lukashenko did not make this terrible mistake. that is , we understand that the ukrainian army will definitely break this union of the so-called union state, but the opening of another front would in principle be an undesirable development for us, so i think that uh, if uh, ukraine shows some caution uh and doesn't make those movements that could push lukashenka, even a little at least a little bit, to that absolutely irreparable mistake for him, but in principle it's not desirable for us, that is, that's how i explain it so far that i uh, i'm not, i'm in the process now of the transition from naftogaz to the ministry of foreign affairs. when i return. when i'm inside, maybe i can

tell you in more detail about our motivation. so far , my understanding is this, mr. alexander . there will be a g20 meeting on the island of bali, today it became known that putin will not be at the g20 meeting, russia will be represented there by sergey lavrov, the minister of foreign affairs of russia, we know that the president of ukraine, volodymyr, will not be there zelenskyi, he will join the meetings of the g20 online, putin's absence from the g20 is a forced step for putin, that is, he understands that he will be uncomfortable there, that he will not be accepted there, that he will not be photographed there, that is, from the point of view in terms of diplomatic etiquette and what he can gain and lose by coming there. what can you say? well,

of course, he was scared, of course for him, he already receives such slaps from the armed forces of ukraine every day, and even slaps on the international platform, a demonstration go through what lavrov went through at the meeting of foreign ministers of the g-20. it would probably be very painful, but you still need to understand that the appearance of president zelensky at this summit is completely understandable , because the war is that ukraine is not a member of the g20, he would simply be the eighth guest of honor there, probably, but still, russia is a member of the g20, not the arrival of a member of the g20 to the g20 summit is, in principle, such a demonstration of weakness and fear that

in principle well, plus, i really hope that this is, as the americans say, an eye in the neck, this is in this, eh, eh, the shame for russia that lavrov experienced at the previous summit will continue, eh, regarding him at this summit as well, but in principle all this is a sign of weakness, this is a sign of fear and this is a sign of the shame of the isolation that russia has fallen into as a result of its shameful decisions, and does mr. oleksandr mean that by not coming this time to the meeting of the g20, next time russia can simply fly out of this great twenties and find yourself somewhere there in the third ten countries of the world. well, at the time, the top 20. as far as i understand it, it is primarily determined by the level of economic development of this

or that country by the volume of the budget, therefore, let's hope that as a result of this war, the level of economic development and russia's budget will fall to such a level that this state's presence among the more or less developed countries of the world will be meaningless. there some other certain questions concerning the world order and how the food movement is going in the world right now, including your opinion, do the members of the g20 understand the current role and status of putin in this difficult situation when russia attacks and constantly tries to destroy the cities of ukraine and kill ukrainians you know, the world

is now divided into three groups, one group is , to use the words of aidar mujabayev, conscious countries that understand the risk between good and evil, support ukraine, and the second group is a freak. those who vote for e-e m-m russia in the un, and there is a large group in the middle, which are yes, they understand that this is a barbaric, unprovoked war, but in one way or another, they still justify the historical one, and they find some sympathy in the fact that putin is such a brave person who challenged world order is not fair, and so on, and there

are countries in the 20s among which there is a spread of such a ... on the one hand, there is an understanding of the injustice of this war, on the other hand, there is no understanding that the isolation of russia is a long time ago, there are many countries that are in the middle, that believe that the truth is also somewhere in the middle between ukraine and russia, they will be so careful, they will try maybe not very demonstrative, but still supporting the signing of some contracts with russia, but at the same time trying not to annoy the united states so much, so as not to fall under all kinds of sanctions, that is important for our diplomacy

it is important for ukraine to very actively explain to this group that is in the middle that this is an imperial war, that this is a war in the intoxicated state of such an empire or a local empire that wants to be an empire again against a country that does not want anything more except to be free and to be democratic, because now there are a lot of these ideas that these are proxies and why is this a war between the usa, the usa and russia at the expense of europe and ukraine ? do thank you , mr. oleksandr, for your participation in the program it was oleksandr shcherba, diplomat extraordinary and plenipotentiary envoy of the first class, friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, also on the air on our social networks on youtube and facebook for those who are watching us now on social media within please like this video so that we can advance in youtube and

