and that's why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine. did i, the author and presenter of television projects, think that i would have to understand such things as thermal imagers, generators, quadcopters? could i , a mother of three children, imagine that just like knowing the principle of action of a diaper, i would to understand the difference between an active and passive night vision device, did my wife know that i would buy my husband not shirts for work but berets and tactical glasses, but since 2014 i had to become a volunteer because our relatives were on the front lines and they our help was needed and everyone is still needed . even a small contribution to the support of the army can help. it saves the lives of our soldiers and brings us closer to greetings. dear viewers, on

the espresso tv channel, the studio program, the event will analyze the most important events of this week and we will try to predict the events of the next week by our experts. tihor yakovenko, a sociologist, a former member of the state duma of the russian federation and a retired colonel of the british army, will work today. glendgrant will start our analysis of a retired colonel of the british army, a well-known military expert, glen grand, glory to ukraine, mr. colonel, i welcome you to the studio of the espresso kherson tv channel, so much attention is drawn to him without exaggeration from the whole world, the military environment, the military, the political leadership of many countries is reacting and carefully studying the situation, so there were speculations that it is possible that the russians are preparing some kind of trap, where is this one about kherson, but in any case, we understand that from a military point

of view, to keep the right-bank bridgehead under the current under the circumstances, they would not have been able to, but history is extremely complicated, the ukrainian army is now doing an incredible job of capturing the enemy's weapons and equipment, including artillery. worked itself out, in principle, it is not allocated properly, like everything else in the end. so this means that the management of the artillery and the organization of the army are also falling apart. and if the artillery falls apart then the situation with the organization of the infantry and battalions is rather even worse until now, they were actually quite successful in the use of artillery in this war, this indicates that the army is actually

collapsing in front of kherson. people assume that this may be a certain trap. video message of the minister of defense of the russian federation, the war criminal shoigu, he looked like a beaten dog, but in the current situation, no one began to criticize prigozhin kadyrov , we understand him and surovikin that the russians have some kind of strategic plan. maybe they really don't want to cling to this military bridgehead because they understand that they don't have the strength to continue the offensive in the direction of mykolaiv at the moment and they are launching a lot of different false signals about the so- called truce, we understand that the main condition of the armistice is the liberation of our temporarily occupied territories, but it is more than certain that

at the moment the russians have a certain military plan, russia will lose this war in that in the form in which it is at the moment, secondly, they would not have done this if they did not have some other intention, so what are these intentions? the most important thing for putin now is to gain time. why does he want this? he negotiated with north korea to receive weapons from it. wants to get more missiles from iran and for this he will need a little more time, he needs time to prepare mobilized soldiers and also to cross the dnieper in kherson, which cannot be done overnight, it is obvious that this is a war to the death, this is a war in which he is retreating not because he wants it, he is doing it for strategic reasons, and this strategic reason is that he wants the troops to attack in

another place where, in his opinion, we are weak, or because he wants to allow ukraine to get kherson and therefore, over time, force the international community to say oh you got kherson let's cease fire now i think that this is exactly what he is trying to do because putin always sees this war in a strategic way, possibly more international and more strategic than ukraine, that's why putin concentrates on how much positive energy he can get for russia from france, germany and other countries, as well as from people who are positive towards putin in the republican party and some in the white house, we understand, dear mr. colonel, that the situation in winter can be catastrophic for our civilian population, this on the one hand, a war crime, on the other hand, it is part of the scenario of a great total war that

putin is preparing so that, without being able to achieve any real results on the battlefield, he wants to destroy our civilian energy system, for which he is going to use both iranian ballistic missiles and he has the same chants m that i heard about the trip to the ayatollah so that is that russia did not get the answers it hoped for that in fact iran is not going to provide so many missiles and as quickly as russia requested and that part of the missiles may actually arrive as early as spring and this is of course another valid reason why putin wants to slow down the war in order to postpone it to the winter, he mistakenly believes that if he continue to attack the infrastructure and cities, then this will change the attitude of the ukrainian people, this only proves, as it has been since the first days of the war, that he does not understand the psychology or culture of the ukrainian

