in the british offices and perhaps he would have succeeded in persuading the government of great britain to take these or other additional steps necessary for us. general zaluzhnyi's role is that of an ambassador, not the famous defense attache. it is important that people understand that the role of an ambassador is much more complex. in britain, this complexity is further compounded by a decentralized government structure, where decision-making is dispersed between different centers of power. in contrast to ukraine, where the president takes most of the responsibility, britain works differently, which requires general zaluzhny to interact with many stakeholders to understand how the country functions, as even the decision-making process is decentralized and much broader in britain than in ukraine. as for his prospects after his return, i don't think they will be primarily military-oriented, most likely his return will be related to political activity in ukraine, whatever ...

that political activity is, but the uk offers him the opportunity to learn another way of working, another system or another culture i hope he will gain valuable experience while there. however, i am not sure that he will have enough strength and convincing arguments to win additional support. the current british government seems determined to support ukraine in all aspects, except for the deployment of troops. it is unlikely that he will be able to influence the government to change this position. along with this, his primary task is to preserve and strengthen the existing relations between ukraine and the united kingdom. the prisoner must ensure that these relations go beyond beyond traditional channels and included other centers of power such as the scottish parliament, the welsh assembly, the northern ireland assembly and even the church of england. it is necessary to involve various interested parties in order to gain wider support for ukraine. in this regard. he seems like a good choice, thanks to

his friendly nature, which is likely to resonate well with people. and to what extent great britain will be ready to become the flagship when we are talking, perhaps, about a new construction of european defense policy, yes? well, we understand that great britain has done a lot, but the question of taking the lead is a key story. no wonder german chancellor olaf scholz does not extradite ukraine. taurus, we understand that great britain proposed a so-called circular scheme: germany supplies taurus to great britain, great britain will supply them to ukraine. but we see that scholz is not ready even for this, and most likely, he received very specific signals from the kremlin. this question is quite complex because it involves different perspectives, depending on whether we we are talking about the european union or europe as a whole. it is important to note that britain is not a part. of the european union. well, that

requires a different mindset. in many ways, great britain is not shy about taking a leadership role. let's get this straight. we have qualified officers, commanders, the ability to create headquarters and conduct military operations. we have demonstrated this ability before and within the framework of nato. when considering the question of the involvement of great britain in military activities, it is important to recognize that this is a fact means engagement. a large part of the nato command structure, this adds to the complexity of political negotiations and relations, but if the situation worsens, say if trump seizes power and withdraws america, or if biden refuses to deploy troops, britain is not afraid to take a more serious role. i believe that there are only two countries in europe that can do this, great britain and france. germany, unfortunately, does not have such a capability, having suffered significant losses in... 20 years, it lacks

an officer corps capable of effectively to rule, so either britain or france or both together can rule something serious. it is worth remembering that great britain already effectively performed similar work in bosnia, so both britain and france are quite capable, yes, capable of managing something really serious. dear mr. colonel, i would like to ask you about the medium and short term prospects. what will happen in the war now. in particular, we understand the difficult situation in the zaporozhye region, such as the times of yar, novomykhaivka, marinka, and so on. these are all extremely difficult areas the front on the other hand, we understand that the enemy may be preparing to raise another degree of military escalation. in particular, it is about the use of certain strategic resources, their preparation for the spring-summer campaign. yes, and when we talk about the present complex. the situation, well, it can

be compared to a huge, terrible downpour, yes, but the downpour can be followed by a certain tsunami, yes, and actually, is russia now preparing for some kind of disaster? fundamentally larger actions on land. i think that russia is currently acting within its capabilities. i i don't believe a tsunami-like event is imminent, although i could be wrong. there is no intelligence to indicate that russia is amassing significant resources for a major offensive, such as the use of nuclear weapons. we are aware of their difficulties in getting enough armored vehicles to the front line, so they have to de-can. old equipment from warehouses, it is important that they have reserves, we are talking about almost a thousand such machines that they can mobilize. russians can also send many more people to the front, but they clearly lack a comprehensive training system capable of producing a large number

of well-trained personnel and equipment, because russia simply does not have the necessary resources, the technical resources necessary to conduct operations, such as radio stations, experience to... the making of complex strategies is also limited, so i predict that we will continue to see the redeployment of the human resources of the same russian forces for their use in perceived weak spots in the ukrainian defense. however, i do not imagine it like a tsunami it is more like a person digging a vegetable garden. you can only dig at a certain pace, dig and dig until you get tired. similarly, the russian attack is likely to develop gradually, they may launch a significant offensive. lose personnel and then resort to a forced hiatus, especially after putin's re-election, when political motivation wanes, any further fighting could take place around october or november, as russia currently lacks the resources to break through. these

