[000:00:00;00] aviation. i think that they are extremely necessary and extremely important, because once again i say it once again, to my great regret, but they are delayed by 2-3 months and the delivery of weapons , although we are once again grateful to our partners for really supporting us and they also provide high-precision weapons at a good price, they give the latest weapons. and tell me, please. well, i would like to clarify. and this is the location of the enemy from which they send new new groups, our assault on bahmut, is it far from bahmut , is it so well fortified, or do they have some kind of there is also possible anti-aircraft defense and what is needed in order to make it possible more effectively er more massively i would say more massively to cover these their locations or are they so buried in the ground that ordinary artillery does not help there do you need some other types of weapons

no er of course artillery helps and long-range autoleria, we also have high-precision projectiles, the same caliburs that work on the enemy's equipment, uh, i wouldn't say that they paid off like that, you just understand the principle of the muscovites, always double there for hundreds of years, it was just throwing corpses of their uh opponents, what they did, they do and will do. well, i'll tell you honestly that sometimes we don't have time to just kill them all , you know, because they crawl like cockroaches , you know, not even taking away their dead , not taking away or even throwing the wounded, but just with some kind of animal instinct, you know are they going forward or are they pricked or are they chickens i don’t know or are they working behind the bars accordingly they just chose the tactics of preserving their equipment and not preserving their personnel, this

is a huge difference between the ukrainians and by muscovites yes, when we really protect our people, and even if i emphasize that it is possible, sometimes we withdraw to other, uh, better positions or are prepared in advance, but we try to save our people , unlike them. now this route kostyantynivka-bakhmut is being shot through, well, this is the news for today. this is known, they even wrote at what speed you should move along it in order to minimize the consequences of an enemy getting into a vehicle, does it increase the intensity of shelling on this route and whether the enemy is trying to get even closer to make this logistics headquarters impossible , so to speak, because these are volunteers. i won't say more. and maybe i don't need to say it, but these are the free ones - it's transport , it's volunteers, it's some kind of volunteer help - it's the evacuation

of people , and so on. bakhmut is now actually taken in such a semi-ring, so from three sides, taken from the north, east and south. but again, there are logistic routes. if they were not there, we would have already taken our people from there. we would have already withdrew our troops, accordingly, the logistics are clearly maintained that the shelling is more intense, and this, i emphasize once again, is connected with the fact that the regular reshev troops have already been thrown at bakhmut, but again, it all depends on what purpose the

pointing -e to still hold on to bahmut e-e it depends on how much weaponry is delivered, and how much we will keep in bahmut, but you know. well, one more question worries me. well, maybe you didn’t ask the question, but somewhere and your previous guest voiced it, and it hurts and hurts not only me, but also we are their comrades yes, we are their comrades who on february 24 voluntarily went to the military commissariat and who signed up who are now fighting and now i have 45 and an artillery brigade and in the fifth crimean storm regiment and the carpathian sich freedom battalion, my friends libertarians who have been sitting in the trenches for 12 months, you know, and are fighting, are losing their comrades, and instead , i watch as they say, hysteria is spreading that someone is being grabbed somewhere on the streets, some buses are putting them there or taking them to the assembly center, former military commissars are good people, well we too will not fight for five years in the same way we also

want to see our families we want to see you for 11 months rested for 11 months we covered you we fought for you with us well we have losses we need to make up for these losses in addition, our western partners provide us with the latest weapons, the same artillery systems provide the same tanks, vanes , etc. accordingly, we cannot remove artillerymen and tankmen from the front line and send them to europe for training, because we will expose the front here as well some tantrums are spreading now, the war is going on and everyone, every ukrainian , every citizen, every conscious person, according to the current legislation, he had to come to the military commissariat himself to clarify his data if he was not on the record. unfortunately for us, time is running out. i thank you very much for your very correct and fair appeal. take care of yourself. thank you. one word

