so powerful that the russian front was sprinkled with that success, you owe it to the fact that from april 3rd of this year you conducted a defense operation in the area of ​​the donbas arc in the donbass and in the battle you conducted, you led the army very well . you defended yourself very well, you bled the russian army, the russians lost their best troops there breaking your teeth in your defense in donbas, you inflicted incredible losses on the russians in donbas, the russians lost all their potential and thanks to this defense, which exhausted the russians, you will be able to win the following i repeat the battles, the first biggest battle, your biggest success is your defense in donbas, the commander who successfully led the defense for four months is your hero for me. and all other operations now are the result of the fact that the

russian army in donbas has been exhausted and it no longer has the strength to defend itself or fighting absolutely every enterprise in the kharkiv direction is the result of two factors, the first is that the russians were defeated in the donbas, and the second is that your president and politicians misled the russians about the intentions of conducting the main operation of the main strike president zelenskyi and your commanders said that you intend to do this in the south in the direction of kherson, there were also operations to confuse, many means were used. in fact, under this cover, you gathered troops in the north, east of kharkiv, south of chuguyev , and hit the russian defenses, which were not ready and consisted of a weak army. although not the best troops, according to your wishes, went to the south of ukraine in the direction of kherson, because it was you who confused the russians about your intentions, from there this success on

in the kharkiv direction and it seems that this is a lightning battle in which you defeated all the russian forces that were east of the siverskyi donetsk river and north of the raisin. now they are still trying to dig in and defend themselves. but in my opinion, this strike of yours from the south along the eastern bank of the oskil river will destroy the russian defense and the russians will go north to the border because there are no more reserves that could secure those positions and they don't have reserves that could delay your offensive. i don't know what the intentions of the ukrainian commanders are. do they want to continue fighting russians in the kharkiv region but it seems that it should be finished, mr. generals we do not like the russians, we even coldly hate them but we never thought that their commanders were so stupid or incompetent in the group how could this happen that

they made such big mistakes shows that the russian commanders are weak commanders, i don’t know them particularly well, but they are definitely weak or poorly prepared because they let themselves be deceived about the course of that main operation, they were convinced that it would be in the south, they transferred it there troops and you struck in the north, a school riot is doing what is a school mistake of the russians, it looks like they are not in a position to predict the course of the operation, and now this is one very important thing, the advantage you have. this is your intelligence, which in detail monitors the movement of russian troops, in turn, the russians they cannot scout the maneuvers of your troops. so you have an advantage in intelligence over them, and an advantage in intelligence is an informational advantage. and when you have this advantage, you know where to strike and when to strike, at

least pochvenkovych, i wanted to thank her poland, which found the opportunity to give us the so -called crabs, because we are still waiting for leopards from germany, which is a rather strange situation, the western aid is about those countries that promise to help us, for example, spain, germany, but today we do not see those tanks, what do you think is happening they are afraid of the russians. is it possible that they believe that ukraine should not defeat the russians? because russia can use nuclear weapons. how do such negotiations generally look like? there were leopard tanks. the germans no longer have them. what can they give you because they they don't have leopards anymore, and what they have, what they give to the czechs, is scrap, it's better not to take it, as a tankist

who knows those tanks, i don't advise you to do this, it's better that the americans gave you their abrams or poland their leopards but that's a matter for politicians, but if we talk about western countries that should help you, that declare help but in fact do not help, it seems that the policy of berlin, paris, madrid is a policy that is based on expectations of putin, mr. editors, there are actions that contribute to the prolongation of the war, in my opinion, they are conducting such politics that should serve to prolong the war is not clear to me, because because of them the war will be longer, if they do not allocate help for you, then they are sabotaging it, that is, they are helping putin, what is the need of this moment, it only plays for one thing, to hold out through autumn and winter until spring, if there is another scenario then

you will break it up and throw it out of ukraine by the end of october. it will certainly happen, but there cannot be a paris, berlin and madrid games for putin, because this number will cause the war to drag on and cause more victims in ukraine in this war. and this cannot be allowed it is possible to use nuclear weapons, mr. editor. i believe that putin will not use nuclear weapons. of course there are idiots, but not so much that they want to use nuclear weapons. firstly, secondly, they must take into account what the americans clearly say. who knows if they would use nuclear weapons ? would you not receive an answer in which case now we have a conventional war and you very accurately named the critical date for the russian army against it is not known what will happen with the aid what will happen with the tanks and so on but we are entering or have already entered more precisely, in the autumn campaign, and we are waiting for a