people in it, who is not going to surrender, in fact, the more destruction he will do, the harder it will be for him to win the war on in your opinion, what symmetrical measures should ukraine use in the current situation, or is there a general feeling that the united states will help us with long-range artillery systems? that the war must be ended as soon as possible with our victory and without long-range artillery systems, in particular, without the same attack guns. well, it will be very difficult . you are right. i think that the answer that is being given to the court now, which is to continue moving forward, the attackers, is the best answer that you can give because now if you start shelling russian territories, you will play into putin's hands, and he will then say that this is a large-scale war or that he

needs greater mobilization, more money, more resources, that is why ukraine is now quite successfully operating and must continue to act just like this moving forward because your moving forward this is actually what causes cracks in their system the russian army at the front is very fragile and can easily crumble if it is attacked again strongly where it is not ready then the mobilized soldiers will definitely run away it is necessary to find and hit the positions of the mobilized russians, because if they start to flee , others will also follow them, the situation with attacks is a real problem, i don't know why, but someone in the white house does not want to give this system to ukraine they are not quite logical. they think how these systems will change the course of the war. as general ben hodges says, russia

has not demonstrated any ability to resort to anything else. so they will not dare to do anything significant, and after the attack with the atakams and takams systems, they would allow in ukraine to attack air bases, command posts and logistics, which are in the rear and all these three things would hasten the end of the war now . it is time for zelensky to go to america, i hope that this thesis will gain wide publicity , he needs to meet with representatives of the congress with president biden and talk to them forever , not through zoom, not on social networks, but eternally, june once had to do it too, he went and stayed in the usa for a month, trying to convey all his arguments, how to win the war, take several high-ranking people with him to zaresenie in america and reasonedly explain face to face

why we need atakams and what we need in the future, this would be of great benefit because the american public should see that zelensky is a living person and not an image from tv, dear glen, a couple of minutes ago i spoke with our fighters who are now actively fighting in donetsk region, they are shocked, that is, it seems that they are participating in repelling a zombie attack, that is, the russians are driving their fresh from mobilized soldiers to our positions, this is some pages from the zombie apocalypse, he is in a hurry because who dies let's face it putin dies of cancer or something so he wants to see a victorious end to this war before he dies a second time the point is he can still collect zombie lava for a long time of his army and therefore we should not give him support to get even more zombies attacking

russia we should promote the strategic separation of putin and russia so russia and the russian people should oppose shoigu from putin and other people and this is a strategic goal that the presidential administration should work on and the ministry of foreign affairs should work harder. because all this refers to a certain influence on russia that can come from israel, for example, where there are many russians, as well as from other world leaders who should be convinced and in fact to try to change the paradigm of all these things, all the signs are that putin is in a hurry because he understands that he has little time. i am worried about certain delays and also because the armed forces of ukraine do not stop actively fighting in the winter because it is in the winter that putin's army will be the weakest because the orcs and soldiers- the zombies of the apocalypse will not want to fight . when it is minus 10 or -15 on the street, that is when the

ukrainian army will be the strongest compared to the russian one, therefore winter is our opportunity to defeat them and we cannot give them time by delaying to give time to train more people and more equipment, time is not getting equipment from north korea, because north korea has a million-strong army, which means that they have equipment that they can transfer to russia, so we must not allow them to have this time, for now, time is of the essence and putin is well aware of this, at the same time, if you think that he is in such a hurry, i don't think so, he is fighting in the donbas, actively shelling this region in order to make sure that as many ukrainian soldiers as possible remain in positions on donbas is the best place for him to attack because the russians have a lot of combat experience there, he will continue to advance trying to

hold the borders of the donetsk region so that it can be declared that donetsk is now finally theirs, this is the only reason i can justify the active attacks there if putin does not know something what i don't know is the story about the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons by russia, it is as sacred as a sacred deer , it appears and disappears from the agenda, but in any case, you should seriously prepare for of similar scenarios to a common acquaintance , lieutenant general benhots voiced certain scenarios extremely clearly, in particular emphasizing that a significant part of the armed forces of the russian federation can be destroyed in a conventional way , that is, with the help of conventional weapons, but this would de facto mean a fundamentally new world situation . i fully agree with by ben hodges' opinion on

this matter putin wants to win this war let's face it he wants to win the moment he resorts to using tactical nuclear weapons, he will significantly reduce his chances of victory because this will cause a reaction from the whole world, will contribute to much greater support for ukraine, and will also trigger a reaction with conventional weapons, in particular from the united states of america. putin is dealing with democracies, he does not understand that democracies cannot be intimidated, he thinks that other countries are like that like his russia and that all people think the same as he does he does not understand the freedom of democracy and the strength of determination of the west when pressure is put on it democracies do not like to lose because it means a struggle not with one leader, but with the whole country, and people are not going to give up just because putin will use tactical nuclear weapons, we understand that

