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of electricity, they in one way or another affect the perception of what is happening in ukraine, among ukrainians, because everyone is starting to think about how to prepare for the next winter, let's tell our tv viewers, what is happening now, in particular in the turkish direction, what is happening in the southern direction near krynyk, how do you assess the current situation, because what is happening at the front actually depends on... and the light and the future of ukrainians, you know, i would asked the question in a slightly different way, the fact is that the fate of the front may depend on what happens in our rear, and there is a lot that is right now in the hands of us and you here in the rear, this in no way diminishes the role of our you defenders, thanks to whom we can now be here to communicate, but i mean what, i mean, that in them there... what is changing, there is

as it was, so it is, the enemy pre, the enemy presses, the enemy is met and if possible destroyed, there are unprincipled changes , you see, this is the same huge, you know, asphalt rink, which the russian army looks like was created mainly in the last year, this is all huge biomass, it continues to press, it continues to press, and under this pressure the front slowly, very slowly prog. .. this is ours, but it bends, does not tear anywhere, does not crack anywhere, slowly bends, retreats a little to the west, but at the same time with such losses for the enemy that they will not be able to crawl like this indefinitely, this is what is happening on the front, but then there are nuances, where who has a better situation, here in the turkish direction for us the worst, the enemy there has so far advanced as much as possible, and by the way, the pokrovsky direction is also a very serious situation, a threat to communications for... on our

route, but again, even you and i, although we do not have ethers with you so often, even you and i have already talked about both, i.e the same thing continues, but in kharkiv region , on the contrary, in kharkiv region we are on the offensive, we are trying to throw the enemy out of the five-kilometer strip that the enemy squeezed out on the tenth of may, but the enemy there already has a task not to advance, their task is somehow to pay off and try to fix these 5 km, well, again, this is also not news for a long time. but the main calculation of the enemy right now is not for victory at the front, but the russians understand very well that victory at the front is not for them, yes, they will still advance somewhere, they can even quite make serious progress, uh, in particular, they really have the task of pressing the entire donbas, well, let's be honest, it's not a fact that they will succeed, but i wouldn't say that they definitely won't succeed, that's it. .. the war and

only the battle shows, let's say, who was stronger at the moment, at this point, but they perfectly understand that they will not be able to advance any further than donbas, but kharkiv showed them this very well, but kharkiv them, let's say taught that they no longer carry out an offensive in two directions, that there is a maximum of one, and in quality they chose donetsk region in this one direction, but the main main calculation of the enemy is now on you and me... they understand that the armed forces are as they are and will not be weaker, on the contrary, they can become stronger if we are here we will carry out a normal mobilization, weapons and anti-aircraft missiles will also be delivered, that is, the peak of the russians' capabilities at the front has already passed, it was somewhere in the winter-spring of this year, and accordingly, the most terrible situation for us at the front is already behind us, after all, it was until this april year, until congress voted aid, and when in in may... in june, although

the situation with mobilization began to change a little bit, the front has not felt it yet, none of those who have been mobilized have yet reached the front, but this is the perspective that is looming for... the next two or three months there, that's why the situation at the front is very slow, but it will change in our favor, and that's why at the moment the enemy's main efforts are on you and me, that's why ahmadit, that's why we can't break the energy system, that is, the calculation of the enemy's armed forces, but maybe we will break the rear , maybe we will still press the ukrainian rear so that he decided that there was no way to defeat the russians, because it was impossible to defeat the russians, how they drove this information wave, this is the whole of russian cynicism: deliberately and absolutely direct a rocket at children with cancer, and after that launch all their information hawks so that they are in one voice they shouted: for the sake of the children, let's stop shooting, but

this is what is actually happening now, that is, the main efforts of the enemy are not at the front now, the main efforts of the enemy now are precisely to break the ukrainian rear, because if we escape, we will fall... you and i let's start asking for peace, well, the armed forces themselves won't do anything, the armed forces will carry out the order, order them not to shoot, they will carry out such an order, because the army is the army, and in fact, the politicians decide, and the politicians focus on you and me, and so on in fact, this is the important feature of this stage of the war, the situation at the front is very slow, but it is starting to turn in our direction, it does not mean that we will win tomorrow, it does not mean that we are already... in a counteroffensive somewhere outside kharkiv oblast, no, on the contrary, the majority is still on the defensive, but the trends are already very high clearly outlined, here is this asphalt rink, which is already bending our front, here it has the momentum that was given to it last year, now it is ending, it is still

