for what shows statistical data and what the russian federation thinks well, we are definitely all the same yes and as for the european country of the european union, i want to tell you that the opinion has changed and we can also see a-a hmm if the indicators of support of the citizens of the action or another country and how would it change precisely due to the support of ukraine, but really, again, we have to work. because let's not forget how long the hybrid information war lasted. yes, how much money did the russians invest in their propaganda? negative, including against ukraine, and i think that we have our strengths, namely sectoral ones , where we worked and are working now, we are also improving our legislation, that is, we need to talk about what we are for, where we are strong, where we can fulfill a- and it is also pragmatic with this or that country

to convey its messengers and convey that how beneficial ukraine is for the european union , and because the association agreement is a unique agreement, it is the first time that the european union concluded such an agreement with ukraine, because we know it more than 2,000 pages, that is, it is very in-depth and therefore there are many tasks a, but this does not mean that they cannot be fulfilled by 2019, we have already fulfilled 44% of the association agreement there in three years, we have fulfilled 19%, according to the association agreement, but let's not forget that since 2014 we have also fulfilled 144 e-e criteria for visa liberalization and that is why all this is possible even in the conditions of a coalition, i personally remember how difficult it was all the ratifications, but the main thing is political will and very coordinated

synergistic work of e-e state institutions and of the non-governmental sector and you know, the group and the father can yes, that is, it’s just a systemic work here that someone thinks something, let’s understand that it’s all distorted in the same way, well, those are those who are against those who do not want to see ukraine in the european union from different by the way, they can be against it, that 's absolutely true, but for us the most important thing is that we are knowledge and we logically understand that the supremacy of law, human rights, human life, that is, economic freedom, yes, this is what is necessary for our country, and we have already felt it that it might work and we just need the movement to move on and fulfill the criteria that we have taken on. thank you, mrs. maria maria ionova, people's deputy of ukraine, was in touch with

us . i hope to hear some scandals , intrigues, investigations are probably related to the eurovision is this the headline leno lena chechenina and her culture please hello culture and politics christ greetings to the viewers and viewers espresso we are all day today and yesterday all evening and all night today we are talking about eurovision, i join in congratulating the band kalush , they were really cool and there was a lot of talk about the fact that eurovision is finally political, as it should be, there is no need to be hypocritical, there is no need to say that you are out of politics, we all understood that nothing is outside of politics because politics touches just about every issue and music in particular ah but many opinions remind us many people remind

us that eurovision was never political it was just such a position that absolutely did not coincide with what is in fact because, as i said, you can not avoid politics even if you want to do it, that's why i decided to remind you of a few not so much scandals, but such bright moments that definitely prove to us that eurovision and politics are not separate, just friends, let's go to remember the year 2017, the general director of the european broadcasting union, who exactly are its eurovision co-hosts, writes an angry letter to ukrainian prime minister volodymyr groysman. she says that many participating countries of eurovision 2017 are going refuse to participate at all we want ukraine not to participate in eurovision if it continues to behave like this, the whole matter was with yuliya samoylova, do you remember such a girl, uh, we

can look at her now, and this is a participant from eurovision, which is when she after all, she participated and did not score many points because she performed very weakly. and in general, it seems to me that she was used very dirty by giving such a chance. but yulia samoilova illegally visited crimea at that time and the security service of ukraine naturally forbade her entry for three years and, accordingly, she could not come as a participant to euro 2017, which took place in kyiv, that is why ms. ingrit wrote this letter, i want to quote it, they did not provide us with any information that yuliya samoilova is a threat to the national security of ukraine actually, the organizers of the eurovision song contest are making a lot of efforts to keep the eurovision song contest out of politics, and we are very upset and actually angry

that this year the contest is being used as a tool in the confrontation between the russian federation and ukraine. that is, on the one hand, they say that they respect our, uh, our constitution and our rights, but on the other hand, they say that somehow you deprive a person of entry and do not consult with us. well, this was the situation when eurovision, unlike this year, clearly showed that ah, hmm, not very well, she is not very supportive of our position, the organizers of the eurovision song contest understand the threat posed by russia, this became even more evident in 2009, when georgia wanted to participate in the eurovision song contest, but could not because the song with which they were going to this contest is called she is the way in which could be translated as we don't want pressure but also we don't want putin and then eurovision said to change the words musicians musicians said that they

