[000:00:00;00] fields, no one recognizes this as a victory, but the capture of any city, any city , including avdiyivka, can be a political victory, so the enemy suffered heavy losses there and is still throwing large reserves there in order to win this victory , because from the very beginning, if you saw, avdiivka, she was in such a semi-encirclement, and i think that when they were looking for a place, they chose it where there is an opportunity to develop the most success, so from my point of view, that's where they play a role political ambitions, for the sake of which the russians...' will give thousands of his soldiers in order to bring some kind of victory to his military-political leadership. ropan, well, if you say that the potential capture, the possible capture of avdiyivka, it only brings political bonuses for putin, in particular, what about the avdiyiv coke plant, because the institute for the study of war writes that the russian army is preparing to attack avdiyivka cokechem and the fact that there are currently 40,000 personnel at their disposal, who are also deploying

additional forces... then what is the significance of cokechem in avdiivka, and how can it affect the situation near the city? well, what is the significance of, for example, small azovstal in mariupol, from my point of view koksokhim has no military significance, it is just a suburb , anyone who has been to avdiivka understands that koksokhim is a suburb of avdiivka itself, and having entered it, the enemy in principle, it will be fixed and it will be almost impossible to knock it out from there. therefore, i think that from the military point of view, if you take the brothers, then their task is to establish a foothold, in order to, then, simply be near the avdiivka and then simply start from it, attack already without directly the city itself, because the kaksakhilnyk is located in avdiivka, in fact in the suburbs of avdiivka, so for them , i think, from this point of view, it is important, and if you take all the objects located on the

territory. yes, they can occupy the heights there, they will be able to control some territory, but in general, i say, strategically, the enemy there will not take us for an audio hole if we go into a ring there, or he will not create any threat to the environment of our large groups, the fact is that the brigade that is directly fighting is now at risk defends avdiivka, and we must understand this, i think our military leadership also understands this and sees that the main thing is to prevent this, operational or already such a complete encirclement of our troops in avdiivka. did i understand you correctly, that if avdiivskoe coxychem is taken, actually defending the city will be very difficult. eh, well, let's not predict, but from a military point of view, as i see it, i myself have not been to diivka many times, i fought in promtka, i know the city there in principle very well,

then from a military point of view and from the maps look, if the enemy is already... on kokssahim, then it will be really quite difficult to knock him out from there, and in fact it will be cutting the very road that goes into avdiivka, and after that, well, the battles are in place, and we know , that this is a lottery, we have already been, took part in them, so it is very important, i think, to prevent the enemy from getting to koksakhim, because i say again, this is a large factory, with which, it is with large shelters, which, or will have to be compared with land, land, which will require large means and aviation and artillery, is easier of course prevent the enemy from entering here. roman, i also wanted to mention the article by simon shuster , published by tymes, about the fact that changes in ukraine's military strategy are expected by winter, and literally, he writes that there will be shakeups in zelenskyi's team.

the president refers to the assistants. and writes that allegedly it will be necessary to dismiss one minister, at least a senior general, who is responsible for the counteroffensive, in order to ensure responsibility for the slow progress, this is verbatim, i am now quoting at the front, but can it is to be true and actually, what kind of responsibility to whom are we talking about, if we are already talking a lot about the fact that it is impossible to estimate the tempo of the ukrainian counteroffensive, especially how slow it is, can it be true, how do you evaluate such and such information? look, it's hard to say. because we do not know all the nuances, there is always a fight among the generals directly for their directions, someone proposes to advance somewhere in one direction, someone needs more reserves, someone proposed his plan, and it, for example, did not come true, so i i think that those who are directly in the field, take part , who directly in the general staff plan operations, who take responsibility

