i would like you to briefly analyze what we receive from the west at the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. the main thing that we have with you is that we need to be aware of the real breakthrough in e-e. let's say the improvement of our air defense system, because before we got nasambs we got crotalus we got irishmen these are modern western systems that strengthened our old soviet system of anti-flood defense which we operated quite successfully our air force we are just doing their job fantastically yes they do wonders and today we are already in this way interoperability english word interoperability by western armies systems it will improve due to the fact that we get those modern systems, master them and demonstrate to our partners that it works and works it is very good in essence combo testing is such an expression that is this means that it was approved and checked in ukraine during the russian war, but one more important

thing must be said. the main thing is that our partners see our support systematically and stably, and today the contracts concluded by our partners by the manufacturers of their baking already today on the rails on the tracks of preparation not preparation in the ammunition manufactured for us, weapons, fragrant parts . another rammstein now we are waiting to give confirmation, but where we will already discuss all those things, but at the end of the year we clearly understood, i know how many rocket shells are planned to be manufactured by our partners, plus i have this for international technical assistance, plus the contracts concluded by me on behalf of the ministry of defense for the provision of the armed forces of ukraine, therefore, this is a very important moment, this is a systematic rhythmicity, and uh, if this war is a war of resources, the

russians used all their reserves of the soviet union, resources a large number of people, weapons, etc. and of course we would not have survived as a country with less resources, but today we have the resources of the civilized western world on our side. they smiled so much, and today in their speeches at my visa, the minister of defense clearly says, oleksiy, we understand that today you are defending the entire civilized world, the entire west, you are a real shield of civilization, i even wrote it on the postcards that i received before christmas and before the new year, directly from my colleagues or in the text messages that they send me, but still agree somehow, everything is very careful, slowly, slowly, they harness me, of course, we thank them very much for those weapons, because it would be difficult for us, it would be very difficult without it, that's true, but i agree, and you wrote in your column that patriotism is very good anyway. i read somewhere today that it seems that patriotism will already be in our country somewhere

. literally, well, they write in six months, so that it is already on the faithful, but you wrote your school, it will be rather good, but you wrote that we need long-range missiles, we need fighter jets, we need tanks, they are ready for it, look, i think they are ready for everything, but gradually and it is necessary, again, i am not justifying them, i am explaining, and the allocation of funds to us from our budgets is from the point of view of local policies of weakening their defense capability or taking from the reserves of their armed forces, and every time politicians who are for us must convince society and politicians who are not entirely for us and what should be done in their interests, the interest of their defense capability, the sooner ukraine defeats the russians on the battlefield, the there are fewer risks. that the russians will go to war against these countries because the russians did a sociological survey last year and it sounded optimistic. and that they were optimistic about the idea of ​​occupying the baltic countries or the idea of ​​occupying poland and that was the vast majority of the population, this is complete

idiocy, but they freely talk about it, about the restoration of the berlin wall , their propagandists, etc. and so on. therefore, it is a real threat to them, not only that, but in madrid at the nato summit, they clearly defined that for the next 10 years, their main threat and the russian federation today ukraine is removing this threat we are carrying out nato's mission today the loss of their blood with the loss of our blood therefore for them we need to waste their weapons and here this discussion in every country is also going on in them there were elections in mine changed some of my visa partners are the ministers of defense of different countries, i already work with others, i continue to be friends with the first ones, and they support us, but they are already there as members of parliament or ministers in new other ministries . fortunately, they perceive the second thing , they are very pragmatic and practical, and this is true. they think, yes, let's give them this high-tech equipment. and how to maintain it. and how

to repair it? if we give something that we will not be able to provide repair or service later, there is no point in giving training terms and so on and so on and so on that is why they make a balanced decision every time that this is in one country and then other countries will be able to think about it therefore, if we did not work out and received systematic anti-aircraft missiles , it meant that after the adoption of this decision by the united states as leaders , other countries began to give us all missiles, that is, to provide the opportunity to then inflict damage on an enemy target and such there are many examples, everything that we get today, we get after a balanced approach of the logistics system of technical support, well, once again i repeat on the mountain the political decision, the russians are also rocking this boat, their propagandist works there, their system is from usful idiots useful idiots to the real agents of influence and they

