we spoke with serhiy bratchuk today and he said that the sea is raging, laying mines, what can you say, whose side is our sea on? the black sea neptune, well, actually, right now we don’t see any ships in the sea at all, the so-called black sea fleet , carriers, all the more so, because despite the fact that, in principle, such ships can overcome such an element, weapons systems, they are calculated, of course the conditions are slightly different, therefore, there is no point in going out to sea now, and in principle the situation is so stable because as for the consequences, well, of course , a storm always brings something new, or something old, for example, old mine weapons.

we will react there and accordingly, we have specially trained people for this, as they say in the army, and accordingly this team, it will react and neutralize these objects if they are called to the coast. mr. dmitry , the year is coming to an end, so to speak , it is possible to summarize how many russian ships have already been destroyed and damaged since the beginning of the russian full-scale aggression, and how many, to what extent this will affect... combat capability of the russian fleet in the black sea? well, if you remember, i once said that, in principle, the russian fleet had , together with the naval guard, about 80 units, these are precisely such combat units of the ship-boat composition, yes, as of now, in principle, the combat core is 30, a little more than 30 units, that is, those ships.

which are quite powerful, have serious enough weapons, and besides, we are just saying pink, patrol, carriers of cool missiles, surface, underwater, missile boats, this is not even to mention minesweepers, amphibious ships, yes, and from this combat core of 30 units, 10 more ships, this is in principle the only one. the only weapons currently that the enemy can actually use are cruise missile carriers, that is, well, the order of numbers is understood, now we will see, how many were destroyed, destroyed, according to my calculations, according to my information, 15, and another 12 were damaged, well, that is, these numbers are comparable to each other, right, and quite tangible.

read that the russians are going to launch an underwater, nuclear, submarine this month, the yasen class, here, and which can carry up to 40 caliber cruise missiles, and such should be built in general, there are five of them, this is a serious replenishment for the russian fleet, and stealth submarines have the ability, for example, to go... into the black sea ? the story with the cyclone, which also has eight mines, and is also supposed to start them, is immediately remembered, but something, something went wrong, and it has not been able to start them for two years, despite the fact that it was built at a fairly modern ukrainian plant, by their technologies, even by nanotechnologies, which

have no analogues in the world, that is why such expensive huge projects are, you know, the last leg of that empire that cannot die peacefully, and frankly, given the stable construction, i think that we will see the next projects very soon, if at all , as far as this is concerned, also, you know, a new new ship is always time for the crew to master this unit in general... it is at least a year of the weapon system, as well as i understand they have to pass tests and so on, so in combat conditions we this unit i think during this we will not see a war at all, as regards your question about entering the water area, in general, according to international legislation, international law, passages, channels or narrows, such submarines, any submarines, pass exclusively in a surface

position, and it must be understood that phosphorus is, not just some, i don't know, location, where whoever wants to, does what he wants, no, he is under the protection of the respective country, which is his owner, therefore, accordingly, it is practically impossible. well, this is good news regarding the replenishment of ukrainian, ukrainian, of the navy, whether it is possible before the liberation of crimea and whether it is expedient , in principle, to hope for some increase in our fleet before the liberation of crimea. well, the development of the fleet continues according to the schedule, next year we expect to see the first corvette, type ada, in our squad, the second one is also on schedule for its construction, so yes,

it will also take time to master, this is a new weapon system, this, of course, the crew is already learning, i'll say so, but of course in order to master... in order to go through adjustment, it's just as much time, in developed countries, it also takes at least a year, until the team can actually bring the use of all systems on this ship to the point of automation, will know it perfectly, so this also, of course , requires quite a bit of skill and appropriate training, but yes, our problem now , well, just like the russians, in principle, it balances in some sense, it is a closed basfort, so we have units that are now outside the black sea, but in fact already belong to the naval forces, the armed forces of ukraine, we are in first of all

we are talking about the ships of the anti-mine division, if we talk about the naval forces, it is also, it is also the marines, which now, as far as i understand, carries out... the most difficult burden in the kherson direction, in particular on those bridgeheads, existence, which have been confirmed with the general headquarters of ukraine, on the left bank of the dnieper, what can you say about the activities of the marines ? i can point out that the brave marines are now actually on such a sharp attack, difficult combat work is underway, dangerous. and of course our units show everything they were taught, there are many veterans in the units , moreover, the marines have been used since the first days of the war, in the 14th year, they have something to show, they use

