but theirs is that now their aircraft sorties have become much less, also our merit in air defense in the troops is the same problems . that and throughout the army, outdated equipment and its lack limit the possibilities of motivated crews and calculations. what remains in the formation is increasingly worn out in battles, and the ammunition of the soviet the model is increasingly difficult to find around the world, therefore massive and systematic help from the west is also needed here, because air defense helps not only in defense by shooting down everything from drones to missiles, but also prevents russian aviation from stopping the ukrainian offensive my name is roman pagulich it was donbas reality see you mykola veresen vitaly portnikov and the main topics of the week if it is used against ukraine god forbid really tactical nuclear weapons it will definitely change the world history problems analysis and

personalities we are waiting for john gerbs the former ambassador to the united states in ukraine thank you by invitation, if you have questions, you will receive answers, so a question is waiting for you, which is worth understanding september sports every friday at 21:30 on espresso, i am iryna koval, mother, wife, host of the espresso tv channel and also i am a volunteer, our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine, and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this. thanks to our soldiers, i can distract myself from the continuous stream of news and admire nature walking with simba in the park, i see the seemingly beautiful in such simple things. i know that my

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the ex-director of european and eurasian affairs at the us national security council will begin an analysis of the current extremely difficult situation in the world. in the case of the possible use of the so-called dirty nuclear bomb by ukraine, no one believed him, but we understand for what purpose that his i called in the main capital of the euro-atlantic community in order to demonstrate the seriousness of the intentions of the russian federation, perhaps it is about the use of tactical nuclear weapons . thank you very much for the invitation, mr. burkovsky, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. so this once

again emphasizes the fact that russians believe that power comes from fear . convinced of this when dealing with many russians during various negotiations during my diplomatic career but for the first time in my life conversations about the use nuclear weapons did not cause much fear, they were not taken seriously, and therefore they turned out to be counterproductive by talking about the so-called dirty bomb. i think that now it is an attempt to instill fear in all of us that some kind of radioactive weapon could be used in the country, members of nato , the transatlantic community said that putin is bluffing about his readiness to use nuclear weapons we remember him saying i'm not bluffing so he's bluffing because he'll never say he's blocking when he

really is so he's just trying to find another way to scare everyone so we click on forcing ukraine to negotiate and end the war that russia has already lost, we understand that the meeting of the united nations security council was held in the closed attention of the regime. blows and cannot win on the battlefield using conventional weapons and accordingly perhaps he will prepare some hellish scenario accordingly the main task is to receive an adequate response from the euro-atlantic community, this is fair analogy and many american analysts

claim that today we are closer to a nuclear war due to russia in ukraine than at any time since the cuban crisis, my former work colleagues and friends in the biden administration are considering this threat very seriously. important. we are sure that deterrence is an important factor. since we have to give an adequate military response in case putin, god forbid , decides to use nuclear weapons, i assume that the response will be an intensive conventional attack which first of all, it will be directed at the russian military forces, which are responsible for such an unprecedented invasion, we can see a very serious attack by the usa and nato on russian groups in ukraine, in washington they understand that if any country in this

case, russia will cross a threshold that no one has crossed since that time how the usa used nuclear weapons in hiroshima and nagasaki in 1945, so if any country dares to do this and does not suffer an unheard of punishment, then such a country will definitely use nuclear weapons again and its example other countries that possess such weapons will pick up, so the reaction will be powerful. i am reassured by the rationality and calmness with which this issue is being discussed in washington, that is, as far as we understand, putin wants to keep the occupied territories of ukraine behind him and after that start a big bargain, and most likely a similar scenario can begin to be implemented in the spring next year, because before that putin wants to commit another act, a huge genocidal act against the ukrainian

population at one time, the bolsheviks organized in there is a famine in ukraine now. putin may try to organize a famine, so they are simply destroying our energy structure. it is obvious that putin's plan is constantly changing. at first, his plan was to change the government in kyiv quickly with small losses, capture the city, and then include ukraine in russia. all his statements about that the expansion of nato poses a threat to russia were only to confuse us and weaken our determination to resist and help ukraine this plan failed, we know this thanks to the amazing struggle of the ukrainian people, as well as due to the russians' lack of proper training or their wrong plans, in the end, putin began to

