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with serhii rudenko from now on in a new two-hour format, even more analytics, even more important topics, even more top guests, foreign experts, inclusion from abroad, about ukraine, the world, the front, society, and also feedback, you you can express your opinion on a bad day with the help of a telephone survey, turn on and tune in, verdict with serhii rudenko, every weekday from 20 to 22 at espresso. so, dear friends, we are back, we will continue our marathon, and now we will move to kharkiv, which survived another russian attack, which was in retaliation for what happened the day before in belgorod, where the russian air defenses malfunctioned, and as a result, their civilian residents died . oleksandr skoryk, deputy of the kharkiv regional council, is in touch with us. mr. oleksandr, good morning.

in the morning, as kharkiv is now, as was the night and here these consequences of the russian attack, what are they , what, what, did something else change, at night, we had a very difficult night, because practically at midnight we had shah shaheds flying around the city, in the middle of the place, we all heard, almost no one was sleeping, around one o'clock we heard explosions followed. by four, they saw our soldiers hunting for the shaheds, and they saw a fire in the center of the city, right on sumska street, eh, that’s the very central street of the city, eh , the infrastructure there is completely civilian , there are no soldiers anywhere near there, and today we can to state that the russians carry out this and that terror exclusively for the sake of terror. in

order to intimidate our population, they simply hit the civilian infrastructure absolutely selectively and absolutely. it was the same last night. when the arrival was so severe, i think along hirschman street, this is a street on which there are no military facilities, this is the bedroom of the center, there is a supermarket there, there are shops there, there are coffee shops, well, a completely civilian street, and so , yes, just like that, kharkiv-palace, a hotel, it is also located in the very center of the city, opposite him across the road was injured. the regional hospital, there are a lot of medical facilities , and again, there is nothing military nearby at all, so we are forced to state that the russians are simply carrying out the genocide of the ukrainian people, and their goal is already visible

to the naked eye, it is intimidation of the local population and chaotic shelling for that people understand what may come. to any part of the city and to any to any room, by the way, yesterday in an industrial area, and this is exactly central time, a bedroom the khtz district, there were also three flights, and they were right into the ground, but geographically it is the very center of this district, so i for myself and we all for ourselves concluded that er... the target, the target of yesterday's shelling, and and night shelling - it is exclusively to hit the city center in order to in the city center and in the center of the districts in order to intimidate the population, we have such a night, in fact , the journalist from britain oliver

carroll, whom i am with, agrees with your opinion he knows him, and yesterday he posted a picture from the hotel where he hit too... a russian missile hit and this is what it looks like now, and the hall looks like this and he says that what can be argued here is whether ukraine tried, whether ukraine specifically hit the center of belgorod, or whether it was for... air defense , but what cannot, cannot be mistaken, is that this attack on the hotel was deliberate, russian, writes oliver, and says that this hotel was used for foreign journalists, including him, who

stayed here as well, that's how it looks, that is, it is a testimony, a clear testimony that these were deliberate strikes on civilian targets, and... and despite all this, russia still had the audacity yesterday to demand to convene this un national security, accordingly, un security council meeting regarding the fact that ukraine is shelling the civilian population in belgorod, there is no limit to the russians' cynicism . i absolutely agree with you, there is no limit to their cynicism, and we know from experience that the s300 missile, which is adapted from the surface-to-air category. adapted to the land category, land in their case, it hits exclusively aimed, and has a sufficiently large opportunity aim, so if you noticed correctly,

if in belgorod they clearly shot down and chaotically dropped drones, so there was damage in the center of the city, then here it is you... an exclusively targeted strike, an exclusively targeted strike on the center of the city in order to chaotically, chaotically there was intimidation, and the possibility of victims, just yesterday, you know, we didn't have any kind of miracle, because right where we were on hirshman street, we had a hit, there is a supermarket literally 100 m away, and in that supermarket... yesterday was december 30 an incredibly large number of people, because everyone is preparing for the new year, there are practically broken windows on the entire street, and if they had made a mistake there literally 70-80 m and hit

this supermarket, then the number of victims was simply incredible, you understand , this is the supermarket in which everyone shopped yesterday evening... they were around the city of cork, everyone is doing pre-new year's shopping, this is clear if history, so it's just a miracle, and god's grace, god. no one is no one, there are no dead, there are injured, but there are none the dead, and at night today too, all of kharkiv was awake, and everyone saw the hunt of our military for these shachens, and everyone heard the explosions and everyone saw the fire, and this is also, you know, the moral and ethical side of this terrorist act, what just bullying the civilian population. and contempt for all the norms, rules of warfare there, and

so on, and at the same time, you rightly, correctly noticed that they also have the audacity to gather people and talk about the fact that ukrainians are carrying out some terrorist acts on their territory, just, you know beyond the border, beyond the border, they are simply engaged in the genocide of the ukrainian people, the ukrainian nation, ukrainian statehood, and at the same time they convene a council. quality and talk about the fact that they are terrorists, well, it's in their style, it 's always been like that, but the people of kharkiv, the people of kharkiv, firstly, they are calm, and secondly, this strengthens their plans for the future of the struggle so much, and make us only angrier, stronger, and i see that such events even for that category of people that we in... call the so-called greedy people, even they are affected by it, because they understand that they can not wait

