[000:00:00;00] we are live on the channel as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook, be sure to like this video so that it can trend on youtube and facebook and take participation in our poll, today we ask you about the following: do you support the banning of the activities of the roc branch in ukraine, two options, yes, no, or your option, what do you think about this church, about its activities in ukraine, especially during the great war of russia against ukraine, please leave a comment under this video. next we have glen grant, a colonel in the british army, a military expert retired colonel in the british army. mr. colonel, i congratulate you, i am glad to see you on our air. you, glad to be with you again. mr. colonel, head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense

of ukraine. kyrylo budanov believes that the world is rapidly approaching a global war. the general reminded that now there are several conflicts in the world that at first glance can appear to be regional, but in reality everything is much more complicated, because all these conflicts are actually interconnected. do you agree with general budanov's statement that the world is heading for a global war? i agree that the conflicts are interrelated, but i cannot say that the world is currently heading for such a global war. i say this with the confidence that there is no such interest in it growing to such a scale. putin certainly does not want

to enter into a conflict with nato. and i don't think that china is ready now, again to take steps against taiwan because they understand how powerful the united states is. then, mr. colonel, what is the purpose pursued by putin and xi jinping in this case, as the leaders of a conditional group, which we can call the countries of autocracy, which are opposed to the countries of civilization, and this is such a group of such pitiful people, and therefore i want to say, that their very first goal, in fact, which has always been the same, is the goal of conquering ukraine, putin still wants to do it, he wants to sow chaos

everywhere, wherever possible. in order to to shift the focus of nato member countries, and in order to divert this focus from ukraine, this is the first priority, the second priority is that putin wants to separate them, the eu and the usa, he wants, he understands how important it is for him now , it is in his favor that the european union countries remain associations, but you understand, yes, that now he wants to have more partners and allies, you see, now already in slovakia, we know in hungary, he wants to once again sow his puppet leaders in latvia and in bulgaria, and in other parliaments,

i want to say again that we should not... look at this situation as just a war on the battlefield. yes, he will continue to conduct military operations in ukraine, but there is a lot more going on besides that. mr. colonel, if you compare the two forces that are currently fighting for world domination, the countries of civilization that want everyone to live by the laws and those. would be followed by everyone, including countries of autocracy that want to live outside the law, then whose potential, according to you, in the current confrontation is greater, i mean, human, military, financial, yes, i want to say that there is nothing to even compare here,

the event, the collective event, their power is considerable. we have to remember that we are not only talking about nato countries, we are also talking about south korea, let's look at the gdp of this country, we are talking about japan, australia, new zealand, and also several countries in asia, for example, the philippines, they always were pro-american, so we must understand that the west is much stronger, and this is one of the reasons why putin does not want to expand this battle in homographic terms, he does not want it to go beyond the borders of ukraine at the moment, but again he enlists the support of such organizations as hamas and others, by the way, about hamas and about the situation in the middle east, there are 605 days of the great russian war against ukraine and 12 days of hamas war against israel. in what

way do you think these two wars are related, what unites them and what differentiates them? when we talk about disagreements. then i want to say that there is no such great effort in hamas to wage such a global war, yes, they attacked, but now they have to defend, and they know they can't fight, they can't go one on one with israel , the battle is not equal, israel is much stronger, we know that israel has the support of the us, but if relatively speaking, the war in israel is going to spread from the north to the south, then we have to be so meticulous , we have to see what happens, and the united states has vowed to support israel in this

war, and i think they will continue to do so, except the united united states of america, actively support israel, the countries of the west, today the prime minister of great britain decided. sunak flew to israel on a solidarity visit, let's see how it went, first of all, i am here to express my solidarity with the people of israel, you have suffered an unspeakable, horrific act of terrorism, and i want you to know that the united kingdom and i am with you. before the visit. a terrible tragedy happened to joseph biden in israel. the rocket hit the hospital and killed 500 people in the gas sector. as a result, no negotiations took place in jordan

