hand your smartphone or phone and vote for the numbers, if you think that her permission to ukraine to strike deep into russia with western missiles will bring us closer to victory 0.800 211 381, no 0800 211 382 all calls to these numbers are free, vote, at the end of the program we will match we have the results of this vote, 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 on telegram, we are on instagram, you can see the full list of social networks where we are present, join, 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 today's first guest, serhii kryvonos, major general of the reserves, former first deputy commander of the special operations forces. and former deputy

secretary of the national security council. mr. general, i congratulate you and 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 insignificant, said the spokesman of the united states department of defense, major general pat ryder. let's hear what ryder said. you know, we have seen that russian units have begun to try to conduct a certain type of counteroffensive in the kurdish region. at this stage, i would call these activities minor, but obviously we are watching what is happening there. well, president zelenskyi said that this russian counteroffensive in... the region is going according to plan

ukraine, i am a literal quote, now let's listen to what he said. the russians have started counter-offensive actions, this is according to our ukrainian plan, we have seen the clustering in belarus, we have seen it for a long time, we control this process. mr. general, how do you assess the situation in korshchyna now? after the americans and after the president, it is quite difficult to comment on certain words, but in the meantime, talking to those who are currently in the armed forces, i will say that battles are going on at the tactical level, i also said the day before yesterday that in certain areas the enemy is trying attack, probing our weak points and wanting to exploit these weak points, this is his constant tactic, at the expense of such a combative level

, to probe where you can then increase your efforts. well, regarding these counteroffensive actions, to what extent can the russians 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 in the russians' offensive weaknesses, they have them. i'm more interested in our offensive capabilities. by the wishes of the russians, 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 in order to timely thwart the enemy's intentions, plus artillery that can hit the enemy at long range, plus 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, i guess... sooner or later it

will happen in some perspective, so that it is clear that ukraine will not be on the territory of kurshchyna, and in russia, for a long time 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 ukraine, the sumy region, will putin not want to transform.. . this region in a sanitary zone, as they say? well, they have long wanted this and they have clearly set plans to destroy our border strip from the russian federation into such a gray area, they will not stop and choose directly the most brutal methods the destruction, both of buildings, and directly of the entire infrastructure, as well as of people, this must be clearly understood, that is why the active actions in... the territory of the kurdish region of the armed

forces of ukraine have delayed this moment, and perhaps they are also possible this moment regarding the impunity of the russians . also zelensky, forgive me what i will quote. so much zelensky, because he comments on the situation in kurshchyna, oleksandr firskyi is quite succinctly and limitedly present in the mass media, zelenskyi says that the result of the operation in the kursk region was a decrease number of shelling in donbass, i will quote the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine: the situation in the pokrovsky direction has been leveling off a little bit over the last week, these are parallel things to the situation in ukraine, or part of our operation on the territory of the kursk region. these are related things, for example, we can see that the use of the number of shells in donbas, in the same pokrovsk before the start of the kurdish operation was one to 12, today it is one to 2.5, it has not leveled off yet, we still need more weapons than to the russians, or

based on your data and what those of your brothers who are in the pokrovsky direction say, does this correspond to reality? well, i don't know who writes reports to the president regarding military issues, you see, he is completely far from war in terms of education and leadership experience, so he confidently reads those texts who write to him, this is the first, the second, which is directly related , the activity of the enemy in the territory of the donetsk region, then in other areas it also became more active, and telling that in our pokrovsky direction, the degrees were reduced offensive of the 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 will build up, realizing that it is difficult enough for us with the required number of reserves and... even more, more difficult with the required amount of fire means to destroy the enemy, we need to understand what we there are still many tasks ahead, 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 carries out, this is what he learned from us and he does it quickly enough, and the problem is that we have a huge amount of firewood that we use is very often bought with public money through subsidies, then in... the enemy it is based on direct training by the state, plus the number of pilots that the enemy uses subdivisions in the greater part of the century more in better quality than on our side, so we still have a lot

