about five people, yes, one of these five people is our neighbor, with whom we were very good friends , so this is another very painful news for us personally, natalya. colleagues who are personally happy for your family that you survived this situation and take care of yourself. thank you very much for telling our story. if possible, i want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supports because there are a lot of people, both colleagues and non-colleagues. thank you very much. i i did not expect such powerful support, and the truth is, this is the most powerful people that can. thank you very much nataliya sokarchuk, a resident of a destroyed building in lviv, she and her family managed

to survive tonight, in particular, in particular , because she was not ignored, even at the last moment, but the air alarm was not ignored and people came out of the house , thank you very much. well, i want to urge you to subscribe to radio svoboda, like this video , support our work in this way, we will go further in belarus, three camps where russians were trained are being dismantled mobilized, the dismantling of the camps began at the beginning of july. this was reported by our colleagues from the belarusian service of radio svoboda, based on the analysis of satellite images, it is about the lepelsky training grounds in the vitebsk region , the repyscha near osypovychy and obusylisnovsky near baranovychy. experts interviewed by radio svoboda put forward several versions of why these camps are located in landfills decided to liquidate , in particular, they connected this decision with the appearance in belarus of mercenaries of the wagner group, but at

the same time today oleksandr lukashenko said that there are no mercenaries of wagner in belarus, who do not have the leader of the wagner group yevgeny prigozhina lukashenko added that the group of wagner can be placed in belarus on the condition that the mercenaries are used by yatsetuya and for the defense of the state and are in their camps permanent camps eh in those camps where they were after uh withdrawal uh from the front for recovery treatment rest tak dalehe dyotsiya obychnaya for such a war uh and here after bakhmut artemovsk they were withdrawn to their camp there they are today and are uh что к соится пригожина he is in st. petersburg well, i will remind you that after the attempted mutiny, yevgeny prigozhin, the founder of the wagner group, as reported in the kremlin, will go to belarus, but he probably hasn't gotten there yet. and here is one of

the questions if you look at this whole story through the prism of the war in ukraine lies in how the kremlin can use the wagnerites in the war against ukraine in the future. meanwhile , the bloomberg agency, citing data from the kiel institute of the world economy and the oriks analytical project, reports that russia and ukraine have equaled the number of available tanks, russia began a full-scale invasion with almost 3.5 thousand tanks, but during the 16 months of the war, according to the year data, it lost a little more than 2,000 units of heavy equipment, including 545 tanks that were captured by the armed forces of ukraine . at the time of the russian invasion, ukraine had about a thousand tanks in the year of confirmed that during the war, the armed forces of ukraine lost more than 550 tanks, but these losses were replenished, including at the expense of captured russian tanks, as well as thanks to the supply of western countries. well, in the meantime, each of the parties now has

has about 1.5 thousand tanks . these are the calculations published by the bloomberg agency. well, ivan krychevskyi, an expert of the defense express military portal, joins our broadcast. do i agree with this ukrainian experts and what does this mean in the end for the further conduct of the war well, unfortunately or honorably, i can speak purely for myself and i can only say that this is , to put it mildly, a strange calculation because we would have you suddenly there were 1,500 tanks, and there would be even a small advantage, even if there were hundreds of machine-atrashists. well, i would not exaggerate , as i would say that we would have already planned a march to moscow, and not small counterattacks there with such fierce skirmishes for bakhmut and on the south, as they say, is it some kind of strange nekorik not for calculation, because you don’t know

, it’s in the literal sense, somehow, people who, hmm, start with more income, even more. so it’s easier to explain people who took into account the balances of tanks, for example, in our country, they probably count only what they get, for example, in terms of salary and what they spend, i'm sorry, they don't count well, because to take and just count what we had there before the war, uh, there were 900 tanks, to add 500 trophy tanks and take a reduction to add these leopards in the western coalition and where did we get that we suddenly had 1,500 tanks, and without taking into account other open sources , including, let's say, the data that the ministry of defense of ukraine declared to western partners about losses because the first such statements were in the public space as early as july 2022, there we had at least 411 lost armored vehicles, in particular tanks , and you know this was the period when, for example, the first months and weeks of the war, the rashists could

