and most importantly pokrovska. pokrovsk is the gateway from the dnipro to the donbass. this is a key city, and zaporozhye is the exit. yes, and it stands on a hill. and in fact, everything that is below it, and kurakhova and selidova and there, it is actually shot through precisely from these heights. now we are in our strength, but the enemy is 8 km from the outer streets of pokrovsk. and this is a lot, and the road to chasiv and kramatorsk is blocked. there is no panic in this, because ukraine currently controls 40% of the donetsk region, and we have pokrovsk in our hands, and such large places, i spent my four months in bakhmut, i know it is a much smaller city, it can be held for a long, long time, the same applies to the hub of the even bigger city of kramatorsk, sloviansk and druzhkovka. the whole area is so fortified that i

am now, well, i say once again, as a soldier, i do not pretend to be a commander here, because i am not one, but from what i see and hear from my brothers, and they are with me and in kurshchyna, and in donetsk region, and in kharkiv region, and on the southern front, kherson-mykolaiv region, what would i do now, i already today without any panic, once again i say, but i would make a serious line of fortifications along the administrative border of donetsk region, capturing pokrovsk. high ground, further, druzhkovka, kramatorsk, slavyansk, and along the entire line build fortifications, at the same time 30 km deep, evict people, cut off all landings, sow everything with mines, so that the enemy, even if we , well, at a certain moment we will make a decision to retreat, could not cross this border, but it must be done today, and not later, as it was in avdiivka, when the enemy is advancing. and the whole question is to me, why me

it is constantly maddening, why is the government that is actually responsible for this, because the troops are responsible for zero, well, for the first trench, and the first is on the line of defense, the second line of defense corresponds to the regional state administration, and to whom are they subordinate, the cabinet of ministers of ukraine according to the constitution, according to su, in the life of the president's office, so take care of this line, well , in the end, build what the moskals are building before our eyes several times already, they even built the railway before our eyes. not to mention the syuravikin line, so now it's not about criticism, but now it seems to me that there is an urgent need, without spreading panic, to build a line of defense along the administrative border of the donetsk region, to capture, well, to include in it the large cities we have, to contain the enemy, but if the monument to leontovych has already been removed from pokrovsk, he went to the rear. then this means

that we have a big problem there, and to say that it is too late to panic, we must build fortification lines, and not of the imitation type, as unfortunately happened after avdiivka, as a result of which the enemy is standing so close to of a key city, reliable, serious and equipped with new technologies, so that there is a reb, and a sufficient number of fp and scout drones, and strike drones and artillery systems, and survival pods for the soldier. 30 km of landings are cut out of steel buried in the ground and many, many other things, filled with concrete, for you to shoot through them, and then we can be more calm about our prospects. today , the 24th meeting between us and our western partners was held at the american ramstein air base in germany, and there was zelenskyi, he said that we are waiting for the lifting of restrictions on ukraine's use of western long-range weapons, ambassador. dry,

what zelensky said, now we hear that your policy, in terms of long-term impression, has not changed, but we see changes in atakams, stormshades and scalps, a lack of missiles and cooperation, and this, and this applies even to our territory, which is now occupied by russia, including crimea, we think it is wrong that there are such steps, we need these means of long-term impression. so as to motivate russia to seek peace. well, before that, john kirby, the spokesman of the white house for national security, stated that the united states of america will not change its policy regarding strikes by american missiles on military targets on the territory of russia, even after the russian strikes on poltava and. 90%

of the aircraft that russia uses for guided air bombs and long-range missile strikes, 90% of them are located beyond 300 km from the ukrainian border, deep inside russia. so the statement, they say, we'll just give them the attacks and say okay, and they will be able to hit most of the russian planes at the airbases from where they attack ukraine is false, this is a false argument. but this false argument appeared after we started saying: "give us long-range weapons", and our drones were flying there, our partners... the americans were thinking about whether to give this permission or not, why they don't want to give we have such an opportunity, well, first of all , ramshtein is a meeting, to put it so rudely on a boy's mind, of the deputies of the rear of the nato troops, they do not make decisions there, there will discuss the logistics of implementing

the decisions already taken by the leaders, that is why the presence of the president, he has been there twice, in fact , he cannot reach other decisions than have already been agreed upon. but president zelenskyy is doing the right thing by using this opportunity to press on the eyes of the mythical red lines, on the eyes, well, the arguments against the so-called prevention of escalation, here i am completely on the side of the supreme commander, while, of course, there is another side of the coin, well, if our drones are blowing up russian oil refineries in siberia, so why are they they can't... strike at these airports, why in the end they can't strike at these railways, which russia stretched from mariupol to chengar in front of our eyes, this is of course also an interesting question, but the president has no other option, if from the 19th 2018, the rocket programs were frozen and now we have only one long-range rocket that was launched,

