war and about our victory. let's talk today about the situation in kurshchyna. the russians have launched a counteroffensive, how will this counteroffensive of putin's army end, i hope we will find out today from our experts, who will analyze the situation that is developing not only in kurshchyna, but also in the world in general, and it is connected with the possibility or impossibility of ukraine to strike long-range western weapons against the russian federation. in the first part of our program , general serhiy kryvonos and my colleague, journalist roman tsimbalyuk, will be our guests worked in moscow for quite a long time and knows russian politics very well. in the second part of our program, which will start in an hour. we will have a traditional friday journalism club, and its guests will be larisa volushyna and kateryna nekrecha. and i hope that you will wait for the second

part of our program, dear friends, but before starting our big conversation, i suggest you watch the video of how ukraine returned another 49 soldiers and civilians from russian captivity, many of them for the first time, for many time 23 women, in particular it was possible to free another part of the defenders of azovstal, a tight video meeting of the heroes was presented by the coordination headquarters with... treatment of prisoners of war, let's see. son, do you hear?

home a few hours ago because we were attacked, we didn't even know where we were going, about 3 hours ago we got on the buses, we already understand that we are going home to our land. we will give our soul and body for our freedom and show that we are brothers of the cossack family. this is really a very insightful video. glory to the armed forces of ukraine and death to the russians to the occupiers friends! throughout our

broadcast, we are conducting a survey and today we ask you the following question: will the permission to kill deep into russia with western missiles bring ukraine closer to victory? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, either yes or no, if you have a separate opinion, please leave it in the comments below this video. if you're watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and vote by numbers if you think ukraine should be allowed to strike deep into russia with western missiles. himself will allow us to bring victory closer 0800 211 381 no 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 well and most importantly you can join our pages on different platforms, we are on all social networks, we are on youtube, we are on tiktok, we are in telegram, we are on instagram, you can see the full list of social networks where we

are present, join us, it's interesting with us, and we give the most prompt information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. i would like to introduce our first guest today, this serhii kryvonos, major general of the reserve, former first deputy commander of the special operations forces and former deputy secretary of the national security council. mr. general, i welcome you, thank you for being with us today. good evening, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. mr. general. let's start our conversation with the situation in kurshchyna. the pentagon confirms the beginning of a certain type of counteroffensive by the russians in the kursk region, but considers this offensive to be insignificant, said the spokesman of the united states department of defense, major general pat ryder. let's hear what ryder said. you know us saw that russian units began to try. conduct a certain type of counteroffensive

in kursk region. at this stage i would call these actions minor, but obviously we are monitoring what is happening there. well , president zelenskyi said that this russian counteroffensive in kursk oblast follows ukraine's plan, i am quoting literally, now let's listen to what he said. the russians have started counter-offensive actions, this is according to our ukrainian plan, that we have seen, seen for a long time, the clustering in belarus, we are monitoring this process. sir general, how do you rate now the situation in kurshchyna, after the americans and after the president, it is quite difficult to comment on certain words, but in the meantime, talking with those who are now in kurcheni from the armed forces, i will say that battles are going on

at the tactical level, i also said that the day before yesterday, that in certain areas, the enemy is trying to advance, probing our weak points and... er, wanting to use these weak points, this is his constant tactic, at the expense of tactical-level battles, to feel where we can then increase our efforts. well, as for these counteroffensive actions, what about the russians? can develop these counteroffensive actions and approach the date of october 1, as putin once said, that by october 1, kurshchyna should be freed from the armed forces. well, i'm more interested. not the russians’ offensive capabilities, they have them, i am more interested in our capabilities to counter the offensive desires of the russians, and first of all, what we have in terms of the number and quality of drones, in terms of the number of operators who control these drones of various levels, so that in a timely manner disrupt the enemy's intentions, plus artillery that

can hit the enemy at long range, plus a trained and motivated personnel in our military units, but... in the event that the armed forces of ukraine have to withdraw from the kursk region, probably sooner or later this will happen in some perspective, because it is clear that ukraine will not be there for long on the territory of kurshchyna, and in russia , there will always be more weapons, more people who will displace the armed forces of ukraine in the sumy region, which in this case, if we forecast, what will happen to the region... from which the ukrainians actually entered the territory of sumy ukraine oblast, will putin not want to turn this region into a sanitary zone, as they say? well , they have long wanted this and they have clearly set plans for the destruction of our border strip from the russian federation into

