the number of cabs, their number is increasing, and their regularity is also becoming more frequent, unfortunately. and when we talk about the use of drones on both sides and reconnaissance and fpv drone strikes, is there a one-to -one ratio, or on whose side is the advantage in using this means of reconnaissance impression, well, so far at this point in number. in half buckets, impressrons, i think we are ahead, but, significant problems, the enemy uses low-frequency fp buckets, er, that is, he is constantly developing, drawing conclusions, not standing still and trying to optimize his actions in this way, therefore, taking this opportunity, i would like to urgently repeat about...

that the rebs are a really important and necessary component of defense, in all directions, also, already noted cases silidovo is partially under the control of the fpv, some routes are the main logistical ones, they simply take regular control, that is, even without a drone scout, without observation, they hover over the paths of movement and try to hit any equipment. unfortunately, the first cases of the impact of technology on the outskirts of pokrovsk are also being observed. you you mentioned reb's means, to what extent are our needs, the needs of your brigade, provided by these means of technical countermeasures, what means of reb do you need, or do you need, let's say, support from society for your brigade to purchase such means?

look, the increase in the number of drones, unfortunately, we have to state, the fact that fpv is such an inexpensive means of impression, but very effective, so their number is much more than rap means, this is physical, and this logic can be explained, so it is desirable that in every unit and on every vehicle, armored vehicle, there was already a means of reb, so we will get these means, but i say, the enemy is rapidly modernizing, therefore, in matters of reconfiguration, to preparation, to manning for additional means or additional modules with appropriate frequencies, it takes some time, this time is very precious, that's why we actively involved society, citizens in meetings and it helps us. volunteers and all

caring people, because rep's means are really every saved life and everyone's health our serviceman. mr. vitali, i wanted to ask if it is possible in those conditions, when the enemy scatters cabs there, uses artillery, to somehow strengthen their fortification positions there, or is it actually almost impossible in such conditions and you have to use what is on the field battle in the form of some or other structures that remain in those areas that your brigade defends? well, despite the fact that the enemy uses large-caliber artillery at a long range, we are simply obliged to reinforce, and it gives the opportunity to erect fortifications and dugouts and trenches, that is, all this is engineering, engineering training activities are carried out in cities, regardless of the conditions, and finally i would like to ask about the specifics of training.

young fighters who enter your brigade, the national guard, because usually i have always heard that the period of training, you have a guaranteed three months of advanced training there, and this is sometimes more than now in the armed forces, is everything even then the training of soldiers , who come to the brigade already in the brigade itself, so that they really honed those skills, or heard advice from older, experienced comrades that will really save their lives and... allow them to destroy the enemy more effectively, well, as far as recruitment and mobilization activities for the national guard are concerned, it happens in the following way in our country: in relation to our brigade in the city zaporozhye is a point of permanent deployment, post-recruiting is organized in each district in tsnapa, that is, our representatives constantly communicate with all applicants, explain the conditions of service, specifics, conditions, with... tasks that

assigned to the brigade, after that documents are sent to the military commissariat for approval, and a person is drafted specifically for our needs and for... the position that we offered and in which position we can most rationally use which skills, even if it was not related to military life before that, after that they are sent to the training centers of the nation, the national guard, where the course of primary basic military training takes place, this is a combined military course, that is, all the basic primary skills are acquired there, already after arrival and distribution into subunits. our instructors, who are in command of the brigade, the combat and special training section, the planning section, eh, and in each battalion there is a department of instructors, these are experienced professional sergeants and officers who have direct combat experience, took part in all assault actions, that is, well already then they

conduct additional training on the ground and in accordance with the specifics of the unit in which the serviceman will be involved and which a unit has just arrived. mr. officer, thank you very much for these explanations, for your service and the service of your brothers who protect our state, i will remind our viewers that this was an officer of the 15th operational brigade of the karadakh national guard, major vitaly milovidov. this brigade maintains the defense in the most difficult direction, it is precisely the pokrovsky direction, selidovo, ukrainian, we see that the officers of the brigade are determined. to destroy the enemy as much as possible and not to concede their positions. these were the main points this day and then vasyl zima will continue the broadcast. so stay tuned to espresso.

