and you from enemy strikes and rockets, i understand, and artillery there almost every day there are wounded, unfortunately, there are dead uh, and the enemy, i understand, doesn't uh, he doesn't change his plans to attack the city and try it well, at least if if you don't capture it, then turn it into what they turned mariupol into , so i'd rather not say weapons, then it will be the same for you. how big is the threat of a direct attack on mykolaiv today, and does the enemy really have the potential to implement it? well, i think that the enemy did not abandon his plans for not only mykolaiv. and in general, the capture of the south of ukraine is in their plans and was from the very beginning, but we changed these plans from the very beginning, uh, they did not succeed in capturing kherson, but they broke their teeth about mykolaiv and could not see through odesa in order to seize hm to connect with transnistria and in the future, i think also to annex moldova, that is, i am sure that it

would have been if, uh, they captured it, they were able to advance in the south, that's why the enemy does not leave such a plan all the time shelling mykolaiv and er a few months ago, we are the armed forces, we are the armed forces there , the ukrainian people repelled them from the city of mykolaiv itself, they are now somewhere 20 kilometers away, probably the closest to mykolaiv, and now there is fighting right on the administrative border plus or minus of mykolaivska the enemy of the kherson region has a strong potential, especially artillery, tanks, equipment, and i am sure that they also have these plans, and we do not need to discount this and we cannot discount that, so we do everything here based on such calculations that the enemy will sooner or later sooner or later he will continue his attempts to go further south and you to the west in order to once again say to go deeper to cut off our south and go deeper into europe please tell me if

today as the defenders of mykolaiv mykolaiv oblast you are receiving the necessary weapons from our western partners. well, i don’t know in what quantity, or at least the delivery of such weapons is expected in order to deliver more significant blows to the enemy and destroy him and ammunition depots and fuel depots and headquarters command posts as well. well, there is also manpower there equipment, yes, please, well, let's say that for weapons, of course, i get the amount that we would like, yes, but there are weapons, it fights, i see it myself, and how it fights, how it destroys the enemy, of course we will work as politicians, etc. i hope that our entire diplomatic corps of the state leadership will have more weapons. we now see support for us, in fact, and for europe and the world . that we don't have enough here

look at how the leaders come and say uh, look at what the russian federation has done to us, we understand that it is important, but it is important for us and for the soldiers who are on the front lines, who are under uh, uh, are under enemy fire, uh, it is important it is the weapon with which we will destroy the enemies, roman, one general marchenko, with whom you defended the city of mykolaiv and the mykolaiv region in the very first days of the war. well, the most difficult, even more difficult period, eh. now let's say that we will liberate kherson, although it is not it will be like this quickly, if you wanted, the enemy actually shot down all the approaches to the city. he also mined the territory , so it is unlikely that i will be able to take kherson from pomakhnovsk. well, it will be taken anyway. please tell me now how difficult it is. reveal some secrets military general how much this is a difficult task and to what extent it is worth

working on and thinking about liberating kherson and then, so to speak, you are leading the bridgehead for the further liberation of kherson oblast with access to e-e before the demarcation with the occupied crimea, i will say that the war has changed since it started and it's just that we won't be able to take anything because the enemy, no matter how much we want it, the enemy is learning, it's not the same enemy that entered columns and which we simply broke up those columns, the enemy went on the defensive in some of the participants and in some areas he is taking counter- offensive or offensive actions and he is learning yes and i can say this on many factors from the transmission of coordinates from the communication of encrypted and unencrypted what are they used in their absence of control and now what kind of control depends on what fire system they have already built, so the enemy is learning and we are learning and i will say that now. we can honestly say

that now our army is in one of its best states experience in equipping the city, we don’t have enough weapons, but our army is now considered the strongest army in the world in terms of experience only because we are fighting and fighting with one of the most supported and one of the most resourceful armies in the world, so let’s say so to what extent it will simply not be possible to take anything here as well. the question is, you know, it is difficult to say when we will liberate kherson, it is not because i do not know, but it simply depends on many factors. we cannot simply go and put 100-200 thousand of our people there to they just laid down there for dismissal, we understand that this is our task for me, this is a special task and it is generally me as a politician and as a military person, this is my e. let's say so, e.e., my direction and this is my idea.

