[000:00:00;00] and in the russian -ukrainian war, it is meant physically not just as a bridgehead, a military bridgehead for the russian federation , the territory of belarus, i will say in the words or cerone of the great roman ministry that the closer the drops of the collapse of the empire, the crazier their actions why can they succeed with those forces and means and now this is a little more than a mechanized division of 15,000 personnel ready to fight, made up of belarusians and russians, so why can't they go as they imagine and i have a hard time understanding because they can move only by roads. and we have already talked about roads, and we will be able to drink them, and we will know how and what they are, and in order to really prepare a serious corps, the corps needs 40,000 personnel, and it needs 820 tanks, it needs two of half a thousand armored vehicles

to a thousand artillery and the most important air cover, they do not have this force yet. if they succeed , will it be painful and annoying, of course, will the war be a disgusting, disgusting and terrible phenomenon, or will it change the course even at the beginning of the war when we i was caught off guard. after all, they came from the side of belarus, first of all, into the chernobyl zone, we held out. now that our combat potential has increased exponentially, what can they ultimately count on from you? welcome suicide bombers to our black earth. thank you, colonel, for the conversation. 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 watching us on facebook and youtube, please like this video so that it appears in the recommended ones on these platforms, and subscribe to our social networks, watch our news and read our

news on the espresso tv website, news from ukraine , the e-world, as well as front chronicle, everything is on our on the espresso tv website, we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on the screen you can now see a qr-code with which you can become a sponsor of our youtube channel, join the sponsor club of the espresso tv channel and the espresso youtube channel, we will be grateful you for any of your help, let's go to victory together. well, then we have an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a major special agent , a people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation igor lapin p igor good day good health to you glory to ukraine thank you for joining our broadcast let's start with the situation around bakhmut, because a lot of different information appears in

social networks, a lot of relatives of fighters who are near the city write about the fact that there is almost one road left for our military and something else needs to be done at the same time, journalists, 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, they still continue to fight here a significant number of our troops are in action. there are people and equipment. the enemy has 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 around the city.

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. today, the russians, well, those who entered the city agglomeration have roughly the same chances as our ukrainian troops, the only thing is that we are in our positions. the question of repelling the road is more likely that the bad russians will grind the logistical path that they frequent there 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 let's say that we will use it so much that we will be in the banknote, if we speak in the words of some, well, let's say so, people who are probably oriented in the situation

, then the road in time is already in a ravine is being shot at, but it has not yet completely ceased to be possible to use it, it is enough to partially supply the city with what is needed . the introduction of urban battles e -e special operations forces and sso. that is, instead of probably, i understand it 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, moving in small groups 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, materials, new supplies, and so on, in 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 now speak on this topic in the context that, let's say, the satellites see everything, if the positions are fully prepared , then sitting on a high ground, you can control very a large territory, how dangerous is it? well, let's say it's not that 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 the russians in this way also open up certain opportunities for themselves to look crazy as in the direction of konstantinovka, look in the direction of sloviansk, kramatorsk, and that's all , let's not forget that this is an urban agglomeration , move to an urban agglomeration, for this you don't need fields, e.e., roadlessness, and so on because the action is a rather extensive network of roads and in principle it will be easier for them. as far as our

commander-in-chief and general staff are concerned, they will organize further actions. well, we will see today. the donetsk ridge is a height, war always goes beyond the heights, 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 from bakhmut according to you, mr. igor, putin is trying to go to the administrative borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions, 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, he is. he was never going to stop at the administrative borders. if he was going to work only in donetsk region, in luhansk region, there would be no such thing as in kharkiv , suma chernihiv in kyiv, and so on , that is, a full-scale war is going on. a fairly large contingent of russian troops is located precisely in donetsk region, luhansk region, and of course, a large part of them is in zaporizhzhia, kherson region , this is clear, that is, this area is precisely the area of ​​active hostilities, if you look at the reserves that the russian federation has engaged today, well , some of them experts claim that about 400,000 military personnel are 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 about 250,000, but these were motivated contractors equipped with the latest models

of tanks , aircraft armor, and so on. therefore, to the extent that we can organize a counteroffensive in order to grind everything that we have collected from domakhmut , that is what we have collected from the russian side, this means up to ugledar, all that is now located somewhere on the left bank after leaving kherson dnipro. maybe in zaporizhzhia and so on, having rehearsed this grouping, we can talk about some kind of strategic breakthrough. until today, there is only one sign of a strategic breakthrough - it is that we are holding the line , holding the defense, holding the front completely , let's not forget more than three and a half thousand kilometers of the front today does ukraine receive, will we be able to quickly organize this counteroffensive, well, it largely depends on

