on the fact that it causes significant damage to the russian economy and leads to large losses of russian troops, which according to some estimates reach 315 thousand people. he could end the war at any moment by withdrawing the troops, instead of continuing to carry out brutal attacks on the ukrainian people every day. roman petrovich, it would seem that he is in a russian gang, because it is a gang, and it lives by the rules. it doesn't matter who holds what position there, because in principle there is some kind of core there, an aggressive core that is waging war against ukraine, shoigu moved to the secretary's chair to the security council, patrushev became just putin's assistant, the new minister of defense is andrii bilousov, who was once an economist and now a member of the ministry of defense, and yet, considering what ... putin is doing now,

or is he really, firstly, he has the ability to wage a long-term war, and secondly, whether this entire team of his is capable of any changes and of strengthening the positions of russia not only in ukraine, on the world stage, because that is what it is actually about, mr. serhiy, this is this thesis, which sounds now from all irons that the changes in... are directed to wage a long-term war, i have the impression that it is said on purpose and only for ukraine, the fact is that the conditions of how much russia will be able to wage a war do not depend on russia, they depend on the level of aid to ukraine, the implementation sanctions, control over the implementation of sanctions. the elimination

of those holes in the sanctions policy, the continuation of sanctions, aid to ukraine, the volume of aid, and so on, compliance with the plans already written, on the tactical instruments already drawn up, and so on, this is what depends on the possibility of the kremlin and the führer of moscow as much or as much to wage war, the fact is... why did these changes take place, the appearance is not the same, the shoig's displacement is a failure by him of the quartermaster function that the ministry of defense was supposed to perform. everyone knows very well that there are quite a few directions that have failed, first of all, it is unmanned aviation, then the entire missile complex, which is barely scraping by to mock ukraine, i am not talking about armored vehicles and so on,

well can't you see that in the theater of war more and more equipment is appearing, which for 20-30 years it was simply on the scrap metal, so this proves that bilousov was not appointed, but removed, what a failure he is, now why is he in such a form, well , where did you see, where did we all see, that the clique of his band , of your gang... as you rightly say, people were thrown out of the garbage, they will be spun in this drum, transplanted from one place to another, well, let's think about it, the secretary of the national security and defense council patrushev becomes an assistant, what does this mean, does the minister become the secretary of the security council, about what it says and about what they are like they were circling in three, and they are circling, but they have already deflated, they just don't have one or the other. there is no potential to fulfill this

function, because the minister has to run, especially with the functionality that exists in totalitarian russia, you are so clear about these changes, now whether andrey bilousov is saving the situation, no matter what initiatives are attributed to him, in general, i am surprised that today the thesis appeared in the world that russia is capable today in that swamp of moscow... to implement such a large-scale thing as self-sufficiency in everything. the point is that there is only one modern principle of development: if you want to develop, be open. given the amount of sanctions and the increasing control over these sanctions, russia will not be able to compete with the leading countries, especially with such a format as rammstein. if everyone learns. the members of this club will

fulfill, including obligations to help ukraine, including the policies of the european union, the united states, sanctions and so on. therefore, it seems to me, i am convinced of this, that too much attention is paid to this permutation, well, what there may be a change in the situation in the gang, in the clique, they coo among themselves like pigeons, set each other up, as always in such a totalitarian gang, they will destroy each other and finish each other, thanks to the fact that they do not have decision. how to get out of the trap that they have created for themselves, as gangs, and for 140 million russians, so from my point of view, now we should talk about how to increase pressure, how to implement

sanctions, how to clean up from the environment and the führer, and especially his international allies, those countries that allow you to circumvent... sanctions, from here we need to increase the pressure on china, increase the pressure on brazil, actually what we have under the name of brics on south africa, because it is through them, through their loopholes , that additional dual- purpose products get in there, i'm not talking about moscow's partners like the saudis, the emirates, and so on, where additional diplomatic efforts are needed to block these channels. roman petrovych, last week sijin pin was on a european tour, for the first time in 5 years he traveled through several countries, france, hungary, he visited serbia,

