intelligence, we are talking about the situation in the kursk region, now we will try to recruit, maryana noted that there are some tangible consequences for the situation on the eastern front, the situation in donbas, this kurdish operation, it does not exist, but by the way, i would like to remind you that volodymyr today , in fact, a week after the start of the raid by the ukrainian armed forces in the kursk region, zelenskyi announced, officially announced that ukrainian troops are present there, and according to the message of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces oleksandr syrskyi. about 100 km of the kursk region, of russian territory, i am not ready to say now whether it is only the kursk region or belgorod region as well, but the russian territory is controlled by the armed forces of ukraine, which, what further consequences this whole story will have for the front, we cannot connect now mariana is speechless, but i hope that we will do it from minute to minute, what direct consequences will this whole story have for the front, and also the political consequences, we will discuss a little later already with the diplomat, but... already literally

dozens , if i am not mistaken, publications in to the western press were devoted to the fact that for the russian state, it was a great shame and a great humiliation, and military experts, as well as politicians with whom we speak, do not hide that this whole situation also has not only a military purpose, as a distraction reserves there from donbass, and also a political goal, well, how, for example, how destabilization of the situation in the situation in russia itself, i think that... we will continue, we will continue this conversation with maryana byzugla, if it happens, she, if she appears on our broadcast, was also collected by my colleague zoryana stepanenko reactions in the west, reactions of western political circles and expert circles about what is happening in kursk oblast, what consequences all this will have for ukraine and for the world, i suggest to look. this operation showed that the russian. international borders

are porous, ukrainian forces have demonstrated that it is much easier to pass through them, this shows the key weakness of russia on the line of thousands of km, which actually passes on the north-eastern border of ukraine and russia. it is an exposure of this kind of weakness. and this operation also showed that russia is far from that strong, as they try to present it. i think that's what was very noticeable. this is lesson number one, lesson number two, despite threats in russia's rhetoric, both to ukraine and to western capitals, that it might use a tactical... nuclear strike, this was often heard from the mouths of leading figures in the kremlin, it did not happen , and we don't have any proof that this is possible, so i think this is lesson number two. lesson number three for me is really that despite the image of the russian military establishment and their efforts to present their military as the strongest of possible, the truth is actually the opposite. when ukrainian troops actually started to enter russian territory, we saw that they passed through two security lines of the border, which was very porous and easy to... it also

managed to withstand the initial pressure and reaction of the russian armed forces, including kadyrov's forces, which turned out to be completely unable to stop the ukrainians from further advancing their positions and prevent the further spread of ukrainian de facto control over the territory. so i think it led to a kind of recognition that russia is absolutely unable to prevent such attacks in the future. we can see how this is happening in the kursk region, as well as now in the belgorod region, and where the ukrainian forces have advanced throughout. the last 24 hours, so this is actually new and we see the complete inability of the russian establishment and administration, both political and military, to respond to such an invasion and have any meaningful response to it, so as far as i'm concerned, this is a great success for ukraine , and we can also predict that this will continue. well, how about us

we see, the opinion of the expert environment is absolutely unanimous. the kurdish operation of the armed forces of ukraine showed that vladimir putin does not control anything in russia, and the head of the bundestag defense committee, markus faber, also agreed with this. he believes that the operation, this operation in the kursk region , is generally the basis for negotiations with putin's successor. putin himself has already spoken three times about the ukrainian operation in the kursk region. last wednesday, he called the hostilities on the territory of russia a large-scale provocation. then on thursday promised one-time payments of 10,000 rubles for the evacuated residents of the region, but, for example, today the head of the kremlin said that this is how ukraine seeks to improve its negotiating position, now it is clear, now it becomes obvious and understandable why the kyiv regime refused our proposals to return to a peaceful settlement, as well as from the proposals of interested and neutral intermediaries.

let me remind you that speculations about possible negotiations to end the war appeared after the exchange of prisoners, which russia and western countries conducted on august 1, well, on august 6 the ukrainian army started a military operation in the kursk region, but putin says that now there will definitely be no negotiations... is that true? andriy vasilovskyi, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, good afternoon, now there are definitely no negotiations, do you think, after all, this operation in the kursk region, on the contrary , will encourage putin, who should sit down at the negotiating table and really bargain. so,

when you said the word now, i thought to myself, what was it, really a proposal for negotiations, no, she was not, therefore, as she was not, so she will not be. it will not be until the military-political machine of the russian federation comes into contact with reality, what they started in february 22 was an adventure with the methods and with the forces with which they carried it out, and their goals, their goal, is all the more adventurous and insane. well, it's good that ukraine managed to prove it in practice, without fail. we could not prove it without our partners in the west and east, and now, despite the very large advantage of the russian federations in all forms, and weapons, and manpower, and equipment, and financing and so

on, despite all this, ukraine holds on and even allows itself such, i would say, circuses. circus tricks, this is not yet an operation, i will allow myself to say so, it will become an operation when it reaches a certain scale, this is only the beginning, and for now it is a mystery for the russian federation, that is why we see that putin, vladimir vladimirovich , is reading on tv today from a piece of paper, stammering, someone prepared a text, and this text has no content at all. there is no prospects, if two days ago it was, so to speak, a provocation, then why didn’t it end, why didn’t greater russia destroy this provocation in two days, well, they already did, look, they already did in a week, i counted, i could be wrong , but i

