2,000, almost 2,600 readers voted for you, so we congratulate you and finally, the statuette has already arrived, a prize that we will definitely send you instead, the winner shared her impressions with us. thank you very much, such a pleasant surprise for me. i really unexpectedly want to thank all my readers who they voted for me, this is really a huge responsibility and a huge incentive to write more because when the war started, we all started procrastinating a little. i know my colleagues also complained that they were not writing at the time the award of the book award is already going to the publishing house of our format and to the author of the winning book, not the purple one, and the writer herself notes that she will continue to write for teenagers abroad, where she is now, because nowadays

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to understand september sports every friday at 21:30 on espresso greetings dear tv viewers now on the espresso tv channel, the studio program, the event will analyze the most important scenarios, of course we are talking about diplomatic military scenarios and, at the same time, scenarios of deterring russian nuclear and missile aggression, our guests will be lieutenant general ben hodge with the former commander of the united states ground forces on the european continent and mark fagin, an iconic video blogger a former member of the state duma, a member of the russian opposition, talked about complex scenarios of conventional and non-conventional deterrence of russian nuclear and missile aggression, we will talk with lieutenant general ven hodis, he is the former commander of the united states ground forces on the european continent. i congratulate you, mr. generals. glory to ukraine, we understand that russia has

switched to the tactics of massive missile strikes. in your opinion, what does this mean for the russian federation? military resources and, in general, how is it possible to stop the destruction of civilian objects in ukraine now, there are three things that must happen: first, joint condemnation of russia's actions by all the world leaders, every government, every head of government, every international organization must condemn the kremlin for those war crimes and make sure that the russians will know that they are being branded cannibals for their war crimes. this is firstly, secondly, of course, the usa and other countries are now looking for additional anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems which can provide ukraine as soon as possible and the third best way to stop these missile attacks is to defeat the russian troops and the sooner ukraine

can defeat the russian troops the better and of course, the support for this should continue, well, there is a good moment, we shot down half of the russian missiles, but at the same time, they still have an extremely high number of iranian-made drones, we are talking about drones, shahit suggests that iran is the only country, with the exception of belarus, that provides assistance to russia, the international community should exert more pressure to iran to stop the supply of such systems. i think that most of the drones that we have seen in the last few days were launched from an airfield in crimea, so what the sooner the ukrainian troops will be able to push the russians out of the crimea, the better, the russians will no longer have the opportunity to use the crimea as a launching pad , mr. generals.

i think the ukrainian general staff continues to do a good job without telling everything they do because there is no point in publicizing ukraine's capabilities. i think the generals and the government are doing the right thing by not talking about it, regardless of all of this shows how vulnerable the russian zone is, and of course they should have been worried about it, because when this bridge is damaged again or they are unable to adequately repair it and when the ukrainian troops return mariupol, the russians will no longer have a land corridor to their territory a their forces in kherson and crimea may be trapped and a potentially great victory for ukraine in that region in a few months will become possible thanks to the actual situation with this bridge, mr. general well, in any case, putin is now demonstrating that he is ready to go on the path of escalation. maybe he will go

to the so-called total war scenario. when they destroy all our civilian infrastructure in the coming months, at the same time, we understand that the west is also preparing to give an appropriate response in the event that putin applies the scenario of a tactical nuclear war, but we understand that there are no tactical nuclear warriors, putin will cross the red line because there is only one nuclear war, but in any case, there is a premonition that he may try to use tactical warheads first of all it is clear that the kremlin is aware that it is losing the war on the battlefield and the forces are not successful and they faced defeat on the battlefield not their scenario of using massive missile strikes is designed to break the will of the ukrainian people but this will never

happen to continue the conflict until the west this will also never happen, so another direction of the kremlin's efforts is to continue the typical russian tactics of killing innocent people, these missile attacks expose their efforts to to cause famine and death in ukraine, the cold, to depopulate ukrainian cities, in fact, it is not known how many more missiles the russians have due to sanctions. they have run out of parts for them in some positions , they have already run out. of course, this does not sound like a relief for the ukrainians, but i do not believe that these stocks can be exactly replenished, that is there is an end to all this and we must speed up this end regarding tactical nuclear weapons yes they have thousands of these missiles but still i think it is unlikely

that tactical nuclear weapons will be used because they are not gives them no advantage tactical nuclear weapons will not give them an advantage on the battlefield i think in addition to the face they know our president has made it clear that if they use tactical nuclear weapons it will be impossible for the us not to respond to it and not be involved because china is watching iran is watching north korea is watching, so the us will be forced to respond now, how it might look, no one knows whether it will be a nuclear response, it does not look like this, or whether it will be a non-nuclear response against russian targets in ukraine, or it may be a combination of conventional and unconventional steps so that this does not happen. it will be catastrophic and in addition,

