and if i didn't defend my choices on the maidan , in any case, they demand that they simply say that they are responsible and no one punishes them for it, and it is clear that the minority cannot defeat the majority, but this is a huge problem, we will answer all other questions by about our meeting, it was just an important conversation. thank you for her, but i thank him for this, for everything latvia. thank you latvia, which showed us the whole beautiful face of the russian so-called liberals mykola veresen vitaly portnikov thank you and to the next everything is good see you all the best and peace the most important the most important

i congratulate you dear viewers on the air of the espresso tv channel the program studio the event we will analyze the most important events of this week our experts retired colonel of the british army glen grant and former member of the state duma mark fagin our current guest colonel of the british army in retirement, the famous military expert glen grand . glory to ukraine, mr. colonel. i welcome you to the espresso tv channel studio. russia has suffered quite devastating blows, there are reports of strikes on their airfields airfields of strategic aviation. yes, we understand that they took it extremely painfully, although we may have hoped for greater results. the most important thing about these strikes on the territory of russia is that they are obviously sending real signals that it is long time for russia to send. russia cannot do that it will fail without any this is retaliation , it seems that the strategic strikes from russia on ukraine are

weakening by ships at sea or by planes that are now in places that the armed forces of ukraine can reach. so, for me, what is happening now is good from all angles. we just have to hope that there will be no strategic air donation to ukraine, as a result of which something very important may be affected, we just we must hope that there will not be a strategic airstrike on ukraine, as a result of which something extremely important may be damaged. i mean that the enemy is hitting the energy sector, but it is not able to destroy it, and this is a positive moment because in the end the affected objects can be restored, so we must now cross our fingers that none of the nuclear power plants fall under the distribution, it is extremely unfair when they destroy the objects

of our civilian infrastructure, yes and their strategic military objects are in peace, let's hope that this will have significant influence on the development of the situation, in any case, we understand, mr. colonel, that putin announced the so-called long war. this is a very broad question. i agree with the first point, which is really important, russia understands the likelihood that the flames of this war will spread to russia i am not 100% sure that these attacks will have an operational effect on the pain of pain strategically yes and maybe it will start to turn more people against putin and it will finally dawn on him that he will lose operationally there is real problem if putin decides to open more fronts because he has a very large human resource compared to ukraine, if he opens such a front in belarus, it will absorb more

ukrainian resources and more ukrainian people ukrainian soldiers in battle, which is bad for us ukraine. that is why it is so important that counterattacks resume as soon as possible in order to push the russian forces back, because now they are very weak. and their morale is almost at zero, so they need to be hit . it's time to consider your further actions, and this is not good for us. russia must be put on the back foot so that their center of gravity shifts back, so that they begin to retreat without giving away what will happen next, that is why it is very important to coordinate air donations with ground attacks because this is exactly what confuses them and they do not understand what to expect next the centralization of artillery and the centralization of strategic warfare must be completely and completely connected with the battles on the front line otherwise there will be no proper result in this regard there must be

stronger coordination and not just striking tempting targets just because they have to should try to do something that opens up the front lines for combatant commanders that should be the priority at this point because we have to start moving forward, if there is a delay during the winter, it will be in russia's favor because russia will have time to conduct a larger mobilization, more training and improve the quality of the enemy, so we cannot allow them to do this, they must continue to retreat, and more they must flee, this is our main task, not that what are we doing at the moment, mr. colonel bakhmut, why with such hellish hysteria do the russians constantly try to advance precisely in the direction of bakhmut. it seems that donetsk has become something for them such a fundamental cornerstone of this phase of the

war is hard to say why they chose this particular place maybe because there are good logistics zones or something else it's possible that putin said forget what to take bakhmut and they're all doing it because they're just following orders today it's bakhmut but remember you know, 10-12 weeks ago it was raisin and it seems to me that russia will always try to advance somewhere , but the m-80 brigade found itself behind raisin and the entire defense fell very quickly, exactly the same with bakhmut if we can go behind the front line, the front line fall apart, i don't think it matters whether we call it a retreat or something else, because after bakhmut, if we start moving forward, russia will concentrate on something else, because their goal is simply to destroy and concentrate as many ukrainian forces as possible in one place, they should be allowed

to fight bakhmut - this is and still is the place they chose, the situation in the south and how problematic it would be in general to open up the russian defenses there, the second question is the availability of resources, in particular, powerful armored resources, so it is about our side, on the other hand, we understand that the russians are also aware of all the dangers that may arise for their occupying forces to break through the defenses in any area. you must concentrate your forces, in other words, you must decide how you are going to make a breakthrough for ukraine, the moment of concentration of forces is important, the concentration of artillery in tv zone but as i just said if you are going to concentrate forces with artillery in the tv destroying logistics and everything else you have to continue with a very fast attack otherwise you give it's time for the enemy to return what you took and what

