thank you for being with us today, good evening, mr. sergey, i am also very glad to be your guest. well, first of all, let's start with the situation in the kursk region, because during the last week there was a lot of information about what is happening there, how everything is happening there. at first it was more information coming from russian propaganda channels. already today , volodymyr zelenskyi and oleksandr syrskyi speak directly about the fact that the armed forces of ukraine are conducting an offensive. on enemy territory, zelensky believes that the course operation armed forces of ukraine will be a disaster for putin's war against ukraine. let's listen to what and how the president of ukraine says. we see how russia is actually moving under putin. 24 years ago was the kursk disaster, the symbolic beginning of his reign. and now it is clear that there is a final. for him, kurdsk too,

the disaster of his war, it always happens to those who despise people and any rules. russia brought war to others, now it is coming home, ukraine has always wanted only peace, and we will definitely ensure peace. mr. volodymyr, do you think that the kursk operation will be a disaster for putin's war in ukraine? i am like an army. i do not have the right to comment on the details of this operation, but nevertheless it has definitely become a shock, and this can be seen in the reactions of the kremlin, it is visible, by the way, in the reactions of our allies, and once again the issue of the russian-ukrainian war has become top news in the western media and by the way, in the asian ones as well, it is necessary to plan this operation, and frankly speaking, musirsky, because he

took into account previous mistakes, having very limited resources, believe us, on the front on in other areas, we feel this very well, and it is very difficult for us, but nevertheless, he found these resources in order to make a completely lightning-fast, unexpected strike on russian territory, the war was moved to russian territory, this is probably the key meaning, we showed the worthlessness, sloppiness of the kremlin regime, have shown that we can easily seize russian territory and continue to do so, because if yesterday the glavkom reported about 100 km, then today the list of populated areas has increased, and i understand that we also take into account russian mistakes, because our logistics are not stretched, but are connected to the ukrainian border as much as possible, and we will have no problems with providing for our troops stationed there. on the condition of the unconditional support

of the western allies, but the west also spread its wings, they are enthusiastic about this operation, we saw it both from the american side, who arrived in kyiv yesterday, and also from the western press, german high-ranking factors think nothing, have no problem that german leopards are now repeating the path of centuries ago, and here we have it in the unity of this principle. question, and we must not remember that we cannot have too much euphoria, this is a war, this is a very complex operation, it can then proceed in different ways, and we must be ready for any moments, but nevertheless , what happened was definitely positive. against the background of the ukrainian offensive, mr. volodymyr, the dictator putin declared that negotiations with ukraine cannot now be held, well , it is meant that putin wants to explain

that any efforts of the ukrainian side, the ukrainian army, the offensive on kurshchyna will not will change their decision and their actions, let's listen to what putin said. now it is clear why the kyiv regime refuses our proposals to return to the peaceful settlement plan, as well as the proposals to show interest. mr. volodymyr, what putin offered to ukraine was an ultimatum, in fact, it was a capitulation plan, to surrender three or four oblasts, plus crimea, to withdraw the armed forces of ukraine from donetsk, luhansk, kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, now they are talking about... what well, you see that ukraine does not

want to accept our proposals and pay attention to our proposals, ukraine is now advancing in the kursk region or. it will be obvious that troops will be deployed in the belgorod region, what does putin want? you know, it's hard to say unequivocally, but let's start from what putin has. putin clearly has problems with reserves. when they always emphasized that russia is infinite, both in terms of human potential and military potential, it was a bluff. we see that even a breakthrough in the kursk region, they have nothing to cover and... are forced not to transfer new, i don't know, brigades there divisions, armies, to bake them from other areas of the front, and frankly speaking, they are not in the best condition, secondly, the russian economy is bursting at the seams, this

