general valery zaluzhny of ukraine, and later the minister of defense of ukraine rustem umerov regarding personnel decisions, possible strategy changes and tactics in actions on the battlefield. yes, now, let's go, since this topic is already, as they say, overripe and ripe for valery zaluzhny, we have material to tell you more. tell about this person, about his accomplishments and his path, let's see. the fate of valery zaluzhny was determined from an early age, because he was brought up in a military family, already at an adult age he passed all the stages of his dream career in july 2021, the president of ukraine , volodymyr zelenskyi, appointed valery zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine. zaluzhnyi became the face of our struggle and the main terror of the russian occupiers...

out of desperation, the invaders invented fables about zaluzhnyi's disappearance and death, since 2014, the general participated in the battles in donbas, and even then he was sure that a full-scale russian offensive was inevitable. the american media politico wrote that the commander will become a legendary figure in the history of ukraine, because the successes of the ukrainian armies surprised the whole world. american general mark milley was of the same opinion. when. to write the history of the war in ukraine, zaluzhny will have a prominent role there. he was part of the ukrainian leadership that spent years transforming the country's army from a clumsy soviet model into a modern fighting force. hardened by years of struggle with russia on the eastern front, he belongs to a new generation of ukrainian leaders. zaluzhny, the first ukrainian commander-in-chief without a soviet education, his vision of the ukrainian army meets nato standards, so western colleagues and partners especially respect

the ukrainian general, consider him a strong and influential ally. in october 2022 , general zaluzhnyi was listed among the hundred most influential people in the world according to the version of an american magazine, although he is called an iron general, the ukrainian military respects and trusts him. you and he and i, our father zalushny, zsu, family. god is in mind, the zaluzhny will give an order, we will be in moscow. so, this is about valery zaluzhnyi. mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, is with us. mr. mykola, i congratulate you. congratulations. there are many topics to talk about, but i will still start with this news, which, as they say, has swept ukraine like a queen.

we have read the posts of volodymyr zelenskyi, valery zaluzhny and rustem umerov, and many people still do not understand, but what actually happened is the resignation, where is the decree, are we working on it, explain your understanding of these posts, everyone has been talking about what will happen for a long time the resignation of valery zaluzhny, and based on the fact that defense minister rostem omerov thanked valery fedorovych, it is probably still a matter of resignation, although we really do not have the decree yet saw it has already been talked about several times and it did not happen, i think we still have to wait for the decree, but i want to join what rustem omerov said and also thank valery fedorovych, because he became a truly people's general, he was able to unite ukrainian society, he can certainly be proud of the fact that under his leadership the ukrainian army pushed the enemy away from kyiv, liberated kharkiv oblast, the south of ukraine, and was formed in general. showed such miracles

of heroism that no one even imagined, the fact that zaluzhny himself thanked the soldiers , remembered everyone who, unfortunately, died, said that we will take revenge for everyone, all this, all this is extremely important, and if this is really a resignation, then for me personally, of course, this is a pity , because we should really unite our society, and in such a situation, we will see, again, whether there will be a decree or not, but definitely ... because this is all an initiative of the president, and he talked about it in an interview italian channel, this means that he personally takes full responsibility for everything that is currently happening at the front. well, yes, in fact the president takes responsibility, and already then the new law on mobilization, which will be adopted, when it is adopted, will also be implemented by other people, obviously, but in any case, let's wait for this decree, well, time has passed and more - the situation is becoming less clear, but the situation in our relations with our...

partners remains difficult, first of all we are talking about poland, although hungary is planning to block the border there as well. you dealt with this topic quite actively, tried to find out and explain ukrainians, what is happening, why are these borders blocked, well, again. poles, well, polish farmers first of all say that it is necessary to block and demand something again, what will be the new round, more difficult, simpler, and how to act in this situation, here is politics, or again business, economy ? i would not mix one and the other, because you can talk about the economy and business as much as you want, but blocking the borders, blocking the corridor of solidarity with ukraine, which was announced and practically built by the european union, block our economy in general. because because of this blockade, we cannot receive or export not only agricultural products, which, by the way, are not sold in poland, because there is an embargo on the sale of most ukrainian agricultural products in poland, but we have restrictions on imported spare parts, gas, goods for our

