and what is happening in the united states in the context of the pre-election race, kamala garis, seems to be about to be elected as a delegate from the democratic party of the united states, but there are also scandals there. in addition, we will talk about an important liquidation, something that may or may not change the situation in the middle east in the near future, all this with our guests, all... with vitaly portnikov, and we begin. let me start with one of the most recent messages from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. defense forces of ukraine struck a submarine boat and the s-400 anti-aircraft missile complex of the russian federation in the temporarily occupied crimea. this is once again an official message from the general staff. information about this attack, which was carried out on august 2 by units of missile forces in cooperation with military units, has already been confirmed. of the naval forces of the armed

forces of ukraine and was significantly damaged, you know, not a lot, not a few, but four launchers of triumph mirrors, and as a result of a successful attack in the port of sevastopol, ukrainian soldiers hit a submarine of the black sea fleet of the russian federation rostovna on don, which was already receiving nuts, the ship sank on the spot. as for this ship, you know, it was especially interesting to gather a little more information for you. submarine b-237 rostov-on-don according to nato classification is the kilo class. it is one of four kilo-class submarines capable of using caliber missiles. rostovnadon was the carrier of four caliber missiles. it is known that he already used them even in a combat situation. and this submarine appeared in the black sea in february 2022, actually one week before the full moon. tabong invasion. well, but so far

there is no accurate data that calibers were launched from this submarine in ukrainian cities. rostovnadon was commissioned on december 26, 2014. in 2017, and this is significant, it received the prize of the russian military command as the best submarine of the russian federation according to the results of the competition. well, this is a rather rare operation in history. warrior, so we salute our military and thank you for this precedent. i am happy to congratulate you, contact me now anatoliy khrabchinsky, deputy general director of the company engaged in radio-electronic warfare and aviation expert. mr. anatoly, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine. glory, congratulations. if there is anything to say, a few words about the latest message from the general staff. i understand that it is more about the sea, about ships, about...

ships, but less about the fact that when calibers fly from these ships, even submarines, then the sky is directly involved here, minus the caliber carrier, the underwater caliber carrier, how much does it change a little situation in the black sea? in your opinion? i would remind that in fact, if we are talking about the use of caliber missiles, russia has recently accumulated a little of them due to the fact that it could not use ships to launch those missiles, and therefore, in principle, minus one... this is what we emphasize constantly , regarding aircraft, that the platforms must be destroyed directly in order to reduce the possibility, so to speak, of the use of any weapons that these aircraft or ships in this case may carry. i am once again pleased with the destruction of the triumph launchers, this systems that are part of the air defense system, which in crimea, as you know, recently crimea has become a place of destruction for russian anti-... defense systems, that is, they

are redeployed there and destroyed there, and this conveyor is in principle about four, more precisely, maybe already five divisions of the c4 system were destroyed directly already in crimea, so in principle i would say additionally that here it is necessary to cite an example of the complex use of atakams missiles, stormshadow scalp missiles, and reconnaissance. bepola ukrainian, because definitely these reconnaissance drones perform a guidance function and help knock out important objects in the currently temporarily occupied crimea. ugh. well, mr. anatoly, the f-16, which is probably finally, finally at the disposal of our state. so much has already been said, said in anticipation of receiving these planes, said even this week, while we're talking about... and even

talking about certain pictures that may indicate that they are already in our skies, and f- 16 - their number, as far as we are concerned, as a state. all will be available to our military functionality that can be provided by the f-16 aircraft. well, again, let's start with the fact that in view of those letters, regarding the assistance from our western partners, regarding the weapons of the summer that will be provided with these aircraft, unfortunately, there are no jassens missiles that can fly on a distance of more than 100 km, up to 100 km, i’m sorry, but with regard to other weapons, these are missiles of the air class... air and air surface and aerial bombs, which will significantly affect the capabilities of our air force, and because in principle, if we say about what was done by forces air defense, it was both bombing and the launch of the same

