[000:00:00;00] and the results will be good for ukraine. we are already waiting for an initiative from the minister of economy and the minister of foreign affairs, in particular, regarding initiatives and joint cooperation so that such countries from all over the world could function in ukraine. what can you say about those international campaigns that still continue to do business in russia why are they doing this, i must say that in my own opinion , again as a ukrainian, i think that no such company has the moral right to pay taxes to the aggressor country uses these finances in order to build up its military potential, but at the same time i understand that some companies may face financial difficulties if they stop operating their business in russia, and again, we

are saying that in a certain sense, i think that the leadership of such countries they can even bring some criminal charges against the companies , and we hope that the companies that left russia in 2022 will not return there, and we ukrainians are really waiting and we invite such companies to us. well, more about the investments that are already coming to our country and which are just worth waiting for. i spoke with serhiemtsivka, who is the executive director of the government office for attracting and supporting investments . the confrontation around the road that ensures the defense of bakhmut, will the armed forces of ukraine be able to continue to restrain the occupiers in this area and what is being said about

the ukrainian counteroffensive, see our review the so-called road of life of which armed forces provides logistics for the defense of bakhmut from space looks like a sieve everything is covered in willows from shells and missiles the heaviest battles between the ukrainian and russian armies on the approaches to bakhmut now it is precisely for the control of this route that the fighters of the third separate assault brigade conducted a successful offensive in the area of ​​the village of khromova and occupied part of the russian positions near the road is a life coin, as british intelligence suggests , other supply routes for the armed forces of ukraine to bakhmut are probably complicated due to the lack of roads, so the control of this route is extremely important. battles continue in

in the western part of the city, the russians do not succeed in knocking out the ukrainian military in the area of ​​7:57 days when shelling was minimal, and then a week, i say from mortars to s300 borov to concentrate on the old ones, in addition , they are building fortifications along the entire front line in preparation for the ukrainian counteroffensive, as the publication the wrote new york times citing unnamed american officials, the next one will most likely start in may in the south of ukraine towards the annexed crimea, there is now close cooperation with the americans and the british, as during the past offensives were about kherson and kharkiv oblast, at that time such active simulations of actions were carried out that determined the most optimal methods of attack and places of attack , that is, the construction of foreign specialized issues actually already speaks of the fact that ukrainians and all americans are simulating

the next combat actions, i believe this, this indicates that just simulating the operation , effectively using intelligence data, just allowing to optimally choose the time and place for offensive actions, but do you know the information that our military is repeating at the top of the leadership and in no way. not abroad, neither journalists, nor experts, nor politicians in the ministry of defense of ukraine reported that they do not share operational plans with american or other foreign partners, and that the counteroffensive will become known as soon as it actively continues . russian terrorists once again prove that they are fighting civilians at dawn on april 28, the occupiers carried out another massive rocket attack on ukrainian cities by hitting a high-rise building in uman, cherkasy region , 23 people were killed, including six children

, and a private house was hit in dnipro a two-year-old girl was killed along with her mother, a child was also injured in the city of ukrainka in the kyiv region, at the same time, no military or energy facility was damaged, the ukrainian government emphasizes that the occupiers are deliberately killing the civilian population . well, to talk more about what is happening at the front. with our counteroffensive, i am joined by ivan stupak, a military expert of the ukrainian institute of the future, mr. ivan. congratulations and thank you for joining the studio. thank you for inviting me. what is up, mr. ivan? my first question

the new york times newspaper reported that ukraine is preparing for a counteroffensive in may. the article says that the ukrainian armed forces are facing many problems, and therefore it is predicted that a stalemate remains the most likely outcome of a ukrainian counteroffensive. why do you think such assumptions are published and why are some the world mass media are increasingly mentioning the possible failure of the ukrainian counterattack, so see the question, it is interesting, i will try to explain very briefly, first, readers of the western press of the american press. they have the right to know what is happening in ukraine . they are interested. moreover, the united states has provided just the cosmic amount of aid to ukraine. of various armored vehicles , more than 200 tanks, an extraordinary amount

of ammunition, and us citizens have the right to know what is happening somewhere, that counteroffensive on which the whole world is expecting so much, and newspapers there with different e with different details publish their forecasts there, some of their insiders from anonymous sources in the white house , in the pentagon, in american intelligence, different scenarios, different scenarios are worth or from there super positive then to neutral and negative of course what are the negatives, well, it is more interesting to taste what will happen. and what will happen next , that is, well, the public likes it very, very much, so you take it calmly and calmly, and the main thing is when you see it on the front pages of such respectable mass media and the like headlines, please look again, are you these articles, see who is the author of these articles or is the author of this article by any chance a person with a russian surname, this also happens if

