[000:00:00;00] they are staying, they are actually there, as they say, until the court decision, this is their official position. they are waiting for the court decision and they do not believe that if the court makes a decision in favor of the reserve, they will actually leave the monastery. as far as i understand , there are a lot of monks with a pro- ukrainian position. are ready to continue to serve in the lavra with the banners of ukrainian orthodoxy, the only thing that is needed is for this legal process to end or for a legislative decision to be adopted accordingly, which society has been talking about for a long time, but unfortunately such decisions to today's verkhovna rada has not been adopted yet, we are all waiting. how will the status and legal status of the ukrainian orthodox church of the former church of the moscow patriarchate be defined in the legislative field? in connection

with what happened with the kakhovka hpp. this is really an extremely serious problem. and this issue is under the personal control of both the minister and the ministry of culture. the actual situation is very it is painful, on the one hand, for khortytsia and for the entire coast from zaporozhye to mykolaiv, in fact, because there are colossal changes that no one could have expected because the construction of the kakhov reservoir was a disaster. now we are witnessing another catastrophe - the sudden destruction of this reservoir and relevant problems er, one of the key problems for the ministry of culture for khortytsia is that er, about a thousand thousand, in total , about 500 er square kilometers were

flooded by the reservoir, this is a huge area the great meadow of zaporozhye, which at one time was a unique audience with a historical, sculptural, and archaeological point of view, and hundreds of thousands of monuments remained unexplored there, which may now become the number one target for so-called black archaeologists. and now i know that the ministry of culture has appealed to all e-e administrations that are located in this on these areas to e-e bodies of the ministry of internal affairs in order to stop this story and on the other hand to start full-fledged archaeological research at the moment, i would like to remind you that this territory is not just a territory of an ecological disaster, this territory remains a zone of contact with the enemy, and if the right bank of the reservoir is mainly occupied by ukrainian troops, then the left bank is currently occupied by the enemy and further actions

regarding the examination of the study studies of this territory are possible only either directly under the control of our military or after the complete liberation of this territory, as far as it is generally possible to consider that the creation of the kakhovsky reservoir caused a serious a blow to the monuments of ukrainian culture and history. you know this, a colossal blow was inflicted, all researchers noted this , including oleksandr dovzhenko , who considered it an extremely catastrophic event for the whole of ukraine, because, well, in a certain way, the great zaporizhian meadow of zaporozhian sich is the place of the genocode of ukrainians and this territory , the territory of 6 zaporozhian siches, was flooded almost without archaeological research, and a unique ecological niche, which was the most important

breeding ground for the black sea basin, was destroyed thousands of square kilometers of flooded meadows were flooded, which provided a huge amount of fodder for livestock. and in fact, this entire unique massif, which has been known since the 5th century bc as heleia. i would somehow or other make myself known in the coming decades, because during the broadcast, the contamination of this water, the constant bloom of blue-green algae, it led to the fact that kakhovka was dying, dying gradually turned into a swamp, and what happened now is, on the one hand, a huge disaster, on the other hand, as far as i am concerned, it will be a huge disaster for the restoration of kakhovka . now we must talk about a powerful international environmental audit and an international environmental project for the actual reproduction of the great zaporizhzhya meadow, the reproduction of those territories that

are now released from their afforestation and their transformation into some extraordinary huge unique ecological site with a new philosophy and er eco-use and water use and er new new conditions for of energy for water management because this is a catastrophe that seems to me to be even bigger in scale than chornobyl and here ukraine without such a powerful international point will not be able to extract experts on these issues because leaving this complex of problems from archeology, ecology, history of energy, water use only to ukrhydroenergo it seems to me that it is absolutely wrong to completely change our approach to this unique territory. thank you mr. maksym maksym ostapenko acting as general director of the kyiv-pechersk lavra national reserve, we were in touch

