war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians victories and losses analysis and forecasts politics and geopolitics serhiy rudenko and the guests of his program will talk about all this people who have information and shape public opinion people who defend ukraine and create the future right now the main and interesting thing in the program is the verdict by serhiy rudenko from monday to thursday at 13:00 on espresso glory to ukraine is a verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 64th day of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian occupiers russian enemies are concentrating their forces in the direction of izyum, the

enemy plans to launch a large-scale operation against ukrainian troops in donbas, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation, valery gerasimov, has arrived in izyum. according to the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov, the next few weeks will be difficult due to hostilities in the kharkiv luhansk and donetsk regions may according to the british edition of the guardian, it should become a turning point in the russian-ukrainian war, meanwhile, putin's army continues to lose manpower and equipment, as of the morning of april 28, the russians had already lost 22,800 tanks, 970 armored fighting vehicles, 2,389 artillery systems, 421 rocket salvo systems, 151 anti-aircraft

defenses, 72 helicopters, 155 aircraft, and 187 vehicles, 1,688 ships, boats, and 8 tanks fuel and lubricants 76 drones 215 special equipment 31 launchers rtrk trk-4 we will talk about the situation on the southern and eastern fronts with our guests today - this is the director of the information and analytical of defense express company serhiy zgurets mr. serhiy good day and thank you for participating in our program i congratulate you good day another guest and gal levin officer of the israel defense forces military expert good day and good health mr. and gal hello, so the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov of ukraine called on ukrainians to prepare for several difficult weeks of hostilities due to the preparation of a large-scale offensive by russian

troops in donbas. on his facebook page, reznikov wrote, i quote several extremely difficult weeks, the practical implementation of agreements , training and logistics will take some time. well, this means the supply of weapons by our western partners, and russia has gathered forces for a large-scale offensive in the east of ukraine already now, aid to ukraine will increase, but in the coming days, our stability and extraordinary unity of the enemy will be needed aware of his strategic defeat but will still try to inflict the most pain on them unfortunately, before victory we will still lose our soldiers and there will be destruction and painful victims, gentlemen, let's decipher what was said by oleksiy varishek so we are talking about the period until the ninth of may, a symbolic date for russian society and for vladimir putin personally, or

are we talking about a few weeks until the end of may and possibly the beginning of june? - this is something that is not predictable and it is quite difficult to set clear dates together, you and i are talking about the fact that today the largest hostilities are taking place in ukraine since the second world war, a large number of fabricated personnel equipment and the lion's share of these weapons, russia has concentrated, let's say so, in the izyum direction in order to ensure measures related to the encirclement of our forces in the northern part of donbas, and i will say that a quarter of all russian forces located on the territory of ukraine are concentrated right next to it, trying to reach these success in the next two weeks, but in view of the military stations, let's say yes to the approach to conducting hostilities. i think that it is hardly possible to say

that any success will be achieved there by the may, as the russian leadership wants. well , putin will have to show the russian society what kind of victories, what can be a victory in the understanding of vladimir putin. today, i know that the russian mass media and the press services of the ministry of defense of the russian federation, as well as the kremlin, are taking western correspondents to mariupol for in order to tell in quotation marks about the atrocities of ukrainian soldiers , that is, can it be a matter of pride for russians that they, well, in quotation marks, once again liberated mariupol from the inhabitants of mariupol and destroyed it the city of mariupol, in fact, is a sign that russia is conducting, let’s say, hostilities, ignoring all civilized rules of hostilities, if at all, but it is possible to say that in a combination of these categories, there is still a

large number of defenders in azovstal and they continue to defend their zone, and i am not even sure that the arrival of everything khorshev's propagandists, who will be able to create an absolutely positive image of mariupol for men, are not fully impressed because the resistance continues and this just violates these paradigms what mr. putin and galya are talking about, a few days ago at the american air base in rammstein in germany , a landmark meeting was held with 40 leaders of the defense departments of the countries of the world, there it was decided to provide great assistance to the ukrainian state to the ukrainian army , today the german bundestag passed a decision to provide ukraine with heavy weapons, and this the decision despite how many complaints we had, i mean from the ukrainian side to germany, it was adopted by an overwhelming majority of votes,

as far as the history with new weapons that has to go to ukraine literally or have they already started to come to ukraine to what extent it can change the course of the russian-ukrainian war, your question is important to add here who stands by the above listed everything and so on against the background of always israel's demand to be as neutral as possible, this is a very indefinite phenomenon, and i think we will see it again in the future. to understand that eh, here is the revestnikov who spoke about the difficult weeks, this is not the end of the war after the last ten weeks, further that ukraine needs to go into a counteroffensive, of course, for

