and trade and tourism, i.e. turkey and the dangan project and its bridjebed, in principle he plays his game and solves his problems now , in principle, he has certain problems with internal 80% inflation and here is the so-called grain this is the agreement showed that turkey is very good at using the russian-ukrainian war for its own interests, at the same time, you see, azerbaijan will win, which in principle does not find any russian so-called peacekeepers there at all, and in opposition, well , it is slowly squeezing the armenians. and that is, in in principle, everything is going well for turkey , er, i would not like it to happen at the expense of ukraine, therefore, in ukraine, it is necessary to think already today, probably, the search for really ukraine of countries that could

be mediators to one degree or another in the future, because turkey may not become such because that the interests are more and more turkish, bilateral cooperation with russia, thank you, mr. valery, and we will continue to talk. today, we will talk about this meeting between putin and erdogan in the next blocks, but right now, ihor romanenko is in touch with us, retired lieutenant general of the army , candidate of military sciences, doctor of technical professors, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-10, congratulations, mr. ihor, i congratulate you too well, let's start from the south, for sure what does this mean, this transfer of russian troops to the south. do they want to

defend themselves or do they want to attack, in my opinion , the general staff of the armed forces of the russian federation of this situation and most likely made a decision in relation to the fact that after assessing their forces, their capabilities, reserves, that the best defense is prejudice and attack, therefore, they concentrate the grouping of troops in the kherson direction, in which a large part of them, that is, they have already increased by somewhere around 7-8 thousand, and among all the visas, a large part of them are parts of the air - amphibious troops. that is, these are the troops that are used as rules in the offensive, that is, the capture of the object in the hold to the approach of their

troops . despite that, they broke down there, reduced the capabilities of their masts around the kherson direction, but they restored or built a ferry crossing there, they are trying to bring a pontoon here, that is, you use any opportunity to pretend your troops in this direction. in general, there are, i would say, four such the areas where intensive combat operations are carried out are kharkiv, these are two in the eastern operational zone, kramatorsk, sloviansk, bakhmut , especially around bakhmut and the avdiiv sands, this is in the donetsk direction, and the kherson regions, which we are talking about they said that during this coming week,

the formation of whiskey groups will end. it will be possible for these of our allies to collect data, based on which our general staff will decide where to concentrate their efforts to deform the reserves in what way and whether there will be an opportunity after they pass for of the armed forces of ukraine for a defensive operation, but they are in the eastern zone , it is already happening because the enemy is trying to advance there, will there be forces to carry out their counter-offensive operation which the supreme commander-in-chief set the task if we talk about the south, in parallel, very acute events are taking place around the zaporizhzhia npp today. the european union condemned russia's introduction of military activity from the territory around the

nuclear power plant . in august, energoatom reported that the russian occupiers shelled the territory of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant twice a day. the recorded arrivals near the industrial site hit a high-voltage communication line, and then they hit pzs from the rsv and were hit by projectiles near one of the power units where the nuclear reactor is located. already today, the energuatom announced that the nitrogen-oxygen station was seriously damaged as a result of russian shelling and there is a threat of aridation leakage, president zelenskyi demands sanctions against the russian nuclear industry. what can we say about this to igor? today, on top of that, i will also mention the insider material, where they say, referring to sources on the energodar about the fact that the suspicious activity of

russian soldiers on the territory of the nuclear power plant may indicate that they are bypassing it, what do you think about the goals of the russians and what is next with the nuclear blackmail of russia in ukraine and in general how to release the energodar of the nuclear power plant zaporizhzhia region in general, if we take into account that the enemy like a monkey with this nuclear button is holding a nuclear object and is already simply, well , directly attacking it with the ssr, unfortunately, this is the first such story is connected with the fact that, well , in principle, the armed forces of the russian federation, which are acting and fighting on the territory of ukraine, violating the rules of the introduction of war, international legislation, but especially e that causes the corresponding reaction of the world and international is a violation of the introduction

