at least with the latest versions of jet drones, and the border between a jet drone and a cruise missile, well, it’s generally a convention to some extent, it’s actually, well, very similar products in many respects, and of course it’s a brilliant demonstration of what if we’re allowed the same to also do stormshadow, of course it will be even faster and more effective, but it is also a demonstration that with all due respect to allies, we can do a lot without them. and in the end, if we never overcome biden's resistance and we are never allowed to use the western missiles for strikes on russia, well, this should simply become an extra incentive to develop our missile program faster. but mr. yevgeny, during the last week we are all waiting for our western partners to make a decision or give permission to use their weapons.

after the attacks on the territory of the russian federation , there were meetings between the president of the united states of america and the prime minister of great britain, and the secretary of state of the united states of america and the minister of foreign affairs were in kyiv of great britain, but there is no such solution. why do you think our western partners are delaying this decision? well, unfortunately, unfortunately, the reason is obvious and very shameful for them, they are afraid. they are still simply afraid of some kind of reaction from russia, some kind of escalation, they are not able to formulate what they are really afraid of, but in fact it is clear that somewhere in their subconsciousness, on the subcortex, sits this image of a big terrible nuclear mushroom exploding somewhere in them outside the window in fact, western partners are many different people, and there already are a bunch of western governments demanding to give us this access, but still a few key leaders and the first one of them is actually... joe

biden, that's the second scholz, pay attention to the age of these people, these are people formed entirely in the cold war years . and this is probably one of those people who during the cold war were so moved by the horror of a nuclear war that it is easier for them to calmly accept our defeat in the war with russia, even though they definitely do not want this defeat, but it is easier for them to accept even our defeat in the war with russia, than at least 1% and... the probability that a nuclear war will occur. in fact, we faced this very psychological barrier, and frankly speaking, well, at least in relation to joe biden, i personally estimate the chances that we will overcome this barrier to be extremely low. i still think that this will remain the last red line that grandfather will never cross in the few months left in his presidential term, we must hope , well, as for a positive scenario, that maybe kamala will be better, but let she will be chosen from the first... but in any case

after all, the correct answer to this challenge is our own missile program, we are the country that produced satan's intercontinental ballistic missiles, we are the country that put satellites into orbit, we were the third in the number of satellite launches in the late 90s, early 2000s . well , this is not a country that is not capable of making war missiles of any radio judge. the question is that it is necessary to urgently invest money in this, of course, it must be done now very quickly and... at the same time very conspiratorially, and i still sincerely hope that while we you and i talk about it, other people do exactly that. thank you, mr. yevgeny, for the conversation, it was yevhen dyky, a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war. friends, we continue to work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. if you watch us on these platforms, please subscribe to our pages and join our survey. today we ask you about the following: are you satisfied with the progress of decolonization? ukraine, yes, no, everything

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candidates for the position of president of the united states of america, because it was announced today, but today it is actually unfolding in israel and lebanon. hostilities, in fact, they began to actively unfold during the last three days, first we saw this one device attack by israel on hezbollah representatives in lebanon, today the israel defense forces struck hezbollah targets in lebanon, according to the idf press service, the operation is carried out to impair the terrorist capabilities of hezbollah, which... military infrastructure under cover the shield of lebanese civilians, but what the military command of israel says, tzahal aims to ensure security in the north of israel, so that residents can return to their homes, as well as achieve all their

goals. hezbollah, in turn, is hinted at that this could be the third lebanese-israeli war, and when we talk about... the russian-ukrainian war, during the entire period of our conversations and our conversations with you live, we mention the situation in the middle east, whether could current events lead to a full-scale war between the two countries? yes , i believe that of course it can, this is not the first such case, you are right, well, first of all, i want to congratulate the israeli. service with an absolutely brilliant, let's say so, operation to destroy virtually everything the top and middle and middle echelons of the pizbuli, well, on the other hand, if we talk about the impact of these events and the further escalation and

possible escalation into a wide war between israel and lebanon, it can be quite, and it will certainly distract attention from the sub-events in ukraine . from russia's aggression, unfortunately, this is happening on the eve of the un general assembly, as you said, our president will be there, he will speak, there will be a series of meetings, well, as a rule, these are just the kind of events that are currently brewing in lebanon, they can be a very serious distraction from what most confuses us, on the other hand, i don't think. i think that this will have a serious impact on the potential solutions that we all expect, well, first of all, this is the permission to strike on the territory of russia with american and other western weapons, this is the presentation of president zelenskyi's plan, and the most important thing, i