for carrying out certain operations know more, i just don't understand who they are talking about when they say that the counterattack is thwarted, or it is slow. i have one thing, i think we can change our strategy. we have one strategy, we liberate our territories and we conduct, strategically we conduct an offensive operation, yes, it is slow, but all the actions that we are doing, this is an offensive operation, we are advancing and liberating our territories, having the resource that we have, unfortunately, and we see now what processes are happening in other countries of our allies, slovakia, let's start with our little sushi who said , that they will no longer supply us with weapons, there is hungary, which is constantly playing along, and what is happening now in the united states, when the question of providing us with aid for next year is going on there and these questions are going on with the speaker, the division

of aid packages, somewhere building a wall, somewhere israel, somewhere in taiwan, somewhere in ukraine, that is, some, internal, on the sidelines, even my partners, my colleagues who were there recently, there was such a statement that we can give you funds there in the future, but maybe so it will happen, in connection with the geopolitical situation in the world , that you will compete for shells not even with israel, but with the american army, if it is said that they can also use them somewhere, and the middle east is now showing us everything will depend on how the situation will develop, so the strategy can according to all these processes will change, for example, from the position when we conduct... strategic offensive actions, active actions, to the position that if we are limited, god forbid, the resource, to the point that we will move to strategic defense, not having enough resources, to carry out, for example, offensive actions, from here i see a threat, further, further it is possible

to develop and talk about strategy, yes, strategy is something big, this is how it can change , we are not yet given any weapons to change, for example, striking economic facilities, ports, roads. logistic the enemy on the territory of the russian federation, this is a change of strategy, for example, and yes , i see, it is only defense, or us, uh, roman, well, i want to ask one last thing, serhiy sternenko published a video on his telegram channel, where it is claimed that the russian military shot ukrainian prisoners of war, we cannot show this video for ethical reasons, but maybe you know something about this case, can you confirm it or deny it, it is about the fact that this incident happened on the tokmat direction, i did not see this video, unfortunately, fortunately, but i do not rule it out, and what surprises us, we already , we have seen more than once how russian soldiers shoot

our prisoners, capture our prisoners, how they mock them, we remember how they cut off their limbs and castrated our soldiers there, and nothing surprises us in this war, of course it's a pity... but it's a war and we understand who we're fighting, we're fighting terrorists, who have no pity or nothing, so i'm not saying we have to do the same, but we have, every person who is now sits at home and has not yet made a decision for herself and believes that this is not her war, she should look at it and understand that these people can come and do this to you and what did you do to prevent these people from coming to our land, heard, roman, thank you very much for finding the time, the opportunity...' to join the broadcast roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine from the voices faction, secretary of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence. thank you. the russian army does not stop trying to attack ukrainian troops. however

, at the moment, the weather conditions are becoming bad for them in zavada. with on the one hand, it is beneficial, say the armed forces, and on the other hand, it creates inconvenience for the military itself. one way or another, machine guns and grenade launchers can be heard continuously on the front line. what is happening at the front and how they are preparing to spend another winter in the trenches, see in the video of maryan koshnir. 450, guys, sonya, will work out, pkm. we work with him, we keep our friends at a distance from our such conditional friends. now we are in the lysychansk direction, actually here are

the advanced positions of the armed forces of ukraine, and while we are here, it is going smoothly rifle battle, that is, the ukrainian troops are trying to extinguish precisely the places from which the russian troops are firing, they , in turn, are also shelling the ukrainian army, meanwhile, the weather just got worse here, the roads were acidified, in fact... the fog settled, so the fighters say, this the situation is still quite calm, the nests are still starting to work, and they need to be extinguished, sit down, don't sleep, don't sleep, don't sleep, come on. that's how we work, round, as

they say, 24/7, how active is it in general, well, that is, now we are standing relatively quiet, it's quiet, this, this is heavenly silence, this is heavenly silence, yes, at the moment it is very quiet, well, what about the periodicity, well, here in the evening, night, all day, it goes on constantly, there were such a few small interruptions, now there is such a war here that we we draw more attention to ourselves and hold back the enemy, so i think that we will be here for a while, and we will be there already, and we are also waiting, they are also probably waiting for something. some kind of frost, some kind, so

that they can make some assaults, they have their own, their own advantage in the number, manpower, let's say, and it is clear that the weapons they they try to use it, we use it, as they say, by quality, not quantity, they don't want to intervene, but they are like that, like that virus, until you suppress it, get over it, they themselves don't. . they want to go, we are used to living well, we must live well, we are people, live like inhumans to us, or it doesn’t suit us there, i briefly looked on the internet that they are also starting to do the same with nuclear plants, this is very worrying , worries because the local population, ordinary people, children, women.

