everything in your power, we approach this issue very, very concretely, we congratulate general valeriy, the dedicated life of our ukrainian citizens is the highest value under his wise command, making possible the impossible for a person to consume the armed forces of ukraine into the army of the world. i want to ask our people to they believed in the alkaline and believe in the armed forces of ukraine glory to the heroes glory to ukraine we are a nation of resourceful people so i did not give up quite versatile people they can be anything we invent borscht that does not need to be cooked we create highly maneuverable high-speed buggies that can go anywhere we make it work we are very comfortable sleeping somewhere in a trench not our victory but after that a delicious battalion of do-gooders here our

front is with you during the war the information front of ukraine fm halychyna together to the victory congratulations friends with you vitaly portnikov and during the next 45 minutes we will talk with you about what is happening around the russian-ukrainian war and how events will develop in the future. also, of course, to answer your questions, which is also quite important in the context of our dialogue with and that we are respected viewers and readers of the site and pages

in social networks, so as the minister of defense of ukraine oleksii reznikov says, as the majority of experts in various countries of the world and in ukraine now recognize the war has entered a protracted phase, it was bound to happen at some point, we understand perfectly well with you such hot , intense battles. we have seen a lot during these last weeks. i will immediately say that it is the russians in principle, they did not hope for a long war, they hoped for a quick blitzkrieg, you know, this is also great. you know, the russian army was clearly not ready for such long, intense battles. well, what is important is that at the same time it was clear that if these long battles will continue, then the

russians can strengthen themselves in certain areas of the front where they had such strategic advantages and strategic opportunities, but in the future they will not be able to advance. and now we are in such a situation that this situation can change. we too they perfectly understand western aid, modern weapons, just yesterday the american senate signed and voted for the allocation of new military aid to ukraine, this is a huge amount of 40 billion dollars, most of the money will go to new weapons, they will also come from other countries of the world, and finding these new weapons should give the opportunity for the ukrainian army to launch a counterattack again, it will be necessary to understand in which areas of the front this counterattack will be successful, where the russians will

have the opportunity to defend themselves, and then when that is all will begin in a few weeks to a month, we will be able to assess the situation in a new way, what do the dispositions of the parties look like in this regard, i would say a new stage of intensive hostilities, which will certainly begin such situations that the russians are doing at this moment, it is also very important what they are politically it is being prepared so that we do not have any doubts about the russian numbers, we already said, it seems to me, during our communication in previous broadcasts that the kremlin has in principle made a political decision on annexation

donetsk luhansk oblasts, we know how fast it will be when the next fake referendum takes place, which is supposed to resolve the issue of joining donetsk luhansk oblasts to russia, but the very fact that the first deputy head of the administration of the president of russia serhii kirienko, who is the curator of internal policy in the administration of president putin , arrived in mariupol i called the proverbial signal a brick, not even to us because i think that the russians think of us last but as a signal to the russian political elites and to your mercenaries from the so-called people's republics, get ready, this is the start of a company to create new regions of the russian federation, however, in the

last week, such signals are much more even louder than kiriyenko's visit takes place in the kherson region. when he visited mariupol, in principle, he did not speak loudly about some kind of reunification well, maybe because they are still trying to support the fake so -called people's republics and kiriyenko was there in mariupol together with the leaders of the so-called people 's republics together with pushilin well, i absolutely it is obvious that if russia has already created such a myth, then it must adhere to this myth and any unification will mean the joining of the donetsk and luhansk regions of ukraine to russia. created by

putin during the donetsk and luhansk regions in 2014 from kherson, you can not hold a ceremony because at the moment there are no such quasi-state entities on the territory of kherson region, but they may or may not appear or will historical intelligence about the fact that in fact kherson is part of crimea - it is the general tavria province and there is no need to invent anything and we do not even hold a referendum in the kherson region , many russian and, importantly , crimean officials have already visited and all the time it is said that kherson has to find one's place in the family of russian peoples, the vice-prime minister of the russian federation, marakh vasbin, and other russian officials, like me, tried to kherson oblast, that is, in principle, russia is preparing for the annexation of kherson oblast

