so it is the cause of the death of volodymyr makey, we have already mentioned this, and in particular the american institute for the study of war says that there are certain signs that belarus may be involved in the war in some way, and the institute for the study of war says that the recent deployment of russian forces in belarus is probably aimed not so much at attracting as at diverting the attention of ukraine and the countries of the west. and how do you assess whether there is a real threat that russian troops in belarus may be involved in the war, namely with of the northern border, do you agree with the assessment that this is just a distraction, it can take various forms and methods, such as border maneuvers, so as not to distract attention from the concentration of forces, and, in principle, attempts to provoke a border conflict with ukraine without some kind of deep invasion, as it

was in february 22. well, it is within 10 km of everything, so that it is really a threat. how strong is ukraine likely to be on the territory on the border with belarus? 000 people per month, but more and more, capable units of the armed forces from the east and the south ukraine, where i am now, there are very intense battles, especially in the bakhmut district, i think that the possibility of a war in belarus vysoko в ети месяция месяц зимние месяц eh why do i think so first of all i will say from the main strategic goals of russia and russia now does not strive to win the war russia strives to

force ukraine to peace or a truce to stop active hostilities and at least everything will remain er with some territorial spoils er so that it does not appear even for its own electorate and conditional allies. practically all their resources to create their tensions within ukraine and also certain conditions of tension for the question it destroys passion, thank you very much, and we were contacted by the belarusian political scientist pavlo usov. ukraine and threats from belarus well, there was literally no news that the belarusian positionist maria kolesnikova was admitted to the intensive care unit, this is reported by the telegram channel, the headquarters of

viktor babariko, who is also one of the candidates for the presidency in the presidential elections of belarus in 2020 we will also monitor this situation and for now we are moving on, a wave of protests against mass lockdowns due to covid continues in china, the actions began this weekend and have now covered major cities, including shanghai the current protests are viewed as a kind of referendum on strict lockdowns in china, which the communist party of the people's republic of china led within the framework of the policy of zero tolerance for covid . during the protests, slogans against the communist party and the chinese president were heard chanting slogans against the communist party and the chinese president . among other things, he was just re-elected for an unprecedented third presidential term. by the voices of communist party officials at the 20th congress of the communist party of the people's republic of china, the current chinese protests about which the state mass media are silent china's and state-controlled social media are the largest since 1989 when students came to

tianmen square in beijing demanding more freedoms and democracy then those protests were harshly suppressed by the communist party in the chinese foreign ministry already commented on these protests listen maybe china is a country where there is rule of law and various legal rights and freedoms that chinese citizens have are fully guaranteed by law at the same time all at the same time all rights and freedoms must be exercised within the framework of the law what else does this mean protests in china, what they can lead to, let's talk further with us on the link alina hrytsenko , chief consultant of the national institute of strategic studies, good evening, good evening, indeed, the protests that are currently ongoing, as we have already noted, are the largest since 1989 on the animation square, but then the protest suppressed. what do you think are the prospects of the protest today? at the moment,

the protests cannot be called anti-government or revolutionary; they are mostly protests against the policy of zero tolerance or tolerance. the fact is that the protests are taking place in big cities in metropolises such as shanghai, such as nanteen , guangzhou and the backbone or core of the protest protest wave, because this is exactly such a wave and not a coordinated protest movement. the core of this protest wave is students who are more or less progressive to some extent liberal and they actually advocate returning their lives back when, as students who are used to all the conditions of city life where there is access to absolutely everything, they turned out to be closed and blocked in fact, in their homes or in dormitories, they did not have the opportunity to go out even elementary and buy some products, supermarkets, for example, in orum or where the protests began, were closed, as

well as restaurants, public transport did not function, that is, people were actually blocked in their concrete boxes, they did not have the opportunity to go outside, and in the end the tragedy that happened was a fire in a high-rise building and about 10 people died who, because of these anti-covid restrictions, did not have the opportunity to leave the building, 10 and a half people died there exactly the protests began, this tragedy became a certain catalyst, people are tired of all these restrictions and politicians and want to get their lives back, in fact, there were indeed anti-government calls, but this is quite an expected and expected phenomenon when we are dealing with protests, the motives of which are dissatisfaction society, politics, and the authorities on this or that issue, but the authorities have already made concessions,