anti-radar missiles to destroy the enemy's air defense, and the launch of air-to-air missiles, but for air interception. on targets or to intercept missiles. it should be noted that, in principle, if we are talking about the use of this very weapon, which, in principle , was also previously used on mik-29 aircraft, but what should be noted here, that the aircraft were converted so that it was possible to use american weapons, then here now there will be a full implementation functionality, that is, we are talking about the fact that the weapons will be used from the planes for which it was originally intended. and was being developed, therefore, in principle , the range of possibilities is expanding here, and i would not pay attention, for example, to the remark that ukrainian f-16s will be able to fly only 40 km to the line of combat contact or to

the border with the russian federation, no matter what fall under the possibility of defeating russian air defense means, it should be noted that... what if the task is carried out, of course, first the air defense is destroyed, regarding the 40 kilometer zone, then it should be noted here that, in principle, most of the weapons provided by our western partners allow you to work at a distance of up to 200 km, and this allows a forty kilometer zone and plus 160 km more deep into the temporarily occupied territory or deep into the territory of the russian federation, but here it should be noted that permission from our authorities is again required. partners for the use of certain types of weapons on the territory of the russian federation, because in principle there is permits from our western partners to use aircraft on the territory of the russian federation and over the territory of the russian federation, but still the range of weapons should be increased and the geography

of strikes should be increased. of course, we work very well with our unmanned aerial systems on russian airfields, on russian oil bases, but still... agree, 450 kg of payload in a rocket is much better than what we can do with our unmanned systems, which can, well, up to 100 kg. also today the general staff reported that it was possible to hit the morozovsk airfield in the russian federation, and we are probably talking about the liquidation of the warehouse with guided aerial bombs, and the problem of cabs, well, unfortunately, we well ... understand what this means for the front line, what this means for our military, moreover, even our more rear cities already know this, and it is demonstrated in kharkiv oblast, as well as in kherson oblast, very vividly, unfortunately. nevertheless, the attack on the russian airfield is not the first

precedent, can we talk about a systematic approach? this year showed a systematic approach and an increase in the number of unmanned aircraft flights. systems on the territory of the russian federation and an increase in the number of damage to directly important objects. here i would like to draw attention to the fact that ukraine has actually chosen the right path in terms of building any anti-unmanned aerial systems. this is one sortie, one hit, one sortie and qualitatively collected intelligence information, that is, we are saying that the main emphasis is on the creation of unmanned aviation systems that are currently being presented to manufacturers in ukraine, to engineers, are qualitatively high-tech. a tool that can be guaranteed to 100% complete the combat task in front of it, or 100% gather the necessary intelligence, or direct the same other bepols in real time to important objects in enemy territory, so in principle, if we

are talking about what is happening this year, then let's also recall the attack on the millerov airfield, morozovsky has already been hit several times and... and usually used strikes on important objects on the territory of the airfield, i certainly, we are all waiting to see, finally already torn planes, pieces dug up, take off in the trade wind. this strip, but there are strikes on important strategic objects. if we are talking about morozovs, these were warehouses with fuel, lubricants, and direct warehouses with weapons. in millerovo, the warehouses were hit as well, and the technical part was also directly affected, this is an important component of any airfield that is close to the combat reporting area and performs a mission of maintenance and quick repair, quick repair of even airplanes in order to... in the future use them on the er line of battle, in principle, and it

was in millerovo that the technical units were hit. let's remember the destruction of the su-57 plane. this is also a strategic task, because actually, ah, the destruction of the plane at the airfield, here, by the way, the akhtivnost airfield is an airfield that the russians use to test the latest weapons. that is, we are talking about what these people also experienced at one time the ipc modules themselves for cruise bombs, and the h69 missile. which recently appeared in the russian federation, the x-101 and x 555 missiles were also tested there at one time. and in principle, we are talking about the fact that the 157 plane was directly hit there, most likely with a possible upgraded or some kind of modernized equipment, which russia planned to use against ukraine in the future, but, nevertheless , important strikes on important objects on the territory of the russian federation. well, actually for eh. analytics of some of your colleagues, then the morozovsk airfield regularly hosts

