a new week, new analytics, new topics and new forecasts. greetings to everyone on the espresso tv channel, my name is andriy smoliy, and we are starting our "new week" program. as a rule, there are two of us here, khrystyna yatskiv should still be here, but today we, so to speak, switched places, and i will be in the studio, and she will definitely join us on skype from 9:15 p.m. and in the second part we will talk, we will discuss and we will analyze the current events and events of this week, and now in the first part we traditionally we will have experts, as i already predicted, but before that, of course, i will remind you that the exact...

i will start with our survey, and today it sounds as follows: do you hope that the authorities will ensure the transparency of the reconstruction of ohmadite, you can take your phones or your smart phones and vote yes or no if you think yes call 0800 211381 if you think no call 0800 211 382 once again all calls are absolutely free and at the end of the next hour we will results and see what you think you. and we will start with our first guest. we are already in contact with ivan stopak, a military expert, a former employee of the security service of ukraine. mr. ivan, we are glad to welcome you to the studio of the tv channel. thank you for the invitation. mr. ivan, of course, i wanted

to talk to you about the kurdish operation, about the creation of a buffer zone by ukraine on the territory of the occupying state, well, in particular, according to deep state data, which were made public yesterday at the end of the day, the armed forces took control of several more settlements, as well as advanced in another populated settlement, which is called olga. also, if we add one more piece of information, here on the map, by the way, our tv viewers can see that the armed forces of ukraine actually destroyed all three bridges over the seim river, which de facto allows this hlushkiv district to isolate, so to speak, and either squeeze out the occupants from there, or take them into a tight ring. at the same time, there is information

that the occupier could build pontoon bridges for the evacuation of the armed forces of the russian federation. well, if we are talking about in general the kurdish operation, if we actually already have how many, almost two weeks of the operation on the territory of russia, as you now... assess, it is actually, as we say, the creation of a buffer zone in order to make it impossible russia's offensive on the territory of sumy oblast, or does it have some more far-sighted, strategic plans from a military point of view, so to speak? come on, every time i talk about the kurdish, kurdish offensive operation, i always say this: we have euphoria for two weeks. we rejoice, we study

the geography of the kursk oblast, the seim river, what areas they have there, what bridges, it's all cool, it's all great, but this, a spoonful of dyho - we have the east of ukraine, where at the same time we are gradually, every day, losing territories , i just really want your esteemed audience not only to perceive from the point of view of uh-huh-hey, we are cutting down the russians here, and how are we going to go to the kurdish as, or something else... something else, the russians are already standing close to each other to the city of pokrovska, this is to understand that the hostilities there do not subside, that is, i am saying this for balance, for understanding how encouraging the situation is on the one hand, on the other hand it is very, very difficult, and so to your question, i don't think it's about a buffer zone there, because come on, modern weapons, modern ballistic missiles, well transform any zone, or rather, to have a buffer. zone with modern ballistic weapons, then

it should pass somewhere tentatively in the area of ​​the second garden ring in moscow, ugh, this is for understanding, because 500 km iskander tactical complexes are not at all... a question, ah, i am considering this story more , this operation was carried out in order to create new, let's say, conditions from the ukrainian side for the start of peace negotiations. remember, please, the russian federation right away, when they start talking about some theoretical peace talks, they say this: taking into account the current realities on the ground, which means, where the foot of a russian serviceman lies, they want to recognize the russian the federation similarly , ukraine decided to break this situation, okay, where there are ukrainians, it turns out, there are also, well, the territory remains with us, that is, this is an attempt once again to knock out the foundations from under russia, to somehow reduce the initial peaceful

demands that russia puts forward to us, to harm them on their side, to harm their infrastructure, to create a large number of internally displaced people, theirs. let them and, by the way, they intuitively, the russians are running to the north, to the north of the kursk region, kursk, the city of orel, tula, and tula is already in front of pryushche, so to speak, moscow, the suburbs of moscow, and this is already true , these are not bad, bad conversations, but a bad conjuncture for moscow, the conversations are once again bad for those who live in the moscow region, that there is a war. already nearby, by the way, i will tell you the last thing, those russians who were not interrogated, your colleagues, journalists from our various ukrainian and american publications talked to him, they tell them, we lived all the time, well, not with hope, but with such a dream that the war is somewhere over there, our boys have gone somewhere, but we

don’t have it, and they are in shock, they are terrified, and as they say, they are leaving their places, well, cities with with completely empty eyes. mr. ivan, i absolutely agree with you about the pokrovsky direction, about mirnograd, pokrovsk, toretsk, we are all watching now all over ukraine, we are worried and understand that the occupiers in this direction do not stop pressing, but one more question on the account, briefly at the expense of exchange rate operation, what can we expect during the new week. and the second question, do you expect in the coming weeks that the russians, and perhaps months, that the russians will still try to conduct some counteroperation with new forces, so look,

