of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, although he had health problems, his sense of patriotism and duty to the state prompted him to voluntarily go into the military. at 5 in the morning i called and said: taras, the war has started. he said: "mom, i know, i didn't go to bed last night, i already packed." i say: "taras, what are you talking about?" "mom, i'm going to war." and on the first day he left. the military commander had to register for four days, he proved to the military commander that he could go to serve. taras chaika served in the 125th brigade territorial defense forces. at first he was in lviv, and in april, at his own request, he joined the intelligence unit and fought in donetsk region. he calls me and says: "mom, i'm transferring to intelligence, i can't stay at the headquarters when there's a war, and we have to fight." communicated. every day in the morning and

in the evening, i asked you to send me any news that everything is fine with you. but on november 2, 2022, the woman did not receive any message from her son. then the soldier went on a combat mission in the area between lyman and kremina. not from him anymore came back he didn't want to say anything so that i wouldn't worry, although i supported him all the time, believed that everything would be fine. our last conversation was four days before his death, he called me and i was at work, he says i want to talk to you, i tell my son, i am at work, talk, i can talk, no, you will be at home, dial me, please, i dialed him, we really had a very long conversation, we talked with him for more than an hour, i was always worried, cried, and that time when we talked. very fun, we laughed

rejoiced, he was very positive, as i now understand, he did not want to just upset, they knew where they were going. during that combat sortie, taras chaika was killed, but he saved his comrades who were traveling with him in the car, he died in a second, but being mortally wounded, he drove the car to the opposite side of the shelling, and the boys all remained alive. taras chaika for this act. awarded the title of hero of ukraine, he is forever 29. this award is a memory for his mother, wife and daughter. he was very big a patriot, he saved lives, he didn't save himself, he could have saved himself, he saved the lives of the boys, everyone remained alive, but he was gone. to celebrate life for the homeland is, i believe, a very great feat, to put one's own. i am less

valuable than the lives of others and my homeland, well, it is for me, it is, i am proud of my son, let him be as courageous as possible. khrystyna parobiy, nazar melnyk, espresso tv channel. friends, we continue to work live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. if you watch us on youtube and facebook, do not forget to subscribe to our pages, and vote on ours. because today we are asking you about the russian opposition, should ukraine cooperate with the russian opposition, quite a simple question, the answer is also quite simple, either yes or no, if you are watching us on tv, please take your smartphone or phone and vote 0821381 if you do you think that ukraine should cooperate with the russian opposition, no 0800 211 380 2. and in our studio ilya ponomarov, russian oppositionist, former member of the state duma i congratulate you in russian, mr. illa, good

evening, but with such a survey i would also answer no, and why? well, because what is the russian opposition, or something like that, i am a representative of the russian opposition, should you know, i am a representative of the russian armed resistance, and this is something completely different, we even recently conducted such a sociological survey in ukraine, and there were many respondents , this is a real national one. the survey and the answers were as follows: 5% said that it is necessary to cooperate by position, 56% said that it is necessary to cooperate with volunteers, russian volunteer formations and with the resistance, that is, this is a big difference, but, but in lviv there was a forum of the russian opposition, not of the russian volunteer corps or forces, that is, they were there, but it was a forum of the russian opposition, right, well it... was a question of the name, i

believe that the name was wrong here, people who gathered there even talked about it, because the main idea was to create this bridge between. between the russian political opposition and voluntary formations, that is, to to strengthen the same opposition, that is, the goal was opposition, and now i really would not like to be a part of the russian opposition, i simply do not respect it, and the question is, who is the russian opposition and what does it manifest itself in? look, when this forum of yours started working and the mayor of lviv, andriy sadovy, said that... he reacted with surprise to the fact that the forum was held, i will quote mr. sadovy, they write that a forum of some russian opposition is working in lviv today, the participants allegedly khodorkovsky, kasparov, feigin, shindarovich and other surnames i don't know much. who knows, this is some kind of joke, i have already

sent a request to the relevant authorities, on the same day the ministry of defense announced ukraine's support for the forum, which was attended by representatives and delegates from volunteer units that fight in the formation. defense forces of ukraine. the head of gur, kyrylo budanov , supported the holding of such an event, according to the message of gur, as one of the manifestations of the struggle against the kremlin dictatorship, which also contributes to the victory of ukraine over the aggressor state. similar events bring the end of putin's regime closer and contribute to the consolidation of all forces aimed at overthrowing the dictatorship in the russian federation and defeating the kremlin in the war against ukraine. and why , tell me, why did the russian opposition have to be held. forum in lviv, the city, the mayor, who did not know that such a forum would be, and he was surprised to realize that there are russians in the city who are holding some kind of meeting, well, look, first of all, i think that mr. knows my surname very well, i am also

