will talk, what can we and our western partners oppose to this? we have to understand that we talk a lot there that putin does not want to mobilize, that is a fact, now, but if he does, it will be such a mini-catastrophe that we, to which we will have to respond, and with the pace of mobilization that we have, we are, so to speak, forcefully reacting to the fact that putin is just now recruiting people there for 30-40 00 a month, who, what there for money, and we somehow oppose them there , and then they push us somewhere, if they mobilize, then it will be necessary to have some measures, measures in order to counteract this somehow, well, in a mirror, i think there will be completely different rules later, because really, really, well, if he says there, let's give another 300,000, then eh, this will be serious... for our country and for

our government, for our command, in order to be able to oppose something, what about putin, why is he doing this, i think, here we are, we also have limitations of the army, it was there in 2005, if i am not mistaken as a regular army, 215 or 216 of them are conscripts, we are mobilizing, we don't need to be killed. to decide by law by law or by decree the number of forces, the number of military personnel, putin is on the contrary, he is conducting a special military operation, he has a mobilization of 300,000 there, and he needs to increase this army so that they can finance it including that, so i think , this is a technical solution first of all, well, it shows that they are ready to increase their army in the future and for that, well, they... have already made a decision,

they will restore the lingrad military district there, they will be there on the borders with finland, it will be deployed there by other directions, so we have to understand that he is increasing the army and we will need it for this react, and it increases both technically and realistically, the legislation adapts to it. mr. colonel, during the last week there have been many discussions and expectations regarding the possible decision of our western partners about the weapons that we... could use on the territory of russia federation, and there was a meeting between the secretary of state of the united states of america and the foreign minister of great britain with our officials last week, then there was a meeting between the president of the united states of america biden and the prime minister of great britain keir starmer, but no decision has been made yet by either britain or united states. america did not

approve, and as the times writes, britain will not allow ukraine to strike the territory of the russian federation without the consent of the united states of america, although last week the guardian wrote that it seems that the decision about storm shadow has already been made, does the lack of information about this decision mean that this decision can be made already or will be made public after... stormshadows, for example, fly over the territory of the russian federation? well, it is logical, it was like that before, all the time, i am also sure that this decision will be made, just now delaying this decision is a grenade, well, in favor of the russian federation, because russia also understands that, i think, to its agency channels, and in general, that this decision will be made, it gives the possibility, and we know it, is to move those targets that they have in the range of 300 km there, and ... a storm of sheds and attacks

to move them further to the rear in order not to make an impression, and these are, well, i don't know, they're shooting themselves in the foot, you give permission, you delay, then the russians clean up, as if to prevent escalation, it's a bad story, but i'm sure that there will be a solution, well, at least we'll make it so that they couldn't tighten up, there are of course things that will be difficult for them to translate, some syllables from ammunition, there are some uh... aircraft depots, but the main thing is that there is modern equipment there, some enterprises there, serious aircraft, they will really relocate and fly to other directions, or protect what they have now, and once again , i think they know that it will be done and are working now, there is information on how to remove all this from the reach zone, thank you, colonel, for the conversation, it was roman kostenko, colonel of the security service

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take care of himself. for our viewers, they may have missed that this attempt was being prepared, was being prepared, well, they are identifying it, at least, as an attempt that happened. an ak47 machine gun with an optical sight, two backpacks and a gopro camera were found on the territory of a golf club in florida, near where trump, a candidate for the presidency of the united states of america, was. the american and international media recognized ryan wesley rout, who fervently supported ukraine in the war with russia, to everyone. came to kyiv and tried to get into the international legion, mr. oleksandr, in this... this story, what seems strange to you is that rayyan was in ukraine and used an ak-47 with an optical sight here, and something like that or otherwise , the ukrainian topic, or what topic they

are trying to tie to ukraine with this attempt, how does it look to you, does it look strange, well, first of all, ukraine has become domestically political. factor of the usa since the 16th year, and then the russian special services did a good job of tying some ukrainian oligarchs, as if they supported hilary clinton, and that we hacked into the servers of the national democratic commission and the republican one, but for some reason only democratic documents were made public and so on, of course, that trumpians, supporters... have something to base their mistrust of ukraine, his occasional hatred of ukraine, it is clear that this person is definitely not an agent of the main directorate of intelligence or any other special services, and there was already a refutation of the international legion by the fact that

