now any airfields that are located at a distance of 500 or 700 km from the e of the ukrainian russian border can be hit by unknown drones, as reported by russian telegram channels, well, there is no doubt that they are already really hit in the literal and figurative sense of the word, and i can only applaud e to those army men who are involved in this event, so far we have two such super successful cases, the impression of enemy fire at long distances, and i would really like it to become a regularity, are we really seeing extremely high the tactical and technical characteristics of our aircraft e-e plus the command or we see the complete helplessness of the russian air defense forces and this breaks one more myth e-e soviet and then russian

propaganda about an extremely powerful and beautiful army in fact it turned out to be completely defenseless and e-e happened 100% hitting those objects that were important for ukraine, the russians must clearly understand that with punishment , that the war will definitely move to their territory and that they wanted peace, the murder and crime they committed in ukraine will not be yesterday president zelensky stated that by the end of this year, the enemy will try to compensate for his losses with missile strikes in order to gloat on his propaganda channels. let's see the supreme commander-in-chief. dear ukrainians, how many days have we left this year? we must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time difficult and difficult for russia. lost this year everything is trying to make up for its

losses evil comfort of its propagandists after missile strikes on our country on our energy i know that the darkness will not respect us lead the occupiers to their new defeats , but we must be ready for any scenarios, please listen to the air traffic these days. by the way, the head of the united press center of the defense forces of southern ukraine, nataliya humenyuk , said about the possibility of missile strikes by the russian occupiers she says that there are now one surface and two underwater missile carriers in the black sea, on which a total of 16 caliber missiles are placed. launched carrier rockets into the sea and raised strategic and tactical aircraft , volodymyr, for a rather long period,

obviously this long period is measured in two months, various leaders of the national security and defense council and the ministry of defense and guru talked about the fact that there is not much left for mass strikes in russia rockets . how do you perceive this information when they say that 3-4 strikes will be enough , do we know everything about the enemy to talk ? surely, we will suffer 3-4 more strikes and then the missiles in russia will run out, or will russia be like that ? an overly militarized state can find some additional resources in order to bombard the territory of our state, do you know whether when i was a politician or now when i am a soldier. it was absolutely obvious to me that the only truth is that until the kremlin burns, we will have constant problems and terrorist attacks in that or

another plane will always be carried out by the hands of the russian special services thanks to the russian politicians and the assistance of ordinary russian citizens, so i believe that any missile attacks will definitely be significantly limited after we destroy the local the production of these rook platforms and their launch and launch sites, but first of all, our goal must be unchanged, and this is exactly how the war will end with the burning of the kremlin . there can be no alternative to this, and i am glad that my then radical opinion is now shared by the absolute majority of ukrainian citizens today in a meeting is taking place in moscow with the leaders of the cis countries, or in st. petersburg, where are the leaders of this commonwealth, which was once formed on the ruins of the

soviet union, meeting? we know that ukraine is i was never a member of the cis, i was only an associate member, so the leaders of five states have gathered there and they are thinking about the future, they are talking about the future lukashenko says that the next year will be the most successful and happiest for those who gathered there, let's go let's see lukashenka in the best of luck. thank you . that was the reaction of the journalists and the reaction of the pseudo-president of belarus. mr. volodymyr, i have a question for you as a diplomat and a person who has been in

ukrainian politics for quite a long time. it is obvious that putin is was preparing an offensive against ukraine considering and taking into account the fact that december 30 will take place or will not take place actually in uh, we will. will they celebrate the 100th anniversary of the formation of the soviet union, well, that is, celebrate and obviously this meeting of the cis is one of the reasons to talk about it about that how good it would be to return to some minimal soviet union or the cis - is this a mini soviet union according to you? has the passing year been the final answer to the fact that such a union cannot exist, well, at least with the participation of ukraine and moldova and other countries, unless with the exception of belarus, you know, we

both love history and have seen many strange unions in history, which should not have been, but nevertheless took place, so i would not completely reject the impossibility of this or that union, but there is no doubt that this time putin is chasing your dream to rebuild the russian empire even on the soviet union, namely the russian empire, will lose russia itself, and it is obvious that putin is now desperate for any allies, because traveling by train or plane between moscow and minsk is something moscow and phanyan does not give him any pleasure, but no one else, his allies, are particularly eager to use the tools in russia, or rather in the kremlin, to convince or force him to join another club of the ussr, the cis there, or anything else

