well, all the information that comes to consumers of information in ukraine, it comes either from western media that refer to russian propaganda channels or z-channels, a lot is written about it, so far there is no official information confirmed by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, but it is clear , that the military entered the territory of russia from the side of ukraine, the military is advancing deep into the kurdish region. areas of analysis of the institute for the study of war of the united states of america say that they went to a depth of 10 km, later already appeared information to a depth of 25 km, well, that is, this map is gradually expanding, you can say, what is the idea of ​​this special operation, that is, what is the goal pursued by ukraine about...

the effective and good actions of the units of the armed forces of ukraine gave their results, i am grateful to all those , who are currently there and are moving forward step by step. this is quite a powerful blow to the abdomen of the russian federation, they did not expect such a powerful offensive, they slept through it, let's say so, and it is good enough for us, to say that all the reserves from donbas will be transferred to kurshchyna, it is not currently there will be, it is not true, because they still have enough reserves, they will transfer part of the forces from there, but they are fleeting.

offensive actions in donbas have not stopped, so we understand that the russians, although there is a stupor of understanding, have not yet panicked. in today's evening video address, president zelenskyi did not speak directly about the events in the kurs region, but transparently alluded to them. let's listen to what the president of ukraine said. ukrainians know how to achieve. their own goals, and it is not we who chose to achieve goals in war. russia brought war to our land and must feel what it has done. we strive to achieve our goals as quickly as possible in peacetime under the conditions of a just peace, and it will happen. mr. general, does the current situation in kursk oblast mean that neither putin nor the military leadership of russia. no,

they did not even guess that such a special operation could exist, and the most important thing is that they are not ready for the fact that ukrainian troops will advance deep into the russian federation, since, judging by the videos posted the same, the propaganda channels, the armed forces, the further they go into the russian federation, and it is very reminiscent of this campaign of prigozhin. last year, when they went to moscow, they traveled several hundred kilometers there and no one could resist them, well, let's be a little optimistic, as far as resistance is concerned, there is resistance, if there was no resistance, then probably they would have taken the course and reached to the kursk nuclear power plant, meanwhile, the opposition is serious, and that is the main thing. will allow to enter, as far as we

can enter, there is a problem to keep the result is to be seen, so far everything depends on us due to certain mistakes, but in the meantime, success, this success is not only territorial, this is success, it is very good, and also... just the task number, we have a very bad connection, now we will redial , mr. general, we will redial you now, excuse me, please, we, we practically cannot hear you, we will now redial, we will now restore contact with general serhiy kryvonos, and in the meantime , the spokesman for the united states state department, matthew miller, said, that the united states did not receive from ukraine warnings about any operations in the kursk region of russia on... ukraine does not inform us

of its exact tactics before its implementation, there is nothing unusual about this, it is a war that they are waging. we give them the tools and we advise them, but when it comes to day-to-day tactics, when it comes to day-to-day strikes, sometimes we talk to them, sometimes we don't, and it's up to them to make their own decisions. it was matthew miller, and we have general sergey kryvonos on the line again, mr. general, now turn on mr. general, and spokesperson of the european commission. stanu, commenting on the events in the kursk region, said that ukraine, according to international law, has a legal right to defend itself, including striking an aggressor on its territory. at the same time, diplomat and politician valery chaley says that according to article 51 of the un charter, ukraine has

an inalienable right to individual or collective self-defense in the event of an armed attack on it, and precisely... the very armed aggression of the russian federation is not is only a reason to give an answer on the territory of the russian federation. again in general serhiy krivonos is in touch with us. mr. general, sorry, the connection is not stable. please. it does not depend on us or them. physics is hard to fool, i guess. therefore, the connection does not depend on. of our desire to hear well alone or not to hear well, continuing, the situation that exists in kurshchyna is a very positive success for us and the most important thing is that we do not hold our nose too high, because it is not a problem, i emphasize once again, it is not a problem to reach, not

the problem is to enter, the problem is then to keep, to keep your results, and first of all to ask the question, what do we want from how deep do we want to go eh? so that, as you said, the campaign was similar to the influence of prigozhin, although it is not very possible and a good comparison, but in the meantime, the number one task is to show the whole world and primarily the peaceful population of the russian federation that the russian government, which is now is, not so strong, and there are weaknesses that the ukrainian armed forces can use in favor of our victory, mr. general . mandatory evacuation of 23 settlements and about 600 people, including 425 children. and here the question is quite simple,

