where did they bring those who died in makiivka, or at least, you see, people came, er, they brought flowers to the monument and said that they were saddened by the fact that the occupiers were destroyed in makiivka, there are a lot of these people, judging by the fact that many people came, i think they are close and relatives and er. accordingly, we can only imagine how many people there are under the rubble in makiivka after the strike . well, that's another story, so to speak, mr. colonel. thank you for participating in the program. this was vladyslav seleznyov, a military expert colonel of the armed forces of ukraine well, friends, let me remind you that we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social platforms on youtube and facebook , for those who are currently watching us on youtube and facebook, please like our video. and for those who he watches us

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of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010 p generals good day good health to you and thank you for joining our conversation and good health to you please for today let's talk about the results mr. colonel i'm sorry i keep confusing your ranks sorry for the second time in the programs yes sir general, mr. lieutenant general, i remember. so, mr. generals, let's start with the results, the armed forces of ukraine liberated 40% of the territory of ukraine occupied initially by the full-scale invasion of russia on february 24, 2022, this is more than 40,000 m² or 27% of the entire territory that occupied by the russian military, including crimea - these are the results of last year, which were made public by general zuluzhny, the

commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, the ukrainian army is holding back the enemy on a land area 3,786 km long, in particular , the active front line is 1,500 km, according to zuluzhny, during 2022, russia lost more than 100,000 servicemen killed thousands of tanks 6,000 armored vehicles 2000 artillery systems 420 salvo fire systems about 300 combat aircraft and 270 helicopters e p generals ot relying on these the conclusions of valery zaluzhnoy, what can we say about the prospects for 2023, what is the trend in the russian-ukrainian war and what are the prospects for the year that we have already met? i think that ukraine will fight for the prospect of liberating the territory, entering the legal

internationally recognized borders of the year 91 for this it will be necessary to do a lot to defend and fight for the realization of these prospects and in the near future it will take place. the enemy of the first strategic economic interests in the north of our country and failed its blitzkrieg, and their second second stage is taking place further down in the south and east of our country, but so far the potential of the enemy is greater than the potential of the military armed forces of ukraine and he manages

to advance slowly, but let's say the territory of donbass , although it is known that in the donetsk region there were several times the deadlines set by putin. they are not being implemented and these tasks are not being implemented, all of his reports about the fact that the luhansk region has already been captured, we know that not so, moreover, there are prospects for the actions of our defense forces. therefore, at this stage, it is important to force the enemy to stop , that is, to complete our defense operation, and in the presence of prepared reserves of weapons and equipment that we expect from our allies, and it should be able to provide special offensive actions

as we can see, there is a difference in the area of ​​the steppe, and the personnel trained on this technique, that is, in this way, the reserves are fundamentally important, now who will be the first to prepare reserves of the appropriate level, which would provide the opportunity to carry out and carry out hostilities, well, for ukraine, of course. this is about the liberation of the occupied territories, and it definitely works. the factor of the nature of the weather, the weather will be analyzed in a week somewhere, the frosts will be analyzed. and this is the time when it is better to use offensive equipment, and for offensives, we need infantry fighting vehicles for our infantry armored combat vehicles tanks for support on land and strike aircraft in the air as well as strike means

artillery and drones and kamikaze and strike drones. of the defense of ukraine, he will be able to more effectively achieve the goal of the next operations. the general mentioned the situation of deterioration of weather conditions for us or improvement of conditions for those who are fighting . attention in the south in the east, according to you, the russian invaders will use this situation because there are forecasts not only for the east of the south, but also for the north, we know that from the north we are 1,100 km from the border of the

common border with the republic of belarus or will the russians dare to enter from that side, not even in order to achieve any success, but in order to stretch and dilute our forces in the north. it will depend on how much and when exactly the corresponding reserves will be prepared, the russian reserves that they mobilized there have passed coordinated at the level of companies and battalions, and the regimental brigade level remains, this is a fairly high level and it takes a month there. they have been restricted recently. and depending on how much when there will be an ato, all the reserves

will be decided by putin and his generals regarding how to apply this reserve, that is, from this point of view, it will be appropriate to start a significant share of it, about 100,000 is needed in order to offensives from the north should be effective, at least somehow er and arrest, strengthen our actions in the east and south , most likely in the east, but there may be options, as they say, therefore, the efforts of the states and the ally of the whole reason in terms of preparation and the quality of the training of the relevant forces of the respective reserves in order to revise the prepared course of action, and this will be the final

decision on the conflict. during the last month, we saw the activity of the russian aviation and russian moped drones, so -called mass attacks, mass raids of mopeds several waves that they launch in the direction of large cities and first of all kyiv. how has our air defense system changed over the last year? you clearly understand how this system works on the territory of the ukrainian state, or whether this system changed or was somehow adjusted with the arrival of new equipment that was given to us by the member countries of the north atlantic alliance at the time when i was a brigade commander, this is a commander commanding a higher level but it was the kyiv brigade, this is the brigade

