yes, which should be minimized for ukrainian society. thank you, mr. serhiy, we maintain a restrained optimism. serhii zgurets, military expert, director of the defense express company, was with us as always, kip-comment kirion . that we try not to lose optimism. we also remember all those whose lives were taken by the war that russia started in ukraine. the memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed

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increased to 26 the number of dead as a result of the shelling of the russian nazis in the kharkiv region, i will not only tell about it on his melnyk together with the news editor my greetings to all who are with us this i will start the issue with what is currently happening in energodar, this city has been shelled again, the satellite city of the zaporozhye nuclear power plant is partially without electricity and water, the russian military first hit the industrial zone and then the city itself the mayor of the city, dmytro orlov, said that the shelling began around midnight and did not stop in the morning . currently, it is known about the damage to one of the substations , as well as the building of the executive committee of the city council . there was no information about the casualties among the civilian population . fortunately

, there were no casualties from the settlements of the zaporizhzhia district, said the head of the regional military administration oleksandr starukh. that the attackers used s-300 rockets at the scene, a fire broke out at the scene, but it was quickly extinguished by rescuers, a disturbing night in dnipropetrovsk region, the occupiers set fire to two districts of the nikopol region, russian troops fired hurricanes of hail and heavy artillery , up to 60 shells were directed at manganetsk and chervonogrigorivsk communities, residential buildings were damaged there the head of the regional military administration, valentin reznichenko, said that in kryvyi rih, as a result of an enemy attack, a two-story building was damaged; previously, people were not injured, they are working on the spot rescuers and law enforcement officers also in the kryvyi rih region, the occupiers targeted the energy infrastructure with rockets, settlements in the communities of apostoliv

, zelenodol, shykiv, and sofia , as well as one of the districts of kryvyi rih , the pumping stations of the local water canals have been de-energized and have been significantly damaged. as a result of this shelling, no one was injured, everyone is alive and healthy, dear, i am appealing to all of you , please save electricity overload the system, give our energy workers the opportunity to restore the damage and run all their facilities at full capacity, the number of dead increased to 26 as a result of the russians' shelling of a car convoy in the kharkiv region, at the end of september, another body was found by law enforcement officers, the injured 19-year-old man walked about 1.5 km and died in the landing, the body of the deceased was sent for

examination, the prosecutor general's office reported that the investigators also established that two children, a one-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl , survived the shooting their parents died, and the children were saved by passers-by and handed over to their relatives. i will remind you that in the kupyan district of the kharkiv region, on september 25, the russians shot a convoy of cars where civilians were. this happened. in the so-called gray zone, among the dead, at least 13 children and a pregnant woman were found in the liberated lyman, 8 more killed civilians during the occupation by the russians, the exhumation of bodies continues, the head of the regional military administration, pavlo korolenko, said that yesterday the enemy killed four civilians of donetsk region, 12 more people were injured, in particular in in kurakhovo, the russians shelled the test and the private

sector, at the moment it is impossible to accurately determine the number of victims in the temporarily occupied mariupol and volnovasi, and further operational information from the general staff is firmly holding the defense, ukrainian soldiers repelled the attacks near nova kalinovo, majorsk, odravidka, new york, novomykhalivka, nevalsky , optnogo, and maryanka, in donetsk region, the russians they tried to advance in the direction of cucumber and two-year-old in kharkiv oblast, and there were also nettles in luhansk oblast, but the occupiers from there again with their heels, the enemy launched ten rocket and 18 air strikes, carried out more than 70 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in return, our defenders were hit from the sky 24 times, 16 areas where muscovites are concentrated, it is known

that the invaders are currently taking measures to covertly move military equipment and personnel, they noted in the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine for this purpose, in the settlements of tavriysk and nova kakhovka of the kherson region, the enemy is blocking the work of russian-language operators problems with monetary payments to military personnel participating in hostilities on the territory of ukraine, the specified categories are delaying payments of monetary allowances for participation in hostilities, relatives of the deceased cannot receive the promised compensation, the next shot down warbirds of the occupiers, overnight, our defenders managed to destroy 13 kamikaze drones, shahed 136 in mykolaiv oblast the command of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine said that 11 drones were shot down by the forces of the south air command, two more were

