glory is not to the heroes, i would like you to tell us about the situation in the kherson region in general, from what we can talk about right now, it is the military component, and then we will go further, please well, first of all, i am already in the kherson direction, and in the donetsk region. but of course, the situation there are monitors because, after all, i have been trying there for more than three months. i think that the situation there is more or less clear and the tactical situation is extremely unfavorable for the russians. forces when that the bag will be destroyed, they are trying with all their might to somehow correct the situation there, they are trying to build pontoon bridges, they want to waste time by talking about the fact that they are ready for a

ceasefire. i think that no one believes them anymore, so the situation there is clear. i think that this is one of the reasons why uh the russian leadership has announced mobilization, they understand very well that they are losing the south, that is, er, yes, i am talking about the donetsk direction . specifically about bahma, this is about the situation there that the enemy is trying to take it, and in general, the troops are asking for a little support of weapons with ammunition in order to more effectively and massively destroy these zk that are being thrown to the front and mobilized to the occupied territory, although again, many people there say and surrender and go to negotiations that we should be captured better than we will fight .

after all, capture the entire donetsk region from the kherson direction. donetsk differs quite significantly because the war has been going on here for many years and the enemy's position is quite significantly fortified, and if in the kherson steppes, the so-called " wheels" tried to gain a foothold and we had the opportunity to prevent them from doing this and we methodically simply knocked them out of those positions and quite successfully. as you can see, in the donetsk direction, the situation is now such a positional war, er, the enemy’s fortifications are powerful. they know the terrain very well, even their serious calibers the fortifications are not enough, they are not destroying enough, they feel confident that they have an advantage in air defense missiles, that is why we need to accumulate

forces for this, firstly, to prevent them from carrying out active offensive actions, and secondly, after all, keep in mind that we stand the task of deoccupation sooner or later we have to break their capabilities in order to break through their defenses and in this direction i also think that this was the reason why putin announced this mobilization, he understands that sooner or later in the donetsk direction as well the situation with his troops will become critical, uh, the situation is very dynamic, it literally changes. every day, it is difficult to predict, just methodically , every day you have to do your job, what the armed forces are doing. valery, you have been at the front for a long time. to ask an experienced soldier and officer, here are these

hastily mobilized russians who have no combat experience, even if they served somewhere there in peacetime, of course, this does not say anything, it is clear that they will not spend much the time for their training is now in the turks. by the way, in donetsk region, they made a training ground to prepare these zakats for the war, but again, these are several hours of accelerated courses in the current war, and understanding that many soldiers already have experience even in this war, a big one this new blood, this so-called russian one, will it have any effect, or will it be up to the level of the ukrainian army that is fighting today? well, no , they definitely won’t reach it, please. i wouldn’t belittle russia’s capabilities if they really manage to mobilize those tens of thousands of a prospects and hundreds of thousands, then even such a combat-capable army, the armed forces will face the problem of exhaustion because we are not iron-clad here, and therefore

of course we need more weapons here, there simply cannot be a lot of them, and uh, continue the mobilization , continue the training of new personnel. i know for sure that this is being done and is being done not only within the capabilities of ukraine, so i really hope so, i am almost sure that our military and political leadership understands the risks of this long-term confrontation with russia and downplay i urge everyone to downplay their capabilities you can't it's necessary to treat it seriously means if they will not be so prepared even if they will not be armed enough with uh modern weapons but sorry they have no problem with ammunition for soviet systems the same i accents and 2c3 and these are significant firepower, they can and do not cause a

lot of trouble. and journalists and diplomats of the whole society. and finally, i will ask. after all, the military-political leadership is already discussing the transition to the winter war . clothes there and some household essentials that would give you the opportunity to warm up, the tactics of this war are different for some reason, or in principle, nothing changes here in terms of tactics, please. i think that the intensity will drop at some level because it is winter the cold there or the rains and the mud will still have an effect, but i don’t think that it is significant for the accumulation

of modern firepower, and even more so for aviation for missiles, it is not, er, some er, essential er, well, a significant obstacle to note only that the armed forces are preparing for this in a planned way, and our unit, for example, received insulation and things at the end of august, that is, everything is fine with us; period uh, in general, weapons to us, thank you very much for comment take care. may god protect you, your brothers and sisters who are with you now defending ukraine. this was valery, a reserve officer of the armed forces of ukraine, who fought for a long time in the kherson region against the enemy. now he is holding the defense in the donetsk direction. called on the russians to resist the forced participation in the eu's war with ukraine well, i want to say that we