you see this person, do not be too lazy to browse what this person previously wrote about ukraine and if there was a lot negative scenarios, it is possible to assume with a high degree of probability that it is a russian or a pro-russian person who implements a scenario there that is interesting for the russian federation, so once again, calmly , the ukrainian counteroffensive will take place when it is planned, only five people in ukraine know about this counteroffensive at least certain frames when it will take place, so we will all find out in time, well, it would be interesting to know who these five people are, but i won't ask you. let everyone sigh . who are these five? people well, it is not known whether the americans are really waiting for this ukrainian counteroffensive, but we are really waiting for it. well, with the improvement of weather conditions in ukraine, russian troops can go on the offensive in several areas of hostilities, john kiir b said this

the strategic communications coordinator of the national security council of the white house, ivan, how far can the russians go and will they abandon this idea when the ukrainian offensive begins? well, tell me first, i have great doubts . what will they be able to do in general? i will explain why the russians have already 260 days attention, they have been fighting for the city for 260 days, they call it artemivsk, we will call it bakhmut, although the location is the same and exactly the same. and they cannot take it, they report that they have almost surrounded it, almost operational encirclement, almost complete encirclement, then they took 20%, almost half almost 80%. well, once again, imagine the army of the russian federation, which even 1.5-2 years ago threatened the whole world that they would wash their boots in la mancha, walk around berlin , occupy paris, and now they are all skinned. i apologize for the expression and scale of their operation, the scale of the operation has decreased

the size of not even a block in the city, but the streets, they already say. we occupied half of the street there. that is, their offensive intensity is so minimal, er , here i am. avdiivka is the second place, where they are also trying to carry out some offensive actions there but they don't get the desired results there, so about some third, in some third location, where they will be able to open the front, i doubt it. moreover, you don't remember that in the winter they threatened a big offensive, a winter-spring offensive, but mr. budanov, the head of our intelligence, said nothing happened, everything stopped because of that once again, to divert attention as an option, as an option, they can start even somewhere a kilometer behind , but to hold back, to develop their offensive. i am sure that they do not have the strength.

they have many options, perhaps more than one. well, look, they use different options. here, for example , in relation to the offensive. they still have to discuss this idea with belarus. they drive their troops here and there, here and there. of heavy equipment from the city of brest. and i will remind you that if you look at the map, this is the western part of belarus, and they drive the equipment to the east along our railway line border, it spends the night with them in several other locations, they do not unload and return back. that is, this the distraction constantly forces us to keep our attention there, what is happening in this direction from the north, and by the way, the russians put it in a long drawer, but with it they abandoned the plans for a naval landing of the russian federation in the south of ukraine, that is, odessa still does not give them peace, so they are considering these

possibilities there are large-level and small -level operations, but they constantly keep us in tension in different directions, diverting our attention from the main directions where the russians themselves are moving. knowing that they will have a lot of people in them. they will still try to go in the direction of odesa . well, you can't really understand this with the mind of the russians. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, for the first time at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia, spoke on the phone with the head of the people's republic of china, they all discussed the issue war and peace well, after that, china appointed a diplomat who will be a special representative in ukraine. ivan , how will this speed up the end of the war?

we calmly accept such meetings in such and such, or rather, telephone conversations, such an appointment. yes, this is a really important step, but because , let's say, it is not a quantum leap. that is, it does not mean that wow, literally next week, everything will end in order to sit down at the negotiating table, a pathos situation is needed, that is, when none of the parties can move forward due to the lack of equipment, people , there are no certain opportunities at all, therefore, here at the negotiating table, china now occupies a conditionally neutral position in relation to ukraine their position is slightly shifted in the direction of the russian federation, i will remind you that china announced such a scenario of peace talks , yes, the cessation of war and peace, peace talks , but for the russians it is now interesting . everything is interesting for russia, they have gains in the east of ukraine , they have a land corridor to the crimea, in principle

, everything suits them so conceptually, ukraine is not satisfied with it, that is why we still have a large field for maneuver, we can maneuver especially because of the fact that a few months ago president zelensky forbade himself and all his representatives to enter into negotiations with putin personally, that is, while putin is in power, president zelensky cannot break the law and enter into negotiations with him , that is, either remove or eliminate putin, only two two we have opportunities. thank you, mr. ivan, for taking part in our program . thank you for your professional opinions and comments about what is happening on the front lines now. well, what can you expect? this was ivan stupak - a military expert. of the ukrainian institute of the future well, we continue russian propaganda works day and night, continuously creating our fakes