is already stated by the high factors of the russian federation absolutely publicly and frankly, that things are going so well , that soon everything will become even worse, and the third fact... the factor is that, despite putin's attempts to cement russia from the inside, he succeeded through terror and intimidation and bribery, nevertheless, the situation when hundreds of russians are captured, yes called conscripts, she is capable to undermine the consensus of the russian nation to support this war, because it is one thing when convicts are sent to the front and... voluntarily those who signed the contract is a completely different thing when young people are suffering there to a point from the point of view of a russian ordinary person, and certainly we see the reaction of china, which is also extremely concerned about the fact of striking a nuclear

state, china's de facto ally, as well as the de facto government, and there is no response, well , a nuclear one... it was obvious that putin would never use nuclear weapons, but the which was not reaction during the week, that is, in fact, it resembles such a paralysis of the second world war, its next part from the 41st year, when stalin closed in on himself and did not interfere at all in the course of military operations during the attack of germany, so here it was the same situation when putin and the kremlin did not know how to react and what to do, they still ... hoped that these were just random drgs there, who came to run around the russian territory for a week or two, as it was last year, i saw the speech about the russian liberation the army, as well as the rdc, as hers they call it, but the matter here is serious, we really, i see, are determined to move the war to the territory of the russian federation, and putin

now has a very difficult history, but a difficult history remains with us as well, we must not forget that despite the fact that we captured 1000 km russian territory. yesterday it was announced, today, it is already more obvious, the russians seized more than 100 km of ukrainian territory, therefore, knowing the russians, there will be no need to talk about some kind of equal exchange, the war will continue, but in russia it is becoming less and less resources, when they say they are ready to fight to the end, they are bluffing. another interesting reaction, mr. volodymyr, from our western partners, sen. richard blumenthal and lynsey graham of the united states of america, during their visit to kyiv, called the breakthrough of the armed forces of ukraine in the kursk region a historic one. let's hear what the senators of the united states of america said. it's a massive breakthrough, it's

good news, it's big news that promises even more potential breakthroughs. now the russians will retreat, they will withdraw troops from other directions. they will use resources on this front that has been created, but the big news is that ukraine is now on russian territory. what do i think about kursk, bold, bright, beautiful, keep it up, putin started it, and we have to help with weapons, so that the ukrainian military has the weapons necessary to win a war that they cannot afford to lose. mr. volodymyr, will the position of our western partners change regarding the possibility of using western weapons on the territory of the russian federation, because if ukraine has shown courage and resourcefulness

by entering the territory of the russian federation, this means that the ukrainian army can go forward, but it needs weapons, western weapons, which will allow to consolidate successes, at least in kursk oblast? well, any army can advance if there are enough resources and trained personnel to do so . including the team one, but when we talk about this situation, there are several aspects that should be emphasized: first of all, over the last year, we have started again to bring good news, and in particular from the battlefield, unfortunately, before that there was not much such good news, we were either mired in a positional war, and since the beginning of this year we have been constantly retreating little by little, plus about... problems with corruption, problems with many with other things, with the economy, with reforms that have clearly

stalled, they all created a negative background regarding ukraine for our allies, and sometimes it seemed that it was easier to just somehow look in some other direction, and not at ukraine, now the situation has changed, we we see that ukraine is being admired again, thanks to the situation with this operation in the kurdish direction, we see that the americans and europeans finally stop being afraid of putin and the kremlin, they understand that it is possible to strike on russian territory, to be on russian territory, it remains that it is still this nuance is the use of atakams, as well as long-range german missiles, which still cannot be transmitted in any way, but german tanks can safely drive around the kursk region, and there are many other western weapons there, and there are no problems with this. nobody does everything to himself secondly, the domestic political situation is american, yes, biden once again

confirmed his commitment to democracy and his vision of reforming the american state, by leaving the election, he confused all the cards for trump, and we see that camila is gaining momentum and is once again becoming likely, likely the winner of this presidential race, and it shocks the russians, because ... all their plans and strategies, which were planned to reach by any means until november, and then we will somehow agree, can now be completely destroyed, in fact, i am very i hope that this wave raised by the armed forces of ukraine will now push our allies to give us more weapons, because we need a lot of high-quality weapons for a successful offensive, to deploy it and to secure the captured positions, secondly, we will finally see american veterans, released from the ranks of the armed forces, the united

