vulnerability and inability of the russian federation to protect, literally, that's how they wrote the ingenuity of the ukrainian special services and the military. well, actually, since it became known about the receipt of takams, a lot of people have talked about whether they can be used to hit the crimean bridge, but again, many people say that the range is not enough for the modification, because the ammunition is not the same. what should be the weapon in order to deprive the russian federation of the logistics of this bridge completely, what kind of striking power should it be and, in fact, what of this is available now... at the disposal of the armed forces, well, by the way, our military uses atacoms optimally, even the americans did not use them so effectively, that is the kind of atacoms that we received , as for the crimean bridge, well, i don’t know, it is necessary to strike it regularly and not only on the crimean bridge

bridge, after all, and the areas where they accumulate... enemy weapons and equipment at the entrances to the city, this is from the crimean coast, near kerch and on the taman peninsula, these are also such goodies, whole, well, let them remain goodies, whole, we need them , the more they are they will accumulate equipment there, it will be easier to hit them, but we must understand that not only the kerch bridge, the enemy also uses landing ships to transfer troops, forces and transport aircraft, so it is necessary to hit not only the crimean bridge, but also destroy ships, military auxiliary ships of the black sea fleet to hit airfields, well, what exactly are the armed forces of ukraine doing, heard, mr. pavle, thank you for joining the broadcast, pavlo lekichuk, head of security programs of the center for global studies of the 21st century strategy was contact us, thank you. us president joe

biden will deliver an address to the nation today, in which he plans to talk about the response of the states to the escalation in the middle east, as well as the continuation of assistance to ukraine. this is stated in the announcement of the white house. the speech is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. washington time, which is 3:00 a.m. for kyiv, or the next day. at the same time, nbc news, citing sources, reports that biden also intends to ask congress for an additional allocation of a hundred. billions of dollars for defense aid, and 60 billion, supposedly it will be aid to ukraine, and the other 40 to israel, taiwan and the us-mexico border. i will remind you that the day before the head of the white house was on an official visit to israel, where, among other things, he announced humanitarian aid for the population of the palestinian territories, and on this day the usa announced sanctions against key members and financiers of hamas. konstantinev is extraordinary.

non-authorized ambassador of ukraine, deputy minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2007-10, today is a guest of our studio, mr. konstantin, my greetings, good evening, i greet you, then let's start with the states, as you know, for the second time the house of representatives could not elect a speaker, and actually neither the candidate from the republicans nor from the democrats received the required number of votes, how does this affect for this process of additional allocation of additional aid, with which biden can apply, and in fact, today there should be another test for the vote of the speaker, like you, what do you predict, what will be the development of events, i think that the speaker will be elected, because no maybe so powerful a global power, like the united states, to remain without a person without whom no state can function, because it depends on it, funding and so on, so here we have to be calm, and the second is very positive, which is under the confirmed... aspiration

of the administration biden to continue the powerful, financial and armed support of ukraine in repelling russian aggression, so we will now wait for the end of the speaker's session, let's say, in the us congress, and for the fact that today biden will once again confirm that there is no fatigue from ukraine, that , what the united states is ready to help ukraine until we win, but what about the chances, the prospects that he may still be elected speaker, temporarily performing his duties, what is this scenario for ukraine? you know, for us the key thing is to move the issues, the issues are moving, it is primarily about the budget , budgetary things, about the financing of aid, because really, without the congress, this issue cannot move, therefore, for us, any solutions, as they say, acceptable, the key is the result. the result is the allocation of fairly

significant financial aid to ukraine, how about you? do you think, those figures that were announced in the media, how close they are to reality , you know, there is such a specificity of american politics, on the eve of important speeches, and you have already announced that there will be a powerful statement today by president biden regarding ukraine and israel, they give these are, you know, the announcements of the key key positions of the speech in order to draw the attention, the world public, all the partners to this important event, so i, to be honest, i ... i have no doubt that these numbers will be confirmed, let's wait, but i i think that it will be so, because it has been talked about for a long time, and it is very good that biden will finally make this important statement today, did i understand you correctly, that the information

