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was extremely restless. there was a lot of air alert. many russian missiles flew to ukrainian land almost throughout the territory. an air alert was announced, several enemy missiles flew into lviv, according to the mayor andrii sadovoy, quite a few people were injured as a result of the missile attack, three were damaged power plant in a part of the city, there is no electricity, there are also two pumping stations without electricity, it is true that we are in lviv right now , explosions were heard, there were power outages , and we have the direct speech of andriy sadovoi, the mayor, let's hear it , the liquidation of the consequences of a rocket attack on the city of lviv is currently underway. were damaged at the stations and three substations due to this, there are interruptions in the power supply, two people were injured, they are being

provided with medical assistance, there is also serious damage to the communal infrastructure the windows were blown out, 60 garages were actually damaged, there are interruptions in the water supply, there are also interruptions in the electricity supply of our certain medical institutions , all services are working. and also, ahem, we are already in touch. taras berezovets. then let's add him to the air immediately. er, congratulations a-a what do you think is the reason for this? this is the activity of the arrivals of russian missiles today, because everyone is expecting. well, how about may 9, everyone is talking about this very sacred date. today is our third number. like that a rehearsal of what may happen on the ninth. greetings, maria. greetings to the viewers of our tv channel.

well, it is obvious that there is no surprise here , honestly, because putin does not succeed in anything, his offensive is an obvious fiasco, and the russians are not have no success who could not work on the eve of the great victory day for them on may 9, so cases of cynical violation of the customs of the introduction of war and the customs of international law, the russians will be missed more and more often similar today's attack against lviv from the soul of ukraine is primarily intended to break the spirit of the ukrainian nation of the ukrainian armed forces on the one hand, and on the other hand, it contains a completely pragmatic goal to destroy the railway tracks, destroy the connections today by which western weapons are delivered, the

most modern types of weapons that are arriving today, and therefore they will be what, uh, here is an unanswered question, in fact, it is all about their defeat, first of all, military and moral, and secondly, about attempts to harm to the ukrainian interdiction forces to receive samples of weapons that will allow ukraine to celebrate the victory not only to kill for donbas, but also in this war taras and what do you think about the ninth of may, anyway, you should be asked a-a cnn a-a with reference to their own sources, how do they often do it? they say that putin is planning to declare war in ukraine, not military labor, just in the war on may 9, to announce the mobilization of uh, and at the same time, here is the news that alerted me from pope francis. he says that uh, prem prime minister of hungary viktor orbán allegedly told him that everything will be over by may 9. this military work of putin

will end and that's it. it seems to me that if orbán says so, it can somehow turn 180° and understand how you think what will happen on may 9 what will we hear from putin at his military parade in moscow, maria, i think we should have gotten used to the fact that in this line i have many such prophets who will feel one or another result and predicted the defeat of this war to ukraine within 48 maximum 72 hours and talked about it at the sample american generals, people who have experience, who have uh, in the english language, export and have relevant knowledge about the front, and they were all wrong, that's why when we hear similar forecasts coming from the pope, there uh, hmm, prime ministers of some countries, presidents, i already there are sunny results regarding the ninth of may. of course,

for the russians and their demonic leader, vladimir putin, this is a date from the screen, it should be celebrated with victories, and with some result, they draw a victory, i'll tell you this victory will not happen, they are painting, i don’t know. how is it possible that they will build a copy of khreshchatyk street in moscow and will tell the central channels that they are already in kyiv and marching through the streets of the ukrainian capital? maybe they will organize an online store in the style of a parade did their spiritual inspirer josyp organize, they will spend in ukrainian prisoners of war, for example, in mariupol, berdyanska, mariupol was information that today russia began storming azovstal, do you think they will try until may 9

to press, but to bring something for the russians to show here is mariupol, we took it, well, good luck to them, i wish them luck, because the obvious ones will need a nitrogen plant. enterprises that even a direct nuclear strike will not destroy the basements, that is, the premises that are underground, so we can only respect luck in this, of course. they will need it. during the storming of mariupol, at least 5,000 people were killed. this is a minimum number. let's say more realistically, it is at the level of somewhere close to 12,000 uah. this is what they lost, and that's why