quadripartite, which should somehow settle the situation in the middle east. how do you assess what happened? what happened was provoked by the countries behind hamas, so that the united states of america would not have leadership in the middle east, and more so that the united states of america would also be attacked by people who support hamas, and in in this case, all over the world, that all this was simply played out and done for the sake of a large number of people, a large number of victims, in order to lower the influence of the united states of america on middle east? so, first of all, this attack

looks like, again, it was a rocket that was fired by hamas, and we understand the magnitude of this tragedy. but we understand that this missile was just moving in the wrong way, in the wrong territory, and eventually it got into the hospital, and we can see that there were a lot of victims, they wanted, of course, maybe they wanted to show something to the world, yes, people died, but again, it's not israel that attacked, the gaza strip, we understand that, again, countries. arab countries, they hate the us, and they really do the reason is simple, because these countries, they are not economically developed enough, they do not have democracy as such, there is no proper

leadership, and when you realize that you are failing at something, then you want to hate someone, now they are directing their hatred towards the usa, in fact it was before, we understood that once... the former leadership of iran hated the us, and now, in fact, their relations have not changed. colonel, the united states of america must prepare at the same time. to several wars with russia and china, for this the united states america should expand its conventional forces, strengthen its alliances and expand its nuclear weapons modernization program , a congressionally appointed bipartisan commission said , an anonymous source who has seen the commission's report says the chinese and russian threats will intensify in 2027. in 2035 , because of this decision must be made

now so that the nation is ready, as this commission's report states, and this commission recommends that a 30-year nuclear weapons modernization program be fully funded by 2046 of the united states of america , which in 2017 was estimated at 400 billion dollars, does this mean, mr. colonel, that the world stands: on the edge, at the beginning of a new arms race, as it once was during the soviet union? there are a lot of questions in your question. first of all, i want to say that people need to understand that the united states is always ready, they have quite a practical, realistic army that can operate today. that is, combat readiness can be

brought very quickly. we also know the power of the national guard. they have a lot a lot of both equipment and human resources. the second point regarding nuclear weapons. of course, countries like the usa have nuclear weapons, but again, we understand that these weapons are not lying somewhere in warehouses and rusting, no, they are constantly supported, that's what. large funds are allocated, we understand that there is a lot that can be done with the help of technology, of course, there is no need to look for weapons directly somewhere in the fields, yes, there are whole technologies that can use these weapons remotely, so america is 100% ready in this respect, the plan is 100% ready, and according to the pentagon, the pace of china's build-up of nuclear

weapons stocks exceeds the previous forecasts of the united states of america, over the past year, beijing has created about 100 nuclear warheads, increasing their total number to 500 by 2030 china intends to deploy more than 1,000 nuclear warheads, cementing its status as the world's third nuclear power after the united states of america and russia. of the federation, mr. colonel, considering the nuclear power weapons that we will have in the world by 2030, is there any certainty that nuclear weapons will be used as deterrence weapons and not as offensive weapons, and the answer is yes, because if we use these weapons to attack, you... have a strike back, and we understand that

the united states may not have as many nuclear warheads as they used to have, but imagine the number that america has now, it's still very large and they can ask very important questions attacks, so when we talk about china, they also want to use these weapons to deter, but again they are investing a lot now, i know how expensive it is, how expensive it is to maintain these weapons, so good luck to them if they want to invest in it please, but i think again, i think china is in no rush to be destroyed right now, someone who has the same nuclear weapons, this week, colonel, ukraine tested american attack missiles , 20 missiles have already entered service