is currently impossible, therefore, in my opinion, we we can look at this photo completely calmly, each of the mainly asian leaders of asian states present there has their own reasons why they came to this, i think it is the last event before the funeral of the cis and you can listen to lukashenko's predictions with a smile that 2023 year will be very successful because in his imagination it will probably be putin's funeral, at which he will be able not to come and continue to rule belarus , but here i think he will also be deeply disappointed . the happiest year, according to lukashenka, the year of the russian language says the russian language is a powerful unifying force, let's hear from putin, let me remind you that we

decided to hold the reni summits in the countries of the commonwealth of nations in 2023. всех for the support of this initiative, 8 extensive programs of events were directed to the support of the preservation and improvement of the status of the language of the language of inter-national communication to the worldwide popularization of our achievements in the field of culture. waiting for russian culture and russian literature is not true because it is well known that a lot of russian artists, by the way, russian writers have also lost contracts with by foreign publishing houses and with foreign companies, and now russian culture is treated as the culture of the occupiers who

attacked the ukrainian state, but this thesis of pro-russian language is pushed by putin because it is always an argument in the discussion of whether the russian army should intervene somewhere or not in some conflicts they always say well wait there is a russian language there our people so in principle we can do anything because we protect our people and what putin said in the last few days in public he talked about the fact that we are in ukraine we protect our people, this means where russian is spoken there, he believes that this is his territory. does he have a bridgehead there in order to go further? do the leaders of the cis understand according to you that the russian language is, in putin's performance, exactly the same weapon as s- 300 or , er, there are er, er, bombers that he

used. are these exactly the same weapons that can be fired at any moment in those countries whose leaders he met today? i am convinced that at least the elite of these countries definitely understand this that's why we we will hear regular cries from the kremlin about how they consider the infringement of certain rights of russian-speaking minorities in all countries, but for me it is extremely important that they finally begin to understand this in ukraine, they are moving away from the concept of "what difference is it that i grew up like this and that's why i want to die with blocking from in this language and independently returns to the ukrainian language , it is definitely a tool of the empire, the language has always been and always will be, because it is a way of subjugating the occupied peoples, and language and culture and some common points of contact in history, it is very good that putin is again

is climbing the shield now, because all his attempts to announce something key, whether it's gas or the cult about e-e, will end with the dismantling of these systems, so i would really like to see the complete dismantling of the russian language in ukraine in 2012, and how very successfully one contributor said that i am the last native speaker of the russian language and i want this russian language to die with me. it will probably be a calm organic path that will lead to the fact that this attempt by the countess to communicate in the ukrainian language with which the russian language was born will clearly fail and the experiment will be forgotten today. volodymyr, the ukrainian delegation to the united nations should raise the question of russia's exclusion or stay

in the united nations security council. we remember that in 1991, when the soviet union collapsed, the united nations was three subjects from the soviet union of the time at the time of its collapse, this is the soviet union itself ukraine and belarus as the founders of the russian federation e-e wrote a letter to the united nations and stated that that she is the legal successor of the soviet union, and therefore the positions in the un that she occupied were occupied by the soviet union, russia decided to appropriate, or let's say, to appropriate to herself, that is, the place of the un and the place in the un security council, and the current attempt of ukrainian diplomats to raise this issue is connected with the fact that due to the position

of russia, due to its veto, which it constantly uses, it is impossible to hold issues in the radbezion, including those that touch on the punishment or, let's say, the responsibility of the russian federation for the war in ukraine on in your opinion, can the un now become the platform and correct the mistakes that we have seen over the last year regarding the responsibility of russia to the world and to ukraine? i remember the times when ukraine raised the issue of russia's exclusion from the un security council and the organization as such, but at that time no one understood us at all, it is known that they thought that you were significantly exaggerating or hyperbolizing the situation, now it is understood that russia definitely does not have a place among the permanent members of the un security council, and it already includes

only the united states, but the european union and many other leading states. but there really is, but the lack of a legal mechanism as such , and here russia itself can become an obstacle with its right to veto, because i think that a precedent could be set and this mechanism could be ignored although it would be a gross violation of the rules, no less than russia has violated international law even more grossly, and the issue of china is still not clarified, and it seems to me that china's voice on this platform , which is quite influential, is inhibiting in to one degree or another, these processes are and it is possible that powerful players will agree with the fact that, let's say , the presence of russia in the un is not the key to resolving the war, because even if russia is excluded tomorrow, it will not stop the war. but in the future, it will undoubtedly serve as a

