uh, it is necessary to spend very, very much, again , i emphasize emotions and creativity and, in the end, strategic planning. well, four rounds, as you say, have already passed 100 years ago, nine rounds passed before the speaker was elected, let's see how many will be enough for the american congressmen, thank you very much minister of foreign affairs of ukraine 2014-2019 pavlo klimkin was on radio svoboda, we talked about the election of the speaker in the american congress, which is ongoing, but at this very moment, we will monitor what is happening, in particular, in the american congress and we will follow the events in ukraine so as not to miss anything, i traditionally encourage you to subscribe to radio svoboda pages on social networks instagram telegram facebook twitter viber and also two channels on youtube radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine and subscribe, well, traditionally , your wishes and remarks comments, questions , leave them in the chat for the broadcast and svoboda life

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part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine, and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this. the war found me at home in irpen worried. the suitcase was packed, but it did not reduce the excitement, explosions every minute, the gostomel airfield, russian fighter jets , i have a cold basement in my window, then i left under shelling from irpen for a month after being abandoned by my relatives , and in the end i ended up in lviv, i returned to the airwaves and started volunteering with my colleagues, helping our military now an integral part of life, we gather for drones and thermal imagers, we weave nets, and on weekends we gather vitamin teas for our defenders at the front, we all cut fruit together, we clean berries, we whip everything and we are always packing, it is very pleasing to think that in a

few days this tea will warm the ukrainian soldiers. everyone of you can help. even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer . i congratulate you, olga len - these are the chronicles of military operations today, we will not talk about the last a week of hostilities, and let's try to review all 10 months of the large-scale offensive against ukraine in the course of the hostilities, how the situation developed, and i will do this with viktor kivlyuk, an expert at the center for defense strategies, a reserve colonel. greetings, mr. viktor good evening, well, actually, look at the last

uh well, for six months, a lot of different 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 question is, in principle , it will be like this: what do you think that was key in the successful deterrence of the russian offensive, first of all, on kyiv, well, i don't know that everything else doesn't need to be touched on, but since kyiv is a key point and actually, well, the success consisted in the fact that the russians didn't take it, that's why it's me i think it is very important, in general, that kyiv will be the main target of the russian offensive was understood a long time ago, and at least since 2019, there have been no command-and-control exercises during which options for the development of the aggression of the russian federation against ukraine and its attempts

to take kyiv, respectively , were not considered or worked out at the right moment, in the right city, there were military leaders who spent many years training to defend the capital, had quite well-developed plans, how successfully did they manage to implement it with the existing a set of means for the villages. maybe you can’t put 12 ballrooms in 12. after all, 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 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

miserable as the soldiers did not know what they were doing , the commanders did not know where to go the army you know, i don't quite share these points of view, because, well, the russians were preparing for this offensive, they prepared a lot of weapons, they stormed with much larger forces than in ukraine, if you say that the russian military was not ready to attack ukraine, then you know people who took up arms for the first time here in the defense, they were not that they were not ready, they were even sometimes not at all ready for what, in principle . did the ukrainian armed forces do such a thing in which city, if it can be localized, where were the most important ones? well, it is possible that the battles that directly decided everything uh... well, to

answer your question, we need to remember uh, questionable publications where they try to justify russia's failures, no readiness for aggression if someone stays in field camps for six months and trains for this by deploying 170 battalions of tactical groups of air and sea components and working out a plan of aggression. well, presumably they should have been ready, but they were not ready, there are too many saboteurs and incompetent leaders who did not fulfill the tasks assigned to them by the state, 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 for such defining stages of the struggle at the first stage of the

war what well, i define for myself as the retreat of the enemy from northern ukraine, this is the defense of chernihiv, definitely this is the fighting for the gostomel airport, this is action for the vasylkovsky airport units of the ground forces of the territorial defense that defended the trostyanets sum, the actions of the operational support regiment in okhtyrky, this is the defense of kharkiv, 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 maps of the first period of the war is the preservation of the air force who still perform their tasks while maintaining a fairly high level of their

combat capability and, despite everything, constantly maneuvering to avoid the most technologically backward enemy, i will say that the naval forces, which, in principle, not having such impressive naval capabilities , drowned in the flagship of the enemy fleet, are very big achievements. well, in general, units in the world can do it . showed them found the command post of the enemy's 35th army from which the offensive on kyiv was directed a well-deserved rest, the chief of the army staff, this is also a very serious achievement, again, by an active special operations officer who found

