nine million people ago, the russian federation strives to resolve the war according to the goals they set for themselves, they will increase the number of mobilized therefore, we should also expect such a situation and be ready to solve it on our terms, a prepared mobilization resource - these are those who can be mobilized already prepared a mobilization resource, those who were recently released, in addition, they took part in relevant training activities while in civilian life, a relevant military assembly some kind of training within the framework of their existing programs that operate on the territory of the russian federation, this partial mobilization, can it stop the ukrainian counteroffensive in those directions where it is happening now, everything depends on the

resources that will be planted by the enemy of the russian federation and, accordingly, the resources that will be supplied to us, to our western partners , our friends are, accordingly, in this struggle for resources, of course, western weapons, western aid, it is more recent, it is a high-precision weapon well, accordingly what is handed to us we very quickly master it and use it during hostilities, accordingly, if we receive the necessary amount of military equipment in time, then the advantage will really be on our side, the self-proclaimed president of belarus said the day before our meeting with you meeting, he stated that russia and belarus agreed on the deployment of a joint regional grouping of troops. do you understand

how this will differ from what we have on the territory of belarus? we must understand the following currently, approximately 1,000 members of the armed forces of the russian federation are on the territory of belarus. there are also six russian attack aircraft, four launchers of an operational-tactical missile complex from the dprk , and 12 e-e from the name and missile systems are arriving there. -400 e, respectively, on the territory of the republic of belarus, measures are being taken to prepare the airfield network, as well as infrastructure for the deployment on their base of the relevant troops and forces of the russian federation and increase in numbers an increase in the number of people in the armed forces of the russian federation on the territory of the republic of belarus, in addition to this, today it was announced on

the territory of the republic of belarus another check of the readiness of the armed forces of the republic of belarus for action, it was announced that there will be training exercises, exits to designated areas, that is, another demonstration their readiness and the artificial increase in the degree of tension, you are responsible precisely for the northern operational direction, and therefore i will ask you whether in your opinion this can be common regional grouping, or in general, an increase in the number of russian troops on the territory of belarus, in particular, probably due to these newly mobilized troops, to be used for the repeated attack of russia from belarus on ukraine. of course, this will all depend on the conditions of the situation that will develop in the future. the level of military threats is measured by the corresponding number of troops and their

combat potential. forces of the russian federation and the joint armed forces of the russian republic of belarus will pose a threat to us again in the northern operational zone, in particular, to the city of kyiv, but the level of these military threats is constantly measured by the intelligence agencies of our partners in a timely manner, we are provided with the specified information and we , as professional military personnel, are also reacting to the increase in the level of this military threat. we are also taking measures to ensure that our troops are in the appropriate number and with the necessary weapons and military equipment with the necessary higher

combat potential of them. well, i understand from your public statements and interviews that before a possible re-offensive of russia from belarus to kyiv, we are ready for an offensive from the side as of now, the republic of belarus is ready, we must understand that those troops that are accumulating in the future on the territory of the republic of belarus will increase their degree of readiness and their degree of aggressiveness in relation to ukraine, accordingly, the military command will also give birth to our forces and means as of now the situation is completely under control and the ratio of the strength of the means of equalizing the force between the means that are currently in the territory of the republic of belarus allow me to affirmatively say that as of now we are fully ready, i am sure that in view of your

current direction of responsibility, you analyzed what was right and what was wrong at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, in particular, why did the russians manage to get so quickly from the belarusian-ukrainian border to the outskirts of kyiv in fact do you have an answer to this question how so it turned out that it happened very quickly, well, the war was started, the armed forces repelled armed aggression in the states in peacetime, after the declaration of martial law in ukraine, mobilization began, we must understand that most of the armed forces of ukraine were in the east and performed tasks in the of the joint forces that launched the operation in accordance with the law of ukraine, e-e, all threatening directions were covered by the armed forces in the peacetime states, e, accordingly, their