counted six times when they reported that they stopped the ukrainian offensive and ukrainian sabotage groups, yes, and then this provocation turns into something else? that it is necessary to start evacuating entire regions, half of the kursk region has begun to be evacuated to the belgorod region, soon there will be bryansk, we will see, but nevertheless, but nevertheless, look, there is information that there are at least about 30, at most more than 40, maybe even more settlements, maybe these are small villages, holding under the control of the ukrainian army, this does not encourage putin to carry out? territories , it is at not too high rates, but when you look at the map as a whole, well, for example, of ukraine, the occupied territories of ukraine, and here is this share, it is not commensurate, i agree, it is absolutely, it is simply imperceptible against the background

everything else, in russia, but in russia it is noticeable, no, in russia it is even more invisible, because russia has a territory of 17 million km, and for them 350 or 550 is nothing. these are the first, second, in general , these are very neglected semi-forest, semi-swamp areas, where no one has ever particularly lived, and both from the sumy side, from the ukrainian side, and from the other side, from the sudzhyn region, these are quite poor areas, residents there there is little, there is almost no industry there, if it were not for the war now, there would not be thousands of russian soldiers standing there, who in general... well, they satisfy local local cooperation by the fact that they buy something there, and of course drunkenness too, so it is imperceptible for russia, for the russian military machine, sorry, it is also imperceptible, if this

circus trick of ours turns into a serious military operation, acquires at least operational... headquarters , then we will see how vulnerable the russian federation really is, so far it reacts like an elephant to a fly, huh. well, there is a certain explanation for this, why it reacts like this, i repeat once again, the scales are disproportionate, okay, if you take the territories, the scales are not symmetric there, but there is such a political component to this story, you are the head of the largest country in the world, a nuclear country, and here, even if someone over there captured 2 km of this territory, it is not a big blow to your image, even there the western press cnn writes that ukraine has embarrassed putin, that... this very invasion, no matter how small it may be, is humiliating for the russian state, and

what such humiliation can ultimately turn into for russia and for putin, that is what they are looking at not only there are western countries that help ukraine, but also watching china, the countries of asia, the countries of the global south, who are used to considering russia there as a big and dangerous state, are watching, here you cannot do anything with the invasion of two or three villages there, relatively speaking, i am for... that many countries are those that sit on the fence and hope that it will all end by itself somehow, and they are both for one side and for that, in many of these countries, local analysts will conclude that it is still necessary to buy chinese weapons, and not russian, or american, not russian, it is true, american is more expensive, but it is more powerful. this is the first, the second, maybe they will somehow reorient their

economic interests, it is also not excluded, but in a minor, minor way, if russian oil is twice as cheap, they will buy it, regarding putin's slap in the russian federation itself, i read some russian press, both official and such, you know, semi-underground, i... i don’t see expressions of indignation or shame anywhere, i see a certain, how to say, unwillingness to accept the facts, or misunderstanding, why they haven’t figured it out yet, six days have already passed , it is, but again, it is not of such a non-tragic scale, it does not have a shade and a crumb of the understanding that happened in ukraine on the 24th. in the 22nd year, when we realized that the enemy came to our land and he came

to kill us, there is no such thing, there is nothing else, two babushkas can complain that it drove by, it means a ukrainian military car and sprayed all over their cucumbers , this may be, but there is no real social public anxiety or indignation or concern for... there is just wonder and hope, well, now we will strike and end everything among one of the targets of this operation, both from the ukrainian side , experts and the world declared destabilization inside russia, has this goal been achieved, or are there prospects for achieving it? there are prospects of achieving it in the event that the real property interests of these oligarchs suffer, so far they are not suffering, you see, the derepaska said that... aluminum is bad in russia, because it is difficult to sell it, it will postpone its

production to china and many will do so . well, speaking, this is it, and the influence on public opinion, the influence on the military sphere, now the impact on the economy, uh, i don't want to downplay the fact that we're doing, the entry of several thousand ukrainian soldiers with heavy equipment. their free promotion, and their careful handling there, competent, correct, and fully controlled, moreover, approved in fact by our partners, and the germans, and the french, and the americans, and the british, i named four, i read the sources of all four and the public and official, and they all say the same thing, this is their war, they were attacked, and... can be punished where we him, where they get him, so all this is definitely a very good fact, we will pray,

or hope, who how, agnostics, there are believers and so on, that it goes into the operational space, and when it goes into the operational space , then we will say, glory to ukraine, we did it, thank you very much, andrii vesilovskyi, the extraordinary honorable ambassador of ukraine, we talked about the political consequences before. all for the regime of vladimir putin as a result of this operation in the kursk region and not only in the kursk region. that's all we have, subscribe to the radio svoboda channel until tomorrow. there are 25% discounts on edem until independence day in psyllany bam and oskad pharmacies. there are discounts until independence day on linex forte of 15% in psylansky bam and oskad pharmacies. allergies seem to be overcome by ts3 leo. citrolev neo protects

