russian kab carriers, what is the destruction of russian kab carriers, or at least endangering these kab attacks, yes, for the russians to reduce their number, this means the complete emasculation of the russian offensive potential, because with only meat assaults they would not advance even 100 m, but when they destroy our strongholds and after that begin meat storms, then... there are some moderate, very slow successes in this regard, because indeed a country that has aviation and that is fighting against a country that actually cannot use its aviation, it has significant advantages, because aviation is in the modern war, it is not just a terrible force, it is starting from the second, let's say, from the middle of the second world war, domination. in the air, it

always provided an advantage, well, a victory for the attacking side, well, now the war has changed a little bit, anti-aircraft missile complexes have significantly reduced the advantages of tactical aviation, but still we see russian tactics: a kabama attack, after that a meat assault and some advancement, there are tens of hundreds of meters, but advancement, you have already mentioned these e. glide bombs, i understand, which can be used on the ach-16 fighter, in the new aid package, the united states of america is giving ukraine jaysaw glide bombs, and they can hit targets at a distance of up to 110 km, and according to western experts, about , that they can be put on the f-16 fighters, how do you think and when these... can

be used, given these constant threats that are coming from the russian side, that if the missiles of the allies of our allies are going to hit or fall on territory in the same kurshchyna or belgorod region, or soon these bombs will reach us, and how will they change the course of the russian-ukrainian war? no way, right? in the fact that glide bombs fly at, as you say, well there is a long distance of more than 100 km, in general jdem bombs, these are agm 154, jsow bombs, yes, so those bombs, they fly at 130 km, they are cruise bombs, let's start with the fact that, yes, winged bombs, but they fly 130 km only when they are dropped from a great height, the russians drop their cabs from heights of 12 and more than 1000 m. we are at such a height in front of the line

we can’t climb the front, because our planes will be shot down if these bombs are dropped from low altitudes, even at high speed, even if they are dropped from the top point, they fly from 22 to 25 km, no way these bombs, they also promise us transfer bombs with cluster only warheads , in significant. they will not affect the course of hostilities, but although these are the most modern bombs, they can be with cluster bombs, and with concrete-piercing warheads, ordinary combat units, and cluster bombs can be, well, enough in of them, such effective sub-munitions are enough, there are 145 ammunition in the cluster of such a bomb, and they have a double cumulative cumulative-fragmentation effect. double-acting,

that is, they can not only destroy armored vehicles, but also destroy infantry in some area, but all the same, these bombs in the form that we will receive from the allies, they are for us, first of all, it will be difficult for us to use them, once again i say, low altitudes, short range, high density of anti-aircraft missile systems of the russians, yes, but there is an option, that was an interesting option, let’s say the main the editor of defense express said that you can put rocket engines on these engines, oh, you can put rocket engines on these bombs, but in general it is a very good idea and it could be done in the conditions of ukraine, because in general these bombs that are supposed to be delivered to us, yes, they were planned to be missiles, but we will only get them in the version of cruise bombs, glide bombs, yes, but in a posture. part of these missiles, they

are called agm anti surface guided missile, guided missile, well, if in the tail part, where there is a place to install it jet... small ones, yes, then such a rocket would be capable, such a bomb would be capable, well, you see, now it flies using a jet engine, then the range, even from low altitudes, will reach hundreds of kilometers, and then some, some influence on russian, let's say, weapons depots of the army divisional level, then it will be possible to destroy them, and this will have a direct impact. on the course of hostilities in certain areas, well, it is clear that we will monitor what products will come to ukraine, how they will be used, and one message that was voiced by joseph biden,

well, actually during the visit, the american visit of zelensky, more precisely, biden instructed the ministry of defense of the united states of america to expand ukrainian training. of f-16 pilots , including by supporting the training of 18 more pilots next year, why is that how they are about the f16 and about the planes and about the pilots, how they are slicing the principle of salami, little by little, little by little, you don't need many pilots, because not so quickly you will have these planes and these pilots, well, it is artificial goods for the armed forces, for the air force of the armed forces, why do you think the americans are holding back this process, although they could train a hundred ukrainian pilots, or fifty ukrainian pilots, who would already make up this combat unit that could be used for f-16 fighters. well, you are taking a broad step, then

i have to tell you, a hundred pilots are not capable, even the united states is not capable of training hundreds of pilots, it must be trained. firstly, in the european training center in romania and in the united states and conduct preliminary preparation. also, well, let's take this aspect: an hour of flying an f-16 plane, it costs something, well, the planes are not new, spare parts are needed, 25-30 00 dollars, one hour, that's in order to teach the pilot to pilot and... the application of this aircraft, well, you need dozens and one, yes, only, only the cost, let’s take only the cost of the aircraft, plus there, well, in general, to talk about it for a long time, the cost of training a pilot costs millions of dollars,