winter company. in general, the russians are not ready for winter at all, in my opinion, precisely because they have heavy troops. for me, they have tank and mechanized troops, therefore, in the fall and winter, they have limited opportunities to launch hostilities, meanwhile, ukraine has you have an advantage over them, because despite the tank and mechanized troops, you have light formations with light combat equipment that can conduct activities in any weather conditions, so i believe that you will have an advantage because you will be able to introduce hostilities all the time thanks to the potential of light troops, a lot of light infantry, the national guard has much more opportunities than the russians, because they will dig in, in my opinion, the russians have already switched to defense on the entire front and

will try to hold that front at any cost so as not to be thrown behind the borders of the border to your country, on the other hand, you have different opportunities, you have light troops, and you have a lot of them, so you will be able to carry out unexpected attacks, beat the russians, they are always afraid of the russians, that is, they are afraid of the russian military some kind of powerful offensive in the south, or are they afraid that part of their soldiers will fall into some kind of trap, or are they afraid of missile strikes on their bases, for example, in crimea, above all, they are afraid of putin, because putin cuts off heads, freezes and throws them out, who do they fear the most, but it is obvious that they are also afraid of the ukrainian army because it is not in a position to predict that it can make unexpected attacks, strikes, etc. in my opinion, after

the results in the kharkiv region, the next one should be the battle for kherson, of course, in that direction the crossing of the russian troops across the dnieper should be destroyed and those 20,000 who are still there should be captured because they are hungry troops without ammunition, they have nothing anymore, will they eat grass in the steppes because they have not had provisions for a long time, so this army must be taken hungry, then it will surrender all the more so because the thai army is very demoralized and the russians want to hold the dnieper line at any cost. so that the ukrainians do not cross the dnieper in the direction of kherson. russia's land connection with crimea. and this was actually one of the reasons for the so-called special operation. if you managed to do this this

year, then the only thing left for the russians would be to get out of this war and ask for peace. in my opinion, they won't win that war now. there is time for you to finish off the army in the kherson direction and of course to recapture the kharkiv region. and what is also very important in my opinion is to finally liquidate the so-called people's republics of luhansk and donetsk, it is necessary to recapture and drive out those various autonomous rebels who grew up there, there was no economic autonomy there, because these are your territories and you must have your regions under your control. russia will try to provide its troops on the right bank of the dnieper, and we understand that they will try to organize possible air bridges or there will be some other ways it is precisely because you rightly noted that a hungry russian soldier will

surrender that you very effectively destroy their pontoon crossings, they have no provision in they are running out of ammunition they are running out of fuel they are running out of fuel the hedgehog will not be able to do anything because those soldiers are already eating grass they will die of hunger there faster than russia will help them there will be no air bridge because some people think that under stalingrad the germans helped their army paulus in other words, you can do it even more. and everything that rises on the dnieper will immediately be shot down by ukrainian air defense. in this regard, there is no way to cross the russian army that is on the west bank of the dnieper. now the russians are talking about to maintain the defense on the east bank so that you don't cross the dnieper and hit the crimea, because that's what they fear the most, the russians are counting on, they

are withdrawing military equipment, tanks, armored cars , and so on in the south . this is your direction , then you should strike at mariupol from there. i believe that this is the closest direction to the sea of ​​azov, or are the russians able to gather such an advantage to strike at zaporozhye, as they do not have such opportunities for me because that area of ​​the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions is occupied, but the russians do not have many troops there, and that army is very worried because they can not give him help because there is no one. putin wants to last the winter because he wants me to be elected . you know that he has increased his staff army for 137 thousand, this is in order to recruit

new recruits from october, but it has a serious administrative problem, the russian administration was not ready for war, they are not ready, they have no supplies, people are avoiding the army and military service the russian administration is also running away from it. they will not master the situation because they are not in a position to cover everything. because they are not ready, putin ordered to transfer the economy from a peaceful state to a military one; planned from october, but from october, since the economy is not ready for the transition to a military one, he does not militarize his factories because they do not have people to work in four shifts. produced or repaired his equipment, he hopes that

will survive the winter and will be able to do it in the spring, will have more strength than now so that when sitting at the negotiating table to have arguments for intimidation, in my opinion, now you have the advantage and you should dictate the terms, if now the germans, spaniards and french do not become a wall behind you as we stand, then putin if we succeed in building a united front politically and macron will speak as we speak, if you and scholz speak the same way, then it will be possible to defeat putin politically and force him to accept your conditions because he will no longer be able to set conditions, if you have understood well who putin cannot win a military victory under the current situation within the limits of a conventional war, so we see that now they are already starting to mobilize prisoners, why can we generally expect from the so-called russian

