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point of view, glory to ukraine is a verdict program , my name is serhiy rudenko. good day and good health to all, a full-scale large- scale air alert continues throughout ukraine today, february 20, 362 days of the ukrainian people's heroic resistance to the russian invaders, today ukraine honors the memory of the heroes of the heavenly hundred who died 9 years ago in the center of kyiv where they were shot by law enforcement officers. the president of the united states of america is meeting with the president of ukraine today

, israeli parliamentarians are also expected to come to kyiv from russia to support the ukrainians in the war the visit of the prime minister of italy and representatives of the participating states of the anti-putin galicia during the past day, the enemy launched 10 missile and 25 air strikes against the armed forces of ukraine, and the threat of strikes by the russian federation remains high throughout the territory of ukraine, meanwhile, the russian occupiers and continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine, as of the morning of february 20, russia has already lost 143,680 people in ukraine in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 820 orks with a large the russians have already lost in ukraine 3,316 tanks, 6,500 53 armored fighting vehicles, 2,334 artillery systems, 471 rocket salvo

systems, 243 air defense systems , 299 aircraft, 287 helicopters, 529 pieces of equipment, 18 boats, 873 cruise missiles, 2018 drones - 225 pieces of special kyiv equipment bunker under the table russia is thundering with nuclear weapons putin is preparing to address the federal assembly of the russian federation tomorrow with his annual message we will talk about it all in the next hour, i want to introduce today's first guest - he is a politician, a former minister of infrastructure, and now a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine , volodymyr omelyan p. volodymyr, good day , good health to you, and i'm glad to see you in our studio. we have some problems with the sound . can you hear us, mr. volodymyr i am fine

so mr. volodymyr, joseph biden unexpectedly came to the ukrainian capital today, let's start with this visit, what does this visit mean on the anniversary of another anniversary the execution of the heroes of the heavenly hundred and especially in this special week, because russian propaganda and information resources are now trying to raise the level in the mass media , talking about possible strikes, massive missile strikes by russia on the anniversary of the beginning of the great war , what in the current situation is giving a sign to the world joseph biden i congratulate you once again, sergey , this time to hear me well, great, er , today is really a great day of mourning and er , definitely the visit of the president of the united states

, biden, he is very significant, and significant in that in the context that washington clearly defines that they are with ukraine before the victory and after the victory, we have a very simple situation that we, thanks to the coalition of the west, we will definitely win the entire war, which, unfortunately, is very bloody and exhausting, first of all for ukraine, but nevertheless, this is a unique historical chance which we do not waste and should not waste . biden's visit is a loud slap to the kremlin , because putin imagined a visit to kyiv three days after the beginning of the invasion. although i think that biden made a decision today, the profit to kyiv is also not by chance. because in fact, putin's bloody war against ukraine began nine years ago with the aim of the complete occupation of our country. president biden announced that ukraine would receive a new

military aid package worth 500 million dollars . zelenskyi said that they also discussed long-range weapons with biden. well, it is clear that today's arrival of biden is such an ilya pass for a person who does not get out of the bunker of vladimir putin, who is afraid even of his closest entourage, who is now thundering with nuclear weapons because military exercises are underway of strategic nuclear strategic weapons on the borders not only of ukraine , but in general on the borders of all countries of the world, how do you think the kremlin will react to biden's arrival in this situation ?

thank god it is already ending . hello to biden . what else can the kremlin do with or against biden? to try to keep the dispersion from further disintegration, but i am convinced that biden will complete the destruction of the soviet union, which was not completed in 1991, and the kremlin has no chance to survive this duel. i do not believe in history that putin will be able to use nuclear weapons against ukraine. i do not i believe in history that the red army has endless reserves, in fact we see their offensive that has been going on for several weeks and they have not been able to do anything new, that is, they are using the tactics of the soviet military, before that

of tsarist russia, mindlessly burning their own resources and the destruction of their own manpower. for the sake of some fmmary victories, 14 seminarians or nada a separate house, but they did not manage to create anything qualitatively new during the year of the war, unfortunately, this also applies to the ukroboronprom, because we all expected that their work would be much more intensive and it would not only western-style weapons and e-e from our allies, but the actual weapons of which we were unable to emphasize the new york times reports that biden reached kyiv by train from poland , according to information from the american publication biden on february 20, he arrived in kyiv by train from the border with poland. the visit to the capital of ukraine took place secretly for security reasons. biden left washington without warning after he and his wife had dinner in a restaurant on february 18. the new york times writes about this. well, mr. volodymyr, they have a question for you. rather, as a person who has a relationship with diplomacy