thank you sergey. thanks to his guest. these were the military results of the day. we will continue and before we start the conversation with the guest that we have in the studio today. i will call you. to continue donating to the needs of the armed forces of ukraine, i remind you that we are collecting uah 3.5 million, for what exactly, i will remind you now. the espresso tv channel and the vesna charitable fund continue fundraising for the purchase of modern drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade, as well as for the 110th and 47th mechanized brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. our soldiers in the donetsk direction every day hold back enemy attacks, defend our freedom and future. it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended in action. the direction is in the spring, you can see all the details on the screen, join, and at the end of the issue, i will tell you how much we have already managed to collect, our goal is 3.5 million hryvnias. well, today we will discuss some politically scandalous topics and also historical

moments, well, and amazing metamorphoses in the decisions of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, which yesterday did not support decolonization for some reason, but today decided to support it. volodymyr yatrovych, with us, people's deputy of ukraine, mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you. good evening, yesterday the blocking of the tribune, we talked about it on the air, a scandalous story with the fact that for some reason there were not enough votes to decommunize 333, if i am not mistaken, the names of districts, villages, towns, cities there, and forget forever russian, soviet and colonial past, today voices were found, what are these names and why anyway after all, the decision was made, well, first of all, you need to understand that... this resolution was mandatory, it was stipulated by the law that was passed in the parliament back in 2023, this is the law on decolonization, on decolonization, this law gained the required number votes and is already an effective law, and this law provided that from april of this year

, the renaming of settlements whose names contain russian imperial symbols was to take place, unfortunately, it took us a very long time to achieve that this resolution, which was... . allowed by the committee finally got on the agenda, yesterday it finally got on the agenda, but unfortunately, we witnessed a shameful lack of understanding of the importance of this hook, among the majority of people's deputies, accordingly, we only got 208 votes, it is undeniable that among those who do not voted, there are a number of those who are principled supporters of the russian measure, although they may not articulate it now, but the majority believed that this issue was unimportant, that no one would pay much attention to it. that's why actually it is caused our reaction as blocking, and it seems to me that this blocking worked, it showed that there are those forces in the parliament who understand the importance of this kind of thing, and who are ready to fight for it, so a consensus council was convened, the need was discussed,

that this resolution, in a slightly modified form , would remove the five most debated localities, but nevertheless it will be put back on the agenda and today it is... it was finally voted on, so i'm sure we did the right thing yesterday, that by this blocking drew attention to the fact that this decolonization, the processes of decolonization are incredibly important for a country that is... at war with the former empire, and which were the most discussed, well, here are the ones that carried out, these are exactly five places, pervomaisk, yuzhne, yuzhnoukrainian, i.e. these are the ones that will not be renamed, this is not discussed, regarding which, regarding which there will be discussions regarding their new names, yes, there is an idea about south ukrainian, there is an idea about garth, there is an idea... about her portanental, that is, there is i think more interesting names than just

a literal translation, but unfortunately we see again there are certain fears of some of these new new names, well, but in any case , i think that today we have overcome one of the most difficult problems, it's indifference, that is, it became clear to at least part of the parliament that there are enough people who don't care, and still it's better ... to pay attention to this, to vote in order to move on, so actually today, i think we did important, let it be the first, but important step on the way to the next one decolonization of ukraine. i somehow lost sight of this topic, but i followed it for a long time, especially when we were in lviv, and about the renaming of the city of chervonograd in the lviv region, there was a proposal to rename it to sheptiyskyi, now even in tiktok there is such a famous character, mr. the novel, and he has such a series there, it’s called gangster sheptytskyi, well... it’s like that, but, but it’s already so interesting, it sounds funny, and well, there are characteristic features, local flavor,

so to speak, albeit in a humorous way plans and there the story somehow caught her ear, she decided, actually it was renamed today, that’s all, yes, chervonograd today was renamed to shiptytskyi, it was also a subject of discussion, well, but in the end the committee, which, and the community, the community was divided, the community was divided, there was a group of people who insisted that chervonograd cannot be renamed, that on... in fact, it is against the law, it should have been renamed. the community was divided into three camps, those who believed that it was not necessary to rename, those who believed that it was necessary return the historical name of krystynopil and those who believed that it should be sheptytskyi. in the end, apparently, sadini was more convincing, and on the committee, which is actually this platform for this kind of discussion, on the recommendations of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance, this name was chosen. that's all, then i congratulate the residents of the city of sheptyskyi. and the inhabitants of 227, if i am not mistaken, settlements, as i for myself even for the sheptytsy district, you have, yes, and