there are already easing and restrictions from them in almost all of the large cities, in particular and ravens, is it the same in beijing, that is why the authorities keep quite aloof from these protests, er, that is actually why most likely the tests will subside by themselves and a critical situation such as, for example, is currently happening in the early stages of such a development in podilsk , there will be no protests at all. but if, as you say, there are already certain concessions due to the protests, will there not be such a situation, let's say, when the people of china will see that the protests can lead to a change in policy, will other protests be provoked already with others demands, to me, such a scenario of the development of events seems unlikely, here it was just, well , such a rather obvious and concrete claim to the authorities, sisipim, who, as one of the key goals

of his next, already third five-year plan, announced to increase the authority the party among the people , these protests turned out to be such an opportunity to demonstrate and that the government and the party can listen to the people, to demonstrate to the whole world that the government is the owner and does and listens to the people, and to a certain extent, yes so-called people's democracy, which is promoted by the communist party , if it still exists in china, then actually, well, the protests really achieved their goal, but they were quite specific such demands. and then how to actually perceive the fact that, well, there are already quite a few shots of harsh repression there, and there is also information about that that er, a foreign journalist was beaten, that is, how does this relate to the whole thing, that the authorities allegedly want to demonstrate that the people are listening, vla, this is quite

so antigonistic towards foreign journalists there, i read about this incident to bbc journalists, but there were not only british journalists, there were japanese journalists, there are quite a few foreign journalists left, i mean, since the 20th year, when all the strict quarantine restrictions were introduced, foreign journalists almost completely left china, this is actually such an e- it is an attempt to tame enemy forces. let's say that the chinese government is positioning itself, that is, not to give the world the opportunity to somehow spread all these processes , spread these processes that are taking place and demonstrate that the position of the communist party is weak, yes, that is, okay, we had protests , people expressed their dissatisfaction, we heard them, we made concessions, but this does not mean at all that our positions in the sense of the company can be somehow weak, on the contrary, the position of the communist party is

unshakable. of course, thank you for analyzing our broadcast what is happening in china and for our viewers i want to say that we will continue to follow the protests in china, we were contacted by the main consultant of the national institute for strategic studies alina hrytsenko about about 20 bodies of russian soldiers who died near the village of dovgenka were found by volunteers of the search unit of the association of researchers of military-historical heritage of the bridgehead. the remains are located in the forest outside the village in positions that were controlled several times by ukrainian soldiers and russian forces. medical examination, they will be exchanged for dead soldiers of the armed forces, because the russian military does not just give up the

bodies of ukrainians. kharkiv oblast, izyum district, during the search operations for the dead servicemen of the armed forces of ukraine. the bodies of servicemen of the russian federation were also found. russian troops tried to destroy this defense, they hit a lot of artillery here, then they started shelling from the planes and already sent infantry here, and the infantry is now all here. she almost lay down in her pocket, there are cigarettes, there are about 20 bodies, there are already approximately

russian troops, russian servicemen, on some of them she is wearing a ukrainian uniform, this is a pixel and her sewn mountain ribbons are a band because they just wore it to be there because apparently there was nothing to wear it, they may have been mobilized there or they recruited people from prison and let them go, you can say yes to death, the passport of a citizen of the russian federation passed the honors 500 rubles another 500 rubles and 2,000 rubles, then a christian formation and a military ticket, all this is already a well-known person, so an exchange will be necessary and

relatives will be informed where he came, where he is going, the dugout has already been cleared and there is already a military serviceman we have not yet understood who because what it was very dark and he was so dirty, covered in mud, russia made such a big trouble for us, she started a war against us, destroyed our cities and continues to destroy our people, but we remain strong even in such a situation and take away the bodies of soldiers and hope that on their side there are such also the motivation to take away the bodies, at least to bury the dead ukrainian soldiers, and another of the most important messages is the exchange of

russian soldiers for ukrainian soldiers who have already died , and this replenishes the fund of the dead and we can then to talk about exchanges for servicemen who died as a result of hostilities, is the exchange of urine an initiative, or are the russians not giving us ours just like that ? well, they are not. they just don’t give us the opportunity to come and pick them up, they don’t give any guarantees that we will come as volunteers and take the bodies of ukrainian soldiers. it is important to return every one of our guys from the occupied territory who remained there, is the ukrainian capital ready, which still remains the target of russian forces until the winter, what with the so-called points of invincibility in in kyiv, the president and deputies complain about their work as a servant of the people, and is it true that despite the war, the metropolitan government will put up a christmas tree

