in the direction of kharkiv, units of our troops repelled 18 enemy attacks, in particular in the directions of hlyboke liptsi, lukyantsi-liptsi, borysivka neskuchne, shebekino, russian territory, and vovchansk. in separate areas in the lukyantsi and vovchansk districts, as a result of fire and assault actions of the enemy, in order to preserve the lives of our servicemen and avoid losses, our units from maneuvered and moved to more advantageous positions, the fighting continues. this is the information from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. we are monitoring this situation, of course, and especially in the context of general budanov's statement that the russian occupiers are now trying to enter the territory of the kharkiv region in order to later carry out a maneuver in the sumy region. or in sumy oblast, it is so or not,

it is very difficult to say yet, because the situation is developing and changing quite actively, but, but, the most important question, which was and remains, is why the army of the russian federation managed to break through in this direction, must in mind, on kharkiv, and whether there is a threat to kharkiv, about that now let's talk with yevhen dyky, a veteran... of the russian-ukrainian war, former platoon commander of the aidar battalion, mr. yevhen, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, well, we have already started talking about the situation, which is taking place here in the kharkiv region, and the question remains open, why did the russian army manage to break through in this direction and do you think there is a threat to kharkiv? well,

let's start from the end, looking at what exactly is the threat to kharkiv, if you mean a real attack on a city of two million people, an assault cities, etc., then the russian forces are gathered in this direction, well, to put it mildly, they are not enough for this, they are, well, they are not enough there a little bit, they are not enough by an order of magnitude, well, let's remember, let's remember that bahmud pre-war. 70 thousand, it was taken by a group of approximately 120 thousand russian troops, it took 9 months, avdiivka was taken in just four months, the pre-war population of the city was 16 thousand, the group that took it was more than 40 00, and now we take kharkiv with two million and extrapolate it, we understand that those 50 thousand gathered there opposite the entire kharkiv region. well, for

such a trip, it is absolutely incommensurable value, but what are they trying to achieve in this case, they have a minimum program and a maximum program, a minimum program, which, well, we must give credit, they have already actually fulfilled it, it is to force us to transfer there and without moreover , our reserves are very acutely deficient, but they actually smeared our weak point, they see that their only advantage is that they now have many more soldiers, and so... they are trying to realize this advantage as much as possible, that is, they are opening, let's say, a new, new section of the front, they are forcing us to transfer some reserves, some combat-capable units there, accordingly, these units will not reach pokrovsk or kurakhove by the time of yaar, that is where the main offensive is going, but they also have a maximum program, a maximum program they have, which fortunately they have not yet come close to, but given the distances there, then... i would consider

this threat to be serious, so their maximum program is to go to kharkiv on such a distance and take stationary positions there, with which can destroy the city with artillery. in general, it’s like this, i’m sorry, eh, it’s like this in my opinion, such a sad, but very instructive story for us, it’s very important that we draw the right conclusions from it now, because yes, let’s backtrack for a second, well, go back a little, autumn on the 22nd of september, our armed forces received an order for a fairly limited operation, namely to push the orks away from kharkov, so that they would finally stop terrorizing residential areas with barrel artillery and hail. this operation turns into a collapse of the russian front. the operation develops into the liberation of huge territories of slomozhanshchyna up to the svatovo krymin line, and it becomes one of the turning points in this war. ot. and, unfortunately... from this, from this operation, we and

the russians drew very different conclusions, they made the right ones, and we didn't, but just after our kharkiv operation, they realized that... that there is no svo , that they underestimated the enemy, that they began to respect us, even fear us, and after that began to fight with us as they fight with a serious worthy enemy that they respect and they are afraid, and switched their entire country to such a big, serious war, and we, on the contrary, were so inspired and fell into such euphoria after that that we decided for some reason that if we had already driven them so well near kharkov, then... . then it will roll somehow, then we just have to wait for the winners, and then a year and a half passes and the circle closes, we now have the task of not allowing them to be in the position from which they can shoot the residential quarters of kharkiv with barrel artillery, this is an absolutely natural result of how we are and how they are

lived these one and a half years, they are in the mode of a great war, and we are in the mode of waiting for an allegedly guaranteed victory, it is very important that we draw the right conclusions from this now, it is late anyway, but it is not yet late, well, in general, yet another deja vu, we repeated it on such a micro scale on february 24 , 2022, but then we were all warned, it was known how the war would start, where they would come from, and still no one prepared , now a micro scale, but exactly the same, for at least a week, gur warned about the enemy activity in this direction. about the fact that a strike group was being formed, they still jumped in by surprise, no one was prepared for anything anyway, yes, they learned to react quickly, the reaction was rapid, we repel them, repel them, relatively successfully, but in

principle this should not have happened, this it shouldn't have happened at all, they should have been met in a completely different way, but for some reason they weren't, but that's the situation now. which is taking place in the kharkiv direction, forced president zelensky to cancel his visits to spain and portugal, which were supposed to take place the other day, or due to the russian offensive, and as noted in the press, zelensky was supposed to meet with prime minister pedro sánchez in madrid to sign the security agreement, but now this signing has been postponed. regarding the predictions themselves, mr. evgeny, about whether and how and who made the predictions and in what way. there will be an offensive in the kharkiv region, there will be no offensive, the head of the gur kyrylo budanov generally says that the russian attacks in the kharkiv region will last 3-4 days, after which the russian troops will make a decisive offensive in the direction of sumy. later

