[000:00:00;00] defense of ukraine oleksiy reznikov the united states of america has warned ukraine that the war is approaching a turning point, the national guard hit a russian su-25 with a paranoid missile, the russian army continues to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine as of the morning of february 14, which has already lost 139,090 people in ukraine only for in the last day, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 740 traffic jams at the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost 3,286 tanks in ukraine, six and a half thousand armored combat vehicles, 2,299 artillery systems

466 jet systems will fill - 234 air defense means 298 aircraft 29 286 helicopters 5155 units of automotive equipment from 18 ships and kate 857 cruise missiles 2011 drones 218 units of special equipment about what is happening and what has already been heard on rammstein today as ukraine prepares for the decisive battle for russia's personnel changes in the ministry of defense well, of course , we will talk about the situation on the eastern and southern fronts of ukraine over the next hour, i want to introduce today's guest - this is petro chernyk, a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine , a military expert. good day, colonel. good health to you and thank you for joining our program. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes .

of the coalition, the minister of defense of ukraine , oleksiy reznikov, and lloyd austin, the minister of defense of the united states of america, have already said that rammstein will help ukraine to go into the counteroffensive in the spring. opening remarks before the start of this uh-esteemed meeting, let's hear lloyd austin, all countries from around the world continue to increase efforts to consider new solutions together, this contact group clearly states that we will support ukraine in its struggle for the future we will help ukraine to move into the counteroffensive in the spring, our unity and our speed of instant editing, we will do everything possible so that ukraine gets what

it was promised we help the ukrainian armed forces in training for that and they for so that they become more effective on the battlefield and we know how to do it today we met here to coordinate our contributions to ukraine and also to continue to implement our unwavering long-term support for ukraine from the whole world, what else did lloyd austin say on rammstein eight countries will deliver to ukraine leopard tanks are germany poland canada-portugal spain norway denmark netherlands united states of america poland and the czech republic will supply additional tanks united states of america germany-netherlands will supply patriot air defense systems to ukraine, france and italy are supplying semp air defense systems

, and several countries will also supply the necessary ammunition . we know and predict how events will develop after this rammstein , in my opinion, rammstein, first of all , maybe once he got caught, it is actually unprecedented, not only military in general a diplomatic phenomenon of a global nature is in fact nothing more than an anti-putin and even an anti-russian coalition. let me remind you that the anti-hitler police was formed on january 1 , 1942, and at the beginning only 26 countries joined it, and that out of 50 countries systematically persistently and comprehensively support ukraine in this war of civilizations is emphasized, the russian-ukrainian war of civilization is a sign that ukraine remains on the main geopolitical radars

and, in my opinion, no one will leave our enemy purely in the military component of this rammstein is finally cementing the so-called tank coalition, this has already been officially announced and significantly strengthens our anti-aircraft defense, especially good news is that finally the italian tula concert, which produces very high-quality anti-aircraft complexes with the task of striking up to 140 km, can intercept even ballistic bodies - this is incredibly good news somewhere maybe we had too high expectations in the part related to aviation , but in my opinion it is a working case because sooner or later we will have it, i think that the first swallows of this process will be the slovak mig-29 and the polish mig-29, well-trained in the zanatov system, and this is already a serious step forward, are

the prerequisites for counter-offensive operations clearly being created? yes, but you will have to be very careful because the enemy has also put absolutely everything he could put, and unfortunately their human potential is still incredibly large, it will have to be ground, mr. colonel, the lack of f16 at the current stage of the war and in the expected offensive of the russians , how significantly will it now affect the progress wars and the offensive of the russians in the east of the roosters well, i wouldn't say that they are what they are not. i'm sorry, i'll come from the other side. aviation is actually the very weapon that changes the battlefield. even a great man at the institute chechel said that aviation is the cavalry of modern times and in fact from that time has not changed, do we really, really, really need modern aviation unequivocally yes , personally i remained, remain and will

remain an ardent supporter of the f16 complex. serious expert assessment and what kind of car should i provide, because in addition to the american complexes, there are also quite good swedish fortresses and german tornadoes and french rafale and mirage and their common euro typhoon and also the eurofighter typhoon and even the south korean kf-21, how will it actually be with aviation it is very difficult to predict, but if we go from the opposite point of view that in april we thought that hummers were fantastic, we got them at the end of august we didn't think that irish people were fantastic, we got them in october - if i myself had great skepticism about the possibility of 104 patriots, and they are already somewhere on the way to us, at least the training of our crews is definitely taking place, i have no doubt that

