[000:00:00;00] this is what they really believe, he is sitting in the crimea for believe me, tomorrow some liberal will come to the kremlin and start talking on television america is good excuse the ukrainians the day after tomorrow all of russia will shout america is good excuse the ukrainians and in six months the same putin or stalin will come and there will be america enemies ukrainians must be destroyed, you won't get anywhere, no one will be able to get away, i definitely won't be able to get anywhere, because i want to . thank you, mr. we are a circle. so, in this edition i will tell you that the ban on the import of oil

products from russia to the european union came into force today, will the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov resign, and what is the current situation with the light ? 347 days of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian invaders until your attention news on espresso in the studio anzhelika works for a season defense minister of ukraine oleksiy reznikov is ready to resign he said this at a press conference in the capital our correspondent knows all the details valeriya pashko she is in direct contact with us. congratulations to lera. tell me exactly what the minister commented on his possible dismissal. and what else was discussed at the meeting. good evening, i still

want to move on to the issue of dismissal at the end. in particular, i will start with the situation on the battlefield, the ministers say that the situation remains difficult, but under control , in recent months the russians have changed their tactics, they are going on the offensive in small assault groups , trying to break through the defense of the ukrainians, but they continue to hold back on the situation around bakhmut. he said that people die there every day about half a thousand russians, but this does not stop them, they continue on and continue to try to break through the ukrainian defenses , he also predicted that in february this month it is already possible to increase the pressure on the ukrainian defenders and offensives because the russians love symbolism, but on february 24 we know that the anniversary of the invasion p. reznikov predicts that increased pressure will occur on the eastern borders, as well as on the southern borders. for them, the goals remain the complete

occupation of luhansk and donetsk regions, as well as the abandonment of the land corridor from he also commented on russia's provocations to the temporarily occupied crimea and the question of a possible new attack on kyiv. he says that belarus currently does not have a sufficient group of troops there, there are about 12,000 of them, in particular, russians, so they will not be able to capture kyiv and, in principle, not yet a formed strike group and because an attack on kyiv is not planned in the near future , however, he urges to always listen to the general staff . it is from them that we will hear official information regarding a possible escalation in the future. it is very important to listen to the general staff and its official positions, when it will be clear that they have formed strike groups, here it is clear where our general headquarters is in which place - it knows perfectly well, that's why when they tell you about kharkiv

, sumy, chernihiv , take a map and see that there are no strike groups on that side, this does not mean that it is not there, it is not from will appear there after a certain period if they do not make such a decision, but simply to urge everyone to think critically and not to be panicked by various informational a-a zabros to intensify the attacks of the russians in february, our defense forces are ready, however western weapons may not all arrive before the time of increased attacks, but already tomorrow the ukrainian tanks will be trained, they will begin training on western leopard tanks, this is the information , in addition, they also talked about the recent scandals with the purchase of food from the ministry of defense, mr. reznikov said that the suspicions that were handed to the representatives of the ministry of defense do not apply of this question, and actually regarding mr. khmelnytskyi, who was in charge of procurement at the ministry of defense. he said that the person has been suspended, but

it is impossible to fire him because he is a colonel under ranks and now the wartime continues and that's exactly why the situation is that they are waiting for the court's decision and he says after there will already be appropriate decisions and then there will be appropriate resignations if it is necessary if guilt is proven in addition to these procurement contracts he said that they continue to operate because no major abuses were discovered. and we will hear more about it. it is invalid because it was concluded, it was not registered in the treasury, no commitments were made, but there is a contract, and the supply is at a price. 145 hryvnias 85 kopecks of food for one serviceman per day, but at the same time, our main goal today is stable , high-quality provision of the armed forces, especially now in the period of wartime, this is a key priority and

it remains, but the position is my personal and that of the team. zero tolerance for corruption , however, the reaction to these scandals will be because the procurement department of the ministry of defense is being reorganized and the anti-corruption administration of the primrose will be completely rebooted , that is, all people will be fired and new ones will be recruited ; besides, mr. reznikov met the day before with investigative journalists as well as anti-corruption activists and they decided to create a new public anti-corruption council under the ministry of defense, which will actually deal with all these issues of possible abuses in the defense industry and also on other things in the ministry regarding the release of irritants, he said that the final decision is of course according to the president of ukraine, as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, if there is such a decision from mr. zelenskyi, he

is ready to resign, he says that no position is eternal and no the official is not eternal, but he says that he is ready to work for the sake of victory, even if he gets rid of this chair, then he has to go to a certain other department to take on some other project just to bring our joint victory with you closer anzhelika valeriya thank you very much for all the details valeriya pashko from the capital joined our live broadcast and told about the very important and most interesting results of the press conference of the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiyya reznikova well, we are moving on to more than 200,000 subscribers 280,000 odesa already have light. they have a very limited power supply after the accident, the old transformer caught fire, so they are currently looking for a new one. about 25 powerful generators have already arrived in odesa, and almost 50 more are on the way . the devices will help revive critical

