[000:00:00;00] of the espresso tv channel, oksana and i are now gradually conveying the word, conveying the words, i also want to say that the accents that have been placed on modern life are picked up very well by our education, when modern heroes are invited to children and schoolchildren , and even in kindergartens, collections and various auctions are held in favor of the armed forces of ukraine, this is how it should be, what's next, the broadcast will continue the verdict with serhiy rudenko glory to ukraine is a verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today, may 23, 454 days of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers, president volodymyr zelenskyi arrived at the front line to congratulate the defenders on the day of the naval campaign of the infantry from the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine in

the village of dyadkovo, bryansk region in russia, a warehouse of a factory used by a defense enterprise caught fire. well, in europe, it is not excluded that the first batch of f16 fighter jets will arrive in ukraine in the fall of this year, writes the influential politiko publication , meanwhile, the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine as of the morning of may 23, the russian invaders have already lost 204,360 people in ukraine in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine have destroyed 480 orks since the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 3,789 tanks, 7,419 armored fighting vehicles, 3,000, 3,318 artillery systems, 565 rocket salvo systems , 327 anti-aircraft weapons defense 309

aircraft 295 helicopters 673 units of motor vehicles 18 ships boats 1015 cruise missiles 2864 drones 433 units of special equipment civil war in russia, why is the branch of the russian communist party still working in ukraine, and is it true that zelenskyi and his team are preparing for elections in ukraine ? we will talk about all of this in the next hour . i want to introduce our first guest - he is an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a major specially appointed from the people's deputy of the eighth convocation, ihor lapin. p major good day good health to you, glad to see you on our air glory to ukraine glory to the heroes and glory to those people who are bringing the end of the russian empire closer let's start our conversation with the russian volunteer corps

who entered the territory of the belgorod region on may 22, the legion of freedom of russia announced that they will fight until the end of the russian empire led by vladimir putin, the russian governor vyacheslav glatkov said that there is a counter-terrorist operation in the belgorod region, or how they reduce who well, who smoothed over this and told the journalists, let's look at the deaths of the average population today, all the necessary actions from the country's security forces are being carried out, we are waiting for the end the completion of the kondratekhticheskoe operation, which was announced by major, the russians claimed on saturday and sunday that they entered and took control of most of bakhmut there, well

, almost all of bakhmut, and then suddenly in belgorod there was this who what is it and how to perceive it and how to interpret it because the russians say that this is a counter-terrorist operation, we are talking about the fact that we support those russians who are fighting for their freedom, what are the russian volunteer battalions and in what way can they shake the situation inside russia and how will help us in the russian-ukrainian war , well, first of all, about this matter. i have several opinions, so it is not the first one that concerns us. do we have the right to bring order in russia? well , of course not. from the point of view of international law , we are not the occupier. we will do it too, i think no, because from the point of view of international law and we are not the occupier, the western partners have the right to restore order in russia, and exactly the same no from the point of view of the same international

law, and then who can restore order in russia except the russians themselves now let's do it anyway to make some theses in the context of the events in belgorod, so what formed the russian volunteer corps are people who are dissatisfied with the regime, are they people who are dissatisfied with the empire, do their interests coincide with ours in the context of the collapse of the empire? of course they do, because it is one of the elements of our own security. this is our security, including whether these groups of this volunteer corps are able to reach moscow today by themselves, no, but if i see that there is support from the population of russia itself, then i will say yes today

i don't see it yet. but nevertheless, these are the beginnings of some future movement , and we will observe it. the question is whether the russians fought on the side of democracy, on the side in defense of ukraine. that's how they fought in my aidar battalion . there were russian citizens who fought against russian artists before yulia tulopa herself, there were so many people who were even tried in absentia in russia for participating in the protection of the sovereignty of ukraine from the aggressor. a bandit and an aggressor we have kadirovs and beets here, and well, there are many of them, so there is such a story about bryansk itself. well, i think there is a belgorod-bryansk course - these are the areas that border er with us, i would also note kuban no

