[000:00:00;00] to say yes, we remember when i myself was in the united states and we told every congressman and senator we met that give us tanks, they yes-yes-yes, but we understood that it was some kind of distant prospect. now we see that the question is already open, they say and i will say what we say at the end of the 23rd everything can change it can change it in the spring everything can be changed to another rammstein i will say that probably abrams tanks it is very good there a certain number of the 24th year i think we should first of all count on tanks leopard that are here, the country of manufacture of which, i mean in europe, the country of manufacture of them is in europe, the logistics center is in europe, there is one in poland, which also uses these leopard tanks, and they were more appropriate for us. there are many nuances exactly. -technical characteristics. this is the weight of the tank, the specific capabilities of our

bridges, our crossings, our pontoons, where they can pass later. well, these are all the nuances, they say that a modern leopard tank would be for us, plus the mass production of it exactly there are logistics for the delivery of his states here, now they are better to use it here er than there the same abram tanks but we really understand that they will come it will be very good but now i think we have to count on the fact that the tanks will come er to us from europe and will continue to come gradually in relation to the russians, where they talk about victory in the spring, i will say that the threat now is in another russia remains resourceful, very resourceful ukraine in them, as well as what we read in the articles yesterday, what you commented about what uh they can also take tanks, and in north korea we know that there are enough of them and ammunition, we can see them there now, and they are also included in economic cooperation with iran. there is also belarus. there may come a time when

the concentration of weapons on the other side may lead to, say, well, approximately i will say to a kind of first world war, when the accumulation of weapons on one side of the other will not allow one or the other side , for example, to carry out serious offensive operations, and i do not say that it will be long, but it can stop the front for a long time until for example, we will not be able to knock out this resource and then still make an offensive. if this happens, then i will say that i do not doubt our victory, but it may, due to russia's accumulation of a large amount of equipment there, the war may drag on longer than we expect . well, colonel, war is mathematics, that is, in any case , there are analysts who can calculate how many and how many forces are needed in order to , relatively speaking, take these positions that were

during the first world war, that is, the western ones mathematicians, analysts, who calculate the possibility of the scenario of the development of events during the russian-ukrainian war, they obviously still agree that the two sides should come together to oppose each other and have approximately the same forces, but not to give any additional preferences there in ukraine , f16 fighters, long-range missiles, so that it allows saying to advance the front further and not allow the russians to enter the territory of the ukrainian state anymore or at least create such a zone . they could not simply go anywhere closer than there, 100 or 200 km to the ukrainian-russian border, if you asked me like this. well, i am asking you as

a professional person, that is, if war is mathematics with weapons, then do western analysts calculate this option according to your e and specially let's say that they don't add any weapons in order for the conflict to be on the level, well let's say that, no, not subjugation of one side by another and vice versa. i don't think that lately we see that we have a large amount of weapons. the largest there in europe because well, we really have a lot of weapons now, but i say this again, compared to who and who we are going to war with, the russians have we have seen there even in open m-m resources they have up to 15,000 tanks there, even by cannibalism they will be able to put them i think well, in the worst case, well, 3-5 uh, i think it’s easy because they shoot from some tanks even when they don’t have the ability to repair and repair the date there were 62 tanks, but they

will be and we are talking about the supply there now 300 tanks is a lot serious is a good weapon but even simple mathematics about which you say that when we attack the enemy, we carry out a counteroffensive well, it is desirable that the advantage should be in technology and in manpower there, well, according to the old statutes, one out of three attackers can have a well, taking into account the modern equipment, although it would be one to one, so that it would be possible to advance, but in russia everything is the same at the moment, there is more equipment, more shells, and they still have the opportunity, so i am now talking about the fact that, at this stage, we have to work more seriously with our partners and talk about exactly this mathematics in order for us to liberate our territories. we need more weapons and we don't need . it seems to me that there are statements that would say that you will never receive. well, there are planes. well, we are not ready

to hand over f16. i think that on the contrary, it is necessary to show russia now that the west is ready to give everything possible in order to show that a democratic country fighting for its freedom will have all the resources for this. i just want the audience to understand that in our country now, well, many people are talking about victory this year, about the fact that we will come out in the summer, we will be in crimea . i do not want to doubt this, but the analysis of all this. in russia, there are mobs, for example. yes, they are not trained there, i want to say that we should also seriously evaluate our armed forces, the heroic armed forces, which at the moment we have 700,000, but of those 700,000, at the beginning of the war, we only

