fell until now, uh, tell me about the special forces, about the drones, about how it can morally affect the russians, who now know that they can also be caught in the rear, of course. it would be very good if it was exactly that drone or just the drones that are currently trying to promote and produce karaboranprom, but unfortunately, i have to state that ukroboronprom manages to er too much pr work than was necessary at this stage. it seems to me that ukroboronprom should take the example of the commands of the armed forces of ukraine, who first do something and then talk about it or, on the contrary, do not even talk about it, not knowing it was that drone, but taking into account what is happening there

. testing, uh, i think that or that this is unlikely with regard to special forces - it is uh, in in principle information new york times er if er well of course any publication can resort to certain manipulations and we even saw er some three or four weeks ago a whole series of er editions among which er was just in the new york times tried for with the help of various authors to point out that kyiv should sit down at the negotiating table with moscow, then i do not rule out that western publications can be manipulated to distort information and so on. what happened on december 5 and 6 in the saratov ryazan regions and

near kursk, that it was, in principle, a successful operation by the armed forces. i'm even going of the large-scale invasion, i have pointed out many times that ukraine has the most powerful traditions of special forces, and what uh, and this process also testified to afghanistan, uh, in fact, every fourth person was ukrainian, especially if we talk about the retaliatory war there and so on, various structures, such as the in -depth special forces there are many positive examples already in ukraine. i mean not only the special operations forces, but also the unit of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense. i also know less about the marines.

the department of special operations of the foreign intelligence service says that as a unit it is not really working now, so to speak, only certain people who are assigned to other units work, it may be so, but i want to put an end to this topic, so to speak to say that it is quite possible for ukrainians to work in the deep third, and this is 300 km deep into russia and at least i do not rule it out, here are such preparation of such things took place and we have examples of various raids, including during of this war, but those were rather combat raids, and uh,

in such ones, with the hidden work of special forces, well , if this is uh, really so, and this is the case, then it will be confirmed , then this will be one of the brightest pages in the history of this war and will surely enter the textbooks as one of formats of the work of the ukrainian army under any conditions, even if these drones flew from the territory of ukraine, this indicates the inability of the russian air defense system to counteract, and in any case, we see that the goals have been achieved and that by the way, this is actually a continuation of the story with the sevastopol bay, when a swarm of marines was attacked by large, very

expensive warships, which were attacked by small, relatively cheap drones, and they managed to disable the ships, by the way the first one in the world is actually an attack by a swarm of naval drones, so in the future i am not convinced that the ukrainian armed forces will do additional things, they are so creative today, the situation is such that there is a real hysteria in russia, we know that putin has assembled a council and what is in social networks over there in the belgorod region, territorial defense units are already being prepared, and social networks are simply exploding from such panicky moods and from

the same thing. that there is a danger of an international tribunal, and of course they say that all of them, that all russians will be equally guilty, but no. actually , the russian warlords of semen should be guilty, and there is a list of those who are guilty of a series of war crimes in ukraine and who incited to of this and who gave the orders must surely be made lists in advance in order to show who actually will be considered a criminal war criminal of this criminal war eh to separate eh other eh russians from this and and eh to allow them to see some the window of opportunity

is to uh help become our way of destroying putin putin's criminal regime and changing the political system in russia itself, although everything this of course does not mean that we should now focus on the so -called good russians and uh it does not mean at all that after the ukrainian victory there will be a period of such a calm, calm, kind of calm life, most likely we have to prepare for the expansion, increase of our capabilities and the saturation of increasing the defense potential of the state at the expense of our own weapons, primarily missile weapons, because ukraine is capable of creating a missile at 500 km and in the future 1,000 km and when they will know in russia that we can attack the military

infrastructure near moscow, let's say that there will be no such audacious shooting by our missiles cities and our infrastructure. that is, we have to give us a mirror answer and the question of confrontation - this is a question that is only gaining momentum and weight, so to speak, thank you, thank you, mr. valentina, for the conversation. broadcast , we will be broadcast on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks on youtube and facebook, for those who are currently watching us online, please like this video, subscribe to our youtube channel, facebook page we are in everyone on social networks, in addition, read our news on the espresso tv website, we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. well, then we have

