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interview with radio svoboda in a few minutes on the air in russia they were arrested in absentia and announced in the international search for the head of ukrainian intelligence, kyryll budanov. will this affect the capabilities of the gur of the ministry of defense and is it now possible for the chief intelligence officer to travel outside the country ? we will ask the representative of the group. let's start with the results of rammstein at this air base in germany, a meeting of the contact group on the defense of ukraine is taking place. previously, ukrainian leaders stated that they expected well-founded decisions from this meeting, among the interim and publicly announced results, so far we have the following prime ministers of ukraine in poland and germany signed the agreement on intentions to create in poland a service center for ukrainian e-e tanks for ukraine leopard-2 this was announced by the minister of defense of ukraine oleksiy

reznikov well, the head of the us ministry of defense louis of the walls stated that more than 230 tanks have already been handed over to ukraine by the allies, but ukraine has not yet specified the number of tanks received from the allies , i would like to remind you that our correspondent zoryana stepanenko is monitoring the rammstein meeting from minute to minute, she will join the broadcast and while we have the opportunity to talk with taras zhoventek, international security expert of ilko kucherev democratic initiatives foundation, mr. taras. my greetings. i greet you . good evening, mr. taras. so, the results of rammstein, did your expectations come true?

they trusted him in kyiv well, actually, are all the statements that we heard publicly? do we still have any that are left? in ukraine, the expectations that we placed on him actually came true because, by and large, we saw that our western allies continue not just to support the combat capability of our army by providing us with projectiles and additional weapons systems. setting priorities, for example, at this meeting, one of the first priorities was air defense, which is absolutely logical , because while we are negotiating with our western partners on the supply of modern western fighters in the medium term, because, for the sake of objectivity, we must say that this matter is actually not as fast as we would like an alternative right now to protect the ukrainian sky and moreover to strengthen our potential er in

our counteroffensive we need er more batteries of modern air defense systems and, accordingly, more missiles in order to destroy russian air targets . well, actually, this priority was announced and it is obvious that we will soon see how it will all be implemented sooner than anything else we will see more bezrk petriv ot on the territory of ukraine, and also quite a lot of specifics was so practical so in a practical sense it was said and done about our armored vehicles in relation to the heavy armor that is handed over to us by our western partners, first of all, we are talking about heavy main battle tanks and, accordingly, infantry fighting vehicles, and american bradleys and german martors, the important point here is that in order for us to be able to use all this equipment as effectively as possible in a counteroffensive , we must be ready and as quickly as possible this equipment should be serviced because we must

remember that and be prepared for part of this equipment to be damaged in battle, part of this equipment may be destroyed in battle and this should not stop us, and in order to er well, if we had the opportunity to carry out repair and technical routine work as quickly as possible, we would also need to separately establish supply logistics chains with our partners, and here is very good news - this is this polish the initiative to create a maintenance base for leopard tanks on their territory reduces the transport burden and allows us to carry out repairs and maintenance as quickly and efficiently as possible and ultimately maintain combat capability as if this armored vehicle and this means its maximum effectiveness in combat conditions well, it is also obvious that there are consultations about things that are less public about ukraine's acquisition of long-range weapons here. it is an interesting

story because these moments have ceased to be voiced by our western partners in the public space somewhere approximately from the second half of march. nevertheless , the practice of cotton in the russian-occupied melitopol mariupol in the north of crimea shows that at least these glsdb munitions are guided ground-launched bombs that we we launch from heimers and rszv m-270, we already have them, but obviously, by agreement with our western partners, we did not announce this and this shocked the russians very much , because even their full-time propagandists are beginning to complain that well, somehow they started this way talk later, no one confirmed for sure that the ukrainians received this weapon and then suddenly something similar fell on the heads of the russian troops just at such a range of 160 km somewhere approximately. this range of flight of this ammunition is obvious

what can we expect even further than that such critically important and strategic arms deliveries from our western allies will remain as non-public as possible until the very last moment , before the russians feel them for themselves. well, only then will it be possible to do the same by agreement with our western partners to announce this p taraseno, but a little bit about poland's initiative to create a repair base for leopards well , stoltonberg actually stated that today this is a battle for endurance bearing in mind the current i understand the situation at the front that it is turning into a war, but with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the logistics are closer. in this context, important decisions are closer to being made, because it is not only about defense equipment. we see here that our western partners are ultimately moving in the same direction according to the scheme that they have already