su-24, 24m and su-34, maybe even several su-35, and here, mr. anatoly, i have a question for you: su-35 vs. f-16, how soon and, well, let’s say in which sometimes we can witness such and such an aerial battle, an aerial battle. between these aircraft, although we understand that for now the f-16 is, well, to reinforce our air defense forces, to defend ourselves first, but everything is ahead, and you know, sometimes when we look there some american movies, we wonder why are the heroes fighting each other with their fists, when everyone has a gun, yes, so, let's go back to the fact that modern air combat eliminates the possibility of visual contact, why, because most ... themselves in the radar of airplanes , allows you to see any air object at a distance of more than 200 km, that is, we are talking

about the fact that you can capture a target in advance, launch a missile and be sure that this target will be destroyed, so i am more than sure that russian aircraft -34, su-35, 130 will be afraid to come close to the affected area f-16 aircraft, and because after all, all the weapons that the russian federation has, all the aircraft that the russian federation has, this is a consequence... a legacy from the soviet union, which at one time was somewhat modernized, improved and an attempt to high-tech weapons, let's not forget that the soviet union stole most of its military developments from our western partners as well, so in principle i am more than sure that there will be no such visual contact confrontation in any case, but given the possibility of aircraft f-16 for taking into account the same aim-120 missiles, which can operate at a distance of 185. that is, it should be noted, plus this implies that it is possible

to operate at greater distances, so i think that russian aircraft will have to work more difficult and they probably will not to enter the zone of possible actions of f-16 aircraft radars. it should also not be forgotten that we are expecting saab long-range radar detection aircraft, and here we can say that due to the single protocol on which these aircraft operate, it will be possible to ... count on the fact that any air targets that come within 550 km of the saab can be hit by the f-16s as well, so again in any case i think the f-16s will do much better than we expect everything, because in principle the plane was quite well made with a large resource and with great capabilities, it should not be forgotten that they are repeatedly modern ... an aircraft that is actively used in most

air forces. as for russian planes, well here in principle, let's remember what in fact, at the komsomolsk plant, at the amur plant, at the dry plant, there are about 30 135 planes that cannot take to the sky, because most of the electronics that this plane needs are under sanctions, they cannot get them, so they are trying do something with what they have now, and again, let's remember that most of the aircraft that russia is producing now for tactical aviation are aircraft that were ordered by the ministry of defense of the russian federation back in the 18th-19th mu yes, and i am asking you very much, mr. anatoly, to be brief, as simple as that a short comment, and information from forbes that in july of this year, ukrainian units launched more long-range drones than the russian federation, ours 520, and the russians - 426. all that, well, most of what

the russians launched our air defense forces , of course they beat. what can the emergence of such a trend indicate? briefly? in ukraine, there is a very large number of companies engaged in high-tech weapons, not only the end result is high-tech weapons, there is also a large component base, and here it should be noted that ukraine is now able to provide the armed forces of ukraine with all high-tech weapons such as drones of any type, also for itself against electronic warfare, of course , good funding is needed in order for manufacturers to be able to do what was predicted. procurement , manufacturers could work at full scale of their production. thank you, anatoliy hrabchynskyi, the deputy general director of the company engaged in radio electronic warfare, the aviation expert was in touch with us, well, let's move on to the next important question, what is happening in the united states, at what stage is the pre-election race there, and oleksandr kraev, director

of the north america program of the ukrainian prizma foreign policy council, is in touch with us. americanist congratulations to oleksandr, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, good evening to you, well, we can say that kamala garis is becoming a delegate from the democrats in this presidential election, do i understand correctly? yes, absolutely true, that is , the democrats, who defend the right to advance voting in official presidential elections, who defend such a right at the level of congressional elections, in principle, they use such preliminary voting at their own congress of the democratic party, so in fact it is already possible. to say clearly that yes, kamala harist secured enough delegates to become the democratic presidential nominee. well, as far as we understand, little by little, ms. kamala is depriving donald trump, her republican rival, of her advantage in seven key states so far. at least, this is evidenced survey from bloomberg. if we talk about

the scales of libra, which ones, in what disposition is the situation now? mr. alexander. in fact, so far those early polls that were before kamala harris was officially nominated for the presidency, well, let's just say, they're not entirely accurate for us for one simple reason: we still haven't seen her team, we still haven't seen her vice president , we did not see a clearly formed strategy of it neither in foreign policy nor in domestic policy, and therefore one way or another, but let us understood that the survey. give a clearer result, that the survey is really created on the basis of the fact that the people who are surveyed, they know what this candidate will do, what views he has on certain problems of domestic and foreign policy, then you and i will be able to clearly say that yes panic harris or there mr. trump are ahead of each other by such and such percentages, and this is really a verified leadership. at the moment, we