the inhabitants of the shiptytsy district, indeed, with a new name, and i hope that on the question, in particular, yuzhnoukrains, no, i understand that people are used to love, well, at least then let it be ukrainian and south ukrainian, a wonderful name, nothing like that here, well, by the way, there will be resolutions regarding renaming, and part of the resolutions will concern the bringing names in accordance with the norms of the ukrainian language, because unfortunately we have. in fact , there are a lot of names on the map that are simply russianisms, ugh, and now the topics that they caused concern, at some points caused simply misunderstanding, this should be clarified, so that these are statements made by the minister of foreign affairs of our, our partner, friendly, fraternal country of poland, radisław sikorski, first. as for such an empirical thing, but it

is voiced, if it is voiced by a politician of such a high level, well, surely he has reasons to speak about it, there were obviously some prerequisites, so mr. sekorsky said that he, now for a second, so that i do not lied, and quoted, he stated at the 20th annual meeting of the yalton strategy in kyiv, and that crimea is of key importance if peace terms will be discussed. transfer the peninsula under the mandate of the united nations organization for the preparation of a referendum. this is despite the fact that the president of the republic of turkey recep tayyip erdogan said that crimea should be ukrainian, that is, if we hear from the president of the republic of turkey, who have historical ties with crimea, there are some, frankly, sometimes is an ally of putin, some issues, but even here they say no, i think it's a very strange statement, esp. what is the foreign minister's statement about affairs of poland, for me personally it is particularly surprising that this is a statement by the minister of foreign affairs

of poland radislaw sikorski, whom i respected as a person with extensive diplomatic experience, as a person who understands what russia is, as a person who understands what the international legal system is , and it is strange to me that it was this person who proposed this proposal, which basically destroys this international legal system, because what is the mandate of the un, which, which troops? he can't help but understand that such a proposal, well, calls into question the territorial integrity of ukraine, that's why he considers less to be normal, acceptable. such things are all the more surprising, you know, to hear this from a polish politician, as from a representative of this or that country, which also suffered, you know, from the fact that some territorial claims were made, territories were occupied, the three divisions of poland, the situation with gdańsk , which was also supposedly under some kind of international mandate, and how it all

ended for poland, so there is some kind of irony in this, well, if it didn't concern ukraine, we could talk about some kind of irony. but alas, me i see in this some kind of erosion of the international political system in the event that , if this happens, they will try to implement it in some way, but even the very fact of voicing such a thesis surprises me, first of all, it is not clear what it is, well, we saw alleged un troops and un interventions when there was a war in the former yugoslavia, but there is no military there, there were ukrainian troops, by the way. that is, the concept of what is a sub-mandate of the un. the second question is also very important, here and now on the occupied territory of ukraine, already newly occupied at the time a full-scale invasion, the russians are bringing in, i won't say millions, i don't know, i don't have exact data, although they say more than a million, but residents of the russian federation,

this is the zaporizhzhia region, this is mostly the donetsk region, this is the kherson region, well, mariupol is oversaturated with it. residents of the russian federation, and also during the occupation, since 2014, actually there since the spring of 2014, and i think that more than one hundred thousand ethnic russians were brought to crimea, they were brought throughout, and then the question, and well, it's the same as now, relatively speaking, in masovian voivodeship is there, as well as their voivodeship there . 300,000 ethnic russians and say: let's spend, this is now again not for, it's just conditional, so that they don't think that we are encroaching here, no, absolutely, we respect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of poland, but i'm just saying, here we are importing 300 russians and we say, let's hold a referendum, this is another very dangerous initiative to talk about any referendums at all, and even more so based on the results of the russian occupation, we perfectly understand that the russian

occupation policy is essentially genocidal, and it boils down to changing the ethnic composition. the population of the occupied territories, i.e. destroy someone, evict someone and of course bring here to the occupied territories those who will be representatives of the russian world, this is again nothing new, i.e. this is what russia did all the time in the territories it occupied, this is what russia did as a result of its conquest of ukraine in the 21st year, as a result of the starvation of millions of ukrainians, what it is doing now since the 14th year in crimea, what it is doing now since the 22nd year in the newly occupied territories, therefore... such theses can only serve to legitimize this occupation policy, because it is undeniable that russia, if we suddenly imagine such a scenario, that the international community will say: we agree to this , russia will do everything so that at the time of the referendum 120% say that they want to be together with russia, i just