until we release it because it's mine my homeland is where i come from and my homeland is what was bought, and we are doing everything to make it happen as soon as possible, but i say once again that we are not russia to throw corpses at everything. for the lives of ukrainian soldiers and at the expense of the lives of russian soldiers, thank you very much. well, this is a true phrase that for ukraine one must not die for ukraine one must kill roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, cyborg, colonel of the security service of ukraine, they are now defending mykolaiv oblast take care, mr. roman, and thank you for fighting for ukraine and for all of us there at the front. well , what really is the enemy, which launched such an offensive from the first days, in fact received demands and today moved , as they say, to a positional struggle. well but that's what war is for and there are military commanders to change tactics and find the keys to any tactics of any enemy, such military commanders who know how to do this are

called geniuses, such as our own petro , a political technologist, a fighter of the armed forces of ukraine from the luhansk region, mr. peter, greets you good p.m. congratulations glory to ukraine glory to the heroes, what is the situation, well , what is the situation in luhansk oblast, the question is of course without an answer, the situation is very difficult, and lysychanska severodonetsk is in the severodonetsk battle, vasychansk is under fire, the enemy is gathering forces there, but today i read a very good opinion of a military expert who said that zeverodonetsk today performs a very important function, first of all, it connects the huge groups of troops of the russian army, it exhausts the enemy technologically and resourcefully, and in terms of personnel, and in fact does not allows him to achieve results, but at a great cost on our part, he still does not allow this group to go in other directions somewhere, giving more chances now with our fighters , let's say either in the south or in kharkiv oblast, there or in

donetsk oblast. please tell me if the situation is it really looks like this well, what about severodonetsk lysichanskyi, what are the hostilities there as of now, please? well, first of all, regarding the assessment, it is worth understanding that there is now a war going on in society and with developed human problems and actually society, we do not have these rights of people. i briefly looked today at the speech of vladimir putin at the st. petersburg international economic forum where there were representatives of the taliban. and actually i got the impression that the war of the 20th century is happening now and the 20th century embodies the russian federation of the 20th century of totalitarian regimes and destruction people and the 21st century, the 21st century - it's johnson, it's macron, the whole ukrainian government, in particular , zelensky here, without any compliments , i think it can be said that it's society digitization of the society of human rights and albert has a good idea that western society differs from others precisely because of the awareness of people

, and we know how in russia it is the aware people who are destroyed. therefore, now we are really a frontier, and it seems to me that the mental test for belonging to the west we passed just in these because we show that we are europe. as you saw today's visit , the european commission actually recognized this and this is of course a plus, and what can be said about the mood and fighters , i would definitely say that yes, first of all, this of course, the understanding that russia and as such a putin phenomenon, er, russia, which putin embodies , needs to be fought, and in principle, people from donetsk region serve with me, there are people who moved from luhansk region. we are actually in luhansk region and they clearly understand that in it is impossible to live in the country into which putin has now transformed the russian federation. and in this particular case, it seems to me that it is precisely this existential choice, i.e.

understanding why this war is happening and why, under the guise of denazification and demilitarization, putin gets into every family to every person personally and inspires our fighters to give that night what is, in your opinion, what is the main goal of the enemy today in north donetsk. it's just to follow the order, as the supreme commander-in-chief's stakes say, and take the city. well, they planned it there before on the ninth of may, then on what date, then, well, actually, i obviously don't know by what date they plan to take him, probably by june 22, they always have some dates, what do you think is the key goal here and or indeed, this goal is worth it for the enemy to concentrate huge forces there, to constantly supplement the battalion with new tactical groups and to spend resources and equipment and ammunition for this battle for severodonetsk, can you call it? well, it's telling. this story of