that was voiced by nbc news journalists could not have been voiced without broad daylight agreement, i think so, okay, let's move from the states to europe then, because well, we'll really go by the results of the speech. you evaluate what and how, and by the way, what is important for us to hear in this speech, apart from numbers? eh, the key is to hear that ukra, despite the situation in the israeli-palestinian conflict, the issue of repelling russian aggression and the victory of ukraine remains key in both the domestic and foreign policy of the united states of america, secondly, that despite vicissitudes, for example, in congress, regarding the speakership and so on, bipartisan support for ukraine remains unchanged and that the issue of ukraine unites american society , unites the american political community, and of course, i hope that he will express his admiration for the ukrainian armed forces, which today,

despite all the insinuations, continue, a successful counteroffensive in my view, and i think it's time for him to also confirm ... further arms deliveries and officially state that the united states will continue and increase its supply to us, including the atacamas missiles. during one of the press conferences, journalists asked high-ranking american officials why israel is allowed to strike with american munitions outside the country, but not ukraine, and whether this means that washington trusts tel aviv more than it trusts kyiv, and what do you think, or in the states built this... axis of evil, which many are talking about now, iran, russia, and so on, all the terrorists who are under them, well, this lash of evil has been built for a long time, and as they say, all these, this evil is known, and it is not only russia here, you said correctly,

this is iran, and by the way, north korea, and i think that the question is clear here, as far as ukraine is concerned, the supply to the market is far from the radius of action, well , today the americans in america have three such red lines through which they still that cannot be crossed, and the first red line - no american soldier can fight on the territory of ukraine against the russian aggressor, secondly, in no way should nato be involved in a confrontation with russia, and thirdly. this, not to create any grounds for the use of nuclear weapons, these are three such taboos, because of which the americans cannot yet cross the line, and in addition, another red line, this is that the

weapons that are provided to ukraine , should not, as they say, aim and shoot on the territory of the russian federation, this is exactly what explains... this is that for today, for now, for now, i once again i say, the american side provides us with missiles, which are not yet with a short range, in particular, you know, such, if i am not mistaken, a range of 165 km, but you know, the ice is already breaking, you know that a precedent has already been set, in particular, connected with providing us, on the part of great britain, the storm shadow missile with a long range of action, i think that later we will have such a long range of action, well, and accordingly, taurus missiles will go, from the side of berlin, from the side of germany , by the way , i just wanted to talk about taurus, today scholz had a speech in the bundestag and among other things, by the way, for the first time he was openly

outraged by putin's statements. let 's listen to the direct speech now and move on to the question. now they are looking for the direct speech of olaf scholz, i will remind you that he spoke in the bundestag today, but among other things, he stated that germany is already preparing an aid package for ukraine, that everything will be necessary there, he assured that there will be air defense equipment, but of course, political opponents criticized scholz, criticized, in relation to tau taurus, we we remember that scholz explained a lot why he does not want to give taurus and does not want an escalation and they are afraid that they will beat on the crimean bridge, and in general, many people out of sight, so-called, said that after all , the delay is due to that the states, until the states give atakamsa, there will be no appropriate decision from berlin, is now feeling... is this pressure from all sides, so-called from internal political opponents, from

coalition partners in the russian-ukrainian war, is there a possibility that scholz will change his mind, early sooner or later it will happen, no matter how much he wants it, scholz himself, holding his position, and you generally see, if you analyze, 600, almost more than 600 days of full-scale russian aggression against ukraine. gradually, step by step, we are removing those taboos on the supply of weapons to ukraine, unfortunately, it is not quite easy, unfortunately, it is happening, you know, partially, but we wanted it to be faster and much more powerful, but again, let's be honest , each country has its own politics, internal politics, there is certain party interests, and this must also be taken into account, but i think that the water sharpens the stone and we will definitely work through it, because both america and

germany, they really help us a lot, and we need them, by the way this is to thank, because really, without the support of such regions of such countries, it would be very difficult for us to resist russian aggression, and in fact , we already have the direct speech of scholz during his speech in the bundestag, but let's listen. i will say that i am more than outraged when i hear that the russian president is now warning everywhere about the fact that there can be victims, civilian victims of armed conflicts, more cynical than this is worth looking for, and here the question is why tel aviv does not notice this cynicism of moscow, which in principle reduces everything, all attacks by hamas to the failure of the foreign policy of the united states , you know, here... a much deeper issue, which is about, if we're talking about the israeli-palestinian

