artem and denis. where the boys may be now, no one knows. it is possible that shortly before the liberation of kherson oblast, they were taken to the temporarily occupied territories, or perhaps to russia in general. that is why your help is very important. if anyone has information about the missing boys, call us immediately on the hotline of the child tracing service at the short number 116.30. calls from any ukrainian mobile operators are free. if suddenly there is no connection or an opportunity to call, write to the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram. i only told several stories of missing children. in total, we have received more than 3,000 requests for help in the search since the start of the full-scale invasion. fortunately, the vast majority of children have already been found, but the fate of many remains unknown. this especially applies to temporarily occupied territories, where work is practically paralyzed. to the police, where

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of the country, now here with vitaly portnikov, mr. vitaly, good evening, and so, actually, as always, we start with the security bloc, with what is happening at the front, what is happening in connection with the war in our country, which the russian federation said, and in general, of course, we will talk about all the issues that concern... and russia, providing for russia and so on and so on, so the first question is probably how russia is progressing in general, we every day we observe that in fact there is an ugledar, that's it a few days ago the pokrovsky direction, so today the deep state maps publish information about another advance in the kupyansky direction, that is, directly in the kharkiv region. there are other

directions, there is the direction of the time gap, which are perhaps less pronounced now, but the general trend is quite clear, mr. vitaly, what we talked about in... in our past programs, russia is gradually, but moving, well and here it is also worth adding information related to the fact that, firstly, the mobilization in russia continues, russia plans to recruit another quarter of a million contract soldiers into the army in order to essentially make up for the losses that have occurred in recent times, and of course, no one wants the fall draft. was hiding, that is, russia continues to fight, and this is a fact. mr. vitaly, these are the trends that we are currently seeing at the front, that we are seeing, in particular, in the russian political and military space, and in particular, in addition to this , the fact that for the next year, russia is laying in

the draft budget about 40% of all expenditures specifically for the military needs, on his army and on everything that concerns the provision of the army, this whole complex is a contest. how do you rate it and what does it show? well, we really talked about it many times, i said that the only way to achieve an end to the russian-ukrainian war is not some kind of negotiations, it's not some kind of ultimatums, it's not some kind of international forums, it's all very simple: either the russian army stops, or it advances, it is possible to stop the russian army only, as we understand, by resisting this army and reducing its military economic potential, that is, this is what our troops at the front, when we destroy russian military arsenals, when we destroy russian oil depots, when we say that russia should feel the impact not

only of drones, but also of western missiles, these are all steps towards stopping, this time, another, no illusions are needed, what you have listed to me. seems like the obvious answer to this question is that putin wants to advance exclusively in the territories he has declared to be part of the russian federation, which is the kupin part of the russian federation, as i recall. of course, from the russian point of view, the kharkiv region continues to be part of ukraine, and why? and because the 2022 operation was famous, when the russians lost kupyansk, you remember that it was already the temporary center of the kharkiv region. occupied, which they were going to do, what kharkiv region of the russian federation, that is, why are they advancing there, they want to seize a certain territorial bridgehead there, hold a referendum in 2025 and announce that the kharkiv region

is also part of the russian federation, and after to demand that ukrainian troops leave not only zaporizhzhia, kherson, donetsk, and luhansk regions of ukraine, but also kharkiv, for example, and this is the logic of this war, which must be understood: the russians will advance wherever they can, the russians will decide on the annexation of ukrainian regions, and the russians will create such a negotiating position for themselves that, in their opinion, will help them in principle, even if they fail to occupy all of ukraine . to russia that part of its territory which is part of the new russia project. by the way, it is worth reminding that this was a plan, it is simply carried out differently. in february 2022, that's what the idea of ​​the blitzkrieg was:

