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kharkiv oblast. mykolaiv zaporizhzhya is trying to take severodonetsk, though unsuccessfully. heavy fighting is taking place along the entire line of the eastern front in ukrainian armories . forces at the same time launched a counteroffensive in the kherson region, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports on this, meanwhile, the enemy continues to lose manpower and equipment in in ukraine, as of the morning of may 30, the russians have already lost in ukraine 30,000,350 personnel , tanks, 1,349 units of armored combat vehicles, 3,282 artillery systems, 643 rocket launchers, five air defense systems, 96 aircraft, 207 helicopters, 174 vehicles, 2,258 ships, boats, and 13 winged cruisers. missiles 114 drones 507 special

equipment 48 units about the situation on the eastern and southern fronts of ukraine as of the morning of may 30 the turning point in the war and the death of putin in the british press today we will talk with our guests in the first half of the program will be a military expert, colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, oleg zhdanov. and in the second half of our program, there will be an army general, the former head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine, mykola malamuzh . you are participating in our program glory to the heroes i congratulate you mr. olezh let's start our conversation with the statistics of losses of the russian federation in ukraine more than 30,000 killed more than 90,000 wounded 1,350 tanks 204 207 e-e

aircraft units, the enemy continues to suffer colossal losses in this war. what limit of these losses is permissible for russia and are such losses justified in view of the current position of the occupiers in our country? we will reach some kind of limit there when russia will say that we can't do more, they will fight to the last soldier to the last tank to the last plane why because here the struggle is for a new world order and if russia wins, it will become in fact, the ruler of the world has a lot at stake here, and it is not worth expecting that there is a limit. well, when you talk about the redistribution of education, we are talking not

only about ukraine, but also about the presence of the russian federation in eastern europe. in the countries of eastern europe, we know that on december 30 of this year the centenary of the founding of the soviet union is being celebrated and we know that putin is quite symbolically trying to relate to all these dates and meticulously somewhere to these dates. does this mean that the russian federation will deploy its troops not only on the territory of ukraine but also threaten others to the countries of the former soviet union in order to renew or at least recreate some kind of mini soviet union before this anniversary date, i think so. that's right, look. replay the attempt to recreate the soviet union before the anniversary date , this is one attempt. well, if, god forbid, they win there, this is the

first reproduction of the soviet union, the second is the ultimatum of the west because russia is the hegemon here and the main leader of politics on to the entire european continent. and by the way, it is precisely the understanding of such and such a situation that shows how much western countries are ready to support us, and especially those who understand what consequences and what serious consequences can be as a result of the victory of russia, even by the way, the same mr. scholz, whom we constantly criticize he managed to take a vague position at the forum and then in berlin on the eve of the march in support of ukraine he clearly expressed his political position that ukraine must win moscow must lose in this they understand the political consequences of war.

and regarding the army, if someone hopes that russia will not have enough, then i will say. so, what are the reserves of the soviet union, er, of the military equipment that was still in the soviet union , it is calculated in tens of thousands? well, only according to the tanks in storage in the russian federation, in general, there are approximately 13 and a half thousand tanks, that is, it is 10 times 3.5 thousand in combat formation, 10 times more than we have already destroyed on the territory of ukraine, so that is why we hope that they have a limit of losses, no. and by the way, look, we say there. for us, this is a crazy number, we think with you, how are civilized people and who put a person's life there as the most valuable thing that they have and for us 120 000 is a crazy number, and in russia there is

only an operational reserve of the army of 2 million people, 2 million, but for you, i think that they are ready to sacrifice these two million for the sake of obtaining, as putin said , the price of victory. that is, it is 5%, now 5% of what they have a 95 % they still have in reserve, right, yes , the enemy, meanwhile, mr. olezhe, continues to attack in severodonetsk, contradictory information is also received by the headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine, and the russians claim that they are holding the city, our gene says that they are unable to enter the city , or they are entering the northeastern outskirts and there are street gangs, because there is a military expert, serhiy zahorets says that it is very similar to a fight in a boxing ring when blows are delivered from one side with another blow what is happening around severodonetsk and what will happen if the

