but the absence of any missile strikes or drone strikes, of course the enemy continues to constantly attack with guided aerial bombs, in particular the frontline cities, but we see now the absence of shaheeds mostly in the air space and more emphasis on ballistic weapons and on guided aerial missiles of the x-type 59, which the enemy is actively trying to use its aircraft, it is also interesting that now the enemy is very actively using unmanned aerial vehicles, reconnaissance, er, it is most likely that he adjusts its missile strikes, in this way, quite often we manage to see a large number, in particular in the south, near kherson, in zaporozhye and near kharkiv, we almost all the time fix these unmanned aerial vehicles, the enemy also uses, well, not the a50 drlo, but su-24 mr, which he so... uses for reconnaissance, they quite

often appear near the borders in the airspace of the russian federation, but their main activity is also aimed at detecting our air defense systems, and he also collects other information, in including about ours military. and of course, from what we have seen, these are completely cynical strikes on odesa, with iskander m ballistic weapons with a cluster warhead, as a result of which people died and... there were people, ordinary odesas, who went out just to walk in their native odesa in the evening, well, of course , that this is a violation of all norms and conventions, and this should have consequences in the international court, in particular, in gas for putin and the russian federation. mr. major, you said that now the russians use drones less and strike with missiles, well, in particular, ballistic missiles, this means the russians are stockpiling these weapons, meaning drone strikes.

drones and missiles, i.e. what should the ukrainians, i.e. the russians, obviously prepare for, with the beginning of the big offensive, the next big offensive, which the president of ukraine zelenskyi announced today, will obviously increase the shelling, including cities with millions of people and critical infrastructure facilities, that is, the absence of these drones indicates exactly this, well , unfortunately, we cannot know for sure, since intelligence knows more about it, but of course that you can just think logically, so what could this be connected with, it is most likely that it is the accumulation in a certain way of its striking means of various types, we know how russia attaches itself to various dates and quite often it likes to spoil the holiday, i.e. now we have easter, then the next sacred date is may 9, for the enemy, it is the feast of the devil. and of course that on this

day they will also try to make their own internal audience a picture of how they are fighting mythical nazism in ukraine, yes, how they de-nazify high-rise buildings, ordinary absolutely civilians with peaceful people, well, of course, he has such an unhealthy mania for bloodthirstiness, which the enemy has repeatedly used, well, including, we cannot know, for sure, what exactly was the reason for the absence of such shahed... strikes, maybe it's some deterioration of relations together with its allies, yes, or maybe some problems in the production of these shaheed, because we remember, there have been strikes before where the production of these unmanned aerial vehicles was, of course, that the russian propaganda constantly reports that all the drones were shot down, that nothing was damaged, but as we can see, quite often they shoot down these drones their stations, oil storage facilities or... well, some other military facilities,

so we can't to know why there is such a lull in the use of drones right now, but we must not lose our vigilance and be ready at any moment to work on any aviation targets. mr. major, you have already mentioned the strike by iskanders with a cassette cassette iskander on odessa, on the first of may, the new york times writes that this may be a sign of a new terror. against civilians in ukraine, and the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kostin commented on the russian strike on odesa as follows: this is an indiscriminate weapon, the use of which can lead to significant casualties among the civilian population, metal fragments and missile fragments were recovered within a radius of 1.5 km from the site of the attack. the investigation has reason to believe that the decision to use such a weapon was made by officers of the armed forces of russia, deliberately. as many peaceful ukrainians as possible, that is

the purpose of these strikes with cluster iskanders is, after all, the killing of ukrainians, and not. hitting the palace of the serhiy kivalov law academy in odesa, that is, they are deliberately just hitting civilians so that more people die in odesa and that people are afraid or run away from odesa, what is their goal , that is, that everyone packs their bags and fled from odessa? that's right, the main task of the enemy is to make life in million-strong cities unbearable, to force people to obey, of course, which is destabilization of the social environment. inside our country, since they understand that they are powerless now directly on the front line, so they are trying to put pressure on the rear of our cities, on people, and to destabilize the social and political situation, to force people to go to some rallies, so

