[000:00:00;00] well, i'm not saying that it happened about another planet and the state of utah, but there was an example . well, the accompanying one about the vaccine is a good example, it 's not an example, it's a reality. who writes these materials ? in one publication from great britain in december 2021, there was an article about the fact that a large-scale invasion of ukraine will take place on christmas, catholic christmas, that is, in december of the 21st year, and everyone was talking about this article at the time, although when i looked what this journalist wrote about, he really wrote about the abduction of people in great britain by aliens is a fact. and i just drew such a parallel, but this is exactly what indicates that when a person writes about it, he is really professional . he is really some kind of waxy ex, but not colonel mcgregor, who was an adviser to trump

and who constantly speaks that the russian army is in the world and ukraine will lose the war and crimea is russian and i am talking about independent military experts who really analyze the professional and who had at least some military experience and this is exactly what they pay attention to in our country's leadership and directly in our military structures , they do not pay attention to a person who writes about another planet, and then about a counteroffensive, namely about those who have experience in military operations and have their own understanding and analytical mind in order to analyze offensive actions, you, as a military-political observer, obviously collect all this circle of analysis of foreign ukrainians, in this case, your impression of what is happening with the counterattack, we broke through in certain places the first line of defense, what is behind it and the second line

main line of defense. it is more serious than the first. it is not more serious. it is different. how is it different? and the first line of defense is mostly barricaded minophobes. this is a big problem with changes, and again, it is a hypertrophied problem precisely with changes. the second line of defense has its own obstacles, but the main obstacle is the second line of defense. - this is a mechanized component, i.e. equipment , if in the first line of defense we had a problem with changes in the second line of defense. the shortage of them is a real problem with the full and complete equipment of e units for a, for example, bbm, tanks and other categories of bbm - these are armored vehicles bmp btr bmd and they are important precisely for the second line of e defense because that is where harmful things happen to me a-and mobility is important and this should be the problem. well, now they are trying

to compensate for the lack of iron with human resources, but we see that they have this human resource to compensate for the iron that they lack, they also lack human resources , they drag units from other bridgeheads, for example, from luhansk oblast, where the visk center group and the visk-west group operate. and by the way, at the beginning of june, they began to move some units from the group of dnipro troops - this is the left bank kherson region, and then they stopped because they understood that there was already the worst situation with equipment and defense in general of the left bank of kherson region, they are even more enslaved by it, that is why they stopped in time, but still, this is demonstrative , it shows that they do not have enough of this resource to fully compensate for the deficit, the first line of mines, high-explosive barriers, the second is equipment and the third is the rear, this is the rear, the most interesting thing is that when you go to the third

line of defense , it is you . this is warehouses with ammunition, these are warehouses with fuel and lubricants , these are headquarters , and these are repair bases, this is the placement of personnel, and so on. and so on, that is, the third line of defense. - this is an average of 15 km deep, and the third is more, it can be even more than 30 km , but it does not have such a number of blocking elements that could oppose the offensive, therefore, the breakthrough of the second line of the crown, in general, it can completely destroy the control of the russian occupiers in the south, and indeed, it can be cascaded

after that, the effect and since we have literally a little less than two minutes left. now, according to the reports of the american media , which you want to trust, on biden's table is already almost ready for signing the draft of the decree on what to provide to ukraine for attacks, well, formally, in general, the draft was specified, it was about this, will it seriously help you, or is it too late, why is it too late, and it will still help us if we finally receive them . although, in my opinion, this is a very difficult step biden succeeds. well, it is really very difficult for me. sometimes it seems that neil armstrong ’s first step on the moon was much easier for him than for biden. level ballistic missile and the russians have some complexes, for example s400 zrk or m3, which were specifically designed to fight

ballistic targets, and therefore they have a higher probability of destroying the attackers, imagine we are given 100 takamsk missiles, the russians during this period destroy 25 well, their propaganda is a propagandistic sabbath, and for the usa it is a loss of reputation for the entire time, all the equipment and weapons that the usa supplied us with, they proved their high high-tech and technological level and their high kgd efficiency ratio actions and so it turns out that this will be a reputational exercise, so now we see all the reporting expenses of the russian air defense system with canders, which were also considered to be infallible , but the patriots proved that russian ballistics can also be caught. group's informational resistance was in the main part of our