, as a diplomat, before biden's visit to ukraine, many created and discussed the possibilities of biden's victory in the 2024 elections , the united states of america should hold elections, and biden's current visit he is showing strength not only to the russians, i understand that, but also to all the opponents that biden currently has in the united states of america, because usually, when they talk about biden , they allude to his age and say that it is time for him to retire a long time ago or it is time for him to retire biden , taking into account the incredible step he took today and demonstrated to everyone in the world, i am convinced that the absolute majority of americans who are interested in politics were confused and excited today when they woke up at home drinking beer or tea to hear that their

the president is visiting kyiv, this visit and this trip is a test not only for biden, but for any person, because it is physically quite difficult, in fact, he was able to do it, he did it, and i am happy that we are now living in the era of biden because in fact, this is an era of extraordinary times of great upheavals, but also heroes who are born before our eyes, and it's good that we have such a president. at the moment, he is the american president, but i am convinced that we will also have our president , who we can be proud of no less. well, honestly speaking, you are talking now about biden. i also remember another politician, or rather an american politician, nancy pilos, who was the speaker of the congress, and how she flew from the united states of america to taiwan, and this is a trip, and this is an older generation

of american politicians, it generally demonstrates incredible power, because you can imagine even this morning that no one will come to the ukrainian capital despite the fact that the russian federation is constantly conducting an informational and psychological special operation , saying that we will bomb this week ukraine well, it was difficult to imagine. i was on the air today. by the way, the 5th channel asked me who will come to kyiv. what do you think ? i say for sure an american politician and his last name will start with the letter e-e or biden or blinkin. well, me i was leaning towards the fact that there will be blinks, but considering this step, how would you predict how this will affect the world in general, first of all, and the russian-ukrainian war , because, for biden in kyiv, this is a sign not only for putin, but also for the leader of china

is sitting in a foam chair that is going to be held this spring year to come to putin by the way today on this day, february 20, the minister of foreign affairs of china arrived in moscow , obviously obviously on the issues of preparing xi jinping's visit to putin and paradoxically, it is china who is now most interested in the continuation of the war in russia, the resource is becoming less and less and this is a problem not only of a military nature, it is a purely economic basis, the sanctions against russia are killing and this year in the second half, i do not think that the russian economy will survive and that , apart from toilets, there are some minimal pensions, they will be able to remove the needs of their state at the same time from china, it is interesting to have completely populated by russia, and that is why we recently heard statements from the late saying that the west should not supply weapons, and we hear statements from certain american sources

that beijing is considering the possibility of helping russia, including lethal weapons, it is possible to start with body armor there and other means for the fighters of the russian red army but then they are ready to add the possibility of other weapons , i don't think that china will be able to win war, they are also now considering the scenario of getting out of this situation with minimal losses, and at the same time, the fate of russia has already been decided, and when you talked about the actual end of the axis and we were now talking about biden, this is a clear proof that the strength of the spirit overcomes any other circumstances including those of a purely physical nature and i am convinced that democracy will win at the expense of its unity, which can be emphasized today as well as the fact that putin wanted to get the event disunited, putin wanted

to break the event one by one, he did not succeed the west united and demonstrated an unprecedented alliance from europe to the pacific ocean and i am convinced that in this situation he made a fatal mistake. i don't know what he will say tomorrow, who else are we going to launch missiles over ukraine today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but this is already agony we see now on the screen how ukrainian officials greet biden in the mariinsky palace zelenskyi represents these ukrainian officials well , yesterday the president of ukraine held a meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief , the commander-in-chief of the armed forces reported valery zaluzny of ukraine, the commanders of the directions gave reports directly from the front line, let's hear what he said about the meeting of zelenskiy, the bakhmut direction , khortytsia's commander