conflict, and we can talk here for hours, here i would like to say, there are many players here, and by the way, not only russia and the united states , there is also, for example, china, i don't either would despise the chinese factor, today china is trying to mobilize around itself and , let's say, focus on under its leadership all arab... and arab countries in order to prevent the united states from effectively helping israel and fighting terrorist groups like hamas, and here just another one appears, such a point, a contradiction, a point of confrontation between the united states, china, we know the issue of taiwan, we know, now it is also being discussed to what extent china will or will not be involved in assistance. all in context

russian aggression against ukraine, and by the way, you all saw there was a meeting in china between putin and president xi, and it seems to me that this has negative sides for ukraine, first of all, unfortunately, this visit to china, putin tried to show that he is a welcome guest, especially in the context of, you remember, the decision of the international criminal court to grant, to issue a warrant for... arrest, he appeared there, had many bilateral meetings, mostly with leaders of asian countries, and of course , this, this, does not strengthen the position of the so-called of the global south, the countries of the global south, for which we are fighting, in particular in order to implement our peace initiatives, and of course, it is very negative that during, i listened to the press conference, during putin's meeting with the leaders of a number of countries, in particular thailand , if not... i am mistaken, cambodia and so on, it was about attracting russian investments, it was about, in particular, thailand even

took the initiative to ease visa restrictions for russian citizens, that is, in essence it was about restoring business as usual, yes, business as always, this factor cannot help but worry, and therefore i really hope that our ukrainian side will not sit idly by either, and here i think that it is necessary to... be more creative, in particular, i can say that there will be a very strong chance very soon for ukrainian diplomacy, the ukrainian president to show himself, i would like to remind you that on november 11. 12 in san francisco, california, a powerful summit of asia-pacific economic cooperation will be held with the participation of president biden and president xi, they have already announced that they will participate in this summit, i believe, that the ukrainian president must go there, therefore, ukrainian diplomacy should ensure that he

is invited there, i think that this will be an excellent platform for not only contacting other partners of the asia -pacific region, but also having a separate bilateral meeting with president xi. i believe that this would also be an important factor in our victory. that is, this is a platform that ukraine can use to establish these ties. and if to another site, this one will be at the end of october the third meeting at the level of national security advisers and diplomatic advisers, they will talk about the ukrainian peace formula, about the organization of a global peace summit, well, actually, if they got an intrigue, where exactly it will take place, that's why... after all, on the website of the president's office , they saw that mr. yermak has already communicated with the minister of foreign affairs of malta on this matter, and there is a probability that this summit will take place there, but as far as i understand, this requires the greatest such contradictory opinions from other countries, the eighth point of the peace formula, where

the prescribed punishment and prosecution of russia, and is there an understanding of how many countries are conditionally critically important for us to involve our side in this issue so that we can talk about the fact that this peace summit will be successful for ukraine, because this meeting, about which we mention, it is planned as the last one immediately before the peace summit. well , to be honest, i'm a little skeptical about the rapid progress on this track, not because ukraine is doing something wrong, but the problem is that there are currently a lot of such negative factors in global politics that do not contribute to the fact that we manage to win votes very quickly. the countries of the so-called south, the global south, and in particular, just the escalation, or let's say directly , the israeli-palestinian war, it in no way contributes to the fact that the global south will mobilize and unite around the ukrainian peace formula, i would say even more , today there is an even

greater division in the global south in relation to who supports israel and who supports the arab... world, and here it is precisely plays, to be honest, not in ukraine's favor, and so, of course, we are grateful to malta for providing, as they say, a platform for this event, but let's not, as they say, we want to hope for the best, prepare, as they say, to real situations, so let's see, but let's be realistic and not give birth , you know, not unexpected there some... global breakthroughs, we want to hope that this will be a positive step forward, but of course, it will be very difficult, very it's not easy, i say once again, compared to jida, meetings on level of advisers, the situation has changed a little in the negative direction, and for our support of ukraine, from the side of the global south, and from the point of view of progress on the path of supporting the ukrainian

