developments, want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday politics club, every saturday on espresso. greetings to all viewers of espresso, it's time to learn about the most relevant events of this hour, more than 20 missiles were dropped by the russians on kharkiv, aimed at energy facilities. the city is completely without electricity, its head ihor terekhov said, because of which there are problems with water and heat supply. for the time being, the waterworks will supply water with minimum pressure. heating.

the situation is extremely difficult. currently , only 40,000 subscribers, who are healed from modular boiler houses. the supply of heating to the rest of kharkiv residents has been stopped due to the lack of energy supply. in kharkiv, the enemy disabled the numbers of all emergency services. ambulance, emergency services, gas station. services, etc. we took over the coordination of their work. if necessary, you can call 1562. the number of people killed due to the russian shelling of zaporozhye has increased to three. and at least 15 people were injured, the head of the region, ivan fedorov, said. more than 40 residential buildings were damaged in the city. also the occupiers hit dniprogez. according to the office of gen. the prosecutor for the hydroelectric plant,

which consists of gs1 and gs2, was hit by eight rockets at once. the biggest impact fell on one of the supports of gs2, the beams there are broken, damaged, the damage is critical. the russians also hit a trolleybus moving along the embankment with a rocket. travel there is currently limited. ukraine on the front lines, under the name of the discussion panel on the 16th. at the kyiv security forum, what is the situation at the front and what are the internal and external challenges for ukraine, we are watching live, and they need to ban these shipments in the sanctions program, so all this means is that more effort needs to be put into the impression of the russian logistics system, and let me ask the following question: all that you

said, do you see ukraine being able to continue its successful operations without proper western support, i mean the level we have today, it's very much that narrative. aimed at people not believing in victory, but ukraine has received significant support from the united states in recent months and continues to do important work, and europe is doing more and more in terms of ammunition and other forces, then i would not expect a dramatic drop in ukraine's ability to defend itself, and of course. i do not see that russia

has the ability to take advantage of even local tactical successes, as in avdiivka. i think that general syrskyi's job this year will be to pour water in order to stabilize the front line in order to prevent the russians from achieving any serious successes, of course, this is done at the front, but... here and industrial competition must play its part, and while the ukrainian army needs new units to ensure rotation, in the meantime, ukraine must continue to put pressure on russian logistics and crimea to make crimea an unacceptable place for russian troops, thank you. and if you can

take this opportunity stay with us online we have general davis online general davis thank you for joining us. despite my questions, how do you assess what is happening on the front line? of ukraine, i would also like to ask you whether you think that ukraine and europe should already start relying on themselves, without placing high hopes on the united states. this is an important question, i want to talk about defense technology, which is what i mainly do, but to answer your questions, in a few words: firstly, what we see on the front line is a series of

extraordinary innovations that are stagnant in the ukrainian forces, and they thus they manage to counteract the great... russian resources, not to mention the geography, if to talk about what ukraine needs , to rely more on itself, maybe on europe, i 'm sure that the senior leadership, military, civilian, is already thinking about this, but as general petraeus said, there is a huge amount of support from the united states, and eh everything must be done so that this signal reaches the key leadership and the public about the need to support the assistance that ukraine deserves precisely in the interests of the united states. i'd like to spend a few seconds talking about innovation on

the battlefield. please i noticed what i said that i somewhat... understand on these issues, because i worked for three years with the ukrainian ministries, as well as in the fence industry on issues of modernization and ensuring squeezeability, and after the russian invasion in 22nd year, i paid special attention to the air force, drones and other systems. so, two points for context, i think there are three main strategic challenges facing ukraine, which is maintaining the military and financial systems, at the domestic level, maintaining the necessary number of personnel, and then

integrating in the right way everything necessary to successfully defend and regain territory. and there is a lot missing in ukraine, but it is necessary that we see that what is needed is the unity of civilians and the military, public support and innovative approaches, all of this together helps ukraine today to successfully counter attempts, for example, to capture kyiv in the 22nd year, here is the slow progress of last year, as well as... the task of striking the black sea fleet of russia, and here we can talk about the trajectory, the conditions, but i want to say about the challenges before us is to maintain the pace, pace and effectiveness of combat innovations

on the battlefield so that shortages of other assets and personnel can be replaced . on the battlefield, on the battlefield should provide ukraine forever, but extremely effective armed forces that could oppose russian troops, i want to say that ukraine is very successfully using drones, innovations related to artificial intelligence, various systems that allow you to set huge losses to the russians, and this... in this way, ukraine could, was able to provide effective integration of air defense systems, radars, launchers, including with the exchange of information with western defense systems, air defense,