had 215, these are regular troops it's not us we are counting the losses, everyone else and us too , our heroic mobilized people who defend their ukraine, that is why the distribution of forces by personnel is approximately first of all, equipment and artillery, and in order to talk about a counteroffensive , a serious resource is needed, because russia is constantly accumulating and preparing, including for a counteroffensive. of their goals, the first priority is luhansk, donetsk. i think the exit to the borders, then the zaporizhzhia direction, where they can cover themselves on the left side, well, the dnieper, and i think that their perspective is south. still fighting in order to prove their

right to independence and the right to sovereignty . he said that we can go to crimea at the beginning of summer. he said that it all started in crimea in 2014. it will end. another statement was made about crimea by the president of croatia, zoryan milonovych. he said that crimea never will not be ukrainian with such an unexpected statement, he distinguished himself and in recent days compared the crimea annexed by the russians to kosovo , milanovych also stated that he does not want his ukraine, the newest member state, to face what he called potentially catastrophic

the consequences of the 11-month war in ukraine will be heard by milanovich until you understand that serbia and russia are not the same thing, that this is unfortunately a painful fact and a danger, we annexed kosovo, we and the international community took it away from serbia, who did it, how did we? we recognized that kosovo is not annexation but usurpation, what is it called withdrawal? the same applies to crimea. crimea will never be ukraine again. this is what the leading german generals say, and what the ukrainian generals say, well, bohdanova, we heard what the ukrainian colonels say, mr. colonel after all, how much force is needed, how much time is needed for crimea to become ukrainian again? well, you are asking a difficult question, how much, how much time, how much force , yes, for this, serious calculations are needed , but i will say that we are conducting the right policy in that crimea

will be ukrainian, i will say that uh, there are many cases in history when even resource-rich countries lost their wars there, and their wars, and russia , well, russia, and resources, we can only mention the first world uh, including we remember this peace of compiègne seems to be called when germany was in it, almost the entire territory of france was captured. we remember that almost the entire territory of belgium is in other european countries, but at the same time they capitulated that the western allies caused them such losses to their economy and they capitulated and germany suffered a serious serious defeat, we also have to work every day, regardless of whether it will be in six months or a year, we must do everything in order for our lands

to return to us, for this we need to say it again it is difficult to say now how many concrete resources there will be for this war, this is a battlefield that can be on simultaneously . these are the counter-offensives. these are the intermediate victories. only by them can you judge how this or that direction will develop. you can say that if we manage to launch a counter-offensive in the zaporizhia direction and we can break the grouping into two parts, then one thing is possible. talk already about crimea then and about the left bank of kherson region if we cannot do this next year, then the situation may go completely differently, as i said there , for a while it will simply be a positional war, but that will not mean that we gave up something. i think that then ukraine will make other ways to de-occupy

, including to strengthen its military capabilities about long-range missiles , our pc will reach a new level. therefore, this is all a process and changes every day, every day new water ones appear on now the situation is such that we are on the defensive, we are preparing our reserves, the enemy is trying to oppose us in the donetsk and zaporizhzhia directions , we are our heroic defense forces holding him back , and the task from the supreme commander-in-chief to have our reserves prepared is very important and if russia now understands that time plays uh not in their uh favor let's say so because the technique is suitable and they will try to wait for the first good weather in order to carry out some uh some offensive in order to achieve at least you understand what the purpose is. if they pull more weapons into us, they won't be able to do that, so

they see it as the task of our partners to give us the forces that would allow us, first of all, to gain a foothold on the occupied borders once again. to completely inflict maximum losses on them, maintain our occupied positions and create conditions for our further counteroffensives to liberate kherson oblast and zaporizhzhia and crimea . thank you, colonel, for participating in the program . i wish you good health, it was a novel kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, colonel of the security service of ukraine, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks and on youtube, we are on almost all social networks, join our social networks , like this video in order for it to be promoted in youtube trends. facebook, and read our news on the espresso tv website, we work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, operational information from ukraine and

