from the breed and so on, which is generally unacceptable at the level of a deputy of our verkhovna rada behaving in such a way, while this was not the first time, but now, apparently, it was already, as it were, on the verge, and it is necessary to study the extent to which there were the requirements of the relevant legislation were violated, er, because such information was transmitted, which was used by the enemy, and we had your... consequences with all approaches is connected with the responsibility of any person, and even more so a people's deputy for such events. on the eve of the departure of the armed forces of ukraine from vadim filashkin, the head of the donetsk regional military administration in ugledar , announced on the air of the ediny novosti telethon that, despite the hostilities within the city, there are still more than 100 residents in ugledar. let's hear what he said.

there are 107 people left in uglidar, we have taken the children out, to thank everyone, the children have been gone for a long time, and these 107 people who remain there, it is very difficult to get to them, to get humanitarian aid, drinking water, medicines, because the active phase of the war is going on, already now voro is almost in downtown, sir general, what could be the next course of action? does this mean that they will go to pokrovsky, i understand that further beyond pokrovsky, there already in the direction of zaporizhzhia, yes, such a prospect is visible for the enemy, we must understand that the uglydar fortress itself was, let's say, a defensive one , in order to stop the pressure,

it is fundamentally simple in this direction in general, but the critical question is that after they captured him, the prospect of further pressing this ass on kurakhov and with prospects for pokrovsk, that is, taking into account the fact that the defense forces of ukraine managed to knock down pokrovsk in the pokrovsk direction a few weeks ago. the offensive momentum of the russians thanks to the introduction of reserves of up to three brigades here, well, and armed with ammunition, then they were reformatted, and the offensive emphasis in the future began to be carried out in the kurakhiv direction, well, and on the corner further, as we can see, and here they succeeded, and now in connection with further actions may be such a direction for them on...

kursk oblast of the russian federation, v in september, putin, according to the propaganda of the russian media, set a task by october 1 to do everything to ensure that the armed forces of ukraine were not in the kursk region, despite the fact that, in just a few days, it will already be the third month that the armed forces of ukraine are on the territory of the russian federation. how do you rate prospects.

maintenance of this territory of this bridgehead for the armed forces of ukraine and whether ukraine can develop its capabilities, offensive capabilities on the territory of russia in the direction of the bryansk or belgorod regions from the territory of the kursk region. and for this, to to analyze further actions, it is necessary to recall the results of the first stage during the offensive month. angershchyna, they agreed to the fact that they preemptively preempted offensive actions, this is the first target on sumyshchyna, which proved the gur, generalskibirsky about these plans for kharkiv region, on sumyshchyna, so sumyshchyna was thwarted, secondly, they were forced to shift, that is, their fronts for the bulk of the troops, and the russians did it, they did not pretend to be brigades, because they had to, if they were given the task to perform tasks.

including the eastern front, and were thrown over battalions, and they gathered up to 50 different battalions there and there was a problem that they have barely overcome now. on the formation of the management system of these groups, which has now grown to about 45,000. this was the second and third - the formation of the buffer zone, which putin has formed as a sanitary zone in kharkiv oblast from may to the present time, advanced 10 km beyond ours the defenders don't let them in, there was a group of 35,000, and we had 15,000 and went to kurshchyna for 3,500 km. and the 40th front captured 1,300 km, the exchange front for 600, and so on, that is, it was formed and the fight for this buffer zone continues, and now with regard to further actions, definitely the goal in my opinion now is

to hold this zone, because ushchyna and suzhe itself, it was such a russian military hub that they used for actions. and where the forces and means were concentrated in the direction of kharkiv, the direction of sumy, and therefore, since we hold this region now, they do not have such an opportunity, and we see confirmation of the additional use of brooms, that in fact, every day from under kursk, shaheds strike and fly , that is, it is absolutely necessary to influence these circumstances, but after they recruited groups... well, the estimates were, let's say, from 30-40 thousand, they will already be able to stop, according to the estimates of western experts, what they actually did, they stopped the further significant advance in the direction of the defense forces

