the united states will then, of course, be followed by all the others, that is, there are now no such outspoken opponents who would not allow their weapons to be struck on russian territory, except for the united states, which sets the tone here, and in fact for the united states, it does not dare to allow our other allies. it is not excluded that this issue will be discussed already at the end of this week in kyiv, because the secretary of state of the united states of america antony blinken and the head of the british foreign ministry david lammy are going to kyiv. not yet the purpose of the visit is announced, but it will obviously be about expanding the capabilities of the armed forces of ukraine in strikes on the territory of the russian federation. we will wait and see what the decisions will be and what the statements will be. at that time, we see how the russians are trying to pressurize in donetsk region, mr.

mykhailo, and we see how we are trying to pressurize the russians in the kurdish direction, how would you characterize the situation in these two directions now, and can we in this situation use as the argument of the kurdish operation of the armed forces of ukraine, whether it can be used by us to help put pressure on moscow. uh, about the future negotiation process between ukraine and russia? well, theoretically yes, in fact it is true, if we say that ukraine controls a certain russian territory, russia occupied a certain ukrainian territory, that is , theoretically it would be possible to talk about it, but i do not think that it is possible, in principle, under the current leadership of the kremlin, that is, i i don't think that putin is ready for such shameful negotiations for him, well... well, to imagine

that putin will agree to trade russian land publicly, well, how big is that the emperor, that is, he is talking about the fact that ukraine has no right to exist in general and that there are some negotiations regarding the kurt region, of course, that putin will not go for it, i think, and now the situation in principle on the entire front is such that russia is trying to ukrainian defense both in the pokrovsky direction, and in the chasovoy iry, and in the turkish direction. in the ughledar direction, but the ukrainian troops are obviously seizing the initiative, i.e. now it cannot be said that the russian offensive has already been stopped, or the situation has been reversed, but obviously the russians have not they have enough reserves not only to advance in all the named directions, without this, in principle, they cannot see success in donbas, they do not have enough resources and reserves even to break through the ukrainian defenses in the pokrov direction. at the same time

, they have to do something with the kurdish region, and obviously they have a plan, they promised, i mean the russian generals to putin, that they will deal with the kurdistan region by october 1st, so i can predict that at the moment russia will still still more and to pull more forces into the kursk region, trying to show some result by october 1, that is, it is not excluded that there will be counterattacks, maybe some ... counteroffensive actions of the russians in the kursk region, this can be expected, but a competently constructed operation, which ukrainian is operating, which operation is based on the seym river, for example, on geographical conditions, at the moment i do not see the prerequisites for the russians to somehow significantly change the situation in the kurva region, we will see how much they will be able to strengthen with reserves your group in kursk region, then you will be able to talk. about the further development

of events, well, obviously, it will all depend on what weapons will be in the armed forces of ukraine, because it is clear that the decision that the united states of america and great britain can make regarding strikes on the territory of the russian federation, with their weapons, it may or may not be, in the meantime it became known that ukraine has developed its own high-precision planing bomb. which can become a key weapon for strikes against the russian military objects, forbes writes about this with reference to a video of a bomb test, which was published the other day by the air force of the armed forces of ukraine. this bomb is equipped with a rocket booster, retractable wings and a gps system, its flight range can reach 65 km. the publication notes the similarity of the bomb with french french. hamme, or

hamer in french, predicts that if ukraine sets up serial production of these bombs, it will be able to strike the territory of russia with the same frequency as the armed forces. the russian federation is shelling ukraine similar projectiles, this is good news, mr. mykhailo, the only question is to what extent ukraine will now be able to establish the serial production of any weapon, including this high-precision planning bomb, whether we have these capacities, whether we have these capabilities, the main thing, taking into account the constant attacks of the russian federation on the objects of the military-industrial complex of ukraine. i think that there is no problem to impose the production of such bombs now, because technologically, this product is not some kind of peak of technological thoughts, this is not a ballistic missile that ukrainian engineers are working on, it is not other super-developed types of weapons, such types

of weapons have been in service with various countries of the world for decades, so i think that ukraine has every opportunity to do this. in terms of manufacturing production facilities, i don't think that, again, there is a problem of finding underground er workshops, underground, let's say, facilities where you can produce such products, and so, well, again, the important thing here is that, this the organization of production is the personal responsibility of the state officials who lead this program, we have one big problem, a fundamental one, we still do not have such a concept in the arms production system as the head of the state program for the production of weapons, be it a ballistic missile, drones or, for example, an aerial bomb, that is, there must be a clear system, a clear responsibility of a specific official for production,

