[000:00:00;00] it almost doesn't want that, and berlin is going in the direction of politics. actually speaking, for washington, that's why the question is now really being transferred to well, let's just say, the talent for understanding the military command of ukraine, and we will all definitely pray for it and hope that this is exactly what will allow to break the mentality this is because of the ossified mentality of the western world, because unfortunately it is in the western world, but of course we cannot compare biden with obama , especially with trump. the great war and that is precisely why ukraine must and

should claim to be one of the creators of the international security system of a new new new level , that's how i see it. thank you, valentin. it was valentin , a laborer, a military expert, a writer, a person who knows about the ukrainian army. all or almost all of this, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks and on the youtube platform. for those who are currently watching live on youtube and on social networks, please subscribe to our social networks, like this video. well, join our sponsor club of the espresso channel's youtube club. you will now see the qr-code by going to whom you will receive detailed instructions on how to join our club e-e for those who e-e read sites and are interested in news i will say that we have a wonderful site called espresso tv

, please join which site we work for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for more timely information from ukraine , the world and the front is on our site. we are on the air glenok grand military expert retired colonel of the british army mr. colonel i congratulate you i am glad to see you on the air of the espresso tv channel i hope that everything is going well with us with the communication with mr. colonel mr. colonel the first day of the summit, judging by the statements of zelenskyi, the ukrainian leader wanted to return to the ukrainian capital with an invitation from nato regarding the accession

of ukraine to the north atlantic alliance according to your why did this not happen despite the fact that the armed forces of ukraine demonstrate great success and the ukrainians have shown that they they are fighting for their freedom, for their independence and for their land, it hurts. somehow it was obvious that this should not happen, a lot is going on and not about when and how your forces are behaving on the field, i'm afraid it's actually about the political relations

that exist and also about the political relations that exist inside the country, it was really difficult for zelensky, because unfortunately, such an invitation should never have happened, but mr. colonel, look, albania, er, and other countries located in the balkans were accepted into the north atlantic alliance despite the fact that they had no less of a problem than in the current ukraine, corruption, the lack of reforms and what we have to change in this long plan, which is not called a plan of e-e actions regarding membership, but an annual plan regarding ukraine's accession to nato, but despite this, these countries still joined the north atlantic alliance. how strong was the russian factor in the current situation? how much did nato members

consider russia when making or not making a decision regarding the invitation of ukraine to nato ? to say that this is a very powerful factor, but i don't i am sure that it is possible to compare the actual situation of ukraine with other smaller countries, it is very important that they, when they joined nato, and there were certain instruments of control that they had certain elements where the disciplines of their way of thinking, the way of governing with ukraine is a completely different situation, you have to look at ukraine as a separate identity in in this case, during the year nato received finland and by the end of the year we will receive, rather, the north atlantic alliance receives sweden as a member of the north atlantic

alliance, this is a very serious blow to geopolitical ambitions of putin, the alliance decided not to finish off putin and his russia, he still wants to have russia under control and in such a way that there will be a legitimate government and not some rebels who can take the power into their hands , how prigozhin tried to do it is coming back to my thoughts, which i already had, yes, we are not talking about the struggle , nato does not want to interfere and get involved in any war , they do not want to create such a situation that would instill fear in any of the members

of the alliance, and in this case, what if they will take ukraine into the union in such a situation, it will completely destroy the whole meaning and logic on which nato is built. nato is an organization that would be formed for the sake of all participants, it is part of a coalition for which all participants work , and such coalitions do not enter the war unless they are forced to, well by the way, about the fact that nato did not want to enter the war with russia by inviting ukraine to nato, the former commander of the united states army in europe, ben hodgens, in an interview with times radio , let's hear what mr. hodge said. i listened to various

leaders, in particular the president of the united states, who said that we cannot invite ukraine to nato now because it would mean the beginning of a war with russia, but there is a big difference between the invitation and the entry itself, and this became the biggest disappointment for me. the alliance could have given ukraine an invitation, and then maybe in two or three years to accept it into nato. the same sweden has been waiting to join for more than a year since the alliance doors were opened to them, and it would have been a much stronger signal, and when president zelenskyi called it absurd, he was right. was created to protect europe from russia, well, that is, the ussr at this time, and ukraine actually protects europe from russia. why does it not receive an invitation, mr. colonel, this is a rhetorical question, why ukraine will not receive this invitation, but if nato says that ukraine will not join the north atlantic alliance until the end

war, does this mean or does it not encourage putin to continue russia's war against ukraine indefinitely, considering that this is precisely the condition that prevents ukraine from joining nato? but i think that then , in any case, he wants to continue he wants victory, such an argument is very powerful in this case. personally, i think that this will really give putin a desire to do everything in order to continue the war , but we say that this is about economic resources and we understand the current situation of economic resources in russia in particular, they do not have enough funding to finance