you destroyed from his effectiveness, and the fact is that if there is a strong breakthrough in any direction in the direction of melitopol or the crimea, there will be a lot of russian soldiers who will want to flee because i already said the longer the delay in the south the more confidence it gives the enemy the more time they will have to dig trenches and other things i know it is very difficult because of equipment and ammunition but the russian side has exactly the same problems at the same time we are sure that the russians are not as strong psychologically as the ukrainian troops, and i think that this mental confidence is the key to everything, we should not wait because you are waiting for russia's hand, every day is russia's advantage. therefore, we must continue to move forward anywhere, anywhere. i know that there is a certain movement in the north, but everywhere it is giving movement, it needs to be strengthened so that it becomes a powerful movement,

concluding the answer, i want to say that if it will be a protracted war, and you mentioned it in the previous question, then the most important thing that ukraine should do now is to prepare the next people who are sent to the frontline, special officers, captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels, who are leaders in battles, because there is great bravery on the frontline, but there is also an understanding of all combat training for all different types of combat, so it is necessary to work more on such combat training, to acquire the necessary skills, some of your soldiers are trained in great britain and will be trained in poland and the czech republic. but officers, captains, majors, lieutenant colonels need to be taught how to lead combat training how to manage the battle so as not to lose so many soldiers so that every time they attack and they are clean, neat and

unpleasant for the enemy thanks to the fact that they understand what they are doing therefore we need to restart the training centers in order to have better officer cadres, some of which should come from of the front line and learn, and part of it should come from the front line and learn to learn and learn in order to return to the front line stronger and more capable. because only the brains and skills of ukraine will win this war, not american armored personnel carriers or atakams victory will be won on the battlefield and it must be people who know what they are doing, so we must rise to another level of bravery is not enough when you fight with orcs you must also be smart box clover the enemy will actively use the so-called northern bridgehead maybe not now maybe in three weeks, maybe in a month, maybe in two months, but kyiv is constantly under threat, the assassination of the

minister of foreign affairs of the republic of belarus indicates that the belarusian scenario, the kremlin is already took into development and this is a matter of timing, but the key point is not even the belarusian armed forces - it is the armed forces of the russian federation, from which they could form, so to speak , a large combat-capable formation in belarus. well, the key task is to ensure that this does not happen unnoticed. yesterday i heard about the fact that they are actually carrying out a certain form of mobilization or before the mobilization preparation in belarus now everyone is being monitored there, therefore all men must be registered and in fact they are trying to get everyone who tries to leave the country to stop, so there is obviously some activity going on, but i don't necessarily agree with you that they can create a strong powerful group because they don't have that many willing people there, many russians who went there are not

battle-hardened, they are newbies, all they can bring with them for russia, this is even more orcs, that is, there will be another orc-style battle when they just throw cannon fodder against ukraine. i do not see any prospects for a coordinated big battle because, for example, belarus actually sent ammunition and equipment to russia and i am not sure that these ammunition and equipment will return because a lot has already been destroyed and used, especially ammunition. so, in fact, the logistical space behind the belarusians is weak. and it is not a fact that this logistical space will give them the necessary power, they can attack and it will a problem for us due to the number of troops, however, the places through which they can attack are quite narrow and can be quite well protected, we remember that there are now many more people in kyiv who have been in battle, so

for us, unlike the belarusians, this will not be the first battle, such a schedule may be a problem, but it is a problem of quantity, not quality. although quantity, as we know, has its own power. of course, since the war, now they are trying to drag out time and regroup all their resources at one time, the prime minister of great britain, david lloyd george, noted that the issue of moral support is extremely important, but the issue of resources is even more important. how long will russia be ready to lead, how long will it have the strength to to wage a long war against ukraine, their potential will be enough for several years, there is no doubt about it, russia has the people and also the basic equipment to continue producing a sufficient number of charges to keep ukraine under pressure, the important thing is that russia is preparing for a total war ukraine - no ukraine in still not

focused enough on this war at the government level we're thinking about other things road safety plans we're not fully prepared for how we're going to fight this war if putin doesn't stop i think that with the ukrainian side still has too much hope that everything will be fine, that we get something from america, that we get attacks and so on, there is a certain lack of planning, what will we do if we don't get all these things and russia will continue and continue this is what they did during the winter war she just kept advancing just kept taking numbers until it got too hard and finland knew she couldn't keep winning we could be in the same situation if we don't start thinking therefore, i think that ukraine should understand that it will be a long war, and that is why it is necessary to prepare

more officers and people for war, start to consider all enterprises, whether they will all be able to produce weapons and military systems, to produce more ammunition, mostly from ukraine's own resources, because if putin will continue or he will be replaced by someone else who hates ukraine , then this war can continue for a very long time and people should be ready for this without depriving themselves of hope, they should acquire rigidity and confidence in of how we are going to win and hold the front line because even when you drive everyone out of crimea and we will do it russia can continue to attack kharkiv or sumy or attack through belarus this war will not end so easily ukraine must go to another level and think about the long-term perspective not like now, let's get some more equipment from america and everything will be fine, it

