we are her in ukraine and in order for the war to end we must talk about it each of us wants to leave a note or some expensive thing or leave some messages ah and this is given to the sculptures of life they are supposedly alive we just imagine her as our ah the community that we have here now to formulate was formed here in oxfordshire. ukrainians in oxford contribute to the sculpture in order to ultimately create a new and original work of art according to the author's idea. we came to oxford two months ago. we ourselves are from kyiv and when we left kyiv on february 24, and my life was only for the necessities. it's no wonder that my daughter regretted her toys

the most. today we have a good toy, this toy was maksym, whose house now has many children, many will not have it. i really hope for a quick and quick victory for our country and that children, all children will soon return from their home or find a new home, beautiful, full of love to one of ukraine andy balk hopes to create a work of art that will also become a historical document the final work must be recorded for transportation and reproduction in museums, galleries and other institutions around the world the main dream of the author one day to present this art object in kyiv i hope that upon completion we we will have a social documentary project that will be able to

travel around the world and my most important wish is that in the end it reaches kyiv what is this what do you think ukraine also involves an art project the possibility of financial assistance to ukrainians. also , within the framework of this project, i plan to collect funds for the ukrainian fund of the university of oxford to help ukrainians. people can come and donate money by using the qr-code. the ukrainians of oxfordshire intend to continue drawing attention to the war in ukraine by all available means. photos, and my son started drawing today, but our school ended recently, so we managed to bring them today, but we won’t weekend sculpture by andy bullock everything we ever wanted it will all be exhibited at the oxford mathematical institute almost two

months until the end of summer natalya clownin from great britain for the espresso tv channel and for now that was all the news for this time i say goodbye and wish you have a quiet, peaceful night without any worries. take care. watch espresso news and euro espresso programs for ukrainian refugees in europe on our channel. joint broadcast with the atp channel. radio svoboda programs and voice of america programs. the inclusion of public television journalists , bbc news ukraine and france 24, as well as the broadcast of the information marathon, the only news, together we are strong, glory to ukraine. welcome to the expresso channel. today, we will talk about the war with russia, the interim conclusions from the recent hostilities, and

how we will liberate our south, my name is serhii zhorits, i am the director of the defense express company , which, together with the express channel, tries to cover the most relevant events from the life of our army and the defense of the industrial complex. today my interlocutor is ivan yakovets , a reserve colonel, ex-commander of airmobiles, and now it is the airborne assault troops of ukraine, a participant in the hostilities in kosovo and a member of the expert council of the center for research of the army, conversion and disarmament, mr. ivan. i welcome you to the espresso channel. i'll start with the most general was ukraine ready for the scale of hostilities launched by the russian federation on february 24, which happened on february 24. i

think our military and political leadership was not ready. they were carried out in practice, especially this characteristic of the attack on kyiv, they did not expect such a massive attack and even from the direction of belarus so deep, despite the fact that there were not many troops in belarus concentrated there. therefore, it happened that this direction was approaching. gostomel was not covered and managed to quickly enter the territory of ukraine and on the outskirts of kyiv, but where they expected the whole of chernihiv, the sumy kept them there and did not let them go further, but in some directions, of course , they broke through and passed because the solid front, we, our armed forces, could not arrange in ukraine, where this is impossible due to the volume of my troops, therefore,

we can say that the northern direction in the northern direction was not unexpected, and i think that it was not unexpected for them, for our political leadership, for all states, this is the south and this is where, in my opinion, the betrayal happened, the kherson region was taken in one day, almost all of that is why it is necessary for our military to be there. i apologize to the prosecutor's office. the prosecutor general worked very carefully there and did not direct shooters there, but named the officials who could actually do this to us in southern kherson region. why do you think that there was treason in kherson, not on what conclusions are you based, but even on those that were in the mass media and when russian soldiers and officers called home on the phone of this recording,

they were all intercepted, he says, i sat in an armored personnel carrier in simferopol and woke up in novaya kakhovka that's all that can be said how did he wake up in novaya kakhovka that our troops didn't stop him, the border troops didn't give buin to the border guard at this point or where they said that all the approaches were mined and so on, what's there there is a defensive brigade, one arterial brigade, why was there no battle? why would these russian soldiers not have jumped out of their combat vehicles and not taken cover or not advanced in a slow motion after them ? parade or how the ksyukhs of kherson came on an excursion and entered the depths of the kherson region. this is how the possibility of creating mariupol for us became the tragedy that happened in mariupol, the city that was

