the desire of the u.s. side to increase the number of personnel. and the united states itself, poland, is taking on an important burden when they train the personnel, the same tank brigade as we are going to transfer to poland, they promise to train the soldiers as well when we talk about challenger leopards the training will begin in the near future. so, relatively speaking, the rate on trained personnel is also such a force multiplication factor, which is extremely important for the ukrainian army in conditions when the enemy, relatively speaking, simply uses the number without any aspirations to increase the skills of the personnel simply uses manpower as the eyes of fire shafts now these are human shafts as we can see on the example of bahmut and therefore the american side and the british side not many times even we hear about what look if you try to

beat the russian army with linear that is, at the expense of the same number of tanks or the same amount of artillery, you will not be able to do this, and therefore let's bet on asymmetric approaches, when we talk about symmetrical approaches to soldiers, this is an increase skills, when we talk about artillery in particular, in the same rammstein package there was a large number of e-e ammunition, high-precision ammunition, that is, they allow him to better destroy targets, reduce the amount of this load consumption and ensure more effectiveness on the battlefield, this time we are talking somewhere about 500 excalibur ammunition in the general e package will go somewhere 90,000 samples of other artillery shells of various calibers. about the fact that the enemy has again increased the intensity of the

use of artillery - this is the main thing that they have really now concentrated all their capabilities precisely in the bakhmut direction and where they are raising the artillery again, when we talk about the ukrainian artillery, the total amount of ammunition fired by all our artillery of nato standards is somewhere on the order of 100,000 e-e ammunition per month, these are actually indicators that are within the limits of 3-4 thousand shots per day, and this is actually less than the indicators that are currently at the disposal of the enemy, although our military intelligence told about the fact that somewhere in march it is expected that the enemy will begin to run out of these ammunition stocks and will reach somewhere up to 10,000 shots per day, but we understand that we have 3-4 today and

1,000 enemy in march with a decrease from 20 to 10,000 shots per day, all the same, we see a certain disparity, so this disparity is actually covered by the high-precision ammunition that our artillery uses today, but in any case, when we talk about the offensive, the fathers high-precision indicators are important, but they will be insufficient, because for the preparation and conduct of the offensive we really need equipment and we already need artillery to create such an already own barrage of fire to destroy the enemy, in particular in the same zaporizhzhya direction, where the enemy has significantly strengthened its defense, provides a significant transfer of equipment and understands all the risks that if he does not keep his southern front, then the russian group will actually be dismembered and then the enemy will not be able to flow precisely because this group well, it will lose these supplies from the russian

regions, which are now really saturating the south from russia and from the territory of the crimea, by the way, today there was an interesting interview with the representative of the main intelligence department where the military where the representative of gumoreskybytsky assessed the prospects of offensive actions of the russian federation in the near future perspective he said that the main activity of the russian army , according to the estimates of the main intelligence department, will be in two directions, that is , primarily the donetsk and luhansk directions and this actually reflects the efforts that coincide with the realities we see now on the battlefield, and according to skibitsky, around february, march, there will be battles for the donetsk and luhansk regions, in fact, they are happening now, and they will try

to take control of the kupyansk-svatov kremennaya in in the direction of the kharkiv region, by the way, this is precisely the matchmaking and crime scene. actions to ensure the preservation of the defense and the advance of the e-e in the direction of our defense, which actually looks unlikely, but the estimates of the main development department look exactly the same . from soledar, but what is interesting is that er, er, active combat operations in the south of ukraine are considered by the gur to be probable, as well as an attack from the side of belarus, that is, in fact, we understand that this is a reflection of the assessments of the real forces of the enemy, which are real the enemy's forces are sufficient only for

combat operations in one operational direction, and such operational directions, as we can see, are the donetsk and luhansk regions, which primarily provide the political mission that the russian military leadership is facing there, to go to the borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions, and right here and uh, the main political task that general gerasimov is currently carrying out directly, who is also already starting to implement the practice of the beetle you, which we said is not uh, counting the loss personnel, probably going through some experience demonstrated by wagner's group, and it is interesting that, by the way, there was another change in the russian military leadership, where the head of the airborne forces of the russian federation was replaced, this caused some kind of surprise in the russian community, because actually it was believed that the current head of the international forces team was an absolutely effective person, but we see that there was