are rather talking about a trend, but the trend that is emerging is very interesting. kamala harris literally in three weeks. was able to type one the percentage of american support, at least in the context of the trend that prevails in the previous year of the work of the pr and political technology company of donald trump, and the same time of work has the company of joseph biden, which indicates to us that here it is not so much a question specifically in harris, not so much a question specifically in to who she is and what she represents, the question is that she represents change, her last name is not biden and not trump, she is a young politician who will be a change. and accordingly, such an increase in her rating indicates to us not only her success, but rather that there is a demand for young leadership. mr. alexander, how do careless statements affect the chances of kamala harris in general, i don't know if it's about caution, or if it's about the sincere, you know, internal such firmware and opinion of the

republican leader donald trump, when he resorts to such... figures of speech, like the analysis of her skin color in general, for example, or her positioning of herself when he resorts to language that deals with the religious affiliations of americans, how it all affects race in general, you know, for those who ready to vote for trump, for his nuclear electorate, it reaffirms why he should be president, because this is how he is remembered in '16. he appealed to this: i'm an honest man, that's exactly the wording, i'll talk to you openly, yes, i'm a billionaire, yes, i didn't pay taxes, i cheated this system, but i'm talking about this honestly, i'm not as these washingtonians in suits sit and tell you how to live, i will honestly show you how you can become as rich and successful as i am, and what he allows himself now, what

what in america is called racial slur, i.e. humiliating racist rhetoric, the fact that he allows himself to treat himself with such pathos, but at the same time humiliate his own opponents, and also appeal to religious topics, and appeal is not always quite successful, it is worth saying , this... just shows that he is campaigning on his own behalf, he is not trying to win over new voters, he is not trying to please those who do not support him at the moment, he is confident that he will have enough votes from his electorate, he is sure that they will vote for him, because it is him, which means that he can say whatever he wants, he does not need to make excuses, but nevertheless, this means that he is unlikely to claim the votes of those who were still somewhat wavering b, after all, if... we are talking about the united states and americans in general , issues of skin color, religious preferences are very sensitive topics, and to go so far in

using these rhetorical figures again, as donald trump did, is hardly so good affects his ratings, among those who are still undecided, or even against him, right? absolutely right, you're right, he, i think, he in... realizes that he won't be able to win over these people, these people are already giving their votes to kamala harris, because she represents them, first of all, not because of the color of her skin or whether by ethnicity or whatever, she represents their request, their request for a different leadership, for leadership that neither trump nor biden, she represents what they want to see in american politics, youth, determination, initiative and inclusion, so trump really, well, he just, let's say, physiologically has no chance to fight for this audience, logic... trump is a little different, let's remember how he won in 16th year, in 16th year he won by several million votes lost the overall national vote, but he won in key states

and he won the necessary amount of support in the electoral college, and basically right now trump's bet is just to win enough of the support of the electoral college, he doesn't care that there are conditional five 8- 10 million more americans support kamala harris, than trump, he doesn't care that independent... voters won't vote for him, it might matter to him to win key states, and plus, let's just say, he seems to me to be good at analyzing statistics, because let's not forget that the electoral college on 78% is more representative of donald trump's generation than the generation and groups that kamala harris represents, so he 's not only hoping to win key states, he's hoping that he can appeal to the voters and create a so-called rebellion collegium when they vote differently than their states did. vice president for kamala harris or on the kamala harris team, how

is it, first of all, considering all the candidates, now the most likely, how it might affect the chances of the democratic nominee and whether in any configuration it might affect the chances donald trump. you know, it's quite simple to say, because of the five key candidates. they all have a few key things in common, they are all white males, average plus or minus older age, with a lot of experience in federal politics, with a lot of experience in local politics, most of them are either affiliated with the jewish lobby or part of the jewish minority in the united states, most of them represent, or rather all of them represent the moderate wing of the democratic party , and that's it for the team. key, after all, she still has a train of socialism behind her, she is still a representative of the more left-wing bodies of the democratic party, those who call themselves progressives, well, according to

