troublemakers who collect funds for the armed forces, that's exactly how he grew up, he grew up reading history, he loved history very much, ah, that is, he was a patriot , he liked it from childhood, and growing up, you just know, even with the right principles and understanding, that it can't be like that, that you you don't have the right to do that, what do we need to do to win back because i'm a man because i'm ukrainian so he left himself, he's from the crimea and that is, at the beginning of the war 8 years ago, he immediately left dala azov . that is, he's a young guy who burning with desire to win back one's own homeland, that is, this thirst for the freedom of one's nation, that is, it has always burned in him, that is, it is not just a desire, and i will go to fight, i will go to do it, no, he is right there for the home, for the people, for the children, for the future, so that it is

finally the hundred years war has already ended, and this whole story to me, from some young ordinary soldier, he grew up to a senior officer, ah , that is, he could already teach the younger ones to tell how he, by his own example, went this way from the bottom to the top, well, in all battles in all important cities there, and the main place of his work deployment during all these eight years was always mariupol. they always knew that it would happen because this thing stretched for 8 years. well, it stretched without an end and there was no end to it, and of course there had to be an end, the end had to be what he was very bloody , that is, well, in any other way, this story with donbass would not have ended with us, because russia always wanted more land, always, well, these are political issues. well, and what? well, of course, an 11th-grader who studies the history of ukraine will understand that they will not end the history of the military. all the more, they understood because they were there and in the whole zone and closer. and

they saw the mood of others, that is, they always happened in this tension. of course, they understood, analyzed and studied in six months. they knew exactly what was going to happen. when they did not know yet, but they knew what will happen and everything, that is, at the moment when it all started there, i remember in february she said that it would happen on the 21st or the 23rd, but there was already a clear confidence that it would happen, but it was only among those who knew you or in this, that is, that wife even some sisters there, they didn’t believe in my case, but they knew, they were preparing, they were studying all these years, of course, they were preparing for it, they understood what it would be. sometimes they would just put in 15 minutes a day. that is, constant battles, active constant battles, etc. there was

too much equipment in russia and she never let them rest, that is, one of them came, two more arrived and they constantly had work here, they changed there, then they separated one from the other, and even the ties between them were broken of at the very beginning of this as then it was difficult to find someone there from relatives when the guys who are there in kharkiv in kyiv, they can't contact their friends to find out where another friend is because he doesn't answer and so my friend's brother died, you only found out there after two weeks and said because there was no communication, how to even find out what happened to him, and then already through the drone they found how to look. well, this is how it happened, how hard it was for them and how long they fought for, well, every piece of that mariupol. that is, there it has been several days that he has not written there may be more, maybe less. i remember there was such a big break that he didn't write, and when he wrote , the whole house probably heard. i write to him that the whole

house heard. he says what. he says, i'll give you a present, you say as i thought. and we always had it until the end, he said that your gift would come to me in two weeks, just in time. it was my birthday, and i don't know how it already happened, but they were already in captivity then, but i received a gift from a note from him that uh when we meet i'll hug you tightly and kiss your cheek and this confidence when we meet when i'm around it's always what he wrote to me during those three months of hell well how can you not love there after that how can you not to believe in our guys well, it's simple, it 's just some incredible fantasy, but this fantasy is not evu, this is our ukraine, this is our ukrainians, this is my husband, it's just, well, it's very cool that we have such guys. on may 19, he wrote with difficulty

after that he no longer answered and everything about negotiations, what about what will happen? no one knew, they didn't tell anyone, if you consider all the posts of history like that, everything they wrote, you could understand that you are preparing for this, some of the leading people there, they wrote what to do there, some exhibitions and actions it's always difficult and even if it's something bad for you, it doesn't mean that it's bad for the military. that is, you could understand a little, but who thought about it, and it was a long process of negotiations just on one day, on the 19th, for him to write difficult and yet another the guy there is alvarez, he published a story because i'm destroying my phone, that i'll get out someday, but i'm at the end of it. i'll definitely not come back once in these two months, and even those guys who have already come out of captivity , eh, they don't know, they haven't heard, oh well they were all separated, they were separated,