. er, still lives ago today, returning to what putin will try to organize on may 9, i will repeat once again, it can be a procession. organize in the occupied cities in berdyansk, mariupol, kherson, gola prystan, elsewhere, eh, they can declare an official war in ukraine, about this, cnn sources claimed last night, they are there, and in the end, eh, they can recognize the so-called ldr in part of the russian federation, that is, go to the annexation of these parts of donbas according to the crimean pattern, what he announced about the united states in the organization of the united states. i

apologize to the osce. will he announce a mobilization in order to raise reserves? will he, er, act according to the principle of some kind of secret, partially mobilization, that is, so that he has a population - there is a great need among the population right now because people are watching the war on television and it is one thing when you are sitting on the sofa at home and you watch this, and it's another matter when he sends you to fight in this war, that's a completely different story. can he go, and will the course of the war actually change if he announces this general mobilization ? i'll give you the answer to the second question, it's necessary the least simple and then already lost his no ukraine has already won the victory we are moving towards our victory here there are two more components it is a matter of time and the question of evaluating this victory is that ukraine won the victory in this war there is no sum today the world's leading politician and military experts they

even the states of israel, which for a long time tried to balance in this war after the openly simi statements of sergei lavrov, have completely changed their position and therefore, of course, the united copper of the west, which provides ukraine. well, let's be frank saying that, relatively speaking, the struggle of ukraine with the russian federation will now resemble the struggle of the spanish conquistadors with the inca state , that is, on the one hand, they have gunpowder guns and cannons, and on the other hand, bows , spears and the like, that is, many chances for the state the incas to resist were given some procedures there, not many, does the russian federation have a chance to win the war with ukraine no, there is not , because ukraine has other technologies it has the support today of the countries that represent

the so-called golden billion russia represents i will turn myself into the anthemic billion, conditionally speaking, you are the states that are backward in their development and political and economic military, because the golden billion will always overcome the anthemic billion and ukraine will be the winner. now we move on to the question . in the fall, maybe until winter, although i am still more school-like about the option that it will end by the end of the summer, maybe why because the technological advantage will be the same and it will manifest itself in about 10 days that is as of now, when we will get all that we need, the heavy artillery, offensive weapons, yes

, that is, approximately as of the 14th there dash, may 17, this advantage is absolutely old from the dominant , it is clear to everyone, and it will end first with a defeat in the so-called war for donbas, and then it will begin the counter-offensive operation of the armed forces of ukraine, when it will begin, where it will begin in our country, should be of interest to the smallest, the general staff is doing it, the commander-in-chief valery zaluzhnyi is doing it. they know what to do and how to do it. but uh, all uh, reasons uh, to conclude that such a contour offensive operation will begin before the summer. i have the owner of this contour offensive operation, that's it, the armed forces of ukraine go to the conditional i say in quotes the conditional border of the dpr of the lpr, will they be they stop well, of course no, no one will stop even if putin declares all parts of the russian federation to be subjects of the russian

federation. why is he doing this? the purpose of the pragmatic is to say that the attack on the donetsk and luhansk people's republics as a subject of the russian federation is means the program of the russian federation, as well as the so-called republic, separately according to the appropriate use of nuclear weapons . will putin allow us to use nuclear weapons when the armed forces of ukraine begin to clear the territory of the donetsk luhansk region? on this is small, so the armed forces of ukraine. i am convinced that they will also liberate donetsk, luhansk, you are here on the state border, and here the question is, when they will liberate kherson, kherson region, will they go to the border admin with crimea, will they stop or will they continue the consequences, ah, i plan that the decision will be made now, how will you find out about it in ukraine, in kyiv, or somewhere, eh? well, it is possible with the help of our western

partners, who can advise us on how best to act, because the development they also work very well. ukraine asserts itself as a subject state that makes decisions independently, but there is no doubt that the consultations will be at the highest level with the western allies, as well as with the military of kharkiv, and today we actually heard hints earlier about this i would have said that it was already such a chinese warning from listras to the construction of the office of great britain, which said that we will support the complete liberation of ukraine, including from crimea. and she made another very interesting treatment that great britain will not act against the use of weapons on the territory of the russian federation. i would say that this is key, it means that ukraine has already received the green light for the liberation of crimea and, if

there is a military problem for this, going beyond the borders of ukraine and the introduction of an operation on the territory of the russian federation, so this is the answer to you that ukraine has held relevant consultations and i repeat once again we will find out after the fact, but for some reason it seems to me that the decision at the nearest level of the ukrainian authorities and the western union on the deoccupation of donbas and crimea has already been concluded. how is this because you say that the war can end at the end of the summer at the beginning of the fall, what will it look like. that is, we liberate all our ukrainian territories, an even more optimistic scenario from crimea . that is, we do not need to wait for any announcement from russia to capitalize or something like that, we all understand that we freed everything, russia has fallen, russia is a weak army, it actually has

