of course online poltava vorskla took the first step to the group tournament of the conference league a 3:2 victory at the swedish aicom brought the ukrainians closer to achieving their goal. to finally break the swedish wall, it is necessary to bring the matter to a general triumph in the return match. let's do it together on the espresso youtube channel on wednesday live broadcasts from stockholm, the pre-match studio starts at 19:15, the start is on july 27 at 20:00, the sponsor shows hypoallergenic food for pets , the partner of the show is vibe together turn on stronger and cheer for ukraine. i congratulate you , dear viewers, on the espresso tv channel , the studio program, the event, we will analyze

the most important istanbul talks of the tehran conference and the increase in missile attacks on the territory of ukraine. we understand that the russians use missiles as a tool of bloody blackmail. well, now we will be joined by ambassador john gerbs, former extraordinary ambassador plenipotentiary of the united states in ukraine, and after him our guest will be general elmur musaev - former head of the presidential guard republic of kazakhstan greetings mr. ambassadors in the studio of the espresso tv channel, so putin has long dreamed of holding something similar to the yalta conference , which was held in the format of stalin roosevelt and churchill, but at the moment he has found himself in a completely different society , it is about the president of iran and the turkish president and, in general, to decide some world issues he failed to solve problems, this conference only emphasizes the weakness of russia, it is known from reliable sources

that moscow asked iran to provide it with military drones russia, which was considered the second or third according to the strength of the army in the world, currently iran needs and asks for military equipment, or the military potential is far from the best, this shows the extent of the damage suffered by the russian troops by attacking ukraine. putin has no other options but to go to iran and ask for help, i agree with you, i will say even more, putin in tehran looked miserable and it was an act of some of his as far as i understand diplomatic desperation, putin needs some kind of internal russian victory, what he

can sell to the russians, the trip is not so relevant of russia's internal policy as the needs of the russian army, despite the defeat that ukraine inflicted on russia in the regions of kyiv, chernihiv and kharkiv, we know that moscow has regrouped its troops in donbas and achieved some success there by capturing the entire luhansk region and is now trying to capture donetsk as well, as president zelensky recently noted in this devastating war with ukraine, russia probably lost up to 10,000 pieces of equipment , including planes, tanks and missiles, according to verified data, russia is currently lacking certain types weapons and equipment and this confirms the fact that

putin is looking for weapons in iran. this is indeed an urgent military need of moscow that pushed putin to go to tehran. this is what putin achieved with his unjustified military invasion of ukraine . the military are beginning to fear our shelling of the antonov bridge, we understand that it is about the bridgehead near the city of kherson, our military will advance that he still does not understand that he will not be able to win the war and this is a testimony this was the recent statement of minister lavrov that their goals go beyond the borders of eastern ukraine, they have not learned the fact how difficult and slow

they advanced in the luhansk region and what unheard of losses they suffered, their current offensive in donetsk region is also similar. i agree that they are worried about a possible ukrainian counteroffensive since for several weeks you are boldly moving in the direction of kherson and you already have certain gains there, that f you have a satellite of the west there will remain at the current level, moscow will be able to but if we increase our support, which is also required by american interests, you will be able to completely stop kremen and go into a successful counteroffensive. the united states should stop being afraid and send much more long-range artillery such as himers to ukraine. in fact, we deliberately

sent short-range himers damage up to 85 km which is just ridiculous it should have been at least 150 or even 300 and also we should have sent meek fighters along with our tanks and transporters, if we provide all this equipment, i have no doubt that ukraine will completely stop russia in donetsk and even start a counteroffensive in donbas. and in the south, this is very important for the future of ukraine and for the future of america. the pentagon finally stepped up a lot because the last rammstein the fourth rammstein yes he brought as i understand it four additional launchers of heimers yes would like

