on the territory of the occupied crimea. do you know anything about whether your brother fell under it? it is completely unknown, and i am not even interested in that. all those who come to the ukrainian land in the form of an occupier, we will deal with them exactly as they will pay in the end. of partial mobilization, how according to your forecasts will this step of vladimir putin affect the situation at the front of the russian federation as a result of the mobilization, and the active military units that have suffered losses are being replenished right now the mobilization resource is and is in the territory of the donetsk region, and we also know of similar effects in other directions, and with regard to further actions, the specified mobilization will lead to the creation of new military formations on the territory of the russian federation, with the help of which the military-political

leadership of the russian federation and their military command will try to regroup and may even influence the reformatting of their strategic offensive operations they may form more than three army corps of four divisions and ten organizational structures of the regimental type, 10 motorized rifle divisions and territorial troops and up to 3-4 brigades of territorial troops. that is, in principle, this is such a powerful force, but it takes time to prepare it, in order to arm them , a certain number of armed forces must be removed of military equipment for the long-term storage of the completed premises, it is also necessary to prepare the mobilized ones. well , since you say that they are already arriving, it means that they are not being prepared among those who

are in the territory currently occupied by russian troops, first of all, they send the mobilization resource that was recently released and, accordingly, the one that needs the least time for preparation, so this is the situation, but in any case, these are irregular troops , they are servicemen who were mobilized, they directly had a break in military service and they are not so much and let's say the soldiers as they were before that and the number of units that you mentioned is predicted in terms of numbers - these are the 300,000 that have been officially announced. is this a larger number, approximately the number that was announced, but we must understand that the enemy will not stop there and will continue to mobilize the whole of the lviv federation

with prepared mobilization resources somewhere around 2 million people. and in general, their mobilization resource is about 29 million people. the russian federation is striving to resolve the war according to the goals they set for themselves. they will increase the number of mobilized people. therefore, we we have to expect such a situation and be ready to solve it on our terms, a prepared mobilization resource - these are those who can be mobilized by already prepared mobilization resources, those who were recently released, in addition to this, they took part in relevant training activities while in civilian life, a corresponding military assembly, some training within the framework of their existing programs operating on the territory of the federation, this partial mobilization, can it

stop the ukrainian counteroffensive in those directions where is it happening right now, everything will depend on the resources that will be presented to the enemies of the russian federation and, accordingly, those resources that will be presented to us by our western partner. our friends, respectively, 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 given to us. we very quickly master it and use it during hostilities, and accordingly, if we receive the necessary amount of e-e weapons and military equipment in time, then the advantage will really be on our side, the self-proclaimed president of belarus, the day before

our meeting with you, he announced 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 should already understand the following : there are currently approximately one thousand servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation on the territory of belarus; six russian aircraft are also stationed there there are four launchers of an operational-tactical missile complex from the dprk of the strike type, and 12 zim and s400e missile systems are arriving, respectively. on the territory of the republic of belarus , measures are being taken to prepare the airfield network a, as well as infrastructure for the deployment of the relevant troops and forces of the russian federation on their base and

to increase the number increase in the number of people staying in the armed forces of the russian federation on the territory of the republic of belarus, in addition, it was announced today that belarus, another check on the readiness of the armed forces of the republic of belarus for action, it was announced that training will be held, exits to designated areas, that is, another demonstration of their readiness and an artificial increase in the degree of tension, you are now responsible for the northern operational direction, and therefore i will ask you whether your opinion, this joint regional grouping , or in general, an increase in the number of russian troops on the territory of belarus, in particular, probably at the expense of these newly mobilized a-a be used for the repeated attack of russia from belarus on ukraine well, of course, it 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 effectiveness , in accordance with the accumulation of relevant forces and means of the armed forces of the russian federation, the joint armed forces of the russian republic of belarus will create a threat of repeated in the northern operational zone, in particular, on the city of kyiv, but the level of these military threats is constantly measured by the intelligence agencies, our partners, we are provided with the specified information in a timely manner, and we, as professional military personnel, also react to the increase in the level of this military threat . we are also taking measures

so that our troops are in the appropriate number and with the necessary weapons and military equipment with the necessary higher combat potential , and everyone from belarus to kyiv, we are ready for offensive by the republic of belarus, as of now, we are 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 increase our forces and means as of now, the situation is fully controlled and the ratio of the force of the means of equalizing the force between

