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saturday at 2:40 p.m. and on sunday at 11:10 a.m. glory to ukraine is a program, the verdict, my name is serhiy rudenko, everyone, have a good day and good health today 279 days the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers, the russians fired again at the dtek enterprise, two energy workers were wounded, while british intelligence believes that russia's strategy to destroy the ukrainian energy industry is becoming less and less effective, meanwhile, the pentagon announced that it has allocated another 1 billion 200 million dollars for air defense systems for ukraine, the russian army continues to lose manpower and equipment on the eastern and southern fronts. as of december 1, russia has already lost 89,440 people in ukraine in the last day alone. the forces of ukraine destroyed 560

orks at the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost 2915 tanks in ukraine 5.87, do you know about it, they have 1904 vehicles, artillery systems, 395 rocket systems of salvo fire, 210 anti-aircraft means of defense 270 helicopters 260 e-e one e-e plane 441 units of automotive equipment 16 ships of boats 531 cruise missiles 1562 drones 163 units of special equipment putin's last winter skabee simonyan prepares russia for defeat well, but lukashenko wants to receive security guarantees for himself and his family at the event, we will talk about this in the next hour, contact us ihor romanenko, retired lieutenant general, former deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine mr. ihor, i congratulate you, i am glad to see you

thank you for joining us on the air. i also congratulate you. so, igor, let's start our conversation with winter today, winter has begun and the last winter has begun. i hope for putin, we will try to briefly outline with what and how ukraine enters winter at the front and with what russia enters the front, we have military operations on the line of contact, both offensive code offensive with the sides and defensive, i.e. quite complex actions by forces are taking place, and this is, let's say, against the background of the transition from autumn to winter in difficult weather conditions

i would like to remind you that the advance is slow in the north of the luhansk region, the svatova kremennoye is the enemy of the legal there. more than 200 have already left, did not leave active in people with their own prisons behind bars, in addition, in this direction you appeared the so-called temporary mobilized, that is,

any formations are gathering and the enemy rushes into including that division which was closely monitored at a distance in the belarus training center , i.e. the personnel of the division that they trained , but they also sent planes to the southern and eastern directions because the fighting there is very tense and the armed group the forces of the russian federation do not have enough forces as far as the kherson direction is concerned, the gods are going to the kinburg spit, as you know, and also our artillery is hitting the raft to the appropriate routes for the supply of logistics from the crimea to the south of the enemy group and vice versa in principle

it is important which of the parties will be the first to be able to group the forces and strengthen the reserves and concentrate them on the main directions of offensive actions. will they concentrate the forces on defense? the one that bakhmut bypassed to make an operational coverage, i.e. encirclement of the opponents, he does not manage to the end and these propaganda statements that bakhmut has already gone to hear did not take the same pattern of fingers and in a different way this is an attempt to pass off what they would like for what i to be honest, the current time is somewhere. these

are the actions in belarus that are more formal than the formal state of the enemy’s troop grouping. the technical is being strengthened. they have shipped with the letters and the missile complex and the military tender m2 engineering equipment. already discussed with the labels, they are plugging possible holes in the east and south of our country, but according to the aviation company of this group in belarus, they advanced further, the slista s400 complex is concentrated there, the new location stations that you watched

from the north of our country, in fact, almost to the south, they launched mig 31 kalm, which are carriers of dagger missiles, but the grouping of m.m. general is it true that the course of the russian-ukrainian war will be decided during this winter and, accordingly, the end of the russian-ukrainian war, we hope that this war will end with our victory, no one doubts this, but that it is in this next 3-4 months, starting from december and ending already in april, that the main points of this battle will actually be decided, mr. generals

, we are re-recruiting mr. general, unfortunately, unfortunately , we lost contact with hero romanenko, he is a retired lieutenant general, er, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010, we are talking about the situation on the eastern and southern fronts, and in ukraine, as of december 1st, winter began today, and yesterday there was a meeting of the commander-in-chief and the president of ukraine informed about the important questions raised at this meeting, in particular. he said that the main questions related to the front-line territories and the state border. we will hear from zelensky today. today he held another meeting of the stake, the main questions: donetsk region, luhansk region, kharkiv region, zaporizhzhia region , kherson region, crimea, near the front-line territory, our

state border, we analyze the intentions of the occupiers, we are preparing countermeasures are even more powerful countermeasures than now , the issue of military support and the supply of new munitions equipment was considered separately meeting on energy and communications issues, we are recording the results of what has already been done to protect our systems, we are preparing new solutions, we are also preparing new solutions to prevent any opportunity for russia to manipulate the internal life of ukraine in due time, we are detailing it, and this is what zelenskyy said about yesterday's rate meeting commander-in-chief , in the meantime, we are in touch with a retired major general, a retired lieutenant general, a retired lieutenant general, a retired deputy chief of the main general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in the years 2006-2010 ihor romanenko, mr. general, is it

