in the occupied soviet union, they are ready for the so -called referendum and hand over passports . they periodically make statements. valitsky recently made a whole film about himself, which he researched, the management of this and how he worries about the zaporozhian occupied territory, so they clearly gradually follow the instructions that the kremlin tells them and they fulfill it, well, we will come to them, and we are now asking them, now we are waiting for our valiant troops to go there, well, to do their work today,

on independence day, are there any special measures of security, how is the holiday going, there is an order of the president so that there are no such crowded events. therefore, people in small groups organize flash mobs from the very morning. flowers were laid at various ukrainian monuments. i know that the heads of military district administrations the military head of the zaporizhzhia regional administration , including myself, took part. we laid flowers in different locations. then, at 1:00 p.m., we had

such a flashmob in the regional museum of the blood of chysk. we painted a tube there . from under the e-e mortar that hit the armored personnel carrier and destroyed the armored personnel carrier too - it was an enemy one and we painted it in such a style with a petrikov and then we will have an auction and the costs that will be collected at this auction will be transferred to the needs armed forces of the armed forces of the armed forces of ukraine, thank you, thank you, mr. oleg

buril . it made me feel angry, to say the least that russia will just get away with it, i thought a lot and decided that i am 20 years old and have military experience that can be useful to this country to a certain extent on the battlefield, i understood that i am ready to do everything in my power let it be better if i am wounded or killed but my life will be saved one of the ukrainians is so much better for me, every ukrainian i met was a wonderful person and i am even more convinced that i am better than anyone else, i really don't want ukraine to feel alone in this war, that's why i came here to to support the ukrainians and to make them feel that they are not alone in this struggle against russia. i know that your

grandparents are from ukraine. it is true that they are from odesa. what did your parents say to you when they heard about your decision? they support me, but of course they are very worried because i want war. thank my parents who are proud of my decision, they support me as much as they can parents always worry about their children and i get the support i need from my parents tell us your story when you arrived here how long did it take you for military training, i just arrived here and became part of a unit that i cannot name, later i was in the southeastern region, in particular in the donbass, the unit i joined did not have proper order, it consisted exclusively of foreigners, mainly from western countries, who, unfortunately, did not have ideals for which b they fought defending ukraine in the end i decided to leave there and joined

the international legion after a few weeks of training in the legion i was sent to the front equipment quite normal the truth came across something unusual, but in general, technique as technique this is so short about my story, as for me it is not like that, it is not interesting at all, the maces of the legion are made of flowers, i tried to make all the efforts that i can, of course, i cannot name specific places where i have been, but i will say that i did everything on my behalf depending on it, this is the history of ukraine, and were there any stories on the battlefield that you remembered for the rest of your life ? something like that can happen. suddenly i hear a whistle near my ear. the bullet even damaged my ears a little because it was very close. i heard that whistle until the end of the day. i will never forget it. it was very scary. my hands were shaking

for a while. then, for about 2-3 hours, we just lay on the ground to make sure. that we will no longer set a target for them this experience will stay with me forever because i have never encountered anything like this before this shot was so sudden and unexpected that it caught me off guard i was completely unprepared it was very a terrible and unforgettable experience, i have other similar stories, but this one stands out so specifically from the others. what do you think we should do to win this war as soon as possible? i don’t just see two ways to win this war . the first is when russia simply can’t stand it. and there is every chance that it will happen, they were not ready for such a war and both countries understand it, it takes a little more time for the russians themselves to understand what war entails, what drastic consequences it brings, so that they take the situation into their own hands and do everything possible to stop it. the second way is for ukraine

to continue to hold the defense, to exhaust all the resources of the russian army, including human resources. unfortunately, such a way for the victory of ukraine is more likely. what is worth waiting for one of the options i proposed. in my opinion, only in these ways ukraine is able to win this war. where do you think it is? if we go to a truce with russia, will it not be a mistake for us? a truce with russia will definitely be a mistake, it will only give the enemy an opportunity to increase its military potential, and russia is definitely not to be trusted, you cannot trust putin and the entire top of the kremlin, in the event that ukraine makes some concessions in favor of russia, it will only give them time to recover and to return again, it is sad to say this, but unfortunately such a peace is not needed in ukraine,

