additional personnel in the form of those mobilized in russia. the fact is that in anticipation of this, unfortunately, the west washington, which had a relationship with this and the visit of sullivan, the national security advisor, the biden administration, bet on negotiations. force, convince, persuade kyiv to go to negotiations. get some kind of break until november, until the election is held, and god willing. they will have biden, although the result is not obvious, then decide this issue after the election, taking into account the situation that will develop at that time, it is necessary to win time, if everything can somehow be overcome in the next four years, even the blocking of the 60 billion aid law, of course, many things can be solved in the wake of victory, but how can we hold out until november? well

, this is a window of opportunity for putin, and now he is trying to use it, and while they are there, they are counting on something, maybe sometime in july, or maybe we will re-vote after the holidays and so on. putin, we see that he is going in a specific direction. so it is, of course, he will take advantage of this confusion. congress, the house of representatives, through a group of trumpist republicans, is blocking the passage of a corresponding bill that would allocate $60 billion in appropriations. in particular, the kremlin contributed to this, through the circles of trumpists and others. it's just that both sides, the republicans and the democrats, are trying to get some specific dividend from this situation in the elections. biden accuses.

look, they are blocking aid to ukraine and thereby harming our national interests. and the republicans in response. why is that? we we resolve issues in favor of american taxpayers, american voters. so let's combine these issues with the policy of illegal migration, the fact that american taxpayers don't want to give money to ukraine for being stupid, so let's make an interest-free or open-ended loan. ukraine from it is not easier than that, ukraine is not at all a party that has anything to gain from this, and war does not like breaks and pauses. if both parties met in a political duel for the sake of victory in the elections, then for ukraine this resource, this possibility of saving time no, because war does not tolerate lunch breaks, from this point of view some other ways than direct intervention must be proposed. it is clear that ukraine

needs to hold out until november. and if trump wins the election, does the american administration have a plan b? as i see it, there is no such plan, so of course the situation is not easy for ukraine now. if we take alternative scenarios, we understand that there is a so-called geneva track. the chinese will go there as observers, we understand that this is history. maybe not strategically, but in in any case, they have already begun to talk about the fact that, in principle, no one would have so strongly ruled out if putin or one of his sars would appear at the g-20 meeting. moscow acts through many of its confidants and through open public players, such as china in particular. after all, what is china declaring now? that moscow must definitely participate in the negotiations, that there are no negotiations. moscow

has no power. by the way, i am not sure about this, but if it were negotiations about ukraine's accession to nato, should moscow be invited too? the problem is not in moscow and not even in ukraine, the problem is in the west, what is he ready to do, what is he not ready to do? well. in the swiss format, with regard to zelenskyi's peace formula, where the preliminary conditions for negotiations are provided for is the liberation of the occupied territories. moscow, let's say, would take part. is she ready for diplomatic or some other compromises, let me show it, let's say they would throw in publicly, it must be done publicly, without reference to a specific person, anonymously, that they are willing to consider the possibility that we will leave some territories. but it must be done publicly,

it cannot be done in such a way that lavrov hissed at sullivan, said something to someone, no, there must be a public signal, why is public opinion in ukraine not ready for this? there is no feeling that it is possible to start negotiations, and zelensky should join them. but if there was some catch, some possibility to announce that compromises are possible, but there is none. i am sure that it is not by chance that this is not the case, so that in no case later they say that we, as it were , took on obligations, were ready for them implement, but could not during the negotiation. not joining nato, security conditions, language, etc., we mentioned it many times. therefore, even if russia comes

to switzerland at china's insistence and china will be an observer there, it would not change anything, especially until moscow clearly and directly declares its readiness for compromises. and will determine the direction in which compromises are possible. without this, there is no format, even initiated by china, because there were statements by the ministry of foreign affairs that they also want to hold a conference, and istanbul offers itself as such a point, but so far that no movement is visible. and if we talk, for example, about the parameters of moscow's ambitions, their key story is returning to the table of big politics, so that it is impossible by definition while the war against ukraine is going on, and so... accordingly, what would the kremlin be willing to exchange , what, so to speak, things would they be ready to go to, well, in particular, that is, they freeze, withdraw the troops, and instead some, i don't know, another big civilizational story begins, where they return russia, or not? i don't see any