although this is a great success, it is a really great success, and if our neptunes, well , to put it mildly, are not so many, it is just 300 km, then in it has two options, or build up. its rocket program, so that there were neptunes, well, in times more, if i were in his place, i would ask the western allies for money for the development of the missile program, and that scumbag who used 7.8 billion from the missile program of the relevant ministry during the sequestration of the budget, well, just publicly, that’s what you mean it's the 20th year or so now, but now the budget was voted in the first reading, 8 billion pdfs for missile programs turned into... the one who allowed this, from my point of view, must answer with all severity, and then we will know we are building our missiles for 300 and 500 km, but nevertheless continue the pressure on washington in the first place, because other countries, which hesitate to give or not, nod to

america's position, because by equipping their missiles, why is this happening in washington, unfortunately, in washington now the old school rules. which had the experience of a failed war in korea, a failed, even more failed war in vietnam, and a successful, they believe, war in afghanistan, when their adversary collapsed the ussr, through the strategy of a long, grueling war, and they are acting on this pattern, a long, grueling war for survival, knowing that the american resources are more soviet, well, even more russian. unfortunately, we are hostages of this strategy. the decision-making elites, for the most part, do not want to look for other ways, the world has changed, and they have not, and therefore, unfortunately, we will return again to diplomacy, so the minister of foreign affairs has the first task,

to change the approaches of our strategic opponents, because i i open forfes - this is the main, well, publication of american diplomats, where it will be written in black and white: it is impossible to defeat putin, so our strategy is to wait until he dies. well, for the world the gendarme is a pathetic strategy. but we cannot take offense at them, because our strategy before the war was even more irresponsible. we have to work with it, change it, prove it. if yarmak is not able to do this, and it is already obvious that in two years of his, well, let's say, complete domination in our foreign policy, this did not happen. it is necessary to add to the official diplomats of our ukrainians the influence of politicians, public figures and just ordinary people, for example, which ones? for example, take 10 families in which children died in the war, for example, women's organizations,

for example, veterans' organizations, religious organizations, politicians, i 've said it a hundred times already, if not only zelensky flew to washington, with all due respect, because he now has all the responsibility. for the situation, but if he came together with president poroshenko, president yushchenko and even president kuchma, it would be an event for american life, because four very different presidents who... have a very complicated relationship with each other, united by one: give weapons, and we will do the work that the whole world dreams of, but only we can do, well that agree that it would sound a little different than just passing through the fair once again, so you have to stop thinking about ratings, that's what i'm talking about, because all this whistling around the government, around even romstein, unfortunately, as it seems to me, testifies that... he thinks about the next elections, about his ratings against the background of what

is happening, and then about victory, from my point of view, this is unacceptable, today only irresponsible persons can think about ratings, so he promised one presidential term , look, don't say that in front of me, because i i can talk for another hour about what he promised, excuse me, no, conceptually he said, conceptually he promised us so much that the ungrateful people are still here. it is not enough and we must promise more and more. already after that , there was already an explanation that he cannot leave the country during the war, and if he is asked, listen, all the presidents indulge in this, and on their own, even viktor andriyovych yushchenko, knowing exactly his rating, nevertheless left, with from my point of view, having spoiled the finale of his, in principle, good presidency, as he said, in the principle of a good presidency, and by the way, why did yushchenko leave the presidents at that time, because they told him that sociologists lie, the people love me, like all presidents, as soon as they leave, any trip with them is made then there were no selfies sold yet, they take pictures with them, take autographs from them, kiss them, certain

people who, well, in principle, respect this president, always stand in the front rows, the old lady with the flag, well, how can you not go, how can you leave these people, look, i wouldn't want to now, well, let's talk about it to emphasize, every person, including president zelenskyi, has the right to run for office, but first let's win the war, and then we measure ourselves by ratings, because when you see that zaluzhnyi's rating is twice as high as that of... then you remove the commander-in-chief, and so on problems at the front, not because the syrian one is worse, but because the new head of the army has to come to a lot of details, find out, learn, deploy people, and when you find out that your rating has decreased even more, you start to shake up the government in the lukashenka style , this is not a change the government, this is reinsurance, as lukashenko said, it doesn't change anything, it's just an attempt to raise the rating, nothing will come of it, let's win... the war, and this in itself is the greatest reward for the current president, on this optimistic note we and let's put an end

to our conversation, yuriy lutsenko was a guest of our program, thank you for participating in the program, and throughout the broadcast we are conducting a survey, friends, we ask you this: do you expect the work of the government to improve after the replacement of nine ministers, interim the results of 2% yes, 98% no, these are the results of a televised poll.