people around putin know that if they have any hope for the future after this war, if they have any hope of returning to some type of normality, then they must stop putin from the use of nuclear weapons, the last thing i will say about you and your viewers know well, perhaps even better than i do, that there are serious problems inside the kremlin, ordinary people are also dissatisfied with putin's war, but i do not know what courses of action they see for these different groups are partially mobilizing - this is the first manifestation of what i see of these big differences of opinion in the kremlin about where they should go now. yes, mr. generals, i agree with you. president joseph biden made it extremely clear that if putin uses tactical nuclear weapons but on the other hand , we realize that putin is an atheist nihilist

and so will putin until he feels that something can be a real threat and a real threat to his power, then he does not believe in our common daniel fried, who is familiar to you, said that putin received signals from the united states, and this gives us some hope, on the other hand, we realize that he can use just powerful ballistic missiles without nuclear warheads, and can use the nearest airfields and the nearest bridgeheads against it, in particular and in belarus yes, i know very well pasladennielafrid as an experienced and intelligent graduate and someone who understands well the kremlin is very worried about belarus lukashenko is not the legitimate leader of belarus but he is the one who he is in power there and he is trying to find a balance between conditional independence and pressure from the kremlin

, his military is involved in ensuring he allows russia to use the bases and airspace of belarus to continue operations and attacks against ukraine, but so far he has not been directly involved, the ukrainian general staff knows all about it and pays a lot of attention to what is happening inside belarus. i understand that russia is trying to open a new front to defeat ukrainian troops after your success in donetsk and luhansk region but i think that lukashenko finally understands that if at least one of his ten btg tactical group battalions enters into battle against ukrainian forces, they will immediately be destroyed, his forces are even less trained than the russians, i think lukashenko knows this and he knows that if this is decided, it will create new preconditions for the belarusian opposition inside the country and outside its

borders for the uprising. for russian troops to operate inside belarus , they were so brave only two years ago, so i hope that they will be able to show this courage again, as women in iran or ukraine are now showing it, in order to put pressure on lukashenka and not allow russian troops to use belarus against ukraine, i would like to ask you to describe it now the potential course of the current autumn-winter campaign i am sure that the ukrainian general staff will continue to put pressure on the russian troops and will not give them the opportunity to get on their feet, regroup or it is very important to learn something, of course in winter it will be more difficult on the battlefield due to the weather, the conditions for the soldiers will be more difficult, but for the russian

occupiers in the defense, the conditions will be more difficult than for the attacking ukrainian forces . and the untrained will be forced to resist the strong attacks of the ukrainian army. my opinion is that the ukrainian troops will continue to press and will succeed in the future. but it will be a little slower and more difficult weather can cause complications for drones, for example but nevertheless, everyone will be under the same weather conditions, however, the ukrainian army will be more prepared and more effective on the eve of winter, mr. generals, how do you assess the situation in the south, will the russians have enough resources to hold on to the right bank of the dnieper by the new year, this is a good example of the professionalism of the ukrainian general staff, the methodicalness and patience

of butterflies there are large groups of russian troops on the right bank of the dnieper and so far there is no need for ukrainian troops to immediately break into kherson . in this way, it is possible to avoid the destruction by the russians of the city with thousands of innocent ukrainians. they still live there, so the general staff is working to create favorable conditions, and when these conditions arise, kherson should be surrounded and captured or killed those russian soldiers who do not have time vtective so i think this is a reasonable decision of the ukrainian general staff. i don't know how long it will take. i don't know the time frame, but i think we will see it in the next few weeks. well, russian mobilization means that the war will be long, this is how it is going, maybe not about the six-month scenario. maybe everything will last even longer if we evaluate the potential capabilities and resources of the russian federation, what

does a long war mean for them, and taking into account what we will get, what a long war will mean for ukraine and how much later can there be help from the united states and european countries ? russian mobilization manifested itself in two or three moments . forced to agree to mobilization and admit that he cannot control everything, this is important and i think this is exactly why the confrontation in the kremlin began. second , from the very beginning it was clear that the russians would not support this. a million russians conscripted left the country to avoid being mobilized. they do not want to fight for the russian army or against ukraine, so it is only increasing. also, we have all seen the video in which terrible