well, after all, there were many people and they were specially separated in order to, er, have a kind of demolished character, that is, that you yourself are not around such a person. i think it is because they died there, and in russia what kind of people actions in general, when they have someone captive, they have already shot you now we will kill them, they beat us and the like, that is, this is a psychological pressure. they think that they can also be beaten somehow with this, but after all, the guys are really not the same guys, they are afraid of them, even somehow regarding the lists that you will see a complete list of all who is there, there is no such thing either. well, there is information from our side, but to be confirmed from that side. of course not. of course, the association of the family with the circumstances will of course be talked with. that is, when there is such an opportunity, of course they

will call there, er, they will schedule meetings there. something they are asking if it is possible, well, of course, regarding there any advice or something else? well, of course, the authorities will not consult with the family there, because it is, well, something different, but we are just waiting, because the authorities are doing it, and we are waiting for you to find out about this the first exchange and there it was said that there are, uh, people who are grown up and azovians, you were looking for a familiar face, of course there was a very strong hope, but it was a sober understanding that i am not a stupid girl who, well, they won't let him go. like those other commanders, well, they won't let them go, as it were it wasn't there. moreover, he is whole and uninjured, but just some kind of logical thinking always stops emotions, because we all know that the more we

expect, the more disappointments, and two years ago my brother died six months later my father died and two weeks later my uncle died, and that is, the situation was so unusual. that is, there were accidents, the coronavirus, and well, of course, it was hard for 22 years to lose all the men who are relatives, but he always supported me and it was with such a plan that i would think more. very much you calm down a lot and of course you understand something more then er, that is, with a clear head, it is when you reason, er, when you make some logical expositions, you come to the correct conclusions of actions, and in this he learned from me this faith that he will return and er. exactly that what is he like, what kind of love did he give me? i can feel him always nearby, you just know when you go on a relationship with a military man

. i understood that it will be difficult, it will be difficult in mariupol, that is, also this logical thinking that he taught me and told me about, he was preparing me for this, and of course he is sure that they will return, there is even a plan of action if well, if in which case, what will happen in which if we are going to do it, that is, there are plans, these are the plans, it is a constant consideration, and it gives this reassurance. what can we all do to help these guys? few people knew about the prisoners of war. go to the coffee shop and i'll ask. have you heard about the exchange of prisoners of war, if there was an exchange and when and show it, that is, i said about it and said that people have already stopped focusing on

what is happening on td they are there, that is, i understand or what i understand how that side relates, that is, it bathes in previous stories of some kind. i understand that it is very difficult, very scary, very painful. but everything can be passed, that is, there must be people who are not even close to it . they already forget. they think that there are arguments on instagram, it is no longer worth anything, but if one person posts and 10 of his followers and friends post there. yes, at 10:10, a thousand have already seen it, millions have seen it, and this is exactly what is needed, even those who collect donations for other guys here understanding that we still need to help other guys who continue to fight, but it's all under the slogan and because of people's occupations. they started there, well, how can i say it?

there are notifications on telegrams, they don’t read the news, they don’t know what’s going on, that is, even in kyiv now, walking among people, uh, i feel like it’s about marvel, because everyone is like that. well, it’s normal. they live, they get high there under curfew, a bunch of people when the guys are really dying now so that we can leave, but you need to understand that there is a war going on even in neighboring cities, cities are simply being destroyed, the same kharkiv here in kyiv, they don’t even know how kharkiv is being destroyed every day, but every day i am on the phone with my mother and i just think if it hadn't already flown into the house, well, it has already flown everywhere and it's very, very, very scary . but the situation also got out of control when rockets flew into the administration, we

were inside and the next day we went to the gunp building and two rockets flew there and that's when my sister collapsed on the stairs. i was in the basement. i got a master's degree, i was in the parliament, and that is exactly why i had to leave. you need to always know and not forget that there are such guys who are in captivity, who really kept hell for 86 days so that we could leave like that. so that our military moved somewhere there when i knew that he mariupoli, for example, just knowing what he can do, what kind of mind he has and what kind of person he is, i was calmer because i knew that he was in the right place. if you told me , would you refuse him to go somewhere? i support i support the fact that it is necessary to protect our country , our homes, she is already raising children, a new

generation. well, we are returning to the conversation - this is a long term on the espresso tv channel, an air alert for the largest part of the territory of our state and the north center, the western regions of our state in the rivne region are reporting explosions so far there is no more information, there are also many rocket launches from the territory of the republic of belarus, which today is unfriendly to us, they write that rockets are flying in the direction of lviv and kovel, so we remain exposed let's continue on shakhtar and i will include the conversations of serhii zgurtsiv. i am the director of the defense express agency, the host of the column for the military summary of the day. please congratulate serhii. i congratulate the viewers of the express channel today. can russia itself wage a war of attrition, more on that in a moment ukrainian naval forces

