today's e, we know that during the last few months this topic of the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons was the top topic in the world e-e until the time when the director of this run met with the head of the e-e foreign intelligence service in russia in ankara and while they they did not discuss all the issues concerning the united states of america and russia, we know that blinking spoke about the fact that russia was warned about the possible consequences, strongly warned about the possible consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, but here is the minister italy's defense ministry is again talking about these tactical nuclear weapons, what do you think? how diplomatically or not diplomatically did russia explain that this should not be done, as it usually happens in diplomacy when the other side is made to understand that it is being used. this

will have the consequence well, you know, yes, i'm a diplomat, but i'm not an expert, well, let's say such military-related issues, but i'm absolutely sure, based on my own experience, let it be limited, that the same americans explained in russian side is very simple and clear, well, maybe they even took, you know, when such a piece of paper was drawn on it, it means what will happen to the russian federation in prague if they use tactical unified weapons, and, by the way, more than once they even talked about some and many experts are serious . well, what i heard personally is, well, first of all, it will be the physical destruction of putin. i think that

the same united states of america has tools and opportunities. -e instant well, as experts say during there 20-30 minutes of destruction of the black sea fleet by the russian federation of all military groups that are near the borders of ukraine, and then the next step is strikes on all military bases and garden facilities already on the territory of the russian federation, including moscow and including the kremlin, and we are not talking about plug-in weapons, but about conventional weapons, because unlike all those daggers and everything else that falls on us, unfortunately, american tamahawks and other weapons are much more accurate, and they hit with accuracy there if i am not wrong up to 15 to 20 cm, but i think that this whole picture in front of the russian side was

so beautifully painted and after that, as you correctly say, all the conversations about nuclear weapons somehow stopped so abruptly, but look at what the official kremlin is saying now, they are talking about that any peace with ukraine must be based on the fact that the russian army will not leave the captured territories and return control over them to kyiv, said dmytro piskov, the spokesman for the president of the russian federation , vladimir putin, so far there is no peace of ukraine's plan. let's start from this. once again, there cannot be any peace plan of ukraine that does not take into account today's realities on russian territory with the accession of four new regions to russia, that is, donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson regions, in addition to the annexed crimea, according to putin's spokesman

no plan that does not take into account these realities created by russia can claim to be adopted well, that is, as in chess, it is called pjsc, that is, there is nowhere to go in russia and they the stalemate situation is simply driven away from the whole world and we have taken a bite. as vladimir putin says, the chicken pozornychku something is there, he is pecking, he explained why they took away certain areas, regions of ukraine, but in this situation, have diplomatic channels and diplomatic opportunities been completely exhausted in order to after all, as macron says, give putin the opportunity to get out of this situation and save face. i think that , taking into account the current situation and all the statements

of other russian factors, well, this is really exhausted, that is, for today how i have repeatedly said that the main inspector of ukraine is the armed forces of ukraine, unfortunately , now diplomacy is not working, diplomacy will work when they stop shooting. how to make it only a victory for ukraine and about this . - this is absolute nonsense, no politician of ukraine will ever agree to this. well, the ukrainian people. actually, it's time and in the world already, at least in europe, in nato, in the european union, in many other countries, already everyone understood that this is absolutely unrealistic, and it is not for nothing that various politicians, and not

only from western countries, emphasize that any negotiations and, in general, the conditions for the end of this war are possible only on those terms that suit ukraine, since ukraine suffered the most from this, and this concerns directly of our state. therefore, without our consent, no one will agree on anything humanly. well, what moscow is saying is completely unrealistic, and on the other hand, what else can he say? i am not talking about what, you know, even if you imagine itself hepatic that we could agree on something there to start the negotiations, which four regions is he talking about when, well, i don't remember exactly how many percent there is controlled by russia, and which is kherson, which zaporizhzhia region, even donetsk luhansk, they didn't completely capture , so you know even in this form, these

conditions are cut completely unrealistically , even though i will not say that if hypothetically someone would agree to this in order to start some conversations this year, this does not even correspond to the current situation on the spot. well, maybe that's why er, as putin himself noted, he cannot deliver an annual message to the federal meeting of the state duma because er, what will he say if the situation changes every day and every day they er lose their positions and that they considered their success yesterday, today is their defeat, and let 's talk about our progress and our steps forward, because the year 2022 was marked by the fact that ukraine submitted an

official application to join the european union under a special simplified procedure, it was in in february 2022, and in september ukraine submitted the application for accelerated accession to nato at the end of the year already sounded interesting to french president manuel macron, who expressed doubt that ukraine will become a member of nato. what do you think about these simplified procedures and the situation in which we are now, will it speed up the decision of the european union and nato member states as soon as next year, 2023 , how successful will it be for us in the external arena, in particular in the european union and nato ?

