it is known for sure what the general situation is there. is there a desire for people to evacuate? what do you see? are there enough willing people and do people have food there? are people really on the brink now ? about bakhmut, for example, i would recommend absolutely every person with bakhmut to evacuate , because the battles are close enough, there is a high threat to the entire civilian population, well , you yourself know very well what the enemy uses not even a selective weapon and simply destroys everything it sees, everything it can, if we talk about the same kramatorsk or pokrovsk, for example, the cities are more distant from the front line, then the situation here is completely different, of course there is no gas, but the local government

works quite well it performs its functions quite well. cities are inhabited. cities are provided with water. cities are provided with electricity. they work in supermarkets. most cities don't have it. if you really look in the eyes, in fact, people don't want to leave or a lot of people even return. serhiy well, the situation on the fronts is in principle so controversial. discussions here are controversial . they are pressuring you more, what

do you feel there, how much has the power of the ukrainian army increased recently and is it true that it is really increasing and, for example, with the people with whom we talk with angelica, they say that we used to not even be able to raise our heads. but now we sometimes see, we can climb out to look at the world and tacos and other things. what would you say? i will tell you more. now people are being sent home to wash. well , here. what hasn't been there for the last two or three months. 81st brigade which is based there in kramatorsk, now the situation there is not so bad. well, in fact, the american weapons that our partners have given us now are well, and not only the american weapons of the nato standard allow us to effectively and quickly destroy the reserves of the russians, so most of them

the offensive simply stops, of course and among the ukrainian defenders there are losses, sometimes heavy losses but nevertheless, all the units with which we are in contact, probably more than 10, all say in one voice that they are not ready to retreat even by a centimeter, one more question. and do you feel the withdrawal of the russian troops, because there is a lot of talk about the fact that there is a transfer from the east of ukraine to the south in the kherson district, and this is supposedly weakening the position of the russians there, and some are allegedly hinting that the ukrainians may go to the counteroffensive because the position of the russians in the east, which used to be the strongest, was weakened. well, in fact , the situation is such that on the main lines of attack on

which they concentrated their efforts. they continue to try to storm the ukrainian positions. they do not succeed, but the attempts continue all the time. yanku or the same bakhmut, the offensive is going on almost every day, just non -stop, don’t forget that there are a lot of them. to the ukrainian army and ukrainian weapons, the fact that our units there manage to destroy the number of the occupier well, then there will be less of them in this particular area, we thank serhiy finally , a volunteer from kramatorsk, and we wish you to reduce the number of russian troops on your part of the front i said correctly but in general, let it

finally will already leave the territory of our country, and you are there in any form. if you want, you want to escape alive. bury, unlike the russians, yes, they are humane if they want to kill themselves. okay, let's move on. yes, oleksiy hetman, a military expert, a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war, is with us. greetings to you, mr. oleksiy. good day. what do you say, let's go immediately to kherson, what is really going on there, because there are very different opinions and some say that we are almost already surrounded by these russians, others say that on the contrary, the russians are throwing some absolutely no no no no no it is not clear in terms of the number of

troops there, they say that some columns are coming from the crimea, in short, they are scaring you to say what is happening in the area of ​​the kherson region, well, they are not scaring from the crimea, additional troops really moved, additional equipment, additional sets were even there for a few hours the kerch bridge was closed so that only military equipment could work there, there were no civilian cars, there was nothing , there was a very large number of vehicles, and this equipment was also grouped together. well, it spills over to kherson, this is the so-called uh, 35th, thirty-sixth and fifth russian armies, these are armies from their eastern district, this is kamchatka , these places, uh, there are generally five

armies in this district, and three armies are located now in ukraine, why are there exactly such armies, well, the buryats are the so-called overwhelming majority, and why exactly this army, we can talk about it separately, but we can immediately say that even geographically and mentally - these are people, how far from europe and ukraine what is the leadership the armed forces of the russian federation decided what exactly these people will be the most distant from their point of view and the military on our front. and if it concerns the possibility of rolling over the bridges that we moved, well, there were three bridges, this is the antonov bridge, which they are starting to repair , the railway bridge, which i almost did not use, but it is also destroyed and in the city by the river ingulets , which they are also now trying to rebuild, but there they are already making a pontoon crossing, it was already done by the patrons of the crossing, which they are strange to moscow with some branches, even they stole a motor ship and