such a gray area, they will not stop and directly choose more brutal methods of destruction, both with buildings and directly. of this infrastructure, as well as people, this must be clearly understood, therefore precisely the active actions on the territory of the kurdish region of the weapons of ukraine delayed this moment, and perhaps they are also possible this moment regarding impunity russians also zelenskyi, forgive me for quoting zelenskyi so much, because he is commenting on the situation in korshchyna. oleksandr vsyrskyi is sufficiently succinctly and limitedly present in the mass media. zelenskyi says that the result of the operation in the kursk region was a decrease in the number of shelling in donbas, quoting the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine. in the last week , the situation in the pokrovsky direction has been leveling off a little bit, these are parallel things regarding the situation in ukraine or part of our operation on the territory of kursk

areas, these are related things. for example, we can see that the number of projectiles used in donbas in the same pokrovsk before the start of the kurdish operation was one to 12, today. it hasn't evened out yet, we still need more weapons than the russians, but based on your data and what your brothers who are in the pokrov direction say, is this true? well, i don’t know who writes reports to the president regarding military issues, you know, from the war, he is completely far from the war in terms of education and leadership experience, so he... read the texts, who wrote to him, this is the first, the second, which is directly related to the activity of the enemy in the territory of the donetsk region, then in other areas it has also become more active, and telling that in our pokrovsky direction, you have lowered your offensive russians, it must be remembered that in our

other areas the enemy has become sufficiently active, plus what our guys complain about is the absence of almost zero or... a very small number of shells for our artillery to counter the enemy, again, the question is that if we stopped there, then in other... areas the russians are building up, realizing that it is difficult enough for us with the required number of reserves, and even more, more difficult with the required number of firepower to attack the enemy, we must understand , that we still have many tasks ahead of us, which we are still not trying to solve at all, and those methods and methods of applying the same and unmanned aerial vehicles that the enemy is carrying out, this is what he learned from us and does it quickly enough, and the problem is in that we have a huge number the drone we use is very often purchased with public money at the expense

of subsidies, while the enemy has it on the basis of direct training by the state, plus the number of pilots that the enemy uses in its units is significantly more than a hundred, in greater numbers and in better quality quality than on our side, so we still have a lot to build up, first of all, with regard to the training of operators, quality training... tactics, plus we have a huge problem between the three, three power structures, the sbu, with the military and the armed forces, everyone boils in their own, you know, cauldron, and absolutely does not want to exchange information about weaknesses and strengths, pros and cons, this leads to the fact that everyone puffs up, talks about how cool he is, without talking about problem, it should have been summarized a long time ago. and working in a single direction, it has produced far better results than each going by

trial, error, and loss, and at the same time directly repeating the mistakes of his neighbors. mr. general, this is zelensky earlier stated that the operation on the territory of kurshchyna is one of the elements of ukraine's victory plan, saying that under the conditions when the armed forces are on the territory of the russian federation, it will allow ukraine to... carry out preparatory work regarding the changes in russia, or to force russia to enter into negotiations and give way to ukraine, under what conditions, in your opinion, can kurshchyna become the subject of negotiations with putin? now it is quite difficult to guess, first of all, no negotiations have started yet, and directly, how much we keep in the kursk, in the kurt region, the territory is one, how many of our territories can we lose. at the expense of russian offensive actions on the territory of donbass, it is completely different, so

you can plan, guess and dream about something only when you have four powerful factors within the state, this is the economy that fully provides for the needs of the armed forces, the economy is transferred to functioning in conditions of war state, we are actively preparing mobilization resources in the required quantity and high quality, namely people who know how to fight and to... study and provide well, the following, we have in fortification structures on the territory of ukraine and not just the formations themselves were worked out in a normal number and in the required quality, because as the experience of the last battles in the pokrov direction shows, there were also floodplains, but there was no one in the structures, so the enemy advanced quite calmly, because the number of people, that defended these structures was not that minimal, it was practically zero, therefore the fourth is directly active. interaction with our partners, who, er, criticize, understanding that at certain moments we

have big problems due to not quite professional activity, i say so mildly, of certain leaders of the middle state, they provide us with military and technical assistance, here are four things that could say something about confident behavior during negotiations with russia, and taking into account the fact that that we have not yet fully developed these elements, and so far i do not see such a steep growth in that... in these directions, the negotiations are not in favor of ukraine, and i would not really like to see us lose pokro pokrovsk and other cities, as they will be these negotiations were conducted and in what way certain ukrainians will clearly not like it, but it will all be closed by phrases, well, we stopped the war after all, and then one day we will return our lands, this is how it can be presented to us, therefore any... negotiations with the enemy at this stage, with the inactivity that we saw in previous years, it is just right, let every ukrainian explain