russian federation does capture the city and how events in the donetsk direction will continue to develop. well, i would say that the fighting continues in north donetsk, in the very place, there are fierce street battles today, and you are indeed right that there is no defined front line there, because it is going along separate streets, in separate quarters, and ... unfortunately, the enemy is throwing into the battle everything that is around and the advantage there is significantly with the enemy and not with our troops, but we are inflicting fire damage and, unfortunately, we are retreating little by little, we are retreating to the middle of the city, well, i think that this will not affect for the general situation we still have a river siverskyi donets, which we can become so crowded on the way of russian troops and most

likely it will become and there is the city of lysychansk if the situations will be critical, then i think that the general staff will make a decision to withdraw the troops in the forest at the time of taking the defense it will already be a strong point there. it has advantages in terms of military and defense over other advantages even compared to the city of severodonetsk, and there we can receive it as much as it will be possible to provide it is grouped the grouping of our troops in the city of lysychansk, the scenario when russia will enter the administrative borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions and how this will affect the russian-ukrainian war seems so likely now. well, i think that the probability looks like it exists, there is a threat, so there is an exit of russian troops, but also the probability for today no, not that high, but why? because

we still have uh well, as he gave an example from the city of lysychansk, we have a border that we can receive uh maintain defense by the way, everyone in other directions, on the right, from the left flank, or from the south, from the north, around the lysichansk-bakhmut highway, our troops stopped the enemy's offensive, and to date, the russian troops are regrouping and are still preparing to resume offensives in separate directions at the same time, mr. oleg, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports that the ukrainian army went into a counterattack in kherson, in the kherson region, the armed forces of ukraine struck a powerful blow against russian positions near the village of davidiv brid, as my colleague and journalist andrii writes

tsaplienko, judging by the fact that the russians had a large stockpile of ammunition for several hours in a row, under what conditions, mr. oleg, the ukrainian army can not only achieve a successful success in the kherson region , but also consolidate this success, well, look, i, uh, if we went into a counteroffensive so there are forces and means that allow this to be done eh. by the way, this is very hm. i would say such a significant counteroffensive that can generally affect the situation on the right bank of the dnipro river if we cut it into two parts eh this is the group that was on the right on the banks of the dnipro, then the question of liberation or the question of encirclement will become the question of encirclement of a group of russian troops at a crooked corner and in fact there will be a semi-encirclement of the city of kherson . for us, this is very important and the conditions could

be formed under due to the creation of reserves and their transfer in that direction, as well as the strengthening of the firepower of the armed forces of ukraine, and due to the supply of western models of weapons, british development reports that russia has suffered devastating losses among officers in ukraine of junior and middle rank what will lead to a decrease in the effectiveness of actions and a further drop in the morale of the russian army, in addition to what the british write that hm referring to numerous reliable reports that there are localized riots among the russian troops in ukraine, there is a lack of experienced and reliable platoon commanders and the family should expect a further decline in morale and bad discipline, there is a report that those who were drafted into the army and who were sent to the front from the so-called lpr and dpr are also rebelling

against the situation at the front and today there was a report that there were even skirmishes between those who were mobilized from the self-proclaimed republics and those who were brought from the russian federation. to what extent can these internal vicissitudes of my russian army affect the fighting spirit? well, accordingly on their ability to advance and fight with the ukrainian military, well, look, they are absent as juniors, the absence of such a management link as a junior middle officer not only demoralizes the army, it violates in general, the system of military management and a-a military personnel, private and non-commissioned officers, they simply go to waste in terms of the fact that there is no one to implement the orders that come from above . by the way, officers also die because discipline and morale are very low, they are forced in the first

ranks, uh, to force soldiers to follow orders and put these orders into practice, uh, and then uh, well, then the army will disperse if there are not enough junior officers, the army will disperse - early graduation from military schools does not save the situation because that young guy who will come with a lieutenant's epaulettes, he is not yet a commander, he has only received the rank of officer, he should become a commander in a few years, and being in the army, and he does not have the ability to attack such an attack, they will be thrown at him now here we are in front of the front line and we will need to make decisions today and now and this will further aggravate the situation, they will make mistakes, the rank and file will be angry with them and pour out this anger on them in any way up to the use of weapons and we are still approaching the

point when the first contract ends and the short-term contracts for 90 days signed by the ordinary members of the armed forces of the russian federation, now these people will demand rotation in the russian federation there is no such possibility to conduct rotation with these servicemen and this will be another wave of refuseniks who will refuse to take part in hostilities in connection with the end of their contract, friends, we are working live on several at once platforms on the air of the espresso tv channel, as well as on youtube and facebook, for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook, please ask questions to our guest oleg zhdanov, a colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, a military expert, there are already some questions for olezh valentina rakitina, who is watching us live now asks you to listen, it is