may not be like that, we should be serious about tanks, this is a serious story, but we still don't see the m1 abrams, we are told by some fables about the fact that this is some kind of extremely high-tech equipment and that it takes a long time. the same applies approximately to long-range atakams, the same applies to aviation in particular f16. yes. help and this is extremely important. this is extremely good. but in order to conduct a very clear and specific offensive activity, we are talking about our territory and our land, which we have to liberate, we need certain powerful the tools i mentioned, i don't think

it's about threats, there are many people who want everything to go back to normal, that is, what happened from 2014 to 2022 was acceptable to them, because in reality nothing special and did not bother disturbed and killed only ukrainians and not the rest of europe, such people are afraid of what might happen next. they worry that ukraine might win and that russia might fall apart because if you become an llc, seven or eight countries will suddenly have nuclear weapons, and then a whole bunch will appear problems like after the collapse of the soviet union and i think that mentally some of the leaders, especially in america, just mentally do not have the ability to cope with it, they want everything to be easy and simple, for ukraine to simply return to february 24 and say ok, now we will have peace and they think that russia will give them this peace. they don't understand putin

. they don't understand how russia, in its orc-like thinking, treats ukraine, and that's why there is stupidity in all of this, the stupidity of people who don't understand the essence and still look at russia through german eyes with french eyes with american eyes and do not see what kind of war it is and what kind of battle it really is. they do not understand this and therefore think that if putin is given a chance to save face and give a back door, then he will use it and be happy and everything will be fine again as before but fine it won't happen again because russia won't allow it, why don't they give weapons, obviously because they are afraid that if they give ukraine weapons, it will easily win and then what will happen next, they don't have an answer to this, they don't understand how the war can end and they are afraid that it will only get worse and that is why we found ourselves in a stalemate, and returning to what i have already talked about, ukraine must stand on its own two feet and

stop relying on everything that comes from the outside, and also start working on how to do everything independently by using more drones or conducting more education and so on, but relying on the fact that people will change their understanding in america in the white house is dangerous because many of them are unable to really change their views because, as you remember , the ukrainian war is only 5 minutes in a row a day in the white house while the american economy and politics 80% they do not think about ukraine all day you are lucky if you get 10-15 minutes a day the rest of the time they worry about their votes and democrats and republicans worry about winning their american business because you need to think differently i suspect

you have the same problem germany has historical ties with russia wants to return to good cheap oil so the german economy can continue to grow france with macron who wants to be the leader of europe and thinks that he can come to an agreement with putin because conceptually and culturally he has no idea what putin is and he does not try to find out, that is why we have a problem in these areas, so on the one hand i understand what is caused, so to speak, cautiously the strategy of the united states is quite effective, but there is one thing , but our brothers and sisters are dying every day, every day russia is shelling us and preparing to commit an act of winter genocide, in particular, it is about the destruction of our civilian energy infrastructure from the second side i would like to clarify with you and then fear the expansion of the war or seek the opposite of it, so we

understand. well, when a russian rocket flies into the territory of poland, well, this is one story, as if by chance, then a rocket accidentally flies into the territory of moldova, and we understand that putin will use this psychological the moment, so to speak, to try to intimidate our european partners because a is possible - putin says some kind of incomprehensible or i rocket can fly in the direction of berlin and both. i mean that he does not want to fight with nato putin's general and putin knows that he cannot win a war against nato or against the usa and it is quite clear that he wants so that the public resonance from this actually returns to the home audience is the most important thing for him i am only interested in his own position and his money he cares exclusively about the circle of people close to him in order to keep them in power, he clings

to power by his teeth, he needs a picture, not the reality that nato is at war with him, he is not a fool in this regard, and he has a picture that nato he is really fighting now, they see the equipment that is there. i mean that there are many thousands of millions of russians who are convinced that the americans are fighting at the front, and there are a large number of non- volunteers. they do not understand who the volunteers are, it is beyond their understanding that someone will come from america and will fight. it's so simple for ukraine , what is it, but they think that nato is already inside ukraine and is fighting, and this is the message that is broadcast on television in russia that russia is now at war with nato, so putin already has what he needs a missile in poland's rocket to moldova is nothing, it's just a minor tangential origin in the daily struggle, it's an

