[000:00:00;00] i.e. the serbs and the confrontation may continue, i.e. here again, again, it is a difficult topic, i cannot give you any more words, because if i give you words, i will not give them to irina koval, and if i do not give yarina a word, then it will be very bad for me , because all i hope to do is work on espresso tv, iryna koval and news in the future. thank you, mr. mykola, for passing on the word and making the broadcast interesting. have a good rest tonight. well, in just a moment, i will tell you about the most important events at this time . the 19th in ukraine in the studio of iryna koval time news on the espresso tv channel. greetings to all viewers, two people

were killed, one more was injured due to enemy shelling. in the zaporozhye region, in the city of orykhiv, enemy shells hit a private house in the yard of which a married couple, a 58-year-old man and a 54-year-old woman, were killed, according to the regional military administration in transfiguration mine explodes, a 77-year-old man was injured, he is in the hospital, as of this time , more than 3,000 people have already been evacuated in the territory of the kherson and mykolaiv regions, but this is only a free territory under our control. announced president volodymyr zelenskyi, he noted that international organizations should rescue people from the occupied territories in the occupied territory only in some areas russian terrorists seem to be helping people russian terrorists are doing it so that there are as many victims as possible russian shelling continues

and even evolutionary points are not for the sake of any real help to people in flooded areas propaganda and for the sake of the people russia does not add for all this there should be a separate fair and strict responsibility of the russian state and of the russian leadership is more than uah 55 billion, this is the estimated amount of damage to the environment due to russia's undermining of the kakhovka hpp, two-thirds of its volume has currently leaked from the reservoir, the water level is already barely 10 m and continues to decrease , noted the minister of environmental protection and natural resources ruslan strilets, the situation in national parks is critically endangered the disappearance of 30% of the natural reserve fund of the kherson region , the shallowing of the water area in the velikiy lug and kamianska sich national parks continues. the verkhovna rada of ukraine

adopted an appeal to the un in the parliament and governments of its member states, international organizations and their parliamentary assemblies due to the russians' undermining of the kakhovka hpp, 265 people's deputies voted in particular in the explanatory note that the next crime of the russian federation is an act of terrorism, ecocide and a war crime in accordance with the geneva convention of 1949, these actions of the russian federation clearly indicate a planned in advance calculated terrorist act canada supported ukraine's accession to nato president volodymyr zelenskyi and canadian prime minister justin trudeau praised the declaration in to which ottawa supported the acquisition of ukraine's membership in the alliance as soon as conditions allow it, today canada also announced the provision of a new package of military aid worth half a million canadian dollars, in particular, it provides for the transfer to ukraine of 288 missiles for air defense and 10,000 shells of 155 mm caliber. also

, the an-124 ruslan confiscated from the russians in ukraine in the alliance this is reported in the president's office, i would like to note that there are currently 31 countries in nato, the last to join this year was finland , all countries must agree to new membership, the best among the top five separately, the storm brigade that took the heights on the flanks around bakhmut and the 35th separate brigade of marines that beat the occupiers in the mykolaiv region and the kherson region, and now it is being liquidated in the donetsk region, was noted by volodymyr zelenskyi, and letters of thanks for achievements on the battlefield were handed over from the president by deputy minister of defense hanna malyar will rest more the verkhovna rada voted to increase the annual leave for the military to 30 days. this does not include travel. defenders will additionally

be able to take family leave circumstances and from ten and for other valid reasons up to 10 days, during this time the salary of a soldier is kept, an army man can rest in parts , for example, three times a year, people's deputy oleksiy goncharenko said. for 10 days of rest , the transition to the ukrainian language of schools taught in the language of one of the eu countries has been postponed for a year ; the verkhovna rada has adopted such a draft law until september 1, 2024 we are talking about students who belong to national minorities and started studying in their native language before 2018. it was planned that such schools would switch to ukrainian already from september , now they have more than a year, but the number of subjects taught in ukrainian should increase . russian-speaking schools were supposed to switch to