he did not visit brussels, and he did not visit london , and he did not visit berlin either, these were also certain signs. xinpingya about his visits, about the attitude towards our western partners, because he was in serbia, in serbia there, he tried to complain about what happened a long time ago, and there a missile hit the chinese embassy, ​​they say, you see such a north atlantic alliance, but 16- on may 17 , putin goes on his first visit abroad after the so-called... the so-called president, and it is obvious that sidzhen pil will bring, or has already brought putin a message from macron, because sidzinpil has met with macron. what do you think, after putin's visit to beijing,

will the master of the kremlin receive any specific signals from our western partners, because that's exactly what i think. western diplomacy to influence putin? well, firstly, it will be so, because at the commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between paris and beijing, in his speech in the central part of it, president macron said that we exhibited parameters and we look forward to working with you further. continuation of their implementation after your conversations , i will now say almost verbatim what was broadcast in paris, and the french president hinted at the 15th, well at that time the date of the visit of the moscow führer to pokin

was meant as the 15th, now it has been postponed to the 16th, well then it doesn't matter so much, from my point of view, while already in belgrade, sydzenpin... ruled the news, because it was felt by the rhetoric from russia, but what does the situation concern? the first is china's fulfillment of the sanctions conditions, and from here the relationship between paris and peking will also be determined, but one addition should be made here: xijin ping did not want to go to brussels, but. came to xi jinping in paris and the three-way conversation between ursula fondelein president macron and xi jinping was very heated, very emotional, and it continued in the corridors of the elysee

palace, and it was noticed by journalists how red and angry xi jinping was. it is obvious that the inherent style of ursula. , where she was able to press and show all the violations that beijing allowed, supplying to moscow double technologies, financing the military-industrial complex. russia, and in principle, both macron and ursula fonderlein focused on the fact that the relationship between beijing and the liquid european market will depend on the extent to which beijing will comply with further sanctions. please note that at this time, including in washington , the issue of preparing a sanctions package in relation to china is defined. from my point of view, on the 16th and 17th, all this will be announced in detail to the moscow führer, and the situation

now looks like china has nowhere to go, it must to narrow the kremlin's support, or another option, to go with another option, is to formalize relations between moscow, beijing and tehran, in such a situation and russia, and china, and tehran. and iran will be completely blocked and isolated by both europe and the united states of america. from my point of view , this option can be considered, but no, it is the main one. today , xidzenpin will not risk the liquid european market and american investments. and this means that he will have a very difficult conversation with the moscow führer. but... roman petrovich, i understand that the european market is quite important for sijin ping, because i

looked only in germany, the trade between germany and china amounted to 253 billion dollars last year, and he has a lot to lose, because if the united states presses on xi america and germany, then china... there will be no transfers, given the problems that china already has, and it has to choose here, or remain on the side of russia and occupy this so-called peacekeeping mission that they invented on february 24, 23 -th year, this is some kind of incomprehensible plan peace, although this is not a peace plan, it is just beijing's position there, well, it looks like this, that is, now i understand european politicians. they ask ruba's question in front of sydzinpin, are you with us or are you with putin? well, the situation looks even

much worse for beijing, because already at the social level, american, excuse me, chinese goods began to be pushed out of europe, and it simply reached such a household rejection of chinese goods in europe, hence the two leaders during the meeting in the lyceum palace . made it clear siddharth, that it is not only about some projects with serbia or hungary, because hungary is still a member of the european union, all those drawn up plans, including during the visit of the german chancellor to beijing, three visits of the prime ministers of european states already in the new year only to china, they will never be implemented, if china continues to show such initiative in helping russia, then it is obvious that there is

something to think about, because indeed the european market is the most liquid, it is the most profitable for china, all the more so since today european states account for approximately 3/4 of china's investments in europe. if you measure these volumes of investments, and in fact both leaders of xi jinping said: either we balance the economy, that is, we come to some kind of understanding, or we interrupt these contracts, moreover, ah, europe has set very serious demands on beijing for the implementation of sanctions , which china violates in trade with russia, and this... it was said absolutely frankly that europe does not claim to control the circulation of raw materials there, which

concerns russia's exports to china, but europe will not allow china to continue exporting to russia dual technologies, and machine tools, machines, which are then produced weapons, armaments and ammunition for the russian army. today, to roman petrovich, the assistant... for international affairs yuriy ushakov said that china refused to participate in the global peace summit in switzerland. we appreciate the wise and balanced position of our chinese partners regarding china's non-involvement. in the international conference according to ushak, and therefore beijing itself emphasizes the understanding of the counterproductiveness and senselessness of discussions on the ukrainian issue without the participation of russia. if this is true, china will not participate in the global peace summit, what will this mean? this will mean that up to one and a half