2-3 million dollars , well, let's say so that if you take the total cost, slovakia, for example, bought there, it seems... planes, so, on average, if the plane is delivered from the factory to some country, then the cost of such an f16 plane is somewhere around 60 million dollars , and the cost of a set of aircraft, weapons, a spare engine, some spare parts, some weapons, yes, and the training of pilots, it has already doubled, there is more than 130 million dollars, that is, after all, for 10 years, maybe we will have 100 pilots or 100, not within 10 years, i think, you understand, canada has now joined the training of pilots, it has allocated money, it is starting to work and train ukrainian pilots, the european center

for training flight crews for the f-16, which i mentioned in romania, but here is an american. they say, although it is possible that it is the americans who finance the training in the european center, you understand, here you need to dot the i's and figure it out, if three centers train pilots, yes, that is one thing, if one center trains and the united states together with canada finance , then this is a different situation, i.e. i haven't put a full stop to this issue yet, but preparations are underway and besides... it should be borne in mind that our infrastructure, it too, is not capable of receiving fifty v-16 aircraft at once. thank you, mr. valery, for the conversation, it was aviation expert valery romanenko, a leading researcher

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this vote. next, we will be in touch with serhiy krivonos, major general of the reserves, former first deputy commander of the sso, ex-deputy secretary of the national security council. mr. general, i congratulate you and wish you good health, thank you for being with us today. good evening everyone, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. mr. general, president putin is the self-proclaimed president. putin and radb from russia updated russia's nuclear doctrine and expanded the list of applications, the possibility of using nuclear weapons, what are the challenges facing ukraine and the world now, and how will this new horror story, which putin and his followers made public , affect the course of the russian-ukrainian war? well. scaring the information space of the russians has long been a practice and directly

talking about their powerful nuclear capabilities, they really like it, but it's like trying to cut a piece of bread with a dull sword, so let's not pay attention to what they are barking, it is better to deal directly with our own problems, of which we have more than enough, just as, excuse me, when this poll is about trump, will trump help or not, we do not have enough problems of our own, which we have to discuss and make decisions, we are again distracting ourselves on others, forgetting about our own problems, in solving social problems within ukrainian society, this is the number one task, without any doubt, just the current survey, it is timed for the visit of zelenskyi and the meeting with trump, so we are simply interested in what our tv viewers think. let's return to internal issues, to the internal situation in ukraine and the situation at the front, the situation

in the pokrovsky direction is quite difficult, the course operation of the armed forces of ukraine is ongoing. how do you assess the current situation at the front as of september 27, 2024? the situation, well, let's start from the top, let's start with kursk from the north, in the kurdish direction, the fighting is going on at the tactical level. talking with certain guys at the level of commanders, i understand that the situation is not so deplorable, they and repulse, they attack, they capture prisoners in certain areas, in certain areas, not so positive for us, but in the meantime, tactical level battles are taking place, because the russians are still trying to feel where to bite and how to bite, as for the kupyan direction, it is also an ancient dream to directly hold the kharkiv direction for the russians and still

capture kupinsk, because by capturing kupyansk under control, in the future they plan to take the liman direction and build kupinsk klyman, the time of konstantinovka, about which they have also been dreaming of for a long time, and pokrovsk, this is exactly the reconstruction of such a wonderful rail road that will allow. it is enough for the russians to successfully transfer both human and material resources along their front line, which they believe will remain on the territory of ukraine for a long time, so they are making maximum efforts, first of all now, on kurakhov and pokrovsky, so that in the future, if someone will open the map and see that from pokrovsk, it is a direct route to pavlograd, then to the dnipro. and skurakhova is a straight road going in the direction of zaporizhzhia, they repeat precisely

the maneuvers of the winter of 1943, when the red army tried to dislodge the german troops from these directions, so they do not invent anything new, they always repeat those operations, but add certain modern nuances to them, which in general the situation at the front, well, the question is that... when there are not enough people in terms of reserves, when people are not trained enough, it is too difficult to fight, and if at one time... the head of our the country's commander-in-chief zaluzhnyi obeyed, and in october of last year , after all, the question of conscription was raised and these people were called up, so during this time it was possible to prepare them in sufficient quality and in the required quantity. at that moment, they did not see the need, well, how can a person without any military education, without having served in the army for a single day, make such conclusions, well,