peace formula, as for the ukrainian peace formula, then i will say that the key point, this point, if i'm not mistaken, six, this is the withdrawal of russian troops from the territory of ukraine, and er, the cessation of hostilities, this is the key, i think that this is exactly what we need to pay attention to, of course we can talk a lot about the climate, about ecology, this is important, but based on precisely in this position, we will not defeat the russian aggressor. mr. kostyantyn, well , we have been talking a lot about china lately, and at the others, but now we have lavrov in the cis. in north korea, you also mentioned it as all evil, such a component of the axis of evil, the axis of evil, and it is interesting that, among other things , lavrov has already called on russians to come to rest in north korea, some pro- kremlin journalists have gone there, so to speak , and about the military cooperation between bhenyan and moscow, in principle, they are even talking about it in the white house, and what else, that moscow can

to offer to bhenyang in exchange for such military aid? you know, this is a positive signal for this, the fact that russia is now turning to north korea for military assistance, shows that the ukrainian army is really destroying the military power of the russian aggressor, that russia lacks certain types ammunition and equipment, and of course, it is russia that is turning to it, because it is in complete practical isolation, and that is why it finds, as they say, a helping hand. from the side of those, as they say, well, let's say, honestly, not to the states, but me here the factor that is more disturbing is the fact that there is a leader of one country, this is the prime minister of hungary orban, who also puts pressure on the russian aggressor, calling the russian aggression against ukraine as, you know, a military operation, that is, in

essence, he articulates that he is playing along with the russian aggressor putin , and here i would like to expect a tougher reaction from the side of kyiv, from the side of the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs to such things , such things cannot be left without a reaction, today is the second day they had a meeting, but unfortunately, the establishment is silent, i think , that this, on the contrary, indicates that we have come to terms with this and we look at it as a normal situation, this is an extraordinary situation, moreover, i will say that yesterday certain internal discussions took place in brussels within the framework of the european union, which strongly condemned such steps, unilateral steps by orbán, and i think that for things, in a week there will be a meeting of the summit of the european union, it is called the european council, i really... hope that they will arrange a cold shower for orban, but i would like the ukrainian side to show that it is not silent, heard, mr. kostiantyn, you thank you very much for

interesting conversation, kostyantyn eliseyev, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine and deputy minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2007, was with us today as a guest in the studio, thank you, thank you, the verkhovna rada supported in the first reading the draft law that can stop... the activities of the uocp, it is said on government project 8371, which provides for the prohibition of the activities of religious organizations connected with russia in ukraine. i note that it is called the softest among other initiatives to ban the uocp, for example, an alternative document from european solidarity, he predicted the immediate ban of the ukrainian orthodox church, and the proposals of the group, some deputies from different factions, in general , a quick deprivation of the property of the ukrainian orthodox church and a simplified transition of communities. to the orthodox church of ukraine. we will talk a little later about what the document voted on today offers, but for now, let's see how the capital reacted to the actual first step towards banning

the uoc of the moscow patriarchate. the verkhovna rada today adopted a bill on the ban on religious organizations that are managed from outside borders of ukraine. conditionally speaking, the ubcp will be banned, what do you think about it, the predecessors already banned it, zelensky’s tribesmen, lenin for... banned the church, you will remain a parishioner of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, if it is banned, yes, yes, because the kingdom of heaven and the church of god on earth, has slightly different borders than these political entities, will you continue to conduct services if, for example , they still ban it, well, they won’t ban it, what they are doing today is an action, they pir shares are nothing more engaged in, adopted the law in the first reading. what does it mean, it doesn't mean anything, this decision will or will not affect you in any way, yes it will, we will pray more, live more christianly and communicate with