of course that this the scenario can be seen quite strongly in the informational and psychological operations that the kremlin is currently launching, and it , of course, that... allows to destabilize our situation internally, in particular with such absolutely cynical strikes, well, of course, when the enemy strikes in the evening, even when it is still light, on the city of millionaire, even on the embankment, with cluster munitions, of course, this is aimed at maximum damage to people, yes, if there are concentrated inside these small cluster bombs, well, literally thousands of these shock elements, shrapnel. yes, which flies away with insane speed and pierces everything in its path, if it easily pierces metal, quite serious sheets, yes, then what can be said about ordinary people who do not have any protection, of course, that this is an act of terror, an act of genocide of the ukrainian

people, and, of course, that this is absolutely a war crime, which, unfortunately, is not the first time that russia has demonstrated during this unjustified russian-ukrainian war, president zelenskyi in... on social networks reported the statistics of how many over the past month, russia has used drone missiles, according to the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, in april alone, russian terrorists used more than 3,300 missiles of various types, almost 300 missiles, more than 3200 guided aerial bombs against ukraine, thousands of lives of our people were saved thanks to the help. leaders and countries who have already supported our air shield, who are already effectively putting pressure on the russian war machine with sanctions, but unfortunately many lives have been taken by these strikes, only force can stop this terror, well, here are the statistics, they are actually quite impressive

... that is the limit beyond which they will say, well , we are running out of everything, we have already released all our ammunition, all our stocks all over ukraine, how, how do you estimate, to what extent russia has enough potential to renew these here are stocks, because it is clear that if they released 3,200 cabs in one month, then obviously they need to be produced for the next month, for may, that is , as far as you can see. the trend between how much they shoot and how much they produce, how much goes to them. well, on unfortunately, of course, the russian federation still has a fairly powerful reserve of these high-explosive aerial bombs, which they convert into cabs, and in the mpb, unified interspecies

planning bombs, in particular, which they use in kharkov and in the front-line territories, unfortunately, they have enough there is a lot of this iron left and... and the problem is that they can make them including, yes some of them are missiles, let's say, and other means of air attack, they borrow or supply from their partners, yes, this is north korea, we know that too iran, from where they also take drones, directly shahet, yes, which they allegedly made their geraniums, yes, and of course they still have this potential, how difficult it is. to say, since this is what our intelligence is dealing with, but what they are aiming for, and these numbers, which are only for april, well, these are very large indicators that not only we have to face, but also ordinary ukrainians who are on alas, under these bombs, therefore, in order to

effectively fight the threat from the air, well, the most necessary and most effective, it will be a fight against carriers, because with... of course, with so many bombs, well, literally, if we all start shooting down, we will run out of missiles very, very quickly, which are already in short supply, so the best the way out of the situation is immediate. to develop our air defense, we very much rely on our partners, allies, who are aware of our need, they know that we have what we have on hand, how much we need, and of course that in this regard we fully rely on them, since we have , we do not independently manufacture either missiles or installations, and these air defense systems, together with the f-16s, would allow us to create a certain system, yes, which would allow us to deter and suppress, yes ... the russian tactical aviation, which is the carrier of these means of air attack,

and would somewhat reduce the burden on our front-line cities, but in addition, we must not forget that they still have a lot of s-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, which they literally use simply as long-range artillery, and we know that it is quite powerful modified ppo complexes, which they use as ground-to-ground, already instead of ground-to-air, so in reality there are a lot of problems. but it is necessary to fight with non-standard methods, it is necessary to fight with carriers, and for this we need creativity, a non-standard approach and the support of our partners. another short topic, mr. major, is the closing of the sky over the western regions of ukraine. former minister of defense of poland janusz oneszkiewicz said in a comment to ukrinform that poland and nato countries can open a protective umbrella over western ukraine, according to him, needs to overcome the resistance of nato partners for this, but such decisions can be made in the summer.