is already conducting an obviously political action without this annexation, of course, the goal of this war, even if it is not possible to capture the entire ukrainian territory at this stage, so that it definitely remains the main astrological goal of vladimir putin and will remain until then without the control of kherson oblast , the goal of even this intermediate goal of this war will not be considered fulfilled in the kremlin, why, well, again , we have been talking about this since 2014, in principle, i wrote texts when crimea was annexed that the annexation of crimea is absolute madness in the form in which which is annexed because the peninsula from a geographical point of view, you can look at the map if you don't believe me, it's not an island, the peninsula exists as

uh . the situation was of course different when on the territory of the crimea there were only these ancient city -states, which were facing the black sea, grazing the mediterranean sea, which was simply a part of the ancient trade routes far away. i would said the part is already finished, because after the black sea we would have nothing and there would be no point, but when the states of the medieval era began to appear in the crimea, the principality of feodoro, then the crimean khanate, the connection with the mainland became indispensable and necessary. the crimean state, in principle, covered territorially not only the territory of the crimean peninsula, as

its name might suggest, and the large territories on the mainland with which it was connected, plus the relations are different . of history textbooks, the decline of crimea essentially began. it was then that i mean as a state when catherine ii annexed the present-day south of ukraine, when the turkish army allied to the crimean khan, of course, was knocked out of the fortresses in the south of modern ukraine, it was then, by the way, that the idea that the crimean khanate, which was allied the protectorate of the ottoman

empire should move as an independent state because the geopolitical idea of ​​the protectorate was destroyed by the very impossibility of the ottoman port to protect its ally and after crimea became independent by the state, his further fate depended only on the grace of the empress, and it is not for nothing that the famous film the flood is hoffman, i live by fire and sword, i apologize for the well-known novel by henrik sienkiewicz, ends with a reminder that after years of conflict , both polish statehood and the hetmanship and the crimean khanate disappeared, and

the undisputed winner in this story was the russian empire, which understood the importance of territorial possessions in the south and relying on this historical experience, i said that what was understood by catherine ii, who, after all, was a ruler with a lot of political experience and, unlike vladimir putin, had a european education because she was a german noblewoman. you are not from the best family, you did not understand, vladimir putin, that if you occupy except by digging sooner or later, this will lead to the complete economic degradation of the peninsula. but of course, as always, it is the victim of the aggressor. vladimir putin and i drew different conclusions from this situation, if

for me the question seems to be resolved through the deoccupation of crimea, i hoped that sooner or later the new russian leadership after putin, and i never hoped for putin after putin, would understand that in fact this violation of international law is a problem not only diplomatic, not only political, but also economically, it is a problem of human resources that even no military base in such a situation does not exist, and putin drew the opposite conclusion that in order to gain a foothold in crimea in order to make the occupation of this peninsula not only unavoidable but comfortable for the occupier it is necessary to buy land on the mainland as much as possible, but the kherson region is the number one goal, and in this situation, of course, we are observing in the south not just attempts to occupy the kherson region,

we are observing attempts to continue the annexation of crimea, and therefore the key to where we must also develop to the deoccupation of crimea is now in the liberation of kherson and i will repeat again that if crimea remains under russian control in the case of the ukrainian liberation company, it will still not be resolved, the legal problem with the russians is not a decisive legal problem. in principle, it will put into great doubt what is already under great doubt, this is our european euro-atlantic integration. well, later on, it will go into a new practical war with the russian federation, which cannot be avoided in this situation, and which will again try to conquer kherson, of course, because it will be very complex situation in crimea and not only kherson well,

this is practically what explains why the russians are now preparing for the annexation of kherson. i am not sure that they have come to understand the form of this annexation, but it is absolutely clear that they came to understand the necessity of this action and that the annexation of the kherson region and its joining to the russian federation were in the plans of the russians as early as february 24, 2022. that is, no matter what government the russians created in kyiv, if the ukrainian capital kherson was under the blows of the russian occupiers putin was not going to give yanukovych or medvedchuk to anyone , just as he was not going to give crimea to them, and just as i think there are still a number of ukrainian regions that were supposed to become part of russia besides, what kind of control over ukrainian statehood would the russians manage to create? well

