[000:00:00;00] winter, has ukraine prepared for possible russian attacks on critical infrastructure on the threshold of the cold war, will russia decide to start a direct military conflict with nato , today we will talk about this and other things for the next hour with three of our guests, this is the former platoon commander of the battalion, aidar yevhen, a wild diplomat oleksandr hara and military officer and paramedic yehor firsov, but before we start our conversation, let's see how the first of september happened today in ukraine, children went to

school, children in wartime celebrated the first september in a short video hidden in the word oh, the red viburnum will fit me and we are in ukraine, god has taught us to pay first, be already one ukrainian, we will respect everyone , on the night of september 1 near moscow, drones attacked the lyubars and there was a fire in the workshop for the production of electronics for rocket missiles which are called the caliber with which the russians

shell ukrainian territory, let's see how it was . well, we have another small video. the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense published a video of the unsuccessful pursuit of two

russian helicopters and a plane with a ukrainian drone in the sky of the temporarily occupied crimea, we are watching so-so lei so, ukrainian drones are on fire in russia, ukrainian drones are attacking military facilities on the territory of the russian federation and in the regions temporarily occupied by russia for those who are watching us live now friends eh on youtube, i want to say that today we are asking you about the following : do you support zelenskyi in the event of re -election to the presidency, we

phrased our question this way for a reason, because in one of the last interviews zelenskyi stated that that if the presidential elections are held on the 24th and the war continues, then he will not abandon the state and think about running for a second term. so, will you support zelensky in the event of re- election to the presidency, yes, no, and your option , please write in the comments below video we are in contact with yevhen, a wild participant in the russian-ukrainian war, former platoon commander of the aidar p battalion yevhen i congratulate you and i am glad to see you on our air good evening glory to ukraine glory to heroes let's start our conversation with the topic of transferring the war from the territory of ukraine to the territory of russia, because during the last month russia has been on fire, and at the same time this week it has been burning in seven

regions, two days ago the military airfield in pskov was attacked, four il -76 planes were burned, two were damaged, they are raging in moscow and promise to strike in the baltic countries, budanov says that the launch of drones was carried out from the territory of the russian federation, how do these night strikes by drones and on the territory of russia, mr. yevgeny, affect and do they affect the course of the russian-ukrainian war, eh, these strikes they are getting close to having a serious impact on our war, i don't forget that these are the first strikes, in fact we have only just grown the same long arm that our allies refused us, we remember the history that we are categorically forbidden to use

anything on the territory of russia what they give us from abroad is a completely stupid restriction, but whoever gives us weapons has the right to set his own conditions. so, everything is far-fetched. everything also flies to russia. this is exclusively our own production , and we had to go through that very quickly in a year. the path taken by some westerners company for decades and we actually see , er , on some products we actually see er testing of factory prototypes. by beavers, we will remind you that the beavers of this hundred circled in the sky over moscow city, so by beavers, we see the transition to small but serial assembly. well, in fact, the next one we are reaching for is the transition to the assembly line of scaling

of production and as soon as it happens it will already be, well, it may have already become an important factor in this war, but even what is happening now is still affecting the loss of four strategic bombers, it is very painful for the russians, especially since they are strategic bombers have not been produced since 1992 and have long since lost these technologies, the loss of four military transport aircraft is also very expensive and painful, and this is the annual production of such aircraft by the entire aviation industry of russia, well, in the 23rd year, they reported that they had produced five il-76 and wrote in the 22nd year and were proud that this was the biggest issue in all the years. well , the guys from our guru took their annual issue and wrapped it up in one night. you yourself understand that if this continues, then this will also be very seriously influenced by a very interesting selection of electronic industry facilities. and actually the factory in lyubartsy. and before that there was a very interesting silicon factory

