experienced a terrible war, in which, by the way, 20% of the territory was occupied, until now, russian troops are stationed there, and russian troops also killed, raped, destroyed settlements there, well, as they say, standard, unfortunately, the recruitment of a russian soldier, of the russian empire, so we will talk about this, i already announced today in the second part, but of course we ask you and we are interested in your opinion on this, because we... think about our country and we certainly try to anticipate even possibly hypothetical some processes that are possible, again well, in our country, so today we have a survey on whether a pro-russian revenge, similar to the georgian one, is possible in ukraine, if so, you can take your smartphones and phones, vote absolutely free of charge, call 0800 211 381, if not - 0800 211 382 , i remind you once again,

all your calls are absolutely free, at the end of this hour we will pick up intermediate summaries, at the end of the next hour we will see the final ones after our discussion with you, well, then let's move on to the guests, so we start as usual with the topic the situation on our front in terms of aspects, well , general trends, all this with vladyslav selezhnev, a military expert, a former member of the general staff, a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine. mr. vlad, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine. friends, good evening, glory to the heroes. good evening. i would like us to listen to a fragment of one of the last public speeches of the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, mr. budanov, who suggests that by the beginning of 2026, russia will think about the topic termination, at least. during the hot phase of the war with

ukraine, how does budanov motivate his opinion? we hear they predict that around the summer of the 25th year, the negative impact on the economy will begin to be very noticeable for their country. by the way, many processes are connected with this, which they are trying to speed up in their state now, in order to enter as much as possible into... this period, well, as they would like, they would like to end it with their victory, unfortunately for us it is not suitable, of course, the turn of the 25th, the beginning of the 26th, it is key for them, they want all this finish, because according to their own calculations , the russian federation, if they do not come out of this war as conditional winners, they are far away, let's say, the future that can be calculated is... a horizon of 30 years,

they fall out of the possibility of seeing in russia is a superpower, what they want. well, mr. vladyslav, taking into account such forecasts from kirill budanov, taking into account the current situation on the front lines, do you think this forecast is realistic? so, first of all, we have to understand the level of competence and awareness. the head of the military development of our country, well, it is obvious that general budanov has comprehensive and multi-level information about the plans of the enemy army and, in principle, the trend in which way the same enemy army is trying to implement these plans, already his statement in the part that concerns the general public, they are verified and, accordingly, have a very high weight, as for the capabilities of the russian invaders, they are to some extent limited by the resource capabilities of the russian federation, and here absolutely... noted general bohdanov,

russia seems to be such a powerful country with a powerful economy, but we can see that it is not dragging out the war, 2.5 years of a war of a certain scale, there are signs. i have to remind our audience of another statement by general bodan, he made it public at the beginning of august, then he said, it was august 7, that the enemy had resources left for 15-2 months of active combat. that is, in fact, in three months, three weeks before october 7, the enemy should run out of resources. and accordingly, we will see a kind of operational pause in the performance of the russian army, whether it happens or not, we we will see you all in the near future, but this factor is, in my opinion, very important, because you can dream about it all you want, but for the realization of this dream there must be adequate resources, and if the russian federation is already forced to believe and move forward around the world looking for artillery ammunition, including non-launch calibers, such as for the russian army. 130, for example, here

it is said that the russian defense industry, even transferred to the time of reiki, is not able to fully satisfy all the needs of the russian occupation forces. troops and president putin's new decree on increasing the size and limit of the russian army also shows that with the current composition of forces and means, the russian army does not carry out the same so-called special military operation, and therefore chmobyks are much needed on the battlefield moreover, this in turn increases the burden on the russian budget, and i am sure that the death toll of russian losses will only increase, mr. vladyslav, but ... putin's decree today, if i may simply remind our viewers that today vladimir putin, the so-called president of the russian federation, issued a decree to increase the number of the armed forces of the russian federation by 180,000 people, in particular, the russian army should now