rolling by inertia, but the momentum is ending, there is nowhere to take a new one, we have the opposite it's going slowly, but only by pumping up our muscles, we 're just getting warm after this terrible winter, and... in this situation, in fact , everything is decided in the rear, it's decided that we will turn out to be the weak link, as the russians expect, or we won't show up, mr. yevgeny, i still wanted to ask a short question you about the situation in the south, because you are right about donbass, we have been talking about donbass for the past two months, periodically, when you are included in the verdict program, we definitely talk about it and about the same settlements. but a number of ukrainian mass media, with reference to some of their sources in the general staff , say that ukrainian units have allegedly withdrawn from the settlements of krynka and urozhayna on the left bank of the kherson region, is it possible in the current conditions and in

a rather difficult situation to refer to some anonymous sources in the general staff and let this information be replicated, is it still necessary to clearly understand... what is the general staff, it clearly gives the answer, yes, no, and to focus on exactly this, so that there is no speculation, because yes or else these speculations can also affect the rear and the people who are in the rear, because it seems that the russians, these rinks that you speak of, are rolling them in the east and in the south, no, let's not forget in the south, that even if we really had to leave here, i want to say right away, that i can't now no... no deny it , well, it's a sin, i myself in this situation am not guided by the data of the general staff, i have absolutely direct, let's say, contacts, well, i have friends who are fighting on the right bank to the left from the left to the right and so on, but

i haven't yet had the opportunity to check this last information directly first-hand, because you know, these guys aren't always on the phone all the time, so you have to catch those moments when they there is a connection, that's why... no , honestly, i still don't know if we got out of there or not didn't work out, but let's imagine a worse option, let's imagine that we did, it's absolutely not the same as in donbas, on the contrary, there actually was a very similar, well, very encouraging, but at the same time extremely difficult and extremely risky attempt of our offensive operation, i.e. even if we had to curtail this operation and take everyone to the right bank, it is not the same as the enemy being on the offensive there. it is the enemy, in this case, finally after how long since september-october last year, that is, after about 10 months of fighting, they finally managed to stop us there, but no we are confusing, we had the initiative there, we captured the bridgehead, we expanded it, if

even they were able to squeeze us out of this bridgehead, then it was their defensive operation, not that asphalt rink that bends donbas itself, they are there. .. all in this case, what they have achieved is that they, so be it, have returned to the situation of the fall of last year, they can breathe a little with relief and establish, let's say, a more stationary defense there. along the river bank, well, again, once again, i haven't yet i don't know if that's true, but it could very well be. the bridgehead lasted a very long time. bridgestones are usually not kept for so long. usually , the bridgehead is kept much smaller, further away, or the actual landing of a large landing party and the deployment of an operation, well, a large offensive one, which is why we kept this bridgehead. well, we already, we see that a major offensive operation, at least for the time being... has not happened, and in this case it may well be that the command could have assessed that the prospect

of a major offensive operation, to make there, well, ala, landing in normandy, after all, in the near future, there is no chance, and in this case it was logical to take the personnel to the right bank, he was sitting there not just to sit there, he was holding the patzdarm precisely with the expectation of deployment, if , after assessing the general situation, the command decided what to deploy... there a big offensive is still unrealistic, well, they could really prove it, thank you, mr. yevgeny, another topic that was brought up to date by general budanov over the past few days, or rather an interview head of the head of the university the intelligence department of the ministry, can i see you right away, and you know in general this story with this interview, it was previously given a month and a half ago, so there is no one to discuss it now. i am you, you didn't listen to what i wanted to say, i wanted to say something completely different, because this interview with budanov was published in a new

era, or hb is now called, and there he talked about the fact that there are some problems, and then andrii yusov, the spokesman for guru of the ministry of defense of ukraine, denied this and said that this interview had indeed been prepared earlier, where the general said that there are problems that have a tendency to escalate, but... but with that another event happened: the belarusian troops were withdrawn, withdrawn from the ukrainian border, because lukashenko had been saying for a long time that there was a threat from ukraine, and and this coincided in time, and this interview, which came out late, and the very reaction of lukashenka, when he withdrew, as he says, the army from the southern direction, that's how you evaluate the prospects in general. the fact that lukashenko will still, lukashenka will still be pressed, that he will be forced to go and discover some part or

