[000:00:00;00] to hear your forecast or in what way the belarusian army will be involved in the russian-ukrainian war in the near future and it is meant physically not just as a military bridgehead, a military bridgehead for the russian federation, the territory of belarus, i will say in words or in the words of the great roman emperor that closer to the point of collapse of the empire is crazier and their actions why can they succeed with those forces and means and now it is a little more than a mechanized division of 15,000 personnel ready to fight, made up of belarusians and russians, why can't they go as they imagine it and it is difficult for me to understand because they can move only on the roads. and we have already talked about the roads and we will be able to drink them and know how and what they are, and in order to really prepare a serious cop

corps, 40,000 personnel are needed and he needs 820 tanks, he needs two and a half thousand armored vehicles, up to a thousand artillery pieces, and the most important air cover, so far they do not have this force. and not at the beginning of the war, when we were caught by surprise. they still came from the side of belarus, first of all, into the chernobyl zone , we survived. now, when our combat potential has increased many times, what can they count on in the end, you are welcome suicide bombers to our black earth people. thank you, mr. colonel for the conversation it was petro chernyk , a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine in the reserve , a military expert, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks, for those who are currently

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, let's start with the situation that is around bakhmut because a lot of different information appears in social networks , a lot of relatives of soldiers who are near the city write about the fact that there is almost one road left for our military and more something must be done at the same time, journalist and military observer yuriy butusov writes about the situation in bakhmuti. ukrainian troops hold most of the city, including the center, although some of our units have been withdrawn from the city, but this is more a matter of rotation and not a general order to withdraw. there is still considerable fighting here the number of our troops there are people and e equipment, the enemy captured the eastern part of the city to the bakhmutko river , the main attack of the russians is not in the city, but from the north, bypassing the city, the fight is for

the supply route, which they leave at the same time the experts of the american institute for the study of war believe that the armed forces of ukraine in the bakhmut area are exhausting russian troops, creating favorable conditions for a counteroffensive. igor, stick to which version? are we exhausting russian troops and preparing a counterattack ? troops in the area of ​​bakhmut see well, first of all, i would pay attention to what we will say, so what are the circumstances of this defense of bakhmut, if i am not mistaken, almost 8 months, we are talking about bakhmut in general, starting from june

, as far as my memory serves, after popasna, in fact, after, well, actually, after the loss of the city of popasna , there was talk of bakhmut. among the russians, well, those who entered the city agglomeration have approximately the same chances as our ukrainian troops, the only thing is that we are in our positions, let's say so, and we carry out the task with a certain amount of opportunities the question of retrieving the road is more likely a competition of the russians to grind the logistical path that they frequent in the bakhmut ravine in order to reduce the possibility of supplying weapons and medicine, food and the removal of our wounded and so on, so they will do it. nothing new here, they did not invent as much as we can this path let's say that we will use that much , we will be in the banknote, if we speak in the words of some people, well, let's say, people who

are probably oriented in the situation, then the road in time is already in the ravine, it is already shot through, but still has not completely ceased to be possible for the use of this, it is enough to supply partially to the city what is needed , the question of rotation or withdrawal of troops, well , of course the general staff knows about this, but i want to say that the last statement that was made that they should be established in bakhmut allegedly for the introduction of urban battles e-e special operations forces and sso. that is, instead of, i understand, instead of motorized infantry units, instead of tires and so on, that is, those who are used to and learned to work in the city, e-e, working in a similar , similar way, that is, in small groups moving in the city, how successful will this operation be? yes, it will have a certain rationale in order to give the opportunity to withdraw

the main troops, which are there, equipment, material property support, and so on, on the position of the position near bakhmut, there is the so-called donetsk ridge, it is called well, the heights are good there heights. if these positions are ready. unfortunately, i cannot talk about this topic now in the context that , let's say, the satellites see everything. if the positions are fully prepared, then sitting on the heights , you can control a very large area with what dangerous is uh well, let's not say that it's dangerous, well, in general, the loss of bakhmut is a danger. well, of course, we understand that the loss of our settlements, the loss of our territories is, well, it's bad, because in this way, the russians also open up certain opportunities for themselves to look from bakhmut as in side of konstantinovka, look in the direction of sloviansk, kramatorsk, and that's all , let's not forget that this is an urban agglomeration , moving to an urban agglomeration does not require fields, e.e., roadlessness, and so on