to himself, why did we pay such a terrible price with the number of dead ukrainians, the ukrainians fought bravely, but at certain moments, as for higher leadership, for some reason these factors were not taken into account and properly organized, among those reasons or among those conditions that... may be, regarding the future resolution of the russian -ukrainian war, zelenskyy calls the decision of our western partners regarding... the strikes of western weapons on the territory of the russian federation, this week was practically spent in discussions or in announcing that great britain will pass resolutions or has already passed a decision regarding its stormshadow missiles, they are talking about atakams, which can be provided to ukraine for strikes on the territory

of the russian federation, president zelensky during a joint press conference with with his colleague gitanes nauseda said that the lifting of restrictions on the use of western weapons against russia should be part of a victory strategy, and not a purely political decision. let's listen to what zelensky said. to remove restrictions is to remove restrictions. and if it is proposed, or will be proposed, let's see the removal of the restriction on the corresponding range, to which the enemy has already... advanced his military objectives, as i said, then it is exclusively a political decision in order to remove the pressure from partners, other countries, and from ukraine, and from journalists on the countries that

have to make this decision. mr. general, in your opinion, under what conditions can our... western partners give such permission to use their weapons with strikes on the territory of the russian federation? well, the question is the timeliness and expediency of carrying out these strikes, while we are discussing, deciding, persuading, during this time the russians absolutely calmly and purposefully moved the objects that could be hit directly with these missiles, let me remind you... so we have up to 300 km with the best options, and the shadow storm with the best options is 560 km with the best option, and during this time both the planes have been moved and the necessary objects have been moved, so the question it turns out that while we are talking, we have a huge number of tasks, that a hundred defeats of russian factories, enterprises that produce weapons,

process and transport oil to a much greater depth, then it will be much more effective, because we can count on the number of missiles that we provides our partners, firstly, this is not such a large number of missiles, secondly, unfortunately, there are more than enough facilities on the territory of the russian federation, and while we are discussing them, the enemy is doing everything possible to protect these facilities, or move them to such distances where we will not be able to reach them, therefore, having our own powerful capabilities, as far as uavs are concerned, our task... to build up while our partners make some decisions, we hope for help, and we act on it ourselves. already in the kremlin , they are talking about the fact that any decision that will be taken, a positive decision on strikes western long-range weapons on the territory of the russian federation, they have an answer, and what

they say is that this war will already be nato and the western world with russia, although putin has always... talked about the fact that in ukraine he is fighting against nato, although he fought against ukraine, but constantly repeated that we are fighting against nato, and he spoke about this in his audience, the russian audience, what is in the arsenal of the russian federation, apart from nuclear weapons, that could be threatening to ukraine? the question is that putin mobilized powerfully enough a certain number of enterprises. and europe and other countries have not pressed russia as far as powerful counter-sanctions are concerned, and russia has learned to circumvent them, and now europe is faced with the fact that the amount of weapons that they have accumulated at such a pace of hostilities, germany calculates that they have enough ammunition there for two weeks, the netherlands calculates that they

have enough there for two days, and europe is now, i'm sorry, in shock, i'm not saying anymore. about the production of gunpowder was frozen in france 2007, and now in order to increase the issue of projectile production, it is necessary to launch it, but you say, mr. general, that our western partners are trying to think about their interests in this situation, it is clear that they also need to increase the military industrial complex and the production of weapons , but putin is building up not only his own military-industrial complex, but also using the military-industrial complex. iran, north korea, iran has provided russia with 220 ballistic missiles that fly at a distance of up to 120 km. kilometers, but apparently they have other missiles, today shaygu went to north korea, apparently too agreed that north korean missiles should also enter russia and be, and

can be used in the war against ukraine, that is, this axis of evil, which includes russia, belarus, iran, syria, china and north korea, in this situation, are showing more flexibility and... more opportunities to form this defense order for putin, in case the war in ukraine is suspended or frozen until a certain point, or the evil visage refuses this cooperation and use of all capabilities in order to fight against, well against conventional civilization, anti-civilization of anti-civilization, they will definitely not stop, just er... even freezing the war can lead to the fact that they will earn bonuses in their own eyes and in the hands of their own propaganda and will serve it as a super

cool victory, so you have to understand that negotiations, ceasefire, capitulation, all this is absolutely not in favor of ukraine, because it simply prolongs the time, let's say, the enemy's ability to attack ukraine more powerfully, why... mr. general, our western are the partners dragging their feet, dragging out all the issues, do they incline ukraine to negotiations with russia? well, it is difficult to say now, because now the politicians are in such a state, especially with regard to western politicians, they are in such a state that they are afraid to make any decisions, well, i will not say that our strategic partners will become more active in decision-making , first of all, this is great britain, and i am grateful to them for ... a clear position in the war on the side of ukraine against russia, as for the americans, they are more busy own problems, and it is not very popular now to