, which we must debunk, and for this we invite our friends and partners from stopfex to join me tonight yevhen fedchenko, chief editor of stop-fay mr. yevhen i congratulate you thank you joined for the invitation, first of all, thank you for your work , because it is extremely important, because these things created by russian propaganda should not just be debunked, they should be broken for so that the whole world and ukrainians know the truth, let's go straight to our first case, and it's like this . in one year, corruption in ukraine increased by 500%, and financial aid from the united states of america never reached kyiv, according to the russian mass media such data from the house of representatives of the congress of the united states of america, how true is this information? let's check only the percentage

of financial assistance from washington, shag records a huge number of facts of corruption in ukraine, russian media in particular redovka telegram channel refer allegedly to michael mccool, a member of the us house of representatives, more precisely, they quote only part of the quote from the 113 billion dollars allocated for four additional programs, approximately 60% goes to the american military, american workers and the modernization of american stocks, in fact, only 20% of the funding goes directly to the ukrainian government propagandists believe that only 20% of us financial aid goes to the government of ukraine as direct budget support, while the other 80% is stolen by

the ukrainian government, however, the data is fabricated and contradict the official conclusions of the specialized committee of the usa, mr. yevhen, why is it so important for the russian authorities, in particular, for the kremlin, to show that corruption in ukraine is not just there , but it is possible that it is even flourishing. and really, here in this story two important, two important propaganda narratives are combined, the first is uh, about corruption and its supposed growth, the growth rate of which is measured by some kind of mythical five hundred percent, and the second thing is that the american aid provided to ukraine seems to be only a small percentage of it falls for the intended purpose, that is, why was this story made, it was made in order to manipulate a-a speech in the congress and really create the impression that a-a any aid provided to ukraine is stolen and the reason is immediately explained because it seems that there is some kind of huge corruption in ukraine

, which even increased during the war. so , the basis for the production of this fake was taken as a speech in the congress, where in fact they said the opposite thing, which works not against ukraine, but on the contrary, it strengthens the ukrainian argument, because the report states that 60 % of all allocated funds remain in the united states, that is, they work for the american economy and work for the american military, and work for the purchase of new weapons for the united states to create new workers seats and only 20% is directly provided to the ukrainian government for current expenses, that is, the meaning of what was said is absolutely the opposite, it has been completely changed, and it is obvious that the target audience for

such materials is the western audience for which it is necessary to sow doubts about whether ukraine should provide aid or whether ukraine should be supported or whether ukraine is effectively using all of this or is this all being stolen and this argument by the way, if you look at social networks, it is quite actively used by various pro-russian influencers who constantly disperse this idea that what is the point of the americans spending their money and possibly feeling some deterioration in the state of their economy because of some distant, well-known ukrainians, but for this they will simply embezzle everything, that's the point this fake is also not, so to speak, disposable. they try to create very different fakes in order to then construct such a whole narrative from them , so that people can later remember it somewhere. they said a rehearsal with the mother of the studio, but when they repeat all this, they somehow manage to sow something about

the russians, in fact, not all the audience is at the same level of awareness of what is actually happening, not everyone follows it every day not everyone has access to high-quality journalism, to high-quality fact-checking, which can draw attention to some flaws in the way russia presents everything. well, just like i said, they use some of their influencers , actively use social networks to make this all and that's why for every fake, no matter how ridiculous everything is. and they will always find their audience, and this is precisely the danger, and this is the point in constantly refuting and reminding them. well, thank you for refuting and reminding. what

let's move on to our second case, every new one. this is a well-forgotten old russian effect, trying to undermine ukraine's trust in its allies . crimea lviv media reports that the ukrainian military is complaining about american military equipment . see more about this later. ukrainian fighters began to complain en masse about military armored vehicles supplied by the west. on june 24, referring to the data of the telegram channel military informer, the telegram channel of military informer really spreads disinformation about ukraine, however, in the publication there were no complaints about american combat vehicles, a prime example of why it is necessary to increase the number of armored vehicles of increased security in the armed forces of the russian federation, even with such serious damage to the equipment. the crew usually remains intact, this time the russians are distorting each other's information. in

ukraine, at the same time , there are no documented complaints from the armed forces. well, in this case , many things could be questioned but why exactly the quality of western, in particular, american equipment is an old story, because we tracked similar fakes related to virtually any type of weapons that our western partners provided us, and in each of them they tried to find some defects to show how outdated or short-lived they are they are made to the extent that they are made of some russian models, but now they are so active, there is a very active history with the fact that they are in order to oppose all this metallurgy, what are they called, which western and in ukraine they will use a tank yarmata ot well, then, in general, er, pantovka, in fact, the purpose of such stories is to create