bomb some of our tank companies with iskanders, you can imagine the level of ferocity of losses, more than that it was being prepared there russian talent, the forest, and similar jokes, there were many stories about how the russians drop tanks in the kharkiv region and run away, and then it turns out that of those several hundred tanks that were counted in the battle formations, it was literally possible to fight to put well, that's what the sir stated, how many two mechanized two tank battalions well, let's make an optimistic assumption that there are enough tanks for the stables, roughly speaking , no. so, i'll repeat this even before what if... as for the russians, well, you know, you can take this floor way, open the guide to the series of measurements and find out that, for a start, the rif army has 1,800 more tanks in service , and at least 5,000 more tanks are counted for storage, which they regularly remove unfortunately, we can now see how the russians are introducing new t-90 tanks

, a breakthrough, which they produce at a rate of 15 tanks a month, not at all, the old ones and 62 and t 55, well, which for some reason, unfortunately, they have spare parts those added according to the occupying forces that were in the public space also appear there. that the russians are somewhere around 1,800 because i have ready-made tanks. so this literally means that it is easier for russia not to have all the tanks it has ready for the war against ukraine, why, for example, there was almost no prigozhin what to stop well, but conclusion about what we have suddenly it became sharp, you know, according to soviet standards, yes, a tank army for 1,500 tanks, you know that if, well, if we literally had five tank armies, luzhny would be very happy and literally talk about planning on the way to moscow, and not all of that, we are watching the car i hope or think that zaluzhny still does not plan to go to moscow, and the first priority is to liberate the ukrainian territories

. you claim that russia has a significant advantage in tanks despite the fact that ukraine was promised tanks there, although you may know that they calculated with those tanks that were promised but have not yet arrived, well, you understand, such situations are actually specific because there is a value in all calculations which we cannot take into account, this is a tank that we had in storage as of the year 2022 and could be restored by the domestic industry . moreover, in such different profile social networks, well, let's say tanks with such a feature that they were with us and were restored, they are recorded. but everything is equal , you know. do not take into account in this case. by calculations of orex well, this is at least an exaggeration, of course, calculations according to open sources are always such a specific story well, if only because , for example, if the russians can evacuate their

tank from the battlefield, they repair it, which they unfortunately do, well, but we can too to take their tanks from the battlefield to repair nevertheless it was a very incorrect calculation, accordingly, there is no way now to talk about the fact that we suddenly have more tanks than russia, therefore, that is the advantage well , because, once again, where did they even get that russian 1 400 are not tanks, their tank fleet is not being replenished, well, i understood you well . here volodymyr zelenskyi gave a big interview with cnn, in fact, a few days ago and we are still discussing this interview, and in this interview he said that, uh, counteroffensive of ukraine was slowed down due to the fact that russia had strengthened its defense line there quite powerfully and that he would like the supply of western and western weapons to begin earlier and allow the panther offensive to begin much earlier i i how did you understand these words of the president and that something has already been lost or something else ahead. how to understand this. i think that here

it is not necessary to get so attached literally to these words of the president and the supreme commander-in-chief, which he declared, well , in the literal sense, maybe everything is still ahead, well, because, well, we know you now we just found ourselves in a situation that is expressed by such a catchphrase that there is no conventional way in history, well there and if this were the same because well, on the one hand , it would really look like an ideal situation that well well, if the same leopards would be given to us literally because there immediately behind a few days after the winter coalition , well, on rammstein, not there, but there are some rental cars, the leopard, for example , arrives from spain only after easter , but on the other hand, well, in general. so we needed not only tanks, we needed in general, the units and perhaps you know just that the counteroffensive did not start as quickly as everyone expected. well, after easter or right after there in may, souls will knock, maybe it was just there that mine played a role in the