why should they suffer, they are so sweaty they fight, vilely, and vileness is this, it is not very good, it will respond to them later , god is on our side, we did not go to visit them, so yes, god let me survive this difficult winter, but from spring i i think there will be a victory, we hope that there will be our victory, it will be our victory, i just want as soon as possible, so that fewer guys lose their lives , this is the place, our brother died, ihor zavalnyuk, it was here that he came directly, i am glad and here he is he died in our house, the condolences of all... in the family, we cannot forget him, very much

he was good, the person was golden, shkkoda.50, if you see, know that your husband, dad did not die so easily, he was a soldier, the provision of aid to israel will be considered separately, and not in a package with ukraine. this was recently announced by the newly elected speaker of the us house of representatives , mike johnson, in an interview with fox news. according to him, the relevant bill will be put to the vote of the house of representatives this week. johnson also stated that literally, there are many things in the world that we need to address, but what is happening in israel needs attention. i i would like to add that the statement of the speaker of the house of representatives contrasts with the one previously submitted to the us congress by president biden for more than 105 billion in defense aid,

most of which was intended for ukraine. at the same time, johnson had previously stated the need to divide aid. the newly elected speaker is demanding more accountability from the white house on aid to kyiv, while agreeing that the united states should help ukraine. oleksandr kraev, director of the north america programs of the ukrainian prizma foreign policy council, joins our broadcast. oleksandr, my greetings, good evening. yes, congratulations, good evening to you. what risks do you see for ukraine in this division of aid, the aid package for israel and ukraine? the main risk is that procedural now. and it will be much easier for ukrainian skeptics, primarily trumpists, to make their corrections. that is, when we talked about a single big package, we talked about the fact that when making amendments to the budget of ukraine, they would also make amendments to israel, they would also carry amendments to taiwan, they would also made amendments to the issue of the southern border, which is very painful for them.

but now, if they can still separate these topics and vote separately, well, then really this procedural battle for ukrainian money, it will be much more difficult, but again, if you compare it with johnson's statement just a few weeks ago, when he basically said that supporting ukraine is not a priority task for the house of representatives, and now that he says that this is how it will be considered, this is how we will work with it, we just need more accountability, and this is already quite good progress, so yes, there are risks for ukraine , but they are not significant, they are not strategic, well , the representatives of the ukrainian parliamentary delegation, who were in the congress on this issue, write that now it is very... it is important that aid to ukraine remains, at least in the package with aid to taiwan and the wall with mexico, and what guarantees will this provide if ukraine is not voted in a separate package at all, and if it remains at least in some package, or it remains with something in connection, it automatically gives us a little more votes, it automatically gives us

the opportunity to attract more congressmen to our side, especially those who doubt that ukraine should be supported in principle. withdrawing ukraine from this full budget simply complicates the process of persuasion for us. this makes it difficult for our partners, for our allies, who are ready to vote for our budgets, the very process of approval, that is, it does not create additional problems for us as such. also, let's not forget that according to the estimates of the american of the ministry of defense, ukraine needs about 30 billion for the next year. in the federal budget, which must be voted on by november 17, about 40 billion is earmarked for ukraine. there is a plus. this additional package for 60 billion, why was it laid with such a margin? because biden, his administration, they understood that the trumpists, one way or another , will negotiate, they will try to reduce this package, they will try to somehow influence it, so relatively speaking, now we are rather talking about the fact that they want to reduce our additional funds, but not