think, this is what has happened so far, we have neither seen nor felt, let's say, the presence of any strategic plan. actually our partners, our allies about what's next to do with this war, we'll see, i really hope that as a result of the meeting of our president in new york, maybe in washington, he will also go, you know, not only the presentation of the ukrainian peace plan or the plan of how to end this war, but and well presentations of a certain strategy of the united states and for. in general, about how to end this war after all. well, by the way, jake salevan, the adviser to the president of the united states of america on national security, during the recent yalta economic strategy conference, stated that ukraine has its own

to decide on what conditions to sit down at the negotiating table with russia, so washington is waiting for a conversation with president zelensky about a comprehensive strategy for achieving success. at war, let's hear what jake sullivan had to say. i believe that we should collect all the elements in which we can be helpful to ukraine, how to support it, and how ukraine sees it in the context of diplomatic strategies. that's exactly what we'll be talking about later this month in new york. after that, president biden will work in his position for another four months and... he will do everything is possible to use these four months and ensure the strongest possible position in ukraine. mr. volodymyr, frenchman calimont writes that, with reference to his sources, one of the points of zelenskyi's victory plan is to invite ukraine to nato.

they said that the president of ukraine hopes to receive an invitation from biden to the presidential elections in the united states of america. as far as? such a scenario is likely and to what extent there is such a possibility precisely during the pre-election race in the united states of america, where obviously does not really want to team. kamala garis is risking too much and asking such fundamental questions, which may, let's say, scare away the american voter from her. you know, unfortunately, i do not expect that this kind of stuffing will come to us. us president biden had a great moment, a great opportunity to seize it on the eve of the washington nato summit in july this year, or during this summit. he did not do this, on the contrary, as far as we can understand, the american side, as well as

some other nato members, did everything possible to make this issue, so to speak, not to bring to the fore, so ukraine did not receive an invitation, and everything ended, as usual, with general declarations, although they were positive, there is, there is a certain strategy, there are certain nato plans, there and... but we heard all this since 2008 year since the bucharest nato summit and nothing radically new has happened, so i do not think that, especially as you rightly say, before the presidential elections in the usa, which are less than two months away, i do not think that there will be any such radical steps to be done in order to well, put... a certain risk of this presidential campaign or election campaign,

this issue is very acute, it is, let's say, ambiguously accepted, both in washington and in some other western european capitals, i don't think that there will be any to be accepted, but, but, mr. volodymyr, it turns out that putin's ultimatum, which he put forward in december 2021, that nato should not come close to... the russian border, well, with the exception of finland, in principle, this ultimatum is valid, and this accepts the ultimatum an attack on our western partners, because otherwise, probably, the event would have unfolded in a completely different way, does this mean that there is some behind-the-scenes diplomacy that allows the americans and russians to talk about the future of ukraine without ukraine's participation? no, i don't think that such a diploma exists. although it is quite clear that contacts are taking place, well, no one hides it, there are contacts between the services, mr. burns,

the director of the cia, repeatedly had contacts with his colleagues from russia, i do not think that we should be afraid of these contacts, there are many such purely bilateral issues between russia and the united states, well, to which ukraine, let's say, has absolutely nothing to do with them, these are nuclear weapons and nuclear parity in general. with terrorism and so on, there are many such issues, and here is what, well, i said earlier that, unfortunately, there is no strategy, neither washington nor the west as a whole, there is no strategy for victory, or rather assistance in the victory of ukraine it all boils down to giving us weapons drop by drop, we are so grateful, we, we are not without it existed, we must... clearly understand, but this cannot continue indefinitely, and

the question arises, well, for me and for many others, in general, all ukrainians, well, how long should this war continue until finally our western partners will not finally understand that it can be ended only by overcoming this regime of putin and defeating russia, and the more, the further these delays will be. with help and with all the peace plans and so on, the worse it will be for them in the first place, because putin, unfortunately, perceives this as a certain weakness of the west, he understands that the west continues to be afraid of these red lines, russian nuclear weapons, the possibility of a nuclear war there, and so on, and thus... does not go for further escalation against russia, although, i

