what was all this for him? vladimir putin will undoubtedly use this summit to build a very important line for him, which will lead to the success of the brics summit in kazan, which will take place in october. this brics summit in kazan is an extremely important diplomatic and political event for putin. why? because there is a struggle around the summit. expansion of the composition of brics countries was foreseen. the kremlin actively played with the applications. which various countries are submitting, it has now been decided that there will be no expansion at this summit in kazan, but besides, it is in kazan that putin is going to demonstrate that he has the support of the countries of the so-called global south, and here on the sidelines of the sco summit, i think the main goal of kremlin diplomacy is simply to prepare for the summit in kazan. alexander, but we understand that there is a public agenda and there is a real agenda, that's how we understand. that

no matter what report, what report he gives at the summit, the key story, the main problems, well, the main problem is that putin is gradually beginning to be pressed, he waiting for the story with the american election, and on the other hand there is also the agenda that is being shaped by china and the chinese so-called plan that is not publicly accepted, at least in the west, putin is also trying to involve, so if we talk about ... plan, well , in particular, it concerns the russian-ukrainian war. how do you think putin will try to play it in his own interests now? it seems to me that the situation was determined after vladimir putin, entering a new term, issued an ultimatum, i.e. formulated his vision of ending the war in four points. this ultimatum leaves no room for diplomacy, nor for china. neither for hungary nor for turkey,

because if before putin's package of proposals it could be said that the kremlin formulates the goals of the war in different ways, constantly talks about them, creates different goals in different periods, then here putin formulated it in its final form, and if the kremlin did it like that, then what can mr. president xi or any other political politician do here, then what can mr. or any other politician, because, first of all, this demand of putin contains full recognition, and with the help of international treaties, the annexation of the occupied territories. of course, china cannot act here, china constantly, publicly, recognizes the territorial integrity of the entire country. this is maintained in chinese foreign policy quite strictly. in this ultimatum, putin demands that ukraine acquire neutral status. without nuclear status and refused

military-technical cooperation, relied only on its own military-technical capabilities, etc., that is, putin offers finlandization, to use an old word from the cold war period, this demand cannot be fulfilled in any way, because the very war that putin started led to the fact that not only ukraine, but also many other countries and regions, finland, sweden, join nato. that is why the voices of viktor orbán in particular have been heard, and the president of turkey erdogan said, maybe we don't know this, for sure, but apart from the ceasefire, this is the only thing that remains in the hands of various representatives of the world political scene, just bet i have a question for putin, do you not want to resort to a truce? actually, something like that may have happened on the grounds of the sco summit during bilateral negotiations of some kind. andre,

what do you think, and for what purpose did putin so quickly and so brazenly announce his ultimatum, that is, the swiss peace summit was held, quite a variety of things were discussed, well, russian aggression against ukraine was not directly on the agenda, although we understand that all they were talking about her, and now putin rolled out an ultimatum, no one, so to speak, pulled him to a certain place, but no, anyway, the first thing he did was voice something that cannot be, as you rightly... noted, accepted in any public political office. yes, this is a really important question and quite interesting, because indeed, during more than two years of active war, both putin and his entourage produced many different descriptions, results of the war, etc. and now putin, entering a new term, spoke like this. different assessments are possible here, but my answer is this: putin did it now, targeting... three

audiences at once, thinking it was for him profitably. one audience is internal. putin formed a new entourage around himself, he shuffled all the old people around. and created a cabinet without an end-to-end war, meaning he has put people he trusts very much in key positions in the new term for the next six years, and with that he sets them a task, as if to say, this is what you signed up for, this is what you have to do for the next six years, this should be the result of your work, this is the first point, an appeal to your own political top of the bureaucracy, the second important point, unequivocally appeals to ukrainian society with this ultimatum. in the kremlin, everyone knows about it, not even the mood, there is a constant conviction that ukraine must weaken itself from the point of view of its moral, military and political spirit, to break before the irresistible power of the kremlin, simply

