[000:00:00;00] in the south of russia, there is a video where these drones fly by, that is, ukraine is obviously studying the ppu system, studying uh, those uh, possible routes of passage and preparing for a massive attack, that is, one day. during the spring anti-terrorist campaign , russian cities can feel for themselves what a real strike by ukrainian drones is, and i think that the strike will be carried out on really important infrastructure objects, especially military ones, that is in order to create just that atmosphere of chaos and panic. when ukraine starts, for example, an offensive, and it turns out that the strikes are carried out in the depths

of russian territory and are carried out quite far from the border. about the fact that a drone also fell in gazprom near one of the objects , eh , the press service of the eh company reports about this, they write that even if a drone fell near us, it did not affect work in any way находится введении fsb, well, that is, er, some drones are flying er, falling near strategic objects in russia, and we will monitor this and be happy, er, that these drones , first of all, fly there, and secondly, that they fall there, and in principle let's hope that our strike drones will also reach the goal on the territory of the russian federation p mykhailo thank you for the conversation it

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-line news on our espresso tv, we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the most up-to-date information, everything is on our website. well , we must have a guest e- roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada's committee on national security , defense and intelligence , colonel of the security service of ukraine, mr. colonel, good day and good health to you. thank you for joining our broadcast. i wish you good health, sir. roman, let's start with the first analysis of the situation around the city of bakhmut, because there is a lot of contradictory information, a lot of disturbing information coming from this city, what is the current situation around the city and the desire of the russian federation to take bakhmut, well , we have known about the desire of the russian federation since the beginning of the war

-and for the last five months there, they have been throwing a lot of effort and have lost a lot of their military resources during the capture of the city of bakhmut, and at the beginning they wanted to take it head on. we remember there, too, they threw a lot of their reserves there, and then they have a different strategy . they are now trying to surround it through the south . and the north would not take soledar for this, and now they are trying to create the conditions for the encirclement of the lake there, the encirclement conditions in order to force our troops retreat from the city, therefore the situation there is difficult, as general filskyi says, but it is controlled, and now our troops are doing it in order to hold the city, and why do they want what the russians are achieving by trying to take this city, that is, if even

they take it, god forbid bakhmut, what do they as a result, they receive yes, i have already repeatedly said that for them it is more of a political task than a military one, and there is also a military one, this is the capture of another city after the surrender of kherson. in fact, you remember how happy they were when they took the city of soledar, which is practically in they already had local residents. and in general, there were 15,000 of them there before the war, so they handed over half a million to kherson and they needed to quickly show some of their successes, so they aimed at bakhmut when our defense forces gave them a selection. they, er, began to look for what it is still possible to achieve such successes, including many, including wagner prigozhin , who promised to make putin, but was still able to take only soledar, and bakhmut not yet, and prigozhin's role has already decreased, he was then

the favorite, now he is we see the fact that he is becoming an outcast and bakhmut is standing until now, once again, our defenders are doing what they can , how the situation will develop further, we will see. i think that if our military command also sees that there is no longer any point in keeping him there for one reason or another for objective military reasons, we have prepared other front lines, but we also have some experts say that there is no point in holding bakhmut now, we must move on. i think that our military sees in general the military sense of holding it, and we have to understand. i already said what i said before the surrender of bakhmut, the war will not end, it will simply spill over into other territories and it will be necessary to fight further in more open er positions, it will be necessary to defend beyond the times of the constant ravines along kramatorsk slavyansk where the enemy will be next to go because, in general, his task is uh, the previous one is the exit

to the borders of the donetsk luhansk regions, mr. colonel. at the end of february or somewhere in the 20th of february, we were waiting for a major offensive by the russians, this major offensive by the russians was predicted by ukrainian intelligence and foreign special services. this offensive has begun, maybe not the big offensive that we pictured in our imaginations and from all sides as it was a year ago, but still, are you recording this big offensive of the russian federation ? and i think that they are not finished and we remember that they advanced, they fought, and then when the practical situation leveled out on all fronts and they had no reserves, the front basically froze and started moving in the other direction , we remember the kharkiv operation and then

the kherson exit the enemy from the kherson right-bank bridgehead, and they made such an exit precisely because they realized that they would not be able to pull up quick reserves with the help of mobilized ones. also the capture of bakhmut and in general the capture of kherson, kherson, donetsk, luhansk oblasts. therefore, these reserves were first of all more as a part thrown specifically in the donetsk direction, and then they began to gradually advance due to the accumulation of these forces , mostly because they were mobilized there. these are the parts that e- eh destroyed or eh our defense forces therefore eh talking about this offensive now going on, they will really push but i think that this is the offensive that the russian federation is preparing for, just now it is not realistic at all

in such weather and in general march is ahead this is a conscription, all of them split up to carry out local offensives, to look for conditions to test the enemy in order to charge, to pretend to charge somewhere on a tree with the help of the accumulation of some troops, but large-scale offensives for the achievement of strategic goals , they still have forces in russia, and what we see and what they look like - to another i think the enemy is waiting, but whether he will be or not, it still depends a lot on us, but we know that they are preparing for him, mr. colonel , the month of february has become a month of huge losses russians, they are in the second, second month. they already show the result there with more than 20,000 killed, or rather, we show 20,000 russians killed at least if you multiply by 370 wounded , what these huge losses testify to, and they want to overwhelm ukraine with their soldiers or