once studied, well, you studied even more as historians, you know these moments. about the settlement by russians not only of crimea, but , say, the east of ukraine, the southeast of ukraine. after the holodomor of 1932-3, as they say, russians visited ukrainian houses where there was still warmth from the bodies of the dead, and i also read data that 700 echelons from russia were brought to eastern donetsk region, luhansk region, in particular to donbas, there were more than 40 wagons in each echelon, and i understand that in each wagon there the teplushkas were killed by russians, these are ethnic russians who were... 700 echelons that russia brought to donbas, these are ethnic russians, and then, well, yes just like the inhabitants of the volga region brought to crimea later it is true that khrushchev took them away from there a little, because they did not know what to do in the northern crimea, they could not handle it, but this is just a fact, and then we wonder why they said they called putin, well, that is, that, unfortunately, can to be the legitimation of this genocidal

occupation policy of russia, so categorically, i do not know whether there was any support today from the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine on this matter, i hope that there was, if there was not, then i hope that there will be, but tamila ta wrote for that matter, it's a little too much, it seems to me, with all due respect to tamila as the representative of the president in crimea, i think that after all it should be at the level of the highest diplomacy, especially since it is a statement of the minister of foreign affairs, since the minister's statement should have been so symmetrical of foreign affairs of ukraine, well, with all due respect, let's say to the absolute world champion oleksandr usyk, when he was detained at the krakow airport, and... for some reason there was a reaction of the minister, the president, well , in this situation, i think the situation demanded it , the second question, which is also, well, this it's just that they've been speculating on it for quite a long time and... you know, that's probably why it's not finally resolved in terms of history and in terms of communication, in terms of communication, because it's always possible to speculate on it, it's a question of so-called not so- called , and the volyn tragedy, well, they write

that poland, which will begin the presidency of the eu, will use this, this opportunity , to put pressure on kyiv regarding the volyn tragedy, and here it is necessary to explain what kind of pressure, why they should to press, because i am listening let's say... mp and polish politician pawel kowal, on the contrary, he says that poland should use it in order to support ukraine, to maximally contribute to ukraine's integration into the eu, receiving aid, recently one of the predecessors of mr. sikorsky in the position of minister of foreign affairs , jacyk šepotowych made a very accurate description of this policy in poland, he called it the policy of hygiene. this is when u-e ukraine is bleeding in the fight with russia to take advantage of that weakening of ukraine in order to decide what poland considers for itself

for as needed. i was surprised to hear this from such a fairly high-ranking politician, that is, a person who held such high positions, especially since, well, let's be honest, i was one of those who implemented this hygiene policy, because in in 2017, when he was the minister of foreign affairs. he made roughly the same reservations, so i find this kind of statement simply unacceptable, and i think it's just with the testimony of how far, unfortunately, from some european standards of politics our western neighbors are leaving, and here’s the question, well, i’ll just remind you that during this period, the regional army, the upa units, fought mainly on the territory of volyn, there were dead, oxen, actually not only in volyn, in volyn, galicia, now the territories . of modern eastern poland, that is, it was a war in which a lot of civilians were really affected , up to 35,000 people on the polish side, and from nine to 10,000, according to the ukrainian

catholic university, on the ukrainian side , these are the first numbers that finally begin to be gradually tempered, they obviously need to be clarified, but the ratio is such that it is obvious that more poles suffered, because the main arena of these battles, of this confrontation, were the territories where the poles were in the minority, because that's what... were inhabited mostly by ukrainians, and it must be understood that in this war there was not one side that was guilty, one side that was only a victim, it was an inter-ethnic, inter -ethnic war in which ukrainians were both victims and those who killed, as well as poles were victims and those who killed, accordingly, to try to somehow get out of this conflict, with the assessment of this conflict that only one side is to blame, is to enter a dead end. that is, in your opinion, what he may want, i am not talking about mr. sikorsky, perhaps those people who are with him in

political power, or those people who make him the frontman of these ideas, this is how this was once voiced the phrase, we apologize and ask for forgiveness, yes, yes, that ukrainians should only apologize, and what is interesting is that this rhetoric that sikorsky is now sounding... she was very sharply criticized by him and his team, eh, when they were in the opposition, she was very sharply criticized, because this is rhetoric, these are the theses of their political opponents in the style of yaroslav kaczyński, and i am very sorry that donald tusk, radisław sikorski, that is those people who positioned themselves as very pro-ukrainian politicians, who made statements about the need to contain such an escalation of historical issues now. simply caught this wave and instead of returning to the only normal, only correct concept about this of the past conflict, which is based on mutual