ukraine is now entering a protracted winter phase of the war , so we understand that we have to prepare for different scenarios, but in your opinion, which should or should be would like to decide as soon as possible to correct or perhaps rethink some approaches, there are several points , firstly, the government must understand that the war can go into a protracted phase and therefore must start working on understanding how to change the economy to at the moment, the government does not manage the economy very well, there is too much socialism and not enough support for entrepreneurship. there are many such areas and enterprises, for example, ukroboronprom, compared to which the defense industry in ukraine is much more efficient . the country will have better weapons. therefore, a

rethinking of the entire economy and especially the economy and defense systems and the defense industry is needed, this is the first, the second, if it will be protracted war, we should train more people, which means that we need to train people to be soldiers so that part of the soldiers can leave the front line to go on vacation, this does not mean that they will stop being in the army, just that the soldiers need a two or three week break to recover psychologically and physically before returning back think about what will happen if we have to wage a long-term war, how to produce more equipment ourselves, how to train more people ourselves, how to prepare ourselves for a long-term total war, i don't think that everything it goes to this, it is not discussed, although there are certainly many more people who could be trained to give the army more stability and the third is

that we are winning and therefore the soldiers on the front should take risks only when it is really necessary combat discipline above all the soldiers should remain alive because you can't win a war if your soldiers keep dying and getting wounded they have to stay alive and do everything they can to minimize the risks because their country needs them it is especially important to our people, there are many very brave people, but we do not need brave dead soldiers, we need them alive and this is fundamental and the last thing i say we should return people

from the front line and give them more professional training for captains, majors, colonels and even brigade commanders, and we should choose the best people for the future, if there is a protracted war, then command only the best officers are needed, and not least because the selection must be taken more seriously throughout the system. i know and you have heard that there are still some commanders who hide in their command posts in their bunkers who do not go forward as soldiers. such officers should not be promoted, but they are still real soldiers who will win this war for us. if you want an example, look at the stories of such people as dayan in israel, why he came and what is his merit. here are the people who should be promoted and made commanders. this is the way to victory in a protracted war choose the best people

and they will win this war for you danger from the north, in particular the belarusian military bridgehead here it is not even about the involvement of lukashenka's military on the side of the russian federation here it is more about the speed of operational deployment of additional russian forces and here the question is whether they generally have now when are you in the military to try to launch an offensive or i don’t know i will try to attack from the north and we will see yes and i know the answer to this question no this one the army is very weak from the top, it does not have proper training and much of its equipment has already been transferred to russia, it is not the army that can really attack, and yet this does not mean that they cannot be forced to do it. but i think that the answer to this question is in the hands of zelenskyi and he must make sure that

politically the entire belarusian system and its government understand that if belarus goes to the border with ukraine, then all of ukraine will invade belarus and free it from those in power. we must make it clear to them that there should be no crossing of the border that they can't do it because they don't have enough troops to do it wisely, so if they attack me, there will be many more deaths from both the russians and the belarusians, and i don't think that the belarusian soldiers want to fight with you at all, in fact, i'm sure that they don't want that. and finally, dear mr. colonel, who do you think is in charge of the russian army now ?

or putin thinks he's in charge but after everything i've seen i'm not sure about that it's possible that for example putin's dog is in charge but whatever it is they lack the ability at the leadership level to control the army as well as control the soldiers all they can do is make them die, they are running out of qualified officers and this confirms your words about the zombie apocalypse, they would not do this if they did not have blind officers, leaders who do not know where they are going and what they are doing, who is now in charge of russian army, this is a very good question, thank you very much, mr. colonel, for this extremely meaningful analysis of save the king well, i want to remind our tv viewers that gland grand , a retired colonel of the british army, an iconic military expert, worked for them on the air of the espresso tv channel. thank you very much, god save the king and glory to heroes, the

analysis of the internal russian situation will now be conducted by a well-known sociologist, a former member of the state duma , ihor yakovenko. i welcome you, mr. ihor, in the studio of the espresso tv channel. hello anton, we understand that the story with kherson can be a turning point in the domestic political russian agenda. a very important event obesvetnye yes it is and yes it is it is indeed a very important event but i would not talk about it yes it is a fracture of course it is a fracture but i would not talk about that now everything, after the kherson victory, the fascist regime in russia

