the head of sports yevhen pastukhov is ready to talk about sports for two hours in the company of favorite presenters about culture during the war , lena is ready to talk or something else that many people have become like, maybe the weather will give us some optimism ms. natalka didenko is ready to tell us, and we will also have distinguished guests of the studio today, volodymyr hryshko , if everything goes well, the events of the day in two hours , vasyl's big broadcast, winter, a project for intelligent and caring people, in the evening, nayspresso. good evening. we are from ukraine. greetings, dear tv viewers are now on the air of the espresso tv channel, the program is a studio event, and the guests will be the retired british colonel, military expert glen grand and the famous political scientist who

is in washington andriy piontkovskyi. first of all, i congratulate the espresso tv channel on the ukrainian independence day, which passed a couple of days ago, but we understand that the holiday of ukrainian independence should to note every day what our military is doing on august 24, we all expected a massive missile attack yes but russia did not dare to do this and there is a feeling that it is possible that they are completing their strategic strategic forces before the offensive yes russian capabilities are really decreasing however not in all aspects the morale of the soldiers has declined about 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, because the projectile is not properly fixed in the barrel, so their technique in this regard is about to expire. if you look at it in a wider context, now is a very dangerous time for ukraine, because putin will consider absolutely all possibilities to preserve everything that he captured before ukraine begins to push him away, this means that he will appeal to the countries of the west and will resort to hybrid actions to convince the countries that support russia, in particular the very same germany, that now

a favorable time for a ceasefire is a powerful challenge for zelensky, because he must firmly say no to a ceasefire. moreover, the country will only accept such an answer before the signing of the ceasefire, many international representatives will encourage him, and i do not think that the society in ukraine is ready for any kind of peace agreement despite the fact that ukraine has taken a more advantageous military position, the international political position in the world is currently quite unclear. yes, the situation is extremely difficult , i agree with you on the other hand, we understand that putin is not even just moving to some hybrid forms, he is engaged in open nuclear blackmail, it is about the history of the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant from the other side, and it is not the first time that 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 will dare to commit a man-made disaster at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, 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 setting up against himself, all nato members, then 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 produced by the ussr and use it for the needs of russia, whether in crimea or elsewhere, because this has its own benefit from the fact that 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 deliberately strike far from the main power plant , this is quite enough for blackmail, but not for causing a disaster. i think that now we need to pray that the situation does not get worse and sooner or later the ukrainian troops will have to retake the zs 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 it is burning in the temporarily occupied territories, crimea , ukrainian crimea, on which the russians 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, caught fire he will survive humiliation in front of russia, but it 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, all attacks in the rear of the enemy are very important regardless of whether it is the merit of me or the action of the command or the result of a simple damage by ammunition, the attacks in crimea have a double cost because of their psychological value, in fact, pressure is exerted on other russians, not only the military, but also on 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 , at first such attacks could 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 they really need to get out, because if they don't do it, they will simply 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

how 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 a great the powerful soviet union its air defense system is worthless because one german plane landed in red square and we understand that this can actually cause a certain chain reaction now so because today the belbek is exploding tomorrow a similar scenario with the use of drones or some long-range artillery in deep in russia , there is a certain breakdown in the psychology of the russian military, it is about the fact that they no longer feel like winners if the military does not feel like a winner if the military man is not sure that he is able to win in this company, the military men, then

this is a sign of a certain psychological breakdown in the war, and the second psychological moment is that they really feel like invaders in a certain sense, i do not agree with you now, you know how i like to argue, let's not forget that the majority of russian soldiers are currently on the front lines and they know absolutely nothing about crimea, they are simply fighting without sleep or spirit, not knowing what is happening in crimea, no one is going to help them at all to inform, they say, let them fight there, in order to break the army as a whole, a part of the front line should be broken through, since it has the most important value in many ways, now we see that the ukrainian soldiers are actually pushing back the positions, so we must somehow dare to break

through, secondly, we should not focus only on therefore, how can we overcome russia, because the role of the measure is decisive, it is worth reviewing 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 your ambassadors and military attachés of ukraine have no equal, because they are the face of ukraine, they are the people with whom