compromises on the part of moscow, that it is ready, it is ready all the time to exchange everything for air, well, we will conclude an agreement on our terms and... then we will not go to kyiv or kharkiv, according to putin's memorandum of december 21 , demilitarize, demilitarize half of the nato countries that were part of may 1997, which they demanded to be defined in the treaty with washington and the nato agreement, the fifth point, i don't seem to remember anymore, and that's all, and then we won't go to the suval corridor and we will not storm moldova. first, who will moscow believe? who will believe that she keeps her obligations like a normal person? only military power creates the conditions for the implementation of such agreements. if there will be nato soldiers everywhere, then yes, there is nowhere to go. so what? this is the first.

second, these proposals are negotiable. although they were already rejected, in particular, in relation to putin's memorandum back in january 22, on the eve of the war. only based on the results of the war in ukraine, how can we now talk with moscow about a major security agreement, if the war in ukraine is not over, it is impossible until agreements are reached regarding ukraine, all other agreements are impossible, because precisely ukraine, if it is occupied, if it is surrendered by the west of the eu, will become a platform, a platform for further attacks on eastern europe, from this point of view, first... negotiations will take place here. how far do ambitions go? moscow stretches its ambitions as far as its imagination reaches. these are specific things. here we see games around transnistria and kisheniv. could there be an attack on chisinau from moscow? just as there was

an attack and aggression against ukraine, the same can happen to be in moldova. why not? next, do they want to break through the suval corridor to their enclave in the kaliningrad region? of course they want to. they state this directly, can they implement the same ambitious plans in transcaucasia? well, of course it is. president macron and his game. mark, how do you see it and how far will the french president be willing to go. as for shoigu's conversation with the french defense minister, probably, that is, i don't know for sure, what is hidden from us is not the public part. the conversation went on about the french contingent to be sent to ukraine and about him. security there, as i imagine it, they must be trying to hear an answer from russia, is it ready to provide security? for example, will they be in odesa, will it be some kind of military base, will it be fired upon by missiles? probably the conversation was about that. and publicly announced that they discussed

the consequences of the terrorist attack, the ukrainian trail and other security issues, but it seems to me that this issue is the most important now. macron is leading his game, it is very important for him to bring it to the end, because why did he then... on february 26 , he announced this and spoke about it many, many times, repeated it, called for it, conducted negotiations, public discussions, responded to moscow's claims. do you remember the phrase that we also have atomic weapons? it has to come to an end, in politics in general anyone who says something and does not implement it, at least partially, at least ritually, is a big loser. in fact, i suspect the game is on. macron's doctrine consists of at least a ritual presence in ukraine in order to be accepted for himself the main role in ending the war in ukraine. it is clearly moving away from the us because the united states is in an uncertain position in connection with the elections and a possible victory of trump in them in november. and france is taking a lot of advantage of this weakness of the political situation for the united states and

its role in europe to highlight its role to enhance it. but again, there are so many risks, dangers, and macron is not fully aware of all of them, that is, he says: "we will deploy 500 or so french legionnaires thousand". naryshkin says: up to 200 on the territory of odessa, so you won't fire rockets? moscow says: "no, we won't." fire and fire, and macron will find himself in a situation where he will have to justify the death of french soldiers. the situation shows that the kremlin does not have any internal inhibitions left, that is, some processes that they were afraid of within the russian federation, so i think that it is possible that they are now using the slaughterhouse in crocus city hall for pr purposes, well, for their own purpose, if in the event of something, certain trends will begin, well , conditionally speaking, if the mobilization... and the next phase in the russian federation does not go well, then you can twist, twist,

