and hoard these facts, the following are all the bodies of the armed forces of ukraine: looting, looting, sviatohirsk under the leadership of bandura came under the control of racist troops on june 7, after which the leader of the occupation administration of donetsk region , denys pushylin, published in his telegram a joint photo with volodymyr bandura against the background of the tricolor . of investigations opened criminal proceedings against the mayor of sviatohorsk under the article of treason, this was the list of next wednesday's miklushka i will tell you about another dozen traitors . and if there are collaborators in your city, write to me on facebook or to this e-

mail . this year, and accordingly we will try to predict our near future, our guests are the retired colonel of the british army, the military expert glen grant and the political scientist who is in washington andriy piankovsky is now on the air of espresso tv channel , an iconic military expert , a retired colonel of the british army, glen grant, glory to ukraine, glen. i welcome you to the air of espresso tv channel, well, accordingly, i would like to start our conversation with the military summit that took place in the united states. the term military summit was used on our air by daniel fried, the former coordinator of the us department of state for sanctions policy , currently a member of the atlantic council, respectively , danny el fried said that america does not want to enter the war against russia on the other side

we understand the extent to which the military scenario is unfolding now, which can affect the entire continent. i think your previous guest is right. the usa is trying to do everything in their power, but they are keeping everything at arm's length, that is, they do not want to take a step closer to the conflict. they are aware of their previous actions, in particular when they used to say no we're not going to give it to you we're not going to send the patriot systems we're not going to give you something that won't change the situation at all so in retrospect now they can allow yourself to pass the patriot, the problem of this way of cooperation is that everything is happening very slowly and the situation now on the battlefield is very difficult for us, the time has come when we need the initiative to move forward quickly to put pressure on russia, but we cannot

show it if america is not in a hurry to provide weapons and support, and at the moment i see no sign that this support will be provided quickly, creating problems for the enemy on the battlefield, i plan to say that the key question is how far are the european countries great britain or the united states is ready to supply us with heavy equipment, first of all we are talking about abrams tanks or maybe leopard 2 is better, this is a good question, first of all, the petri batteries will not change the rules of the game, what will they do? yes, it will increase the quality of air defense and this can stop russia from sending the next bombers ukraine has such a weapons system that can really neutralize them and shoot down cruise missiles, but you should not expect a huge number of patriots, sometimes they leave no earlier than six months ago, this is not

what people should pay special attention to is just another weapon system talking about heavy weapons such as tanks and other armored vehicles i don't see any action in this direction from the european union the only country that actually mentioned that it can do something and provide tanks is finland , therefore, frankly speaking, i think that if zelensky is going to leave the country again for negotiations, his next trip should be to finland and sweden, because none of these countries are members of nato yet and they are not burdened by additional discussions and consensus nato means they can do what other countries can't. zelenskiy needs to go to london, stockholm and helsinki to raise the issue of tough actions, bypassing the agreement in this regard with the european union and nato. i

still don't see any movement in this direction and this brings us back to what the government is doing and what is the general staff doing trying to improve its own situation with the already available armored vehicles , because ukraine already has a lot of armored vehicles, are we considering options where we can produce better weapons or even better ammunition, there must be ways to improve the already existing tanks must be thought about and not expected from others. russians regularly launch massive missile strikes on our territory. they are trying to completely turn off the lights in the country. quite strange explosions happen at the airfields of the russian strategic aviation, in particular, it is about the same airfield in the

city of engels, the russian air defense systems suffer from the same problems as the russian infantry is, first of all, alcohol, and secondly, poor training and training, i mean that it is quite clear that they did enough to show the generals what kind of work they do , but they definitely did not prepare for the level at which ukrainian air defense is now against air defense is a system that must work without interruption, and therefore such details as being on duty near the radars at night, the real connection between radars and missiles at night, are the guards sleeping at the post or are they working , are very important look, if you do not have enough trained soldiers to be on duty at certain stages during the day or at night, then this is already a real problem, i suspect that this is precisely the

answer to the question why the russian system does not work as well as the ukrainian one, this is the only answer i can give to the question why they our drones don't shoot down why am i being attacked is more of a question for the general staff i can't answer it maybe it's a matter of limited resources maybe we don't really have that many drones or they're not that good i don't know what everyone thinks or they are just being saved for something else, but i think that the russian air defense has already shown what it really is and that is why it gives us the opportunity to move to attacks dear mr. colonel and what strikes on the russian troops would be most noticeable for the russian the empire clearly strikes on the territory of russia , because they actually make it clear to the russians that the war is approaching them, where