european political parameters, this is what we called social democrats, and therefore in order to unite the party around itself, so that there was really no question about its impartiality, it needed the necessary vice-president who would represent the very center of the party, accordingly, this was one of the reasons why kamala hari once became biden's vice president. who is the informal leader of just the centrists in the democratic party, needed someone who would appeal to the youth and appeal to the progressives, that is , to the left wing, and kamala harris became just the one to embrace the socialists and progressives on the side of biden. now she has to turn this situation around. and about trump, you know, it's not so much a question of how much vp will help kamala, it's a question of how much trump's vp is killing his ratings right now, because usually the vp... that's what they call a sweetener , switner, that is, he will show the president from a more positive side, he should appeal to a different group of voters and help the candidate

win more votes, and now we see. that jady vance's anti-rating is within bounds republican party minus 6%. that is, we are not talking about other voters. even within his own party, jay vance is far from the most popular. therefore, in fact , it seems to me that trump will be hindered by his own vice president. well, actually, mr. vance didn't really hide his views on donald trump, just a little earlier. i wonder why, why something changed, and why da himself could forget about it. trump. mr. oleksandr, thank you for the quality analysis. as always, oleksandr kraev, director of the northern program america foreign policy council ukrainian prisma americanist. and we will, of course, constantly return to the topic of the latest events of the pre-election race in the united states, because it affects the whole world and it directly affects us. a short pause on the air now and we will continue. a journalist who joined the armed forces, a political expert who...

became a special agent of taras berezovyts in a new project on espresso. the real front is a thorough analysis of the main events. reports, comments of leading specialists and experts. analytics from the major of the armed forces. how to make sense of disturbing news and distinguish truth from hostile propaganda. the real front program with taras berezovets every saturday at 21:30 on espresso. we. we continue the saturday political club, don't worry, in the near future you will be waiting for an analyst from vitaly portnikov, who will join very soon, but for now we have the opportunity to talk with experts about those events that can change the situation in certain regions on the world map, a little more about near east in the next few minutes. let me remind you that in iran these

the other day it was not... calm, well, first of all, because literally on july 30, he took the oath there after the early presidential elections, after the death of the previous president raisi, masoud, pezeshkiyan, and in the context of these events, ceremonial events, something unexpected happened, although, as for whom, israel actually reached out, reached out, and quite effectively... to one of the political leaders of the terrorist hamas, hamas, whose network is now and still based in the gaza sector, and that is why the operation of the israel defense forces continues in this sector, in particular for the liberation of its own citizens-hostages. mykhailo yakubovych, orientalist, candidate of historical sciences, researcher at the oriental studies department of the university of freiburg in germany, is in touch with us. mr.

mykhailo, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory, good evening, a vivid precedent of the destruction in tehran, the leader of hamas, and this is a very point liquidation that israel succeeded in, the first question that is asked, in particular by the common man, how will it affect in general on the effectiveness of terrorist activities the hamas group, well, first of all, israel. did not directly take responsibility for this action, although whether only israel was there, or whether other parties did not help, that is the question. here, by the way, it happened at the time when ganya came to the inauguration of the new president of iran, which is also quite interesting, by the way, because he was positioned by some iranian circles as such a reformer, a person who would enter into a dialogue with the west, here they actually

put... the new president of iran in such a status that he immediately has to start where he left off raisi, that is, to talk about the need for a tough policy, a response to the fight against israel, the fight against america, that is, in essence , the iranian elite took advantage of a lot of things to immediately put the new president in the place that was assigned to him by the yatola, israel is here, by the way, it is not bad for him played along in this, if he is talking... about gania, then gania arrived in qatar and they are burying him in qatar, he came from qatar and they are burying him there, in qatar obviously israel would not want to do this, because it would not want to spoil relations with arab countries, but to be honest, ghannia has already won many, like hamas himself, and the saudis, and the emiratis, and the qataris, for many, this situation in the gas sector, well , relatively speaking, is a big problem that they want

to end, and on the one hand. .. israel continues negotiations no.