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of a separate reconnaissance battalion glory to ukraine glory to the heroes oleksiy gromov brigadier general, who was asked today at the briefing if it was true that they were liberated by a snowmobile, replied that everything is going according to the plan of the armed forces of ukraine, our territory is being liberated and advised us to wait for the official assembly of the general staff, we will hear from gromov, the armed forces of ukraine continue to liberate the temporarily occupied territory mykolaiv, kherson, kharkiv, and other regions, the operation is proceeding according to our plan point regarding the final liberation of populated areas in keeping them under the control of carrying out all measures that must be carried out, you

will be informed about this in the official reports of the general staff well, this evening sbu colonel roman kostenko released a video from the south of ukraine where he is fighting. he recorded a small video from the liberated snigurivka, we will hear it, dear ukrainians, i am now in the center of the city of snigurivka, it was liberated by our defense forces, our guys, now , at this time, the city is being cleaned up, our guys they take it completely under control and this is the last place that was captured by the enemy, which belongs to the mykolayiv region, so we can say that the mykolayiv region is completely liberated and now at this time our defense forces continue to liberate the cities and towns of the kherson region, let's stick together, we will win. glory to ukraine

so, serhiy what does the release of the snowmobile tactically in the south of ukraine mean for the ukrainian army and, in general, for the whole of ukraine? here, first of all, i must say that the logic is clear. about waiting for official announcements about the liberation of this or that city , because uh, after all, so, based on this experience, what we already had in the east, uh, in particular, in the kharkiv region and in the luhansk region, by the way, also that a settlement is considered liberated only after all stabilization measures have been carried out , because it is not enough to go into any unit of the defense forces, you still need to gain a foothold there, you need to be located, then you need to understand that the enemy artillery will not cover there yet, so to speak

to state our positions on the march, therefore, of course, only the general staff of our command should be ready to report when it is possible to say that this or that settlement has already been liberated - it means that the fighting will no longer continue, but as for this specific settlement, here is snigurivka beryslav in the kherson oblast. that is, these are precisely these, these are these fortified districts, on which the whole system is being built , the whole system of these fortified positions of the russian army in the south, and the liberation of one of these districts means that their defense is gradually falling apart, that is, they are playing, it is being built around these areas, and it is undeniable that the defense forces are moving forward in a very systematic way. that is, they are

fighting and continuing to fight. they remain there and our forces our forces continue to advance one kilometer at a time, this advance we will achieve is certainly not a walk in the park. that is, we do not need to set ourselves inflated expectations do not need to be fueled if this is the information and technical pressure of the enemy, but gradually the most important thing is that in the south and by the way, in the east , also in luhansk region, there is progress, this is the most important thing. well, yesterday russian propagandists , after the announcement by the ministry of defense of the russian federation of the retreat from kherson, tried to recall russian defeats in the wars at different times and calm each other down because of the retreat from kherson let's see how it was we lost the russian polish war we lost the first world war it turned out that the social structure of the population

was not protected from the revolution in any way. the war was short-lived in 1914-18. we lost because we had a social system. we lost in 14 22 years ago. we won. look at the entire territory of the russian empire . we didn't clean up more of the russian empire, we didn't lose finland. well, we got out of pobeda so beautifully, we lost the modern part of our territories. a beautiful established decision was made by army general sorovik and yes

, of course. said about the city of russians from the kherson region that this is not a sign of good will but the efforts of our troops in the last day 12 settlements in the kherson region have already been liberated, are there any surprises in this situation on the part of the russian federation, because they are talking about the fact that there are a lot of houses, water supply sewers, power blocks, various substations, they mean mined, that the russians have been preparing for this retreat for so long that they can do something that will disrupt the plans of the ukrainian troops to