coordination, concentration of budgets, organization of production itself, and so on, that is, if it is done, i don't... see any problems at all in that establish mass production of such aerial bombs. and oleksandr syrskyi, commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, stated in an interview with cnn that ukraine has narrowed the gap in the ratio of ammunition with russia, which is now almost one to two, i will quote pasirskyi, the ratio is actually one to two, one to two and a half. a year ago, that number was 1 in 10, 1 in six, turi. we compensate for the loss with unmanned systems, does this mean, mr. mykhailo, that the war of drones, which is currently ongoing in most regions of ukraine, with the use of drones systems, it changed the nature of this war, because

this war began with one weapon, and this weapon, russia had an advantage in this weaponry, and russia had enough... quickly yielded to ukraine, ukraine gained momentum and actually made the weapons that are now in principle is most widely used on the battlefield. there are two aspects here, indeed, from the drone-centric point of view of this war, it is obvious that drones, both ground, air, and sea, they have changed the nature of hostilities, the nature of the battlefield, there is no doubt that ukraine is a leader in this process, but in relation to co-operation. the united states finally decided to invest in the production of munitions, just then the implementation of national projects related to the expansion of opportunities and capacities for the production of munitions began,

the czech initiative was born regarding procurement in third countries, not in nato countries or the ramstein project, in third countries that... they are even anonymous, but with the money of the allies of ukraine, and just a year later, in fact, all these initiatives began to bear fruit, by the way, western, western production has not yet reached its peak, or even its optimum, that is, we are now in such a state that we are already at 80% in the implementation of projects, the increase in the number of ammunition production and the peak. these projects in western countries will be released somewhere around the beginning of the 25th year, because a year ago, in the summer, autumn of the 23rd, this, this word at the beginning of the 25th year, well, it was perceived very, very negatively, because everyone said, well, what if we

are going to fight without ammunition, in principle , that's how it turned out, let's remember how difficult it was the 24th year, the first half of the 24th year, when there was a failure in... sometimes a failure in american aid, so right now we are experiencing the implementation of those projects that were started a year ago, and in this way we are getting the ratio more or less permissible in confrontation with russian artillery. another important topic, mr. mykhailo, is air defense systems, which are so necessary for ukraine, and zelensky has already publicly asked italian prime minister giorgio meloni to mediate in negotiations with the united states of america on the transfer of systems to ukraine ppo patriot, and this is reported by the italian publication messenger. according to the sources of the publication, zelensky would like... as the head of the big seven to push washington to transfer a significant number

of patriots to the presidential elections in the united states of america by the end of the year. to close the ukrainian sky, how can we still avoid these strikes, missile strikes, constant drone attacks, combined strikes, what, what should ukraine do and where should ukraine move in order to so that it was less and less. well , look, at the beginning of the conversation we talked about iranian missiles, they are ballistic, ballistic missiles can be shot down by a patriot, well short -range, by the way, we would like those fateh 360 missiles that fly there at 80-100 km, it would be good the iron dome is israeli, again we know that israel will not transfer these systems to us, but as for the long-range ballistic missiles that iran can transfer,

that north korea is transferring to russia, and russia has its iskanders, well, there is more to it patriot, and regarding whether ukraine can get patriots to close the entire ukrainian territory, maybe, because in the united states , there are enough of them on the continental part of the united states, dozens of them, according to some data, even hundreds, well, let's say dozens, because we don't know the actual technical combat condition of these machines, they are, of course, not all new, they were lucky, maybe even of the cold war, but they can be restored, it is possible, it would have been possible to restore them, after all, it is not the first day that the war is going on, and in the united states could transfer ukraine has 25, for example, patriot complexes, which would, in principle, cover the main ukrainian objects and territories, and if we transferred even more, then we could safely provide... virtually guaranteed protection of the ukrainian territory with a high probability

of protecting the ukrainian territory from russian ballistic and not only missiles. unfortunately, explain to me logically what arguments can be found why the united states ignores transfers of the patriot system to ukraine, which the armed forces of the united states do not need at all. i 'll just emphasize, they stand on continental part of the united states, with a distance of 150 km. meters , the territory of the united states, neighbors, that is , canada and mexico, from whom the united states is going to defend itself, so it is not clear, this is a tactical system, this is an army system on the scale of the united states, they use for anti-missile defense, including ballistic, completely different systems. the patriot is not even in the nomenclature of these anti-missile systems there, so i think the idea is to somehow, any... way to convince biden with the help of a melon, with the help

of any arguments that the united states could transfer these systems to us, i think that they should be used now, for example, i even advocated such a project, transfer to europe, to european countries, for example, romania and poland, hand over 30 systems, they can then be restored and gradually handed over to ukraine, it would be... better than just talking about the fact that romania is handing over a single patriot air defense system to us there, or that poland and romania should shoot down over ukrainian territory some aerial objects, well, that's all you know, it's a drag, it's a talking point, we need concrete solutions right now this second, not endless negotiations, right now 25 patriots that are available that are just standing in deserts in the united states and are not... doing any good. thank you, mr. mykhailo, for the conversation. it was mykhailo samus, military expert,