business became after the mobilization such that we was stopped, and later on in the direction of kyiv, in the direction of chernihiv sumy, it was repulsed and the enemy withdrew, that is, everything depends on the number of troops. when the war began, the armed forces of ukraine fought against the overwhelming forces of the dispersed enemy. from the side of belarus in those areas where they have not yet gone like this, zhytomyr, rivne, volyn oblast, do we understand what it might look like and are we preparing for it well, this is one of the tasks of the aggressor to interrupt the ways of supplying us with western weapons that we receive from our partners, and such issues were worked out long before the start

of large-scale aggression. accordingly, we understand how this works and, accordingly, we already have the measures that must be taken. what do you mean that it can be used for obstruction of supply sources, we understand that the strategic offensive operation of the enemy has several tasks that they had to perform at the beginning of the armed aggression, and the aggressor tried to quickly advance on in several directions with the aim of changing the government in ukraine and occupying a larger territory of the country. when the enemy realized that a quick military operation would not be successful, he then switched to a war of resource depletion, according to what he is doing now, that is, it is a longer war and here,

as i mentioned, very important resources that we will receive from our partners, respectively, they are supplied from the western border of ukraine, and therefore we take this very seriously. i wanted to ask. on february 24, i was at the point management, which was located in central ukraine a few days before the invasion, we gave the relevant order documents for the withdrawal of all military units to the areas of combat assignment in accordance with the plans that each commander in his direction adopted as a basis , accordingly, in my subordination was five land groups of

the naval group and part of the air force, some groups remained under the command of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, general zaluzhny, respectively, around 10 p.m. on the 23 on february 24, as a result of receiving one very reliable piece of information, i informed each of my subordinate commanders about the beginning of the invasion at 4:00 a.m. on february 24. after that, i and all the officials of my command post, no one slept , arrived at their workplaces and monitored the situation , what was happening. and with the beginning of the shelling, with the beginning of the attack on our units of the state border service of ukraine, at the beginning of shelling from the territory of belarus, such as from other directions

responded, carried out the control of repelling blows air attack means of the operative, as well as through the commanders of the groups, they carried out a repulse of the offensive on land, it was definitely not eh to look, we were constantly in this state from the beginning of february and were preparing for such actions, we clearly monitored the data that the country-partner provided to us from the intelligence of our intelligence agencies, therefore, arriving in such a state, you already get used to the fact that it must happen from a psychological point of view. orders were received that hours of reports were reported to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, such ordinary military work was going on, namely,

or did he surprise you, because the highest political leadership of ukraine said, at least at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, that they were oriented towards the fact that such an invasion could still come from the east of ukraine several options were considered, we military people must be ready for the worst option, that is, an attack from all those directions along which a corresponding large-scale invasion took place, in general, within several years in the course of the exercises, we practiced offensives from all these directions, which is how the invasion took place, and always practice the issues that need to be worked out in order to repel the offensive and subsequently restore the lost position, that is, we were not surprised, because we took into account different things, it was

just such a situation good combat work, in particular, among those aa training exercises, the scenarios that you considered and the offensive from crimea, you were one of those representatives of the higher military command of ukraine who during e i think the last year, at least before the full-scale invasion, they communicated this topic of the readiness of the ukrainian troops in the south, and for the south they were responsible. as i understand it, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, what went wrong, this quick capture of kherson seems to me to be one of those, well, one of the most painful moments of the beginning of a full-scale invasion of of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine - this is a military organization that was created according to the relevant reform and is intended to manage the troops of the united states of america in accordance with the time that the united states of america was created in 2019

our command a-a we e-e had no subordinate groups, the first grouping was given to groups in the south and in the future it was planned after amendments to the law of ukraine e-e transfer of the grouping of the combined forces in the east of our state to the territory of donetsk and luhansk regions, respectively as for the group on the territory of the kherson part of the zaporizhia region, it performed a stabilization action in accordance with the level of threats that rose or decreased, this group was saturated with troops, in particular in 2021 in 2008, as a result of conducting exercises, including the fact that there were troops in the occupied territory of crimea, and this group also received additional forces that