, please. i would like to say that everyone remembers that the future of ukraine is behind us. glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes. thank you. for the fact that bronte ukraine to you, your brothers and sisters oleksii, where is the legion of freedom , the junior lieutenant of the armed forces of ukraine, about the situation in bakhmut in the bakhmut direction and about the mobilization, it is still necessary to join our citizens, not all of them in will get to the front line, but for sure everyone will be needed in order to consolidate and strengthen the defense of our state alice is a soy journalist deputy of the zaporozhye district council mrs. alice congratulates you i congratulate you mr. vasyl i am glad to see you and to hear i will start with what does it mean they disperse the hysteria she is not a hysterical attack, the lies of the russians about the fact that they are employees of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, from the beginning there were several thousand people, in fact, up to four thousand people worked there. well, there is a huge number

, it is not the largest nuclear plant in europe power plant and write that they cooperate actively with the occupiers. although on the other hand, people who know about the situation at our gas station write that no one is working , well, at least. maybe, but in general there is no such cooperation . in energodar, where is the truth? tell me, please. well, in fact, a large part of the energy donors were the workers of the nuclear power plant there, several thousand people, and it is true that at the beginning of the invasion, a large part of them did not go over to the side of the occupiers and it is well known that the occupiers themselves complained that they forbid these people access to the nuclear power plant, they eliminated the passes, but they do not let them out of the energy supply, the militants know that the checkpoint in vasilivka has not been working for a month and a half, actually i think that this is another russian propaganda because in fact the opposition that

the energy donors are making to the russians is known to be so and at different times they tried to break it up , they tried to get out of this situation and they involved their nuclear workers who they brought from russia, but how did they comment on energo-atomism that they, well, they do not understand the technology of m-m working on nuclear plants as ukrainian specialists do, and since recently, just a few days ago, there was such information from the mayor of the city of energodar, dmytro orlov, that they are currently recruiting rashis and forcing them to work on stations of pensioners. that is, these are people who have been inflated for a long time. they do not work at the station, but it is precisely because of the lack of personnel and the lack of qualified personnel that they join such, i think that it is simply another propaganda about the fact that people are coming to their side. because in reality this is not true and of course they need to say something about their propaganda. i will ask

you one more question, eh, the enemies. well, they do a lot there in the occupied territory, but what are they like in occupied berdyansk? they are turning it into a fortress, the archist ransacked two schools , he writes that only the walls were left behind. have you heard anything about this, that they really carried out everything? they ransacked schools. last week they devoted the whole week to the fact that they ransacked garages. at the same time, they explain it as if they are nationalizing people's property, but of course they have all the lists and people who left, even people who didn't leave, of course, when the occupiers invade you with weapons well, people will not be able to resist , they rob schools in the same way. they rob people and garages, and indeed they continue to carry out their terror. for example, there is fresh

information about the fact that they carried out massive searches in melitopol were among the teachers, they tried to find teachers who teach ukrainian schoolchildren precisely according to the ukrainian program, because just like in energodar in melitopol, during thanksgiving, a large part of the people are full of territories. they still do not want to come to the side of the occupiers, if they did not threaten them, thank you very lady of the forest, today we are briefly but in fact, alisa sosoeva, a journalist , a deputy of the zaporizhia district council, was in touch with us briefly about the situation in the zaporizhia region, and now i have added to conversations of my colleague serhii zgurets, director of the defense agency, express, columnist, military summaries of the day, serhii, i congratulate you, vasyl, the audience, i will ask a very short question , today is the birthday of lieutenant general serhii, they whispered, he is the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, i would like the following to be said about this general and his important role in general in the defense of the country. well, in fact , general serhiy sheptala is a person who has the title of hero of ukraine, and defines the 50-year-old

