[000:00:00;00] this is a demonstration of the power of the russian army, if we are talking about those parades that marched in different cities of the russian federation. by the way, it is possible to remember that in 21 cities of the russian federation, the holiday parade was canceled there are security considerations and other reasons. so it is obvious that there is nothing to lose, huge territorial gains, and especially no reason to brag about putin and his cronies during the same parade happened kutsy by the way, there was no aviation either, who ruled the sky over muscovy that day over the main square of the russian federation, it is unknown, maybe some unknown attack or drones or kamikaze drones, they are already the second time i think there are aviation parades

last year, the truth says them it wasn't like that, yes, they are starting to limit all these things to a certain extent , and today i literally saw a video with the natives of crimea before the broadcast, this military town in dzhankoya is the north of crimea, and they did such a thing there the monument to the memory of all the e-e pilots of helicopter pilots who served, and in that aviation regiment of the jungian regiment there is a huge pile of tombstones with memorial signs in honor of the same e-e soldiers who died. i understand that within the framework of the so-called special military operation because the second date the lives of those soldiers are mostly dated to the year 22 or 23. and tell me about crimea, how do you think the russians understand that this is no longer a sacred territory, but a legitimate goal of the ukrainian armed forces that these new

missiles can reach even kerch bridge as it is now, many people say, of course, and this understanding is not for nothing. on the one hand, russian propaganda is actively working in crimea, which tries to convince the local residents that everything is fine. in addition, russia is forever a collaboration. on the other hand, we see how important the real estate market in crimea has become, and proposals for the sale of immovable property , there are many offers for the purchase, not so many . well, i think that smart russians do not speak there either, and representatives of the so-called panakhs or the occupation authorities are starting to collect things and go as far as possible beyond the temporarily occupied crimea, because it is obvious that the movement of the ukrainian defense forces will be meaningful and powerful, and such that it will eventually lead to the deoccupation of crimea and sevastopol, on the other hand, it is obvious that the statements of their speakers there are aimed at stabilizing the situation to a certain extent to reassure the local residents, but the place is not absolutely clear

about the trend and about the prospects for the development of the situation. how right do you think it is necessary to pay attention to all these offensive options that are now publishing this to the world press. we have seen a whole analysis of the velmund offensive. they are already directly drawing geographical maps and arrows here and there to melitopol, zaporozhye, and crimea. how serious is it in general? after all, we should just wait until the real offensive begins and not make these sketches for ourselves, you know how children draw this with coloring books , so sometimes journalists also have to. of course, if you and i look at the war through an emotional prism, we want to know when, how, in what way, with what result , the ukrainian counteroffensive will take place, but it is also too much absolute routine, and when the secretary of the national security council, mr. danylo says that three maximum five officials know exactly when

the counteroffensive will take place. he is right , it is obvious that this whole story is processed under the regime of state secrecy and it is unlikely our assumptions can be successful. although we can rule out that they cannot be successful, it is also impossible, because there is a certain logic of actions, there is an understanding that some things , precisely from a military and technical point of view, for the ukrainian defense forces, we can implement them, and some technical ones are impossible to implement, but on the other hand, i look at the nervous movements of the russian occupation army and wonder why they are digging trenches in the territories of the saxony and black sea regions in crimea. well, the russians say that this is how they are preparing to protect the western coast of crimea from the sea attack that the ukrainian forces are allegedly planning to organize. defense, i ask my question, what forces and means does the ukrainian army currently have to carry out such operations, because the only large

landing ship konstantin vilshansky with of the 14th year is in russian captivity in sevastopol. and the others - i did not see these means, i do not know subordinate personnel , those very deterrent inspections, elimination of shortcomings to such a level that russian militants abandon those weapons, uh, distribution of this to homes , although it is obvious that eh, it’s such an evil army sacrifice, but in any case, the level of motivation, as well as the strength of the ukrainian defense forces, to act for the purpose is absolutely rational for the sake of liberating the territory of our country, the border of the year 91, for me, this is obvious. thank you, sir vladyslav vladyslav soleznyov, military expert , colonel of the armed forces of ukraine, spokesman of the general staff in 2014 and 2017, we were in touch