conditions these newly mobilized are in, with what provision this whole system is the result of long years of corruption and incompetence, but it happened and it is a crime that untrained soldiers will be sent to war. putin simply disposes of their lives, littering the battlefield with bodies to continue the war, of course it doesn't matter to him how many people can die there, but this is his method of continuing the war for so long as long as people simply lose the willpower to resist and are ready for negotiations on some of his positions , we are going to mold something there. of course, i believe that this will not happen and i know that my president does not have such desire and does not exert pressure on president zelenskyi regarding the negotiations, only ukrainians have the right to determine this and it is very important that we are all united on the way to the goal this winter will be the last

winter when russia can influence the economy of europe through gas, everyone is refusing russian gas and looking for alternative ways, so this will be the last time when they will actually be able to do something, so let 's keep this in mind and stand together for the sake of a successful ukraine that will appear next summer , dear mr. generals hodget, what is it the russian general suroviking, whom putin appointed to command the war against ukraine, hires a corrupt criminal and a murderer as the new commander, this was predicted to be better than before

they don't support him the way they did before, and the loss of trust between the general staff and putin is what can cause an explosion despite the fact that it doesn't matter who will become the new commander of the problem of the russian the troops are so deep, so systemic that the new commander is not able to correct the state of affairs in a few weeks or months, corruption, lack of coordination between the air force, the ground forces and the navy, they spent on the logistics system everything. this is such a horror that it does not matter who becomes the commander, he will not be able to overcome so what is the difference of my new commander he will continue one or another type of brutal tactics and the sooner they are defeated the better thank you very much dear generals for your frankness on the air i would like to remind our viewers of the espresso tv channel that general ben hodges, former commander of

the united states ground forces in the european union, worked for them on the air of the studio. thank you. i always enjoy watching your programs . the opposition in exile, a well-known video blogger congratulations to mark in the studio of the espresso tv channel glory to ukraine to the heroes glory to ukraine to all viewers of the channel well, we understand that joseph biden gave a lot clear signals to putin regarding tactical nuclear weapons putin sat down, but in his favorite traditions he did not stray from the topic and moved on to what to massive missile strikes on the civilian infrastructure of ukraine well, i still think it's the hopelessness of the situation because for him, it was extremely aggravated in

connection with the success of the kharkiv operation, which , and what about the apu, for him, the situation internally underlines internally russia is very strong it became difficult from the point of view of the person addressed to him of demands and to stop the situation at the front otdatka ot na zklanenie someone is to blame there already constantly in the public it is heard that this traitor is doing damage and at the same time we show at least some strength and weakness demonstrated by the russian army and putin himself step aside pretending to be silent a here is some kind of reaction, and at the moment when the story happened with the crimean persons, the explosion on the crimean bridge, he generally decided for himself that yes, that moment when he could demonstrate that degrees of scaling controlled i will feel the scales that can write the choice of an internal problem that is, yes, indeed, it was a dream for a while, it was not completely dreamed, the appeals to him

from the ultra-patriotic side call turbo patriot , they are not important, they did not name it, yes, in general, it is a fascist party the party still calls the war, but the essence does not change, yes, but they are now forced to say so, uh, you are the next one to putin, it’s not that he depends so much on them, he can shoot kontrazovych in one day, there you will entrust er, they are beautiful or coded and how to solve the problem, but he understands that the problem is deeper because several parties already exist within the apparatus of power. a judge and at the same time a political leader, and then and so on, this is an internal circuit , but if it’s an external one, because it’s actually a solution, oh, and the shelling is quite massive, there are 100 rockets, somewhere around 80% of the missiles, 20 drones, these iranians are living it

uh, including if uh, on september 30, when he fell asleep in the territory, he gave such an uh, i would say uh, aggressive speech, we want in it notes of something apologetic from the tone , something else, but in principle, when connecting territories - this is a separate act and escalation of continuations that must be carried out and military actions , respectively, here is a very, very characteristic point that you drew attention to, that is, when it comes to attempts to annex our territories, one rather well-informed guy hinted to me that putin is in a hurry somewhere was it was done hysterically, literally hysterically, that is, there was no talk of any procedures, i don’t know, that would hide even skabeev and who else, it was complete hysteria, it was on the knee, everything was written, it accurately reflects on that reason, the point is that i didn’t predict that he was in september so quickly it will be decided on september 21, it will announce

immobilization and, uh, solve the issue in a preliminary order , in a forced order. there were two speeches on the 21st and 30th, and between them there was a small propaganda rattle about what it means that the residents are joining, the essence of it was nothing , but why did he do it? how could this be a consequence of the sroakkan samitushovsk, where it was finally recorded that russia had lost its place in the eurasian space? from the side of turkey, from the country of the former satellites of central asia, he understood that the actual defeat already has its consequences this year . the seven-month war there is now seven and a half

years old. not to kazakhstan yes not to armenia in general ot части вместе well, why not eh tajikistan or kyrgyzstan kyrgyzstan yes because new interests will appear there new vectors of direction of interests in the direction of china in the direction of turkey and so on those who have lost their former exclusive position need to compensate with something, but i would say that the continuation of the war in the form of artillery shelling of everything else is also a way to show that our forces are not exhausted. we have reserves, we can do something, i will show in the most escalating manner that we are capable of changing the situation, and it is very important to fix this precisely now.