a clinch between mr. gerasimov and the head of the force survey, because gerasima began to use paratroopers in the same way as before in the first stage of the war to carry out ordinary offensive operations, this was partially reflected in the combat operations to capture the soldier, where actually the paratroopers of the russian federation just spent there in active attempts to pin down our defenses. they partially succeeded if in in any case, we see that this dynamic is related to the priorities in determining the enemy's actions, it does not change, that is, in fact, it is to enter the administrative borders of the donetsk and luhansk regions. and when we if we are talking about the south, about the zaporizhzhia direction , then these attacks that took place there a day or two later , when in the zone of walnuts there the field is burning, the russian federation units tried to attack, got in the teeth and returned to their positions can be considered as

probing actions of the enemy to check the strength of our defense somehow create the conditions to minimize the risks of our offensive actions, but the question of when will our offensive actually remains the most difficult question for our population and for experts because we we understand that without effectively prepared units and without a sufficient number of reserves , it would be counterproductive to carry out offensive actions, so we will precisely look at what is happening with the supply of military aid by opposing this aid and creating the conditions for really effective counterattack actions prepared by our general staff . there were the main military results and the days of this day, and see more news in future editions of the

espresso channel. thank you to its guests. i will only briefly say that now in part of the territory of ukraine uh, an air alert has been announced. so, this applies to the occupied crimea, there is also an air alert, uh, cherkasy region, oleksandrivsky district of kirovohrad oblast, this is poltava oblast, chernihiv sumy, kharkiv , luhansk, and donetsk, here. well, in fact, it is from north central and south-east and part of central ukraine there is now an alarm. well and the south, ah, occupied crimea, the enemy is there, well , there is no enemy there, but the enemy is sitting there, but we understand the anxiety, so you see the map on the mm in front of your eyes now. i didn’t have time to track what it was there that the alarm was caused in the sample , it is not difficult to guess that it could be either russian ships in the black sea or destroying russian ones in belarus, well, or there are fighter jets raised somewhere on the territory of the russian federation in the east, and

igor eisenberg, a professor at new york university, joins the conversation igor we congratulate you. i congratulate you, mr. vasyl. i congratulate all the viewers on the day of the cathedral of ukraine. thank you all. i congratulate you. you know what i want to ask. the first thing i want to ask is that rammstein has passed. in the united states and also in the mass media, what are the conclusions made by journalists who are deeply involved in this topic, who have followed and understand what it can lead to. these are the results of this meeting in general, but there is also the disappointment of the pure reason that it did not succeed. if we reach agreements on the transfer of tanks to ukraine, it will be difficult, but the general conclusion is positive that ukraine receives a very large package of weapons at once from many countries and will be able to form appropriate new formations in order to

carry out an offensive and liberate ukrainian land from the occupiers. and now i want to ask more about this information that we received and we interpret it differently. first, there was a planned statement with a message on e-mail from an official of the white house of the presidential administration, who said that allegedly in the united states the united states of america urges ukraine not to start a counteroffensive, that is, offensive actions in general to wait with this, how can you explain it and whether, according to your estimates, in your opinion, with your information, there is a policy in the country in this war in that it makes sense that weapons of one kind or another have been provided , and even in such statements that let's start, don't start here, and you think it 's possible that there are some other negotiations going on somewhere. please tell me how it can be evaluated and where do you know the

truth ? here in kid can be well here there is only a reference to an unnamed representative of the white house that was in the media uh, i would rate it so that this is it and we have a political military aspect , first of all, a military aspect because well uh, how about me i absolutely appropriate that ukraine i waited until now, all these weapons that were promised at the last rammstein, were they announced, did they arrive in ukraine, in particular, let's say american bmp brigs, er, on the apc, the striker is still there, or from the previous package, are there additional btrm-113s and er, new artillery and new artillery shells and so on. also, there should be er bmp from germany and marder bmp from sweden. that is, if it just