to build up, first of all, as regards the training of operators, high-quality training of operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of various levels and skillful use of these tactics, plus we have it.. . there is a serious problem between the three forces: the sbu, gur and the armed forces, each of them is boiling in their own, you know, cauldron and absolutely does not want to exchange information about the weak ones. and strengths, pluses and minuses, this leads to the fact that everyone the puffer talks about how cool he is without talking about the problem. it would have been long ago to summarize all this and work in the direction we are going. this produced significantly better results than everyone going down the path of error testing. and losses, and at the same time directly repeating the mistakes of their neighbors. mr. general, zelenskyi previously 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, this will allow ukraine to conduct preparatory work for negotiations with russia, or to force russia. enter into negotiations and concede 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 territory we hold in the kurdish region, in the kurdish region, is one thing, how much territory we can lose due to russian offensive actions in the territory of donbas, is quite another , so plan. and you can only dream about something when you have four powerful factors inside the state: the economy fully provides for the needs of the armed forces, the economy is transferred to functioning in the conditions of martial law, we are actively preparing

mobilization resources in the required quantity and high quality, namely people who know how to fight and they are well taught and well provided for, we have the following in normal quantity and in the required quality worked out... pokrovsky the direction and the buildings were there, but there was no one in the buildings, so the enemy was sufficiently... calmly moving forward, because the number of people defending these buildings was not that minimal, it was practically zero, therefore the fourth is direct active interaction with our partners, who , understanding that at certain moments we have big problems due to not quite professional activities, i say so mildly, certain leaders of the average state, provide us with military and technical help, here are four things that could say something as for... a certain behavior during the negotiations with russia, and taking into account the fact that these elements have not yet been

fully worked out in our country, and so far i do not see such a sharp growth in these directions, the negotiations may not be in favor of ukraine , and i would not really like for us to lose pokrovsk and other cities, because how these negotiations will be conducted and in what way certain ukrainians clearly do not... like it, but it will all be closed phrase: well, we still stopped the war, 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, is just right, let every ukrainian explain to himself, and why did we then pay such a terrible price with the number of our dead ukrainians, ukrainians fought bravely, but in certain moments, as for the above... leadership, for some reason these factors were not taken into account and properly organized? among those

reasons or among those conditions that may exist, regarding the future resolution of the russian -ukrainian war, zelenskyi names the solution our western partners regarding strikes by western weapons on the territory of the russian federation, this week was practically spent in discussion. or in the announcement that the great britain will adopt or has already adopted 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. during a joint press conference with his lithuanian colleague gitanys nauseda, president zelenskyi said that the lifting of restrictions on the use of protection. but he has weapons against russia be part of a winning strategy, not a purely political decision. let's listen to what

zelensky said. removing restrictions means removing restrictions. and if it is proposed, or will be proposed, let's see, the lifting of the restriction on the corresponding range to which the enemy has already applied his military objectives, as i said, then it is then. exclusively a political decision in order to remove the pressure from partners of other countries, and from ukraine, and from journalists on countries that have made this decision. mr. general, in your opinion, under what conditions can our western partners give such permission to use their weapons with strikes on russian territory. well, the question is the timeliness and expediency of these

strikes, while we are discussing, deciding, persuading, during this time the russians absolutely calmly and purposefully moved the objects that can be hit directly by these missiles, let me remind you that our attacks are up to 300 km away in the best options, and the storm shadow in the best options is 500... 60 km in the best option, and during this time the planes moved, and required objects moved, therefore, the question is that while we are talking, we have a huge number of tasks, which is to destroy russian factories, enterprises that produce weapons, that process, transport oil to a much greater depth, then it will be much more effective, because we hope for the number of missiles that our partners provide us, firstly... it 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 maximum to protect these objects, 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 is to build up while our partners are making some decisions, we hope for... already in the kremlin they are talking about the fact that for any decision, which a positive decision will be made regarding the western strikes. cuban weapons on the territory of the russian federation, they have an answer, and what they say is that this war will be nato from the western world with russia, although putin has always said that in ukraine he is fighting against nato, although he fought against ukraine, but he constantly repeated that we are fighting against nato, and he spoke about this in his audience