a puppet government is being created in kyiv. and, as putin said then, you remember, we will ensure self-determination of all peoples of ukraine. what kind of peoples are these, i always wanted to ask what kind of peoples there are in ukraine, if the vast majority of the population here are ethnic ukrainians, and i will tell you what they are, the peoples of kharkiv oblast, zaporizhzhia, kherson oblast and so on, then this government headed by viktor yanukovych and viktor medvedchuk, should not have prevented the idea of ​​holding referendums in the eastern and southern regions of ukraine regarding them. accession to the russian federation, on this territory that would remain with this government, it is like the government hanging the times, hitler's occupation of france, just on a larger territory, there would be created a puppet ukrainian state as part of the union state of russia and belarus, just in this russia already

would be donetsk, luhansk, kherson, zaporizhzhya, mykolaiv, odesa, and kharkiv regions. their favorite project is yugo-vostok so, even in 2004, this is not a new story, that is, they believe that ukraine can exist, what is it. on the one hand, central ukraine should be a part of the russian project of a union state, and on the other hand, the authorities of central ukraine should keep the west, the western regions of ukraine in subjection, because they themselves do not want to exercise control elements there. well, this is how marshal pétain, at the head of this vichy government, exercised control over this territory of france, which was left for this one. puppet of the french state, to things, maybe you remember that at some point, i don't remember when it was in

the year 44 or 43, the whole other territory of france was annexed to the state of owicha, pétain came to paris, he was there welcomed, but in fact all this was actually hitler's occupation, simply formalized under independent france, which was already almost completely with the exception of those areas that the germans considered historically theirs, alsace and so on, this was france, well, ukraine as it was then hitler created france for pétain, this is the ukraine putin was going to make for yanukovych. well, and now that it turned out that blitzkrieg was a fiasco, russia has the impression that they can achieve this goal through a multi-year war. that's all. that is, what could not be achieved in three days could be achieved in three weeks, what could not be achieved in three weeks could be achieved in three months, what could not be achieved in three months could be achieved in three years, but in three years, when... it won't work, let's see how their priorities will change, that is, what they will say, what

could not be achieved in three years, can be achieved in 13 years, the development of events is also absolutely possible, or well, we have already taken what we have taken, we will fix it for the time being, or at least they will go to what they think is a temporary truce, a temporary truce, yes, well, in principle, here it is this, this is the logic of the moment, and i don't know why we are surprised all the time by their promotion. well, it seems as if we all the time think that they are ready to stop the war, but they want negotiations, they are exhausted, they will want negotiations, when they are really exhausted, this is a possible option, again, i don't know what year it is will happen, i have already stated several times the conditions for this stoppage of the war, it is true when they stopped, when they cannot advance further, when their bombing of ukrainian territory does not lead. to the results they expect, that is, to the overflow of the population, and this is when they

lose a huge amount of money, but get nothing as a result, these are the three main conditions, everything else, all these international forums, all these international condemnations, all these statements in general do not have any meaning, it must be understood, we can in principle work in terms of our diplomatic success, i have always said that i see no reason why we should not work. we held a peace summit, this is an important instrument of international support for ukraine, does it have anything to do with the finished war, no, now china can hold its own summit of friends of peace, why? in order to knock out international support from volodymyr zelenskyi, transfer it to his side, to the side of russia at great expense, and then they will count how many countries will gather at that alternative summit, where the host already... it will not be volodymyr zelenskyi, but a conditional sydzenpin, and whether ukraine will want to participate in such a diplomatic forum,

but it will still have nothing to do with the war, it will be, if you like, just a game on a different field, war, relatively speaking, is a real event where people die, real cities are destroyed, the destinies of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people are destroyed, but this is a computer game, people gather in the mountains there... you can gather in the mountains of switzerland, in you can gather in the mountains of china, a beautiful hotel, exquisite food, champagne, and in this one the situation is discussed, really serious problems that these people cannot solve, are not able to solve, because it is not diplomats, but generals who decide the issue when there is a war, not presidents, soldiers decide the future of their countries, and presidents can only or command these soldiers. continue to fight, as they are doing now, or decide that the war

