attention and the ability to deliver asymmetric blows. yes, i am in favor of further militarization, especially since this further militarization can bring ukraine the creation of a powerful economy, because we know that, well, take countries like south korea. at the expense of militarization, huge militarization, almost complete, yes, south korea is now leaving, i think, maybe somewhere on the fourth. third place in the world arms market, more than 17 billion dollars in orders for south korean weapons in the world, south korea now sells more than russia, in the last most productive years, russia sold 15-20 billion dollars worth of arms to the world market, but we see that this is very seriously related to the economy. a very

serious technological advantage, it will allow both to deter the enemy and to be ahead, and we know that these are dual-purpose technologies, the same technologies are used to spray, let's say fighter blades, and to carry out the same actions in relation to civilians objects, and this is material technology. input, and what is possible to say about, let's say, such promising projects where ukraine can strengthen very seriously, if possible briefly, mr. valentin, literally in a minute, yes, the titanium industry, production, this is zirconium, lithium, this is what can be done with the united states, western partners, and therefore it is very important now to go to security guarantees, within the framework of which we can get advanced. technology

and strengthen ourselves tremendously to the point where we can inflict very powerful, asymmetric damage, in my view, in my understanding, it's at least a few thousand missiles, when hundreds of ukrainian missiles can go towards russia in response to russian missile fire, they will not defend themselves, they do not have that many and all the factories, enterprises and so on are scattered in them, thank you, thank you, mr. valentin, it was... badrak, a military expert, and we continue our broadcast, we work live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook, please like this video, don't save up for this the video was trending on youtube, and take part in our vote, today we ask you about the following: will putin become the next president of the russian federation? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, if in... you want to say

more about putin, or you want to wish him something, write in the comments under this video, because actually, well, this is kind of a rhetorical question, will he become the next president of ukraine , but well, considering the age and health, well, not a fact, if you watch russia, forgive me, if you watch us live on the tv channel, then you you can vote by calling 0800 21138. 71 0800 211 382 no, will putin become the next president of russia? so, all calls are free for you, at the end of the program we will sum up the results of this vote. and we are in contact with diplomat oleksandr khara, an expert on foreign and security policy issues of the center for defense strategies. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. good evening, mr. sergey, with pleasure. so, today the president. putin

announced for the fifth time that he would to run for president of russia, and he did it very funny, because he had a meeting there with the so-called veterans of the so-called svo, and the so-called head of the so-called people's council, the so-called dpr, artem zhoga, approached him on behalf of the occupied donbass. let's look at this funny video, because it was simply played out, as if by notes. he appointed an election. president of the russian federation and i, on behalf of all our people, all of donbass, our united lands, would like to ask you to take part in these elections, because что работы очень много, thanks to your actions, your decision, we got freedom, the right to vote, and we want to take part in the elections of the president of the russian federation, and you are our president, работы очень много, we still need integration, to go through integration.

a sick, sick country. it is clear that under the conditions of totalitarianism, the swamping system, or the announcement of putin's candidacy for the presidency, looks like a farce. but in this situation, it is very important that the representative of occupied donbas, other occupied regions, they say what they want, for putin to be the president, considering this, is it possible, if the presidential elections are held in these territories, is it possible? the world to raise questions about the legitimacy of president putin's powers, if, if there will be elections on lands that belong to the ukrainian state? well, you are absolutely right to say, of course, that i hope that the ukrainian parliament and the ukrainian government

will clearly decide that they will not recognize these next illegitimate elections, well , in general, in the russian federation, probably the only elections were more or less legitimate democratic these are yeltsin's first elections, and then everyone remembers perfectly how putin's acting duties were appointed, and then he was delayed by a special operation for 20 or so years. and of course, it would be right for our european and american partners not to recognize this person, to consider that he does not represent the majority of the people, although by and large, you know, i watched the livada center before the broadcast. polls of public opinion, of course, that we can only say with some certainty that it can somehow reflect what is happening in russia, so 87% of things are going in the right direction in the country, 21% believe that

things are going in the wrong direction, 85% approve of putin, putin's activities, only 13% do not approve of it, there was also an interesting study . carnegie center in november of this year, that 22% of russians are in favor of continuing the war without ending it until the victorious end, as they call it, and 53%, that is, actually more than half, who are mostly in favor of the war, but in principle, if there is a diplomatic solution, so are they will agree with this, that is why we see a sick country, which, even without a lot of propaganda , before the day of the elections, you will definitely ... vote for this monster, but in any case, whether they are killed, or they are sitting, or they are expelled from the russian federation, let's say yes, the alternatives, no matter how skeptical we are about these people, this is the first point, the second point, of course, that in a state in which