this necessary armament, i have already said this many times that its east is mainly regions and open there is no weaponry here. plus , you can choose to attack, for example , a building on the green, that is, where you have an army. it's generally easier if you're advancing, of course you need powerful logistics units, very powerful artillery units, you need er support, you need even if you have some televyvye units, that is, you also need to saturate everything with equipment to protect against shelling fast bursts of fire from the enemy, of course, all the heavy weapons are now being transferred, the decision was made. all this was done with the aim of attacking now, that is, we are talking about the defender, not the defender, and there is no saving ukraine in bitterness, it is obvious that the ukrainians defended saved their country. well, today it is obvious in the west, including that there were conversations about this at this

base, that is, the flag. that is, it's not about how we would like to. now, on the network of ukraine, i'll repeat myself, and they say that it will be destroyed, and we see that all the weapons . there are people there he says correctly, heavy weapons, yes , they still lived with weapons, but with this and it is transferred, that is, we are talking about not only giving more manpads to cover eh, heaven, decide how to transfer good systems for you to an effective enemy at long distances not only artillery, but it is possible to hand over the logistics for this, as well as the logistics for the supply, as well as the ammunition itself, and by the way, germany, which you mentioned again, they hand over, for example, they handed over, then they say less because it is not so beautiful, they say less after seven but they don’t transfer a hundred of these goons, that is,

logistics equipment that can transport equipment and so on, and a huge help , in fact, still germany of luck is considered a good talent это очабание помощи well, these are a hundred eh yes, eh, eh, these are heavy- duty trucks for transporting equipment, that's huge, in fact, logistics, eh , logistics are the blood of the carter, that is, any war without this in you didn't have heavy weapons, that is, what kind of system did you get? well, it doesn't matter if you don't have it, it won't be possible to provide it all, that's the supply, here are the oxygens, the oxygens, that's how it is. muscle wars. please tell me the new weapons that will enter or are entering ukraine, obviously they will require certain qualifications of the people who will practice with these weapons, it means new anti-aircraft missile complexes, we are talking about new tanks, we are talking about howitzers that are coming

from different parts of the world, how much does the level of qualification of the ukrainian military now allow us to very quickly and quickly switch to new equipment, which significantly exceeds the usual equipment of the russian federation, and how much is the potential of people who can control and manage this latest weaponry, since it is large in ukraine. well, in fact, we we are talking about the fact that the supply of weapons was really coordinated with the training of personnel, this also applies to gunners and, for example, operators of unmanned systems on new meaning when we talk about traveling ammunition austrian m77 systems supplied by the united states, they introduced already adapted to our e-e military from the point of view that the training stage of our soldiers took place in parallel and i think that

in life the howitzers that have already been transferred to ukraine have the corresponding e -th potential from the point of view that our military can also use them, i hope that in the near future these howitzers will already be in the combat zone or, let's say, stand in those zones that provide an operational reserve for overturning for the necessary directions in view of the expected aggravation of the situation in donbas with the use of artillery, primarily from the ukrainian side, as a method of countermeasures, when we talk about new models of a different type, then about those survivors of e-e goals in various variations and new models that are also proposed in ukraine the preparation has also already been completed and if we receive these supplies, we will also be able to destroy important enemy targets at a distance of up to 40 km using these barrage munitions. flying javelins, other samples of equipment that

ukraine receives, so far, are conventionally speaking samples of soviet production that have been modernized in various european countries, and that is why they are very close to the planning of ukrainian advertising, because actually this is what what they know is that now the combination of the fighting spirit of new the opportunities that this creates, the symbiosis that allows us to really resist the russian invasion in the east of our country and in other regions where the enemy is trying to succeed, but for mr. serhiy, this opens up certain prospects in ukraine, because always there were complaints about the fact that we do not meet some nato standards, our weapons, our military are now combined with those with the experience gained by the ukrainian army with the weapons that we will now have in our hands. will we in the military part of the military part meet nato standards well, let's face it, from the point

of view of stability and morale, the issue of nato standards must surely be brought up to ukraine's capabilities if, relatively speaking, in germany's parameters it was written that germany should conduct hostilities for 12 days in the process of protecting the alliance country, we are already holding on for another four days . based on our own capabilities, so i think that the issue of nato standards really needs, let's say , such a certain ideological revision, we have proven our ability to defend european values. in fact, let another pull up under us, the acquisition of new weapons of ukraine opens up certain opportunities for the impression of targets on the territory of the russian federation , the minister of defense of great britain says this wells, he says that, in principle, if ukraine starts using these weapons and hits