take away what we already need, i wanted to ask you to clarify, because here is this amount of 61.8 billion, as proposed by the white house in the request to congress, whether it will be preserved, because you say that the trumpists will negotiate, did i understand you correctly, that in principle about 61.8 billion, it is already with embedded risks for bargaining with the trumpists, what will actually depend on the amount that can be allocated to ukraine? the amount will primarily depend on you voting and the agreement to which all parties will come, all politicians will come , well, this is a basic understanding, but in fact the amount of aid in the biden package is directly dependent, it depends on how quickly the federal budget will be adopted. as you and i have already said, the federal budget must be adopted by november 17, this is the deadline to avoid a shutdown. in the federal budget, quite a lot of money has already been invested in ukraine, and in fact, the biden package is a conditional

bargaining position in relation to the federal budget that is, in order for the federal budget to be accepted without question, relatively speaking, that money. which are intended for ukraine in biden's aid package, they can be put under separate consideration, that is exactly what we talked about with you, they can be subjected to certain changes there, they can be reworked a little, but at the same time, our main key package, which will be in federal budget , will remain, therefore this amount of 601.8 billion, it can still change, it will not disappear anywhere, one way or another, but this additional package for ukraine will be allocated, but for us now the most important thing is to take the package that is in the federal budget , that is, for us, it is not necessary for the house of representatives to adopt the budget for the 24th year, everything else, it is already called in addition to what we need, uh, well, actually, the american media are already writing about the fact that the republican leaders in the us congress have differences regarding the vote on the aid package to ukraine, it is said that johnson, as the speaker of the house of representatives, is in favor of dividing the aid, and mitch mcconnell, the

republican leader in the senate, has the absolute opposite position, and here they predict that the eyes disagreements between them can have a bad, bad effect... in principle, on aid to ukraine, do you agree with this, because the media is again writing that the republican leaders in the house of representatives in the senate are doomed to cooperation? and they are really doomed, one way or another mcconnell will have to negotiate with johnson, because both one party , and one, one legislature and so on, although different chambers, but the fact that mcconnell expresses an opinion opposite to johnson, on the contrary, is a big deal for us positive, it simply means that a certain internal conflict between the conservative part of the party and the trumpian part of the party is growing. johnson still represents the trumpists more. mcconnell represents. just the conservatives, the conservatives show again that they have always been primarily the pro-ukrainian part of the party, they really almost always

supported with their majority all pro-ukrainian amendments, budget allocations and so on, for us this is positive, why, because i confirm this once again the opinion that not all the republican party will be slandering ukrainian budgets, not the entire republican party is anti-ukrainian, as it is often misrepresented in our country, and that the trumpists do not have a majority even in their own party. because it is the trumpist part of the republicans who pose the greatest threat to ukraine, they are the very people who started this whole budget crisis, who used the topic of ukraine for their own political ambitions, and that is why we now see that even in their own party they do not have absolute the majority do not have absolute power, but for us this is definitely positive. oleksandr, i can't help but ask you about the washington post article that appeared, where they write that the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, like most european leaders... supported israel in the conflict with hamas, but together

however, as the conflict drags on, the east risks losing many friends among the arab countries, especially given the situation in the united states, now and the activation of russian troops in the east, and how do you think the ukrainian authorities will be on this tightrope, so to speak, balancing between israel and potential allies from the arab world. well, let's say this, if we talk about potential allies, then israel is a much closer potential ally for us, so the determination here is quite obvious, this is one, secondly, our key messages, our key work in one way or another, but it goes through the united states of america , because right now the americans are the leaders of the democratic bloc, which we also belong to, and we see that they have stepped up their own diplomacy, both political and military, in the middle east, they are already negotiating with saudi arabia, they confirmed their commitment. in front of yemen, oh, sorry, in front of jordan, in regards to yemen, they have only strengthened their position, now they are almost constantly cruising along the entire coast,