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to help yourself and others, go to the how website. are you.com i have one guest but oksana markarova is extremely and empowered ms. ambassador of ukraine to the united states ms. oksana i congratulate good evening vadim good evening ukraine here we have a late evening it's already but still evening ms. oksana i would like to get down to business right away the other day, the secretary of state of the united states, mr. blinkin, was in ukraine , the visit lasted for two days, and everyone noted that this visit is just one year before the presidential elections that will be held in the united states next november. states of ukraine, that is, there is some connection between these elections and support . well, first of all, i think there is a big connection between directly what the administration does with great support and plinkin's visit. he came a year after

his previous visit and such a really full two-day visit with visiting yagidne, meeting with a very large number of people in ukraine, but with very thorough negotiations with the president , the prime minister, and the minister of foreign affairs, this is very important for both of us. for both countries, because we actually discussed very many topics were coordinated before the beginning of not only the electoral process but also the political process. this week , the congress and the senate, which started a little earlier and will start tomorrow , are returning to work. as you know, the administration is asking for additional funding for of ukraine for the last quarter of this year, and then we will again talk about financing, because there are a lot of things that had to be discussed in this format, and it was very intense and really very

productive visit well, just after this visit, the american mass media, referring to their sources in the white house, said that the story of providing ukraine with attack cams of these long-range missiles that we have been asking for so long and that we really need, you know, we activate these stories constantly and everyone should it was done yesterday, but today it is also necessary to do it. presidential allocations, that is, from own reserves of 600 million from the usa program and 100 million from the fms program. that is, all three programs were involved. this is very important because we are actively using and trying to speed up all supplies, and of course there was talk of attacks, and of course it will be

continue until we get this capability, just like the others, for a long time, long -range capabilities, we need them, our defenders need them, and the president of ukraine and the entire diplomatic team are working very actively on this, of course you mentioned madam ambassador, the new political season is about to begin. the parliament , including in the united states, and the administration will ask for the last quarter to again support the provision of support to ukraine through the congress and the senate. how big are the chances that they will support it? that is, by default or everything? after all, it is necessary to carry out political work and convince the american parliamentarians to continue this support in ukraine, and all our friends of ukraine are doing a lot, all organizations of the diaspora are doing a lot

to advocate for the continuation allocation of these weapons, of course, with the beginning of the election process, he makes his corrections, and this process is not always positive. because during the election campaign, the most discussions are about internal issues, about internal needs, and it is our even greater task to convince american friends of ordinary americans that this is a need america is that we won in this well unequal duel between democracies and autocracies and that this victory is actually needed by the americans, so we really hope and do everything to ensure that congress supports this help but it will be very difficult and i am sure that we have many weeks of active discussions ahead of us, at the same time you and i have no other chance we must provide our brave defenders at

the front with everything we need the aid of the united states , the grant aid that they provide us with not only military aid, but also budgetary and humanitarian aid, it will be extremely difficult. if not impossible , then we will do everything to make it effective. i really hope because previous experience shows that you succeeded in this, but i also cannot help but remember that on the 19th , if i am not mistaken, in september there will be the next round of rammstein, where these negotiations will obviously continue and in an intensified mode, and this is the first rammstein for the newly appointed minister of defense of ukraine, mr. rustem the mayor has some kind of reaction from the american side to the change of the minister of defense in ukraine, er, our cooperation along the lines of er, the ministry of defense and