. would like us to talk with you about what is currently happening with mediation in the russian-ukrainian direction, but today the people's republic of china informed about what to do in kyiv a special representative of the ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china for central europe will arrive in paris, berlin, warsaw, and moscow. before that, serhiy amarim, special adviser to the president of the federal republic of brazil, was in kyiv. and how serious are these efforts of such new non-western mediators in general from the point of view from the point of view of real problem solving, you know vitaly, mediation is a good thing, but when it comes from countries that , well, let's say, understand very little about

the situation that exists today around ukraine, on the one hand, it’s mediocre, it’s diplomacy, it’s normal, and it’s necessary , on the other hand, it’s necessary, on the other hand, all the proposals of these mediators lack, you know, one main condition, which is the withdrawal of russian troops at least to the borders of 1991. everything else, it seems to me that we are not satisfied at all. i mean the ukrainian side and the ukrainian leadership and the ukrainian people . therefore, we need this mediator, so-called and not so-called . what about well, i'm not talking about brazil at all, because this country is very far from us and

unfortunately ukrainian diplomacy has done almost nothing to date to at least gain an understanding of the situation that exists today and this, by the way, despite the fact that the leaders of the world congress of ukrainians have repeatedly praised me that brazil has one of the most influential and such a strong ukrainian diaspora, but somehow i don’t see any result of the activities of this diaspora as far as china is concerned i'm fine i remember the bad guy, i once knew him , talked to him several times, he worked in moscow, he was the deputy minister of foreign affairs of china and dealt with the issues of our region

, that is, i have no doubt that he - well, more or less what we are talking about is yes. but nevertheless, i really hope that his visit to kyiv and possibly to some other capitals , well, at least in western europe, eh, well, after all , they will increase the level of his knowledge and understanding, and returning to bikini, he will be able to report to the leadership of china about the real situation and not about the one that is written in the documents for the chinese leadership, so that, in principle , these negotiations should start sooner or later .

in the chinese so-called peace plan, it is just not there and it is not enough but nevertheless, let 's hope that china, hiding its authority and well, it is really a serious big country, china can do a lot , including influencing the russian federation. so what i hope that after panda huy will receive the entire mass of information, he will report in a bikini, and after that we will deal with a partner in ukraine, i really hope so, because china, in principle, deserves a face but today there is no reason for this, let’s look at the results from the stage of his visit to kyiv. and tell me, why does lichrei go to kyiv , to moscow, to european capitals, or to strelitsk, to the members of the european union, but i don’t even think about going to

washington? this war, if you really want to solve the issue on a large scale, it should have been a chinese-american initiative and not a chinese-french initiative, let's say, i think that the chinese chinese first want to collect a certain amount of information in order to be more ready for a conversation already with the american salty, well, let's say, more prepared for this conversations eh well at least how would i do exactly that eh in parallel i think that the contacts between such washington never stopped i think that the tension that exists supposedly today between washington and bikini in fact, this does not mean that they do not communicate , including on the issue of ukraine and well, i have no doubt about what the chinese side

has, let's say about the position of the americans and their approaches to our issue let's say there is a lack of information, they know everything very well, and i think that first there will be a visit by him to kyiv and to some of the neighboring cities there , after that there were contacts with the americans , we will see later, but one way or another, you know this formula that president biden repeats in first of all, and many others of our partner countries say that nothing will be solved behind ukraine's back by ukraine, i believe in it. i think that changing ukraine already by its actions in the last year or a half has proved that it is no longer what it was the object is our opinion, everyone counts and no one will be behind our backs, especially

if they are drawing peace formulas of reconciliation of these negotiations without taking into account our opinion . please tell me, mr. volodymy, when the head of the european commission will come to europe day kyiv it's just a sign that we can really believe that the european integration of ukraine can follow some special , let's say, procedures, some of which, by the way, are being talked about now not only in kyiv, but in warsaw, they are talking about poland, the clauses in the resolution that ukraine has to join the european union as soon as possible that ukraine should join nato according to an accelerated procedure, how serious is it ? to what extent can you even consider that the procedures are being changed for our sake? on the other hand, you know, we live in a world where everyone is so busy with so many problems, uh, well, what to think about what uh, hmm, mrs. donkey decided to make such a gesture, abandoning

all other things. just for the sake of the gesture, i don't think it's so in fact, this is indeed a sign and a signal and a powerful signal that the european union is with us, but it does not cancel what the ukrainian authorities should do, and you know, in this matter, hmm, you know, that such a term is not appropriate. it is not suitable, that is, during the war as if there is no need to decide some others there the question should all be devoted to the carnage and victory in this war, this is correct, this is true , but on the other hand, our european integration hm depends not only on victory in this war, but also on the fulfillment of many criteria that should bring us closer, or let's say to do so openly, perhaps joining the european union and nato , and this is our homework

