part of my life today - this is helping the armed forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this, now i walk through unfamiliar lviv, not kyiv, i go to an unfamiliar coffee shop and drink delicious lviv coffee everything is alive and everyone is alive in ukraine thanks to the army now, miraculously, life and army are synonymous words in ukraine, because without the army there is no life, to help the army is to help your life , you are helping the ukrainian army and life will win over death, each of you, even a small contribution to the support of the army, saves the lives of our soldiers and our victory is approaching les kurba with mykola kulish

playwright valerian pidhogyl writer marko voronyi poet translator mykola zerov poet serhiy hrushevskyi historian antin krushelnytskyi writer minister of education of the ukrainian people's republic of ukraine from october 27 to the fourth of november 1937 in the karil tract of sandarmoch soviet authorities shot 111 people crimes of the kremlin they are always they say we can repeat we continue the broadcast espresso thank you for being with us this sunday my name is anna valevska now with antinym borkovsky will come to us we we are adding taras zhovenka, our guest. this time , an expert on national security problems, mr. taras , are you with us? good health. i congratulate you and i welcome you. i am glad to see you on our air. we talked with serhiy cherevaty before this about the eastern front.

he says that it's just all over there with corpses of russians and they don't take away their brothers who have already fulfilled their so-called duty to putin. well, first of all, i don't understand this. how do you explain this factor and how do they then try to mobilize if well that's it you can't hide the russians, you can see how russia treats its soldiers, how brothers treat their uh brothers, how can you motivate someone to go die and then lie in the field for a few months. well, you see, the russian government operates in this more traditional mode for the russian state and for the russian population when historically it was so that, in principle, the power in russia never reckoned with their losses. well, these thousands and tens of thousands of killed and wounded are basically even at such a semi-official

level, they were embedded in their military and political doctrinal documents, and actually if you look at the russian propaganda, what it says, well, in principle , there is nothing strange about this, and on the contrary, the russian population is being trained to think that, well, let's put it this way one's life for the homeland is honorable and in fact it is the duty of every citizen, russian political and religious figures continue to convince the russian population that well, in fact, it is necessary to do as they say new so-and-ee without hesitation to send them to the front because that way it will be easier there some one of the so -called priests of the so-called russian orthodox church he said for a long time on this topic that in fact the relief for russian families will not be in because well, let's say this war will stop, or will they stop killing their

relatives in battles that absolutely no one in russia needs, and well, if all these internal sufferings of the russian people will be relieved by the fact that well, there will be more children who can later be to send the next one in another wave to the meat grinder, that's why it's obvious to me that russian propaganda is the main tool in the hands of the kremlin regime , and it is happy about such conversations and, accordingly, such political propaganda actions on the air of russian tv channels in general of russian er-e krypnytskyi sources er-e these topics will be leveled and at least at the stage where the russian authorities will be able to demonstrate that they have some achievements or gains opposed to not only ukraine, but the west in general. can show the russian population well, most likely, russian citizens will continue to eat this so-called propaganda

product, yes, mr. taras, we agree, well, in the end, they have no special choice and those who had the opportunity to urgently leave the extremes by the way, a sociological survey was conducted in russia is quite disappointing for putin's regime, despite the fact that they formally have about 50% of people there who support the russian operation, the war in general is not supported by a sufficiently large number of the population, that is they did not manage to completely cover the country with a propaganda cap, well, in the end, we see it in the thousands of people fleeing russian conscripts who are literally fleeing from russia, and here there is yet another interesting signal from the leadership of the aggressor state. so comrade lavrov assured that putin will allegedly continue ready for negotiations that is, well, we already laughed so hard about putin's readiness for negotiations yes, but a direct quote from lavrov, they are ready

to talk with the west about reducing tensions, but only if there are realistic proposals are based on equal approaches and lavrov added that putin is still ready to negotiate about ukraine, and piskov has thrown in his five cents , so the platform for putin's negotiations with the president of the united states, joe biden, could become the desire of the united states to listen to russia's concerns regarding the guarantee security. so, the kremlin is dead that they are starting to multiply their lies about peace talks on such a large scale, well, then as a pioneer, he is always ready and always young. but if we talk about their willingness to negotiate is inversely proportional to their success at the front in quotation marks yes that is, the worse the situation for the russians on