are still you know broadcasting in the countries of european hotels include and see propaganda their channels it works and therefore of course political internal political internal agenda works sometimes let's say this against our interests , but we must thank the leaders of those countries who are still on course to support ukraine, and that is why we successfully have such support today , but i still want to clarify with you at the last briefing when president zelensky came to the united states when you asked a ukrainian journalist about whether they are ready to give ukraine long-range missiles to attack everything joe biden said that well, he dodged, said that it could disrupt the unity of the west and nato and the eu yes, we want to help ukraine, but we don't we want an escalation of the conflict. well, there is still no final realization that it is time for russia to stop being afraid of what it is. i always

say it too, that the philosophy of the don right-wing people does not work. it did not work in 2008, when we and georgia were not accepted into nato, and then they bought part of georgia, then they bought crimea, they occupied part of the donetsk region, luhansk region, and that means it doesn't work. that is, they have to be beaten in the face, and they understand it clearly, they are brought up this way. continues and the decision is made gradually and that’s how it is all long-range missiles i think that early from time to time this discussion will end successfully for us as they ended and according to the patriots it once seemed impossible what walls the belts said during the props absolutely impossible today all this is absolutely possible that’s why in my opinion, everything is impossible. perhaps in the future, we will find another solution to long-range damage to the enemy,

including with our partners. we did not start inflicting damage directly on the territory of the russian federation, so that it allegedly did not grow into their already open conflict there, not only that, let's not forget that all the same, everyone who watches from the side, even those who are for us and who will support us, they dream of a negotiating table because any guilt will end with the negotiation table and it is clear that they would like to speed up this moment in order to spend less resources, therefore their logic is clear that they leave, however meager, if you want, but the progress of the ukrainian military i know that our weapons are also made and there are the latest developments and they are used. what can you tell us? please tell us that this war is open to its stages because the war began in 2014, it caused the acceleration of our understanding and understanding that certain procedures must be simplified as much as possible . to quickly develop the national anti-aircraft missile system, because this is

also a guarantee of our independence, today good partners give, and tomorrow they will stop giving. therefore, we have to do everything from cannons, shells, tanks, planes, missiles, and so on not only that, we were not allowed to attack shipboard e systems such as the harpoon, also because they were afraid of skalati, but when exactly our ukrainian neptune sent to the bottom, as everyone knows, andres even the flagship of the russian fleet to moscow, and this was done 100 years later, 100 years ago there were analogues under the earthquake then the japanese sunk the french flagship, and now the ukrainians sunk it. this is the future of the site . i invite everyone to go scuba diving with me after the victory. i really like diving, so i invite you there. and we will do it there underwater museum and so on. it was the ukrainian neptune that sunk and after that we got harpoons and many such examples. that is , they start giving us something when you see that we do it anyway, when we started using

our drones and started inflicting damage in such a way. we started getting some attack drones from our partners, so today we have simplified all the procedures that allow us to speed up the possibility of putting this or that new technology into service, so today both the private sector and the public sector are developing, our factories are once again i'll repeat neptune and other alder products and so on and so on the stug on the corsair fight fantastically at the front, no worse than javelins, no worse there and lavas and so on, our military is better, and they moan, shoot down their famous rotorcraft, which they call there air tanks, and so on. that's why it's for sure , today is a challenge for the ukrainian military and once again for both state and private property and opportunities, and most importantly, everything that has been opposed is repeated in this war in ukraine, tomorrow it will have the number one quality mark in any markets, so i as the children say, i fiercely support the ukrainian armed forces today and i am ready to

do everything that depends on me for them. similarly, i also support ukraine and washington. several were very important, the serpent islands were liberated, the sinking of the cruiser moscow was very important, the liberation of kyiv oblast, chernihiv oblast, sumy oblast, then a breakthrough in kharkiv oblast, then kherson, this is every step already not just stabilization but the decoupling of our lands and demonstrations of the west that they invest in us for a reason because it is an investment in victory and the visit of president zelenskyi is much more, it is a serious sign that the president who did not leave the country and i repeat told me that i do not need a taxi, i need e- he allowed himself this visit because of very important things and he