now it is possible and necessary to do so that missiles that can violate the airspace of poland can be shot down by the polish air defense system from the territory of our country. however , this will require the polish side to have full situational awareness of ukraine's airspace, that is , information from ukrainian radars and other means, which the polish side does not have today. mr. major, well, they see the poles. in particular, they see these missiles flying towards western ukraine and track them, because their planes in the sky monitor this situation, that is why janusz onyshkiewicz says in your way that they need more information, but they, as i understand it, are in complete control of the situation during the shelling of ukraine? well, of course, we exchange information with our partner countries, allies who join in supporting our state in the struggle. with russian aggression, of course we provide the necessary data for our colleagues, why him

answered exactly like that, this is already a question directly to the polish high-ranking official, but of course this help, it would be able to make it easier for us to breathe, we could more freely move the systems that are currently located in the west of our country, cover the frontline cities, other energy-critical objects, yes, which need... this protection, technically it could be done, and we saw that the poles yes, they have various systems, medium, long range, action, yes, which could cover our airspace, well, but that the question is more, we have certain problems with communication, it was ilya yevlash, the spokesman of the air forces of the armed forces. country, unfortunately, we have lost contact with our spokesperson now,

well, i hope that we will restore it, there is time, let me remind you that just a few days ago, ilya yevlash stated that the f-16 could arrive in ukraine after easter, true he did not specify when exactly, after easter, well, not the next day, in short, we are waiting for the inclusion of ilya yevlash, if... there is an inclusion, we will of course ask him about it, but in the meantime, i want to remind you that we are conducting survey and we are asking you, friends, about such a thing today, is artificial intelligence needed in government communications, yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, you vote either with the yes or no button, or write your comment under this video, well, if you watch us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote if you think artificial intelligence is needed in government communications from ukraine. yes 0800-211-381 no 0800-211-382 all

calls to these numbers are free, vote, and we have not restored contact with ilya yevlash, so we thank him for participation in the program, we are in touch with oleg rybachuk, head of the center for joint actions, former prime minister, vice prime minister for european integration and former chief president. yushchenko's office, mr. olezh, i welcome you, thank you for being with us today, congratulations, i am glad to be in this studio again. thank you, mr. oleg, let's start with... david cameron, who yesterday visited kyiv and announced that his country had given ukraine permission to strike british weapons on russian territory, and also promised to continue annual military aid ukraine. let's listen to what the head of the british foreign ministry said while in the ukrainian capital. russia attacked ukraine, and ukraine

has every right to... strike back, since russia is striking ukraine, you can understand why ukraine feels the need to make sure it can defend itself. we will provide £3 billion every year, as much as is needed. we just exhausted everything we could in terms of providing equipment, some of it is actually arriving in ukraine today while i i am here so, mr. oleg, does this mean that there is already a consensus between the western...partners that their weapons will fly towards the russian federation, there is, but not with all western partners, but the number of such countries is growing, and these are not the last countries on the european continent. i just read today, watched the news several times that great britain

offers to sign an agreement with ukraine for 100 years, for 100. on cooperation in all important types of state activities, and this means that putin is receiving a very clear signal, and this more and more influential countries are repeating the signal that you don't care about putin, ukraine is not yours and will not be yours, and therefore there is simply no chance for ukraine to win, because when the west is rallying, russia simply does not have enough, i saw in the news that you have... running , that the russians cannot take now without the fact that the entire west is connected to a single large ukrainian city, and they have not captured a single large ukrainian city, so talking about the country is simply a dream of a bunker dwarf, and the world speaks very clearly about this, mr. olezh , but