that is, if and whether russia can accumulate the appropriate potential in order to push the ukrainians back to the border. with ukraine, and accordingly, what actions can russia take in the event of an approach to the border with ukraine, to the border of the sumy region? what saves us in this situation is that the length of the russian-ukrainian borders is not small, and it is too difficult for the russians to block all areas, they after our previous raids on the territory of russia, they kept from seven to 15 troops in each border region, currently this figure may increase a little, plus they still have internal reserves and plus reserves somewhere on average up to 15-17 regiments in the combat zone on the territory of occupied ukraine, so the number one task for us is how we can

pull more of them on ourselves, time will tell if we can get them, and for the russians the situation is quite difficult now, because if we tried in kursk oblast. we can try , god forbid, in other areas, and critically there are more than enough dangerous objects on the territory of russia in the border strip, more than enough, and they understand that they will not be able to cover all places with one palm, therefore the number one task is to shake up the situation and increase success. mr. general, head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense kyrylo budanov. stated that there is a possible decline in offensive operations and actions of russian troops in the coming months, i will quote mr. budanov, which sounded in an interview with forces of ukraine in one and a half to two months, the main pressure must end, because the offensive has dragged on anyway.

the practice of the ten-year war shows that any side does not pull out its offensive potential for more than two months, but we know that after a recession and a small ... lull, there will be new attempts by the enemy to advance, and we are preparing for this. do you agree with mr. budanov's predictions? how do you rate them? well, look, just ours. the russians will use a powerful raid on the territory of the kurt region to their own advantage, and this will be precisely what can be served under the sauce, as you know , the second national war, which concerns rescue of russia, that 's why there are enough still in russia a few unmoved patriots who are ready to go and liberate their native land, the non -russian-speaking population of the territory of ukraine belongs here to liberate their native land, that's why, unfortunately, they still have the resources, but resources related to the provision

of human resources, we can severely limit. in parallel with this offensive, it is still necessary to increase the number of strikes on enterprises of the oil and gas industry complex, on enterprises that produce products of military importance drones, primarily aerial ones, which we already produce in sufficient numbers, and the task is to strike in two directions, to destroy at the front and... to destroy deeply in the rear, mr. general, the day before yesterday, the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine considered the issue of financing missile programs, ukraine's own missile programs. zelensky said that don't worry, there will be ukrainian missiles, there will be enough of them, obviously, to attack military facilities on the territory of the russian federation and destroy them why do you think this decision, about... funding or increased funding, came only after 2.5 years

of the great war? do you really believe in what was said, what you wrote to zelensky, this is after one of the most powerful enterprises for the production of missile weapons was struck twice, well, fairy tales are a good thing, but i do not believe in fairy tales, because i understand , that according to any fairy tales... there must be three things: time, money and people, i'm not talking about the equipment that must be provided by people, so we'll see, they don't know where to get it, when at the moment the problem that has not yet been solved, the first is when the enterprise was merged in december of last year, everyone who produced, worked, cooperated together with the luch design bureau, and already this year powerful blows to certain enterprises, about which those those who know, know, that's why fairy tales don't... happen, you can't just make rockets with your fingers, if people are not provided with normal premises,

normal tasks and normal tasks in accordance with the mobilization plan, which has absolutely not even begun to be developed yet, so where will so many rockets come from if those who make rockets are still having some difficulties. thank you, mr. general, for the conversation, it was general serhiy krivanos, friends, thank you. for watching us and i remind you that we are working live on the channel, as well as on our platforms in youtube and facebook, for those who are currently watching us on these platforms, please subscribe to our pages and also participate in our survey, today we ask you about the following: do you follow the events of kurshchyna, yes, no, everything is on youtube pretty simple, eh, either yes or no, if you have a separate opinion, please leave it in the comments below this video, comment, it's important for us to know your opinion, if you watch us on tv... smartphone or phone at hand and vote for the numbers if you follow events in kurshchyna 0800 211 381 or

0800 211 382. all calls to these numbers are free, vote at the end of the program, we will sum up the results of this vote. next, we will be in touch with valery romanenko, aviation expert, leading researcher of the state aviation museum. sir valery, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. yes, thank you for the invitation, good evening. well, actually, we have been talking with you for so long over the past six months about the f-16s, which are about to arrive in ukraine. the first f-16 aircraft are in ukraine, they are in the sky in ukraine. how and whether the situation in the ukrainian skies is changing with the appearance of even a few f-16 aircraft. well, so far it doesn't change much, because nothing is known about... it is not known what