bombard ukrainian troops and cities with long-range artillery, then the usa gave ukraine hummers , long-range artillery systems that could destroy russian installations, so then he changed his plan. now he has there is no other tactic , he cannot win on the battlefield. therefore, all he can do is scare us with the threat of a nuclear attack and the destruction of ukraine, causing as much as possible pain in the hope that in the end the ukrainian people will give up and say we are freezing enough let's occupy us this will never happen if we talk about aerial bombardment, for example, about the destruction of cities and attempts to destroy the will of the nation, be it the attacks of nazi germany on great britain or the attacks of the russians on the city of grozny then such attacks on the peaceful population only strengthen the determination of citizens to fight back and this is exactly what we are

witnessing in ukraine i pray for my friends , brothers and sisters in ukraine every day this winter will be very difficult, and yet it will not be so terrible , and you ukrainians will only fight harder and harder. will putin resort to another genocidal act of famine or cold famine? i don't think so, because he always rationalized his goals. include ukrainian lands in russia if the war kills all the people in ukraine, there will be no point in returning these lands to russia if he tries to destroy the whole world with a nuclear attack, he will forever go down in history if some story in general will remain as a crazy person who tried to end the whole world, this is not part of his plans, i am not a psychiatrist like you, but

it seems that he behaves rationally all the time and is not crazy, although there is a certain worldview component in this desire to restore novorossiya yes, mr. ambassador, i agree with you, but here the key question will be the readiness of president joseph biden to enter world history, to enter the history of the united states and the whole world, just as president woodrow wilson entered, who voiced 14 points, the whole world insisted on such demands, and now we also see a pivotal moment in the history of the world and the question of how ready president joseph biden is now to speak out harshly and clearly, because we were surprised when we read the so-called letter from the american senators, from which they later renounced but still, we understand that america is currently going through parliamentary

elections, there is not much time left before them, and there are more and more rather strange, if not more, statements from one or another of american politicians extremely strongly supports ukraine and his support will not change in the future. 40 billion us dollars of military aid to ukraine so far have helped ukrainian soldiers to fight so fantastically and successfully on the battlefield. joe biden believes in what ukraine is fighting for. biden had a leading role in shaping the us response to russia's previous invasion of ukraine the question is what will happen after the midterm elections peter mccarthy decided to introduce the political struggle with president biden in the democratic party on all possible fronts , including the economy. he accuses the democrats of

not wanting to fight crime and the like. he also blames the biden administration for spending too much money on ukraine and not enough on the american people. this is cheap political tricks mccarthy knows this well, but the upcoming elections are a certain challenge, so are some democrats, these are not nancy pilossy, not the top democrats , but the extreme left who formulated the letter about which you you actually mention back in june, that is, before ukraine managed to successfully carry out its counteroffensives near kharkov and kherson, it is important that as soon as this letter was made public, it was condemned by the leadership of the democratic party and withdrawn. now all american politicians are inclined to continue to provide strong support to ukraine. although they should not to think that the support will last forever, it will be truly felt as long

as ukraine continues to achieve success on the battlefield, and this is confirmed by the fact that ukraine is using all this help to bring his victory closer, someday the time will come and for negotiations, ukraine is not ready for such a moment, because it is currently recapturing its own territories in march, when ukraine was ready for negotiations. putin did not want to stop the seizure of ukrainian territories and ultimately lost the class. and now he wants to lead the negotiations are really important here, not the us policy, but the victory of the armed forces of ukraine and the entire ukrainian society, all its volunteers, who in millions of different ways contribute to this war assures you that us support will continue. yes, but on the other hand, we understand that putin raises the stakes to the sky for nothing, he threatens a thermonuclear catastrophe, we understand for what purpose well, one of the goals is american public

opinion, and we also understand that the situation in something may change in the united states after the election, chorniev, i completely agree. putin wants to negotiate now only to suspend hostilities, because he will lose, but then he will prepare and wait for the world's interest in ukraine to fall. and will continue the war again i think this is his goal he doesn't need real negotiations that could resolve the conflict he just wants to stop a battle he is losing or he needs time to regroup back to your question i think more systems will be transferred heimers and the biden administration already about stated this, and as we said earlier, the hymers forced russia to change its tactics and reduce artillery strikes on the positions of the ukrainian military and on cities, now

