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event we will now sum up the most important events of this year and, accordingly, we will try to predict our near future, our guests are a retired colonel of the british army, a military expert glen grand grand and a political scientist who is in washington andriy p' yankovsky is now on the air of the espresso tv channel, the same military expert, a retired colonel of the british army, glen grant, glory to ukraine, glen, i congratulate you on the air of the espresso tv channel, well, respectively 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 state department on sanctions policy, now an active member of atlantic cancel, respectively . daniel friedz said that america does not want to go to war against russia with on the other hand , we understand the extent to which the military scenario is currently unfolding, which can affect the entire

continent. forces, but they keep everything at arm's length, that is, they do not want to take a single step closer to the conflict, they are aware of their previous actions, in particular, when they previously said no, we are not going to give you this, we will not send the patriot systems, we will not give you something that will not change the situation at all because looking back on the past, now they can afford to transfer the patriot, the problem with this way of cooperation is that everything is happening very slowly, and the situation is now on the battlefield we have a very difficult time when we need an initiative to move forward quickly to put pressure on russia, but we cannot show it if america is in no 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 here is the key question to what extent are the european countries great britain or the united states ripe for supplying us with heavy equipment? first of all, we are talking about abrams tanks or maybe leopard 2. this is a good question. first of all, they will not replace the petri batteries. the rules of the game, what will they do? yes, they will increase the quality of air defense and this can stop russia from sending the next bombers to ukraine. this is the kind of weapons system that can really neutralize them and shoot down cruise missiles, but you shouldn't expect a huge number of petrovs, sometimes they don't leave before six months so it's not something that people should pay much attention to it's 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 , so 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 yet nato and they are not burdened by additional discussions and nato consensus , that is, they can do what other countries cannot. in this regard with the european union and a hand in this direction and this brings us back to what the government is doing and what the general staff is doing trying to improve its own situation with the

already available armored vehicles because ukraine already has a lot of armored vehicles or are we considering options where we can produce better weapons or even better ammunition, there must be ways to improve the existing tanks, we need to think and not wait for gifts from others, the russians regularly launch massive missile attacks on our territory they are trying completely turn off the lights in the country, on the other hand, we can see how well our air defense systems work, but the main point is that we also began to cause , or rather, rather strange explosions began to happen at the airfields of the russian strategic aviation, in particular, it is about the same airfield in the city of engels, russian air defense systems are suffering from the same problems as the russian infantry, firstly alcohol uns seconda

preparation and training, i mean that it is quite clear that they did enough to show the generals what they work and the guys, but they definitely did not prepare for the level at which the ukrainian air defense against air defense is now - this is a system that must work without interruption, and therefore such details as being on duty near the radars at night between radars and missiles at night, do the guards sleep at the post or work, and look, if you lack enough trained soldiers to be on duty at certain stages during the day or at night, then this is already a real problem, i know that this is precisely the answer to the question why the russian system does not work as well as the ukrainian one, i can answer the question: why do

n’t they shoot down our drones? why are they attacking me? that’s the question of 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 don’t. are as good as everyone thinks or they are just being kept for something else, i don’t know, 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 on to attacks dear mr. colonel and what blows on the russian troops would be the most noticeable for the russian empire definitely strikes on the territory of russia because they actually make it clear to the russians that the war is getting closer to them further now in the occupied territories training on military

facilities actually brings a positive effect for your army i mean that their the air force showed its weakness and almost the largest space for attacks opened before us, you can switch to the navy, you will not make a breakthrough by killing a few dozen more soldiers on it will not particularly affect the overall picture, 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 issue of the russian general staff is not only about military affairs, but about military-political affairs we see the strengthening of certain putin's other additional formations, in particular, we are talking about the zombie army or the army of prisoners, which is led by prigozhina, and so on, we see different absolutely formations that are starting to compete in parallel and

maybe we should use this internal threat between the russian military structures, it is quite 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 truly competent combat units will appear previously, they only had the army, and with what turned out to be little, we have seen it, but now we are fighting not only with the army, we are fighting with people who are becoming more professional about prisoners and about mercenaries, more and more private 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

. that they learn and learn in all possible ways 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 as far as i understand, the russians are now 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, respectively, there are certain amendments, but as far as i understand, their main doctrine is a long war to exhaust resources, both military and human, and it is worth a lot be careful to use such historical comparisons , 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 secondly, the fact 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 the lies of the transmission of falsehood to the top, because the systemic verticals but they still have huge resources and while we try to match them resource for resource they always have an advantage in the long run because their

resources belong to them they don't wait for the european union or the us to send something 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, that russia has everything their lies will end and will destroy them already, it will destroy them internally, let's also hope that the eu, the usa, finland, sweden will provide enough so that ukraine can fight properly using weapons and not blood, take on forecasts during a full-scale war, this is a thankless thing, i understand it very well, but it is 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 that the russian federation is currently preparing for, for example, it is about the next few 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 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 of proper defense, but in in many spheres there is a lack of effort to implement it because the soldiers who are sitting in the trenches in defensive positions are not good enough to

wage a decent fight, we are unable to cover the artillery for two things and now they are very quickly losing ammunition which ukraine skilfully destroys this one thing and they can fight throwing hundreds and hundreds of soldiers at the same place, which is what they do in bakhmut, and yet you don't see success there, so the strategy may change, they may try to do something else somewhere else, i don't rule it out a repeated attempt to attack sumy, kharkiv or any other city, at the level of putin and shoigu , there is already an awareness that they do not have the opportunities on the ground to do what they planned, if you evaluate the current state of the russian army, dear glend, for example, from the beginning of the large-scale, full-scale russian campaign, which on your opinion now,