5-6 months also provide ukraine with an opportunity solve some political problems and strengthen their defenses. thank you very much, mr. colonel, for this honest... certainly interesting conversation, i want to remind our viewers that glen grant, a retired british army colonel and a military expert, was currently working on espresso. glory to ukraine, god save the king. glory to heroes. and the king, as you know, is still suffering from cancer, so let's hope he recovers. at the very end, i would like to emphasize the excellent work done by ukrainian frontline fighters, especially considering that they have almost no artillery ammunition. let's hope that... when the munitions arrive, it will allow them to push forward and put pressure on russia, not the other way around. thank you. informational marathon with mykola veresny. saturday 17:10, sunday 18:15. now

oleg hrybachuk will be working on the air of the tv channel. former head of president viktor yushchenko's secretariat, co-founder of the movement. honestly, glory to ukraine, mr. oleg, i congratulate you, glory to the heroes, death to the enemies. well, two key tracks, the so-called swiss track, when we talk about the development of the so-called formula peace, and beijing-moscow, and we see that these are some parallel worlds or parallel lines, they do not intersect at the moment, but there was an extremely important visit of president zelensky to recep tayyip erdogan in turkey, so we understand that president erdogan also has certain. .. initiative , putin's visit to turkey was also expected there, and it was postponed, postponed, well, as i understand it, now that he will not be reassigned, although there is no cancellation of this visit, well, this is definitely an aggravation, cyclicality is certain, in these

conversations about the end of the war, about the need for peace talks, in fact , during the two years of the war, this situation arose from time to time... now it is somewhat exacerbated for several reasons, first of all, the whole community somehow already agreed that in this year the war will not end, that it will most likely be postponed, at least until next year, that this year a lot will be determined by the military, successes, failures, there will be a breakthrough of russian forces, there will be no breakthrough of russian forces, how will it end? elections in the united states in the states and in the european parliament , that is, this year is kind of like a transitional year, you don't want to call it, intermediate, yes, and on the basis of what this year will end with, certain strategies are being built, and

we hear talks about peace from russia constantly, they were quite actively present when putin delivered his next boring speech. now his tonality has become much more aggressive, he is practically there during this finish line of his reassignment, just talking about what and what are we from whom? baduna, we will now stop the actions there , what do we have at all, uh, due to the fact that the ukrainians have run out of ammunition, we have to stop there with us, conduct negotiations, that is, he has sharply radicalized, and on the basis of such his statement, it is very difficult to talk about the desire, because they used to repeat this mantra that we were always for peace, we... offered, but there is a decree of president zelensky, which forbids

putin to talk to me at all, that is, he went into this phase, which simply practically does not allow to anyone who acts as a mediator to somehow resist putin's position, because the phrases that you and i hear that no peace can be achieved, if there can be no peace conference, if russia is not there, well, now there is obvious. that russia is not even interested in this, but this does not mean at all that such leaders there as dogan or such countries as china, they will not try to bite their status as an intermediary, because it is a very advantageous status, economically advantageous, attracts attention, well, erdogan in general, he already understands that he is the last time came to this pedestal, he would like to somehow write his name in history, and that is why this aggravation is happening. right now, although our position, well, in my opinion, is quite

clear, we are talking about the fact that it is necessary to talk about peace when putin has the desire to talk about it, but if he does not have the desire to talk about it, then we have among ourselves, the democratic camp must agree on a position among themselves, and then invite putin and make him aware, somewhere around such sentiments prevail now, well... an extremely important voyage also took place the special representative of the people's republic of china, lihui, so lihui , so to speak, collected information mostly in different capitals, accordingly xijin ping conducted a comparison of the information received, and so china will be nominated to switzerland as an observer, and here the question is how active whether china will be passive, and in general this is the coincidence or non-coincidence of the position of the republic of china and the russian empire. on the issue of the deployment and escalation of the war, china's position has not changed in principle,