to get 10 at least or 15 very good question we are now talking about sending an additional four timers, and even if there are ten, it is simply ridiculous, we need to send 80 or even 100 timers to ukraine and do it as soon as possible. our pentagon understands this, but there are other departments of the administration that do not understand this, unfortunately, and take the beginning of the slack ukraine is doing everything possible to speed up even more support for the united states, you are fighting bravely, courageously and effectively, i just saw the first lady p. zelenska, who spoke before the congress, is she talking about the savage war that she is waging

russia and the need for more american weapons, your embassy also works great here in the usa and many people come to us who clearly speak about the immediate needs of ukraine , the biden administration's inherent irrational fear of the kremlin, as well as the unwillingness to resolutely defend vital american interests . frankly, the biden administration outlined the correct approach but implements it very weakly, the help is increasing, but unfortunately in small steps and very slowly from the other side, mr. as an ambassador, we understand that there are probably some behind-the-scenes diplomatic consultations going on, yes, i don't have all the information, but william burns, the head of the cia, recently paid a visit to yerevan

, and a couple of days later, the head of russia's foreign intelligence service flew to yerevan on a ryshkin, so they did not formally meet but it is possible that some or other signals are being sent through employees, for example, the leadership of armenia, we understand that russia gives a lot of different, extremely different, often contradictory signals at the moment there are no signs that russia has changed its military goals, which were to at least have effective control over ukrainian politics, that is why they tried to capture kyiv and install their puppet government there, which i noted earlier, the goals of the russian war go beyond the borders of eastern ukraine and this there is no doubt that during the last few months we

have had negotiations of various kinds and levels which meant little because putin was not there or they came to yerevan in ryshkin benz to talk about the end of the war i don't know i wouldn't be surprised if they were there that's why there are highly respected people in moscow who understand that they are in a very difficult situation now putin is not one of these serious people but they include others such as narozki maybe he got the go-ahead from putin to the talks with benz, in my opinion, this was a positive sign that high-ranking people in moscow admit that their invasion did not justify itself, it is impossible to say anything more, i do not know whether these negotiations will be falsified and whether in fact

putin is in favor of ending the war as long as putin gets the strength. in general, i cannot formally analyze the history of our war because every day the russians kill my fellow citizens, that is, with the help of missiles, with the help of artillery mines, it is done every day. i cannot be a detached analyst, but in any case we still have to count how many resources putin has left, and these are not only military or missile resources, so to speak - they are also psychological resources, it is about the readiness of russian society that regularly to meet in the graves of our soldiers this is how we understand in our time - it caused more than one revolution in russia to be honest, we don't know how

long this war will last, only one person can stop it all putin has high-ranking people around him who understand that this is a war has become a disaster for russia and for the entire putin regime will end sooner if we send you all the necessary equipment so that russia begins to seriously lose the territories it has captured, in my opinion, putin has the power to decide to leave ukraine, stop the aggression and to announce through his media, which he completely controls, that he somehow won this war does not sound good. but i think that he would somehow manage to not still be ukraine. he decided not to do this because he is obsessed with ukraine and still believes that he can win in the past when russia started or got involved in catastrophic wars

, there were changes in the government or large-scale internal disturbances, we saw it after the crimean war, after the russo-japanese war and the first world war, putin probably exhausted himself as a leader then that people, including those who are in power in russia, are convinced that this war is terrible, it should be stopped. but yours is very true. unfortunately, i cannot predict what will happen. and if all this happens, i do not know when exactly this time will come. ukraine is determined and in the future to effectively fight and fight for our freedom with the same level of weapons that we give to ukraine, we will not defeat it at some point, moscow will admit that it is not in its power to do so, the so-called grain negotiations took place in istanbul. so we understand. well, what was formally said about