it's a great question, i understand, personally i expect , well, once again, this is my subjective opinion, well , as of last week, i have formed what i assume, i assume that. .. maybe by the end of this week, the russians, or rather, the ukrainian armed forces of ukraine, will have the opportunity to capture, advance, let’s say, in the kursk region, well, as much as possible, and maybe, by the end of the week, the russians will be able to collect, move, equip their military forces formation in order to stop the ukrainian advance, but judging by this as of monday, i see that somehow it is happening slowly in them, the impression is that either... they still have not come out of such a state of shock and cannot gather their thoughts, efforts , or they somehow came to terms with the fact that, well, the ukrainians occupied something there, but we dug in everything there along the perimeter, they will not pass further and let it be so, but at least now

there are two such opinions, i think, over time we will understand what is more important for them, either just let it stay, or they will really try to gather some large group, by the way, were not confirmed yet. data show that the russians have apparently gathered about 10,000 personnel to carry out this operation to counter the presence of the ukrainians, but western analysts say that, judging by the way the ukrainians entered, the russians will most likely have to use about 20,000 of their personnel to 20 to do something there, but if we speak from the point of view of numbers, how much is realistic? 20-30 and whether they will be able to collect such a number, in principle, if we talk about moving troops, they can, but we, again, when approaching the discussion of the pokrovsky direction, we understand that they do not want to transfer a large

number of personnel from the kharkiv direction, vovchansk, we see that the pressure there still continues, than actually a lot. direction, neither from siverskyi, nor from pokrovskyi, yes, that is, after all , conditionally speaking, they are postponing this operation for later, as far as i understand. look, initially in the first days, messages came from the kharkiv region from our boys that as if it became a little easier to breathe, that there are fewer russians, they started to take something away, they even mentioned the number, but then literally in a few days new information, they say, but no, guys, nothing became easier, on the contrary, they began to press even harder, and this is it once again , these are not official statements from official representatives, that is, this is from a guy. who are there and they subjectively feel either the pressure or the lack of this pressure, now

about the gathering of these people in general, well , come on, we must understand that the russian general staff are not complete idiots, not complete there are people like that, if they were complete idiots, then in march 22, the war would have ended with our victory, they also realize that our ukraine is making this feint with their ears, these jumps are to distract the attention of the russian command. that's why, as i see it, they decided that they were taking away, it was called that, about a thousand personnel from each direction, they cautiously withdrew there where, as they say, there are too many, there are a lot of extra forces, plus in an emergency mode, they rush to this area front to kursk, and from kaliningrad, conscripts from murmansk, leningrad, moscow eight military districts, plus what was noticed, these are the space forces, these are the military and space forces of the russian federation, which are part of the infantry. pilots from olenia were

spotted, or rather reported about them. flight mechanics, engineers from airfields, they go as assault infantry. and here again, referring to western analysts, they say that putin lacks approximately 15,000 personnel in order to successfully complete this operation to eliminate the ukrainians, without removing people from... the front, let's still return to the issues of the territory of ukraine, because in my opinion, this is probably the most important right now, but we have already talked about the fact that, unfortunately, there is a very strong pressure on our defense forces in the pokrovsk direction, in the direction essentially from avdiyvka, this pressure, it started at the beginning. year is large-scale, and unfortunately it continues. how do you assess what we will have in

the current week, at least in this most important direction of this pressure, and maybe in other directions we still have a rather heavy direction, this is the time, anyway, at least there there is no such promotion, we have the direction of new york, which to a greater extent, if again... well, and probably other directions, that's what we will have for the next seven days, and in general, what should we expect, or nevertheless, the russians will take, for example, toretsk or mirnograd or pokrovsk, however much time they need for this, because i apologize, even our officials. there is already a lot of talk about evacuation, ms. vereshchuk says, we see how local

business is collapsing, in fact in places, so in these cities, we see people leaving, what should we expect from these difficult directions for our defenders, come on, i will be very careful in these assumptions, i do not like to hang around there in any case, well, this is unacceptable, but if our authorities announce... 14 days to evacuate the city of pokrovsk , well , here we have such a figure that for 14 days it will still be under the control of ukraine, then, well, maybe its gradual destruction by the russian armed forces will begin, as they did in soledar, in bakhmut, in avdiivka, in marinka and in hundreds of other cities and a small town, a village of forces of ukraine in the east, and in the north, in the south. how they like, what they will do, i guess, i can't say the time frame, how much time they

