our western partners closed the sky, do you remember this great campaign, so it has been two years, and now they want somewhere, how to say in russian, to look under the table to see if they have any patriots left somewhere who they don't need them now, well, it looks very strange and looks, excuse me, too cynical, because these systems should have been in ukraine a long time ago. it's about political will, it's about the fact that a lot of countries, unfortunately, and this especially applies to the united states of america, have not shown enough political will will to do everything to help ukraine to the fullest. yes, we are grateful for the help that was provided and is being provided, but this help, unfortunately, is not enough. this was talked about before... a lot, a lot from

the high stands, and here we have to give due credit to the leadership of ukraine, attention is constantly focused on this, but nevertheless, so far there is no such desire to see a victory for ukraine, i have the impression that well , but they are already talking about the fact that the world is actually in a pre-war state, about this is written by the minister of defense of great britain grand chaps. in his column for zetelegraph, he says that it is necessary to think about the future of nato, which was written by mr. shabs. we have passed from the post-war world to the pre-war one. russia is threatening our neighbors, china is moving further, becoming more aggressive, iran is using its proxies to cause regional chaos from the middle east to the strait of yemen, north korea is constantly rattling its nuclear saber. these malicious forces are increasingly united, and our... democracy is under their control

in particular, the minister called for three things to be done urgently: redouble efforts to support ukraine, increase spending on nato and its defense, and strengthen the euro-atlantic defense sector. unfortunately, there is no fourth point on which we count on inviting ukraine to the north atlantic alliance. well, taking into account the fact that nato officials and representatives of member countries. of the atlantic alliance, what are they articulating, does this mean that we will constantly be in the role of beggars to be accepted into the north atlantic alliance, to give us air defense systems, to give us more weapons, although, well, they themselves say that the post-war world has passed to the pre-war one, and this should also be a certain sign for them, but there is a huge mistake in this, because in the world is already at war... so they slept through

the beginning of this state of war and they slept through it, let me remind you of 2007, when putin actually very clearly outlined all his plans that he is going to implement. after 2007, i don't want to take time now, you remember how many events happened, starting from the way they were poisoned here due to a strange coincidence of circumstances on the territory. britain, citizens of britain, how cyberattacks on certain countries took place , how russia interfered in elections in certain countries, all this happened, and it is part of a big global war, just nato, until now nato and certain representatives of the west before at this time, you know, it seems that they are sitting somewhere there. under

the table and do not feel reality, i.e. they do not understand that the war has been declared long, long ago and has been going on for a long time, i.e. the world is no longer in the pre-war situation, the world is in a war situation, by the way, czech foreign minister jan lipavsky said in an interview with dochevel that nato and the eu need to discuss a strategy for ending the war in ukraine. what mr. lipavskyi said: a joint debate about our strategy towards russia is not being conducted either in nato or in the eu. i consider this a mistake. i think we should have this debate. during such a discussion, it is necessary to discuss how the war in ukraine should end. the minister emphasized that ukraine should have the right to vote when making a decision about future peace with russia. lipavsky spoke out, opposed the freezing of the war, which, in his opinion, would not bring justice. peace on

the european continent, in all these discussions proposed by stoltenberg, lipavsky, and grand shaps, one thing is missing, i.e. it is not clear how the western partners see the defeat of russia, what, what, what will be considered, what will they consider as defeat, perhaps the articulation of this and that goal would somehow make it easier for them to decide on that, and what actually needs to be done for this? well you see a lot depends on the position of the united states of america and on what the closest advisers of joe biden advise him in... such an election campaign to speak and not to speak and how to act, precisely this strategy of controlled escalation, which the united states of america constantly has as a model for

similar actions, when there is no definition there of how to act specifically in a specific situation, just... gives an excuse for other countries to fluctuate with the party line in the same way, as they said before, and here, by the way, the position of the czech republic is more balanced, you remember , that the president of the czech republic, peter pavel, after all, followed a very simple path, he followed the path of material, concrete material assistance to ukraine, that is, he is looking for money to get from... some munitions and transfer them to ukraine as quickly as possible, that is, he is just showing, and the czech republic is now showing leadership positions, in contrast to the way we now accept, for example, france, that is, we applaud france, we support it, we clap our hands there

