[000:00:00;00] on the pages of victory, our first guest is general ben hondus, the former commander of the united states ground forces on the european continent. i congratulate you, mr. generals. well, we understand how difficult the situation is on our fronts. i would like to ask you to give an objective assessment of how our actions are unfolding , in particular, we are talking about attempts to conduct testing combat testing of russian defense lines, first of all, ukraine has stepped on the path that will lead to the liberation of crimea and the expulsion of russian troops from ukraine, so the start of a counteroffensive is an important step for ukraine

but its main phase has not yet begun. in my opinion, the armed forces of ukraine continue to put pressure on the russian defense, looking for vulnerable places, confusing the russians as to where the main offensive will be and that there will be certain losses, and i mean that the next few days will be very difficult, but i expect that in the next few weeks, we will see much greater success and progressive dynamics of the movement of ukrainian forces, in any case, the russians are hysterical , putin is hysterical, they do not know what to expect , and this means that they do not feel strong firstly, most russian soldiers do not want to fight, secondly, russian media and military bloggers finally faced the truth after being lied to for the last year, now they see that the ukrainian troops are well trained and have real military potential. ukraine is also helped by what the russian leadership hates each other, kadyrov, prigozhin, shoigu , they all hate each other, and this

hatred seeps into the colonel-generals and other people under them , which means that the russian defense will fail if ukraine will continue in the same spirit, what do you think are the weakest points in the defense of the russians and in their military strategy during the current summer campaign, as they say in the army, the first reports are never as good or as bad as they appear at first glance, so it is worth it should always be noted that the commanders are currently fighting a desperately tough fight , but despite our great desire to be informed about everything, we are currently dispensing frankly limited information and do not know exactly what is happening there. we have to stock up patience with the ukrainian general staff and ukrainian soldiers they are doing an amazing job but it will be a few more days before we can know

more it is not obvious right now some tactical weaknesses on the russian side looking at all these videos from cops bunkers minefields and other these are complex defense lines but it is the soldiers in these trenches that are crucial so i am waiting to see if the russian soldiers have become better in defense than they were in attack but that remains to be seen to find out at the highest level of command, the ukrainian general staff has done a very good job investigating russian logistics hubs, the headquarters, making it difficult for the russian troops to make decisions about retaliatory maneuvers, and again , the lack of cohesion at the highest level of the russian leadership, in my opinion, is a vulnerable point for the ukrainian general staff will investigate in the future why i spoke separately about the hysteria among the russians, this means that they do not know they cannot

predict how our the military and they do not understand the strategic plan of our command. a couple of days ago, there was an exchange between our commander-in-chief, valery zulzhny, and the chief of the american joint staff , mark nilly. what do you think milly and zulzhny talked about, of course, i do not know what exactly they discussed. provided general milli with an assessment of how the counteroffensive is progressing and what the operational situation is, the lieutenant probably emphasized what ukraine needs in the coming months. and general milli gave to understand that he will continue to do everything possible so that the usa and other countries that support ukraine continue to provide their assistance. so this was a conversation between two professional soldiers who treat each other with great respect and who discussed

the current challenges. how do you assess the overall work on the battlefield of the american military and european military equipment, in particular, we are talking about the same second leopards, the leopard tank is an extremely good machine. but, as in everything, a lot depends on the competence of the personnel who operate it, as well as on how well commanders use tanks in battle, it is not surprising that some tanks were damaged in the first days, but i note how quickly the ukrainians were able to restore these tanks, remove them from the battlefield so that they could be repaired, this is an important skill that ukraine has already demonstrated, so i think we have a lot more to do we will see when the active phase of the counter-offensive will begin, we will see a larger number of leopards and other tanks that will be surrounded in battle, and then the advantage of the ukrainian troops thanks to

