russia, in principle, not very well. to be honest, i have already observed a lot, including inside the processes of exchange of bodies, exchange of prisoners, and i can tell you with confidence that it is extremely difficult to talk to the russians about this, in principle, because they sometimes do not even understand why well, why do they want to return someone, why do they need the bodies of their dead, why do they need the prisoners who are with us, they even sometimes have to explain that these are your people, that they probably even have relatives somewhere who are looking for them we will never understand each other with the russians . we are from completely different worlds and i am sure that we will exchange azov and return home, but most likely it will definitely not be medvedchuk thank you maksym thank you for joining our program this there was maksym zhorin, the former commander of the azov regiment, and we will wait for the release of the azov citizens

from captivity, and our conversation with kostyantyn mashivets we continue further and talk about weapons, weapons that are waiting in ukraine, the length of the front in ukraine is 2,450 km, of which 1,105 km are active combat operations in separate areas of the armed forces of the ukrainian armed forces have switched to a counteroffensive, this was announced by valery zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, he called on the united states of america to provide ukraine with more 155-caliber artillery systems as soon as possible, the military says that for a counteroffensive, the ukrainian army currently lacks exactly the heavy weapons promised by the west aradnyk the head of the office of the president of ukraine, mykhailo podolyak , said today how many heavy weapons the country needs to end the war and knock out the russians: 1,000 howitzers of caliber 155 - 300 missile systems volley fire 500 tanks 2011 armored vehicles 200

drones will the appearance of such a large number of weapons change the situation on the eastern and southern fronts, mr. constantine, and do our western partners have such reserves in order for us to transfer them to ukraine well, of course, they will not change if in such volumes and quantities they visit hmm and not on let’s say a restless spoonful in an hour well here ah hmm with normal rates of supply of course they are able to change the situation at the front, that’s for sure, well, i didn’t limit this list to what you listed it was listed by mykhailo podolyak well, all the more. do

n't you have the same feeling as the representatives of the ukrainian authorities say that the west is slowing down the supply of heavy weapons to ukraine so that ukraine does not change the situation on the eastern and southern fronts when it becomes difficult for russia and russia in response starts e- to give answers already to the western states and as dmytro medvedev, deputy security council of the russian federation said, the decision-making centers that are not located in kyiv to a person who observes the course of events, of course, what is it, at least the impression is that our western allies are in no hurry

. this is, including, in the public opinion of ukraine, and now it is also present in the public opinion of the western countries, this concerns the second part of your question, er, the second part, the second part of the question just concerned whether the west is afraid that ukraine will be able to re- to win russia, and russia in response will begin to hit decision-making centers that are not in kyiv, as the deputy secretary of the council of state security in russia says, so the answer will be as follows. the west is not afraid that ukraine will win, because this victory depends on him and completely and totally

depends on the west this is the first and the second, and the west is afraid that there is some half- sober deputy secretary of the defense ministry of russia blurted out something about the strikes on the decision-making center, because mr. medvedev can imagine something there, but if he reaches for the corresponding button, whether he or his superior and his boss, mr. putin, will reach for some buttons and, uh, these telephone handsets, to give orders, the corresponding ones will not live to see it. at least in social

networks. yes, exactly about what joseph biden said about the beginning of the war in ukraine, about the fact that we warned ukraine and ukraine did not believe in a three-pronged attack by the russian federation in these warnings were sounded often enough during the autumn and winter of the past and how do you feel about this discussion , was the war with ukraine already decided by the russian federation, did the entry of this war change the case if we started preparing for it in six months and did we have enough strength to convince our western partners in order to get the necessary weapons, considering the threat that ukraine was facing. well , first of all, let's not equate the authorities of ukraine with ukraine itself, that this is the same

life in the sense that because warnings were received, it is well then it is obvious that there are two reasons: first, they did not believe in these warnings, and the warning was perceived as some kind of foreign policy, let's say, a lever of pressure on their position from the united states of america, or an alternative option means... they believed and were so confident in their own strength that they thought that nothing threatened them, that they would be able to organize resistance and repulse the enemy in this regard,

which can be emphasized here with the rear axle, as the russians say, in the rear, all the smart ones are in the situation on today is such that uh, in these discussions, so to speak, in absentia uh, there are a lot of such elements that uh, make up, well, let's say political facts. of the arguments presented by zelenskyi's side is one of the arguments that ukraine and the ukrainian authorities and official kyiv did not believe that russian troops would come from the north from the territory of belarus, that the territory of the neighboring state would be used as a

bridgehead literally a few days ago, the president belarus has declared that he will fight for the war and will fight for western ukraine, and he is ready for this. how can we now evaluate these statements of oleksandr lukashenko, because during the last three months he still managed to avoid the event or the use of the belarusian armed forces to participate in the russian-ukrainian war to what extent now we must take seriously the statements of the president of belarus that he is ready to defend western ukraine from anyone if lukashenka wants to lose power in his country well here yes, he should start some kind of military action against ukraine, in this case he has lost

political power in the full extent of this person in the country, in the state of belarus, then it will be guaranteed for sure. if not, he does not want to lose power and i i understand that he really does not want to lose this power, he will either sabotage the process of preparing to enter the war from ukraine, which i understand his chief in the kremlin insists on, or he will lead it, let's say yes, it is determined by flags, as they say maybe the military will formally start some actions there