the battlefield is, the worse the situation for russia is, the situation consists of sanctions with political economic pressure a-and the more the russian regime says about the fact that they are ready for negotiations , they are ready for a peaceful settlement, the second factor that affects the activation in the russian propaganda space, and here are similar narratives, these are certain measures that the russians are preparing, the russian regime is preparing in and in in terms of information and in practical terms, blackmail measures to put pressure on the ukrainian authorities, on ukrainian society and, in principle, on those whom they call a collective measure e in order to once again have the opportunity to at least in some way sustain for themselves at least some minimal a-a preferences or some minimal goals that they set for themselves well, actually, after the incident with the ukrainian combat mosquitoes in

sevastopol, so uh, at night, and in fact, this is russia's demarch about the fact that it is suspending its participation in this to the grain agreement, this creates the necessary propaganda background for the russian leadership in order to show its good will, so to speak, so to speak . - to accuse you of terrorism and to hang a bunch of different aggressive labels on you. yes, but on the other hand, we are ready to stop all of this. if you sit down with us at the negotiating table and give us what we want, that's actually all these wishes which appear with such frequency and regularity in the russian regime, they are tied to these two moments and this is below, other than an attempt at such political propaganda manipulation of the situation both on the battlefield and around

ukraine and the world with you, mr. tarasov wanted to manipulate the situation, saying that they are there, i don’t know, white and fluffy peacekeepers are ready to go to negotiations, but here is a collective event and ukraine does not want to recognize their really crazy appetites. how do you understand that well, this is not the perimeter of the agreements coincides, yes, because our demand is clear and understandable, the withdrawal of the interventionist troops, the complete evacuation of the interventionists and their possessions from the temporarily occupied territories, after that, the conversation about compensation for the damage caused can continue, yes, and they would, as it were, see this as the whole matter. well, in general, we understand that the conversations they want to introduce a similar plan not only with washington, not only with kyiv, but also with many different other capitals, although it seems that all

zinping are not burning with the desire to take over, so to speak russia to itself, even to younger partners , shizenpin's extreme phrase that he sees the world as bipolar, that is, the bipolar world is the united states and china, which are beginning to coordinate and align strategic clocks with each other. into a bipolar system. so, let's start with the so-called negotiation format. well, actually, i absolutely agree. we shouldn't forget that, in fact, what russia is doing now in ukraine is a full-scale the war is, in addition to the fact that it is a continuation of the systematic russian hybrid aggression against our country, which began in 2014. and, among other things , it is one of the tools that the russian putin regime is trying to use in order

to, as they call it, get up from the fireplace, yes , that is restore their own superpower and eventually force a collective action and first of all the united states of america to recognize the russian federation as a conditional superpower so that everyone in the world looks at russia as a conditional soviet union 2:0 and, accordingly, the russian regime wants to restore, so to speak, this bipolar confrontation, but in the washington-moscow format, as it once was, and primarily the interest of russia is the distribution of the sickle of influence , which is obviously critically important for russia is to formalize for yourself and make the west agree to this, so make it agree to the fact that the entire former post-soviet space belongs to the unconditional interests of the russian federation, it is in principle theirs the final goal and this is precisely the russian regime and putin personally continue to hint at this with all these conversations and again with subtle hints about

their readiness for negotiations because in the end they absolutely did not change their ultimate goal and strategically in them if all the goals remain in place, but with regard to china, the situation here is actually very interesting, because the extreme version of america was released in washington the other day, it is very well placed in this situation , in fact, because there is the united states see for me, the two key military threats are russia and china, but it is a very interesting term, and there russian ports in this strategy are called an acute threat to european security, but china is called a strategic competitor, and this is such a very subtle hint to beijing from washington that the white house is actually and the pentagon, they do not consider the possibility of a direct military conflict with the people's republic of china, but on the contrary. if this is a hint that it is really possible, as they say, in

two er global security in the architecture, and the russian federation, on the other hand, washington absolutely does not consider it either in the medium or in the long term as a threat, that is, in fact, between the lines in this strategy, we read that uh, well, if everyone had practically come to terms with the future uh- is the result of this russian-ukrainian war that russia will, in principle, cease to be a player even on the regional dimension, and we are already seeing this even in the post-soviet space, therefore, in principle, everything is really going to the point where the united states america and china will be the decisive players in this geo-strategic game, and the russian federation, the russian regime, they have already finally signed their verdict, taras, but despite this, heavy battles are still going on in our country on the eastern front, your prediction how will the situation develop further? will there be a battle for kherson? in what form