practically destroyed, where many people died, we go they captured 2,800 of our soldiers, gentlemen, the hostilities could have one more surprise, you continued to command the automobile troops for seven years. and here, uh, there was quite interesting information that the enemy was going to carry out an amphibious landing somewhere on february 23 or 24 from il-76 planes, literally 20 planes will make a landing 30 km from kyiv. how would you evaluate such an operation, why would it have any consequences for the ukrainian side, for ukrainian defense, and why did the enemy refuse such an operation? of the offensive method of conducting hostilities in this situation. yes, it would certainly have very serious consequences for us, but the fact is that, from this option, our military and political leaders, that is,

the military general staff, they did not list themselves, they are well done, they understood that russia could start with the air was only struck by missile troops and aviation, but from the landing of airborne troops, and they were not mistaken, what was done ahead of time, this is that our aviation was withdrawn, which means that the fighter jet was withdrawn. now it will receive in a timely manner mixed, of course, the movement of our forces, while the air defense, they went down maneuver and moved to other positions that they had until the 24th, and in this way, those russian puppets that flew to ukraine in the first strike were destroyed, many losses were suffered, not all of them were significant, and this was shown by russia that they failed in terms of the fact that they could not solve the anti-aircraft defenses with the strikes of missile troops and aviation and tried to land, but the test landings were therefore not massed and so large

i was trying to think of two or three planes, as you say, 30 km outside of kyiv, it is in the vasylky district, but they managed to partially destroy them, but they were destroyed quite effectively, not immediately, but they destroyed and landed a helicopter landing party from the direction of belarus, which means on gostomel 2 years, the paratroopers were dried up, who were destroyed by the end of the day, and with this we showed that we are ready to fight with the airborne troops and were not afraid, frightened and did not begin to use them en masse. and that part of the paratroopers that was in belarus eh they went to gostomel along the road on military equipment, where they suffered significant losses from our volunteer soldiers, uh, that means they united in units and began to destroy columns of

russian equipment in that direction, by the way, you absolutely understand that the enemy began to use his paratroopers as ordinary foot-infantry, but what does this actually prove, what kind of approach does it make, then what is the point of directly preparing such fighters , as if specially, and then throwing them like ordinary infantrymen. at lunchtime, this is not a sign of evaluation deficiencies the situation because there is a lack of trained personnel. why is that, you know, when a war machine is planned and already launched and rolls and burns with fire and smoke, it is very difficult to change something in it, and they could not do it because they had to withdraw the paratroopers and they had to be replaced by someone and it was nothing to notice, because they were not preparing for a protracted war, they intervened adventurously here, excuse me, invaded ukraine, these paratroopers rushed

on their way to gostomel and to kyiv, we in the cars recognized them in their parade uniforms, i was the first i have seen in my life and heard in general that an army that started a war and carried with it military equipment or in backpacks a military uniform in order to parade, survive, win and parade through the capital of the state that they wanted to capture, this is the adventurism of the highest level of the military leadership of the armed forces of the forces of the russian federation, i'm just over it, well, i don't even know how to give them an assessment, as in addition to the fact that they were 100% adventurers, they should all be shot there by the russian president. well, they could not use the airborne troops as intended and threw them into battle, threw them into battle and are now throwing them, after those losses we have already

almost destroyed 50 and 60% of the personnel and equipment of these combined units of the airborne troops, which led to the fact that they are now mobilizing, but mobilizing those who were found to be no longer paratroopers and use them as paratroopers by parachute in the rear of the enemy , that is, in ours, they are no longer capable and are used as ordinary infantry. but this is not advisable, but what to do when there is no other way out one of the questions that is now directly interesting against the background of the fact that there have already been 5 months of hostilities, what did the ukrainian army manage to do, what did the russian army manage to earn, what kind of interim results regarding the evaluation of the results of both sides, yes , the results can already be drawn, especially if you break down this period in 120 in seven days, divided into two four clear periods, the war began on february 14. well, almost

the first of march, we will read, therefore, the spring stage, so to speak, the water stage - this is until the end of may, we can already evaluate it, er, this first the stage was successful for us thanks to the determined energy and talent of our military leaders and the stability of the political leadership of our state, the president of ukraine, who has already shown very high resilience at this time, except for the first times when he was embarrassed you still found strength and showed courage, and this makes me very happy, and in general, it supported all ukrainians in the fight against three aggressors, we won this spring period, we did not give the enemy the opportunity to seize our

the state and change our government and the political current of the state in general allowed massive losses, that is , of the armed forces of ukraine, a special anti-aircraft gun, a means of air defense of the air forces, it is of our planes and air defense , but we did not allow the sharp encirclement and capture of the troops who were in the oos zone at times throughout spring was held back practically in the same positions, not only now, except for the exit to the raisin. sumy oblast and you will be from chernihiv oblast. in this way, we won the spring period despite the fact that the