twist again and go at full speed along the stalinist rails, but the question is how far this system will be ready to endure this stalinist vibration? the totalitarian system moves exactly according to its pattern, repression is growing, it is obvious, and they have no other option, because repression is a part of such systems. according to the old saying. their own, so that others are afraid, that is, repression is how the machine of the ministry, some kind of industry, it has to work, it has to thresh, if it has no work, then why is it there, this whole power unit, it needs to be given a task, the task of getting rid of disloyal elements, interpreting and interpreting who is disloyal there can be very broad, but from the outside it is a war, they export war, and what else do they have to export, because then... because

how can we trust such a burden in the form of a war with our neighbors, we have the task of imperial expansion, it doesn't matter, really whether it is mythical, then the power reasonably remains eternal, as in north korea, there without militarism the regime is ideologically lame, and so there is always a threat of the usa, south korea, the destruction of the north korean republic. the experience of marxism and chuchheism, and here, of course, the system is drifting towards the final design, as a totalitarian ideology is very important for a totalitarian system, war is this ideology, militarism is an ideology. but here is a very important point, which was noted, war as an ideology, it is war in general, i don't know there with the collective anglo-saxon or not, or is it war? against ukraine: washington regional committee or kyiv? both, they consider kyiv

a branch of the washington regional committee, its subdivision. it's all together, they are fighting the west through ukraine. another thing is that ukraine has an independent interest. because ukraine, that is why such a war is impossible, for example with kazakhstan. because it is important for moscow to defeat such an alternative. slavyansk is further west. to show that the slavs cannot live except in the pan-slavic space that moscow represents. the slavs cannot the former ussr, primarily ukraine, to become part of the western, anglo-saxon world, otherwise it will demonstrate an example that without wars you can live normally, even well, take care of your own country, without having aggressive plans from the outside, because this is exactly what will happen to ukraine if it joins the eu and nato, why? where ukraine should direct aggression and why, there is no such idea. it is precisely the prevention of the possibility of integration into the west

of ukraine that ultimately this war is such a tool. and in the end, of course, against the western values ​​of the west, in general, moscow and is fighting thank you very much, mark, for this extremely interesting and informative conversation. i would like to remind our viewers that mark feigen, an activist of the russian position on emigration, a former member of the state duma, and a well-known video blogger, was currently working on espresso.

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oleg rybachuk, former head of the presidential secretariat victor, will work on the espresso tv channel. yushchenko, former vice prime minister for european integration of ukraine, and co-founder of the chesna movement. glory to ukraine, mr. oleg, congratulations, glory to the heroes. extremely serious earthquake in the office of the president, a number of leading specialists in different positions with different biographies, different history of relationships and volodymyr zelensky were removed from their posts. this case was preceded by the resignation of the secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine oleksiy danilo. well, some explanations were given in connection with the transfer to a more, so to speak , suitable position. well, how did the head of the diplomatic mission in moldova find out? well, in fact, i don’t perceive it as some kind of tsunami at all, it’s something like a light spring breeze, trofimov, well, these are the people who led

volodymyr oleksandrovich under the white hands of... became all the olympians, so when it was, it was in the era before yermakovsky, and before the yermakovsky era, it ended a long time ago, and that is why i agree with those who say, not without reason, that in fact, with these decisions, yermak, like the cuckoo that laid, that is, yermak in the form of an egg, which in due time fell to the bank street, hatched and called everyone else, here it is also important to understand that... that the heads of the president, they are of two categories there, those who believe that they simply have to ensure his work, do not get in front of the public, in front of the cameras , and to do so that the president is as good as possible a well-thought-out policy to keep him abreast of what is happening, to provide him with multi-faceted, multi-vector access to information, and there are others who believe that they are

not the first, but not the second, so those others, they always have... well, and it is very interesting , for example, i had three deputies, my successor viktor bologa already had 11 or more of them, but yermak also has a dozen of them, maybe more, and therefore, when these deputies are replaced, this means that this is definitely not zelenskyi's decision, because zelenskyi is faster, not faster after all, and i know for sure that only yermamak communicates with the president, and besides yermak , no one... especially some of his deputies, of whom there are a dozen, they have neither access nor influence. the situation with the chief is more interesting, because the chief, he, he formally, i was surprised that he still had this status, but he was called an assistant, or even the first assistant, assistant to the president, and yes, and this is what i went through, how i passed , i did this, i removed this position from viktor