our friends, everywhere and in the state and i don't know if you somehow parishioners, communicated, talked with them somehow that they could adopt such a bill , what exactly you said, it is not important, it does not affect our day, i am just curious, what did you say to them yesterday, that it is in no way it will not affect us, we, we will remain as churches were, the moscow... should completely leave ukraine, only the ukrainian, although i used to, i also belonged to the moscow patriarchate, well, i will be able to switch to the holidays and will go to the kyiv temple and the ukrainian temple, while there is an opportunity, and while society plus-minus must be done with fists, because god forbid, everything will end someday and the moscow priests will once again pretend that they... souls, paws, they are oppressed for no reason at all, there were warehouses, people transferred there, starting from the 14th year, a lot

public stories, some of them did not praise our defenders, this is nonsense, they are one of the tools of russia that helped this situation to happen. and now they are helping to split society little by little, do you think it is necessary to ban the uocp or not? not necessary, i believe, because this is the only canonical church located on the territory of ukraine, and if it is prohibited by law, will you continue to go to this church? of course, i will continue to go here, but what if it does not exist, if it will be banned, well, we will decide then, to see what will happen next. as orthodox, orthodox, no matter what they are, whether belarus, ukraine, or russia, but to ban, i don't know what they are there, they are wise,

you can do so. say, i only know that this is so simple, and what does ukraine have to do with all of orthodoxy here, let her choose, whoever wants, let her believe in herself, there in her own language, they want, well, that's their business , and what about russia before orthodoxy, well, this is orthodoxy, this is where it came from kyiv, so it is not russia, kyiv and ukraine, well, they were together, the people who go to the moscow patriarchate are simply used in their enemy 's interests, i don't know how to do it gently so that there are no confrontations, but i believe that it was necessary to do for a long time, they can ban it, but i don’t think that it will be possible to disband these structures so quickly, and even if they disband the church, something else will be formed, this is an enemy agency network, at least, i am not talking about

direct influence on citizens, we still need it more unity, and the moscow patriarchate, then there is no unity, we are god's church, not moscow, you understand, god, and the representative of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate commented to us on the adoption in the first reading of the bill on the ban of religious organizations connected with the russian federation. mykola danylevych believes that, from a formal point of view, this law. does not apply to their church, also in the uocp they say that the bill divides society, well, in general, from a formal point of view, this law does not apply to us, therefore that in our statutory documents, all legal and canonical documents of the ukrainian orthodox church, there is no mention of our belonging to religious organizations located in the russian federation, we believe that this is artificial, that it violates both

the rules and the european... the provenance of human affairs and, in our opinion, certain forces are trying to attribute it to us, and accordingly , we, budemors, this is a legal issue, and our legal department is working on it, and we, in the legal field, will continue to defend, defend, defend the legal and the truth and independence and, if our church, the head of the state service of ukraine on ethnopolitics of freedom of conscience joins our broadcast. mr. viktor, my greetings. good evening. good evening. come on, are there certain social risks in such actions, i am talking about today's vote of the verkhovna rada, because we see that many people have already spoken about the division of society and that this will only strengthen moscow's influence on viryana pcp. what is your opinion? my opinion is that it is not about bans, it is not about splitting the ussr,

it is about ending the influence of moskovsky patriarchate, which is not the instigator of russia's aggression against ukraine, but a full-fledged participant in this aggression, so it is about ending this influence, it is about dismantling the structures of the moscow patriarchate, but in no case about people who have been members of this church until now did not have the opportunity to confess. their faith and had no opportunity to adequately express their religious feelings. submission to the moscow patriarchate is not part of the orthodox creed. hierarchy of the ukrainian orthodox church in of unity with the moscow patriarchate, well know what they must do in order to leave the moscow patriarchate.

what needs to be done in order to leave the moscow patriarchate, hundreds of their priests and thousands, if not tens of thousands, of their laymen turn to them with these requests and even pleas, if they do not want to break with the moscow patriarchate, then they drive the situation deeper, thus they intensify the confrontation with society and intensify the confrontation with the state. well, in general, in your opinion, how should we move along the evolutionary path, it is important... these are such strict bans, measures in the form of a ban , whether it is the cessation of activities, and ukraine is proud of the level, its level of religious freedom, which has been achieved during these 30 years. people who are expelled from russia, from belarus, from central asia, from many other countries for their religious beliefs find their refuge in ukraine, we never turn anyone away'