put. putin, after president zelensky's term of office ended, first began to emphasize that zelensky was illegitimate, and it was impossible to conduct business with him. negotiations, etc. and this statement by putin is aimed at pushing how consider the kremlin a part of ukrainian society to the fact that it will be like this, accept it as inevitable, start already to change your position and develop a new one. and the third audience, here, of course, are the countries of the alliance of global support of ukraine. first of all, the united states. surely putin wants to say here that, despite... how the scenarios of the american elections in november will develop, who will be the president, the position of the kremlin is this: it is absolutely unimportant to us, putin wants to say, who will be your president there, these are our demands about how this one should end war, and any

us president or any nato secretary general will deal with them, and now he is new, or any composition of the european commission, will the ministry of defense be created in the... commission, which will be headed by the former prime minister the minister of estonia, the foreign policy department, the kremlin says: this is the perspective and no other, it leads to the fact that everyone heard it, no doubt, everyone who makes political decisions, who develops further elements of security policy, everyone perfectly heard what putin said . yes, but if we are talking about ukrainian audience, we understand that nothing... stupider putin could have voiced, yes, because it was not some kind of proposal that should provoke an internal-ukrainian discussion, it is, so to speak, an ultimate demand, to give what the russians still did not capture, and we understand that these stories

do not work like that, on the other hand, you very correctly noted, putin is trying to indicate, that is, to put up certain markers of his appetites, and this is without a doubt calculated for western udyta. and accordingly the key story: putin is in a big hurry. we understand that he would wanted to be in time before the elections in the united states, maybe some big events are still being planned, because putin is really, well , extremely violently raping his generals, yes, when he talks about an offensive at any cost, those two months of the summer campaign, well they are extremely bloody and intense. in general, the situation here is quite strange, as far as... this is evident, the fact is that, on the one hand, in the summer of this year, many predicted, and not without reason, that the kremlin would conduct a rather large offensive, not just tactical, but quite persuasive, which will be recorded as an asset. such an offensive, which would change the situation in favor of the kremlin quite strongly, is on the one hand, and on

the other hand, we are surprised to see that at the same time putin changed the minister of defense and put in the place of the minister of defense some kind of accountant, a person who... . is responsible for ensuring that the army spends half the time fighting and half the time preparing financial documents correctly. and the second moment here is extremely historical: at the same time arrests and accusations of fraud of important military personnel are taking place activists, military generals. not only is general petrov accused of fraud, but yesterday we saw a report that the commander of the guards airborne assault brigade, colonel horodylov, is that name also accused of fraud? i would say that this is a rather strange situation in which to prepare or carry out an offensive, because such events, in my opinion, greatly demoralize the military leadership on the ground. that is, if you imagine that they are talking about it in the trenches, and we have an idea about it

because of course, war correspondents, war correspondents, it is clear that everyone there is confused. after all, the most active and authoritative in the trenches are russian military commanders. for some reason they follow the article about fraud, are these some strange events? this is one side of all this, the other side after all, despite the fact that there were in the first half of 2024. rather insignificant tactical successes of the russian army are fixed, but from the point of view of the whole concept of this war, it is clearly visible that parity has been achieved, and this parity does not break, that is, yes, the russian army continues to inflict heavy blows on the infrastructure, but ukraine has been very successfully active for all six months of this year since it just started receiving military aid, but even before that... the new war that ukraine has been conducting has been quite effective, and it must be said , that i don't see

any ideas in the russian military and political environment, how this parity can be destroyed, so the situation is not easy here, and it seems to me that this is why the kremlin is now somewhat supporting and twisting the gnotic, organizing throwbacks around the concept of a possible truce or peace, peace documents, peace negotiations, that is why the kremlin... again confirms the istanbul documents. here, of course, as i said at the very beginning, the brics summit in kazan plays a big role, no wonder, because until the october summit putin has to pretend to be a peacemaker, he has to constantly hint to the global audience that he is in general for peace, to constantly continue the game that it is kyiv that does not want peace, to constantly appeal to some old documents, in particular those of istanbul. but the istanbul so-called documents, let them be not ratified and even not signed rather than

anything, but the istanbul documents go against what putin voiced and what we call putin's ultimatum, and speaking of which, let's go back to this ultimatum again, is this about psychopathology, is there any scenario plan in your opinion in the kremlin, that is, they follow some clear, i don't know directive line there, or they simply depend on the situation. at least now , it is clear that putin, on the one hand, has resorted to steps that clearly demonstrate that he is going to fight for a long time. this is primarily visible from the changes he made in the russian political and military leadership after the start of the new term. he showed with these permutations that the entire calculation of the war must be calculated in a different way, because it will be long. hence all these economic changes... in the economic bloc, it is one sided, and it clearly shows it.