, general syrsky, how do we protect our positions , how do we strengthen this direction and how much do we take away the strength of the thief, the ughledar direction , here in donetsk, general sodal reported the situation is very difficult we fight, we break the occupier and inflict extremely significant losses on russia once again and i repeat once again the more russia will lose right there exactly on donbass bakhmut vugledar maryinka crime the sooner we can end this war with the victory of ukraine i listened to a report on the situation in the south, in particular the odesa direction general gnatov reported the situation is unchanged we control all possible prospects of the axis in tavria general tarnavskyi reported on the specific results of the defense i thank you to all our soldiers who protect zaporizhzhia and this entire direction , the northern direction is mandatory. kyiv was the general's report naive. the general reported that

the situation is completely under control as in all on the northern border, there was a report by the minister of internal affairs on the formation of new brigades of the offensive guard, there are very, very good results . so, this was the report of zelensky and the story about the meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief volodymyr on the eve of february 24, according to ukrainian intelligence officers, military intelligence officers, the enemy is gathering a very large air force , 400 planes, 300 helicopters, although the same yuriy ignat, the spokesman for the air force of ukraine , says that this is approximately the same air force that was a year ago the day before

there is nothing to be afraid of a big russian offensive on ukraine, in your opinion. what can happen on february 24 , or let's say in these days, because i emphasize once again that the russian propaganda machine is spreading rumors that russia can do something incredible considering the air force it has er, not near the border there. as ignat said, it is 200 km from the border of ukraine, but still, for airplanes, it is a short distance for helicopters. the stake meeting, because this meeting is very special. rather, it is not the stake meeting itself that is special, but the president's story about it . for the first time, we heard how detailed the discussion of issues was

and for the first time. deals with general issues and issues of mobilization, suddenly there is no relation to the narrowing. and we have separate directions, each of which is headed by certain heroes or non -heroes. it seems to me that here we are again we see the manifestations of a separate political struggle and yet it is not correct to lead during the war. if someone really wants to dabble in politics during the war, then let 's discuss the issue that, in addition to the zelensky fair, we also have politicians and other people, many of whom are at the front regarding your question, uh, in fact, russia used all its best forces and resources on february 24 , 2022, yes, they are now trying to recruit uh, new military personnel through mobilization

, yes. repair what can be repaired, but it won't be more, it won't be better, it won't be scarier. we are much more ready today than we were ready for 2022. no matter what anyone says about preparing for war, that's why russia won't scare us and won't scare us and all their attempts they will destroy reality, the time of the empire has passed. we saw, mr. volodymyr, during the last week, lukashenka's meeting with putin , the self-proclaimed president of belarus and flew to moscow and, er, in the usual manner for him, he communicated with putin, because putin said that well he didn't know if lukashenko

would come, he answered , "how could i not come if you called and so on?" the russian-ukrainian war, although we remember that on february 24, 2022, belarus was used as a springboard for the offensive of russian troops on the territory of ukraine, and we remember how planes flew from the territory of belarus and then struck the territory of ukraine, in particular, on chernihiv and on in other cities, what do you think about your cities? what do you think, considering the state and the situation, stones are being thrown in belarus, and what's more, putin is always trying to corner the self-proclaimed president of belarus. what do you think?

he will be able to do it in the coming days, because i understand that putin has basically no more allies left. well , at the moment, there are no major negotiations with china, but they are behind the scenes, but publicly there is lukashenko, who said that uh ukraine has not yet russia attacked ukraine what ukraine is to blame for everything, that this is his position, or can he somehow transform this position into the fact that belarus does get involved in the russian-ukrainian war, even if they will not enter the territory of ukraine, but will launch missile and air strikes from the territory of belarus. i watched this video of the last meeting between lukashenka and putin and it seemed really interesting to me. it is interesting from this point of view that before lukashenko meets with putin , the meeting is always held with such a bent back, so he looked

into his eyes and prevented him as much as he could this time it looked like such sophisticated trolling by lukashenko against putin when he was there - during his opening speech when he was asked whether he liked his press conference or didn't like it again and then he almost even made an excuse , i don't rule out such a situation, in fact, what when lukashenko he will see that putin has finally lost and he has no way out at all , that he will ask the russian troops to leave the territory of belarus. well, just how will the president of belarus say that the standard is high risk for belarus or we no longer want to provide our bases for russian military personnel, we ask you to leave belarus , and here the situation will actually be unpredictable, because putin will definitely not have the opportunity to fight on two fronts, and putin will not have the opportunity to bring lukashenko to