brought them and the patriots and, accordingly, a new package of serious monetary support for the entire 23rd year and a speech in the congress, including we know that it will start working from january the updated signed congress with updated mandates are very important things and this is a demonstration to the whole world that this is the strategic partnership of the united states and ukraine and this means for all other countries that there is no doubt who the united states supports and therefore will support the whole civilized world therefore, it is much more than just a fracture at the front, it is a fracture of the consciousness of the world as a whole and once again the world has changed and we are in a state of this and we are observing this transformation with you. ukraine centrism p- look at how many times they applauded our president, how many times they stood up , this is at a very high cost, we feel for all ukrainians, as it is said, this is with the

president of ukraine, this is a symbol of all the indomitability of the entire ukrainian nation and they with respect to us, to the blood that we spent how much lost souls, we lost the children of civilians, military personnel, and so on. and this seems to me to be a guarantee that after the victory, we will have a lot of work to restore our country and create a new ukraine, not the old soviet one with all its flaws with with skeletons in the closets and thirdly, this will definitely bring the aggressor to justice as uh, politically, legally, economically, financially , the president flew to the united states from baku, and you know he brought the flag as an uh, american congressman, you can tell that it remains the hottest point now in donbas which is now the same place one day the trench belongs to russia the next day what is the situation in ukraine right now in donbas, this is a hotline, it is impossible to say one specific point simply this is the dream of the russians

to have at least a small symbolic victory somewhere clarifies the point of view of the military, there is no political significance for them, it has promises, er, for the internal er, it means subpoenas to show that somewhere there they went to the admin borders, but in fact today, the front line between us and you is two and a half thousand kilometers long. the line of threats is starting from the entire border with belarus, it is a threat because it is not a friendly country, unfortunately, russia and the temporarily occupied territories are next, and in those two and a half thousand, 1,200 are the most tense, 800 kilometers are especially tense that's why bakhmut is a fortress. we are already in the process of seriously saying it's a symbol, it's a very english word, stronghold is a guard post, and i even recently watched our ukrainian film on netflix. and by the way, it's like a fairy tale, but a very symbolic fairy tale, i recommend watching it i don't sell a placeman, it's just that i really

liked it, that's why we'll hold every meter of our ukrainian land and win it back, i remember very well how before the war you talked to your belarusian colleague, he assured you that no one would attack us together with kiev, well, it was a lie, let's say so. do you believe that belarus would dare to enter ukraine from the north? there are two options. was it a lie or was it complete helplessness and ignorance, but still dependence on the russians in any case does not save honor the uniform of this minister of belarus because he still lied to me because he gave the officer's word and he didn't keep it, he should have kept it or at least er take certain actions at least at least yes but er and you see they made an attack from the territory of belarus without the use of the armed forces of belarus, at least officially, we carefully observe what is happening along the border and in the territory of belarus in

depth, our intelligence and partners, our polish and lithuanian friends, first of all, because they also border with them, so we carefully observe, we understand that in the kremlin's plans, the strategic destruction of the entire ukrainian statehood, the capture of the capital, the capture of all territories, and then possibly conducting some kind of negotiations with an event on the partition of the let's say the influence on the remnants as they think therefore, of course, the belarusian direction can be used by them as a strategic one for an attack, for this they need to concentrate their efforts on several places, so we will say so, we are not relaxing, we are ready for this, but we are watching carefully and we will understand when this risk becomes more threatening or not. let's see. i read a lot about the fact that the russians are preparing for the next mobilization after the new year. they already say there are already even letters sent to higher educational institutions to tell students to fire them after a bad passing the session and then mobilizing them, well, it may be so, it may not be so, but they say that

they are preparing, they will regroup , they want a little break now, so that they can go with a new offensive later, will there be, uh, the next mobilization, see. everything is very simple with us here, as a lawyer, i will even explain that we have announced mobilization in february since the beginning of this influx with an additional one, it has been announced and it has not been completed to date, and the number of people that is provided by law for holding of martial law, the parliament approved the presidential decree, which approved the decision of the nsdc , accordingly, the mobilization of announcements, and we have not even selected the one hundred percent potential that is under implementation. that is, it continues in a calm regime, and as commander-in-chief valeriy zuluzhnyi always says today, we do not need such a large number of people like the russians, we have weapons, equipment, equipment, etc. and so on, that's why we do what we choose, we make up for the losses there, too,

unfortunately, we make up for the losses of our combatants which brigades of specialists do we hire, which special ones do we need for these or other tasks, but such mass mobilization as of today i do not see the need, but of course the situation at the front can be freed up in any way at any moment depends on how events will develop and then the decision will be made by the nsdc, the president of the verkhovna rada, and then it will be. well, we will increase the need for the armed forces or the security and defense sector, we need more for mobilization , as of today, such a significant hop-step, let's get another militia. i don't see that, i can't help but ask you about the recent adoption by the verkhovna rada of a bill on increasing the responsibility of the military. well, you know the increased responsibility for desertion, for leaving military units, for disobeying the orders of what came out. such a very scandalous document, it was discussed by everyone, e.e. commander-in

