used to do it, and i think that russia also understands the consequences that will occur if nuclear weapons are used, here the question is different, where will they do it, either on the battlefield or on their territory in order to demonstrate to others participants who have nuclear weapons, that they are serious, and there is a real question here, because there were talks that they can even on their territory. hit and knowing the completely inadequate and inadequate approaches in the kremlin, it may be that, but in fact we have to continue to do what we are doing, to defend and try to protect our state, despite the fact that the enemy is serious, i always believe that one should not underestimate the enemy, one must understand that we are fighting a large state, with nuclear potential, and. ..

but nevertheless, thanking the armed forces, by the way, i would also like to congratulate everyone who defends our state today at the front and not only at the front, we must understand that this is a serious enemy, and we must all go our own way. thank you, mr. dmytro, for the conversation, it was dmytro razumkov, the native deputy of ukraine, chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine in 2019-21, friends, we are watching what is happening now, the situation is developing in the middle east, that is, information is changing literally from minute to minute, biden has already instructed the american military to help israel shoot down iranian missiles , now there is a mass attack by iranian missiles on the territory of israel, but we will talk about this after the story on our tv channel, we will have diplomat oleksandr hara in touch, we will analyze this situation in all its components. for now, take a look at ours

wonderful employees, employees of our tv channel, 22 employees defend the homeland in the war zone. today, on the day of defenders of ukraine, we will talk about our courageous colleagues who are now protecting our peace, we are watching. russian castles in kherson. in the shot, military correspondent and news anchor vitaly bakumenko in the war zone and unoccupied territories. the journalist made many operative inclusions and interesting reports. in 2023, vitaly joined the armed forces of ukraine. we know what we stand for here. we know who we are up against and we know the main thing. for what? we stand for our freedom. by. our families and for our future as

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attacked israel, but the information is just coming in that the minutes are being developed, they are writing about the fact that, according to preliminary data, about... 300 rockets were launched into the territory of israel, biden has already instructed the american military to help israel shoot down iranian missiles, a video appears of these missiles flying over israel, israel says that it is a declaration of war, and an unprecedented response is expected, how the current situation in the middle east will affect ukraine, first of all and on... the russian-ukrainian war, and won't the emphasis and attention of the world community now be shifted to the middle east, and this is what putin was trying so hard at the time? well, first of all it should be said that israel has, albeit a difficult one

situation, there is a luxury that ukraine does not have, that for decades the united states supported israel, its defense capability, this is the first thing, and secondly, they did not have so many levers. influence on the government of israel and in particular elzei. and precisely in order to survive, in order to punish those who committed terrorist acts, to free the hostages of israel, hamas first cleared the terrorists, and then took on ekhbal. it is very important to understand here, for those who are not interested or do not know, not familiar with the near east, that iran's strategy was support. various terrorist organizations, this is the so-called ring of fires, that is, it is such a circle of fire, and in this way prepare for the destruction of israel, and in the case of israel's readiness to fight with iran, to cause unbearable, irreparable damage to israel, but

israel has actually destroyed the backbone of the main part of hamas, now a very good cleanup took place and the leadership of hezbollah in particular. a more powerful force, well, on a really big attack by israel, and of course that tehran had to respond somehow, and it responds to missile terror, but i don't think that this war will... is growing into a direct conflict there already on the ground, i don't think the iranians want it or are ready for it, and most importantly, i was talking about this advantage, this luxury that israel has, the united states can criticize netanyahu, can do something to say, suspend the supply of weapons, but as soon as the situation escalates and there is a threat to the security of israel, the united states will not watch. on some exclamatory steps or anything, they will defend israel, and of course

the allies will join in, we have such a luxury no, of course we are grateful to the americans for the help that they give us, but there are ridiculous restrictions on the means that are given to us, and even more so, how we can use them, in relation to russian territory, i hope that in ramstein... they will half a step ahead and allow the european allies so that they do not forbid ukraine to hit stormshed and french scalps on russian territory, and later, since there will be no nuclear escalation, then it will be possible to hit atakams, and i think that there is no need to give permission, but then apply blows, first you must strike, you must by and large move away from the wrong way. a very valuable strategy for ukraine, when putin had many options, and