no more. in mind, putin cannot afford to sign such a peace treaty because it is at the same time at his physical end er here are two two possible options or er there will be no peace treaty in fact we will control in our territory we will leave and it will some kind of truce has been announced with the participation of uh countries, for example, turkey, or the second option of putin will no longer exist, he will no longer be physically present on this british car by the way, i probably wrote this material you have seen this material there is a list of diseases that the desert has such a beautiful bouquet, well, with such with a diagnosis, well, if it's true, they don't live long well, i wouldn't really trust the prognosis of the scoreboard, he eats himself of course it sounds very nice, but he has serious

health problems, it must be admitted but is everything really that bad, he will be to transfer power to patrucheva, well, these are dubious sources that we have to rely on. i think that in fact putin’s life has a much greater chance of being interrupted due to the actions of his closest entourage, who will understand that putin’s continued stay in power will mean the undisputed end of not only russia, but them personally they are worried about what will happen to the russians, what will happen to millions of ordinary and russian citizens, they do not care about it, but when it comes to the immediate physical safety of each of them general of prosecutors, judges of regions and national territories about the safety of the oligarchs, the choice will be

absolutely obvious, so i would not rule out the physical removal of putin, which could be a circumstance such as his banal death. that is, it cannot look without the fact that he is shot there , they are trolled, he can die from he has a banal diagnosis, but we understand very well that such an outcome would be the best for russian political hysteria today, they are in a dead end and only the removal of putin, his physical death, can mean that they will appear there. i don't i say that they will be saved. there is a chance to try to get out of this situation. the next thing will be the most interesting. ukraine will definitely demand and receive the extradition of all war criminals, including military warlords and even ordinary executors of those who gave orders and carried out military violations of the law of ukraine or some

international tribunal . i still have to do it . i really like it. why was the tribunal called nuremberg? why did it take place in nuremberg? well, maybe not everyone knows the history, but the city of nuremberg it was on the defining part of these videographers that's where the party meetings took place, that's where the director's staff shot their famous film except for volt, well, that's about it, i don't know how putin has a forest there, he says yes, so that means that all this happens in this forest, you know me very well i like the idea of ​​organizing this tribunal in one of the three ukrainian cities that are a symbol of this war, this year of the ukrainian tragedy, and it is there that russia must atone for its sins. the mariupol tribunal or the kharkiv kharkiv

enterprise, these three cities have become symbols of ukraine's disobedience in this war and symbols of russian crimes, so i am sure that we are talking about him on our territory and these criminals will simply still be alive physically at this moment, they will be dragged here by the skin. and they will be responsible, but everything will be done exclusively according to the norms of international law and ukrainian legislation, we are not going to torture or execute anyone, because all this is prohibited obligations of ukraine, which is a member of the council of europe. only convictions, but only punishment in the case of proving their work, so do a tribunal in one of these cities of heroes who really suffered

russian aggression. well, in principle, you always find the time, thank you. take care, take care of yourself. quiet, peace is not at night . what should we talk about? yaroslav bozhko, political consultant, head of the center for political studies, the doctrine of mr. yaroslav, good evening. greetings. i would like to start with you about what happened today in the capital of ukraine, namely, in the building under the dome . people's deputies gathered and the president even came for the first time. as far as i understand , he spoke before the people's deputies during the war. but before that, british prime minister boris johnson spoke in the parliament. he spoke online, though 15 of these 15-minute speeches. she was very inspiring a-a-a lifts the spirit, gives inspiration.

he praised ukraine a lot, talked about how he visited kyiv, how many ukrainians are they unconquered, that it was thanks to our love for ukraine that we managed to win well, not to win, but he said that ukraine will definitely win, ukraine will definitely be free, did you hear his speech and did you like it? yes, i heard about johnson's speech, in fact it is clear that such speeches are appropriate and, er, it is quite rare and it demonstrates that the ukrainian side primarily considers britain an aesthetic partner because the series of some appeals by president zelensky in foreign parliaments is very massive, it is still going on there recently and in albania there was an appeal to the parliament