dozen states of the so-called global south will not be present at the peace summit. well, we could call these states without that, because they are closed in this triangle, beijing, moscow, tehran, so it is obvious that it actually depends on how beijing behaves, whether they will be present, but here a very interesting thing is that ushakov is announcing a decision to beijing, i would not fully trust the moscow liars in... in announcing this position, because i want to remind you that including during the meeting in paris, xi jinping and president macron agreed on additional consultations regarding the possibility of the participation of either sydney or the delegation of china in the work

of this forum, and the question remained open, there was no form on it. but the answers, except that from, speaking in response, tsydzenpin said that today the envoy from issues of eurasia, li huipe carries out shuttle diplomacy, that is, what did this phrase mean, it is possible to assume that whether or not lihui will participate in the work of the global peace summit, there is not much time left for the global summit month. peace will take place in switzerland, we will follow what xijin pin, or official beijing, will say after the visit or during putin's visit to china. thank you roman petrovych for the conversation, it was roman bezsmertny, a politician, a diplomat, a person who knows about ukrainian and not only ukrainian politics, practically everything. friends, we work live on the tv channel, as well as on our

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conversation with the situation that is developing in the kharkiv region, in the kharkiv direction. as the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense kyrylo budanov says, the armed forces ukrainian forces will be able to stabilize the front in kharkiv oblast over the next few days, while he expects the russian federation to launch a new offensive further north of kharkiv in sumy oblast. at the same time , the state department of the united states of america predicts that the russian occupation forces, which are currently trying to advance in the kharkiv region, will not be able to achieve serious success in this area. listen. what the state department of the united states of america thinks. russia continues its aggression, and we expect that russia will try to move forward in the kharkiv direction. and it is possible that russia will make further gains in the coming weeks, but we do not expect any major breakthroughs, and over time , additional inflows of american aid and

continued support from partners will enable ukraine to continue to resist. mr. general, how do you assess today's situation in the direction of kharkiv, and is there a possible scenario, as general bodanov says, that this offensive on vovchansk, well, in the direction of kharkiv in general, is a diversionary maneuver, in fact can russians enter the sumy region? it is difficult to call it distracting, because there are high-intensity battles on two fronts. to the north of kharkiv in the direction of the settlement of liptsi and to the north-east , this is directly the vavchanskyi village on... around it, well west of vovchansk, the fighting is intense, the enemy is using dill infantry and armored vehicles, er, they have

already entered directly in vivchansk, vovchansk is fighting in the city, reserves are being used on our side, armored vehicles and the leadership in this direction have arrived, operational. the tactical group is trying to stabilize the situation, that is, to stop the advance, inflict damage with the means that are available, and it increases the capabilities of these means from the point of view of striking, for this purpose additional ammunition is added, as well as reserves for military service forces, in fact, in connection with this is not excluded. as far as we remember, a couple of weeks ago, general skibitskyi's representative gur had a statement regarding the fact that there are plans and our and foreign intelligence knows about the fact that there are plans

for enemy actions in kharkiv and sumy directions, from kharkiv with the kharkiv direction, we see how it is happening, we have made, we hope, conclusions regarding actions and preparations. and now there is a corresponding strengthening of the potential of the defense system in the direction of sumy. mr. general, analysts of the institute for the study of war in the united states of america say that russian troops in the kharkiv region seem to prioritize the rapid creation of a buffer zone along the border, rather than a deeper penetration into the northern part of the region. do you agree with this statement? is it statement is not true? well, three options are being considered: the enemy’s biggest plan regarding capturing or conducting

combat operations directly in kharkov, it involves somewhere from 150,000 groups, which the enemy does not have, so it is not appropriate to talk about it at the moment, but what happening now in the north, in the north-eastern direction of kharkiv region, everything was initially considered according to the forces, and it was several battalions in both directions, and armored vehicles, that is, this is a kind of reconnaissance by combat, but the enemy reinforces his actions in these directions with reserves, and therefore it is already the second, the first option, it is reconnaissance by combat, and now the second option is being considered... regarding the formation by the enemy of the so -called border strip, what putin at the time called a sanitary zone, maybe they are