and destroyed a rocket divisional missile that carelessly ended up on the territory of the chernihiv region, notes not in the first stage, perhaps the most important, but these events are enough now, it is funny to watch as on russian airwaves until now they say, well, we destroyed the entire ppu of ukraine in the first week of the war, there is such and such an impression that people simply did not even draw any conclusions from what was happening and you know what else, in principle, i was impressed, of course, i was impressed by the way sumy region and chernihiv region 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 say that the russians in first of all, they say that they did not attack the infrastructure, only now they started to attack it, so 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 that, the people there continued to resist, the garrisons resisted, that is, what was the resistance, if there is a question about what was, uh, 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 is looking for an answer to the topic who demined the boat er in this direction we unjustifiably lost territories quickly and only the use of the very geographical physical conditions that are very conducive to defense was not used why did this happen well, the dbr is conducting an investigation here, it seems like yesterday the

deputy head of the security service commented on this situation. maybe we know it at 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. it 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 was russian cyber troops intervened in the work of strategic military management systems, but hmm, ukraine responded adequately, deployed a backup system, and since then there is nothing more

western, sorry, eastern hackers were able to achieve in cyberspace against ukraine , that is, management problems, communication problems, they somewhat reduced and continue where na it's a pity to reduce our capabilities, but in general, such big failures, failures and miscalculations are difficult to call big strategic operational level, the fact that there are also many conversations about this, in which someone is there the ukrainian army was able but not able to turn the tide of the war. how do you evaluate it for yourself? i believe that the strategic initiative in the war was seized by the armed forces of ukraine. hmm, we haven't reached that

moment yet. when we can say that we have broken the enemy's neck and we will continue to move down the hill to our victory. for now, we are close, but we have not reached it. and it depends on what we don't have. we have achieved parity in weapons, we have not achieved parity in ammunition, well , that is, what could this break mean from your point of view, the search for priority in some types of armed forces, the amount of ammunition is absolutely not indicative in the modern war in ukraine, there are no planes -e long-range bomber aircraft, but it struck wengeli airfields 700 km from the state border, vdiagelev regularly attacks targets in crimea, ships were attacked in berdyansk and sevastopol, 700 km from the state border, but

we don't seem to have the means for such actions i.e. the presence of the possibility, the presence of creative approaches and the awareness that asymmetric actions, well, push against the goliath, the old saying allows those who lose in quantitative indicators to be effective, well, it is absolutely modern for such a cat that allows us to achieve high results with limited resources, as for how to characterize the fracture when we will feel that the enemy's command has finally lost interest in offensive actions, so probably then it will be considered that the turning point has come. several meetings that putin held with the general staff of the general staff of the russian federation in

different places there publicly, not publicly - different and in principle there were many who told him and reported that it is clear that they are trying to build up on the contrary and build up the work of the anti-aircraft missile system and something to somehow consolidate the army to carry out some additional there, even mobilization, something else, well, that is, it is clear that the situation simply did not freeze, that is, they still made some conclusions, they will do something, and this is actually this assessment of the hard worker who gave in an interview for the economist when he said that in order for ukraine to be able to advance further, additional weapons are still needed and he named numbers that are actually huge there, 500 e-e tanks there , in my opinion, 700 km, 300-300 yes, well, in fact, they are big, you better know this and this is, in principle, well, it is commensurate with the armies of two or three

european countries, that is, how realistic are these expectations? are needed for further implementation operations, you need to know what goal we want to achieve, what forces and means we need for this , that is, the need for resources is known to a rather limited circle of people, i kind of think that this same need is brought to our allies and according to what we please , they are trying to satisfy our request, but not everything can be provided to us in the quantities we need and at the time we need , the armed forces of the allied countries well, it looks a little

like a supermarket option i need 300 tanks, please return eh well, not every country is you first that's all he has in its armed forces, secondly, those tanks that are in storage are partly needed by the state to ensure, first of all, its own defense capability, their technical condition very often requires quite long restoration and modernization measures, therefore the dates for the start of our active actions must coincide with the dates when allies can provide us with uh, we need resources. today we all saw that the president of the united states announced that there

will be 2011 combat vehicles, infantry and tanks through public efforts. delivered to ukraine in ukraine, in what terms, what kind of machines, what kind of weapons, it was not said, but the very fact that the possibility is declared is already a lot, this is a serious project. but be very careful with this patriot system. perhaps there will be some more interesting ones. finally, in january, there will be a new ramstein, but it is certainly interesting. do they support this desire to put us already out of the modern system of other players? this is, of course, a very serious question i think. what do you think? we can expect something and if well, what could we want? rammstein is not a collegial body that decides to supply or not to supply. behind the scenes,