showed that there was no video somewhere, some kind of protests in russia are happening naturally for great russia, it should have been large-scale protests, large-scale such tectonic protests, that's what i said, and what's more, we perfectly understand that putin may not have soldiers for the war, he is recruiting enough people, but he has gathered riot police, riot guards, and everything else, and he has enough, plus some ukrainians fled there after yanukovych, who like to beat people with these sticks, that's why he has this and he has the money for it, that's why there are usually such isolated protests when 15 men drag one girl, uh, they are unfortunately without prospects serhiy sgorets, you join us the director of the defense express agency is the host of the military summaries of the day column serhii welcomes you to the floor, please, and today in the military summaries of the day we will of course talk again about this russian mobilization on the causes and consequences and about the new projects of the pentagon to support our armed forces

, more on that in a moment so in response to the successes of the ukrainian army at the front and criticism within russia caused by these defeats, putin announced a partial mobilization, the main aggressor of russia emphasized in his speech that it was necessary to help people from donbass to liberate these territories, but in the conditions when ukraine is constantly pumping up its weapons, its negotiations do not require certain solutions, which is why, he said, he accepted the proposal of the russian ministry of defense to make a decision on mobilization, while putin, of course, accused the west of nuclear blackmail and threats to use nuclear weapons against russia. that in response, under certain conditions, russia will use all means at its disposal, including its nuclear weapons, to protect its territorial integrity - this was, of course, said in the context of planning of these pseudo-referendums that the enemy wants to hold

in the occupied territories. so, in his speech with outright lies, everything was once again turned upside down in facts and arguments, just like in the speech of the minister of defense of the russian federation shoigu, who said that ukraine had already lost in the war with russia half of its army, and russia's losses in the war are only 5,937 soldiers and 90% of the wounded have already returned to the ranks. so, they lost 6,000 , and therefore it is necessary to urgently get another 300,000. this is the iron logic of the rashists. i will remind you that as of on september 21, according to the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, more than 55,000 russian soldiers were killed in ukraine and three times as many were wounded. in order to compensate for these colossal losses in the russian federation, different approaches

were used for this. there, prisoners were hired to fight, and there was also the idleness of the new unions and the third army corps, but all this was not enough to really compensate for these colossal and catastrophic losses that are in the russian federation already in the wedding and in technology. by the way, regarding putin's decision, there were a number of comments from countries that help ukraine in the war with the aggressor, in particular, ben wallace, the british minister of defense said that no threats and propaganda will be able to hide that the fact that ukraine will already win the war, the international community will unite, and russia will become an exile, declared voles in the german government. this is an obvious sign that ukraine is very effective in defending its territorial integrity and sovereignty, and not

least because of large-scale and serious support from many countries of the world, and the united states made a number of statements, but i single out only the statement of the coordinator of the national security council and of strategic communication of the united states, john kirby - he is a former general who very carefully by the way knows all the dynamics of the situation at the front and he said that this is an indisputable sign that putin is facing difficulties and we know that he suffered tens of thousands of casualties, he kirby says that the russians have terrible fighting spirit, they have no cohesion on the battlefield, and the problems of command are still not solved in the russian army, there are many deserters, and the russian government forces the wounded to return to the battle. so, at the same time, measles would say that putin's decision to mobilize 300,000 russians is actually a lot because this is almost twice as many as participated in the invasion of ukraine in february of this year.

so what do we have to consider when we analyze this e-e decree of putin on partial mobilization, which facts should be taken first, what are the consequences of this may we be in touch with leonid polyakov , adviser to the director of the national institute of strategic studies and also ex-deputy minister of defense of ukraine, mr. leonid, i congratulate you. good evening, mr. serhiy. good evening to you. in your opinion, what exactly pushed putin to such a decision regarding announcement of partial mobilization although , in my opinion, partial mobilization does not happen at all, what were the prerequisites and what consequences will it have from the point of view of the directly political regime of putin, of course. this is not some single factor it took place. yes, the circumstances are several factors . maybe not even a few are very many, but

i would start with the fact that, well, mobilization in itself means filling some space with personnel, this project was formed as a result of the fact that the hidden mobilization, which was carried out in various ways before that, had already stopped giving an influx of people reserves and it was necessary to think about something further, but this is definitely not the only reason, but there is definitely a political factor here, first of all, an internal political one, but not only an informational one component so i would even say some kind of psychologist-psychiatric component, because for example i listened carefully to this speech, well, it is, so to speak, another example of hypocritical perversion, as they say. this is what the

russians are accused of. there was so much talk about ukraine as a state, and about some kind of collective event , and there were more threats about this event, so it is definitely necessary to consider several sides here. if we talk about the first unconditional component mobilization, then we must start with the fact that there are already many reports of contract workers for dismissal. formally, before this decree, the russian army was conscripted by contract. the conscripts were supposed not to take part in hostilities. and the contract workers now want to be fired en masse. but after this decree, no one will release them.