greetings, friends, live on the espresso tv channel, the second part of the verdict program, my name is serhiy rudenko, and in this part we will talk about the following. increasing massive rocket attacks. the target is the civilian population throughout the territory. of ukraine, why putin still has security guarantees from the west

for his military bases deep in the country. in search of administrative logic, the president's office became a personnel forge for shmyhal's renewed government. why are new appointments like this? often accompanied by scandals? yermakivshchyna in the state administration, shurma's resignation and public. defense of tatarov, how zelenskyi perceives the world around him through friends, associates and the closest circle. we will talk about all this in the next 45 minutes. minutes, let me remind you that throughout our broadcast we are conducting a survey, we are asking you today whether you expect an improvement in the work of the government after the replacement of nine ministers after the replacement that took place yesterday, so yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube , if you have your own opinion please leave a comment below this video if you are watching us on tv pick up your smartphone or phone and

vote on 0800 211 381 if you think... will improve government no 0800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, vote at the end of the program, we will tally up the results of this vote, and today is friday, today is our traditional journalistic friday, my colleagues, one colleague came to the studio, and the other, i hope, that will turn on skype, so today we have andriy dyanitsky, andriy, congratulations, good evening, and we are still waiting for the inclusion of bohdan butkevich, and i hope that... after all, he will connect with our editorial office and go on the air with his vision with his own initiative, then nothing will change. well, it is interesting that in reality zelenskyy is talking about the fact that there will be new energy, new people, although if we look at

these appointments, now we will see nine new ministers that the verkhovna rada of ukraine will appoint. then, in principle, they were in this cage before, either they were performing responsibilities, or were somewhere nearby, or worked in the office of the president of ukraine, so olga stefanishyna, she became the minister of justice, and was the vice prime minister for european integration, andriy sybiga, minister of foreign affairs, was the first deputy minister of foreign affairs, oleksiy kuleba, deputy prime minister for reconstruction, minister of community development, and worked as deputy chairman. herman smitanin, minister of strategic industries of the president's office, and worked at ukroboronprom. vitaly koval, minister of agrarian policy, was currently the head of the fund derzhmaina, in addition, the head of the rivne regional military administration. mykola tochytskyi. he is generally a staff diplomat, and he was the deputy minister of foreign

affairs, was the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, and became the minister of culture and strategy. public communications. natalya kalmykova became the minister of veteran affairs, and matviy bidny, the minister of youth and sports, he was acting. svitlana grynchuk became the minister of environmental protection. well, half of the surnames, to be honest, i have heard of these people, but nothing i know, but from this list, of course, names like ours deserve attention... tochytsky, because he became the minister of culture and strategic communications, apparently we are creating, well, probably, this ministry will now be called sooner, well, minister, the ministry of propaganda and counter-propaganda, well , maybe during the war it was justified, but by the way, i wanted to emphasize the only positive story in these appointments, that

the ministries, which for a long time did not have leaders, where there were acting responsibilities, finally received their leaders. and this really positive, because when any organization is managed by a temporary manager, the efficiency of this management is not very good, subordinates think that this is a temporary boss, and you can not listen to him very much and perform his duties quite formally, when he is now appointed already have managers at the same ministry of information, for example, it obviously has more lively... work, this is the only plus, and what else i would like to note, and what, by the way, the deputies themselves talk to each other, i heard it from one of the deputies from the parliamentary the majority, the monomajority, that in this way the authorities decided to remove the fears and such a request of the people for elections, because during the war

it is difficult to hold elections, well, not as formal as russia conducts, where they are simply drawn, but real elections are difficult. because some of the people are abroad, some are in the trenches, and with such and such a change of government, they have shown that some kind of renewal of power has taken place, well, this is also a purely psychological story, i do not think that ukrainians will feel it, because i think that somewhere 60 or 70 percent of people don't even they can identify or even say who oleksiy kuleba became a minister. sibiga became the minister of foreign affairs, well , that is... even for us, for people who have been watching politics and personnel appointments and ministers for a long time, i remember, well, even 5 years ago or 6 years ago, we clearly

monitored there , who, or how did he come, what kind of person is he, and now they all basically go after the passport of one or two people, well, each minister used to be an individual, we looked at what plans this minister had, what approaches, how did he... i remember that there was a minister vinsky who wrote a lot about transport, he primarily developed the railway, and when he was pivovavarsky, he first developed airplanes and brought low costers here, that is, everyone had their own personal approach, and now when we look at these ministers, well , the names change, the approaches do not change, but about sabigi, i heard positive reviews even before... before he became a minister, they said that he was one of the president's speechwriters , helped write these speeches, which then gathered applause from everyone

parliaments of the world, and when he was appointed first deputy minister of foreign affairs, it became clear that he was already being prepared to become a minister, and when that scandalous order was issued not to issue, not to provide consular services to men abroad without prior "appearance of military accounting documents, despite the fact that the law on mobilization itself had not come into force at that time, so this scandalous order was signed by sebig, not dmytro kuleb, and then it became clear who was in the house after all the master, the master and who really is minister, then already at that moment it was clear that sybiga was in fact in charge of the ministry of foreign affairs, well... what was the claim against koleba, as colleagues from ukrainian pravda and other publications write, that he did not want to, whether it is fulfilled, i i read that he