infrastructure and connect as many users as possible. ukrenergo is restoring in enhanced mode energy facilities in the region , the company primarily focused on one of them, its repair as soon as possible will allow to restore power to odesa and the odesa district, said the chairman of the board volodymyr kudrytskyi for by our forecasts by the end of the next working week we must finish these works and accordingly at the end of the working week that is, by friday the situation should improve significantly before that there will be an effect from the fact that the diesel generator and critical infrastructure will be connected by friday we plan in parallel to complete the work on our on one of our facilities i shelled sumshchy twice today in the morning the enemy hit with a 120 millimeter caliber in

the vicinity of the settlement of novovasilivka three explosions were heard reported in to the operational command in the north in the afternoon, the invaders shelled the village of seredina buda, four explosions were recorded there, information on civilian casualties and damage to the infrastructure is being clarified, and one person was injured, a doctor was injured in the hospital, the doctor provided him with the necessary assistance in the morning , the russians covered chernobaivka with massive fire , enemy shells damaged six residential buildings, it was noted in the kherson oblast the military administration also suffered destruction of vital communications , power lines, gas pipelines and water pipelines russians always hit civilian buildings in the morning, the occupiers fired at the lyceum in kherson due to an enemy attack, a fire broke out, the two-story building of the educational institution

caught fire, the total area of ​​100 m², the state emergency service reported, the rescuers extinguished the fire, fortunately there were no dead and injured to save lives, the police evacuated another resident of nevsky in the luhansk region, the woman herself volunteered to leave due to the constant shelling of the russians, she said that the fire almost does not stop and sometimes people have to sit in basements, a few days ago i decided to leave for my relatives in a safer region , at the same time, more than 140 people still remain in nevsky. they refuse to evacuate because they do not want to leave their homes and livestock, the head of the region, serhii gaidai , emphasizes . 00 read more on our website

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espresso tv channel with you vitaly portnikov and we will start our hour of this broadcast from a conversation with a military expert and a former employee of the security service of ukraine, ivan stupak. so, let's start with the statement of the minister of defense of ukraine about the fact that ukraine will be filled with long-range missiles on the territory of the russian federation , how much is it possible to evade in ukraine , mr. ivan. strikes on russian territory. why can russia strike in the ukrainian style, but ukraine cannot be in the russian style? what is the point, well, this is a request , this is a big request. western friends that these weapons should not be used specifically against the mainland, let's say, parts of the russian federation, it is clear that the entire territory of ukraine is occupied by the russians, it is generally known that it is not even discussed, we can hit where we think it is necessary, but the request of our friends is not to hit the territory of the russian federation, i will explain why is it very difficult for our western friends to do this, this is a controlled

escalation tactic when they constantly raise the stakes and raise the level of tension, but the russians redraw the reds every time line, and they don't want to one day get such a situation when ukraine with american missiles conditionally hits an object somewhere near there, while in the moscow region, somewhere in the military object, the russians get the fragments of an american missile. where it is written made in usa , they show it on federal channels , they provoke i don't know the new one, the stages of escalation come to the podium of the un and show that a5 the american military is creating, that is, a request to strike only at russian objects in ukraine, but no one can forbid us and the americans say it is to strike at russian territories using their own weapons there are kamikaze drones that is, this is all allowed, this is all loud, but what is the logic if we think that we can

strike with western weapons on the territory of the same crimea and on the territory of the regions of ukraine occupied by russia, and russia considers these territories to be the same parts of russia, such as bryansk of the chukchi region, why is it possible to go to sevastopol or simferopol, but not dobryansk or kursk , these cities i understood i understood i understood well, look well, first of all, all these the occupied territories are ours, they are not even discussed because of the silence, this is our territory, we have the right to do it, briansk, voronezh, it is all russian and no american weapons will appear there, this is the articulated wish of our western friends, the americans , that is, they set such conditions for ukraine . if you want to get these weapons okay, but it should not be on the territory of the russian federation, which is not occupied by ukraine , well, of course, tell me, in principle, er, you and i have been watching this story

with er, bahmut for many weeks, do you understand what in general the intentions of the russian leadership, actions, do they really need bakhmut, why do they need to deplete the forces of the ukrainian army, they need bakhmut , they need border guards, the border admin, it has not been a secret for a long time , luhansk donetsk region, go to these borders, declare everything, everything and now we are in the house we demand negotiations, everyone should remember these negotiations, but with the recognition of the current geopolitical realities. well, that's all , that's it, it's just there, uh , solve this puzzle for yourself. here she is. it's a great show to close this gestalt for yourself and that's it, and then in 5-6 years to move again and liberate the territories of the russian federation occupied by ukraine, this is the kherson region, the zaporizhia region, and so on . that is, you think that russia is ready for a truce for up to 5-6