is it possible? this confrontation ? e of russian ord so it is in first of all, the results of our preliminary preparatory work, which the armed forces of ukraine started in the middle of summer . are sharper, they will in fact, in the future, determine the success of the situation that we will see at the front, the success of the armed forces in the de-occupation of these territories, because in this way we actually renewed the numerical advantage of the russians. we do not give them the opportunity even when because they they pull up all the meat of these bumblebees. so, er, their life cycle, so to speak, from mobilization to

mobilization is about 10 days there, well, from four to er four days there to 2-3 weeks on average, but even this does not help because, in fact, it confirms the intercepts published by our special services of the interception of the conversations of the russian occupiers that there are huge problems with the direct support of the russian group in the east and in the south, and today the russian military and political leadership it is forced to somehow react to this situation, and actually, the fact that they actually announced difficult decisions on the a-a right bank in the southern direction actually means that they are partially accepting, beginning to accept this situation, well, the issue of kherson remains open because that well, we understand that the russians have now switched to a regime not in any strategic actions, yes, because the russian army and strategy are things very far from each other, practical, polar

, er, russian regions, political leadership now acts based on the circumstances and it is obvious that the loss of kherson will be painful for them. if they cannot compensate for it in their propaganda and information space, then we can absolutely expect that they will try to create problems for us at least with the de-occupation of the city of kherson. but again, all this will depend on how successful our armed forces will be not only in the southern direction, but also in the eastern direction, mr. taras . thank you very much for your expert analysis on our broadcast taras zoftenko was with us an expert on national security issues and news. let's add a little bit. one of the main tasks of the second army of the world is to loot everything that there is. it is reported that the russians have appropriated an entire chain of stores in zaporozhye. it is interesting that they they plan to make further furniture with it nova well, you can steal from a store but you have to work there, manage,

ride a bicycle, you have to make it work to the point that hands and brains, what does exercise mean, the key question of the brain so here, here, we understand that they are not all the more so because the so-called how did you get this phrase, there is a friend there or something there, in fact on the tenth maybe the army of the world and i will also give you news here and now, and you don’t think that my clocks have been changed, you occupiers forbid ukrainians in the occupied territories to change the clocks, they take them off of people, watches as such, yes, not only watches are the only thing they are powered by, you also understand what are the clever schemes, they start buying washing machines and in those countries, well, they mean powerful western washing machines they are honest, yes, in order to disassemble it for the needs of their defense industry. well, the leaders are, no wonder, armenia and kazakhstan, but this is what the bloomberg agency writes about, so they are starting to

import refrigerators, washing machines and even electric breast pumps to their homes as much as possible. and now a little statistics from eurostat, armenia imported more washing machines from the european union in the first 8 months of the 22nd year than in the last two years, that is, in the same months, armenians sold european correct machines. well, you understand twice as much, this is a paradox, that is, emotions are not needed very much by the russians, they graze in a different way to collect missiles and display these systems and other navigations, well, they don’t have chips, you understand, that is, they can’t use an ax, there’s something there, well, the new urfin of the hussov soldier well, and so on, it joins a veteran of the foreign intelligence service is already with us , the lieutenant general, we congratulate you, mr. generals. good day. glory to ukraine and a hero. glory to

the heroes . intelligence officer kyrylo bogdanov says that the operation to liberate the city will end by the end of november, how do we model, you know. i would like to appeal to the statement of the recent minister of defense of ukraine, who stated that we are now experiencing another stage of this war and the phasing consists in the next first stage, we we restrained the enemy, the second stage stabilized the situation at the front, and now we are gradually advancing confidently, albeit slowly in some places , and liberating our territory, of course , military intelligence is monitoring, as for me effectively, due to its technical and intelligence capabilities, the situation at the front and in ukraine and

around it and in russia and where national interests and national security interests require it, therefore, of course, the head of military intelligence has reasons to say such things, but before that we also observe other analytical the conclusions of the institute for the study of the war of the american and british intelligence and other and other structures of analytical international, which, of course, declare that there are opportunities for release only in the south, but not only in kherson, but also in the south, although there is definitely a trend towards the fact that the enemy is trying to misinform and disorient the world community and the homeland community, and