i would forget about rostov, can it be a demilitarized security, such a belt of our security, so it is possible to work. do we have to support it, of course, even as a people 's deputy of the verkhovna rada of ukraine of the last convocation, he said that we need to support once there was such a country of the cossacks well, somewhere in the kuban region, why don’t we support it, and it’s the same story in that situation . do we have a moral right to support it? yes, we have a moral right, and we have any right. to speak from the point of view of history, now from the point of view of the military, so to speak, the commander, er, means that i would note, well , first of all, we entered from two directions, er, let's say so. well, if we are talking now about belgorod region, er, the first things that are being made

now in those settlements which, let's say so they are in this zone and the premises of the fsb security forces are on fire. so the guys understand very well who rules in the country. well, it is not their state opinion, their governors are appointed and so on. in russia, the fsb and other security forces rule, so did they go this way, right or wrong, right, right or some other they will be able to complete the task. well, we know that on the territory of belgorod region there are a lot of military warehouses, including weapons, can they seize it to arm themselves, of course they can, unfortunately our yesterday the propagandists of the medvedchuk channels are starting to drown things out, i will explain what i mean, they are starting to tell us that we are going there, we will reach moscow, here we are, cheers , ukrainian patriots, i emphasize once again that these are not ukrainian patriots, and this is what we need to focus on, because the world community

does not will perceive the occupation of a part of russia with the side of the ukrainian armed forces, then we will be the occupiers. why is this, so to speak, uh , this, this scumbag of the russian media, and i see how today we already have yesterday's representatives of medvedchukiv yes, those tv channels are beginning to be dumbed down that ukraine is supposedly going somewhere and thus fueling the counter-propaganda of the information war is just not in favor of ukraine, so i am drawing attention, using the opportunity of your broadcast, to the attention of the security service of ukraine, why discredit your own country in in the eyes of the international community , exposing us as invaders, let's go, let's go, majora, and i'm going to be specific, because you speak so modestly about these propagandists, don't

name the last name, i'll name the person's last name who is natasha vlashchenko for this, she recorded a video and on this video she is titry, what are all three, belgorod and let's get to moscow , be afraid, russians, well, that is, she speaks on behalf of the ukrainian community, let's say, and says that they say that we came to belgorod, we are going to moscow and be afraid of the russians, the security service of ukraine should deal with this because , considering the past of natasha vlashchenko, it cannot be ruled out that this is a typical, well, canned provocation, just the fsb trying to legalize this idea that ukrainians have come to kill russians belgorod region, not only natasha vlashchenko, we know that there are many fugitives , especially fugitives

, those who fled from ukraine after the full-scale invasion and are now also acting on russian mistakes. does not work in favor of ukraine, and these statements of vlaschenko, for which you also know, well , this is in general this is some nonsense. that is, it is for the international community, i remember many things very well, as i am now, i will not be surprised if tomorrow russia wants to move without the un regarding you understand the invasion of ukraine. and the most important thing is how they will feed it to their own consumers. well, the spinelessness and openness of the borders of russia itself is okay, but we should be interested in another thing: what will putin's regime do? well, what will he announce total mobilization? well, in principle, they may have mobilization. but for for them it can become after such statements of vlaschenko for the russians it can become like a holy war, we already see the appeal of one or another group of people who say vladimir vladimirovich give us weapons the enemy will not pass and we fought here

well, that is, such a story and this is exactly what it is. well, i think it undermines the authority of ukraine as a country that is fighting for its independence from occupation by the occupiers in this context. i think that there should be an immediate reaction, including in relation to those youtube channels on which this narrative is spread, there should be a reaction of the nsdc, not even vlaschenko herself. well, she didn't record it in herself, it went to many people . and who is pushkin? who is doing this pr? are being investigated, i will not elaborate now the relevant services should deal with this, we can't do their work for them, they have a salary, they work. by the way, the salary is no less than the soldiers on the front line. in the trenches , that's why this is the story of major andriy smoliy , a journalist and political scientist, writes on his facebook page that in due to the fact that the russian volunteer battalion crossed the borders and entered the territory of the belohorod region, russia is already

