps of the so-called lpr, dnr, as an example to all. in the occupied territories, the russians distributed about 2 million passports today, friends, 10% of them, if mobilized, will result in a 200,000-strong army, and someone may have thought that they would wait and if he stays, then he won’t wait and

won’t stay, that’s what the problems are now, he motivates us, we have one motivator for today who has to work in the information field, fight or die, with money, well no, well, it won’t work like that with money, dear recruiting the company, conditionally there is the fifth oshb, the third oshb, wolves and so on, it's not about... money, they are told that you will come to us, we will teach you to fight, and you will have a chance to survive. this is a motivator. it's not about money, it's about a chance to survive. recruiting company of the ministry of defense somewhere, well, they said, they wrote in social networks, i couldn't really check there, people submitted applications for up to 150,000. so that's normal. do you understand? absolutely. but, but the fact is that for some reason we have armed men in the uniform of armed men. forces of ukraine, relatively speaking, somewhere in the frankiv region, somewhere in space, this is the enemy, what women, these are probably spies of this tsk, for some reason they did such

a thing because of that single marathon, that a person in the uniform of the armed forces can be a member of the central committee and that means that the enemy, he must be defeated, what is it, what state do we live in, what do we stand for we are fighting, why are we holding borders today, that's why i pay attention only in this aspect, the motivator for us is fight or die, everything else. there is not 200,000, you literally have only one thesis, recently the ministry of finance had a show saying, what half a million do you need to mobilize? we don't have money for half a million. i understand that it was invented to pay 15 million for a dead brother out of fear. well, they, i'll just clarify, mr. igor, maybe people don't know, it was such a story that the russians paid a certain amount there, they wanted us as if more, because we are not russians, well, but the question is that there are many, well, i will not go into details there, because i. well, i don't have dead relatives, so 15 million, i saw that it was not paid or paid, so i don't know, from what they say, it's not a simple story, but in any case, we understand that it

continues will be difficult, although, well, if you promised, people gave their lives, that’s all, they gave the most important thing, they have nothing, and that’s why you have to fulfill it, please, but no , of course, if you promised, i’ll say it again, they something thinks that with populist things, they will be able to motivate, no, those who were ready to go to war, they did not go for money, not for... money, it is already there, that's all, you promised, you pay, okay, but as a motivator for we do not have money, for us it is simply a question of survival, this is our biggest ally and motivator, it must be reported, at the same time, what is reported in us, the show of the quarter there, the show there, i am looking for a woman, a quiet evening with olena kravets , look at what taxpayers' money is spent on money that could be spent on the armed forces of ukraine, because what the western...partners give us, they don't give for the army, but they give just for this other thing, but none the less, listen, mr. vasyl , our program is now watched by many more people than

are watched by english-speaking freedom in a day , and so on, well, listen, well, let's be frank, these are the geniuses of communication we have today, no, they are not geniuses of communication, because they do not cope with this communication of society, we have already put the infantry, the best infantry in the world , into the ground. today the task is to prepare the second wave, if we don’t prepare it, the question, well , the question is, how will we live then, you are right when you say about the best infantry, because then when you understand that it was the best infantry, you understand why they kept moschun, when it would seem that it was impossible to contain him, but a small piece of land on the way to the kyiv region there is a bolon there and so on there, i am not talking about kharkiv oblast, kherson oblast, there were also battles there well, nobody is the same... chernihiv region is like that, when two tanks are against 200, there is this tank regiment, well, that is, i understand, sumy region is the same, i understand what you are talking about, and it is very important

that it be prepared, i don't know , come on, we've already been there before, let's listen to ilya yevlasha, he is the spokesman for the operational-strategic group of soldiers, this ilya once worked with us at espresso, so we'll listen to him, he 's talking about the situation there on the bakhmut direction and... it is important to hear and have an understanding of what is happening there, the enemy continues to press with its assault groups, using buggies, it is trying to press both from the flanks and from the front near bohdanivka, ivanivskyi , its main goal is now the time of the ravine, since after the time of the ravine it will be a bridgehead for the continuation of the offensive on kostyantynivka, in the future from the southern flank on kramatorsk - slavic agglomeration. from the northern flank, the enemy is moving his troops from sinkivka in the direction of yampolivka and terni, and will continue to advance across the liman to kramatorsk-slovyansk.