to the russian audience, what is in the arsenal of the russian federation in addition to nuclear weapons? what can be threatening for ukraine? the issue is that putin has mobilized a certain number of enterprises powerfully enough, 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 had accumulated, at such rates conducting hostilities, germany. that they have enough ammunition there for two weeks, the netherlands reckons that they have enough there for two days, and europe is now, i’m sorry, in shock, i’m not talking about france , the production of gunpowder has been frozen since 2007 , and now to increase the production of projectiles, then many processes need to be launched, and europe is not ready, and they will now look for certain ways to stop

this war and directly their price is ukraine absolutely. but it doesn't matter, they are interested in their own geopolitical interests, for us it is necessary to understand that we still have enough reserve resources, the government does not use all our capabilities, does not work directly on the preparation of our reserves, does not work to the full extent of our economic capabilities, therefore, regardless of what nato countries will do, we need to increase own capabilities, and then it will have an effect, we can strike with drones, so let’s give currents... drones to increase and increase their quality, because any drone, whatever we released, after 3 months, if it cannot be modernized, the russians are finding countermeasures to these drones, and it must also be understood that the issue here is not only the number of drones, but their capacity for deep modernization, but you say, mr. general, that our western

partners are trying to think about their interests in this situation , it is clear that they need to... also build up the military industrial complex and the production of weapons, but putin is building up not only his own military-industrial complex, but also uses the military industrial complex of iran, north korea, and iran provided russia with 220 ballistic missiles that fly at a distance of up to 120 km, but apparently they have other missiles, today shaigu went to north korea, apparently also negotiated. about the fact 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, is revealed more flexibility and more opportunities

to shape this defense order for putin in the event that... if the war in ukraine is suspended or frozen until a certain point, or refuse everything the evils of this cooperation and the use of all powers in order to fight against, well, against conventional civilization, anti-civilization against civilization, they will definitely not stop, precisely even the freezing of war can lead to the fact that they are in their own eyes and hands. of their own propaganda will earn themselves bonuses and will present it as a super cool victory, so it is necessary to understand that negotiations, a ceasefire, capitulation, all this is absolutely not in favor of ukraine, because it simply prolongs time, let's say, the enemy's ability to attack ukraine more powerfully. why, mr. general, are our western

partners so dragging, dragging out all the issues, 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 americans, they are busier . own problems and it is not very popular to raise the issue of ukraine during the presidential race, and not the existing administration, not the future administration. will not make any decisions in order not to lose, not to lose certain bonuses in favor of his, let's say, that person who can be a competitor in this

race, as far as europe is concerned, well, i say once again that europe, due to the constant pressure of russia in information space and a powerful fifth column, which russia formed for the last 20 years in europe, in political society, it reaches. certain priority goals that play in favor of russia, we, being completely deaf and dumb in information, simply do not raise this issue, do not highlight who and how western politicians act in favor of the russian federation, because we consider 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 are no principles here to be here the principle of tadin: any russians must be killed, every factory in russia must be destroyed, every city and village must be burned, only the destruction of the russian federation as a state

will lead to the fact that our children and grandchildren can grow up peacefully and ukraine can calmly recover. mr. serhiy, thank you for participating in the program, it was serhiy krivonos, major general of the reserve. friends, we continue to work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube platforms. and on facebook, for those who are currently watching us live on these platforms, either please subscribe to our pages, on the screen you can now see the entire list of social networks where we are present, and take part in our survey, today we ask you about the following: will the permission to hit the depths of 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 are watching us on tv, pick up your smartphone or... your phone and call the numbers if you think permission to beat deep into russia western rockets will bring our 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. next, we will be in touch with my colleague, journalist, former vlasko runyan in moscow, roman. tsymbalyuk roman, i congratulate you. thank you for being with us today. sergey, glad to see you. i will immediately tell our viewers that roman tsymbalyuk is one of the millionaire bloggers, that is, by subscribers, by the number of subscribers. roman has 1,250,000 viewers and subscribers tsimbalyuk if you, dear friends, are not yet with roman tsimbalyuk on youtube, then join his page for prompt comments from. roman tsimbalyuk, well, i hope that there will be operational comments from roman for the espresso tv channel today. so, let's start with the diplomatic war that