amount to 2,389,130 ​​people, of which 1.5 million are military personnel, here is this decree, by the way , he... if i'm not mistaken, is the third since the full-scale invasion of the so- called svo, regarding the increase of actually russian armed forces, what do you think putin is doing this for, at least now, and how it might affect the war that russia is waging against ukraine? and colleagues, i think that we should go down from the strategic level to the tactical and operational-tactical level, what is currently happening at pokrovsky? in that direction, and the so-called infantry assaults are taking place there, when russian troops with the support of aviation and artillery try to attack our defensive lines and positions, the enemy's equipment is lacking, and here and now it is unrealistic to find the enemy's army, a sufficient number of armored vehicles, and what as for

personnel, there is still an option to find the same one on the territory of the russian federation personnel, of course, that the recruiting campaign is associated with an increase in financial profits in case of signing the response. of these contracts has a certain limit, but there is another very important and still not fully implemented case of supplying personnel to the russian army, russian insurers, we know that changes have been made to the national legislation of the russian federation, according to which conscription for temporary service is now takes place for citizens of the russian federation aged 18 to 30 , and therefore the number of those who can to call up for conscript military service, and through certain manipulations to send them into combat operations is increasing, most likely this increase in the limit size of the russian army will be the overwhelming majority precisely due to the increase of russian conscripts, who will be used, including during the conduct of hostilities within the framework of the so-called

special military operation. mr. vladyslav, a few words were said about the capabilities of the russian federation. now about our capabilities, president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky actually observes that... we have a problem with providing everything necessary for the conduct of hostilities, even four brigades out of 14, which we may need in order to carry out the relevant operations and tip these scales in our favor , in principle, talks about problems with the supply of weapons from our partners, but, as ihor lutsenko, ex-people's... deputy, now a military man, writes in particular, that is actually quite fast progress russians in the east of our country, and in general the problem of what they are pressing, lies not only in the lack of personnel among our military personnel, but also in the fact that

there is a banal lack of mines, and this is something that we should take care of ourselves, without waiting for any help from our partners, or can we say now that this about... problem is urgent and can we now talk about the possibility to fix it quickly? ms. khrystyna, you and i started our conversations with the fact that it is the resource factor that is decisive, often during our informational communications, within the framework of informational projects, we constantly came to the conclusion that it is the factor of resources that determines who will win in a battle, and therefore resources are not only artillery, but also ammunition for them, according to mortar systems. are decisive in the battle, but i would look at this issue much more broadly: the resource factor is not only weapons, ammunition for weapons, armored vehicles and other equipment, it is also trained, comprehensively provided, there was a motivated contribution, today there was another rate under

chaired by president volodymyr zelenskyi, during which the report was made by including the chief inspector of the military inspection of the ministry of defense of our country, admiral ihor voronchenko. i remember well that from the time of his service in crimea, he now takes care of issues of research into the activities of the ukrainian army, starting from the highest sabers and down to individual units, so here is the report. general voronchyk concerned the activities of our educational centers. unfortunately , despite the fact that ukraine has been in the midst of hostilities for more than 10 years, we still have many problems with the proper preparation of our military personnel, in particular citizens of ukraine, who are called within the framework of mobilization processes, there are serious problems, they are currently being investigated, the president has clearly defined the task of a designated military official to work on this case, because the question. training of personnel is key in the context of the fact that the current war

is a war of resources, in particular, so we must understand that when certain problems are highlighted in general, it means that the problems acquire such large-scale and threatening features that something must be done about it , including through public communication regarding these issues, and here i think that we have a lot of trouble, but i hope that a balanced decision will be made. starting from the level of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of general syrskyi and the relevant specialists who are responsible for the specified directions, the signs will eventually be given, the ukrainian army must transform, adapt to the conditions of the introduction of the fourth generation war, this is when modern techniques, technologies, unmanned platforms are increasingly used, and therefore we cannot fight with the patterns of the second world war world war, and we have to be as adapted as possible in order to win on the battlefield, and... mr. vladyslav, another important topic, and in principle, this is what is expected, as well

as our defenders, our armed forces, our forces of defense, and in principle, the whole country, this is a permission for our state to strike, to strike on enemy territory, actually with long-range missiles, in particular, some foreign media, of course, report on the fact that, in fact, such permission has already been granted to the united states. great britain, at least, possibly by missiles produced by great britain, in particular , reuters writes that the usa and britain have decided to allow the use of these missiles, but are not ready to announce it. on the other hand, we see that officials, in particular, representatives of the white house, in particular , some mass media say that no, there is no such permission yet, let's wait, sir. vladyslav, in your opinion, can such a permit really be, and will it be if it is not available today, and