the christmas trees are, they don't care about the strikes carried out on the occupied territories, working on military objects actually brings positive effect for your army i mean that their air force has shown its weakness and we have opened almost the biggest space for attacks you can switch to the navy you will not make a breakthrough by killing a few dozen more soldiers on the overall picture and will not particularly affect while the sinking of a ship, the destruction of two planes or three bombers will have a tangible effect and significantly reduce the operational potential of the russians, but the russian generals are also afraid of something. so we understand that the question of the russian of the general staff, it is not only about military affairs, but about military-political affairs, we see the strengthening of certain putin's other additional formations, in particular, it is about the zombie

army or the zeke army, which is headed by prigozhin, and so on. we see completely different formations that are starting to compete in parallel, and maybe we should to use this internal strife between the russian military structures is rather difficult. we must understand that the longer russia actually fights , the more likely it is that sooner or later the russian military will gain experience and really competent combat units will appear. previously, they only had the army, and with what advantage it turned out, we have not seen it, but now we are fighting not only with the army. we are fighting with people who are becoming more professional. armies will arrive at the front lines, so we must be very careful the longer we give russia the opportunity to act, the more likely good personnel will appear.

maybe even as good as ukrainian soldiers. therefore, it is very difficult now time we have to stay vigilant because we see that they are learning and learning in every possible way we also have to learn to be ahead of them and that means we have to become better in our organization in our processes because we are fighting tactically dear glen as far as i understand now the russians they are trying to use the scenario of stalin's war against finland, it is about the so-called winter war, well, more than 80 years have passed, accordingly, there are certain amendments, but as far as i understood, their main doctrine - this is a long war to exhaust resources, both combat technical and human, it is worth using such historical comparisons very cautiously, let's start with ukraine. yes, ukraine

is fighting for its independence. it has a lot of support, but unfortunately it is not as fast as the situation on the battlefield requires - this is the first and second thing is that ukraine has a limit on how much blood it can shed, and we see that now it is shedding it faster than it can afford, so we must be very careful, the struggle for the preservation of the country is true, but there are certain limitations that are determined not only by weapons systems but also by the quality of the selection of commanders and the quality of training, and both of these aspects can be better on the russian side, so this is not stalin's army. i think that putin's army is really bad, this army is based on lies, the transmission of untruths upwards, because the system verticals, but they still have enormous resources and while we

try to match them resource by resource they always have an advantage in the long run because their resources belong to them they don't expect the european union or the us they will send something, they can immediately send to the front what is needed. at the moment, there is everything. i believe that the initiative belongs to ukraine . ukraine has an advantage, but the longer the war lasts, the more difficult it may become for both sides. it is difficult to predict what the balance of resources will be. let's hope that everything will end in russia their lies will destroy them already, it will destroy them internally, let's also hope that the eu, the usa, finland, sweden will provide enough for ukraine to fight properly using weapons

and not blood, to take on forecasts during a full-scale war is a thankless task, i understand this very well, but there are certain characteristic trends that are very well noted by, i think , military experts and analysts around the world, in particular, it is about the concentration of troops, it is about the movement of troops, it is about certain long-term defense contracts and so on and so on. well, accordingly, i would like to ask you, dear glen, what scenarios do you see for which the russian federation is currently preparing, for example, it is about the nearest for several months it is difficult to say what they are going to do because there is a whole gap between the strategy that putin and his leaders would like to implement and the opportunities they have for this so they can plan to fight again from the territory of belarus but they do not have the opportunity to successfully implement it they can have a strategy proper defense, but in

many areas there is a lack of effort to implement it because the soldiers sitting in the trenches in defensive positions are not good enough to put up a decent fight, they are capable of two things to cover the artillery and now they they lose ammunition very quickly, which ukraine skilfully destroys this one, and they can fight by throwing hundreds and hundreds of soldiers in the same place, which is what they do in bahmut, and yet you do not see success there, so the strategy can change, they can try to do something else somewhere in elsewhere, i do not rule out a repeated attempt to attack sumy, kharkiv or any other city, but i do not think that at the level of putin and shoigu there is already an awareness that they do not have the opportunity on the ground to do what they planned

