information now plays a big but secondary role, the first role is played by our armed forces of ukraine, if they succeed in uh-uh doing uh-uh so that uh-uh around the zaporizhzhia station the tactical situation will change then believe me and uh-uh there will be all the necessary diplomatic formulas and steps in order for the situation to change, for now, unfortunately, it is the way it is and i have more faith, i repeat once again, in the actions of our armed forces between even contacts at the highest political level with the heads of certain states regarding the situation at the zaporizhia npp itself, it is not russia that is trying to use the zaporizhia npp for provocation in order to later accuse the ukrainian military of having shelled a

nuclear reactor somewhere, and it is the armed forces of ukraine that pose a certain threat to the world, of course. it is unlikely that anyone will protest what the russians came as aggressors to our land and they must leave . and we must also protect our nuclear reactors, because russia has nothing to do with it. how likely is the scenario when russia known for its provocations, we can recall the beginning of the 2000s and the kashir highway and the houses that exploded in moscow in the volga-don region , the chechens accused the chechens of planting explosives in residential buildings. russia to stop and russia forced the world to start

some kind of negotiations with them, er, to take some kind of tactical pause so that the russians would not be defeated either in the crimea or in the south of ukraine in the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, how likely is this the scenario, well, regarding this nuclear blackmail, i think that president zelenskyi is absolutely right when he says that the sanctions against the russian federation should be suspended and finally included in this list of seedlings. well, at least in our country and in some countries that understand what the russian nuclear industry is and how it should be fought, it is also an important piece of russian income, this is what russia is trying to promote and in order to by the way

eh and eh actually earn money and then tie certain countries to us in this way. we see what is happening in the countries east of europe in this regard, so i think that at the moment this eh is extremely important in relation to -e negotiations on the topic now, let's freeze some certain situations and then we will agree on something and you know, it seems to me that this is not a realistic scenario, based on the mood of ukrainian society, i don't think that it is above political and the military leadership of ukraine e suddenly eh will decide that it is possible to stop halfway. i think that this will not be supported either by the armed forces of ukraine or by the broad sections of ukrainian

society, so today the question is really different, either we or they, and i think they are convinced that ukraine will definitely win this war, because for the truth is behind us, the whole civilized world is behind us, so let's retreat and pretend that we will be satisfied with some half-solutions, i think this is an absolutely unacceptable situation against the background of what is currently happening around zaporizhzhia the nuclear power plant around the un around russia's aggression against ukraine, the former 56th secretary of state of the united states of america, henry kissinger, gave a long interview, an interview with the wall street journal, he said that whether we want it or not, now formally or not, we have to treat ukraine, as a member of nato, we know that kissinger always

says publicly what he says about the right things to the axis when he called on ukraine to cede its lands to a pro-russian politician, perhaps this affected his rhetoric on his is on the change of his views is friends with the head, as they say, and a serious assessment of the situation is to say that the armed forces of ukraine do not mean theoretical developments and computer games, but the practical use of weapons on the battlefield, and if i had to say the same, we should ask yourself why we don't have missiles and you have to ask this regularly and give honest answers , then if we had enough normal weapons

of a modern level, then believe me, i think that well , we could talk about the fact that ukraine enters well i don't know, well, maybe three. well, a maximum of five of the best armies not only of nato, but i think also of the world, because we demonstrated what even the nato generals themselves talk about in the superlative. that is, you probably read this information that some the military says that if you use a scale of 10 units to evaluate the ukrainian armed forces, then the ukrainians have 12. that is, it is five with a plus, so i think that mr. kissinger is simply, in this case, objectively assessing the situation and saying the right things . things and if he really made a difference changed his position and began

to look at things realistically, singing from the moscow voice well, thank god, so you can see that the old ones are about moscow sympathizers, when they start to realize and analyze the situation as it is. well, they are also returning to common sense, so thank you for god's sake, the fact is that, for the last time, representatives of british intelligence and representatives of the institute for the study of war of the american institution do not say that russia's war against ukraine will be protracted, they are like that forecasts have been made public literally in the past few days, russia is planning a long war in ukraine and restarting defense industry, the military-industrial commission of russia under the chairmanship of putin is trying to change the national defense program by the beginning of september, orders by increasing

costs, and when we talk about a protracted war between russia and ukraine, we obviously do not take into account and foreigners do not take into account one more factor that russia may not be a predicted country, as you remember in the 1991 year, when on august 19, the russian communist party began, no one even had a definite guess had that in five days on august 24, ukraine will announce the act of ukraine's independence and is such a scenario possible that analysts are not calculating now, the unexpectedness of the unexpected in the russian federation, the unpredictability of this state, which can lead to the fact that russia simply will withdraw its armed forces on the territory of ukraine due to some internal problems that exist in this country, this is the question of mr. serhiy. which one