above all, ukraine and the armed forces regarding their real intentions. but in this context, i would like to to emphasize the statement of the commanders-in-chief of general zaluzhnyi in a recent interview on the maidan, where he said that we in the south finally managed to ensure, let's say so, stably, fire superiority in the context of due to the fact that the means of impressing the e-e barrel and rocket artillery are state-of-the-art and allow to a large extent at the distance at which it is necessary to hit the e-e enemy and his logistics and his e-e bases and his, above all, definitely those

points management and headquarters, which definitely has a positive effect on the further advancement of ukrainian troops. now, different figures are given about the occupation contingent that is on the right bank of the dnieper. there are from 20 to 40 thousand. there is information that the russians seem to be the native population is being deliberately removed from there to their places of residence and to those areas from which they are evicted , even prisons are being established. well, it seems like such reliable professional and hardened military units. well, they promise there a good war, the average in kherson and around him, but we

are in the area of ​​this war and we understand very well that the enemy is trying to blackmail , isolate and misinform, and that is why i kind of understand our higher command and the leadership of the country are aware and understand and are informed of the situation of what is happening there and have realistic plans to liberate kherson and the right bank, and later the entire south and the crimea as a whole. because those uh and the information coming in regarding the redeployment to the left bank from attempts there uh to create some fortifications in the zone gives grounds to allow and sometimes

to claim that the enemy perfectly understands that well there they will have to defend themselves because they will have to surrender the right bank of the kherson region and try to detain the ukrainian armed forces in this direction already on lieutenant general but the enemy has there is an additional option, that is, they can strengthen their grouping in belarus in order to withdraw part of our troops and, on the other hand, to increase the pressure on our capital. to form a combat-capable group in belarus well, i don't know 10 40 50 i also use open information and partially er-e such that

requires certain efforts to obtain it and this gives grounds er-e to talk about the fact that so far on the territory of belarus has not created the strike group you are talking about, which could threaten ukraine from the north and initiate the escalation of this war on the part of belarus, a participant in this war, that there are not only risks, but also intentions on the part of the russian occupation command to try to transfer there part of those whiskeys that depart from those territories that are consistently occupied by ukraine - this is true, but one must also bear in mind that, uh, there is an extremely difficult situation in belarus itself, both in the military

environment and in the public environment, eh if something succeeds, of which there are certain doubts , then it will not have such catastrophic consequences for our country - this is the first time for its defense capability, and secondly, all these plans are known. i understand that the supreme command of ukraine is taking measures to in that direction and quite significant and noticeable and ensuring all kinds of surprises for the maneuver forces to which the forces are now forced to join or apply his enemy he is not from a good life but he is from that life what is the partial mobilization that was announced so that it gave a quantitative composition e

soldiers, but qualitatively, its component and er fighting spirit and skill and useless moral-psychological climate and motivation, experience at a low level and therefore even the creation of penalty battalions, as is observed near bakhmut and avdiivka, and the creation of blocking detachments and the overturning of these kadyrivs, it will not be able significantly influence the course of events because, as both domestic and foreign solid sources attest, on the vast majority of the russian-ukrainian front, the occupying forces went on the defensive and even those the efforts they are making in the bakhmut mavdiiv direction, they do not lead to radical successes, to successes that could

allow them to strategically develop an offensive in this direction and liberate the territories they need, mr. lieutenant general, how successful can enemy defense be, we understand that the losses during the offensive and during defense, they change. well, plus what concerns the half day, as far as we understand, the landscape there is not too favorable for digging in, biting, and building a line of defense there, well, in addition in general, there is an extremely wide front line, or rather a long one, it is correct, but it must be borne in mind that even the efforts that were involved in the southern operational zone in relation to the construction of three lines of defense there did not lead to anything. although they rushed there and to dig in and

build some concrete structures, but the ukrainian armed forces managed to overcome these practically defensive lines due to the advantages of modern weapons in terms of firepower and motivation and combat capacity, and i will say without shyness and the military talent of our commanders, who provide operational and managerial activities, therefore, attempts there can be unconditional and they do it, but the situation that has been created there now in this region on the right bank of the kherson region gives advantages to the ukrainian side, despite the fact that there are various er data regarding the number of this

contingent and data that they are now somehow saturated with er very highly professional personnel and motivated er in my opinion this er is partly a bluff and i will try to put the ukrainian armed forces in a somewhat panicky situation and to intimidate and force them to take some actions that would be beneficial to the ukrainian side.