were stationed in the relevant areas, it all depends on the number of troops and the level of relevant threats before a full-scale invasion. the armed forces of ukraine handed over a set of troops that operated in one or another direction, this set was in the quotes of peacetime, and accordingly, as i mentioned earlier , most of it was in the territory of donetsk and luhansk regions, so, accordingly, go to in the main directions of the enemy's actions, and a military unit was deployed. that is, there were not enough ukrainian troops in the south when the russians entered the crimea as many as there were in the armed forces of ukraine, and we can compare such actions. and you have already compared the actions in the kherson

direction in the same way as well as in the kyiv direction, as well as in the chernihiv and sumy directions , it should be noted that the armed forces of ukraine and those commanders who led the relevant groups there were experienced generals, including those in the kherson direction exercised direct control over those military units and which were under their command, we waged an armed struggle against the prevailing forces of the enemy, in particular, you know that massive rockets were immediately launched , aerial strikes on the territory of ukraine, on airfields , on other military objects, and by the way, when in the future communicated with the captured airmen and asked them questions, they could not understand, er, the

russian captured airmen, why they did not complete the task, they each had a corresponding goal with with the corresponding coordinates and after sending the rockets of the birds of the bombing strikes, they returned to their airfields, reported to the leadership that all the targets were destroyed in the future, in particular, in one of the directions when the enemy aircraft flew into the territory of ukraine. they took it, we destroyed them all, therefore, in such conditions, in the conditions of massive missiles, air strikes, in the conditions of the e-e rapid advance of enemy forces, their number of these forces, their e-e combat potential of the armed forces of ukraine and have been fighting since the morning of february 24, so we can see that the enemy in the first stages of his

offensive operation quickly advanced in the direction of kyiv and in the direction of sumy and in the direction of chernihiv in particular and in the direction of kherson, the armed forces of ukraine in those conditions carried out there are different versions of the task of heroic defense of the ukrainian land. i am sure that you have seen comments about the fact that maybe it was treason on the part of the local authorities, maybe it was negligence on the part of the local authorities or of the military command that there are rumors that chongar was demined, bridges were demined before the invasion, what would you answer to people who for seven months have been constantly appealing for such

information in the territory of the kherson region ? from 2000 there, in the 16th year, in the future , the troops that carried out the tasks, i emphasize c- stabilization actions, they saved , changed and constantly supported those systems that were originally laid in proper condition for this time, when this direction was under supervision in 2019-2020. only the replacement of heaters was carried out at these mines, because we already have certain weather conditions and, according to the time, they failed. the number of mine barriers was laid in 2016. it was slightly increased and not decreased in any way. accordingly

, the lines were checked along which the detonation of balls by other objects was carried out in relation to the directly indicated in the fall of 2021 . also in in 2022, a day before the invasion, somewhere on february 22, a command was given to the units that performed the tasks there through their commander to bring all these objects to the destruction of the number one readiness in the future, it was given by the unit that was responsible for the direct implementation there there was one battalion directly on the necks of the neck, the commander

of this battalion was in charge of managing and undermining these objects, respectively, as we saw at the beginning of the aggression, he was awarded the title of hero of ukraine to one serviceman from this battalion, who supported one of the artists in the genichesky direction at the cost of his own life, how the fighting took place there and in what way who acted on it can be answered by the commanders who directly performed these tasks there, but the main thing is that the number of mine barriers did not decrease everything was in working condition and, accordingly, the orders of the general and the officer who were there in this direction were given in a timely manner. and

one more direction for which you were responsible already after of the south, this is the east, if i'm not mistaken, until june you were responsible for it being a very difficult period, we remember that there were a lot of losses, there was a day at the end of may when the president of ukraine zelensky announced here, i'll quote, we lose 60 per day 100 soldiers were killed and about 500 people were wounded in the battles in the east of ukraine, and we know that fortunately this number is already much smaller than what caused such large losses then, in the first place, such losses were caused by artillery fire enemy, we know that we are going to conduct hostilities, and the number of soviet-style ammunition decreased in the future , thanks to the work of the government of ukraine, the states in general found these ammunition in third countries, and