ukraine and our partners narrowed these options, that is, that we cannot do something like that, and of course, that we would like ukraine to be like israel, so that there was steady support for any government, any president, unfortunately, we now see that ukraine is a hostage of domestic political problems in the united states, and one, one candidate says that it is necessary to support. ukraine the other, you say, we need to stop the war, and those statements he voiced definitely do not coincide with our national interests and definitely do not lead to a stable, just and lasting peace in ukraine. and why, mr. oleksandr, during volodymyr zelenskyi's last visit to the united states of america, we got such a result, that is, even in trump's behavior there was such disdain for the president. and ukraine, perhaps the ukrainians made a mistake by going to pennsylvania to that factory which,

by the way, it was recommended by the pentagon, it was not the ukrainians who chose this plant in the town where biden was born, but even after zelensky's meeting with trump, the republican candidate for vice president of the united states of america, jady vance, criticized it at a pre-election rally. he came to the election campaign with the democratic leadership of this country. we spent 200 billion dollars on ukraine. you know what i would like zelensky to do when he comes to the united states of america to say thank you residents well, one could say to zelenskyi

that he would like the residents of pennsylvania to thank the fact that this plant was built, because it produces weapons, and taxes and jobs remain in pennsylvania, why is this, let's say, a ukrainian topic so urgent now , the ukrainian card is being played by the headquarters, in particular trump, well, is it all to say that it is double? standards, speaker mike johnson, who delayed aid to ukraine for more than six months, he did it not because there was no political will among congressmen, it vote or otherwise, he wanted and more precisely, he followed the instructions of donald trump to block, to solve the issues of the southern border, which was packaged together with the help of ukraine, israel in taiwan, and only with such a perspective. that something very bad could happen in ukraine, ukraine would lose a big city, and there could be some, well,

absolutely catastrophic consequences for the ukrainian defense forces, because then trump, not wanting this evil to hang on him, gave the go-ahead, and then the speaker johnson put it to a vote and actually everyone voted, therefore, let's say so, ukraine is accused of interfering in internal affairs, it is absolute. baseless, we are a factor and trump and his team are trying to use us. the second point, comrade orbán was in maralaga, several leaders from the middle east. were at marlag's and then afterwards they were saying how they were looking forward to trump coming into power and putting the world in order over there and whatnot. there were no comments from the republicans regarding the inclusion of the internal affairs of the solucans i like it when they say that there should be

a president, the president of ukraine has not said a single word that he stands for democracy, he. i came to this plant in pennsylvania in order to actually thank the american people for the bipartisan support of ukraine, as well as president biden, who by and large is in charge of this strategy of supporting ukraine, and there is nothing wrong with this, it is definitely not interference in internal affairs, by the way, it is very interesting that mike johnson demanded the president of ukraine to release the ambassador of ukraine to united states, but during. during the negotiations and after that, in the public part , i did not hear from trump to say that this was an intervention, and mr. president, i expect you to fire this person who advised you to do this, i am not talking about how all this was being organized, so clearly, both the ministry of foreign affairs and our embassy in washington worked to ensure

that the meetings were balanced, that there were both democrats and republicans, and both... presidential candidates, because we don't know who luders are the american people, hence the question domestic policy, and this issue did not arise during the visit of the ukrainian president this fall, it was created in 2016, when trump accused us that we and the previous president sided with hillary clinton, that one of the ukrainian oligarchs aide, he was funding a certain program there so that the ukrainian ... hackers interfered with the servers of the democratic and republican national committee, but you know that then the information was released exclusively against hillary clinton, and it is clear that the russians did it, by the way, it was also proven by the american intelligence services, but trump has a negative attitude towards us, and