that is now showing incredible results , giving the performance of tasks related to covering the air in the airy space in the capital and around it, which was noted by our supreme the president-in-chief is very good. i am proud of the fact that it is a beacon of personnel at such a high level. they show such high results, so in order to more effectively perform the tasks of air defense, as well as anti-missile and defense. and these other opportunities must be compressed . terms of strengthening air defense, this means that some means will destroy non-dynamic targets, aircraft, helicopters, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and where

targets can destroy even old complexes soviet ones that we still have in our arsenal. well, there are certainly new ones that are provided to us, but for now, a small amount is meant and american, finally, nesoms and german airestes . states by complexes hawk well, you are the complexes that would be in spain, for example, now they are transferred, they are needed quite a lot of americans, there are this kind of complicities and they need to be established as soon as possible to ensure a sufficiently high level of means the destruction of the air force and also in this sense , fighter jets perform tasks and to be

effective, you definitely need fighter jets of the modern generation 4 + to which 16 18 15 belongs of the air force, a separate topic is anti-missile defense, and here we need complexes on which to make a political decision. this is the beginning of the painting of anti-missile defense in ukraine . take your time, let's say test in the war against cancer and they have such capabilities, it is the latest modification of pak 3 and franko's italian complexes, i myself are the ones or mamba that also have such capabilities, that is, the supply

so far there by batteries is possible, it is not much , but it starts with this a very important matter regarding the possibility of destroying ballistic hypersonic missiles. this is fundamentally important for our country to protect against the planting of trees by precisely such armed adversaries, mr. generals. it is known that the united states of america has already promised one petriv system for ukraine and now our military must be trained in how to use this patriot, how much, according to your calculations, how many of these systems do we need in order to close the sky system in ukraine from russian strikes , uh, well, this figure is so conditional because it is impossible, even if in it is a complex of action data, this complex is 160 km and it is from aerodynamic,

simpler targets, let’s say er for er, hmm, that means football hypersonic missiles, it is tens of kilometers, but the radius decreases, and therefore, er, no country in the world has such the number of means of defense to solve the issue of closing all targets on the territory, no, the united states is not the same, israel, well , any country, because the means of attack will still be the same, the question is how effective to be, and here in terms of improvement, we have a lot and say as much as you need, when we are given one more battery, three in the future, because we still need time to study listening, and it will take two months or more, and also, well, it would be

good if they would at least give one battery each the french are italians because france is like that in them 15 in italy 10 this is a small number, and by handing it over to us, they weaken their respective capabilities, so talking about such a number is impractical, it is possible to solve this issue by concentrating those means that have on the main objects, we can see from the simple fact that the enemy is concentrating his strikes on the capital in kyiv and therefore it means that we need to cover up objects in kyiv around kyiv and also other military and er critical economic objects in this case beat the concept and we see how it works how is it for us this is an important cover up these objects therefore, it should be there dozens and it would be better if there were hundreds, but we don't have such

opportunities according to our eh at the current time, that's why we are happy with each transferred complex, our military quickly and assimilates and effectively uses it, which is very important and this path. we will follow it further. the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, general kyrylo budanov, says that the russian federation has only one missile left, two massive strikes on ukraine, they are reducing the number to get to keep the imitation the intensity of these missiles, at the same time, as budanov says, for one missile attack, russia needs to work for 1.5-2 months, now they are already talking about the fact that even in belarus they want to open a factory for the production of missiles so that they have time to create missiles for the shelling of ukraine, you are as a person who

knows exactly the capabilities of the russian federation regarding this missile , how they are creating, how quickly they are restoring their capabilities. - two or three shots, in principle, they will not have such a reserve, or there will be some minimum reserve, what is the limit that they cannot exhaust further, well , of course, everyday, more information, he is working on this professionally with the apparatus, but the question is where, in the first place, are modern missiles, on the one hand, from on the other hand, we see that the opportunities are steadily increasing, not to the same number as they started this war, but the enemy is looking for these missiles or similar and jams and in the northern track, frankly, until now i do not say whether the chinese are helping or not

but everywhere they are hunkered down first of all secondly and first of all they are engaged in restoration, i.e. the company has switched to three 12-hour shift work, including saturdays. well, and so on. another question is that there are no spare parts, they are engaged in smuggling for modern missiles , that is, the final thing is what i want to put it bluntly , the enemy will still have opportunities to strike, that is, there is no need to be under amateurish emotions, that is, we will wait a few weeks and there will be no strikes, unfortunately, and that is why here is the way for us to such as what we talked about with you, the reinforcement against the narrative defense, the formation of its anti-missile defenses, and the implementation of such measures means that the air force is relatively destroyed already after their launch. land-based missiles must be

destroyed, ships must also be launched, missile submarines or not in the black sea, which are carried by calibers, must be destroyed. how is it done ? airplanes will not appear at airfields until long-range complexes appear. so it will be possible to destroy them in the air before they launch missiles, this is our way, and we definitely need to track exactly which missiles and the number of them. missile, but there are options for improved and modernized land options, that is, the possibilities in them will remain one way or another, and therefore we need to focus on e.