all the infrastructures in order to continue the war in the way the west does, but if the west does not want a war with russia , it means that nato members are saying that that we do not want to go to war with russia to provoke russia, but putin already says constantly in his public speeches that russia is now opposed to this measure, including nato , that is, they perceive a war with ukraine as a war with nato, that is, what nato does not see , putin sees he is talking about the fact that there is a war, there is a west, there is russia, and ukraine stands for a great west, and in fact the west is already in this war , why does the west not want to admit to itself that this war is already much wider than russia’s war with ukraine. so

this is his rhetoric. putin did not attack any member of nato, that is, you cannot accept his words, which only have to be looked at directly at his actions, he did not attack, he did not attack any nato member. therefore, at the moment, he is attacking ukraine. ukraine will receive the support of the g7 countries in general and from the european union and that is why we should not listen to what people say, but look at what they are doing in the background.

the third world war is approaching, the official wrote about this in his telegram, he is writing the preliminary results themselves, nato, everything , as we thought , to increase military aid to the kyiv regime by everything possible with missiles, cluster charges, airplanes, nothing else final the dead end of the third world is a fact, it is getting closer , wrote medvedev, you can treat medvedev differently as a character of russian politics, but what he writes is that russia is pushing and doing it to be a third world war, isn't it obvious and isn't it so noticeable in the nato countries that they are just going into this third world war themselves and dragging everyone along, regardless of whether ukraine will be

in nato or not, i don't think so, but i want to say that the question this is quite controversial, because if we are the door, he has been saying this and he has been saying it repeatedly and with his hands since 2014. we do not hear anything new. own of defense, they support ukraine, they support ukraine, they create a so-called buffer zone around the perimeter of ukraine, as well as around the baltic sea, around the black sea, where

putin can think of something to do. maybe he wants to approach, in fact, that is, from all sides , and therefore i think it is not necessary to seriously catch him what medveda says or what putin says, but we should not expect to build some security politicians , judging by their words, mr. colonel, do nato countries and the western world leave some an opportunity for putin to get out of this war and sit down at the negotiating table and become a person who will shake hands in the west. a very good question and the answer is no. putin is not the one who will sit down at the negotiating table, a person wants to win and if he is in an empty situation , he

never agreed to negotiations, we need to consider this war in pieces and ukraine really needs to reach such a level that it feels like we are in a position when today we can sit down at the negotiating table, of course time will tell us but i believe that if we to expect any negotiations with putin is simply wrong, it will never happen, there may be negotiations with someone who will come after him and there will be someone after putin because he is already sick and old and he does not have much, he will die sooner or later and he is currently spending simply colossal amounts of money and really throws all his resources into the rush of war. therefore, the person who will be after putin. she can act

differently. today, the new york times wrote that biden is preparing nato for a long conflict with russia, drawing parallels with the cold war, or at least that is the conclusion the journalists of this edition came to the conclusion themselves that in vilnius i will quote biden's direct references to the confrontation with the soviet union distinguish this speech from the previous ones, even though the administration has so far rejected most of the cold war comparisons, do you agree, mr. colonel, with the statement that biden is preparing too much for a long conflict with russia, and this conflict will not be in the cold war mode, because there is a hot phase in ukraine, there are tens of thousands of dead, hundreds of thousands of wounded, destroyed infrastructure and yet

yes, is this a war of attrition for russia, a complete attrition that will last for years, maybe even 10 years, first of all, biden is not preparing nato, nato is preparing itself, it is a coalition, yes , we understand that the united states is a powerful driver in nato, we know that nato has a lot of big the role is played a lot by other countries such as finland, estonia and others . in general, we see that every country is preparing for a prolonged war, for a protracted war , not only the united states, we know the situation, there is a situation with the production of weapons in 20 different countries, the production of ammunition has increased, what now biden is speaking more as a spokesman and not as a leader. we know how great britain is preparing. they are really preparing for a protracted conflict. people will be with ukraine

until the war against great britain ends. when the minister of defense of great britain, ben street, was asked about how he reacts to zelensky's accusations regarding the non-supply or lack of weapons and the failure to fulfill certain promises regarding the supply of weapons. ben the hive said we are not amazons, we fulfill our promises, and ukraine should thank zelensky for the weapons in absentia in response the discussion said well, if ben voles wants, we will thank him every morning, thank you, thank you, thank you. how did you perceive this public verbal sparring