their supply was restored in the future thanks to our partners, the amount of foreign military equipment and ammunition was further increased, and their quality was significantly increased, accordingly , in order to prohibit the operation of enemy artillery, our artillery is necessary such a set of ammunition missiles or such a number of accurate ammunition that will definitely stop the enemy's artillery fire, and therefore the russian artillery had a significant advantage in relation to our artillery, respectively, at that time they won in the future after the saturation of our troops with artillery from partner countries, respectively, and the number of ammunition missiles it

changed the situation significantly, or now the ukrainian troops are armed in order to win and not only to deter the russian offensive. i already said that the war was started with a preponderance over the enemy forces in the course of hostilities in the first months of the armed forces of ukraine suffered losses and armaments of military equipment and spent the corresponding missiles and ammunition, the state carried out an appropriate set of measures and the supply of the corresponding missiles and ammunition was organized and we were to stop the enemy the enemy was stopped in some directions he freed the territory occupied before this, and in other directions the struggle to reduce its combat potential continued, in order to advance, it is necessary to

reduce the combat potential of the enemy, it is necessary to to stop and by applying complex fire damage to make it less strong so that our strength was greater than his strength this approach in military affairs in the future when we began to receive samples of military equipment from partner countries, respectively, ammunition for them we managed to break eh the course of hostilities in separate directions, at present, almost the entire territory of the kharkiv region is liberated, we have good gains in the course of counterinsurgency operations in the kherson region, but in order to break the entire e-e the course of the war requires more weapons, more ammunition, and it is desirable that these deliveries be

rhythmic precisely at the time when it is necessary, so we hope that our partners will also help there, in particular, i think you will not download that the appearance of the ukrainian troops of himers missile systems from the united states significantly influenced the course of hostilities in our favor, and after russia escalated, for example, with this partial mobilization, there were hopes that this might push the united states to give ukraine more missiles the range of the so-called atakams, but we see that they are not in a hurry yet, do you count on the fact that in the end they will be given? well, i hope so. to those countries that provide us with such assistance, those missiles

that were handed over to the heimers, they carried out as a demonstration, they noticed a very good job, many logistics centers were destroyed, many chains of supply to the armed forces of the russian federation, which are on our territory, were the bridges over which this supply was carried out have been destroyed, so er, i hope to calculate. we will see how it will be, whether these missiles have a longer range and belong to those weapons that, as you say, can significantly change the situation in our favor, not only in certain directions and in general , we understand all that and we have more effective everything that has a greater combat potential , it really brings the effect of reducing the combat

potential of the enemy, it makes the balance of forces in our favor and helps us approach faster victory in the end, in the western press, there were publications of the most recent. i think it appeared on the website of the cnn channel that the usa does not give these missiles longer-range attacks because they are afraid of escalation on the part of russia. weapons are not allowed because they are afraid of escalation on the part of russia, so that you can say as a ukrainian general to these people in the west who are afraid that by supporting ukraine in this way, they will push russia to more aggressive actions like ukrainian general, i will say one thing, everything you give , including attack missiles, will bring our victory closer and we will use it precisely to reduce the combat potential of the enemy. thank you, generals, for

this conversation. thank you, our weapons are the truth. the events of the russian-ukrainian war everything will be ok ukraine is in the center of events we continue our festive broadcast today and talk about different families and armies in honor of the intercession holiday another army family that stands in defense of our country is special operations forces, they are the youngest component of the armed forces, they take everyone there, who are those special operations fighters and what exactly do they do, our correspondent nazar onysko will tell us. for almost

a month they have been in a special camp where there is no contact with their relatives and they can move only by quick runs, each of the recruits during the selection can ring the bell at the parade ground means that the candidate has given up and does not want to continue his studies, the principle itself was such that this is indeed probably the most young troop of troops to which well there are very high requirements , high requirements, they concern, first of all , training, someone who was selected, that is, for a person who does not have a basic level of something yes, that is, probably well, it is unlikely that you will be able to take part in a combat position, a combat position , because the requirements are quite high. this is not only in physical training, but actually it's a mindset