serious precedent that the state had no right, being in the security council, blocking certain or other decisions, whether or not the security council will simply attack other states, especially non-nuclear ones, so the mechanism will be developed and we see that russia's war with ukraine, she pushed for a lot of changes and a lot of reforms in a number of such systemic institutions that believed that they were working effectively, but it turned out that on the contrary, it is obvious, mr. volodymyr, that the number one topic for the russians will be the topic of possible negotiations with ukraine. they are constantly torpedoing this topic uh, they turn to this topic, the same putin says that we don’t mind sitting down at the negotiating table, yes, but you see that the

ukrainians don’t want west and they adopted or signed zelensky's decree on the implementation of the decision of the national security and defense council on the impossibility of conducting visits from russia until they leave our territory, meanwhile , russian propagandists in the form of a newly-made family, nashes simonyan, are pushing new proposals for negotiations editor-in-chief kara shatudi assures the audience that the minimum compromise is to leave the occupied territories to them, let's watch a fragment of a tv program with the participation of the semenians , because the request will never go to ukraine no matter what kind of compromise except the return of not only our new territories, but also crimea , you will never understand that they will not go to anything less than this, and they have not a single reason and

no motivation to go to any compromise . maxim, we will return krym, here you represent that we will return krym well, just imagine that you are what putin says, sorry , it did not work, we will return krym this is a catastrophe for us with a minimal victory of ours, we could recognize it, as it seems to me, russia could recognize the minimal ones here is the key the minimum preservation of these new territories, which is there in your opinion , vladimir, what, what, what compromises can ukraine make in the negotiations with russia, or these compromises cannot, in principle, be a sign for me, it was a moment of unwillingness to make compromises of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi. i was very glad to hear this from him, because i remember other stories related to his desire to get away with putin. i don't listen to russian rhetoric about negotiations or

compromises . the existence of the soviet union and to the extent that we measure up to the fact that we do not want to fight, and at the same time provoking wars, provoking clashes of tension, pouring money into the exercise of radical or left-wing radical organizations to destabilize certain governments with which they wanted to be friends, this is a passed stage with russia, there is nothing to talk about and we see that by the same token, glory to god clearly understands that there is nothing to agree on with russia and they do not keep their word and they do not want to go to the terms of ukraine, so russia continues to tell that they are ready for negotiations, but ukraine also continues to say that we are ready for negotiations, but take your troops to the borders of 1991, imprison your criminals and pay compensation in the form of reparations to ukraine and the allies, so everything is decided on the battlefield, it was obvious from the very beginning and so it will be. thank you, mr. volodymyr, for participating in

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today's attack on engels and podyageleva airfields is because this situation is repeating itself and someone is already starting to joke on social networks that this is how decommunization takes place. engels and engels is gradually turning into a black fighter e-e to e-e these two airfields are 500-600 km away, we know that earlier ukroboronprom reported that it was completing the development of an attack drone, this was literally a month ago with a range with a flight of 1,000 km and a warhead weighing 75 kg, you do not assess the current situation and the opportunities that appear on the ukrainian side in order to transfer combat operations from the territory of ukraine to the russian territory and

to what extent it is possible to expand this zone where are russian planes, russian bombers, and the russian military in general will not feel at ease well, in fact, the destruction of the base infrastructure of strategic aircraft or other aircraft that carry out strikes on ukrainian territory is an overriding task, that is, if we achieve the fact that russian aircraft will not be able to be based within a radius of 1,000 km, in any case, the most important thing for carrying out strikes on ukraine will be a sharp decrease in the opportunities for russia to, in general, in any way influence other than tactical weapons on ukrainian territory, of course, we will have great advantages from this, and now these strikes are on engels. this is

already the second strike on the only airfield in russia, where comprehensive provision of preparation for use is carried out of strategic bomber aviation is extremely important because if during this strike the very infrastructure that provides the preparation for the use of aesthetic starving aviation is damaged, it will be a strategic strike on the capabilities of the russian federation in general on one of the components because it will now be necessary to build and equip another airfield which will obviously have to be done somewhere within a radius of more than a thousand kilometers on the territory of the russian federation . construction aviation is on the territory of ukraine, which needs to be on the territory of europe, so i believe that these strikes and that evidence are evidence that we have this weapon. it is starting to be used more and