good aviation will appear, but even the colossal promotion package that was provided in the last month, which is over 1,000 units and this is an unprecedented phenomenon since the second world war - this is a colossal step forward, and the russians are well aware that by the middle of spring, the ukrainian army will have an absolutely different qualitative level than that they are pressing because they think they can in what way cement the line of demarcation in the current rammstein and in fact all the statements that have come out in recent days from the mouths of european leaders are painstaking work, we know that at the end of last year president zelensky visited washington, spoke before the congress and articulated his position last week recognized as volodymyr zelenskyi's european tour. he visited london, paris , brussels, met with british

politicians and leaders, the french president, and the prime minister of the federal of the republic of germany with the leaders of the european parliament, however, what did he say and how did he negotiate with the leaders of europe? zelenskyi said in his evening address to the ukrainians, let's see, we reached an important understanding with britain regarding long-range weapons and the need to speed up the supply of tanks. each other's position on the issue of modern combat aviation. i thank all our british friends.

our negotiations in paris with president macron and chancellor scholz, we spoke very frankly with the three of us, and this made it possible to find a common understanding about the prospects in this war, i think it will make it much easier to solve defense issues, we have a common vision of the path to victory. the european tour, because duda, the president of poland, gave an interview, a great interview, yegor, and said that if the west does not now provide ukraine with enough weapons, there will be big problems, and russia can win, as you do, colonel do you consider this statement? that is, on the eve of rammstein, duda decided to warn everyone that the current rammstein and the current decisions will have consequences not only for

ukraine, but for the whole of europe . colleagues in europe, it should definitely be carried out and not stop at this; can the enemy, according to the statement, have any prerequisites for a strategic victory, in my opinion, no, if the russians were to achieve their strategic goals, and the main goal only one liquidate our statehood, it would have already happened, but ukrainians have shown such colossal corporate resistance to the struggle for their own independence, and not only for their own independence, in general, for all democratic values ​​in the world, that europe has no choice but to help us in the end if we build an alternative analytical structure and in the event that suddenly ukraine capitulates - capitulates. what happens next , the appetite definitely comes during the war and the ultimatum on the return of nato to 1997. in december, russia put the poles on

is it true that it is the only european nation that has a very good historical memory and remembers the double occupation since the 18th century and in the 20th inclusive and remembers that after ukraine they can definitely become the next target, that is why duda uses otaku here is diplomatic rhetoric, but i personally am full of strategic optimism that sooner or later victory will inevitably be ours . the russian federation may be on the path to its disintegration, isn't the only truth they tell on their media propaganda sites that in the event of a defeat, it may not happen, but once that happens, we understand that the enemy is not going to give up and he really does not have a margin of safety there is nothing worse than

throwing hats at the enemy in a high positive diplomatic tone and underestimating the potential that he still has . the washington post writes that the united states of america has warned ukraine that a turning point is coming in the war as the first anniversary of the beginning of russia's large-scale invasion of ukraine approaches, american officials have informed the ukrainian authorities that a critical moment is coming to change the trajectory of the war, quoting in recent months, the war in the east of ukraine has turned into a slow meat grinder in which neither side has an advantage, biden's representatives believe that the critical moment it will come this spring when russia is expected to launch an offensive, ukraine will launch a counteroffensive, trying to return lost territories, the washington post writes about the critical nature of the next few months has already been directly announced to kyiv by high-ranking biden officials, in particular deputy national security adviser

john feiner, deputy secretary of state wendy sherman, and deputy minister of defense kolen kal, who visited ukraine in january ; in addition, a week before the visit of these officials, ukraine was visited by cia director william burns, who shared his data about what russia is planning, when we talk about rammstein and talk about support for the event in ukraine, a completely logical question arises, do we know what the numbers were voiced by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, e.e., according to luzhnyi, obviously caused certain questions in the western countries regarding the feasibility of obtaining there 300-400 tanks up to 500 , as far as i remember, e.e.