of actions around putin's nuclear facilities, in addition to nuclear threats, in fact, at the present time, nothing remains of these scarecrows and therefore -he uses it in relation to the fact that he can use tactical nuclear weapons and also accordingly arranges his troops around nuclear facilities, the breach takes a lot of eh if, in my opinion, it is not fundamental to take a position and argue that both ukraine and the russian federation should be responsible for such actions, even though we understand who is the aggressor and who is behaving in what way in relation to what to do next. we have an example of this . we remember how they admired

the chernobyl nuclear power plant, so it means that the way out of this situation, in my opinion, is that it is necessary to cover this station, to strike around it, to move forward, and the troops that remain there will be forced come out about what they can blow up. well, in many ways, we cannot predict them, but i think that in the conditions that putin is now in, he will not go for it. i would like us to discuss another such rather alarming such news in the federal security service of russia, the day before they announced that they had also prevented a terrorist attack in the capital of the karachay cherkassy republic in the city of cherkassk who allegedly organized neo-nazis , someone cooperated with the ukrainian organization right sector, the russian propaganda

publication ryanovost also wrote about this, as reported the suspect's edition was detained, they found some bombs of 3 kg of tertyl equivalent in his possession, and a criminal case was opened. company, what do you think about this, unfortunately, this is also not a new approach of putin 's old kgbshnik, er, i have to ask above whether the business card of yarosh was found in this er, detainee or not, because it is to form some kind of provocations to submit their propaganda is a well-known approach to the patriots of some objects in which the

residents live. blame the ukrainians for this, or blame the chechens who are fighting against kadyrov. this is not a new position. we remember the time when putin was under the leadership of president the second chechen war was provoked by a situation related to the fact that residential buildings were blown up in moscow, volga-donsk, and in some other places, and by showing what the chechens were doing and how they should be fought , and then volley systems were installed in chechnya fire artillery and populated areas were completely destroyed and this will continue as we see in ukraine, for example, such actions, and everywhere in ukraine and in the east, when the first offensive operation was carried out, if everywhere and now what is happening

in the eastern and southern operational zones, therefore, the best countermeasure to all new ones is er information war is a very important component of hybrid war and putin invests a lot of money in this his oil and gas and we definitely have to go through this only now these positions are being clarified this information i asked you and i why we probably take part in this, but the main thing is the actions of our armed forces to inflict paraska, the forces of the russian federation on the territory of ukraine liberated our state from the occupiers, tell me, sir , they are speaking in principle themselves. this approach that we see now is being demonstrated the russian army that it is again going to fight in several directions at once, so it is concentrating in the south. but at the same time it remains in the east, the same was the case at

the beginning of the war. it showed its ineffectiveness why are the russians again resorting to steps that have already been shown to be completely frivolous from the military side, raised by the citizens of russia , including the military, with its great ambitions and great capabilities. we remember the beginning of the war, the attack was carried out along 9 operational directions you discussed four directions in which they are trying to act, but in the kharkiv direction and even in the eastern operational zone, that is, the donetsk direction , most likely these directions. capture bakhmut and also avdiivka pisky capture

the donetsk region within the administrative borders and we are conducting heavy battles here we are conducting a defensive operation accordingly but also for the second time or in which they are thus at least distracting our forces our capabilities in kharkiv and in this direction so that we they did not concentrate them, for example, on khersonskaya, where at first, most likely, battery operations will have to grind as much as possible the whiskey of the enemy’s equipment, and then, based on the assessment of the situation, there will be appropriate reserves after it is possible to carry out counter -offensive actions, therefore, within a week, it was decided in some way to finally concentrate their troops for the adoption of appropriate decisions by our

general staff and the commander-in-chief of the dependent wing of military exercises on its territory until august 13. this is reported by the monitoring group of the belarusian army and also the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reports that the belarusian special forces in the regions bordering volhynia and rivne have begun checking their combat readiness what to expect from the belarusian side in the near future p . igor the special forces of belarus have been preparing for the last few years, i emphasize after many exercises were conducted by the russian special forces, many of the officers of these structures of the units studied at the military institutions of the russian federation, therefore, they are of a fairly high level, they are trained there for three parts , in my opinion but taking into account the grouping