stalingrad, can we call it that's exactly what this battle is now. well, especially since the battles in the city are so large-scale now in north donetsk. well, there were. by the way , they also lasted in stalingrad for almost a year. actually, i have no illusions about the fact that the russian generals have now set some deadlines, we see that now their tactics have changed and their task is primarily informational and psychological , that is, to show that they seem to be taking some villages there, er, they are painting some victories, and this is evident from the statements konashenko and another task that they do not hide , the destruction of the infrastructure, is the destruction of the observation team of the points, which they do not always implement , and this is good. war and, of course, that concentrates more on strategic parameters. i also think that most people are aware that now the donetsk direction is an opportunity to prevent the attack of the

russian federation from the north, to repeat the plan to attack kyiv on kyiv . what was roman kostenko just talking about, in this case for the russian federation? of course, it would be interesting to admire verodonetsk as a certain symbol of the soviet city of the soviet chemical industry. is to submit their propaganda summaries again, they show that the chemical industry of ukraine is allegedly located in rodonets itself, well, of course, that they are carrying out their plans to damage infrastructural facilities, we also understand this, and i see that at the top the decision is made how to actually ensure e- e army and the civilian population with everything necessary, even in such conditions, thank you very much for your comments. take care and thank you for your service .

told about the situation there, by the way, they write about the fact that the nitrogen plant is actually there, which was just discussed in the north donets evacuation, it is impossible there, and there are hiding from enemy shelling, in general, from the war, up to a thousand local residents there, and the situation is very critical for these people, well this immediately reminds us of the story from azovstal, where local residents also hid from where they could not get out, well, really. then they were evacuated , we join my colleague serhiy zgurets, he is my co-host and defense express expert, mr. serhiy i congratulate you, so we will start today with good news, yesterday cotton grew in the black sea, that means vasyl beh begbah, yes, the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine destroyed an enemy tugboat , a russian ship that brought weapons and anti-aircraft ammunition to the island of zmeiny, yes , the tor missile complex and the personnel itself in a word, it

ended its e campaign on this, here it is. by the way, it is still fresh, it only became part of the black sea fleet of the aggressor country in 2017 and has a displacement of more than 1,500. in a word - it's a good so good workhorse it's a workhorse or not a horse it's better to call it a seahorse i don't know which er drowned thanks to but why did it drown mr. serhii please tell us so really in fact how i think the ukrainian naval forces earned a gift to boris johnson, who visited kyiv today , including the destruction of this ship, because it was destroyed by a coastal trading complex with harpoon missiles. these harpoon missiles were supplied to us by the united states, great britain and denmark. each of these supply had its own technical characteristics, but in any case it can be argued that this is the first

example of the use of a coastal complex of harpoons with an effective result, because in fact such a harpoon was previously used directly or from overseas platforms or from an aviation platform when the question arose: what does ukraine want to gain against the naval rockets, e.e. harpoon, the question arose and from which launchers to launch them and such launchers, conditionally speaking, that we bought only two in denmark, and it was actually these first launchers that were placed on our coast and were used against this russian tugboat vasyl beh if we remember that just yesterday it was reported that there is a new package of american aid there and where it is again about harpoon complexes, in fact we will already have four after a certain time launchers can be better two from denmark which have already shown their

effectiveness and after a certain time immediately two from the united states which will be completely new if you can look directly at the infographic that concerns the placement of these e-e complexes you can see that these anti- ship harpoon complexes have different ranges , but the maximum indicators reach 150 km compared directly to our neptune missile - this is less. because our system has a range of 280 km , if we now see this big circle, this is directly the range of neptune a less than two circles - these are options for placing the harpoon complex on our coast, where they effectively cover the area of ​​the black sea, and when we talk directly about these complexes, by the way, they the latest modifications can hit foreign targets,

but so far their main target is directly russian ships, and this event is extremely important from the point of view of the fact that the enemy is trying to further militarize the island of zmyiny , in recent times, about 30 new models of military equipment have appeared there, this is directly uh, i mean something about the fact that there are three complexes of the rsg hail , they pulled up, they pulled up four complexes of panzer s1 and two zrk tor, these are air defense complexes that they pulled up they have the ability to overlap the air space is somewhere up to 20 km, but conditionally speaking, we understand that if we pull up the harpunto complex to the coast, we can de facto make it impossible to supply any systems there in the future to this zmiiny