camp battalions, i think they are not too much they are prepared, this is cannon fodder, i explain differently, the russians have one problem, overcrowded camps and prisons because there are so many prisoners that they simply contain them for them, they don't have them, they send them to the front so that they die there and thus they decided the problem of prison camps, and they did not win the fight against you, the russian army is more or less exhausted, they do not have many human or technical resources, but maybe they are trying to reformat everything to the level of positional warfare, how difficult is it in general to break through their positional defense, they switched to defense on everything at the front they have no other way out, they have to defend instead you conduct your operations carefully prepare each operation you know where the russians have weak points in defense you know where and when strike also, in my opinion, the russians have no chance to defend themselves because they no longer have such an army that

could detain you, so you always strike in a way that is convenient for you, so as they did in the kharkiv direction, the key task is to eliminate the kherson bridgehead so that you can repulse kherson and eliminated them on the western bank of the dnieper. but russia can try to strike, for example , from the north through belarus, of course it is about kyiv, of course they will not take it again, but they can try to do something, but lukashenko will not do it nothing, because he is panickingly afraid of the revolution and your army, he is definitely not sleeping because you are near the border. congratulations, because he is afraid of you, do the russians have the potential to strike from the north, if they even had something, then it will be a short battle that will not change the situation in this war, then it will a short attack, if at all they succeed, they are unpredictable and everything is possible. if they wanted to do such a

short operation, they would be quickly defeated because you have the potential and they do not have it, i do not rule out that the russian army will try to do some battles but it won't give them much and it definitely won't change the course of the war, which they will lose and how do you generally evaluate the russian general staff, that is, the famous russian generals followed gerasimov and so on, why did it turn out that they live in a completely different reality probably no one understands what happened propaganda was completely different before the war, the americans also said that the russian army could reach warsaw, the exercises that were held in nato also showed that the tank army was striking through belarus and reaching warsaw, so it was in the training of our of the military, it turned out that that army was worthless because it was beaten and broken by you for a month and had to withdraw from the fighting, the doctrine may have been good,

but it was not implemented in the russian state system, where at every level everyone steals and deceives the soldier, that soldier is the last in the chain provision and food, the supply of all that soldier is not taken into account further, since under tsar nicholas he was cannon fodder, the army was robbed of rubber and a villa in france, his daughter has hiv in england, russian leaders have their shops in the west i apologize, where did they steal the money from the pension, did they buy hiv in france or spain, there are no such guys , everyone stole and the top management stole, who, in my opinion, are the authors of the decline of the russian army, because the thieves were the commanders, that is why the russian army is so robbed, mr. general. and how difficult would it be to take crimea, for example peninsula, how powerfully it was defended by the russians, and would it be possible to take it quite quickly, so on the market

here, i tell you, in order to occupy it now, there is no transition from kherson to the crimea quite narrow, if the russians wanted to defend crimea, they could do it for a long time on that narrow isthmus, the ukrainian army could conduct amphibious assault operations, did the amphibious assault succeed in defeating the army in crimea, while in my opinion, if you managed to recapture kharkiv , donetsk, zaporizhzhia, luhansk and kherson regions the russians would like peace talks. and then you must be clear, we will agree to peace. when you give us crimea, and then world opinion and they too, because i think that putin will lose power and moderates will enter the kremlin who wants peace, who has had enough of the war, will agree to return to the situation from 2014 , when crimea was ukrainian, because you will not

agree to anything else, they in the kremlin do not know about it, but taking into account the sacrifices you are making, now there is no other way out zelenskyi must keep face because he promised that crimea would be ukrainian in ukrainian how difficult it is to destroy the crimean bridge day is not an appeal for a strike for you too but i believe that the strike should wait why because it is a kind of flower in a buttonhole that you destroy it because there will be something that will drown putin completely that was putin's pride, that bridge he opened it, that was russia's pride, that's the kerch bridge, and you know when it's best to destroy that mine, wait for a happy moment so that you finish it off with the bridge, completely drown russia and the russian army the nail in the russian coffin. thank you very much, mr.

generals, for this excellent analysis for the espresso tv channel. for the espressova tv channel, i want to remind the viewers that general valdemar from shibchak worked for them on the live broadcast of the espresso tv channel. former commander of the ground forces of the republic of poland glory to the heroes well, dear viewers, the time of our program has run out, but stay with the espresso tv channel - my colleagues work for you non-stop, take care of yourself and those around you see you on the air, congratulations on the interview program on france 24 our today's guest is olga stefanishyna, deputy prime minister for european and euro-atlantic integration of ukraine in connection with the capital of ukraine, the city of kyiv, greetings