sure that he knows the surname of khudurkovsky, and even better knows the surname some kind of friedman, so why say that he... doesn't know what, what kind of people these are, well, i think it's not just wrong, but if we're talking seriously, well, first of all, the event didn't take place in lviv, and precisely because we understand this whole complex situation and attitude, and this fair attitude of ukrainians towards russians, to put one or another ukrainian politician in such an uncomfortable situation, it was close to lviv. well , secondly, look, well, how could these russians get to the territory of ukraine at all, if they were not checked and agreed there in the relevant services, well, this is simply incredible during the war and you know all about it very well. ukrainians quite often on

social networks, in particular, argue about whether there is a good russian or not? do you consider yourself a good russian or a bad one? i think that in general this term is bad. why, well, why, why say this, what is a good russian, i simply believe that there are normal russians who are currently fighting, who are helping the whole country, who are something, you mean, fighting on the side of ukraine, fighting on the side of ukraine, of course, in the ranks of the armed forces, and that's just normal russians, and i generally in... generally believe that all real russians during this war should be ukrainians and help ukraine, it is simply our duty, it is the same question as the question there are normal germans during the second world war,

those who really resisted hitler, who were involved in it, those were normal germans. well, but, no one was looking for someone there, who would, we need some protection there, there, give us some separate passport, some advantages there, there, privileges, well, of course, that very bad thing. today i read a post by iryna gerashchenko, one of the leaders of european solidarity, she writes about the fact that there are many people who may be representatives in the meeting in which you participated. security services and that such a measure would be difficult to imagine under poroshenko, because poroshenko would definitely be eaten for it, relatively speaking, you became a citizen of ukraine during poroshenko's presidency, that is, how do you perceive the criticisms of poroshenko's associate

against those people with how did you participate in this forum together? well, she just might not knows what happened there, but tell me what was there, well, as i said. our goal is to strengthen our capabilities in terms of mobilization, in terms of recruiting, in terms of financing, fundraising, for the benefit of the armed forces and for the benefit of these volunteers. units that are now fighting at the front, they are fighting for now in ovchansk, they were simply the first to meet the enemy there, when this offensive was taking place, before you know, and they were raiding the territory of the kursk and belgorod regions, and sumsk is, well, sum tyotkina is on the border, and kursk regions, yes, and they scared the enemy very much, and it was very, very effective, in general, you have to understand that this war, and it started in

moscow, it can be ended only in moscow, there is simply no other way, and who will do it , the ukrainian army will go to moscow to destroy putin, i believe that this is the business of the russians themselves, but they need to be there, they need to be armed so that they can do it, because this is... dk people, because i understand that their not too many, how many people are needed so

that in russia, well, let's say the actions that can be conventionally called a civil war began, well, look, i don't know how many people are there, because i work with the legion of freedom of russia, i know how many people are in the legion of freedom of russia, but i can't tell about it, because that's it illegally, there are four battalions, but they are not 100% full. well , there are four battalions, now two are located in the kharkiv region and two near chasov yar, and this number is growing, and we have a lot of people who want to join it, but there are objective limitations, and these limitations they are related to how they can leave russia, how they can get to the point where they will pass the inspection. relevant ukrainian services and then to enter ukraine. that is why we are currently working hard

to ensure that they stay in russia and replenish the partisan movement, now the partisan movement is much more than even our guys at the front. that is , the partisan movement in russia is now approximately 10,000 people, and if you see the statistics of the attacks that take place there, of course there is an initiative from ukraine and... from ukraine we we can't do anything there, because there are drones, explosives, there, well, weapons and all that, but well, anyone who understands how drones actually work, they understand that an attack on an oil refinery there cannot be done, if you don't have a person on the ground who will lay out the trajectory, who does it, it's not the ukrainians who do it, they do it locally, it's the russians who do it, that is, it's the kind of cooperation that ... during the war. today, putin, about

whom we are all fighting, came to, or rather, yesterday he came to minsk, today he met with lukashenka, they talked about these exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces, and they talked about the legitimacy of zelenskyi, let's listen to what putin said during the press conference or press conference. with lukashenko, of course, we are of course aware that the legitimacy of the current head of state has ended. i think that one of the goals of the announced conference in switzerland is precisely to have the western community, the sponsors of today's kyiv regime , confirm.