characteristics they will show in general, and air battles with the russians, so for now we we can see that all the blows are repelled, well , all the shaheds that are launched by the russians are completely destroyed, but it can be said with certainty that it is used in 16, so far it is difficult, at the same time there is a lot of it. questions with the appearance of the f-16 in ukraine, these are maintenance of these planes, safety issues, questions of those pilots who are preparing for these... planes, according to your calculations, how many planes are needed for ukraine in order to perform all the necessary tasks, well, it should in mind, regarding the provision of security in ukraine and the shooting down of missiles and missiles, as well as their use planes in the front-line zone? well, these are separate

issues, you see, in order to ensure the task of anti-aircraft defense. defense in ukraine, i think that approximately, well, three squadrons would be enough to cover the entire territory of ukraine, in terms of destroying cruise missiles and shaheds. if we want to conduct air battles with the russians more or less on equal footing, to destroy russian carriers, and russian carriers of cruise missiles, cabs, then first of all we need to check to what extent the capabilities of the received f-16s meet these requirements, whether they are capable to repel, let's say, whether their on-board defense systems are capable of diverting russian aviation and anti-aircraft missiles from the sides of the planes, and whether the planes themselves are capable of detecting the russians at the appropriate distances and getting them

with their missiles, that is, their weapons capabilities and capabilities. their equipment, but if we are sure, we are sure that the targets are, at least on equal terms, capable of fighting russian aircraft, then we need to increase the number of brigades, well, at least as we had before the war, before the war we had seven tactical aviation brigades, a brigade total from two to three squadrons, a squadron of 12 planes, multiply accordingly, we get the required number of planes. if the russians, let's say, transfer fighter jets here from all over russian territory, yes, well, they have, well, let's say, there are, well, if you count, somewhere around 140 s35, somewhere around 120 su-30-khm, and- and, there is still a sufficient number of larger

old su-27p fighters, modernized, and at least a hundred migs. 31st, then in general it turns out that we will continue to need to build up aviation, in addition, ah, negotiate with allies, allies about receiving more long-range missiles, because once again i want to remind you that the russian su-35, su-30 sm-2 and mix-31 fighters have missiles with a range of up to 300 km. by the way, about rockets, mr. valery, because august 6. a meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine took place, and zelenskyi, at the end of this session , announced the restoration of all missile programs in the country, and according to your knowledge and feelings, how much will the ukrainians need in order to create a sufficient number

of missiles of their own production that could fly towards the territory. of the russian federation and provide all our needs for the destruction of the aggressor on its territory. in what perspective can it be? well, in general, we carried out developments of such, you know, more or less serious level, so up to 60-70% of design works. according to three programs: a-ah, peregrine falcon, the export version was called thunder-2. ah, so a missile based on, er,... the neptune anti-ship missile, a land variant, and the korshun-2 system based on the old soviet kh-55 missile, but with a new engine, with new equipment, all these programs, well they if they were not refinanced before the start of the war, so now everything depends on the level

of funding and the level of help from the allies, if they supply us with the necessary components for these missiles. because we are not capable of producing everything, you understand, our military industry has fallen to such a low level, yes, that no highly complex systems, we will not be able to design ourselves, even to design, not what to produce, we will be able to develop tactical and technical requirements to the systems themselves, to individual systems, to the systems themselves as a whole and to their individual components, but for now, well, in us there were... let's say some such developments, but serial production is a weak, weak, weak, weak point in our country, let's say this, because all our... high-tech military enterprises are under russian strikes, that's why predicting something depends on how will this

production be organized, if we follow the path of our drone developers, who produce complex drones on the territory of neighboring countries, yes, then it will significantly speed up the process, and if, accordingly , western, well, concerns will give us some... assembling for these missiles, because in general we have the engine, well, we will make the hulls, so it will be possible to make a guidance system there at the final stage, and we have good developments of this plan, but a system similar to a grater, so that navigation happened, accurate navigation, high-precision navigation, happened with the help without the help of gps, that's what we have. a weak point, in my opinion, i also don’t want to say anything so clearly, but before the war we had such a problem with this, this is a system that is installed on all

modern cruise missiles, there is a storm shadow, scalp, there is an american jasm, here, our missiles, in general, well, like the old kha-55, were guided using the gps system, which are currently causing obstacles, so to say something about the terms, well, i think that the easiest thing ... we will do the land-based version of the neptune missile, it may take six months for us to set up production at a pace of, say, five or six missiles per month, but it still will not cover all the needs of the ukrainian army, provided that our western partners constantly talk about limiting the use of their missiles, and that's all one advantage will be on the side of the russian side, do i understand correctly? well, regarding the fact that russia is able to produce up to 120 missiles per