the current state of the russian army, dear glend, for example, since the beginning of the large-scale, full- scale russian campaign, what do you think are the main trends in the russian army, first of all, what should be said is that the russian army was bad at the beginning and now leaves much to be desired, but now it is more than just the russian army. now we see the wagner group as well as other private armies that go to the front line. therefore, it is much more difficult to give an objective assessment. especially since now there is no unified coherent organization , the general staff no longer controls all combat operations, because wagner's group takes over a significant part of the combat operations, and they are definitely not under the command or control of the general staff, so it is quite possible that

if putin dies or is beaten , a serious internal conflict may arise the struggle for power between pmc wagner and the russian army is difficult to assess their actions on the battlefield. also, we do not know what they are doing in the rear, what tasks were given to all the people involved and how justified they will be. i think that their military skill is as low as in the army troops on the front line, but if there are many of them, the problem arises in the number of the masses, that is, the number has its own quality that is sometimes difficult to overcome. if we talk about the situation in the east, in particular bakhmut and kreminna, for some reason putin is now trying to storm bakhmut with such hysteria internal politics and i would like to talk about what the great russian will do, what will he do, but nothing came of it, so he

starts to look weak. and the more he looks weak, the greater the risk for him life and that's why it's over i need some kind of victory to be able to say look at what i've achieved let's look at the map through the eyes of russians russia still controls huge territories captured after february 24 in the north it lost kherson but everything that controls a lot more mariupol melitopol and also territories in the south russia actually holds the former ato zone and the territory in the north has been added, so putin actually has many successes that can be talked about, but he needs more success in the political plan, bakhmut is the place where he tries

to do this and pvt. wagner hits him with a tool in order to try to break through there, but his fighters are simply not of sufficient quality in military terms, they do not have officers, they do not have command and proper control, they do not have training, and therefore they just throw cannon fodder at her to the embrasure but it does not work, it is worth noting that we are so lucky, we have not run out of ammunition anywhere. this is good, although it continues as of today, because there is always the problem of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so we must continue to work hard with our allies so that they continue to produce munitions because it is munitions . we and they can run out. so we are going through a difficult period, but it is no less difficult for putin. after all, for him,

the prospect of looking stupid and a loser in the eyes of many russians is approaching. the situation in the south is like yours the opinion looks like this and how much it can affect the crimea if there is a corresponding breakthrough counteroffensive south of zaporozhye and the russians start to flee, then i think that we will be able to continue moving in the direction of the crimea and even enter the crimea that the russians will definitely start to flee, the challenge is to be able to withstand the attack in terms of planning and ammunition, as well as the energy of those people who will go forward , and this means that it is important to have the right commander because it is extremely difficult to continue to advance when the army is under pressure therefore it is worth looking into history and looking at the examples of such people as rommel, who could force his german troops to move forward and advance, the

americans patton succeeded in the same way, in order to enter the crimea , you need to line up the right soldiers to choose the right logistics and the right person to send on a mission, everything must be planned and thought out, how the armed forces of ukraine are going to do it, what routes they are going to take, and so on. i am deeply convinced that when ukrainian troops really set foot on crimean land, everything will collapse in crimea, the colonists will flee as soon as we we will advance to the crimea, the sooner they will flee. we saw it in the north. we saw how it was in kherson. there is no need to listen to explanations that they left to find a more profitable they simply dug their heels into a defensive position and fled from kherson because they knew that if they stayed , they would be destroyed or captured, these

people are still on the other side of the river. they may flee even faster this time because they know what happened last time and it is now in the hands of the russians, but i hope that we get enough weapons and equipment to be able to win back crimea quickly and not do it in small steps losing a lot of ukrainian blood, the faster and harder we strike south of zaporizhzhia, the more desperately they will flee, there is no doubt about it. well, accordingly. how do you see the time frame or time limits for the kremlin to wage a full-scale war against ukraine, or would they, on the contrary, now try to freeze the situation on in certain areas of the front and included with new ones, i think that if putin is not removed, then they will be able to continue for a few more years, they have

the resources for this if putin manages to convince the country that this is a national war for survival against nato and the west, the war gets a lot of support, money and more soldiers, this is one of the reasons why it is so important for putin to have the territory of donbas under control, because he has already declared that donbas is russia, so he needs donbas to be russia in order to make accusations that we are attacking for russia, the logic here is clear. if it captures the entire donbas, it will have many more people, and there will also be time due to a strategic pause, because the west is slowly supplying weapons, slowly producing ammunition, and ukraine, in fact, has not yet started to produce its own weapons and equipment the more time he gets the longer he will be able to continue the war so for the west nato the european union is very important