and although ukraine lacks a sufficient number of air defense systems to protect all its facilities, but ... the ability to integrate these systems and new tactics have made it possible to create such air defense systems that have become better than the constituent elements of these... systems, but it is very important to remember that first of all it is necessary, and you have a well -tested and resilient population, military and digital-savvy civilians who are resourceful, extremely active, and the second is a military and civilian weight. a political leadership that understands the need for new technologies, tactics,

structures, asymmetric promotion that allows experiments on the front line, and it is necessary here to mobilize governments, governments of producers, to bring production closer to the front line, and also to improve solutions that are very promising, third, and the state... and private defense industry must use technical knowledge and experience world-class and the approach of society as a whole to innovation, to support innovation, that is , it means active support of civil society, in addition, gathering together joint efforts in order to achieve these results, as well as a list. the joint response of the public and private sectors to these things, the digital transformations that

are necessary to develop new systems, drones, other communication systems, cyber security, and in order to get a successful mix of all of these will mean that, because the russian forces, it is possible at this pace, and not... also adapt to the situation, therefore ukraine should not lose the pace of development of asymmetric innovative solutions, and i think ukraine can improve in two areas, the first is at the internal level, in terms of systematic collection and the dissemination of effective technical solutions and tactics, and the second is the resolution of challenges on the battlefield, such as opposes russian guided aerial bombs, and ukraine, together with its partners,

should work on the development of the resources necessary to oppose all this, and, but i have to say that ukraine has extraordinary experience and knowledge that it can share, and it must be done quickly, shared with partners. all this helps all our international partners to interact and provide everything necessary. thank you very much, you mentioned innovation , and i think that during these two years of full-scale invasion, we saw how important innovation is on the front line, and how it can give ukraine, in some cases, even dominance in very difficult situations, when we're talking about the fact that we ... are in a state of war is much greater thief, and speaking of creativity, maybe

this will be the middle name of ukrainian soldiers, thank you very much, general davis, i want to ask colonel biletskyi, i don't know if andriy belytskyi has joined us, i want to invite general teras. to ask general teres what you think and where you see what you, what you see about the russian-ukrainian war, and whether you have a fear that russian aggression may go beyond the borders of ukraine. thank you, thank you for inviting me here, it's been a very interesting day and a half, i have two dilemmas to deal with overcome, first, who am i to talk about the situation. it's on the battlefield, i think the colonel who's going to join us online

shortly, he's exactly the person to ask about that, and the second dilemma, i don't know, for myself, whether i'm here as a general or as a politician, but i will try to overcome these two dilemmas, and first of all i want to say that today ukraine is at war with the russian people. i mean the russian dictator who was just re-elected. as part of a special operation, he received a mandate from the russian as a dictator of the people who support his efforts to escalate, to kill ukrainians, ukrainian children, women and men, he actually got a mandate, and then, this

madman, who, as senator... mccain said, is a nuclear-capable madman. he still has other plans. i wrote my thesis in my student years about the chechen war, in 1999, when putin first appeared on the world stage. the first thing he did. it was a bloody war against the chechens. when the city of grozny, grozny... was simply wiped off the face of the earth, after that, he conducted several operations, which all the time gave him the mandate of a dictator, he showed something new to the world. i am afraid of many things and cannot say anything optimistic,

i will support general hotchin's idea. hotches about what prevails in europe. such pessimistic moods, we recently saw a program on german television about the despair of ukrainians, i feel that this happened because we are trying to support ukraine, to call people for support, but the russian special operation, which appeals to the people in germany and france, with message that it is not worth helping the ukrainians, because this is... that matter, i am worried that in the next three months, something else will happen, today we talked about the washington summit about events in europe, but, for example, if in ukraine, in europe in the next for three

months we will see an offensive on kharkiv, kryvyi rih, odesa. and on this axis there are deposits, iron ore, as i say about the crooked corner, for example, it will be very difficult to talk about the expansion of nato in washington, there are a lot of people who said that we warned you that supporting ukraine is a matter. need avoid, at the same time, a coalition of 30 one member of the alliance with dozens of other countries, whose gdp is equal to 47 trillion against russia's 42 trillion, and the military and defense budget exceeds

russia by 32 times, cannot with such capacities. we will provide weapons to ukraine , today's numbers are simply laughable, a few weeks ago in the european union we saw a meeting that developed the following and stages within the framework of the defense strategy program, a beautiful document, an ideal document that develops ways and... but the program itself, where concrete attempts were indicated, in fact 100 times less resources are provided for this strategy to work, we are talking about a billion, when 100 billion are needed, this is frivolous talk, we heard how president macron

talks a lot about supporting ukraine, and at the same time, "remember yesterday's you". the ambassador of france, who did not want to speak and discuss the issue of why france provides the least to ukraine in terms of percentage of gdp at the level of 0.7%, 7, excuse the interest provided to ukraine. if we continue this logic, then... such a cost ratio will play into the hands of russia, it will give russia the opportunity to have