plan, which made it possible to prepare more and better fighters. well, because even with the challenges that we have now, well, no one has ever encountered this before, no one has ever encountered such extensive fortifications in history, no one has encountered such extensive minefields, no one has encountered only dense enemy fire. there are also things about some slackness and postponement and the like, let's note that now, unlike the previous stages of the war , you and i do not hear the most important part of the war from where from the front about the shell famine, suddenly somewhere there was a problem with the shell famine. there , the so-called delays in supplies and the western allies made it possible to simultaneously solve this problem with a decent famine, and here the question is that we have less artillery in the barrel than the russians, but at the same time, no one talks about the shortage, they just say

about the fact that the russians are creating more missiles well, unfortunately, such a historical situation has developed, that is why there is such a double story. hmm, in principle, everything that will be related to the supply of western aid should be taken into account. one thing in itself should be taken into account . equipment is not fought on it , trained units must fight, and accordingly, when we speak about some deadlines faster faster faster well, it's possible exactly and it's good that hmm there are some combat operations taking place later than they were planned because the more trained our soldiers are, the more chances they have to survive in battle unfortunately, we cannot scatter human resources as rashistiv, well, what kind of training course for the wagner soldiers there was only two weeks was considered elite compared to the average composition of the russian army, we cannot afford such a thing maybe even a five-week training course according to nato standards for soldiers well, it would still be possible to continue it, it just has to be compressed due to the condition of wartime. by the way, about human resources, just today, in the review of british intelligence, it was said that in order to deter the counteroffensive of ukrainian forces

russia is withdrawing or has already withdrawn military formations from the whole country, i did not fully understand the quality of these military formations , but the other day there was information that the ministry of defense is already directly recruiting in russian prisons, how unlimited are the resources of russia at the moment, well, you know here you can give even such an electric figure well, it’s just that if the ministry of defense of britain allows itself to do this, then for one side it is really right in some way well, because it eats m-m units that they talk about, they really were involved, but the russians did not take away their troops. and if we talk about the confession of the personnel shortage. well, okay , the western time changes and given that we should have 12 trained brigades in the reserve there on western equipment, or on the equipment of the warsaw pact, obtained there under various rammstein well, not so-called torture in the suburbs, but on one of the parts of the front in the south, where the troops were advancing, that is , the russians were conducting combat operations, they concentrated 12

brigades and personnel regiments, and there, in particular , you appeared in her pro- about the personnel of the 64th, here the rifle brigade was the infamous butch cats, there was even the 177th marine brigade from the caspian, they were paid by the mariupol cats there. unfortunately, there were such personnel and sufficiently trained military personnel, roughly speaking, well, you know, if it is not a personnel that constantly switches to counterattacks which unfortunately, it is difficult to set mini-traps, in principle, to introduce dense fire. no , we do not even have enough motivation to enter and try to repel individual positions near, let’s say, separate settlements, even for half a a few days later, when there was nothing official, they were already released . unfortunately, this is a sufficiently trained personnel, but it turns out that for some reason, in history, when the russians threw prisoners from the wagner pvk en masse on an assault, they allowed them to gain time to train their personnel soldiers, and it turns out that they even in this story, they are trying

to mash-up the story, what is there to recruit dorothy for, how, where else was there, well, cheap manpower and so far he had. continue to try to learn, well, the cadre of the military, especially since i have already gone to that well, here is more hmm to talk about the ministry of defense and here, well, data from our general staff that russia plans to form several divisions, possibly one general military army during this year, recruiting up to half a million people is at least incorrect that's why i just once again come up with the story that maybe it just plays to the benefit of some delays in our military operations if they allow us to better prepare the personnel because we can catch up in terms of the number of mobilization reserve well, unfortunately, purely demographically, we will not be able to chase after weapons, apparently ukrainian diplomacy is currently working on this, including today, i stated and we will talk about this again volodymyr zelenskyi was in bulgaria on a visit and i want

to ask you a as of now, what bulgaria could do to help ukraine once, well, recently , experts there have mentioned this many times that bulgaria has large stocks of soviet weapons - are they only soviet weapons or something else? what are the expectations? do you hear me right? let's say that in bulgaria, for some reason, it disarmed its army after the collapse of the soviet union, but kept its production facilities, moreover, hmm bulgaria, which can be such a good cooperator for us in terms of ammunition production. that last year, the production of e-e ammunition in the soviet standard, well, it was even just open sources , did not reveal any secret, and maybe just bulgaria became one of those countries that helped us