transferring part of the troops from the front to the belohorod region, he refers to a source in the ukrainian intelligence and quotes this source in particular for the time being accepted the decision regarding the possible transfer of units of the third motorized rifle division of the 20th combined arms army, the permanent deployment point of valuyka, belorussian region, from the area of ​​hostilities, makiivka , luhansk region, to belohorod region , how far can such moments and such situations pull away the forces that are now are on the eastern front on the southern front and stretch them further there to the northeast through kharkiv region, sumy region, chernihiv region, you have already mentioned the kursk region, you have already mentioned the bryansk region there is still a thicket, and the voronezh region is also there, in principle , not far from the north-eastern part of ukraine

. well, you know, yesterday in russian publications i saw a thesis that sounded like this, well, to hell with him and belgorod, because of that , voronezh they will not take, well, somewhere like that , the expansion their opinion in this context, how realistic is the scenario of the withdrawal of some parts of the troops eh well, the fact is that the russian army does not consist only of those four hundred thousand who are on the territory of ukraine today, the russian army in addition to these four hundred thousand, we still have a lot of troops, starting from the far east and ending somewhere in the suburbs of moscow . the question is whether they will be transferred. i understood from the words of someone whom you just quoted, this part is just right, and it has a point of permanent dislocation somewhere in belohorodshchyna, and in principle it can go three times per rotation, but instead of rest

somewhere in the point of permanent dislocation there will be engage in the localization of those actions of the russian e-e insurgents who today are fighting against the evil empire, well, speaking, well, it can be how radically it will change the situation on our fronts. this means in the east . well, i do not think that it will radically change the human resource in russia, there is a very there are a lot of technical issues, but the technical issue itself is very acute. and now i am looking again at the message of this russian volunteer corps, where they indicate that there is at the gaivoron checkpoint. everything is calm, no one is doing anything, that is, they are sitting on positions are digging trenches and so on, but in order to believe in the future success of all these actions, i have to see the support of the population , if there is support, then it is because the population provides not only a resource for material support, but also a human resource for the same volunteer

corps and seizure of warehouses with weapons near belgorod and with ammunition and so on. well, this can play a key role in what will be used to arm the population. therefore, we have to look at it, but i emphasize once again that this is now an internal issue of russia, will we help in this in the context of the rebels, of course we have the moral right to help and if there is such an opportunity , we can do it all the more well, it's the russians, that's the most important thing. let's talk about the situation on the eastern front. we have a video of yuri the orphan, a grenade launcher soldier of the fifth separate assault regiment people's deputy of the verkhovna rada of ukraine of the seventh convocation, let's hear what yurko said about the situation on the front line, the city of bakhmut is located in the lowlands, as the one who controls

the heights controls the city of the heights towards the temporal ravine, we constantly controlled the heights from the side of ivanivka, the enemy managed, as a result of the incredibly huge sacrifices made, of the spent iron, to temporarily buy now we have knocked out the enemy from the heights in the south and we will continue to move slowly, therefore the enemy is from below in a pit in a trap under our constant fire strike on the ruins of the city where you cannot hide at all, so of course it is a pity that the ukrainian city of bakhmut was completely destroyed, but the war is a big chessboard , the pieces on the field win, not the cells , today the russians are at the cost of huge losses they believe that they partially occupied one of the cells, but as much as they put their pieces. well, this is a pyrrhic victory. they will not give anything , and this shows how their flanks are cracking, how they are now pulling up reserves here, and how, in order not to fail, russia is constantly

using clustered aviation here ammunition phosphorus artillery to stop our advance this was yury syrotyuk, i will remind you, a soldier , a grenade launcher of the fifth separate assault regiment of the armed forces of ukraine and a freedom fighter , a deputy of the seventh convocation of the verkhovna rada in the last few days, they have heard various information about the situation in bakhmut, there were answers from volodymyr zelenskyi, and then clarifications during the meeting with the representatives of the big seven and zelensky's briefing with biden. byden said that the russians lost 100,000 soldiers obviously killed and sanitary losses, as it looks now. this is the situation around bakhmut