russian objects, it absolutely corresponds to the situation during the russian-ukrainian war, that night in belgorod there were explosions again and air defense was working again the previous night there were unrest in the voronezh and kursk regions, the galyu panel. do you think that ukraine , by building up the potential within the state with the latest weapons, can destroy the logistics chains on the territory of the russian federation, these chains that the russian army yes, of course, it can, moreover, i will add here that it is necessary to understand, that is, the media talk a lot about it now, and there are opportunities here, including transnistria, they also talk about seven strikes, so any military goals within the framework full-scale wars, some of them are coming to me, this

is ukraine and russia, today they are legislative and your money is found if they are on the territory of russia. what is the difference ? the legislative purpose is any war. legitative a-and even more so, let's say belarus with the territory of which strikes were carried out on ukraine, this is a fact from the point of view of the constitution. even on the territory of belarus, the military target and the russian federation are recognized as lieutenants as targets a -a. they just say within the framework of eh this is this logic that is eh yes eh is it possible for ukrainian weapons to strike at these logistical chains

on eh from security and so on ? that is within the scope of the weapons that are promised to us or have already been put in place, the bluntly named kamikaze that has already come, which they said is the missile system - this is artillery - this is again high- precision artillery, this is how they searched for the canadian projectiles , which they also talk about, which are phenomenally accurate, that is, within the framework literally a few meters, eh, the point of impact of the projectile at a distance. well, there 40 km from the fact that if we fire on russian territory, then the russians mutually promise to hit the main command posts in kyiv and other cities of ukraine, to what extent is there such an opportunity in the russian federation, we understand that it exists,

but they have not used it, as they say, although god knows, taking into account the fact that there is a fairly powerful air defense around kyiv, how far can russia go further in this war and strike at the centers? e decision-making, as they say . they can't, but the pollsters, that is, do they know where to drink, and they constantly scare about it, eh, we know that since february 24, eh, well, the first one, just once a day, was eh, massed combined strikes of the air force, eh, developed rockets you allow then they did not ask themselves the head of the ukrainian army and the leadership here, if they asked the political roof, that is, questions and intelligence, we understand already today that the third month, 33 months of the war, that they have some kind of intelligence, they often do not know, they often use old data, including up to soviet maps soviet ones, i want ancient data, that is, there are literally

districts, there are wastelands, fishing lines, and so on, that is, on which military objects were once marked on even old maps. here we saw it near odessa, and not only eh, that's why eh, yes let не протитаются но well, understand that the ukrainian command is not located in some here, er, together, where it is written in large letters. here we are sitting, that is, naturally, er, the ukrainian command is not enlightened, that is exactly what it is, very competently , enlightened, exactly, not in одном месте and well, it's just intelligence, here, uh, i don't see how much you have developed the data, i don't see the possibility of their intelligence, here's the authorities, that's the information, so that, literally, that's how, with early strikes and liquidation, will destroy, uh, the ukrainian, here, uh, the points are decided to accept that's it commanders and political leadership well, military leadership, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel and also on e social platforms in social networks on youtube and also on

facebook e-e please if you are watching now on youtube, like this video, subscribe to our channel, leave comments and also questions to my two guests, this is the director of the information and analytical company defense express, serhiy zgurets and gal i gal, grant levin, an officer of the israeli defense army, a military expert sir, i have a question for you. yesterday, your distribution agency gave information about the arrival of the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation to izium, and it is this chief of the general staff of the russian federation who will be involved in organizing a powerful strike of the russian army on the kharkiv luhansk and donetsk regions, valery gerasimov . is already in izyum, just a few weeks ago

, general oleksandr dvornikov was appointed to command the russian army in ukraine, what is the connection with this visit, according to you? connected with the arrival of gerasimov, this means that dvornikov is not completely trusted. either they do not trust him at all, or gerasimov can ensure the advance of russian troops in some direction and eventually reach the borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions, as vladimir putin wanted. well, we understand that in fact, gerasimov is not will run ahead of tank columns, ensuring a breakthrough of russian troops, but in any case, arriving at such a high price is related to checking the level of readiness of the russian army for the next several for weeks, there is an active use of aviation artillery, where the russian troops are trying to iron out our defense line in order to catch morale

, convey an impression, and then go on the attack with the use of tank and motorcycle units. now we are at the stage when fire preparation has been going on for some time and large forces have been accumulated, the transition of these forces in different directions is prepared. counts there if we are talking about 20 five batteries, and each of us also counts about 800 people there, we can count this number . those btgs that entered ukraine and got in the

teeth, a lot of personnel were lost, a lot of equipment was lost, and today the combat potential of these units is much less than what was at the first stage of the invasion of ukraine. air force, the presence of gerasimov and dvornikov in these directions actually means that they have, relatively speaking, to preserve their honor of their uniforms and prove that their concept of conducting hostilities, their plans for preparing an offensive against ukraine , even within the framework of a limited operation, they are true because otherwise they sign in its entirety and about everyone, although already the first stage of hostilities of the russian army, when we saw these e-columns of russian equipment just standing without fuel, they were just then a sign of a low level planning and for planning, it is the responsibility of the general staff as much as the general staff, so for now i think that this is a serious

