[000:00:00;00] servicemen and their condition may be different. that is, we can put the heavy one who needs more evacuation where faster . is a real holiday for volunteers in our country, the fact is that we found these cars, that we were able to buy them, that we were able to deliver them, and you know i don't care. even if it had to be delivered at night, we tetiana admits that with every request it is more and more difficult to find new cars if in the spring it was still possible to go , for example, only to poland or only to germany or there, uh, any city in europe and immediately buy the necessary amount uh,

i think you see the scale as the whole world rose up, it seems to me that we have already bought everything that could be dug up in general since february 24. well, we have already passed over 100 units of various equipment, these were armored cars and a special car for our ritualists, this and fast pickups and jeeps rewald solders ukraine fund reviving the defenders of ukraine before the full-scale invasion specialized in the treatment and prosthetics of servicemen with very serious injuries our fund was founded by iryna vashchuk, nee irpen, who has been living in america for many years, and in fact, the war in her country began in the 14th year despite the fact that she lived for herself and lived beautifully in a completely different country and across the ocean from the 14th year, iryna began

to help. in the 15th year, she founded a fund in 2019 in irpen near kiev rehabilitation center nextstep ukraine, which is engaged in the free rehabilitation of military personnel and has unique equipment that has no analogues in our country , but after the full-scale invasion, the fund expanded the areas of assistance , the more necessary things are needed, starting from tourniquets, hemostats, and ending with fast drones. the more we give, the more likely it is to save someone's life and at the beginning of the full-scale war , the ukrainian army handed over almost $7 million in aid, these are fast pickups, jeeps, quadcopters walkie-talkie generators, satellite phones, tablets, medicines, medical equipment, etc., one of these ambulances will go to the luhansk direction, where the fierce ones are going, because there is

a direction in which we are, the situation is better than in bakhmut, of course , the enemy is trying to throw more effort into bakhmut, but our direction we hold we see that the enemy is trying to advance us by all means and methods, but nothing succeeds. so step by step we are moving forward, the russian occupiers are constantly trying to attack others as well directions, so the ukrainian defenders state that it is still very early to relax, of course it is clear that they have run out of equipment there, older models are appearing, but let's say that they have run out of everything there, it is hardly necessary to understand that the russian federation is too big a terrorist country , they have resources there are a lot of sanctions, they work very slowly, that is, they switch to military rails, they have a lot of canned

food and it all works little by little, they also carry out mobilization, carry out personnel training, somewhere, of course, they plug holes cleanly mobilized, but still, they have a great mobilization potential, first of all they release, let's say, on the sealed meat of untrained people mobilized by them there , in order to cover up the more trained and there equipment, that is, for example, they release people and then release equipment that is, they are usually mobilized, not the other way around, they come in with equipment that supports the infantry to save as many lives as possible of the ukrainian military, important new technological means are urgently needed. currently, they are also drones as consumables, they save the lives of our personnel on the battlefield because we can detect the enemy in a timely

manner, complain of artillery fire and inflict maximum losses on him. thermal imagers, er, copters, drones, these are all consumables, because war is hard, war is terrible, and today you can hand over five drones, and in a few days they may not be there despite heavy battles and accumulated therefore, ukrainian defenders believe that the new year should be the year of our victory, it should be victorious and eventually the russian federation and all those who take part on that side should leave our country and, as the president says, free our border as of 1991 however, this victory is impossible without our support, because

the defense of the country is our joint duty , we cannot relax now. we cannot get tired , if it were not difficult for us, we must hold on. litvinova oleksandr burlevych specially for expresso glory to ukraine, this is a verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today, february 16, 358 days of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers on the night of february 16, russia launched another missile attack on ukraine according to military data russia fired 36 anti-aircraft missiles at ukraine, destroyed 16 of them. secretary of the national security and defense council oleksiy danilov reported that according to preliminary data