of ukraine , and went into a counter-offensive in four directions, two from the north, one from the west, one from the southeast direction, and succeeded... that is, to regain control of up to a dozen settlements, which is especially important for them, this is snagast and bikulku east , well, what about some directions, and it is important that they broke through an overland corridor to the group, which they had two or three times there, limited by the sima river and our troops, which means that since through the 7th defense forces, it is fundamentally to ensure logistics, that is, to break through this corridor, they have already they did, but our defense force responded asymmetrically, they crossed the borders again and struck the

hlushkov district, that is exactly where this corridor is, and the snagosti district, and now there are battles, especially in the glushkov peak for... so that again to cut this corridor russian, in addition, in addition, it means, well, they are moving in some other directions, i.e., the defense forces of ukraine have, in my opinion, switched to active mobile defense at the moment, active and emphasized by the fact that for the second time they struck a blow with the transition of the borders to... lushkovo and the side of weakness , well, defensive actions are being taken on some individual issues, and some, therefore, are moving forward, this kind of fighting is happening there now. obviously, mr. general, our prospects at the front in

the korsk region, donetsk region, and kharkiv region will depend, among other things, on weapons that we ourselves will be. to produce, as there is still no permission from our western partners regarding the strikes of their weapons on the territory of the russian federation. president zelensky reported that in the first half of this year alone, ukraine produced 25 times more ammunition for artillery and mortars than in the entire 22nd year. the production of other types of weapons is increasing. let's listen to what the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine said. and the total number of drones that we are able to produce annually in ukraine is 4 million and more than 1.5 million have been contracted, we are already using a completely new class of ukrainian weapons, a long-range missile, a drone, a clearing house,

other types of our long-range drones are working, naval drones are working for the defense of ukraine, passed... musical tests, our new ballistic missile, everyone can to see how our neptunes work too. well, your numbers. the prime minister of ukraine denys shmehal has statistics, he says that by the end of the year ukraine will produce 1.5 million drones, he announced this during the government meeting. let's listen to the head of the government. another direction of support for our army is the increase in the number of weapons and equipment that the defenders of ukraine have. every day we work with partners to increase the supply of weapons and strengthen development. own defense and industrial complex. in 2023 , the production of weapons in ukraine tripled.

every second piece of ammunition in the combat zone is ukrainian. by the end of the year, we will produce 1.5 million drones. we not only produce drones, but also train personnel to manage them. mr. general, how do you assess these stated rates zelensky and shmyhal. this is obvious. enough, obviously, ukraine will need several years in order to increase the production of its own weapons, what do you say about it, unfortunately, we see how the shortcomings that were previously reflected in the construction of a cartridge factory, the construction of a factory there was supposed to release shells and all this was postponed, well, we see the consequences of this, and now in such a ... fire version we are trying to catch up with this situation and

we see that due to the fact that there are difficulties with the help of our allies, it concerns permission, and many other things, some are slowing down these processes, in general, all this is not easy, and we definitely need to focus primarily on the production of our enterprise and industrial complex, and there are, as we can see, shifts in these processes, but of course, this is really not enough, the fundamental question is about ammunition, we are trying to replace them as much as we can with shock, unmanned vehicles, but artillery will not be replaced, the current time, the power is different, let’s say, well, before that, that is, unmanned vehicles, artillery, artillery missile fire systems still need to be added , missiles, missile weapons, which are also

advancing in our country, but also slowed down in their own way, i of the general staff introduced the sapsan chichrom2 program, the first stage was done, and then all this russian agency, which we have , got involved , which was also in the leadership, who were bullied, suspended funding and so on, is now hiding very hard. is to catch up with this situation, but passed, passed the exams, the rockets directly continue to advance, well, in the same direction, neptune, we see that already the modernization of not only the first option shore, ship, and as it was in relation to the moscow cruiser, but with a longer range, now perfect niktun - it is also a missile complex, land earth, that is, there is progress, ours. the minister of defense says that by the end of the year there will be information about the development of the missile

program, well, yes, what you have shown in these shots is more important, certainly not just information about it, but directly seeing the use of these weapons is very necessary for the defense forces of ukraine, which well, pressing is happening here. thank you, mr. general conversation, it was igor. romanenko, founder of the charity fund we will close the sky of ukraine, lieutenant general, former deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. friends, we continue our work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are currently watching us live there, subscribe to our pages, take part in our survey. today we ask you about the following: do you think presidential elections in the 25th year are possible? yes, no, please vote. on youtube are appropriate buttons, if you have your own opinion, a separate opinion, please write it in the comments