the environment that surrounds our president is real. unfortunately, does not say what is necessary, not what is real, but what the president wants to hear, and this is the greatest our trouble is that instead of the truth, we try to both ourselves and our own people directly, to scald in a warm bath, the time of enlightenment and the time of disappointments have already come, and precisely because of the ability to clearly place accents and ask uncomfortable questions, why someone does not fulfill certain duties , respectively, as prescribed in the constitution, otherwise the law. ukraine itself, this is the number one task, because if we continue to lull ourselves into warming ourselves, there will be much more disappointments, and they will be more tragic for our country. under the current conditions, sir general, what options for the government's decisions can save the situation and solve the problem,

including the quality of those people who are preparing for... for the front and for the fight against the russians, any businessman, and managing the country is also, let's say, business for certain people, but in the meantime, time, people and money, time, we don't have much of it, but it's all there, as far as people are concerned, it's the quality training of people even before they enter the ranks of the armed forces, in in the required quantity, in the required quality, unfortunately, we still do not have enough they train people in quantity and quality, and first of all... this is not even a matter for the armed forces, it is a task for the state to train in huge numbers with the capabilities of ukraine, we can train much more, train qualitatively, for some reason it is not organized at the state level , as for her money, money is primarily the economy, the economy, according to the law on mobilization, mobilization training must be

transferred to functioning in wartime conditions, which means that we have a huge number of enterprises, who still have not received tasks from the mobilization plan, because this plan has not been worked out by the verkhovna rada, not adopted by the verkhovna rada, not approved by the president and not worked out directly by the cabinet of ministers in the first place, again a puncture in non-implementation of the existing law, everything is very simple: it will work economy, the needs of the armed forces will be provided, the needs of the armed forces will be provided, we will be able to fight qualitatively, using technical capabilities and save human lives. mr. general, you they mentioned production and the economy, which must also work for the armed forces. umyerov, rustan rustem umyerov, minister of defense of ukraine, announced that in 2024 the ukrainian share of ammunition on the front is 41%. and

what does the minister of defense say, today every second piece of ammunition on the front is ukrainian- made. if in 2023 the ukrainian share of ammunition was 18%, then in the 24th it increased to 41%. thank you to the team of the ministry of strategy and industry for constructive cooperation. you, mr. generals, are on the air of our tv channel more than once talked about the fact that these successes that are currently there, they are, well, insufficient, and these successes should have been made back in 2009. in the 15th year, when defense orders were approved, or they were not approved, when zelensky came to power, and when it was really necessary to prepare for war, in spite of everything, how do you now evaluate this dynamic, whether it is sufficient or insufficient, or simply, well, it is one thing to start making ammunition from 0% to 40%,

relatively speaking, and another , when it comes to... about from 40% there to 90%, the difference is in numbers and in the amount of ammunition that is produced, well, let me disappoint you and just give you the real numbers, we heard about 40%, by the way, yesterday i spoke with some military personnel from the front, and they complain a lot about the quality of ukrainian ammunition, especially , regarding mortar ammunition, says god forbid that at least out of ten that fly, god forbid that five work. this is the whole answer for you. next question: 40% of the total ammo requirement? unfortunately, i can't say real cuteness on the air now ammunition which we use during the day, but i will just give you a simple example, which is not a secret: we hope that the americans produced 40,000 shells for ukraine

in the month of august. 40,000 shells per month is four days, relatively speaking, of active combat . our share, you said 40%. it is somewhere on the level, well, let's raise it, let it be 20,000 and that's more. plus two days, and we get how many days? six days of active hostilities during the month. ask yourself the questions, we have as many of them as you need we produce more or less as needed, and growth from zero, yes, if there were zero, and now there are 40 shells, then this is a 40% increase. but in reality, it is completely different, and the fact that the front simply requires projectiles of various calibers, 120, 105, 107. 155, and they require these projectiles, and they are not available, so be glad that there is a lot of things, well you know, it's like looking

at a glass, some say it's half empty, others say it's half full, so everyone has their own opinion, i'm like a scout with some experience in the armed forces for more than a dozen years, i look more cynically at such things, because i was trained to be real. well, i just wanted to ask you about the warm bath, because denys shmyhal also boasts that the production of weapons has tripled this year, he said this during a recent press conference, let's listen to the prime minister of ukraine. in 2023, it is necessary to emphasize the production of weapons in ukraine . and in the first eight months of this year, we increased production two times more than in the 23rd year, that is, we are progressing, production

of drones continues to grow, we created a market for drones, opening up opportunities for business, for enterprises, in addition to this, this year we paid attention and created a market for arms for drones, actually ammunition, accordingly, one plus million drones have already been contracted... this year, that is, more than 1 million.in-house production of projectiles is increasing, not only drone ammunition, but we are also working on the production of our own artillery ammunition, the most scarce position that we are looking for together with partners around the world, well, the tears, the delight, are preventing us from listening, well, we are already, well, let's go back one more time, if we compare from zero, then there is growth, but if... we compare that this was not done in the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd years, then the question, why was it not done before, is the first, second, question, drones, and now the question is not