unintentional attempt to do something because he had time to do something, and a lot of time to involve nato in this war, but he didn't do it, he had a lot of time to launch missiles to the baltic countries or to seriously aim at poland, but he did not do it, and if it has not happened yet, then i do not think that he will dare to do it, it is with great regret that i have to end our conversation with the next one, thank you, mr. colonel, for this extremely interesting and meaningful analysis, and i would like to remind our viewers that now a retired colonel of the british army, a famous military expert, glen grand gat save the king, is working for them on the espresso tv channel. glory to the heroes, our guest, mark feigin, a former member of the state duma, a member of the russian opposition in

emigration and a famous video blogger, glory to ukraine mark greetings to all of you on the channel. well, i would like us to start our analysis accordingly with the revelations of the kremlin elder. although he is actually not so old and so to speak, the number of his of war crimes is already approaching records, so to speak. well, probably the key moment from his latest revelations was that he is translating his so -called military phase, which he planned as a blitzkrieg , into the format of a long protracted war. everyone condemns the use of nuclear weapons in the use of russia's forces, which it has left for retaliation and so on

which three suffered this, which is actually part of the nuclear series, and so on, consider russia and so on, and it turns out that there are almost 650. well, there are about 700 km from the border of ukraine . what can this nuclear shield turn into a tomahawk-type missile or something like that, and the last thing i asked was that it turns out that there is still nothing, all this is a fake, all this is a deception, no means of air defense, no, that’s all. there is no early warning of funds and so on . well, it is possible that they are deployed for theatrical actions, and i think that in the deep tulula nothing threatens, nothing is being done. putin needed this laughter that was coming from kiev and the western media needed something porirovat eto say, continuing to resort to nuclear rhetoric, intimidation,

compensatory for what happened, this is my conviction, there were other moments, well, for example, he suddenly spoke now, eh, although he spoke to this is about what the goal was for the territory to be stronger. yes, it was a simple intereya, no one doubted it . they were able to establish the whole combination. and here he begins to weave in peter the first and so on. i was not an ambassador. and we managed to do this from one country. this is a justification before the public and within russia. well, there is nothing called electors there at all. there is nothing public, but on the other hand, this is a request. well, let’s say this is how the whole operation will be designated , then immediately to the side it sounds like ara is

fighting for what. but this is responsible for the sake of peace, not the territory. well, this is a very tricky thing, because tomorrow you will lose it and the basin of the sea of ​​azov, and there melitopol will take something . maybe so that crimea does not stand there or there is not given. not five lands of donbass, that is, this is such a catchy story, but it will not go away because it is necessary to justify the next wave of mobilization, and the losses that it says will not run away. sooner or later, it is obvious that it is gigantic the loss is already uh-uh first wave of mobilization on september 21, everyone was very surprised at that time by the story that the airfields of the strategic aviation were attacked well, accordingly, the story about the airfield is about the nuclear triad, the so-called even submarines boats, aviation, rocket launchers, and here it turned out that it is necessary to urgently evacuate the whole thing, well, those who understand that they understand everything, uh, military

units, irovye prices there, and so on, that is, they understand everything, but they are strongly deployed, no, well, they can take away some the bombers are here, that strategic aviation is somewhere beyond the urals. well, this is not a solution to the problem because, in fact, there are no airfields equipped to such a degree as in the saratsk region under engels, in which, so to speak, they have warehouses they they have corresponding equipment and so on, which means that it is necessary to create new ones in the depths of russia, the main warehouses of the strategic stock, by the way, and the tactical stock is not located in the urals, but in the real footage, the city, and so on, that is, where do you need to book a ticket? well, 8 well , chelyabin is a problem. and what if drones of ukraine appear tomorrow that fly at 2,000 km, but only a second rocket, you know, i also don’t have a ballistic missile that flies there at any distance

the distance between the missiles that the americans have and the europeans, and so on, it turns out that even ukraine with its potential, well, the conditions of war, the destruction of nuclear weapons, and so on, is capable of solving these problems. by force and means, there is a preliminary condition for a long time, you and baidinskiy blinky and sherman, literally yesterday, in my opinion, bendy sherman himself said about it the secretary of state america, that there is no preliminary condition, this guy is entering the army, and please any negotiations drugs, although in the rest they are security guarantees please two characteristic moments strelkov he is girkin and the criminal took what he did from the front line, so to speak, with an incomprehensible motivation, the second moment, either solovyov or kiselyov i know eh i don't understand the varieties of that, you know, aromatic substance, i don't

understand, he said literally there recently about what tsarev would advise us to do, do you remember there was such a figure, a former regional official who left the russian federation well and so on and so he advised him not to get into skirmishes between the russian special services, and here the story is not about tsarev, but about the fact that the skirmishes between the russian special services inside russia itself are starting from there. what is the importance of what horking says, he says that in the trenches he does not understand the purpose of special operations rancho they die and fight so to say, he says that the kremlin deliberately confuses the goal, so that at any moment, in its own interests, this operation will end through negotiations. we will allow to press the sentence restored to the status-klu otlichnoe uhodym with what part are they lying all the same, this execution is clear