there is no freedom of speech, the rule of law, then of course, that cannot be, by definition , cannot be held more or less democratic and... free elections, well most importantly, you know how at one time hitler was recognized there, other whims of other tyrants were recognized there, and then in the end all this led to a great tragedy, and in fact, how at one time they looked at the year 2014 and did not draw proper conclusions and then continued business as usual with this person, the russian federation in general, then we have and means february 24, 22, as well as other manifestations of russian aggression, therefore... of course, ukraine should call on the democratic community not to recognize these elections, and of course that then this will mean that there is no one to talk to until the government changes there, and it is impossible to talk about diplomacy with the russian federation. do you see, mr. oleksandr, the factors that can prevent putin from becoming

the next president of russia, and of course, we can talk about age, about health, about the fact that a sudden death can... prevent him from living in the swamp, and this would also be a way out, because we remember that in the 12th year the term of the presidency was already increased from four to six years, that is, he is trying to extend all of them. term, although he is in the fifth is already running for office, there are some factors that indicate that he may not be elected president of russia, well, i think it's just an impossible scenario, you know, kiro korasawa has a very good movie, when one of these people died , and in order not to be attacked by other more aggressive neighbors, they took a person who is very similar. on him, and he played this role there, the beautiful tashira mifun plays the main role there, if putin is still alive, i

heard rumors that he has already died, then in principle he can remember again literature and cinema, like this big brother of george orval, that is, the collective putin who rules, and there is some kind of puppet there who physically, let's say, embodies this power, there can be no other issues, because we have also seen defeats in... . and in adventures against ukraine, and sanctions that worsened the life of those people who are middle class and higher there, but there are, well, in fact, russia has already turned into a fascist state, since the state actually controls everything, there is a cult of personality, as in its time stalin, of course, has peculiarities, ie he did not just copy them, and actually in such a system, when for russians the most important value is not the lord god, there is nothing else, but the state, and the state is to... compares putin, then of course there can be no guesswork , and plus, of course, let's look at

the opposition, i'm watching some opposition leaders on twitter, and they say, well , let's somehow show that there is not the crazy support that the polls show, let's make a video that we vote against putin, it is constitutionally allowed and so different, imagine the opposition does not have a plan on how to show that this is a farce and not an election, i am not talking about the fact that with... well, that is, in some way electoral, here you remember, there was a smart vote there or something else, i already i am not talking about taking up arms, as is traditionally the case in russia, only through the bolshevik way can one come to power in such and such a state, such as the russian federation, that is why, of course, there simply cannot be any alternatives, this person, until it ends physically, it will be elected, or the centrifugal ones will begin trends i.e. a war of all against all and... that's a big option too, but i don't think it's going to happen next year. well, here

our viewers on youtube respond to our survey, the comments are quite funny: will putin die this year, yes, no, vote, and another joke: putin will die, but he will be swamped. well, this is the reaction of our viewers, but let's return to the main topic, the aid of the united states of america to ukraine. a few days ago, joseph biden announced that if we do not help ukraine, then putin will go further to europe, that is, through ukraine to europe, and there the americans will have to fight with the russians. so , taking into account the awareness of joseph biden, and we were convinced, actually in the 22nd year, that biden , who constantly said that putin is ready, that he is already leaving, that he is already leaving, that everything has already been decided, and we, the majority of ukrainians listened to ukrainian. the president and they didn't trust the americans there a little bit, well, well, well , he warns, he warns, considering the fact

that he is now saying everything publicly, what can you say, he can say it, referring to the data of american intelligence , that putin has such plans, and that he is just now warning all american politicians that if we do not help ukraine, then putin will just go to europe, you know, if the german foreign policy council. published an analytical report and they write there that putin needs 6-10 years to arm himself and, accordingly, attack one of the nato member countries, and the poles and the baltics say that it takes even less, about 5 years , for him to restore such a potential, then of course, there is some basis for the fears and appeals of the president of the united states, and of course , the possibility of a not so wide scale is also considered. invasion, because it is clear that nato is an organization that is covered, or

rather, under the protection of the nuclear umbrella of the united states, britain, france, as well as american weapons, which are located on the territory of five nato member countries, european. actually, imagine such a situation when, for example, a russian captures, well, literally a square kilometer of some of the baltic states, and biden says that there is none. not a single inch of nato territory will be surrendered, and then the question will arise, first of all , for old europe, and the wartels, that means, give, let's say, a reason for them to perish. german, french, or some other soldiers in the baltics, that is, they can negotiate with putin, and most importantly, you know what any union, alliance is, first of all, it is trust in each other, first of all, it is a political component, and then there is already iron and the military, who will decide something if there is no trust, if