, which no one will finish for us, but all the military aid that is given to ukraine, it will help uh, first of all, victories. that is so, but all other things are political. so to speak, a package and a package legal reform, reform of the security service of ukraine, and many other issues that we will solve one way or another until we are solved. neither the eu nor nato will accept us if we talk about what is happening in russia and the influence on the post-soviet space. i think you are behind this. watch carefully. there are many interesting moments here, but on the one hand, we saw at this parade on may 9 several leaders of the former soviet republics, most of them are members of the csto and the eurasian union.

their presidents have arrived, but on the other hand, we see that prime minister pashinyan has arrived in moscow, but the azerbaijanis of armenia are not talking at the russian negotiating platform , they are talking in the united states, they are talking in europe, they are talking. with the people's republic of china, they are very actively trying , or can we say that despite all these gestures of attention, russia is still losing its influence in the post-soviet space. remains for these metropolitan countries if their leaders are forced. yes, i would say to quickly respond to the invitation of vladimir putin . i think that russia is definitely losing and in general it has already lost its positions in central asia and the caucasus and in all other regions of the former soviet union, this is already a fact proven eh i think that the final loss

of position will happen after our victory in vienna a cross because you know i remember my conversation with my colleague, the permanent representative of kazakhstan at the un uh, well, a few years ago when i was working in new york uh, and when i was surprised and asked him to change their position after all during the voting of our resolutions, and he told me, well, you understand, we have to keep a certain distance from you and from russia somewhere there, because we are neighbors with and so on , that is, he tried to explain to me about their such an incomprehensible position. i told him that and you understand that that you will be next after we are not poland, not the baltic countries

, namely, you, er, and he doesn’t know. there was nothing to answer to that, well, those are my words, that is, kazakhstani diplomats, officials understand everything, but they can’t do anything to give such an impression , that is, well, you know, they are afraid, dependent on russia, they think that it's better to slowly crawl away with such small steps , well, you know, the east is a delicate matter, as they say, that is, maybe we don't understand everything, maybe they're right , maybe they know better how to behave in the russian federation, maybe they are the lessons they have learned from this war seem to us to be unambiguous, but for them it is not so , they are just thinking how to prevent or, hmm, save themselves from such a well-known russian, maybe in the same kazakhstan, relatively

speaking, by some other by the way they are getting closer to china well, you, like me, have heard these versions about the fact that, in principle, the visit of all these five or seven presidents to moscow - it was a request made by all the dolphins, eh, i don't really believe everything. to be honest, although some kind of fate is possible the truth is in this, that is to say are there any signals or to collect some certain information and bring it back because all these leaders. by the way, in a few days they will be heading to beijing, there will be such a joint visit at the invitation of the same cabin, and so after that, uh, well, according to his results , maybe we let's see some more specific things that will allow us to better understand uh-uh and why did they go to moscow, although uh , in principle, i completely uh-uh agree with the tone of the statement of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine about the fact that this is not a friendly

, incomprehensible step, you know, against the background of the shelling of kyiv and of all ukraine to arrive to moscow and standing next to putin, well, it looks quite strange, but on the other hand, you know , this is the cis, that's why we left it , it should have been done much earlier, but such a preserve of the soviet union as it was after 1991. that's how it is. and it remains that these leaders, in principle, keep from this position, whether we like it or not, but we just need to add to this, please, mr. volodymyr, do you allow that armenia, azerbaijan, can really come to an agreement with the help of western mediators, as far as

it is likely in that situation when russia there he still keeps peacekeepers on the mountain karabas , the so-called keeps his troops in turkey, one way or another , he keeps his troops in turkey. interests can still be enumerated enumerate nevertheless the president of aliyah has not gone to moscow . despite all these circumstances , how realistic is it? the support of turkey first and ours from the site and it works, we saw the success of the azerbaijani army, well, at least in the last, let's say so, the opposition from the karabashi company. i think that mr. koshenian should also