categorically will not do this and i am a member of stefan and 3g, that's what they were called too so they said that it was a song about putin because it was exactly 2008, after the russian attack on georgia, the georgians decided to show their position in this way, by the way, they called it back then, and in no case, not anti-russian, but anti-putin, but here they are after all, they were not allowed to perform. by the way, it is interesting that in georgia itself, musicians are such musical authorities. well, in soviet times, they were divided, for example, vakhtang kikabidze absolutely supported the participants and said that well, why do we have to give up the words eh, then nafg we need this competition at all but on it bregvadze stated that she does not agree with such a position and there was no need at all to sing a song with such aggressive words, and even to offer it from georgia because a-ah, you know, the

combination of the words pud and not together with pressure is some dirty hints, this is just aggression, let's listen to an excerpt, there is a lot of cancerology , and it happened around this eurovision 2009 , which took place in moscow, now we can watch excerpts, and they say that the biggest conspiracy is that then just after the attack on georgia, russia had to whiten its image, and here they are decided to do everything in such a way that this competition was held in moscow, so that they did it very well, even by the way, georgia was very indignant at the fact that such a competition was held in moscow after that how russia attacked georgia. it was absolutely

unacceptable. by the way, that was when the rule was introduced that not only the audience votes, but 50 for 50, the audience and the jury. that eurovision and politics are very close , for example, as early as 1968, when eurovision was held in great britain, spain won there, and then it became clear that it happened because franco had bribed the jury. in 1969, austria refused to actually go to spain to perform because that i didn't want to go to a country with a dictatorial regime in the 75th year, for example, turkey also refuses to go to the competition in israel because it began to be pressured by arab countries and which generally opposed the participation of any muslim country in the territory of

israel . in general, it is considered that eurovision is now more interested in eurovision than eastern european countries, that is, all of us. because we were included in eurovision much later and western europeans are already tired of it. it seems that this competition is extremely cool for our image and we all try to show ourselves there and vote for each other, precisely because friendly countries there, sweden votes for movies, and somehow ukraine often voted for russia, remember that's why the competition was also called highly politicized. and that's why a-ah well, in general, there are some such things that a-ah the european language union deliberately and deliberately does this so that some countries will win before their

important role in the european union, for example there estonia or latvia won before they were accepted into the european union. well, that's it. i'll remind you and emphasize that it's a conspiracy. finally, i'll remind you , friends, that a political scandal also happened in our country, and you remember the eurovision song contest 2005. grindzhols, here we can see them, remember, uh, it was such a scandal, do you remember when we chose audience members from among 75 musicians, at first 15, and then we should have chosen one, and probably it would have been simple, lord, ani lorak but then the minister of humanitarian ministers for humanitarian issues mykola tomenko decided to add 4 more bands, mandra, tartak, and the grindjols were there, and it turned out that somehow the grindzhols went to represent us and

they completely ruined their image. maybe they are not to blame for this, but the grindzhols have become a symbol of this injustice, when the government decides for the people, which of the officials, and maybe after this mini-trauma, we have so many quarrels at the national elections, because we really want to decide for ourselves with an honest vote who will be to represent ukraine at the eurovision song contest and not have tomenko or anyone else there. and this was done for us. i think that this is a very cool feature, although we often criticize ourselves for the fact that we arrange these constant quarrels. but what is the process of democracy? that's all for me. thank you, lena. thank you, lena . it was wonderful for me. eurovision was the best. i liked what we won. and what important things were heard from the stage. alina chechenina and the column culture were on our air,

but now it's time to return to purely military realities in particular, and this, as i already understand, traditionally, now there will be such a column in the context of our great evening and serhiy zgurets, a ukrainian journalist, and military experts from defense express . i congratulate you. your analysis will be very appropriate, so british intelligence, which has been pleasing us for the last few days, eh. in the morning, somewhere around to recover for at least a month and the statement is loud and very optimistic should we be more careful with this optimism or should we trust the british scouts well i think life has taught us to be more realistic than

optimistic but there are certain interesting things in the compilation of this british music it is about that that in fact, on the one hand, it is emphasized that the ground forces of russia have lost their potential by about a third , the ability to conduct offensive operations has significantly decreased, and this, among other things, hinders the fact that they lost a significant amount of engineering equipment that allows them to cross rivers and that they lack unmanned systems that are successfully destroyed by our anti-aircraft systems . russia lost almost a third of its ground forces during military operations . if we take into account the so-called sanitary losses

