hmm, you can be sure of this, there were such people who spoke to you through them, all the information goes through television from the guys, we heard it, yes, it's true, i was already elena, you're absolutely right, i was already ready, i was going out, uh, i received calls to the guys, what are we we heard we received i received a signal a a little earlier when the island started even even a little earlier probably yes when the preparation begins that is we were ready and before that for a-a some time ago the intelligence was watching the military was watching we understood where they could to be a risk, and i will attack immediately when the preparations started, hmm, a shot for the return, here we are. i

received a signal, they called me. you don't need to invent anything because everyone should understand how to conduct yourself because the war can be all of us before that, we are very late, i came home, i remember because we had a meeting, it seems to me that the council of national security and defense is somewhere there we discussed these issues and everything was prepared together there were all the papers and the structure of what we were going to do, we understood that if it started how should the state work as one organism hmm someone should be there to ensure the financial

structure so that the national bank can do some things in advance regarding and the state reserve , etc., that is, everything was safe. let's just say that we understood the risks, and therefore the structure was clear . i think it was the day before. what must have happened to me. i don't remember honestly now how i explained it to the children. explain something when you woke them up at four or four in the morning and said, just in case, let's pack things, but they somehow surprised me, well, i tried to be energetic and cheerful, as if nothing of the kind had happened and they somehow disciplinedly followed all my instructions, they were quickly gathering and then after some time comes

the understanding that we don't know when we will see dad again, and there were tears like that several times, but still they hold on well done, like dad, i know that he will endure and he will endure, mr. president, we are already they talked about february 24, and how ready were we in a military sense before that day, because i, for example , live in buchi, it was a surprise to me how quickly russian troops ended up in buchi, actually near kyiv, there a few kilometers to the city limits, we were ready for this from the point sight, i will tell you the volume of forces used by the russian federation , using absolutely everything, even using reserves, using uh, you know, quiet , quiet, we call it silent mobilization, it was not

loud, why is it that mobilization is when war they could not declare war on us, they said a military operation, that's why we know that there was a quiet mobilization, etc., and they transferred a lot of troops , there was a concentration in the crimea and in belarus in different directions, the only place where we did not see an increase in the great is transnistria i and also we saw all this along the borders, nothing new happened, it was as it was when there was training, then they concentrated a large number even a year before , so it did not increase, it left , rotations came, etc. it is really so big a large volume. i think that no european country has coped with such a volume today. and the fact that they entered and uh. look, uh, it's difficult

to estimate today, although the military, in principle, the military and analysts always said that if it will full-scale invasion, why, in principle, is ukraine not ready for a full-scale war with the russian federation, because we are simply 28 times smaller in territory, at least the country is large , and when you are attacked by a large army, you must not concentrate your forces around, for example, kyiv you it is necessary to look and provide it, well, no matter how many there are air defense tanks, bmp equipment, the fact that the military is the most important, professional personnel, military, which are very different. whatever you are, we are a grateful trio, but we understand the difference and they understand it, the alarmists themselves, that's why all this number of people all this the amount of equipment, it’s like, i’m sorry

, the comparison is like well, it’s messy, because all these territories are like that anyway, because we had such a territory, our numbers, we need an army, no, 250,000 or 260,000, or there were 120 combatants there 000, yes, but i don't remember this in the first decree - at the beginning of the 22nd year, when i saw all the specific numbers, we have money, we don't have money, but + 100,000 for the next year, it was mine decree eh, but even thousands of humanity would not be able to stop them, they would not be able to, that is, today we understand that today it is 700,000, here you see the result of the work of 700,000 people who are fighting 700,000 that is, well, that is all to protect such a territory but nevertheless