in fact ukraine was chosen as a whipping boy, that the biden administration gives... large funds to the corrupt regime in kyiv, who steals this money and launders some of it and gives it back to jose obliden, this is a lie, this is manipulation, because most of the aid that comes to us is not at all, that is, it is not financial, we are given weapons, ammunition, equipment, or from our name buy from other countries what we need, and so all these things, they are needed to show how bad joseph biden's government is. that he spends a lot of money on an endless war against russia, which could start world war iii, and instead does not solve the problems of ordinary americans themselves. now the new topic is this hurricane that was in the united states, and there were terrible consequences, and now the trumpians are accusing joe biden of

spending a large amount of money on ukraine, and not wanting to spend money on americans. it another big trumpian, they voted against allocating money to fema, well, it's like the emergency department , that is, they blocked these things, they blocked advance payments to other states for such spontaneous, and what happened, these americans, that is, it is so disgusting. politics, politicking with double standards, where ukraine is a hostage of this situation, it is used, and of course, they were not treated, at least, i can say, from the point of view of trump and his closest circle, with respect, with the understanding that we are here are doing, that we are defending not only our lives, our existence, that we are not only defending european borders and security in europe, but

that our battle, our war, it is extremely important to the security of the united states. and other democratic countries of the world, mr. oleksandr, after the visit of the ukrainian delegation, the british edition of ft wrote that andriy sebiga, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, allegedly conducted negotiations and discussed possible topics of territorial concessions in the war with the russian federation, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine denied this information , george quiet. the spokesman of the ministry stated that there were no proposals at any meeting, discussing even hints of any territorial compromises, and here, well, the question is enough about... simple, whether the american side's response to zelenskyi's victory plan could be a proposal to

suspend the war, and the suspension of the war can be a temporary, let's say, temporary territorial concessions by the russian federation, when russia will control a part of the ukrainian until a certain moment, but first of all... i think it should be noted to remind that president joseph biden is a lame duck, that is, he is no longer capable of doing anything fundamental, well, on the one hand, there is a tradition that a president who is not re-elected does not make decisions of a strategic nature, so as not to burden his successor, and of course , that it is not yet guaranteed that kamela harix can become the president, so far she is leading in the opinion polls and she has a good chance, but it is not a ... guaranteed thing, and actually in this background, during the visit of the president of ukraine to washington, joseph biden eventually said that

the united states is betting on ukraine's victory. that's very good, but it would be nice if he said that in the 22nd year, and if there weren't those limitations, first of all in the 22nd, and then in terms of the means that were given to us for a counteroffensive operation that did not reach its goal success before, before... all that we haven't been given the key components, which are air assets, that is, actually modern platforms that would allow us to drop the katsaps from our air and enable our ground forces to maneuver, so what now says joseph biden, of course it's very good, it's nice, but he doesn't have the opportunity to do something, i hope that this is part of the understanding of the failed strategy on the war in ukraine, and secondly, that this is part of... a new strategy, i hope taking into account our wishes, ours, we, as citizens of ukraine, do not know what

zelensky's strategy or victory plan was about, but from the criticism of our enemies, i understand that it was about further support for ukraine by various means, primarily weapons, ammunition, technique and other help, that is, there is not it was about some kind of reconciliation, a pause and something else, about how we enter the next year, and of course that there can be different scenarios here, from the negative, and now in the east we have not very pleasant news, what about that we leave one more seat, but from a strategic point of view, we have nothing to lose, it's a pity that is destroyed, that we have to leave, but that does not mean that we have lost this war, well i'm talking about what about what, under the conditions of the arrival of trump , under conditions of fragmented support from our partners, we will of course faced with an extremely unpleasant dilemma, what to do next, will we be able to continue the struggle, or will we not need what

is needed, and will be forced to pause in order to further prepare for the liberation of our own territories, this is the most pessimistic scenario, the second scenario more optimistic, this is when this administration will provide us with everything we need, and actually. exhausts all the resources that have been provided by congress, what is in the warehouses of the pentagon, what american industry, not only american, can produce for us, and what we we can show a good result, similar to what is happening now in the kurdish direction, this is the second result, the third result, if it is kamalo haris, or maybe, this cannot be ruled out, although i am already skeptical about what trump will decide from a position of strength to talk to putin and and... therefore will open all the secrets that he has and will provide the scene necessary for ukraine to win this war and this war to end as soon as possible for the ukraine of the world,