, that is, conventionally speaking, wounds of the enemy, then usually this ratio is 1:3. that is, we say that 20,000 killed plus a factor of 3, we are talking about 60-80,000 personnel who are already unable to carry out operations on the territory of ukraine and now, relatively speaking, the enemy simply has nowhere to get personnel, first of all trained personnel, because in fact all the combat tactical groups that russia created in the first period of the war were contract workers, they were trained. and now after the losses, in fact, the russians are forced to look for other options for replenishment of personnel, starting with the wagnerites, starting with contract contracts and ending with options when even cadets of military schools are immediately prepared for combat operations after graduation, that is, the reduction in the number of trained personnel significantly

affects the ability of the russian army to conduct combat operations, but when british intelligence says that for 30 days the russians cannot carry out hostilities. i think that this is certain an exaggeration, because according to the estimates of other intelligence agencies, the situation looks somewhat different, in fact, well, in particular , the americans are proposing scenarios where in the next two or so weeks, russia will conduct active military operations in the main directions in order to reach the borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions and thus fix at least some options success, so that the next two weeks will be quite active, which actually does not coincide with the conclusions that british intelligence is talking about, there is also another nuance that indicates that er, the conclusions of british intelligence may be too optimistic and we should first of all

rely on our own capabilities in assessing the actions and capabilities of the enemy. well, what is generally happening in our theater of operations, if we take this week as a whole, what it culminated in today, sunday it's time to talk about it. well, to extend the week, there were indeed actions that indicate that we have different sections of the front where we have success, where we have tactical miscalculations and the enemy has tactical successes in separate directions and there are areas of the front where there are changes fundamental things do not happen, if we talk about successful directions, then of course, first of all, we are talking about the attack on kharkiv, which made it possible to get significantly closer to our state border and push the enemy back to the border, and even abroad, this ensured the security of kharkiv and created serious threats to the supply line of the

russian troops that can be done there in the direction of kupyansk because it is actually one of the transport arteries and which provides the group in izyum, which is currently the largest. but it is interesting that when the enemy was retreating from kharkiv, they blew up a number of crossings, in particular, this is right near rubizhny, this is not the same border that is there in the east, it is another rubizhne near stariy saltov and near the liver, near the pechenegy checkpoint, and here are the three crossings that were destroyed by the enemy. now we are looking at another crossing, a motorcycle, this is when the enemy was drowned by our fire on these crossings trying to cross the siverskyi donets, but fleeing from our offensive, they blew up three bridges and in fact they somewhat slowed down our it is possible to act in the direction directly in the

north of ukraine, but this means that we will not find another option as the enemy to drive further directly in the direction of izyum, fundamental changes did not occur. although they are preparing forces to renew the direction of the offensive actions in the direction of the periwinkle, it remains a threat but the most tense section during the week was the arc starting from izyum to popasnaya, first of all, starting, let’s say, the part from e.e. lyman to rubizhne, then the seversky zone donets and then popasna, the situation now looks like the enemy is primarily focused on securing the seizure of north donetsk and this is as such a node that will ensure, in particular, the partial

fulfillment of their task in order to get to god's donetsk and luhansk regions, and the second option is to carry out precisely of these pontoon crossings starting directly from the direction from belorivka down to bakhmut and directly from popasna up towards bakhmut because they want to cut the bakhmat track just conditionally saying that it is extremely important for severodonetsk, because it is precisely the route that connects severodonetsk with our er territory, providing the possibility of transportation and support of our forces and ammunition with other measures, so far these measures have not been successful, as we have seen the

situation with the e-e crossing in svirsk donetsk , when during the crossing there was a significant amount of equipment, all this is actually a confirmation that our capabilities are connected with the development of the bodies of the impression that they are significantly able to minimize the risks of such crossings that the enemy is trying to carry out, but this is he pulled up the equipment again and is preparing for crossings again, so i thought there will be more to this story, well, what if we talk about uh, well, let's say the situation on our southern borders, we had a conversation, in particular, with a representative of the regional of the military administration, i am not mistaken, or only the administration of the zaporizhia region, and he notes that the enemy behaves as if he is going to strengthen himself in order to defend himself, or can this exclude the possibility of his offensive actions, in fact, in addition to control over