worked out on other types of weapons, if you remember how we got modern artillery participatory and reactive as we received modern means of air defense, then we will see that our western partners they always started with the option of handing over to us the remnants of the old equipment, well, before we received the patriots, we first received the old s-300 buks and so on, i.e. what was already included in the armament of the countries of the eastern flank of nato, they were happy to hand over this equipment to us, and then when, well, in the end, the stocks of such equipment in nato ran out, we began to master and receive and practically use modern anti-aircraft missile complexes of western production, the same was the case with artillery, and in the end we see the same with aviation. that is, we already have to accept as a fact that this process is moving, and poland and slovakia provided almost 1.5 dozen

own mig-29 of soviet production , but not this one, and they passed. well, let's say the maximum possible upgrade and improvement under the nato link, and it is obvious that the next step after that will be the organization, too , of the technical, organizational, logistical provision of modern western fighter jets to ukraine. in the end, there is logic in such an approach, because we can use the same mig-29s after receiving them now, as they say , we can use them in combat operations. unfortunately, this could not be said so far if we this moment we received f16 in the end at certain stages of organization in our air force we could not use this equipment as effectively as possible, therefore there is a regime in this there is logic in this and we see that our western partners

have already worked out these approaches for themselves and they already perfectly understand this phasing, i wanted to mention another statement that was made today, it was from the us minister of defense, this is the price that the leak of documents will not allow the unity and support of ukraine to be destroyed . can we talk about the fact that this leak did not have negative consequences for cooperation of ukraine with its partners in the military coalition, or anything else could be, because new details from these documents are still appearing literally every day, and so far, from what we see , nothing actually indicates that the information which falls into such wide public access, this information can cause some strategic damage, firstly, to the interests of the united states and, secondly, to the relations of the united states with its strategic allies. so far, everything looks like that , in fact, all the information it was made public and it, one way or another, on the contrary, plays in favor of the national interests of the united states, because it shows, on the one hand, the professionalism of the american special services, which er, well, as they say

, they have the maximum er information about their key opponents about russia about the iranian regime about the dprk about china and is also oriented as they say they keep their finger on the pulse of their allies, that is, even the information that indicates that the american special services are collecting additional information about countries such as ukraine and south korea israel in principle, there is nothing new in this because well, the fact that american intelligence works in this direction is already known, well, at least since the end of the 90s, plus, well, if the expert environment perfectly understands that there is a very large the difference between when intelligence works by gathering information about those countries and when intelligence works by gathering additional information in order to better understand the processes taking place in an ally and, accordingly, to better establish relations with these allies, and actually from the dry balance we see that so far none of these documents which disclosed and discussed in the public sphere, it does not

contain any such information that would be as critical as possible for the united states and harm its cooperation with key allies in various regions or ultimately would harm in some way. well, because the united states stands up to its opponents, because even in the information that concerns the fact that the americans understand very well what is happening in the russian leadership, it is in this information. in fact , there is nothing to indicate the exact a-a dates when these the data was obtained by american intelligence and the form of obtaining this data , that is, there are hints that this is technical intelligence and radio-technical intelligence means, this is a very wide range of tools, and the russians themselves will have to do this for a very long time to understand what and how they themselves leaked in reality, i am asking you to stay in touch, because just now my colleague zoryana stepanenko will join us, she is monitoring what is happening in ramstein and we

will continue the conversation after that. greetings to zoryan thank you joined please tell me what actually happened at ramshtan, what interesting statements we heard there today good evening , we were at the air base all day and watched everyone in some of all the statements, we literally just got back from there well, speaking of that how satisfied are we with the results? well, i will say that when i spoke with oleksiy varshikov , it was a meeting in the same room. decisions this rammstein which to some extent is an anniversary since a year ago this format was founded on this same air base and is called a meeting in the rammstein format of the same name with the place where it is usually regularly held in today's meeting did not bring any breakthrough solutions. i am referring to the supply of western jets or , for example, long-range missiles, which volodymyr zelenskyy the day before asked the general assembly