even raise the issue of ukraine during the presidential race , and neither the existing administration nor the future administration will make any decisions now, in order not to lose, not to lose certain bonuses in favor of their, let's say, that person , which can be... a competitor in this race, as for europe, well , i say once again that europe due to the constant pressure of russia in the information space and the powerful fifth column that russia has formed over the past 20 years in europe in the political society, achieves certain priority goals that benefit russia, but we, being completely deaf and dumb in the information space, do not raise this issue, do not... shed light on who and how acts in favor of the russian federation, western politicians, because we think that this is not very correct, but from my side, during the war, any rules, when the enemy brazenly attacks,

destroys our children, our wives, our fathers and mothers, there can be no principles here, here the principle tadin, any russian must be killed, any plant in of russia must be destroyed, every city and village must be burned, precisely the destruction of the russian federation. as a state will lead to the fact that our children and grandchildren can grow up calmly and ukraine can calmly recover. mr. serhiy, thank you for participating in the program, this was serhiy kryvonos, major general of the reserve. friends, we continue to work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live on these platforms, please subscribe to our pages, at screen, you now see the entire list of social networks where we are present. well , take part in our survey, today we ask you about this: will the permission to strike deep into russia with western missiles bring ukraine closer to victory? yes, no, everything is quite simple on youtube, either yes or no, if you have

a separate opinion, please leave it in the comments below this video. if you're watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or phone and call the numbers if you think that allowing western missiles to strike deep into russia will bring us closer to victory. 0.800 2 11 381 no (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 my colleague, journalist, former vlasko runyan in moscow, roman tsimbalyuk. roman, i congratulate you, thank you for being with us today. sergey, glad to see you. i will tell our viewers right away that roman tsymbalyuk is one of the... bloggers, millionaires, that is, by followers, by the number of followers, 1,250,000 viewers, roman

tsymbalyuk has followers, if you, dear friends. not yet with roman tsimbalyuk on youtube, then join his page for operational comments from roman tsimbalyuk, well, i hope that today there will be operational comments from roman for the espresso tv channel. so, let's start with the diplomatic war that moscow is starting against british diplomats, well, obviously, and not only against british diplomats, moscow has already accused six employees of the british embassy of... espionage, allegedly showing signs of intelligence-subversive work in them, as reported referring to the fsb, the representative of the russian foreign ministry, maria zakharova, accused the british embassy in moscow of subversive actions, i quote zakharova. we fully share the statements made by the fsb of russia and the assessment of the activities of the british diplomats. the british embassy went far beyond the boundaries outlined by

the vienna conves. but the most important thing is that it is not only about the formal side of the issue and the inconsistency of the declared activity, but about subversive actions aimed at harming our people. zakharova is fair in her pubes, about justice, about the vienna conventions and about everything else. so, as evidenced by this diplomatic war, it means that the british will be first, then there will be americans, then there will be. then there will be germans, well , potential members of the future coalition, which can give us the weapons that will fly to moscow, so here zakharova needs to correct sergiya, because she wrote to our people, but the population will be correct after all, not one and the same, the difference is very, very important, you know, a noted diplomat uses

passports, and that's... the worst thing that can happen in this situation, a person gets on a plane, and through istanbul will fly home to cloudy, cloudy london and then change the embassy and work in another country accordingly, so there is no tragedy for diplomats in this case, here you know, i would look at it differently, this is what happens , so the next thing comes out, the british say... take missiles, kill russian soldiers, and this is kind of a terrible answer, well, if this is all that the russian federation is capable of, well, to some extent it is too, evidence of the current situation and in international ones relations and in general, that's why it's still important here , as far as i'm concerned, in terms of missiles, they found out with the diplomats, everything will be fine with them,

and... the english language will be there anyway who needs it, well, the only thing is that putin's they will learn, they already speak chinese. the issue with missiles, we don't need announcements that we allow or anything else, we want in the morning, or it is possible to wake up during the day and read that an important military object on the territory of russia was destroyed. first of all , of course, we are talking about airfields. and launchers that enrich the lords with ishanders, that's what we have you need someone in this situation, well, a diplomat is like that, masha, she has such a job, she doesn't burst with anger, but this week vyacheslav volodin and dmitry piskov, who commented on what seems to be a fait accompli, were bursting with anger this week , that great britain has given permission to...