and many observers say that this visit, well, it was , well, to put it mildly, about nothing, china did not offer anything new , as you rightly said, he was there listening to some initiatives or some larger interpretation of this chinese peace plan , these 12 steps, in which one by one we were most interested in the step. this is a recognition of the sovereignty and inviolability of state borders, after which a lot could be said about, but this visit did not increase any pressure on russia, he did not offer any new initiatives, and answering the question of what the position of china, well, china basically repeats the same phrase, but when you analyze its actions, you understand that it is actually really beneficial to it that... the war continues and the war weakens its main opponents there on the world

stage, this and the united states, and russia , and the europeans, because ukraine is not, well, for china, it is not the wrong scale, the wrong dimensions, the wrong influence, china personally or individually does not pay attention to ukraine, and therefore when our journalists there tried somehow or... did our experts try interpret the importance of the visit of the chinese leader to kyiv, no, they do not consider kyiv as an independent player, but it is already a well-recognized fact that the world has clearly understood that russia is, to put it mildly , a junior partner of china, and not russia, and china defines geopolitical goals, to strive for this, what conditions to set, that is , china... is the elder brother of these in this situation, and in principle nothing has changed here,

ideologically it is important for china that russia does not disappear, that it weakens, but for it to be, the key story here is resourcefulness, our resourcefulness, the resourcefulness of our allies, so to speak, let 's try to separate the wheat from the chaff, that is, on the one hand, on a certain rhetorical level, everything is fine, but we understand that money is not everything... it's ultimately good, so we don't know , how will the united states behave now, well, and issues of equipment , ammunition, ammunition, weapons and so on, but president macron is now ready to try on... the imperial confederate, well, i am being ironic, of course, but extremely harshly and specifically the president macron left with words, what do you think this might mean in practice , and just macron, well, as a political animal, he sensed this opportunity, because formally, well, in numbers, the largest donor to ukraine is

germany and scholz, who simply called on all european partners to significantly increase aid, the 8 billion that we received from germany is now the largest contribution, but scholz broke down, here is the eyes of taurosa, and politically we see that the opposition is pressing on him from all sides, it is very difficult for him to explain, and why exactly no, and the main thing is that scholz does not have these personal traits, and probably the desire to be , well, as you said. the emperor or the newest emperor, and macron has it, but what is more important for macron is that both of them, and scholz and macron, competed, who would talk longer with putin and who would conduct more visits, phone calls and and and everyone tried to explain, they tried to explain to the world that in fact russia is not a threat, that

you can talk to putin, i have the feeling that the transformation that happened with macron is, in particular, macron's realization of how he was used by putin and what an idiotic world he looks like now for any world leader out there because it was through macron that putin sent these beliefs that he would never attack, well all you know and i think in macron was still so human, he hoped, it seemed to him that they had established a relationship, that they had a warm, trusting relationship there, well , in fact, in the french language you also have tu, and they were on you, with putin and... macron it was demonstrated in every way, what is happening now, then it is very important for us because macron has stated several fundamental things, i like his phrase the most that russia is aggressive russia in the form in which it exists must cease to exist, that is , it must disappear, well that is very cool,

but this would involve the allocation of, i don’t know, several squadrons of aviation, this... would involve the allocation of some additional missile systems, the same, i don’t know, patriots or their analogues, well, put it all on an industrial level instead this is what we hear about the potential and, so to speak, the possible prospects of the foreign contingent, it must be said that again, well, at first , we thought that macron was just getting hot, yes, i said that out of spite, and that the refutations will continue. and instead of refutations there were phrases like the fact that every word has been verified, we have a plan, mr. fix, and we are now moving towards this plan, that is, macron held internal french consultations there, very clearly put the very uncomfortable position of putin's political supporters, because you now