journalists and other politicians communicate in order to move to the best scenario of introducing a struggle for ukraine in the west and to get proper support for further steps should be sent to the embassy only the best and this is also a separate painful story. on the other hand, we understand how wide and how long the front line is. yes, it is extremely large and now. in fact, it is 3/4 of the length of our border, it is the border with belarus, yes, because we have to defend the capital is the border with the russian federation yes and this border is the front line with the temporarily occupied part 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 you are going to defend yourself, you can not defend yourself everywhere, this is the truth of war, especially if we have such a long front line, at a certain stage you have to take risks , you are already taking risks in some places, but i am talking about trying to gather the best forces in one city in order to make a breakthrough, that is, there should be a priority, in particular, regarding the armor of equipment that comes from other countries. one or 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 a strategic

plan is a concentration 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, always just like that, never there was not and there will not be any neat and even 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 that forever, but for this you need to start moving forward guided by risks and concentration of forces as a basic military principle for a breakthrough, you should focus on one area. and just like that, everything is very simple, military forces, primarily military equipment, armored forces

, armored personnel carriers, etc. well, at the moment, we understand that there are clearly not enough of them, why on your opinion, dear mr. colonel, in the west , such a dosed supply continues in the future. what are the reasons for this? you already receive a lot of equipment, but it is a completely different matter. how do you use it ? with proper equipment, such moments form a system, the army is 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 another there so your duck is getting russian, but if you put 50 tanks in one city , 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 what are you going to do so that the west knows what fate awaits the aid he has given me? in the coming week and month it should be adjusted because a lot of the things you talk about take time you can't just

manufacture and transfer tanks to another country without proper pre-testing of the transfer service and training of the personnel on 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 a gun, it is impossible to simply store it without using it, it should be serviced and looked after, and this is not work 5 minutes, all these stages are time-consuming, in particular , the training of soldiers in great britain has 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

themselves - these are fragments puzzles that must be put together in order to get an overall picture for the number. now the army is facing a challenge. it has lost certain pieces of the puzzle that must be replaced with a new one. 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 in order to preserve civilian lives, we understand that this is a lie and pr, but rather it means that an internal managerial or some other crisis is brewing in them that they cannot carry out an offensive and accordingly they begin to appeal or refer more precisely to their humanism, which

in fact is the absence of the other side 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 we are our success at the moment they need to slow down to wait for new arrivals of new artillery installations ammunition etc. we continue to kill them so they must to replenish human resources, and it is not just for them now because, as i said at the beginning, they are looking for ways to stop the fire in order to strengthen and take a better position during this time, and we cannot do this to them to allow, well, accordingly, 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 company , maybe in a month, in two, in three, we are talking about massive missile attacks and, accordingly, the involvement of new additional forces, but now they have everything there is no such possibility to develop in one or another direction of the offensive, on the other hand , we understand that if they really prepare for a long war, history can be quite complicated. we remember how in 1899 the boers were very good and very skilful british units, three years have passed and britain regrouped and reformed 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 and also find

significantly more people and to make certain political decisions in this regard that will definitely not arouse the admiration of the russians, the question arises: 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 ? only about the basic training of infantrymen, but all other technical specialists in the correctional engineers, in the event of a protracted war, there will be many more people who will need to be trained, there will be a special lack of officers, since many of them have been killed or wounded. now, within the framework of the system, the number of officers must be increased, as an option, by the promotion of non-commissioned officers to officer rank, and not only by traditionally studying new ones, so that this does not happen, a system must be built that will

withstand everything that russia can resort to. we cannot wait for it to be updated and will take action. we must be one step ahead if we want to become better and ultimately win. dear colonel, i wanted to clarify why the president of poland, anzy and duda, who visited kyiv, and the prime minister of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, boris johnson , were so brave. also came to congratulate the ukrainian people on independence day, our air defense has strengthened so much is it just brave people or putin would not dare to hit them with missiles i think this is their character regardless of whether your air defense has improved or not, they came in any case, boris is a person with character, such people are ready to