seems to me to be the first today? on the agenda, you mentioned western analysts and on it's a great pity, we have to talk about the fact that their evaluations very often have such a superficial character, that is, they don't analyze the projects in relation to the fact that after three days, they don't clearly understand there are many other factors that affect the country's ability to resist, but in our case, none of the western intelligence has calculated that i am much stronger than the others. maybe even modern tanks or howitzers or drones are the will of the people to live in a normal civilized country dependent on that when they say

about er, are we going to play this game for many years, or do the russians er, you know, it seems to me that here we should not pay attention to that , but er, well, so to speak, listen to er and to trust our armed forces. i think that today there is really very good interaction at the level of the minister of defense and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. this is really a very positive synergy when politicians do not interfere in purely military affairs and the military does not interfere with flights and this gives results plus, of course, help from the west

of partners, which is at the moment decisive in the sense that uh, it uh, in combination with uh, quantity and the desire to win, gives the results that we talked about at the beginning of our conversation, what can happen in russia, here the situation is the opposite the one we are talking about in ukraine, because there is no motivation, the russians have no understanding of what they are doing here, there are only attempts to demonstrate their savagery, but this is not something on which you can at least wage a war for a long time, and again, look . there, let our western partners do something er, they minimize, say, the direct losses of the russian army, but they are still huge. you

mentioned these numbers today at the beginning of the conversation. they are actually terrible if compared to the afghan war, which actually paved the way for the collapse of the ussr, then this war is even more terrible for russia, and this history, so i think that many factors that are now maturing in the russian federation can provoke what you are talking about when one of them and it can be anything, it can be the murder of some uh activist in the conditional tatarstan or or a road accident with a military man who is transporting some uh-uh missile and it is somewhere uh-uh in the conditional and saratov region and so on and this can simply start a

chain of events that will be unstoppable after that, you know it's like a small stone that causes a huge avalanche it is impossible to hide from an avalanche, so now we just have to uh, i think hmm, think about how to stimulate these small ends of those parts of the russian empire, so that in their totality they cause a big avalanche uh, the main ones are definitely the armed forces of ukraine remain, but there are also a lot of things that need to be paid attention to the internal situation in the russian federation, the fact that the economy does not want as quickly as it was estimated at once, but it is starting to groan, and i

think that at the beginning of next year at most summer is a big economic failure that russia will not be able to survive, it seems normal to me, it is an increase in internal contradictions of the russian elite, that is, a set of factors that at some point can converge at one point and after that the unity of russia is simply being played out of course we can't say right now exactly when and who will be to blame, but objectively russia is moving in this direction and we must definitely do everything in our power to make this process happen not only stopped, but on the contrary accelerated yesterday , mr. volodymyr, the daily mirror in its publication , referring to a high-ranking kremlin official, wrote that kremlin officials are

panic-stricken, putin's elite wants negotiations and an end to the war in ukraine, according to the publication on the evening of august 13, a high-ranking kremlin official secretly appealed to the west for this purpose. it is true that they do not write where and to whom this high-ranking official appealed, but according to the information of this kremlin official, as quoted by the publication, high-ranking officials and officers close to putin are alarmed by the downturn in the economy, the challenges caused by the war and some harsh western sanctions kremlin officials are also worried about the risks associated with hostilities at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the publication allegedly writes for the mentioned the official turned to the contacts of the cia or western diplomats behind putin's back, how likely are the scenarios, volodymyr, of vladimir putin's handover to his own entourage of the west, serhiu, this scenario is

absolutely logical. not to see all the things that are happening today uh in the russian federation, you can’t help but see that putin uh is actually leading the country to uh, i mean russia to its uh disintegration and uh ending for those who think otherwise it seems to me now a prime time is coming because it is much easier to sacrifice putin and protect the remnants of this country, although no one can say now what putin's post russia will be like in the future, i think it has no such chances, but the group people who give a report on what is happening and who wants to

at least stop this process of the collapse of the russian federation is quite likely already holding some kind of negotiations. the united states of america is more likely than not britain as the two key players in nato in order to agree on er this is the end of the war on terms that are definitely not russian, they understand that the continuation of the war will mean the collapse of russia, they understand that the continuation of sanctions will mean the economic decline of russia, so i think that now the main thesis of these conversations is that we give you putin and his closest entourage, they are war criminals who are subject to trial, do

what you want with them, we return to all the normal documents signed by russia before, we return everything for the captured territories, we pay all the necessary contributions eh, but you eh, don't destroy us, we will gradually move to normalization eh, both internally and externally, that's actually such a trend. it seems to me that now it is quite eh working it is quite possible and i think that uh, well , at least uh, the signals that elimir writes about are not accidental, i think they have a uh basis behind them and this even more uh creates tension around putin, it even more strengthens his uh