? profanation and the provision of these points, you said in response that let's not manipulate and play political games without any criticism from the president of your address, as you yourself think, how good kyiv is prepared for winter in the conditions of war eh well, of course the situation in the city of kyiv eh is such a situation that we did not expect and if eh the president's office is already dealing with its heating point that this is our responsibility as a city government and we need to communicate with the city government and to collect the city's merecht, not to give tasks to the military administration in such meetings, which are hosted exclusively by the military

administration, this is first and secondly, regarding the heating points, we do everything that depends on us in order to provide them very short terms, the vast majority of these points are open in schools and kindergartens and, uh, they are in those rooms that have undergone thermal sanitation, which are already insulated, where there are key ones, you know, large uh, spaces of assembly halls where there can be a sufficiently large number of people in this direction in this direction of help on which there is no this is what we organized 400 e-e in generators 100 generators taught us volunteers we turned to teachers who stay there after work and provide all a-a there service e-e in order for people

came, but our key task is to set up e-e services in the city of kyiv so that heating points are not needed so that every home has heat, electricity, water, e-e, how do you know the situation at first last week was very difficult but nevertheless , in one day we have again restored water supply and heat supply with electricity , the problem is not only in kyiv, but in general throughout the country regarding the heating point, where it was very strange to see how representatives of one political force all, having received the task, ran to criticize me they personally checked the members of one political force. i personally also visited all the schools, met some of them and asked them if there were any comments. everything is fine, and so on. in a private conversation, they assured me that they

liked everything, everything was fine, and then she did not leave. criticism for the sake of justice, where these people's deputies were, in some of these pus it was simply closed although they claim that this point was marked on the map, i have personally checked more than 20 of my boxes, there are more there, i don't know what the total is the number of these points is large in the national total for which there were no claims, and then information appears that they are closed, moreover, in this inspection, it may be closed somewhere, but i'm sorry , please, there were such numbers, all the actions were heard, i can't personally check all the heads of districts uh, which uh, was changed by the office of the president. those who should be subordinate to mir reported to me that all the points are working. i personally checked and all of them

were the ones that i managed to check were different. but the question on this issue is different. the question is that if it starts now, it will smell political, such a political component, if you know the moment, while we are currently fighting fierce battles under bakhmut at that moment, while the whole country is currently surviving in those moments, while everyone supports us in and our friends, both citizens of ukraine and our friends from abroad, they are watching about some quarrels inside the country, someone is threatening someone there, it looks very strange, you know, and hmm well, it's not about quarrels. it's not about quarrels. it's about the readiness of a large multimillion-dollar city for winter in war, and here a great responsibility rests with the city head, i can say clearly, and the number of

points is many times more than in other regions, in a very short time, after receiving the task, we did everything that depends on us to open these points, but this is a lumbar political component exclusively and if there are any complaints, please tell me, don't come out with pr or kividations, i can say something, i can say clearly. i invited all the journalists. mmm i don't agree that they didn't do everything was done, moreover, a large number of them did it on their own without any help, they did and did more new points than in other areas, maybe there is somewhere there, uh, the generator was not connected yet but

that's not the case less, he was there, there may be pointers somewhere, it is not understood, there may be some errors, there were small ones, but i personally checked and i did not find any key comments. when you say that these are some political games or political orders, then this is someone has to be behind orders or games, and that someone has to have some kind of motivation, then who needs it? i don't want to get involved right now. people who need it. someone deals with it. you know who it is, of course. and why don't you want to name me? i wasn't on present at these meetings. i rely only on the information i received from sources that the meetings were held in this direction in the president's office, where they

discussed this issue of our conversation, they said that you complained about communication with the president's office, how is communication with who is in contact with the mayors in the office of the president and how does this happen in general, it happens exclusively, uh, that the head of kyryll tymoshenko, who is responsible for communications with the local government, does such things for the sake of the people, but for the last one, i finally got a personal stockpile, but it was the first time in recent years months or how er when they invited a personal one for the first time and how long before that they were not invited to this i personally heard that such meetings are held from the head of the military administrations understanding that the city of kyiv is a separate city and we have the powers of local self-government