the pentagon, as you know. between our ministers of defense, earlier today secretary austin already had the first telephone conversation with our new minister roste umerov, they discussed just preparations for rammstein and this will be the first, so the first rammstein, at which the new minister is already not only with secretary ustin, who heads , co-chairs together with our minister and will discuss all our priorities with all other ministers, that is why the united states acts here as our true friend and strategic partner, and cooperation does not stop for a second, and we can see how in today's conversation already active cooperation began, active cooperation continued on all security issues, according to your assessment, you can see this from the side , as a diplomat, you can formulate it, formulate how seamless the transition from one minister of defense to another will be, because these are all human relations and there is a lot in such affairs are built on personal relationships, and the new minister of defense will obviously have to build these relationships not from

scratch, fortunately, but still, at such a difficult moment, it will have to be built and some time for rubbing, as they say in normal relationships, will be spent as far as it can go painlessly , well, of course, human relations are very important. and that and establishing cooperation on such a human level is also very important, but we are all diplomats and a large team working on it from both sides will do everything is possible to make it as fast as possible, and as you say, this is precisely the job of diplomats, to establish relations , to establish them in such a way that we do not stop for a second in our cooperation, and you you know, i have always been an institutionalist in my previous work. that is, we need to build friendships and relationships and strategic partnerships of our institutions so that , of course, the human factor is very important

, of course, and leadership manifests itself here as well, but our institutions must work together, and it seems to me that in the last two years, we have achieved a lot in this very parallel relationship at different levels between our ministries, between our agencies, and so that we understand that we never stop this cooperation and no political cycles and no changes. yes, we and the united states of america are democracies, so we understand that in democratic countries, changes occur not only in the ministers of a and e, political players of others, but this should not and should not can affect the strategic friendship between our countries and it will not affect so we will hope for it , however, i cannot help but note that since we are now seriously dependent on the material and financial support of the united states, we

we are listening carefully to how the ukrainian counteroffensive is being assessed across the ocean, and here i would like to hear from you, well, from you firsthand. what is your impression of these assessments , because the assessments, let's be honest, are categorically opposite to different poles, sometimes they say , god, ukrainians do what those who failed they are storming such lines of defense without absolute support from the air, having no aviation, they are doing something impossible. what no one before them has done to the absolute opposite, they say, well, it completely failed . the counterattack is still time to close down. the negotiating table and all this affects society primarily because we see this investigation from treason to victory. i would like to hear from you as a person who has information from inside the american political community and communicates directly with these people. what are your assessments? can you

tell me by name who evaluates it, but in general, your impression of the evaluation of the ukrainian counteroffensive from the american side? speaking from secretary austin to general milley to other commanders in the armed forces here of the united states to former commanders such as ben hodges to the directors of analytical divisions of various intelligence agencies who say this again first-person assessments are very similar to ours and absolutely no different about the fact that this is a very complex operation , the most complex, probably since the second world war, about the fact that the ukrainians are moving forward in a very conditions, well, in general, this is a great success, what we manage to achieve , and you will not find other evaluations in the public space from our partners, of course, when we talk about experts or unnamed persons who do not give their names, but comment on the counteroffensive here , you are really right, a variety of opinions from very positive

to very negative, are these the opinions of people who advocated finding a compromise all these nine years after russia attacked us? are these the people who said that ukraine would fall in the first three days of the week and now it is very difficult for them to deviate from their paradigm. they are looking for any proof of their rightness. are they people who are simply, well, really tired , have some other priorities, it is not even that important, because experts have the right to their opinions. for us, this is the whole task for work therefore, not only are we currently strengthening our work with the congress with our partners a, and even more times, write, we are strengthening our work with analytical centers, with universities, with those e-e cultural institutions, museums, and so on in