mistrust of all of your surroundings and that's even more radicalizes him, on the other hand, that's why the arithmetic is so complicated, on the one hand, there are chances that he can be turned in quickly, on the other hand, there are chances that he can do irreparable things in this er, in his last er, last list of aggression, so the situation when it is quite difficult, friends, we work live, those who are watching us now on social networks, please like this video so that it is promoted in the trends of youtube and facebook, and also write comments under this video, it is important for us to know your opinions, what do you think about the russians about the current behavior of the russian troops around the zaporozhye npp and also about how the russians should get out of the crimean peninsula on youtube, there is a

poll, please vote, it is important for us to know what you think, mr. volodymyr, we have already started talking about the fact that putin's entourage probably understands what is leading them not to the fury, but another one of his sharers, oleksandr lukashenko, already says that the division of the countries of the european union into friendly and non- friendly is not acceptable. business is business with the european union, let's hear what the self-proclaimed president of belarus, oleksandr lukashenko, says about your statement by a member of the government that we are not friends here, we will work with friendly strangers . we already worked half of there, in my opinion, on

exports, even more in russia, this is absolutely incorrect, unacceptable, the situation of the problem with them, we need to work with them, the madness of politicians, eh, it is already business is business - this is not normal. when the world has the highest demand for mineral fertilizers and petroleum products. and we have nowhere to put them, and here they are behind the fence . in the market, if they need our goods, they are also looking for ways to buy our goods, so don't go to the consulate, or you can't throw away the understandable rhetoric of lukashenka , but one more video is quite funny, let's see about the minsk motorcycle, do you remember this one there was a beautiful motorcycle in soviet times, but it was made in belarus, but it remained

, but now it is almost entirely chinese, as lukashenko used to go to motorcycle factories, what did he say ? well, it's about what reality lukashenko lives in now. e project design design idea layout assembly all components from different manufacturers nothing properties it also works headlight chinese brushes shields too engine engine chinese engine well localization is not here tomorrow sanction was removed production was closed how will you be a manufacturer production, then we will start making shields. well , oleksandr lukashenko, yes, the dream of the european union does not want to respond to all the challenges facing his state and all the claims of the world to belarus

as an accomplice in the aggression against ukraine, and at the same time, belarus has basically turned into this platform, where is the whale, all the chinese products are going, what do you say about the change in lukashenko's rhetoric, he can already feel with his nose that putin is already finished, you absolutely know . really, everything is wonderful, you probably know the pungent smells that accompanied the soviet collective farms, they taught him to correctly follow the wind and to understand where it is blowing from, i think that uh, these are his uh, statements that we should in no way reject the european union are not accidental and he really he also sees what the situation with

russia is going to and if it is possible even there he still believes the russian army, he understands that economically russia is now being brought to its knees and it will stand there in the same position very long if at all will one day these countries be able to rise er, so er, to the complete dependence of belarus on the russian federation, this can be easily projected onto belarus itself. therefore, we need to look for at least some ways er, somehow to refrain, he does not accidentally say about er, potash fertilizers because it is that that belarus traditionally exports, if it falls under all the er terrible sanctions, it is a stoppage of the belarusian economy, including er, because of, in particular, these products. therefore, it needs the european union, and it also gives

a clear signal to its comrades which they sit and write it down and where is the signal from the west that i am ready under certain circumstances to continue to do my right work, but still you are not uh, so to speak , eliminating me? so to speak , to deal with what is happening in moscow now, and what concerns er china well, er, what we wanted was something and we got it because we have to finally also understand that the easiest thing is to buy someone else's and not to create our own e- well, now, er, i see these shots that you don't show, and something that reminds me of him they brought him to some pig farm. that's where he committed uh-uh

crazy looting of whoever he was. because everything that was there wasn't really belarusian, the same is true here. i think that uh-uh, at all other points, he uh-uh situation, what worries me most about mr. sergey in this context is the report that he is allowing something to concentrate his weapons there, not far from ukraine , and these reports about the military airfield under gomel are really an extremely serious threat, and i would very much like to hope that this is not preparation e to the fact that, on our holidays on august 23-24, kiev will be hit by what they call a blow to the center

of decision-making, so we really need to keep this moment as the number one of our main attention, and suddenly, what do you know, some cigarette butt again he might end up somewhere there. well, this is the airfield, the military airfield of zyabrovka, the so-called s-400 s300, they carry missiles, and the military intelligence of ukraine reports this, so in principle, let's hope that lukashenka will still come to his senses, or at least he will as a political animal will understand that for him this is the end of any actions of the russian federation, repeated actions of the russian federation from the territory of the republic of belarus e p volodymyr thank you for the conversation i wish you the best of health take care of yourself and your relatives i hope to see you in the next broadcasts friends this

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