their so-called friends, because they can kill them before that simply physically, when, if we see that there are none, there are no rules, just chaotic shelling and that's all, well , such a story, you know, about cynicism, a story about genocide , a story about a brutal war, and once again on... a reminder that we have a city 100 km from the city of kharkiv that will not go anywhere geographically, and we have to live with it, we have to get used to it, and we must build a clear line of defense on this and get used to living in such a way because we won't get anywhere geographically , kharkiv has such a neighbor, you know, an evil neighbor who just wants to kill you all the time, well, unfortunately, it's true, the neighbors are unlucky... graphically, you can't run away from him, from a neighbor who is with you on the site, alone somewhere there, on the floor, you can

move, you can’t do that here, mr. oleksandr, but actually about the neighbor, i’ll briefly ask you one last thing, what are the russian publics there, what are they writing about, are they demanding something from their authorities to do, or maybe, i don't know, curse svo, or further they say, let's go ahead, unfortunately, i haven't seen such a story that blames the svo, after the arrivals the day before yesterday, their audiences there simply burst with happy comments like they woke up kharkiv residents 22 times, congratulated them on the new year, this is for you instead of a festive salute and so on, just cynical, callous inhuman comments that were made after the shelling , when 22 rockets flew over the city of kharkiv, well , you even know them, it was disgusting to read, because , well, this is the cynicism of people who... just wish, wish for your death and are happy to dance

on the bones, but yesterday they already had it there, after we gave an answer to bilhorod, their council had already slept a little there, and this fever had already begun to demand, to demand there really to demand punishment, to demand there, some even wrote about the need to use nuclear weapons. about the urgent need to respond to the nazi regime there, and so on, but i did not see a single comment that it is necessary not to kill ukrainians there, or that it is necessary to end the svo there, it seems to me that this is a nation that will already have a very, very difficult time to real life return, you know, nightmarish, lying and simply, simply beasts, in which there is nothing holy.

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yes, there is already with us general of the army of ukraine mykola malamush, head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine in the 5-10th years. mr. general, congratulations. congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. actually, let's try to beat today, the year 2023 ends, it was a difficult year, we had very, very high hopes for this year. and our intelligence, in particular, promised us great victories and, i don't know, an exit to the crimea, by the end of this year they were wrong in their forecasts, nevertheless summing up, was it a failure for us, or did we become weaker at the end of this year? well, first of all, it must be said that the enemy this year, as he had planned, did not achieve

any strategic prospects in his aggressive war, he did not advance no. in one of the active directions, which he planned to seize not only the donetsk-luhansk region, all five regions at least, and it is clear to set us strict conditions regarding the so-called truce, and then to form a new aggressive policy. we disrupted just the strategic plans, and this is the main achievement. the second is that we undermined an extremely powerful army, and according to the conclusions of both our military analysts and our colleagues from the usa and britain, since the beginning of the war. we actually devalued or killed, or badly accordingly wounded were those who were disabled, 90% of the personnel of the combat units of the russian army, these are those about official units that took part in aggression against ukraine, in syria, in africa and other places, special forces, airborne troops, airborne assault infantry, that is, this myth

that they have extremely powerful forces that will act very effectively, up to kyiv, having practically failed in the 23rd year, this is the main strategic achievement, the second situation is that we really covered all sectors of the front and hold a powerful position. it is 1300 km, an extremely difficult pattern of actions, but we are indeed holding, and on the other hand, in a number of directions, powerful counterattacks were carried out, for example, in the zaporozhye direction, powerful directions were near bakhmut, and of course, they disrupted the enemy in specific sectors of avdiivka, svatovo, kremina, kupinsk, where the enemy planned offensive operations on kharkov, that is, specific operations of the enemy were also devalued, and most importantly, we destroyed, destroyed. reserves, and even the last days show that every day it carries about a thousand people, it only killed, and no less seriously wounded , these are huge losses, on the other hand, we really

see that the consolidation of international forces, it was powerful, but really a number of countries that have already exhausted their resources are reducing reserves and we have, so to speak, some restrictions on the supply of ammunition equipment, a number of discussions arose regarding support for ukraine. well, for example, hungary, that is slovakia, a number of other countries, in some countries internal problems like the usa, and of course, there was a discussion about active support, not related to support of ukraine directly, and, precisely , orientation to its internal political issues, the priority went to that, but uh, according to the main parameters, so that we can clearly imagine, the main countries are the usa, great britain , germany, france, spain, uh, countries . the scandinavians , they provide, and today, plan to provide further, further delivery of heavy weapons, equipment, f-16, atakamsa,

