bring out the medics, they also returned unharmed , now cuba continues to rescue the wounded and still manages to combine the war with civilian life , together with the women's veteran movement, they are introducing women's uniforms to the ministry of defense of ukraine, and also yulia is realizing her dream , developing her own clothing brand and planning to perform in paris. we have already been invited from showed paris paris showed there will be a separate branch of cloth clothes that is, it is more comfortable everyday and separate will be completely er first branch it is longer we plan to reach there to the level of there well for example there dolce gabbana gucci and that's right well, that's what we want and i believe that if you want something, you can do it cuba is part of the glamorous life that existed before the war, takes with it to the front, namely, its favorite perfume, which it changes every time during the rotation and continues to draw sketches because he believes it is possible to continue doing what he loves

even during the war. khrystyna parubiy , espresso tv channel, another exchange of prisoners took place in our house. this was reported by the head of the president's office, andriy yarmak , 50 of our soldiers have returned to ukraine, these are fighters the navy is the national guard's security forces, border guards and special forces, 33 officers and 17 non-commissioned sergeants, our state returned people who were captured at the chernobyl nuclear power plant, as well as defense forces in mariupol, defenders from the donetsk region, from podbakhmut, kyiv region , chernihiv region, kherson region and other regions. yarmak added that this is not the last exchange ukraine and glory to ukraine in the presentation of the news editor thank you

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battery stations with solar panels for our soldiers, we will transfer the first five stations in the 406th separate artillery brigade named after general oleksiy almazov, join the gathering, let's bring victory together glory to ukraine on the air, saturday political club, we congratulate you on the holidays, dear friends, khrystyna yatskiv, vitaly portnikov, we will talk, as always, about the most important things about what was happening in the world, what was happening in our country well, we will probably start by covering the situation from the military side and about the military side. especially since we have

several bright information ghosts this week. experts were introduced by an employee of the sbu in 2014-2015 and oleksandr kovalenko , a military-political observer of the information resistance group, congratulations, friends, happy holidays, let's try to understand what is happening around bakhmut i solidan, please, let's start with you, mr. ivan, and then we'll move on to you, mr. oleksandr, well, see well, i keep my point of view. i have already said more than once that i see that as mine. i understand that for you, on the contrary, it is good that everyone has their own point of view and everyone can choose from the audience just closer what is more for us look, i see the story of the wagner family, i see the very story of prigozhin, who is trying to somehow gain even more points to consolidate his success

in the russian establishment by winning bakhmut. everything is worse by the russian establishment and this is what makes him do even more desperate attacks in order to win, he just got into such a story when he starts openly criticizing the russian command the russian command pays him back with the same coin, he begins to reduce the volume of supplies we are there of spare parts of ammunition , this affects the combat capability of the troops, the successes they have, and all this in a circle, and he again begins to criticize the russian command, this is such a colossus from which, thank god , so far he can't come out, mr. oleksandr, how do you view this situation regarding the soledar, i really wanted to understand uh, i completely agree with that part, yes , he supplemented the component exclusively tactically

, namely, uh, yes, for more than six months these events are taking place near bakhmut, the russian occupiers are trying to implement the offensive stage of er assault actions, but what happened during this time, again, er, for more than six months, er, 1,000 m² of the territory of ukraine was liberated er, kharkiv oblast pravoberezhna kherson region, very interesting processes are currently taking place in luhansk region, and so on, and what is happening near bakhmut, and what is happening near bakhmut , what is happening for another six months, and during this time, the russian occupiers used a huge, huge a technical, technological, human resource. well, i’m not talking about financial and the like, but this resource did not have any effect. now let’s imagine what would happen if this resource

was not concentrated on the plus narrow front, namely in the direction of the bahmut, but used to strengthen, for example id of the russian occupiers a few months ago well, in the right bank of kherson oblast, or in order to start from the temporarily occupied part of zaporizhzhia oblast, to start some offensive actions already in the direction of zaporizhzhia from right bank of kherson oblast in the direction of mykolaiv or kryvyi rih. so, in fact, bakhmut is also something we must understand that it is not just a bastion . such an impregnable fortress. and this is also a trap for the russian occupiers, who are spending a huge resource and cannot use it in other directions, so its very important role is also in this. mr. oleksandr, i would like to clarify. in other words, all these informational situations surrounding soledar have been going on for two days, according to my calculations