to attack the ukrainian front, it is clear that this is not the same front as in the east and in the south, and it is not the same situation as on the border with the russian federation, taking into account the geographical landscape in general and the climate in general, and no, well, let's take the landscapes , for example, in chernihiv oblast or sumy oblast , there is no difference, that's right, there are not so many swamps between ukraine and oblast, the forests and swamps are quite specific, no, the question is different, the question is not in the landscape, the question is in belarus, but as kuchma once said, ukraine is not russia, well in the same way, belarus is still not strong, and as long as lukashenko remains in power, well, i would give more than 90% that... as long as he remains a dictator, he will not join this war. note that all this time, all 2.5

years, the same certain game has been going on. all the time, the kremlin is trying to pressure him to get involved in the war directly, not only with the territory, not only with the resources that he has already given practically all of his military resources to the russians, but so that the belarusian army nevertheless becomes another participant in this war , and for 2.5 years, my father has been suffering from this, so... i would say that his vast experience helps him in this, let's remember his genesis, he is basically the former head of a collective farm, but he developed a very clear method even in his youth, so when the party leadership sends him some absolutely moronic directives from the center and demands their implementation, he knows how to ignore them, but not demonstratively, on the contrary, he includes what is called ibd, imitator of riotous activity. here he is reporting to the mountain how well he is carrying out their brilliant instructions, in fact

those of your tabards, that's exactly what he 's been doing all this war, and it's just that, well, it's the kind of dances with a tambourine that continue absolutely without changes. pay attention to the fact that he is, as there is such a popular expression, stupid-stupid, but cunning, i would not call lukashenka some great wise politician, but you cannot deny him cunning, he did not follow putin's offer to enter this the war even at the beginning of the 22... year, when the whole world was really convinced that we would lose and lose quickly, even then he bet on the fact that maybe something will go wrong, a lot has gone wrong since then. long ago turned into the biggest war after the second world war, so lukashenko is not a fool to fit into this war now, but he is really constantly under pressure from the kremlin, and he has to somehow escape from it all the time, and he constantly demonstrates a threat somewhere in the lithuanian and the polish border, do you remember how he stood right next to the map, showed the arrows along which

the nato troops are going to attack him, and just then said: "yeah, they want to trick me, that i should go there to ukraine"... he sent the troops, and at this time they will hit the libertarian themselves, we will not succeed. well, then there were a lot of joint maneuvers, when he actually told the russians each time that listen, well, we are preparing, we are preparing to perform together with you, well, well, but you understand that we are not ready yet, we do not have the same experience as you, but let's do more training, let's conduct more maneuvers, and he plays such games all the time, and my bet is that he will continue to lead them just as successfully, and now all his games are on our border they looked exactly the same, another imitation for the kremlin that, well, we're about to, we're about to, but we're still a little unprepared. i think that the situation can radically change only in the 25th year, in the 25th year there will be elections, and it is quite possible that russia will play some kind of special operation to replace lukashenko with an even more convenient

dictator for the kremlin, namely lukashenko - after all, it's almost like kimchentse. their very close ally, but he still plays his game, and they try to replace him with just a straight gauleiter, who will simply carry out all instructions directly, who will actually be an official of the moscow administration, but if in the 25th year the russians, as they call it, transfer of power will succeed, then it may be a completely different story, but while the father of rulit, he this war will not be won, well , until then, i would say so, while lukashenko still... has a direct contact, because you see, when this nato summit began, they conducted belarusian-chinese exercises near the borders of the european union, and it looks like , that lukashenko is more now he is not even betting on putin, on sidinpin, and kimchenin, whom you mentioned, they, he is also betting on the chinese leader as well, that is, by the way, an absolutely

correct parallel, and lukashenko in particular is trying to connect with comrades. xi, and the need for comrade xi to compensate for the influence of the kremlin, because he understands that comrade xi is now the only person in the world who can quite directly dictate something to comrade pu, that is why comrade lu is trying to be very useful to comrade everyone, and how much it now useful stems from another story, just before the nato summit, i think you noticed duda's visit to comrade xi, when polish president duda flew to china and said. that poland is very dissatisfied with lukashenka's behavior, so dissatisfied that it is seriously considering the complete closure of the border. immediately after that, there was a statement from the ministry of foreign affairs of china, which called on lukashenka to improve relations with his western neighbors a little, so lukashenko immediately began to make