the ball immediately after our victory. the question is when it will be. i would like it to come as soon as possible, well, at least next year, why not at the end, but even ? well, i can't make any predictions, of course, but i would like it to happen as soon as possible, but i'm sure not because literally a few days after the registration of our final victory, here are all the questions you say about membership in nato and eu membership it changed give not only before for a practical plane and it will be an acceleration of the pace uh and even you know even those things that we still have and will have to pass uh apart from there military compatibility with nato for example as uh with the main condition of such membership in

there are many reforms in the european union, we have already passed some of them . we are, but this is what our state usually deals with, and the government and the president, that is, i am leading to the fact that the completion of these reforms will not take long after our victory. the main thing is that there should be political will of the member countries of the european union and nato, you can see us there. and it seems to me that this there is political will. well, maybe with the exception of some of our so -called friends, i will not name these countries before the new year holidays. but i think that

they are also absolutely capable of changing their uh opinion because in the end both in nato and in the eu uh there is a concept of the majority and if the majority is for us, then all the others will also join it. so i have no doubt that this decision will be approved quickly as an example. well, if we talk about nato, then it is the membership of sweden and finland. so there is no everything is smooth there, there is the position of turkey, that is, these countries are more than enough and did not become de jure er, let's say nato members, but nevertheless, er, these countries came to this er, you know the path from full non-priority to full membership very quickly literally within a few months nobody about it even i didn't think until a few months ago, but i think that

it will also be applied in the case of ukraine, well, it's a little more complicated there, but i also think that mechanisms and ways will be found, such as how to speed up all this eh and eh, i think that eh well, you know, they expressed themselves that our generation will live in the european union and in nato. well, all the more so for nato, for the transition to nato standards. we already have an army, which i hope will be completely re-equipped before the end of this war and will be modernized with modern weapons, this is one of the conditions of membership in nato well, of course, there are still a lot of requirements related to legislation and how ukraine must comply with anti-corruption legislation, well, a number of different requirements at the

end of our program, volodymyr. you as a diplomat as a person with extensive diplomatic experience which of the world leaders in 2022 pleasantly impressed you and who disappointed interesting question well nice phrases me for example chancellor of germany schulz because germany well, i would he said to him, i also added the president of germany, mr. shthang, because these two politicians were able, as they say, to proceed through themselves, i.e., they admitted that stahl has called out, in general, he admitted personal

mistakes, personally a wrong position regarding ukraine and to russia, and even apologized to us and said that all this should be changed, it was easier because, unlike his predecessor mrs. merkel, he did not make these mistakes, but he radically changed the policy of ukraine and er, by the way, this happened not least thanks to uh, radical variables, well, you know that kind of public opinion in germany, because if we look at those polls, ukraine's support for our perspective in the same nato is a very radical change in germany's policy. i'm not talking about its attitude towards russia . the president of france, macron, i hoped that this person is still a young person, quite young, and even more so, we are in the

second term of our tenure in power, but i remember one of my interviews when i said that well, let's see, macron will be re-elected and his position will change. unfortunately, she did not it probably changed, but france still remained there in the 18th and 19th centuries in its perception of the world of russia, the role of russia and probably its own role, the role of france in the world . maybe that's why france beat the argentines in the final of the world football championship. well, of course, this is a joke, well, you know, you can name many other politicians who unpleasantly impressed me, the same lukashenko, the same orbán, the prime minister of hungary, but this, let's say , was not so unexpected, but one of those well, quite a few unexpected things,

really, and yes, between the other and president byder this is also a huge positive, because it seems to me that he has changed his attitude towards ukraine, although he always had a positive and sympathetic attitude, but the enormous help that the united states provides today is far from the last thing and the personal role of president biden, he knows our country very well, we will not hide what he has, well, the previous years, not all memories are the trays of our ukrainian language, volodymyr, we have to finish, i have to interrupt you, we have regulations, sorry, thank you to you for participating in the program it was volodymyr yelchenko, a diplomat, the permanent representative of ukraine to the un in 2015-19, it was the program of verdi, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow

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need time. the armed forces of the allied countries are not much like a supermarket . well, first of all, not every country has so many tanks in its armed forces, and secondly, tanks that have been standing for months of a large-scale offensive against ukraine in the course of hostilities. center of defense strategies, colonel of the reserve . greetings, victor. good evening. actually , look at the last uh. well, for six months, a lot of various details became known about how the war started, who did what and what happened, well , that's enough thorough materials of various contents about this, and the first questions will be in principle, this is what you think was the

key in the successful deterrence of the russian offensive, first of all, on kyiv, well, i don't know that everything else should not be touched on, but since kyiv is a key point and actually, well the success was that the russians did not take it, that is why i consider it very important, in general, that kyiv will be the main goal of the russian offensive was clear a long time ago, and at least since 2019 there have been no command and staff exercises during which no options for the development of the aggression of the russian federation against ukraine were worked out, its attempts to take kyiv, respectively, at the right time, in the right city, military leaders who spent many years training to defend the capital were to