modern tanks will become obvious, we understand that there may be several scenarios of the so-called big summer campaign, how large-scale combat operations will be in general and how actively russia will connect resources , do they have appropriate resources in your opinion, in particular , it is about equipment, artillery and human prepared resources, i assume that the ukrainian general staff will put pressure on russia in in several different places, of course, i don't know the plan of the ukrainian general staff and i shouldn't know it , because the ukrainian general staff is very smart and does an excellent job of protecting information what i am telling you is my subjective assessment of what is happening. in my opinion, one of the primary goals is to reach the connection between crimea and russia. i mean somewhere between mariupol and melitopol, that is, in the area of ​​the land bridge. it can be assumed that ukraine would like to be able to block

this road in order to start isolating crimea, and therefore to bring more long-range systems there to start striking sevastopol with sakakh janka so that crimea becomes unusable for russian troops and so that they can no longer to be there. this is an important part of the company, which will probably start in the next two months. the provision of storm systems to great britain is a significant contribution, thanks to which ukraine already has the opportunity to hit much more distant targets. systems of long-range radio judges that would allow ukraine to strike even deeper into the rear of the enemy , however, until the moment when this happens, ukrainian forces will continue to try to isolate crimea also thinks that strong

efforts will be directed to ensuring the safety of the nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia before russia can cause another catastrophe. we understand that we need long-range missile systems . hysteria , and in particular a member of the russian security council, former president medvedev made an extremely serious threat, which we talked about much earlier, in particular, he mentioned the risk of destruction of trans-atlantic cables, as far as we understand, the russians can prepare one or another provocation in the north, in particular in the arctic region, it is not a surprise to me that russia can try to do this, they have definitely worked for years on the possibility of attacking underwater infrastructure, and of course we know about it, i expect that all relevant organizations and departments are doing everything possible to protect the underwater infrastructure over

the last year medvedev has demonstrated all his brilliant strategic potential, it seems that he has spent most of his time on threats while it was better to worry about our own soldiers and our country, and not planning the destruction of the infrastructure of western cities. dear mr. generals , vilnius is approaching, and we understand that there are voices that are starting to talk about security guarantees, concrete guarantees, not paper security guarantees for ukraine, everyone knows that the best security guarantee for ukraine this is its membership in nato and i hope that this will happen soon, i hope that specific steps will be announced at the vilnius summit that will make everyone understand that the future ukraine in nato, even if they are not called

an action plan regarding membership. i think we will hear a few concrete steps that will give us this understanding. i will be disappointed and think that vilnius itself will be unsuccessful if this does not happen, and of course everyone, and in particular the nato leadership, understands this well. meanwhile, the united states as well as some other countries will do everything possible to help ukraine defend itself after it wins over russia and the occupier leaves the territory of ukraine, i predict that the united states, poland, great britain, maybe others countries such as germany and france continue to help ukraine develop and improve its anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses to counter the threats that will still come from russia, the key point is that ukraine must retake crimea if russia is allowed to keep crimea. they

will wait for ukraine for one or two years until the west loses interest, and then they will return, and everyone in kyiv knows this, and the most serious strategic thinkers understand this perfectly. ukraine will also be it is very difficult to restore its economy as long as russia holds on to crimea, because it can block access to odesa, mykolaiv, and obviously to the sea of ​​azov, therefore an important part of the security of ukraine will be the ousting of russia from crimea, we understand that when the russians blew up the kakhov dam, it is not just about the largest man-made man-made catastrophe on the european continent after the second world war, it is clear that they can create a similar catastrophe only at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant stations, respectively. i would like to believe that there will be some adequate

response so that the russians do not commit another crime, only this time the crime is related to nuclear energy, russia has made it clear that they do not care how many innocent people die or what damage they cause to the environment. i mean that they behave like this with their own people and their own country , therefore it is not surprising that they can do something like the destruction of the kakhova hpp or something even worse. it is important that not only the west but also china and india made it clear to the kremlin that such ecological terrorism and such ecocide is unacceptable and daring to do something worse, such as a disaster at a nuclear power plant, is definitely not an option for russia , so i think that the west is indirectly through beijing and noodles should as much as possible put pressure on the kremlin, you can also start

to convince all the people from putin's entourage who are also found guilty or brought to justice in the international criminal court or in any other tribunal for all the war crimes committed by them, they must to begin to feel and understand that you will have to pay for everything, thank you very much, mr. generals, for everything you do for ukraine, and of course, thank you for participating in the tv channel espresso get blast america. troops in the united states on the european continent, the time of our program has run out, stay tuned to the espresso tv channel my colleagues work for you non-stop , take care of yourself and your loved ones see you on