, on february 23 and 24, russia is going to attack another massive missile attack on ukraine, then already on february 22 is going to address the annual message to the federal assembly of the russian federation, meanwhile, the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine, as of the morning of february 16, russia has already lost 140,000,460 people in ukraine in the last was the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 690 orks with the beginning of the great war russians have already lost 3296 tanks 6517 armored fighting vehicles 2306 artillery systems 466 jet systems in ukraine hall of fire 239 air defense means 298 planes 287 helicopters 5167 units of automotive equipment 18 ships boats 857 cruise missiles in 2011 drones 219

units of special equipment so according to the forecasts of the ukrainian side on february 23-24 russia plans to launch a new massive missile attack on ukraine, we know what this is will be the year of the beginning of the great invasion of the russian federation into ukraine in moscow, while propagandists and tv channels are talking about the fact that putin can even make war on nato is officially meant during the speech before the federal assembly of the russian federation, which is scheduled for february 22. we will talk about all this for the next hour. i would like to introduce today 's first guest, oleksandr musienko, director of the center for military and legal studies , oleksandr. good day, good health, and thank you for joining our broadcast. good health. i congratulate you. so, on february 14-15 , rammstein ii ended in brussels. this

anti-putin coalition, which now includes more than 50 countries of the world, made it clear that russia in the form in which it currently exists threatens the world and, in my opinion, this was a milestone rammstein, because it is clear that the world has decided to fight more actively against putin 's russia. is this conclusion , oleksandr, enough to put an end to the country that is currently terrorizing not only ukraine, but the whole world? well, rammstein is obvious conclusions for once i ordered the rammstein mechanism . i think that theoretically it is possible because rammstein sets itself the goal of supporting the ukrainian army in providing the weapons that we need in order to repel

enemy attacks, but also to prepare to be ready for the transition to counteroffensive actions, as was indicated by the minister of defense lloyd mostyn at the time of this meeting during the communication with the media, that is, from this point of view , from the point of view of the functional point of providing weapons in order to defeat the russian army, which is currently fighting in ukraine on its occupied territories, let's say the right direction, that is, an absolutely clear, understandable, correct course of action, and here we can highlight the statement of the same lloyd austin, who sent a clear message precisely to russia when he said that we would to help ukraine prepare for a counteroffensive in the spring if that means that it means that it is his opinion the united states believes that and the united states believes that ukraine is capable of repelling russian attacks during this offensive and be ready to proceed to a counteroffensive and they are ready to provide

weapons tools for this roughly like this it is possible to interpret, that is, i am quite sure. i would say, but from the point of view of further actions , that is, the russian army was defeated in ukraine, and what to do next with russia, it seems to me that today there is some clear there is no understanding of one single position in the institution, because someone is talking about the fact that, as the head and coordinator of the munich security conference, russia must go through de putinization, depatinization. yes, i can agree, but it seems to me that depotinization itself is not enough. russia must go through certain processes similar to passed as germany passed after the fall of the third reich and after the fall of the nazi totalitarian regime, similar things must happen there, and the next moment, alexander , denazification must take place, that is, if you already are you talking about germany, yes, yes, they are similar, that is, or uh, how do we say, let’s decide

the ideology that is compared. well, where is the reification ? well, differently, well, that is, similar processes and the second point is a safe space, that is , security guarantees and in the future, what will happen further, how are they possible for the future aggressive behavior of russia in general and someone sees it in the west because of the fact that let's let the opposition come to power there mass yashen there well, to all these figures who are now in russian prisons and in this way we will try to liberalize russia, but the west partially went through it, we all went through it after the collapse of the soviet union , when someone there believed in yeltsin that there would be liberals , that means there will be a liberal russia, uh, no one will fight, the cold war is over , let's reduce arsenals , defense spending, take away american troops from europe finance less than 1% of gdp of their defense complex, such as germany or

other or many other european countries and everything , but the calculation turned out to be false and erroneous therefore, it seems to me that work and discussion should be actively going on now, maybe it’s not even dorobstein, maybe rammstein and maybe more of the munich security conference and , in the end, of all possible platforms, how to build e-e world security and for the post-war period, because the risks and threats of global quite a lot, and here is this vision from this vision, the only one, it is absent in ukraine , it is clear that we perfectly understand this vision, that russia in the form in which it is, as yuriy lip wrote, with an imperial center moscow must cease to exist in the form of an empire. in what way, whether through de-nazification in a similar way or together with depotinization, or through the formation of two, three, four, five new states, new territorial ones in animals or in other ways, but this must

happen and this is a task by the way for the future. that is, we must also be aware that when the hot phase of the war ends, it does not mean that it is already a victory on the battlefield. but it is not yet a final victory in the war, unfortunately. we also need to understand this , we are talking about an anti-putin coalition about rammstein de air about the fact that the majority of western countries support ukraine, instead of the speaker of the russian state duma vyacheslav volodan, during the state duma meeting, announced the support of russia to the world. he says that he supports putin's position. the majority of the world's population. well, let's hear volodin. vadimcha putina and the construction