and say, my god, how cool is the french president, macron, who is ready to send troops there to ukraine, nevertheless. france is in the eighth place of the month in terms of support for ukraine and the transfer of types of weapons to ukraine, it might be better to start with some substantive negotiations, and only then proceed to some public debates. and one more event, which the minister of foreign affairs of poland, radyslaw sikorski, announced and reported today, is that nato countries have created a joint mission in ukraine. about this. we decided on the creation of a nato mission, and he clarified that the creation of a mission does not mean the direct entry of nato into an armed conflict, but it means that we will now be able to use nato's coordination, training, and planning capabilities to support

ukraine in order to coordinate our activities. russia is just burning, what do you say about this, this step will somehow give an opportunity. ukraine to feel more confident? i repeat, this is so far puffing up the cheeks, that is, when russia systematically deploys a military industry there and builds up this military machine to destroy ukraine in the future, when it somehow uses parts from the western world and can afford to produce up to... several dozen long-range missiles per month, nato is still thinking and discussing some mystical missions, and what's more, 100 billion, the sum of 100 billion for 5 years, that's 20 billion per year, which is

also by the way , is not approved, it is supposed to be approved at the summit in washington, and it will be given to us there like a sweet pill, instead of inviting ukraine to nato, it has already become clear to everyone, everyone knows, and accordingly, it is not the a tool that, unfortunately, can replace our accession to nato. thank you, mr. viktor, thank you for the conversation, it was viktor shlinchak, chairman of the board of the institute of world politics. friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our platforms. and on facebook, if you watch us on these platforms, please subscribe to our pages, and you can also take part in our poll, it is ending, now we will look at the intermediate, or rather, it is no longer intermediate, final results of the television poll , we

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for a temporary ravine. results of march. the main threat. on the front, on which the russians have made the main bet and against which the armed forces currently have no countermeasures, are cabs. if in february the rashists released a record 1,500 guided bombs on our trenches, then in march they increased this number to almost 2,400, that is , almost twice, in addition to increasing the launch of aerial bombs, the enemy is constantly trying to make them more accurate. instead, in march, the armed forces set four absolute records for the destruction of russians, in particular forces. defense liquidated 1,546 units of vehicles that 40% more than the february numbers, which were also a record. to this it is worth adding 215 cars of special and unique equipment, which is also a record figure. in addition, the armed forces launched 976 artillery installations and 963 tactical-

level drones. 53 destroyed air defense systems. is a bronze indicator for the entire period of a full-scale invasion. 376 tanks and 769 infantry fighting vehicles, although not record numbers, are included in the top five, as well as more than 28 thousand liquidated russians. against the background of a significant shortage of shells for artillery, the armed forces succeeded achieve such impressive figures, thanks to the significant increase in strikes by kamikaze drones. military researchers counted 100% of 62 ukrainian drone strikes in march against 652 russian ones. lyman direction. it was thanks to kabam on the eastern front that in march the armed forces of the russian federation managed to advance in most of the hot areas for the first time in many months. intending to prepare an attack on the kramatorsk-slavic agglomeration of cities.

the russians have been fighting their way to liman for months. however, in march, the defense forces in... received the left-bank bridgehead on the zherebets river and prevented the occupation of ternaye and yampolivka villages. despite numerous attacks, the invaders were successful only on a small section of the front. chasiv yar. on the other hand, the approaches to the south are guarded by the kramatorsk agglomeration from the time of yar. in march, the rashists were able to break through the front to a depth of 2 km, occupy half of the village of ivanovske, and also advance along the bakhmut-chasiv road, which rises. along the ridge of the highlands. in this way, the russians not only came close to the city, but also gained a height advantage over the defenders of ivanovo and bohdanivka. in the last days of march, the enemy pushed our defenses another half kilometer and began to hover over ivanovsky from the north, further complicating logistics to this village. so, obviously, in the near future, we will be