not clear how you can defeat an enemy who exaggerates tens of times and who has many times more weapons than we will leave our soldiers in cauldrons to their own devices and then thank the fallen well by the way, i want to remind you that in almost 100 days of the war, not a single cauldron, not a single encirclement and not a single defeat of the armed forces of ukraine took place, this is not the year 2014, the commanders are completely different and they do not cooperate with the enemy, and this is the main thing, that is why the armed forces maintain their combat capability and the possibility of liberating our territories, as for the enemy who is outnumbered, they do not fight with numbers, they fight with their minds, and we have a much better and more intelligent experience, so let's see and we are talking to you about low morale er, or the morale of the soldiers of the

russian federation, the demoralization and reduction of military discipline due to the fact that there is no ideology of this war, well, they are watching tv in russia and they are ready to go there to fight after the first combat clash, they are already thinking about how to get home and when we will inflict they are hit by fire, then i very much doubt that there will be much resistance on the part of the russian troops regarding the defense of the lines they occupy today well, by the way, you don't need to pay attention to this by the way, mr. olezh, about weapons, ukraine is getting land-based launchers and the corresponding number of anti-ship harpoon missiles. the minister of defense of ukraine,

oleksiy reznikov, announced this. let's listen to a short video. friendly countries such as great britain and the netherlands, and i think that countries will join this, let's say the continuation of the supply of easter paschas to us and these paschas with pleasure will be set just to defeat the naval component of our enemy in the black sea in order for us to finally release including and establish the freedom of litigation by internationally recognized laws, therefore we are waiting for the cruiser moscow to go to the bottom of the black sea. other ships and there will be more additional spots somewhere and give-sites for immersion where i invite everyone after the victory. as i myself am very excited, where is he ? ship missiles will be able to be launched from the territory of the mykolaiv region, for example, and they will reach occupied sevastopol, are

we talking about the waters of the black sea? no, as far as i know. by the way, the head of the military administration of the kyiv region e there they showed the likely zone of damage by harpoon missiles. if they come to you in the form of missiles with a launch range of up to 300 km, the city of sevastopol will fall completely into the zone of damage. so we will be able to traverse sevastopol we can sink russian ships when they appear in the zone in the zone of damage of our already our missile complex to what extent does this component naval component in russia remain strong, considering the fact that access to the black sea is blocked by turkey on the right because even blocking the access to the bosphorus does not reduce, for

today, the hall with chornomorsk-caliber missiles from the ranks of the black sea fleet of russia can add up to 54 missiles, it is meant at the same time, that's why it's an existing threat to us, and it's good that it is not increasing today due to the fact that turkey blocked the bosphorus for the passage of warships of the russian federation from other fleets, mr. oleg, the chancellor of germany , spoke in lavsholtz and in berlin spoke about the fact that he supports ukraine and announced the provision of weapons to ukraine and assured that putin will not win, you already mentioned it, let's listen to what the chancellor of germany said, we are with you, our hearts, our thoughts are with you today and every day since russia attacked your country, we shake hands with

with our friends and partners, we give help so that your economy does not collapse. we remember those who laid down their heads resisting russian aggression, those who were wounded, those who lost their homes, those who suffered from rockets and projectiles from russia in the fight against tyranny against oppression, we are together, we are united around ukraine, we stand for the rule of law, for human dignity , for freedom, for democracy, that's what olaf scholz says. well, it's clear that we have hopes for american weapons, as well as for weapons from our partners who have united in a conditional the rammstein group at the air base in germany and have already held

talks twice about the future of ukraine, and also these 40 or more than 40 eu defense ministers from around the world say that russia should not win this war. we will do everything to ukraine received weapons on time, at the same time president zelenskyi says that we are not getting these weapons enough and not quickly, we need heavy weapons, especially in donbas, e.p. in time, it can stretch and how it will affect the offensive of the russians and their attacks - on their superiority, which they are still trying to demonstrate in the east and the south, see the main amount of weapons should not reach us as part of the langes program and not as part of aid programs to ukraine, unfortunately, aid in