island . our side and our naval forces, well actually, in order to demilitarize this island of invisibility for the russians, our ukrainian snakes on the left are now being used in order not to control the black sea from there, for this we need of course, help is possible, more help is possible, and more long-range help is possible from our partners, well, actually, about military aid to ukraine from the united states and other countries against the background of the assessment and the results after that. here is ramstein 3. i got the impression that we did not get much help with weapons, it is going slowly, is it possible to do such things conclusions are these conclusions made by certain people, and in fact it is not all slow and everything, as it were, agreed upon here is conventionally speaking a subjective component and an objective one when we talk about the subjective component, i will tell you about my impressions, i really want this kind of help to be much more, that's why i have a friend who is now directly responsible for the creation of a new assault regiment, the regiment was created, the military has already learned, the regiment is becoming a brigade, i call him

every time and say well, what's the main thing did they give iron or not? in fact, he says no. we are still waiting for the main iron . this means exactly the howitzers there, or the self-propelled guns, which are needed for this new unit for the new military unit, that is there are personnel, there are skills, we are waiting for weapons, and then, of course, the results of the rammstein sweepstakes, we say that we are there to get 18 howitzers, of course, the question arises that subjectively, it does not supply what we want, but in fact there is also an objective side that needs such of a more rational approach directly by ramstein, the advisor to the president in the foothills said that we are waiting for a thousand howitzers, 300 mlrs systems, 500 tanks, 2,000 bmps and 1,000 unmanned aerial vehicles, this information was precisely the starting point that the people started to compare what we should receive and what we

de facto received, so when the secretary of defense of the united states and the head of the joint chiefs of staff mark milia were asked questions about why you are so slowly providing weapons to ukraine and in such small quantities, by the way this caused them some surprise and then mark milley himself, if you all watched this press conference carefully, he explained that in fact we delivered what ukraine asked us according to the list of weapons that it was to receive in the near future, he said they asked for 10 artillery divisions, we gave them 12, they asked for 200 tanks, we just gave them 270, they asked for 100 bmps, we gave them 300. that’s why there is such a big discrepancy in the numbers, it is precisely because, as i understand it, in fact, these are our wishes and desires, they were rather placed in the internal information space than directly in the

documents provided by the american side and when, by the way, it was mentioned that the american side delivered only 10% of what was promised by the same minister of defense austin i said that i just had a conversation with a different person, there was no such question, there was no conclusion, the conclusion is that in fact you need to be as specific as possible in your desires and if the dynamics of changes in relation to the need changes, then not only ukrainian citizens directly and the american side that provides the provision of weapons and it is necessary to avoid a situation when , directly through the discussion of journalists, the us defense minister and the milli mark are proven to be are accused of insufficient support for ukraine well, we are adding a guest to continue our topic , let's talk leonid polyakov, advisor to the director of the national institute of strategic studies and

was the founder of the minister of defense of ukraine in 2014 . i remember in the 14th year, you were in the position of deputy minister of defense and had to compile a list of needs for the ukrainian army at such a rapid pace and send them to the united states, then bulletproof vests were just entering who was there at that time, one per 100 soldiers , again p- there was a question about about the communication about the anti-heber complex about air defense . this was in 2014, do you not have such a thing? here is such a certain feeling of deja vu that we are walking in some kind of enchanted circle in in relations with the united states on the one hand, on the other hand, with the fact that we, somehow, are too slow to realize our aspirations for the real strengthening of our defense capabilities, mr. serhiu. thank you for having a good memory of the 14th year, fortunately, it is not a