leaving the suid villages, and in april , a new, months-long and bloody battle for time will begin. yar, probably preparing their departure, the armed forces of ukraine blew up the bridge from ivanovsky to chasovoy yar, the pressure on chasik has already dropped significantly, because as a result of the previous assaults , the road to the city is littered with corpses and broken armored vehicles of the enemy. avdiiv bridgehead. the greatest advance of the enemy in march took place in the avdiivsk direction, because after leaving the city, the armed forces had to leave the territory that was under the fire control of the zavdiivsky heights. and establish new lines of defense. as part of this retreat, the armed forces of the russian federation occupied various areas from two to 9 km of our donetsk region, in particular the villages of lastochkine, severne, orlivka, steppove and tonenke. extremely heavy fighting continues for the village of berdychi, half of which is already occupied under enemy control. in addition, in the last

days of march, the rashists managed to break through to the central part of pervomaiskyi. they used to be close. approached nevelskyi and even announced his capture, but the information turned out to be false. at the same time , our soldiers entrenched themselves on the new line of defense of the villages of berdychi, semenivka, umanske, and netaylov. at the beginning of april, the occupiers concentrated most of their efforts on trying to develop success in the direction of umanska, and they are also trying to force the durna river in order to wedge into our defenses between semenivka and eagle in ugledarska. kurakhivska direction. despite the huge number of assaults and attempts to occupy the semi-encircled novomykhaivka , the rashists managed to capture only the eastern part of the village in march. a similar situation near maryinka. where the occupiers are trying their best to expand their control zone to the north, attacking krasnohorivka, to the west, through georgiyivka and pivden, where they never managed to gain a foothold in the village of pabieda. despite

the large number of troops on this part of the front and increased pressure at the end of the month, the successes of the occupiers are minimal, the defense forces successfully repel attacks. russia has become even more vulnerable. as soon as the official kyiv announced the production of drones that can fly for... more than 1000 km, the next day they visited tatarstan, where they hit the drone production plant in yalabuz, as well as the taneko refinery in nizhnyokamsk, which is the 13th largest plant in russia and processes 8.6 million tons of oil, or 3% of the total annual refining of the russian federation. it is more than 1100 km to nizhnyokamsk in a straight line, and drones, of course, do not fly, and therefore their capabilities are greater, as far as it will become known after hitting new targets, which may be oil refineries in bashkortostan or

military factories in vizhevsk. we win daily, death to enemies. well, our analysts made an interesting and positive forecast regarding the impression of the refinery. we will see how it will come true. and now let's talk with oleksandr kovalenko, a military man.' columnist of the information resistance group, congratulations oleksandr, congratulations, and you know, let's probably start talking about what is being discussed quite a lot, that is , what will the company be in the spring, summer, even in the fall, it is possible that this whole period is the most favorable for hostilities, so let's say what it will be like at the front, because , well, obviously, talks have started again about offensives on kyiv, on kharkiv, i... understand that if everyone when you and i are discussing the possibility of an attack on kyiv and kharkiv , if we were given a hryvnia each, then you and i would collect two drones for sure, that’s without any problems,

but still, what is realistic, what is unrealistic and what can we expect, because the situation is really, i wouldn't say what so easy for us, the situation is not easy for us, and therefore mostly we can talk now that our... tactics, the general strategy of conducting hostilities, it will be of a defensive type, and we will maintain it in the near future, namely to be in defense, but apart from everything else, our defense directly depends on the supply of the appropriate nomenclature from our partners, depending on this, on these supplies will depend on how effective the defense will be, and it can stretch to the second half of 2024, even during the summer we can to find... on the defensive, if we don't get that nomenclature in the quantity that we are asking our partners for and quickly enough, then maybe even before the end

of the year, but at the same time there are several important points, that we are on the defensive , it doesn't mean that we're somehow losing, well let's say, we hear very often that somebody over there has got the initiative, somebody has the initiative on the battlefield, and like most of the analytical...groups, analysts, let's say, they draw conclusions , that someone has the initiative, they draw conclusions rather primitively, it is the same as forming the top 10 strongest armies, how to form it is to put in the top 10 armies first of all, which have nuclear weapons and who have the most of them, therefore the russian army is still the second army in in the world, despite the fact that it has not been like this for a long time, but how such an analysis is done, it is done quite simply: the one who... attacks more often, the one who is constantly on the offensive, so he has the initiative, but it is not absolutely so, and even in 2023 , even in espresso ethereum, if not