true or do these words correspond to the reality that during this winter the main thing must be decided - this is how the russian-ukrainian war will continue and how long it will last. these 4 months, starting from december 1 and ending on march 30, it is obvious that these will be the most difficult months in this war. it is obvious from the course of hostilities during the winter that the main thing that will happen in the spring and summer will definitely be decided. this is quite a fundamental time, we are somewhere discussed, including on your broadcast, regarding the fact that if the defense forces of ukraine additionally conduct several successful operations with a successful operational level victory, such as

in the kharkiv direction in the kherson direction , then the totality of these victories, let them be operational, can constitute a strategic victory in the liberation there east or south, is it possible to make conditions regarding the fact that the enemy went to the crimea, there is such a possibility, but in many respects we know this for nine months, we have seen it i am convinced that it depends on how quickly the supply of heavy and sophisticated weapons that could be used to achieve victory in the world , which we talked about and this is fundamental and important , will be carried out in the next 10 days, several weeks

with it is clear that the general staff defines the main direction of action and the chipkas must be imagined to carry out code and foot actions. other conditions are needed. that is, it is not only weather conditions, that there are already solid paths for the movement of heavy equipment, and there must also be weapons of the offensive the nature of which includes armored combat vehicles on land - these are tanks in the air, these are airplanes. that is, these are the very technologies for which, unfortunately, a principled decision regarding supplies by our allies has not yet been made. well, first of all, this is the leadership of the military and political united states of america, the head russian foreign minister sergei lavrov spoke again about nuclear war, saying that nuclear states should not wage war at all, because it can

turn into a nuclear war, and of course the west is to blame for everything, it is the western states that blame russia the federation in preparation for provocations, while they themselves are already waging war against russia with the hands of ukrainians, we will all hear lavrov and a lyubai war between nuclear states. that's why we are so alarmed by the rhetoric that the west spews, accusing us of allegedly preparing some kind of provocation with the use of weapons of mass destruction, but the request itself includes the united states, includes great britain, includes france, that is, three nuclear the states are doing everything to increase their

almost direct participation in the war, which is by the hands of a ukrainian. they are going against russia, mr. generaly , in fact, to the warnings of the harsh warnings from the united states of america towards the leadership of russia, including during the meeting in ankara by the director of the cia and the head of the foreign intelligence service, the russian leadership, including the deputy head of the security council of the russian federation, dmitry medvedev, quite often repeated the thesis that we can use nuclear weapons there, that we we will defend there because it is provided for by our concept of security, they say everything that concerns the russian federation, and part of the regions that they squeezed out of us and took away they consider theirs and now lavrov says that in fact this is the west and

european countries, on the contrary, are pumping out information about a nuclear war that we are useless here, is it possible to say with confidence that the russians have already finally abandoned the use of nuclear weapons, including tactical ones? today lavrov spoke a lot about nuclear weapons and about european diplomacy, according to sergey lavrov , russia is not included in the european political community. lavrov was indignant that european security should not be built together with russia, but against russia . in the fact that we will not invite russia,

like belarus, and then borel, and after him, er, berbuk will not be able to, er, have declared er, another new, new, such a task to build a european security is not with russia against russia, if this is understood under european diplomacy, i don't think that we need to go there, we need to understand when uh diplomacy will appear. well, we are changing people, so as we can see that russia always has something in the way. romanenko, retired lieutenant general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, 2006-2010s. i apologize to the audience and mr. igor, unfortunately, the connection is so unstable, we are constantly uh, this connection is falling. we are trying to raise it, mr. general .

please tell me if the words and assurances of the same lavrov are enough now that the russian leadership does not think at all about nuclear weapons , considering all the warnings that russia , in particular, received during the last few months from the representatives of the united states of america well, i mean and according to the line of the state secretary and the line of the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation. well, we know that the director of the cia and the head of the foreign intelligence service of the russian federation met in ankara. finally gave up the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of ukraine with this leadership of things in general this can happen because it is clear that putin has no more means left, we see how hard

his troops are trying to fulfill there, which then on the territory of ukraine are political tasks that are set, i.e. capture of luhansk and donetsk regions within the administrative boundaries and this is a formal task because his subordinates have specified and expanded and in fact he has not yet given up his there were preliminary plans for this so-called special operation, but the forces and means for this are no longer there, and therefore now the task is to legitimize the captured territories during large-scale operations, which of course ukraine will not agree to, and the appropriate one is acting with defense forces, well, relative lavrov here everything he says. i generally think that a mirror should be placed in front of him. let him look there and this whole video offends all

these questions that are being asked in this way for the first time. first of all, it concerns russia, and then it is with him. dear discussion, we are with him, with putin, anyone, the military and political leadership of the russians must begin with the fact that the play on words, where did it all begin, began with these letters of aggression, the quartet of a large-scale war . to proceed to the negotiations, which, firstly, transferred their line of sight to a pause for regrouping and preparation for a new aggression, and secondly, they legitimized the kopani that took place during this war. therefore, this flag-raising trick does not take place not only in it is clear to ukraine, and including in the countries of the west, the leadership of which has made quite a