states, germany, other countries, who will sit behind the ukrainian f-16s, and there will be not dozens, but hundreds of them, and we will put an end to this war. all this can be done quickly, for this you need great support for the event and great devotion of the ukrainian authorities to the course that they, about which they constantly talk, not in words, but in deeds. to show that we not only have the best armed forces in the world, but we have the best ukrainian government in the world and we have the best ukrainian reformers in the world, so that ukrainians take an example in everything, not only in war. well, by the way, you mentioned corruption, the fact that our western partners are looking at what is happening in the ukrainian government, literally against the background of this successful exchange rate breakthrough, we saw how detained on... deputy minister of energy oleksandr hale $5,000 for solving issues related to the transfer

of equipment from the east of ukraine to volyn and three accomplices pass there, and the higher anti-corruption court chose preventive measures for this hale and his accomplices, and he is accused of receiving a bribe in the amount . 500,000 dollars, well, it seems to me that somewhere around how much he has, and they are asking for an alternative bail instead of a pre-trial detention center, that is such corruption at such a high level, even though they are talking about what the sbu says about the scheme revealed with the assistance of the minister of energy of ukraine herman galushchenko, which sounds a little strange, frankly speaking, that he has a deputy, and his boss reveals. this scheme of bribery, and somehow it looks like herman

galushchenko did not even know who oleksandr heilo was, and betrayed sap and nabu, what would you say from the practice of your work in the government and regarding the management of the ministry, could it be that the minister doesn't know what his deputy is doing, especially since this is the situation when the minister said... to sap and nabu that it is necessary to deal with this deputy, because there is a corruption component. well, of course, it is exceptional that the minister did not know what his deputy was doing, but... what is being done in a separate department subordinate to him. moreover, if we are talking about the fact that the state is run by 5-6 managers, as the president himself emphasizes, then 5-6 managers cannot fail to know what their representatives do, because i do not believe that any minister now can recruit his own team and bear personal

responsibility for it. this is a scandal, unfortunately, we have such scandals... every day enough, and it hurts a lot here at the front, because when people give their most valuable lives, they hope that those who are in the rear, who declare themselves to be part of the diplomatic, economic, cultural and many other fronts there, are really engaged in the united victory of ukraine in this war, but judging by the trunks of cash, new real estate, houses, apartments, cars, far from everyone... is engaged in this, the most unfortunate thing is probably that only a few, and this i mean, among the authorities, among ordinary people, we grateful because ukrainians will still sincerely donate, despite the fact that the economic situation is deteriorating and the opportunities for such and such volunteers are becoming fewer and fewer, so i would still like the president to bring his team to their senses,

because i understand that he is planning go to the elections and the elections still need to be reached somehow, and the questions at the elections will be very painful, what exactly happened before the war, during the war, and who was doing what, unfortunately, these are the members of his team, and how, mr. volodymyr, do the military respond to the what is happening now in power, well, in particular, regarding these trunks cash, bribers, corrupt people, because almost every two or three days... stories repeat themselves and they gain publicity thanks to sapa nabu. well, look, we, we are in shock, that is, we are in shock, first of all, from what we constantly hear on tv, that the armed forces are equipped with everything, that shells, drones, soldiers, cars, well, everyone has twice the supply more, this is not true, still 90, in some

cases 50%, but you have to buy no less. with own funds, or it is a volunteer, or the help of some business structures or benefactors or volunteer funds, the state provides everything quite modestly, and i would like to make the same public appeal to colleagues from the drone army, when you supply drones to the army, please check what quality they are and whether they really meet the current needs, because when even well-known drone drones that have high performance, every state drone should be overrun. well, i think it's a bad result of work and spent taxpayers' money, stories when people steal during war, when other people die for this country, well here in the army there are one answer, but unfortunately it is not suitable for television, and it is punishable by current law. thank you, mr.