years. it is necessary for this respite there to reload its bod and again there to sell off its oil, gas, etc. in different countries, to receive large excess profits and after that to take into account all the mistakes that were made before and go on the offensive again in 5-6 years ukraine can to become a member of nato i apologize well, they have to see this situation in a different way, that ukraine will not have time, that there are such fuses as ukraine must regulate all its territorial disputes, and this is in a certain way the calculation. well, besides that membership in nato there or in the european union is a very long process, and during this period they will have time to do something there . well, it seems to me that this is some kind of strange logic

. to be honest. war against of ukraine with a desire and a vision that we won them all here in three days. well, everyone is very good. this is not surprising to me. if you have the attitude that you will be met with flowers, then you can. if you want to bypass 10,000 soldiers. well, i am not with you here either. i agree, dear founder who understands, who gives himself adequately to himself, well, i’ll break this situation down. he will never go with such a small army to a large country, even if you expect that every second person will meet you there with bread , salt and loaf. and every second person from the other side he will meet you with weapons, that is, in any case, it was illogical not to prepare your economy, not to prepare for nuclear weapons, that is, many logical russians are doing, well , now they are acting more logically from your point of view. they are preparing nuclear weapons, they have gathered

300-400 thousand people there near the borders, they are really mobilizing further. well, that is, they are now gathering a large army. they are still gathering here , um, look, they are still learning from their mistakes. i admit it, and we all see it. our military can see that they are adapting. so there are many stupid short-range military commanders, there are constant quarrels between prigozhyns, gerasimov, but they learn, they adapt to new tactics, well, strategies , missiles, these drones, the use of infantry technically saves more infantry in different formats, that is, they learn, but on the other hand , it is also not very logically. if you just want to occupy and occupy the donetsk region and sign a cease-fire, well, at least for the time being, i see the logic in their actions, that's exactly what i'm writing , i understood what they did later understood that the southern regions and they put on such a big pause when they start digging. more of these defensive structures

are concreted trenches there. and here is the east - this is for them so far in an offensive sense this is the most priority direction, that is, from your point of view, you do not want go to the administrative borders of the donetsk luhansk oblasts, preserve now this corridor to crimea through the ukrainian land at the expense of the occupied parts of the kherson zaporozhye oblasts, and on this night sign some kind of truce, well, a truce until then until they are ready, well, we know that the russians checked and signed, and then they violate it, this was also the chechen war there, the first, the second, and so on. this is the 14-15th year . they promised something there, and then it was violated, so they signed it. time out and then left again. moreover, they continue to pump the story about and transnistria about the corridor to transnistria through odesa. that is, they

still have it all. well, fine. if you agree with that condition of yours, i say by theorem, what should the ukrainian leadership do in this situation if we imagine that the russians will stop somewhere, they will take bakhmut, they will not take it, but in any case they have to stop somewhere to prepare for a new phase in a few years . what should we do? -what are the proposals for a truce? then they were long-term, short-term, because it was open-ended, how was it, for example, after such a pseudo-russian referendum, when it was announced that kherson is ukraine, russia is a native russian land, everyone believed that this would stop the ukrainian military-political command, you will say no, everything is gone, you can’t move , we never asked for it, and the process started, the process started again, and that’s why i thought that the process would not stop and that the hostilities would continue in any case, we can see the mood of our western friends

. judging by the amount of equipment that is being transferred to us, they are set up only for a further war, that is, no such hints about an armistice , let's sit down at the negotiating table. ukraine has a lot of weapons that it still managed to win back some part of its territory, you remember and you will be in a strong position in the negotiations, but look at the american anti-tank missiles, it is now loaded for years and years, it is undeniable that the production of projectiles, the production of various equipment, this is all years ago. i really believe that there is a certainty that the west, friends, are set in a day. that is, you think that there will be no victory, but there will be such a long, long war. russia is ready for a treaty war. russia thinks that it is ready when

they say that we are every third ruble 30% they give their budget for the 23rd year to the military, it seems to them that they will close all their gestalts with this, but the issue of access to technologies yes, there is parallel import, they carry it there, but it is not on an industrial scale, no matter how cool they are there they didn't say that these sanctions don't work, that oil is sold in large volumes, we already see that their oil revenues are slipping, that they are buying up this stockpile of their national welfare fund, this dollar amount of oil and gas revenues from us, we see that there the economy is collapsing yes, of course, this is all a long story, in short, they can still hold on, but the process, as i say, has started and the process is going very actively, so tell me what you think about this supply of weapons, now they are talking about tanks . how do you imagine what they will be like