probably the next question is how much it can change the battle map and help our defense forces, at least in some areas of the front, my phone has, well, two dozen, that's right, maybe even more monitoring resources that track certain regional news in ... corners of the russian federation, well mainly these are the regions that border our country, in order to learn directly from the first source about the consequences of that balloon, which is often densely arranged, or ukrainian missiles, or ukrainian drones. so i can say that over the past week , i have not seen news that it was ukrainian missiles that led to certain destruction and occupation on the territory of the russian federation, especially in those regions that are located at distances of more than 100 km from the state border line or from the line of combat clashes. if i even we have this permission to use the british storm shadow missiles, but most likely we

have not yet implemented it in practice. if there is no such permission, is there a chance for us to get it, we have indisputable and very reliable ones partners, the government of great britain, who are now actually working as the same headliners who are trying to hide the opposition of many world leaders to the granting of appropriate permits for the ukrainian defense forces. and here, as they say, the devil is in the details. on the one hand. a statement from the administration of joe biden, they say that there is no sense in granting such permissions, they say that the russian aviation has withdrawn its forces and assets at a distance of more than 300 km, thereby withdrawing its aviation component from the impact of ukrainian missiles, which we transferred by the western partners, and on the other hand, i understand the tactics and technical characteristics of the aviation equipment that is used to launch guided aerial bombs on our defenders, as well as on residents. of our border and near-front territories, the conclusion is as follows: our overseas

partners are lying, and it is very unfortunate, because when they try to avoid responsibility for granting the relevant permits in this way, it is at least not professional, it is not difficult for anyone to list the possibilities tactical and technical, tactical and technical characteristics of the aviation component in order to reach the same conclusion, and the fact that we need to combine missile and drone attacks in order to guarantee the destruction of ... aviation equipment in the places of basing, it seems to me obvious because now the biggest problem, the biggest trouble for ukrainian soldiers - this is exactly the guided aerial bombs. ihorok knows this and constantly uses this factor. over. about a hundred cabs are sent towards our defenders, recently from enemy cabs the residents of our chernihiv region began to suffer, there was no such thing before, and so it is obvious that the enemy is using this factor to the full, we are suffering losses, we constantly articulate the need for us to obtain appropriate means of countermeasures against military aviation to our western partners,

but the reverse positive signals that we still don't have, mr. vladyslav, are quite interesting and somewhat dramatic. events are taking place in kurshchyna, this is the type of counteroffensive of the russians, which, as we understand, is not being crowned with anything now, and the defense forces in this area the russian army is being demolished again, excuse me, and at the same time, the nine directions on which the russians are pressing, and great threats to the ugledar now, why am i emphasizing a little more on the ugledar, even though it is the cover of the squart. to mention, and areas of the front in other locations are revitalizing, but ugledar, you and i have met many times on the air and talked about the logistical importance of this settlement, and the logistical importance in the context of the crimea, which is still occupied by you and us, what you see around this location, what is the purpose of the enemy and what are the threats in

in the future, in the worst case scenario , the russians will take over the coal plant. the loss of sight means the loss of the ability of the ukrainian army to influence the key logistics highway, which passes through some railway stations in the south of the donetsk region, for example, and the provision of the same communication in this way along the northern coast of azov the sea vorok is understood by the injured. of the kerch region, kerch region bridge, and therefore they are trying to secure as much as possible the logistic routes and road-railways that go along the sea of ​​azov, and our loss of control over the owner will create very serious problems for us, here , by the way, you, ms. khrystyna, raise a very important issue, pay attention, all the emphasis now, in the whirlwind of hostilities, we are focused on the pokrovsky and kurakov directions, we

are carefully observing the processes that are taking place on the kupivskyi direction, of course. cheering for our soldiers who are holding on defensive lines and positions in the uglodar region, for our soldiers, we take those who perform a certain task in the territory of the kurt region, but for some reason we always have the zaporizhia direction behind the scenes, and meanwhile there is a russian group of troops there, it is called the dnipro, it is headed by colonel-general mykhailo teplinsky seems to be the most conscious officer among the russian generals, and there are 90,000, how fast, when exactly these... forces can come into motion, i would not start talking about the fact that they never do will move from the city, because for the last few months they have been in a static situation, because there is too great a risk that the enemy will try to change the situation precisely in the south of our country in this way, because putin's political vision is this, he must take control of all the newly annexed territories