putin is the leader of the state, maybe not everyone they call him the president, but that he is a leader, well, look, he is actually a leader. of the state, he is actually a dictator, he is a usurper of power, he controls the armed forces, he controls the financial flows there, well, that is, he is the leader of the country, but he is certainly not the president, because legitimacy is a completely different thing, and i believe that he is not needed to be called the president, we called on the governments of various countries to do just that,

by the way, i want to say that even ukraine hesitated, but in the end. our foreign minister said: yes, we recognize that he is illegitimate, but i am here i also ask, but then why does the embassy there , in the style of the air fleet, still belong to this illegitimate president, why will it not be given to these armed formations of ours, which can already then create an alternative government that can be recognized as a legitimate government, unlike mr. putin, because that is exactly what he wants to do here. he wants to get us all in trouble here, he wants anyone to come up and say, i'm now legitimate to create new elections, to cause internal chaos because of these elections, and he just doesn't understand one very, very simple thing , that if new elections are held here, the new government will be much more radical than

the current one, and that it will not benefit him, he is still dreaming. yanukovych, but to gomel, not to minsk, but he reported that today a plane arrived at the already secondary airfield there, does he really think that ukrainians can return to or to yanukovych to mychuk, why is he constantly pushing that yanukovych? and that medvedchuk, this is not an understanding of ukrainians, a misunderstanding of how we live, a misunderstanding of how we strive for freedom and independence, that is, this, well, from what, or from the fact that he is always used to measuring by the categories of special operations, and for him this is another special operation, well, he is simply a lawyer by education, and for him this is a formal aspect, he is very

important, he is like a lawyer always wants to...how to avoid laws, bypass them, but respect that they exist, he wants to say that according to the letter of the law, poroshenko’s powers have ceased there, zelensky’s powers have ceased, but yanukovych’s powers have not, because they were not simply stopped, and that's why from putin's point of view he can announce that he believes that yanukovych is now the real president. country and treat him that way, that's why i believe that we need to create the same new alternative government, because i believe that in ukraine and many other countries of the world , the attitude of the russian elites to this issue is underestimated, because there is only one thing there, when there is no such alternative, that is

, to destroy putin, who then, here we have to show that if... putin, then what will be there, what will be the system, what will be the legislation, what will be people who will be parties, what will be there, and that's when we will be able to achieve a split of the elites, so that some part of them will go to our side and political changes will begin, and without political changes taking place there, we will not be able to end the war, and you among themselves, well, i mean the russian opposition and representatives of these russian voluntary formations discussed the prospect. well, such a structure, or let's say, well, i don't know, it's a government in exile, or whatever it should be called, so many people say about a government in exile, there's a question of legitimacy, that is, we have one a body that has a certain legitimacy, this is the congress of people's deputies, this is the parliament in exile, because there are currently about 100 former deputies there, who were legitimately

assembled in internationally recognized elections when they existed, and now they simply do not exist, but when they... existed, they were elected there, they are representatives of all political parties that have ever been part of the russian parliament, from there apple to united russia, and they all stand on the same position regarding ukraine, the end of the war , de-occupation of the territory, punishment of criminals and compensation for all the losses, as they have occurred, and this unites them... and they create a new political system, but as for the government, there is no legitimacy here, and here we say that there is a rifle that creates power, and... that's why this lviv forum is aimed at precisely this, to form such and such a structure there, the beginning has already taken place, that is, at

the lviv forum , certain working groups were created there in order to form such an executive structure, but it can be formed only if it will not be on all these political oppositionists, like there khadarkovskii, navalny, anyone, and if it... will be based on armed units, on the legion, on rdk and on sibirskyi, that is, i understand that you will be the prime minister in exile? no, i don't want to be prime minister, i want to be in the parliament, i want to create legislation, and then i want to go to court anyway, because i think that judicial reform will not be that important, and in general, the most important thing is now to rebuild a new political system, and to help our boys fight. and reach moscow, seize power, destroy these criminals and then start rebuilding the state with those regions that will remain, will decide

to remain part of russia. meanwhile, ukraine is trying to move towards nato and the european union. moscow is simply seething, but maria zakharova says that eu membership for ukraine and moldova will mean the expansion of nato to the east. let's hear what she said. this is not membership, this is not the accession of ukraine and moldova to the european union, this is the expansion of nato to the east, and all this, in my opinion, has already been proven, it is exclusively a geopolitical tool for imposing rivalry and ensuring dominance in europe by those who, from century to century , kept this ideology of inequality, imperialism and colonialism and passed it on to their own generations.