the americans would then focus on the chinese and other problems, so of course that there may be different scenarios, but i am absolutely sure, and you know very well, because we had not one, but three maidans, we had a situation in 2015, when in the constitution of ukraine they wanted to bend them and write them there... the so- called minsk the agreements that took place, neither the pro-government party had unity, i always talk about others, nor ukrainian society, which came to the square of the constitution, it is a pity that there was a tragedy and several national guardsmen died, well, what am i talking about, that there is a voice of ukrainians , there are ukrainian communities, and any deviation from the main line, it will cost any government dearly, and i think that... and president zelensky, even more so, foreign minister sibig, understand this very well and understand the negative reaction that may even be destructive for

ukrainian statehood, i hope that... they will not bring it to this point, but they definitely understand it well, that it is absolutely impossible to impose such a thing on ukrainian society, and therefore if it is about something, then it is about receiving help now and long-term help, i have no doubt about it, i simply do not believe that mr. sibiga could talk about a certain pause, certain, let's say, the idea of ​​staying in the russian occupation for a long time. with some ukrainian territory. meanwhile, mr. oleksandr, there is information that in tel aviv, after the arrival of an iranian missile, there was an explosion on an oil tower, this is reported by the local media, they also say that two air bases were damaged or destroyed, it is not known for sure in israel, and the video is published, there is already a reaction from donald trump, who called iran's attack on israel.

war, this is reported by the mass media, and they write about the fact that iran fired about 500 rockets at israel, the iron dome still cannot withstand the load, this is written by the jerusalem post. it is reported that somewhere around 60-80 missiles were shot down, well, let's wait for the final information, in short, let's look at the situation in the middle east, will it end only with an attack by iran. on the territory of israel, will we still witness the deployment of wider hostilities? i think it is will end in such things that there will be no direct clash and splashing of this conflict beyond the borders. israel showed its will, showed the high professionalism of the intelligence and defense forces, and destroyed what threatened israel

from within. own and what hung like a sword of domoclaw over israel, i mean hezbollah in lebanon, and this is not only the leadership of hezbollah itself, but also those stockpiles of missiles that threatened israel, and what iran is doing now, of course , that it is necessary to answer according to middle eastern concepts, but i don't think iran is ready for war, and you know, just look at... what's happening between ukraine and russia, i think in tehran they think that war, if you don't plan it well, it has unpredictable nature and no one knows, unlike the russian pleps who tolerates putin, who allows himself to be used as meat against the ukrainians, who go to the factories to work to make a penny creating shells, and i'm not sure that mullahs in tehran feel good because tehran is not... and

integral state, there are a large number of minorities, and this regime is not popular, we have seen during the last few years when there were certain protests, and that is, the protest potential is there, and the war will be the ability of these dissatisfied people to show themselves that it will not work beyond the current conflict, thank you mr. oleksandr, it was oleksandr khara, a diplomat, thank you for participating in the program, i would like to remind you that during our broadcast we are conducting a survey or not? do you expect the united states of america to allow long-distance travel at the next ramstein, the interim results of the 50-50 poll, and after a 15-minute break in the bbc news program, we will have people's deputies elizaveta esko, yuliya klymenko and volodymyr ariev, stay tuned to espresso, it will be interesting from now on.

iran launched a missile attack on israel in response to a ground operation against the hezbollah group in southern lebanon. the us warned tehran of the consequences. how will israel respond ? taghiran is ready for a direct military confrontation, this is what jafer umerov will talk about in the next 15 minutes of the bbc broadcast in the studio in london. the israeli army reports that iran launched missiles at israel. sirens sounded throughout the country, the authorities called on israelis to hide in bomb shelters and follow the orders of the command.