forced to justify himself, actually ratifies this agreement through the parliament, announces. this visit, but the most interesting thing to me is that other european leaders began to respond to his initiative, and a nucleus is being formed among nato countries, there are cautious ones, there are those who are active in their words, and there are countries that are ready to act, this is, as he says we are the president of the nordics, the baltics, and macron just touched it somewhere, because these consultations are going on there now, and the europeans, well... we just have to note, these changes are unheard of, these maneuvers of nato in the first military, oleg, here you are do you believe that the french will send a contingent , is it possible that the french will be there, plus estonia, lithuania, latvia, maybe there, i don’t know, finland or someone else, if we remember what macron talked about, that is, he talked about what

if the russians break through the front line, and there is such a threat... putin has such a hope that there are no weapons, they now have enough free space, walk the field where they can choose some, feel for weak chains, and if there is such a threat that this arava is going there, as macron said, to kyiv or odesa, that then they will enter, then it seems, well, first of all the probability of such a scenario is not very high, but the statement of readiness... to be on the territory of ukraine has been made, it is heard there, politicians are careful to talk about it, but previously it was forbidden to talk about it at all, others... you, if the poles, conditionally, they will see that this arava is pushing towards poland, then the poles are already openly saying that they will be ready to defend on this side

of the border, so this is a hypothetical situation, but a short, short conclusion that yes, if russia simply begins to openly implement its a scenario of full, total occupation of ukraine, then part of the allies will be ready to send their troops, well, maybe we should somehow adjust our legislation, so we understand that our legislation still needs very significant changes in this regard, yes, well, accordingly there should be some decisions and signals from our side , well, if macron tells us this, then we also have to voice something, but it has already sounded, or i am wrong, it seems to me that zelenskyi said that yes, we will welcome the presence of allied troops at that time. on the territory of ukraine, this is some kind of political statement, in my opinion, it was already like that, but you are right in the sense that it needs to be reinforced by the decisions of the parliament, but we have

a very, very sad picture with the parliament, it is just disappearing somewhere along with you in our eyes, as our poor neighbors say and according to the laws on mobilization in general, at such a critical moment, this imbalance of the branches of power will be felt very much. but this tells me that if necessary, they will solve it very quickly there by the decision of the president's office, but, but you are right, it is necessary to prepare for this. parliament, by the way, and what do you think is happening with the parliament, yes, well, there were certain insiders regarding the meeting of president zelensky with his largest parliamentary faction, yes, well , some representatives of the servants of the people did not fully understand what the policy of the central office is, yes, in relation to the fact that... how will it unfold with our parliament, your versions, why are they so actively trying to publicly, not publicly, but somehow so subvert the parliament, well, because it is a legitimate authority, yes, and this is a key insurance story ,

that is, it is a key insurance platform for political stabilization in the event of something, and at any decisive moment there , and even the moment we just hypothetically spoke about, it was precisely at such moments that the parliament manifested itself, when president yanukovych fled there, when there were... situations where the fate of ukraine there depended on the effectiveness of some institution, this institution has always been the parliament, now this meeting that you are talking about, the president with the parliament, there with a monomajority, yes, a monomajority, but the deputies left mostly dissatisfied, first of all, it was not a conversation, the president was not at all going to listen to any opinions of the deputies, he just... gave them a lecture and sometimes switched to a high, high tone, and therefore it is not at all what

the parliamentarians hoped, they thought that now we will sit down and talk about what is right and what is wrong, because obviously the demotivation of people's deputies, who are already drawing up mandates in bundles, is the postponement of, for example, the meetings of the parliament or the postponement of the committee, caused by the fact that there is simply no stupid no powers there are simply not enough votes , there are simply no deputies at all, morale is at zero there, because they do not influence anything, those who came to earn money cannot earn it, those who thought they could, they cannot influence somehow politically, they don't influence anything, they don't influence the government, and they are not listened to at all by the president's office, so in that sense there is a huge crisis with the parliament, it could do quite a lot, and that is its function mainly, but the president ... he doesn't care about that, the president's task was theirs there, like to charge, motivate , search for, put in formation,