enterprises, it actually blocks our economy, based on this, it is of course politics, and it seems to me that it is precisely here that the president should take responsibility and immediately ... initiate meeting of the ukrainian national security and defense council, together with the polish national security council, to turn to nato, hold a meeting in ukraine-nato formats, since this is a matter of our national security, and it is extremely important. i hope that the polish government will also make every effort to ensure that the roads are not blocked. you can debate and argue with polish farmers as much as you want and discuss the situation of supplies of ukrainian products with polish ministries and the government, but... blocking roads is clearly a detriment to both polish security and, first of all, ukrainian security. well in fact, on youtube today there will be a film dedicated, a documentary dedicated to this very topic, about the russian operation on the polish border 2, the gate border, it will be possible to watch it,

well, to get to know this topic in more detail, because here it is very it is important to understand what is behind what, when you have an approximate understanding, you understand how you can work with it further. i am not saying to fight there, but to work further and solve these issues, or are these issues that, well, no matter what you do, you do not solve them, because there is simply a certain position a certain side, and really wants you to comment, as a person, again, who communicates with the polish political community and knows their inner kitchen, andrzej duda's words, he is already criticized there, i don't know if they are accused of treason or what , but his statement about crimea, about trump, about the end of the war, how can it be commented and explained for ukrainians, again, for poles, there is obviously an explanation there, please. i think that these are different things regarding crimea, i think that this is such an incident or a mistake of the president of poland, later he tried to correct it, he gave the next interview and said that he supports the territorial integrity of ukraine, including crimea, this is very important, but of course

he should not allow such things, as he said in this first interview, a person in such a position, at least because, at least from the point of view of history , crimea was definitely the longest part of the crimean khanate, and the crimean tatars. there are indigenous people, and we must think about their fate, there are different regions in different countries that at one time were in one or another empire, in poland there are also such many regions, it does not mean at all that someone has the right to review the borders, as for the statement that refers to trump, duda has always been a supporter and supporter of trump, it is enough to remember that after the election of biden , he did not even, i think, welcome him, and a long they haven't met in a while, these meetings started after poland, and we thank the polish president and the government and... all poles showed solidarity with ukraine and supported ukraine during the beginning of full-scale aggression, and before that, well, in duda spoke all the time and admired trump, and his political power had the most contacts with trump, so for me there is nothing strange about this, it is another matter to say that

this is trump's decision, forgetting that it should actually be the decision of ukrainians and ukrainians people who pay a high price for their own security, but most importantly for the security of the whole of europe, i think this is a mistake. well, i will advise, i want to ask you about the policy, the procedure for the dismissal, appointment of new leadership, first of all, the armed forces of ukraine, this is purely the prerogative of the president , can it be somehow stretched in time, in your opinion, how quickly can such decisions be made, were they discussed with valery zaluzhny, again, if he is fired, well zaluzhny said today that they discussed it, in fact, we perfectly understand that these consultations and conversations have been going on for a long time, and it was after the first such conversation that there was... there was the first information that the person involved would resign or be sent there, in what form it would be, we do not know , because there is no decree yet, it is necessary to see the decree, so what we will see and then we will talk about is the prerogative of the president and the responsibility of the president and everything that will be acted on will definitely

fall on the president, we know that the popularity of zaluzhnyi was very high, and people used to divide this responsibility between the president and commander-in-chief, will it be so if there really is a resignation and there will be a new leader? of the armed forces, it will happen, they have already said about it, i cannot say this yet, thank you very much, mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine was with us, i wish good evening to you, and now we will continue. i suggest you listen to the evening address of the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi. yes, we are waiting from second to second, i don't even want to talk from minute to minute, maybe the president and the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine will give a clear understanding to the electrified society. they are waiting for this news, a clear understanding and maybe it will reassure people that everything will be fine, there may be