of a multipolar, just world. i already mentioned at the beginning of the program that putin's address is scheduled for next week annual message to the federal assembly of the russian federation, this message was supposed to take place at the end of 2022, but it did not happen. because putin wanted some victories , now the russian propaganda media, in particular , russian television, says that in this message putin will almost declare war on nato, well, at least yesterday i watched about bandit channels, they are very actively torpedoing this topic that russia can state that the state of war in which russia de facto is not with ukraine, but with nato, as they say and that there will be some solutions that will allow russia to put

everyone in their place . what do you think, will the next week be decisive in the confrontation between the civilized world and the horde ? question, because here volodya will touch on everyone and explain why, and we will return to rammstein's words of the chairman of the committee of the chiefs of the joint staff of the joint committee, general melnyk, about the fact that russia lost strategically, operationally and even tactically, he said, well, tactically the battles continue, not all of us hope that they will end with a victory for ukraine, of course, but the war is still going on, but strategically and operationally, it is up to what the owner says . he says a multi-polar world, but what a multi-polar world it is, and it is to the loss of russia

, strategically, it can already be stated if, er, the nuctors, who is now reckoning with russia , is reckoning with russia because of what you understand, monkey from with a grenade, as you say, because they have nuclear weapons , this is the only argument why they are afraid of them, and this is also because they are large in area there. what a multipolar world, the west imposed sanctions and the east, on which they so calculate the profit from this, uses russia. at a big discount, and they accumulate it, i mean china, india, other countries , and if we talk about the world, we are not talking about a unipolar one, then the role of the second part of this world can be occupied by china, we will increase the chances than

russia now the second point regarding the war and something more . which was proclaimed by the two deputy ministers of foreign affairs of russia, eh. one line, the second one, i forgot the last name, well, it doesn’t matter, and it was announced that eh, nato should actually withdraw its presence before the conditions of 1997. one of the high officials of the russian federation then said let nato take away the wombs so, i want to remind you that two world wars started with ultimatums, this also happened and very often

wars start with an ultimatum, so if you interpret from this point of view that putin challenged for that he already announced then war, remember when he gave speeches on the occasion of the illegal annexation of ukrainian territories, and the kremlin spoke there, the things he announced to the civilized world can also be perceived as a declaration of war , so from this point of view, they have already spoken a long time ago in such a way that this can be perceived as a declaration of war and they are constantly provoking in this sense, they are engaged in escalating the situation. and until next week, part of it. i think that it will not become so decisive because, after all, the situation will be determined not by chance, but it will be determined on the battlefield, that is what russia can do and will do, we can already roughly see it, we can predict the renewal of offensive actions and the increase

in the number of this horde that arrives, what it throws into battle, we see it, the intensification of hostilities, we understand the threat of the continuation of missile terror as well as the consciousness that it can be, but please note that unlike the events of a year ago, there is no such excitement or confidence from our western partners and it is not observed in in this sense, for example, the visit of the minister of foreign affairs of israel to ukraine, and the purpose - one of the goals of his trip - is to restore the work of the israeli embassy in kyiv. in the ukrainian capital, well, this also adds a certain confidence, that is, there is no , despite any speeches, there is no fear of that and that uncertainty and this is quite important in the context of the further adjustment to the struggle, so well, we remember that before february 24, 2022

, foreign embassies were e-e removed from kyiv to western ukraine, and some were in poland, and there were warnings from large countries to their citizens those who are in the territory of ukraine should leave the territory of ukraine. now there are no such warnings. in the meantime , the secretary of the national security and defense council of russia danilo reported that the russian invaders are preparing a new massive missile attack on ukraine, which may happen on february 23-24. well, danilov, that's it. said, taking into account the propensity of the current putin regime for symbolism, that they are trying to dedicate any dates in quotation marks to some shelling or mass air alarm, as it was, for example, on august 24, 2022, when planes continuously

the territory of belarus was taken off from the airfields and we constantly heard an alarm, it seems that there were six or seven or even eight air alarms . meanwhile, president zelenskyi talks about the prospects for the russian-ukrainian war and the prospects for russia's victory. he said that russia is losing its people, its forces. we have to break any attempts of russia to intercept the initiative and we will do it we will hear from zelensky this day was also about a longer perspective defense issues economic issues ideas other with an eye on the spring of this year we have to draw a conclusion so that it really feels that ukraine is moving towards victory, this concerns the preparation of our defense forces, the supply of weapons for our state and our strategic initiative in the war, any attempt by russia to take the initiative must be broken. i