the admission of these means of air attack by the enemy, mr. generals, well, that’s for sure even in the case of our victory or, let’s say, a conditional peace, if it is between ukraine and russia, we still won’t get anywhere from the russian federation, this threat from the air will still exist with missile e planes and i. i understand that obviously 10 or 15 years ago no one even imagined that such a thing is possible that we will er consider russia as a country waging an aggressive war against ukraine. do we need to redo the whole the air defense system and the entire security system in general, well, taking into account this factor, will we be able to live peacefully next to

such an obsessive neighbor even after our victory, calmly , we need to rework it in the direction of improvement, that is, to the maximum, use what we have and increase your opportunities due to the supply of new foreign equipment, as well as we have a corresponding direction and separate e-e enterprises in the e-e industrial complex that need to be developed and primarily rely on them, but after all, no country there is no other country in the world, including the united states of america, israel, that could produce the entire range of weapons, the majority and less, it is clear, but there is absolutely no such thing. bearing in mind these approaches, we must build objective security for our country, collective security, and also the security of your

country due to the fact that you provide your defense forces all the time, and not as was done at the beginning of the existence of an independent country, when 1% of the waste of the domestic product was allocated to ukraine. and this in any state means the slow death of its armed forces that happened in ukraine and now we are trying to catch up with the whole situation, but the war has already come to our house in connection with this and we have drawn conclusions. i think that we will not allow this in the future and that is why we will do it now. and it is being done to build defense both from the air and from the ground and from the sea. thank you, mr. generals . thank you for participating in the program. this was ihor romanenko, lieutenant general of the armed forces of ukraine and former deputy chief

of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. thank you all for your attention, friends. see you tomorrow at 13:00 and valery chaly will be on our air take care of yourself and your loved ones goodbye for today on the agenda eight anastasia blyshchik in civilian life was a successful journalist after the death of her fiance, a military correspondent and serviceman oleksandr makhov anastasia decided to join the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine and to get to the very direction where the hellish battles took the life of her beloved, my sasha served there, and that is why i wanted to be closer to the place where he actually died, but the military commissariat was in no hurry they gave me time to think about accepting anastasia into the army, and they told me that nastya is

already being shot there, it's no wonder they're being shot at, i'll call the police, where i joked often who will you be as a press officer? will you work with those journalists ? at first i didn't really want to. then i realized that i still have some experience and i can do it as efficiently as possible , but officers in the army are not only employed former journalists andrii rudyk, a professional political scientist and reserve officer, after a full-scale invasion, andrii entered the military register and was soon appointed press officer of one of the divisions of the dnipro tereo. experience of passing meetings in this position, i was in another brigade there for three years . at that time, it was still 19- and a year, that is, i

tried more or less regularly to pass the meetings of the call that i should take there or some position there, for example, in the central bureau of military cooperation assessment or, for example, there or communications or analyst or there moral and psychological support, however, the experience of communicating with journalists came in handy for andrii and in the new position, press officers ensure the work of journalists in the war zone and provide the journalist with materials if the work in a certain area of ​​the front is too dangerous, this is directly work with the mass media, that is, escorting journalists, providing them there necessary materials where, for example, a journalist cannot be, if it is a zone of active hostilities, it is also important to make sure that nothing that could harm the army becomes er or the location itself, then go there tomorrow. maybe, well, after the release of the story, the journalists can fly there. they

took off their seats and went to the base. that is, they are there in the office to edit the stories and the servicemen stay, but it should be emphasized that the ukrainian army does not review the materials of journalists from a biological point of view, there is some kind of propaganda, after all, others. always provided truthful information, added truthful information to journalists at their request, for example, when they asked me if there was provision of clothing, what weight, with my own eyes , i said yes, there is, if so, or what it wasn't, i explain that it really doesn't exist . anasta calls journalists the second army, because he believes that everyone today performs an important mission, the role of journalists is now just as important as the role of the military in general, because journalists document the crimes of the russian federation, if it weren't for journalists who risk their lives going to the front i

probably should have found out, didn't see everything. the war changed the life of every ukrainian . anastasia intends to serve until victory. i'm not sure if she will ever return to journalism. i live alone now i woke up in the afternoon. i went to bed well. i went there and didn’t blow up a mine. the day was successful. i don’t know how it will be. then after the service, i don’t know. we’ll see. andriy also has no far-sighted plans. the main goal is victory. however, i am convinced that the army must work efficiently in the future. so i will be more i need the state because, first of all, when i went there, i was guided by the oath that i gave as an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, and also by article 65 of the constitution of ukraine, and everything, that is,

when i asked, "well, you're not afraid. and what are you doing?" everyone is afraid, but duty is duty for 9 months of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine , more than 10,000 ukrainian and foreign journalists received accreditation from the ministry of defense, so there is enough work for military press officers, the armed forces demonstrate maximum openness, because the whole world must see the consequences of russian invasion and war crimes of the russian army in ukraine cinema television sports music education the free have a choice choose what you want on megogo congratulations this is freedom life

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