remember, during the kariv crisis in the early 60s of the last century, there was such a study known, i don't remember its authors, it seems that the us secretary of state at the time said the following phrase: escalate to the escalate , to achieve de-escalation, unfortunately, this time, well, nowadays this formula for some reason does not work, i don't know why, because the americans themselves came up with it then, and it worked very positively also... during the caribbean crisis and, by the way, during the afghan war, in which the soviet union, in fact, all this led to the final collapse of the soviet union. meanwhile, the white house reports that biden will receive zelensky in washington on september 26, and the vice president of the united states of america, kamala harris, will have a separate

meeting. it is not yet known whether it is will be within the framework of the un general assembly or somewhere in the white house, so far it is not known, but a meeting with donald trump has also been announced, trump himself said that he will have a meeting with - zelenskyi, this is this, this is a triple this a meeting that is scheduled, that is, with the current president, with the vice president of the united states of america , the potential winner of the next election, and with another potential winner of the next election. and the presentation of this victory plan to them, whether it can give ukraine additional chances or opportunities in order to speed up, or in some way change the opinion of american politicians about what the war should be like, what the main thing should be the victory over putin? yes, of course, well,

first of all, this is an absolutely normal situation when the leader of ukraine. the united states, but president zelenskyi had telephone contacts with trump, he met with him even during trump's presidency, he was in washington, this is absolutely normal, they know each other, the more, the wider, as i think, this plan will be, our plan of peace is presented or the plan of victory. better, therefore that, uh, we can't predict the outcome of the us presidential race, that's the business of the american people, whoever wins, one way or another, we have, and our president has to use every opportunity to reach as wide an audience as possible, i i think there will be meetings in the congress in washington and possibly in some pre-logical centers,

in particular by senators, congressmen, political scientists, the more people will hear and see it. with your own eyes, the better, because who will become the president, what will be situational states of america at the beginning of the year, we don't know, but we have to work for, let's say, both camps, in order to have both on our side, as well as our stable ones, mr. volodymyr, i have you, how to ask a person. who knows very well how the united nations works, you were the permanent representative of ukraine at the un. today the minister of foreign affairs of poland, radislaw sikorski, said that crimea is symbolically important for russia and for putin, and for ukraine it is strategically important, so he does not see how the two countries will be able to come to an agreement without the demilitarization of the peninsula and

without the participation of the united nations, to quote sikorsky. we could ... transfer crimea under the un mandate to prepare a fair referendum after checking who are legal residents and so on, and we could postpone it for 20 years, sikorsky suggested, well, considering the position of the un itself and its capabilities this organization, is such an option even possible in the case of crimea and is it necessary to do so? well, you know, with all due respect to mr sikorsky personally and to poland as one of our main allies and a sincere friend, i think that here is a bit of an exaggeration, it seems to me that the advisers or experts of the polish minister slightly overestimated the capabilities of the un, i must say that this is the case

not even in the mandate of this organization, well, the organization in general is not capable of much today. well, unless hanging the un flag there, in order to sanctify something in this way, means an action, but mr. sikotsky first of all had to read the constitution of ukraine, which clearly states it is absolutely written how and in what way a referendum on such things as territorial integrity, belonging to a part of ukraine, and so on, can and will take place, if he, he meant holding it. endum, in which , according to our constitution , the entire population must take part, the entire population of ukraine must participate, then this is one situation, but i have a hard time imagining how a sub-mandate can take place if we are talking about a separate part of the territory of ukraine, where there should be some kind of referendum, in which it is not clear who will be

to participate, well, in principle, the un actually has some experience of holding similar referendums or elections or other events, such plebiscites, but these took place in completely different conditions, and i do not think that this can... be applied today in relation to to ukraine and to, i repeat once again, this is a part of the territory of ukraine, and the fate of this part can only be decided by the entire ukrainian people, and who will give this mandate or under whose mandate it will be done, this is already, let's say, a secondary matter. thank you, mr. volodymyr, for this conversation was volodymyr yelchenko, diplomat, former permanent representative of ukraine at the un and former ambassador of ukraine. in the united states of america. friends, we continue to work live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us on these platforms,