arrives in ukraine, it won’t arrive within er for the next maximum of two months, all of this will be in ukraine, eh, that will add will add significantly power to the armed forces of ukraine in order for the offensive to be successful, and then there is the political component, because i think it is very important , let's say, for the jabadin administration, that if ukraine goes on the offensive, that it be successful, and from a political point of view, it is important, therefore, it must, if it there is a real place if the united states touches the conversation with ukraine , then i think that only from this point of view, precisely from the point of view that it would be successful for us, and not because of the fact that there is someone going behind the scenes that is directed with russia about something, i think that this is not discussed because in all the statements of high-ranking american officials and the minister of defense, the secretary of state, in fact, the president , it is constantly heard that russia is absolutely not

ready for any negotiations, and there will be support for ukraine, the provision of military aid as long as it is necessary for ukraine to win. we are fine we understand well, who doesn't understand? i feel very sorry for such people that ukraine, with the capabilities it has, would not have been able to, of course, destroy this russia. well, it was a heroic war for a long time, but all the same, we understand that russia today is not country, that is, if country by country - this is one thing, it is a huge empire by a large account with huge resources, various resources, both military and human, and natural . is important in various aspects. i would like you to paint a little picture for our viewers who say , well, it's not some kind of war over there, it's big, it's like that here in ukraine, but nothing happens there at all, so you paint this one the scale of the fight against russia all over the world,

because let's say the statement of even the iranian authorities and the serbian authorities that we do not welcome the rejection of ukrainian patients in putin, this already shows that something is starting to reach people because someone is putting it into their heads. where, what, somewhere oil sales are falling there, or russia is having some other losses, someone is working on this too, do it, you know , please scale this war in terms of diplomacy, trade, economic wars and wars, development, please, from the point of view of the concept of a hybrid war, it is of course a world war the war today is already a world war, because in fact russia is opposing the whole world. of course, there is no military confrontation between the armed forces of ukraine and russia, but in fact russia is opposing the whole world because of all the sanctions. all these things are like the introduction of national russian oil for russian gas, all the sanctions that have been introduced

against russia, all of this works for the fact that this empire, well, i don't know how to say destroy it and bring it at least to a defeat to a strategic defeat to a military and strategic global operation, will it be destroyed as a result or will it somehow change? i think that we do not know with you at the moment . two years ago, let's say the majority of european politicians looked at what was happening. well, they thought that it would be there. let it be, the conflict there is local in donbas. well, let it be, we will continue with russia er, to conduct er business continued to bury gas and oil and other things in russia and trade with

russia, all this is gone now because there is an understanding that this is no longer possible and there is an understanding of a lot of people in western countries exclusively what is russia because people simply did not pay due attention to it before, now people understand it well , most people understand it well, and this happens in the opinion of politicians, because in the west, politicians are very dependent on their voters, and even here you gave an example in serbia and in serbia, politicians also depend on the voters, although this is serbia. we cannot call it an absolutely democratic country from the point of view of standards in all. well, nevertheless, and there are certain attitudes in society, there is the dependence of politicians on the voters when, for example , what happened happens in the dnipro a week ago, when the flower sees this, it's simply an atrocity that hasn't been seen since the second world war, the world absolutely sees that

this is the biggest war in the world after the world war, the biggest war in europe after the first to the second world wars and absolutely with you afterwards that what actually russia opposes the whole world was by the way, a very interesting article to talk about the nobel prize in economics, she was in new york recently where he wrote about it and that russia decided to compete on the field of pain with ukraine, which helps the world. she decided to compete economically with the whole world. and that the result of this confrontation is predictable, or russia cannot, cannot, win in this struggle, because it simply simply exhausts its own resources, it will suffer a major strategic defeat, it will suffer a military defeat. this is for sure. of course, the question is how much more time