they have nothing to do with this person, by the way, there was an interview with this person sometime in june, and it was actually you. that he has mental problems and that he is very often bewitched and is not able to do anything serious in support of ukraine, but such a person, our struggle was close to him and he tried to at least verbally support the fact that now the trumpians will use it, since ukraine is such a whipping boy, it's perfectly understandable that some, including those accused of connection. yes zrasha today they are already talking about that it is necessary to investigate the ukrainian merger and probably ukrainians simply hate trump and therefore, let's say, planned this operation, it is clear that all this is delusional, but of course that it is unpleasant, this is the situation in the media in

social media, in relation to ukraine. of course, this all looks very strange, especially after the second debate, or rather the first dep... with the democratic candidate and especially after this joke that actually targeted trump for saying that haytya. then this attempt, of course, that now all the media are talking about it, and most importantly, that trumpians

accuse the democrats in this, you know, goebbelsian way, they say, they have once again carried out the trump coup, that is, there is still some center run by the democrats, sending these assassins to kill the candidate who is supposed to bring greatness and good to america, that's the point . mr. alexander, there was a meeting, well, actually, not on the same day, but two days earlier, the meeting of the president of the united states of america and the prime minister of great britain, keir starmer, this meeting was expected and it was expected that at this very meeting it has been decided, or at least clarified, whether our western partners will allow their weapons to be used on the territory of the russian federation. the spokesman of the state department, matthew miller, said that so far the united

states of america and great britain are not ready to announce the lifting of restrictions on strikes by the armed forces of ukraine, although judging by what happened before, literally 10 days of such informational preparation that at least the uk can lift the restrictions on storchodow kicks. on the territory of the russian federation, the guardian wrote about it, and this information was actively discussed in the british press, it was and was hinted at that at least, if not the americans, then the british would agree to it, the only thing, i understand, is that without the consent of their partners from the united states of america, the british will not wanted to give such consent, you did not have the feeling that... at this meeting this question in this question, well, at least in one

part regarding british arms, there should have been a full stop and the announcement of the results of this meeting was expected to be announced on this particular note, well, i would say that there was also an article in the british press, where five former british defense ministers and the former prime minister boris johnson called on the current prime minister to remove such a restriction, because... they are ridiculous, of course, that it harms ukraine above all, protects ukraine's enemies. but i think that most likely we will hear about a decision being made during the visit of the president of ukraine, it is clear that there are certain political, let's say, moments for doing it in this way, and not just shouting, i think that after all they are will do it, and most likely it will be a gradual one, you know, they like to talk about escalation, first without, uh, broad

permission, we will use british and french systems, and then later the americans will still come and give permission to use attackcoms , when i saw that the russians didn't hold back on this so-called escalation, so i think it all depends on that, and i hope that as long as joseph biden is in office and... and his team, including jack sullivan, they all they will take a closer look at their approaches to the russian one federation, before this war, will understand, as the british understood long ago, that there are empty threats from the russian federation, it is not capable of escalation, which they, let's say, would like to avoid, and that it is necessary to bet on the rest rest on ukraine and help ukraine to fight better with western weapons and without... any absolutely senseless restrictions. you have already mentioned the visit of the president

of ukraine to the united states of america. on september 25, the session of the un general assembly begins there. and precisely within the framework of this un general assembly, zelensky hopes to meet with biden and present him with a plan to win. and as zelensky says, this victory plan is already more than 90% ready. so far, zelenskyi is speaking rather sparingly about what this plan will be, but let's listen to what he said in yesterday's video message. to the ukrainians, in various formats of the meeting on the preparation of our ukrainian victory plan, the actual filling of all points, military filling, political, diplomatic, economic, more than 90% of everything is written out, and in the complex this package can provide