increase in ammunition production, procurement at external military tactical levels of equipment and ammunition of various calibers, this is what gives perspective to both defense and security, for the 23rd year we held positions and already formed powerful reserves for the 24th year. that failed, indeed, as zaluzhny pointed out, powerful strategic offensive operations were expected from the spring and summer, but there are several factors here, i will say directly, the first component is a change in the strategy of conducting offensive operations, which would be non-standard, not an assault, as we have seen , the directions of minefields, dragon's teeth, and these are the operations that must be carried out unexpectedly for the enemy in other places, where there are no such obstacles, we have a history of different lashes. these lines, it is clear that to storm directly, it is extremely difficult that we had to do it near the works, for example, or in these sectors, and this strategy

involved precisely and not only the use of reserves either in the south, or somewhere in the advantageous sectors in the south, but also conducting powerful rear operations , the force of special operations, not at the fronts, directly in the trenches, these are hose blows, these are powerful one-moment shafts. to have deep bodies of destruction, medium, accordingly, logistics of the entire and , of course, front zone, here already conducting operations at once, this is a different strategy , tactic, today the general staff is already moving away from this concept, but there was still a problem, indeed, to which both zaluzhny and president zelenskyi spoke, that those support programs that were approved at armstan, they really dragged on for 3 -5 months and it really devalued the opportunity. the formation of powerful strike groups with advanced equipment and, of course , powerful long-range radio receiver systems, which ensures both the destruction of the enemy and the destruction

of logistics, for example, from the crimea and the east, and the closure of large, so to speak, groups, for example, zaporizhzhia, kherson region, which would involve their encirclement, or capture from the flanks from the crimean side and from the east, and then, accordingly, their destruction in these territories, i do not count that yet... worked out in a strategic format in terms of the operation and by our allies in terms of assistance and the formation of the necessary armament of equipment and especially ammunition, and the third component, the 23rd year finally marked the fact that we began to actively build up the military-industrial complex of ukraine ourselves with our partners, it was a big, so to speak, shortcoming before the war and in the 22nd year that the country could not switch to military rule, as there were many. could and should transition to a military system, if not before the war, then from the first days of the war, all sectors, starting from the missile systems that we have up to ballistics, long-range operations, er...

drones, this is a huge, huge formation and on an industrial basis, this is an armored vehicle, we know what our prospects are, for example, stronghold tanks, better than leopards, much, somewhere before abramsi suitable in terms of characteristics, radar systems that we really had and have very powerful, powerful, technical intelligence, cyber intelligence, we don’t talk about this much, but in our country we prevailed in our time and even in the tenders of europeans, russians, that is in foreign markets, to ourselves this was not effectively ensured, and today this issue is literally done. we started the final year and so that the 24th year would give prospects of just such formats, therefore our military equipment is the third component, which should be operational today, in the coming months we will deploy all means and drones, missile systems, ammunition, i especially emphasize not to constantly ask abroad for radar systems, well, of course,

different types of missiles. strikes on the territory of russia and all the occupied territories, these are the three components, and especially the first thing to make up is a change in the strategy of not only defense and defensive fortifications, as zelensky said, but a change in the strategy of already forming tactical and strategic offensives, this is what i think the perspective of 24 of the year, but this is a deeply thought-out strategy, worked out in various combination formats, prepared respectively, the sectors where there will be addictive blows, and where there will be basic body blows. strikes, flank strikes, of course, and getting the means that were offered to us and today we have in the programs of our allies. i think that by the end of january, especially the beginning of february, we will also receive financial assistance from the united states, we are conducting a good dialogue not only with the democrats, but also with the republicans, and they are, in principle, ready to adopt this model of support, both financially and armed with equipment. and nothing will change, there

will not be such a crisis format as some says, yes, no, the republicans will not agree, they will agree, i think that february will be the time for systematic changes, support for the strategic format for ukraine, i understand, the european union also planned for the first of february, and will understand in the coming days, to accept a package of up to 50 billion euros, and a number of countries, 28 european and scandinavian countries, specific projects and weapons, equipment, missiles, ammunition, of various types. this, which will give the prospect of accumulating a powerful military potential, new technological capabilities, solutions and fire means, and of course, a large the amount of ammunition to ensure future, so to speak, strategic offensive operations, i think that the 24th year, today we are just laying all these basic foundations, and the beginning of the year will be a continuation, will be extremely decisive for our victories and for our prospects. well, there's reason

to be cautious but optimistic about the year ahead, by the way, that's in line with your assessment and also a column that came out in the guardian, i quoted a lot this week from jack wotting, a senior fellow at the royal british institute of defense research, who also believes that ukraine can defeat russia, but more support is needed for the event and actually to conduct a successful mobilization with good training of those mobilized in ukraine. thank you very much sir. general, for this interview, mykola malamush was with us, well, we are getting closer to 9 o'clock, at 9 o'clock we remember those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression, andriy and i will return to the air after and we will continue, we will talk about today's new year, about what ukrainian traditions are actually returning and whether they will be able to defeat the traditions that the soviet union instilled in us, this will be

discussed in the next hour. russia.