oleksandr khare, an expert on foreign and security policy of the center for defense strategies , mr. oleksandr. greetings. good day. health and happy day to the armed forces of ukraine. good evening, mr. serhiy, too. i congratulate everyone. in fact, we understand the importance of this holiday. we are actually now and probably those who regret that it was not like this for all these 30 years, and maybe there would not have been this war if b well really to the armed forces of ukraine were treated as we are now, and on the other hand, it is certainly very inspiring how our fellow citizens treat people in uniform, the armed forces of ukraine were and remain a rather serious force that now actually gives hope to ukrainians and shows the whole world how ukrainians can fight for our freedom and independence, and at the same time during the tenth

month of the already great war, we periodically hear calls for a diplomatic end to this war. and just a few days ago the president of france, manuel macron, for the first time, at the beginning of the war in ukraine, publicly expressed the idea of ​​providing a security guarantee for russia. let me remind you that a year ago, on december 23, 2021, at a press conference in moscow, putin spoke a lot about these security guarantees. but then he held talks with the president of the united states of america joseph biden and tried to agree that ukraine should not join nato, that russia should keep its geopolitical, some pieces that it controls, the current initiative of macron, that guarantees security is needed for russia, mmm, what does this mean in

the context of the fact that yesterday was 29 years since the budapest memorandum was signed, which, unfortunately , is not in effect. well, you know, i think that, first of all, it means a certain er, i would say so intellectual or a mental disorder that i would call the desire to be the leader of europe, the desire to constantly put forward some initiatives, some of them are definitely positive, i mean, first of all, this is the european political community, i like it, it does not replace ani natanies and includes to europe, even those countries that are not very determined to become a part of europe. i mean the same azerbaijan. but sometimes everyone has a misunderstanding of what the real russia is. it is surprising and surprising that president macron also surprises the pope who says that these are not russians. russian tradition means to torture, rape and kill. well, it

seems to me that from this point of view, the second point, if we are, well, it is definitely psychological things, you can discuss it for a long time, it is such a thing, it is already subtle, but really , you mentioned those demands. put forward by mr. putin in december of last year in order to stop his war, which he was already planning and knew that they would not launch it against us , and those demands were absolutely unacceptable for me. i am not talking about ukraine, it is clear about the united states and the european union, because they demanded in fact , with nato, central eastern europe, which remembers very well the soviet union , the warsaw pact, this is the first moment, the second moment is to remove nuclear weapons from the territory of the european continent. i have a foreign american address in in five countries there is a force that prevents russia from trying to fight it let's say nato's

willingness to defend its territory to go there for training for some other things, it is clear that these were absolutely unacceptable things for the united states, for europeans . deep in the 75th year, mr. brezhnev decided to sign the helsinki final act of the osce and the soviet union at that time in order to ensure security from the soviet borders and his influence on the territory of central eastern europe because he wanted the status quo, he did not want to destroy what you control that he controlled, he felt the weakness of the soviet union and did not want to go into a counterattack . modern revisionist russia does not like the

restrictions that i have in international law. moreover, what developed after 1991 and later and that is precisely why it is impossible to give any guarantees to agree on something with a country that calls into question the principles and norms on which the modern world is built. therefore, this is an anointing, and the most important thing is that it is part of the countries, and ukraine is part of it. we are now showing with our own blood and suffering that this is an important value for us after all, the person is at the center of the system, this is democracy, human rights and other things for russians, they are enemy values , we just recently saw the adoption of a law on, well, in fact, the persecution of lgbt people. i am not talking about other things, even in this orthodox in holy russia, you cannot be a different christian than an orthodox one, because there is persecution of the same jehovah's witnesses. well, in general, let's say that beliefs that are not traditional for russia, they are imprisoned , their organizations are banned, and therefore, how can we

say that to create some kind of system and give some guarantees to a country whose values ​​are the absolute opposite of the part of the world that we feel we are a part of. this is absolutely impossible, and our own russian federation is a threat. macron said such a thing that it is necessary to give some guarantees and in this way, he actually strengthened the russian propaganda that it seems that everything that is happening in ukraine is a consequence of the involvement of ukraine in nato in the european union, that it seems that nato is threatening the russian federation, although we know very well that russia has been leading soldiers on the territory of moldova since 1991 it annexed the territory of georgia to ukraine and it is actually waging the largest war in europe, not a single nato soldier was on russian territory without its permission, that is, they did not earn money and there are no such plans. now we see that the machine is unfolding very slowly, but