, because there is a fairly extensive road network and in principle, this will make it easier for them. how much is our commander-in-chief, how much is the general staff organizing further actions? well, we will see today. it always goes beyond the height of the dominant height. well, let’s say, it holds a fairly large section of the front and again allows you to destroy the enemy moving in the lowlands. well, that’s how i see this situation with bakhmut according to you, mr. igor, putin is he trying to reach the administrative borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions now, or is he still trying

to develop an offensive from the bakhmu direction further into ukraine and at the administrative borders? he is not going to stop there, well, look, he was never going to stop at the administrative borders. if he was going to work only in donetsk region, in luhansk region, it would not happen, but in kharkiv , sumy chernihiv in kyiv, and so on , that is, a full-scale war is going on. to what extent do they have the strength , how much pressure do they have, and we understand that a fairly large contingent of russian troops located precisely in donetsk region, luhansk region, and of course, a large part of them is in zaporozhye, kherson region , it is clear, that is, this area is exactly the area of ​​active hostilities, if you look at the reserves that the russian federation engaged today, well, according to some, some experts claim that about 400,000 of military personnel is located on the territory of ukraine. that is, we can state the fact. if we talk about what forces they started the war with, we remember all

the numbers 170 + there is a reserve there. well, somewhere around 250,000 but these were motivated contractors equipped with the latest models of tanks, aircraft armor, and so on . did we manage to break this blitzkrieg ? did we manage to align the line? did we manage to hold this line for a whole year? we will be able to organize a counter-offensive in order to grind everything that we have taken from domakhmut, that is what we have taken from russia, that is, to ugledar, everything that is now located after leaving kherson somewhere on the left bank of the dnieper, perhaps in zaporizhzhia and so on, after grinding this grouping, we can talk about some kind of strategic breakthrough, to this day there is only one sign of a strategic breakthrough - it is that we hold the line, hold the defense , hold the front completely, let's not forget more than 3, 5 thousand

kilometers of the front today ukraine has to receive, will we be able to quickly organize this counteroffensive, well, it largely depends on the supply of heavy artillery weapons, but taking into account the intensity of the infantry battles in donetsk region, i say that we need, in addition to heavy weapons, of course we say that all this must be covered from the sky, so we can also talk about airplanes and so on, but today, first of all, we need to equip our infantry to fight against the enemy's infantry, these are mortars, mortar shells - this is artillery - this is heavy-caliber machine guns are the arrow of the day of any caliber. as they say, well, you must not forget that grenade launchers are needed both against enemy infantry and against possible movements of enemy equipment, so you must carry them

infantry today, our infantry is actually starting well, not that it is already starting we have been saving the deficit there for a long time 120-s mines 82-s mines or 60-s mines it has always been well, nothing has changed since the spring of last year absolutely nothing the issue of grenade launchers is similar certain types of weapons supplied by western partners but all the same, for such a large piece of the front we need many times more of it, we still have not achieved parity in artillery , that is, if we take the capabilities of our artillery and the capabilities of russian artillery, so russian now reduced the intensity because they also have certain problems with the supply of ammunition. but all the same , there are many times more of them than in the ukrainian armed forces. i remember it very well , the intensity of artillery work at the beginning of the war and can analyze today in some areas almost nothing has changed in some areas, indeed, the russians have

quite big problems with shells and that is also good, but they are replacing hunger with meat attacks with infantry attacks, before they used an artillery barrage of fire today it is the infantry shaft that is being used, general budanov says that in russia there are still three months, relatively speaking, of the capabilities of the russian economy that can provide support for aggression in ukraine. that in three months, russia will lose these capabilities and all the problems that existed until now, but were not so concentrated will converge at one point and if the russian military does not achieve its goals this spring, russia will run out of its tools of war, do you agree with these