mr. colonel, can you tell me, because you said that it is bad when we underestimate the enemy, what the enemy has now? why do we have to stand up to the truth , and i will remain in my position . you can't really underestimate the enemy. high-quality weapons, primarily with regard to the armor package, and most importantly, the tanks and this line that you showed at the beginning of this program is an unprecedented phenomenon, because we are depleting almost 100% of their potential that was before the beginning of this war . i will remind you that at the beginning the russians had regular vehicles within 3,400 units but at the same time, in terms of the total stockpile of armored vehicles, starting with the t-62, pt-76, the floating tank, the predecessor of the bmp-1, and even ending with the t-34, because they can be thrown into battle, and for just a few

weeks, information that came from laos escaped me 30 machines were returned there. well, it’s not just like that, and with great fanfare that they refused. look, what an old machine. and what’s still combat-ready, so there are still up to 1.5 dozen thousand units of all this in warehouses. it’s an incredible amount, so it certainly won’t last there is no competition, let's say 172-t80 or t-90, but it is still a weapon, even if you apply the method of cannibalism, that is, 3-4 cars are used to make one train, but this is still a lot, and considering the fact that the war still remains artillery war a at the beginning of this war, there were five and a half thousand working full-time barrels , of which we destroyed 2,000. therefore, there are at least 3,000 more.

to produce up to 125,000 shells per month, of course, such fire shafts as there were in the summer, up to 60, six to 80,000 volleys per day, they will not be able to launch, but still, this is strength and the most important strength that i have been emphasizing for several weeks in a row , because this is how we see the philosophy of modern battle - this is the life force of kalashnikov assault rifles. the empire produced more than 100 million old mosin rifles, more than 37 million shimonov self-loading carbines within 15 million, and the weapons of the second world war ppsh pps altogether 8 million, of course these 8 million and the rest of the millions are not in warehouses , but there are hundreds of thousands and cartridges of income there is definitely a ttsh-41, there is a drum magazine for 71 rounds of mpl-50, what we call a small sapper shovel, and for the family , under putin, they will go into battle, there are no

signs that points from below are possible, but yes. this must be taken seriously and this colossal human sea will have to be ground together with the more high -quality new weapons that arrive to us, especially the bmp-2 bradley , i remain their ardent supporter, the better the situation will be regarding the grinding of this gigantic human mass , stoltenberg, the nato secretary general, constantly says about the fact that ukraine needs much more weapons, that ukraine needs much more weapons, that there may not be as many of these weapons in european countries as even ukraine needs in po do you think our western partners have enough weapons to counter what russia has? it is not about the quantity, but the quality of these weapons, that is, the european weapons and

the weapons from our american partners. in the warehouses of the times of the soviet union, it is definitely a very valid and good opinion that there are certain problems in terms of quantity, because in terms of quality, there can't even be a conversation here, i really like such a specific example, conditional volga a car cannot win a race against a conventional mercedes in any indicators, all without exception western weapons are collective mercedes all without exception soviet or russian weapons are collective volga then arches with large barrels i have already given an example, but i will give one more example specifically and specifically from artillery on at the beginning of this war, the russian federation had a stockpile of shells ranging from 15 to 20 million calibers of 122-152 mm and others. this is an incredible amount. the entire us army had a stockpile of two and

a half million, so that we understand the distance and the scale of the war on to be honest, no one expected the european tvd, there are still very serious and psychological relapses, primarily among our european colleagues. well, it took quite a long time , more than six months, for it to happen. this is the so-called bucharest nato summit, because it is nothing but a restart of the great conveyor, but western weapons is incredibly technological and complex and there is another very serious moment here , both economic and political and even electoral, i can’t be that they built a factory, let’s say with an additional plant there, let’s say with the production of artillery installations m 109 they produced a certain number of paladins there, but after two or three years it stopped and a huge number of thousands of people were released . no, this is a legal world, because they do not count all the risks, and if

they deploy conveyors from such a large production of technological weapons, then they list such scenarios for decades ahead. and for this there was over time, plus many nuances, starting with the metal itself, where it is , in what quantity and how to process it , ending with all aiming systems and the like , the military-industrial complex is the most complex a part of the economy that exists in nature, there are many knots and threads that need to be calculated, so this is a big miscalculation from the bus, we are at the start of a colossal new arms race, and the muscovites will definitely not win it. let's hope that rammstein is such that the meeting in the rammstein format is currently taking place

in brussels will speed up this process on the eve of this conversation in brussels oleksiy reznikov , minister of defense of ukraine, means in order the agenda of the day that the ministers of defense of the anti-putin coalition will follow, in particular, these are the following points of defense of the ukrainian sky, in particular, due to the involvement of an aviation platform, it is obviously about negotiations to provide ukraine with western aviation, the development of a tank coalition, the formation of a reserve of strength in terms of ammunition, training programs for ukrainian soldiers, the stability of support for ukraine the issue of logistics, maintenance , repair of equipment, the practical implementation of the military schengen, e.g., mr. colonel, is now in a rather difficult situation situation, we know that 10 days ago, the leader of the faction, the servant of the people, david arkhamiya, said that nabudanov would be replaced at different times , and now there is information that