as of february 5th, he is now the leader the general staff, which is actually the main brain of our armed forces, which ensures the planning of those operations that today allow us to defend our country, so i think we will also congratulate him on such a round date. well, we support the fact that he had the health of strength in order to indeed, the general staff continued to work like clockwork, bringing our victory closer, and after the military results of the day, we would like to talk in more detail about whether there will be a replacement of the minister of defense, how foreign aid is coming in, and what the situation is on our fronts about in a moment, i will start with the fact that the press conference of the minister of defense vseryeznikov came today. and in fact, it is the person who has received special attention in recent days , because in fact, even on the eve of the press conference , there was information that it is likely that next

week the minister of defense will heal his position , but will remain in the president's cradle and in fact, instead of him, it was even mentioned that the current head of the main intelligence department, kyrylo budanov, could be the new head of the ministry of defense. and this personnel decision was tied to what is around of the minister of defense, there is a whole series of abuses related to the fact that the deputy minister of defense and some heads of departments received suspicions related to abuses in the purchase of food there and means of personal protection, but at the press conference, the minister of defense differed said that he would resign if the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, made such a decision, and then he actually said that it is necessary to introduce whole systemic solutions related to changing

approaches to food procurement, in particular he mentioned that it is necessary to create such a military transparency that will simplify the control over the purchase of food, let's say equipment for the armed forces, and also said that it is necessary to create such an anti-corruption council to which the public should be involved, journalists and so on. with the offensive, he said that actually the enemy can quickly start large-scale actions there, tied to february 24, as the next such date, he mentioned that the training of our tankers on leopard tanks has actually already begun, he mentioned that sooner or later, we get everything from such. although not all countries are ready for such a step now , and he also said that the long-range systems that we want to receive from our partners , the use of these systems against e-e russia will be

agreed with our suppliers so as not to strike at objects on the territory of the russian federation, if in any case we are talking about the fact that the issue of personnel changes at the head of the ministry of defense remains open anyway, because this press conference actually did not add new nuances to this story related to the price of eggs and how exactly food will be supplied further by the ministry of defense, what conclusions will be drawn from this story , so in any case this question remains open, but when we talk about the actual use of foreign aid , the use of weapons, cooperation with partners on the borders, these are the nuances after all, they are important for the perception of how ukraine acts with individual components. and in fact , this is important precisely for the relationship with our main partner, the united states. so

, about individual details of american aid and we will talk about the american strategy towards ukraine with our guest, who held a number of extremely influential positions, which testify to the experience and awareness of our guest. he was the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, he was the head of the counterintelligence department of the security service of ukraine, the head of the foreign intelligence service and the deputy head of the administration of the president of ukraine when this structure was still an administration and not the president's office - this is valery kondratyuk, the lieutenant general of the pavellers. welcome to the espresso dobry channel evening serhii good evening dear tv viewers

, i would like to hear your vision on issues related to the fact that the united states is the main partner in providing us with military aid. in the usa, there is an interaction of two parties, one party of war, the other party of peace, which determine different approaches to what , in what way and how quickly this or that weapon should be delivered to ukraine, in your opinion? there are reasons to say that such a war is taking place around and how do you evaluate the approaches of the united states in relation to providing us with certain weapons systems? i believe that today there is no such pressure from the republican party on the biden administration . it would be so strong that ah refuse or reduce the amount of aid today, the exact directions and amounts of this aid are determined at the expert level directly by the ministry of defense, the pentagon, the united

states and the state department of communications united states and really separate republicans are now hearing comments about the need to implement the possibility of additional measures to strengthen control over the use of aid that is provided to ukraine, and against the background of such statements , the biden administration made a decision to create such a mechanism from and send to ukraine as you know groups inspectors, including there not only representatives of the inspection department, but also representatives of the pentagon and the state department of the united states. what do you think what will be the consequences of the actual work of these e-e structures of monitoring and investigating the illegal actions of fraudsters and related corrupt persons connected with the use of american aid, because some american politicians are quite strict about this aspect and actually , the question arises here whether this is a symbolic decision of the american side is

it actually a systemic decision that should really affect how we use foreign aid, how we use funds and weapons there? i believe that before the creation of this commission and the action must be taken quite seriously and it really is not there, let's say so above the framework of some kind of control there , for example, there is an effective, not effective use, and the same creation of mechanisms for bringing to justice persons who will be found on the shore of inappropriate use of this aid, embezzlement of these funds and definitely the discovery of such facts will have consequences for the provision of assistance and directly in one way or another the united states will find opportunities to bring such persons to justice.