will collapse and, er, so to speak, everything will fall. already send it, it's obvious , so to speak, the rift between putin and the russian army is obviously deepening, it's visible, it 's noticeable because, in fact, the generals were against this war from the very beginning, and there is direct evidence of this, in particular, here are these the speeches of general ivashov, the colonel, these are people who have worked in the general staff for many years, there is no doubt. well, i personally know general ivashov and khodorenko, and i understand that these people never, under any circumstances, are absolutely such stubborn gingers, under any circumstances, they began to speak for

themselves this was clearly a message from one headquarters. well, putin forced them to fight to have their own to genstadt to general ferme. of course, this is the blow that the beauties kadyrov inflicted and brought the head of m.m. general lapin, but to putin, this gift to the people is definitely directed against the head of the general staff, a hero who is clearly already in serious disgrace and will probably be the next victim. the generals do not want it - eh stop here with such sheep of the company and they eh at some point at a certain moment when it will already say total dissatisfaction with putin they will definitely have their say and for now putin's regime is now eh i temporarily stopped watching

what is happening now on the federal channels in the information field, and the following is happening there, which means a constant spell about the fact that uh, no panic, no problems happened, a constant memory of kutuzov's words about losing we will not lose russia in moscow, we will lose it in the army, we will lose everything , so i’m trying to replace kherson masks there, what does it look like? well, the loss of kherson is very bad . какзать военных и э-э полная тотальные поддержание solution medicine na-na and on tv she and there prigozhin has kadyrov, that is, well, all of us in all the informational prostration is actually an extremely characteristic moment, and i say.

further, i.e. the impression is that they have a fundamentally new militarist clan that must either provide one or another form of transit or must literally provide the life of war criminals who may turn out to be extreme see what i wanted to say that uh, he received an instruction for the administration of the president to include in so say uh prohibited lists that is, these are the very ones that uh will prohibit the publication of the opinions of such people as those who used to be permanent peters such as general gurlyov and so on that is, all the people who constantly criticize putin's regime for not being decisive enough, for the fact that they do not drop a nuclear bomb on ukraine, that europe will not be captured until now there are such super-sharp tsverg imperials before

they were given the green light before they were allowed to criticize the government for insufficient arbitrary power it was allowed now even now they were included in the stop list this is the first thing that concerns the real ones it is formed, it includes kyriyenko, er, he is one of these leaders. so, the party of war naturally includes kadyrov and prigozhin, and yes, the general is definitely included. the television, the television is all, that is, it is the mouthpiece of the war party. well, it is quite possible that there, so to speak, in some way , the war will start in this party now. appeared, appeared regional armies, because putin, according to

his decree, er, required them to create a terror defense unit, well, actually speaking, from my point of view, this will be another step in the conversation with russia, because everyone, well, a raft the governor who does not dream of separating from russia and creating an independent state . we observed this process during the collapse of the soviet union, when the main benefactors of this collapse became the leaders of the central committee of the communist party of the union republics, who , so to speak, became the heads of the state. they stopped and their dream came true. they have stopped going to the kremlin, so to speak, they are persuading them to give them money, even more money, so now the situation is similar, russia is definitely on the verge of collapse but the most likely version of the development of events means that kadyrov and prigozhin have now become very influential players, well, if we are talking about statistics, well, i

looked at the data melody there as a company that is engaged in the analysis of the presence of various persons of the organization in the field of medicine of russia, there it analyzes several tens of thousands of russian that's how kadyrov is now with a huge he is the number one leader in memory in russia and with a huge gap from the closest. of the richest and most influential moscow yes, kadyrov comes to mention him more than twice. he is also actively engaged in foreign aviation. he recently made statements that he interfered and interfered in and will interfere in the elections of the united states

of america , so to speak. so after removal wait there liver and heart in america will read well this is such a typically villainous joke well, the godless is the most real criminal who was sentenced to imprisonment even in the soviet union, well, continuing his criminal activities on the territory of russia, in fact, they now have an independent resource because everyone of them, there is an army, and patroshev , the secretary of the security council of the russian federation, who recently visited iran, we understand what was being said about the drone and ballistic missiles rockets with which they plan to kill ukrainians , in particular, destroy our civilian objects and, accordingly , patrushev and his