serious step towards transformation, according to the assessment of this war at the beginning of the war. nine months later , they are more determined to support us in this struggle, but i would like to this transformed, including , into a massive rapid delivery of effective modern weapons to our defense forces in order for us to fulfill the joint task worked out in ramsheim, the first of which sounded the secretary of defense of the united states, austin, whose name is himself, etc. studio time we are listening to you listening to you mr. igor we hear you we again had a problem with the connection please excuse me dear tv viewers eh, obviously we will already move on to the second guest, so i want to thank igor

romanenko for including him in the studio, this is a general -retired lieutenant, he was the deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks on youtube and facebook for those who is watching us live now, please, i urge you to like this video so that this video is seen by as many ukrainians as possible, both in ukraine and outside the borders of the ukrainian state , and those who are currently watching us on youtube can join our sponsorship was under this video there is a button to sponsor, you can go to this link by clicking on this button and choosing a sponsorship package for yourself

, we need your help, we are developing our youtube channel quite dynamically, so any of your not hryvnia will help let us develop our project. well, of course, i also want to say that today the council asked to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, to call for it to be expelled from the un and to reform the organization. today, the ukrainian parliament adopted an appeal to the parliaments and governments of foreign countries with a call to remove russia from the zones, to support fundamental reform of the un , and in particular and the security council to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and a state that uses the means of terrorism to recognize the political regime of the russian federation as a terrorist program restrictive measures against members of all russian political parties who are responsible for aggression against ukraine and intensify and concretize efforts to bring to justice

those guilty of international crimes, a special tribunal was created to bring high-ranking officials in russia to justice for crimes of aggression against ukraine well this is the kind of information we have, well, we have further contact oleksiy hetman, military analyst, veteran of the russian-ukrainian war p oleksiy i congratulate you and thank you for joining our conversation. good evening. good evening, mr. oleksiy. so , today, december 1, the beginning of winter, we know that the situation is quite tense now on the eastern front near bakhmut and, as analysts of the american institute for the study of war say, the russian offensive on bakhmut didn't teach the russians anything. because, actually , they already had such experience during the assault from severodonetsk and lysychansk, when they threw powerful forces there in order to liberate these

cities and capture them. well, what can you say now about the beginning of the winter campaign, because winter is a rather difficult period at the front, and with the situation in bakhmut, how do you think the further situation in the east will develop, taking into account the fact that both putin and shoigu always emphasize that for them mega is fundamentally still to take control of donetsk and luhansk he said that these actions near lysichanskyi and severodonetsk by our armed forces gave us the opportunity to hide the large forces of the russian federation and then we made an approach and after what they lost a large number of people and equipment there. and we kept our strength, we kept the military service, the military servicemen, the bc and well, everything that is needed

for the war and then. even a research institute has arisen and says that the tactical significance of this population center is not there from a military point of view. it most likely has an emotional and political load because the russian federation really needs to show at least some victorious actions. that is why there have been hostilities there for six months, but they have not been able to advance and take over the place, so far, they have not been able to join. i think that our armed forces are not a big secret. the enemy and unfortunately what we carry if he concentrates there, i mean the enemy, a very large number of equipment and military personnel and it will be pointless for us to lose the lives of our er people in order for this place to remain under our control right now.

i think that we will do as we did in lysychansk and north donetsk so far we have been able to test the very large force of the enemy and they are suffering colossal losses there. so i think that it is working very correctly whether this place will remain ukrainian it will definitely remain ukrainian but if we will have to leave for a certain time in order not to lose people and equipment. i think that this is called tactical defense in the statutes of the armed forces. there we can do it in principle, and once again the principle of tactical military designation is that there is no such thing yes, there are other people there, they need to be protected, they don’t want to be in front of the occupation, but war is war, and there you need to take the right steps in order to eventually achieve victory, and not win in just one settlement , we have to win the war and not the war is a struggle for some high-rise or some populated place. even if it is bakfast, well , it sounds a little harsh, but it is a

war, it is harsh today, the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation, serhiy lavrov, said about the fact that russia in ukraine is striking the infrastructure that helps to kill russians well, i understand that he wants to say that uh, the chp and uh, the points that actually help us uh, to provide heat to apartments and electricity, well, he means various transformer substations that they hinder the russians and threaten the russians. well, he can agree to any other stupid, but at the same time , british intelligence says that russia's strategy to destroy ukrainian energy is becoming less and less effective, in particular, british intelligence they are talking about what they saw in the massive strikes that the russians carried out on the energy network of ukraine since october 10, the implementation of a strategic operation to

destroy critically important targets, which according to her data is in the russian military doctrine, well, that is, in fact, as the nato secretary general from stoltenberg said, e- winter has turned into another weapon for the russian federation beauty on civilian objects and critical infrastructure russia itself is trying to provoke ukrainians against you, they expressed their dissatisfaction with the authorities well and accordingly, they pushed for the victory of zelenskyi with not putin, as uh, in your opinion, this winter is long , obviously, we will have it, how will it affect the course of the russian-ukrainian war, specifically, uh, in 2022-2023, regarding lavrov 's statement, firstly who says that they are destroying some structures that help