what can you say about the russian methods of waging war in ukraine, they have exhausted themselves, they rely solely on their artillery, tanks and air the troops before launching the infantry, they also do it. and they bombard intensively. i had the experience of firing from small arms as well as from many other types of weapons. i went through powerful artillery training. i drove tanks and flew military planes. therefore, all i can say about the russian method of fighting - this is massive shelling of the contact line from artillery and heavy weapons after the infantry enters, it is hard to take it all in because in fact you have to sit and hold your position for a very long time while the enemy is bombarding you and you are not in the village there is nothing to be done about it, many of my friends were injured and others died as a result of such shelling, i don't know how to describe it all, it's just horror, there is probably no worse way to conduct a battle , my friends - it's natural, you don't choose

to feel it or not, but it's only your choice what to do with it will he win or will you turn him into a righteous anger anger that will ignite the heart and give strength to move forward this fear we have something to lose and therefore to defend at such an incredible cost but great freedom was not gained at the expense of everyone our step today is a step into a happy future. each of us is here because we tamed the city, learned to manage it, made it our ally, no matter how difficult it may be for us, but it will definitely not be ashamed. the air force of ukraine is protecting the sky space of our country with highly maneuverable and

mobile units destroy the enemy in the air, on land and in the sea already during the war, the air force has proven its loyalty to the ukrainian people, they have shown that neither on the ground nor they will pay, there will be no peace because the borscht will win but it will be hot, we continue

our broadcast has completed the air alert almost all over ukraine, do you all have a good day, and once again congratulations on the independence day of ukraine, and today, august 24, is not only the independence day of ukraine, but also the day of the creation of a very serious organization called nato and during this six months, we will often talk about this organization because it is safe, we are talking about what would happen if we were already members of nato and then russia would not have done what it did six months ago. well, this the military alliance was created 73 years ago. it was formed precisely to contain the soviet union. well, it allegedly lost its meaning after the collapse of the soviet union itself, and now the security situation, the security issue has taken on a new

meaning in the world. to europe, to keep the americans in it and restrain germany, this is how the task of the north atlantic alliance was described by his first hexsec, british general hastings ismay on august 24, 1949 in 2018, the agreement between 12 european and north american states on the creation of a defense union entered into force. the fifth main point of the agreement provides for collective defense, i.e. an attack on any country of the alliance means an attack on all. for a long time, the main task of nato remained the containment of the ussr, but after its collapse the alliance seemed to have lost its meaning. the existence of its few missions, in particular on the territory of the former yugoslavia in afghanistan and libya, caused many disputes . european countries, primarily germany, spent on defense less and less, the french leader macron declared the brain death of nato, and the president of the united states, donald trump, in general

, questioned the expediency of the organization, radical changes began after the annexation of crimea and, first, full-scale russian aggression against ukraine, they accelerated at breakneck speed about their intention to join the alliance, announced neutral finland and sweden countries' defense budgets are growing, the united states is increasing its military presence in europe at the summit in madrid, nato has officially recognized that russia is the main threat to the alliance is the new strategic concept, it is radically different from the concept adopted in 2010, the role of russia has changed, as it now poses a direct threat to all nato members, in 2010, russia was perceived as a strategic partner fixed as for ukraine, the alliance is still not ready to give it a clear prospect of membership, they say the door remains open, but they are not ready to name any dates. now we are talking about security guarantees

for ukraine and about weapons and financial support but it was simply possible to unite and take ukraine into nato, for ukraine they always found reasons why we should not be there. and sweden and finland were immediately accepted , so once again i say the decision is correct. and regarding ukraine, the decision is wrong, historical, wrong, well , in possible referendums, joining nato was supported by more than 90 of them of participants, according to the july survey of the kyiv international institute of sociology - this is the highest level of support for all the years of ukraine's independence. we watched a story about nato, an organization that was formed exactly 73 years ago this day is august 24, the independence day of ukraine. we will talk about this and in particular with ivan krychevskyi - he is an expert of defense express, ivan, we congratulate you. good