the plans are quite well worked out, how successfully was it possible to implement this with the existing set of tools perhaps you can’t put 12 ballrooms 12. still, the situation was quite complicated and tense, but in general, the armed forces, other military formations, volunteer formations of the territorial defense, which very massively joined the cause of the defense of the capital everything was successful. well, you know, but i noticed in all kinds of materials, especially in the foreign media , the main such context was well, the russians were not ready for war, they were so direct unfortunate as the soldiers did not know what they were doing , the commanders did not know where to go, the army was ripped off, you know, i do not completely share these points of view, because, after all, the russians were preparing for this offensive, they were preparing, they were preparing a lot of weapons, they stormed with much

larger forces than in ukraine if it is said that the russian military was not ready to attack ukraine, then you know the people who took up arms for the first time here in the teroboron , they are not that they were not ready, they were even sometimes not ready at all for what, in principle, there may be some military actions and here from this point of view, i'm wondering what the ukrainian armed forces did in which city, if it can be localized, where were the most important battles? well, maybe the battles that directly decided everything... well, to answer your question, we must remember western publications try to justify russia's failures or readiness for aggression if someone spends six months in field camps and

trains for this purpose by deploying 170 battalions of tactical groups, air and sea components and working out an aggression plan. well presumably they should have been ready, but if they are not ready, then there are too many saboteurs and incompetent leaders who did not fulfill the tasks that their state entrusted to them, that 's all, who wrote for the first time in the days of aggression in the west that ukraine held out for three days, now they are explaining why she was able not only to hold out and win as far as such defining stages of the struggle in the first stage of the war are concerned. which well, i define for myself as the retreat of the enemy from northern ukraine, it is the defense of chernigov, definitely

. units of the land forces of the territorial defense that defended the trostyanets sum, the actions of the operational support regiment in okhtyrky, this is the defense of kharkov, quite successful and effective actions of the units that were supposed to defend the black sea coast between nikolaev odesa and the southern karolina-bugaz, the greatest achievement of the first period of the war was the preservation of the air force who are still performing their tasks while maintaining a fairly high level of their combat capability and, with all that, constantly maneuvering to avoid eh no of the most technologically backward enemy , i will say that the naval forces, which, in

principle, not having such impressive naval capabilities, sank the flagship of the enemy 's fleet, are very big achievements. showed and found the command post of the enemy's 35th army from which the offensive on kyiv was directed of the chief of the army staff, this is also a very serious achievement, again, those operating in special operations found and destroyed a rocket divisional missile that carelessly ended up on the territory of the chernihiv region. the notes at the first stage are probably the most important, but these events are enough now. it is funny

to see how they are still talking on russian air well, we destroyed all the ukrainian military forces in the first week of the war. there is such an impression that people simply didn't even draw any conclusions from what was happening. and you know what? in principle, i was also impressed by the way sumy and chernihiv defended themselves. i think it must have been for the russians. well, they did not expect such a surprise at all, and such an interesting touch. when they talk about what the russians say first of all that they didn't attack the infrastructure, only now they started to attack it, let's remember that, for example, in okhtyrka and mariupol , they destroyed both heat and electricity literally on the first day of the war. that is, it was a completely targeted action despite the people there continued to resist, the garrisons

resisted, that is, what was the resistance, if there is a question about what was a success, let 's talk, after all, there were failures, there were some things that can be said. well, this is a serious thing that could have been prevented. and ukrainian society these 302 days of the war are looking for an answer on the topic who demined the boat in which direction we unjustifiably lost territory quickly and only the use of the very geographical physical conditions that greatly contribute to defense was not used why did this happen well the dbr is investigating it seems like yesterday the deputy head of the security service commented on this situation. maybe we will find out about it in the second moment, there is a certain lag in the deployment of territorial

defense forces, it should have been done earlier, how much earlier i somehow set myself the task of figuring it out next year. and what, what should have been done in full on the eve of the invasion, but in general, the maximum of what could be done was done yesterday. information that on the first day of the invasion, e-e, russian cybernetic the troops intervened in the work of strategic military management systems, but hmm, ukraine reacted adequately, deployed a backup system, and since then, western hackers have not succeeded in achieving anything in cyberspace against ukraine .

continue on. unfortunately, we are reducing our capabilities, but in general, such big failures , failures and miscalculations, uh, well, it's difficult to name big strategic operational level ones, and tactically, well, without this, this war doesn't happen. well, this the work of our general staff is really high from you, er, tell me , er, well, maybe you know such a question more by feeling. what do you think? and did a turning point in the war happen? there is also a lot of talk about this, which is all, but someone there is ukrainian. the army was able to turn the tide of the war . how do you assess it for yourself ? i believe that the ukrainian armed forces have seized the strategic initiative in the war. the general staff of the armed forces confidently directs combat operations and depends solely on what step will be taken next, but we have

not yet reached the moment when we can say that we have broken the enemy's spine and we will continue to move down the hill to our victory so far we are close but we have not reached and it depends on why we have not achieved parity in weapons we have not achieved parity in terms of ammunition, that is, what could this break mean from your point of view, the search for parity in some types of weapons in the amount of ammunition is absolutely not indicative in the modern war in ukraine there are no airplanes long-range bomber aircraft but it struck airfields in wengelsi, 700 km from the state border in dyagelev, 500 km away, regularly attacks targets in the crimea, ships were attacked in berdya