[000:00:00;00] in the generation of extremely important texts, that is, but let's be careful, the enemy can use even such a good technology for some of his subordinates. well , we will continue to monitor today 's informational and analytical evening in our composition is gradually ending and moving into another format. thank you very much , antinne timberkovsky, anzhelika sezonenko , and we also informed about the most important event of today, the visit of the president of the united states of america, joseph biden, to kyiv well, we pass on the word of our colleagues now. 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 heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers . today, ukraine commemorates of the heroes of the heavenly hundred who died nine years ago in the center of kyiv where they were shot by law enforcement officers or rather, the killers of the heavenly hundred today the 46th president of the united states of america, joseph biden, arrived in kyiv minutes, there is a meeting between the president of the united states of america and the president of ukraine today, israeli parliamentarians came to kyiv from russia to support the ukrainians in the war, the visit of the prime minister of italy and representatives of the states participating in the anti-putin campaign is also expected. during the past day , the enemy fired 10 rockets and 25 of airstrikes 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 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 at the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 3,316 tanks, 6,500 53 armored fighting vehicles , 2,334 artillery systems, 471 jet systems volley fire 243 anti-aircraft defense means 299 planes 287 helicopters 529 units of equipment 18 ships boats 873 cruise missiles 2018 drones - 225 units of special equipment so, biden in

kyiv is bunkered 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 for the next hour, i would like 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 mr. volodymyr hear us ? i'm 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 the next anniversary of the shooting of the heroes

of the heavenly hundred and especially in this special week because russian propaganda and information resources e-e are now trying to raise the level in the mass media, talking about possible strikes, massive missile strikes of russia on the anniversary of the beginning of the great war , what is the current situation, what is joseph biden giving a signal to the world. i am fine, wonderful, indeed, today is a great day of mourning and , of course, the visit of the president of the united states, biden , is very significant, and it is significant 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 from 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 that we do not and should not waste . biden's visit is a loud slap to the kremlin. after all, putin envisioned a visit to kyiv three days after the beginning of the invasion. although i think that many people made a decision today, the return to kyiv was not accidental either. 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 said about the fact that ukraine will receive a new package of military aid worth 500 million dollars, zelensky 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 e-e to the person who does not get out of the bunker vladimir putin, who is afraid even of his closest entourage, who is thundering now with nuclear weapons because the military training of strategic nuclear strategic weapons is underway on the borders not only of ukraine, but in general on the borders of all countries of the world e-e how in this situation according to your opinion, will the kremlin react to biden's arrival, we understand that now they have raised planes from belarus, in fact, this is an air alert that is currently ongoing throughout ukraine, but thank god it is already ending. greetings to biden. what else can the kremlin do with or against biden is not with biden, but against biden, everything has already been done in the kremlin, and here the question is exclusively how to physically preserve the kremlin elite and try to save russia from further

development. but i am convinced that biden will complete the destruction of the soviet union, which was not completed in 1991 year and the kremlin has no chance to survive in this duel . i do not believe in the story that putin will be able to use nuclear weapons against ukraine . they could not do anything new, that is, they used the tactics of the soviet troops before that of tsarist russia, thoughtlessly burning their own resources and destroying their own manpower. for the sake of some fmmary victories, 14 seminarians needed a separate house, but they did not manage to create anything qualitatively new during the year of the war it is a great pity that this also applies to ukroboronprom, because we all expected that their work would be much

more intensive and that we would not only have western-style weapons and eh from our allies , but actually weapons that we did not produce were able to emphasize the new york times reports that biden reached kyiv by train from poland, according to the american publication, on february 20, biden 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 , vladimir, they are questions for you, rather, as a person who has a relationship with diplomacy, as a diplomat, before biden's visit to

ukraine opened up a lot and discussed the possibilities of biden's victory in the 2024 elections. the united states of america should hold elections, but biden's current visit shows his strength not only to the russians. 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 biden to retire, considering 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 a cup of coffee or tea, to hear that their president is on a visit to kyiv, and this visit and this trip is a test not only for biden, but for any person, because it is a physical it's quite difficult, in fact, he was able to do it, he did it, and uh, i'm happy that we live now in the era of biden, because in fact it is

an era of extraordinary times of huge upheavals , but also heroes who are born before our eyes and it's good that we have such a president. at the moment, it's the american president , but i'm sure that we will also have our own president , who we can be proud of no less . well, to be honest, you 're talking about biden now. politics, rather, the american politician nancy was asked who was the speaker of the congress and how she flew from the united states of america to taiwan and this is the trip and uh, this is the older generation of politicians in the americans, it generally demonstrates incredible strength because, well, even imagine as early as this morning, no one will come to the ukrainian capital despite the fact that the russian federation is constantly conducting an information and psychological special operation