-chief he was supported by civil society, not very much. how does the minister of defense feel about this document? first of all, we agreed at the beginning of my term that i will not teach how to fight. his entire general staff, my task is to ensure civil democratic control , help, support, and so on. and so on. it was the initiative of the military itself. it was precisely the commanders of the brigades, the commanders of the ut and axis, who begged and begged that these changes to the legislation should not be made because there are problems with certain situations and discipline. and they use it. unfortunately, some people abuse it, plus the russians use propaganda leaflets, they even spread out how and what to do, throw down weapons, and there were instigators, they were paid, and so on security service ukraine fixed it, that is, and then these people avoided responsibility, that is, the principle of the inevitability of punishment did not work at that moment, therefore it was a very persistent

, multi-month request and the work of our military command . on this by adopting these series of draft laws, the chief of the general staff reported personally, the hero of ukraine, serhii whispered, valery zaluzhny personally did a video protest with a request to the president to sign this bill and give it strength , those who are outraged, i can certainly understand them if now was a time of peace and demands for the possibility of balancing and so on. today we are in an open war. it is a question of survival, but something many people joined the party what ended this war, we did not end this war, it continues and there is a risk to our statehood, the survival of our nation and people in general . when someone deserts from the battlefield, he leaves at

that moment his comrades die, it is a question of saving the lives of our servicemen , therefore, the question of the inevitability of punishment , army discipline is a question of survival not just of the armed forces, but of the entire country, therefore, i trust our military command and support them in this request. i would like for you to analyze a little the progress of the ukrainian army over the year, that's what they are. well, of course they are great guys. we are proud of them and for their sake we are here even with you now we can sit and talk, and the progress of the ukrainian army for the year is first of all, of course, a simple measurement - it is quantitative. yes, it is clear that we had 261,000 only in the armed forces officially. and there are 45,000 plus there, if i am not mistaken, border guards 45,000 of the national guard 90 thousand national police of the emergency situations plus the security service of ukraine is the entire security sector and turnover. well, the hormone, of course, and today under the bayonet in ukraine, about a million people, all of them, the entire security and

defense sector, this is, respectively, a test to ensure draw in, feed, heat warm, arm, and so on. and so on. this management system is an interaction. the personnel of the military today received a mobilization resource of people who came from civilian life, maybe they once served, even someone fought. here is the ato, but still there are many strong people, it workers, teachers, bakers, and railway workers . lawyers and so on and so on and that's why there is such mutual pollination here, including er, let's say some civilian such a way of life and at the same time people are becoming military and understand that sorry today you do not have the right to privacy and today with write, someone snores next to you, and hygiene problems are solved differently, and so on. and so on, you begin to value other things, but the main thing is that today we have mastered the opportunity to use both soviet weapons and modern new ones, as well as ukrainian new developments , the same and ours.

so on and so on and the creativity of the ukrainian armed forces, well, the security and defense sector is not only the armed forces - it is an army of creativity, it is an army of freedom, an army that can today quickly make decisions and respond to threats to by the overwhelming forces of the enemy, if they pour from 20 to 60,000 shells at us during the day along the entire front line, depending on the intensity of the injection, we must respond with accurate surgical reactions from five to six thousand, but make them more effective, so it seems to me that today the right one was one of of defense ministers at our closed meetings in the regime and rammstein and the ministers of monato when he said hm at the joint dinner he said you know our threat is the russians according to our same with you stonewallers in madrid the only country in the world and the only army in the world that already shows demonstrates that the