still they are starting to defend themselves more and therefore talk about some guarantees in that country which is a vizynysian country, which violates, which is aggressive, and which threatened until the last moment with nuclear weapons . thank god, the americans and the chinese understood them a little and europeans definitely and putin has stopped living this rhetoric, although it is probably time or at a certain time we will hear this nuclear blackmail again after that, it seems to me that the reaction of the baltic countries, poland and finland was very correct who said that it is germany that actually needs to build up security against russia, but by and large , that's what i am summarizing. i really like this account on twitter. together with russia that

it will not attack us, well, that is, it is like this. it simply shows the level of some kind of insanity of misunderstanding of the situation that is unfolding before our eyes. by the way, serhii lavrov, the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation, says that the strategic the dialogue between russia and the united states of america, the two largest nuclear powers, is kept in a frozen state by washington, let's hear and see lavrov's reaction, it is regrettable that at the moment the strategic dialogue between russia and the united states, possessing the largest nuclear arsenals and bearing a special responsibility for maintaining international peace and security, is being held in a frozen state by washington the final result of the joint efforts in this direction was the agreement on the settlement agreement on strategic autopartic arms for five years, it is clear that in the absence of negotiation

work to maintain strategic stability , the existing problems will accumulate, that it is fraught with an avalanche-like increase in risks, alexander, can it be assumed that what lavrov says and, in general, the leaders of the russian federation, that they want negotiations but they want negotiations not in some small format, they want a large format , they want the european states to be there as well under the united states of america. to take and show the whole world that they will lose the war not to the ukrainians, well, in the linguistic collective event, which they are, well, constantly pushing this thesis there , we are fighting with the whole world, but the point is where this struggle is taking place, it is precisely the territory of the ukrainian state, well, first of all , we bear a special responsibility for these phraseological units to the world, this is such a sophisticated moscow nuclear blackmail , because it means that we have privileges and we

are different from the rest of the world, so this idea is limited to the sovereignty of other states, it is here it is very clear that this is not true. the fact that washington does not want to hold these negotiations, on the contrary, they proposed and in fact, in december, negotiations were supposed to take place. regarding this agreement on the strategy for strategic and offensive weapons, but russia itself refused because the americans say it is good . we have this the agreement, but let's carry out technical checks, as it provides, well, in fact, it is silent that there can be no trust between such countries, and that is exactly why a verification mechanism was invented at one time, back in the cold war actually, the russians don't want this, because it seems to them. and they want to once again draw such a mystery from the states into the old, when these things are nuclear, these things and strategic security, they are connected with other issues, that is, let's stop

supporting ukraine and then we somehow reduce our offensive nuclear potential there, although it is definitely too large, there is no sense in such a number, and by the way, it was combat-effective for the russians , they are modernizing. now, let’s say our potential and reduce the number of warheads there carriers and it would be quite appropriate for them, that's why they manipulate all things, they don't want to see anyone else there because they see i mean the europeans, they don't consider them equal partners at all. transferred to the western countries, there were nato countries and the united states, but the russian leaders said that you, washington, will decide and agree to what we want, and then you will make sure that your european allies also agreed, that is, they even treated european countries with such contempt, including those that have their own nuclear weapons, not only

american ones, that's why it's from the evil one. i want to remind clinton of the story when medvedev was actually the so-called president of the russian federation and the microphone was turned on and when he didn't say well, i'm there because this woman said that now are the elections but after the elections i will do what putin promised and there were question on anti-missile defense to national elements located in poland and romania, that's why all these ideas of large strategic security agreements in exchange for a concession of one's own national security, or even more so at the expense of some other countries, they worked then, thank god, nothing about ukraine without ukraine. this is the formula. it works and thank god

the budanov wing, the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine says that the russians have a missile left, several large-scale attacks will come to nothing, he says bohdanov, the reserves of high-precision weapons of the russian federation are nearing completion, they reached a critical level a long time ago, but as we can see, they decided to go to the end, that is, to zero. except washing machines in large quantities and televisions will not be delivered, he informed mr. oleksandr, considering the meeting of the leaders of the united states of america and china on the big 19th, can it be assumed that this the summary of the agreements between biden and xi jinping that, in this situation, china will