the world on our website, the most operational information about the situation on on the russian-ukrainian front, we have friends on the air, vladyslav seleznyov, a military expert , a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine, a spokesman for the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2014-2017, colonel good day and good health to you. thank you for joining the broadcast. glory to ukraine glory to the heroes so the president of lithuania, mr. colonel, has repeatedly called on western countries to cross the red line and send fighter jets and long-range missiles to ukraine. such a statement was made against the background of rather contradictory statements by the leaders of western countries, whether they will provide will fighter jets be provided to ukraine yesterday? biden announced that f-16s

will not be provided by the united states of america . macron did not rule out such a possibility. polish prime minister mateusz marawiecki said that poland is ready to provide f-16s. and all these requests from the ukrainian side for heavy weapons and heavy weapons for aircraft and for long-range missiles are connected with the expected offensive of the russian army in the next few months. how do you think the lack of these weapons can affect the the course of the russian-ukrainian war in connection with the expected offensive of the moscow army well, first of all, we must be absolutely clear about the following combat platform, the f16 fighter is more effective and more effective than our ondarovala e-e, with the help of which we actually

changed the course of events on at the front, i mean the reactive salvo fire system of the hymars class or their analogues, so in the combat platform, the f16 is even more desirable, more effective, more accurate, and such that there was a lot of pestering putin's army. therefore, we it is extremely important to receive the same fighter jets against the background of the rather contradictory rhetoric of our western partners . the territory of the united states of america, and then i ask myself the question, if the decision on the transfer of the f16 is not made and will not be made, then for what purpose are the fighter pilots preparing, it is obvious that the end the decision will be made whether it will happen on february 14 during the next rammstein meeting, because we all understand that february 14 is the date

of the day of all lovers. even if we reject a certain emotional component of all these processes, we must understand the countries collectively from the west understand that ukraine must defeat putin's army in this duel, otherwise the problem of putin and his entourage is the problem of the russian in the future, the federation will become a problem for the entire european continent, or maybe not only for the european continents . therefore, we need to work on this, and the most effective option for destroying the combat power of putin's army is to strengthen the combat capabilities of the ukrainian defense force , including at the expense of fighter jets, because it is obvious that the ukrainian army is naked is unlikely to be able to hold the defense for a long time, and even more so it will not be able to carry out measures of a counterattack nature . in these processes, i always pay attention to the most knowledgeable officials and if

general budanov repeats in several interviews in a row that crimea will be freed from the russian occupiers in the summer of this year, but the fact is that the ukrainian general understands what he is talking about and there is an appropriate support to make such a statement. especially since his the american general benhodges and the former special representative of the us government in ukraine kurt volker also support this rhetoric, therefore, again, we not only hope , but we help the ukrainian army in every way so that our victory will happen and happened as soon as possible well, our western partners are helping the ukrainian army, there is information that the united states of america has already sent to ukraine the first batch of bradley fighting vehicles 60 combat vehicles and in the united states i hope that the new combat equipment will strengthen the ability of the armed forces of ukraine to return the lost territories well, colonel, we remember how this great offensive of russia began, and we remember what equipment we possessed and what equipment we

began to possess already during this year. yesterday , biden said that there would be no joint the united states of america will not provide f16 aircraft, but just six months ago, hardly anyone would have laughed to think that the americans would provide abrams, and germany two weeks ago, uh, leopards, so in principle the dynamics are there, of course, but on the background of what is happening in the world, the united states of america declared that it is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea, the minister of defense said this , referring to america's articles on postin and saying that the united states of america has reversed the use of the entire range of conventional nuclear weapons

means to protect south korea from north korea. what do you think. why is the united states of america ready to use even nuclear weapons for the sake of south korea? hmmm, for the sake of ukraine , they are still hesitating to give long-range missiles and not f16 fighter jets. i think the answer here is obvious. the point is that uh, the key adversary of uh, south korea advocates for the entire role of north korea , it is absolutely obvious that the dictatorial regime that uh, for several decades reigns in the northern part of uh, the korean peninsula. he must get absolutely clear and unambiguous signals about being aggressively defiant, they will be exposed to the appropriate response in response, because it is obvious that if pyongyang did not talk on the radio or if the leader of north korea, kim jong-un, did not announce the military potential of the united states of america and north korea