grain and the unblocking of our seaports but maybe the diplomatic clocks were ticking, i would like to ask you as an experienced diplomat what could be this or that informal morning agreement from which these or other negotiating parties would be repulsed and where we are not talking about public ones talks and the signing of certain memoranda, we are talking about the so-called diplomatic backstage with the beginning of the invasion, there were already several diplomatic channels, belarus and turkey were involved, negotiations are now underway regarding grain in turkey, but all these negotiations were never approved by the kremlin, they were allowed, but they were never approved, and a certain flexibility that we observed from the russian side

during these negotiations ultimately did not make any sense. because putin did not accept it, the current one is similar the situation with the negotiations that are currently underway and mainly concern ukrainian ports and grain exports, but they may also affect the wider tempo, it seems that all this is just a show that does not significantly affect anything. at the moment when putin will understand that he cannot win the war, these negotiations may turn into a process that will eventually lead to successful negotiations with his husband, but at the moment it is just a game for the public. but what is the purpose of this show in your opinion, mr. ambassadors, because we understand that putin's goals can to be very different and not obvious, this is actually a very important story - this is what you are talking about in the field of negotiations

, because he knew that the war was going, to put it mildly, not as well as he would have liked, he wanted to demonstrate both to the west and to his own people that he is looking for alternatives, even if in fact he is not ready to consider any alternatives, the current negotiations are conditioned by the fact that the grain problem can potentially slip by putin's side here for many reasons, so he does not want to make sure that this does not happen, provided that stronger american diplomacy and the readiness to use our incomparable a stronger fleet to unblock odesa for humanitarian supplies and export of grain , everything was completely different, and putin continues to block the export of grain from ukraine and not much from suffered from this, although it is quite realistic that kara is not far away,

he is starting to prepare a military bridgehead in belarus, we understand. so it is not even about the use of the belarusian armed forces, it is about the transfer of possibly some additional units of the russian army, in any case there is already information that they are transferring the s300 in the earth-earth mode of operation, this means on the one hand that the russians have a genre crisis, it concerns their missile technologies, on the other hand, it means that another barbaric shelling of ukraine is possible, including kiev, i think that the belarusian military will not enter the war despite the pressure from putin. lukashenko knows that his soldiers do not want to fight, unlike the russian ones, and he does not have such strict control over his army as

putin. the danger of russia placing weapons on the territory of belarus, from which they can then to hit ukraine is quite realistic for me, this is another reason why the us and our nato allies should send more weapons to ukraine as soon as possible to end this war as soon as possible if the shells fly from to belarus, the united states should give ukraine the green light for shelling in response. the united states openly stated that ukraine should not shell russian territory. although i am not sure whether this position is correct, the risks of shelling belarusian territory are lower than if shelling russia. this would give moscow the opportunity to worry about its own territory, but for now that ukraine continues to bombard our native land, well,

unfortunately, i have to end our conversation with the next one. thank you, mr. ambassador, for your frankness on the air of the tv channel espresso for the safe america slava ukraine and now the guest of the studio program will be general elmur musaev, former head of the presidential guard of the republic of kazakhstan, former assistant to the president of kazakhstan. he agreed to analyze not only military-diplomatic scenarios, but also closed so-called secret service scenarios that russia may try to deploy in ukraine. congratulations, mr. generals, well, the key thing is the question is how the so-called second tehran meeting took place. putin tried to look like stalin, but he had a completely different environment. he was the ayatollah of iran, the president of iran and the president of turkey greetings, anton, i worked for a long time in structures

related to the president's protocols, and that meeting between erdogan and putin is a witness. regarding the lowering of putin's status as the turkish president, the protocol is usually always very clearly regulated, and the exits to such a meeting are worked out even of the signal between the protocol services of the respective presidents and these signals should go out, so the leaders for such a meeting korzh soon and rdagan allowed himself after receiving the signal from the protocol goes out he allowed himself to stop and

pretend that he was talking to someone there, this testifies to exactly this attitude, which means that rdogan has an attitude towards president putin, and he wants to emphasize his higher status in front of putin, that's it here is a special remark and this is not done by the protocol, not by the security service, it is done by the president, if you compare the president in general with those who are capable of doing something like this, it is an independent deviation from the protocol. i would like to emphasize such an ability. johnson, the british president, erdoğan, trump, who can afford it. these