in this direction 75 km they are building and completing the airfield, that is, they are thoroughly preparing for the introduction of appropriate actions, in order to carry out combat operations and achieve results along this strip, it is necessary to... up to 50 thousand, well , tens of thousands of military personnel, there are 55 thousand of them on the line, about 700 km, but not yet is focused on this direction, but the enemy is increasing these efforts, if there are forecasts, the western one, which has already proven in two directions in total , up to 25-30 thousand is accepted, and therefore this second option is relatively narrowed down... it is becoming more and more realistic, mr. general, against the background of the offensive of the russian invaders in the north of kharkiv region, the commander of

the kharkiv operational-tactical group of troops was replaced by yury galushkin, and mykhailo drapaty was in command of the ukrainian troops in the kharkiv direction. in addition to the actions and analysis of the actions of those who manage operational-tactical grouping of troops in the kharkiv region, there are many conversations now about... fortification, the construction of fortifications, how they were built, whether they were built correctly, whether they were built in that place, why the russians in some places simply walked into territory of the ukrainian state, at the final press conference at the end of the 23rd year, president zelenskyy stated that the most powerful line of defense fortifications had been prepared in the kharkiv region, which he set as an example for other regions. we will remind you how it is was yes, if i see in the kharkiv region, both the region and the city are grateful, and the way they united there with military

specialists. with construction companies, and our state budget was drawn up together with business, and what they did there, and i think it's powerful. and now, mr. general, the head of the kharkiv regional military administration, oleg sinigubov, says that on his behalf, a meeting should be held where all participants in the construction of fortifications in the region will report on the work done, let's listen to sinigubov. of of fortifications of the kharkiv region, today gave... an order to the profile deputy to gather all the contractors who worked and will continue to work on the construction of fortification structures, each of them must report at the meeting of the working group on transparency and accountability, after which the results of the meeting will be publicly communicated at a press briefing, where every representative of mass media will be able to ask additional questions, always ready for a public reaction.

mr. general, to what extent... certification facilities are capable and can under the current conditions war to deter the enemy and whether we have done enough during at least the last two and a half years to build these fortification structures, these defense lines, they show the expediency of this kind of activity, we already have experience in this large-scale war, our experience of the defense forces of ukraine, and... in addition, we remember how the russians built a powerful defense system in zaporizhzhia in six months, while the allies were helping us there, and how this affected our counteroffensive actions, that is, the expediency and it is not necessary to talk about the relevance of the conversation, but it is necessary to energetically engage in the construction of such a defense system in these directions.

due to the fact that if the enemy prevails, we are on the defensive, this gives the defending side the opportunity to increase its respective defense potential, but let's say, in this gray zone, it was not implemented in the first line of defense in the kharkiv direction , effective, and the conversation, which was most likely conducted by the president and... made an analysis, it is already on the second line, where it actually takes place, it is on north of kharkiv liptsi, and directly vavchansk northeastern part from kharkiv, and there are more powerful lines closer to kharkiv, but the enemy must be stopped and at a greater distance as possible in order to

have time. not only to stop him, but to destroy his forces and with the corresponding potential to move, you carry out counterattacks, and therefore, it means that the defense in the kharkiv direction is being moved now, and the issue of the direction of sums is also being considered. mr. general, against the background of the current situation is unfolding in... the north of kharkiv region , the issue was and remains relevant of closing the sky over kharkiv, air defense systems, today volodymyr zelenskyi spoke with antony blinken and asked for two more patriot systems in order to save the people of kharkiv, the civilians of kharkiv from constant strikes, which the russian occupiers are inflicting on kharkiv. a number of german politicians are generally considered to be in favor.

it is necessary to involve the air defense systems of nato, in particular poland and romania, to help ukraine in destroying the russian air force, but of course not over kharkiv, but in general over over the ukrainian sky, and this, in particular, was stated by the deputy on behalf of the cdu, csu bloc, roderig kiesewetter, he says that this will relieve the ukrainian air defense and allow them to defend the front, as the situation with the air defense systems in ukraine has changed in two years. i know that you know quite well how air defense worked before, how it was built 20 or 30 years ago over the sky of ukraine, and now, how far we are now provided with the ppu system, how much our needs are greater than what we have.