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yarysh. us vice president kamela harris leads former president donald trump by four points in three hotly contested states. viskontseni, pennsylvania and michigan. this is evidenced by recent surveys by the new york times and the college of siena. at the same time, according to the polls of the donald group. leads in other states that could also play an important role in the elections in nevada and arizona. we will talk more about the latest news of the election campaign in the usa with our journalist maria lyanovska, who is now joining the broadcast. maria, i congratulate you. congratulations stepa. maria, so let's talk about these latest data that we see, what they indicate and whether at this stage the data of public opinion polls can be considered representative ostape, the data we will talk about was conducted by the new york times in collaboration with the siena institute. and this is the first major representative survey since the campaign restarted, after joe biden dropped his candidacy in favor of camila harris and she became the official

democratic nominee, so this poll was conducted from august 5th to august 9th among registered voters in the states michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, and according to those polls, kamela garis trumps donald trump somewhere. about a 4% difference in these three different states, while the data shows that her rating is much better than joe biden's rating, which the latest polls last year showed him losing to donald trump in those states. as for representativeness, we know that this study has a margin of error of 4%, which is the 4% that kamela harris currently leads donald trump by, and first of all, we have to understand that it's still early weeks. rebooted presidential campaign, they are still very unstable, and we also know that the first weeks, the first months after the announcement of a new candidate, he traditionally has more

support. voters, and here the question is how much longer kamela garis will be able to maintain, maintain this momentum. overall, we're going to see that democrats, democratic voters are more satisfied with the choices they now have, 27% increase in voter satisfaction and her personal approval rating is up kamalega is up 10% in pennsylvania alone, so we're also seeing her personal approval rating increase , and in particular its rating among demographic groups that traditionally vote. for the democrats, in addition, this poll also showed vulnerabilities, in particular, we know that the voters in these three states, traditionally their main issues, these are economic issues, abortion issues, issues, immigration issues, we see that trump in on these issues, on issues of the economy, in particular , donald trump is in the lead, you are leading on issues of democracy and on issues of abortion, we have already seen donald trump's reaction to these polls, he calls them fake, false, dishonest, and there are also really...

other polls right now, including the cnbc poll that shows that overall, in the american election, they have trump leading by 2% in their polls, there's also the rasmussen poll, where 49% would vote for trump, 44 according to garis, so we see quite different results with a small margin of error, indeed , there is also a sea in other states, arizona, nevada, i already mentioned that in them, according to other polls , donald trump is also leading, why in general to... just a few states yes arizona nevada, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, which we talked about, why they have a special role in this election and what is the role of these states in the election, maria, arstaps must understand here that it depends on the electoral system in the united states , simply put, there are states that have more weight in their votes in presidential elections, so for example pennsylvania has 19 electoral votes and wisconsin only three, plus there are swing states, that is, they vote for different candidates in different elections , yes

pennsylvania in 2006 voted for trump, in the 20th for biden, and now the candidates are competing for these votes, there are seven states for which the fight continues, and we see from various polls that trump is leading in arizona, nevada, georgia, northern the carolinas and pennsylvania, these are other polls, and kamalagaris of the aries leader is over and michigan, but again here the error is from 0.6 to 3%, that is, it is very small. of course, it is very interesting to monitor these data, we will monitor how they will change. what dynamics will follow and maria ulyanovska was with we are in touch, we talked about the latest news of the election campaign in the usa. meanwhile, republicans in congress are closely cooperating with donald trump on a number of key foreign policy issues, including support for israel. at the same time, according to voice of america congressional correspondent kathryn gibson, lawmakers are still at odds over china, tariff policy and aid to ukraine. oleksiy kovalenko will continue. former us president

donald trump met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the end of july. no president has done what i have done for israel, and we have always had a very good relationship. however, trump has previously criticized netanyahu for actions that he believes contributed to the hamas attack on october 7 last year. unpredictability has been a characteristic feature of trump's foreign policy as president, and it is characteristic of the foreign policy platform of the republican party in... in 2024, an international relations expert noted in a voice of america commentary. there aren't many specifics here, and that gives it an edge. he can to shape policy as he sees fit at the moment, rather than sticking to the policy announced at the start of the term. many republicans believe that the social network tiktok is controlled

by the chinese government and can use it. to access users' information and influence their political views. i do not want the communist party of china to receive data about our citizens. i don't want there to be a propaganda algorithm among americans. this year, however, trump reversed his stance on the ban tiktok. we are going to rescue. they want to destroy. so all tiktok people, vote for trump. trump has also criticized nato, arguing that member countries do not pay their fair share of contributions to... common defense, his running mate, vice-presidential candidate jaydy vance, further criticized the united states for helping ukraine. let's not confuse the courage of the ukrainian military with the fact that they have the most corrupt leadership and government in europe, and perhaps the most corrupt leadership in the world. it's straight contradicts senate majority leader mitch mcconol, who views aid to ukraine as vital to its defense.