the means that are currently on the territory of the republic of belarus allows me to affirmatively to say that as of now, we are fully ready. i am sure that in view of your current direction of responsibility, you have analyzed what was right and what was wrong at the beginning of the large-scale invasion, in particular why the russians managed to pass so quickly from the belarusian-ukrainian border to the outskirts of kyiv. in fact, do you have the answer to this question. how did it happen that it happened, well, very quickly, well, the war was, uh, started, and the armed forces were repelling armed aggression in the peacetime states 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 were performing tasks as part of the joint forces that launched the operation in accordance with the

law of ukraine, er, all threatening directions were covered by the armed forces in the peacetime states , and accordingly, their numbers became after such a mobilization that we were stopped here and later on in the direction of kyiv, in the direction of chernihiv, in the direction of sumy, we were 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 enemy. it is clear that danger is coming to kyiv. that the russians will go to ukraine from the side of belarus in those areas where they have not yet gone like this. zhytomyr, rivne, volyn oblasts or there, we understand how it can look and are we preparing for this? well , this is one of the tasks of the aggressor, to cut

off the supply routes of western weapons that we receive from our partners, and such issues were worked out even in peacetime before the start of large-scale aggression. accordingly, we understand how does this work and, accordingly, we already have the measures that need to be taken. explain what you mean that it can be used to obstruct the sources of supply. aggressor tried to advance quickly in several directions with the aim of changing power in ukraine and occupying a larger territory of the country. when the enemy realized that a quick military operation would not take place, he would not be successful then

moved to a war of depletion of resources, respectively, if he is doing it now, that is, the war has already lasted longer 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 that's why we take this very seriously. we wanted to ask what february 24 was like for you. on february 24, i was at the control post located in central ukraine. a few days before the invasion, we handed over the relevant administrative documents for withdrawal. of all e-e military units to areas of combat assignment in accordance with those plans that each commander in his direction e-e adopted as a

basis, respectively, in my command there were five land groups, a group of naval forces and part of the air force, some groups remained under command the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, general zaluzhnyi, respectively, around 10 p.m. on february 23, as a result of receiving one very reliable piece of information, i informed each of the subordinate mini-commanders about the beginning the invasion at 4 o'clock on february 24, well, after that, i and all the officials of my command post , no one slept anymore, we arrived at the workplaces and monitored the situation, what was happening. and with the beginning of the shelling, with the beginning of the attack on our e

units of the state border guard service of ukraine responded to the beginning of shelling from the territory of belarus and from other directions, carried out the control of repelling the blows of the enemy's air attack, and also, through the commanders of the groups , carried out the repelling of the offensive on land, terribly there was no way to look, we were constantly in this state from the beginning of february and we were preparing for such actions. but it must happen from a psychological point of view. and when it happened, it was calm, just given orders to the appropriate

command, it was received that one and the report was reported to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, such ordinary military work was going on is it the scale that surprised you, because the highest political leadership of ukraine said at least at the beginning of a full-scale invasion that the focus was on the fact that such an invasion could come from the east of ukraine, after all, several options were considered, we military people should be ready for the worst option, that is, an attack e from all those directions along which a large-scale attack took place, in general, for several years in the course of the exercises, we practiced offensives from all these directions along which the invasion took place and always work out the issues that need to be

worked out in order to repulse the offensive and in the future to restore the lost position, that is, they were not surprised because they took into account various surprises , there was simply such a good state of combat work, in particular, among those e-e training exercises , scenarios that you considered, there was also an offensive with of crimea , you were one of those representatives of the higher military command of ukraine who during the last year, it seems to me, at least until the full-scale invasion, communicated this topic the readiness of the ukrainian troops in the south and for the south 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 at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the combined forces of the armed forces of ukraine - this is a military body which was created according to the corresponding reform and

appointed to manage the troops of eh, when eh, in 2019, our command eh was created, we eh had no subordinate groups, the first group was given groups in the south and in the future were planned after amendments to the law of ukraine, e.e., the transfer of a group of joint forces in the east of our state to the territory of the donetsk and luhansk regions, respectively, as for the group in the territory of the kherson part of the zaporizhia region, it performed a stabilizing effect in accordance with the level of threats which rose or fell, this group was saturated with troops in particular in 2021 as a result of conducting exercises, including

the fact that the occupied territory of crimea was a decision troops and this europeanization also received additional forces that were stationed in the respective areas, everything 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 certain directions, this set was in the quotes of peacetime and accordingly, as i mentioned earlier, most of them were in the territory of donetsk and luhansk regions, so accordingly, they went to the main directions of the enemy's actions, and military units were deployed that is, there was a lack of ukrainian troops in the south when the russians entered as many as there were in the