order. the time of the last bloody so-called elections in belarus, that's why lukashenko can play out of the box, nevertheless , we must remember that as of today and all the time, and it's actually not february 24, only the 22nd year, and even before that, belarus was faithful he remains an ally of the kremlin, and for them, the fall of ukraine is more important than the fall of russia. volodymyr zelenskyi, speaking with biden, said that today's visit by the president of the united states of america is the most important in the history of bilateral relations between the countries , and the results of the negotiations will be tangible in strengthening the defense of ukraine, the head of the ukrainian state said that this first visit of the president of the united states of america to ukraine in 15 years is the most important in the entire history of ukrainian-american relations when we mr. volodymyr, we are talking about the importance of this visit for ukraine, obviously we have to talk about the importance for the world of ukraine and

the ukrainian people, who are fighting for democracy and for the civilized elections of the world, and it is obvious that ukraine is now exactly the country that pushes other countries and the leaders of these countries before they take such steps as in joseph bain, that is, uh . in your opinion, in the current ukraine , ukrainians, the president, how do we all influence how history unfolds literally before our eyes, because it is absolutely obvious that the year therefore, there was no such situation and it was not possible to talk about it. i remember very well the words of biden, who said that i am the vice

president in the morning. vice presidents but i can never become the founding father of the united states and he has this ambition and today we once again saw a real world leader he becomes the creator of a new world and uh he made a bet on ukraine and ukrainians became his most reliable ally by the way this was so the highest risk for the american president if we could not do it, but we were able to at the cost of huge losses of the main huge effort, but we proved to the west that we are an integral part of europe and western civilization, we are ready to pay for it and we are paying with blood and we will win that's why this hundred let's come to us played and it was ukraine that really became the center of the world and it is thanks to ukraine that the world will be different, this is without exaggeration a historical

time er-e it is the era of biden during which history went in a different direction, the right direction for all of us, that's why i'm very happy. those are the times, and i think that all ukrainians who survive after this war will understand how difficult but great times are victorious times of payment for their fate . do you think putin will decide or change his text speech because we know that tomorrow he has to speak before the federal assembly of the russian federation and i think that he also did not wait for biden to arrive and i think that in moscow there is simply a fire there completely in in all offices, they don’t know what to do with it, uh, will biden’s visit to

kyiv uh, change the rhetoric of vladimir putin. i think that he , uh, will go to raise the degree because he can’t raise it to some other value when they say that he is there will declare war, well, he will declare it, but it will not change anything, in fact, he has nothing to play for, and this is actually the biggest tragedy of putin , uh, because uh, the kremlin is always famous for its bluffing by raising rates. and here the game is lost, there is nothing to raise anymore, because everyone they know his cards purely as a joke, you can say what probably today tomorrow his bodyguard who wears a govolist toilet running twice as often to him, but uh , let's say important things, we will not hear from putin now , remember how many times this has happened in the last year, what is there now or the day after tomorrow putin will speak and as he will declare and that he

was not able to declare anything , there is no result, there is no economic sanctions hit no worse than our weapons of the russians at the front , so i would not expect anything from the statement tomorrow putin because she is not changing anything zelensky said that today's negotiations with joe biden were fruitful we hope that this year 2023 will be the year of victory , the leader of the ukrainian state said, according to him , ukraine is facing a very difficult period, but it will achieve historic achievements with the help of the united states of america and other countries -partners, today's negotiations were very fruitful and the results will soon affect the battlefield eh, well, this is only a hint from zelensky , how these results will not affect

the battlefield eh, what is vladimir on the battlefield eh today, apart from the already announced tanks, are they waiting there for airplanes, or did zelensky in this case not hint at the fact that he and biden talked about the transfer of the f-16 to the ukrainian state, look, it seems to me that mr. president is making a strategic mistake by getting too carried away with military affairs, well excuse me, he is the same military strategist , which is a matter of hard work, and he does his job brilliantly, and all the victories we have are thanks to our lawn commander. to concentrate now on the economy, because this is exactly what he said, that it is a matter of difficult years ahead after the victory, there will be a very difficult economic situation, even now our budget exists only thanks to 70% of the support from the west. this fairy tale will not last forever, and i do not yet see any unconscious program of neither the government , nor the office of the president, nor the government as a whole, what we