to solve the problem of ammunition starvation before the counter-successor, what does it relate to, it means some other specific things in the defense of the sky? well, there were reports in the west to move bulgaria still did not agree to sell us the s300, despite some tempting offers from the usa that were made. but it is possible that bulgaria will not agree to give the components to mig-29 aircraft, what kind of aircraft are they and they fail badly, which she wants to find a replacement for. she is just a benefit because i am 16 and they will not be available soon, and spare parts for mig-23 9 are needed a lot accordingly, bulgaria will be here and could help us in the end . well, bulgaria even manufactures small arms, and we always need small arms . there are some things that relate to direct interaction well , because well, once it's here, you can talk not only with state players, but even with private players who can still be there

well, t-72 and bmp tanks are in storage, and it will not even be announced publicly. but nevertheless, some amount of soviet armored vehicles modernized according to nato standards may urgently end up under private contracts. of volodymyr zelenskyi's visit today during the broadcast we will return to his visit to bulgaria ivan krychevskyi, an expert of the defense express military portal, was on radio svoboda thank you nato membership in the exchange reform white house commented on the us position regarding ukraine's membership in nato, in particular , white house spokeswoman karin jean-pierre stated at a briefing that nato member states will make a decision on ukraine's membership in the alliance when it, i.e. ukraine, meets all the requirements and carries out the necessary reforms . empire reminded that any decision regarding membership in the north atlantic alliance is made between the 31 allies and also

the applicant country for membership itself. we have clearly expressed our position. we are committed to nato's open door policy. discussed with our nato allies in ukraine how we can jointly support their aspirations for euro-atlantic integration, but i am not going to go into details and reveal private conversations, president biden has already said that reforms will have to be carried out in ukraine to meet the same standards as any other country for maintenance before joining he believes that it is possible that ukraine can do it but again, we are committed and we have been committed to nato's open door policy and will support it in the future well, on the words of jean pierre reacted in the ukrainian foreign ministry, the spokesman of the ministry, oleg nikolenko, in response called on the event to reform its attitude towards russia. i thought that we will show now

, let's show now, let's listen to what nikolenko said in the end. the statement was quite interesting . except for ukraine, there is no other country in the world that would conduct so many reforms in the conditions of a large-scale war on our territory, at the same time we believe that one reform in the world remains unfinished, this is the attitude of the west to the role of russia in architecture of euro-atlantic security, as soon as our partners will consider the issue of ukraine's membership in nato without looking back at moscow, it will become obvious that giving ukraine an invitation to join the alliance already at this stage corresponds to the security interests of the allies and will be an important step for restoring peace in ukraine and europe in general and preventing the repetition of russian aggression in the future well, just from such a monologue of the representative of the ukrainian foreign ministry, one can conclude that in kyiv they really want and still hope

to hear from the usa inviting ukraine to nato, a political invitation believing that this would play an extremely important role before the nato summit, but so far they have not heard, but instead we see that calls for reforms continue to be heard from the usa, and andrea joins our broadcast cullen, the official representative of the us state department, andre, hello , hello, well, you heard the representative of the white house, and karyn jean -pierre actually repeated the words of joe biden about the fact that the countries of nato will make a decision concerning ukraine then when ukraine will meet all the requirements and carry out the necessary reforms, eh, could you now clarify what is meant by reforms? well, first, i want to underline what eh, these reforms are, eh, and it depends on eh every country that wants

to become a member of nato but this is a prosthesis that dubai, a country that wants to become a member of nato, must go through this process . er allies and er when liter and nato countries встречаются er-er next week er-er in vilnyuyu a-and just when they will have the opportunity to speak personally with president zelensky and a-and here er-er ukraine will be er-er in the center of attention and of course they will speak a-er not only that, but the situation is now. well, we can do what nato can do, what you support the eurodontic a-a desire of ukraine and all that. let me return to the reforms. you said that each country has its own list of reforms that it must

implement. if you talk about here is ukraine eh, what reforms should be carried out not slowly , which have not yet been carried out, but they are necessary for ukraine's membership in nato , because you saw only that the statement of the representative of the ukrainian foreign ministry, he says that ukraine is generally the country that carries out the most reforms, do you agree? you use such a wording to talk about what kind of reforms the usa is talking about. well, there are different reforms to fight corruption, for example , there are different financial reforms. for nato as an alliance a-a so that again, to return to the meeting that will be er-er next week , this is exactly the place where these issues can be discussed.