, this is at the time of the war, yes, this is what happened, so i think that yes, indeed, if we were there, if we let's put it this way, i don't want to discuss the issue of nato in depth now. i mean, but there are too many countries. there are suitable weapons, there are patriots, etc., there are serious defense forces there that are capable of protecting the sky from those first rockets, missile strikes, thanks to which we lost, by the way, the pope, etc. and people began to run, remember, there was such a small chaos of cars, and the traffic jams of cars were thrown, it was all helping the enemy and not the other way around. was it possible to prepare for this war? i think that we were well prepared. they did not know about many things and

then they received all this and we all understood. yes, i want to finish the thought. so, even with the increased volumes, all the analysts said, look at the format of the army and equipment that is in ukraine, they will come in a couple of days, why yes? everyone said that in two or three days they will be able to capture us because this analytics was known to military analysts, they will have to review their methods, believe me, everything is prepared and we understand so deeply everything that our american partners receive from us our needs definitely understand that we understand this in detail, but it is big, big, you understand, big, big money, not only for re-equipment

, that is, you and i need to switch from all soviet weapons to switch completely to nato models, and if you are a non-nato country, how can you do it if you they don't give licenses, they don't sell anything. this was all before the war, that's why i had to say, they don't want to quote some of our partners. then i went to raids, i raided the trenches, not digging, but you can't do what we did. it's impossible to dig, just dig trenches. that it is impossible to win the war and we will win, they told us to raid the trenches, we told them to give us weapons, thank god that i am rather talking about the fact that now american military analysts are talking about the need to reevaluate their work system, because only one of several american intelligence agencies could have predicted the frantic resistance of the ukrainians and that that russia will not go further, since we have already talked about the war today, we

have such a private interview, we have such a quick conversation, but i cannot help but ask about mariupol, what can be said now about the fate of our defenders because this is the point at which everyone is watching. i understand that much cannot be said about the safety of these people, but if something can be said, i can only say that they are absolutely heroic people, not forgetting that there is also the national guard, except for the national guard, everywhere they said that there are only national guardsmen, i want to emphasize that , with all due respect, there were 400 border guards, many were wounded and killed, but 400 there were also a large number of national guardsmen, paratroopers separately, and also policemen, even representatives of the security service of ukraine there

a large, large number of absolutely medics , military medics, ordinary people, and local people, and that's why there are a large number of heroic people, that's why i 'm talking about the fact that all these people are absolutely heroic, how did it happen, what happened there, it 's one question, they defended mariupol very a large number of people died, and our pilots. unfortunately, heroic, absolutely heroic people who knew that it was difficult, knew that it would be difficult to fly, were killed. it is almost impossible to fly to australia and bring them, bring them medicine, bring them a food products, water, take away the bodies of the

natives, everything this happened, a lot of things happened that, of course, no one could officially comment on why. because there was no corridor of air corridors before azov -stalin. give us the sky, help us close it to us, yes, yes, all these conversations are not that we are afraid of planes . airplanes, because in the day you were their pvv, the problem was in their missiles in many ways and that's why you can't just go to mariupol, you just can't be there for a large number of weeks, pilots on rotorcraft knowing that 90% of them do not return. imagine what these

people did, they flew we lost a lot of pilots there. there are just people who flew, let's give them food, water, weapons and took away the wounded, a lot was lost. well, a lot of people. they are absolutely heroic, that's why i, and when we talk about mariupol, i want us to talk about everyone and what's next. everyone of civilians who were blocked at the plant, and the evacuation of other civilians who were er near the plant or who were in mariupol, it started a long time ago. the removal is also taking place. it seems to me

that in the near future, not even in a few days, i think that the removal of all will be completed at some point, well, let's see, eh, its structure is complex, we agreed that the unlocking will be done by intermediaries eh western partners, i negotiated with turkey, switzerland, israel, first with france because of the relations of the leaders with the russian federation, when we saw that it was impossible to unblock by military means, although i will be honest, believe me, well, i don’t know, tens of hundreds of times, i spoke in detail with the leaders of other countries. give me the appropriate accordingly, weapons to our military so that we reached mariupol by military means because of the morass

