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fire greetings dear viewers, now on the espresso tv channel, the program is a studio event, and the guests will be the retired british colonel, military expert glen grant and the famous political scientist who is in washington andriy piontkovskyi . dear colonel, in the studio of the espresso tv channel, first of all, i congratulate you on the ukrainian independence day, which passed a couple of days ago, but we understand that the holiday of the ukrainian independence should be celebrated every day, which is what our military is doing on august 24. we all expected a massive missile strike

. we know this from their telephone conversations and from our intelligence data, but there are still very, very many russian soldiers, as well as their equipment and ammunition, although their artillery systems are now actively wearing out because after a certain number of shots, the phase of danger is actually coming, since the projectile is not properly fixed in the barrel, so their equipment in this regard is about to expire. if you look at it in a broader

context, now is a very dangerous time for ukraine. here, putin personally will consider absolutely all possibilities to preserve everything that he captured before ukraine starts to squeeze him, this means that he will appeal to the countries of the west and resort to hybrid actions to convince the countries that support russia, in particular the same germany, that now is a favorable time for the ceasefire is a powerful challenge for zelensky, because he must firmly say no to the ceasefire. moreover, the country will only accept such an answer before the signing of the ceasefire . ukraine has taken

a more advantageous military position, the international political position in the world is currently quite unclear. yes, the situation is extremely complicated. i agree with you on the other hand, we understand that putin is moving not even just to some hybrid forms, he engages in frank nuclear blackmail , the history of the zaporizhia nuclear plant is being told from the other side, perhaps not for the first time the west gave an extremely clear signal to putin, for example, the american congressman adam kinzinger promised putin to use the fifth article of the nato charter if, of course, putin dares to commit a man-made disaster at the zaporizhia nuclear plant on in my opinion, he is not ready for such a step, since he will gain little from this, but he can lose a lot by turning

all nato members against him. the whole world he himself will shut off the oxygen he breathes to his full chest outside of russia, most likely he will want to try to control the electricity he produces from the nuclear power plant and use it for russia's needs, whether in crimea or elsewhere, because this has its own benefits and this is from what we hear about the actions of the military and nuclear specialists whom russia brought to the gas station, we understand that they are shelling, but they are deliberately striking away from the main power plant. this is quite enough for blackmail, but not for causing a disaster. i think that now it is necessary to pray that the situation does not worsen and

sooner or later the ukrainian troops will have to retake it because you cannot live normally when something so important for ukraine remains in the hands of russia thanks to western weapons thanks to the skill of our armed forces but crimea is on fire in the temporarily occupied territories ukrainian crimea, on which the russians have established their military bases, and this is also an extremely serious story, because it is a public humiliation of putin, as in front of russia. well , he will survive the humiliation in front of russia, but this is also humiliation in front of the whole world, i.e. crimean history, crimean cotton, yes, the crimean explosion. and they demonstrated that putin ceases to control the military situation in those territories that he considers to be symbolically important for him.

of course, we are talking about our ukrainian territories . is it a merit or from the actions of the command or a consequence of simple damage by ammunition, but the attacks in crimea have a double cost due to their psychological value, in fact, pressure is exerted on other russians, not only the military, but also the civilian population, which now knows about the attacks in crimea. and that is why they are starting to raise questions about the russian strategy. i still do not believe that the attacks on crimea are enough to make this country think and stop the war, in fact, according to the advantages, such attacks could would even worsen the situation. since people could have a desire to support their government in order to prevent ukraine from attacking the russians, such

negativity would linger for some time, but sooner or later, people in crimea, whether military or civilian, will understand that it's really time to get out, because if they don't do it, they'll just be killed, and the culmination will be the day when people will really take this idea and start leaving crimea in large numbers . this is an extremely important symbolic moment. this whole story in general reminds me of the story of as the german pilot crunch landed his small plane on red square, and at that time soviet generals were publicly and privately whipped, who demonstrated that the great, powerful soviet union was against his air defense system. worthless because one german plane landed on red square and we understand that this can actually cause a certain chain reaction now, yes