only about the number of drones, but about the quality of the training of operators, please tell me, on the bases of our higher educational institutions of a civilian profile, how many additional training courses are open for various military specialties, you will be surprised, that is not open, i will give you an example : in the 22nd year , they opened additional training courses at 50 civilian educational institutions, they really prepared for war and really paid attention to it, we talk about the number, but for some reason we score absolutely about the quality, and if mr. shmyhal would say how many drones that are produced reach the target, and why they do not reach the target, and what is the fault, then the numbers would be completely different, we ourselves... put ourselves in a warm bath again , because the boys who return from the front say something completely different things, and believe me, knowing and fighting with them for another 14 years, i trust them much more and

understand that the front needs more, that things have started to move well, but i will name a huge number of enterprises that are still not involved in the production of products of military importance , mr. general, you have extensive experience of service in the armed forces of ukraine and in leadership positions. were also in the last week or the last few weeks in social networks, and not only in social networks, they spread the topic of the possible release of general budanov from the position of the head of the main department of the ministry of intelligence of the ministry of defense of ukraine, are there reasons for personnel rotations in gur and what could they be connected with, if they really are, well, in fact, banal reasons, they were just as... banal as regards the general zaluzhnye in the same way, and general budanov became too popular on certain information resources, and this is, let's

say, certain leaders in the pechersk hills, and they are very nervous that this could become, let's say, a certain competitor for the possible elections that they have there for themselves draw in president, saying that they are not preparing for it, but meanwhile many of their actions show that they still have certain views about elections, and in any system you can always find flaws, just as if you open the law on intelligence, look at what the general directorate of intelligence is responsible for. and what they have to do, there will be a huge number of people coming to the general for questions, so everything is very simple here, if there are shortcomings, there is no need to look for them, we open the governing documents, it is clear that general budanov is possible and does not dream of political career and is not thinking now about presidential ambitions there or ambitions to create a party, although, as sociologists told me, there are

closed polls that talk about... the fact that budanov and zaluzhny can be, can have their own parliamentary factions , well, respectively , political parties, and zaluzhny is generally the number one contender after zelensky for the post of president of ukraine, i don't know if you and zaluzhny communicate, does he have any political ambitions at all? well, i 'll keep this question for now, let's say like an affair the future, i'll just give you an example of how the government has strengthened the information space. now the issue of sabotage on russian gas and oil pipelines in the baltic sea is being raised, and how does it seem that the sleuth knew about it, but for some reason the president did not, and just when the question is raised about the upcoming elections, why do these facts suddenly emerge, these facts do not were known back in the 22nd year, they were known, for some reason

they were silent about them then, who benefits from the fact that... now raise the issue in the information space against zaluzhny, and especially with regard to the western mass media, to raise the question that he did exactly these things, but really, it is beneficial for ukraine, it is definitely not beneficial for ukraine, but it is beneficial for those who are worried about competition in possible races, that is, that is, all the talk about the fact that zaluzhny knew, and zelenskyi did not know about this detonation, was this, was this detonation ukrainian. there was no ukrainian special operation, but it all fits into the context of the political context. you know what about the explosions, if there were enough of such explosions much more, i would be happy, and i would not even ask the question exactly who did it. look how clearly and quite professionally the representatives of one of the best intelligence structures of the massat in israel work, so they never say that they

were not there... they were, they do not say, not so, no, no. these are real classic works of scouts. our scouts often do pr, uh, on certain simple things, because it's so beautiful, and don't do powerful, serious things. well, from my point of view, maybe then the gur would have to say, but no, we significantly more powerful sabotage was carried out on some oil pipeline there or somewhere else. for some reason we did not hear this. thank god they didn't hear. but it must be done constantly. the more efficiently and... the more systematically we will destroy the ability of russia to trade in oil, gas and others, the less money they will earn, we have to go off the air, thank you for an interesting conversation, it was general serhiy krivonos, friends, throughout the air we are conducting surveys , let's look at the interim results of the poll, whether the united states of america will continue to help ukraine in case of victory trump, 51% yes, 49% no, we

'll be back in the studio in 5 minutes, don't switch. trump believes that putin wants to stop the war, he said this at a meeting with zelensky in new york, and yes, this meeting took place. we summarize the results of the ukrainian president's visit to the united states on air. i live on the bbc from london, i'm yevgenia shytlovska. until the last, it was unclear whether trump and zelensky would meet, it was such an intrigue during the entire visit of the ukrainian president to the united states. he came to the general assembly un, met with biden and harris in washington and now returned to new york. name