correct development of the situation not only for ukraine, but also for everyone in the world who appreciates it. international law, mr. oleksandr, from the information that is in the public space and about what zelensky says, that the foundation will be made, and the main bet in this plan of victory will be made on the united states of america, and that is, it is completely unclear, so far, if the united states of america does not want to fulfill its part there in this plan of victory, then it is not clear whether. there will be a plan for victory then, well, conditionally speaking, is there in addition to plan a, the current team has plan b, that is, if the americans say, listen, this victory plan does not suit us, we have our own vision of how the russian-ukrainian war should end, and this vision is not the same as that of zelenskyi and his team, you

understand what, what will happen if suddenly this victory plan turns out to be not... the way washington sees it, you know, the program of our minimum strategic goals, the strategic goals of the united states, they completely coincide, this is the survival of the ukrainian nation, ukrainian state, sovereign, independent, and that is exactly why president biden talked about this in the 22nd or the beginning of the 23rd year and said that ukraine won a strategic victory, other goals, such as the victory of ukraine and the fact that we should liberate all. illegally occupied annexed territories, it does not coincide here, since the americans want to avoid an escalation with the russian federation and, in another case , the collapse of the putin regime, and from the russian federation, and of course, that zelensky needs to show some diplomacy, so that our wishes, and our resources, which we have, are primarily human,

we have packed such an option for our american partners. if the americans do not agree with the klan, it does not mean that they will stop supplying us with weapons, providing other types of assistance, because then it will be against their national interests and this strategy that joseph biden approved, in fact, in 22, and of course, then it will be necessary we have to rely on our own strength and our european partners, but of course this is a problematic thing, because such resources... to everyone, i mean industrial resources, the ability to produce weapons, equipment, unfortunately, the europeans do not have, in any case, the american factor will decide, i do not think that we need to think about some plan b, it can be exclusively, let's say, agree with the need to conduct negotiations, because otherwise we simply will not take such financial

industrial resources, such weapons and other things, i think that in the end those proposals... zelensky will be in washington, they will be accepted as a whole, there will probably still be nuances, already work between our and by the american military from the point of view of such, let's say, planning, from the point of view of games that will show whether we will be able to perform certain, precisely military tasks, so i basically hope more that our ideas, they will come, and they are based on counting on the successes shown by our defense forces in the kurdish direction, because before the kurdish operation, both in washington and in europe, they said that the war had reached such a corner that ukraine would better focus on defense, it is not able to generate forces and means for active offensive actions character we have shown that we can do it, even in conditions where we do not get

everything that our partners promised us. recently, zelenskyi said that... in fact , only four brigades of completely new brigades are equipped, and most of them have not yet received weapons, equipment and other things, so of course this plan should speed up our american partners a little, so that the money does not burn. which were allocated by the congress so that the decision-making process and the transfer of this armament , equipment and ammunition to ukraine would not be delayed. sir alexander, there are a lot of them now. plans, peace plans that are offered to ukraine, this is both the sino-brazilian peace plan and olaf scholz's peace plan and... these plans have already been criticized by volodymyr zelenskyi, he spoke about the sino-brazilian peace, that it is a peace that is initiated , or peace this peace agreement

initiated by moscow or agreed with moscow about the scholz peace plan, he said that he did not know what kind of peace plan it was, but the german chancellor during a meeting with the president of kazakhstan, kasi jomart tokayev, did not agreed with the thesis that it is impossible to defeat russia militarily. way, but also speaks for a peaceful settlement, speaks publicly about it. it is also clear to us that at the same time it is necessary to continue to explore the possibilities for a peace process, and it is clear to me that this will not work for russia in the case in which it is currently waging this war, continuing to attack ukraine with great aggression. should all these peace plans, mr. alexander, be reduced to some single denominator, or all these plans. somehow considered as options in the case when and sino-brazilian peace, and the peace from scholz in these projects and initiatives,

were not representatives of ukraine involved? well, you know, i have two folders on my computer, these are peace initiatives, and there is of course the plan of ukraine, and there is a folder that can actually be translated as bullshit, and what is being proposed. and our partners, comrades, friends or distant partners, if it does not fit into the vision of ukraine, but i want to emphasize that ukraine does not demand anything more than the restoration of international law, that is, there is no point that we would like more than the parties, including the russian federation, have agreed to implement, if it does not meet, this plan that is being offered to us, does not meet these parameters, then... of course we have to pay attention to it, but we have to continue the dialogue with our partners, the closest , who joined the first