, because today belbek is exploding, tomorrow a similar scenario may begin with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles or some long-range artillery in the depths of russia, there is a certain breakdown in the psychology of russians the military is about the fact that they no longer feel like winners if the military does not feel like a winner if the military is not sure that he is able to win in for this company, the military, then this is a guarantee of a certain psychological breakdown in the war, and the second psychological moment is that they really feel like invaders in a certain sense. absolutely nothing is known about crimea, they simply fight without

sleep or spirit, not knowing what is happening in crimea, no one is going to inform them at all, they say, let them go there and fight to break the army in in general, a part of the front line should be broken through, since it is in many ways the most important value , now we see that the ukrainian soldiers are actually being pushed back to their positions, so we must somehow dare to break through, secondly. we should not focus only on how to overcome russia, because the role of the west is decisive review the mechanisms of appeals to western countries, because there it is no longer interesting to listen to zelenskyi's address every night, it is now important to bet on ambassadors who should be the best of the best with a clear pro-ukrainian position and

active advocacy of everything related to ukraine, because now, unfortunately, they sit quietly in embassies. zelensky cannot simply appoint his friends to such positions if they are not appropriate professionals, since they are to some extent a weapon in the arsenal of ukraine, your ambassadors and military attachés are not equal because they the face of ukraine is the people with whom journalists and other politicians communicate in order to move to the best scenario of the introduction of the struggle for ukraine in the west and to receive adequate support for further steps should be sent to the embassy only the best, and this is also a separate painful story . well, if we are already talking about the attempts of our counteroffensive or attempts to break through the russian positions , then we understand that this requires armored vehicles and it requires powerful artillery systems, on the other

hand, we understand how wide and how long the front line is on extremely large and now in fact this is 3/4 of the length of our border this is the border with belarus yes because we have to protect the capital this is the border with the russian federation yes this is the border the front line from the temporary occupied by the cock of ukraine yes and this would require extremely powerful artillery work yes and we still lack anti-aircraft missile systems it is true if you are going to attack you cannot attack everywhere and if you are going to defend you cannot defend everywhere this is the truth of war especially if we have such a long the front line at a certain stage needs to decide on the risks, you are already taking risks in

some places, but i am talking about trying to gather the best forces in one city to make a breakthrough, that is, there should be a priority in particular regarding armored equipment that comes from other countries. the two brigades should be armed as much as possible so that they are capable of powerfully hitting the enemy. it is necessary to provide them with more artillery and missile installations. historically, in view of all wars, the best strategic plan is to concentrate on one area or point. and therefore , a breakthrough and ukraine will also have to follow this path , such risks require us to weaken and even retreat in the appropriate places, not to me always. a level plan of action exclusively in a straight line. if you want to win, you must go forward and start to

win back positions. you have a chance to exhaust the enemy and then forever, but for this you need to start moving forward guided by risks and concentration of forces as the main military principle for a breakthrough, you should focus on one area and only yes, everything is very simple, military forces, primarily military equipment, armored forces , armored personnel carriers, and so on. well, at the moment, we understand that there are clearly not enough of them, why in your opinion dear mr. colonel, in the west, such a

dosed supply continues in the future, what are the reasons for this? equipment, such moments form a system, the army is a system, a system, and it is necessary to start the functioning of the entire system, and not only individual units of equipment, this is an indisputable fact if you deploy tanks, one here and one there, then your power will become russian, but if you put 50 tanks in one city, then it will already create the appropriate effect of the event , you should convey the best arguments, and this is not about regular addresses of ministers or president zelensky, you must have a consistent plan of action

so that people know what exactly are you going to do, how to keep the west informed, what fate awaits the help he has given me, i know, i am industrious, they are communicating more and more with america and representatives of other countries, i hope that such a plan is just for us unknown and yet in the coming weeks and months it should be adjusted because many things to transition you say take time you can't just manufacture and transfer tanks to another country without proper pre-testing of the transfer maintenance and training of personnel for all this takes a lot of time especially when it comes to equipment to be installed before shipping , it must pass a comprehensive inspection, otherwise it will simply break, it is like a gun, it is impossible to simply store it without using it, sometimes it should