various types of weapons, including new ones, and besides, in this operation ships and boats are participating, because you understand that we are talking about the largest river of our country and, accordingly, military sailors are also involved in this operation, well, thank you for the conversation, dmytro plettenchuk was with us, the spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces forces of ukraine, captain of the third rank, we talked about the situation in the black sea, by the way, there is a strong storm going on there, this is actually not bad to a certain extent, because it does not allow russian ships to go out, in principle, russian ships actually half, as far as i understand, have lost their power since the beginning of the war, this is such an interesting moment when, in fact, not even having a powerful fleet, the country, fighting the country, actually blocked it and deprived the country,

which had a huge advantage at sea, of its capabilities, this is what happened, they are afraid of ukrainian drones, by the way again, recently they tested a new drone, that’s how the marine drone, so that ukraine wins here with, you know, so to speak , ingenuity, flexibility, mobility, readiness to respond so asymmetrically to challenges, and wins, because well, how many of theirs have already been sunk and the flemish and all that, only 15 ships and more, about the same amount of serious damage, well, gentlemen, i want to tell you what else i want to say, i also want to say that it was very, very, very interesting to read the interview on censornet, an interesting interview was read by one of the company commanders of the 47th brigade, such mykola melnyk, who talks about the first days of our counteroffensive, we will still analyze, so to speak, what

went wrong, then right now everyone is analyzing, one of the very simple explanations and obvious explanations is that we do not given, i actually agree here, even with the spokesmen of the president's office. in this case, that we were really given weapons very slowly , not in the quantities that we needed, but that were needed, by the way, were voiced publicly and for good reason, mr. valeriy was probably forced to voice it publicly industrious the commanding general is diligent about what we need, he actually mentioned hundreds of modern artillery systems and tanks, and we also needed airplanes, but instead we will receive airplanes in the next year and they say, by the way, about the numbers in some 16, in 16 or so 12 in the 16th, which of course cannot change what these experts say the situation radically, and the time when this conditional silver bullet, that the silver bullet is for the impure, you know what's in those mystical action movies. there is this concept that there is a silver bullet that kills evil power, so what

that silver bullet, which was, perhaps at the moment when the russians arrived in such a slightly groggy state, which is called, you know, in the boxing ring, when the boxer already swam after missing a strong blow, that's what happened to the russians, when they after their blitz-kriga, they literally faltered, and by the way , at that moment they did not yet have the mobilization of a large army, their professional army actually turned out to be crushed in a few months, there were huge losses in tanks, they did not stop. deconcentrate everything, restart production drones, words, we were outnumbered then in drones, in manpower, give even that moment a sufficient number of those tanks, 1,000 abrams, there are 500 planes, and russia would bring it to its knees, so to speak, but we were very afraid that the russians would take offense, strike nuclear bomb on washington or something like that, and you see what it eventually led to, unfortunately, led to what it led us to, and we found ourselves in a situation now: a war of attrition, that's what this war is all about not so clearly, but we have to live in this situation

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dear friends, we are returning to the ether now we will analyze the situation at the front and the chances of ukraine in the war with mykola malomuzhe, general of the army of ukraine, head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine in 2005-2010 . mr. mykola, congratulations, congratulations, glory to ukraine , glory, today we had a member of the mariupol

city council on our airwaves talking about the fact that now mariupol is under occupation, people, local residents are recording a huge movement of military equipment, and this indicates that , that all this equipment then goes in the direction of avdiyivka, and institutes for the study of war write that the occupiers are getting closer and closer. mr. mykola, what can you say about what is happening now in the avdiiv region. well, first of all, this is the fulfillment of putin's tasks, directly , a month ago he had avdiivka seized as a symbolic settlement for his supposed victories, to show the failure of the armed forces of ukraine, as it were, but we are already moving in the south and near bakhmut, so it was necessary to alternate, and but, the first was the situation, the kupyan direction, it failed, of course, they chose avdiyka as one of the iconic points and declared that it was not