conclusions and with these forecasts honestly speaking i can't comment. i'll say what arestovich told us during the year, what he says every time in the foothills . recently, general bogdanov appears in the media space more often than all the heads of all the intelligence agencies of the world combined, that is, they all together appear in the information space less than one general -budanov i understand that he has no time to deal with the work of the main intelligence agency, and he is trying to analyze something and prophesy something to us. general budov recently said that the war will end in may, now he already i changed mine then let him say that i was wrong, he will admit the mistake and say that i was wrong, and the one who makes a mistake is a fortune teller . well, i just want to give you an answer to this in the context that if you don't understand something, don't let it go. we lack any trace of antiquity in the proletarians of these pink ponies, if you are a general in charge of the main directorate of intelligence with those of his scumbags who receive incomprehensible awards, because i see that

soon the main directorate of intelligence well, i don't know why, i don't even want to criticize the strong one, but after the war i don't want to go somewhere along the kyiv-lutsk highway along the zhytomyr district and look at the easy behavior of women and the behavior of those hanged from the main intelligence department , i emphasize once again that the russians are preparing so they are preparing and what will general budanov say as russia mobilizes another million people, we remember that they have a mobilization resource of 25 million well, they mobilized half a million and what will he say about how they still have a million they are mobilizing that something has changed again, well, i emphasize once again that we have a lot of problems in the main intelligence department, under the umbrella of the main intelligence department , so as not to get into the war , there are no gadya and openly pro-russian rednecks and so on, or others there scoundrels from the peacemaker site, so i emphasize once again let

her keep order in her ranks and clean up those stables, let's say so and in general, after the wagner operation, i have nothing to comment on with this officer tv presenter from russia volodymyr propagandist solovyov reported that he came under fire during a visit to the location of the 155th marine brigade of the russian armed forces under a coal mine in the donetsk people 's republic, as he wrote. laska, later solovyov explained that he was being

hunted because of a leak of information, the armed forces of ukraine knew exactly where he was, another small leak, today there was a leak of information about what i should be in this unit began to hunt us during our conversation, the marines began flights, they corrected themselves with a quadrocopter, the arrival was not enough , well, it ’s just the elusive joe. to solovyov. well, how do they serve? you can see, uh, on their propaganda resources, that uh , the heroes of solovyov went somewhere there. vugledar was there. he knows where he was, but if you go to the area of ​​hostilities where the war is being fought. well, why

don't we wait for the arrival you can wait for the arrival at in any place where they shoot, how do you think the propagandists are still convincing in the russian federation in their rhetoric and in their story about this elusiveness well, first of all, they no longer know how to attract an audience that is little by little from their of propaganda channels is beginning to fall off, that's why this is one of the elements of the hype that i'm so valuable , they're hunting me right there and so on. listen , don't waste shells on one solovyov . it seems to me that it's easier to deal with him somewhere like with the bow in the russian federation. come on they said before the war that we have 3.5 million ukrainians in russia. i think that out of three and a half million, our bigurby could find at least one person to carry out special operations, so why are you everything? that is, you, but everyone has to do their job, solovyov

. propagandist to europe he can't go to raise some kind of hype and interest in his figure, he made a movie for himself there well , the germans also go to the movies let's say it as they used to say once upon a time when i was a child to be honest, i don't care, er, this is the average temperature in their ward this something that cannot be measured by a thermometer. that's all this element of propaganda. today, the federal security service announced that it prevented the assassination of the head of the group of the tsargrad company, one of the financiers, among other things , of the war against ukraine, kostyantyn malakhiev . allegedly, an fsb explosive device was installed under the lower part of his mercedes car . accuses russian volunteer corps soldier denys kapustin of attempted sabotage , known as denys nikitin, and as the russians say, the russian volunteer corps is fighting