the supply of heavy artillery weapons, but given the intensity of the infantry fighting in donetsk region, i say that we need in addition to of 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 arm our infantry to fight against the enemy's infantry , these are mortars, mortar shells, this is artillery, this is heavy-caliber machine guns, this is an arrow of the day of any caliber as they say and well, we must not forget that grenade launchers grenade launchers are needed both against enemy infantry and against possible movements of enemy equipment, therefore we must carry that infantry with this today our infantry actually starts well, it’s not that it’s already starting. we’ve been saving a deficit there for a long time. 120-min, 82-min, or 60-min, it’s always been. well, nothing has changed since the spring of last year. absolutely

nothing. the question of grenade launchers is similar. there are certain types of weapons that are supplied by the west. partners but everything is the same for such a large piece of the front, we need it many times more, we still have not achieved parity in artillery , that is, if we take the capabilities of our artillery and the capabilities of russian artillery, then the russians have now reduced the intensity because they also have there are 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 and in some areas indeed, the russians have quite big problems with projectiles and that is also good, but they replace it with hunger, replace it with meat attacks with infantry attacks, before

they used an artillery barrage , today they use an infantry barrage general budanov says that in russia there are still three months, conditionally speaking, 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 those problems that existed until now but were not so concentrated will converge in one point and if the russian military will not achieve its goals this spring russia will run out of its war tools do you agree with such conclusions and such forecasts frankly i cannot comment i will say what i said to us during the year arestovych, who speaks there every time in the foothills, general bohdanov recently 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 engage in a-a let's say so the work of the main intelligence department and he is trying to analyze something and prophesy something to us, general budo recently said that the war will end in may, now he has already changed his then let him say that i was wrong will admit the mistake and say i was wrong, and the one who makes a mistake is a soothsayer. well, i just want to give you an answer to this precisely in the context that if you don't understand something, don't let it bother you. antiquity among the pioneers of these pink ponies, if you are a general in charge of the main directorate of intelligence with those of your fellows who receive incomprehensible awards, because i see that soon the main directorate of intelligence will turn into one you know. well, i don’t know.

that i don't even want to criticize the strong one, but i don't want to drive somewhere along the kyiv-lutsk highway along the zhytomyr district after the war and look at the easy behavior of women and the behavior of people hung up with tsitskas from the main intelligence agency , i emphasize once again that the russians are preparing so they are preparing budanov, how is russia mobilizing 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 , how are they mobilizing another million? once again, i emphasize that there are a lot of problems in our main intelligence department under the umbrella of the main intelligence department, in order not to get into the war , there are no gadya and openly pro-russian all kinds of red hairs and so on, or there are other scoundrels from the peacemaker website, so i emphasize once again let him restore order in his ranks and clean up those stables, let's say so. and in general, after the operation wagner, i with this officer, i have nothing

to comment on. tv presenter from russia, volodymyr solovyov, the propagandist reported that he got 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. so-called , a video of russian propaganda appeared on the network . solovyov came under fire. let 's see, please. later, solovyov explained that there was a hunt for him due to a leak of information, the armed forces of ukraine knew exactly where he was, there was another

small incident today, uh, there was a leak of information that i should be a televet of the unit, and they came after us hunting during our conversation, the marines started flying, they corrected themselves with a quadrocopter, the arrival in was not enough , well , it’s just the elusive joe. you see, er, on your propaganda resources that er, heroes 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, how can we not wait for the arrival of the arrival, you can wait in in any place where they are shooting, how do you think the propagandists are still convincing

in the russian federation in their rhetoric and in their story about this invisibility well, first of all, they no longer know how to attract an audience that little by little of their propaganda channels is starting to fall off, so this is one of the elements of the hype that i am so valuable , they are hunting me right there and so on. what about the bow in the russian federation? well, we were told before the war that 3.5 million ukrainians are in russia. i think that out of three and a half million, our gurby could find at least one person to carry out special operations, so why are you all? that is you, but everyone just has to do their job. solovyov is a propagandist. he can't go to europe to raise some kind of hype and curiosity about his figure. he made a movie there. well

, the germans also go to the movies . let's say it like they used to say in childhood. -is this is the average temperature in their ward. this is something that cannot be measured with a thermometer. that is all this element of propaganda. today, the federal security service announced that it prevented the assassination of the head of the tsargrad company group, one of the financiers of the war against ukraine, kostyantyn malakhiev , allegedly under his mercedes car . - an explosive device was installed by the fsb - the russian volunteer corps soldier denys kapustin , known as denis nikitin, is accused of the attempted sabotage, and as the russians say, the russian volunteer corps is fighting

on the side of ukraine well, we know that last week this whole story with bryansk villages where 200 people live in two villages at the most , that is, i specifically went to look at the statistics there, there are 100 people living there and there are 100 people, this russian volunteer corps tried to capture these villages, it is not clear why there are marshes in the bryansk region at the intersection with the chernihiv region, and why did you arrange all this? how do you treat all these stories? why, because the russian federation says in this way that it is ukraine that is terrorizing the russian federation, and here it turns out that they are russian, some kind of 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, and there are a lot of questions about all of them of stories, what do you say? well, let's say this is a promising topic