landed by national guardsmen and border guards unequal mobilization in russia is causing a social rift, the analysts of the american institute for the study of war came to this conclusion, experts indicate that the shooting at the shooting range in the belgorod region was probably a consequence of the kremlin's policy, which continues to use the poor population and representatives of national minorities to form the armed forces, while at the same time protecting ethnic russians and wealthy citizens of russia information space the russian federation responded to the fact of shooting with mostly violent xenophobic rhetoric, but central asian migrants and other peripheral social groups to the russian colonial yoke the committee of the verkhovna

rada of ukraine unanimously supported the draft law number 7721 on the humanitarian decommunization of ukraine as a basis. this was reported by the initiator of the document, people's deputy mykola knyazhytskyi, if the law is passed, educational institutions will be prohibited from being named after russians who supported imperialist and colonialist policies in russia, for example, the music academy named after the russian composer pyotr tchaikovsky should be renamed whether sumy state university is named after the stalinist and ukrainophobe anton makarenko military aid germany handed over to ukraine five berga park 2 armored repair and evacuation vehicles as well as 167,000 cartridges for small arms and 7 submersion systems , the german government also reported that ukraine received a winter

form of a tent and generators bergy park 2 is developed on the basis of the cheetah 1 battle tank, it provides the restoration of machines damaged in battle, support for the installation and dismantling of engines and towers for reasons security, the german government does not provide detailed information about the methods and dates of transportation of equipment . these are the cases for the moment.

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betrays ukrainian sellers, see on wednesday , october 19, the program of collaborators, the list of miklushki about 4:45 p.m. on the espresso tv channel, she is desperate for herself and in defense day and night, they are confident about her, they are paving the way to our victory, the tank troops are the pride of the armed forces of ukraine , gentlemen, dear friends, my name is danylo lukivskyi. i am glad to welcome you on behalf of the kyiv security forum. today we open a new season of our online events, which have the general name of the struggle for ukraine, this cycle we started with the beginning of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine

, during this time our guests were the deputy secretary of state of the united states victoria nuland hero of azovstalia svyatoslav kalina palamar deputy secretary general of nato more joana writers and historians timothy snyder and apple bound e-e well-known military diplomats world and ukrainian figures and today we continue our dialogues so we start new series of our online discussions i am proud and i am pleased to present to you our speakers today, thank you, gentlemen , why are you with us today? first, let me introduce general david petraeus, a four-star general of the united states army, former director of the central intelligence agency , ambassador john gerps, director of the eurasian center of the council for atlantic studies and former us ambassador to ukraine, mr. arseniy yatsenyuk, chairman of the kyiv

security forum and former prime minister of ukraine. thank you all for participating in this interesting online discussion called the struggle for ukraine, russia's aggressive war in ukraine has been going on for 8 months. putin did not achieve what he wanted to achieve. he did not achieve any of his goals, but he increased the progress of ukraine in the territory occupied by him proves on the battlefield that russia can be defeated putin's decision to mobilize is considered and seen by everyone as a gesture of frustration and desperation dozens of iranian drones to undermine ukraine's efforts and buy time for his further offensive at the same time putin continues to threaten the world with nuclear weapons and mass violence as you can see

the general situation and successes of ukraine on the battlefield, which can now be seen, political and military scenarios, how putin will react and what the world community must do to defeat him today we will discuss these issues, and i am happy to start with a question to general petraeus. thank you for being with us, mr. petraeus. i want to ask you the first question. how do you assess, how do you see this big picture, this big picture of ukrainian progress on the battlefield and the international picture of further pressure on putin how to put pressure on putin in the future, please, i am very pleased to be with you and i am honored to be in the company of mr. ambassador and mr. prime minister. i think that the biggest dynamic on the fields in ukraine is the understanding that ukraine in

as a result of total mobilization, it now has a military force that is much more powerful and more combat-capable than what russia has in ukraine. ukraine has made efforts in organizational mobilization training and has a lot of weapons and uses it all much more effectively . billion dollars. and also almost 18 billion dollars of economic aid from the united states, the support of western partners and nato members, this did not allow the liberation of more territory kharkiv region to make some progress in luhansk region and methodically continue offensive actions in order to liberate kherson and other territories west of the dnieper and this will allow ukraine to continue liberating its territories even in winter. we know that it will be much more difficult for russia to wage war in winter than in ukraine because ukraine is on its own land and