of the armed forces of ukraine, me. of foreign affairs, dmytro kuleba stated that ukraine will receive atakams missiles from the united states of america on a permanent basis , let's listen to what kuleba said, this is a direct result of the agreement between president zelenskyi and president biden, which was reached in washington, during their personal meeting, at the end. september, and you see, less than a month has passed, passed, and here we are already seeing a concrete result, then, if you read, between the lines, the introduction of the president after the meeting with biden, from it you could to understand that a very important decision was made , and could be made from important decisions, there was, it could only be done, so we thank the united states for fulfilling the agreements and for strengthening our fire

mission. well, vladimir putin, while in beijing, also commented on the atakam attacks. according to the positions of the russian occupiers, let's listen, firstly, this, of course, causes harm, and , this creates an additional threat, secondly, we, of course, uh, can repel these attacks, war is war, and of course, i said, what are they represent a threat, it goes without saying, but most importantly, it is fundamentally unable to change the situation on the line of contact, it is impossible. mr. colonel, when putin says that these missiles cannot change the situation on the russian-ukrainian front,

he is talking about the number of missiles that america can give us, or about putin's doubts that these missiles can. to burn helicopters, as it was during the first strike, when nine helicopters were simply destroyed, we all know that putin is not telling the truth, and the truth from he does not receive his generals, of course, he once said that what this threat, this threat, can do... that is, once again we see that the russians have justified themselves, they are in their weakness, they do not manage to do what about what they are saying, i think that when we talk about the attacks, about the attacks that will be with the help of these missiles, they will not be able to do anything in response, but

they will not be able to be deterred, of course, we understand that there are a lot which does not depend on what the towers are. or putin's skills, actually from those who are engaged in planning, strategic and tactical on the battlefield, so if , for example, it will be possible to hit the main headquarters, the main concentrations of the enemy, again, this is something that he cannot influence, it is very important for ukraine to understand now , how to effectively use rocket attacks in order to push your troops forward. how do you rate? mr. colonel, can ukraine get german tauras long-range missiles after atakams missiles have already been tested, because we remember how it was with tanks, like this, like now what is happening with other weapons that ukraine receives, or can these 20 atakams missiles

influence scholz regarding the supply of german long-range weapons to ukraine? well, to be honest, i don’t like to say that, but i don’t, i don’t know what’s going on in scholz’s head right now , it’s hard to say, because he often changes his mind, but today he supports you, tomorrow he got scared of something and stopped support you, so it's really hard to say whether he'll agree to provide or not, but i suspect someone from the united there will be states. to put some pressure on germany, in particular within the framework of nato, nato meetings, in the ramstein format, for example, so that they still send their taurus to ukraine, that is, this is such an issue that

also affects germany's internal policy, by the way, scholz changed his position during the year and a half of the war, russia's great war against ukraine, and we saw in principle that scholz did a lot to ensure that ukraine still received the latest weapons, and even more, literally, today he said that he is quite skeptical about putin's care, in his pubes, about the peaceful citizens of the middle east, let's listen, because it is very telling, what scholz said. i am more than outraged when i hear that the russian... the president is now everywhere warning that in armed conflicts there can be victims among the civilian population, more cynical than it is worth looking for. putin cynically comments on what is happening in ukraine, does the whole world see this cynicism of putin, and are there still

people who can trust him or extend a hand to greet him, well, besides xi jinping, there, orbana and uchicha, because these people in beijing greeted him literally a day ago, is putin still a person who can be like that, a person who... they extend their hand, i think there are many such people, there are a lot of countries that are very close to putin, we are talking about many african countries, they can do it, either because of their own ignorance, or because of some corruption, they think that what the world is doing will help to shift america from the pedestal of the dominant country in the world, i think, that's what they're driven, but again, they don't

understand what the economic engine of america is, what their power is, and so i think they just have rose-colored glasses. while in beijing, putin said that planes with daggers will now patrol the black sea, russian planes will be on a permanent basis - putin said to patrol the black sea. we will now hear the details from putin himself. i want to say that this is not a threat, what i will say now is what i will inform you about, but on my behalf, the air force, russia's military and space forces begin patrolling on a permanent basis. in the neutral zone of the airspace over the black sea.