push through the defenses or take e- e donetsk oblast to go to the administrative borders , why did they make these victims at the beginning, why were the losses less, they used more and they captured some e territory, they used a lot of equipment, which was uh destroyed by our defense saws. now we see that just after they started using more infantry, they just started to increase the number of military personnel, and this indicates that they are protecting the equipment now, and this is said by everyone who is even in the eastern direction this is what we see. and here in the kherson direction, they have pulled back and are using the infantry as a basis. i think it is a simple desire, they are planning something and they have to count on something, and they

are gathering forces so that in this period there is still no large-scale offensive to have some kind of resource, because if you now send equipment there in small directions, they can destroy it, and at most it will be enough there for a bigger blow, so they use it less now, and for the infantry, it’s not a pity that the infantry can be purchased tomorrow. the possibilities that i have in russia are already limited, they also make ammunition, they repair tanks, they equip and modernize them there, but it is still a resource that takes time and cannot be accumulated quickly, that is why they are trying to save more equipment for further e-e military operations, in parallel with what is happening on the eastern and southern fronts, there is information about a possible russian offensive in the sumy region, well, at least this information is constantly denied and they say that

the russians do not have enough accumulated resources on the sumy-kursky border o-e oblasts, but the russians are constantly shelling the sumy oblast and striking last day 36 strikes on the sumy oblast, drones flying in the direction of the chernihiv oblast or intersection of the chernihiv and brest regions. how do you assess the possibilities of the russians in general? is it possible to attack from other positions and from and in other regions, that is, not only in donetsk region, zaporizhzhia and kherson regions, but also in the north and northeast of ukraine ? no, and not me as the main one, because really we don’t see such reserves there now, they see them there from the accumulation of troops, but there they can

carry out a few tasks for the accumulation, we are talking about what i think are the main ones, as combat operations can begin it's the middle of late march and the middle of april, and that doesn't mean when they're planning. i think they don't know yet, they know the approximate dates only because they have to understand what the weather will be like so that it's very difficult to step on the mud, that is, right now crossroads, because now vugledar showed me when he came to me on the road. and we even have such vehicles as tanks, armored vehicles , armored infantry vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles , they are not very passable, and they are set up as such a target for means of attack on the field and in order for it to be impossible to carry out a large-scale operation without having operational space, and all the roads

they are shooting at or holding are under the crosshairs and it is impossible to walk along them, they need space in order to develop their battle formations. therefore, it must be for this purpose the weather will be normal, so by this time they will still be able to pull something up. i personally believe that it is from the north that they may have secondary strikes, first of all, to bind our ages, to distract the reserves. well, for the opportunity to achieve some success if you develop it, so let's say we shouldn't rule it out during the last week, mr. colonel, russia is leaking information about a possible ukrainian attack on transnistria, where the russian military is located, and moldovan journalist vitaly andrievskyi writes that uh, they say it's transnistria i am not caught by aircraft carriers, as russia believes , which are sent both towards moldova and towards ukraine. we know that in 1999 yeltsin

promised to withdraw the russian contingent from the transnistrian republic of moldova. recognized and still the military remains there and russia constantly says that ukraine will destroy transnistria, we should also react to this in what way do you think the ukrainian side should get rid of this appendix, which is, in principle, unrecognized and is an occupied region of moldova with on the part of the russian federation, i think that the world should get rid of all the appendices that the russian federation has made there since the days of independence, in general, for its history , this transnistria is also abkhazia and south ossetia and the lpr of the dpr, what are they there for tourists

organizations on our territory were created, and now there is a chance for this. i said at the beginning of the war, when we always said that the threat was there from the sea, from the north, from the east, and also showed the west, it was still transnistria that this issue should be resolved and help the republics moldova, this issue is closed, now we have all the possibilities for this, and because this is a threat, it is a direct threat to us, the republic of moldova does not have control over this territory, and there are russian troops, in fact , our enemies, who have e-e warehouses with ammunition there, these sausages are sausages, it is read correctly there, that is why i think that we have our diplomats, our commander-in-chief, and talk about it with moldova, with the world, that this enclave should be cleaned up and or simply offer the servicemen to surrender there under some

guarantee or under counter so that there is no bloodshed, but we need this er country, let's say not a country, but an entity - this is our main task - it is that there are no russian troops there. and even then the task of the er republic of moldova is to establish its er uh, your legislation, yes, and your norms , uh, send your troops there, as they will already agree there, because our enemies are there, in fact, and we have to remove them. well, listen. we have already seen a lot of reactions. she does not react, she will not react more than and she will not surprise you with anything. therefore, we have such a real fact where we can now begin to destroy , let's say, the mentality of the russian federation in general, when they believe that what they they did it forever, but from transnistria. we could start and then see where