, which produces about 90% of all microcircuits of russian production and 100% of microcircuits specifically for the russian defense industry, that is e- he is also connected to this plant in lyubartsy in fact, their defense industry is based on the cruise missile control system of the russians. in this regard, it is very vulnerable because , in principle, there is no enterprise for those things that are really high-tech. well, the russians can, for example, fasten some armored vehicles . a little similar to exactly and this turns out not to be such a problem at all, because such enterprises are extremely exchangeable and they are not that big, so one or two strikes are very accurate and they

actually show what we will continue to aim for in the order of the so-called war of attrition, russia wants to fight us a war of attrition, hoping that it is simply quantitative, always er , their front shell . well, we will look at it in their large-scale, like the russian bear, defenders are actually just very narrow bottle necks and it seems that our gur is just a bottle of bitterness and on the mass well, all the more so because general budanov said that the conflict should be transferred to the territory of russia , meaning a war, that the wider the operations will be , i quote, the better, eh. we also saw this week how eh, cardboard drones attacked the kursk airfield and by the way, we don't know this. let's be precise, but the version about cardboard drones is just a journalistic version , it has not yet been confirmed by anything. although it is not

unfounded, there is one nuance in the version with cardboard drones. we do not produce cardboard drones . cardboard drones are provided to us by australians. and i will remind you once again that all the western allies set us a condition that their weapons should not be used on the territory of russia , so i did not accept the cardboard version so far . of any one operation is clear only in order to carry out strikes on the territory of the russian federation, you need to have your own weapons oleksiy danilov secretary of the national security and defense council said yesterday well, volodymyr zelenskyi talked about what we already have such powers that allow us to strike at 700 km at a distance of 700 km. danilov threatened the kremlin with ukrainian long-range missiles

. let's hear what danilov said . this is a very complicated process. this is the work of large teams, that is powerful work, and today we can say that we have a result, believe me , in the near future, where will wards be, and there will be wards in the literal sense of the word, sir evgeny, is it possible to defeat russia in the war without having this long-range modern domestic weapon that will allow you to hit as far as the urals , maybe even further, where are many factories that produce military weapons and everything that they use here, in principle, you can not forget that most of our victories over the past 1.5 years have been achieved without having

even half of the weapons that we have . is there some kind of universal wonderwaffe or silver bullet for a vampire, as our western allies say, no single weapon can break two wars by itself, and it does not determine who will be the winner, but every technological weapon protects the lives of our soldiers, the more we will have long-range weapons , the less our infantrymen will be forced to die at the front, the arithmetic is very easy to win, well, the afghan mujahideen defeated the soviet union without any long-range weapons, but what a price they paid for it, we are all waiting in ukraine delivery of f-16 fighters and e-e literally last

week e-e this aviation coalition was formed e-e norway the netherlands and denmark promised us e-e with a total number of 70 aircraft the first batch of aircraft should arrive by the end of this year this is as the prime minister said prime minister, there are up to five or six planes there, how does the current lack of planes on the eastern and southern front affect the pace of our counter-attack , although yesterday the secretary general of nato also spoke from toltenberg about the fact that the counter-offensive of ukrainian troops is quite successful, as far as we could be more successful, if we had at least parity with the russians in the sky, this is exactly the same thing that you and i talked about a minute ago, yes, the ukrainian offensive is successful despite the fact that the russians control the sky, our offensive is successful despite the fact that the allies provided us with planes, but the question is

the price, if not there was a 10-12 times advantage of the russians in aviation. and at the moment it is exactly like this, that is, it is not the case that we are talking about parity, it is an order of magnitude advantage, if it were not for this, we could, in principle , build an offensive strategy in a completely different way, in fact, when we were preparing this offensive from in general, it was assumed that we would break through the russian defense with large mechanized columns of the brigade level, and these mechanized columns were supposed to break through to the enemy and then destroy everything there, and in the first week of the offensive, we tried to advance in this way . that this very cool nato strategy works only under the condition of absolute superiority in the sky when the americans first had, for example

, a five-week campaign of bombing and cancer they just completely controlled the sky for 5 weeks and demolished everything they saw, then after that the armored colonies entered and passed in a parade, and when the enemy reigns in the sky , our first attempt to advance in the right way according to nato unfortunately led to very large losses and casualties and we had to to completely rebuild our entire offensive, this is already, i think, from which it is not a secret that in the first week of the offensive, we lost approximately as much armored vehicles . we had to go from our own breakthroughs of russian defense lines and attempts of some deep advances, we had to go to battles with ato companies and platoons and to actually such a gnawing of our infantry by the russian defense line, and so we proved to be stubborn enough and skillful enough that we with new tactics, firstly, we have now reached the second line of defense of the russians, and battles are currently taking place inside the second line, and secondly, we have been able