volodymyr, for the conversation, it was a politician, diplomat and former minister. of infrastructure volodymyr omelyan, and currently a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine. friends, we continue to work live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on these platforms. please don't forget to support like this video and also vote in our survey, take part in our survey. today we ask you about the following: will the kursk operation of the armed forces of ukraine become a disaster for russia, as volodymyr says. zelensky yes, no, if yes, then vote accordingly, yes, no, no, if you have your own opinion, separate opinion, please write it in the comments under this video, if you watch us on tv, take it to pick up a smartphone or phone and vote on the numbers 0.800, 211, 381, if you think that the kursk operation of the armed forces will be a disaster for russia,

no, 0.800 211 382. then we have. connection mykhailo samus, military expert, deputy director of the army, conversion and disarmament research center, director of the new geopolitics research network. mr. mykhailo, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. greetings , glad to see you. well, first of all, let's start from the course topic with the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine on enemy territory, as the head of the armed forces of ukraine oleksandr syrskyi says, for the last day in the kurdish direction. the ukrainian army advanced to a depth of one to 3 km, 44 km were taken under control territory, i will emphasize this once again during the day, sirskyi reported on this. zelenskyi, let's listen to what the head of the armed forces of ukraine said. today, 74 points are under our control, battles are being fought along the entire front line,

the situation, despite the high intensity of hostilities, is under control, operations continued. mr. mykhailo, can the military operation in the kursk region develop into a full-fledged front on a full scale. war of ukraine against russia or russia against ukraine? well, in principle, this operation is already done outgrown, that is, it is a military operation, it is not raid actions or actions of drg, special operations forces and so on, it is a military operation, and a military operation, as a rule, has its goals, strategic or operational goals, which then have an impact on strategic goals, we we do not know what these goals are, but if we assume that this operation is only part of a higher... level operation, that is, a plan, and this plan may include the actions of the armed forces of ukraine, or the defense forces of ukraine not only in kurdish direction, but also on others

directions, then it can be assumed that it can really grow, that this operation can grow, or after it, or in parallel, other operations can be included, which can really become a military disaster for russia, of course, it is still early... talk about that , what operations can be, in which directions, because now only the initial stage of the actual kurdish operation is underway, and it is very successful, but there will be difficult periods in the future, where it is very important to withstand the pressure that will obviously increase from the russian side, although they what not are effectively building up their reserves, because they are trying not to withdraw the main forces from the donbas, especially from the pokrovsk direction, because we heard putin say that on the contrary they are increasing the pace, they have increased the pace of the offensive in the pokrovsk direction by one and a half times, which means that he tasked his generals to continue

the offensive in donbas regardless of what is happening in the kurdish direction. in my opinion, this is good news because it is the wrong decision from a military point of view. from a military point of view, they had to to stop now, in principle, a not very, let's say so, promising offensive on donbas. because few believe that russia can occupy the entire donbas by the end of the 24th year, although putin hysterically seeks this from the generals, the generals, the russian generals seem to promise him this, but it is unrealistic, that is, if they acted correctly, they should have stopped the operation in donbas, suspended it, transferred several divisions to the kurt region and hit the flanks of the ukrainian group, which is now deepening and spreading, but to be of course, such operations, which are currently being carried out by... the armed forces of ukraine, they depend on the security of the guard, the defense of the flanks, i.e., those groups that go deep must be provided, in fact

, by the same groups that are advancing, on the flanks, to ensure security from breakthroughs the enemy, so until russia sends several divisions to the kursk region, they will not be able to stop the ukrainian offensive, because with akhmats, some kind of collective salt shakers, which they are now scraping on all fronts, because... putin set two tasks, which anything must be done by the generals, who are mutually exclusive: to continue the offensive in donbas and neutralize the threat in the kursk region, it is impossible, if we do not stop the offensive in donbas, now let's see how the russians will act, i think that they will make the wrong decisions decisions and drive the situation really into a situation close to a disaster. and why, why, mr. mikhail, did the russians fall into... this trap, that is, this misunderstanding of the situation, or the arrogance of putin, that he and his military commanders, that they did not calculate