take risks and come to kyiv because they believe in what they are doing and in what ukrainians are doing , so such visits only confirm their faith , it is not some kind of political display is a demonstration of the belief that what is happening now is really important for ukraine, for the west and for the whole world, that is why they do not want to stay away, well, unfortunately, i have to end our conversation, i am sincerely grateful to dear colonel gran for this frank and honest analysis on the air of the espresso tv channel glory to ukraine godsei the queen and glory thank you and now on the air of the espresso tv channel is the famous political scientist andriy piontkovsky who is in washington glory to ukraine dear andriy andriyovych i am glad

to see you in the studio of the espresso tv channel good for the heroes glory to the heroes i would like to congratulate you with 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 still did not implement his plan of missile armageddon, which he told us about warned that it was going to happen on august 24, on the other hand, the minister of defense of russia, the war criminal shoigu, gave quite a strange signal that they were going to somehow suspend their offensive actions due to the fact that they want to demonstrate their lack of humanity, and at the same time, putin signs the order about the increase in the population of the wehrmacht by 137,000 people, what do you

think this means? he is required by military experts. i think who has women's forces, then this is social reactions and this is evidence that uh, it's not like that. oh, it's good for the whole nation to heal this operation. as for him, it's a threat to me, it's a threat to me, and it's a threat to such an ultra-ultra -fascist party. moscow will also hit the headquarters of its non-political

leadership of ukraine. there was no fixing fire, the rapture of the ultra-fascist pepper was already extinguished. well, by the looks of his ukrainian audience, he is well - known. er, they gave daria duginy, and the funeral turned into such a rally with the demand that it would destroy ukraine. they were fanatics. they were happy. they told them that there was a fire in their daughter, and they were the end of the influence of putin, who is swaying, and he will be like that. there will be many programs, but only fascist

ideas that exist. he is more interested in his ass and he understands now that i urgently need to achieve a victory, that's why he did n't go to this provocation. on the train eh so where well there is more well there is a large-scale crime and a carpet would be kiev eh liquidation of the military-political cronyism of ukraine that the fascists demand from him they went cliché he wants to live and this is putin's desire to live it seems to me to expatriate the west and in ukraine, the preparatory

scenario is leaving the political arena, and it can be all about saving life . uh it's possible to take away all your children. lovers there, i don't know my beloved, dear kovalchuk, or because you're going to china, it's not without a poor existence, it's an imaginary place, he's afraid, he doesn't want the fate of gaddafi, he understands that this can knock him in the ass, and it seems to me that with a good conversation with

chinese comrades, who are also not interested in the further continuation of the war and for economic reasons, they arranged their own test of tovka and putin, the war is led by the ancient maxim iva votzhi mudaya must sit on the bank of the river and wait when the frigate will sail past you. they were waiting for some kind of passage. if the americans did not laugh, they would provide military aid to ukraine and putin would have won in front of them. try the corpse of the american aha now. the corpse of putin is clearly floating. i would like to ask you something about history with a calm daria dugina, it is really such an extremely difficult moment, we understand that they wanted to create or tried to create the figure of horstavel from it, but if we directly wanted to

influence either putin or the russian society well, we could stop at some much more pumped-up figures, we understand . yes, there is a whole regiment of propagandists, but no , in principle, they chose 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 it is possible that this story was really dragged out, so to speak, by some pavlik morozov, i don’t know , in order to make her a symbolic figure and really push her to commit some commercial war crimes against ukraine, even though they without that, so much has been committed that it is easy to list well, first of all, when we analyze any terrorist attack on the territory of modern russia, we must always remember that you are the head of russia, now there are two people , putin and petrovshi, who in 1999

blew up that in order to pave the way for pension quests i realized that they blew up one by one the houses of sleeping women of dagestani godunsky in moscow until they were finally grabbed by the hand, cut in and became like a company with employees on this. i am proud to announce that we have detained uh-uh, the stabbing of traders who were going to blow up another house. and the next day, he came out with an exciting smile and said that this was a study. duminu me, this is dogin, he had an influencer. here you said that they will influence hundreds of us or putin here, and the sort that is not second to none is that one group wanted to punish