, that's all clear, but now the question arises whether russia understands that it will face serious counterattacks by the ukrainian army, and that it may not have enough resources and weapons to deter these counterattack as i understand it, does this mean that the russians are simply following this story, no, they have their own plan, which became absolutely clear yesterday, in principle, this is also the plan that appeared to me after the blitzkrieg, after his the failure of which was to clearly show the west that without cooperation with russia and without concessions with it, the west will only make itself worse, that the west has no other way out than to give in and

the ukrainian territory of the russian federation to put an end to all its efforts to support ukraine, why do the russians think so because they are always busy with their main work of generating crises, if one crisis is superimposed on another, then the west will have no effort, no opportunity to not agree to surrender to russia not to settle with russia because, according to putin , his entourage belongs to russia in one way or another. well, now let's see how it is possible to provoke the west even before the start of this war . will dare to such a war. i believe that on the contrary , he will dare. because putin is interested in the migration crisis, i remembered the lessons of the middle east

, where putin, with the help of his ally , the damascus butcher, bashar al-assad, tried to do everything possible to intensify the migration crisis in europe and that all these bombings of syrian cities and towns, the symbol of which was the bombing but with which mariupol is now compared to chikhatki, were connected with the need for millions of people, at least hundreds of thousands, to leave their homes and reach europe in this way capitalized on the russian investments about the nazi right-wing political associations on the territory of european countries and the ultra-left, that is, the right-wing associations came out with a clear anti-migration policy, while the left-wing ones lashed out at the social crises that it always gets worse when the migratory flow begins. and by the way, if it was noticed, you can't

say that russia didn't lose so much in this one. i would say provocation of the sentiments of moscow-oriented forces. look at the results of the first round of the french presidential elections this year already after the war began and you will see that the pro-russian candidates from the right and the left and the bors together have more votes than the pro- european candidates, this is a serious danger, it speaks of certain public sentiments in france to support ukraine, to help our refugees , to give us modern weapons, but the majority of french people are ready to vote for the july bilanchons of zimur people who do not hide their sympathies for the kremlin's policy, that there should be more of these people, so that it would be 50%. and 75% of such voters want

europe to eventually unite with russia in a single anti-american front and put an end to the existence of countries whose sovereignty is supported by the united states. it is clear that this is historical russia, that in the end it was possible to raise tricolor in kyiv and throughout ukraine, the migration crisis, but the history of the ukrainian migration crisis has not ended with anything serious. you see why it turned out that ukrainians are refugees, ukrainian refugees , especially since in our situation we are talking about generally women with children . by european citizens,

there are no serious social problems, there are no domestic problems, this adventure of putin's has not ended, but this does not mean that this is the end of the blockade of the sea ports of ukraine, medicine for the west from point of view, what will force the west to kneel , why if the seaports of ukraine are not unblocked already this fall, the specter of hunger in third world countries will bring thousands of people to the streets, destroy governments, create real opportunities for the strengthening of radical islamist organizations that will seize one province for others, create serious problems with those governments that were considered stable until now, many

third world countries will be engulfed in new conflicts , war, millions of people from third world countries they will begin to move, swim, defect to european countries and here they will meet with the infrastructure and the reception of ukrainian refugees, which is so weak, the war in the middle east is raging in africa, they will begin to negotiate, if not these who are in power in europe today, then those who will come to power in europe tomorrow who will destroy all this liberal democracy and will begin to build a europe that vladimir putin likes. a europe in which, of course, there will be no place for ukraine, because it was simply the regions of the russian federation. only donetsk, luhansk and kherson. and all that and the fact that a