the course of hostilities is generally in the theater of military activities. i think that this is largely illusory, but nevertheless he decided to go , so he could react to the explosion on the crimean bridge further with a modest blow, yes and say we hit the infrastructure there, and it is critical in ukraine they killed several chps there, civilians were killed, well, that’s enough, but no, it ’s so fast. so that now we can sum up the results of the crimean bridge, in particular it is said well, we remember at one time there was such an operation of the fsb ryazan sakhar so when they decomposed hexane like that and then they said that it was certain exercises well, there were also houses on the kashirskyi highway and so on and so on and so on. as far as i understand, because he is now using the explosion on the crimean bridge for some kind of internal

mobilization, now it is not just belgorod and voronezh, get ready, we understand that it can be an extremely wide intra-russian yet in addition to the scenario that then, of course, everything goes to ukraine, well, ukraine, in general, has been written off for a long time , but here is the special feature, you really are the only one, it’s the story of what was dark, it turns out that you are really the motivation of the ukrainian special services, it’s in ukraine, it’s really going to hit the bridge, well, how it is natural that it is a modified one , and it represents a strategic interest in it, and these mobilized weapons are already being carried there, the equipment is being equipped, and so on, but of course it is military, even though putin declared it. he says

гражданное очень оце well, what about the гражданская if you are carrying new new ones on it, it means soldiers are mobilized, we will not see military equipment, ammunition, etc. odesa through armenia, as through armenia, some armenian business that was involved in this is also strange, so it’s like a truck drove onto a bridge. how could there be hundreds of kilograms of this explosive stuff? somehow, in sumy , it reminds me of such a sound. he was a double agent, and what is the place of the traffic police? yes, he was a whistleblower and signed a document , that is, with the fsb, at the same time he was with the separatists, a slavist, you know, one at a time, find where he was actually in the fsb or in uh, in connection with the uh, islamic underground in chechnya, take it apart one at a time to understand, and here you will start now

it will be found out, and this is who he was, and who was with her, and the one who transferred the cargo to him, and how is this all the rest, because we know about it only from fsb sources, but what normal person will believe in the fsb, this is the person who will believe that the fsb will tell the truth, that it is there will tell everything as if in fact no one will believe that's why in fact even if you imagine that this was a sabotage with the participation of the ukrainian special services, then of course putin will use his internal er policy to reveal er opportunities to reformat internally, by the way, the fsb is clearly saying that they will fly the head of the krasnodar fsb - if there is a gauntlet of operatives of the crimean fsb, he handed over the bridge under full control already to the fsb. you will understand the supply of goods and the supply, but before a specific general , you will not understand that the fsb in general will only do it without a reserve,

it will be the whole business, it will be engaged in, and plus plus, you need to find the last one. guardsmen. it is clear where she is. the guardsman who checked the car did not find the inconvenient substance that the fsb published video-zeps, and i think that who needs to be made extreme, even who is not a part of it at all. to the current sojourner. so we understand how they will try to bite off each other's heads , and it was not for nothing that there were stories of hints of provalinshtein. you understand, who is supposed to implement the will of the truck and we understand that he is far from unrepentant, you understand, he can’t boast of anything new, he can only terrorize civilian cities, that is, he has, and i understand, to put a stamp on rocket

attacks on our peaceful cities, what’s with that menace in that solitaire game you know the end of the harsh ones rather , the general in di, this is more suitable because he is a non -gudaryan, not romyn, he was not even standing there, eh, this is a real soviet bully, and what’s more, the upbringing is perfect by the way, by the way, he was on trial, officially , he was on trial, conditionally, we were tried for arms trade, you know that, that's for the sake of the augustus to be in the 91st year, he has to leave his biography there, uh, he brought in the office, junior officers were shot, whom he divulged, well, masses of history, all this is on the internet and there is nothing secret. there is no, but the narrow next one is, first of all, putin’s favoritism. not so long ago, lapin was a sweetheart. do you understand? oh, damn, you give him heroes. he said that he was right on camera.