. this is also part of this planned operation about a trap for the russians , because now there is information allegedly about soledar everything is more or less stable and the armed forces of ukraine receive it by 95% the situation near soledar is really very difficult to say about what is there in fact everything is fine i can’t because the threat is a real threat it exists a large number of forces and means are concentrated and for example if we let's talk about bakhmut in general, with a location that i already call the bakhmut plandar because it can fully have such a name, it has every right to be called the bakhmut plazdar, there now in the forward zone a is concentrated approximately 15-16 battalion-tactical tactical groups and the enemy, yes, they are not fresh, yes, they are bloodless, they have losses, and still others, but this is a huge resource, which really

represents a rather serious threat. in addition , in the near future, the russian occupiers will relocate to this very bridgehead , and - and quite fresh, and six battalions of tactical groups, which are already part of the regular units, and the second combined military army of the eastern military. so, in fact, the tension will only increase, the fact that today soledar remains under the control of the armed forces of ukraine - this is exactly the element the professionalism of our armed forces in relation to every other populated place, village, city, e-e, which were located on this bridgehead and for which they spent a huge resource, and the russian occupiers to buy them, yes, they are the elements that slow down this resource in the donetsk region, slow down, delay this one endless, this endless crap, well, which

already can’t let go, as we see, let’s see, let ’s try to understand what will change, mr. ivan and after the west started talking about providing ukraine with offensive weapons will they give, and secondly, what will it change? well , look, step by step, step by step, ukraine will receive that equipment, that weapon, even let's do it, we couldn't even dream. yes, in april of the 22nd year, what will they give us? here are these weapons, that is, already they are already giving about the patriots. oh, you think about it. one is not enough. two. well, it might be. well, we are already starting to sort through it. but the french are giving it. to oppose the soviet union and we now we have such a situation when russia does not have modern equipment and what they give us seems to be old, but in its essence it can

counteract the equipment there in the soviet union of the post-soviet model that is now in the russian federation, that is, any heavy equipment, not even tanks, they also accelerate our victory, they give us an advantage not on the whole, not on all the simple fronts in some areas we really will have an advantage and this technique, for example, is french. yes, these machines are used for reconnaissance purposes, yes, they make ambushes they transport the infantry here, a really cool story , which we currently lack, about this, the largest aid package from the united states began this story . i don’t know if all this leads to uh, this is the joint package of uh, offensive weapons, for sure. let the military

comment. but at the same time, i am interested in what will happen next, the discussion about the american abrams and everything that is not resolved the issue with the leopards, it looks and resembles that the united states will mature on the abrams just after the countries of the european union will take their step, mr. alexander, is it possible, as my empty dreams say. well, if we are talking about leopard tanks 2 their modification 4.5 a6 and 7, the european union really has a lot of these tanks in some countries, hundreds of them are in service. but again, if we are talking about the fact that we can get two leopard tanks, then we need to agree accordingly not only from the country that

owns these methane tanks, that uses them and is ready to provide them to us, and there must also be an agreement from berlin. tanks, then it must give its consent, and at the beginning of 2022 , spain was ready to provide us with leopard 2 tanks, but germany is acting here, blocking precisely this desire, and by the way, it blocked not only these desires, er, the production of these tanks by germany, as well as those weapons that remained in germany, and after the reunification , since soviet times, she resold and re-exported these weapons, and again from greece mp1 a1, for example. also, we could not get it right away because germany did not agree to transfer their bmws

instead . well, this is such a complicated political situation and this is germany's position. well, we now see that germany is gradually starting to help us more and more, but for now, if we are talking about such a rather serious weapon as tanks, it seems to me that germany is still will slow down this process, so we can count on the technology that is so useful to us, and during our offensive actions there was, for example, this package provided by the united states for 3 billion dollars, if you do not pay attention to missiles from sparrow and some other elements, and exclusively for the infantry component, artillery equipment, ammunition, it is very interesting here that it is actually a-a equipment of a battalion-tactical group of an assault battalion of a tactical group that can carry out quite mobile