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important event, both for parliamentary life, but also for the political life of ukraine, because today, the verkhovna rada of ukraine finally dismissed mariana bezugla from the position of deputy chairman of the defense committee and a member of this committee, she became a member of the committee. on issues of foreign policy and inter-parliamentary cooperation and she explained her decision to move to another committee with toxic processes in the defense committee and the intention to involve western partners in civilian control over the defense sector of ukraine. let's listen to it. i will try my best to attract partners and build from them. we have more trust, more control, so that more and more issues of systemic changes are being asked, because as i noted in my own blog, that

we now have de facto narratives being broadcast: we need weapons and get off the hook, it won't work like that , we we have to really talk to them alone language, mr. volodymyr, considering what language bezugla speaks to the generals in... ukrainian, what her rhetoric will be and what her language will be with our western partners, maybe it will also be used as a political torpedo against western partners? well, in general, i seem to get the impression that there is a certain fetish for bezugla, if general zuluzhny had not transferred to diplomacy, then probably bezulzhna, bezuzla so... she continued to be in the committee on national security and defense, well, of course, i am being ironic, but it really seems so that maryana is speechless

are targeting the torpedoing of some international institutions, in particular the attack that unfolded against radoslav sikorskyi in the last few days, it is unprecedented in general, and if maryana bezugla joins in, i think that the stench will be even greater. the problem is that maryana, who headed the subcommittee on civilian control over law enforcement institutions, did not fight corruption in the ministry of defense in any way, but she always brought it to the surface, in the media space, er, well, let's say so, intrigues with general's life, that is... all sorts of quarrels, er, minor conflicts among the ukrainian generals, maryana very actively brought to the surface, which looked like

a biased action against... well, let's say, against the political weight and authority of the military in ukrainian society . well, we will monitor what will happen next with maryana bezugla, but we will remind our viewers that now she has no relevance to the defense committee, and thank god, we will monitor how this political technology will be. continue to be used, because bezula is ordinary political technology. today, the verkhovna rada of ukraine adopted a resolution on renaming 328 settlements. i almost slandered myself, because yesterday there were 333 and this resolution was not adopted. as part of decommunization and de-russification, however, six settlements were removed from the list, the renaming of which the deputies consider controversial. so, yuzhne,

yuzhnoukrainian, pavlo. senelnikova and pervomaisk, mykolaiv region. according to the resolution, the names of settlements that contain russian and soviet narratives or russified names are renamed. especially the new ones the names were given to such cities. novomoskovsk is dnipropetrovsk region - samar. pershotravnevsk - dnipropetrovsk region - shakhtarske, pervomaisk - luhansk region - sokologhirsk. molodogvardiysk, luhansk region - otamanivka. good for young guard tamanivka, severodonetsk, luhansk oblast, siversko-donetsk, chervonograd, lviv oblast - sheptytskyi, druzhba - sumy oblast - khutir-mykhailivskyi, pervomayskyi, kharkiv oblast, zlatopil, krasnograd, kharkiv oblast, berestyn, ivatutine, cherkasy oblast, bagacheve, will now be called, what do you think, mr. volodymyr, is the reason that

the representatives of the verkhovna rada could not vote for this resolution the first time, and we see that there is such a pro-russian front there front in the verkhovna rada of ukraine, and obviously this became the main reason, were there any other reasons, you as a person who was once in the verkhovna rada of ukraine and a deputy, but you are sure that you understand with what principles and according to what logic this is happening voting? well, i still want to remind you that no matter how much the servant of the people party clung to the formal figure of the fraction's composition, but in the past six months, no draft law was ever voted by the efforts of the servant of the people faction itself, they always voted for support, for example, the former opzzh, i.e. deputy groups, or oligarchic

deputy groups. now this is a strange story, because on the one hand opzh looks like such playing coaches in relation to the servant of the people faction. i would like to remind you that servant of the people is essentially a party that became a continuation of the youth organization of the party of regions. and the leader of the party of regions, well, razumkov was number one on the list of servants of the people. although yanukovych jr. was listed as the formal leader there, but everyone knew very well that he was a scapegoat for politics, that is, it can be said that when zelenskyi announced that he had a plan for victory, and information leaked through the western media that that zelensky will pedal, immediately announce

ukraine's future accession to nato, then... he will demand, in particular from joseph biden, that he, before the end of his term, announce ukraine's future membership in nato, as one of of the reasons for russia's attack, that is, and now, when her faction does not vote for decommunization, it looks a little foolish when zelensky asks western partners to provide a member as soon as possible. ukraine in nato as a security umbrella, and his native faction does not find votes, well, maybe, maybe this is a reaction to the fact that petro poroshenko was among the authors of this draft law, well, part of the audience reacts very nervously to any authorship of petro poroshenko in in the legislative field, maybe it was, but...