they are no longer capable of this, they use drones and missiles such as the s-300, which were repurposed for strikes against ground targets because russia is running out of high-precision missiles and due to sanctions, it cannot produce new ones, what is really important now is that the usa is going to hand over air defense systems to ukraine in the near future, in particular we are talking about a whole new series of missile systems that will help shoot down russian missiles and drones in the sky. by the way, ukraine is doing this very skillfully, because you destroy about half of the russian missiles that were russian attacks on ukrainian targets on civilian targets are a war crime and could cause enormous damage. we must bring to the american public all this brutality

of putin so that he is constantly shown on us television, this will help to further strengthen the support of both political parties, democrats, republicans, as well as independent voters in the united states. even if politicians think that they can improve their rating by attacking biden for giving too much aid to ukraine, i don't think that this point of view has a chance life as long as ukraine continues to operate successfully on the battlefield and as long as putin continues to implement his harsh intentions, which are war crimes, what will happen after the midterm elections in november, no one knows whether the republicans will manage to win back one house of our congress, two houses or eventually none if the republicans lead or the house of representatives or the senate they will probably try to score political points now looking forward to the '24 presidential election the next big event in

the us political calendar trying to weaken biden, claiming that he cares too much about ukraine and the ukrainian civilian population, and not about the us population, biden will not remain silent, and the outcome of this political struggle will depend on the american people and how much they themselves will continue to support the people of ukraine, how beijing can behave in the current situation we understand that all jing ping has changed the balance of power in china. and this does not mean simply that he decided to be the new chinese leader for the rest of his life, maybe wars will not turn into in mao zedong it is not important, we understand that he broke a certain complex of balances, which were established by deng xiaoping, we understand that the world community will also react to this, in particular , it is about the economy and let's say what the fall of the yuan is, but in this case the biggest i am interested in how

pe now and updated in office, will all the djinking take place in the situation of the russian-ukrainian war , will china finally say its clear word, or will it continue to turn a blind eye to putin's crimes in uzbekistan, which took place several weeks ago therefore, it became clear that anisijinping and animodi are not going to support russia in its war with ukraine. in fact, they have made it clear that they do not approve of what russia is doing if putin uses nuclear weapons. you saw the concrete opposition of china between russia and china in central asia. tensions are rising. china did not intervene. and did not help russia with east-west transit as part of the one belt one road initiative, and the rest of the world decided not to use transit and

routes through russia. china did not interfere and did not violated the sanctions imposed on russia he did not impose sanctions but he did not violate them instead china directs most of its trade to and through central asia all ding ping and really upset the balance in chinese politics he consolidated power approaching the level of mao zedong he also humiliated his hujintau's predecessor by leading him to china's liquor congress. this was a demonstration of great political power . russia does not need these ding-pings. russia is the junior partner in any partnership with shortly before the invasion of russia, china talked about an unlimited partnership, but the most obvious limitation is that china does not violate the sanctions imposed on russia. the ambassadors wanted to clarify the role of iran and the formation of a new axis of

evil. we understand that iran supplies russia with unmanned aerial vehicles that kill our of civilians, now iran has promised to supply russia with ballistic missiles of different ranges , respectively, how do you think iran can play the current situation ? on the contrary to the internationalization of the conflict and accordingly, we understand that the story about iran is not only about human rights, it is about the iranian nuclear program and as far as i understand, putin is signaling to the whole world that we have certain secrets with which we can thank the regime of the ayatollah by calling and early for drones and perhaps with ballistic missiles putin exposes his desperation to the world he is running out of his own weapons and is forced to ask for help from countries that are in international

isolation he is trying to internationalize conflict, but in this case there is more static necessity and own strategic vision in iran, the owner of many problems, the whole world is watching the protest movement, which is led by women and girls, which destabilizes the situation throughout the country, beginia and 750 from the bottle, and the regime is very difficult to cope with protests. today i listened to a report in which it was said that just as an iranian expert explains to russia how to better use iranian drones, russian security service employees are now working in iran trying to help the iranian government with the suppression of protests, i think that if iran continues its military support to russia, but if it provides russia with ballistic missiles, then we will see not only

much tougher sanctions re-imposed by the united states, but also by europe. in addition, we will see how the controversy that has been going on in washington since that time will change how to take kobama i didn't support the green revolution in iran more than 10 years ago, so i think that washington is supporting the protesters by providing them with active assistance with the alleged purpose of destabilizing the wound so, irene does have limitations regarding how far he can go in his positions against ukraine while supporting russia. thank you very much, mr. ambassador, for this extremely productive and frank conversation on the air of the espresso tv channel. of the states, former director of european and eurasian affairs at the national security council of the united states, matthew ryza, it is always a great pleasure to work with you, thank you very much, glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory to the guests now