ukrainian from september on september 2020, a year ago, activist roman ratushny died in a battle under a raisin. every two weeks until september , a festival in memory of roman will be held in kyiv . today, the event was attended by our journalist galka kateryna katya. i congratulate you. tell me laska, how is the event going at the moment? greetings to my colleague. greetings to the audience. the second day of the spring protest festival in memory of roman raushnyi, who died last year under a raisin , is taking place . romana's mother is also present at the event. therefore , now we will hear her. this is exactly what we are doing now, that is, some interesting historical lectures , film

screenings, concerts. he dreams of it and wanted to do it. the downpour in kyiv tried to prevent the event from happening, but the visitors did not do anything to scare them. they came here in raincoats under umbrellas or simply covered their heads with bags . there is an awning under everyone hiding from the rain. they started according to schedule. and started with a lecture about the defenders of ukrainian culture, and actually now we will hear the lecturer roman, for me he is the person who stands in the same row in the hungarian hall with vasyl stus and with those people who fought in the 20th century and this event the continuation of the protossian yar festival, which was during roman's lifetime, and it is from the realization that he could be among us now if it were not for muscovites. this impresses me . a lecture on the musical instruments of the ukrainian people is currently taking place. we are also expecting a performance

by the zbiten band, who will teach dancing to ancient instrumental music. a little later, we expect a lecture by those who are not in the picture, who is the co-screenwriter of the film shchedryk against the russian world, and in fact, if the weather does not interfere, then at the end there will be a viewing of this film as well i want to note that there are many different master classes available at the location. so the weather will not interfere much and everything will happen as planned. i have everything in the studio, thank you kateryna. this was our correspondent kateryna galko from protasovo yarocha in the capital. and i want i would like to remind you that every two weeks until september , a festival will be held in kyiv in memory of roman town hall, our modern ukrainian hero who died at the front, so if you haven't made it to this festival today, you can count two weeks and two weeks from now be sure to visit pritasovoy

ravine and we are moving on and in the meantime, as we have already seen, just after our inclusion , a powerful downpour covered the capital in the darnytskyi district of kyiv , flooded roads on several streets , water also reached the area of ​​the livoberezhna metro station, however, there is no emergency situation , assures the mayor vitaliy klitschko, all specialized services are working, hydraulic specialists are on duty in all districts of the city, and sports news today will reveal who will become the club champion of europe in football, the final of the uefa champions league will be held in istanbul the english manchester city and the italian international will meet. traditionally, english fans have filled the pubs of istanbul and are loudly waiting for the start of the match. the starting whistle of the polish referee szymon

marcyniak will sound at 10 p.m. kyiv time , the first one. and just now, meet my colleagues vitaly portnikov and anzhelika sezonenko , congratulations friends on the air of the espresso tv channel saturday political club anzhelika sizonenko and vitaly portnikov good evening, as always in the first hour we talk about the most important events , in particular in the first part of our program we will talk about the consequences of the russians

supporting the kakhova hydroelectric power station, how it will affect the offensive of our defenders in the south and east. our defenders in that direction well, in general, the most important events related to the russian-ukrainian war, in a few moments we will literally talk with valery kondratyuk, the head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine, the chief the head of the counterintelligence department of the sbu in 2020-21, if we are talking about the head of the sbu . he was the head of the counterintelligence department of the sbu in 2015-2016 and the head of the counterintelligence department of the sbu in 2014-15 . what is happening uh-uh at the front today is an offensive, is it exactly

intelligence, the so-called formatting actions? well, i thought that we would not conduct information operations today. i believe that the information i have today really it can be said that our units conduct reconnaissance by combat and used all opportunities to open the first line of enemy defense today, and for the information we have in certain directions, they achieve daily success , that is, we can say that it has been happening for several days now because of the fact that russians are being told that, in particular, hanna maldy, deputy minister of defense of ukraine, stated that the russian occupiers are already setting up defensive lines not only on the approaches to crimea, but also in deep areas what does this indicate they are going to retreat from crimea in the world because they allow such a possibility that except for a-a we will fall and today they are preparing a frantic defense because