absolutely everyone helps those who are on the front. russia is now in a difficult situation. putin can no longer do anything to to reverse this dynamic, which i spoke about, the referendums did not lead to anything, the annexation of four regions has no meaning in the end, and we see that ukraine is liberating territory and even the partial mobilization that was announced ended with more people leaving the country than coming to the military commissars who in the end wear military uniforms receive minimal training and training and are practically unarmed, indeed this means tens of thousands of additional soldiers with weapons who may appear on the battlefield, but ukrainian forces now so much more powerful so much more capable of fighting than the russians that they will continue to liberate their territories the only thing left is russia at this stage at the moment as we see it is to punish ukraine for what it is doing as we see it is being done after the crimean bridge was blown up due to

missile attacks through mass attacks drones provided by iran that are really deadly they carry charges sometimes larger than those fired by 155 mm howitzers these kamikaze drones explode much more powerfully than any cannons and indeed the targets of such drones become, contrary to all the rules of war, civilian infrastructure objects, i.e. power plants and other civilian infrastructure in ukraine. that is, it means damage to the infrastructure and terrorism against ukrainian citizens, but as a result, we see a much greater desire for resistance, as putin continues to use energy as a weapon trying to shake the unity demonstrated by nato and other allies since february 24, i don't think it will work, although of course the approaching winter will difficult and there may be various consequences as a result of the increase in gas and electricity prices. this really affects the economy of many countries. but

in the end, i think that the usa and nato will remain close to ukraine, provide the support that ukraine needs, and it will be done quickly, it is necessary to provide air defense simply to protect the sky and to defeat these attacks of drones and missiles that everyone has seen and we will also provide other military equipment that was very important on the battlefield, this applies to the rsv and heimers and high-precision missiles that we will provide that accurately hit russian headquarters and fuel depots and other critical infrastructure and logistics targets important for the conduct of the battle, such logistics must be moved away from the front line by at least 70 km, and as we see from the russians with logistics big problems from the very beginning so this is how i see the current dynamics and i will add last week i was at the security forum in warsaw i spoke with high representatives of a large

ukrainian delegation and i got the feeling that the ukrainians will not accept anything other than the complete liberation of the territory of their country, when i say that it will be the complete liberation of the territory and this is their political goal, they want to say that they seek to liberate their entire country, not just the territories they had on february 24, but everything that was captured back in 2014 and this determination is absolute and for this it is necessary to ensure viable security in the situation as well as the economic situation and for this everyone in the west in the eu in nato in the usa and in the german marshall group we will work to ensure that this entire process of aid and reconstruction continues. and the basis for this will be security guarantees. i see that for permanent security guarantees of ukraine there must be a path to nato and, accordingly, the fifth article of nato, and this will be a guarantee of ukraine's security. in the past, we took into account putin's feelings it did not lead to anything good, now

we will not pay attention to it, it is necessary that security guarantees for ukraine are complete, because without this we will not be able to satisfy all those that ukraine has for itself and help it after the second world war not only with funds, we in the usa helped europe, it was under our security umbrella, under the security umbrella of nato, and we must also ensure the security of ukraine on the front line, we know what losses ukraine bears, we will continue to help despite the difficult situations that sometimes arise, we will try to help both economically and militarily and through sanctions, and we must ensure a stable, secure future for ukraine, and for this we must all stand together. of course, someday there will be some sanctions from russia removed, but we can already say that russia suffered 3-4 times more losses in 8 months than in nine years while it was waging war in

afghanistan. this is how i see the situation. the fact is that not only the threat of nuclear weapons but also the use of nuclear weapons nothing is putin's, so we are all trying to tell putin together and through his key advisers that the answer will be catastrophic and this is exactly what mr. jake sullivan, adviser to president biden, said. this is how i see this situation. these are the prospects i see for the future saying this about the longer-term potential of what we can do, but for now, we are sure that the ukrainian military will continue to liberate their country and we will continue to help the ukrainians just as persistently, we will see when the russian defense will finally fall and we will press on. so, we are helping as much as necessary