forgiveness, they are pedaling the idea that ukrainians should repent and ukrainians should accept the polish version of events, otherwise we will blackmail you, we will not allow you into the european union, well, this is definitely not an allied policy, there by the way, in lviv, when i went to work there... by the poles, well, i am leading to the point that there are many such moments in history when ukrainians were executed, and this is it, by the way, it is not only polish and ukrainian history, it is the history of all neighbors nations, many and france, england, relatively speaking, france, spain, i.e. the same poles, germans, i.e. no one came up with a better way to overcome these conflicts, so that... not considered in the present as mutual forgiveness, okay, we can't do anything change, we can't change anything with what our ancestors did, but let's not repeat their mistakes, let's

forgive each other and move on. no, this is the desire to force the other side to accept its position, well, this is the source of the conflict, and here is another topic that she, she is also political, because history in any case is always politics, everyone should understand, without caution, such an absolutely honest coverage of history, maybe someday we will wait in the future, but wherever there are interests, there will always be politics, and here is a topic about a project organized by a well-known patron in ukraine, and i am saying this absolutely seriously, a patron. who funds the arts, pays scholarships, funds there in a certain way has projects in the media that also do good things, and i worked in his media, we are talking about viktor pinchuk, a project about writing a new history of ukraine, where this project is headed by timothy snyder, was invited to oversee this project , and there are a number of ukrainian historians, and now on facebook, at least what i read, i have friends, historians, public activists, they have different visions, whether it should

be done this way, or whether everything should be done... there is a different way to do it, how to present this story, by the way, there is an article about it on the espresso tv website, you can read it, and it is quoted here you, mr. volodymyr, that it is not the idea itself that confuses me to tell the history of ukraine in a global context, but you are worried about the ways of its implementation, explain that you are not satisfied with this project, how it should be done and whether and why it is now time, it is time, because there is a real global interest in ukraine, that is why it is necessary in the world, so it is necessary to tell, it is good. here are my reservations, well, i will be minimal regarding any personal reservations, although it is difficult for me to forget that mr. viktor pinchuk was one of the sponsors of the babinya memorial center project, where he worked together with russian oligarchs, and we know that despite all the supposed solidity of the academic council, which was supposed to watch over the implementation of this project, where there were also world-renowned ukrainian and world historians, sorry, not only ukrainian

historians, everything still ended in a scandal. with the russian provocateur gzhanovsky and the desire to present baben as a subject as another evidence of the alleged anti-semitism of ukrainians, so it's hard for me to forget it, i 'm afraid that here even a very solid academic council, unfortunately, cannot, cannot always restrain certain other goals those people who finance it, but my main comments still concern the content of this project, from what is now at least made public from the interview of mr. schneider, i see that he has a desire to show the global history of ukraine, as the history of the territory, there are no ukrainians there, there are no those who actually became a nation on this territory, those who created ukraine on this territory, as a european, as a democratic state, among researchers, among the topics represented by these researchers, there is nothing dedicated to ukrainian at all the liberation movement, the ukrainian revolution,

the ukrainian insurgent army, it's just a territory where there were different peoples, where different peoples passed, where various kinds of crimes were committed, it's about the holodomor, it's about the holocaust, where there was the tragedy of the second world war and everything, that is, i i did not see ukraine there , the so-called heart of darkness, and how well-known this story is, well, i understand that ukraine is also the history of ukraine - it is also history. territory, but definitely not only, but definitely not only, because ukraine as a state would never appeared, if not for the ukrainians, and it seems to me that if a democratic, independent ukrainian state had not appeared here on this territory, the world would be different, and this is the global role of ukrainians, because it was the appearance of a democratic state here and what we are now it keeps this democratic state in spite of russian aggression, and is a guarantee that

we... ukrainians are the factor that prevents the restoration of the russian empire, we are the factor that is currently still restraining the very shaky, shaky balance between the democratic event and that absolutely authoritarian assembly which begins to gain strength, so if we are talking about the global history of ukraine, then in this global history of ukraine there must be a global role of ukrainians in this history, and you know, when i studied at the faculty of philology, i taught ancient literature at our school, vasyl vasylyovych yeremenko, professor respected, and he... said that once in soviet times they decided to investigate the frescoes of sophia of kyiv, certain layers were removed there, and under those layers of frescoes there were inscriptions made by people who came to sophia of kyiv when it was still was built during of the kyiv movement, and these inscriptions were, if you can pronounce them, like modern ukrainian words, and they decided not to investigate it in soviet times, and then they also burned the ukrainian archives in the bernadskyi library, we know this beautiful story, that is, it speaks of that ours, well, forgive me...