do these diplokhods want to cover the pontoon crossing from our chamberlains, as if they will be there for all ships to transport people, that is, today such a picture is being formed there, a very powerful grouping is forming. make some offensives, we clarify the bridges and pontoon crossings, yes, please listen, watch, we summarize the week just as it was marked by the attack on the antonov bridge, let's explain to the audience once again, let's note what the purpose of this was blow and will it really be difficult to repair and restore this bridge for the movement of heavy enemy equipment, and this pontoon crossing is built more for civilians because they charge money for civilians to cross it. will they

still be able to transport equipment on it ? - of course, the antonine crossing - this is a military structure , which is a major military structure or structures that are built during some extraordinary natural disasters, it was built specifically to bring military equipment because we cut off their one bank from the other and they ca n't cross to well there to group there where you where where they have to do it so they're trying to repair e-e this bridge is antonov's bridge what we said they are repairing it very simply they take there are large steel plates, i won’t say exactly what diameter, but they are quite powerful, just add those on the floor and make a railway bridge so that you can simply temporarily transport equipment, so the place cannot function, but as a temporary thing, something can make two questions about the bridges

, well, they will restore them, the ukrainians can shoot again and destroy them again, that is, you cannot guarantee russia - the russians cannot guarantee that they have these bridges, they say they can guarantee that they are temporary, because it can come again the first question and the second, when you talk about the eastern military district, for me it means that these are people who, as the russians say, have not smelled gunpowder, how combat-ready they are , the buryats shoot people, we know them they know how to rape without weapons, but what exactly is military power, what do they imagine themselves to be? first of all, the question about bridges is of course temporary, you say it correctly, mykola, and they perfectly understand that destroying a temporary structure, both a pontoon and a bridge, is much easier than

destroying it built a capital place ago well, they can look at them already for a few hours, even if let's do this, even a few hours of operation of this temporary bridge makes it possible to transfer quite a large amount of equipment if she goes in a column one by one, that's why they don't ask how safe it is, they don't count people, no, uh, no money for it, no equipment , they can still go to me, they will go, what should we do, of course, we need to strike another blow and uh preferably, when there will be the maximum amount of equipment. i think it is already complete. is this a production that concerns the sniffer or 35 uh, good. the russian federation was there exactly when kyiv was attacked from the north. it was exactly under the raisin and i was almost in line. they destroyed it and there -e changed management

because, well, the leader did not remain, but the middle echelon was changed because they acted unsuccessfully from the point of view of the russian federation, and uh, that is, they were under kiev, they were under the raisin, and they are now being formed under kherson. that is, this army uh, has combat experience and this army is exactly well, they are used when some kind of offensive action is planned. by the way, in that army there are the so-called 64th brigade, known to the whole world, the one that committed crimes in the bucha-hostrog triangles, irpin, and this brigade and this 64th brigade, it is also present in the in this in this army, so i think that most likely the russians will or will not start an offensive, well, this is not similar to preparation for defense, because during preparation for defense, you have to, excuse me, 30 cops and make sports facilities, and they concentrate on the big

account of the shock movement. i think that they are planning an attack on our contour attack, how it will happen . i think that we will see it in more than a week. many analysts and many people who know some information tell me not very secretly from our general staff from other headquarters why do we expect any actions from the russian army somewhere on august 5-6, that is, in a week. and what can we say in the east? well, many people believe that russia is moving from the east from donetsk region to kherson, so it weakens russia's capabilities there , then you can expect a counteroffensive of ukrainian troops there in donetsk region, if the position of the russians is weakened there. do i settle more to the south? they, well, they transfer displaced people from

any cities . in the donetsk direction, it is mainly mainly from the luhansk direction, that is, after they captured and we had to unite from severodonsk to lysychansk, they continue next solidar and bakhmut, but the forces that captured these cities because these are the brigades of the battalion of the anatolian group, they are now moving to the south and a powerful russian group is forming there, well, it will be a long war, he already says that it is in the steppes, in the steppes of kherson, it also reminds me of some wars that were there centuries ago, let's see. i believe that we are capable, if there is an offensive , of destroying them and are capable of proceeding to the countermeasures that we have been talking about for many weeks