day, happy holiday, we also congratulate you, mr. ivan, but to begin with, ms. valevskyi wanted to ask a question , and does mr. valevska know that even the soviet union submitted an application for joining nato so that in the fourth year under the leadership of which secretary general of the soviet union the history of what yes, mr. ivan well, look zelensky says that it was a historical mistake can we talk like that now yes to ask questions about your position on nato and ukraine, you know. let's say this without referring to the person of president zelensky, well, really, what is the point of talking about the fact that nato made a historical mistake from the bridge of ukraine, we can because let's even remember the moment that was indicated in the story there that the secretary general of nato said together that in 2010, russia was perceived as a strategic partner, you know, the aggression of the russian federation in georgia was literally a selling point there, which, you know, demonstrated the

openly aggressive intentions of the russian federation. to put it mildly, not a partner's behavior , expressing himself in such diplomatic jargon. well, somehow nobody was impressed, moreover, it turns out that during the war against georgia in 2008, russia demonstrated that it has iskander missile complexes in its life, which in fact were already the first such step to bypass the then international agreements regarding the limitation of short- and medium-range missiles in europe, because ukraine, for example, abandoned its elbrus operational-tactical missile systems with a range of 500 within the framework of compliance with these agreements on missiles, well, that is, on the limitation of missile weapons in europe, it turns out that russia violated such agreements, which in principle put the security of the european continent at risk even then, and the nato structures managed not to notice more than that, if we take it that way and let's take a look at some of

the most notable episodes of the reduction of the combat capability of the forces of european countries, then they happened after 2008, for example, great britain gave up a significant part of its bombers in france. well, it has reduced a certain part of its fleet of armored vehicles and its tactical missiles there, that is, i will repeat without the relatively personal president zelenskyi about what to say about the fact that at that time nato made a historical mistake in relation to ukraine and in principle in assessing the situation in which it refused , can we speak? ivana i like to quote the fifth article that we always refer to in the nato charter that we have . declaration of war in response there immediately war defense and liberation of the territory not quite like that i quote again the parties agree that an armed attack on one or more of them in europe or in north america will be considered an attack on

all of them well we know this further and accordingly they agree that in in the event of such an attack , each of them, exercising their legal right to collective self-defense, individually confirmed by the article of the united nations organization of the charter , will provide assistance in that assistance to that side or aid to the parties that were attacked and will immediately carry out individually or jointly with other parties such actions that are considered necessary, including the use of armed forces , including the use of armed forces. to the atlantic region, that is, not for the purpose of preserving the territorial integrity of the country that was attacked, but for security, that is, if the russians pull back some territory, and so on we are not going any further, there will be security, then in principle the fifth article was security and the second question, well, the question in general how do you evaluate this article and this other

point, e-e, they think that will be considered necessary, by whom will these actions be considered necessary, it is unclear, including the use of armed forces, and what they can also apply. how do you think about whether or not the fifth article is or is not subject to rewriting? it seems to me that territorial integrity is at stake here, so we can even build such a hypothesis that some particularly active members of nato understanding the shortcomings of the mechanisms of the fifth article, they began to use certain preventive mechanisms , for example, in the polish army there is the so-called fourth anti-tank suvalkyn regiment, which has a rather motley material part, there are also old soviet self-propelled complexes on the bardm chassis, there are two little ones and relatively new israeli anti-tank missiles. spike, the task of this polish anti-tank regiment is simple. if suddenly the russians, together with the belarusians, or one of

them there, try to take apart the really technological devices, that's it. if one of the decisive ones undertakes such an attack on the suvalki corridor, the polish anti-tank regiment must come out first and stop the russian tanks, regardless of what procedures will be unfolded within the framework of the headquarters in brussels, again, the formation of such international mechanisms of collective self-defense in within the framework of nato well, they are happening not only in poland there, for example, already within the framework of its reform there, let's say restructuring exactly according to nato standards, the bundeswar, for example, omits that several mechanized battalions of the army of the netherlands why exactly holland did not understand but nevertheless, germany suddenly why the german army should act suddenly what from the army of the netherlands so that the community there can defeat any threats, a similar blockade is now being carried out by france and belgium there, in the literal sense, belgium rewrote its program for the development of the army so that it would

be fully compatible with france. that is, it is coming to us now as part of such a big explosion . johnson. he has just now come to congratulate ukraine on independence day and he is in kyiv. how do you assess this probability and what does his visit to us today mean? it is possible and quite possible that it is the british political classes that are suitable to lead such a specific structure. there was news about nato, if the candidate for prime minister answered in the affirmative that we can press the red button in case of the need to use nuclear weapons, well, it looks like the first european leader in the last five years who publicly dared to say so what if we press the nuclear button well, that's why it's obvious to boris johnson johnson that not all