when stolkinberg was a spider in kyiv to help, let's say, in negotiations with allies and eventually provide ukraine with this type of weapon well, actually i hope that it will happen today, there were no such hopes, and in kyiv i mean the military and political leadership of ukraine , the discussion, as the partners at the ramstein airbase said today, continues well, but as a result, its main guests, i.e., the ukrainian side and the host party, i.e., the united states, publicly said that they were pleased. the head of the united states department of defense, lloyd austin, confirmed that the ukrainian military will begin training on american abrams tanks in a few weeks here in germany. well, we remember that earlier, this information was reported to the media by oleksiy reznikov , speaking about the results of the meeting, he noted that the tank coalition was actually developing a few days ago, the netherlands

announced that it would transfer ukraine 14 there are two leopards, and they will be in the ukrainian steppes at the beginning of next year, this is the plan, well, that is, actually. they are not stopping at what they have already achieved, and they are thinking about how to ensure the next ones. listen to the minister, i am doing it. training on leopards , it was the initiative of our polish partners , then at the end i said i hear the roar of leopards and this dream came true, we will feed these cats cats well , if we use the quote of the minister, that is, tanks leopard was told a lot about what to do in order to keep them on the move, to keep them functional and resistible, because not only do they need to be delivered to ukraine, but it is also necessary to ensure that they are uh, so that they can be used for the purposes for which ukraine plans to use them, that is, offensive well, they talked about how to ensure these logistics, the nato secretary

general mentioned in particular that this is a war of attrition, and therefore it is a battle and logistics, too, so it should not be underestimated, among other things. well, not among other things even among the priorities was also air defense, as well as ammunition for these systems, means of support and air defense in focus, since massive russian strikes in the fall and winter forced the ukrainian air force to spend part of its arsenal, which was previously transferred to ukraine , allies and members of rammstein supported the allocation of ammunition in ukraine for countermeasures and defenses if we talk about the details how many of them are not so many well maybe it is because weapons like money likes silence will negotiate and it is clear that they are going on behind closed doors i always and then already, er, the ministers of defense and the chiefs of the general staff come out to journalists with announcements well, but i will say that oleksiy varshikov, in particular, after a bilateral meeting with the head of the pentagon, promised that russia would feel the results of these negotiations on the battlefield, general

mark sweetly said that russia was being exhausted under the bakhmut for the sake of a small benefit , this is his quote. well, to the partners, i will remind you that the rammstein format unites about fifty countries from all over the world. the minister of defense of ukraine talked about the current situation at the front and the allies understand what will happen in the coming months and journalists asked the guests and during his final press conference about the counteroffensive. he said that he would not comment on the details of what else is known that the allies will conduct trainings for tankers and also trainings for the ukrainian air force, which accordingly uses air defense systems specific announcements about aid packages were made from finland today from canada. well, the allies are also developing the next packages and have confirmed their commitment to ukraine once again today to support her as long as it takes on the way to her being able to push

russian troops out of her territory daria thank you very much for your attention zoryana stepanenko was with us on direct communication from germany she was following the results of today's rammstein thank you well, we return to our guest taras shevchenko we are in touch with you, taras , and i, in addition to another one, well, in fact, zoryana voiced what you said about what could have remained and outside of public statements, but i want to ask you about something else that many publications quoted today of the minister of defense of germany, who said that ukraine has an assumption. more precisely, he assumed that ukraine can, the armed forces of ukraine can conduct operations on the territory of russia. i will try to listen to the direct language and therefore ask a question. this is normal . in such a military conflict, when the enemy enters the enemy's territory , for example supply routes is the most normal thing in the world as long as civilian areas are not attacked we will have

to put up with this very unexpected statements from germany in your opinion does this mean that in on the issue of the possibility of attacks on military facilities on the territory of russia, we have some progress, so to speak. and how can this affect kyiv's actions, in your opinion? actually, this progress is very important, but it is purely political, because mr. pistorie actually controls the world. well, as they say politically, he confirmed what we already er -er cautiously to a certain extent, but we actually did it because the er-er minister of defense of the german er-er state he is actually absolutely right that in this conflict of such intensity and such a scale a we as a party that defends we we cannot avoid such situations. when we simply need to physically strike military facilities and logistical facilities on the territory of our russian enemy in order to be able to defend ourselves as effectively