of blocking these people and people who are still ready to go were ready to go, they were also 90% sure that may not return there, there is an absolutely large number of people, er, such er, heroic people who wanted to help as much as possible, well, there is what is today -th military military command, they transferred all this to all those blocked in azov, stalin as a mediator together with those countries about which i asked you about which i told you in reality well, there were representatives of the oun we agreed with the general secretary to be there too and that's all

today they were taken out, taken out or in the process of what i am telling you, and then it all depends on what the united nations, the red cross, the russian federation have assumed, that they will all be safe and will expect one or another exchange format, that is, for today, i think this is how the process managed by intelligence today will end, this process of removal, removal and preparation for a dialogue to exchange what is it about what you er-er when we ask the question are we er-er only by military means or are there some or other diplomatic steps, or war and so there are such cases where it is necessary in order for diplomacy to work, we will also take them home, this is what we must do together with the

three partners who took responsibility. well, about diplomacy, if you mentioned , you have repeatedly expressed your willingness to meet with vladimir putin. what is the purpose of this meeting? do you believe that this meeting can end the war ? i think depending on the moment when we will meet, the goal changes, like the hybrid war, so honest hybrid will be peace and hybrid meetings, for example, i would like to meet today by the way, the issue of mariupol would also be patients. if we meet in two months, three, maybe there will be no more of this issue. maybe there will be, we don't know - maybe partially, etc., but at the very beginning , if we met, we would understand what position ukraine was in. if we meet today, we know what is occupied and what is de-occupied.

if we meet in two months, we don't know what state everything will be in. well, we can predict what we will do and predict what the result will be. look a little into the future. it's definitely not about reality, reality is today and here, and that's why it's important to solve the issue. as for exchange, de-occupation, and peace, we need to stop the war. this is the whole agenda, and it was like that in the beginning. that is, it was not so specific, probably because it was not there were specifics in the results of the current war today when there are one or another specifics we understand certain threats risks how many people there are many things depend on us but many things depend on russia without talking to them we should then

to simply state the result we were in, we got here well, we are standing, waiting or shooting now, tomorrow, for example, they covered us with artillery, retreated the day after tomorrow, went forward again oh, that's why the question is the question . we want to end this war, but how will it happen? when it will happen depends on exactly. from now on, when the conversation with putin will take place, i think that the conversation between ukraine and russia will definitely take place. equal presidents of the bailers, if it were a two-way

conversation or in a wide circle watching. for example , i will give you such an example, or do i talk a lot? no , you can talk a lot. on paper, but also in reality. yes, so that he will help us in the future, our children, other leaders of the state, so that this is the basis on which the security of the state and society of ukraine is based. we are developing this project, we developed it somewhere, we like something, we don't like something, we as ukrainians are too much although they, as europeans, are too skeptical , yes, that's why somewhere in the middle we will find an answer,

not an answer, it's important because we need the parliaments of guarantor countries to vote on this document and ratify it this is an international international agreement. this is what ukraine needs. we still want this goal very much. today, yes, we want a separate agreement . partner states around ukraine without russia guarantors of security without russia bucha wild things time has changed, things change, that is, not only where we are moving but how russia has behaved who is ready to sit down at the table and who is not ready who wants to and who will never sit down a different daily situation from it all depends on the time. for today, this is one agreement, it is currently being considered, and there should be a separate bilateral

conversation with russia, with the president of the russian federation, what will happen after that, when will we sign it and what will it be? the meeting or not will be the result of the terrible mariupol or mariupol we will go to mariupol there volnovakha in etc. in donetsk region and we will see five letters god forbid it will not happen after this wow how are they behaving for example with the people of mariupol as he said when there was a bombing what if we we will know that they destroyed the people who in azovstal there will never be any more conversations with russia today we see they gave the opportunity let 's say they found a way for these people to be alive and they

took them out further there will be an exchange based on the results of these processes also depend on a lot of things, that's why it's difficult for me to say about what we know that in general hm, i have an understanding of actions in general . i have answers to the most difficult questions about donbas, but these are my answers, so you still need to know the answers you tell others about the daily situation every day in your addresses, mr. president, i want to thank you personally, as journalists, as editors, and as a citizen, because you know, they are sincere, they are open, they are emotional, but i have a question for your wife, please, mrs. olena, you said then, do you remember in the interview? by the way, again, when i listen to the president, your last speech was in cannes.