there is no complete understanding that there is such a threat, it is an exception. then there will be splits, because of course everyone will not want, as now, a nuclear war with the russian federation, and therefore it may come to the end of nato, i hope that it will not come to that , but we see primarily in poland, how it is militarizing at such a crazy pace, and a very important aspect, it is not buying these weapons from germany, because they have some doubts, looking at the support that germany has given us from the beginning, of course, now the situation has changed, and germany is in... the second place in terms of supplying us with weapons after the united states, here, but still , the poles have a distrust of the old europe, and they understand that it can happen that they will be just in front of a wall that the russians will run into , so there is a danger, i think it is hypothetical for now, here, but russia will prepare

for it, and finally, you know, putin has said more than once that the caribbean crisis. zero, that is, when there are actually two super-powerful states in the nuclear sense could be on the verge of war, and then , as he believed, the united states would make concessions and count out the legitimate, as he calls, the security interests of the russian federation, that is, this could also happen, that is, these threats, nuclear blackmail, waving this nuclear stick, and then, accordingly, bringing this situation to a critical one, ms. oleksandr, i also wanted to ask you about the decision of the international olympic committee, because today mok decided to admit russians and belarusians to the 2024 olympics, which will take place in france, in paris in neutral status. dmytro kuleba, minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, has already reacted to this on the x social network. he writes: after all , the kremlin will use every russian

and belarusian athlete as a weapon in its propaganda war. so why... in your opinion , mok took such a step in spite of everything, taking into account the fact that the war is going on in europe? well, yes, and in principle it should also be added that the very idea of ​​these games dates back to antiquity, during which all conflicts ended, even there athens and sparta stopped fighting, because it was a sacred thing, and for russia, on the contrary, violation of the olympic spirit is a rule, because it attacked in this way... on ukraine and on georgia, and because , of course, there is, in principle, a violation of the very idea itself, the second point is also extremely important, you are right to say that this is propaganda, because since the cold war, both for the soviet union and other non -democratic countries, in fact, sport, it was an element of the promotion of this bolshevik idea,

and of course that now russia will use the same, given that , that a large number of athletes they... assigned to the army or financed by the state, the reason is very simple , it seems to me, it is, well, i am not talking about corruption, although sports, sports of high competition, it always has a financial aspect, and we know that there are scandals from time to time, i will not say here directly, who voted, there is something else, the second point, it is actually this european laxity, yes, they believe that they are a civilized country, civilized representatives, and that politics should be distinguished. from sports there or art from politics and other things are necessary to negotiate, because this is sport, it encourages peace, mutual understanding, especially what these athletes did, they are not fighting with weapons in their hands, that is, if it were proven that they fought, killed ukrainians, then they would surely will consider, that is, it is actually such a false, false liberal vision of the world and

the actual misunderstanding that there is a senate behind the wall, i do not accept the custom. to ukraine, georgia, although the moldovan government is specific there now, there are still barbarians, and they do not follow those rules, these are not their traditions, on the contrary, they climb let's say so, and they are destroying something that is valuable and dear to us, it is a pity that this is happening, of course , but we must not stop, we must show this connection between propaganda, between the russian army and those people who are just athletes, well... or about russia, as another form of civilization, viktor orban, prime minister of hungary, told the point publication, let's listen to a little synchronicity. russia belongs to another form of civilization, historically, politically, geographically. traditionally , this is another country. the question is whether ours are

differences a reason not to cooperate? my answer is no. well, another lawyer, orbán and fico are the trojan horses that are currently in the european union. very briefly, next week will be very important and there should be a solution. of the european union, regarding whether to start negotiations with ukraine on joining the european union? hungary and slovakia now have their own opinion, how much can this opinion, their opinion, hinder us? of course, they can get in the way if the european union does not do two things: c on the one hand, it can give a dead end, i.e. remove the actually frozen financing, start financing hungary from european funds. and the second is, of course, the pressure that will be revised, well, of course, it does not happen so quickly, it is the decision-making mechanisms in the european union, specifically hungary and

slovakia, they show that this is an overripe issue, because they can block vitally important ones for the european union question, here, but it seems to me that orbán, he received as trumpians in the house of representatives have a golden share, they they are blackmailing the entire congress and now of course they have put all of us in... a difficult situation, and in fact orbán is trying to survive as much as possible, being in the eu and in nato, but being, well, i would honestly call it a trojan horse, it seems to me , this is a trianon horse, because in principle they want to break the status quo and of course they have wet dreams about the ukrainian territories as well, but by and large there should be a reaction, thank you, thank you mr. oleksandr, it was oleksandr hara, a diplomat, thank you invitation. next, friends, live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on youtube and facebook, don't be stingy, please like this video