of the russian federation, and there, among others, in addition to donetsk region and luhansk region, there is also kherson region. and the zaporizhzhia region of our country, and therefore it is precisely on holding the position in the volodar region that the dynamics of the multi-ball fight in principle depends on the entire south of our country, in particular in the south of the zaporizhzhia region, i believe. ugh, mr. vladyslav, one more short question that concerns the kharkiv direction, in particular for several, probably weeks in a row and in particular today, according to the deep state maps. we see that in fact the russian troops are trying, at least to move in the direction of kupyan, so in particular from pischannoy, but now i opened the maps, i am specifically looking at how much of a threat there is, whether they want to actually repeat what happened after the video game, there somewhere oh, if we are looking at the map, they are trying

to reproduce something similar, but will they succeed, well, i guess, if we are talking in general about... the kharkiv direction, which is now in the direction of vovchansk, what is the situation, and as for the nokupens direction, then in fact there very alarming news is coming from there, we are losing control over the zinkivka, and what is the synkivka, it is actually the keys to the kupinsky junction, the enemy continues to advance, mainly the unit operates there of the first guards tank army of the russian federation, it seems the most well-known, well, what is less well-known in the media is the union of forces. means, they have an advance and even an iron at the tactical level of 100, 200, 300 to 500 m for production, nevertheless, the trend is quite threatening, they are now trying to make a wedge in order to get... well, at least on one section of the front to the left bank of the oskil river, in this way, cutting off our defense around, and i think that under the current conditions the enemy

will be able to implement it, the only thing i hope for, why this may not happen, is the statement of general budanov that in three weeks the enemy must exhaust its offensive capabilities, as for the dynamics in the north in the kharkiv region, it is not abating there, even despite the fact that... the enemy has transferred a considerable amount of resources from that direction to the territory of the kurdish region, i know from insiders sources, that the settlement of shebekyna, this town, which is located in the direction of the training, is literally swarming, swarming with russian forces and means, all industrial buildings are filled with russian soldiers, russian armored vehicles, often fly there in large numbers, within the framework counter-battery barrage of artillery duels, our guns practice. artillery tasks with maximum efficiency, and enemy armored vehicles, enemy personnel directly on the territory of that settlement, as well as in its suburbs, is destroyed, but nevertheless,

the enemy has a lot of resources there, again, let's remember the quantitative composition of that group of sever, which is under the care of the general - colonel of the russian army lapin, from the beginning there were 70, somewhere around 2.75 000 personnel, and the left part of 55 was concentrated. precisely on the territory of the belgorod region, well , it is clear why the enemy tried to create a sanitary zone in the north of our kharkiv region. now some of those resources have been taken away, but nevertheless , it is still too early to talk about the complete depletion of the enemy's resources in this direction, that is, in fact , the conclusion is this: wherever you and i look at the map of hostilities, combat clashes are taking place everywhere, somewhere they are more intense , somewhat less, but nevertheless, three weeks, the next three weeks... should probably be decisive, because the enemy is operating at the limits of his opportunities, he understands that the window of the same opportunities is gradually closing for him, and therefore we have

to endure these three weeks, including thanks to the support of our western partners, well, this is already, as they say, the case of the president of our country, and diplomats and other officials of our government who cooperate in various formats with our foreign partners, because weapons and resources in general are a determining factor. on which the situation on the battlefield depends. thank you, mr. vladyslav, for your accents. vladyslav seleznyov, military expert, ex the spokesman of the general staff, the colonel of the armed forces of ukraine joined the new week on espresso. well, we take a step further and remind you that today we are conducting a survey on the possibility of revenge by russian pro-russian forces in ukraine after the war. and how does our vote sound: is a pro-russian revenge similar to the georgian one possible in ukraine? if so, please call 0800 211 381, if you think no, it is not possible, then 0800 211 382. all your calls will be