month of all types, yes, of course, our five or six, well, let's say 10 missiles, this is more than an order of magnitude behind, but this means that we, apart from besides, we are receiving missiles from our allies, let's put it this way, i hope that these red lines... these prohibitions, restrictions, yes, they will advance further and further, because you see that the russians, they do not care about anything, they already they are starting to hit the second dam there, yes, i think that finally the allies will agree to the use of their missiles as well, if we take the intelligence, the number of missiles, our missiles and our allies, then the situation will be at least three times worse than approximately. russian, but it will already be, well, many times more, more profitable for us. another topic touched on by president

zelenskyi is the production of drones by ukraine, and he says that our state is already taking over russia's leadership in the production of drones and their use at the front. let's listen to what zelensky said. our ukrainian defense and security forces are already working on this. to the advantage, and for july, our soldiers used more drones than the occupiers. this should be a sustainable trend on the front, across all types of drones that our units have, from fpv to all others, including our long-range drones, which already influence the war strategically, influence in the interests of ukraine. and our ukrainian leadership on drones can be not only the factor that brings a just end to the war, but also makes ukraine a provider of security for other states.

one million drones have already been contracted by our manufacturers for this year, and there will be a year more in total. mr. valery, at the same time as what zelensky is saying, there was a message that china has banned the export of all civilian drones that... would be used as combat and the restrictions will be effective from september 1, 2024, they will also affect high-precision measuring equipment and some important components of drones, how will this affect our plans to make a million drones annually? largely because i i am familiar with i am familiar with manufacturers who imported a huge number of drones from china and complete them. to them, that is , motors, well screws, let's say, it's not a problem to make, but compact electric motors, besides, batteries, besides, are extremely cheap.

cheap chinese radio electronics in order to equip these drones, well, all this, well, there are different systems, there are controllers, so there are some, so some electronics, the simplest electronics for them, then this can be significantly influenced, but for now, i think, that we already knew about it and gradually established cooperation with european manufacturers, although indeed. they are not able to produce in such a quantity, the chinese can produce a million drones per month, that is, what we can produce per year, they produce per month, well, yes, because they have multi-story factories there, where, let's say , half a million chinese people sit trample these drones, well, in principle, we could also probably increase this production, if it were not for the russian shelling and strikes on such enterprises on...

small enterprises, on large ones, something we we know something, we don't know, but this is the decision of the chinese, it affects not only ukraine, but also russia, or after all, the russians now have more opportunities, and here is what was the pride of zelensky, very soon may be a point of pride for putin, regarding the production of drones, i do not want to make such predictions, but, you know, we do not have a common border with china, but russia does. and this tendency to throw a suitcase across the border, yes, it can help the russians, although i already ah, well, i have entrepreneurs with me they told me there, so i was present at the conference, where they told me that the chinese, individual chinese , are already being sent to prison for violating the ban on the export of drones, so that is a possible option. i

think that russia will try to bypass this ban in the same way that it bypasses sanctions, european and american sanctions, and it will be very dangerous for us, that's why we have to look at the situation, so far there are no official comments in connection with china's reaction , with china's export ban, i haven't heard yet, but i generally know that... it's in can significantly affect both sides, and on one side the possibility, so to speak, to violate this ban is more than on our side, because it is on the russian side, but we see, mr. valery, as literally in the last few days, fpv drones are becoming a weapon not only in terms of destroying manpower or equipment on the ground, but also in the air because fpv. shot down

a mi-28 helicopter over the kurt region and this was reported by the sbu, the soldiers of the special operations center a on august 6, and the video shows that the sbu drone hits the rear propeller of a russian car, that is, now drones are turning into an unexpected weapon, such a formidable weapon, and they are in no way inferior to missiles and these missile programs, which we mentioned, which president zelensky is talking about, how in the last 2.5 years, the nature of war and soldiers has changed in connection with the use of these drones at the front by both russians and ukrainians? well, the wars of the information age, you see, everything is microelectronics, and information technologies,

and that. and technology, and all this affects weapons, you see that the range is also increasing weapons, and the accuracy of weapons is increasing, and now hitting an apartment is not a problem for a drone, but 10 years ago, you know, they destroyed the whole house, but now it is possible, if there is a terrorist sitting in a room somewhere, yes, then they can launch a drone , to him because of a bug, not even... breaking the windows, but in terms of destroying helicopters and using, say, fpv drones for air defense, you know, it's just a case, in general, these drones are really fast, if the helicopter is flying, well, at a normal cruising speed, the drone is capable of it to catch up, but let's say this, the range of the drone is not high, and it is necessary...