so that it can be trended on youtube and facebook. well, take part in our voting. today we ask you about the following: will putin become the next president of russia? yes, no, if you are sitting in front of the tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote. if you think he will become the next president of russia (0800). 211 381 no 0800 211 382. if you think that something can interfere with him, you can write about it in the comments on youtube under this video. next, we will be in touch with serhiy krivonos, reserve major general of the armed forces of ukraine, first deputy commander of the special operations forces of the armed forces of ukraine in 2016-19 and ex-deputy secretary of the security council and defense of ukraine. mr. general, i congratulate you, thank you. you joined our broadcast, good evening, glory to ukraine to all, glory to the heroes. mr. general, these days the future of the russian-ukrainian war is being decided

at the front, as well as in the political offices of washington, because we are talking about a large aid package worth 61 billion dollars in the form of weapons, as well as financial assistance from the united states of america, biden is convincing the republicans to open funding in... ukraine, otherwise putin may be in europe. yerma says that we can lose the war with russia. as a combat general, how do you assess the current situation we are in? the situation is difficult enough, but i will not say that it is a dead end, and everything of course depends on three factors: support by our allies, from the capabilities of our armed forces directly at the front. makopakh and from the ability of the state to provide all the needs of our armed forces, including the replenishment of manpower, these are three factors that

we understand, on some factors, we have to influence, but we do not influence, as far as material and technical assistance is concerned, the other two factors , it depends entirely on us and we still have a lot to do, and if we want to win this war, well, that is... both internal and external factors, why even biden says so, well, sorry, next to i put yermak as biden, but since he publicly declares it, what biden declares , it's all great, he's the president of the united states, no, i mean yermak next to biden declares it, yermak is the head of the president's office, and is the president , i don't know, delegated to him the authority to say something or speak something, so it's quite difficult for me. currently, to say who is there, what is speaking, when there had to be three people here, the president or the minister of foreign affairs had the right, or...

or the head of the armed forces, these three people, who could directly say something there in washington, all the others, well, if they are delegated authority, then they should have said that to perform the duties of the president for me, so-and-so is going, or so-and-so will represent the interests of the president, i did not see it , i didn’t hear, i didn’t read, you read it, i didn’t read it, mr. general, but i read the washington post article, where they are trying to figure out what happened to the ukrainian... offensive, there are a lot of conclusions, i think that you they also got to know each other, well, at least in terms of what was happening are trying to reconstruct what happened, they interviewed politicians and the military from the ukrainian, russian, and american sides, and what do you think is what is appearing in the press abroad, and here is an attempt to understand what is happening in ukraine, what is happening, what is not

happening, to what extent... do they correspond to the real picture of what is? in fact, when the military still there say something about the successes or failures of the armed forces, it's one thing, when politicians talk about it, it's quite another, well , to be honest, i don't remember the military saying anything talked about the actions of politicians, why then do politicians consider it necessary to talk about offensive plans or the implementation of these... plans, so the most important thing for us is how we will draw conclusions from our mistakes, what our western partners say, again the military says one thing, and it is absolutely not brought to the general public, it is communication in a narrow circle, what the politicians say, well , let's remember that we have now, that the republicans and democrats have already directly entered the election race, you know, such powerful, the race is so cool, and for them

right now, on any... issue, they want to either steal points or knock those points off their opponents, no more, no less, so let's still listen to the military and ask questions of the same military, if it will in certain moments it is appropriate, but to respond to the emissions of certain newspapers with this respect for them, then i would not rush, i always ask questions, as i was taught, if there is certain information in the mass media, then ask: the question, who is behind it and who pays for it? well, by the way, mr. general, i i wanted to return to this, well, probably a month-long discussion, the absentee discussion of zelenskyi’s team there and threw zelenskyi’s team at general zaluzhnyi, and to me, to be honest, it is incomprehensible why, why it is all developing like this and why we have certain problems in communications between civilians'.

between the heads of the state and the military, why are everyone saying from zelenskyi's entourage that the hard worker is involved in politics there, some presidential ratings appear, where the hard worker appears in these ratings, what do you think, as a person who knows what is the army, what is it like to command the army and understands what these conversations can lead to, how they react to it in the army, how what... there is a reaction to it all, well, the army is such a narrow-caste organization, and any relation to political movements , political preferences in the army are always perceived critically, and from the level of lieutenant to the level of a four-star general there, this is the first, but we can compare how politicians and military conduct themselves in other countries,

especially regarding the state of war. let's see, we started not so long ago powerful from the point of view of the territories of that country , military actions are israel. we have a powerful arab-israeli war, primarily a war on terrorists, and look at how they reacted, how the politicians behaved and how the military reacted. and we will immediately understand why this is so. well, first of all, almost all politicians in israel have served more than one year in the armed forces. forces and they understand what the army is, they understand the etiquette in the army, they understand how who can and must serve, we have a huge problem with politicians that most politicians, existing ones, especially for the monomajority of the green party, did not serve in the army, but strongly avoided the army, so they perceive the army for themselves, you know, at the level of parades or at the level of playing kalo.