order to maximally strengthen strengthen ukrainian narratives should be strengthened, truthful narratives should be told as it really is, so that those people who express their expert opinions and their own assumptions, after all, did not base them on their ideas about ukraine, which may have been formed during the reign of russian propaganda, but on the fact that in reality that's why such a really uh, how to say very active bubbling of thoughts is happening, our task is not to get distracted and not to react to every such and some extreme point of view and very calmly and calmly explain that our goal is one in us there is no other alternative than liberating our entire country, rather than liberating every village in which, if it is under russian occupation, people are killed there, people are raped there, they commit such an insult to human dignity and democracy as we now see with fake elections at gunpoint and so on, that is, simply that to convey everything and tell that we all

have together those who believe in all values ​​there is no other way out we must all end this together with the victory of ukraine and the defeat of authoritarian russia so there is no way back and there is no other option not too. thank you very much, mrs. po sauce, for finding the opportunity to come to us on the air . oksana markarova , the extraordinary plenipotentiary, the ambassador of ukraine to the united states of america, was sharp in our conversational studio. no one will tell me that i'm a hero and i'm not asking. i'm not here

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news with an analysis of key events . american aid to ukraine, a shell with depleted uranium for abrams, the new defense minister, we will talk about all this today in the program, but all these news are elements that are woven into the main event, which is constantly developing, the ukrainian counteroffensive , the successes of the ukrainians this week were noted by the us military intelligence, the probability of a breakthrough in the armed forces of all russian defense lines in the south were estimated at 40-50% by the end of the year. of course, these are only forecasts, we understand that the enemy is still powerful and reacts to the successes of the armed forces as russia tries to change the situation to its own

advantage, where our army is moving forward, front reports for the week and forecasts from pavel vasiliev, the offensive in the south and the defense in the northeast, how the russians are trying to slow down our advance, artillery , mortars, many stretches, and where they are preparing a counter strike, they want to cut us off from the flanks, an analysis of the main events on the front, from the facts of the week, we sometimes have very turbulent and very dynamic events waiting for us this week , the defense forces of ukraine continued to hold positions in the east and liberate new and new territories in the south, south of bakhmut our advanced positions are already on the line of klishivka kurdyumivka, that is, the fighting is going on on the dominant

heights around the city of fortresses in the zaporizhzhia region. reduces the pace of our offensive, and the main thing to expect from the russians in the near future is more about this. currently, the russian troops are trying to do two opposite things at the same time from a military point of view, it is a matter of hastily patching holes in the defense in the south and at the same time gathering forces for an offensive in a different direction from the so far occupied kherson region and luhansk region, the occupiers are transferring their most capable units to the tokmak region, we are talking about parts of at least three airborne groups , including the 76th airborne airborne division, which in russia, it is considered elite, that is, paratroopers who can at least well, they should usually storm some positions, but here they have to stand on the defensive and here they are also

the task is to deliver counter strikes, that is, they want to cut us off from the flanks right in the area of ​​the working area, and for this they need, of course, more trained personnel. and to the north, instead of paratroopers, the newly created russian army, which has approximately 30,000 occupiers , moves there once unit 25 of the army, it recently formed the formed territory of the russian federation and now these units will join in order to form the same shock fist already in the direction of kupyansk and naliman, so i think that very stormy and very dynamic events are waiting for us in the near future, such circulation of russians between sections of the front is also explained by the considerations of putin's political pr. decades , decades, in september, i think that another wave of mobilization will begin in the russian federation, because it seriously lacks human resources , hidden mobilization does not completely cover

the holes in the states of the russian parts and units. that is, quite serious resources are needed, but while the russians are forced to operate, the question in the coming weeks is whether they will be able to hold tokmak . valeria, an officer of the 128th brigade, is one of the many thousands who are now liberating the south from the invaders, and she knows from her own experience how well the invaders are entrenched . in zaporizhzhia, mortars, multi-mines, stretches are not allowed no step to the left no step to the right, that is, there is a path you have to walk on it, because if you give way there and you can get somewhere, it will be critical for the russians it is important to get your transport nodes tokmak, one of them is cut off the possibility of its supply to their front line and through mariupol , which is the mariupol berdyansk melitopol tokmak line, this is actually

their main supply line