they have no desire to stand in formation at all, and therefore this is a matter of the president's misunderstanding of public administration in general, here he is on these five or six of his advisers, he is on these five - the sixth continues to build a strategy, although it is already clear to almost everyone that we will not make progress on these strategies, neither with the european union, which is extremely important to us now, nor with the preparation of anything, or with this swiss peace conference, is it foreign policy, will we are we talking about the beginning of the negotiations, about the acquisition of membership in the european union , when the sectoral negotiations will begin, no matter where you go, what you do not take up, this formula of governing the country with six advisers, it does not and cannot give results. allies are needed, and when the topic of reshuffle the government chairs, reduce the number of ministries, change the name of the minister or the prime minister, it doesn't change anything either,

it's just wishful thinking. well, to imitate the activity, but again rearrange the chairs, change people again the same office of the president, look, but where did the idea come from right now to take and rearrange the chairs, well, what, well, that is, not a year ago, not two years ago, that is, from the government of national unity, as far as i understand the president's office was refused , yes, but this is where it starts, you understand, we begin to merge the ministry , shorten it, and so on and so forth, so what, that is, why exactly at this moment, so because... first of all, well, we mentioned this there is some scumbag, scumbag included, or a scumbag factor here too worked, because before the start of the broadcast we mentioned zaluzhny no, well, i think that it was just such a vivid manifestation of recklessness and threats to this formula of state management that zelensky maintains, because this is also basically about reshuffles, zaluzhny was taken away, replaced his whole team

, but eh... they follow public sentiments very carefully, the sentiments show that trust is falling, support is falling, and we need to look for some options, trust in the government is low there, in the parliament is low and, my god, in the president himself , she began to crawl down, and there are no results, then someone must be responsible, well no no no no no the office of the president must be responsible, it must be shown that , look, it turns out that we do not have such a number of... ministries, there are too many of them, and something like that, but this is very funny to me, because according to my history, i well remember the history of the establishment of independent ukraine, there were a lot of such campaigns, but after the orange revolution, roman bezsmertny was our vice prime minister, he was actually engaged in administrative reform and zoomed in, i well remember his office there hung with these maps, everything was correct, but it did not give much result, because in principle it does not change anything, if

instead of four... there will be two, but the principle is always preserved, who was there before, personnel, if you are close to the king , the one who is on the throne, yes, the bigger you are, the more authority you have, but avakov was, my god, this is a super phenomenon, he was a super minister, he recruited so much own powers, kubrakov seems to be popular there with zelenskyi, so he is of some kind the ministry becomes above the ministry, but it is not about efficiency, not about orientation to changes with... certainly not about european integration in the sense of state management, because for european integration, the basis of the foundations is precisely a strong parliament that keeps the government accountable, and the government bears all the responsibility for the implementation of economic policy, we still have all this mixed up, but the main reason is that it is necessary to shift attention to someone, we need to look for the extreme goats, scapegoats, we have never had a shortage of scapegoats, so in case of need, there is always someone

found, so to speak, ... on their feet and reset, so to speak, a certain cycle, it is more difficult here, yes, because there are no such powerful lightning rods, and here we return to the possible end of the epic with the former head general zaluzhny, yes, that is britain. well, if we take real ukrainian politics, then for politicians, or, well, not a politician, for officials of such a high scale, well, this was always the first offer, this is what was offered to me when i... resigned, this there at the option of the united states embassy, of the european union or, the first deputy minister of foreign affairs with the prospect of promotion, i.e. diplomatically, well, i understood it for myself, because in principle i spent many years abroad, it was somewhere close to me, but precisely because of what i understood , i categorically refused, in the situation of the hard worker, well, it would seem that the best thing that could be done is to somehow use

the powerful knowledge of this man and his team in order to achieve victory, because the goal of the hard worker was always to defeat the enemy , but here we are relying on a good ukrainian tradition, a good ukrainian tradition says that if you are fired from your position, whether you were there in the national bank, or you were there, well, with any institution that you headed, especially this is very characteristic of the ministry of foreign affairs affairs, because we have quite a lot of changes in the ministry of foreign affairs, which means that you are never there... you don't get more access after resignation or the opportunity to influence any decision, in the army it's even, it's even brighter, in the situation more complicated in that this is the new head, this is his deputy, that is, there was no choice, because many of your colleagues asked me, why not use his experience, he was actually awarded a hero, that is , the president recognized that he was an extraordinary, extremely talented military man.