peace summit so that they support our proposals, in this context i consider the next peace summit very important, which will not bring peace, that's for sure, but the most important thing is that it should increase the number of countries that adhere to the ukrainian plan, at least in certain his support because, of course, what olaf scholz proposes - it is not known what, but of course we have to be skeptical about it, because i do not know in history that a genocidal war ended with diplomacy and peace negotiations, i did not hear russian factors or propagandists that they are ready, at least to reduce the pace of this aggression, and unfortunately, we have not yet heard that there are such problems in the russian federation. of an economic, social, political nature, which can undermine the ability of putin and his machine to continue this war. there are positive ones signals, this was

an interview with the head of the central bank of the russian federation a few weeks ago, there really is a problem there, if what she said was allowed on television, it is a sign that it can really be much worse, there is also an assessment, long ago danov said, open sources. closed sources, that in fact at the end of next year, at the beginning, at the beginning of the 26th, the russians faced big problems, both economic and industrial, and it is possible that after a certain time they will have to look for a way out of this situation, but it is clear that the russians are waiting elections in the united states, they will also like the chaos that is now increasing in american politics, and of course the arrival of donald is possible. trump, who, in principle, has already told in general terms what he wants, what he has a plan for ukraine, and it definitely does not coincide with our interests, with the interests and

interests of the americans. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for the conversation, it was oleksandr hara, a diplomat, friends, we continue to work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are watching us now live on these platforms, please subscribe to ours. if you would agree to move to the united states of america, if there was such an opportunity and not, 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, then we will be in touch ivan

plachkov, chairman of the council. member of the all-ukrainian energy assembly, former minister of fuel and energy of ukraine. mr. ivan, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our broadcast. congratulations, good health to everyone. sir ivan, tonight the russian occupiers attacked the energy system of ukraine, and the sumy region suffered another massive airstrike. the armed drone attacked the objects of the energy system. this was reported by the sun regional military administration. stration is about the fact that energy facilities were damaged by shaheeds, in particular in kanotope, vokhtyr, sumy district, what is happening in the ukrainian energy industry as of september 17, 2024, how would you characterize the state where we are now are we well, the situation, we know that it is

difficult, it is. and when we say energy facilities, we, well, in recent times, as a rule, mean electricity facilities, but we also have an oil and gas complex, a gas transportation system, gas distribution networks, in addition to the energy infrastructure. well, what is happening today, what is the state, well, in short, we know. that we have damaged, first of all , a large number of generating capacities, somewhere around 9 g, that is 9,000 megawatts, today ukraine consumes about 10-12 thousand megawatts, you can imagine, and 9 is already damaged, but we had a large reserve, measuring times and the day before,

well... they work on coal, all are damaged, there is some amount left, here we see on the equipment screens, but mainly these war stations and the equipment is destroyed, that 's why there is a big deficit of generation, but we, we joined the european energy industry on the eve of the war, and that's why we can import electricity today. somewhere in the last

six months, we imported to the level of 1.7 gw, well, now negotiations are underway, and maybe we will at the beginning of the burning season, we will be able to increase it to 2.2 gw, so this is the situation in terms of generation, we have mostly 90%, i think, produced by nuclear plants, we have nine of them. power units with a total capacity of 7.8 gw, and there are hydroelectric power plants, solar, when there is sun, and thermal power plants, the small amount that remains, which concerns distribution networks, and high-voltage networks of ukrenergo, and directly networks, regional energy, here is also the situation so very heavy, because

the enemy's blows, they... were directed, as a rule, to high-amplitude substations, where there are very powerful transformers, and a fairly large amount of equipment is also damaged, and of course, the oblenergo substation is already of such a lower power, but we must remember that we have this distribution network, main and e, high-voltage distributor. they were built for the transportation of electricity , er, well, more than 55 thousand megawatts, there are somewhere up to 70 thousand megawatts, why because we exported , we had the most powerful lines in the world, 750 kv, but at the expense of that margin of safety, despite the fact that today we...