are extraordinary things. but these are also extraordinary personalities . putin, he also strives to be extraordinary, but he is a case man. there is a russian expression, even soot. chekhov's work , the man-who-is-a-case is not capable of uh-uh open manifestation of his own essence that's exactly uh-uh that putin is a human case it and-y shows uh-uh his whole ego so say a big uh-uh biographical path he of course jokes what -then it can be released there, er, in things, they are allowed, but this does not reveal the essence of the person in the case. in general, er, this is the iranian

meeting. you characterized it very clearly and well in tehran . issues and it was declared that putin's syria issues still affected his biggest problems without help in this special terrorist operation in ukraine, he eh, in particular, in the issue of grain, he sought to achieve some kind of truce eh in the south of ukraine in kherson this

eh says that eh russia is very afraid of the upcoming eh, he supposedly allows the export of ukrainian grain in exchange for ukraine must announce a truce in kherson well, i managed to trick iran and turkey, they perfectly understood that uh, putin's visit is such a formal thing that should have been witnessed remain in russia there are some serious partners and serious friends in their meaning, er, geopolitical, er, popolznoveniya , but also the fact that how iran and turkey have behaved in their relationship, let it show that they look at russia from the top down. as for uavs, in

my opinion although many russian publics have received information that hundreds of iranian drones are being sold there, in my opinion, this is just a promise from iran, and it will not lead to the aggravation of its already complex situation in the region, and they will be able to solve their problems there - big ones economic problems and problems of sanctions only mean the agreement in the negotiations with the euro from the united states and they will aggravate their situation means sales were to russia they will not but promise mogut all politicians it is accepted no one expected from him,

told putin what he thinks in the current geopolitical situation, but this is not a question, even a proposal of the current kazakh president, we understand that kazakh oil is of particular interest to everyone and in europe, friends are extremely stronger and azerbaijan and kazakhstan are now becoming extremely important players takaya in more experienced politicians more experienced diplomats today, they clearly articulate what he personally and what kazakhstan understands that russia is losing the war in ukraine, and this is his understanding and firm

conviction and position that allows him to hold a conversation with putin, with the russians, with the russian government the position of an equal a partner that has never been seen in the last 30 years, this is the behavior of ilham aliyev himself, the behavior of the uzbek president in relation to russia. the controllability of the countries of the cis and central asia, in particular, on the part of russia, is no longer the same, and there is literally a small prospect, and certain successes of ukraine, on the military

front, they will only strengthen the collapse of this and that's how the structure of the cis, which has collapsed, is collapsing es eurasian economic soy well, with the ice, it remains absolutely inactive, so the oil transportation routes through novorossiysk, kazakh oil, they want putin to close it in order to show pressure to kazakhstan but he won't be able to do this, he can close it after some time and then open it again, but the general sanctions policy in the sphere of purely limiting the export of oil from russia is an oxymoron policy.

introduce the game according to the rules that impose a civilized world on him, mr. general, you made several extremely important and significant remarks, but i would like to now go into the very well-mentioned formula about a man in a case, putin is really a man in a case, but unfortunately we have already deciphered part of his essence, it is about the crimes in buch, irpen are about rocket attacks on peaceful ukrainian cities, kremenchuk, vinnytsia, and so on . will try, realizing that he has driven himself into a geopolitical trap, or will he still try to somehow get out of this big war

? yes , he will be forced to jump. does uh , even though there are some hesitations in europe, from some politicians of the usa, he will persuade ukraine to some peace talks. called and-and on this road, he will have to carry out these all, uh, his criminal actions that you listed in vinnytsia, kremenchug, kharkov, odessa, all of ukraine, mariupol , mariupol, yes, all of them