will finally receive new models of unmanned vehicles for missions in the black sea ministry the ministry of defense of britain officially announced that it is handing over to ukraine underwater drones for searching for mines, with which russia is trying to block the waters of the black sea. the training of operators from our military has already begun, and in general we are talking about six underwater vehicles, of which three will be transferred from the british navy and three more will be ordered from the manufacturer. the drone is called remus 100, it weighs 37 kg, it has fairly moderate dimensions of up to two meters, and it can dive to a depth of 100 m and search for mines using sonar for 10 hours at the same time. the drone is not designed to search for enemy submarines.

although i think next we need to think about how to really insert enemy submarines, which the aggressor uses, including to launch cruise missiles from the black sea area, and destroy these e-e in enemies a now about how many enemy forces are on the territory of our country, russia is planning to use the third army corps, primarily with the approval of the representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense vadim skibytskyi, if we talk about ground and air components in general, then the number of occupying troops on our land is 160,000 servicemen, this is without taking into account the rear guard, which also takes part in hostilities. and now these 160,000 are actually scattered within 110 battalion tactical groups where are these groups

located? i will provide some statistics so that you have an idea of ​​where the enemy is concentrating the main forces, primarily the grouping of forces in the kharkiv izyum zone, the grouping of troops operating in slavyansk in the direction of the west, there are about 20 battalion tactical groups, the largest number of enemy troops along the front line from seversk to maryanka, this is the zone that directly covers the line of the seversk-solidary bakhmut and the most difficult section in the donetsk direction, avdiyivka maryanka, so here in general in this e-e in the central part, there are about 60 battalions of tactical groups, that is, almost half of the russian troops. we are keeping under fire control the

enemy group on the right bank of the dnieper - this is about 15 more kilometers away, there is a group of troops in kherson or zaporizhzhia - this is 30 battalions of tactical groups. this is how the schedule of enemy forces in the occupied territory looks like, while we understand that these are not the patriotic ones groups that were at the very beginning and now it is important to understand whether the enemy even has the ability to launch a war of attrition, about which there is so much talk now, we have an expert on the line - this is anton mikhnenko, expert of the defense express agency on issues of defense and high technologies. anton, i congratulate you . greetings. good evening. literally the other day, an interesting study was published in the british center of russia - this is the koretsky institute for the study of defense and security problems, which published a publication entitled can

russia wage a long-term war, and there were assessments the political capabilities of the military and industrial, according to your estimates, how do you yourself assess the ability of russia to wage a long-term war, that is, precisely along these lines, the stability of the political elite the defense-industrial complex and the ability to generate military power to replace those units that are destroyed on the battlefield, in fact, forecasts would be, as they say, a thankless business, and i got acquainted with this study of russia, and it should be noted that it is quite a good study, meaningful, thorough, they tried, uh, as much as possible, uh -e accurately convey all these aspects in relation to political moments and material and technical moments and military servicemen. let me say that this is the third component that they mentioned there in some moments i agree with them, in some moments i don't quite er, in some i don't agree at all, if we

say so about the first point - it's a political aspect, they note in this study that it is autocratic society that is more resistant to conducting prolonged military operations yes, definitely. yes, but we have russia and the russian federation, an autocratic state, and it can really last for a long time. the political system itself can last for a long time . but still, we have to understand that there is a kremlin in moscow, each in this kremlin there are several towers . federations on the one hand are special services and the same foreign intelligence service on the other hand. but the fsc is the fsb, in the future it is the gur and the ministry of defense of the russian federation, that is, each of them also evaluates this or that situation in its own way, and as soon as there is some small how that

they say that the slack will be given somewhere, er, a big loss for er ukrainian within the framework of the ukrainian-russian war, so it should not be ruled out that some of the towers can organize one or another internal coup, and in general, we know that where the federation comes from, many internal peoples, that is why this moment happened on the one hand, yes, i agree that a theocratic society is more resistant to holding long-term he, and on the other hand, it is difficult to predict, but nevertheless, everything can be internal, and the tower coup in russia itself should not be ruled out, it can also be, and in such a situation, political stability breaks down , the next moment is about the defense-industrial complex here and yes and no, uh, russia, research of russia, they, again, they are not certain about how much they can withstand of the russian federation, the hostilities are long, they are noted, it depends on how long the hostilities will last in general, that is, how much