god bless you for the next thing after the end of these meetings. we will also be sure to follow nato there . but now in ukraine, many people perceive this nato summit as er-perceive it and somehow recall the summit that was held in bucharest in 2008. then with a light hand in germany and france , ukraine received the pdp , and many politicians and diplomats still believe that angela merkel, being the leader of the western world, played a decisive role in this decision. sammy in vilnius will play the role of angela merkel, he, too, being the leader of the western world, does not show leadership, and it is obvious that if joe biden says that the usa supports the invitation of ukraine to nato, then all other countries agree with it, but he is silent

what do you think? why do i, er, think i would characterize the er, action of nato in a different way, how they make a decision, and everything is on you as a consensus, and it is necessary for all countries to agree, er, if we look at er sweden's membership a-a which e-e we are waiting for the e-e future a-a e-e it is e-e necessary that all countries e-e nato agree a-a so that e-e say that one person can they are persuading everyone to make a decision, this is not the case, everyone is 3 in nato, this is 30 - one country, which are making their own decisions. well, uh here is the meeting again, as we will er see next

week in venice, they play a very important role because it gives an opportunity for them to openly er have such conversations to raise er such er- these are very serious questions. yes, i understand that the consensus is the voice of each country. all 31 countries must say either yes or no , but you may not agree with me. in the studio and in general, they say that after all, the deciding vote is big political weight in the alliance is held by the usa , if the usa now made some kind of political invitation for ukraine to join nato, it would radically change the situation

. u.s. president biden is in the administration of the american people , we will support ukraine and see ukraine as a democratic, sovereign , independent, prosperous country, and it is precisely because of it that the united states allocates assistance to ukraine, so that ukraine can defend itself now, it takes a good position on the battlefield to fight russian aggression and after the war, so that the armed forces of ukraine could guarantee the security of ukraine in the long term, and the united states would like to to see ukraine in nato after the war, eh, i see ukraine as eh very much, eh, so that ukraine eh was prosperous and eh, so that she saw eh safe life

, so that ukrainians could live peacefully with your country. that's uh and nato is one of uh organizations that guarantee the security of the european region are working to guarantee security in the european region . there are also other alliances and there are many partners who want to work together to help ukraine so that ukraine and the ukrainian people can be. and we will continue this support in the future. andrea well, here we are now . we are talking about some kind of political invitation of ukraine to nato. this is actually a very symbolic gesture . biden this does not mean that the fifth article of the treaty will be activated. this does not mean nato's participation in the war. but this is a very clear signal

that is absolutely obvious to the kremlin and putin that the future of ukraine is in nato, and the absence of such a signal or proposal is, after all, a gift to the kremlin that everything is not so clear-cut, of course . we support it, but it’s not so clear-cut. isn’t it the case that the kremlin doesn’t read it like that ? the usa shows that we are we will support ukraine and we will continue to do this for as long as it will take, and we will see what they are talking about next week in vilnius, but i am sure that there will be a very full-fledged conversation and what we we will see after the summit a-a very a-a strong words of support for ukraine because

it is important to me only for ukraine it is important for europe and for the whole world in general why does the ukrainian community still want to hear some political proposal from joe so much biden because in next year there will be presidential elections in the usa, and it is quite possible that donald trump will fight again if he has crossed out the president , and it is quite possible that he will win, well, we cannot rule it out, and some political observers believe that trump will persuade ukraine to negotiate, that trump will persuade ukraine to negotiate with his own territories that he will block ukraine's path to nato the point of view of these risks and here it is important to emphasize that our support for ukraine does not depend on the administration of the president , it does not depend on the political party , the democrats, or i am a tourist from the bublicans