such doubts in the ukrainian audience , first of all, that the western aid to ukraine is now effective, that is, unlike the first story about corruption - this accusation works in the other direction so to speak, that the western partners give ukraine something so unnecessary, ineffective, of little significance, that it is not a pity to give it to ourselves. so, and it is these kinds of stories. they have, including among the ukrainian military, ideas of the military also raise doubts as to how sincere and effective i am and partners in support. russia also uses this argument for an external audience, it also quite actively projects these same fakes for audiences from which third countries, in order to show that on the one hand, the united states is watching and the west and nato started their proxy war against ukraine against russia on the territory of ukraine

with ukrainian hands. it's just that you create the appearance of help from the russians are doing their thing and we are doing ours with your help. well, let's move on to our third case since finland became a nato member . all this is due to sanctions, and again through nato, to whom the kremlin mass media refer, our journalists will tell finland has punished itself with sanctions against russia has led to a 40% increase in food prices in finland, they have increased by 40% and continue to rise. such data were made public by the russians

with reference to the finnish journalist kosti heiskanen, however, the man is a native russian and the propagandists have nothing to do with the finnish media heiskanen, say the investigators of the local media ilta sanomat the name kosti hayes kanen may not mean anything to finnish readers, but during the war in ukraine he appeared weekly in the headlines of russian news gay price scanner for russian media exactly the fact that he can always and at every step be called finn for many russians, finnish is synonymous with reliability and quality, which creates an effective illusion of trust in propaganda, and the inflation rate in finland as of march was seven whole nine-tenths of a percent and, according to official statistics, continues to decrease well, i am personally interested in how widespread is this practice of quoting western journalists who

are actually russian. well, is this only in finland ? well, in fact, this is a traditional technique of russian propaganda in order to increase trust in these materials, and here in this case they refer to the so-called eastern because, well, who would know better about the state of the finnish economy than a so-called finnish journalist. therefore, this technique should have an effect if the trust in this information would increase so much. and in general, such people -e operetta e-e manual e-e journalists work for hypo- in many european countries you can find some manual german or italian who from time to time they put on the air and through them broadcast some important e-e messages showing that it seems to be going on with the middle, you know, or of this society, just as often do not refer to any western media, because this also makes them believable, and then when

we start to check these materials , it turns out that there is either no such thing at all , or a completely different context, or this is completely manipulated and uh, it makes no sense from the point of view of how without the ratio of the original and how russia presents it and in general , finland is a rather interesting example of how russia initially denied that the introduction donato's finland will happen at some point, and even we used the term finlandization for ukraine, they proposed it, but then they still accepted it as a fact , but in principle you do not affect anything , and finally they started such an active company , which is also caused by the fact that finland actively helps supports ukraine and in principle this is the argument of the economies that they use in relation to many countries. that is, they say that today you support ukraine, you give funds for

ukraine, and tomorrow yours will suffer because of it the economy is your consumer basket and your jobs, and this is the story, for example, that they constantly used about the fact that the countries of the european union will not survive the winter because russia will not provide them with energy carriers , er, they survived perfectly, diversified the sources of energy resources and the same russia is now trying to transfer history from winter to summer and say that now without cheap electricity and no air conditioning , you will not survive because there will be some extreme hot weather, as it were, that is, jesus in it's a season of addiction and it even sometimes looks quite funny, yevgeny, i thank you very much, of course, it's a shame that russian propaganda creates so many fakes, but it's very good that there are people like you at topfake who will debunk these fakes , unfortunately, i'm sure there will be more russian fakes by next week but i am also sure that next week we will meet with you or with someone else from the column

in order to enlighten them . week and what we should expect next about it further now officially the current president of the united states of america, joe biden, announced his decision to run for a second term in the chair of the country's president, his video address was released on tuesday by the press service of the white house. joe biden promised to complete what he is already doing and to continue to defend american democracy from words to deeds at the nato summit in vilnius this summer, it will be necessary to prepare a specific road map for ukraine's accession to the north atlantic alliance about this in on monday, latvian president eagles levits said during a meeting with estonian president aler karris in riga. according to the latvian leader

, a concrete result will need to be achieved during the summit in vilnius, because just talking about the fact that nato's doors are open to everyone is simply not enough now, ukraine will have a strong position for the further recapture of the occupied territories , the nato secretary general and janstotenberg announced this at a joint briefing with the prime minister of luxembourg, the head of the north atlantic alliance summarized volumes of armored vehicles and tanks transferred to ukraine within the framework of the rammstein format and also emphasized that more than nine new ukrainian armored brigades have undergone training and received equipment thanks to the support of partners in general through the contact group led by the united states nato allies and partners have provided unprecedented assistance to ukraine with more than 98% of combat vehicles promised in ukraine have already been delivered, this means more than 1,550 units of armored vehicles, 230 tanks and other equipment , including a large amount of