they succeed only after capturing avdiivka, but they continue to capture all of donetsk. region, this first situation was determined as a priority , additional forces were sent there three times already, at first three brigades were involved and a large number of combat equipment and armed and , accordingly, several hundred tanks, then two more brigades, then also special forces, mercenaries, that is, it was not implemented one project, yes, they took a pinch to some extent, the southern format and the northern one, is now moving literally in the north on the outskirts of the coke-chemical plant, partly in the south. but they can’t take it, putin doesn’t know what to do anymore, they monitor every day, and according to some data, they report every hour how the situation in avdiivka is going, and gerasiv constantly shouts to the mishuyuk that there are no forces, huge losses, additional ones are needed, so today we should quit all they have are additional reserves in order to complete this task in a week, why , because it is clear, in addition to the fact that he has success,

the question is in some kind of winning relations, regarding the elections of the candidate and the election of the president putin once again said that there will be no elections, of course, but we need some external positive factors, especially special operations, because it is a failure for them, it is already felt in russian society, there is still internal protest, but if some victories were declared, well here you can raise your image a little or somehow operate on some concrete specifics on the battlefield, that is , the movement of additional forces through mariupol today, this indicates that our fighters will have to stand very powerfully in all directions, yesterday and commander tornavskyi and zaluzhny spoke about the fact that they have powerful positions there, they repel the enemy, they see this movement, of course, and first of all strike even at prejudice, when they are still moving towards the avdiiv sector. ah, nevertheless, there were also many publications this week that in one way or another raise doubts, let's say, about

ukraine, about what ukraine can fulfill, the tasks set to liberate its territories, at least in some, in some in the short term, in a couple of years, i don't know there was an article in the world street journal, which in particular was written by the vice president of the carnegie foundation, a seriously large, actually the largest non-governmental influential american organization, where they generally called it magical thinking, that russia would lose this war precisely in such a way that and what will come out of crimea , including the publication of foreign affairs, by richard gass, in particular, also a well-known, influential person from the foreign council. eu and american relations, where they also call on ukraine to switch to a purely defensive strategy

to save people and resources, and the article is also called to review what ukraine's success is, and to bring goals and means in line with it, this advice, this skepticism about ukraine's ability to win back its territories and fulfill the points of the plan volodymyr zelenskyi, how should we respond to him, or do we need to somehow adapt to him, first of all, we should respond to the real situation at the front, so we know deeply the situation today, but no one should predict exactly what will happen such an option or model of action, here is the institute for the study of war, and accordingly, such respectable institutions as the carnegie institute or, for example , british intelligence yesterday gave assessments, there are various options and combinations, and we assume that indeed, the enemy has completed the first task - to delay

war, we repeatedly said on the air even more than a year ago at the end of last year that the enemy would build a powerful fortification in six months , including dragon's teeth, minefields, raise two more armies, raise several thousand more tanks, battleships, bmps, rehabilitative ones old, but on a new basis, understand? this will be a huge problem, but we did not really , as you said, receive the armed equipment that would allow us to quickly and effectively conduct strategic offensive operations, but this option is not excluded, we switched, as zaluzhny said, to the destruction of reserves , the destruction of that potential, no matter what they say there, but it is not limitless, there is no such thing as there is no potential there, it is not firewood, that’s all, even though they treat them like that, but if they are not trained, not trained, have weapons , those there are no more advanced prospects, they will throw more and more, but we already have 317,000 destroyed, even more wounded, who have left the service, it is already

650,000, this is an extremely large loss even for the russian army, so there is a prospect, but it is necessary admittedly, and we then recommended certain situations, even with the receipt of limited weapons, to prepare non-standard formats, these are strategic operations that will strike styles from the flanks, using all means and long-range. missiles and medium range, these are 300 km, 135, 80 km270-ka, fungi and accordingly, all missile fire systems, this is from zero to 40-60 km, these are shafts of fire, the force of special operations, this is the rear and flanks, which may be involved, but not there the dragon’s wings, where they are not, for example, from the dnipro to enter from kherson region, and such options were considered, but the final decision was not made, the narrow-minded said, yes, to some extent it is possible and washed himself in the fact that only the first task performed by the lower reserves is extremely important, but also the second component, which the enemy does not expect, is important, therefore today really a lot everyone says that it is respectively

has dragged on, and the same analysts are saying, based on what zaluzhnyi said, that russia will raise the reserve, that it will be for a long time, i will say that there are alternatives that can be prepared, one of the options showed how we act literally still locally in the kherson region , how the klasdarms were conquered by small forces and we even hold powerfully there. we are moving a few tens of kilometers there, one and a half dozen kilometers, this is already a prize sign, and if these forces and means are used and this is the southern corridor, which we will cut in the direction of zaporizhzhia and strike accordingly according to the agreement, then we we are saying because the general staff will make a decision and we will cut in the kherson direction, and we will cut the crimean logistics route, and from the east, respectively, the entire east from mariupol to the zaporizhzhia group and it will be closed, and after that there may be major operations to destroy them, surrender and movement then to crimea, it may not be two or three years there , as many predict, it may be six months, seven months, eight, such scenarios and the reality