war is still ahead, but the first period of it we won both in the military plan and in the informational plan and in the political plan in connection with what started our president and our politicians were able to concentrate on our support for the countries that have started to support us in europe and around the world , a very enormous work has been handed over, which may not be completed yet, but also some kind of coalition in support of us has already emerged, practically emerged. well, this confirms confirms that the ministers of defense gathered in france, you know, about 40 countries. that is , these are the countries that came to support ukraine in this war. this is our victory in the first stage, the second stage. unfortunately, we expected that we would start with a counteroffensive, but our partners did not have time to

provide us with the necessary the number of weapons, and the weapons we had in ukraine for 30 years down the line - we destroyed them, destroyed them because of the attacking organization, which state organization exists. until now, in our country, the organization is called ukrspeetseexport i.e. ignorant expert-import i.e. in order to import weapons and equip our modern weapons they extracted exports extracted from our connections parts of the corps of the armed forces of ukraine and other power structures even more modern and sold it during the reformation of the so-called reduction i myself was a participant of the fight against these measures, he knows how it was done in those days , so i want to say that this criminal organization took everything from our country that needed to be put on our weapons now, even mobilization from strong reserves in the

army corps now we don't have enough of it we are waiting for help from partners, sir, i will correct you a little here and there, because you can say, uh, not only in the specifics with alcohol it has to do with the fact that the left part of the armament before the war were exported and it was directly the economic activity of the state, i think the main problem is that since the 14th year we have not ensured the restructuring of the defense of industry and have not ensured the export system from the point of view of satisfying interests first of all, they brought it just in time for today, it is indicated by the shortcomings you are talking about. the military-industrial industrial complex that started working, why are you selling everything, well, that's what you and i understood. when we do repairs in an

apartment. yes, for example, we thought, we buy, we plan, we do everything, and then we start to launch. only then do we start to tear off this wall and throw it away. so we don't do it anymore, that's it, so that later we stand and i don't have any money, i don't have anything to build it again, well, i'll be with you here , because we're really talking about the s-200 complexes that we took off duty there we are talking about the harrow equipment that we cut down, now we sold it and you are right about helicopters and tanks and guns and losing now we have a different reality where we have we you better in these conditions look for opportunities to defeat the enemy now we hope directly on foreign aid, how do you assess the pace of receiving foreign aid, do they ensure changes on the battlefield, so the politicians

started this work in the first stage of the spring. did not have time and lost these topics, first of all, because it means that our partners were not able to establish the pace necessary for the supply of armsmen . there were no others who were engaged in this, so we destroyed them, and we moved into the summer period with the same forces that were. well, then just troops defense units in a new format, these measures were carried out, we see that the creation of the ministry is nothing, we will not talk about the fact that to put the armed forces under the armed forces, you understand from the creation of the delivery of the armed forces e techniques of real delivery may take tens of years to come, you understand, because the equipment is now of a high

quality, it is very expensive, it is not so easy to manufacture, it is necessary to conduct state tests and everything. it is easier to take years, years, and then to establish serial production, so let 's move on to what we have left at at the end of may, without the necessary amount of equipment, they could not form a reserve so that precisely then it was in time. active operations in the east could not be done, we had nothing to do with the same forces that were formed in our country on february 24, we moved to a deeper depth of permanent defense of the lines that we occupied, and russia was able to increase its reserves of equipment giants of ammunition, fuel, and so on , they also had a problem with the personnel and they

felt it, so they could not actively conduct offensive actions against us, and i had such people, you know, they advanced like a turtle, but gradually very, very slowly , but they still decided they are slowly solving their issues regarding staffing and staffing, i have already talked about this a and in this way formed the necessary reserves , support them in a combat-ready condition, these troops are slowly advancing and pressing on ours, they cannot crush and hit with strong e-e reserves the corps there, for example, divisions and they act as a battalion tactical group, squeezing us , in what way are we talking about the fact that despite the presence of personnel of the russian federation, we inflicted significant losses on them and the direct leadership of the country, in particular, mr. danylo says that we are talking about the exhaustion of the enemy and that he can only conduct actions

there in one operational direction. how do we determine that the enemy is exhausted? it means that the exhaustion of the enemy is determined by the fact that he has lost the pace of the offensive and is impatient to continue them. this is the main thing. depletion, what does it consist of, it is definitely the loss of personnel, the expenditure of combat equipment, the loss or expenditure of ammunition and the expenditure of fuel, therefore they made very huge reserves of weapons, fuel, and electoral ammunition in operational-tactical e-e, our tactical depth of our troops, which now, over the past week, our e-e means, reactive means that we received from e-e from our partners are very successfully destroying. this is very good because it firstly destroys their capabilities before the next offensive, i would leave them with ammunition, fuel and other material