free and your opinion is invaluable to us. well, we will continue to talk about plans for victory, about plans for peace, formulas for peace and everything connected with this on the international track. ivanna klympush tsentsadze, people's deputy of ukraine, chairman of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine. on ukraine's integration into the european union, already live on the espresso tv channel. mrs. ivanna, we are glad to welcome you. good evening, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. mrs. ivano, in fact, i have already started talking about the victory plan, in particular, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, is talking about it. allegedly, he is about to be presented in the united states of america and to joe biden, kamala harris and... and mr. trump, well , in particular, we see that some insiders are already appearing, true, false - this is another matter, in the western to the press, in particular, bilt

allegedly published certain drafts, so to speak speaking of this plan, at the same time, the office of the president of ukraine emphasizes that it is a fake and that in fact no one has seen any of these points so far, in general... what do you think about such actions of the authorities, do we really need present such a plan now victory, will it be effective, and can there really be certain undercurrents, pitfalls, which ukrainians need to worry about? well, i think everyone would agree that we would definitely like to see a strategy as well. and a victory plan from the country's leadership and a real and adult and responsible dialogue of the country's leadership, precisely a dialogue, not

a constant monologue. on the part of the country's leadership in relation to ukrainian society, you and i understand that ukrainian society does not receive such information today, we periodically get some new pictures there once a quarter, which they draw for us and after that they, well, do not become reality, we are interested in it being an adult and serious conversation, and this adult and serious conversation, in my opinion, it also consists in the fact that... we should be internally mobilized both economically and politically and militarily and industrially, and at the moment we do not see such an internal mobilization as would be necessary, just as it would come from the state leadership, well, we hear promises about the fact that the victory plan will be presented to our international partners, obviously a key international partner,

and... well, i would like to believe that it is really some serious plan, a serious vision, yes, i don't just believe in a victory plan, but some a serious vision and some kind of interaction that could, as a result of mutual agreements there, lead to a change in the situation at the front and to a change in our opportunities to put pressure on the russian federation, this is for us fundamentally, can there be pitfalls? obviously, that can be pitfalls. you and i, unfortunately, know that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the ukrainian state, regardless of how the ukrainian society acted, and the ukrainian army conducted, well, some kind of terrible framework negotiations with the russian side, we will really learn about it from our international partners, and unfortunately we also hear about it from russian sources, i would like to

be very honest as well... a frank conversation about what happened there and from the side of the ukrainian authorities, but since we already have these are the reasons to doubt that, and how the ukrainian government will behave on behalf of ukrainian society, the ukrainian state, i would like to avoid any pitfalls, and i would like it to be something that corresponds to the national interests of ukraine, and it really was about victory, not about what... will be sold to the ukrainian society as a so-called victory. mrs. ivano, in general, here are these tracks from different countries, from the politicians of these countries, about settling the situation of the war with russia with ukraine. well, we are now we are talking about the information that is available from bilt. we can also mention donald trump, who interestingly uses the reversal of the settlement of war. well, that is interesting.

wording itself, i know president putin very well, i know president zelenskyi very well, and i think that this needs to be done, to settle the war, and we need to do it and do it with strength and wisdom, trump says in short address to the participants of the 20th annual meeting of the eu, this is a presidential candidate, let me remind you from the republican party, and he promises to take care of the settlement of the war, last monday we talked about scholz. beijing is generally offered, seen and so on. what kind of flurry of plans, settlements, wishes to bring this war to some punctuation mark as soon as possible, what could it be connected with? well, i think there are several components here, obviously what we're hearing from

the united states of america is part of the election. campaign, and you and i see that, unfortunately, our war with the russian federation is, in fact, the war of the russian federation against the civilized world, and ukraine is simply a pawn in this war, and it is now also the subject of many internal electoral processes taking place in various countries. in fact, this is what we saw in the elections, local, let me emphasize, local elections in... several regions of the same germany in thuringia and in saxony, and where the local, or rather, the devorical and left-radical parties just used, well, their attitude towards supporting ukraine, as the main pre-election argument in general, and here we see similar ones things that are happening today and within the framework of discussions regarding the platforms of this or that

candidate for... president in the united states of america. obviously we need to.