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want us to start for myself before with how you assess today's situation at the front. i i think that you, like every professional military man, now monitor this situation and how do you characterize the chances of the ukrainian armed forces in relation to the attack on the positions of the russians on the territory of ukraine, today i have the opportunity to be with you and join the positions of the people. in fact, i cannot provide any such deep analytics and of course we understand that now we are looking at the historical context when it is very time that the best place from which we do not need

to make judgments is such a distant rear. and i want to say that, of course, what the ukrainian armed forces have done inspires hope, and it is not only about some weapons systems , it is about the importance of military power. to the successful counteroffensive of what we call the second stage of the war. and i also think that soon there may be another fourth wave of counteroffensives, and therefore now it is very important to move to the primary defensive positions and

take advantage of the moment to push the russians behind the limits of their defensive positions, it is very important to respond to attacks, to know when and to wait, to know how to strengthen your defensive positions , to know how, what initiatives to take into account at e low levels and then the initiative will be. of the free world , which ukrainians will now be able to read. it was published in ukrainian

in the publishing house of our format. there is an underestimation of the danger in the world, do you now think that if the united states had treated the danger from china more adequately, not to me, the security from russia , it would have been possible to avert these events of which we are now witnesses and participants. and vitaly , i really think so, in fact, if we let's look at the period after the cold war like this. it seems that we somehow went on vacation from history and of course. and history has such a tendency to repeat itself, we understand that it is very important and careful to treat authoritarian societies, so i want to say that we thought after the collapse of the soviet union that russia would turn into some other country , a responsible member of the international community. and

then we thought that it would really be that we would have the opportunity to work on global issues and solve global problems . that is, we professed such a belief what a cosmot ali kosmopotali and that is why we sought to guarantee security in particular thanks to the countries that are within the framework of ali ugu and in fact we did not strengthen our defense and this is precisely the key factor when it comes to the defense of freedom and that's why i often spoke about the fact that it is really important for ukraine to strengthen the military defense power, to provide anti-tank javelins for e means in 2017, but we also see that at that time it was not quite adequate, we waited for vitaliy du- vitaliy for a very long time and the game for that

time putin actually dared to do what he dared to do, he had his own desires and they actually significantly exceeded ours - these are aggressive desires - this is why he wanted to stop using the most brutal methods , especially after the president of ukraine they were poisoned in 2003, there was also an invasion of georgia, there were a lot of politically motivated murders, and that's why when we say that there were such cases in various countries, but in particular in ukraine, and in fact it has been going on for 20 years now, now i'm really disappointed and i'm sure that you and your ukrainians, and really everyone regrets why we didn't strengthen the defense, why didn't we , and thanks to such a power that the united

states has, we didn't do more to warn you, mr. general, when you became an adviser to the president of the united states on issues of national security, putin has already challenged the civilized world, all these events happened that you are talking about now, the attack on georgia, the attack on ukraine, nevertheless , president trump and his administration during your stay in this high position and later hoped that it would be possible to come to an agreement with president putin or not. this is a certain innovation that happened not only at this time. it also happened in previous years

. he was guided by the idea that putin would suddenly turn into another country. with his magic to restore the russian empire. and it was he who wanted to recreate it and really he cried these imperial ambitions and that is why i want to say that when we talk about his speech during the munich bespik conference in 2007 and also if we compare his speech that was in in october 2021, it really all broadcasted his desire for an invasive intervention in ukraine, but as you already said , many american leaders and other leaders around the world did not believe that putin really could dare to do such a thing to unleash such a global war on the european continent george bush and when he was president, he looked deep

into his soul. he was very real. he thought that putin is someone who deeply cares about his people, but this was not the case and even after that period there was there were changes in politics and in the relations between the united states and russia, but also the events that took place in ukraine in 2014 also made their own corrections, which then provoked this feeling of weakness, and that is why i think that he feels this weakness in particular of the administration of president biden and just when he feels that he begins to act gradually step by step in the black sea basin and so on , that is, he sees that ukraine did not receive adequate support at that time and therefore uh when we talk about even the decisive

provision of important important weapons for ukraine this also the perception of weakness putin sees it as weakness and we have to show strength and going back to the previous question so let's think what if for example there the united states of nato if they really provided ukraine has what it currently has in terms of defense weapons, if they had done it before 2014, before 2014, i think there is really a big chance that ukraine would not be in such trouble and such a conflict would not have unfolded. and now your burden has fallen on the shoulders of the armed forces of ukraine and on the shoulders of the ukrainian people, so i am really convinced that we could have done much more earlier, tell me, mr. general. and you talked about the situation with putin and with russia with president trump. i just