assault actions, and that is very interesting. and when this everything will be assembled in one full-time team, so what will it be, it will be another rather rapid counteroffensive at some bridgehead, well, after some time, i'm sure we will see it. please tell me , let's turn to you with this question. i would say propaganda logistics is an increase in the military on the territory of belarus, is moscow really planning some kind of operations in the north of our country? ukrainian troops from the east and south of the countries , so let me say two words about the previous comments, why is germany hesitating to transfer to one or another technique, this whole situation reminds me , you know, of a birthday. when all the relatives gathered, no one can say the first

toast yes, everyone is hesitating there, everyone is looking around, maybe you say maybe you say and so when someone first opens this gate yes and then it rushed and now i will say and i will say let me say it one more time that's where finland says well if someone takes a step yes there, if only half an inch in the direction of transferring equipment to ukraine, then we will transfer it to the european union, now you all know that they are looking at each other, so who will start ? that sooner or later, germany, well, in a normal sense , movement, yes, under pressure. it's an interesting story, as far as i'm concerned, i think oleksandr will add even more such subtle details, but at the beginning, not even at the beginning, somewhere in the fall, there was

information that they were driving there from belarus, and ammunition and equipment were being taken in the direction of the russian federation, as if they were being exported instead they bring mobikes and they train there, they train on these playgrounds that are not in the russian federation, then information appears that they still bring something to belarus, then they took it out, it is not clear whether it was some kind of er empty er is that how you know the distraction is not clear to me personally, what is happening is that some people at some points are dragging equipment on railway platforms along the ukrainian border. heavy equipment, namely urals , kamaz, and infantry, but heavy equipment as such. well, really, i haven’t seen it yet. yes, i saw that

lukashenko traveled literally this week , the joint group of belarusians and russians. he went there and hugged them i tried to find out what are your shortcomings, let's talk to the journalists there, i apologize, the fool was kicked out of the tent, we will have a serious conversation there, but for now, i see that this is just a distraction. well, of course, in the situation, it can change any day. at the moment it's just attracting attention well, of course, there is a big insult to our border guards who show them not very pleasant gestures and they are so so sincerely offended , well , that's something . this whole situation that you have just described also applies to the mobilization in the russian federation of up to 500,000, they can collect up to 500,000, reports the main directorate of intelligence. in addition, kyrylo budanov recently announced the possibility of a more

intensive attack by the russian federation on ukraine literally in the spring that in principle , it was confirmed somewhat later by the words of the secretary of the security and defense council of the united states, oleksiy danilov. well, if you add it all up, it doesn't look like it's just shots in the air. what do you think, mr. ivan? well, let's do it for now. we see belarus. i personally see it from this angle of heavy equipment. i don’t see it. yes , they are coordinating there, they are hauling certain equipment along the border, indeed, on the other side, they are preparing mobiles from the mobilized, but what other nuances do they sweep up? and they say that we will constantly increase the russian the army, that is, they cannot say that we are recruiting new mobilized to restore the losses , they cannot admit that there are losses, they show that there are up to 10,000 losses and that is all, that is, they simply decided not to show the losses officially and just add that the army is increasing

, that is, it is holding. i understand that this number is mobilized, it will keep the russian army at a certain number. that is, it is not actually increasing, but it is holding at one, one number somewhere . mr. oleksandr, how soon can the russian federation, together with belarus or without belarus, deploy a strike group in the north not far from our borders so that it would be effective for them well, this group should be at least 40,000 personnel in number because it was this number that took part in the invasion on february 24 from the territory of belarus, but it was the elite, it was the units of the professional military, they did not cope with this task, but we understand that it would be

unrealistic with such a number. it is not about a professional resource, it is not about a high-quality resource, so it is much more than 40,000, 50, 60,000, at least this initial number should be in order to form this strike group, and in addition , it is necessary the number of regular equipment well, that is, if you understand this, for each battalion there should be at least 11 tanks, it should be 33bm, it should be artillery, the prices for missile complexes, etc. to fully equip such a number of a-a personnel 60, for example, thousands and er, they had a full complement of such equipment, there is no such equipment in the russian army now and talk about a full-fledged strike group no, it will not be formed, something came up well, so likely, but for this

it will take at least two or three months. and here are these redeployments in the grouping of the russian occupying forces on the territory of belarus, well, that is, roughly, if they start doing it tomorrow, they will be able to form shock groups somewhere around the end of march, the beginning of april . thank you, ivan stupak - military expert sbu employees in 2014-15 and oleksandr kovalenko military-political review group information resistance were on our air and now we turn to our next speaker ivan the book is a people's deputy of ukraine, the head of the committee on the integration of ukraine into the european union, she will be in touch with us now, and we will talk with her about the political choice of what was discussed with the military experts just a few seconds ago, which is quite important, precisely the political part of how it can take place this anti-kremlin coalition greetings, ivanna