as possible. -a logic and in er-e approach of a sound military strategy and in principle well, if we understand why our western partners are very careful and where they distribute political comments on the very topic because well, we also should not forget that well our western partners are the leaders of democratic countries and uh, well, if their opposition also uh, uh, demonstrates there certain uh , certain of their native approaches, and let's say so, that's why no one risks making statements for which they will either have to justify themselves or additionally to explain everything, but especially now in the context of our counteroffensive is that our western partners, the more so because the federal republic of germany, which has always taken a very cautious position in this context, is what our partners are saying . these are the important points that, in principle, allow

we should use the tools that we will have as much as possible, including it. it seems to me that the story between the lines in this way hints at ukraine's use of long-range ammunition. and this is a possible way to send a signal that the political russian federation is not confirming that ukraine has such a toolkit and can use it , but simply pointing out that if the circumstances were like this, the ukrainian command felt that in order to solve the problem on the battlefield, it was necessary to destroy the another military facility on the territory of the russian federation, the forces have absolutely no political problems, because this is absolutely clearly part of the logic of the defense operation carried out by the armed forces of ukraine taras thank you very much for joining the broadcast taras zhotenko, international security expert of the democratic initiatives foundation named after ilka kuchereva was in touch with us, thank you. the united states called on ukraine to withdraw

troops from bakhmut back in january because they believed that it would not be possible to hold the city, despite pessimistic forecasts, the defense of bakhmut is holding and three months later, he writes the following for the washington post, referring to secret documents of the pentagon, which were previously leaked to the network. the publication notes that the warnings of the united states were mostly ignored. and the ukrainian authorities decided to keep the city in connection with its strategic military value, its importance for maintaining the national spirit and demoralizing the russians it is noted that ukraine emphasized that the prolongation of the battle in bakhmut significantly weakened the position of russia, since many invaders died , especially from the wagner group, the us estimates were gloomy already in january, according to the secret documents of the american intelligence, the leak of which was allegedly allowed by jack and the sheir in the assessment with

the vulture. it was secretly warned that the pillars of the russian advance since november endangered the ability of ukraine to hold the city, and the ukrainian force will probably be threatened by the encirclement if they do not withdraw troops during the next month, three victims of house and car damage , these are the consequences of the explosion in the russian belgorod that happened on thursday evening, let's for at the beginning, let's reproduce what happened and how they reacted to it in russia and ukraine. max grabovsky prepared a report. a powerful explosion in belgorod, russia, bordering ukraine, took place on thursday evening. the local telegram channels were the first

to report about it. the incident was later confirmed by the local government, and the official information is heavy on belgorod residents. a crater with a radius of 20 m was formed on one of the central streets as a result of the explosion. the ministry of defense of the russian federation later reported that a projectile from a russian su-34 bomber fell on a street in belgorod. an independent assembly of aviation ammunition took place, three victims were officially confirmed, as well as damage to houses and cars, one of the cars was thrown onto the roof of a nearby grocery store . ukraine must receive long-range weapons that will block russian provocations. this is how the secretary of the national security council, oleksiy danilov, reacted to the bomb explosion in the russian city of belgorod. danilov himself called the explosion as another act of escalation in belgorod, the russian occupying army continues provocative shelling of its own place with the aim of

intimidating the civilian population and inciting escalation based only on data from long-range weapons will give ukraine the opportunity to localize the source of moscow provocations at the stage of planning and preparation for admission . and the air force of ukraine predicts that the number of similar cases in russia may increase, because the russian military, in its desire to quickly increase the production of air missiles , may lose the quality and control of such bombs could fall and go down somewhere else because they do everything quickly, use them more and more and er, and where to do quickly, where to do er, so to speak, be negligent to this work, and this is the reaction to the incident in belgorod and the consequences of the explosion from the tv presenter on the kremlin tv channel, the specialists of the city law of the incident of the road service immediately began to remove debris from the roadway of vatutyna avenue to evacuate the damaged explosions of machines modern military