, and the only thing we lack is the weapons that are needed to start this offensive, that is, the weapons themselves, and we must count the guns - that rockets are airplanes , this is what gives an advantage in battle, not the number of battalions of optical groups. is the number of even tanks now second to none, especially not the first world war, when you have to count the number of bayonets? and you have to count the number of missiles and the number of combat reserves to the guns, because it is that and well, of course, the bplazdu planes and so on, this gives an advantage in the war, you can remember what it is, by the way, it is a war according to nato standards, you can remember many excellent people who introduced nato troops to the middle east and so on, and in other cities it is advantage advantage finally the advantage over the enemy was achieved by the fact that our infrastructure was previously destroyed by an attack on

television facilities, and all supplies were broken, those troops who remained at the front, as they say , they were disorganized, well, demotivated and without ammunition without, well, without anything, so it was very easy to destroy them and we wish you success, oleksiy yes, thank you, we wish you success in everything you listed, the destruction of power bases there, headquarters , to the supply of medicine, food, water, gasoline, weapons, and so on and so on, that's all we have now beauty in the sun, they are going straight. and we finished with ukraine, we went to the far east. so today we have not only the topic of ukraine, although in that topic our question can also be acute. no, it's simple

. did you follow or try nancy pilosi - this is the leader of the lower house of the american er, the american house of representatives of the american parliament , she was going to travel through asia and while traveling through asia to look at the city of taipei, which is the capital of taiwan, which is china, and china said we don't want let in there. this is a third person. if the president of the united states leaves, he becomes the vice president instead. he is also the leader of the upper house. if the leader of the upper house is ill, that is, the vice president becomes the president and the leader of the lower house, so if biden and his the vice-president is going to be the president who was going to go to taipei. everyone was watching the

plane. the whole story was because china said that it would not be allowed even there. it started to accumulate anti-aircraft forces. and i can tell you about taipei, but this pronoun takes a lot of time . how is taipei and how taiwan did not become part of china and how now after hong kong it is terribly afraid of becoming part of china but that is another matter in short we have a speaker if we have a speaker we ask him all these things oles koval member board of the ukrainian association of chinese studies good health, mr. koval, but the show is that all chinese students know the chinese language and understand it to varying degrees. well, it's just that when i hear chinese people, i understand that it is impossible to learn chinese. let's not break our brains to say good afternoon . i'm such an outstanding china connoisseur. understand, well, it's possible, you

have to learn it all your life, let's say so. okay, let's move on from the jokes to home. it is precisely in view of this that the western media discussed these events that are still going on that if china flinches and allows nancy pilos to sit in taiwan , then china has lost. fresh news, just 10 minutes ago, the encyclopedia plane already landed in guam, which means that the visit to asia will begin tomorrow, and most

likely which is a state of the united states now she is now just 10 minutes ago the plane landed in guam where there is also an american military base that is , she is most likely still taking uh she will arrive in asia now tomorrow and really about two hours ago his her headquarters he issued if such a press release regarding the visit to asia did not already mention the landing in taiwan, which everyone watched and talked about a lot, and that is, in fact, this means . china's reaction to such plans was just about that, plans were discussed for a whole week. and we already know the chinese reaction, because china started training

yesterday in the kuban strait and fired missiles in the direction of taiwan, as if i were warning that such a visit should not be made. and there were even a warning that china will try to intercept the pilot's plane if it is directed if they see that it is headed in the direction of taiwan, but we also know from official sources that it also has plans for malaysia, singapore, japan south korea, that is, these points of her visit, which have already been confirmed and officially, will be such a visit. then let's look ahead. do you personally believe in a possible attack by mainland china on taiwan? that 's all that is happening now. if such maneuvers and muscle playing and the americans constantly during the visit to in japan and in other cities, they say no, we

will defend taiwan under all conditions, and the chinese say no, we will not, we do not rule out the possibility of a direct military attack on taiwan, what can be said here, it is possible and an attack in as a result, let's go here, we need to divide two aspects here. the first aspect is that the chinese have very clearly stated that the reason for the attack on taiwan will not be the visit of some philosophe or even some other american politician, it will be the official declaration of taiwan's independence. and this will not happen in one day, they have to spend referendum, er, announce this decision, i will approve it. that is, this is a protest , we are not talking about it now, and china specifically said that the attack on the island is a military one, let’s say the conquest of the island will be, er, only in that case, there is no we are talking about some kind of visit, er, it would be clearly separated