, general bohdanov asked and said that he was misunderstood, and on the air of the united telethon, he clarified his words regarding the offensive of the russian federation. in the sumy region. from the very beginning, the russians planned an operation in the sumy region, as of now , they receive small groups of forces in the border areas. for them, it is the city of suja, and from our side it is the sumy direction. but the situation did not allow them to take active actions and start implementing their plan. how do you assess the prospects that sumyshchyna can be another point or the line where the russians are forcing us to withdraw troops in donetsk region. actually. is the entire strike directed at donbas? i believe that budanov is right, especially in his very first forecast, that sumyshchyna may well start literally overnight, the fact that, by the way, even this is the second retreat for them, it does not change anything, that the situation has not yet allowed them to start, it does not mean that they will not start tomorrow, but

here the very fact of budanov going out with this into the public space, it seems to me, is the result of the fact that the warnings of the gur in kharkiv region were not heard, so now it’s just warning with regard to sumy oblast, it is already public, and no one will be able to say afterwards that they did not warn, well, i really hope that those who are responsible for security in sumy oblast, that they, they are now using , after all, these urgent events and that there will not be a repeat of what happened in kharkiv region, that is, the russians may very well go there, it is very likely, but i hope that they will be met there in a different way, because... what happened in kharkiv region , it is yes, it is a very big weed, actually. against this background, the secretary of state of the united states of america, anthony blinken, visited kyiv, he spoke about the fact that the united states of america does not encourage strikes on russian territory, but

in the end ukraine must decide for itself how to conduct this war, and this is what he stated at a press conference today with dmytro kuleba, want to clearly say that the united states of america will be. they undertook to help ukraine in order for it to win, so i am sure that we have not shown our actions, and we will continue to help ukraine, we, of course, we will never want to. they did not want ukraine to do it outside the territory, but in the end ukraine decides for itself how they conduct this struggle, because they are defending their freedom and sovereignty, their territorial integrity. in the context of what anthony blinken said, mr. yevgeny, i wanted to ask you, in kharkiv oblast, that is, on that side, in belgorod oblast, we saw this concentration, did intelligence see a concentration of russian troops, there is not such a large group, but well still several tens of thousands. uh russian troops were stationed there, and it is obvious

that the ukrainian armed forces did not strike on this territory, which indicates that the americans, after all, did not advise, or as he said there, did not encourage strikes on russian territory, or maybe be that after blinkin's statement that the ukrainians themselves decide where to hit, and the americans do not encourage them, or could it be that... these are the troops standing near suja, literally behind sumy, this place is located in the sumy region, the city is further to kursk, could it be that the ukrainians do will use these western weapons in order to prevent them from entering sumy oblast, well notice blinkin did not say that they allow their weapons to be used for this, but he completely avoided the question, he said that they do not encourage ... strikes on russia, but that is our business, but he did not say that this business of ours

can be done with their weapons. as far as i know, no lifting of the ban on the use of american weapons on the territory of russia has yet occurred. also, again, the concept of hitting the territory russia is one story, but all this time there was a strict ban on our troops from crossing the russian border. and again, nothing in blinken's words is to me a lifting of that prohibition. i will remind you why, for example , the raid of the russian volunteers was not so successful, because actually three battalions of russian volunteers went, the enemy, all our mechanized units did the best they could, this was to cover them with a little artillery from our territory, none of our the soldier could not cross the barrier, because it would be immediately caused huge problems with the allies, so i did not really hear a change of position in this statement, what they endure precisely on... strikes there on military airfields, on oil refineries, for example, russian ones, which we make

with our homemade weapons, well, they this has been tolerated for a long time, that is, i haven't heard anything new here, to be honest. another event that happened on the night of may 15, explosions rang out in the temporarily occupied sevastopol, russian propagandists announced a massive missile attack and hit in the area of ​​the belbek military airfield, they say that there waters... 31k migs were apparently hit, so far there is no clear confirmation, but we see that ukraine is trying to deploy its actions on the temporarily occupied territory in crimea, how will this affect the course of the ukrainian, russian-ukrainian war and whether it will affect , or this practice will be a gradual elimination of russia's capabilities? on the peninsula, this is not only about the capabilities on the peninsula, they