studios, the event will be mark feigin, a member of the russian opposition in exile, a former deputy of the state duma, and of course, a cult video blogger in marus, koku mvala began to implement the so-called african shuttle diplomacy from moscow, he immediately rushed to kyiv, a powerful geopolitical player in guinea -bissau enters the diplomatic frontiers, kissinger is crying, and putin is leaving not even at the level of the countries of the third world, let the state represent it. and already, like the fourth world, the second is some uh, three ballistic tribes, here is the horizontal level putin is an imbal, you know, and horizontally, the level of zelensky is biden, therefore, everything that is impossible from one person can also be resold to the next one, and then we still understand everything. yes, you want to negotiate, er, an interested country. well, for

this, life will perform several er actions. in particular, just start moving the troops correctly to the borders on february 24 and say, look at this, we are already doing it, look at this already, it is a good prelude to negotiations, it means, uh, let him go , another prisoner. the steps that do not consist in the fact that imbalu convey to zelensky that i am ready and here is such a kind and then you have a huge chance from zelensky and in baidan but if you do not do this, you will simply get a divorce, and the americans already answered yesterday and said that he does not see there are no serious reasons to think that moscow really wants a sentence. this means that it translates from diplomatic. that moscow continues to dilute. moscow is trying to portray a desire for a sentence. confuse everything in order to stop the offensive, they offer

an endless agreement on the subrenia of proposals. a level not seen since the caribbean crisis, as you correctly noted, its level there, i don't know, from the level of the first, first, second, or third of some nuclear power there, has now fallen to the level of upper volt with missiles, but putin’s hysteria manifests itself in the calls that he called everyone he could reach , then he was assisted in that matter by the chief of the general staff gerasimov and everyone with the same sly voice that said in something you are in ukraine, which would be unknown which is preparing a bomb, but in fact no one is afraid and no, the world does not fall to putin's

knees. statements from the united states that putin is biased about everything, damn it, recently he did not declare that video, it is necessary for putin. what will be the consequences, and what are the abstract things? putin is not happy, it clearly scares and that's why you know , even in these students, we want the rest. well , there is such a kind of demonstration. the real thing happens with the content of determination no yes, that we are nevertheless ready, we will be all this somewhat cautiously, but you know this, this is all because they have a dirty bomb somewhere, what a dirty bomb, where is the dirty one, and here is yuzhmash, and here is chernobyl knock down

and so on, yes, and no one believes in it, you know, they all know in advance that this is a provocation, it ’s a lie, and you don’t have to wait for anything from moscow state. that’s why everything doesn’t work, you know, it doesn’t work, negotiations don’t work, threats do n’t work, they don’t work means good will is nothing everything works, he gives absolutely 30% results, that’s why they are available, and the more of these are thrown , the more a sense of power arises in those who are against this cliactivity of everything, and the possibilities, look at the americans, and they always acted as they acted on detente. there is a tension that was resolved by discharge, yes, i will introduce both in the broad sense and in the russian sense. they are shouting chorol that the first division needs to be on the border well, that is, in romania, the strongest statement

is made about the fact that, in principle, we will come gobsek, the command of the division is not with you, that it was subsequently classified by, let's say, the pentagon, the white house says that we are in principle come in, ready, what kind of reflexes are there? there is no fear there, it will be necessary. there is this, there is an answer, this is very important , they will emphasize and you, and there is an answer to everything, these requests are diluted, that is, they are increasing, they are looking for the concept of degrees, they are like that, but there is nothing to answer in moscow, this is what they should have answered, how should they have been someone is coming in, so to speak, they have, so to speak, the last argument , which will be answered at the collective event and the specific deterrent forces of the euro-atlantic union. it is said that it was not for nothing that

putin began to withdraw certain parts from kherson, so to speak, and others they start to dismantle the memorial by various russian occupying field marshals and so on, that is, the impression is that they may have planned some kind of nuclear abomination right on that perimeter. so, this is all in one key. if they planned, for example, to blow up the kakhov dam and flood both the left and right banks with water, then this not to mention the same key is found. and with me, a tactical weapon is a extreme measure that is understandable, what are the consequences ? in order to successfully blackmail all these special operations, provocations need to be successfully carried out on the fronts, it is necessary to advance there in the direction of kiev, i do not know how to order nikolaev and then it makes an impression