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view friends, hello, my greetings, my greetings from chernivtsi, i am in this beautiful city because the mykolaychuk open film festival is currently taking place, in general among our artists i do not know not only cinematographers and in general, people who are involved in culture are considered to be extremely cool, it is positive when some major cultural events take place in any city of ukraine except kyiv, because unfortunately we still have what can be called cultural centralization when most of the interesting cultural events take place in the capital it shouldn't be like that, and of course it makes three people very happy that the mykolaychuk open tea festival named after the mykolaychuk plan is taking place in chernivtsi, and i

want to say that from my point of view there are two main such central events at this film festival, i mean films, of course, first of all, this film called yanina. i'm sure you 've heard of it. another name of this film is lucky girl. and what about this film, because you i think you've also heard of the falcon war and about her book, which is called yanina , in which she quite frankly and, as it seems to me, is very correct. the cancer that she had a few years ago, of course, she did not describe her character, whose name is nina, and she is also a tv presenter. she is very similar to samuel, but

after all, she is a character, and she described all these experiences that janina went through in her book and i personally liked the most that she described very well such things that usually our celebrities do not yet describe in relation to themselves , such a kind of uncomfortable truth, not aesthetic details that are related to the disease, ah , linear sokolova describes all this. well, eh eventually almost at the same time as the publication of this book, which became quite popular and has many good reviews, they began to announce a film with the same name, there were many different concepts, according to one of the concepts , paginnina herself was supposed to perform one of the roles , but as a result, her falcon is not there, there are others characters, i will say that i can't say anything about this movie yet because i

missed it, i couldn't leave my buch in time because all the roads were closed due to the visit of african leaders. and this one i will definitely watch the film and i will inform you when it is released. well, i still want to hope that this film will become therapeutic for many people who will watch it, eh. and it is certain that films made on such topics are so important enough they are social and must carry exactly such contexts, in particular, and the second film that will be shown at the mykolaychuk open and i really hope that i don't miss it is called september, and the main role will be played there by mykola veresen, in general, i want to say that here are these two films, what they have in common

that they stick to names this is still a very important factor in ukrainian cinema because we still have a problem with the lack of the so-called and institute of stars, i mean celebrities who are real actors who know how to act who have the appropriate education and who are at the same time, stars who can draw a lot of people to their name. of course , we have a lot of popular, cool, very talented actors, but so far it turns out that television stars and show business stars bring much more audience, do you think as long as our cinema, our film industry is being formed, it is necessary. if you want a movie that will attract attention, invite a media person there. let her not be an actor or actress, but in fact, this is exactly it. on this principle and in particular

, the film september is probably being built. the biggest long-term projects in ukrainian cinema, and in general , we will have a lot of them for a long time, that is, i will explain this movie, which is shot for a very long time, a year , not two, not three - 10, 12, maybe. of course, this is not good for the film, because a is constantly the script changes, the concept, the title can change, the directors can change fundamentally, the whole meaning of the film can change, for example, as from the film maxim osa, because at first it was one film with one actor , one script, one director , all the money was spent on it, then they decided to delete it all, it does not do they said and differentiated it in a completely different way here, er, the way of the dead er, earlier, and we can watch the trailer of this film on youtube, it was positioned, which is now the film september

is positioned as a trash comedy and ah, this such a specific genre that not everyone likes. that is, if you oversimplify it, it will be such a stupid comedy , so what will happen with some i understand all the realistic moments with jokes that will have a very close audience and therefore it is interesting to see what is in this film i will say that mykola veresen plays the main role there. he is played by actors who play ivan the terrible and dies on the set, goes to hell, and the devils think that this is the real ivan the terrible and begin to invent some kind of punishment for him. nothing else about this tape i can’t say, i can only guess from my own experience, that usually such films cause very contradictory reactions , they either don’t like it terribly or, on the contrary , some part of the people at romanov get a kick

