poll, today we ask you this, would you move to the united states or the european union if you had the chance, yes, no, it's pretty simple on youtube, if you have an opinion, please leave it in the comments below the video , if you watch us on tv, take your smart phone and or phone and vote for the numbers if you would move to the us chis if you had the chance 0.800 211 381 no 0800. 11382 all calls to these numbers are free. i have to explain why exactly we are conducting such a survey, since our colleagues from the kyiv international institute of sociology kmis conducted a survey, and it turned out that the absolute majority of ukrainians - 79%, even in the case of obtaining citizenship of the united states of america or a country of the european union, would still remain in ukraine. we... are interested to know your opinion, what

would you do, would you move to the united states of america or the eu, if you had this opportunity or not, vote, i want to introduce today's first guest, this is roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the committee on issues of national security, defense and intelligence of the verkhovna rada, colonel of the security service of ukraine, mr. colonel, i congratulate you and thank you for being with us today, good evening, mr. serhiy, good evening to everyone, mr. colonel, tonight the russians attacked sumy oblast again, a rocket attack was in sumy oblast and in sumy itself they were attacking electric power generation and power facilities, and it is clear that in the conditions when the armed forces of ukraine are in kursh oblast in the region adjacent to sumy oblast, it is clear that it is probably worth talking about sumy's prospects. region in

in the context of the development of the counter-offensive operation of the armed forces of ukraine in the kursk region, and especially in the event that the offensive operation will be russian, do these strikes, which are now increasing in the sumy region, mean that the russians want to turn the sumy region, or at least the sumy region, into a sanitary zone, or in such a way force our soldiers to return to the territory of ukraine. well, for now, we are only making a sanitary zone in them, while the initiative is still ours in relation to the russians, of course they have the same history, as in the whole of ukraine, there are impressive objects, infrastructures, who would not allow our military to be stationed there normally, or including to terrorize the local population, who would have a negative attitude towards those of our military, in principle nothing changes in them, that in relation to the shaheds, from the kurshins ... i say, that even before a full-scale, well

, not our invasion of the russian federation, then kurshchyna, it is the main area from where the russians launch their shaheds, from where they fly over, and in principle i thought that this would change, but still they continue, yes , they fly around there places they are going to collide at high altitudes, but still they continue to start there, well , they continue to fly in... the territory of our country, well, of course, it is close to sumy region, so they strike with them in order to save expensive missiles there , and to strike , including on the infrastructure. mr. colonel, the influential publication politico published an article about the fact that the former head of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhnyi spoke against the offensive of the ukrainian military in kursk region, at a time when the president zelenskyi... spoke about it for the first time at

the beginning of this year and insisted on its implementation, in addition, journalists mention emil ishkulov, the commander of the 80th airborne assault brigade of ukraine, he was also in the position of zaluzhnyi and supported the former head of the armed forces of ukraine, the then chief commissar, and he was dismissed in july amid protests from senior officers who called for him to stay. in his position, whether there was a place for such a discussion at all, when zelensky insisted on the political component and the political expediency of such an operation, and a worthy, experienced officer could be against this military operation, taking into account the conditions in which this operation of the armed forces was planned, maybe you know about... well, look,

let's take turns, but don't push back now from the surnames of the president or commander-in-chief. there must be one scheme: war plans approve the war, exactly the war in general, what kind of war, not just battlefields, war, work with partners, tasks of the main main strikes, there capture, it is a military-political matter, it is approved the stake, the supreme commander, the direct conduct of the war and the execution of the tasks set for stakes, this is already a matter for the commander-in-chief of the lower defense forces, that's how it is right, the whole story that was imposed from the very beginning, don't interfere with us, don't disturb us to us, we will do everything, she is a little wrong and she is a little like that, she was manipulative, i say this again, without talking about surnames, this is in general how the war should go, then it is a matter

of experience, who knows, who does not , who makes what decisions, but people in positions they have, it should work like this, it cannot be otherwise, sometimes. they are completely illogical from a military point of view, when you only have a military component and see only a military part, they can bring less benefit than it will be a direction that is less, let's say, successful from a military point of view, but more successful from a military-political point of view point of view and will bring you greater dividends, this is a fact, this is a strategy and it must be approved, i say again, at her rate, this is the first, without surnames, the other thing about valery fedorovych was he against or do you mind look, valery fedorovych could be there against history there in 2024. i myself took part in many operations, and uh, you know, here you can clearly say one