, however, it will not particularly seek to achieve any significant military and political goals there, e.e. lukashenko understands that he is here. well, in this case, he finds himself in such a tightrope, his native foreign policy among those versions that experts and analysts are now calling why can lukashenko join the russian-ukrainian war, they call it the prospect of restoring or celebrating the soviet union this year - this is the centenary of december 30, 2022, how far will the further development of military operations and war russian-ukrainian and the participation or non-participation of lukashenka in it will depend on this sacred

date that vladimir putin so longs for, as he said as a collector of russian lands, comparing himself to peter the first. their progress is the meaning of the war. that is, you think that after all, something like this will not happen in the soviet union by the turn of the century. well, i don't know, they can go to moldova, they can make a lot of other drastic moves in order to, er, in the 100-year anniversary of the ussr putin said we have already created a mini-ussr here because part of ukraine we took away 20% of the territory there transnistria part of moldova can be taken away well and something similar between the definitions of wanting and being able to be capable is a very big difference

and even more distance and in the case with the russian federation, it's generally uh, let's put it this way, the lines that diverge in different opposite directions . the needs of the armed forces of ukraine in arms and ammunition, this is the so-called rammstein 3, we know that not in the first rammstein and in the second, the minister of defense of 40 countries of the world or more than 40 countries of the world was elected to participate, what can fundamentally change or how can this meeting fundamentally affect the provision of weapons to the armed forces of ukraine and how russia will react to ukraine and the

anti-putin coalition that is actually formed around this contact group well, i am quite skeptical about this account because, well, no i expect from her some breakthrough leading decisions, the foundation there, uh, the beginning, of course, what kind of large-scale or uh, acceleration of the pace has been set, and i don’t think that it will happen, well, it is quite possible there for some political purposes, uh, someone can declare that we are there we are considering the possibility of delivery to ukraine. there is a synchrophasotron on duty there , or blasters of some super nigorodshchyna eh so that they can defend themselves well, i emphasize the words they once again well, they mean little in the course of the war eh,

more important are actions, specific actions that change the course and uh, the content of the events on the front, and you can even say anything, discuss anything you want , even with uh, political, some cynical goals, so if our minister of defense , uh, promises something again, it doesn't mean anything at all that it will be as he was promised or if our minister of defense i know if his inclinations are almost with his teeth to pull out these weapons from our allies. help hmm those are

got to ukraine well, i think that in a certain way he will achieve something on the practical plane where is the point or where is the red line in this war when the russians realize that they will lose to ukraine and that they will retreat from our territories the point is when, er, the loss of resources is not only in the people there, the armament of military equipment, these will exceed 40% of the available potential . that is, we need and also, that is, if you have 10,000 tanks in russia now, er, and we destroyed 1,000 of them or one and a half, we need at least another 49,000

tanks to destroy, i emphasize. i did not narrow down to tanks to the number of tanks. i say well, in the broadest possible sense of the word, the term resource potential if its losses exceed 40%. it's not just tanks because uh, in essence, 60% is the tactical level that the military and political leadership of russia can afford, and the reduction of which uh, well, can lead to irreversible consequences for people, that's how many, but now 32,700 people have died and there are already more than 100,000 wounded, well, the size of the mobilization is real the size of the medical resource this is a military secret in any country in the world, i cannot tell you

how much it is in people because i do not know the size of the final volume of the mobile resource of the russian federation to date, e-e, in the open mobilization or announcement within the framework of the military state of squatting the russian federation will be announced, they continue to equip their armed forces from sources that allow them to maintain the required level of staffing of their units and units at the level that allows you to perform combat tasks, they have not yet applied mobilization in the full sense of the word, that is, they use alternative sources in this area and they are quite enough, and the question of the depletion of human

resources is generally considered - this is a utopia country, which country has a population of over 100 million, well, today's expenses are for the fact that it is running out of human resources, uh, this is some kind of complacency, this is self- suggestion, some kind of president zelensky calls before the creation of a modern anti-missile defense system in ukraine, he said that since the great war, russia had launched more than 2,600 cruise missiles in ukraine, and as the ukrainian president of ukraine says, it was good to have an iron dome like israel has or american batteries patriot e please tell me, eh, taking into account the development of events and taking into account the situation that

consists of the advantage, a significant advantage of the russian federation in the missile missile field in missiles eh, in what time frame can we create effective air defense or the iron dome eh i understand that israel does not really want to sell such a system or at least share with it eh from ukraine in what way do we need to rebuild air defense because it is missile strikes that are the most vulnerable now in the current war for the entire territory of the ukrainian state has a very long term, or rather, ukraine is not able to do it at the moment. that is, these conversations are only about the future. mr. kostyantyn understands one more question about the future of ukraine in