yushchenko, because i had two deputies there and that was all, but this position appeared in leonid. kuchma, where the first assistant was serhii lyovochkin, who is still in ukrainian politics, and bankova knows him well, he survived, and medvedchuk, who was there, well , the personification of evil, a bad policeman, a good policeman, for example, viktor yushchenko and viktor's dear friends yushchenko communicated with president kuchma through lyovachkin, and this was done for balances, it is obvious that sefir, when he came, as one of the largest... president, he did not take this function in order to somehow balance there with bohdan or with something else , and most likely zelensky trusted him the most as a friend, and therefore such issues as contacts with oligarchs. there he talks about everyone, that is, some very sensitive, intimate issues for president zelenskyi, intimate in quotes, were resolved by the shefir, but the shefir

left after that attempt, about which they probably already forgot about him, and in fact, i think this could have been the solution not yermaka, but this should have been a mutual decision of shefir and zelenskyi, because this function simply disappeared in the war, but all these personnel changes, i am sure, they initiated and it is controlled by yermak, and this is a very harmful construction for president zelenskyi, because he remains in yermak’s monopoly, as it was and remains, from the point of view of who he meets, what information he receives, who can have access to him , zelenskyi, and by the way, this also explains the situation with the secretary of the national security council, because in the constitution of ukraine, the national security council is the body, the only body, that is mentioned in the presidential institution. because there is no office, secretariat, or administration there of the president, nothing is said about it there, and the national security council is really the body that the president, the president who

believes in a collegial decision, who wants to make policy, hear all the arguments there, this is the body that allows the president to gather on the highest level of government members, politicians and anyone, really, whom the president considers important and influential, and therefore you... presidents who are prone to collegial decisions, and we had very few of them, they could use the national security council. the best national security council was constructed then volodymyr horbulin, and i worked with him, i tried to return that format of the council, but it is important to understand that the decisions of the national security council come into effect by the decree of the president of ukraine, and if egos begin to be measured there, the head of the secretariat or the head of the presidential administration and the secretary of the national security council , the secretary of the national security council always loses, because there were a number of examples when even some decisions were formally approved at the security council, and

this is such a big round table, there are many people who speak, someone keeps minutes, well, somewhere there something is like in the verkhovna rada is being written, but the final document is issued by the president's office, the president's office, the president's administration, and therefore at some point, probably danilov with... this appeared, because danilov went a little into independent, not a little, he is so serious, into independent swimming , he was no longer interested there, he started working as a newsmaker, and it was only a matter of time, and it is obvious that on this, on this basis, he had problems with ermak, because danilov, most likely, for the last six months , did not coordinate his public statements there and could be another source of influence on the president, who yermak didn't like, i think that this... and besides, danilov himself was just there, he was tired of being there, it was obvious. mr. oleg, i would like to ask you, that is, the departure of the chief, the departure of trofimov, this means that

the presidential communication with various, so to speak, certain directions will be somewhat narrowed, yes, well, because the chief is also a private direction, trofimov he was responsible for that other regional policy, right? if yermak has, i don't know, i think there are 10 or how many deputies. well, that means none of these deputies, i insist on this, it really does not affect anything there, he cannot go to a one -on-one meeting with the president and convey his point of view to the president, the fair stands firmly there, that is, the structure of the office, where there are a dozen or more deputies, she says that the head of this service does not delegate anything to anyone, it's just like that, it's such a labyrinth. you know, a variety of different positions, people are responsible for something, but they submit all documents and all proposals to the head of the office, and he , if he deems it necessary, can