of such operations may be, it is very important that we really still get additional weapons equipment, especially ammunition and aircraft, this is very important today, then even the nature of the war in the winter period may change, because winter is winter for everyone, not only for us, but also for the russians, but it is important actually. you talk about getting weapons, and we see that the world's attention to ukraine and receiving aid is becoming more and more difficult, and on the other hand , yes, but we have already worked on the logistics of ammunition and missiles, some part of it, not in public space, because the enemy was not oriented, to some extent it is possible even sow a position that he did not even know, no, not even underestimating ours. position and add the second directly as a whole, this is the deployment of our own military industrial complex, finally , because we have been saying from the first days, let 's transfer that, but it cannot be transferred, in

war you can transfer everything to the military... flights, rails, and business will work actively, who has already taken over these factories, and state enterprises, and collective ones, of course, all this should work today for defense, drones have shown, belatedly, but they have already shown that there is an army drones, they should have been there for a long time, because many hundreds of scientific centers, production systems and state ones, i understand, starting with antik anton, already had these drones several years before the war, before the great war, i have, but everything has been deployed now for sure the same tanks, fortifications that can be, in the same way today, the missiles that we are talking about are already up to a thousand kilometers away, we used to deliver all these centers to russia with ukrainian missiles, because we cannot launch foreign ones there, but foreign ones, that’s clear, this is crimea , this sevastopol, respectively, the entire region and the fleet, and the bay and the headquarters, and i understand, ketch and everything , all stromshedou, these are scalps, it is clear that they can be attacks, if there is a taus, the more

we will cover that depth, all strategic ob objects, we will cover by all other means, of course, our foreign ones up to 80 km en masse, here is just the format, that's why there will be a big deficit, there won't be a big deficit, yes, we won't be able to just use it extremely efficiently and massively, but hold position or prepare there will be breakthroughs at the expense of foreign and domestic production, some foreigners, for example, the controller who comes, says let's expose. own production, what is it, well, he controlled finances, for example, a representative of the pentagon and a representative of the state department, respectively, came, we also take this into account, and this will be a format that will ensure an uninterrupted stage of both foreign production and our military industry. well, i will say the very end, here valery zaluzhnyi in his article, er, says that it is also necessary to change approaches to

mobilization and i see, for example, a lot of servicemen write somewhere in their various social networks, social networks in their accounts that there are problems with the completion of units, that is, there are 100 on a regular basis, but in fact there are less, and this leads to losses and so on , but on the other hand, you are absolutely correct in saying that it is necessary to preserve a competitive economy, which must develop, that is, how to find the balance, how to make mobilization clear so that it does not bleed... on the one hand, the economy, and on the other side supplied motivated and physically able to go to the front, first of all, we must support the idea that was at the beginning of the war, i remember, we are here in kyiv, we had thousands, thousands of people in the military and were not taken, thousands of people turned to me, arrange us to the front, and the army says, but no, we don't need them, you are in the reserve,

you are 55 there, already old and therefore old. today , the specific specialization of mobilized, this is very important, motivated and those who are ready to go to war, in various ways, primarily for patriotic reasons, is one component, the financial basis, this is a very important component and technologically prepared, accordingly, just the fighter who goes or the commander and the unit that he will master or protect, respectively , this is training, this is combat coordination, this is the combat part of his front-line front zone, then it will be clear to many, now i will say, are there enough of them, i say, hundreds of thousands are still ready to follow such a scheme and want to go, so there is a reserve and the correct format to some extent for defense mines, but it needs to be more effective, this recruiting format, he should be, i heard, there may still be other reserves, but these are already additional measures, thank you pakolo, thank you, mykola malamush, general of the army of ukraine, head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine in 2005-2010 was with us, we were with andrii

we will return to ether in half an hour, and you stay, because the results will follow, and let me remind you that at 9:00 in the morning we remember all those whose lives were taken by russian aggression. let's honor with a moment of silence the memory of ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war that unleashed by russia.