actually fly and bomb from the peninsula and fire on our territory that we currently control, so this is just a very important component of the general of this general war, and here, this strike on belbek was extremely effective, the c300 complex was completely destroyed, and this is very important, we are now systematically knocking out their air defense, because again, each side is trying... to always feel the weak points of the other , but our weak point at the moment is the lack of fighters, their weak point is not cannon fodder, they have it in excess, but iron is their weak point, and the more technologically iron, the less of it and the less opportunities renewing it, in particular air defense, turned out to be very difficult their weak link, unexpectedly for everyone, we are now very systematically knocking it out, a blow to the belbeg completely destroyed the s300 complex. one mig 31 was destroyed and three airfields were damaged, well, damage in the conditions of this war is the same as destroyed, they

do not have the ability to quickly repair it now, and a plus in fact, well, it can be assumed that this airfield is unlikely to be actively used in the future, because it is shown that he is now in the zone of our impression, this, this is called, this is what the life-giving atakamtsi do, this is exactly, this is exactly what they are born with, which we have been waiting for so long, but finally we have waited, these are 300-kilometer attacks, and yes , they will really happen now. there is a lot to change , of course, mr. evgeny, with the arrival of a larger shipment of weapons from the united states of america to ukraine, obviously the situation will somehow stabilize, including on the eastern and southern fronts, but will we have enough weapons in order to restrain the russians and in order to create this parity, which we constantly talk about, now we have the task of restraining and in

our task is to restrain and equalize, our task is not to turn the tide of the war in our favor... to defeat the russian army, to go on the offensive, we categorically refuse this altogether, because we are not capable of mobilization, and you, but you have heard over the last month such statements that we will go forward, i just read in the western press that in the 25th year in washington they expect us to go on a counteroffensive, and we could go on the 24th, the problem is because who are we, we plowed, i and the tractor, but there is no one to actually go on this offensive, and this is the key problem, exactly. answering your question, the weapons and bc that are arriving now will be quite enough not only to deter the russians, and it would be enough, and vice versa , before the transition to a counterattack, but for all of this, after it was unblocked, that is, after seven months of the terrible ammunition deficit created by trump, from the moment trump was defeated and congress

unblocked, that is, next year, and i mean not until the end of this current year, and not... from the moment it was unblocked, that is we actually have sufficient supplies, yes, we want much more, and we need much more, but the minimum necessary for a very serious war for a year is now guaranteed to us, and now we are pressing a completely different limitation, that is, all these miraculous weapons, that is, on unfortunately, there is one property, it does not shoot itself, it does not fight itself, but only in someone's hands, and if the previous six months we had a critical situation at all. because we had two, two such very acute problems at the same time, a lack of bc and a lack of personnel . the lack of a bull is finally ending, the lack of personnel is still only deepening, and of course, if we do not recruit people, if we do not change the situation with mobilization, then none of these weapons will save us. so we were given a chance, a very powerful chance,

a chance not just to restrain the russians, a chance to turn the tide of the war and win again, but is it? whether we will use this chance, it now completely depends on us, and precisely on you and me, on the ukrainian people, because the army is not engaged in mobilization, mobilization is a matter of the rear, but the army now has something to fight, but the army has no one to fight, and we, the ukrainian rear, have to put these people, depending on whether we do it or not, we will use this chance, or on the contrary, we will blow it, thank you, mr. yevgeny, for the inclusion, this... there was yevhen dykiy , a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war. friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live there. please subscribe to our pages, take part in our survey. today we ask you about should eu countries return conscripts to ukraine? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, yes, no, or your own

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writer, a famous slovak writer, juraj chantu, tried to kill him. the suspect in the attempt on fizo is an activist of the liberal party progressive slovakia, he had an officially registered weapons, by the way, in slovakia, the son of yury juray chantula says that what happened is a shock at all, he does not completely understand how it all happened, but on fico's official facebook page it is reported that as a result of the attempt there are a threat to the life of the prime minister of slovakia, he was shot several times... he is in a life-threatening condition, he is currently being transported by helicopter to banska bystrica, as the road to bratislava would take too much time, given the need for immediate intervention. the next few hours everything will decide, president zelenskyi has already expressed his condolences and support for fitso, but russian

propagandists are already starting to spread the story that it is ukrainian special services or representatives of ukrainian special services involved in fitso, because fitso has always been a pro-russian position, we remember that fitso has always said about what he says about what... ukraine and russia must sit down at the negotiating table, even in the situation when russia is an aggressor country, well, that's what i 'm saying, of course, fizo doesn't say anything about it . do you think this is a fact or not? he may become one of such factors in the russian-ukrainian war, and it is possible that the russian special services are actually involved in all this, how do you look at this story. are there no analogies with the first world war, because it all started in europe with pistol shots? yes, today many