will it happen later, will we become members of the european union, will it mean the collapse of putin's regime, because if zakharova believes that the european union, ukraine in the european union, is a sign of equality in nato, and nato after the european union will be for ukraine and moldova as well, then will this mean the downfall of putin or not? oh, i may say a sad thing, but i believe that until we destroy putin, we will neither be members of the eu nor nato will be. will be afraid, that is, you think that you will win faster than we enter together we will win faster, we, we can do it without you, this is ours, this is our

joint victory, without you, you mean, without ukrainians, without ukrainians , and you are a citizen of ukraine, you are yourself, you are me, how do you identify yourself, i am ukrainian, i am a resident of kyiv, but i am a ukrainian entrepreneur, i am russian... that is, it turns out that you are a citizen of ukraine, you are fighting for the authorities in russia, well, well, of course, who else, you, you see them, even they can, well, to be honest , i was most disappointed by gelman, the presence of gelman at this meeting, because i remember how marat gelman was one of those people who shaped politics in the election headquarters yanukovych in the fourth year of 2000 and he was quite active, by the way , he worked with medvedchuk then, well, here he was presented more as a gallerist, although he was a political technologist and was once the head of russian public

television, and to be honest, for me it is also it's a mystery, look at the composition of those people you had there, gelman actively worked against me there in the early 2000s, also in the field'. i was only there, he was a part of fep, gleb pavlovsky, i remember it very well, i remember it very well, but there were other people there, with whom i also had difficult relations before , but good relations for now, because there is a simple approach: if you are now for the victory of ukraine, if you help her, if you risk your life, mr. gelman was at ground zero, he was driving. to the legion, he helped them, he did a lot, there in he even has a reward for it, he could not do it, here mr. khodorkovsky did not do it, but gelman did. and we

are grateful to him, and if he continues to do this, that, i believe, will be such a redemption for what he, he did then, he has already said many times publicly that he would have been wrong, that it was a crime , and this also distinguishes him from others, that is, he understood it, and culture. the community that is around mr. gelman, he simply transfers more and more people to our side, the cultural community is an influence on brains, it is very very important, and it is also fundraising and recruiting, that is, it is very beneficial for ukraine now. in the end, i understand what you want to do with the current russian government with putin, but i don't understand what you

want to do with china. because china is a sharer of modern russia, and the british are talking about the fact that the chinese are allegedly helping the russians, and the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china wenbin called the british defense minister grant shaps' baseless and irresponsible statement. let's hear what wang wenbin said. we would wanted to tell the british politician. that the appeasement of china will not help great britain to get out of a difficult situation with regard to ukraine, moreover, it will not solve the country's complex internal problems. china has been and remains on the side of peace and dialogue, we will continue to work hard to promote peace talks and oppose incitement . you know, i asked you about good russians, but are there good chinese? there is me... i know, i

was the leader, the head of the friendship group between the state duma and taiwan, that is, the chinese are there, i i know one hundred percent, but let it be a matter for the united states, to fight with putin and with china, it is too much for us now, let us focus on putin, in this matter i would rather be neutral, thank you, thank you, mr. illa, this was illyana. russian oppositionist and former member of the state duma of the russian federation. friends, i remind you that we are working live. today we are conducting a survey, today we are asking you about whether ukraine should cooperate with the russian opposition. so, no, everything is quite simple on youtube and facebook, you choose an option either yes or no. if you are sitting in front of the tv, you can vote by phone and by the

appropriate numbers. if you think it's worth it. to ukraine to cooperate with the russian opposition 08021381 no 0 800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, now let's look at the interim results of the poll, specifically the television poll, we have 35% yes, 65% no, well, that's the kind of support, it's already much better than it was before. glory to ukraine, dear tv viewers, on air espresso tv channel, west studio program will analyze the most important events of this week, in particular, we will analyze the situation at the front and the situation in international politics. our guests today are the legendary american diplomat daniel frith and the equally

legendary ukrainian diplomat. roman bezsmertny. daniel freet will be working on espresso tv channel now. the flesh and blood of the american state department, the former coordinator of sanctions policy affairs of the state department, a person who very well understands the strategy of deterrence and specific tactical steps, in particular to deter the russian federation. i congratulate you, mr. ambassadors, on the air of the tv channel. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. well? the swiss peace summit is approaching, so we understand that ukraine has proposed its formula, which provides for the withdrawal of russian interventionists from our territory and so on, we understand that this formula has already been tested at very high- level meetings of the international plan, including the g7, and the g20 and so on and so forth, what are the prospects now in your opinion to do so that the swiss summit will propose... a new

, clear strategy for deterrence.