on the side of ukraine well, we know that last of the week, this whole story with bryansk villages where 200 people live in two villages at most, that is, i specifically went to look at the statistics there, 100 people live there and 100 people live there, the russian volunteer corps tried to capture these villages, it is not clear why there are swamps , bryansk region at the intersection with chernihiv region eh and why did you have to arrange all of this in the first place? how do you treat all these stories? why ? because the russian federation is saying in this way that it is ukraine that is terrorizing the russian federation, and here it turns out to be some kind of russian. the volunteer corps, maybe you have crossed paths with these soldiers of the russian volunteer corps, seen them somewhere, talked to them, what kind of people are they, or do they also work there with the russian special services, relatively speaking, on

our territory, fighting against russia, there are a lot of questions about all these stories that you you say, well, let's say so, the topic is promising for propaganda, it is a promising topic in general , the existence of these or other units that are there maybe somewhere there are provided by ukraine for russian propaganda, this is in good topic in principle i know that they can even blow up a few houses somewhere on the balakalam highway or somewhere in moscow in order to once again convince their crazy nation to support the war against ukraine and everything that their tsar dovben putin is doing so in this context this topic is promising as far as my dubok is concerned . i think that it is true that more frank showdowns between different towers of the kremlin may soon begin and these showdowns will be used as a single

- this whole for the propaganda of the war against ukraine and on the other hand, they will be used for future muscle building, because sooner or later everything will collapse in russia, we know that now in russia voluntary units of various types are being created according to the territorial principle, we know that private military companies are being created in russia shoigu has his own well, wagner prigozhin has his own gazprom, now he is creating some kind of private military company, all this will be all. this is done to protect their future territorial economic or business interests, that is, they also they are preparing for a war of all against all on the territory of russia, what good is it for us in this case, let them be afraid well, what else can i say to us, because of this, it won't be cold or hot anymore eskanders will not fly more than arrived then it is possible and more or maybe the chinese will start supplying well but let's say these things they do not

affect the global war strategy in any way what should we do in the context of the destruction of volyn ? well, glory to ukraine, it's not us, it's what they have among themselves. well, then we'll only have coca-cola popcorn and look at it . in principle, that's how we look now, we look like consumers of informational movies that are shown to us. i believe that those who do not fight for, for example , the restoration of ossetia to georgia, that they will self-assertedly fight for the independence of ukraine.

i also have little faith in the territorial integrity of ukraine, those who do not fight for democracy, let's say for the future of russia, well, a good future in a good sense. well, they will not fight much for you and me. for ukraine, so that we are prosperous , good, victorious, and so on. at that time, i can't help but praise the second party in this context, it's not bad from behind, which was made, including by the security service of ukraine, including the main intelligence department, here you can already praise this program, i want to live, we know that about 10,000 russians , well, 9 with kopecks, almost 10,000 used this program . there will be a few less soldiers in the russian empire , and therefore a few fewer murderers of our brothers in the russian empire . this is a good program, and in principle, this is where we should start and we should do such things ourselves

. should we support any partisan movements on the territory of russia? yes of course, we should be able to, well, look, the partisans in belarus have broken the plane, as they say, a few russian ones, yes, that a 50th, well , i will be happy if the partisans in russia will work on the territory of russia, we will somehow manage the territory of ukraine, we need help, we need a flight war, yes the so-called guerrilla flight war on the territory of our enemies in the occupied territory because russia very skillfully fights with the help of railways, they very quickly know how to transfer colossal human and technical resources and so on and so on flight war, it would be more interesting than the capture of some village there. to be honest, well, the cinema and the germans, that’s what i see. in this way , burning down their naftogaz so that you don’t waste carpenters for the oil depot. maybe somewhere help the guys there to buy an rpg ordinary grenade launcher

so that they stand next to the oil tank. the oil depots half a kilometer away would have been shut down because of that, the tanker would not have escaped, well, you understand, there is a question of the price and quality of the operation. and here, in this context, i would work, but here, it’s just a job for the throat. let them work in this direction, and not with any innovations. igor thank you for the conversation. this was ihor lapin, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a major and a special agent, a politician, a person who knows about politics, about the army much more than anyone, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel , as well as on our social networks. i want to remind you that we are on all social networks networks, join our e-e pages in telegram, youtube, facebook, in the church, we are on twitter , in a word, everywhere, wherever it is possible to spread

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