we can still help. the armed forces of ukraine on the border with moldova have strengthened security measures and are building fortifications, according to the spokesman of the state border service of ukraine , andriy demchenko, on the border with moldova there are such a segment as transnistria, he said, from the moment of the full-scale invasion , the defense forces strengthened this direction, not only control is being strengthened, but also engineering and fortification facilities are being built. this is the information from mr. demchenko, meanwhile, in moscow is again talking about the negotiations, saying that we were ready to hold talks with kyiv, but they say that kyiv does not want to, and from the west we do not receive such applications for these negotiations , putin's spokesman piskov is talking about this again and again there were six or six applications from macron, but

they did not wait to hear from piskov . at the negotiating table, but when it’s impossible, the military means that we’re apparently, uh, really, we’ve heard a lot of what was stated when schultz, mr. macron, talked about the fact that they continue to communicate with putin in order to look for some ways out of the situation, but uh, lately there are none they didn't want anything, we heard probably five things, the declared macro language, that i will literally be calling for the next few days , there were no requests to talk, they should know everything, there

were no requests, no orientations er, no possible developments, possible time frame, i am talking like this, that is, vladimir putin is sitting by the phone, but now he is hopelessly waiting for a phone call from macron or shultz, earlier he simply did not want to talk to them, and as zelensky says, he did not want to talk to zelensky when it started a big war, a big invasion, mr. colonel, according to you, how is this situation? well, the ukrainian side must react, that is, zelensky said that i have no intention of talking to putin. the leadership of ukraine intends to defeat russia on the battlefield, to show russia its place according to your opinion, should there be any kind of negotiations at all, or at least, well, i don't know, he can introduce budanov as a group, he can negotiate with

naryshkin or someone else, i see what he said directly, he said that is ready to negotiate in its own interests and either at the negotiating table or through military action , if negotiations do not work out at the table, then through military action. therefore, this indicates that russia immediately expresses its intentions that they they have contracted their goals there, let's say, and they are ready. just talk about how they will achieve these goals through negotiations , negotiations, that's where they lived, get out, let's go beyond the dnipro to the left, to the right bank, and we 'll take everything here, so that we never kill, if not , then we will continue to fight this, how can we talk to them, or are they intimidating with double-edged weapons, they are terrorists with whom there is nothing to talk about, and president zelensky is right when he says that there is nothing to talk about with them, in order to talk with them, you have to have

you need to talk to them, you need to have an advantage over them, and you need to have trump cards up your sleeve, as they say, in order to say that if you don't leave our territory , tomorrow you will be knocked out by some of those or there you will be surrounded there, there, if that’s the case, when they still have a lot of resources and the opportunity to start a war , they will simply use the negotiations for the time being to further prepare their troops for further strikes. i agree with the president that there is nothing to do with putin at all. what to say about negotiations, i spoke with our leadership, no one is currently conducting any negotiations, what did they tell me, well, except for the negotiations regarding the prisoners of war, john kerry, the representative of the white house said that females should be defined as a victory, what is a victory? we want ukraine to win and we think they can do it but they themselves will determine how they will

determine their victory said herbie in an interview with bloomberg mr. colonel what is currently lacking of the ukrainian army and what is waiting for the ukrainian army, the armed forces of ukraine, because we remember that despite these talks about the great russian offensive, a great counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine was also predicted . that is, it is being postponed. the crossroads when the not-so-new leopards will be able to calmly drive through the kherson and donetsk lands and kill the occupiers, i understand correctly, including that and so we know that the russian federation . as soon as possible, while there are no new leopards, as you say, but we are all talking about a counteroffensive, you know, our military business is like

this and what we are saying correctly, we ourselves have to determine what victory is, we can see where there is a concentration of troops, e.e., for example, the russian federation on our territory and luhansk donetsk there zaporizhzhia region yes, it is difficult to counterattack. i think i would theorize like that now. but there were cases when, for example , some country could specify , for example, the northern direction, and then you can negotiate, we give it to you. rostov oblast and you give us, for example, donetsk oblast , there have been such cases too, so let's decide where the german tanks will go. east and in the south to the south and where it would be better where we can have

greater results in order to conduct a further policy on ending the war and we have to decide where it will be better, will it be russian territory or will it be in the future liberating our territories, what is victory, also to be determined, this is victory, that we will go to our borders, we will win, but russia will not be defeated, and russia must be defeated, russia must understand that it has lost, just withdrawing the troops from our territory is one thing, but knowing defeats are completely different, that is why there are different vectors , and if i were to make a decision, i would also consider where they have less concentration and their territories. also , in order to conduct full-scale military operations , mr. colonel, at the very end, one short the question is whether russia still has the opportunity or resources to change the course of the russian-ukrainian war. let's say yes

, they still have the resources, and in any case, you can't relax, because this war might end, for example, this year. although i don't think so myself. i think it will be more, but i really want it. likewise, it can last for years. thank you, colonel, for the conversation . i wish you good health and come to us on the air. this was also colonel from the security service of ukraine roman kostenko, people's deputy friends of ukraine, we work live on the espresso tv channel and on our social networks, for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook, please like this video, subscribe to our social networks on our youtube, we work for you, read our e-e news on on the espresso tv website, we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the most

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