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some potential candidates are already starting to collect some of their back offices and pre-election campaigns. any companies? well, first of all, it was allegedly officially announced that the verification of the list had begun voters this means that the first stages of preparation for the elections have really begun. and now the question is under what system these elections can be held, because in fact, we have a huge territory on which elections are held. it is simply impossible, even if it is under the control of ukraine, then these territories are shelled, even if the war is stopped, then the functioning of local authorities in these territories will be, i would say, very traumatized, that is, it is unlikely that a certain

number of people in this territory will return, especially those who suffered from battles, then... that is, well, dividing line. even if the war is stopped, most likely elections will be possible under conditions of ad hoc changes in legislation, firstly, secondly, with the good will of all election participants, because the results of these elections must be recognized by all participants. the most important thing is how to prevent falsifications, because now there is a very clear feeling that the bank is preparing falsifications for the next election, whether it will be an option through protocols, whether it will be an option through electronic voting, i do not exclude that adhoc, they can hack, so speak,

certain unwritten rules, conservative rules of the electoral system. and introduce the idea of ​​electronic voting, and under this electronic voting, especially according to the russian model, you can falsify as much as you want and dispute these results, it will simply be impossible to verify these results, you can only accept the result that the authorities will show to society, but there are no official comments yet and some certain... statements about the possibility of such elections, of course, this will all depend on how our western partners perceive the plan victory of ukraine, whether and whether it will be implemented in the short term, not in the long term. andrii yermak, the head of the office of the president of ukraine after the visit to the united states

of america, stated that this peace plan, with the exception of some parts that refer to some and... information, will be presented to the ukrainians, what would you like to see in this plan of victory and what should be there, perhaps they advised the authorities to supplement this plan of victory with some specific points, because in principle we only know for sure about one point, which was publicly stated by the same yarmak, that ukraine wants... the united states of america to declare that ukraine will be in nato, and ukraine could support the invitation from the alliance? well, this, this is such a point, which essentially leads to the idea that i would like to see. it seems to me that the government behaves in such a way that it believes that bandits can be defeated only by being

bandits themselves, but, as you know, stalin, or rather hitler... stalin, not stalin defeated hitler, the democracies defeated hitler, stalin was only an instrument of this victory, without lendlease stalin would not have won anything, he had nothing to put on his shoes and to clothe his army, he had nothing to transport the red army, i'm not talking about fuel for the planes and the planes themselves, but it's about something else. it is about the fact that if you want victory relying on western countries, then you must start with the harmony of ukrainian society with western societies, i.e.... the rule of law, freedom of speech, this is the key to joining the eu and nato. and they want to join nato with an authoritarian regime, because what

zelenskyi and yarmak have built since the 19th year, it very little resembles democracy, very little resembles democracy, that is, they were preparing the country so that no one would ever take ukraine into any nato, and it seems to me that the current pedal... with this victory plan, which just popped out somewhere from- behind the peace plan on behalf of zelenskyi, and these two plans, they somehow do not agree at the turns of certain political collisions, political projects or political intentions, but all this ultimately comes together in some kind of picture that the peace plan is more precisely a victory plan from zelensky looks like this: it is necessary to bring something from the united states. okay,

let's rename the peace plan, the victory plan, let's write: "give us a lot of weapons, a lot of money, well, it's called, dig deeper, throw further." this is such an army principle of the soviet army. so they came up with a plan to win. which boils down to the obligation to throw more and dig deeper, throw further, but give us a shovel, and in order for someone to throw with this shovel, we will continue the mobilization until the state when no one in the economy will work. against this background, sir vladimir, there is information that olaf scholz is going to call putin, but it is being discussed that it is possible, that it is not possible, and there is talk of ... that it seems that he will call putin before the g20 meeting in brazil that is due to take place in november, and here is the main

question, no, no, it is not known whether the german newspaper diedside was mistaken, or whether they really had an insight that something was going to call putin, but this call, is it not a bell that lets us know that our... western partners are ready such to conduct a dialogue with russia, if not with putin, then with russia so precisely in the current state and in their current aggressive policy, under their aggressive policy? well, first of all , it seems to me that this throw-in is caused by the state of german politics, that is, it is known that the social democrats performed very poorly in the last local elections, and well, this is specific. and the federal republic of germany, precisely these lands took place in the eastern lands, the elections, more precisely, took place in the eastern lands, and