of the sayings of nietzsche, there is mine today, there refutes mine yesterday, and... that's right, it is in military affairs, today you you have to be for, you can be against, because you have the same circumstances, and tomorrow you yourself will insist on exactly what you spoke against yesterday, because you have new forces, you have a different front, the enemy is attacking you, you you need to seize the initiative, so now i'm just saying my guesses, that the zaluzhny could have been against, justified at the time when he said this decision. at the beginning of the 24th year and syrskyi there and who is the supreme one there, who there insisted on these operations, i do not know, in fact, let's say, they could be right, because at that time there were other circumstances, we have to understand that in the war, the situation changes very er-er quickly, and at the moment

this operation has positive consequences, political er, let's say so, international and military point of view, if you consider it piece by piece, that's why i don't think that it is possible here, that there politicians wanted to highlight that we went to attack and beat the enemy in the wrong way, i don't think so. after the start of the kursk operation, the armed forces of the armed forces of ukraine significantly reduced the intensity of the use of guided aerial bombs in the area of ​​chasovoy yar. oleg kalashnikov, press officer of the 26th artillery brigade named after general khorundzhy roman dashkevich, reported this on the air of our tv channel. let's listen to what kalashnikov said. significantly reduced, if in the spring in our direction we could observe, in a month , the use of cabs in a fairly significant amount, there they could even use 10-20 cabs per day, then today it is already isolated such cases can

be said in comparison, that's it of course helps us hold our defenses and of course saves the lives of our defenders. in addition, president zelenskyi said that the kurakhiv direction is currently the most difficult in terms of the number of enemy attacks, but the kurdish operation of the armed forces continues according to plan. he emphasized on the importance of providing the army with drones. we will also listen to the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine. there have been more than a hundred battles since the beginning of this age. most kurakiv direction - pokrovsky. we defend the position separately and in detail. to the kurdish operation and every day we act exactly as predicted, we always work to ensure that ukraine has enough forces and means for the production and supply of drones. providing drones is not just a tactical thing, it is a strategic priority. i

thank everyone who works with this. sir colonel, how do you currently assess the situation in donetsk region, did the armed forces of... ukraine, after starting an operation in kurdistan, manage to withdraw forces and means of influence on the kurdish direction from the pokrovsky and kurakhiv directions. well, some forces were withdrawn, and in general we see that they were steadily withdrawing forces and means from the secondary directions from kramatorsk, something from the southern direction, and yet the enemy continues some of his creeping actions there, and we understand that in order to continue them, he reserves are needed, precisely these reserves not all of them were forced, but some of them , instead of sending the east there, they still send them there to the kurdish na... because we see that they also started to take active actions there, in particular,

they are hitting there from the side there to the left flank, from the side of the gluhiv district, we made our counteroffensive there again, took control of the crossing, maneuvers are going on there, we call it the war of maneuvers, there is no fixed line of defense, everyone is trying to take a position there that would allow the enemy put in a worse position, now these maneuvers, we can see on your map that the enemy... there broke through to lyubimovka there, but we from the side of glukhov there took control of it there from the point of view of 7 km there, even with mortar fire, and that was by breaking this wedge, well, almost there well, this territory between the seym river and our border is divided into two parts, now there are heavy battles, but there, let's say, we are trying to bring things to an end, that with regard to this direction of kurakhivskyi, it is really difficult, it is complicated due to... that such a bag was formed there in the direction of hirnyak,

which is really quite difficult, and there you have to do everything so that the enemy does not go to the mountain, because part of our troops will be surrounded, so here now we need such a rather jewelry work of our command to manage the troops to provide the troops, so that if we we will see that the enemy will still push and... move towards gornyak, it will be necessary to align this arc and withdraw, or else - these are counter-offensive actions that forced the enemy to withdraw to their previous positions in order to break this bag, well, due to the fact that we see that lately it is very difficult for us to level the situation, so i think that we need to be careful so that these units do not fall into... turning, so indeed, but there is another story that the enemy has just advanced here on in this

direction, somewhere there he has a width of 20 km along the entire front, he has such a ledge, uh , it turned out, and it is positive that it can be assessed that the enemy does not have the ability to conduct an offensive on all this at once, at least in several directions , the fact that he stopped there a little on the pokrovsky direction, and here even on this mountain, this ledge we 've had there for... probably a week or more, and they can't close it, it means that they still don't have enough strength to attack in several directions, they almost, they gather forces, then attack in some separate one direction, and cannot now have enough reserves to develop this offensive, i think there is a point in this and the kurdish operation, which also supports and withdraws some troops, but i will say again that the situation there is difficult, indeed, against this background, mr. colonel, putin is increasing the russian army, by his decree he increased the number of the armed forces of the russian federation to 2,389