resignations, there may be changes, and as he says, changes in strategy, changes in executors, or as podolyak says, managers, although, again , the military, these are not managers, these are military, this is how we listen and watch volodymyr zelenskyi, we heard about it, today i heard it, it touched me personally in terms of work, because , as i already said, it works in the online store. now everything is done quickly , the situation is tense, as you understand, now we will remove some nuances, we will do something right, and still we will hear the important words of the head of our state, and i will say once again that we will keep this topic under control information throughout our broadcast until 9 o'clock, oh until eight o'clock, from eight o'clock the verdict program, let's try again, watch and listen to volodymyr zelenskyi. dear ukrainian men and women, today i met with the head valery zaluzhny. it

was one of hundreds of conversations we had during this war, almost two years of constant analysis of every situation. we have now discussed the front, the direction of threats - all the challenges. avdiivka - extraordinary actions of our soldiers and extraordinary difficulties in the defense of the city. the zaporizhia direction is very cruel. southern directions, challenges of the kharkiv region and our capabilities, the capabilities of ukraine this year, the third year of a full-scale war. we must make this year decisive, decisive for the achievement of ukrainian goals in the war. russia cannot simply accept the existence of an independent ukraine. and the very fact of the independent life of our state. but russia will have to accept. with our strength, the experience of two years of this war has convinced us that only

russia's defeats bring peace closer. each year of this war has its own character, the first year they survived, began to return theirs, proved to the world that russia can lose. in the second year of this war, we won the black sea, won the winter, proved that we can regain control over in the sky, but, unfortunately, they could not achieve the goals of our state on earth. we have to be honest, the feeling of stagnation especially in the southern directions and the difficulties in the battles in donetsk region affected the public mood. ukrainians began to talk about victory less often, but the ukrainian spirit did not lose faith in victory. ukraine retains its historical chance. to realize it, it is our duty. this year should become the time of ukraine, the time when

every ukrainian soldier will know, as before, that the ukrainian state, the ukrainian army, are capable of winning. i am grateful to general zaluzhny for two years of protection, i am grateful for every victory we achieved together and thanks to all the ukrainian soldiers who heroically pull out. this war on himself. today we talked frankly about the need for changes in the army, urgent changes. i offered general zaluzhny to be in the team of the ukrainian state in the future. i will be grateful for his consent. today i made a decision about updating the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine. it's not about the family name and even less about politics. this is about the system of our army. about management in the armed forces of ukraine and about involving the experience of combat commanders of this

war. every soldier, every sergeant and every officer who sees the front, understands what decisions are needed, the significantly greater technological efficiency of the army's actions, the reboot of the generalship, the staffs of all levels must know and feel the front in the same way... as the soldiers at ground zero, the combat teams of this war , commanders for zero have to implement their special experience at the level of the entire army, among the leaders. currently, the defense force of ukraine is almost a million people who were called up to protect our state. as of today, most of them have not experienced the front in the same way as the minority who are really on the front line, really fighting. this means that a different approach is needed, in particular to rotation,

a different approach to front management, a different approach to mobilization. and recruiting, all this will give more respect to the soldier and return clarity to the actions of the war. dear people, from today to the leadership of the armed forces a new management team is coming to ukraine. i want the vision of the war to be the same for our soldiers in the robot or military unit and for the general staff and the adjutant. carefully selected. this is everyone whose experience will now serve to update the armed forces. i had dozens of conversations with commanders of various levels. in particular, today i spoke with brigadier generals andrii hnatov, mykhailo drapaty, igor skibyuk, and colonels pavel palisa and vadym sukharevsky. all of them are being considered for leadership positions in the army

and will serve under the guidance of the most experienced. ukrainian commander, combat commander, colonel-general oleksandr syrskyi. he has successful defense experience, conducted the kyiv defense operation. he also has a successful experience of the offensive of the kharkiv liberation operation. i appointed colonel-general syrskyi as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine. today i spoke with generals maisyuk and zabrodsky. experience in the service of the state, i expect such changes in the armed forces of ukraine in the near future. a realistic, detailed action plan of the armed forces of ukraine should appear on the table 2024, taking into account the real situation on the battlefield now and prospects. every combat