resources, and it also does not allow to create and, uh, form, prepare for the battle in time, that is, a reserve, which they are now reformatting in order to introduce it into battle. therefore, now they took this pause and this pause it will be the longer and more profitable for us. the more such formations we destroy in the enemy's rear, this is undoubtedly very important, and the skill of our artillerymen, as well as the military command, which will lead the combat operations on the e-e on the front there in the donetsk region, they are very well done, they deserve them the highest praise for all issues, but they also need human reserves, they need combat equipment. there was a video recently. i saw how our units were defending the northern outskirts of the slavic group, and the unit will penetrate there they showed that they deployed and were clearing, so the

air platoon of our airborne assault troops was clearing, but this platoon was supported by only one armored personnel carrier, only one armored personnel carrier, all behind him, the platoon arrived in the area of ​​the clearing on the 131st, you understand, a should have come on four armored personnel carriers on four and not on one, that is, really support, what does this say about the fact that we currently lack a lot, we lost during today's hostilities, we lost combat equipment , we are also losing people, we are replenishing people, the platoon was full-bodied in my opinion but there is no equipment and this will affect our ability to effectively defend, not to mention the contract or counterattacks. well, when you talk about personnel, we have

almost 700,000 personnel directly called up or involved in the defense security forces. is this a lot or a little? considering the need to fulfill of the tasks facing the state today, this is almost enough, almost enough, i will not say that it is enough completely, but you are engaged in it, but the fact is that you, you, they are not - we said about 750,000. so, what about danilov and other political officials say that we are ready for about a million. we have them at gunpoint. this is very good, but where are they located? where is this million located on the territory of ukraine in the war zone ? people need territorial defense units and other problems, they need combat equipment, they will not go to fight on lawns and in cars with tanks and armored vehicles of the

enemy, as they do not yet have the appropriate settlements , artillery means, there is not enough artillery for them to form them, to put them on armor and in this way put them in a combat position in the area of ​​hostilities with the active army, well, these challenges have been understood, you understand this about the fact that we have a huge, uh, very distant army, to date, it has been mobilized but not provided for military equipment well, we understand this because we repeatedly hear the statements of the political leadership of the state and the leadership of the armed forces that we need military equipment, that it is coming to us under lend-lease, we expect an increase in scale, and actually this is one for the time being deterrent factors so that we carry out effective counter-offensive actions there. as i understand it , we are still waiting for the arrival of this equipment. in your opinion, when we talk about foreign equipment or any priorities in your opinion, which should first and foremost be satisfied there,

air defense defense, technology, aviation, communication systems, intelligence is there any priority in the things that we should get first of all ? suffered losses and this must be recognized. unfortunately, i do not , unfortunately, but for obvious reasons, the military political crisis announces theirs, and i think that this is correct , but we must understand that we cannot use our equipment, tanks and armored personnel carriers, cannot be eternal yantalists of the system, but the government also turns out. they they also break . they are also considered enemy fire, different scales in terms of losses, but they exist, and that is why we need this technique, and during this period, the summer company, we are definitely reflecting such a massive, uh, we will say heavy, albeit gradual, slow such a cherepashy offensive of the russian federation in

the donetsk region, but we still surrendered all ours, we gave severodonetsk and lysychansk , all our military did the right thing, but when uh, in our mountains, he forced us to do it, why or that we need appropriate equipment for the troops, we need his equipment apcs are needed, tanks, artillery systems are needed, air defense systems are needed. of course, in the first place, today we need three artillery pieces, and now the main factor is artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems. it is very important for us, especially the last one, but we already have a growing need for armored personnel carriers and tanks, and you are already needed. therefore, we need not dozens, but hundreds of tanks and batteries in order to update the carts and ours at the front, as well as create reserves for them so that all the reserves they did not come in cars or

trucks, but in tanks and battleships, you understand. therefore, now the pace of our supply of weapons to us must be 10 times more than they were before, otherwise the enemy will still gather, pull up his resources and start again in the same way to act in such a way as to push us out of our territory and the center of ukraine is already under threat, it is, well, let's say it like raisin, dnipro, zaporizhzhia, this is bakhmut, this is the center of ukraine, now this territory is the center of ukraine, it is already very important for us, it is under the fence. i want to say more , if we don't, we won't be able to concentrate and prepare for the enemy's offensive, i won't be able to arm ourselves, our partners will help me badly, we have