you are talking about this hundred-year agreement, this agreement will be called the hundred-year partnership, or about the hundred-year... partnership, that's what david cameron said, but we know that great britain was also a participant in the budapest memorandum, there they were, well, they were guarantors, and here the question is that if after 30 years, or after 20 from 2014, they were not able to bring russia to its senses, which was also the guarantor of this budapest memorandum, where is the guarantee that in the next 100 years great britain will be ... . to live and help ukraine, of course there is more symbolism here, but symbolism that is important for ukraine, as well as, among other things, in the position of macron and france, that is, these european countries are beginning to push back the horizon of the future, to plan the horizon of the future, in which ukraine is definitely present, well, it is obvious that

you and i are planning something different 100 years, we cannot think of a year, but when there is a political... ativities in the world that want to model the possibility of partnership for many, many years, then great britain, it has a certain tradition there, already a monarchical tradition, and in them foreign office, the ministries of foreign economy, foreign relations, this is not our mykhailivska, there no one supervises them from the royal palace, there they are very independent, very experienced, based on centuries-old history, and such... they are important for us, and for us especially it is important that there is no question that ukraine will be left out of the spotlight, it is obvious that putin is trying to somehow separate this alliance, this union as much as possible, he is trying to convince the world that why don't you waste all your energy, why do you need this ukraine waste weapons if it cannot win the war, but such

initiatives send a completely different signal that ukraine will be disarmed. and will have allies, but one more thing, that moment you talked about, after the second world war, the west, well, he really imagined that everything, the worst times were over, there would be no more wars, there would be no more wars on the european continent will be, as they say, figuratively, the west lived on dividends after the victory in the second world war, and then again after the victory in the cold war, but now a difficult time has come consciously the realization, and macron speaks about it frankly, the realization that europe, which seemed simply to live and bathe in this peaceful world indefinitely, it can... be destroyed, there is a real threat of military destruction like in ukraine, and therefore, they came to the conclusion that it is better to stop russia in ukraine, and not

try to give putin the opportunity to go further, and this is very felt, here is what cameron said, he is not the only one who says that some countries do not object to the measures, in order to ukraine used their weapons on the territory of russia. the newly appointed minister of foreign affairs of latvia, baiba braja, also stated this in an interview with european pravda, she said the following. let's listen. but there are already countries that have already provided weapons to ukraine without such restrictions? indeed? absolutely. of course, not everything is announced publicly, and it is even better not to say it out loud until a certain time. the main thing is influence on the battlefield, because here there is a choice whether to speak about something. or just doing what needs to be done? putin's press secretary piskov said that the kremlin is worried and consider

the latest statements of the french president and the head of the british foreign ministry regarding the possible presence of western troops in ukraine and british strikes on the territory of the russian federation as dangerous and inciting tensions. mr. oleg, what do you think, well, the kremlin is afraid that the british stormshadow missiles will fly or those of other countries will fly towards moscow, towards other russian cities or military facilities located near these cities, do they still hope that for due to the fact that they have nuclear weapons, they can threaten and say that now the time of judgment has come, as medvedev said, and now we will strike at the western capitals. but macron responded very clearly to this threat, he said that he has nuclear weapons and the most modern, much more effective than russia's, and not only that, france took

the initiative to make such a nuclear umbrella for the whole of europe, if you remember that poland appealed to the united states with a proposal to place nuclear weapons on their territory, then we see that in response to these... endless rattling of nuclear weapons, finally, they are beginning to say in the west that nuclear weapons are a double-edged sword, that is , it is sharpened on both sides, and if it was not before listen, now it is becoming a reality, because nuclear weapons were not invented at all in order to threaten and attack with them, they were used so that those countries that have nuclear weapons... could defend themselves, that is, they are weapons that are not for attack, but for defense, and putin first began to use it as a threat attack, and it receives an appropriate reaction,

because in reality there is little to be achieved with tactical nuclear strikes, what russia, for example, does to ukrainian towns like bakhmut or avdiyivka, or some other places, where they simply completely destroy the city , well, it's the same as was there in cherasim. after nuclear weapons, that is , the destruction is the same, but when the west started talking about the fact, and it should have been done earlier, that nuclear weapons are not only in russia, then to your question, are they afraid, i am sure that they are afraid, they are most afraid that which the west will stop being afraid of them, mr. oleg, it is clear that in the current situation, when both macron is talking about nuclear weapons and putin is talking about nuclear weapons, everyone is waiting for what xijin pin will say about... nuclear weapons, because xijin pin must come to paris is celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between china and france, and it will happen in may, but we