more often. it is an extremely positive trend. mykhailo. last week, the minister of defense of the russian federation together with president putin, they announced that they will strive to increase the russian army to one and a half million people in 2023, we know that at the beginning of the war, the russian army had 1 million, then they increased it by 150 000 of its army. well, now they plan to increase it by 350,000. what does it mean for russia to increase such a number of people, considering that putin constantly says that we will strengthen the leningrad moscow military districts, obviously leningrad

in the in connection with the possible accession of finland to nato and moscow, it is obvious because it is possible to transfer hostilities from the territory of ukraine to the territory of russia, but what does 1.5 million mean for russia and what should be the response of ukraine in this case we are not talking yet about increasing the number of his army, why in fact, uh, this is evidence that putin's previous plans failed, that is, first of all, we remember he had a stage when he said that in three days he would take those 10 euros for 10 ukraine, then he had a stage when he with the same forces that he had, they tried to break through the defense in donbas, but it did not work again, after that a partial so-called partial mobilization was carried out and, er, attacks on the ukrainian energy

infrastructure began, creating a humanitarian crisis and in this way, trying to change the strategic situation at the front again, nothing came of it, and uh, this decision, and especially the fact that now they started pr, what are you showing him now, just as he is flying somewhere in helicopters, he is visiting defense enterprises, as well as putin began to visit defense enterprises company, demonstrating that russia is coming to the military in general, and perhaps it is necessary to declare a state of war, that is, they actually recognized by their actions that all these previous efforts turned out to be useless, and now they are moving to the next stage. i think that after the new year's holidays , another wave of mobilization will be held or announced, it will be announced that martial law is actually being introduced, and putin simply has no other option than to increase the number of personnel, to increase the capabilities

but i think that time has been lost, that is, according to various estimates, in order for these decisions that they are now making to somehow have a small effect on the battlefield, at least two months are needed, that is, they would now obviously like to achieve some kind of operational pause for that they be allowed to create these reserves and try or break the e-lobe in donbas again , and perhaps also create in parallel to open the northern front, which we constantly talk about from the territory of belarus. but i think that i am sure that the ukrainian army will not allow them to get this pause for two months and events literally right now at the front indicate that the armed forces continue to actively use their strategic initiative and act actively both in the east and in the south, and this means that two months between putin's to implement these solutions is simply

not physically possible, what does one and a half million from the russians mean for ukraine or do we need to respond symmetrically, that is, they increase by 350? moreover, it is easy to crush the russian-ukrainian front with bodies and i completely disagree with this logic. but in principle, remember the article of general zaluzhnyi, who says that i do not need people, i need 300 tanks, i need 700 armored personnel carriers and 500 e of modern artillery systems. that is, in principle, he called such uh, well, what is the first thing that comes to mind, but of course he also needs high-precision systems, he needs aviation, he needs self-defense systems, and so on. that is , we are now in the xxi century, the armed forces should perform the role or function

as a reconnaissance strike complex and not as a 1.5 million machine for turning people into minced meat. that is, these are completely different approaches. i am sure that 300,000 or 500,000 for russia will not change anything now because the serious initiative is in the hands of ukraine, and if ukraine continues . the accumulation of personnel, what we are seeing now both in the east and in the south, the russians will again throw new chmobyks, but this will not lead to any results at all from the point of view of turning the situation around, will only lead to huge losses among the russian the population that is currently suffering, but when the economic situation worsens it

will worsen, it is already beginning to worsen because finally in december, real sanctions against russia related to oil and gas began to be introduced. rosa there today published his report, he now has a portfolio of orders of 200 billion dollars. excuse me, this is the company that actually currently manages the occupied zaporizhzhia npp, and it has a portfolio of 200 billion dollars, including most of their orders from by our western partners, that is, real sanctions will lead to the fact that the standard of living of russians will begin to fall, and this will immediately be imposed and multiplied by these losses , so i think that we do not need to respond in a mirror, we need to increase our technical readiness to destroy russian soldiers. well, the armed forces forces of ukraine successfully cope with this