absolutely human, emotional and such very frank words, the world is now a very complicated world, it is not ready to listen and call things by their names, but you manage to do it. i remember olena saying that i will definitely not become a speechwriter for the president, but i can edit texts, so i want to ask you you edit them and you don’t edit them, and it seems to me that i couldn’t do it because their work has already reached such uh-huge proportions. i might not physically have time to edit it, and i don’t want to do it in principle. i think that it's getting better and better, we can argue about some literary things, so sometimes i sometimes don't have enough of some techniques sometimes too many in fact, everything is fine then it was too much, you could not use a whole metaphor here for nato,

many examples, you could put three out of seven i'll stop for a long time well, this is after the fact, we're just discussing what has already happened eh i think i have other hmm missions and the team is already doing very well so you don't see the texts until there is even such an opportunity as i think that volodymyr doesn't always see all the texts very early. but he always doesn't give out if this work goes through. it seems to me that this is the right form. he always says in speedshare what he wants to say thematically. formed thoughts which only you have to put it on paper and then you can edit it quickly

. i could have arranged them somehow, but it already took me more time than his assistants. and it is difficult for you to give these speeches every day. it is important for me not to speak other people's words. it has always been important to understand what i am doing. i am not a mechanism. i am not a robot, therefore i cannot do it. do well i don't have time to write completely something , the most difficult e-e appeals. i spend a lot of time. well, it's comparable. i mean, with other examples, it's important for me that my thoughts are all conveyed. the idea of ​​the speech is also for me the number one task of the team, if i'm honest.

we have a small uh usually it's me and plus one maximum two people regarding the preparation of this or that victory because well, there's no need for more because there are many people with many opinions and here the question is how to convey my thoughts and thanks to the joint work there there are many things to work in a team that, uh, muscovite should take, collect, for example, set tasks, ah, hmm, the results of the work of the cabinet of ministers, based on the results of the work of this or that ministry regarding this or that task, and you need to get these numbers and formulate them correctly, and so people convey so that they are understood, people are smart here, but if you daily no, well, you do

not live for this, this profession, yes, or this direction of the energy sector of agriculture, you need to speak to people in understandable terms, because people no, you need to live it up, just tell the most important people what is happening, what it is about, because your daily appeals are also work, and well, as people who work in information with information, we know that well, there is a fruitful day and there is a day when well, there is nothing special to say and how do you advise yourself? and you need to go out in the evening to tell something. i think so because i work every day and don't rest. so i have something to say. sometimes i really don't have anything to say in the news.

i'm lucky that nothing happened, it's good , there's no news, this is the best news today, it 's at war and but nevertheless, there is a lot of different work, and i believe that sometimes the results of this work, you did something in this or that week, here's the result, something came today it definitely appears that we need to talk to people about, it's a different story because psychologically it's important that i'm here like you, we address people, they understand where you are what's up nothing well, nothing happened because i think so that if i two- did not speak for three days people could live with that 100%. but there would be a lot of questions and where did the president go something is happening in the state something is wrong and it destabilizes the situation so sometimes yes you have to talk

to people even if there is no information it is very important and it is current nevertheless it is important to contact people at least today until then , let's go to victory and victory, we definitely believe in it, rather, i don't have so much on top of creation. we'll manage. i just want to talk a little about the psychological side, mrs. olena. i recently interviewed a doctor. and we were already finishing conversation and talked about women in particular, and i'm saying how can women keep their health because, well, in reality , there are a lot, a lot of trials on women's shoulders now, i said, you know, women should be healthy now because it's been like this for centuries a lot of worries are carried on our women's shoulders. how would you rate the role of ukrainian women in this war ?