. and does the crushing and crushing of russian troops continue? in fact, it will be if the russians still take full control of bakhmut. well, let's face it, there are two negative news in this story and several positive ones about the negative. we also became hostages of russian propaganda in the information space, which began to idealize the city of bakhmut as something there. well, the coolest their success at the same time from our side as well as if everyone as they say in the information spaces , the topic of the bakhmut fortress was promoted there and so on. it seems that avdiivka or maryinka or vugledar or other settlements are not they are fighting heroically and it is a pity that we have not really refined the information war in this context. as for the second negative , the fact is that the city of bakhmut itself has not only lowlands, but also heights, in addition to which there are some urban buildings and even

destroyed houses, that's all precisely those new locations that can to a certain extent serve as a shelter for the next most important thing . and now to the positive. so, at the moment, i know that in the north the third assault brigade of azov is working successfully, in the south, for me, this is a sign that the aidar battalion is working. and they too just pushed these flanks to the russians well, of course, with units of others and with other units of the armed forces of ukraine, but i say they stood on the edge of the attack and for me it is, well , personally for me it is symbolic, let's say so, we were the first to be replaced, we are worthy of that, such a story and here is very this is correct as far as these tactical successes of ours on the flanks are concerned. well, first of all, we remember that horseshoe in which the defenders of bakhmut were, now the teeth of that horseshoe are broken and now we are starting to form a horseshoe around bakhmut both in

the north and on the south with access to the water bakhmut tracks, in fact, the bakhmut garrison, the russian occupying bakhmut garrison, will find themselves in an operational-tactical environment, and they will then have trouble with logistics, which is why prigozhyn announced the dump of bakhmut and the transfer of bakhmut to the russian armed forces . before that, he handed over the flanks because he understood that the flanks they can't resist blaming the generals of the general staff there and so on, and now he is starting to tell exactly the same way that he wants to get out of the mess , to lick the wounds, as he says, and he will hand over the city to the control of the armed forces. understands the risks of this encirclement, and for wagner to get encircled, well, that’s what they already have, 10 at most 20 percent of the personnel of which prigozhyna was today, prisoners are not very caught in this unit and the hallway is not a certain problem. in

this context, therefore, he wants to jump out, so to speak, to the winners who took over with their armed forces there, and then all the responsibility will again be on the generals and this potential environment that can become a key in the battle for bakhmut, it can play a very good role in our favor heights - it's true to sit in a hole - it's death when, especially when there is an arta standing around you on the heights, who just throws you into that hole , you know everything that is not a horse, everything flies by, everything is about the city, it's a pity, the city is destroyed. i also sympathize with the residents, but i have no hope that it was still possible to evacuate everyone who could evacuate from there, well, up to them, those who gave russia to come, well, they waited , well, what can i say, i can't say anything here, this is the story of the deputy minister

of defense of ukraine, hanna malyar, says that the activity of the russians in the direction of bakhmut has decreased, i quote a painter of this day, the activity of offensive actions of the enemy in the direction of bakhmut has decreased somewhat, at the same time, the number of shelling is stably high in the city of bakhmut, the fighting has decreased, the enemy continues to clear the areas taken under his control but er, i would like to return to the prospects and to er, the possible receipt of aircraft in the f-16, because the f16 topic is the topic of the last week, and meetings are not at different levels and conversations at different levels er the big seven plus zelensky to individual european states, the netherlands, denmark, great britain, everyone is talking about the fact that these planes will arrive in ukraine literally in a few months, at the same time , white house adviser jake salvan says that biden has not yet decided whether