to understand that they need to move fast acting fast they reduce putin's ability to drag this war out so speed is the most important thing at the moment speed and aggressiveness of actions are the two most important things and the west can help with this or worsen the situation by moving at such a slow pace forgive me but we need tanks good tanks and we need them as soon as possible, all the arguments that the ukrainians will not be able to master them, control them or take care of them are simply ridiculous because we will still lose some of them in the battles at the front, this could also mean that the general staff will have to completely change the logistics system in ukraine, but this need to be done. in any case, i conclude by saying that we need tanks and a full stop. thank you very much, dear glen, for this extremely meaningful analysis, and

i would like to remind our tv viewers that they were currently working for them from the tv channel espresso glen grand z iconic military expert retired colonel of the british army got save the king god save the king glory to the heroes and let's save their lives sir let's save their lives now our guest will be andriy pionkovsky a political scientist who is in washington kudos to ukraine andriy andriyovich i salute you as a hero kudos good day i i think the time has come to summarize the great military summit, which is reminiscent of the summit between churchill and roosevelt during the second world war, in particular, it refers to the meeting between president joseph biden and president of ukraine zelenskyi, and the outline of this meeting as a military summit was given by an extremely informed representative of the former state department, daniel

fried , in our espressov broadcast. take away your freedom, he was gathering there, he will punish ukraine for five days , and i will force his victories to stand on the border of the baltic states. they hide their plans, he chatted about them at his meeting at the press conference after the meeting with macron, something happened to the king, he then returned from peking in a hurry and in a desperate mood, and

he was drinking from his frenzy. at the conventional level, we give way to the west, but we tie ourselves up, i will hire my own political power, and so on, but i didn’t know that nationally, it is possible to attack not only nato, but one ukraine is attacking, and that’s it was the most important historical event of the year 22, the appearance on the map of the world of a new great power possessing its own strong army and performing this function, which is 75 for the radik , which was created. the meeting of two allies due to the age of zelensky and bayda is like the same difference, showing the competent role of ukraine today

as the leader of the free world now and asked marking not only weapons the hornet asked for a soldier many times he asked for eh that in the end after a few years it did not collapse how the landing in normandy was repeated by zelensky ukraine it is not necessary ukraine alone copes with the eh horde challenging the entire cylindomer zelensky asked only for weapons once again i will repeat this soap opera and after every world war the winning state creates a new security system after napoleon all wars you at the congress of vienna after the first world war at the congress of versailles after the second world war surrender in the fourth wwii, this witch will be on that. that is exactly what we are 19 who allied with the united states and ukraine. there is another point called abrams tanks,

leopard 2 tanks. world security - this is extremely good and large-scale, but we need concrete solutions, in particular, the supply of heavy weapons, and here the question is who will take the first step , germany, france, the united states, who is the united kingdom, this is a good competition allies because when when schultz told him let's meet naturally ukraine, i'm not the first one to give in. this was a call to the americans, let's do it together , and i think that it's 300 tanks, yes, 700

orgobotov and 56 howitzers, i think you are a family of 300 tanks he already estimated about 200 tanks that have already gone to poland today, that is, it is already in practical implementation, but no less important is the question of his long-range missiles. zelensky, i am the last fourth question, i am happy to repeat it, it is very important to me, all of these are the problems that have been raised, i need to ask the bank, the president first in america said that in no case should we give food to ukrainians, this is a terrible thing, putin is surrounded by it, then they gave it, then he says that it is impossible to give swingers then and gave then in no case do not ask pride gave not in the end yes do not ask kailas and gave in any

case do not ask before it's very offensive, well, he brought this argument, which was sometimes heard until recently in the west and even in the inner washington station. well, now we immediately discussed that there are two schools in the washington administration, one pobeda ukrainy, our pobedy ukraine, dear. our task is not to allow defeats, there will be no называть просональная всё хорошо знакомство. so, there is such an argument before. there was no argument . the fireman will not allow this school. it is impossible to give this weapon. this provokes the terrible putin and he is there, i think. a huge argument zhenya works for putin, they indicated his place, they showed him that in the event of a nuclear war, he will simply be killed and he needs a signal, it is clear now and