to maintain a ratio of losses two to three times more than us, despite the fact that they are on the defensive, and we are on the offensive, but this is the great courage and skill of our infantry soldiers. and if it were our sky, then this skill and most importantly, this courage and self-sacrifice will simply be needed, mr. yevgeny, what do you think the west is deliberately delaying the transfer of these planes, it is clear what is needed the structure is needed, the infrastructure is needed, training pilots are needed. there are a lot of things to be done in order for these planes to appear in the ukrainian sky, yes, but why did they just start doing it now, remember how long it took us we had to squeeze out the political decision itself, remember how in april of last year they wanted to transfer to us only the soviet mig-29 from the stocks of poland and slovakia, and biden personally forbade it, and even these soviet

midges flew to us only this spring , exactly a year later, and f- 16 when they actually gave us the go-ahead, they agreed to put them somewhere about a month ago or even less. so, how long have we been digging , literally like woodpeckers knocking about what finally agreed to us, that is, this is exactly how it goes political restrictions about absolutely stupid red lines that are in the heads of some of our allies, including, unfortunately, our main ally in the leadership of the united states, well, that is, the west is afraid of the loss of russia and the collapse of putin's russia, that's how i understand it, if very briefly, from at the beginning of our war, no one, well, no one, but let's say the white house did not say that it wanted russia to lose, there was a wording, we will not let putin win and for a long time - it

coincided, there was no difference between winning putin and do not let putin win but uh, in any case, even stop the russians last year it was too much of a task, but when it became clear that this task to prevent putin from winning , it has already been achieved and now our paths diverge because now we have to our victory is complete, but the white man did not sign up for this, he only signed up for putin not to win , and this is the difference. that's the problem for russia that the white house has not yet realized that there are only two options so that the intermediate compromise option will in fact be a victory for russia. thank you, mr. yevgeny, for the conversation . on youtube and on facebook for those who are currently watching us on youtube

we are conducting a survey today today we are asking you about the following do you support zelenskyi in case of re-election to the presidency yes no write your option in the comments why do you think about it we ask because the president himself yesterday, answering the questions of portuguese journalists, said that he is considering such a possibility if the elections are held in 2024, if the war continues and he does not abandon ukraine just like that. voting results, who will support, what percentage of our viewers support zelenskyi in his re-election as president of ukraine. of foreign and security policy of the center for defense strategies, mr. oleksandr. i welcome

you and i am glad to see you on our air. good evening, i am also glad to see you on friday, so, so, oleksandr, the nobel foundation will again receive ambassadors to russia, belarus, and iran. at the 2023 award ceremony in stockholm, although last year they decided not to invite representatives of two countries due to the war in ukraine, russia and belarus, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine has already condemned such a decision, as stated in the message of the foreign policy department such a decision of ukraine is explained by the desire to directly prove its values , even to those states that oppose them , to prove the values ​​of humanism to russia and belarus. sisyphean sisyphus and labor. to

see the ambassadors of russia, belarus and iran , doesn't this mean, oleksandr, that the world is preparing to forgive russia for the war in ukraine? no, i don't think so, because it's probably some kind of stockholm syndrome when they suffered, but they actually accept terrorists as the norm. i think that the roots of this lie in the fascination and lack of understanding of russian culture, which is actually such a small layer on top of the bottomless suffering of the first century of suffering as russians themselves. what kind of people are they? now there they call who and whom they could reach , it seems to me that the roots of this lie in the misunderstanding that this part of our continent was deprived, first of all, of course, of the enlightenment , then of the renaissance, and actually the language that

europeans after two great conflicts on the european continent found an understanding and forgiveness of each other, and she simply did not understand these northern mountains, and it seems to me that the problem is actually that culturally speaking, certain representatives of western europe are, well, they are vulnerable to this battering ram or trojan horse of russian culture through which this the influence is spread and of course any explanation that the russian ambassador will mean to hear the whole truth about the war about the suffering and so on, well, this is absolutely nonsense, only one diplomat and that of a low rank russian who he resigned after a large-scale invasion, not in the 14th year, when this war began and crimea was illegally seized. and all diplomats understand that this was a direct violation of international law, and of course they understand history, they remember how