, local powers are much more than in other cities, and therefore the city of kyiv has a special status, it has always taken part in such pairs on its own initiative, the fastest possible victory of the ukrainian army on the battlefield will lead not only to the end of the war, but also to prevent possible political problems in europe and the united states, this opinion was expressed by the american historian, writer and journalist ne applebaum in an interview with radio liberty. according to her, there is now a consensus in the united states that the victory ukraine in the war corresponds to the national american interests, will the disputes within the western countries reduce the level of support for ukraine and are the partners really ready to provide as many weapons as necessary for a quick military victory, listen to some western

intellectuals, in particular professor timothy snyder , explain that helping ukraine can actually help the united states one's own foreign problems , restraining china, neutralizing the russian threat and not using one's own troops for this purpose, in a word, aid to ukraine may be appropriate american national interests, at the same time , a certain part of american society opposes aid to ukraine, wishing that these funds would be better spent elsewhere, what do you think about this and what can be done about russia, this is very important for american national interests and the interests of american foreign policy. this will help restrain china. this will help to restrain iran, it will make countries like venezuela, belarus, burma think twice before starting such acts of aggression and i think that will ease the problems inside and outside the united states with

trade with kleptocracy, etc. again, i don't think there is much debate in the white house or at the highest level even in the democratic and republican parties in congress about whether or not there is a political the dispute is also in every european country and it is important to pay attention to this. i am sure that it will become louder in the winter and will become louder as the war may begin to seem like it has dragged on or if there is a feeling that the sanctions will start to affect the united states or europe which by the way is not true in either case it is not the cause of the current economic problems at least certainly not in the united states but you can hear that argument i don't think it is is now influencing american foreign policy american foreign policy seems to be quite unified and quite clear about why it is important to help

ukraine we hear from many western leaders that they will support ukraine as long as it will be necessary, this is a phrase they often use, but we see that many weapons are still not provided, for example, fighter tanks, long-range missiles, on the other hand, the ukrainian government says that the rapid provision of the necessary weapons will end the war faster, this is what the west does not understand , is the west interested in a faster termination war that as soon as possible victory on the battlefield will quickly end the war and also help to alleviate the political problems in the west caused by dissatisfaction with the aid to ukraine so i am a little i am confused because you are asking me to explain a position with which i do not agree. the best i can say is that there are people who are still worried about the escalation of

war , in particular some kind of nuclear escalation. making such a decision in moscow i personally think it's a mistake, i don't think it's a good way to win the war or end it, but there are people who still believe that we need to increase aid gradually to avoid certain provocative - on this site we see that russian society is supposedly not against war, although it is worth noting that there is no reliable data on this, but still, for example, newly mobilized soldiers proved that they can fight for their rights due to a lack of training or equipment, but riots against the war itself. we did not see this shows that russian society is not ready to accept its responsibility for the war, we have no idea what

russian society thinks because there is no such thing as public opinion polls in russia all who conducts polls say that when you call people, 9 out of 10 hang up, so we don't really know what people in russia think, we know that hundreds of thousands of russians left ukraine to avoid the draft, we know that many are in exile to avoid living under putinism who would be able to protest if there was any protest possible. i think that all these descriptions of what is happening inside russia are based mainly on ignorance. it is quite clear that people do not want to be mobilized, that there is resistance to mobilization. i i think it's good i don't think there's currently any evidence of mass support or enthusiasm for war marches for war there's no popular enthusiasm for war and

something like that isn't happening this is a society that has been trained for 30 years to be apathetic and treat politics as something distant i think probably most people in general, they are afraid to be at least somehow tangential to politics, but i do not try to defend the russians, on the contrary, i think that the acceptance of this officially dictated apathy was negative both for russia and for its relations with the outside world but i also don't see any signs of support so be very careful when you talk about what the russians are doing or thinking because there is really no evidence of one or the other the full version of the interview with n apple bam watch tomorrow on the youtube channel of radio freedom and freedom life will return tomorrow thank you for watching this program hosted by sashko shevchenko goodbye join the community

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