they understand that the first line will most likely not hold and then the troops of the unit will have to move to the the second echelons there or the third templates of this defense, but taking into account the terrain of the crimea, that is, the defense there will be very, very difficult due to the fact that it is possible only in the narrow cities of the passes and for sure it will be vulnerable targets for a-a let's say so long-range capabilities that are available to ukraine today, and in this way also crimea, and the russians are still assessing that it is becoming threatened by the ukrainian counter-petroleum as well. and please tell mr. valery this in principle . the very idea that man-made disasters can be arranged is related with the offensive or with the fact that vladimir putin is once again analyzing the measures that he is ready for any actions if he is forced to leave

ukraine p vitaliy i think that and this question can be answered from one side and from the other but you know, i would like to draw your attention to the fact that, in general, the military doctrine of russia foresees the provocation of large-scale man-made disasters. and it seems to me that if they did not expect that ukraine would fall in three days and they would succeed in seizing ukraine, then we would have expected this the first strike should definitely not be on the kakhovsky hpp, but on the dniprovsky hpp, and then on the kyiv hpp, and then it would have changed all types of cascade of dnipro hydroelectric power stations , and it would have been a more large-scale, let's say , man-made disaster after which the russians were used to seize ukraine, and today what happened a few days ago at the kakhovo hydroelectric power plant, in january , according to my estimation, putin today cannot use nuclear weapons and man-made disasters, by which he is essentially replaced by mini and nuclear, which he

can use today, but also there is a sign that he is resorting to such steps in order to leave behind a scorched earth, that is , he no longer has plans to seize ukraine , but simply to create our own, you know, not only to carry out genocide against the people of ukraine, but it is possible to create a crippled state, that is, to create those circumstances under which our state will for a certain time be very difficult there for further development. and this is not only the decline of agriculture there, but also all these territories and these those results of such and such existing disasters that can be organized in ukraine today if in short, i just want to note that i destroyed the dams there, but also nuclear reactors, 15 nuclear reactors, the majority of which are a large number of chemical enterprises located in densely populated areas of ukraine, but also their tailings

there are millions of chemical hazardous waste substances that are also found there today on the territory of ukraine, that is, there is room for maneuver, a very, very large amount, and this is very, very dangerous, and in fact, these are the red lines that have already been said more than once, if putin uses nuclear weapons, i would i thought something about the undermining of the kakhov dam, these are the red lines to the west, they should already respond with specific concrete plans or security guarantees, vitali, which you mentioned in your previous broadcasts, but you see these are such hybrid red lines, he them moving from this, they are trying to do exclusively nothing where the export of dynamo did not happen, this is true, yes, i but it seems to me that in fact, based on that, the reaction that took place in the russian land itself, usually when they are preparing for certain or are they already ready nations, but it is that they have a pause they needed to agree their position with the management, i.e. wait for the official version before wishing that the blow-up of the dump may have happened unscheduled or earlier than it is possible during prioritization, because

for the information it is not enough already directly at the beginning of the ukrainian counterattack, and then those units themselves from the military point of view, which, for example, would have tried to cross the dnieper at this moment , they would have simply been washed away. it would have been military things, but what happened. i think you know that the circumstances were not foreseen, but we will wait of further conclusions why, because it seems to me that those people, if it was unplanned, accidentally undermining well, not accidentally, but ahead of time, then i that's why there were victims among the engineering units, and i think that such information is most likely soon will also appear in relation to persons or commanders, or i am the people who directly performed or were present at that time on the territory of the kakhov hpp, some military experts say that in the perspective of a few weeks, it will become difficult for the armed forces of ukraine . however, if we are talking about more distant prospects when the land dries up, the water will recede. on the contrary, it will be for the russian