. in albania in montenegro eh but it is clear that eh, this is a relevant step. it is very symbolic that ukraine, in principle, provided this site to johnson. britain, as a result of this war, in fact, significantly strengthened its position in in europe, not least because of the partnership with ukraine, there were a lot of questions in the past, nothing about how britain will maintain some of its positions in europe after it has left the european union, in a certain way isolating itself from paris and berlin, with which it is quite cool relations are still maintained. now, in fact, it becomes clear that britain is strengthening its position in europe, which, at the expense of the states in the central eu , ukraine occupies an equally important place among them and will occupy a much more important place

later, when our accession to the european union becomes a reality, it is clear that it is not profitable for britain, as well as for ukraine. the possibility of germany dictating its conditions in europe, and russia dictating its conditions in the post-soviet space, because then it turns out that the european union cannot interfere in what is happening there and it is like a zone of interests of russia, therefore to a large extent precisely british interests, british efforts helped us to break this rather complicated connection. well , johnson's speech was beautiful, and i was just writing it down . he said a proverb, he will say it. i'm not sure that there is such a saying in the ukrainian language. well, there really is n't. he says that it's not the size that matters in a fight.

dogs and the size of a fight in a dog, well, in fact, he compares russia to a dog, they say that size does not always matter, but about the spirit of ukrainian heroes . military aid for 300 million pounds aa, what do you think after the usa voted for land forest , biden signed it after we constantly have european high-speed howitzers arriving there, how quickly can the balance of forces in donbas change? well, maybe you understand not a military expert, then uh, i’m paraphrasing a bit, russia sees all this and they understand all this, what cool weapons we get, how do we coolly lower their army , and taking this into account, will putin declare a

full-scale war on ukraine on the ninth of may officially, let's say so, because de facto it has been going on for a long time. well, in fact, the declaration of war is more of a political moment than a military one, because objectively we understand that, from a military point of view, russia will not gain any significant success from of rapid mobilization, everything is general, because all these people who served in the army 10-15-20 years ago were mobilized, to a large extent. they then did not update their skills with the military training of reservists by russia, everything is as bad as it was in ukraine until 2014 but at the same time, mobilization itself in a certain way violates this certain social contract that exists

in russian society, it essentially consists in the fact that there is such a certain depoliticization, they say , that citizens do not need to engage in anything related to the state, politics, war, economy , that is, to care only about do not get involved in politics, god forbid, do not agitate against the government, and in this social contract of this stuffy russian society, the idea that now every third person will have to get up and go die for the family mmm, but to tell the truth , these are all mobilized, they either need to be trained for 3-4 months to restore their skills in handling weapons, or they can only be used in the same way as those mobilized from the so-called dnr number , that is, drive well m of course, as russia actually uses its own army and the use of

cannon fodder, it does not strategically change the front line in any way, it simply marks an increase in the losses of the russian side, despite the fact that these forces do not make any significant progress achieve at the same time, i note that russia has long abandoned the idea of ​​having a large continental army that can be deployed, these million-strong corps that were in the soviet union because russia was seriously preparing to fight with nato, was preparing to fight with professional contract armies, therefore, in 2008-10, a significant part cadre military e-e units where 15-20% of the officers were stored, which could then be carried by window guards and deployed, i don’t know, most of these units were destroyed during reforms of the minister of defense general serdyukov,

because if there was such a concept that russia would no longer fight with these strategies of broad fronts, the armies there thought to solve everything purely by contractual issues, fortunately , since 2016, ukraine began to create these staffed units that were previously disbanded therefore, it is now possible to deploy new brigades quite quickly, and that is why we have an army . of the 16th year, which has now shown its relevance and we can already gradually increase our reservists to achieve an advantage at the front, i do not think that in russian society, the mobilization of people into the army will be taken seriously - positively, even

though a large part of the majority of russians most likely now they hate ukraine, they consider us defeated, now they are watching the movies on tv, it’s the same story. and when i’m sorry, you left your apartment, well, it’s not even some guy’s apartment. we saw how russians are those who come to us to fight where they even live there, there are no sewers, i’m sorry, there’s nothing , everything just goes down the cesspool, it’s another matter when you are sent to this war, you can look up putin’s ratings, but i think it’s not even about the ratings, but about the stability of the state itself, because one way or another, the security forces ah, these officers, these officers, even the sobra e of the police, who are thrown around like cannon fodder , they largely establish the backbone of the system in russian history, every major defeat is always a deep internal debate as a result incitement to revolution