the other side is that the kremlin does not have an answer to the question of how to proceed if the global alliance of support for ukraine is preserved and will strengthen and develop. this is a fundamental factor. putin and the kremlin they always say that the war would have ended if the west had not supported ukraine. it is said with an insult, sometimes in an insulting tone. or in the tone of diplomatic maneuvers, but this is the main point, and of course, putin's dream is for the global alliance to support ukraine to weaken, give up, change its position, but it must be said, this is not the case, it is clearly visible, on the contrary, if you look at , what is happening now at the nato summit, the kremlin media will shout and curse, because at the nato summit in washington, and this will happen in less than 10. it will be clearly demonstrated that

long institutions of support have been created and will continue to be created in relation to the kremlin and its war against ukraine, that is, all support is institutionalized and regardless of who will be the president of the usa, which parties will win in the european parliament, are voted in congress us documents, long, which will not change. regarding this, we can clearly see that the kremlin is churning milk like a frog with great energy. so that sour cream is formed, your contacts with the third world, everyone can clearly see this, get involved at least for something, at least for a small island state that supposedly supports the kremlin, for some international institutions, for some agreements with these countries, to offer something, but it must be said that ukrainians of political regimes that frankly and openly supported the kremlin on planet earth, i would said, except for north korea, we all have big ones. and by the way,

returning to china, yes, and perhaps during this astana conversation, xijin ping will very specifically voice his sacramental question to putin: putin, how long are you going to fight with ukraine, yes, because the chinese also have their own plans for what is called continental cooperation, that is, the chinese are not just measuring in hundreds of billions, the chinese now have a lot to do with... keeping their entire bloated economy and all their machinations. there is an important point here: china will never enter into an alliance of direct struggle with the kremlin, but at the same time china is demonstrating. aimed at territorial capture is unacceptable for china. i have no doubt that china and turkey and many other countries in latin america are also willing to provide some a favor to putin in ending the war, aloosh in ending the war, and not in continuing it on the terms of the ultimatum put forward by putin.

however, there are no prospects for this now, because, i think, many people... asked putin, and erdogan, on the sidelines of this summit, also asked putin again, saying, maybe you want to take some new steps, yes, we are ready to help, but putin's answer is obvious, no, everything is formulated in the ultimatum, if we fulfill what is in the ultimatum, once again i return to where we started, no one has any perspectives, that some kind of diplomacy should be carried out regarding the end of the war, and the fact that on planet earth... dozens of politicians would like to receive the nobel peace prize for creating a structure for the end of this war, there is no doubt about it, everyone dreams of it. thank you very much, oleksandr, for this extremely interesting and informative conversation, i want to remind our tv viewers that oleksandr morozov, a famous political scientist, was working for them from prague. well, the time of our program

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go to ukraine, join the international legion and try to do something, this is not afghanistan, this is not syria, this is completely different, this the great war of the 21st century against an opponent who outnumbers you in all. the supply of equipment and ammunition is the most important thing, and we are now paying the price for the long delay, because there has been no real effect of this aid on the front lines, so we continue to bleed because of this delay. peacetime does not give birth to strong people, this is the difference between ukraine and europe. if the ukrainians lose this war, the situation in europe will be radically different. i am a combat rescuer, on the zero line,

or waiting for an evacuation call. i uav pilot in the team of scouts and adjusters. i will calculate the first number. 120mm mortar and it's like an orchestra, we coordinate everything and try to find the enemy before the enemy finds our guys, will or die. in the russian-ukrainian war, a lot of foreigners are fighting in two armies, and if on the russian side it is mainly people from africa and... asia, then in the composition of zas there are fighters from europe, which forced people from other countries to exchange the comfort of home for the trenches and shelling what foreign militaries think about