i am arguing with you, ah, when we talked about the future actions of the defense forces of ukraine, it was mentioned about exhaustion, that is, we are on the defensive in order not only to keep our territories in the most advantageous positions for us, but also... to recognize the enemy , and according to the indicators that the russian occupying forces have lost since the end of 2023, it is this depletion that we are now observing, record losses in one or another nomenclature, one or another category of weapons, equipment or personnel, and if in 2022, when it started a full-scale invasion of ukraine, this is exactly what most experts said, that... we are facing a war of attrition with the enemy, the most important thing for us is to exhaust him, and then what happened was the fairly quick liberation of the northern bridgehead of kharkiv oblast, right.

kherson oblast, and everyone forgot about the war of attrition, but talked about a counter-offensive, everyone needed counter-offensive actions, everyone wanted a quick victory, but with such an enemy as russia, a quick victory is impossible, and therefore the understanding that the war of attrition is now returning, it continues continue and that's it after all, here we have the initiative, if we talk about the capabilities of the russian occupation forces, then during the 24th year they will really move. in the offensive, especially in the second half, what we can observe now, especially near the time gap, and this is not yet, the peak of offensive actions, it is not yet the apogee, it is for the second half of 2024 that they plan to arrange, at least, two main offensive companies, this, of course, is chasiv, and also this is kupyansk, and secondary are the directions, this is the 0.532 line from maryanka to ughledar,

the main logistic... artery, i.e. the capture of the village of pobeda, the capture of novomykhaivka, the exit to the water from the sweet crossing in the northern sector of the 05-32 route, for which, in order to start offensive actions already in the coalfield area, it is very important for them to capture the coalfield in the 24th year as well, or at the beginning of 2025, that is, for them it will be the second half of the 24th year, this is the formation of these conditions, also, of course, this is the ... area, this is a robotic performance, this is a return of control over the robots and to level the battle line , to regain control of the territory they lost during our counteroffensive in the summer of 2023, and returning to their main points of reference, their main focuses, these are chasiv yar and kupyansk, they, first of all, are currently

engaged near chasova. creating the conditions for a major offensive, the creation of these conditions is the capture of bohdanivka, the capture of ivanovsky, the capture of klyshchiivka and andriivka, especially klyshchiivka and andriivka, because then they completely create a kind of security buffer for their southern flank from ivanovsky, and then route 05 -04 a foothold is open for them, if they fail to capture klyshiivka and andriivka, then this flag. is risky for them, now they are trying to cling to the eastern edge of the temporal ravine along route 0504, which goes through chromova, but these are attempts to cling, these are still inferior offensive actions, ah, they will continue until the summer, namely from the summer june, maybe by july, they will start more powerful offensive actions,

firstly, because they will manage to concentrate more of the group in this particular location by that time, they will not have enough of it now to start, not enough to to launch a more powerful offensive, and secondly, until all the villages i mentioned are captured, they cannot fully create the conditions for an offensive covering the northern, eastern and southern parts of the time. well , when you talk about a war of attrition, then... we can say that you know that, a double-edged sword, because the war this year, well , technically, it will be very different from the war of the 22nd and even from the war of the 23rd year, because the russians, well, first of all, began to widely use aviation, which they could not do to do the two previous years, and unfortunately, it does not show exhaustion, not at all, that

is, it would seem that... we should now have more opportunities to repel them, but, unfortunately, we do not have them. the second is that we are now forced to talk about projectile hunger, which in principle, let's be honest, we haven't felt like this for a long time. well, actually the third option - it seems to me that after all, the russians managed to establish, you know, the rotation of fresh units on the battlefield, that is, they do it, they find, well... people, they them, they manage to attract them, that's it three components how to oppose them in this whole story, because they, they largely determine the possibility for russia to conduct offensive actions, well, i'll start with the positive, it's projectile hunger, that's how we felt it, we started to have a deficit at the end.