nato and about the future of the two states of sweden and finland in the north atlantic alliance please tell me yesterday the secretary general of nato said that these states mean that finland and sweden will join nato only together, we know that there are claims from the turkish side to finland and the swedes regarding kurdish leaders located on the territory of these states, and turkey insists that we can give our consent to the addition of these states to nato in the event that representatives of these kurdish parties are handed over to us, what do you think in the near future during the next year, is it possible to expand nato? what are the prospects for finland and sweden in ukraine to get at least some perspective in the direction of the

north atlantic alliance ? and ukraine will rearm in the next few months, and uh, as they joke in social networks, then it will be too much to join ukraine, wait. we haven't won the war yet, but we we hope to win the war, if we do not count on it, then we can hope for it. i emphasize once again that the current war is not being waged so that we enter the war, it is of an existential nature, it is being waged for the existence of ukraine and

ukrainians as a people, because these goals of putin are real in this during the war, he voiced er under- on the first day of the attack when he was from above and the rest there er for the independence of the dnr of the lpr so-called there or identification there and something else and it's all smoke instead of the real goal of putin's liquidation ukraine as a state on its own means the elimination of ukrainians as an ethnic ethnic group and their assimilation into russians. and so on and so on. therefore, from our side, this is a war with nationally. we are

essentially establishing israel, which is - the war, the first wars, when and when was it founded during its existence, uh, we are in a very similar situation, uh, because we are essentially waging a physical war for our existence, and if we win this war, then the level of interference of the russian federation in our internal affairs and our foreign policy decisions it will drastically decrease because the kremlin's desire to determine the domestic and foreign policy of ukraine is exactly what it is: subordination is the first step, the first step, or let's say the foundation for the elimination of our sovereignty. of state independence well, that's

why if we win this war, then we will already get the opportunity to independently determine the e-e in a certain way, of course, in them to the full extent as big countries as great powers, but in a certain way we get the opportunity to determine our future fate including with regard to the outwardly identical landmarks of human political landmarks, er, including with respect to the alliance, we will definitely win. thank you, mr. kostyantyn. it was kostyantyn moshvets . rudenko on the air of our tv channel today at 22:30 watch the tv premiere of artem shevchenko's documentary mariupol the city of the unconquered is dedicated to the events of mariupol in 2014 i

will meet you tomorrow at 13:00 goodbye watch espresso news and espresso euro programs for ukrainian refugees in europe on the air of our channel, joint airing with the atp channel, radio svoboda programs, voice of america time-time programs, inclusion of public television journalists, bbc news ukraine and franz 24 news broadcasts, as well as the broadcast of the information marathon, the only news together we are a force. glory to ukraine. mariupol was an industrial center until recently. it was just a wonderful city on the seashore. and now the city is a martyr, a city for which the heart of every ukrainian aches, the russians sought to capture mariupol 8 years ago, they destroyed the city,

shelled peaceful neighborhoods, but all in vain, but how did mariupol survive in 2014-2015, a documentary film by artem shevchenko, mariupol, the city of the unconquered , june 13 at 10:30 p.m. on espresso, the blitzkrieg of the russians in the north, the first person we encountered was intelligence failed thanks to such fearless soldiers we took up the defense on the road as a border guard vyacheslav callsign legate his unit took part in the heroic defense and liberation from sumy region and gave the muscovites a considerable amount of chickens that were sitting they were destroyed column by column on these battleships and bmps, well done guys, they tried, glory to the heroes, glory to ukraine, my

mother and i now live in warsaw, it is a very beautiful city, but kyiv is more beautiful for me one day russia attacked my country, but we were lucky and my mother and i went to poland i like it in poland but i want to go back home water i have a lot of friends in kindergarten i really want to go home and i will come back soon i will come back here i will be back i will be back i will be back i will be back i will be back i will be back ukraine i will be back when we defeat the evil ones christians, let's go back to our apartment. i invite all poles to visit. everything will be fine. ukraine.

greetings to everyone. i am yury andruhovych and i don't know. is it a mistake or a crime? digital and direct, very worthy journalists work on these channels, because they are very worthy people. i respect many of them very much when ukrainians fight for people, for territory, for a path, for the future, for identity, for their values, for democracy an unacceptable thing happened, 3 television channels that were always oppositional and always showed the ukrainian view of the world were turned off. this is a video appeal in support of the espresso tv channel, which

i love and respect . the view of turning off patriotic television channels during the war, well, this is actually very the last thing, why did they do it, that's another question, but this is another evidence that our armed forces are good cope with their work and give a sense of safety, protection and reliability, and because of that some people in the offices of power begin to feel so carefree that they have time for intrigues and i turn to mr. or mrs. under whom it depends. i really ask you not to do nonsense