of troops in the north as a whole, we can say that it does not have such strength and such potential to decisively carry out offensive actions in the state they are in are now in our northern direction, this says it is not yet clear that this cannot happen, because as you know, the corresponding reserves of the russian federation, the tank corps, are being formed, they are also forming battalions and the floor in their administrative units of the russian federation, as you know, putin was there two weeks ago set a task for the subjects of the federation, they are engaged in this, that is, if you recruit the appropriate e-e units of the unit, prepare, arm, although the old equipment is heavy , but there must be an appropriate potential that can be will establish or er in the north of belarus or

strengthen its capabilities in the directions that we discussed with you, well, the intelligence of our ally's follow-up in these processes, the general staff will take these opportunities into account in further actions . was in touch with us and now we will talk about how well the grain agreement works, the first cargoes have been sent, what's next, our guest bohdan ustymenko, director of the ukrainian institute of maritime law and security, congratulations, mr. bohdan good evening. let's start from the beginning. why did russia decide to go to ukraine to be able to export grain, because it is absolutely obvious that in such a situation, this is the threat of famine

, which has been frightening in russia all the time. rescue, she shouted with this voice on the panel with the participation of putin himself. well, what happened, why did the famine stop being a rescue, or did it not stop? well, let's be sure, let's start with turkey's motives, why exactly turkey needs this, and why is this necessary since you and i know that the tripartite signing of the so-called istanbul agreements actually took place, in fact the secretary general of the united nations did not sign such an agreement, it was only stated that these documents were signed with the assistance of the secretary general of the united nations at the same time i would like to say about the turkish motives about this, well, not all of them, if they

are very actively discussed. well, first of all, we know with you that turkey conducted a development geologist and also found very significant reserves of hydrocarbons in black of the sea at the expense of these hydrocarbons turkey wants to ensure its energy independence as a consequence turkey does not need rockets flying over the heads of the oil and gas platforms that will work in the black sea area. second , turkey, we know that this is in the past, it is also a former empire and has its own very powerful ambitions , that is, now turkey has decided to take advantage of , let's say, a pragmatic situation and get

political dividends. that is, we know that when two who fight usually win the third. that is, we see this classic example on the example of the same turkey, that is, turkey is definitely becoming a regional leader with a direct influence on global politics and a powerful player in the arena. and thirdly, we we also know that in 2023, already in 10 months erdoğan erdoğan is waiting for elections at the same time the situation in turkey itself is economic, it is not very good , let's say it like this in turkish, that is, in my opinion, the main motives regarding the russian federation very, very succinctly, well, we also analyze the sources, we look at what they say, what is happening

on the front, that is, the totality of all, let's say, events, well, we see that putin, in turn , made a strategic miscalculation, that is he did not expect such resistance, he did not expect that it would help, in particular, with weapons and finances. he also did not expect that a huge number of sanctions would be imposed, that is why i believe that these two, that is, the motives of these two states. wants in turn er him very much a pause is needed, this is if the situation shows, as they tell us, on the fronts, and economically, because they are the russian federation, it would actually fly into the abyss if they did not rob there, that everything is fine with them, that they have an unlimited amount of resources there human flesh and so on, they know it, they know for sure that they are flying into the abyss. well, you know