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shmyhal's cabinet was updated last week. of ministers had already renamed the ministry of culture and information policy to the ministry of culture and strategic communications, and was headed by mykola tochytsky, a former diplomat, or a diplomat, besides, the ministry of development of communities, territories and infrastructure has been renamed the ministry of development of communities and territories, so it was first divided, then brought together, now they are divided again, brought together again, with what and what? fundamentally distinguishes the current government and the current structure from what we had before the beginning of september 2024. well, first, what unites them? some government officials are appointed illegally, as well as the absence of a government program. we do not know what this government is working for, or what it is working for

victory, or he works for defeat, he does not report to society, does not inform society about his actions. well, now how is it different? differs in that during the american elections we will receive a transition period, that is, conditionally speaking, a period of irresponsibility, and it will last at least until the end of the american elections, then, given the candidate elected by the american voters in power , it will be very to quickly adapt to the program of the new president of the united states, and accordingly, to search as quickly as possible some forms of survival, most likely, we all somehow conditionally count on the fact that

there will be no reason for the continuation of the war on the part of russia with the election of a new president either, that is... it will run out, since playing in such a situation of strategic uncertainty the united states cannot afford it, it will most likely do everything to ensure that ukraine quickly finds itself in the european union in nato, and russia has nothing else, that is , there will be no choice but to leave ukrainian territory, otherwise, from the system of sanctions russia never. will not work, i want to remind you that the jackson veenik law, which is a ban that was adopted due to the ban by the soviet union, for the departure of jews, it still exists in one form or another, well, now it exists for russia in russia , they know very well that the american sanctions

are for a long time , and either they begin to behave more or less according to the rules of world coexistence, or they will exhaust their resources to the last. mr. volodymyr, it is obvious that how the world will perceive ukraine will now depend on the ministry of culture and strategic communications, because earlier it was of the ministry of culture and information policy, and this information policy over the past two and a half years has been reduced to the formation of a single telethon, a single information space. if now we are talking about... strategic communication, a diplomat comes there, obviously, this ministry will be entrusted with the external and foreign information work of ukraine, by the way, before being appointed as the minister of culture and strategic communications, tochytskyi emphasized that the preservation of cultural identity in ukraine needs support

foreign partners, according to him, the government should develop an effective system of strategic communications. our struggle on the front lines and the preservation of our cultural identity require increased support from our foreign partners. international aid depends not least on understanding the motives and goals of our struggle. quality is needed. to those of our friends so that they know who we are, what we are for and why we are here. today it is very important to think in categories. what can we do culture in order for the issue of ukraine to remain on the agenda. information policy is the main component, it is an important

direction, it is a matter of national security. we must build an effective system of strategic communications. for, yevgenia kravchuk, deputy head of the parliamentary committee on humanitarian and information policy, says that mykola tochytskyi is a career diplomat, very experienced. a specialist who was engaged, in particular, in cultural diplomacy. i saw further strengthening of the ministry, namely in the international work of broadcasts of ukrainian narratives abroad. why, mr. volodymyr, until now there was no talk of these strategic communications, and now even in the president's office dmytro lytvyn, an adviser on strategic communications, who was until now zelenskyi's speechwriter, appeared, that is, communications in... reach such a high level in ukraine on strategic communication, what does it mean? in general, i want to remind you that the entire personnel rotation

is a kind of cover from public responsibility, that is, until the new appointees enter the working stream, no one from the government will not ask anything, that is, it is a vacation for two months somewhere, so that society does not... attack the newly appointed ministers, when minister tochytskyi spoke about the fact that the marathon is very useful, i was shaken, i realized that it was hopeless, that is, so to speak, how rigid, cemented in some kind of framework is the bureaucratic diplomat, who simply does not think in terms of communication categories, first of all, communications, as a rule, in order for them to be effective, the state outsources... , because there where an official is engaged in communications, there is always a lack of creativity, there is always confusion and scheming, for me