, that is, there was a threat not directly to er, to the address of the vacuum cleaners if she comes there , that is, here we must distinguish between threats to taiwan and china's threats directly to the americans. and here , just here, the situation is a little different. i really do n't think so. well, if you from china made an attack on an airplane, it really wouldn't be a war for taiwan. and it was a war between the united states and china, but here, too, i must add that it was just as bad in this tour, so what was a month ago he clearly stated that the usa will defend taiwan armedly, and this is precisely what distinguishes the situation , for example, in ukraine from the situation in taiwan, because here in taiwan there is an agreement with the united states according to which the usa is obliged to send its troops to protect ivan in the event of an invasion, and moreover, taiwan should already have all the

weapons that, for example, we are asking from the united states . they have 16 long-range missiles in relation to mainland china, that is, the situation is real here. well, here, if the involvement of the united states it is more important, see what i would like to ask you, this is very important, mr. oles. but can we trust china after the story with hong kong, where china said we will not touch the internal structure of hong kong for another 50 years or i don't remember how many yes and he i did it well, not 5 years later, but now it is already a full-fledged part of china with the chinese counter-intelligence, the kgb, everything is chinese there, now it is completely chinese, and it scared taiwan, and taiwan began to think . as far as i understand, somehow even further from

to sail to this island of formosa, which was once called yes, and began to beg the americans to help us, because we we do not want to be like hong kong, who can we trust china who say the words that you have just given us, well, look here again, if we are talking about hong kong, it is another situation again, but if the healing of this chinese influence in hong kong were provoked by those actions that were there two years ago, and that's when china adopted a new law on the security of hong kong , and really, let's say not the political system, but security yes, he actually took hong kong under his umbrella from the point of view of the security of the police, as the special services said, and so on, that is, after actually ceasing the existence of the opposition movement there, and indeed taiwan is concerned about such events, and he believes that in a certain sense

hong kong is can be such a wake-up call or a warning for taiwan, because in taiwan these forces are now in power, the democratic party, they are just coming up with the ideas of secession or more, so how do you say to sail away from china on the other hand, their opponents, the current tradition of the kuomintang, are chinese nationalists, they are the opposite, in principle , they were looking for compromises with china and talked about rapprochement five or 10 years ago, the communists talked about rapprochement with china and they met with the communists, they just talked about taiwan , in principle this the democratic system operates there and we do not know what will happen in the next elections, if the kuomintang wins the democratic party, then again there will be a period of rapprochement between china and taiwan, this is also very important, in the end, what is still interesting is the position as far as china is concerned with ukraine, has it changed

recently or is it still colder towards the russian-ukrainian war, maybe there are some driving forces that could contribute to china being more loyal to us, maybe it helped in some way, well, i see in general speaking, the position of china is called pro-russian neutrality, that is, outwardly, and we see a lot of pro-russian statements from the side of china, instead, the government of china, if we are talking about the top leadership , is xizinping, who explains this position to eh biden directly, he says that china does not interfere where it is not his conflict, yes, that is, he does not see his any direct eh well, that is, he says that it is as if he plays a role, yes, mr. kuleba, when he spoke with you and the minister of foreign affairs of china, eh, china promised that he would help ending the

conflict, and china called on putin to start negotiations, but we know that they never started, and that is why china in this sense did not play such a role, for example, as even turkey plays the role of a mediator, so china's position is now aloof and neutral, he does not want his connection with russia, because it is very tactical, that is why he does not supply any weapons to russia, which would probably want such support, but on the other hand, for example, during all the days of the war, all zinfen did not call zelensky, although he had already communicated with we had a conversation with putin at least twice about this, and with baide, we also had a conversation twice, so this basically shows the attitude of china to ukraine, and in order to change this situation, kyiv must probably tell the chinese what they can actually do, what we expect from them as a guarantor of security of ukraine, which he took on in 1994 as our largest trading partner as a country

that declared a strategic partnership with ukraine 10 years ago, that is, all these elements should be included in the ukrainian policy towards china . thank you very much, unfortunately, we have to finish everything i had a question, but i'll take it. next time, thank you, but i'll also hide a member of the board of the ukrainian association of china connoisseurs. and now we'll have a short break. put your questions to the balls of september, because at 4:40 p.m. we will have an interactive session where i will voice the most interesting questions on the air. mykola veresen, as always, will answer them. you can ask them on the official facebook page of espresso.tv. good evening. we are from ukraine. big broadcast . vasyl winter my name is vasyl winter two hours of airtime until 21:00 two hours of your time

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