see how both macron and scholz and blinken are trying to convince the leader of china to support civilization, the civilized world and ukraine, and the same kirby , adviser to the white house. says that so far they do not see what china is ready to support the ukrainian peace formula and participate in the peace summit in switzerland, kirbyk says: "we would welcome the participation of china or any other country that would like to join, that takes into account and respects the 10-point plan of president zelensky. but i was i wouldn't be right if i said that we really see china moving in this direction, we haven't seen it. in your opinion, mr. oleg, this is china's participation, even if china will, conditionally speaking, advance its forces there again. 12 points that they formulated in

february 23, and they believed that these are some of their peace initiatives, if, if they will not even promote this position, how much the very presence of the representative of china at this global peace summit, which will be held on june 16-17 in switzerland, how much will add status to this forum, and is it being said that the presence of china will in a certain way give a signal to the countries of the global south there, which tradition... beijing has influence? well, this, it will, this intrigue will last until the last moment, but it was inherent in china after all, to be present at this forum, not at the highest level, because we have already heard that china is making its anti-maidan, china wants to make its forum with the participation of all parties, where russia will be, and for some reason ukraine will be there, maybe medvedchuk will

represent ukraine. because the best relations with china were during the presidency of yanukovych, yanukovych spent three days there and the most contracts were signed, this indicates what kind of politics and politicians are interested in china and with whom china would be ready to be friends, so here we do not have there should be no doubt that china will be a supporter to the last that the countries it goes to are conditionally in... russia, china, north korea, iran are evil there, these are autocratic, not even simple, but dictatorial countries, well, on the level of terrorist countries, so that they set the tone in the world, china will try to do as much as possible to change the current world order, dominated by the united states, the european union, but it is also very characteristic of china to never burn bridges, china, xijin ping now

will do not he at all, china believes that in general, there is china in the world and there is the united states, well, they remember, he said that the world is enough for two countries, for two, for three, there is no room for russia, and that is why china wants to somehow stir up relations, for even the european union is a kind of vassal of the united states, and they meet with france, because france has some anti-americanism there. mood, it has such a special position, and china wants it, and plus macron was there in china, they met there for three days, economic contracts, china is just looking for options where it can influence events in the world is much more serious, and that is why it is building these relations, but i repeat, it is very natural for china not to be on the side of ukraine, not to wish for the victory of ukraine, because the victory

of ukraine is a victory for the west. world, this is a victory for nato, this is a victory for the united states, and china would like the united states, and nato, and the europeans to be defeated. mr. olezh, you, as a person who knew very well how this kremlin machine functions and how it is actually there, this machine coexists with each other, in which many operators sit, or people who believe that they are leading russia forward there. what do you... can you say about the information of the american institute for the study of war, which believes that putin can punish shuigu for not fulfilling the kremlin's military goals, and this is the conclusion drawn by experts from the meeting of the president of the russian federation with the governor of the tutsk region, oleksiy dyumin, who is connected to the pmk wagner. according to analysts, this may indicate putin's desire to reduce shaig's power and balance him with his competitors. well, we know that he was detained just a few days ago.

deputy minister of defense of the russian federation timur ivanov on suspicion of receiving a bribe, part six of article 290 of the criminal code, and in general, timur ivanov is a billionaire in russia, who obviously worked in the interests of sheygu as well. in the current configuration, how important is shaigu for putin and can we hope that these showdowns between. various towers of the kremlin may lead to the fact that the power in russia weakens, and accordingly, it will give some chance to ukraine during the war. well, in terms of chance during war, it is more difficult to say, but about the inevitability of such steps, uh, i'm in it...