our mik-31 aircraft, mykinzhol weapons complex. well, obviously, mr. colonel, there is no question of any patrol when there are daggers on planes, that is, it is some kind of madness in putin's performance. what do you say to this statement? that is, he raises the stakes in his. game and trying to show something to threaten the world, or what, what, what is he showing in this case? i think it is worth understanding that russia is very weak when we talk about their air force, their pilots, their aircraft maintenance, and again, they started theirs. this invasion, yes, and the number of their manned airfields was less than when they invaded

georgia, we understand that they have a lot of warplanes, but we understand that it is necessary then and properly to train the pilots, the pilots they have lack, yes, they can fly there, they can fly with daggers, but it will be very difficult for russia, and to keep actually these flights, for them, they will not even understand, maybe ukraine will hunt them, and where it will do it, mr. colonel, a rather difficult period for ukraine is ahead, because winter is coming, a cold period, and it is clear, that the russian federation will take advantage of this by striking the energy infrastructure of ukraine, we saw it last year, it was quite difficult for us, it was in ukraine, now we hear that germany is preparing a winter aid package for ukraine,

the chancellor said, and these will be new complexiam, new cheetah anti-aircraft tanks, new ammunition, in short, there is an aid package, a winter aid package from germany, great britain together with its partners will give ukraine about 100-154 million dollars in aid. in the winter, in your opinion, how about a situation when an arrogant neighbor lives and exists near us, how can we protect ourselves from him in order for the country's life to be normal, well, in war conditions, well , as far as it is possible, as far as it is possible? i think it is possible on two levels. to give, it is, therefore, firstly, a strategic attack on the energy system, and it will be partially successful, i cannot say

that it will be as successful for the russians as it was last year. but we understand that russia is preparing for this and therefore the ukrainians must also prepare, your energy engineers must repair the facilities even faster than they did last year, of course, the life of the ukrainians will be difficult this winter, and we should not doubt in this, secondly, we know that russia will act, maybe even more, we know that it will be even colder this year compared to last year, maybe we are talking about -20 -30, but ukraine has international support, but all the international partners actually understand how much now, russia will act even more harshly, that is why all the partners have sent their help to the soldiers, so that they survive this

winter, but also when we talk about logisticians. mr. colonel, what do you think can change the situation on the russian-ukrainian front, well, in the next six months? what can change the situation on the battlefield is a breakthrough, it's a counteroffensive, an active, breakthrough somewhere along the line... an engagement where russian forces could just scatter, yes , they want to break through somewhere now in the donetsk region, we know that their 110th, our 110th brigade pushes them back, holds them back, but they advance, they die, but they continue to advance, it will be very difficult for ukraine if ukraine will be

if russia continues such actions, because we understand that from the side of ukraine. people are also lost and it is difficult to replace such already trained personnel. of course, there may be other attacks, there may be both in zaporizhzhia and in the donetsk direction. we hope that we will be able to break through like this. that's what can really make a difference situation on the battlefield. mr. colonel, i thank you for participating in the program and wish you good health, see you in other broadcasts. friends we're live on the channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, we just had retired british army colonel glen grand on air. please like this video in order for it to progress in youtube trends, and take part in our survey. we still have a minute before this poll ends, so we're asking you if do you support the ban on the activities of the roc branch

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available on our website. i am putting an end to this, the program was conducted by serhii rud. goodbye to you, see you tomorrow, goodbye. congratulations, on the air ukraine, in the studio in london jafer, the next 15 minutes about the war between hamas and israel, and why israel has not yet launched a ground operation in gas? for days, israel declared its readiness to enter the gas sector. the country collected more than 3,000 reservists to the border with gas and withdrew military equipment, but why haven't they started a ground operation yet. so, after the brutal attacks by hamas militants on the israeli civilian population, the israeli authorities have repeatedly said that they are ready to start