, in fact, it seems to me that this is such a game of a madman, let's say how it goes. probably, uh, the leader of the russian federation. she's just. well, actually, it's just a game. i think they are in fact, now they are trying to get some kind of pause, i don't know, six months, a year, two years, definitely to attack again, because we know that the russian federation as such is not capable of a contract, well, to put it mildly, they are not good in ukraine this is exactly why they signed this istanbul agreement in particular, in order to somehow play on the fact that they are

striving for peace there, or are they going somewhere else, moreover. voiced in the volume including schroeder, through ria novosti, this is the main mouthpiece of the kremlin. he also voiced the fact that if the kremlin wanted to, firstly, it was a compromise regarding donbas. that is, we can read that give us donbas, and secondly, this is directly exactly exactly that situation what, oh, he said about god bless the memory, oh, and he said that the armed neutrality of ukraine, that is, that's it, that's it, there were two wishes before, if well, for sure, for sure, it's somewhere somewhere, it seems that they want the kremlin some negotiations, that is, the kremlin wants an operational pause well it is interesting that this week the president of turkey, recep tayyip erdogan, suddenly became in tune with gerhat schroeder

and his predecessor, who, after the talks with vladimir putin in sochi, said, as andal reports, that the agreement to unblock the export of grain from ukrainian ports creates a favorable ground for wider negotiations between kyiv and the kremlin and expressed his readiness to host a meeting between putin and zelensky in istanbul, what do you think about the prospects of this negotiation track, which we hear more and more often from various e confidants of volodymyr putin and his friends around the world, what can the kremlin push the ukrainian government to do, well, again, again, again, this is acceptance of the terms of the same kremlin, er, acceptance of the terms of the same kremlin, er, they sometimes contradict these messages, which er, sends we, uh, russians, russian propaganda, they

want one thing, then another, at the same time, at the same time, it seems to me that there is, let's say, a very serious fear , uh, of the russians losing, and what they might say, let 's say, to be left, uh, well, actually, alone with all their problems regarding turkey then there is again it makes sense to pay attention to the fact that erdoğan announced that several turkish banks will be connected to the internal banking system of the russian federation, that is, financial flows will be freely transferred from one country to another, that is, money will be freely sent from one country to another i.e. as far as i understand, the russian federation, in its turn, let's say, made a bet on turkey as its lawyer, in particular, before the whole rest of the world, maybe it is possible, after all,

to unblock the ports of the first cargoes which were sent that left on august 5, in particular, from the ukrainian ports of ukraine and reached the shores of turkey e-e and e-e and actually those that will be sent in the near future are e-e-e-e thousands of tons of corn grain on board which are headed in particular to turkish e -ports, that is, the grain agreement at first glance works like this, everything works smoothly, supposedly a very good start, but still , what does the state of affairs look like in your opinion, what are the risks of an insidious game on the part of russia, what can we expect from the aggressor in the near future, we see that in fact, such a demonstration of insidiousness takes place constantly from the apparently deliberate

murder of the ukrainian hero of the general director of the agricultural enterprise nibulon vydoursky, together with his wife, who were killed in their own house in mykolaiv during the shelling of our agrarian and to lavrov's visit to african countries where he negotiated so that african countries do not buy ukrainian grain at inflated prices , but buy stolen grain for cheap in russia itself. bohdane, what to expect in the near future. aggressor countries, well, we really have from 15 to 18 to 18 million tons of grain left, which we urgently need to export. since we know that its shelf life is not unlimited, that is why we really need to urgently

export, that is, to export this grain, moreover, it is essential part of it is loaded on ships that are now waiting for their turn to sail, let's say this about the russian federation, well, hmm, it's very, very difficult to make any predictions here, to clearly say something at the same time, again, uh, if we go back to erdoğan and their actual agreements. if putin gives an order to attack these grain caravans, it will be 100% accepted by erdogan as an insult. does putin now want to quarrel with turkey, which actually has the keys to the black market ? seas and we know that

in fact the tonnage of oil is quite large, it is transported by tanks. it is through the turkish straits, that is, the bosphorus and the dardanelles, that is why it seems to me that, in principle, then i will not risk it now, in these conditions that have developed he won't risk it intentionally violate this agreement, let's say let's say yes, but it's personally scandalous. that's my opinion at the same time. i think that for a while, uh, this agreement will still work. thank you, mr. bohdane . literally like an artist, we will listen to several important informational messages from espresso and then we will continue politics today, we will talk about the main things for this week, february 24, the date that changed

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