aid there, er, that's what scholtz is talking about. this aid is not an english list, and a-a, the amount of weapons there is calculated by individual copies, well , a little bit, sometimes tens of units a-a well, with the exception of our partners from eastern europe yes , there is help there, which is represented by hundreds of units of weapons, so we are the main main supplies will begin within the langle program, as of today, they have already been shipped, part of the first wave of lend-lease has been shipped, part of it has already been shipped is headed to ukraine and i think that if we are talking about the time frame, the first wave should begin to arrive in ukraine sometime in june , so that during june we can receive more or less the necessary amount of weapons for that to start forming new

units and parts of the counter-offensive group, well. putin and his army cannot fail to understand this. and they will use this time in order to gain some kind of advantage that can be expected from the russians in this period. i think that the russians now, when they uh well, when they run out of offensive potential in the east of ukraine, namely in the luhansk region for a new wave regarding the resumption of the offensive on our territory, and here there will be a kind of race , who will be the first, or we will form, receive weapons and form a counter-offensive group, or they will have time to form an offensive group too

groups, more precisely, reserves for the formation of an offensive group. in my opinion, such a race will continue in june and possibly even in july, against the background of what is happening on the eastern front and the southern front, we see what a tense situation remains in the same sumy region when airstrikes are carried out from the territory of the russian federation and missile strikes on the territory of the ukrainian state in the sumy region, partly there from the north , in the chernihiv region, in the kharkiv region, this is a distracting maneuver of the russians in order to withdraw our armed forces of ukraine and force them along the border to defend themselves from russia or is this some specific plan to launch an offensive in the same sumy region or in the chernihiv region well, i think that this is a diversionary strike why because they are

not forming an offensive group there there is no large concentration of whiskey, they do not accumulate. unfortunately, we still do not have a political decision regarding the response or repulsion of these blows, and we are still repeating the mistake of 14-15 years. well, and all the previous years when we unilaterally did not return fire and simply suffered losses in silence, which we continue to do now. unfortunately, in my opinion , we must act, and we must stop these actions and return fire and inflict damage on the enemy, otherwise it will be an endless song. and we we will constantly suffer losses. actually, why am i asking about the sumy region , because on february 24, with the beginning of the great war of russia against ukraine, well, at least my relatives who live in this region say that these tank columns calmly entered russian and a ten-kilometer tank column went through the

villages and went towards kyiv, and we understand that there was a conditional border between ukraine and russia, that is, through fields, villages, and somehow forests, it was possible to safely enter the territory of the ukrainian state. ukraine is in this danger because it is clear that in the east and south the situation is clear, but in the northeast it is not clear. understand - understand the first and second, we already have real experience on february 24th, uh, and so, by the way , we are having a conversation with you about the fact that our troops are located along the border. we are forced, uh, to leave the troops there and strengthen the border in engineering

relations to prevent the breakthrough of russian troops into the territory of ukraine, the second such campaign will no longer be uh, conclusions have been made there and the borders will be equipped in accordance with the requirements for the line of defense, ot by the way, this is an answer to the question sometimes asked that we have -e under the gun but where are our armed forces, so let me remind you that belarus and russia have almost 3,000 km of border and we are forced to maintain a native truth, of which 1,300 km is the front line where we are constantly fighting and that is where the main force is there the number of armed forces is concentrated, but the rest of the border must also be held, and therefore our troops are spread along the entire border in relation to belarus, in relation to the russian federation, by the way, about belarus, because

during the last week there were a lot of statements of some kind of warnings that belarus can to be used, including by the military in the offensive in the north on our northern border. we saw how lukashenko held a meeting and, uh, talked about the need to create the southern uh, southern operational command of the armed forces of belarus, they talked about the fact that the ukrainian border would go from the side belarus was tricked into getting a lot of such information, which was interpreted as a possible intention of lukashenko and, accordingly, putin, to attack the northern borders of ukraine in order, again, in order to to strengthen our offensive actions of russia in the luhansk and donetsk directions, what do you think

, will lukashenko decide to directly involve his troops in russia's war against ukraine, because it is clear that he is not the co-author of this war of putin's, but so far belarusians didn't fight in ukraine well, i think i'm more inclined to think that belarus is unlikely to enter the war after all alarm car in this situation is that there are iskander missile complexes. and this is a 500 km missile launch range and it can be used by the russian federation for a-a strikes on our western regions, well, that is, from the territory of belarus to russia, yes