am sure that you will do it, the enemy is already losing so many of its people of our forces that it will soon be difficult to find , for example, marines throughout russia, and our task is to make sure that there are fewer and fewer of them there, and the desire to keep ukrainian territories under occupation , the liberation of our land is the goal of the implementation of which we work every day, the demands we want to win over putin, the west also wants, mr. oleksandr, and what is left at least some percentage that putin can change the situation in what way, an incredible way is simply to defeat the west, including ukraine well, we have to consider different scenarios, even they are the same in order to model it and understand it as their they are possible, although you know hmm , for today i consider such a scenario to be quite

unlikely, and because in principle , to win today is the first. i believe that ukraine as a state and with statehood is worth it that is, it has already withstood and it has withstood and this is our achievement and this is what we can put as an asset. instead, there is a struggle for the restoration of our territorial integrity , but not a struggle and a struggle for de-occupation and the liberation of those people who are currently under occupation by russian troops, but definitely this is the sky for not let's say the fight in general for the possibility of our existence for statehood and so on, because i am convinced that it has already happened , but there are threats and they are not disappearing anywhere and the war continues, uh, i think that on today, what putin would like to achieve, what he would like to present as a victory, is the maintenance

of the land corridor to crimea and the occupation of the crimea and the capture of the donetsk region. operation, let's negotiate again there based on the new territorial realities, as he says, which is unacceptable in principle and for today, as i think, so if there is a clear pace and confident support for the event, it will be to continue for ukraine, and the struggle will continue and it will continue, in which the whole people joins, because it is really a people's war, in one way or another, they join in . i don't see any chances by which russia can win over ukraine and ukraine and the west, but we should understand for the time being that democracies have big pluses, which are definitely more in

a totalitarian regime than in totalitarianism or authoritarianism, but they also have certain disadvantages in some places, which consist in the fact that elections can be held and the political system can change the economic situation may change, the conditions in some countries may be , let's say, other conditions may develop for the future but these are already prospects somewhere more medium-term but such risks are that at some stage of the event it will become more and more difficult to agree on sanctions packages or support or the supply of weapons we must also calculate and be aware of what they can be, but in general, at the moment, looking at the course that has chosen the event in support of ukraine and the current one , i emphasize, as of now, i do not see risks that russia can achieve such a global victory, british intelligence informs pato of military aircraft, but

a large-scale air campaign during the spring offensive of the forecast is considered unlikely in britain, meanwhile, deputy chairman of the security council of the russian federation dmytro middev , an unchanged public figure of vladimir putin , recently visited the omsk plant of transport engineering and construction about the plans for the production and modernization of thousands of tanks, putin said yes, let's listen to medvedev, our enemy called there planes missiles, tanks are found abroad, what should we do in response, it is clear that in this case it is natural for us to increase the production of various types of military equipment, including modern tanks , we are talking about the production of the modernization of 1,000 tanks, this is a task, it follows from this

year, it follows from decisions which are accepted by the president of the country. it is simply incredible that it is the 21st century and the leaders of the state are not thinking about how to develop their state , not about how to make cities better and more convenient for citizens, but thinking about how to rivet thousands more tanks in order to go to war against ukraine, there is no alexander, there is such a feeling that russia can, after all, at some stage simply turn into north korea and close in on itself in its borders and in general in its structure and in their rules that they are now proposing to society that actually this military campaign that was launched in 2014 was aimed at turning russia into north korea, in which, in principle

, the upper echelons, which are now comfortable at the top, and they 140 million will be fully controlled by russia, well, on the one hand, yes, on the other hand, you understand. they are always, they are always all the same , that is, russia and putin, all of them, in fact, he is in his environment, they are in one form or another. they constantly, i.e., putin conducts such a hooligan policy , it is clear that it is criminal and not only in relation to the west, what he is doing he cannot offer the west any vision. missiles, killing, snarling, destruction, war, what attractive educational model do you offer, if the united states or europe offers an attractive model that

millions of billions of people on this planet want to live by , then what does russia offer? they always look to the west. they keep saying that we want negotiations , that is, putin, somehow this hooligan is constantly trying to engage in escalation, to push him so that he will be noticed, because otherwise it is impossible for him notice. only when he threatens missiles with nuclear weapons and so on. and to sit down with him for negotiations, that is, from this point of view, they actually seek some kind of negotiations with the west, but in their twisted logic and imagination, and north korea, you understand, it still exists behind due to the fact that they are helped and supported in many ways by china, i mean in the economic sense, and thanks to this they are supported. i am not sure that china will be ready to take on what is called dependent or er russia. i think that in them other tasks or then for this

the scenario on the territory of russia controlled by putin will actually