will it take for this, let's all say for me personally, how much ukraine still has to pay for it, then you know, historians will say that the whole world will be civilized in the great very much to god in front of ukraine during very bad years for the fact that ukraine perceives this absolutely diabolical black power as the blackest power in the history of nazi germany, you just have to understand now someone may ask, well, how is it that the whole big world? well, of course, again, not all of it, and the mornings and north korea, uh, some countries are different somewhere there, or they don’t participate at all. well, let’s say there, uh, on the african continent, somewhere nearby in the east in the arabian gulf well, someone may not participate in the war at all on one because they are not on the other, but many people support russia in one way or another, buy its products, pay for it. thus , there is a lot of war, let's not forget that the banks, by the way, are not western european did not leave russia. not everyone left and the companies did not

leave. they continue to work , in fact, for the enemy to save money for new shells and new tanks, so that they do not do it. well, the important thing here is that russia simply all this time, while the world was developing and living, was fighting against the glass. he was still doing something there, he was trading there all this time, in fact, since 2008, during the georgian war in georgia. for eight days, russia was preparing for war, and that is why it now has this resource, which it spends in ukraine, having found here , so to speak, dot dot e- e pressure and that the point of this war, so here if there is nothing strange and the world is now being readjusted, readjusted for this war, you know, i 'm just curious about your opinion, i thought to myself that how putin was wrong to attack ukraine, because actually ukraine, after all, in the first months, well, three months, it was definitely able to withstand by his own forces, his army trained in donbas by a war in donbas and what would happen to me, this is just what i am interested in, really just your opinion. and what would happen, say, if putin invaded the baltics from belarus with this armada, for example, how would the war turn out and whether

while there, everyone would think in france or in germany, let's say, the baltic countries could have been captured and the tanks could have moved further here , there is also a big question that the war in ukraine was actually putin's loss in this, please, i'm just curious about your thoughts on this matter, i think that the united states, let's say, had no choice. because if russian troops invaded any nato country. year nato simply nato would cease to exist at the same moment and the united states would allow it to do so, well, there was no way it could be it. maybe that is why they should have joined in such a case relatively and the europeans of europe would not have elections, they would have to follow the united states simply of course, when we talk about russia, the whole civilized world is in this, and

everyone considers it a hybrid world war at the moment. of course, no one in a nato country wants to have a hot war with russia because he understands that it is very can quickly within a few hours, a nuclear conflict has escalated, in which the destruction of millions of people can be destroyed, the destruction of millions of people, the destruction of the whole world by a large stage, no politician wants this, because you all western politicians want to starve . with any other nato country, let's say the united states of great britain would have no choice, you would not have to enter the war immediately and other european countries would also have no choice, because there is little be a question of readiness to go to war, because the ukrainian army in any case has already been trained by eight years of experience in the donbas , yes, and again, this is logistics - this is the

transfer of heavy weapons there, parts of units, and let's say russia is already entrenched somewhere in the territory of the european union, well, concessions that putin really wanted to guess from one side, but he somehow got it wrong in the sense that uh, europe and education are so involved in the war. well, in any case, this war is dragging on and on, and here is this information about what supposedly in the states they are considering the map or the disintegration of russia, i really want to believe it, you know, but again, this is more, there is also such pressure on russia, which is panickingly afraid of the disintegration of the panicked about it, the kremlin leadership now and the putin regime are not panickingly afraid of it. is it really a story that is already being considered as a perspective well, it is possible to determine to turn to literally a couple of days ago there was an interview of the retired lieutenant general of the american military and the former commander of the american armed forces europe channel once kedrposhta i had the honor of

an interview p- translate into russian we just here such an addition in order to bring it to as many people as possible with yura rashkin the owner of the channel and general hodges just says that in his opinion it is very, very careful to think about it and in his opinion, at the moment, neither the united states nor other countries of the west are thinking about it seriously, just as they did not think seriously about what the soviet union is talking about, it is also possible to think seriously about the consequences of the defeat of russia, which will lead to tectonic shifts in itself in russia, that is, the struggle for power will begin. what this can lead to. who doesn't know, the leaders of the russian national republics may really really really want to separate from russia, that is, there may be such an absolute chaotic situation on the axis on the territory of the russian all evil and so