liberate kherson oblast uh, no, the only thing that uh, they could have done was to provoke us to attack with a frontal attack, as they do. actually, in kherson, when, as we remember, the flag was taken down near the building of the regional state that is, this is such a provocation of the administration that during the retreat, er, to inflict as many losses as possible on the enemy. this is how we remember our situation in luhansk region, when we were retreating, we still retreated there to severodonetsk alesychansk and along with our retreat, but in parallel, losses the enemy who constantly attacked the vlog, that is, if in this frontal attack you liberated the cities, you tried and got involved in street battles, that is, the most important thing is not to allow yourself to get involved in such opposition that is, no battles

to cause great losses in manpower and this is very well understood by the command of our defense forces and as we can see, the action is exactly planned and we do not have such a risk, therefore of course there will be mined buildings, the buildings of the russians will be destroyed, so really in this regard, nothing is new come up with , but all this is eliminated by administrative measures, i.e. by demining measures. in addition to these measures of understanding, we also see that quite a lot of disguised civilian military personnel are still in kherson itself and in the suburbs in populated areas that were supposed to show should actually perform the functions of these partisans or er or other er and this is also the

understanding of our command that is why our defense forces are ready for such provocations by the russians and of course they will be suppressed adviser the head of the office of the president of ukraine, oleksiy arestovych, says that it will take from five days to three weeks to liberate kherson in ukraine. do you share this optimism, or does the special operation of ukrainian troops to liberate kherson need more time? time and more preparation, here everything will depend precisely on the availability of weapons and on how quickly we will advance, that is, as far as our uh, our technical capabilities will allow us, therefore, these terms are quite realistic, and the very release itself implies a certain tightening of reserves that is, not only the direct

movement forward and the taking of positions by the advanced units, but also the pulling up of the reserves, i will remind you that it was precisely the right-bank grouping , it was even the largest there was concentrated for a certain time from 30 to 50,000 only technical personnel, we also understand that the threat is from the left bank of the dnieper, where they have placed their artillery and it does not disappear anywhere, and in these conditions it is necessary to act. that is, we have to act and move forward, liberating the settlement alone for others, that is why it is so easy and there will be no walk. that is, it is not the escape of the russians, it is after all that they are trying to settle down, move to new positions prepared in advance, and here it will be, and here we need to carry out the same work that actually speaking, our command has carried out up to this time during the last two months, that is,

gradually exhausting the enemy grouping on the right bank and actually blocking their supply channels and forcing them, that is, squeezing out the enemy , forcing them to move further. is the situation when, on the one hand, the armed forces of ukraine were to liberate kherson, on the other hand, they will go to melitopol, do i understand correctly that in this way, the ukrainian army can succeed simply to cut off all supply routes for the russian army, well, considering that the kerch bridge is a little tired and because of it, traffic and equipment and supplies are now impossible. well, at least until september 2023, and as the russian authorities claim, they will not be able to fully restore traffic on this bridge

, that is the task of the armed forces of ukraine is quite simple: to create an operational encirclement that, in principle , will be forced to withdraw to the crimean peninsula. and from that crimean peninsula, they will have to flee either to where or, well, i don't know how else maybe they will be picked up from there by airplanes if they have time, there are not really other ways besides the bridge, of course, that is, yes, there are still rights there, kerchensk, yes, that is, to the crimean bridge, they were all supplies to the crimea, that is, not in such cities, the main one provides a large number of e-e just displaced and there is also ammunition and weapons and personnel and of course that place is the biggest such loss e but e there are also other ways, i.e. two means and also airplanes, helicopters, i.e. all this

works, you must understand that except today transformed into a large military base, but yes, you are absolutely right, not only through the dnieper we can pass and occupy bridgeheads on the left bank, but specifically melitopol, which is a separate direction of volnovakha to allow cutting off the railway connection, that is, actually stopping the supply right up to the entire south of not only zaporizhzhia oblast, but also the donetsk oblast with its center in mariupol, but the enemy is really afraid of this today, he is under reserves. that is, there are now positional battles going on there, and so far there is nothing so significant advancement because it depends on the availability of resources, that is, in order to conduct any such large offensive operations, it is necessary, of course, that the number of resources is greater, and accordingly, the more, the