i do not rule out that it is possible that it will not be in such a public way, but for sure such things will be carried out and such and such will be the punishment. the fact that it really works to identify facts of corruption is the effectiveness of the system in law enforcement agencies that ensure this, but the question arises: why did this happen now when the united states actually made a decision create such bodies that will deal with the investigation of corruption in ukraine, and it did not happen a little earlier or there was not such a very noticeable connection between these two facts. i think that the time has just come, you know why. because at first the administration was focused precisely, including on warnings about the risks of an attack by russia there regarding attempts to diplomatically stop , then unite the world international aid to provide ukraine with sufficient opportunities for

protection, and today the time has already come , let's just say, the creation of audit mechanisms the effectiveness of the use of such assistance, that is, it was not possible to check what was only calculated, well, in the process of providing it, but today these amounts of assistance are really already impressive, and you know that recently it was a congress, not a congress, the administration of biden made another 31st package of such assistance , which directly includes 425 million presidential powers within the framework of presidential powers and one of the 75 billion dollars directly within the framework of the security assistance initiative by the united states of ukraine and it is not only there today providing armored infantry vehicles and other equipment, as well as food and the necessary amount of e-e artillery ammunition for chemical axes, including the provision of small-diameter booms, you know , ground-based ggl sdb with a range of up to 150 km, which today is extremely

important for ukraine for, let's say so making it impossible for the russian side to re-offend. you know that now in the east, russia has regrouped and is shifting the reserves of the airborne forces specifically to prepare for another offensive, but it is precisely the presence of high -altitude bullets for long-range damage radius creates and makes it impossible for them to accumulate some reserves in one city, because they become immediately vulnerable to the system of small amersa rdr artillery and in this way, they will significantly reduce their opportunities to carry out this offensive. west on the front line that american aid is extremely important, but it comes with such a certain delay, if what is being promised today had arrived there yesterday or the day before yesterday, there would be less loss and more of our successes on the battlefield, is it possible to say that there is such a theory that the actual

arrival of american aid and weapons is clearly dosed enough to actually ensure such a controlled process of the defeat of russia so that it does not happen so quickly that the russian federation does not form there there are several territories with nuclear weapons, and actually this determines the gradualness of the provision of american aid in parallel with the process of how exactly to organize what will happen after the russian federation, your vision of these such explanations in yourself i think that you lived well like this is the expression controlled by the leader of russia's defeat i believe that it is the leadership of russia that does everything and manages until the defeat , including on the field, well, on the combat plan of the armed forces of the russian federation, and the west provides all the support we need to restore our combat capabilities and

to replenish our forces and create opportunities for effective defense and return of our captured territories. and what is happening with certain delays in direct deliveries of these weapons, this simply shows that this is the time that passes between the political decision and the direct ordering and provision of these weapons after it was recognized by experts there as the need for such weapons, as well as a certain time for the removal of these types of weapons, the transfer of the surplus fund there property or, for example, if there are no available articles, as well as orders for defense enterprises, and this definitely causes time for vaccinations, it is a pity that we have opportunities, it is delivered quickly and that which requires a certain amount of time, including the training of our crews, the issue that concerns tanks or more complex equipment , it definitely requires time, but today

it cannot be said that there are certain delays for this to be managed, that is, what is necessary for ukraine, it is being studied and immediately discussed, proposals are being prepared which not only the administration there reacts immediately, but also with the support of other countries of the world , from all possibilities, this weapon, well, immediately there , funds are formed, which are supplied to ukraine p- reigned and when a little let's look at the perspective, there was literally such an interesting speech that was retold, this is the speech of the director of the cia, william burns, at the university of jordan in washington, where he talked about the fact that by the summer the upholstery will actually reach such a point of exhaustion because, in particular, there are many people from russia but it has less weapons, and ukraine