armed forces of ukraine, and we can compare with regard to such actions. in the sumy direction, it should be noted that the armed forces of ukraine and those commanders who led the relevant groups there were experienced generals, including in the kherson direction, they directly managed those military units that were under their command, we waged an armed struggle against the overwhelming forces of the enemy, in particular, you know that immediately there was also a massive rocket airstrike on the territory of ukraine on airfields on other military objects. and by the way, when we

later communicated with captured pilots and asked them questions, they could not understand er russian captured pilots why did they not complete the task they each had a corresponding target with corresponding coordinates and after drawing missile and bomb attacks, they returned to their airfields and reported to the leadership that all targets were destroyed in the future, in particular, in one of the directions when hostile aircraft flew into the territory of ukraine. they did not engage in battle with our strike aircraft at first because they thought that where did they we started, we destroyed them all, therefore, in such conditions, in the conditions of massive missiles, air strikes, in the conditions of the rapid advance of enemy forces, their number, these fixes, their e-e combat potential of the

armed forces of ukraine and waged a struggle from the morning of the 24th february ago, we 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 performed the tasks of heroic defense of the ukrainian land, there are different versions i'm sure you've seen comments like this that maybe it was treason on the part of the local government, maybe it was negligence on the part of the local government or the military command, that there are rumors about that chongar was demined, bridges were demined before the invasion, what would you say to the people who for seven months have been constantly appealing for such information in

the territory of the kherson region ? in the future, the troops that performed the tasks, i emphasize that from the stabilization actions, they saved, changed and constantly supported those systems that were originally laid in proper condition during the time when this direction in 2019-2020 was arrived under supervision. it was carried out on these mines only with the replacement of heaters, because due to certain weather

conditions and, accordingly, time, they were out of order. not reduced, accordingly, the lines were checked along which the detonation of balls by other objects was carried out in relation to the directly indicated by the fall of 2021, all objects were checked perfectly, all explosive mines were fenced off, they were real and also in in 2022, a day before the invasion, somewhere on february 22, a command was given to the units that were performing the tasks there through their commander to bring all these objects to destruction, to bring number one to readiness, and later it was given by the

unit that was responsible for the direct execution there is located directly on the necks of one battalion, the commander of this battalion , he managed and blew up these e-e objects, respectively, as we saw at the beginning of the aggression, the hero of ukraine, adamo, was assigned to a serviceman from this battalion who supported one of the artists in the henicheski direction at the cost of his own life, how the hostilities took place there and in what way who acted on this can be answered by the commanders who directly performed these tasks there, but the main thing is that the number of births in exchange did not decrease at all was in a 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 much smaller than what caused such large losses in the first place. such losses were caused by artillery fire . enemy, we know that in our country we are going to conduct hostilities, and the number of

soviet-style ammunition was decreasing, and in the future, thanks to the work of the government of ukraine, the states in general found those 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 work of the enemy's artillery, our artillery required such a set of rockets, ammunition, or such an amount of accurate ammunition that will definitely stop the enemy's artillery fire, and that is why the russian artillery had a significant advantage in relation to our artillery, respectively, at that time they won, and in the future, after the saturation of our

troops with artillery from partner countries, respectively, and the number of rocket ammunition, did it change the situation significantly or now the ukrainian army is armed in order to win and not only to deter the russian offensive . in the first month, the armed forces of ukraine suffered losses and weapons of military equipment and spent the corresponding rockets and ammunition, the state carried out a corresponding set of measures and the supply of the corresponding rockets and ammunition was organized, and we stopped the enemy, the enemy was stopped in some directions, he liberated

the occupied e-e territory, 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 stop it by applying complex fire defeat to make him 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 almost the entire territory of the kharkiv region has been liberated, we have made good gains in the course of counter-insurgency operations in the

kherson region, but in order to break the entire course of the war, more weapons munitions and it is desirable that these deliveries are rhythmic precisely at the time when it is necessary, therefore we hope that our partners will help there in particular. i think you will not deny that the appearance of missile systems in the ukrainian army the usa significantly influenced the course of hostilities in our favor, and after russia escalated, for example with this one with partial mobilization, there were hopes that it might push the usa to give ukraine longer-range missiles, the so-called atakams, but we see that are not in a hurry yet or do you count on the fact that they will be given? well, i hope so. and in

the plan, counting on no, we must understand that the relevant decision is made at the highest military and political level, including in those countries that provide such assistance there 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 supplies 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, therefore, er, i hope and we will calculate. in general , we