vicious circle i would call it a certain spiral is going up both on our side and on the side of our american partners, but before mentioning 2014 i would also like to briefly comment on what you said before about ramstein about the alleged justification of the honorable generals of osin and milly, to be honest, i look at this situation a little differently, at first glance, it really sounded like you asked us for this , we gave you even more, and why say that you and we give little, for example, it's a pity, really, considering the situation on which front consists of which losses

that we bear for us that we received very little because it is necessary to compare not only with those applications that were obviously submitted at the beginning of the war or in the first weeks of the war . the forces and means that our enemy has already deployed at this time, which he did not deploy at that time, and now the enemy's advantage in artillery in terms of units and ammunition is much greater than it was near kiev or chernihiv, and we must react accordingly, because they are self-destructive, and our partners, well react obviously more for his own audience, because for them it is probably no secret that the application to which

general milley is appealing is not the only application after the lend-lease was announced. i don't know for sure, but i am sure that according to the new aid programs negotiations regarding the new needs of new applications, and we still do not know how there were applications, even if we look at the numerical factor of what was announced, for example, about tanks , did we need exactly those tanks that were supplied by poland and the czech republic, so in a dead end, which in we needed them, if you remember , it was announced that poland gave 260. we must surely add, if we remember that tanks and artillery and

infantry fighting vehicles and other equipment also came from the czech republic. we captured as trophies about one and a half hundred russian there are supposedly a lot of tanks, in fact, this is not so, because the tanks that came to us from central europe came without protective elements, they came after long-term storage and they may still have to be brought to a modern appearance for a long time so that they are not like the thousands of t-62s that russia brought there to the south of the zaporizhzhia region. and so that they are no less effective than those tanks that are fighting against us from russia. although of course we needed more leopards from spain, even 40 or germany how to speed up the receipt of american aid in these conditions that you are

talking about. everyone understands the needs, so how can you ensure better pressure on the american side regarding speeding up, first of all, it should not be pressure, it should be frank primarily a professional dialogue, because if even respected politicians comment, whether from the parliament or the president at all, it’s one thing what numbers they didn’t call, if they say it with generals in the fall and milli, professional military personnel and the minister of defense, their political leader and the president of ukraine, it’s… eh, that vertical to which they will definitely be very attentive and i think that it is precisely along this line that we need to somehow achieve a more effective dialogue, and here i can refer to the 14th year, i will say

uh, what happened then in march of the 14th year when it was clear that the war had started, the same way in the ministry of defense, the general staff made lists, these lists, uh, then to some of our commentators , as usual, or journalists. fairy tales and bulletproof vests, well, it seemed that it was allegedly not quite adequate. but such were the realities, if gradually the tales about non-vests began, the truth is that in the 14th year, we were given dry rations by artillery reconnaissance stations. then they began to give some well, the drones are a little outdated, there are also some uh means

, then they practically didn’t give us lethal weapons, because sniper rifles, well, that’s not exactly what we needed in the first place, then we used our artillery, our tanks, our armored combat vehicles, etc. by the way, regarding er, it is a supposed half-joke of general milli that we were given more anti-tank weapons than the world's 97,000 tanks. well, again, this seems to me more for the interior of the american territory, because the so-called anti-tank weapons are intended not only for the destruction of tanks, if you count the number of armored combat vehicles, armored personnel carriers , self-propelled artillery installations and other armored objects that are to be hit by the so-called british means, then there will be very, very

few of the 97,000 that we were given. and we also need a reserve, well, an interesting topic, but time sometimes, well, we continue these studies in our next programs, and we thank you very much. leonid polyakov , advisor to the director of the national institute of strategic studies, was in touch with us, and the deputy minister of defense in the 14th year. there are literally 1.5 minutes left, but i still wanted to talk about the loss, they talked about it today, what are our losses in technology and most importantly in people, why, for example, david arkhamia, a people's deputy from the servant of the people in the usa, suddenly declares about losses well, they say their specific numbers. i generally i wonder , there must be communication, well, the press service of the ministry of defense, or there are representatives of the general staff who should talk about it. and it is weighed in the same way as with applications for military equipment, we have a general staff, because i think that both the loss of enemy equipment and our