thousand people, including 1.5 million servicemen. the last time the staff number was increased on december 23, it amounted to 2,209,130 ​​people, including 1,320,000 military servicemen. taking into account these figures and the fact that putin is gradually increasing the number of the armed forces of the russian federation, it seems that he is not going to any armistice, any peace, any negotiations with our western partners, not to mention ukraine, because i understand that he wants to create a huge army, as it was during the times of the soviet union, and then from a position of strength simply explain to everyone. under what conditions, with whom will he talk, what, what can we and our

western partners oppose to this? well, we have to understand that we are talking a lot about the fact that putin does not want to carry out mobilization, this is a fact, now, but if he does carry it out, it will be such a mini-catastrophe that we, to which we will need to respond, and with at the rates of mobilization that we have, we are, so to speak, forcefully reacting to the fact that putin is just now recruiting 30-40 thousand people there a month, who are there for money, and we somehow oppose them there, and then they are somehow... repressing, if they carry out mobilization, then it will be necessary to have some measures, measures in order to counteract this somehow, well, in a mirror, i think there will be completely different rules later on, because really, really, if he there they will say let's give another 300 thousand, then this will be a serious challenge for our country and for of our power, for our command

in order to be able to oppose something, what about putin, why is he doing this, i think... but we, we also have a limit of the army, it is there 255 00, if i am not mistaken, it was like a regular army, of which 215 or 216 are military personnel, we are conducting mobilization, we do not need to increase the number of forces by law or decree, by the number of military personnel, but putin , on the contrary, is conducting a special one. he has mobilized there for 300,000 and for him it is necessary to increase this army in order for them to finance it as well, so i think that this is a technical decision in the first place, and it shows that they are ready to increase their army in the future, and in order to, well, they have already made a decision, they will be there and the leningrad military district

will be restored there on the borders with finland, it will be deployed there and other directions, so we... must understand that he is increasing the army, and we will need to react to it, and he is increasing both technically and realistically , the legislation is suitable for this. sir colonel, during the last week there were many discussions and expectations regarding the possible decision of our western partners, about the weapons that we could use on the territory of the russian federation, and the meeting was also held with the secretary of state of the united states of america. the foreign secretary of great britain with our officials last week, then there was a meeting between the president of the united states of america biden and the prime minister of great britain keir starmer, but no decision has been made so far by either britain or the united states of america adopted, and as the times writes,

britain will not allow ukraine to strike the territory of the russian federation. the consent of the united states of america, although last week the guardian wrote that the decision on stormshadow had already been made. does the lack of information about this decision mean that this decision can be made already or made public after stormshadow, for example, flies over the territory of the russian federation? well, it's logical, it was like that all the time. i am also sure that this solution will be simple. and now procrastination with this the solution is grenades, well, in favor of the russian federation, because russia also understands, i think, through its channels, agency channels and in general, that this decision will be made, it gives them the opportunity, and we know it, to move the goals that are in them in the reach zone there is 300 km, and a storm of shadow and attacks, move them further to the rear so

that no impression is made, and it’s like, well, i don’t know, there’s shooting yourself in the foot, you give permission, you delay, then the russians are cleaning up, as it were, to prevent escalation, it's a bad story, but i i am sure that there will be a solution, well, at least we will make it so that they will not be able to tighten up, there are of course things that will be difficult for them to transfer some warehouses with ammunition, there are some aircraft depots, but the main thing is that there is modern equipment there, some there businesses, serious aircraft, they will indeed relocate and divert or protect what they have now and again, i think they know it's going to be done and are working now and have the information to remove it all reach zone. thank you, colonel, for the conversation, it was roman kostenko, colonel of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine. friends, we

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simple on youtube, if you have a separate opinion, please write it in the comments. if you are watching us on tv pick up your smartphone or phone and vote on 0800 211 381 if you if you had the chance would you move to the states or the eu no 0.800 2113. 72 all calls to these numbers are free , vote, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. next, we have oleksandr khara, diplomat, expert on foreign and security policy, center for defense strategies. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. good evening, mr. sergey. well, election the campaign in the united states of america follows roughly the same scenario: another assassination attempt on trump, the secret to... the service is back in the ears, biden and harris call trump and tell him to take care of himself, for our viewers, maybe they

missed that this assassination attempt was being prepared, well, it is identified at least as an assassination attempt that took place on the territory of a golf club in florida, near the place where trump, the candidate for the presidency of the united states of america, was found. k-47 machine gun with an optical sight, two backpacks and gopro cameras. the american and international media all recognized the person of ryan wesley raut, who fervently supported ukraine in the war with russia, came to kyiv and tried to join the international legion. so, mr. oleksandr, in this whole story, what seems strange to you is that rayyan was in ukraine and used an ak here. 47 with an optical sight and it seems that it is somehow a ukrainian topic or a topic that they are trying to tie to ukraine with this