good evening, we congratulate you on your holiday well, then, let's try to understand what is really happening in this story with the anti- human coalition as far as the event can be consolidated during this difficult year, when certain economic problems for the countries of the european union and for the countries of north america are heating up, all these troubles that were provoked by russia in one way or another are attributed to mr. ivano ivana klymburstyantsadze, people's deputy of ukraine, head of the committee on integration of ukraine for his free this is a really important topic because we see how european leaders are now. they are trying, on the one hand, to keep such a hard line on

in relation to moscow, who else do we already hear about mediation, let's say from the italian prime minister george melen, as i said that italy could be a mediator in russia's war with ukraine, although to continue helping ukraine, and here, by the way, i think that western politicians not like those who were issued do not understand such reasons from received a slap from kyiv and from moscow where they said no italy cannot be an intermediary because it helps ukraine by supplying arms with anti-russian sanctions and who then can be an intermediary at all, i am interested well, the question is that russia does not need any intermediaries, nor turkey, they belong to israel, not the european union, she simply always explains why, well, it is not an intermediary, because he supplies weapons, that’s it, ivan, i want to get back to my height and we will really have problems economic in the countries of the european union and, in principle, in

many countries of the world in connection with russia's military attack on ukraine, they did not start yesterday and they are really acting on an increasing basis. and many people want to take advantage of these problems in order to maximally change the settings of those countries that are helping ukraine today and change the settings of societies and politicians in favor of the russian federation, but it seems to me that society and settings are in a bad relationship today with a certain bathroom but what she says is quite important because it is really public solidarity i also agree this is an important thing absolutely important definitely just where are we when we talk about supporting this or that country i always think about that and this is the support of politicians who

of people or politicians who listen to their people and how much, let's say, supporting ukraine is now absolutely necessary in order to have some kind of political future in our country. and how much we are a factor, how much it is really important now. well, in my opinion, it was the support of western societies that she determined er, the behavior of politicians in most countries of the western world in relation to ukraine and in relation to the continued and increasing support of ukraine, and it is fundamentally important for us not to lose this support now. and this actually means er to continue to maintain our presence in the public, including the media space of the western world, unfortunately, this tendency to cover events in ukraine and this war by the russian federation against ukraine, it

is now that ukraine mostly disappears from the front pages and this may have a negative effect on the level of support for politicians. although, as for me, i want to hope that the majority of politicians in the western world have finally understood and realized that it is impossible to come to an agreement, and only because of the defeat of the kremlin the defeat of russia in this war, it is possible to obtain a peace that can be stable and long-lasting, and it is precisely this calculation on the e-e radio and on the e-e objective awareness of the situation that was not there for a very long time and we did not manage to achieve it, i recall many, many times how many negotiations have we had with colleagues since the 14th year, and we have seen that, unfortunately

, there is such a sober assessment of what russia is today, and what the leadership of russia is, and actually, the population that fully supports this leadership of such awareness in europe not in the free world unfortunately, even today, many people still believe that this is putin’s war and not a russian war, and here we still have to work in order to explain to the end that, unfortunately, the whole of russian society has to pay the price for and has to be punished, to bear responsibility for this war that they started and are waging today against ukraine well, well, i want to approach this question from a slightly different angle. fascinating political show and the removal of the speaker of the house of representatives of the american congress

. i think you also watched and followed, we all followed, i think i learned the last names of all american businessmen in 15 rounds , as we once knew the last names of soviet leaders, because they were also constantly repeated in the parody of television so that it was impossible not to know. and now we know all the congressmen in fact, but the result of the election of the speaker, according to the american media, was the fact of the agreements of the new of the head of the chamber of workers, mr. kevin makar, with such a pandering part of his own party regarding the serious reduction of the military budget, and the reduction of the budget is the reduction of aid to ukraine, and the reduction of aid to ukraine is exactly pushing ukraine to negotiations with moscow , and it seems that this does not concern ukraine in any way. what is the internal political american reality, but if you look carefully, these forces are interested in the united states helping ukraine as little as possible so that