to give access to the body only in your presence, or to support this or that idea, because if you delegate, well, there must be one or two deputies, and these deputies must really work, you must meet daily, as we did with all the leaders subdivisions and discuss... the agenda, this is definitely not the case at the bank now, and that is why i share the point of view of those people who say that this is actually a strengthening or such a reservation of the monopoly of the head of yermak's office on access to the president, well, there is nothing new here , we already had such, we had one tabachnyk, we had medvedchuk there, they all ended badly in the end, and those people and those presidents around whom such a monopoly was created, because this monopoly can be called and... you can call it a bubble, you can call it a bunker, when you really you lose touch with the outside world and when the president delegates too much to you, and the opportunity

to check the quality. your analytics or, there is no one who can act as an alternative to some, well, i don't know, critics or offer some other options, and therefore this this this this it's a pernicious formula, well, look at putin's degradation, we have a long way to go, any president who freezes or ferments in the same environment, in the same city, he inevitably degrades intellectually, politically, or starts... make, so to speak, certain transformations, well, in particular, we remember, there was bohdan, there is no bohdan, and so on, there may be some kind of wider front, i don't know, changes, maybe consolidation, yes, we have a pond, we there is an office, we have a council of national security and defense , and maybe there will be some, i don't know, synergy, the second point that worries me is the feeling that in our country, a key body,

the verkhovna rada in... parliament, and at the same time we understand that there is a decrease in trust in the president as well, that is, during a war, a decrease in trust is not good, it is a certain danger, and we remember very well how important functions the parliament has always been able to perform. our viewers or listeners, many of them will not agree, because they don't like us. deputies, they call them, the audience calls them whatever they want, because to the deputies, we haven't seen any broadcast of the meeting of the president's office there, that's right, and we don't know much there about how the government works, maybe they'll show a couple of minutes of the opening of the booth there , the prime minister will say something, but on the other hand, we see a lot of stories, because the deputies have their own telegram channels, they conduct their own communications, there are just some public scandals, a lot of attention, and this attention is mostly not

not... positive for the parliament, although i confirm that the entire turbulent history of ukraine in the most tumultuous times, when it seemed that now our ship ukraine will simply crash on the reefs, it was the parliament that acted as the navigator who led between these reefs, i recently met an mp i know there, and the main question, i say, is the most depressing thing for you there, he says that it is impossible for you to actually go abroad. everything sounds very humiliating, a lot of deputies are real for the implementation of their projects, very, i will not describe this one project, but the project is absolutely normal, a person works for him, the project works for ukraine, he needs to do it somewhere in the baltics or somewhere in warsaw, and then go to brussels somewhere, and he says that it is very humiliating, in six months you have to stand in line with the speaker there, explain, and you will be released, if you go to

a conditional meeting there in warsaw, and then you go to brussels, then you will have to explain the reports there, because it is monitored by the border guards, that is, this factor, about which already said, he appears to many unconscious deputies, because what do you influence then, well, you obviously do not influence the government, because the president's office already does it all there, you are not the one, there is no broadcast, you cannot have any informational influence there, because the marathon there has a clear list of who to invite and who not to, and as a result, many deputies simply... do not see any sense in the fact that they are deputies, well, those who came to earn money cannot earn, because there are without them who to earn, they were simply wiped off, you can earn only if you give the lion's share to the main center of power there, and this is not the parliament, this is the president's office, that is, you have some schemes to interfere, this is also, this is also an amateur, and if you want to change something in the country, then you understand very well, that you are nobody and your name is nothing, and the meeting with... zelenskyi

with the deputies, and this has already been confirmed by many people, it was the president's monologue, and the deputies could not insert their 5 kopecks there, that is, the obvious crisis is such an internal one, and plus they are not see their future, usually, if you are a deputy, well every politician wants to see his political future, well , not everyone, but many who want to see their political future, they do not see it here, they definitely understand that most of them will not get into any lists there, what will happen with the elections there is unknown, one in a word, they are demoralized on... they have no influence, they have no influence on the voters, well, they either have to do everything they are told, or crawl there on their knees, but the question is, well, on the one hand, the parliament does not make some, i don't know, serious competitive center, yes, on the other hand, it was an insurance center that could sometimes carry out missions.