, saying that we will bomb ukraine this week. well, it was difficult to imagine . i was on the air today. by the way, they asked me about the 5th channel 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 eh or biden or blinken. well, i was leaning towards the fact that it will be blinky, considering this step eh how would you predict how it will affect in general to the world first of all, for the russian-ukrainian war, because the presence of biden in kyiv is a sign not only for putin, but also for the leader of china , who is going to visit putin in the spring of this year, by the way, today , february 20

the minister of foreign affairs of china flew to moscow. china is obviously concerned with the preparations for the visit of the president to putin. paradoxically, it is china that is most interested in the continuation of the war in russia. the resource is becoming less and less, and this problem is not only of a military nature, it is purely economic. sanctions on russia are killing and in the second half of this year, i do not think that the russian economy will survive and that apart from toilets there or some minimum pensions they will be able to meet the needs of their state at the same time china is interesting to have completely populated by russia and that is why we recently heard statements on the part of beijing, they say that it should not supply weapons to the west, and we hear statements from certain american sources that beijing is considering the possibility of helping russia , and including lethal weapons, it is possible to start with body armor there and other means for

fighters of the russian red army but then they are ready to give away the possibility of other weapons, i don’t think that china will be able to win this 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 tsypalosia day itself , we discussed it now, biden, this is a vivid 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 that i could have emphasized the same thing today. it doesn't matter that putin wanted to get the west divided. putin wanted to break the west one by one . he didn't 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 the right choice. a fatal mistake. i don't know what

he will say tomorrow, who else are we there? rockets will be launched over ukraine today. tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. but this is already agony. we can see now on the screen how ukrainian officials congratulate biden in the mariinsky palace. of 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 of ukraine, valery zaluzhny, gave a report from the commanders of the directions, we will hear what he said about the meeting of the zelenskyi bakhmutsky division, khortyts, there was a report by the commander of general syrsky, how do we protect our positions, how do we strengthen it? this direction and how much we are taking away the power of the thief , the ughledar direction is here, donetsk , general sodal reported, the situation is very difficult

we are fighting, we are breaking the occupier and inflicting extremely significant losses on russia once again and i repeat once again the more russia will lose it is there in donbas bakhmut vugledar maryinka crimenat the sooner we will be able to end this war with the victory of ukraine 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 wasp in tavria, general tarnavskyi reported on the specific results of the defense . the direction of kyiv was the report of general naiva. the general reported that the situation is completely under control, as well as on the entire northern border. there was a report of the minister of internal affairs on the formation of new brigades of the offensive guard. there are very, very good results. so, this

was zelensky's report and the story about the supreme commander-in-chief's rate meeting e- e p volodymyr , on the eve of february 24, according to ukrainian intelligence officers, military intelligence officers, the enemy is amassing a very large air force, 400 planes, 300 helicopters, although the same yuriy ignat, the spokesman of the air force of ukraine, says that this is approximately the same air force that was a year ago on the eve of the great russian offensive on ukraine. i emphasize that the russian propaganda machine is spreading rumors about the fact that russia can arrange something incredible, considering

the air force it maintains, it is not near the border there. as ignat said, 200 km from the border of ukraine, but still for planes - it and for helicopters, a short distance to your question, if you allow, very briefly returned to the speech of the president of ukraine regarding the rate meeting, because this meeting is very special. rather, it is not the rate meeting itself that is special, but the president's story about it for the first time. we heard how detailed the discussion of the issues was and for the first time we heard how a lot of surnames, because before that we only knew about luzhny and syrsky, one gets the false impression that what kind of luzhny deals with general issues and issues of mobilization , suddenly there is no narrowing to which there is no one at all relationship. and we have separate directions

, each of which is led by certain heroes or non-heroes. it seems to me that here again we are seeing manifestations of a separate political struggle, and yet it is not correct to conduct it during a war. if someone really wants to dabble in politics during a war, then let's we will then discuss the issue that in addition to the zelensky fair, politicians are also present in our country and other people, many of whom are at the front regarding your question, eh, in fact, russia used all its best forces and resources february 24, 2022 so they were now trying at the expense of mobilization recruit new military personnel so we are trying now to raise the warehouses what can be raised and 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 preparation

for war, therefore, russia will not frighten us and will not intimidate us and all their attempts will shatter the reality of the empire time has passed we have seen mr. volodymyr during the last week the meeting of lukashenko with putin the president of belarus flew to moscow and talked to putin in the usual manner for him, because putin said that he didn't know if lukashenka would come, he answered that how could i not come if you called and so on before that we saw how lukashenko tried to avoid direct questions of the kremlin's direct proposals regarding the participation of the armed forces of the republic and belarus in 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 airplanes flew from the territory of belarus and then launched rocket attacks on the territory of ukraine, in particular , on chernihiv and other cities . putin is always trying to corner the self-proclaimed president of belarus. do you think he will be able to do this in the coming days , because i understand that putin has basically no allies left? well, at the moment, there are no big ones. negotiations with china is there, but they are behind the scenes, but in public there is lukashenko, who said that it is ukraine, that russia

did not attack ukraine, that ukraine is to blame for everything, that this is his position, or can he somehow transform this position into the fact that belarus is involved in russian- the 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 lukashenko and putin, and it seemed really interesting to me. it is interesting from this point of view that lukashenko, when meeting a meeting with putin is always held with such a bent back so uh looked into his eyes and prevented as much as he could this time it looked like such an exquisite trolling by lukashenka against putin when he was there was his opening speech when he was asked if he liked his press - did not like the conference again and then even almost made an excuse, and i do not