huge number of people will die as a result of this new adventure, we will be talking about tens of millions of people who will die of hunger , their number is increasing every day, and this is superimposed on the problems of creating even during putin's covids, his kamalida is absolutely not confused they consider victory at any cost 10 or 20 or 50 million people who will die of starvation or die as a result of civil conflicts or uprisings is a small enough price for russia to triumph in the end in the second world war up to 40 million citizens of the soviet union died, another 20 could have died in gulav camps, and this in a country that had a population of 240 million in 1991. well, everyone is celebrating, everyone is rejoicing. nobody mentions those 50-60 million as if they never there was no, we can repeat. and if some

50-60 million die in other countries, it should not even be considered a problem at all, and this is now a rather serious problem that we have to talk about. russia has already begun to put forward conditions, if you want to speak to the russians, that we unblock ukrainian maritime ports, start lifting sanctions, that is, give us the opportunity to increase our economic opportunities, increase our army and eventually defeat the ukrainians, do not create problems for us so that we fight in ukraine for a long time, we have already made a decision that there will be no ukraine and we will pay for it as much as it is necessary to pay and you you don't give us, you destroy our resources, then if you don't want us to destroy you with this hunger in the third world, just give us ukraine and everything else. well, then we will open the ports, because these will be our ports, our russian portodes. so what

we perfectly understand what the russians are saying and what they are aiming for, all the biggest political tests that humanity will face as a result of putin's attack on ukraine are still ahead and will certainly take on an apocalyptic character, this is what i am trying to explain from the beginning of this war, this is not a local conflict, this is the beginning of a real third world war, which will simply manifest itself in various forms. of course, the united states of america and great britain want to avoid a possible nuclear exchange of nuclear strikes from the russian federation at any cost. we see this, but deterrence weapons are for that and deterrence weapons to continue the third world

war by other means, if millions of people die of hunger as a result of the blockade of the provinces, and their number will be equal to the number of people who would otherwise have died on the battlefields, well, simply, it will not be the americans or the british or the french, the people from egypt or tunisia, who will in turn be used as a tool to weaken the capabilities of the civilized world to resist evil, that is, already in the autumn we will be able to you talk about whether ukraine managed to stop it or not. and how can we stop it with anti- ship missiles, to my great regret,

where it is necessary to say oh, we will hold a consultation, we will achieve some result, now you can't say that , the united nations is calling on putin to open ukrainian ports give the opportunity to transport wheat, and the united nations officials who talk about 340 million people who may be on the verge of starvation, think about this number, it will simply grow they are spitting in the face of what this is. let them understand that this is all a measure that introduced sanctions against us. this is such a war. russians, you know, don't choose tools. they don't need to hide anything anymore.

this is the situation when you are the devil, you have split legs and you always wore boots. that everyone thought that you had everything like people, but now you don't need it now you are literally dancing on these devilish feet, laughing, satisfied with yourself, no one can stop you, you can just spit on everyone and everything, but think about what to get away from this of hunger to understand the logic of the aggressor, but from the point of view of russia, the russians are not our russia, for example, liberating the territories of the donetsk luhansk oblasts because these are the territories of the dnr of the lpr in which they are recognized by the president of the

russian federation. he promised to help them. well, that's understandable, help. but along with these russians, energodar zaporizhzhia is being occupied the nuclear power plant says that we will supply electricity to the ukrainians, that they will pay us to the russians for this. and why do you recognize the territorial integrity of ukraine? do you think that only the crimea of ​​donetsk and luhansk oblast are not part of ukraine? you yourself think so in zaporizhzhia oblast. no people's republic was proclaimed, there was no referential accession to russia there. it is just a part of the territory that you yourself consider to be ukrainian, even if your troops are stationed there fighting with e - by the pretended nazis, it still does not change the status

of this territory and the status of this industrial facility , which, i apologize, do you understand what ukraine has to pay you to russia for electricity that is produced