service and care and it is not a job of 5 minutes, all these steps are time consuming, in particular the training of soldiers in great britain there are certain restrictions on the number of soldiers who can be trained abroad at the same time, but this number will only increase because other countries such as new zealand and the netherlands promise to provide their instructors , soldiers by themselves are pieces of a puzzle that must be put together to get the overall picture, now the army is facing a challenge, it has lost certain pieces of the puzzle that must be replaced with new ones it is impossible to do it in a day. therefore, you need to have a clear plan and good diplomats. recently , the minister of defense of russia, mr. shoigu, a war criminal, and one of those responsible for the aggression

against ukraine, made a rather resonant statement. he stated that russia is deliberately slowing down its offensive pace for the sake of preserving civilian lives, we understand that this is a lie and pr, but most likely it means that they have an internal management crisis or some other crisis brewing in them, that they can not carry out an offensive and, accordingly, they begin to appeal or refer more precisely to their humanism, which is actually absent, on the other hand, this means that there is a regrouping going on and maybe russia is preparing for the so-called long protracted company, i agree, you can say that the more the sheik lies, the more success we have at the moment, they need to slow down to wait for new arrivals of new artillery installations munitions etc. we keep killing them so

they have to replenish the human resource and it 's not easy for them now because as i said at the beginning they are looking for ways to stop the fire so that during this time to strengthen and take a better position to sort it out ourselves and we cannot allow them to do that, so how much time do they need and what would this attempt to freeze the front line look like? yes, we understand that they will be ready to continue the campaign, maybe in a month, in two or three about massive missile attacks and, accordingly, the involvement of new additional forces, but now, most likely, they do not have such an opportunity to develop in one or another direction of their offensive, on the other hand, we understand that if they really prepare for the history of a long war can be quite complicated. we remember how in 1899 the boers very well and very

skilfully smashed the british units, three years passed and britain regrouped, reformatted itself and began to achieve success. i think that putin will need not a couple of weeks to do something serious, but more than a year. because he will have to reformat the factories so that they produce what they need, as well as find many more people and make certain political decisions about it, which will definitely not excite the russians. question: is ukraine preparing for a protracted war, in particular, in the search for those who will be able to fight for a long time , what kind of training do they need, it is not only about the basic training of infantrymen, but all other technical specialists and adjusters of engineers in the

event of a protracted war, there will be many more people who will need to be trained especially there will be a lack of officers as many of them have been killed or wounded now the system needs to increase the number of officers as an option by promoting non-commissioned officers to the rank of officer and not only by traditionally studying new ones, so that this does not happen, a system must be built that will resist everything that russia can do. we cannot wait for it to renew itself and take action. we must be one step ahead if we want to become better and win in the end. dear colonel, please clarify why the president of poland, anzhi and duda, who visited kyiv , and the prime minister of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, boris

johnson, who also came to congratulate the ukrainian people, happy independence day, our air defense has strengthened so much is it just brave people or putin would not dare to hit them with missiles, only to be honest, i think this is their character regardless of whether your air defense has improved or not they came in any in this case, boris is a person with character, such people are ready to take a risk and move to kyiv because they believe in what they are doing and in what ukrainians are doing, so such visits only confirm their faith, this is not some kind of political display, this is a demonstration of conviction that what is happening now something really important is happening for ukraine, for the west and for this world, that's why they don't want to stay away, well, with great regret, i have