that the ukrainians will go on the offensive in kurshchyna, the reasons for this, why they missed this moment, and - if this is the situation in kurshchyna, then it can be repeated in voronetsk oblast and bryansk oblast. that is, they are not ready for the fact that the war is returning to their home, where it came from, yes, well, they absolutely did not count on this development of events, they just mentally do not allow whether they did not allow, already, already they probably allow, mentally did not allow, that ukrainians can violate this holy, holy the border, the holy border of the empire, as the ukrainians do, and they know that our partners are very against it. escalation of the conflict, they, our partners, generally forbade a projectile to fly there, here a military group actually crosses the border and carries out an absolutely

operation, which... the russians could not even think about, and i will emphasize here, i am sure that the military russian intelligence reported to the high command to the top military and political leadership that the formation of groups that have signs of offensive groups, i i'm sure that it was reported because there is an intelligence agency in russia, there are a bunch of drones that were constantly doing reconnaissance there, they were doing airstrikes, they were doing drone strikes, the drg was operating there. acted, acted, special operations forces acted, that is , in principle, they had 100% of the information and they reported this information, but the political leadership simply, i think, shrugged at this information and said that it was impossible, that is, ukrainians cannot cross the border with russia, because they, first of all, will be the americans now shout at them and turn them back, the more they can even dare,

just dare to cross. the border with russia, it's simply impossible, and that's why they fell into this trap again not to the enemy's estimation, they fell into this trap in february 22, when they suffered a huge defeat, which in principle meant a defeat in principle of this operation, and what now there is this attempt of putin to come out with a good face with a bad game, and now the next failure is precisely due to underestimation, even mental underestimation the enemy, they believe that the ukrainians... will not dare to behave like this, and this has played this evil joke on them, when they do not know what to do now, because they really do not have enough forces here to stop this operation, which is calculated and implemented simply at the highest level of professionalism. people's deputy of ukraine, sbu colonel roman kostenko, who is currently in the combat zone in the

northeast, on espresso. i highly appreciate the military-political and moral-psychological effect of the kurdish language operations of the armed forces of ukraine. let's listen to what colonel kostenko said. this operation, i will tell you, but even talking with the soldiers, they are now on the rise, we see how even in the information field, the trust in the defense forces, and in general in our army, and the fact that our partners, they also look at of the majority, maybe someone there, you rightly say, somehow evaluates in his own way, but this one. the operation has already had its effect, a big one, once again, it is important, of course, to bring it to a logical end, it is very important to have, let's say this, an effect, this is the end of the operation, which was planned, to prevent the enemy, because we are in a threatening direction, on the right, on the left, we must hold the flanks clearly, to prevent the enemy from breaking through there, or for him to close the ring there, all this must be done by the military, but the strategic effect from my point of view is this

operation already has and helps us in all directions, not only here in kurshchyna. mr. mykhailo, what could be the actions of russia, apart from overturning the troops and moving along the flanks to the line where they are standing, or where ukrainian troops are wedged in, that is, what can be done to act putin and his military leadership. in the current situation, start massive shelling of ukrainian cities, use other areas of the potential front, there, for example, the north, northeast, up there in the sumy region, from the voronezh, bran region to open another front, what can the russian army do now, what it can do, putin's toolkit is small,

that is, everyone saw his condition. is located, he is really in a state of shock, he does not know what commands to give, because gerasimov, the chief of the general staff, simply failed this situation, he simply once again, simply demonstrated that he cannot really adequately assess the situation and reported to putin that everything is fine, everything is under control, and even his last report in the first days of the beginning of the... kursk operation, he reported that only a thousand ukrainian servicemen had crossed over, 700 had been killed, there were remnants running through the forests and so on, so the reports were very similar to what was reported to putin in february, march 22, before the disaster, when they started fleeing from kyiv, chernihiv, sumy regions, that is, the toolkit is small, but you are now showing, there is dyumin and...