rammstein works daily to find surpluses of certain weapons systems that can be transferred to ukraine. it is determined whether at all ukraine does not need, but what technical conditions and in what terms it can be submitted to us, and accordingly, rammstein summarizes the supply opportunities with our needs and creates delivery mechanisms, so to speak, from the points of the clause, that is, in principle, everything that what is happening in rammstein, what do we want? the commander-in -chief of the armed forces has the right set of wishes. i can share my personal vision. in my opinion , today we need long-range

firepower in order to... a long arm that will bury strategic bombers of the russian federation and ships carrying cruise missiles, this will significantly facilitate our life, the life of civil society will provide an opportunity to restore the infrastructure to a level that will provide at least our minimum needs in the second place eh i would determine the acquisition of eh combat vehicles of infantry and armored personnel carriers so that the newly formed military units the previously formed motorized infantry brigades will receive an adequate number of means of mobility if we want we cannot do it on foot, we need combat vehicles that can firstly transport personnel and secondly support their actions by fire

probably find such priorities in the third place, probably there should be a conversation about obtaining aircraft, because any offensive action requires uh, air superiority at least in the key areas of the development of operations, here are probably my three priorities. well, you know, this is your first priority to get something like this a long hand that would reach those planes and ships that are now bombarding ukraine, i think that all 100% of the residents of ukraine will join you in this wish, which is exactly what it is, you know if it was possible under the christmas tree, it would probably be the greatest happiness for all of us, if my wishes were joined by raytions, loctit marking, which was developed by such a weapon, i would probably

be something even more happy, let's wish this to everyone, you know, wishes like these launched into space come true as a rule , let's talk about some plans, what can happen, especially since there are certain expectations. for example, the commander of the northern direction of the syrian direction said in the same interview that you should not underestimate the mobilization in russia, on the other hand, at these last meetings there, putin told him that the russian army will be increased to one and a half million military personnel, of which they want more than 600,000 to be contract workers and they will also raise intend to raise the conscription age from 21 to 30, that is, even those who now thought that they would not fall under the crisis

may well fall under it. and from this point of view, how do you think this mobilization in russia really affects them plans to gather a larger army er for what is happening on the battlefield and the most important thing is how er the military machine of the russian federation can really equip these people and deliver them to the field mine if you look at the impact of mobilization on society as a whole, these are vessels that connect the armed forces and society, and between them there is a tube of mobilization, that is, if you want to increase the number of armed forces, you have to transfer a part of society there , including people who worked in the military-industrial complex before at a critical infrastructure enterprise in the same the communal economy itself, that is

, society is getting worse, but due to this, the army is getting bigger, in the materials of the colleague, the ministry of defense of the russian federation , it is noted that they intend to form about 15-18 new units, and if , conditionally speaking, for the convenience of calculations , 20 new ones will be formed divisions of 15,000 people . this is the situation when 300,000 conscripts for mobilization perfectly fit into some logical context of the development of events . the training and material base of russia of the armed forces of the russian federation allows preparing 120-130 thousand considering, firstly, the throughput capacity of training facilities, and secondly, the availability of instructors who can actually teach, that is, by forming 20 new

divisions, the enemy has the opportunity to put on the battlefield approximately 90,100 fresh new battalions of tactical groups, but the question all these people, all those 300,000 need to be clothed in something, preferably military, give them modern equipment. well, at least relatively modern, it’s means of ballistic protection, unloading vests, e.e. unloading, the same flasks. in general a complete set of combat equipment, a warrior in russia, everyone has heard and seen units. and here we need 300,000, where to take them, all with small arms, they have no problems with ammunition, and there are no more questions. the reserves are quite large, but all this must

be restored and preferably modernized , the modernization of the t-62 wedding machines has been announced in order to provide them for the troops that will be formed, today russia itself does not produce any fire control stations or night sights, no night vision devices, all this was purchased in france, now sanctions do not buy anything for the t-62 tank, there is no question that it should be modernized, it is displayed on the battlefield, that is, the car is blind at night. airplanes, helicopters, means of communication, first of all , secure communication without components that are under sanctions, well, this is more

of a conversation than an opportunity to create something. to the russian federation, they previously ordered baikal and elbrus processors, which were considered to be a domestic development, but something domestic development was produced outside the russian federation, there are quite a lot of such nuances, you should not discount the gray schemes parallel to import partners such as, for example, iran, which can provide something and something help by pumping western radio microelectronics through shadow circuits into the russian federation, but all this can only be done partially