moscow is starting against british diplomats, well , obviously, and not only against diplomats, british diplomats, moscow has already accused six employees of the british embassy of espionage, saying that they had signs of intelligence and sabotage work, - reports taz with reference 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 completely agree with the statements made by the fsb of russia and the assessment of the activities of the british, as it were, diplomats. the british embassy has gone far beyond the boundaries outlined by the vienna conventions, but the most important thing is that it is not only about the formal side of the issue and the inconsistency of the declared one. activities, but about subversive actions aimed at harming our people. fair in the pubes zakharova, about justice, about the vienna conventions and about

everything else. so, what does this diplomatic war show. that means the british will be first, then the americans, then the french, then the germans. well, potential members of the future coalition, which can give us those...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, it is not one and the same , the difference is very, very important, you know, a diplomat is inclined to use passports, and the worst part is, what can happen in this situation, a person will get on a plane and fly home via istanbul to... to cloudy, cloudy london and then change the embassy and work in another country accordingly, so

there is no tragedy for diplomats here in... in any case, here, you know, i would look at it differently, this is what comes out, so the following thing comes out: the british say, take rockets, kill russian soldiers, and it seems like such a terrible thing the answer is, well, if this is all that the russian federation is capable of, then so be it well, to some extent this is also evidence of the current situation in and... international relations and in general, so it is still important here, as far as i am concerned, in terms of missiles, we found out with diplomats, everything will be fine with them, and the english language and so it will be there, who needs it, but the only thing that putin will be taught, they are already telling china, the issue with missiles, we don't need announcements that we allow or anything else, we want in the morning, and maybe in

the day.. . wake up and to read about the fact that an important military object on the territory of russia was destroyed, in the first place we are talking about of course, about the airfields and launchers that mr. iskanders are barking at, that's what we need in this situation, well, a diplomat is like that, masha, she's not that kind of job, she won't burst out of anger, but vyacheslav volodin burst out of anger this week. piskov, who commented on what seems to be a fait accompli, that great britain gave permission for stormshed strikes against ukrainians on the territory of the russian federation. apparently, after piskov and volodin were at the warm-up, putin came out and said that in general this leads to war with nato. then the question is, what have they

been telling the russians for the past 2.5 years that they are... on the territory of ukraine fighting with the nazis, it turns out that they were lying until now, and now they are seriously talking about the fact that the alliance may enter into a war with the russian federation or russia into a war with the alliance, but let's listen to putin himself, because this is also an example of such, i would say, political schizophrenia, because after all should be shown to our tv'. of the united states and european countries in the war in ukraine, this is their direct participation, and that's it significantly changes the very essence, the nature of the conflict, it will mean that the nato countries, the usa, and

european countries are at war with and if this is so, it means a change in the essence of the conflict, we will make appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us, roman, i cannot understand when british, american or german tanks, armored vehicles drive around the kursk region, this is a member of the north atlantic alliance? against russia, or what is happening in kurshchyna is already rejected by putin, and it is only about weapons long-range, and he says that we will, that means, if the essence of the conflict will change, we will make appropriate decisions, based on the threats that will pose to us, what, what he says, and how to explain it all, well, in fact, he is just reaching for a nuclear bomb now, but it is reaching very carefully and does not use it... this is

the conjunction nuclear weapon, because it has already got a little bit of all of them and, as they say, from red to red these lines have grown, i don’t know, there is a little more red viburnum on these red lines and it will actually grow, here and there actually, everything is interesting, including vladimir putin's facial expressions and motor skills, this video is very, very revealing, even where he shoots and shoots. it is being filmed, if you noticed, it seems to be on the street, but on top of the house, that is, in this way they always think about saving the life of this maniac, and this is also such an interesting sign, i generally want to say the following, that , what you called the russian federation, western weapons

use there... non-stop, that's what's needed.