the term of the contract has just expired, how are they being mobilized and everything, and they will not go anywhere with regard to conscripts, now this idea or scenario regarding referendums is being promoted urgently it is needed for what, well, for the mobilization of supporters inside, of course, but at the same time, so that conscripts can be sent to the front freely and legitimately, because if the people this territory is declared the territory of russia, then they are conscripts of the law. you can send them into battle without even forcing them to sign a contract. well, and many other factors in we don't have much time, it's better to ask

questions , will we, or at all the army corps recruited 15,000 personnel for four months, de facto recruited 12 units, and 40% of the units are staffed. four months 15,000%, four months 15,000 now we are talking about 300,000 and then when the units can become generally combat-capable from the point of view of such a more or less optimal approach to their training well indeed those 200,000 who live in ukraine and also there, well, about 100,000 who are scattered in the ground forces. here is russia then according to the regulations, it took about six months. that is, to call them to mobilize is a certain process that takes weeks to assign to the

states to rally to prepare definitely it is necessary to conduct final training with them that the commission said that this battalion or brigade is ready for battle and only the staff, accordingly, also had to carry out training since 300,000 are probably talking about headquarters from the battalion there to the corps level, maybe even higher, and only after that they are ready for war according to the standards, but this is according to the standards now if mobilization is announced, but martial law is not imposed. well, a lawyer needs to understand this phenomenon, so er, i emphasize once again that we are

hardly talking about an additional 300,000. since the killed and wounded are destroyed every day by half a battalion, and that one is more at the front, in general, the russians. tic-toker no, uh, there are some other commands in each region to prepare a thousand men for a battalion of a tactical group, there were different ones for rent, or a decree to increase the armed forces by 137,000, do you remember the same one not so long ago, they don’t allow the inflow of reserves anymore, russia, the russian

armed forces, the aggressors are suffering more and more defeats, and they are faced with the choice of either announcing mobilization or withdrawing the troops because they will continue to suffer defeats. this is simply suicide, it is clear that they they couldn’t just leave it like that now. i would say that it would be er or worse or better all the more for whom if they announced er general mobilization in that case they would definitely not be limited by thousands of thermostats and could er it is theoretically possible to put a million more in order. another question is that the internal politics, well , from a different line. this obviously caused significant significant destabilization. this is clearly a panel. you are

talking about 1 million. of the third army corps now we are saying that these 300,000, who understand your logic, they will go only to strengthen existing regular units without forming new formations, er, they will go to strengthen regular units and in parallel , additional regular units will probably be formed weapons for weapons for formation new parts, how today the russians have the resources to provide such a number of personnel, not even with equipment, if we are talking about the fact that they are throwing personnel, because without body armor there in helmets there, manufactured in the 43rd year. so how does it correlate with the entire amount of cannon fodder that still needs to be provided with weapons? what are your estimates , not only with weapons, equipment, but also with

personnel, and now with winter clothes, not only summer clothes, as a little earlier, a lot what should be provided with transport and fuel and everything else , that is why the main factor here is a question of time, because theoretically, theoretically, if there was enough time, they could do all this, and if they had this mobilization base in proper condition, then they they have already announced a full mobilization in order to end this aggression as soon as possible. but their mobilization base is absolutely not ready. well, there are irons, tractors, cars, guns, they have ammunition. mobilize how we should treat

this decision as a systemic threat to ukraine or as such that we can actually balance it if they have 300,000 personnel there plus 170,000 russian troops on the territory of ukraine in there are 700,000 of us in the defense sector, even by quantitative indicators we can say that well, in principle, we can cope with this, or should quantitative indicators not be decisive in this situation? well, we should approach this cautiously, but a little skeptically. well, there are many factors. we are here with you called by other experts who say that there is a huge threat . so far there is no threat that the time will increase for us to appease the russian aggressor .