. thank you for your words and for the fact that you support ukraine. we are also grateful to the united states and the people of the usa for standing with us in these difficult times. this is very important for us. this is important for europe. it is important for democracy, taking into account what you said, i would like to ask something whether you see with optimism what was expressed today by the highest representatives of the ukrainian military leadership, that by the end of the year we will be able to return many of our territories. do you think that such a scenario is realistic with from the point of view of the military component, please probably, but i would say that it depends. it depends in particular, in my opinion, on whether the russian troops will be able to organize a powerful defense in the east in the southeast or their the defense will collapse or not because there is a real

possibility that this will happen, but it is not one hundred percent. i am sure that the ukrainians will brutalize more and more of their territories that are currently occupied by russia, but the speed of this offensive and liberation will depend on how this company will planned and executed, and it will also depend on how well the russian defense will be able to withstand, because we know that their morale is very low. they do not understand what they are fighting for, mostly at the front, representatives national minorities who were thrown on the line of confrontation, therefore i think that their morale is very low because of how successful the offensives of ukraine will be. i think they will be successful and it will be a real liberation of ukrainian territories. i do not think that the ukrainian troops will slow down their operational offensive with the arrival of winter logistics the russians are very weak, the bridges are destroyed, as well as the railway tracks, as on the crimean bridge, this is all thanks to the use of accurate missiles and heimers, their

logistics are pushed aside in some places 70 km from the front the russians are in the occupied territories people hate them despite their barbaric filtering procedures people are resisting them that's why there are so many problems for the russians winter is coming they don't even have enough warm clothes not to mention weapons again with the support of european and other partners with the support because ukrainians are on their land and they know what they are fighting for. everyone supports them. they know what they can do, even if the ukrainian soldiers will need somewhere to prepare themselves from the battles. can turn to their own, so winter will be different for ukrainians and russians. so, even in winter, i think that significant progress will be made on the ground. but again, as i said, it depends on what i described, sir. you said that the big problem now for

ukraine is putin's use of emirani drones our air defense forces are heroically fighting back how can we reduce this threat how can we repel this attack and go into a counterattack i guess you have some options how to not only get rid of this threat in the online store turn to iran and something to say. as i already said, the united states and the west must strengthen the air defense of ukraine. drones are really a very big problem because there is no necessary defense line against them. sometimes you have to combine several possibilities. it can be echelon defense. it can be electronic warfare. in

other cases, you can use some powerful waves, but all these technologies are not yet present on the battlefield, there are a lot of options for how to resist the attack of androns we faced this problem in syria when we fought against the islamic state and we tried to repel them because i have so-called smart drones that are loaded with explosives, we are trying to strengthen the defense capabilities of ukraine, we have already seen so much success that ukraine shoots down these drones by more than 50%. of what is launched into the airspace of the country is a very good ratio, but even those that arrive are also deadly, as we have seen, so we continue to work in this direction and additional sanctions imposed against iran and other measures can help to prevent the transfer of such a military nomenclature to the russians and the last question . if we talk about putin’s nuclear blackmail , it was hypothetically said that the usa and its allies in

response will try to completely destroy all russian forces present in ukraine, including the sinking of the entire black sea fleet. that is, this is a scenario using the usual weapons if putin uses nuclear weapons but if he talks about using such weapons does he become a legitimate legal target for an international response community on sunday in washington, i explained that i have a certain number of options that relate to influencing a specific person and tailoring our response. it can be a diplomatic economic response, financial personal sanctions and something else. one of the following options can be used - this is, under the auspices of the usa and its allies, the response of conventional weapons with conventional

weapons, with the russian forces located in ukraine, as well as, apparently, the black sea fleet destroyed, you know that we have opportunities and intelligence data and we believe that this is in principle a possible option that can happen without talking about the details of a specific situation that can be seen and applied already on the ground, of course no decisions have been made yet, but what is important now is to ensure so that he knew the way and was sure that there would be a response and a powerful response, he can no longer lead us to an even more dangerous situation than it is now, therefore the use of tactical nuclear weapons will not change the real situation and dynamics that i described and it must be understood that ukraine carried out a full mobilization, it is supported by the entire western world, that is why it has many more soldiers who are much better armed than the russians. it is surprising when you see the ratio between russia and ukraine that ukraine is three times smaller than russia, has much less

all kinds of resources, but its army is much more powerful this is a very important moment and it cannot be played back and the use of tactical nuclear weapons will not improve the situation for putin the situation for putin is getting worse with every step when we talk about him, i personally think that in relation to him, there may be different options, but i will not talk about which specific scenarios have not been chosen and not voiced. it is necessary for the usa and other allies to absolutely clearly and clearly tell their opponents in the kremlin how serious and the situation is bad, and even more so the idea of ​​threatening nuclear weapons, he is really at a dead end, he needs to think about how to withdraw his forces from ukraine because it bleeds his army, his troops have already lost 3-4 times more people personnel in seven months in ukraine than they lost in 9 years of the harsh war in afghanistan