, friends, president zelensky says that from at the beginning of the month, six thousand square kilometers were recaptured by the armed forces of ukraine, especially successes are observed in the kharkiv region. so i have a simple but key question, are we now witnessing a turning point in this war, and this is not only a turning point of the full-scale war that began on february 24, it is a turning point in the war that has been going on since the spring of 2014 , the russian federation has been informed that there will be no concessions or negotiations of any format, because this country invaded our lands kills our citizens by nurturing neo-imperial ambitions, therefore we are sincerely grateful for the military assistance

we received, because it significantly strengthened our defense potential, while the russian economy continues to weaken. therefore, we have every chance to win back all the occupied territories in retaliation. russia says that it is not withdrawing, but regrouping its troops we have already seen strikes on energy infrastructure facilities in the kharkiv region , and yet some are particularly concerned about potential even more powerful strikes on the zaporizhia npp and even the use of tactical nuclear weapons, i can confirm that the russians now have the single worst enemy, and that is the ukrainians, because we have studied them like no one else, and when we are preparing for something , we are preparing for the worst development of events today, none of the threats of the russian

federation in any particular way surprised and if it surprised, then in a positive sense, of course. we were preparing for possible strikes by russia on critical infrastructure objects even before the beginning of the winter season, we were not caught off guard, but it is not surprising to the whole world that a terrorist country that cannot boast of certain military achievements continues to make the civilian population suffer. do you think that the end of russia in ukraine has now begun and that in fact not only government officials but also ordinary russian citizens are already beginning to realize it? it was clear that

the end russian neo-imperial plans began on february 24, and i am sure that in moscow there has now been a complete clarification on this matter, despite all the kremlin's ambitions, they have exhausted themselves in the plan resources, moreover, sanctions do not allow them to breathe freely, and no matter what gas manipulations they resort to, this only provokes even more serious sanctions , because russia has demonstrated to the entire civilized world that it is an unreliable partner, that it cannot guarantee the security of supplies and the security of people in europe and in the whole world, they are actually destroying themselves, and the ukrainian military is helping them in this. a few months ago, negotiations between the ukrainian and russian sides took place, which did not lead to anything, and

pushed the russians to look for new ways. holding the victory or not, there were indeed various official and unofficial appeals from russian officials and ukraine never rejected the option of holding negotiations, but considering the severity of the crimes committed by russia on our land and which are becoming more and more difficult with each subsequent month, it is clear that the impact of the negotiations will no longer be the same it could be in february, because it is especially important for us to take advantage of this moment and carry out the mass deoccupation of our country, and then, of course, we will be ready for negotiations that will not be based on russian ultimatums, but what will make it possible to end this war and prevent the recurrence of

something similar on our land when russia restores its resources? counteroffensives of the armed forces and only then it is correct to sit down at the negotiating table. we cannot only talk about negotiations as such, but also about the goals pursued by the russian federation, they strive divert our attention and suspend what was strategically planned during the month. and we are going to follow such a scenario, because ukraine now remains the only country that, despite what the russian federation wants, formulates rules on the international agenda, as well as in relation to the military situation in ukraine. we hope that with the

support of our partners, we will persevere and realize our strategic military and diplomatic intentions, and we will also be ready for negotiations when the right moment for ukraine comes. the return to the borders of 1991, this especially applies to the return of donbass and crimea. therefore, you will not stop militarily until you achieve this, and donbass and crimea have always been and are ukrainian, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, this issue has not been discussed at all because donbass are also occupied territories as kyiv, chernihiv and other regions used to be, so any specific actions in the military context should not be applied here, but for us it is really important

that the planning of military operations continues to be absolutely with the coordinated we have a permanent coordination process of providing military aid to ukraine, we have daily planning instead we have clear strategic plans for the next months that we must implement, after that we will look for an appropriate moment for any discussions with the russian side if at that stage they have there will be a need president zelensky called on the european union to impose new sanctions that will help ukraine in the fight in europe, are there still countries that oppose them? they talk about sanctions in kyiv and brussels, because

the goal of imposing the next sanctions packages is to preserve unity, the desire to preserve unity and the search for mutually acceptable sanctions packages do not always lead to the necessary and expected effect of such measures. we call on the european leaders to recognize the fact that gas and energy resources are the main indicator of the weakness of both russia and european countries, as well as the main tool of blackmail on the part of the russian federation from here the majority of military operations are financed in this should continue to remain tough and cover the most vulnerable sectors of the russian federation, in particular the gas sector, there cannot be any other development because russia has already suspended the supply of gas to european countries such