agglomerations, that is, tactics are not new, the enemy is trying to use all the same tactics of the light forces entering on the flanks, but now i want to note that he does not have any success in the lemano-kupyan direction, we manage to hold the front there, in the bakhmut direction, heavy battles are now going on, namely in ivanovsky, the key goal of the further success of the enemy's offensive is now being decided there, we really have three minutes. i will not give any more, because we clearly have to switch to another program there, so the prospects of the battle during the time of the yar, the enemy will, i understand, brag about everything there forces, so that there are already few of them left before the elections, but i understand that they want to take this, to open up operational space for themselves further. well, look, i am looking at this story, i completely agree with my brother, because for them the issue of kramatorsk will be very important. chasiryar is a key to two sides, konstantinivka and kramatorsk. and at the same time

in kramatorsk, instead of preparing the defense. milestone, today tenders are announced for the restoration of the kramatorsk market, and a very large tender is currently planting christmas trees near the kramatorsk city council, well, well what else can i say about this story , as far as the elections are concerned, i can say that there are very big risks in kupyansk, why would it be symbolic for the russians to grab a piece of kharkiv region and insert into the constitution that kharkiv region is also russia, and for and it will be , so to speak... the following thoughts about svo-2, yes , that is, zaporizhzhia, kherson, well, kharkiv, if they insert the kharkiv region into their constitution as the territory of russia, and they can, seize two villages and tell, therefore, it is also necessary to pay attention to it, the kupin direction is also very important important, well, somewhat, well, actually, all the more so, as you know, today we just spoke with the kharkiv region there, and they said that this russian epos about the fact that kharkiv

will be captured tomorrow, 100 thousand citizens. it has been going since the beginning of the year, on the one hand, it is not the whole city, on the other hand, and kharkiv, on the other hand, there are not 5 million in kharkiv, we also understand, 100,000 people, they say shelling, well, they are always shelling there, but that’s how bad it is, well, we all can, but we saw the beginning of the war, which forces pushed on kharkiv and thank god they did not take it, in a few words, as an average viewer, i do not like the words to an average, good ukrainian who watches us are reflected by this epso, how to distinguish it, well, literally 40 seconds, but we subscribe to the tv channel, espresso, subscribe to my youtube channel, subscribe to normal people, we do not believe the liars who talk about two - three days , two or three weeks, and we will be happy, this is the most important thing, we need to be able to analyze the situation, the one that is happening, the issue of the safety of citizens, of course, these are the feelings that the russians will play on, and as for kharkiv oblast, to things, now odessa is also there they are talking about transnistria, and about the fact that they will go to odessa and so on, well, don't get carried away with this nonsense, listen to the official sources

of the armed... forces of ukraine, ask the volunteers, those of your brothers who are on the front lines, and listen to the normal news , thank you very much, mr. igor, igor lapin, there was a major of the armed forces of ukraine, a special officer, a people 's deputy of the eighth convocation, and now we will summarize the interim results, because i will be with you for another hour, you will bear with me, and therefore, do you expect to end us aid if trump wins, we asked you today about it's, let's see if 49%, so does 50. no , well, i'm surprised, i think mostly, 49, that is, 49% of the weights expect an end to the us victory, yet 51% believe that there will be no end to aid , donald trump is already formed, if he defeats the government with him , he will further help ukraine there, and thank you , thank you, so for the second hour i will be with you oleksiy holobutsky, viktor boberenko, serhiy tiran, cool guests, cool experts,

leaves with us, now bbc news ukraine, let's watch, then continue. russia made public the conversations of german officers about the transfer of taurus missiles to ukraine. a scandal for berlin. propaganda material for moscow, but how will this leak affect western arms supplies to ukraine? to the army, we are talking about this on bbc news ukraine live from london, i am yevgenia shedlovska. well , the german ministry of defense admitted that the conversations of the representatives of their air force were intercepted, but they did not comment on the content, whether the records were edited or not, they are currently investigating how this leak could have happened, what kind of leak it was.