he just says that it is necessary to prepare for this now, it was necessary to start preparing earlier, that until now they have not started seriously preparing for this . the governments of other nato countries and think about it so seriously prepare for it you know i want to hear your opinion now about what is happening in germany germany is a democratic state yes there are federal states they have a bundestag they have a chancellor a president about them there is has its own system of government, there is an army, and they usually make their own decisions. although , of course, he consults with his colleagues in the european union and the north atlantic alliance, but when the countries of the north atlantic alliance of ukraine, which are not is a member of the eu, but is a member of the alliance, britain decides to provide ukraine with tanks, some are light tanks, some are wheeled, some are heavy

tanks, there are challengers, which the british want. she hasn't decided yet and is thinking and thinking at a very critical time for this war, i can think about the fact that this could be a smoke screen now somewhere there tanks will transfer training crews and tell the whole world what germany is thinking and such a thing can i don't rule it out, let's say i understand that diplomacy is difficult and not easy, but in your opinion, what is it? well, we are talking about the fact , germany thinks. relations with russia, it could be some kind of putin's koru, i. well, it could also be, or is it a desire to understand the opinion of one's people, one's people, to do it or not to do it, what are the consequences, please? to work in germany well, i can’t say that

i live there, i understood that it was temporary, i drove the car for more than a year, and it made me want to talk . the second world war is absolutely false because, well, why do they, hmm, why do they consider themselves guilty of russia, while, let's say , ukraine and belarus were the main victims of nazi aggression, or should we consider russian aggression against the soviet union, all of ukraine was occupied by nazi troops, they committed atrocities, great destruction, a lot of people simply died, there were a lot of victims among the civilian population in russia, there were much less but i say that there were none well, it's just garbage, it's false, false, such a sentiment that exists in

part of society. let's say that i understand that the sentiment is what is common in a large part of german society is that german weapons should not be used for anything other than the defense of germany, perhaps as some external enemies, but this is again because of the second world war, there is such an absolute reluctance on the part of the majority of society for germany to participate in wars in any way, you know that there was even such a thing in germany, i don’t know if god was such a law, but at least it was a tradition or germany does not supply weapons to the zone at all conflicts, so that he does not in any way not take part in the armistice today on a foreign side, actually germany violated this tradition because we still supply weapons in ukraine. here i think that there is such a mixture of everything here i think that there is putin's corruption here because well, i am sure that the poor guy understands well who

putin is, what putin is, if he didn't even understand it before, he understands it well now, but these are the difficulties of making a decision about the difficulties of taking responsibility for making a decision that may be unpopular among part of the population, if you hadn't read somewhere that some kind of survey was conducted, it's 50 for 50 whether to provide ukraine with heavy weapons or not to provide ukraine with your weapons, i really hope that, after all, it's a leopard will appear in ukraine because this is the best option from the point of view of the supply of tanks, but from everything i read in american sources, we will get together much more difficult because it would be necessary to build a very large infrastructure in ukraine for their use, it takes time and there is no time er, everything is easier with leopards because , first of all, it is easier to teach them how to use

them, they do not need any special fuel, they can be repaired in countries neighboring ukraine, and they can help ukraine arrange maintenance, that's all all this is much easier to do with pants for speech therapists. i really hope that soon they will appear in ukraine, that this issue will be resolved. i really hope, thank you very much mr. igor . to igor, i think i wish you a good day well, of course there is already information that someone is training our tank crews precisely on leopard tanks, of course they have now agreed to give these tanks to poland, but we are waiting for germany's decision. i just want to say that while studying the history of bolshevism and uh in russia exactly after the revolution, those slogans, those things, those phenomena that were inherent then under hitler's germany under nazism, they were all born in the early 20s and the end of the 10s