to end our conversation. i am sincerely grateful, dear colonel gran, for this frank and honest analysis on the air of the espresso tv channel. glory to ukraine got save the queen and glory, thank you. and now on the air of the espresso tv channel, the iconic political scientist andriy piontkovsky , who is in washington, glory to ukraine, dear andrii andriyovich, i am glad to see you in the studio of the espresso tv channel. good day. glory to the heroes. by chance, i would like to congratulate you on the independence day of ukraine, which we celebrated with all our people just a few days ago, unfortunately, the war does not subside. although, on the other hand, putin never implemented his plan of missile armageddon, which we were warned about, it was supposed to happen on august 24

from on the other hand, the minister of defense of russia, the war criminal shoigu, gave a rather strange signal that they are going to somehow suspend their offensive actions because they want to demonstrate their lack of humanism and at the same time, putin signs an order to increase the population of the wehrmacht by 137,000 people. what do you think this means? god's simplified decision of the honest taste of the armed forces. he does not mean anything except his unwillingness to conduct a real general mobilization, which is required by military experts. i think someone said that he is afraid of social actions, and this is evidence that

uh- uh , it’s not like that, everything is good with national fertilizers, three military operations. will strike at the headquarters will destroy his political leadership of ukraine, we were witnesses after it, as if his independence, and with a crack, my view within the political struggle within the putin regime within the bunker between putin himself, who is desperately seeking a truce, the cessation of fire that is fixing him, the already exhausted capture of the ultra- fascist party well, by the looks of his ukrainian audience, he is well-known, er, watching god, i am a criminal shooter, which he often demonstrates, this is what the party stopped the offensive was such a sacral

murder committed by the russian special services, the supporters of the secret services, petty propagandists, eh, they gave daria duginy, and the funeral turned into such a rally with demands to destroy ukraine. to his soul, and he ended up influencing the wavering putin, and he will now have all kinds of programs, but very much except for the fascist idea that exists, that went around how to read khybelsov were ready to kill not one of his daughters, but six of his daughters. and putin is more interested in his ass, and he understands now that he still urgently needs to achieve a victory, that's why he didn't go to this

provocation. in the attack on the train, yes, but there is more. well, there is a large-scale crime and carpet bombing of kiev, eh, the liquidation of the military-political gang, ukraine , he needs ultra-fascists, they came, he wants to live, and this is putin’s desire to live on me it seems to expatriate the west and ukraine preparatory scenarios are leaving the political arena and there is a way to preserve life in russia. i can speak to him. he will believe them, uh, he lived. he can

take all his childish lovers there. i don’t know dear dear kovalchuk, or because you’re going to china, it’s not without a poor existence. well, in any case, these days, eh, these days that it is clear that there is a vulnerable place, he is afraid, he does not want the fate of gaddafi, he understands that this can also knock him in the ass, and it seems to me that with a successful conversation with chinese comrades who are also not interested in the further continuation of the war and therefore, for economic reasons, they arranged their test, what kind of war is putin they are leading the ancient maxim iva отзывы мудрые he must sit on the bank of the river and wait for the aga tube to float by you

ukraine and putin would win in front of them, try the corpse of the american aha sajjak, the corpse will clearly appear, the way is necessary to convince them, that's the way, others, andrey andriyovych. well, i would like to ask you something about history, calmly, with a bow, it's really, of course, such a difficult moment, we understand what we wanted from it. to create or try to create a figure, the chorus becomes a village, but if we wanted to directly influence either putin or the russian society, well, we could stop at some much more pumped-up figure, we understand yes, there was a whole regiment of propagandists, but they did not elect, in principle, a rather marginal person. and what happened here is very difficult to say. maybe it was the second signal. well, maybe it was an attempt on dugen. maybe it was a story that was really

dragged out, so to speak. morozova in order to make her a symbolic figure and really push her to some other war crimes against ukraine, although there were already so many of them committed that it is not enough to list them. well, first of all, when we are white any terrorist attack on the territory of modern russia must be remembered always that you are talking about russia, there were two people, putin and petroshev, who in 1999 blew up that in order to come to power, to pave the way, they blew up one by one sleeping women in the houses of dagestan blagodonsky in moscow until their they took the cut-in by the hand and became like comrades-in -arms because of it