monitoring the possible launch of new iranian-made missiles, they are re-establishing relations with egypt, with whom they once again had divergence, that is, our icebreaker in this case is american diplomacy, and the issue of the grain corridor, thanks to the fact that the americans are once again paving the way for us and for the european states east, despite our joint... israel, we need to use this paved forwater, nothing else, we personally, individually, as the state of ukraine, without the general involvement of the western bloc, let's say, it will be very difficult for us to subject ourselves there, and in principle , it will be a waste of resources, so our task is very simple: we defend our own national interests, we clearly show our position, but at the same time we are ready to talk to everyone except terrorists. alexander, if we talk about the fact that the united states is as an icebreaker, as expressed for ukraine in support in the world, why did ukraine not vote

the way the united states voted at the un general assembly vote, but instead voted like the majority of european countries, i will remind you that there was a question about the gas crisis, and ukraine did not support the ceasefire, but did not vote against it, but abstained from voting, and some experts have already criticized such a position, what is your opinion on this matter? in fact, i was surprised by such a position, as a position in principle many european states, that is, one way or another, but the question of who is to blame for what specifically happened in the middle east is quite obvious, the question of supporting israel against a terrorist attack, about a test attack is also quite clear, and we see that, at the time of the vote, israel refrained from ground operations in the gas sector, we see that it fulfilled the obligations imposed on it by the americans. and therefore, in fact , the position of our diplomats, well, even to me i didn't fully understand, to be honest.

we see that in principle the same position was shared by many european states, and some states from which we did not expect it, on the contrary, they supported the united states, for example, hungary, for example, austria, the same doves of peace who created the international coalition of non-supply they are ready to supply weapons to ukraine, and specifically to ukraine, everywhere else, they don't want us, that is, someone has shown their incomprehensible position. someone showed a fairly clear determination as the united states, and someone showed their own double standards, as hungary and austria did, that is, this vote was extremely interesting from the point of view of classical diplomacy. heard, oleksandr, thank you for joining the broadcast, oleksandr kraev, director of the north america program of the ukrainian prism foreign policy council, was in touch with us. thank you. more than 20 people were injured, 10 of them have serious injuries, including two seriously. such data were announced by the ministry of health of dagestan, commenting on the consequences of the riots at the makhachkala airport, and the head of dagestan

serhii melikov announced that criminal cases and beatings had been initiated. literally that there will be no forgiveness for anyone, while the official claims that the reason for the protests were attempts to destabilize the situation from abroad, in particular by pro-ukrainian telegram channels, this is a quote. i will remind you that last sunday about a thousand people blocked the entrance and exit to the airport of makhachkala, the capital of dagestan, which is a subject of the russian federation, they broke into the airport premises when a plane from tel aviv landed there, the protesters shouted anti-semsic... and were looking for jews among passengers later, the crowd even broke into the runway, trying to get into the plane, and only a few hours later , the rosguard managed to expel all the demonstrators from the airport building. i will note that anti-semitic actions also took place in another dagestan city, khasaavyurt, where a mob threw stones at a hotel where jews were thought to be staying. anti-semitism actions

also took place in the karachay-cherkessia republic of the russian federation kabardino balkaria. the chronology of events and statements of the russian authorities was compiled by my colleague olga armyanishyna. there is an angry crowd on the street who does not know where we came from and why, it is quite possible that we will also be handed out, please stay in your place, somolyate that there are attempts to destabilize the situation in dagestan and create a protest background in

dagestan, including with the use of prohibited receptions related to fanning inter-ethnic discord, inter-confessional problems, conducted by our enemies, enemies, adversaries of our country, the utro dagestan channel is administered, regulated from

the territory of ukraine by traitors, banderas, what happened yesterday, what is happening in our republic today, this is not the way of life and not the character of our dagestanis, we have peace for centuries, our ancestors are balanced people, literate people, educated people, believing people, and we put an end to that, see you , as

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