will need, because it is a lot of parameters, including, well, first of all from our armed forces, the second is the provision russians with troops, equipment, people, now our military is saying yes, it is much worse than it was in solidar 22-23, much worse, much more difficult, they are pressing unbelievably, they are pressing just once again unbelievably in the cube a-ah. faba faba is most likely one of those key elements besides the infantry, the infantry of these assaults, with which they make the result, the density of 200-250 m, throw. with these fabs and there is no escape from them, that is, if a one and a half ton fab arrives, it is a hundred, two hundred meters, and a concussion is guaranteed, if a three-ton fab, then in general even and well much less, a greater distance where you can get a concussion, so they will choose such indiscriminate weapons, not exactly, but due to the number they destroy cities, the most mine,

well, not a fear, but once again there is no need to be a great analyst, we just open the deep state map, do a little less. headquarters and look at the donetsk region and you can see how the russians are trying to cut the ukrainian defense in half with a knife, the donetsk region into a conditional north, a conditional north, a conditional south, and then to put a military case behind it to destroy the enemy, as we are the enemy for them piece by piece, you divide it in half, and then you finish it already, unfortunately, unfortunately, another topic about the axis of evil and about a partner, one of putin's key partners, lukashenka, he is another times threatens with nuclear weapons, lukashenko said a lot there, but in particular he stated that by attacking kurshchyna, kyiv can actually provoke moscow to use nuclear weapons. let's listen and then discuss. such escalation on the part of ukraine

is an attempt to push. russia for asymmetric actions, well, let's say, the use of nuclear weapons. i know, for sure, that in ukraine they would be very happy if russia used, or we are there, tactical nuclear weapons, it would be happiness. then we would hardly have any allies left, there would not be any, not even those countries that sympathize. so, mr. ivan, lukashenko has said a lot during the last few days, he is there... russia and its local mass media heard different opinions from him about the fact that the denazification of ukraine has already been practically completed there, and in particular another scarecrow about nuclear weapons, how do you assess the fact that lukashenka was released, he is the same for months, then

he is silent for months, then he was released again, it is clear that on the orders of the kremlin. into the information space, as this indicates, mr. ivan? yes, look, well, this is my personal opinion, but you have to listen to this character in the original, because in the translation he is not very good, but when in the original, it’s just based on intonations, he really is, i’m sorry, but he is such a slang, but he burns down the office, he gives out certain secrets, what is happening in certain relations, the relations between refia and belarus, and yes, in general, he says a lot regularly to his local channels, here he really came... this film crew came to him , this man is such a propagandist skabiev, they indeed, two such a couple, two propagandists - this is a couple, what is interesting about lukashenka, first of all, he stated that, as i see it, he is carefully pushing his comrade in the dictatorship, the dictator putin, to the point that, well, listen, there is already these natsiks are not finished,

well, because you need to finish yours already, probably, that is, he pushes so carefully. it is not a fact that it will work, but cautiously we see such messages from him. now about nuclear weapons, i actually heard, well, the opposite, because of what you said about nuclear weapons again, but personally my inner subjective feeling as of august 19th. i see that he, dictator lukashenko and dictator putin are afraid to talk about nuclear weapons, they are afraid to use them, that is , once again, it is possible to say yes, but not to use them. what he says, i watched these videos of his in more detail, he says as follows: there, showing in ukraine, in poland, in the west, they sleep and dream that russia and belarus will use nuclear weapons, and then it is such a gift for them, simply incredible , but - he says, we will not give them this gift, even if they do not dream,

that is, no one will give it to them again, this is about us, why, because if they use nuclear weapons, then... they quite consciously, adequately realize that they will no longer have allies, neither china, nor conditional india, but maybe even north korea will fall somewhere on the horizon, but china is the most important ally, losing which they risk losing everything in such a short-term perspective, that's why i think that now it's about nuclear blackmail, about nuclear war there is no language at all. mr. ivan, we are sincerely grateful to you for the fact that you found time to join the espresso tv channel, ivan stupak, military expert, former employee of the service. of security of ukraine was just on our airwaves, i remind you about the survey we have today, we ask you whether you hope

that the authorities will ensure transparency from the construction of the okhmadit children's hospital, if so, take your phones or smartphones and call 0800 211381 , if not, then... 0800-21382 all your calls are absolutely free. we have the next guest in the new week, and this is george tuka, deputy minister of temporarily occupied territories in 2016-2019, ex-head of the luhansk military-civil administration in 2015-2016, and founder and leader of the narodniy volunteer group. til, mr. george, we are glad to welcome you to the espresso tv channel. i congratulate the studio, i congratulate our viewers. mr. georgy, well, of course,