attack, how does it look to you or not does it look weird? well, first of all, ukraine has become an internal political factor in the usa since the 16th year, and then the russian special services did a good job of tying up some ukrainian oligarchs, but they supported hilary. clinton, and what if we hacked into the servers of the national democratic commission and the republican national commission, but for some reason only democratic documents were made public and so on, of course, the trumpians and trump supporters have something to base their mistrust of ukraine on, in some places hatred of ukraine. it is clear that this person is definitely not an agent. there is the main intelligence agency or any other special services, and there was already a refutation of the international legion, that they have nothing to do with

this person, by the way, sometime in june there was an interview with this person, and in fact it was determined that he has problems with his psyche, and that he very often cheated and is not able to do something serious in support of ukraine, but... he is such a person, to him, our struggle was close to him and he was at least verbal support. the fact that the trompians will use it now, since ukraine is such a whipping boy, is absolutely clear. some, in particular those who are accused of connections with rusha today, are already saying that it is necessary to investigate the ukrainian merger and, probably, it's just that ukrainians hate trump, so let's say so. planned this operation, it is clear that this is all a delusion, but of course that it will be unpleasant, so is the situation in the media in social media, in relation to ukraine,

of course that all this looks very strange, especially after the second debate, or rather the first debate with kamola harris, the second debate for the democratic candidate, and especially after this joke that was actually trolled by trump. for the words that haitians eat dog poop and the video is just gorgeous, i advise you to watch it on tiktok or youtube, i think that in a way reduced trump's popularity, and secondly, what he tweeted that he hates taylor the world , this is such a famous, popular singer with millions of admirers of her work, and of course, she can play. it has such a negative role, and then this castle, of course, that now all the media are talking about it, and the most important thing is that the trumpians are accusing the democrats in such a, you know,

goebbelsian way. they say they 've done trump's assassination once again, that is, it's like there's some center run by the democrats that's sending these assassins to kill the candidate who's supposed to bring america greatness and. against this background, mr. alexander, there was a meeting, well actually not on the same day, two days earlier, a meeting of the president of the united states of america and... the prime minister of great britain, keir starmer, expected this meeting and expected that at this very meeting it would be decided, or at least clarified, whether our western partners would allow their weapons to be fired into the territory of the russian federation, state department spokesman matthew miller said that so far the united states of america and

great britain are not ready to announce the... lifting of restrictions on strikes by the armed forces of ukraine, although, judging by what happened before, literally 10 days of such informational preparation about that at least great britain can lift restrictions on storm shadow strikes on the territory of the russian federation, the guardian wrote about it, and this information was actively discussed in the british press, and it was also dropped. that at least, if not the americans, then the british would agree to it, the only thing, i understand, is that without the agreement of their partners from the united states of america, the british did not want to give such agreement, you did not have the feeling that at this meeting this question in this question, well at least in one part, regarding british weapons should have been full stop and an announcement was expected.

of the results of this meeting on this particular note, well, i would say that there was also an article in the british press, where five former british defense ministers and former prime minister boris johnson called on the current prime minister to remove such a restriction, because it is senseless and of course that it harms ukraine first of all, protects ukraine's enemies, but i think that rather. after all, we will hear about a decision being made during the visit of the president of ukraine, it is clear that there are also certain political, let's just say, the points to do it that way, rather than just announce it, i think eventually they will do it, and most likely it will be a gradual, you know how they like to talk about escalation, first without, broad resolution, we will use the british

and french systems. and then later the americans will still come around and authorize the use of atacoms when they see that the russians have done nothing for this so-called escalation, so i think it all depends on that, and i hope that until joseph biden is sitting in the office and his team, including jack sullivan, they will still take a closer look at their approaches to the russian federation, to this war, and will understand, as they understood it a long time ago. dance, that there are empty threats from the russian federation, it is not capable of escalation, which, let's say, they would like to somehow avoid, and that it is necessary to bet ultimately on ukraine and help ukraine to fight better with western weapons and without any absolutely ridiculous restrictions. you have already mentioned the visit of the president of ukraine to the united states

of the united states of america on the 25th. in september , the session of the un general assembly begins there, and it is within the framework of this un general assembly that zelensky hopes to meet with biden and present him with a victory plan, and as zelensky says, this victory plan is already more than 90% ready. so far , zelenskyi has spoken rather sparingly about what this plan will be, but let's listen to what he said. in yesterday's video appeal to the ukrainians, in various formats of the meeting on the preparation of our ukrainian victory plan, the actual content of all points, military content, political, diplomatic, economic, more than 90% of everything is written out, and in the complex this package can ensure the correct development of the situation.