brigade on the front line must receive effective western weapons must serve. fair redistribution of such weapons in favor of the first front line. we need to solve problems with logistics. avdiivka should not wait until the generals find out where the drones are stuck in their warehouses. every general must know the front. if a general does not know the front, he does not serve ukraine. excessive and unjustified staff numbers should be corrected. it is necessary to build an effective army rotation system. the experience of individual combat brigades of the armed forces of ukraine and units of the state border guard service of ukraine, where such a system exists, can be taken as a basis. rotations are a must. an obvious improvement in the quality of training of soldiers is needed. only trained

soldiers on the front line. a new type of forces is being created in the structure of the armed forces. " the first commander of the forces of unmanned systems should be appointed, the commander of the reloading command of the armed forces of ukraine will be presented by sirskyi in a few days. the year 2024 can be successful for ukraine, only if effective changes in the basis of our defense, which is the armed forces of ukraine. we are all proud of our army. and we must do everything so that it depends on us that the ukrainian army becomes a victorious army. i thank everyone who believes in ukraine, fights for ukraine, works for our victory and helps, helps ukraine. glory to ukraine.

glory to the heroes, i want to answer the president, i answer the president. well, general oleksandr silsky becomes the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. he will present the ukrainian team in a few days, here is the interim verdict of today, which is ongoing, we will monitor this situation, of course, we will listen to comments, bring people into the conversation who can tell us more, first of all about the perspective, about the perspective, and now i invite to the conversation of serhii zgurets, the director of the defense express agency and leading the military summary of the day. sergey, congratulations, congratulations to you, vasyl, congratulations to our viewers, and today we will spend a little more time, well, five minutes , to discuss first this decision, which happened well, it was expected, but somehow it was, well, they didn't think it would be easy, but it happened, your reaction, of course, they already thanked the syrian new head, well, it really is so. the situation actually looks so difficult to me, yes, because relatively speaking, now it seems that some political realities are put in the foreground, and not clear military

goals, because relatively speaking, when we talk about the situation on the front line, it remains extremely difficult, we understand that there is not enough ammunition, not enough personnel, the enemy is pressing on everything areas, and actually to carry out a replacement , it seems, well, it is not entirely appropriate, because in fact, as i understand now... there should be a change not only of the one who is employed there, a change of the chief of the general staff, a new commander of the ground forces, then it is likely that zaborodskyi and masyuk , one of them should be the chief of the general staff, probably zabrodsky, and masyuk will become the commander of the ground forces, well, this is an assumption, but we understand that now we are focused on these personnel changes and we need to understand how it is in the context of changes on the battlefield, so what what are we now we have, we have... the supply of ammunition, we have a lack of reserves, we have pressure from the enemy, so that in these conditions of personnel

changes we do not lose, well, the key points that concern the front line itself, because the president repeatedly mentioned the audio unit, the situation there even today, but now i don’t even know exactly what is happening there, because the enemy is trying there, well, to cut the main line of support for our garrison there in the southern part of avdiivka, so whether i... well, from the point of view of a citizen, from the point of view from the point of view of an expert, the situation looks dire difficult, and when a worthy person is removed from his position, then in fact what, does it mean that the military is to blame for the fact that they did not break through in the south, although we understand that in the preparation for this offensive, all conceptual approaches were violated, without dominance in the air, without a shortage, without a sufficient advantage in personnel , without a sufficient amount of equipment, everything is under the wing... under the pressure of the current authorities, let's say, ukrainian, and our foreign partners, the military began an offensive, and now the impression is that it is precisely the fulfillment of tasks, it is recognized

that it was not fulfilled, i think that such passages are enough for me, they are not completely clear, because we understand that everyone was preparing an offensive, the president, the nsdc, and the military, that is, everyone understood the risks of these actions in the south and actually. achieved what they could achieve , so in any case, in my opinion, i think that there will still be a certain echo from the resignation of zaluzhnyi, because in fact the military must also understand that what they did then was wrong, that the commander-in-chief was removed from his post, so that in in any case, i still have a question after this decision, well, we will then listen to serhiy rudenko during our broadcast today, obviously people, well people, experts, deputies, whom will we involve, so that we can explain a little... situation, well, but now, please, i know that you also have your own topic for conversation, well, in fact, this decision has already significantly affected the plan of the program that i was preparing, in any case, we