russians are completely realistic, this is ukraine, what do you still need a moment about ukraine's accession to nato? well, i approached this minister, hugged him, shook his hand , told him everything is correct, how well-off the ukrainian soldier is now. well, at first , wars collected money on the cap and on the bulletproof vests , now i already hear that at least they don't collect for it anymore, volunteers shouldn't collect if even someone collects it's something that fools someone because today we are fully provided for fully provided the armed forces with both winter and summer clothes, about 200,000 body armor is in warehouses in reserves, 150,000 helmets are in warehouses, reserves just in case, and so on for replacement and to increase if necessary, thanks to volunteers, the first weekly, even monthly, were really closed needs, they are more flexible. i am very grateful to them for this, but today volunteers can actively bring those things that we also do not have time because there are budget restrictions , including that there is not enough money for this war

that's why when it's common we fight, including it's very i support and applaud the volunteering to all the big and small singles to all organize here who does it because bringing a hygiene package and milk to the front line is something delicious especially or buying a batch of drones - it's equally important for our military, but in terms of providing food and clothing, well, there are no problems, all the needs presented to us by the general staff, we close n ministers, you literally just mentioned nato and did you hug one of the ministers for the fact that it's time for us to enter there, we accepted such a request to nato about accelerated accession. do you believe in this accelerated accession? well, at the moment, you know, i always tell your colleagues that i don't like to base my conclusions on assumptions, i will base them on facts. i don't like to predict uh, although sometimes i really

want to dream, then they are called dreams , and uh, in this case, i am convinced that this is an absolutely realistic possibility , because today nato will be interested in the entry of ukraine into this alliance, of course they are not will make this political decision by consensus before our victory, this is understandable because there will be countries that will vote against it, but after this victory, after all this is over and everything will be clear that some kind of peace has come, nato countries will first of all be interested in the construction of this security architecture they saw including their own weaknesses, they saw who is strong and powerful today they teach us , but our officers and sergeants and even privates will teach them how to fight with the russians russia remains one of the threats to nato and to in europe as a whole, they will not abandon their plans for a rematch, so we have to prepare now, there will always be a repeat attempt, and if we

are ready, they will not be able to do this again and get this rematch, so i am convinced that i will repeat it again, de facto there is already a lot to do a nato country based on multi -standards. we have already implemented three more regulations there, we need to adopt more than 1,200 nato standards. i will tell you that the vast majority of countries that joined nato after 1997 approximately dominated up to 40% of nato standards, even 33-35 and 40 e np no no we are still less the fact is that you don't need all 1,200 if you don't have a fleet, for example, you are in the center of europe, then you don't need standards for the fleet if you don't have a grand air force, then i don't need standards for aviation each a country chooses its standards, which it needs for its existence are nato standards, which are even better in our country, the quality of drinking water in ukraine is of a higher standard than in nato countries, that's why we don't need this standard , we are already better, so the question of the quantitative

indicator of nato standards is not at all the question of three things: do we have civil-democratic control in the country, do we have transparent and understandable systems of procurement , logistics of delivery. we are moving and the third is the planning of a joint operation, this is a military component , military, economic and political if we share all the values, because nato is not a military union, it is an economic union, a political union, so we are a country with you. so, you know, the rocket takes off just to the level that we are not what they will ask of us , the people need you in nato, i really want to live to these times, oleksiy, let's dream a little, but imagine that you were launched into some kind of i don't i know a large military

supermarket and they say, mr. oleksiy reznikov, what do you want to win the war? i know that you would ask for tank destroyers, what else ? using the same heimers mls i would buy air defense systems without fail. because it is the number one priority to protect the ukrainian sky, that's why one installation of patriots is not enough for us, whether it's nasamstv or iris, i would buy many missiles for those systems, of course , to update a-and i would update as much as possible even our modern soviet systems, of course, i would have added armored vehicles and tanks and armored personnel carriers, we also need them in order to make reserve units and give the boys a rest at the front to make rotation, this is necessarily a history of tanks and airplanes, you are absolutely right. i think that with our

military pilots, i know that literally three educational institutions prepare if even this kharkiv one, and according to the report of the command, we have even more pilots than airplanes, so the question is, who will be why? well, it happened because we in at one time, we had a big strange policy, we gave away our s300 systems for russian gas. for example, we gave tanks , we gave airplanes, we believed that we were not threatened by this neighbor and we traded with them with military items , now they actually use them against us us and we will receive the help of the western world because of that. well, military pilots are at a good level now in ukraine, we have very high-quality pilots because they are the air force that we talked about with you, what is the composition of pilots, riflemen, snipers, and so on, and the level is that they are demonstrate they are still not on