the social democrats did not have the best positions there, in they are in the good old frg in a wonderful position, so i would not say that the social democrats feel bad at all , but still giving way to an alternative for germany is unworthy of a good old authoritative party, and in fact it seems to me that just this the attack was organized by moscow in order to hint to scholz that if you start making friends with moscow and your voter will return to you, this is a moscow provocation, because from the point of view of germany's interest, any contact with putin. does not bring good to any political forces, well, except for the alternative for germany, even such a new star

of german politics, sara wagent necht, who created her own left-wing party, she is now disowning herself from any contacts with putin, that is, this throw, i think that it was a certain parrying to the fact that even sarwagenknecht does not see an ally or. partner in putin's russia. obviously, this whole story with scholz is also connected with the upcoming meeting, the four-way meeting of great britain, germany, france, and the united states of america, because literally in a few days in this meeting will take place in germany, and there, obviously, this foursome will decide the future of ukraine from the point of view of using long-range aircraft. weapons of western countries, yesterday mark rutte became the new secretary general of nato, he was the prime minister of the netherlands,

he advocated... allowing ukraine to strike the territory of the russian federation, while admitting that these should be the decisions of individual countries. let's hear what mr. rutte said. let's not forget that ukraine is waging a war for self-defense. this means that ukraine has the right to defend itself. and as we know according to international law, this right does not end at the border. hence, the support of rights. ukraine's self-defense means an opportunity for it to also strike at legitimate targets on the aggressor's territory. ultimately, each member of the alliance must determine the level of their support for ukraine. this is not for me to decide, this is a matter for the members of the alliance and their relations with ukraine. and more precisely, mr. volodymyr, i clarified, it is decided by the level

of relations. with russia of these countries, that is, because they are afraid that russia will respond, what do you say to what rüte said, of course, he there is a functionary, the secretary general of nato, but there are countries that decide this, why are these countries afraid to give us permission to use their weapons on the territory of the russian federation? well, a number of countries are simply hanging, so to speak, with this decision, because there is an internal opposition that immediately... starts such tough protest actions, well, at least at the level of rhetoric, and then to the readiness to withdraw people outside. such a picture, by the way, is clearly recorded in the united states, only somewhere biden, well, only zelensky addresses biden about giving permission to strike russia, as trump immediately shouts that biden wants to start world war iii. the same is happening in other

countries, in particular. european, therefore, as we remember, the gas lobby is russian, it penetrated very deeply into european politics, and even countries that got rid of gas dependence, russian, still these relapses of the gas lobby are still spewing out, well , we can say that the same publication because scholz and the intention to call putin are also from this order, which he allowed. beat on the territory of russia and changes in nato policy. i have the feeling that the united states is quietly preparing for the europeanization of nato, that is, for a long time, american experts have been saying that europe is self-sufficient, that europe can maintain order with its own troops, and the united states should switch to

the pacific. theater of war, and i have the feeling that the pacific ocean zone is indeed called the most promising economic zone of the 21st century, that is, there is china, there is the united states, japan, austrian volodymyr, we must conclude if you can make it shorter, but that's why it seems to me that the question... will not only be about permission, but also about nato becoming a european structure, and that's why ukraine really needs such a structure. thank you, mr. volodymyr, it was volodymyr tsybulko, a political expert. friends, we will now look at the intermediate results of our survey. what we're asking you today is whether you think a presidential election in the 25th year is possible, so what are our midterm tv results, 25% yes, 75% no. we will talk about this in 15 minutes with our experts.

oleg sahakyan and maksym rozumny, ahead of bbc news, stay with us. ukrainian units leave ugledar city of the fortress of the armed forces of ukraine. what will happen to the front now and what is the threat of losing this city? let's take a look at today's edition of the bbc: i'm olga polomaryuk. the situation around the gardener began to deteriorate since mid-summer. and then many experts predicted the encirclement of the city and its capture - a matter of time. and the day before, several videos appeared on the network. russian soldiers with tricolors on them roofs of destroyed buildings. kremlin propagandists wrote that the city is being cleaned up, but it is still too early to talk about the complete takeover of the coal plant.