didn't want to waste his hands, he didn't want to sign such dubious laws, orders to the law, well, accordingly, he got rid of him, well, it must be said that there are now three people in the renewed government who are personnel. . by diplomats, that is, by people who, rather, two for sure, this andriy sybiga, because he is not an accidental person, he was the ambassador, the extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador to turkey of ukraine, and worked, as you said, as a speech writer for zelenskyi, then he was a deputy for yermak, and from april he began to perform the duties of the first deputy minister of foreign affairs. but mykola tochytskyi is also a diplomat. moreover, a staff diplomat is all those people who have been in the diplomatic service for a very long time, he was the ambassador to belgium, worked in euro-atlantic

structures and a person who graduated from the kyiv institute of international relations, although he was there, his first education was at the philological faculty, he was a translator from the french language, by the way, he taught. at the time when i was at the university, i still remember him from tochytskyi university, and he was recently about to be appointed, that is, instead of sybig, he came to the ministry of foreign affairs instead of him, and he went to the office of the president of ukraine, and now he the minister of culture and strategic communications, it is obvious enough that such a separate serious work should be done. despite all these managers who are in the office of the president of ukraine, because after all, during the war, strategic communications are not only communications with a single

telethon, we are talking about creating a system of propaganda and counter-propaganda that will work both in europe and throughout the world, because in unfortunately for us, foreign language as such does not exist, that is, there is freedom, there is home and what else is there, the whole united 24. well, this is a formal history, at least not a state one, but as if it were a public one, although we understand very well that these are such resources anyway, as has, for example, the same russia for abroad, the united states of america abroad, germany actively works abroad, well, many powerful countries, they have their own mouthpieces that influence audiences abroad, that is , we do not have this, obviously tochytskyi will do exactly that , what do you think? he has, well, i don't know him personally, i also read his biography, i liked it, by the way, he worked a lot with kuleba, and kuleba, well, i would actually see kuleba in this position. well, i

understand that after the ministry of foreign affairs, i will head the ministry of information policy, now strategic, strategic communications, it is not, probably in his eyes it would be a demotion, i don’t know where he hasn’t gotten tired of over the years, eh, but eh, if we talk about resources, then not everything always depends on resources, it is clear that we we will never be able to compete with russia in the amount of funding of information campaigns, eh... but let's look at what russia has achieved, all its attempts to influence the world through rasha today, through the satellite, where they poured millions, billions, billions of dollars for these years, they did not lead to anything, and now the latest outpourings of the fsbshniks, which were exposed by hristo groziv and bellenket and the insider, show that the fsbeshniks themselves admit that spending on rasha today is no longer effective and no one

accepts such lab propaganda. therefore, they begin to act in a different way, impersonate ukrainians, some local activists and imitate the mass media that have already been promoted, for example, create fake fox news pages and thus try to influence citizens of other countries, well, in the states they generally thought with the help of artificial intelligence to create simply millions of these advertising messages, so that the staff... to influence each and every group of voters with those messages that can sway these voters, that is, i lead to the fact that it is not so much about money, but about innovation and approaches, and if mr. , the new minister will be able to find some innovative approach to promote ukrainian messages abroad, it would be good, well, i must say that in fact no one has tried

to create since then. beginning of the full-scale invasion, no one tried to unite all journalists working in ukraine and do some of them have a strong fist in opposing the russian occupier, that is, well, they will tell you about the telethon, why not, well, the telethon solves the internal problem quite seriously, but i mean, well, there are enough people who could join this big propaganda in the good sense of the word and... in some formats, there is a big problem to work with, that our government has spoiled relations with ukrainians abroad, again, i already talked about it once, but i will repeat, the problem still exists, we have refugees who left maybe here russia is also influencing the split, trying to quarrel those who left and those who stayed, and this cannot be allowed, ukrainians who are abroad, they remain

ukrainians, they for... leave a connection with their homeland , they send money, they defend ukraine's position abroad, they go to protests and call on the governments of other countries to give weapons to ukraine, this work must be coordinated, and this is possible through the joint work of the ministry of foreign affairs, the ministry of culture, and there are also third ministries that can the ministry of return of ukrainians will appear, and this is also quite interesting. history, and i do not rule out that it is possible that kulebi was offered to head this ministry, because it will actually carry out part of the powers that currently belong to the ministry of foreign affairs, but i know the proposal of mr. kniazhivskyi to create a ministry of demographic policy or a ministry of happiness demographic problems, so it's a similar story, let's say with the return of ukrainians to me.