people have already made this analogy, but it seems to me that this analogy is not very appropriate now, especially in light of the facts that are known today, that is, er, i mean the person of the shooter, who, as if already clarified and in relation to. which is no longer large doubts, i think we will soon hear from him about the motives, but it is clear that everyone who comments, everyone who puts this event into a political context, will, so to speak, do it their way, and there is no doubt , that russia will tie all this to ukraine, well, if they are some uh , tajik... activists of the islamic state, who committed murders in the crocus center and tied it to ukraine, then slovakia is much

closer, and this also will not make for no problem for them, that is, everything is clear here, but for us, we need to put this event into context the russian-ukrainian war is probably not very appropriate either, we... obviously are most concerned about it, we have more reasons, so to speak, to be, in fact, to keep this context in focus, but than the russians, for example, but obviously that not everything in the world revolves around the russian-ukrainian war, and for me this shot is rather a sign of the aggravation of ideological, worldview opposition. the thing in modern europe, including, and actually in such a broader civilizational context, should probably be considered, when

there is already such hatred between the right and the left again formed, which already passes into the framework of non-violence, already becomes violent, although, of course, this should also be considered as a separate incident. er, we remember , for example, the shots of breivik, after which nothing special started, just the excess of one person, er, although the problem that is standing stood both there and here, it does not disappear anywhere, so to speak, and manifests itself from time to time. against this background, we are now talking about two summits to be held in june and... july in june, the swiss global peace summit and in july in washington, the jubilee nato summit. on the eve of this anniversary summit of the north atlantic alliance

, yermak rasmussen's group proposed in its report that nato invite ukraine to join the alliance precisely at this anniversary summit. this was reported by the head of the office of the president of ukraine andriy yarmak on social networks after the presentation of the report at the copenhagen democrat summit. what does mr. yarmak write? we propose a clear time frame for ukraine's accession to nato no later than july 28, subject to the fulfillment of specific conditions. it is also necessary to strengthen efforts to military aid to ukraine, including the lifting of all restrictions on the supply of conventional weapons. it is important that allies spend 0.25% of their gdp on military aid to ukraine and unlock $300 billion in frozen russian assets for support. of our country, mr. maksym, how do you assess the prospect that ukraine can become a member of the north atlantic alliance, as

rasmussen points out, no later than july 28 , well, in general, we can talk about anything now, but all this will be very, very hypothetical, since the main question is when and how will the russian-ukrainian war end, there is currently no answer to this question, as well as all other events, which are derivatives of our own. from this fact, they also remain purely theoretical, and a lot of different events are happening right now, and the visit of the leader of china to europe, and the future visit of putin to beijing just a few days ago, and these unexpected visits of officials from america, from europe to kyiv with such not completely clear, not completely public order.

in the daytime, all this points to my opinion that this war is really entering a decisive phase and the most likely end of it is seen by the majority of players as a freezing of the conflict, but the conditions of this freezing and actually this post-conflict settlement are seen in different ways, and these, so to speak, are already informational throws regarding ukraine's membership in nato, non-membership today, tomorrow and so on, it seems to me more like a diplomatic game around these conditions, er, freezing of the conflict and post-conflict situation, distribution of spheres of influence, obligations of the parties and so on.

for now, i still... i don't see any reason expect an official invitation for ukraine to nato at the nearest summit, but the fact that it is necessary to talk about it and put forward initiatives in this regard, here i have to agree with the administration of the president and the office, i apologize, the president, and just like the peace summit, a good initiative , as well as about membership. then in nato we must constantly talk and put forward these proposals of ours, that is, you are inclined to the fact that, after all, the question is about the future freezing of the conflict and the definition of the line of this demarcation according to the korean scenario, when it is temporary the occupied territories will remain under russia for a certain period, according to this agreement, and it is this package, or let's say a variation of this package, that is currently being discussed. with the leader

of china, blinkin with zelenskyi, and obviously the global peace summit will also be a part , as it were, of these large peace initiatives or future negotiations, but actually the positions after the latest statements of both the chinese side and european and american politicians, they... already clearly, that is , war until victory until the destruction of the enemy, none of our allies from russia's allies, that is, neither china wants this, nor america and europe, they seek to end the war, which on the one hand destabilizes the markets, endangers economic growth and so on, but

on the other... no one, so to speak, is ready to make concessions, i.e. no one in the west is ready to let putin win, but no one in the east cannot, cannot let putin lose, so freezing is actually the only way out of this situation, and the second way out is well, the continuation of the war until before to infinity, to the exhaustion of the parties, which actually does not bring anything... new to this situation against the background of talks about possible peace talks, or about possible peace initiatives by china, about which putin says that he likes china's peace plan very much, although it was rather declaration to beijing on february 24, 2023, but after that, the events in georgia are rapidly unfolding, there they passed the law on...

the russian law on foreign agents, that is, they adopted it.