immediate challenge for the chief of the general staff valery gerasimov and for the commander of the southern district oleksandr dvornikov about what they really know how to bring into combat and for for them, this is a confirmation of this er professional level is their own survival in these positions because they have to report to their main russian letter that they really know how to fight, but in fact we we will show what ukraine is capable of in the coming days, but if we are talking about mr. gerasimov and dvornikov and, in general, about the generals, part of which still remained in ukraine in the ground or their bodies have already been delivered to the russian federation, mr. and galya, we can to say that for 60 days, we watched how the russian army lost its strength in ukraine and, moreover, the manpower of almost 22,000 manpower. last time we counted one and a half tank armies

. it seems to me that it is already two tank armies in ukraine. fields of hundreds of helicopters well, it's just that ukraine has turned into a complete hell for the russians, no matter how much more moscow can put its soldiers in ukraine and lose its equipment in order to understand that well, the red line has nowhere to go anymore because we understand that a large part of the e-e paratroopers is also left in ukraine, in the first period of the war, when they landed in the gostomel area, they went to irpin bucha, but there is a limit beyond which for russia the losses, the subsequent losses will be painful and tangible not only for the relatives and relatives of these dead, but also in general, for russian society and for the russian leadership, boats should be divided into

loss of manpower and loss of technical and material parts, well, if we are talking about russia specifically, because we saw that the loss of manpower has absolutely no effect, not on creams, not on russian society, plus it is important to me to remind you that according to the last research, it turned out that for muscovites and residents of st. petersburg, the war does not exist for them, that is, there is no more funerals. what is new plaster of paris? regions, yes, we have floyd there, eh, the region of trivazia is located, and so on, that is, the main time is the european part of russia, eh, where ethnic russians live, and so on, they mostly don’t feel it, that is, if a person watches only russian television, it is given to him such a propaganda disk, the information is very verified and of course about the terrier and nothing is said, they say that the numbers are extremely low, so for him in a

technical war, there is a big war with these, he is there with tank armies, it does not exist for him, eh simply does not exist in the info space at all and is not interested there, does not ask with a lot of pleasure, he will make his way to be interested here eh well, it means information to learn something, therefore, apparently, yes, they can also burn 10 20 30 tens of thousands more people are simple, and it will not affect society in any way, but if we are talking about technology, then it is a completely different story , because all the technology that russia is losing, and here they will already divide it into old soviet technology, that is, including it, sometimes preserve it and can be preserved once. well, the needle is being preserved now, and the horses are being conserved here in ukraine, and the equipment that was installed here in the zero years . number and so on, that is , again, if we take some t-72 conventional tank , we have modifications, that is, soviet old, early initial ones, if there are modern modifications, then this is completely possible

, the second tank, the second filling is absolutely eh, modification of 2016 and 2018, and so on eh srediev this huge mass of technology and more more more to the tank army actually destroyed already uh, that is, this is for the audience of this in the army, about 500 tanks plus minus, so here it is, and you will destroy everything on the equipment, a huge amount of equipment, namely the new ones that were supplied to the army this past year, and this equipment is not in any way it is not compensable, that is, even under sanctions, eh, all that technology was used to fill the west , of course, that is, it is not a draft in which it is produced in russia, if russia. годов, that is, a big question, uh, to the level, it will be a technique, so uh, they can’t compensate for modern samples, they can’t exactly replace the next years, and the 10-year electropros, that is, such as, for example , only the cruiser moscow, that is, such a ship of such a

level, i will be able to build with sanctions and here are the blockades that now exist economically for russia, such a powerful one. and so on, they can't, let's do it, it's still removed from conservation, that's what works. well, a lot of things don't work there, and they drive it all to the east, eh, that is, on the contrary, back to ukraine, and eh, you can retreat from such a technique these are very big doubts, most likely no, everything is covered with meat, again, it is literally moving there for a kilometer under uh, taking huge losses for the village, but with the help of such equipment, the old sovetskaya can be dug in and you can hold the territory. that is, you can take these here are the kopeck soldiers mobilized by force in

soviet helmets, old men are planting them. - uh, uh , keep this territory as much as possible, and they will attack such positions, even with such old soviet, uh, complex, big losses - these are big losses. and that's why it's necessary here. divide modern equipment, soviet equipment, old equipment, and equipment that ensures that it is possible to bring it up to date. military operations will also begin with old soviet equipment that can provide territory . что враг will still dig into the cancer, they will strengthen and it will be big losses, and gal is still quite a problematic point in ukraine on the border with the unrecognized transnistrian moldavian the republic