roads are open in this case thank you mr. ivan ivan kyrychevskyi defense express expert was with us again air alarms are starting and we are moving obviously we still have a few minutes, yes , is ivan krychevskyi with us, or have we already released him, well, johnson arrived today. please don't wait. go to the shelter right now if there is an air alert in your region. mayor johnson visited kyiv today on independence day, despite the fact that mass attacks were announced for today, and in particular on kyiv, of course. and he met with the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and zelenskyi expressed gratitude to johnson for defending the interests of our country at the international level and steadfast support from the very

beginning of russian aggression, this is a great truth because it was great britain from the very beginning and to this day demonstrates support for ukraine both at the government level and at the level of individual personalities, because johnson , again, they say he brought a package of aid to the armed forces of ukraine and these are micro-grants - this is a small pop- separate from state aid. well, maybe they will explain to us, then they will explain in more detail where will this money go right now, we will go into hiding in the studio, stay with the press , we will follow and celebrate the independence day of ukraine together with e-e. i spent my first maybe 15-20 days of the war in the

kyiv region during the offensive of the russian army, we were under occupation with my parents, and after we were able to leave, i decided to go and join the ave of the territorial defense of the city of kyiv well, and continue my service there, let's say you were a platoon, tell me about this experience that you needed it, now i'm platooning with in 2014, almost my entire conscious life and plast have been with me for a long time . this is such a good positive experience especially for serving in the army, because there you need to know how to dig a place for yourself, for example, or how to provide first aid. elementary how to deal with with a weapon in my 18 i already knew how to do it and it came and having already entered the ranks of the armed forces i already knew such basic things that i did not have to

go through again sometimes it seems that uh, guys who did military service there and those who are platoon sometimes you there are on par or even higher than in terms of the same knowledge and you can operate with them, use them and be on par despite your age, you can tell about some hard work that took place under the dnipro, we had an offensive operation of ours the task was with our group let's say to defend the rear so that there was no counterattack from the russian offensive and uh, luckily nothing happened, no counterattack happened, but we had to leave the front zone behind the front line , defend there by chance, attack, think everything through, and it was, well, relatively so, worrying because it these are some of our first tasks, but it was very

useful and therefore i have a lot of experience in terms of how to properly make a trench there. i have extremely little time to dig it properly in order to hide from the arrival of mines there and i play and other artillery there, how long do i think this war will last? very often you have to sit there on some sort of duty when you have, for example, 3-4 hours there, you should spend time alone with yourself and think about it, and i think that this the war will definitely last a long time, at least until the end of the 23rd year, but it seems to me that we need to become like israel, accept their experience, their experience , understand that there will be rockets and air strikes there very often and it seems to me a very long time and therefore will have to be there to build some bunkers during an air alert to hide in it, that is, such a war will

definitely be long, but an active phase. maybe there, when it will end by the end of the 23rd year, ah, denisa, when the war ends, are you going to work, i was thinking about it, well, at least i continue to study - because i am currently studying in the first year of law, i will continue to study after that. well, i will look at the situation and live my life. peaceful civilian life with a family and a girlfriend. fear is natural. you don't choose to feel it or not, but it's only your choice. what to do with him, will he win, or will you turn him into a righteous anger anger that will ignite the heart and give strength to move forward, this fear we have something to lose, and therefore to defend at such an incredible cost, but we did not gain great freedom at a cost

, every step we take today is a step to a happy future . each of us is here because we tamed the city, learned to manage it, made it our ally. the enemy and are waiting for the day of liberation, support your people, join the flash mob with the hashtag city of heroes, write about the occupied cities in social networks and use their geolocation in posts, publish a photo with a yellow ribbon, this is a symbol of support for the people under occupation, ukrainians will be free, support the cities of heroes, ukrainians are a nation of

brave, hardworking and we sow the happy, we grow , we take, we defend, a gay cossack, the approved resistance force of the invincible , the air force of ukraine stands on the defense of the sky space of our state, highly maneuverable and

mobile units destroy the enemy in the air on lands and lemon already during the war, the air force has proven its loyalty to the ukrainian people, they have shown that we will not occupy in conscience, there will be no peace because we will fight, but victory will be a joke