want to understand why president trump still believes in his ability to come to an agreement with president putin even in such a difficult time, and i think that this is how the national security council, we directed a lot during this period actually on sanctions and on his entourage, and in comparison with previous years under the obama administration, and it really was there was such an occasion when ukraine managed to allocate javelins and other systems that significantly strengthened the armed forces of ukraine, but now, uh , answering your questions, i am really trying to show trump what happened after putin came to power and show him

clearly visually shows different types of russian aggression and after all this can be analyzed, it is possible to understand whether it is really possible to come to an agreement later on or not, because we are the way putin acts, not all of this could be analyzed and understood how to act by speaking and recalling the words of president macron, who also spoke often about the negotiations , in particular in february. last year, he also believed that he could persuade putin to a truce, but we see that this did not happen. that ukraine did not allow this to happen because putin is now not this is how he is now, no one perceives him like this, he will not limit himself to negotiations, and this is again the kind of illusion that someone wants to believe that putin can, putin can behave differently . therefore, the most important thing for us right now is to strengthen

ukraine as much as possible and try to beat putin in a certain way, this is sometimes it can be a false statement, but this is such a scenario, tell me, mr. general. in principle, if we talk about the actions of the current administration, do you think it adequately treats the challenges that exist in the direction of the russian-ukrainian war or you need to be more active. maybe something more serious is needed to activate the political team. today you gave, say, your colleague sullivan, to actually thank the administration for the fact that now they somehow made up for the bad start, because they started quite modestly, giving ukraine much less

than it needed, but from the beginning of the full-scale a-a invasion, the usa only began to increase its, in particular, military aid, in particular, and meetings between presidents , as well as to speed up the supply of weapons, so i think that they have rehabilitated themselves in this regard they have done a good job, they are keeping the entire north atlantic alliance together, in particular around the issue of providing aid to ukraine. i deeply bow my head to your president for his leadership, because to give and be a leader in such horrors that the ukrainian people are going through while fulfilling their duties, and that is why we are now doing everything that it is in our power for you to support the ukrainians and the armed forces of ukraine, so now i would really advise

you to continue efforts from the beginning of february 2022 to move to increased assistance financial and military to ukraine, because so often at the beginning of the invasion we could not distinguish whether it was defense equipment or offensive equipment, but now we clearly know that ukraine needs what range of weapons and equipment we can provide we are thinking about how to provide and we could not provide tanks, we already provide tanks, we could not provide drones of a certain type

. has been able to achieve success on the battlefield and has regained control over its territories since 2014 and so when we think about any future attacks from russia we are indeed determined to have a lasting peace on and even the structure of your beautiful country so i would like to advise to stop this slow approach and to pretend and provide what ukraine is asking for, what it needs for this counteroffensive, but also in the long term, mr. general , i am interested in your analysis of what is happening with the russian army, we consider it quite strong, they always said that this was one of the serious coups, and here it suddenly turned out that the whole operation that was prepared last year , to put it mildly, demonstrated the unprofessionalism of the russian generals and

the russian army, how could this happen , let's look at the very nature of putin's government, this corrupt environment, all these institutions managed by putin and his publicists, his criminal syndicates, this whole network is corrupt if we take all this into account, if we look, for example , at the leader of the russian army, where is he he does not have any basic military experience at all, we see that he is simply lost, and when we talk about some specific russian institutions, there is no such thing at all, let's say lower -level soldiers began to question the orders of their commanders. and this is the case at all levels, i.e.

it is impossible. all this is all about corruption. the entire defense system was transferred to corrupt companies , which structures, so we understand that they did not provide proper military training, they did not properly take care of their weapons, that's all. it looks good, a good picture at the parade on may 9, but when we talk directly about the combat choice about conducting military operations, they just hit everything against the wall of the courage of the readiness of the ukrainian military . strategic as well as tactical on many media platforms we have already seen that this is the picture it has just now

blurred russia will not be able to win russia will not be able to overthrow ukrainian sovereignty let's look at the map on the full scale, let's divide by the number present the presence of russian troops now in the occupied territories, it's all about statistics, we understand that they are now advancing with completely inadequate tactful maneuvers, they fail to conduct reconnaissance and fail to acquire the necessary re-reconnaissance, they fail to carry out successful breakthrough operations fail precisely because of all these reasons that i have just listed, and therefore i think that their defense will also crumble soon, because the victims that ukraine bears are for their own blood