western aid and the prospects of this war, about it today in the issue of donbas reality, my name is yehor loginov, congratulations. currently , several units of the foreign legion are fighting on the side of ukraine against the country of the aggressor, these are completely different people from different countries, both with combat experience and without it, for example, before the start of a full-scale war, michael had no relation to the army, he worked at home, in belgium at the post office i could not calmly look at what was happening here, for several months i corresponded with people who were already fighting in ukraine at that time, in particular with

one french soldier, asking what i i can help, so i dared. a week before leaving, i told my mother: i am going to ukraine, join the international legion and try to do something. she certainly wasn't happy, it was really hard for her and it's hard now, also because in my country... in belgium she doesn't have people to talk to about this, about my work here, about my decision . i joined the international legion in august last year, i am ex-military, i served in the paratroopers for nine years. putin is acting unacceptable, he is like a small child throwing a tantrum that won't end until he gets what he wants. it must be stopped, i wanted to help ukraine militarily even after the annexation of crimea, but then it did not work out. with the beginning of a full-scale war, watching the suffering of women and children, the suffering of families,

the suffering of the whole country, i decided to go. you know, sometimes when you are in doubt about an action, your heart says yes and your head says no. i didn't have that problem. my brain was telling me, you have to help. and my heart said the same. fighters of the foreign legion perform. started out as a regular infantryman, but last year we had one commander, a really good commander, and he tried to find abilities in each of the guys, and they gave me a sniper rifle. i was a shooter for several months. from

our position at first it was possible to still work, but reality is changing and the russians are adapting, digging new trenches, changing positions and defending them better. later, it became almost impossible to work with the shooter in this position. after that i was a grenade launcher, later joined the drone team. now i am a uav pilot in the team scouts and adjusters, working with the guys in the field, working with the artillery, the other drone team, the fpv team, and it's like an orchestra, we're coordinating everything and trying to find the enemy before the enemy finds our guys.

there is the first calculation number of a 120 mm mortar, our positions are in the forest and it is quite difficult, because of the heat and artillery fire of the enemy there are big fires, if the wind rises, the flames cannot be controlled, we are fighting not only with the enemy, but also with fire. andrew was in several wars, served in... terrorist unit in northern ireland, fought in africa. the russian-ukrainian war is the worst he has seen. in northern ireland i faced terrorism, a lot of improvised explosive devices, a lot of sniper fire. you are not at war with the military in front of you, you will fight with

excuses. in childhood, everything was different. hunting on the haram side, different tactics, and then i got into the ukraine where we dug in and held positions, held the line under constant artillery fire, it's the most difficult situation i've ever been in, right now there is no progress, but i understand that the guys want to advance, for this we need more men and weapons, we are losing guys in a day, in a week, it is really difficult for us to control ourselves, but we have to find strength, motivation, give 110% for the sake of the guys , who... have paid the ultimate price, a country like the us really has a good experience of war, but they have no idea what this war is, it's not afghanistan, it's not syria, it's completely different, it's a big war of the 21st century against an enemy that is superior you in all components. the time is over when you can...

would be to go on the offensive and advance 50 km deep into the enemy's positions in a day. the supply of equipment and ammunition is the most important thing. the event must not block or stop this process. that's one of the problems with democracy, there's always somebody who's...

who's registered in the uk and has to be written off, has to be sent over here, whether it's a land rover 110 or whatever. at the moment, i see people who, commanding battalions, companies, platoons, have to buy, collect money, beg, borrow cars in order to fulfill combat missions civilian vehicles are wasteful, the amount of money spent on their repair is huge, we need these military vehicles the most, it would help a lot. but not only equipment is waiting at the front, people are needed, they understand this in the west, but they can help only at the level of instructors, at least for now. thus, french president emmanuel macron initiated the creation of a coalition of countries that are ready to send their military instructors to ukraine, and suggested that others, great britain, poland, the netherlands, the baltic countries and scandinavia. at the same time, the usa and germany.