the second world war began, so they expected from russian diplomats who are in fact propagandists, they are not diplomats , the words of some kind of understanding that they do not carry it anywhere makes absolutely no sense, it is a pity that what can we say like this in the second year of a large-scale war in the 9th year of a general war, but in fact the 20th anniversary of the reign of this tyrant who constantly threatens the world with nuclear weapons, but the west still hasn't figured out how to talk to him , but if we talk about the pope, we 're not just talking about the fact that he is just a pontiff and a person who articulated his opinion there regarding russian culture at the beginning of a large-scale war, he tried to act as a peacemaker, he talked about the fact that he had some kind of peace plan and that he

would reconcile russia and ukraine, this is a misunderstanding of what is happening in ukraine from the leader of the holy see. is this an open play on the russians? what do you think? no, i don't think it's granasin. i think there are two such important parallel worlds. let's say it's the theological world, and of course, as a representative of the great christian church, he looks at any conflict. to any suffering because of his heart and here i absolutely believe that he sympathizes with the ukrainians from his heart , prays for peace in ukraine, this is one story, and the second story is actually such , let's say, historical illiteracy, because to urge russians to be russians and to read i want to remind peter i and catherine ii that peter actually destroyed the church that was there and actually subordinated

the moscow church to the prosecutor, that is , he actually took the moscow church under control. i can say the same thing with catherine that she was so dedicated to these monarchs that her voltaire is the same whom everyone likes to call the enlightened despot. i am not talking about what she did to ukraine during that time. yes, and in fact she was a model for the expansion of the russian empire, especially to the south, yes, yes they failed in the crimea, they could not implement the greek projects, capturing constantinople, respectively, the straits, that is, he somehow does not understand this history very well. they were definitely not holy people. moreover, catherine had more than 20 lovers , and about the sexual tastes of peter i, too, there is a big, big history it seems to me that he simply does not understand this, you know, at one time, he

mentioned dostoevsky , he also said, well, leo tolstoy and dostoevsky. which renounced er from true christianity and we always remember that russia with this perversion of the third world which is the sin of ethnophilia and it was condemned by the ecumenical council of its time it is the essence of er not only the russian orthodox church or the moscow orthodox church but and those , let's say, civilians who were brought up in this cultural context and then wrote this so-called great literature, so i believe that this is simply a misunderstanding of the authenticity of the true depth and essence of russian culture, and so these good intentions that he had, they were simply converted into such clumsy movements, well, the mentor, i will also say that he himself slandered

the fact that he knows well about the situation in ukraine from the russian ambassador dedicated to the throne, because they say that he has one of his parents with ukraine and that's why he understands ukraine and russia very well, and actually he gets his information, this can be said quickly from there , that's why. of course , it's difficult with such advisors in the political context. i'm not talking about the theological one, be objective and understand so it hurts us that we also perceive the idea of ​​joint prayer, as it were, of ukrainian women and russian women, and then there were also a few such people who were outraged by not only ukrainians, but also our catholic community against the background of these conversations about the great russia, the economy, the world economy one way or another affects the fortunes of russian oligarchs, and we see that

the sanctions that were introduced by the united states of america and the countries of the european union are working, but not in such a way as to destroy the russian economy and the total fortunes of the richest businessmen in russia increased by $32 billion at the beginning of the year. and the co-owner of lukoil added the most. is she pregnant? capital increased by more than $7 billion , reaching $22 billion. these calculations were made by russian ordinary economists based on data from the bloomberg rating. the richest remains one of the main owners of nornickel, volodymyr patanin, who at the beginning of the year increased his fortune by $1 billion to $29 billion. does this mean, oleksandr, that sanctions do not work against russian oligarchs, or they do, but they

they are bypassed and still they acquire additional capital, well, 30 billion plus for russian oligarchs during the russian-ukrainian war. well, this seems like an impressive figure. well, you know, first of all, i would not call them oligarchs, because in their pure form, ukraine was oligarchs whose money controlled political power political power money in the russian federation for mr. putin none of these people who are in the top e-e list of influence does not have such a thing, i do not convert his money well, maybe there is kovalchuk with his ideas that ukraine, ukrainians and russians are one people this is different, but for sure he does not convert it into political power, what he has is the second moment, you know from the very beginning, from the 14th year, the strategy of the americans, but also of the europeans, was instructional, it was so

ordinary, the sanctions were aimed at causing a little pain to the russians, but more in order to show that we have a reserve, we can build up to install this pain and that's exactly why stop not doing any nonsense this was one approach, more precisely, one element, the second element - it was mandatory the agreement of sanctions between both sides of the atlantic and this is a very important principle still remains,