what will we talk about, including the course operation, but just now with mr. ivan stupak we discussed such certain military issues, operations, certain tactical, strategic things, i wanted to talk to you about the situation itself. in the territories controlled by ukraine in russia, in particular there, a military command post has been created there, major general eduard moskalyov has been appointed as its head, and according to the data and statements we have, the task is to maintain the viability of the local population, in general to ensure law and order and so on and the like, so... how correctly are these, well, such, let's say, more organizational actions in those territories that are under control, now conducted, and how

in your opinion, ukraine should act there, especially as we see in the context of the fact that every day ukrainians, ukrainian defense forces are capturing new and new settlements in the kursk region. well, i guess i want to start by addressing our boys, our heroes, who are currently defending our country, my dears, please, now a bunch of different videos from the territory of the kursk region are being distributed by various sources, on which there are even fragments of some such strange brotherhood, my friends. i am begging you, never, i emphasize, never forget, you you are in a hostile environment, and those people who smile at you now and thank you for

bringing them bread and water, the day after tomorrow they may bring you a jar of honey with explosives inside, as was once done by a 74-year-old grandfather on to the people of donetsk, please save your life and do not lose it... as for the actions of the authorities, in principle, they are absolutely adequate, they correspond to ukraine's desire to comply with humanitarian requirements, the norms of international humanitarian law, i approve of this in principle, it is true duty of the state that controls this or that territory, take care of the civilian population, at the same time, i want to... say that i was, to put it mildly, surprised by ms. varyshchyuk's statement, saying that it is necessary, well, let's say, there is an idea ugh, to open

green corridors for the evacuation of the civilian population of those territories currently under the control of the armed forces of ukraine to the territory of ukraine. i don't understand it, i don't accept it, it doesn't meet any of the... requirements of international humanitarian law, it's some kind of initiative that is completely incomprehensible to me. moreover, i i know for a hundred percent that the vast majority of residents of sumy region, well, i can't say 100%, but i have no doubt that more than 90 have a very negative attitude towards such an initiative of the vice-premier, and i consider it necessary. well, at least convey to the state leadership the point of view of the residents of sumy oblast, which borders the territory.

kursk oblast, which is currently under the control of the armed forces of ukraine, that our citizens have a negative attitude to such an initiative, because we should never forget that the same poor and unfortunate as they are there, kurians, chickens, which are now being fed and sung by our soldiers, they recorded positive videos as recently as yesterday. address to the great vladimir vladimirovych, they told with tears in their eyes that they all support this damn svo, and even their sons, brothers, and neighbors there take part in killing ukrainians, and suddenly we start to shed some crocodile tears for their fate, i think , this is completely inappropriate, i am not calling to destroy everyone in a row.

absolutely not, but one must always understand that these are our enemies, it is not neutral the population, don't be greedy, they are enemies, especially since in reality we have to understand that the sumy region was perhaps the most affected by the russian occupiers, and here there is another objective question, whether all our internally displaced persons are provided for , are all the people affected by the war in ukraine provided with everything they need, apartments, houses, a humanitarian aid , etc. , and emotionally similar, a similar reaction of ours citizens, and i consider it absolutely unacceptable to engage in open speculation. tics, and i

believe that such actions on the part of the authorities are purely political speculations in order to please some of our western humanitarians in quotation marks with their demonstrative actions, at a time when the level of care of the authorities regarding our native population, to put it mildly, in relation to our citizens, well, if not completely zero, then somewhere approaching zero. i recently recorded a video, i did not expect, i was asked by mariupol television, it turned out that the editor with whom i talked, he is a displaced person twice, he himself was forced to flee from donetsk, then he and his wife decided to settle in mariupol, and they had to flee from mariupol, and here we were right there for 40 minutes discussing the topic exactly... the government's reaction to

this is not an invisible challenge, i agree with it, but what is being done, almost nothing, and in parallel with the zero coefficient of useful action in relation to one's own citizens, to arrange some demonstration shows to the enemy, well , i consider it absolutely unacceptable and, i must say, despicable . by the way, if you add a little of information, journalists from the american publication the washington post visited suja, controlled by ukraine. they write that the ukrainian military does not cause any harm to local residents. instead, they distribute humanitarian aid. quote. the reporters did not see any evidence that the ukrainian military looted or attacked civilians. a dozen russian civilians interviewed by the judge said they were treated well and that they knew of none.

killed resident, well, it is also on the contrary because of what the rashists are doing and did in buch, in irpin, in gostomel, in what they did in izyum, and what they are doing now, in principle, in all the occupied territories, but it is clear that we must understand, yes, we adhere to humanitarian right, but we understand that these are the people who, this is the country that is killing today... our country, our people, which has killed, is killing and will continue to kill, let's also be frank here, mr. george, there is another question : the kremlin is trying to downplay this threat, at least if you look at their tv channels, theirs telegram channels, perhaps, are more pro-government, on their, in general, mass media, the kremlin is still trying...