can talk about the fact that a little let's remember about avdiivka, because during these for several days, the situation in avdiivka remains the most difficult, the number of combat casualties there is extremely high, but now we will see two maps. in order to really understand what is happening in avdiivka, and we understand that now during the night the enemy actively used cabs, trying to destroy our defenses, and now, relatively speaking, the main offensive actions are concentrated precisely in the north of avdiivka, now i will ask that we showed our viewers a map and i will tell you that now the enemy is actually trying to squeeze in between kohsokhimov and a half... north of avdiivka we can now see this red dot, this is actually kohsokhim, below it begins this curve of the road that goes right to avdiivka, so

we can see that the enemy has been trying to push through for a couple of days. to our defense line, what is there now, the dynamics are not completely clear today, although we know that our units are holding this section of the front, but the enemy is trying to pull up reserves, i think that the situation remains extremely critical, and when the president talks about avdiivka, so this... is also accompanied by a certain transfer of forces and means in order to ensure the maintenance of these positions, which are extremely important for... the entire front in

this direction, now, by the way, we are seeing a video of exactly what is happening combat operations in this area, and by the way, there is another news that actually now the enemy has started using starling in this area, which surprised me extremely, it turns out that what was happening was the purchase of starink by the enemy, and this affected what the enemy is now trying to use ... these systems for communication and management of its air reconnaissance units, so that in any case avdiivka really remains in an extremely difficult area, forecasting the situation is not difficult yet, but we understand that it is already in fact, well, the direction that affects the stability of this front line, we also we know that positions have been prepared in the depth of the defense of avdiivka, so far it is not said that

we will move, but we understand that the risk of cutting the supply line creates difficulties for the garrison that is now receiving avdiivka, primarily in the south. and then we will talk about other realities related not only to the front, but to the fact that in fact, well , we need to have the opportunity to obtain new weapons, and when these new weapons are delayed, then we need to have the opportunity to promptly repair technological ones. solutions and now ihor fedyrko is joining us, this is the founder and head of the vector-optical laboratory, in my opinion, a rather unique team in terms of its capabilities, mr. igor, i welcome you to the espresso channel, i am glad to see and hear. good evening, i would like you a little told our viewers what is the uniqueness of the services and solutions that your laboratory provides in the interests of the armed forces and defense forces? in

fact, this is an opportunity to bring back to life a night vision device or a thermal imager, which is already very well known, probably to any ukrainian, for a relative 5-7% of its price, that is, we are bringing this device back to life. that is, we are actually talking about the fact that your laboratory repairs optical and thermal imaging devices. which give our fighters the opportunity to see day and night and effectively destroy the enemy, and moreover provide significant cost savings for the purchase of new devices, that's right, and it's not only night vision devices, thermal imagers, it's also other optical and electronic equipment, since recently we also repair drones, er dji, that is, we

try, as much as possible it is more effective to use every penny that our donors give us to return to service, broken equipment , damaged, cut by splinters, that is, in fact, in any non-working condition, we try to restore it and return it to firing. and how much the number has increased now requests from our military for services such as - what does your laboratory provide compared to, for example, last year? if you compare even the indicators of our laboratory for the 22nd 23rd year, for example, in the 22nd year we repaired 650 devices, already in the 23rd year we repaired 2500 devices, and if you look at the dynamics of two months of the 24th year, we currently repair from 450 to 500.50

devices per month, that is, we can predict that already this year we will repair about 4-5 00 devices, and this is not even taking into account what is in our warehouses, that is, we have an incredible number of devices that require repair, that is, from year to year, unfortunately, this dynamic is growing, the request for repairs is increasing, and of course, in the active phase of hostilities, we will receive a significant increase in work and devices for repair. mr. igor, how do you manage to provide repairs and guarantee high-quality repairs, considering that all these devices are extremely complex technological products, and individual components are, well, actually a warehouse.