occupiers , because the water is soft. the first lines of their defense are the first lines of the first line. do you know why? because every day a-a throws up some new problems or new, more difficult tasks that we need to solve, and not only that which knows the mines and it will be easier to move there, but it is even an ecocide that was created as many grave-diggers were there or cemeteries that were flooded and all this today there will be the consequences of these things and if putin could blow up his own houses in order to find justification for his actions in chechnya , then i believe that for ukraine the greatest value is people and ukrainians no one's leadership i didn’t go to such events. and please tell valery, how can

i actually be an intelligence officer about information from the top leadership of the russian federation , because you know, it seemed to me that when i had the opportunity to support some contacts with colleagues in russia there until 2022 well, and even more until 2014 that uh, most of the comments, even from people who hold some positions and so on, are not based on any specific information, but, let's say, on gossip on transfers uh absolutely not on knowledge of what is happening, there are real opportunities to understand what is happening in the top leadership of ms. victoria . i want to say that today the greatest opportunity is the emphasis of our western partners, and this information is essentially decisive for us, and it will not dry up the coordinates of both because for it is very important to us the value of those stocks of our long -range capabilities that we have received from

our partners today, and that is why every projectile or every missile is launched by someone. it must go to the target , that is, the targets have confirmation in this as well in terms of today, the interaction is very good, and with regard to direct information, today it is mostly objective control - these are the means of radio-electronic and intelligence that are used by agency intelligence . unfortunately, today it cannot be 100% reliable. why? because, well , those people are not there of putin's first entourage, and already there from the second, the third, and this can be a certainty, including that it is necessary to understand that their emotional perceptions of certain things, which also need to be filtered and analyzed, but the means of objective control, this belongs interception of command instructions, but also direct conversations. and this is already a basis for analysis and for accordingly adjusting either our plans or in general the acceptance of some of our creations of our capabilities, the russian

federation, but not only, unfortunately, some of our western partners, in particular, the german edition of build and not only the german media and the french also spoke very ambiguously about the undermining of the kakhovka hpp. many of them did not indicate that it was russia that blew it up ; on the contrary, they talked about ambiguous situations and it is necessary to find out the circumstances, the american satellites recorded the explosion just the night before the dam directly collapsed, and please tell me as a military expert whether the ukrainian side could have caused it. after all, i read about the fact that it can only be destroyed from the inside with such a strong explosion . in fact, dumbo was built in the 50s

, and when the russians left the right bank part and kharkiv and the kherson region then you know, the efforts of the armed forces of ukraine were aimed at destroying a certain section of the bridge that is on this dam , yes, the grenades hit it well, yes , even uh, it was difficult to hit this section, not to mention the fact that the middle one was built, and this version was the first version that was given to the russians by telegram channels, but their public channels, it was aimed to shift responsibility to the ukrainian side, and then this version, when it did not withstand any of the 15 there was no confirmation and there was no confirmation that it was not true . then there was another version that they launched .

it should be much stronger than the explosion inside, and when there was also an assessment of those a-a injuries and what was happening, the expert also came to the conclusion that it is not even from our side, but from the west. they also admitted that this is not possible, that is, the only the cause of the explosion was the detonation of the dam inside, and the engine room itself, but the dam was mined, you know, back in the fall, and at that time our ukrainian side did not demand and emphasized the need to create international monitoring missions , such as, for example, there is today at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in order to also avoid such and above but this was our initiative was ignored and as a result in the end despite all our attempts we got such a result that today russia once again

he is trying to shift the responsibility to us because he understands the consequences and the consequences can be political. and so mr. vitaliy there in his previous speeches. i listened carefully, he already started commenting on the creation of a security opportunity, and today i know there are certain consultations taking place there, not only along the line nato countries, but also between the leadership and the united states of great britain. that is one of the options that are being considered for the provision of national guarantees specifically from countries such as poland and the baltic countries , but on the other side of poland there are no baltic countries of nuclear weapons, how do you generally get guarantees from a country that has nuclear weapons, such as great britain? well, today, in the sampad of the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of ukraine, it is , you know, from a military point of view, it will not be of great importance for a military operation, but for the strategic plan for this will have huge consequences for putin, so i believe that just as china today clearly expressed its position on not supporting