razniakov is proposing three deputies, three new deputies for approval by the ministry of defense, in particular, razniakov wants to fire his deputies, ivan rusnak and oleh hajduk, and to appoint to the position of first deputy minister oleksandr pavlyuk , lieutenant general of the armed forces of ukraine, to the position of deputy for digital development , volunteer vitaly denega, who is the founder fund, return alive to the post of deputy for european integration of the former ambassador of ukraine to canada , andrii shevchenko . preceded the minister of defense of ukraine , i will be honest in my position. i am not an expert in personnel policy as such, but

i have some experience in understanding global geopolitics , knowing how important this war is in general in a civilizational sense for world democrats and for the world tyrants who challenged this world democracy in ukraine, the modest view was on ms. i emphasize once again that i am not an expert in domestic political science, any global personnel changes at the level of the ministry of defense will not affect the course of the russian-ukrainian war, it is important that the dynamics of the front and all ranks and levels of commanders headed by the commander-in-chief so that they understand, realize and know how to plan all the mechanics of daily combat operations, this is actually the main thing , because here the combat potential is purely from from the institutional point of view of the ministry of defense as a state institution - it is such a body that is called to deal primarily with the provision of the material part of the functioning of the armed forces of ukraine, and

it seems to me that regardless of which person will occupy this position and the level of professionalization of all without exception, that is, the war tripled the quality of growth and intellectual and professional of all officials is largely irrelevant mr. colonel i will ask you about belarus because over the past few months we have seen how russia together with the belarusians , regular exercises there, joint flights of air groups , certain movements were on the logistical routes of the armed forces of the republic of belarus with the participation of the russians. from the point of view of the possible deployment of hostilities in the further

deployment, do these eyes mean a warning , why am i asking about this, because i remember what happened on the eve of february 24, and you also remember when the embassy left kyiv foreign countries warned the citizens of foreign countries about the coming war, or is it possible to perceive the warnings and warnings of the foreign ministries of france, canada, and brazil that they have some data that belarus will enter the war or at least participate in hostilities as a territory with which russian planes will take off during the possible and expected attack of russia on ukraine. let 's start, i'll start with the philosophical statement of the defender of rome, cicero, that the closer the collapse of the empire, the crazier their actions, and in fact

, the madness of the russians cannot be underestimated always emphasized this, but let's go from the opposite, this is the best evidence in scientific discourse, so we go back to the beginning of this war, we were really caught off guard, we were sent, we were really ready, that is, our borders were not strengthened for the moment, our north turned into a kind of mannerheim line and maybe even the line of the plural and maybe we are even getting closer to someone else's line of defense at the beginning of this war we didn't have any western-style artillery, we didn't have to dream about such systems as the m-142 m270 rocket systems of salvo fire, we did not have full -fledged air cover of 15-20% of the territory of ukraine, there were defenses with them, now the last hall that was held in ukraine, we showed and show in a stable performance 86 90% i will remind you to shoot down planes and helicopters

with the current air defense systems , it is much, much easier than shooting down cruise missiles . first of all, as far as kyiv is concerned , i would like a full-fledged corps of 40,000 people, for this we need 820 tanks, two and a half thousand armored vehicles, up to a thousand artillery pieces, and most importantly, there is no air cover for this. the point of a potential attack to the capital within 15,000 people , this is a division behind the old soviet organizations, numerous structures, a little more.

the soldiers will spend their lives definitely yes, but with such a force. what are they counting on? i can't give an adequate, clear answer yet. at the same time, we are reminiscent of the chernobaivka team. through the siverskyi dinets in the spring of last year in one place five times a pontoon per day 800 people died 711 techniques they can resort to such steps that are unacceptable from the point of view of common sense but they this is exactly how i looked at this issue. will the end happen in the final point of no return for the belarusian undertaker lukashenka, because if he takes this step, he will definitely become a war criminal , i cannot predict whether we are ready to be 100% sure if they will hit it is difficult, but the course of the war does not change. thank you, mr. peter, for your participation in the program. it was petro chernyk, a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine

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