on the territory of ukraine, and the 300,000 that were announced , in my opinion, are not entirely correct, because a large part of those already in ukraine, they will be included in the number of mobilized, you understand, and now the contract workers voluntarily joined the service, their contract will expire, they will not be released, thousands of them will be transferred contractors will be transferred to the category of mobilized. well, then, in any case, we believe that the potential of the russian army will not change significantly in the near future, but until a certain period when they try to pump up their forces, we we will be ready much more powerfully and we will be able to cope with it. without particular problems if our three countries also take this factor seriously if they , just like before, are somewhat slow, especially in terms of anti-missile defense and anti-aircraft defense, of course we will deploy but will

suffer losses. that's it thank you for these comments. i would like to remind our viewers that leonid polyakov, the advisor to the director of the national institute for strategic studies , spoke about the fact that we need bigger weapons on the espresso channels indeed, this is one of the serious challenges that today really partially restrains the increase of our combat potential when we are talking primarily about armored vehicles and air defense and aviation. at the same time, a significant number of american-made weapons are already actively used on the battlefield and provide a significant advantage over the enemy but in addition to the fact that this weapon is actively used, it needs repair and maintenance, so now the united states and ukraine are implementing completely new formats cooperation, so that these weapons were really combat-capable

for a long time, the pentagon deployed a new unit in poland, which can be called a center for rapid remote assistance for the maintenance and repair of weapons and military equipment that the united states has already transferred to ukraine. there is hardly any historical example of such a unit, because most likely this first experience such in modern military history how it works in this unit there are 40 american soldiers who help our soldiers remotely maintain and repair m-3 howitzers javelin timersi and other weapons for interaction they use secure digital chats. where does such direct communication between ukrainian and american specialists take place, in total there are 14 such chats for each separate type of weapons and equipment, also the american military helps ensure the supply of spare parts for weapons because

our armed forces do not have direct contacts with arms manufacturers in the united states, while it is interesting that when it comes to guns and er, some requests of the ukrainian military are put as even american specialists who have used this weapon for years are in a stupor, but in one american publication where this information actually appeared for the first time, it was written about the reaction of the american military. are used by the armed forces of ukraine, when the weapon is used at such a pace, they understand that it was not even checked during its creation , that is what the american military says, that is, in fact it is about the fact that the hostilities in ukraine set a completely new standard for the samples of its weapons that had already been created before this period of the war with the

russian federation. in fact, these standards should be taken into account in the subsequent samples of weapons that will be supplied to the ukrainian army and to other countries, but there is one more interesting the moment when there are no spare parts that wear out, and actually the americans say that the ukrainians demonstrate well, non-standard approaches are created at the expense of 3d-modeling, uh, those spare parts that are then already in is manufactured and used in ukraine itself so that these guns work again and destroy the enemy. these are the interesting things you learn when you see what non-standard approaches to interaction between the ukrainian and american military can be in order to quickly defeat the aggressor . these are the main points that can be made in the military results of the day and more and more economic news from my colleagues on the espresso channel , stay with us on the channel thank you very much to serhiy

zgurtsov, director of the defense express agency, to robert, the host of the military summaries of the day, he spoke just right about the mobilization, we listened to a guest who said that you should be careful about it, but understand that it can also be something like that, well, not like that. it can be as serious as it is. it will be like the worst thing in russia, by the way, the military commissars. they started to show creativity, so russian boys, their mothers, wives, grandmothers, fathers, they start looking for things on the internet. there are two two topics, this is how to cancel the mobilization, and the second topic - this is where they issue summons, which means

that they are looking for it. i think that they are already clearly organizing where there will be an online map, where they will issue summons, they will move with their moscow pen and and and and something else. it means so as not to get caught, now we will see the protest in moscow, it is going on, by the way, and we will watch it, and i will tell you about the military commissars and military commissars, they themselves, uh, so they offer to cut off the army, they are called by those who do not want to join the army and immediately fall on in the markets, they catch those who do not want to go to war. well, we see this about the protest. the protest continues in moscow and st. petersburg, because in moscow and st. petersburg they finally started mobilizing, and it is not so hidden that they are already openly handing out summonses. it is possible. well, how about restaurants, fitness centers, places where people gather, where young people gather? of course, they come there and offer people instead of eating in a restaurant a delicious

place. change only and here this this begins we