if the political gauntlet of the leadership of the russian federation decides to briefly conduct hostilities and force its army to go on the attack and win in the short term, they will not be able to provide this. the russian federation will not be able to provide this, and you will not be able to provide for the pc in this context . in this context, the defense industry can try to cope, but due to the fact that the first is import substitution, the second is an opportunity to buy something through third hands, including china, and here we can emphasize that it is precisely the chinese side and does not pay attention to the fact that even if china decides to help russia's defense industry, in principle, the industry can handle it, but at the moment, we

know that china is aloof from this position, it is trying to be neutral as much as possible, but there is something in it something, as they say, it happens in a completely different way, as you would like. the third point is personnel. and the third point is personnel. it is the fact that to what extent russia will be able to recruit reserves, that is, to strengthen its troops with its grouping by trained personnel, and here too there are a lot of contradictory things, russia, for example, says that it is necessary to understand what the potential is, what is the potential that russia can use, it is approximately 1.6 million people, it can be russia, it can be and reservists, these can be military personnel who graduate from educational institutions, these are military personnel who undergo training in such small educational institutions, who are ready sergeants , here again, even though the potential is great, but in reality we see what is happening and mistakes

and the russian leadership in relation to the staff and the leopards, in fact, they did not succeed in formulating as they would like, and the servicemen do not particularly want to go, even some have resigned from the army, er, to the army. why , first of all, because they really know what the russian army really is and she really understands how russia fights, that is, by throwing meat and nobody wants to be meat, so if you simply analyze all three points that russia singles out in the framework of its own research, then you can say yes and no. but in our case we have to look at this picture more comprehensively and from our side it is more profitable for us to supplant the russian federation as quickly as possible, we did not give the opportunity and resuscitation only in this case can be a victory because otherwise russia will try to increase its human staff

as much as possible in such a way that the defense industry begins to function already in wartime mode and adapts as much as possible in that some components they will be able to make to independently import something into the football of a third country, therefore, once again, forecasts are one thing, and reality is a completely different thing, and i will simply conclude at the moment that we know very well what gave ukraine literally three days, and in the end we are already standing six months ago, we will look further, he said about the fact that china directly can be such a donor of technology that does not want to play this role. what other countries can help the russian federation and how should washington act because of this, possibly by implementing sanctions spread and pressure so that such transfers of technology do not happen for the russian federation, the greatest opportunities are provided by the tick country to such countries that have received from the sanctions regime and are in a relatively neutral status eh.

at the same time, it should be noted that russia cannot always use exactly wet in these countries, the countries of latin america and some countries of the middle east and countries of asia, including that is, this region is quite large. but again, they can simply receive imports and civilian of technologies, for example, it is the same, the same moment , the radeon 1,000 video card used in missiles is a civilian payment, it can be purchased in principle on the market, and it can be purchased on the market in latin america and the middle east, and russia will try to those countries that have not yet joined the regime of international sanctions are looking for opportunities to import these technologies that are used in the creation of high-precision weapons and other types of weapons anton, thank you for this explanation to ours i will remind you that the final is on the air espresso or anton mikhnenko defense express experts on defense and technology issues thank you friends

of the management defect express this host of the column military results of the day eh talked about the situation at the front well now we will go to our usual studio the air alert in the lviv region has already ended, so we continue. literally in a few minutes, you will be with us. why did you decide to come here? if only that would be the best way to explain. i had a feeling that russia would 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 some extent on the battlefield. i understood that i was

ready to do everything in my power. it would be better if i was wounded or killed, but it would be the saved life of a ukrainian 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 here, i became part of a unit that i cannot name, later i was in the south-eastern region, in particular in the donbas, the unit i joined did not have proper order, it consisted exclusively of foreigners , mainly from western countries, who, unfortunately, had no ideals for which they would fought to defend 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 equipment front, it's quite normal, but something came across unusual, but in general, technique as technique this is so short about my story, as for me it is not like that, it is already interesting, i have been in the maces of the legion since april, 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 the

history, 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. what more will we 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, to say the least, 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, because somehow i don't just see two ways to win this war. the first is when russia simply will not last and there is every chance that even then they were not ready for such a war and both countries understand that, it takes a little more time for the russians themselves to understand what the 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. that it is worth waiting for one of the options proposed by me in my opinion