is not comparable at all, and it is enough to conduct only one, but extremely effective and powerful series of missile and in order to completely destroy the military potential of north korea , including e-e and nuclear warheads. here the rhetoric is appropriate. as for the ukrainian case, it is obvious that in the confrontation between ukraine and the russian federation , the possibilities of putin's russia are much greater, but we understand that the world's largest nuclear potential, well, it is quite likely that it will be a long time before the nuclear potential is unable to be ready for use due to a number of reasons. nevertheless, nuclear weapons exist and, accordingly, the rhetoric of our american partners regarding ukraine and the russian-ukrainian conflict is somewhat different, but what is happening constantly planned saturation of the combat capabilities of the ukrainian defense forces in order for our army to not only effectively

hold the defense but also carry out effective counter-offensive measures - this is obvious. by the way, it is very important to understand that we need a lot of weapons, but we also need trained personnel who will use these weapons you use , operate, and also maintain and repair, this is a very important case so that the weapons we will receive work for a long time and work for our victory in any case the war continues, support, including from our american partners, must be there. as for certain delays and delays in the process of supplying weapons and military equipment for the needs of the ukrainian army, this is already a task for the ukrainian diplomatic military diplomatic corps to work on, there are certain inconsistencies and problems with our by western partners but let's face it, this past month, january, was the most productive for the ukrainian army and

the biggest losses in the army of the russian federation because in january, more than 20,000 e-e russians e-e died and if we multiply by three more, it will be 60,000 sanitary losses, well, approximate e calculations , it is clear that this is now the bloodiest for both ukraine and russia since the second world war e-e to yours, the fact that they have already begun to lose 20,000 killed every month. does this mean that putin understands that he does not have much time to fulfill his dreams regarding ukraine and, accordingly , to carry out an effective attack on ukraine, well, that is relatively speaking, russians every month will put 20,000 e-e of their army here and 60,000 will be sanitary losses

, to what extent will this ability of theirs in the mobilized e-e be effective, or whether they have it - they don't count on it, and in principle, this country is the same in terms of human resources and economic and resource-based, i think that if we launched military operations against the people's republic of china, your statement was to some extent such that it is related to the processes that are real. seriously damaged economic the system has a serious power with the support of the russian army has a serious power. according to the preparation and the use of the same human resources , i think that

putin’s federation is not doing so well, as the russian propagandists are trying to tell about it, again, we are referring to the interview general budanov , who was also mentioned there, something about the fact that , for example, putin's army is not ready to attack from the north, from the territory of the republic of belarus, it is capable of carrying out certain tactical level measures on the eastern flank the russian-ukrainian front may be gathering some resources in the south in order to try to implement certain plans, but no more, and when we often hear a lot from various political figures of european bureaucrats, well, in particular, the secretary general is stuffed with stomping, he plays what he says here and there and then with complaints will transfer to us here, i have to understand and so far i do not find an answer, and with what forces, means, and resources, then with complaints, he will attack our positions, because in fact, as of this morning

, the hostilities took place in three directions, this tactical level avdiivsk and bakhmutskyi and limanskyi direction in the ugledar area , combat operations continue, but with relatively small groups of russian troops and forces, for example, in the gledarski direction, that is, the southern pass of the russian-ukrainian front. units that are trying to penetrate our defense conduct a kind of development of the battle, therefore, in order for the treasure to be effective, it must have the appropriate reserve resources for implementation you and i absolutely discussed on the air the thesis about the fact that, in order for our counter-attack to be effective, an undefined area of ​​the front needs to be concentrated there, or, in fact, up to 40 thousand people. and this is also military equipment , weapons and ammunition

armed and relevant components of logistical support not for three days, as the blitz of kyiv began in three days, but for at least 24 weeks of the introduction of active hostilities. so far, i do not see that the russian army has such resources. accordingly, we can the situation is to focus on the next fierce combat operations, combat operations, tactical alignment will continue, but in the near future, consider that these combat operations will develop into a large-scale operational- tactical offensive of putin's army, or i did not risk it, thank you, colonel. this was vladyslav seleznyov, a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine military expert, friends, it was a verdict program conducted by serhiy rudenko, we will meet with you tomorrow as usual at 1:00 p.m. read our news on the espresso tv website subscribe to our social networks, i wish everyone good health, goodbye, art in the country of war, a series of documentary films

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