the story of how ukraine and the official lost the information battle, including tochytsky, because he worked at a bank at the time when the occupying forces blew up the kakhovskaya hpp , it was a tragedy on which it was possible to build a pro... unique informative strategy and on this to build a broad coalition of support for ukraine, not only that, but to use, for example, left-wing movements, because this is an ecological disaster, and left-wing movements it would be good to tighten them up so that they would be included in the environmental agenda in the black sea, in the azov sea, in the caspian sea, because the russian troops... there destroyed tens of thousands of dolphins in the caspian sea and caspian seals, that's a problem, which would have to build a new alliance with ukraine,

an alliance of such environmental movements, well, perhaps the left should not be shunned, but instead we see that in fact tochytskyi is clearly attached to the ministry, to be honest ... even at a certain moment i was afraid that culture disappeared from the name of the ministry but later it turned out that what was kept in the name, in the name of the ministry of culture and strategic communications, because in the first days and when there was talk about tochytsky's appointment, it was only about strategic communications, i'm not sure, he, well, in his diplomatic positions, tochytsky was probably not the worst specialist. but this is a completely new field, and in it, if he will act, it will be within the framework of mykhailo podoliak's strategy, and we know for sure that all these

strategies are losing, er, banking will lose, especially international platforms and to return to these international platforms is already impossible, well, with zelensky in the form of such an information battering ram, it is already impossible, lost. time, and it is impossible to make up for this time, tell me clearly why denys shmyhal was not dismissed, or is this the second act of this play, which will obviously be sometime in november or december? well, the fact is that the resignation of the minister is, well , a reboot of the entire government, and they are afraid of him, they are afraid, because there is no majority in the parliament, we see one important thing. not for any of the newly appointed ministers 226 representatives of the servants of the people voted

190. well, there were 195 votes, that is , there is no monomajority in the parliament, but what is a new government, a coalition must be formed under the new government, because it does not have a majority, there are no votes, but to form a coalition with, well, these scumbags of the opz, that is, that is, they actually made such a coalition, it is clear that without declarations. but in order to create a new government , a formal coalition will be needed, it will be necessary to vote for each minister and find votes, and for this i will remind you that a simple monomajority does not work, you will have to to create a coalition, and a coalition can be created only by factions, not deputy groups, factions of the party of regions, or the opzh

no longer exists, it is divided. on deputy groups, the voice faction is unlikely to be fully included in the coalition, well, unless the homeland, but if the homeland enters into a coalition with a servant, it will bury its own, well , the little trust of society that is still left, and even then this trust does not guarantee the re-election of the servant of the people party, oops, the motherland party in the parliament of the next convocation, but for... for example, for the union with the european solidarity will have to enter not just into the complex negotiations on the creation of a coalition, but european solidarity, which has a unique experience of creating coalitions, that is, then in the format of petro poroshenko's block in the previous convocation, here precisely european solidarity will twist the hands of the majority, well, that is, within the framework of the coalition, the servants of the people , that... will have

to give up the status of the youth party of the party of regions, the party of the servant of the people. very short question, i hope to get a very short answer, tonight is the first debate between kamala harris and donald trump. by the way, the spresso tv channel will broadcast these tv debates live. what do you expect from the first televised debate of the two candidates for the presidency of the united states of america? well, the fact is that kamala. haris has not participated in a similar format, in such debates, and this will be a new test for her. well, she has public experience of public policy, very good, she has experience of conducting cases in courts, so i hope that this will be a victory for her, this debate will be a victory. thank you, it was volodymyr tsibulko, political expert. thank you, mr. volodymyr, i would like to remind you that

during this broadcast of ours, we are conducting a survey. we are asking you about whether you believe that the cessation of hostilities will be real this fall, so let's look at the interim results of the poll: 16% yes, 84% no. after a 15-minute break, during which there will be bbc news, we will return to the studio, we will have iryna gerashchenko, yulia klymenko and elizaveta yasko, so stay with espresso, wait for us, we will definitely come to you with the broadcast. battle for pokrovsk, is the situation there really stabilized and whether ukraine managed to stop the advance of the russians in the direction of pokrovsk. we are talking about this on the bbc for the next 15 minutes. inna kosynska in the studio. the russian

offensive on pokrovsk has been stopped, ukrainian forces have successfully blocked the advance of russian troops on the city. this article was published by the american edition of the new york times. the fact that the ukrainian troops managed to stop the advance of the russians on pokrovsk was also stated by the commander-in-chief of zhu oleksandr sivskyi in a recent interview with cnn. however, according to the pentagon, the russian army is not stopping.