the pace of ukraine's acquisition of these leopards and when the ukrainian armed forces will be able to actually use them at the front , tanks are undoubtedly important, they are important yesterday, the ambassador - the minister of defense of canada published a video of deo, the first tank was loaded into a plane, it took off in the direction of ukraine, it is clear that only one of them is needed, there are a lot of them, and when they will all arrive, we do not know for sure, because do not forget that there is an announcement by politicians that there will be no sooner than the spring of abrams , no earlier than the end of the 23rd year, but do not forget that this is maybe another part of such a big game and disinformation for the russian federation so that they could not predict when the tanks will be on the fronts, this is the second time . i am sure that in this period of time, until the tanks arrive, a big role will be played

by the armored armored vehicles of marder god is fed up with everything that comes from western countries to move the infantry, that is, in this uh-uh , the infantry would climb into the armored vehicles and can move from the ukrainian positions in the direction of the enemy without fearing uh-uh being hit by artillery fire there, and they are quite fast ones seem to be up to 10 people there . they can accommodate two dozen of these bmps. imagine how many people they can simultaneously transport to the russian positions, support them with fire and break through certain areas of the front there, and then the tanks will come and help everyone is in this breakthrough and what do you think the fighter jets will still be, despite all this gas talk about the fact that no, this is impossible, this is a red line, escalation, remember in me , we, too, i really like this legend, fable, e.e., communication by oscar wilde

with queen victoria when they were riding in the same carriage and she asked him and tell me the truth well, he said such a thesis that every person has his price, he says yes, your majesty and even me and even me and how much am i worth 10,000 pounds oh so little well, you see you have already started if we impose this situation on our friends, then they don’t say it’s tough. let’s talk, let’s talk. when there will be success on the fronts with the use of heavy equipment. i am sure that the planes will be resolved much faster. option, but i think they will be as much as possible now to assess the fact that our special e-e are appointed, they are capable of operating on the territory of ukraine and on the territory of russia , i apologize today, there was a big

intelligence about this in the guardia. this is very cool, it shows er rating - it shows how good our special forces are, just imagine, it's not easy, you drove there by car , drove 150 km there, stayed somewhere, planted explosives, came back, these operations are planned for months, they can be carried out for months , when a person is thrown into the territory of erif no necessarily from the territory of ukraine, maybe somewhere from the territory of a third country, uh, a separate group plants explosives in a secret place, then firstly, a subversive weapon , it finds an autonomous somewhere, they live in in some building, someone provides them with constant food and water and something else there. that is, it is a multi-component operation in which a hundred people can take part there, including citizens of the russian federation and including citizens of the russian federation, and to what extent this actually undermines russian capabilities and why, i ask, the russian fsb has always liked to organize sabotage and terrorist attacks against

itself in order to then say that it is necessary to fight , remember during the chechen wars, they did it themselves, how confusing is this really if they themselves organize terrorist attacks against the civilian population, because in any other country the appearance of saboteurs is a blow to security, and in russia, the saboteurs are the fsbnik themselves . okay, russian frisbeshniks. they blew up large objects of the building, yes, in order to provoke there is a certain emotional mood in the population that uh kakara, what is happening somewhere, that is, in such a spirit. and when military facilities are blown up, there are helicopters , remember , they seem to be caterpillars. yes, there was an interesting video when our scouts penetrated the territory of greece some 600 km away. i will remind very, very deep, that is, they somehow managed to penetrate there, tried to plant explosives there and successfully returned to ukraine again. that is, it is a really big, cool operation and it is such a big slap to the russian

fsb, they just have to understand how they reason. they live by the fact that they are invincible , what they are all cool because they are so strong. and when some ukraine, which they tried to defeat for three days, sends its saboteurs into the depths. actions are held there and these saboteurs are not captured, then there are such big clashes are happening in the fsb, i tell you, on a really serious level, thank you, thank you, mr. ivan ivanka stopak, a military expert, when something was on the air, an employee of the security service of ukraine was on the air, let's move on to the iranian topic, we are in touch with the extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine to iran in 2010 - in 2014, an expert at the center for the study of russia, oleksandr samarsky , china, oleksandr barad, you see. greetings, mr. greetings, now they started talking about the possibility of breaking diplomatic relations, why

now? it is difficult to say why now to be honest, as far as i was informed from what was published in the mass media , the submission was made. was it submitted by the minister of foreign affairs to the president of ukraine ? somewhere in october. a weapon that is transferred in thousands of e-e copies and early in russia why now and why do you consider any other organization in general for 3 months there was no reaction because the deprivation of their ambassador's ambassador's accreditation of iran , who was not sitting in kyiv, this and that. this is what they are talking about, especially because it is completely inadequate. it is a pity that the threat of death to our people, which was inflicted according to the president of mirant weapons, may have been