for propaganda. it is a promising topic in general for the existence of certain units that are there . maybe somewhere there , they are provided by ukraine for russian propaganda. in principle, a good topic. i know that they can even blow up a few houses somewhere on the velokalam highway, or somewhere in moscow , in order to once again convince their crazy raid 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 tumbolok is concerned . i think that it is true that more frank showdowns between the various 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 of 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 volunteer units of various types are being created on a territorial basis, we know that private military units are being created in russia companies there in shoigu has its own well there wagner prigozhin owns gazprom now its own some kind of there is creating a private military company all this will be all this is done to protect its future territorial economic or business interests, that is, they are also 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 ? in this industry it is possible even more or maybe the chinese will start supplying well, 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, we must destroy them if

some partisan volunteer movement well, that means well, what? well, glory to ukraine, not us, but what they have among themselves. well, then we will only have coca-cola popcorn and look at that. in principle, we look like this now, we look, you know, consumers of informational movies, which but to be honest, i have little faith 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 have little faith that those who do not fight against lukashenka will to self-assertedly fight for the independence and territorial integrity of ukraine, i also have little faith that those who do not fight for democracy for, 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 us. for ukraine, for us to be

prosperous good victorious and so on at the time of the other side, i cannot help but praise in this context, it is not bad from the back, 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 of them used this program. we understand that thanks to this idea there will be a few fewer soldiers of the russian empire and therefore a few fewer murderers of our brothers in the russian empire .

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 glad if the partisans in russia will work on the territory of russia, we will somehow manage the territory of ukraine, we need it we need help, the air war is the so-called guerrilla air war on the territory of our enemies, on 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, yes, a flight war 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 pilots for the oil depot. maybe somewhere help the guys there to buy an ordinary rpg a grenade launcher, so that they stood near that oil tank - the oil depot half a kilometer away, they would have killed the tanker so they wouldn't have escaped, well, you understand, there is a question of price and

quality of the operation. and here, in this context, i would work. direction they work, not with the bodonovkas. thank you, mr. igor, for the conversation. this was igor lapin, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a major and a special agent , a politician, a person who knows about the politics of the army much more than anyone, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as in on our social networks, i want to remind you that we are on all social networks, join our e-e pages on telegram, on youtube, on facebook, in the church, we are on twitter , by word of mouth everywhere, wherever it is possible to spread our information. and please do not forget that we

er, we are making a wonderful site for you called espresso tv. go to this site, read our news, we make news from ukraine and the world, we make front-line chronicles , we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week ago please we invite you to our site i say goodbye to you by tomorrow by 1 p.m. tomorrow i will have roman svitan and vyacheslav seleznev, we will talk about the situation that is developing on the eastern and southern fronts and the most operative information about what will happen exactly at tomorrow's hour and tomorrow's time, that's all thank you

goodbye i feel chained to the chair, everything is starting to annoy me, there is no convenient moment for pain, but there is a yellow dolgit cream, dolgit cream helps to eliminate pain and has an anti-inflammatory effect, dolgitz is the only yellow cream for joint pain, and for muscle spasms , dolgit antispasmodic tablets for relaxation of muscles and evolution spotlight ukraine new project of the espresso channel a project about war and ukraine spotlight ukraine products that do better journalists and experts inform analyze forecast spot like ukraine exclusive interviews with foreign guests, politicians, diplomats, economists, the military, ukraine is the key to how we will live in the next few years, they are ukraine with volodymyr ostapchuk, every sunday at 9:30 p.m. on espresso, there is a war going on, and not only for territories, it is also a war for minds . russia is throwing millions of oil dollars to

transform ukrainians in little russia ukraine will become russia analysis and analysis of information about ukraine by russian propagandists concrete facts and methods by which enemy propaganda turns people into obedient zombies residents of the people's republic of ukraine are clamoring to vote, we are resisting the information attacks of the russians in the project of the chronicle of the information war with olga len tuesday, thursday at 11:40 and friday at 1:00 p.m. on the espresso tv channel vasyl zima's long broadcast my name is vasyl zima two hours of air time until 9:00 p.m. hours of your time , we will talk about the most important things, two hours to learn about the war , serhiy zgoretska joins our broadcast, military summaries of the day and what is the world like? what is there in the world

? the news was edited by oleksandr morshynskyi. he tells us about the economy during the war and new sports. evgeny pastukhov is ready to talk about sports for two hours in the company of his favorite hosts about culture during the war . is lina ready to talk about culture during the war ? natalka didenko is ready to tell us, as well as distinguished guests of the studio, we will have volodymyr grishko today , if everything goes well, the events of the day in two hours , vasyl's big broadcast of winter, a project for smart people and those who don't care in the evening , especially because i'm for bakhmut, they reached the highest level of tension lithuania is collecting