donetsk in the luhansk region, what the enemy is facing is to ensure this in the near future, for closer to two weeks, the situation regarding uh, half a day. the same applies to the priority of the enemy in order to ensure a safe corridor, as they think , starting from transnistria and up to russia in order to push away our possibilities from the seas, first of all, but we already have an interlocutor, in particular, anatoliy pinchuk , the head of the board of the international fund for the protection of ukraine, but the issue of the south of our country is i hope you will come back. i am really in pain p. anatoly, we congratulate you, i congratulate you, mr. anatoly, i congratulate you once again, you are the chairman of the board of the international fund for the defense of ukraine, and for a long time you were directly involved in what awarded the interaction between the pentagon, congress and the armed

forces regarding the selection of armament priorities that are needed today the ukrainian army has no sources of walls , but now both zaluzhny and reznikov are saying that we need long-range it-chimeras and other models that allow us to destroy the enemy from distant approaches, is there any progress in this direction in the negotiations with the american side. yes, i really hope that in the near future it will still be resolved . long-range rockets that have a distance of up to 300 km, in fact, the lack of long-range weapons

is now the main problem of our armed forces , because they cannot stop the constant supply of new words for new weapons of military equipment from the russian side federation to of ukraine to stop those convoys that are coming to ukraine, well, they are directly affected, of course, yours. and the question regarding the anti-aircraft defense system of the intercape aviation complexes, is it being violated during the negotiations, or is there any letter of wishes from the ukrainian side to clearly understand what systems does it need, what combat aircraft do we need requests from the ministry of defense are constantly updated and they are another thing. that is, it

is more complicated more complicated about the following factors if we are talking about verification the systems are more complex, and yes, we have planes that have pilots who can fly f15 or f16 who studied in the united states, but there are very few of them. etc. that is why the whole issue is more difficult to solve than just separate weapons. the situation against air and missile systems is also difficult, but it is in a different dimension , the fact is that there are not so many of them simply because of

as these systems were produced in the west, including in the united states, that is, there are no intermediate systems between conventionally speaking short-range frcs and the same complex petrivs, which are already large, so in fact the only such systems are well in the united states - these are words to us there but, unfortunately, there are not very many of them and there are difficulties regarding the possibility of obtaining them, and their production takes a certain time, that is, as i understand the question and the politicians, and the energy rocket complex is in such a high uncertain state. well, i would not say that it is in an uncertain state, because work is underway to ensure that ukraine receives

, first of all, air defense systems . connected with the american side. and what exactly should the ukrainian side do in order to make maximum use of the law on the land list with the maximum effect to strengthen its own defense capabilities ? the expansion of the powers of the president of the united states regarding the possibility of providing military and other aid in ukraine in one or another e-e format, as far as the ukrainian side is concerned, as in my opinion, the key thing for the ukrainian side is

to prioritize as much as possible those requests that it a-a makes to do this situation is more systematic and more well- founded. unfortunately, the necessary more detailed justifications, which representatives of the pentagon and other institutions usually want to see in order to provide and decide question and provide us with these weapons, what future awaits the ukrainian defense industry in the conditions when we enter the land-lease format and receive foreign military equipment in front of the american military equipment, we will have our own industry under these conditions . i think that we will continue to have a certain defense industry, but the main people which are primarily military risks for her, and well, they saw pinpoint strikes

on the house to artem about some other defense enterprises, and in fact, now they are trying to destroy the infrastructure of industrial ukraine and first of all, of course, military-industrial. therefore, it is possible that a temporary organization of joint productions in the territories of eastern european countries, such as poland, slovakia, and the czech republic, may be a solution for a certain period of time in order to avoid the possibility of attacks by the russians on the production spectrum, but at the same time, so that production is a significant lesson ukraine and ukrainian enterprises thank you, mr. anatoliy, for this inclusion, for the answers to the main questions anatoliy pinchuk, chairman of the board of the international defense fund

ukraine was in touch with us. thank you serhiy for this conversation about the south. we will talk to you off- screen because the big evening at espresso continues with the next programs and the next projects. laska vasyl zima and return to your rightful place because it is hard, it is so hard to work in the evening when i am used to more until the morning thank you serhiy thank you to the audience goodbye good evening we are from ukraine in the studio iryna koval and chas novin on espresso tv channel so two civilians died in russians kissed north donets