restrain and the united states of america will do their utmost to ensure that new weapons, including ballistic missiles, do not enter the territory of the russian state, so we definitely know that our friends partners, the united states, others are engaged in this, and it seems that we will see in the near future in the new package of sanctions for the european union, those companies that, let's say, supply there, say, chips or some other components for russian drones, of course , work has also started against iran, since iran has been under sanctions for how long, and found a certain loophole for the sale of oil, and here, by the way, we now see that the fleet has increased. they are going to, let’s say, to transport their oil like this, that is,

there is a certain amount of work going on here, and the chinese understand that the most important thing for them is relations with the united states to maintain them so that they do not deteriorate because they are now quite so, let's say, in a tense state, the latter are the second chinese companies that could sell some chips or something else, they definitely value the market of the developed countries of the european union or the united states, and that is why they limited the supply of these chips to the russian federation, this does not mean that they are not there, but literally a month ago there was a note that 40% of the chips sold by the chinese to russians are defective, there are problems, but it is definitely not the most modern and certainly not in that amount which are needed by russia, which does not actually produce such a class of chips, so there is deterrence, and i think that also for china, he has found the right balance, on the one hand, not to give russia the opportunity to be, let's say,

isolated, and they are now buying more russian energy carriers, well, trade there is more or less working normally but on the other hand, they don't want to pay for this stupidity, geopolitical, hepatic, in fact, suicide . resolutions that are against the russian federation. by the way , in 2014, they either did not vote at all or abstained. but on the other hand, we are not going to help so that russia, well, actually could get out of this conflict, well, invincible , oleksandr, i can’t help but ask you about these mysterious envelopes that were sent all over europe to diplomatic missions of ukrainian embassies abroad in spain, in particular, we know

that uh , the residence of the ambassador to ukraine in the vatican. in the apartment what do you think and what does this mean eh among diplomats and in general there is, i don’t know if this is a diplomatic issue at all these are ordinary hooligans there are criminal circles eh somewhere there they handed wrapped fish to someone some kind of signs cut off the head there they sent a horse by mail there did something else do something. what does this mean? how can it be explained at all ? does it need to be explained to people who deal with mentally unhealthy people? well, you are absolutely right here, more to some pathology of a psychological nature than to diplomacy, but on the other hand russia is a mafia state and its behavior has been

tolerated for a long time, let's go now, it seems that i have not seen whether there is any confirmation that a chechen blogger was killed in sweden, but before that, a chechen representative was killed in berlin. i'm not talking about lytvynenko, that means there will not be a low number of discripals and others, that is, in principle , killing outside the judicial system is the norm, and terrorist attacks, supporting non-terrorist organizations is the norm. our diplomats abroad to try to intimidate them in some way, because on the battlefield they can't do anything, then let's search ukrainian cities and, in fact, in the dark in the cold, so that millions of ukrainians end up here, and if that doesn't work, let's do something else. i think it's like that, but

things like that just don't work, even if it's one of our diplomats. i'll feel bad about such a situation. well, that doesn't mean that the system, well, let's say it like this. let's fail and we'll agree to everything demands of the russian federation but it seems to me that it is a very good thing that this happened, because in principle these are illusions and ms. let's say that this is the common understanding of the russian federation . you can cancel it, that's not all, yes, they're not all bad, and they show other things like that, there's no bottom. apply any methods therefore it is good well, if russia shows that, well, i would say a face, some kind of grimace, i don’t know what they actually are, that was hidden behind er, caviar, champagne,

vodka, these evenings, moscow evenings, aldar clubs or some other things. for example, through communication with the profession of some hymno, there are few such people, let’s say so, they created the impression that in fact the whole of russia is so highly educated, spiritually orthodox , that is, it is wild wild by and large, a small percentage that can be compared to who can we talk to for how much can we communicate normally, who support us, mostly they are not in the russian federation for obvious reasons, but russia is essentially such a mafia well, the state gives and it is difficult to call the institutes, as if they are formal but in fact, what are the functions performed for, that is why it is that there is there is an essence thank you thank you mr oleksandr for the conversation thank you for participating in our program i wish you good health and take care friends it was a program verdict about her serhiy rudenko i

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