understand what is really happening. well, the same thing . the russian federation is not for armenia. an ally, it will be an ally for russia only as long as armenia is completely under the influence of the russian federation , and in fact russia has completely different goals in armenia and azerbaijan than what happens to someone there. so i think that azerbaijan has chosen an absolutely righteous line, and if armenia joins this line, then i am absolutely sure that peace in the implementation between armenians and azerbaijan, and in general in this region and in the subregion, will become much closer than the peace that the russian federation imagines because it is not we forget about that and you, mr. vitaly, know this very well, i have heard about it from you more than once, it

is written in many let's say so nicks about what to take this, well, the whole chain of conflicts that was created on the borders of the former of the soviet union than of the russian federation, i.e. starting with transnistria and then crimea and nagorno-karabakh eh , more freely before that, south ossetia and abkhazia, the karabakh detachment can continue this line further, this is also in uzbekistan and the sub-states, all sources of potential conflicts were were created during stalin's time, that is, the issues were not settled between minorities, between some regional authorities, let's say, it was all suffocated and suppressed during the soviet

government, and then it all came to the surface after 1991, and this is exactly what russia today very well, not today, but at least there for the first 25-30 years , already after the raspadunyan union, all this was very aptly used by the russian authorities to maintain such tension on the borders, and after that, all the conflicts got stuck and they tried to supposedly settle them, that is, to be so mediators as such a judge of the peace, but actually just to keep all the former soviet republics under control, that's how it happens , the sooner they understand it, well, the other thing. i'm sure that mr. koshenian understands this perfectly and the authorities of azerbaijan

and moldova and so on and the central asian republics but they simply, well, maybe they still cannot afford to openly say about it, but the sooner it is said and done, the sooner those conflicts will be regulated, and that is why i believe that under the guidance of of western countries, the same unworthy fishing conflict can be it is falsified much faster than allegedly under the patronage of the russian federation. thank you, mr. volodymyr volodymyr yelchenko, ukrainian diplomat, former ambassador of ukraine to the united states the states have the russian federation, the permanent representative of ukraine to the united nations was in touch with us, we will stay in the near future in the post-soviet space, because there are many different important topics that we have to discuss. by the way, one of these hot topics this week - it's georgia because once again vladimir putin , with his decision to cancel visas for georgians and

to establish direct air connections between the russian federation and the republic of georgia, which was canceled by the russians on the georgian decision, he demonstrated that he is still ready to act in this post-soviet space, dividing countries that all face the same danger in the 8th year, when russia attacked georgia, moscow tried to find a common language with ukraine , to promise again cheap gas, direct supplies to gazprom, we all remember this very well, we all remember these the famous stories that were signaled later in the presidential elections of 2010 and eventually led to the revenge of the pro-russian forces to the victory of viktor yanukovych, later , similar actions began to take place in the georgia and now, against the background of russia's war against ukraine, moscow is trying to demonstrate that it can establish constructive relations with georgia if it does not join the actions of the international community against

the russian federation if the georgian government says that it is necessary to think about its own economy and not about solidarity with ukraine, that's all sounded these days too. unfortunately, it is interesting that , on the one hand, this does not reflect the general positions of the georgian society opposed to the aggressor. i also remember well the georgian wars with russia and the refugees from ethnic cleansing of abkhazia of the southern session, and on the other hand, the same population that supports ukraine, that has a negative attitude towards the russian state, it mostly supports the georgian dream party, which is precisely the political force that leads the life of this policy and this political paradox. but in we also had such a paradox. as you know, we could, on the one hand, consider russia the aggressor, on the other hand , seek some incomprehensible agreements with it and vote for politicians who

convinced ours that they can achieve these things. agreements, uh, with a high probability, we went through all this, unfortunately, now the georgians, who already know what war is, are passing all the mistakes of the ukrainians, who , in the end, look at the situation in 2022, we will be commensurate now , valeriy chichila, the former services of georgia in russia, ukraine and moldova, he will be in touch with us and we will talk with him about how the situation in georgia will develop in this e-e plane because it is obvious. not he tried to talk about building some transit points between unoccupied and occupied territories, demining something, renaming something , renaming something, promising well, he thought that this was a sign of weakness and the results are also known valery chichilashvili we are already in

touch congratulations to valery, the question is in ukrainian. it’s good. yes, you can, er, you know ukrainian, but you can answer as you prefer, of course . it is not known whether it will happen, but i clearly want it to happen in russia, so i'm more comfortable