out of such a viewing, but i’ll tell you everything on tuesday, when this film is released, and i’ll see what well, now we will move on to such a topic called beraktarshchyna, we have already talked more than once about uh, this concept of this problem . although, on the other hand, many ukrainians do not think that this is a problem, i will explain. maybe if who has not yet heard what the whole thing is bairaktarshchyna, somewhere from maybe last summer they started to call it something from mass culture and marketing that in one way or another speculates on war on patriotism or looks like this because you never know if people are really speculating on wars, or are they sincerely trying to raise some topics to improve someone's mood

, make people's lives more optimistic, and so on. they are called uh there, i don’t know beauty salons or shops, why else, bairactar, javalin for example, near my house there is a beauty salon bairactar, or javelin, and in the restaurant a small bairactar, well, that is, well, this is such a rather contradictory story, and because there is no relation to the directors to javelins and to the military theme ani beauty salon ani er this restaurant does not have but there were cases , remember, with a drink bucha-bucha there was not a scandal over beer heroes do not die and these were indeed cases when people who are all released, we had to write an apology and say that we didn't think of something, we released something stupid and we will not release such a product. but if we are talking about

show business, then there is the same situation as in democratic countries, ukraine is a democratic country, usually many issues are resolved by viewers, listeners, people in general, if we are talking about show business, of course , the word of the listeners, the word of the audience, plays a very important role, and here we have a lot of musical material that can be be interpreted as sharovarshchyna, if it were rector's shchyna. that is, berektarshchyna is the new sharovarshchyna. this is something done very, uh, primitively. we are very good. this is very sincerely not. very high-quality, in the opinion of many people, but some songs are clearly interpreted by the audience as something very bad and that there is something else like that on the contrary, it finds a great response in the audience and the songs become extremely popular, it is very interesting to watch how all this uh, um

, branches out, how this is all interpreted and this week, the singer is famous, i can say the ukrainian singer masha kondratenko has already released an announcement of a new song on tik tok, which, uh, i don't know what it's called yet, it seems there's no name there yet, but it 's about crimea and tik tok, which was once considered a slightly stupid and not very intellectual network speaking, now this is not so much the case because there is really a lot of useful information there, although the social network itself, as a chinese one, is also questionable, but in the end we can see in tiktok that there was a stormy discussion of this small announcement there, masha sang only the chorus, and people began to discuss it in two contexts , firstly, as lyrics, and secondly, it is the very message that the song says about crimea and how we will soon be near the sea, we have to

pack our bags and prepare for the fact that in july-august we are already lying on the beach in yalta, let's listen to this song . there are a lot of comments under all the announcements , your kondratenko posted several such videos , and what, what happened next, what happened next, what happened, the border kondratenko said that she would not listen no criticism because they say children especially like her songs because they lift the spirits of ukrainians and they have the right to exist, no matter how many critics

they receive . it was heard there now, 26 million views are a lot, and at first the song, which is called, was very popular with the audience, but in a small company , a small, which is called an information bubble of musical crickets and people who, ah, well are interested in music, and discussions began already then, in particular, because of this song, what is berektarshchyna, what is bad about it, what should be done with it? well, they say that it primitivizes ukrainian culture, we know that during the soviet union there were practices of exactly this kind of primitivization of all other cultures except russian, when ukrainians, for example

, were left with borscht, they were left with wreaths , dumplings, etc. now, it seems, both sharovarshchyna and bayrakterschyna also contribute to the formation of this myth, this is also a rather controversial point of view, because i think that our current music industry is developing quite well , because i absolutely support another myth, uh, about the fact that ukrainians are such a singing nation in us there are a lot of talented musicians and our music industry is very complete. i believe it will be even more complete in the future. as it develops, you can find very different songs in us. if you want to listen to something really cool and a popular classic, you can do it, you can find it in any genre, and therefore if you don't want to listen to rktarshchyna and masha kondratenko, you can not do it at all, we have enough alternatives, but the further the better more these