, on the contrary, receives all the necessary weapons, but human resources may be close to exhaustion, and such a park situation is developing that somewhere in the summer it will still have to go to a certain negotiation the process based on where the parties will be on the battlefield but all the same , the political component will begin to come to the fore the following several months, during which russia will try to resume its offensive , which we have just partially touched on, and also the possibility of ukraine in the future to carry out a counteroffensive to restore these will be decisive for the further development of events, and certainly those losses of russia's ability to succeed, they will affect its further position regarding

negotiations, and the director of the cia is a staff military diplomat in the military , let's say a professional diplomat who worked in russia and who, according to estimates, of the russian side, he enjoys a certain authority as a professional and he always preferred the conducted diplomacy so in the bekchanal zones and he stood behind the preparation and agreements from the mornings in the training in 2013, it was jaykonsullivan where he held preliminary secret meetings with the leadership of the early and further, then this agreement was formed by the george butch administration there, and i believe that today they are also studying all the possibilities and prospects there of searching for such a window, perhaps such a window of opportunity when these are held let's say so there will be political negotiations, well, they will already be possible, and they are the ones who assess what will happen. maybe there, after the division

, let's say so ... the phase of hostilities that will last. over the next few months or so, he correctly determined somewhere in four months or six months. valeriya how do you currently assess the capabilities of the walkie-talkie for carrying out such large-scale operations, because some experts say that the enemy can actually conduct to children on one operational direction, politicians say that the offensive can come from any direction, how do you assess the current capabilities of the enemy to carry out such large-scale or concentrated actions. does he have the strength to achieve any operational success there based on the current capabilities of the enemy? why, if we assess the state and capabilities of russia

's armed forces there today, in fact, the military operation , as you know, has been replaced by a full-fledged war under the direct control of the general staff, the procedure for managing this already war the involvement of all types of e-e and branches of the armed forces of russia by the involvement of the military-industrial complex to the mothers of technical support and after the first losses during this year, russia by mobilization restored its combat capabilities and regrouped its forces due to the liberation of part of the right bank and part of the kherson region, abandoned the use of battalion-tactical groups and came to the conclusion of the effectiveness of the use of units in its staff structures, and all this today makes it possible to say that they have restored their own and are ready until the nearest time before the resumption of hostilities, according to our estimates and the estimates of ukrainian experts and intelligence officers , murder is definitely putin's main goal. this

today, there remains the goal announced at the beginning of the military operation, which is the defense of donbass, i.e. access to the administrative borders of the donetsk and luhansk regions, and certainly today we also see in this direction the transfer of air assault units and landing units to the east of our country, i.e. it is there that we assess the enemy is a set of threatening direction of this offensive in relation to the offensive of the belarusian side . today it is considered unlikely not because it is impossible but simply for today day on the territory of belarus

, a sufficient number or number of strike groups have not yet been created in belarus. to date, there are up to 9,000 russian servicemen on the territory of belarus. the territory of belarus. it entered the territory of russia and has already partially relocated to the territory of the luhansk region, that is to say that today the direction of belarus is threatening and definitely it cannot be ruled out, but today this same direction can be considered unlikely. what do you think about bakhmut? the impression is that the enemy is trying to use this direction as a center of gravity , so to speak that is, he does not count his life. and we understand that our most capable units are still forced to hold back the enemy's manpower and also suffer losses. is there any way , in your opinion, to break this the dependence of changing personnel to switch to some other technological method of fighting with the enemy in order to ensure the preservation of our personnel and