? how correct were both ben voles and volodymyr zelenskyi in this situation? can be upset and we have to accept them and in such a state the war is going on now, the war is exerting enormous pressure and i think that the words of ben voles are what he says, there are certain restrictions in certain areas what could have been given to ukraine, they give more modern equipment , ukraine receives such a great power and there are certain limitations in the resources of britain, so

they were talking about their own country. of their military power, there is an understanding that people can get a lot, but people can feel different emotions when they are really under pressure, they all try, everyone tries to provide ukraine with what it needs and i understand both men. i understand that we are really now at such a threshold when there is a certain um understanding that it is also necessary to use diplomacy and not just clear lists of what is needed minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba in an interview radio svoboda said that the first batches of f-16 aircraft in ukraine will apparently appear at

the end of the first quarter of 2024. let's hear what kuleba said. i think that if by the end of the first quarter of next year, the first f-16s will fly in the ukrainian air force is controlled by ukrainian pilots, so it will be according to the schedule, but we need to train technical engineers, we need to prepare the infrastructure, there are many nuances , so the schedule can shift, mr. colonel, russia reacts quite harshly to the possibility of ukraine receiving f-16 planes, it says that there is a compartment that allows carrying nuclear warheads and this will mean that nato is pushing ukraine to a nuclear war with russia , and in your opinion, how will the situation with the f-16 change the course of the russian-ukrainian war, and perhaps in this

in this case, this story will not provoke a nuclear strike by the russian federation on the territory of ukraine. i think that this is another kind of trick from russia. again, this narrative is for domestic consumption. everyone knows that it is complete nonsense and nonsense. we are actually talking about a change in the situation . on the battlefield, it is very important, it is very difficult now for russia with a russian fighter to strike on the territory of ukraine, what they did before, especially in those areas where ukraine is now in an active counteroffensive, this factor is that

the f16a fighters will strengthen the field of ukraine and indeed, the airspace of ukraine and will make it difficult for russia to move, this is because the f16 fighter jets are an extremely powerful fighter, they can do what you do, and they are all russian even before it will be possible to notice them on the radars on the russian radars, that's why is a very important tool to win but we cannot underestimate foot soldiers foot soldiers are people on the battlefield they are also decisive in order to win back territory so they must also be staked in order to advance go ahead, mr. colonel, in vladimir putin's political and military history, he always plays to increase , i.e. increase rates, increase rates every time , and the next rate increase was during

the threats against the zaporizhia npp that it would blow up , that is, there was a lot of talk about it. we saw how russia blew up the kakhovka hydroelectric power plant according to your opinion, does putin still have a large toolkit left in order to place new bets and increase the degree of tension between russia and the western countries, it is running out and we we understand that since 2014 there were a lot of people in kyiv who were excited that putin would resort to using tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield of ukraine. that was 10 years ago and this is

how he is running out of options. the use of nuclear weapons and this will really be a turning point and actually understood that the people who are now his closest circle can turn against him when we are talking about the zaporizhzhya npp, so if, for example, poland suffers from this he will already be in a direct conflict with poland, he does not want such a development of events and i think that even er, even the representatives of china said that they will do everything possible to prevent nuclear escalation , because er, in such a case, china will not be so to support russia, therefore, the risks are really great, it seems, but i do not think that this risk is now as much as it was before, mr. colonel, and the united states

of america and the anti-putin coalition in general say that this war must end with the victory of ukraine or the defeat of the russian federation, as far as it is now obvious that russia will be defeated in this war, will be defeated, and what can we say that the ukrainians should suffer now - it is a long way to victory and to the inevitable defeat of the russian federation, can we say that now, the west does not will stop until this happens russia started this war and it will end with russia really

being defeated on the battlefield and this beyond any diplomacy and russia is really suffering now ukrainians are suffering but now they will push out of russian interventionists is what russia and ukraine must do now, not only because russia invaded their territory this time , but if ukraine does not repel the enemy now, he will attack in the future. westerners in ukraine really have to endure a little more in the second world war, when great britain was fighting the nazis. that's how we endured then, and you ukrainians now have to fight for your independence. do

you share the opinion that in ukraine there is this backlash in ukraine half a year, during which it must demonstrate its strength and superiority over russia from russia's side. i don't think that anyone from the west could express such an opinion , even from my colleagues. i have never heard such a thing. russia wants to present it like this. russia wants to present to the whole world that the support of the west will run out, there will be a certain fatigue, this is based on the propaganda that spreads, in particular, in the countries of the west, semen but the most important thing is that such propaganda is aimed at internal consumption, this is one of their narratives from

the kremlin - it is only propaganda, it is not reality mr. colonel, thank you for participating in the program and we look forward to the next meetings with you on the espresso tv channel. thank you very much . thank you. thank you. this was glen grand, a retired british army colonel. for those who are watching live now, please like this video so that it is trending on youtube. well, subscribe to our pages on social networks, in addition, join on our espresso tv website, we provide complete information about what is happening in ukraine and the world, as well as all the front chronicles are on our website, we work for you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the most up-to-date information is on our website, and in addition, you can join of our sponsor

club youtube channel espresso, follow this link there is a detailed instruction on it, friends, i am putting an end to our program today, i say goodbye to you until the next program, it will include valeriy chalyy the diplomat so wait here, see you soon. zelensky was asked to cool down and be more grateful for the help of the west. today we will once again turn to the nato summit held in vilnius and see what is left of the dry residue. economies of the world do not even promise security guarantees to ukraine too much, but here opinions are divided .