more money to kill ukrainians. technology, i support the very idea of ​​technological development. ukrainians are quite creative, they have shown experiments at the front and experiments that work. only because they are hopeless. on the other hand, ukraine receives from the european union 60-70-year-old weapons that have gone out of use. it seems to me personally that today ukraine needs 10 times more, it is necessary to provide high-tech ammunition, and not... this silly talk about the 155 caliber of course and they need such supplies and then the reb,

the means for the reb to counter the bombs, such technology exists in the states, in france, in germany, today, i call on the macrons, the scholz of europe, if they ... are not ready to send aid to ukraine with missiles that would be used to attack the occupier on its territory, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, then send ukraine modern, state-of-the-art means of reb, in order to fight directed bombs, air defense means what... general bradlow was saying and general hodge also wrote a letter in the 22nd year in june, calling to provide ukraine

with long-range means, more than 500 km, today they work at the level of 60-90 km, if we do not do more, we stand like me. seems to be on the verge of a serious challenge, i speak ukrainian, english, american language, let america be the first again and help ukraine to end this damn crooked regime. thank you, mr. general. dr. farkas, i wanted to reach out to you. general terras noted... that his pessimistic view is about the following months, we heard from the ukrainian command , it seems that it was today, that russia

is now accumulating huge reserves, especially of personal wealth, that they will build up and they will prepare for new offensives, do you share this bad feeling, do we have a chance ? that ukraine, with the help of western allies, can somehow prevent another catastrophe. thank you, first of all, i would like to express my thanks to the former prime minister yatsenyuk for organizing this conference, generals, colleagues, i and you. i must say words of thanks, support the general's words that we are trying to make america great again, i am an american

of european, eastern european descent, i come from hungary and i worry about these things, i think that we should not take for granted that what putin does today, he will do tomorrow, we must... remember that he will test the effectiveness of the fifth article any day, it is possible that on the eve of the washington summit he will resort to some provocations, it is not only about ukraine, perhaps he will capture not only will want to seize not only the region of the dnipro river, but will also test all of us , i am afraid that hungary... who will chair the european commission from july 1, we have little time left to make reasonable decisions, decisions that can be made. and

the russian thinking and the european thinking of how we perceive ukraine, we mean that philip zelykov, in particular, is working on the issue of reparations in the amount of 330 billion dollars, in fact, these are only theoretical conversations now, but maybe this will change. state of affairs, status quo, at least this will change the nature of ukraine's negotiations on membership in the european union, if we look at the system of restraint, which currently lacks political will, then we are talking about military efforts, today we are doing everything we can from the point of view of helping ukraine. damage. to experience that

there were enough shortcomings here too, and when president macron talks about the fact that we will train the ukrainian military, there are teachers for this, the former american president obama also talked about this, it is from those times, the conversation continues, i understand, what everyone believes that these issues are politically unacceptable today, but this is exactly why we... must show the political will to erase our containment mechanisms. maybe i delayed my answer. thank you, dr. farkos. i see that colonel andriy biletsky has joined us online. we will speak in ukrainian, i ask you to take mechanisms for simultaneous translation. and we talked about some points here, from

the side, as it looks now. the situation on the front of the russian-ukrainian war, you are exactly the person we are waiting for you told us what you and the third stormtrooper are facing right now and what are your overall expectations for 2024? first of all, i would like to congratulate everyone present, thank you to the kyiv security forum for the invitation, i apologize for being a little late, the schedule for the last few days has changed to night. exclusively, er, so the third assault brigade is now located in the avdiivka direction, it was established, let’s say, before the withdrawal of ukrainian troops from savdiyivka and performed a rearguard mission, i.e. covered the withdrawal of troops, and now it definitely the main direction of efforts

, that is, the main... direction of the enemy's offensive on the entire russian-ukrainian front , and the situation is definitely not easy, recently the brigade had to face challenges that it had not seen even during the kyiv campaign, at that time the unit was defending directly mashchun, which was a key point in the defense of kyiv, and... the entire previous year, the 23rd year, the brigade spent 11 months, first repelling the attack of pmc wagner near bakhmut, and then moving to the ukrainian counteroffensive, in which it achieved enough significant successes, but this campaign is by far the most difficult. uh, if we talk about what the difficulties are, i would not start talking about the fact that the russians have become... it is better

to fight in the land component of the military, but it is definitely possible to say that they have become an order of magnitude more resourceful to fight , i am periodically asked whether it was possible to get avdiivka with the forces that were, i will say that yes, it was possible, with two components, if it was possible to solve two components in which... russia is completely dominant, it is aviation component and this artillery, artillery terror. the aviation component can be solved with the help of a larger, larger number of modern air defense systems. as for the artillery component, it is necessary to talk here not only about shells and ammunition, which everyone is talking about in our country.