gestures at the meeting of the european union, including such , let's say, sensitive gestures for him, as for the first time in all this time, for the first time since 20... he began to release political prisoners from the zone, that is, everything was so transparent and obvious, through lukashenka there is a huge transit of chinese goods to europe, and if duda closes the border with lukashenka, in fact he will block the transit of goods for comrade xi, comrade xi is very unprofitable, so he will give comrade lu all those commands that are needed to keep this transit, respectively, for chinese interests. mr. yevgeny, i cannot but... ask you about one more such special media operation or torpedoing, media torpedoing of syrsky, people's deputy of ukraine mariyana bezugla, forgive me for mentioning her on the air, but she publicly started to criticize, listen, let's ask her to comment on it, seriously,

i'm asking you only as a person with military experience , who understands how the army generally perceives when some political games begin around the commanders, around the commanders-in-chief, is it even advisable during the war for a person who has no experience to do this? well, you touched on a really really very painful topic, which is much bigger than the question about one particular deputy and her posts, the point is that, well, in general, we are doing some things that no one has done before us. and therefore no one knows how it will end, namely, we are waging a huge war, where the stake is simply the survival of our country in general, while trying to keep a bunch of democratic ones. institute, well, in fact, usually even very democratic countries during the war for survival many things are curtailed, put on pause, then resumed, but we try

almost not from, we actually, except for the elections, we from all other institutions of democracy, we did not give up during the war, and even our conversation with you now in the ether, this is actually a proof of the same thing, we did not introduce military censorship during the war for the survival of the country, you know how i did not search , i didn’t find another such... example, we’re not talking about some distant colonial wars that are being waged far away from your country, that’s another story, but when countries fought like that in an adult, real way, well, you , for example, i think you know that this is the ministry of truth oroel, in fact, it is written not only from totalitarian regimes, there he took a lot of details from the work of the bbc during the second world war, he himself worked as a bbc journalist during the second world war, he described where he worked in the form of the ministry of truth, and this is britain. and this is the cradle of democracy in general, but during the war with hitler , even this cradle, unfortunately, was forced to temporarily give up a lot of things, temporarily give up some of the rights and

freedoms in order to preserve them all, we almost which we do not refuse, and such a level of rights and freedoms, it actually implies a very high level of consciousness and a very high level of responsibility, and our level of consciousness of responsibility is no more than that of all other people, but we are simple and ordinary people. and as a result, it seems to me that we will now go beyond the posts of one deputy, because the problem is not theirs anymore, it seems to me that in general it is a joint effort, where ms. maryana also made an effort, but she is not the only one, joint by the efforts of many journalists, politicians, people's deputies, there, here pandora's box is opened, pandora's box is opened, when, let's say, the removal of some generals begins, because of the media. well, let's say, these generals were called butchers, the reverses are starting, yes, the soldiers are starting to perform, change the brigadier for us, because he is a butcher. on the other hand,

the opposite begins, the speeches of the fighters: leave us our konbrig, don’t change him, he ’s cool, well, to be honest, each specific situation and each specific person can be well understood in this, but in general , it seems to me that we are actually generally because... in principle, the discussion of military decisions and military leaders came into the public space, we opened a very dangerous pandora's box, and i'm afraid that here we are, a little bit more, and we can slide into the soviets of soldiers' deputies, and how did the creation of soldiers' soviets in the army end? deputies, you and i remember well enough from the school history course, the army that starts to play democracy and becomes... very democratic, the democratic army is just falling apart inside, the army is by definition an undemocratic institution. yes, here there is a certain paradox that

an undemocratic institution is needed to protect a democratic country, but that is how it is, but when the army becomes a democratic institution from the inside, well, this army loses wars, but we have not yet crossed this very border, here are soldier deputies no, combrigs have not been chosen yet. but i'm afraid that we have recently moved very seriously in this direction, and this is a dangerous trend that must be stopped. well, at the very end of our conversation, mr. yevgeny, i will ask you about mobilization, because on july 16 the deadline for conscripts 4,690,496 conscripted ukrainians had to update their data in tsc or in reserve plus or in tsnapa. renewed their data, of which more than 3 million used the reserve+plus application, but at the same time , the verkhovna rada of ukraine is preparing a concept,