rule out such a situation, in fact, that when lukashenko sees that putin has finally lost and he has no way out at all, he will ask the russian troops to leave the territory of belarus well, just as the president of belarus, you would say in addition that there is a high risk for belarus or we no longer want to provide our bases for russian military personnel , we ask you to withdraw from belarus, and here the situation will actually be unpredictable, because putin will definitely not have the opportunity to fight on two fronts and in putin will not have the opportunity to bring lukashenka to order, he did it during the last bloody so-called elections in belarus, therefore lukashenka can play outside the norm, however, we must remember that as of today and all the time and in fact, not on february 24, only in the 22nd year, and even before that, belarus was a faithful ally of the kremlin, it remains so, and

for them the fall of ukraine is more important than the fall of russia. volodymyr zelenskyi, talking to biden, said that today's visit of the president of the united states of america is the most important in the history of bilateral relations between the countries , the results of the negotiations will be felt in strengthening the defense of ukraine, the head of state of ukraine said that this is the first visit of the president of the united states of america in 15 years to ukraine is the most important in the entire history of ukrainian-american relations, when we, mr. volodymyr, talk 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 civilizational elections of the world and obviously ukraine is now exactly the country that pushes other countries

and the leaders of these countries to take such steps as in joseph bein , that is, 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 a year ago there was no such situation and it was impossible to talk about it. i remember very well the words of biden, who said that i am the vice president in the morning, he said, in short, with so tangible even to you that i can be the best e-e head of the united states or the best vice president but i can never become the founding father of the united states and he has this ambition and today once again we saw a real world leader he

becomes the creator of a new world and he bet on ukraine and the ukrainians became his most reliable ally. by the way, it was just as high a risk for the american president if we couldn't do it , but we could at the cost of huge losses, we established huge efforts, 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 pay with blood and we will win. that is why this hundred let's come to us played and it was ukraine that really became the center of the world and it was thanks to ukraine the world will be different without exaggeration, this is a historical time, uh, this is the biden era, during which history went in a different direction, the right direction for all of us, that's why i'm very happy these times, i think that all ukrainians who survive after this war will understand how difficult but great times are victorious

times turned out to be their fate. i will once again ask you a question about the reaction of moscow as far as now . do you think that putin will decide or change the text of his 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 the arrival of biden, and i think that in moscow there is simply a complete fire in all offices, they no longer know what to do with it, will biden's visit to kyiv change the rhetoric of vladimir putin, i think that uh, he uh will go to raise the degree because he can't raise it to some other value when they say that he will declare war there, well, he will declare it, but it won't change anything, in fact, he has nothing

to play for, and that's actually the greatest tragedy putin's uh because uh, the kremlin is always famous for its bluffing by raising the stakes and here the game is lost, there is nothing to raise anymore because everyone knows his cards purely as a joke, you can say what probably today and tomorrow his bodyguard who wears a govolist toilet will run to him twice as often but let's say we won't hear any important things from putin now, remember how many times this has happened in the last year, that right now or the day after tomorrow, putin will speak and how he will declare and that he could not declare anything, he will achieve it, there is no result, there is no uh economic sanctions hit the russians no worse than our weapons at the front, so i wouldn't expect anything tomorrow from putin's statement, because it doesn't change anything zelensky said that

today's talks with joe biden were fruitful we hope that this year 2023 will be the year of victory said the leader of the ukrainian state, 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 the rest of the partner countries, today's talks were very fruitful and the results will soon affect the battlefield eh well this is just a hint from zelensky how these results will not affect the battlefield what 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 becoming too engrossed in military matters, well , excuse me, he is the same military

strategist, what changes is a matter of diligence and he does his job brilliantly and all the victories we have are thanks to our galina team and why the full stop regarding the president of his team, they need to concentrate now on the economy because this is exactly what he said that it is a matter of difficult years that lie ahead after the victory will be a very difficult economic the situation already exists now, our budget exists only thanks to 70% support from the west. this fairy tale will not last forever, and i still do not see any conscious program of the government , the president's office, or the government as a whole, what we will do during the war and after the war, especially with the economy is to hope that tomorrow we will receive one trillion dollars in pockets from russia and they will be distributed there in a manual mode, how does yarmak hope there or with him, well, this is a naive dream on the issue of responsibility for 40 or more

million ukrainians who currently live very difficult conditions, and these conditions will only worsen after the war until we join the european union and nato , that's what the president should focus on right now: planes, missiles, and the west - he understands this perfectly and there is someone to talk about it think about the economy. thank you, mr. volodymyr, for participating in the program. he was a politician-diplomat, the former minister of infrastructure, and now a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, volodymyr omelyan, friends , we are working live on the espresso tv channel, we are in an improvised bunker studio, and the anxiety is still there. we started this program here, we we see that the air raid alert has already been canceled in some regions, but part of the east and south still remains under the attack of the russian occupiers, so do not neglect it