the use of nuclear weapons, that is why putin is going that way today the land of the creation of man-made things, that is, it is looking for a replacement for this a-a well, this is the weapon of progozhyn, the leader of the wagnerites, about those troops that the government in russia is already so mentally ill that it will launch a nuclear strike on its own territory, belgorod, where both the partisans and the russian army directly whether by special forces of certain russians. what do you think , is this a realistic scenario that putin will not go in such a way as to undermine the citizens themselves, but to provoke, let's say, an event for some kind of response , well, prigozhin's statement, you know,

in order to once again draw attention to his person, because he is already looking for a place for himself after the war in russia, he has his political positions there, and in the doctrine of the constitution, it is clearly written there, and the possibility of using nuclear weapons in organizational threats and when directly to the defense of the protection of the russian federation in this case, the russian territory is theirs and it is not there that such units are there, that is, in this case there are even no legal grounds for the use of such opportunities. that is, his statement is about such a provocative character there is once again intensifying the release of tension, but in general there they show that the level of leadership of the ministry of defense of russia does not correspond there, that they cannot protect even there the border areas at the time when he was engaged in the capture of bakhmut, and in principle if we talk about what

russia said about the nuclear doctrine, we can generally be sure that putin adheres to some norms. the territory of ukraine cannot be annexed to russia because russia does not annex the territories of other states and i was sitting here writing out whole schemes. well, how can it not be because the laws of russia must be changed , the constitution must be changed, and two-thirds of the votes must pass three sessions, but you i'm sorry, even with all the understanding of the cynicism of the russian authorities, i didn't even imagine that they could declare crimea an independent state in one day, and not in 20 years. what the hell did they proclaim? was in fact already in - in fact out of control in georgia somewhere in 17 years before the declaration of recognition and independence and then the next day to accept it as part of russia, you understand , we are dealing with people who do not respect any of their own laws, not ours, this is the truth of a person, they act

according to rational things, their emotions are here to confirm your words, i want to say that we had a certain time when, in 14-15-16 , we had good environmental and technical opportunities. we received documents from the headquarters of the southern military district of russia that is, who was responsible for hostilities in the east of our country, and here are their plans , command staff exercises, they also considered the tasks of nuclear strikes there, and there it was written three hryvnias, and here one of the triggers was to prevent large , large losses among their of our own armed forces, that is, the leadership of the armed forces already at that time we are considering such trigs of putting weapons there that are not there. yes, you say doctrinal things

. the coming weeks, maybe months. how long will the defense of bakhmut last? and of course , our main goal is to surround the city. i want to say that our main goal is to break into our territory. what tactics will be chosen today, the next offensive there is one route, there are several routes with the possibility the transfer of our reserves from one direction to another really depends on our intelligence and the intelligence of our partners , since these vulnerabilities will be identified in their defense and we will be able to mobile immediately take advantage of this chance and strengthen to break through this offensive is not clear our technique engineering technique plays a big role because those created engineering skills obstacles are really there today in sufficient volume but what is important for us is not to lose to this technique why because we have you know not ot today there is not a lot of cover from the air. and why

have we repeatedly emphasized to our partners the need to provide us with f16, these are two of the frames that we have to criticize - get them by the end of the year are not a big threat to russia, but they can play a big positive role precisely when receiving our offensive actions during our counteroffensive, but due to the absence of such support, it is now clear that we will have their losses and we need to somehow replace these things and protect defense equipment thank you, mr. valeriyovych valery kondratyuk head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine in 2020-21 , the head of the military in 15-16 was in touch with us and now our colleague the chief is with us serhii