working out the concept of economic reservation, well, this topic has been discussed in society for a long time, well, at least it has been introduced into society, this concept is being discussed by dmytro natalukha , chairman of the committee of the parliamentary committee on economic development. explains the necessity of this reservation in this way, let's listen. in fact, this means that for the amount of the reservation cost, for example, you want to book four employees, this is the amount of uah 80,00 per month. this service station concludes a contract with some brigade for free services in the amount of uah 80,000 per month. and for this he gets the right to armor four workers. that is, you don't have any. enough profit to book your employees, but you have a product, work or service that is in demand among the military, well, it should be said that

economic booking has already begun ... because the list of these representatives of public organizations who were booked, this is also actually the beginning of this economic history, not economic, not economic booking, that is another thing, but this, this reservation of geochecks, is an undermining of the very idea of ​​the reservation institution itself, in fact, because the institution of reservation, what is it in general, is that there is a constitutional duty to defend one's country, but we can exempt someone from doing it. duty, if at this time he performs another critically important function, and this function is more important than what this person would perform in the army. this is the very meaning of the reservation institute, that if you, for example, produce military products for the warring army, then you are more needed at the factory than in the army. so, if you are, for example, an ambulance doctor, then yes, mobilizing you means depriving civilians of their bodies without emergency medicine, well,

you can't. to do such things, that is the meaning of the reservation institute, you see, and when suddenly all the geoshkas fall under the reservation, and they receive a hundred percent quota, just for that a sign that they are carrying out some international projects of international technical assistance, this in principle breaks the very logic of the reservation, this very idea simply turns it upside down, it is complete nonsense, it is a disgrace and it must be changed, and so it is, since thank god it was canceled all the couriers are already booked. by here and there and the like, but we also need to cancel this, excuse me, reservation of grantosmok, this is really the very inversion of the very idea of ​​reservation, turning it upside down, and so on, if we believe that you can to reserve you is simply what you absorbed under the embassy of grantees, well, in that case, yes, economic reservation in this case looks absolutely logical, and economic reservation, but again, this

is what natalukhan was saying. it's one thing, and what was basically introduced under this name is completely different, and let's analyze the difference, and at the end, natalukh slandered that they did not abandon their first, completely crooked idea, so he said this phrase at the end : you don't have enough money to make a reservation, kamon, that is, they have it this project that you can simply reserve an employee by paying a certain amount, well, this is completely absurd, look at this, but if they... vote for this, then it will be such a crack in society that i can't even imagine how to patch, and that means , that the people who introduce this do not at all understand the foundations of the constitutional system itself, the foundations of the state and law, the basic foundation of the constitutional system in general is that everyone is equal before the law, everyone has equal rights and equal duties, and how as i just said, we can exempt some people from doing theirs

duty ska, because at this time they are performing some other, more important, it is possible, this is the meaning of the reservation, and what is offered with the economy reservation, it means that all people have equal rights and obligations up to a certain level of wages, and if you have earned a sufficient amount, then you retain all your rights, and your responsibilities are removed, it is just to break the constitutional order with this one law, in general, well, i really... i am sure that it will not even pass the committee, without saying , he won't end up there under the dome, because if, god forbid, they vote for it, well it is real, well, i say, the abolition of the constitutional order, but the option that nataluha was now voicing is a little closer to the basic idea of ​​reservation, but then it should not be called economic, but if you perform certain functions for the army, then this a completely different story, if, for example, your

service station performs the functions of... serving military transport, then this is not about economic armoring, it is about the defense industry, a completely different conversation, but defense enterprises now have one hundred percent armor anyway, it is only important to prove what do you have namely military contracts, and it is not necessary to change the defense with a specific military part of the direction, that is, this issue has already been resolved, and simply sto should then receive the status of a defense enterprise, well, in short, yes, thank you mr. yevgeny, it was yevhen dik a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war. friends, we continue our broadcast. we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on these platforms, please like this video, in order for it to advance in youtube and facebook trends. well, take part in our survey. today we ask you about whether you are preparing your home for winter without light. yes, no, everything is quite on youtube.