larger the area covered, the more time is needed to conduct those stabilization measures themselves, but the direction is really correct and our goal is of course to cut off crimea or at least take under fire control all these transitions from crimea to the south and zaporizhzhia to the south from the kherson region in order to stop actually speaking of the supply of the crimean group and the southern group of occupying forces in general, the american general mark milley said that more than 100,000 russian soldiers were killed and wounded in the war in ukraine. if we talk about the official statistics of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine , then 78 more than 78,000 russians have already been killed. multiply there by two or three, it will be just losses, which are so-called sanitary losses, zelenskyi says that ukraine lost 10 times

less than the russian percentage, he said in an interview with cnn according to you, what is the number of losses of the russian army, because we know that the ministry of defense of the russian federation, if i am not mistaken, last reported in april, or in my opinion, even in july there was already a figure, if i am not mistaken 4 ,5 or 5,000. there are approximately losses of the russian army. what is the real number of losses of the russian army? i will be the closest. this figure is the one announced by our general staff. that is, these are losses both in terms of personnel and equipment. we must understand that american or any international e-e in our partners they they use other numbers, i.e. those that they have established. let’s say that these numbers have been verified, which are confirmed by theirs, in

intelligence, we directly receive information directly from the battlefield, that is, from the reports of commanders, and of course these numbers are more accurate, and we rely on them we have to orient ourselves, but you are right , we can easily multiply by three and sometimes even by six. if we talk about not only the destroyed but also the wounded, that is, those who will no longer be able to participate in hostilities, this figure is quite high because the level of medical care and medical care in the russian army is at a low, sharp level, and there are a lot of wounded people who do not make it due to the fact that they cannot timely help was provided to them, they are simply being prepared for one limb or another, they are suffering from more serious

complications, and they are already disabled , that is, at least in the next year, they will not be able to participate in combat operations and with this is connected the desire and this chaotic mobilization because of course, it is necessary to replenish, replenish with manpower , which we are constantly destroying, and here and here our partners are also recognized, that is, on the one hand, these losses are difficult to follow, but on the other hand , even those data that er-er that record both ours and our enemies through their channels are measured there hundreds and hundreds of people only directly destroyed, that is, let's say so, we should not rely on the official statistics of russian officials, including those of the army, we can easily see this just from our reports and we also see this and imagine that the channels where they simply, in their discussions, actually

confirm the same information that i voiced , voiced by the defense forces before the start of the great war, mr. sergiu, military experts said that, well, in russia, this is the limit beyond which they they will say it's all over , it's 50,000 killed. well, at least that's how the conversation was. that's it. that's the number of people they're ready to put in the war from ukraine. we've already exceeded 50, already 78, and probably by the new year, 100,000 will be killed by the russian army. is there now this border and this border beyond which russia will be hurt by losses at the front, and it is already there, that is, in russia, actually irreversible processes have already been launched, and mobilization is an extreme measure . the numbers you are talking about, these 50,000, of course, they were tangible in order to

actually look for a way out of the war on the condition that mobilization will not be carried out. that is, the recruitment of some mercenaries will continue as it is, that is, the so-called hidden mobilization will be the involvement of various groups, but this mass russian mobilization was an exception because it is actually what undermines putin's legitimacy, it is what actually destroys the rating of the kremlin authorities, and they were forced to take exactly this step, realizing that ukraine is unyielding a defeat will be inflicted on the battlefield, therefore, in this way, the mobilization caused a huge outflow of people, that is, hundreds of thousands simply left the russian federation, hundreds of thousands, another two hundred thousand were mobilized, now they are being destroyed what is it possible to talk about any protests in

russia itself? i wouldn't say that, i don't think that they are capable of such protests at this time. in our understanding, how could we go to the maidan and organize all the dignities in them well, the russian people do not have such a readiness. but the most important thing is that the legitimacy of the kremlin's power has already been undermined, and now it's only a matter of time when the change of this power will take place. caused in particular by the mobilization, we will wait when already when actually, the russian federation will accelerate its disintegration processes thank you mr. serhiy it was serhiy kuzan, a military expert, the head of the ukrainian center for security and cooperation, we will meet you in other broadcasts mr. serhiy well,

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