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. moreover, since there is no single coherent organization, the general staff no longer controls all combat operations, because the wagner group takes on a significant part of the hostilities, 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 power struggle may arise between pvt. wagner and

it is difficult for the russian army 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 that of the army troops on the front line, but if there are many of them, then there is a problem appears in quantity among the masses, that is, quantity has its own quality that is sometimes difficult to overcome. if we talk about the situation in the east, in particular, bakhmut and criminality , why with such hysteria is putin now trying to storm bakhmut, this is purely internal politics. putin made statements about what will the big russian army do what will he do but nothing came of it that's why he starts to look weak and the more he looks weak the more the risk to

his life and that's why he needs some kind of victory to be able to say look what i've achieved let's look at a map through the eyes of russians russia still controls huge territories captured after february 24. yes, it lost a part in the north, it lost kherson, but everything it controls is much more mariupol, melitopol, as well as territories on 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 . to try to break through there, but his fighters are simply

not of sufficient quality in military terms, they have no officers, they have no command and proper control, they have no training, and therefore they are simply cannon fodder they throw it at the embrasure but it doesn't work , it's worth noting that we're so lucky we have n't run out of ammunition anywhere it's good even though it continues as of today because there's 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 ammunition because it is the ammunition that we and they can run out of. therefore, 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 is approaching russians, what does the situation in the south look like, in your opinion, and to what extent can it

affect crimea. if there is a corresponding breakthrough , a counteroffensive in the south of zaporozhye and the russians will start fleeing, then i think that we will be able to continue moving in the direction of crimea. and even because the russians will definitely begin to flee the challenge is to be able to withstand the attack in terms of planning and ammunition and 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 forward, when the army is under pressure, that is why 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, choose the right logistics and

the right commander you can rely on the case, everything must be planned and thought out, how the armed forces of ukraine are going to do it, what routes they are going to move and so on. i am deeply convinced that when the ukrainian troops really step on crimean land, everything will collapse in crimea, the colonists will flee, the faster we advance to crimea, the faster they will flee we saw it in the north, we saw how it was in kherson, there is no need to listen to the explanation that they were leaving to find a more advantageous defensive position, they just threw a p they fled in droves 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. these are the same people , and believe me, that did not increase their courage. if they are attacked quickly, they will flee again.

maybe this time even faster 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 retake crimea quickly and not do it in small steps, losing a lot of ukrainian blood, the faster and harder we strike at 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, want to try now to freeze the situation in certain areas of the front. and even if putin is not removed, they will be able to continue for a few more years. there are resources for this. if putin manages to convince the country that this is a national war for survival against nato and the west, then he receives

a lot of support, he will receive money and more soldiers . one of the reasons why it is so important for putin to have the territory of donbas under control. somehow he already declared that donbas is russia , so he needs donbas to be russia in order to make accusations that we are attacking russia. the logic here is clear. if he captures the entire donbas, he will have many more people, and time will appear due to the strategic pause , because the west is slow in supplying weapons, slowly in producing ammunition, and ukraine has actually 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 it is very important for nato of the european union to understand that they need to move fast by acting fast they reduce putin's ability to drag out this war 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 , we need them as soon as possible, those arguments that the ukrainians will not be able to master how to manage them or take care of them are simply ridiculous because that we will still lose some of them in the battles at the front, this can also mean that the general staff will have to completely change the logistics system in ukraine, but it must be done in any case, so i conclude with the fact that we need tanks and full stop. thank you very much, dear glen, for this extremely meaningful analysis, and i would like to remind our intellectuals that they were currently working for them on the tv channel espresso glen grand, an iconic military expert , a retired colonel of the british army. get

save the king, god bless you glory to the heroes of the king 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. glory to ukraine, andriy andriyovich. i congratulate you as a hero. glory. good day. i think that the time has come to sum up the great military summit, which resembles the summit between churchill and roosevelt during the second world war, in particular, it is about the meeting between president joseph biden and the president of ukraine zelensky, and the description of this meeting as a military summit was given by an extremely informed representative in the former state department, daniel fried in our espressov air, by the way, i call you a military person, i call you allies, you

know where long ago, during the fourth world war, putin declared war on ukraine and the west now fill out his application, collect coins , take away freedom, he gathered in чем пяти дней, he will conquer ukraine and fight for his victory, he will be on the borders of the baltic states, poland will wave a nuclear sea, the launch of which they are hiding plans for, he talked about them at his meeting at the press conference after the meeting of macron, macron of the sixth field, then he is not in a hurry to express loyalty from beijing and there were drinks of his foria, memories in ukraine i like the church, my beauty, and i will tell you my plan yes, we are at the conversion level, we are inferior, we are attached, we will hire my

political power, and so on, but i didn’t know yet that a national one is possible, not only, we need to enter one. own strong army and performing this function which is 75 for radik which was created this is too 75 years ago not which it was not decided to perform when such a storm was translated therefore the analogy absolutely correct historical meeting of the two allies due to the development of zelensky and far away there is a difference that shows the competent role of ukraine today as the leader of the free world. now i asked for the size and not

only weapons. i hope that this is not necessary for green ukraine. ukraine alone copes with arnold's challenge. we self- aggrandize it. zelensky pressure is only weapons. the winner creates a new system of security after the napoleonic wars you have at the congress of vienna after the first world war at the congress of versailles after the second world war after the fourth war this witch will be on that same thing that we 19 agreed upon by the united states and ukraine well there is one more moment which is called abrams tanks, leopard 2 tanks, and the commander-in-chief, general zaluzhny, very clearly

and concretely outlined the need, and we understand that the architecture of world security - this is extremely good and large-scale, but we are faced with specific decisions, 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 great britain? i can't be the first to give my life. this was an appeal to the americans. let's do it together. i think that the british are always here. tank yes $700 sport.ua and 56 ha