the united states will send its f- 16 because according to the current rule, the country that manufactures in 16 must give permission to export or re-export these fighters, but the united states of america hopes that these aircraft will not be used in the war against russia or for the task of strikes on russian territory according to your point, major, what can stop the west from providing these weapons, high-precision, good weapons , and how f-16s can change the course of the russian-ukrainian war, how can they help us? well, what can stop the west from providing us, for example, with tanks? the thesis that the west is not ready for the defeat of russia, yes, it is ready for the victory of ukraine at that time, but it was not ready for the defeat of russia, which prevented the permission to train

pilots there and so on, a similar story . and today, this question is mine deep conviction has already been decided today the west is not only ready for the victory of ukraine not only ready for the defeat of russia the west is already ready for the quick defeat of russia therefore a decision has been made what to do what to do next with russia after our victory and its defeat if such a decision has already been made then in principle barriers, warnings and everything else that putin's friends, who have some degree of influence on many leaders , including those of the western world, use . will be able to change the course of history because the decision has been made and is short how quickly and how much it can change history for us look well, doing something on the ground at a time when you are flying faintly is quite difficult

. f16 solves several e -e global tasks, after all, it is a universal plane that can solve several global tasks and these tasks consist in what they can fight against other planes, they can use surface-to-air missiles fight against ground targets, they can carry bombs on themselves, work according to the principle of bombers, register attack aircraft, and in fact, they can perform functions , including air defense for ukraine. that is, there are so many target aircraft, the number of aircraft in the world. well, if my memory serves me well i heard that the number was up to six thousand, well, they say that there are probably 5,000 in the world for us to solve the global issue of air

dominance. would be up to two hundred well, when the world has five, six thousand, well, 200 is not so much, but for us it will change very radically . will we use it on the territory of russia? russia we need not only airplanes we need basic principles - this is ukraine's membership in nato - this is the absence of a threat from the empire, its demilitarization and where is nuclearization, these are our security guarantees. and so on there somewhere up to 50 planes there, 40 c must be something. well, okay, they decide very strongly why the offensive contour to counter russian aircraft. they have such systems that can hit russian planes at a long distance, being

the ones outside the reach zone, fly into the territory of russia, the planes will not be priced because there is no logic, because russia also has air defense and a lot of things , they will just shoot them down in the same way as if they shot down russian planes, why don't they fly over ukraine where we control where there is a strong air defense system. i understand that in russia it is there is a gap somewhere, somewhere there is a gap, they generally spend their s300 anti-aircraft missiles on the fact that we bomb the ground and not work against the air, now i think they will also change their tactics, they will protect their missiles that they used to throw on the ground, they will protect them with the understanding that we may have even more planes, that's why such a story , mr. major, watching the latest events and the latest meetings, in particular , of the big seven, zelenskyi's participation in this big seven and zelenskyi's participation in the summit

of the leaders of the arab states of the arab league of states do you have the feeling that the world is ready to make a political decision, well, the majority of the world, that russia is the way it is and such an aggressive state, it threatens not only ukraine or europe, but also the whole world. well, let's say the word world like that if we we are talking about the western world, democratic countries, so they are ready for the defeat of russia , as for the trip to the left of the arab league and so on, zelensky spoke. i want to say that after his speech , he did not break the applause there. and the most important thing is that i i think it was a statement made after this speech, and a statement was made that the arab world will maintain neutrality at the same time , a trip to je seven, a message about planes, a meeting with the prime minister of india, mondi, who in principle we know india

today, despite the sanctions, it is one of the largest consumers of russian oil and diesel, and not only a consumer. diplomacy there, but in general well, i would say yes, bets are made, god, somewhere, this is how it looks today for me. thank you, sir, the major was a major of the armed forces of ukraine, a special appointee of politics, a people 's deputy of ukraine, of the 8th convocation, igorlan , friends, we are working live for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook please like our video subscribe to our social networks you can also join the espresso channel youtube sponsor club now you will see a qr code by clicking on you will receive detailed instructions on how