ends, that's only when the president decides that the war ends, only at that moment the initiative passes to them from the military, and when the presidents if the armies say fight, then in principle they do not play a significant role in the course of the situation, there is no need to place great hopes on them. volodymyr zelenskyi can travel around the world, meet with... presidents of various countries and ask for help, but everything depends not on him, but on the ukrainian army. vladimir putin can demand that his army, which did, take kyiv in three days, that it took all of it. remember when he set this task back in 2022, but if the russian army cannot do it, vladimir putin, like vladimir zelensky is not a subject, but an object of this process, he can only give orders, and whether the military can carry out these orders or not depends on how they have to fight with other forces, forces, where force works, politics and diplomacy without

force, and here we pass to another condition. as for security guarantees, which i think we will talk about later, this is also a very important point, because if russia understands that it is opposed by a force greater than ukraine, let's say the north atlantic alliance, not just helps, not just provides weapons, but guarantees the security of the ukrainian territory there , at least not covered by war, then it is also a political question for the russian president even then, whether he wants... that he, in principle , leads to a conflict that could lead to a prospective conflict between a nuclear state and a nuclear bloc. this is a completely different story, but it is also a very important story for our allies, that they give us security guarantees, are they ready for a potential conflict with a nuclear state, which could turn into the third world war with

the use of a nuclear component and death tens of millions of people in the midst of the greatest drama in the history of mankind, when you and i understand very well, dear friends, that no one will remember the russian-ukrainian war and the fate of ukraine against this sad background, and february 24, 2022 will go down in the history of mankind, if there will be any history of humanity at all, it may not be at all, like the firing of the starting gun, which put an end to the hopes of millions of people to live on earth for some more time, which was set aside for this civilization, which is certainly not eternal on this planet, but we at least belong to those generations that were still gathering. to live for a long time, and it may turn out that these hopes of ours are in vain, and that we are, in principle , approaching the most interesting and, i would say exciting catastrophe in the history of mankind, which really no one will read about in history textbooks in due to their possible absence. and yes, when we think about it, we understand what western politicians are afraid of and how this nuclear blackmail

of putin works, but i just showed you the mechanism of this blackmail, which by the way this week. was involved when they continued to talk about their nuclear doctrine there, how they will apply it, not apply it, well, although on the other hand we see how in fact the same piskov says that no, strikes there with unmanned aerial vehicles, all over the territory russia or even there with missiles of ukrainian production, the fact that their warehouses are exploding, so that it has nothing to do with this, that is, as they say... a step forward, of course, this is a situation of strategic uncertainty, so that the west does not understand, after all, where the specific condition, where they are ready for this, maybe they are not ready for this at all, but they specially create such a situation when the doctrine is, when it can be applied, it is not clear, let's continue this whole discussion further, and we will

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saturday political club, live ether, we are back, and now we will discuss issues related to nato itself, the possible, possible membership of ukraine in nato. we will also discuss the issue of these next peace plans, which are discussed a lot and very often in the western press, and we will start, of course, with a visit to kyiv, actually by mark rutte, the new secretary general of nato, he arrived in ukraine and made several statements , which included possible... membership of ukraine in the north atlantic alliance. in particular, mr. rutte stated that ukraine is closer to nato than ever before.

also, mr. ryute commented on the possibility of strikes on the territory of russia with western weapons. well, in particular, again, a large number of publications appeared in the foreign press, which may be related to... ukraine's membership in nato, here is the financial times, several articles appeared there, one today, some articles appeared during the previous days, in particular one of the articles is written about the fact that nato is considering the so-called german model of ukraine's membership, that is, conditionally speaking, we understand that this part, yes, the country can join the north atlantic alliance, including there are also... other statements, in particular, the former already secretary general of nato jen stoltenberg said that ukraine can become a member of nato, even with

occupied territories, at least that was the statement, but in addition, let's pay attention to one article of the same edition of the financial times, which today is very actively circulated in is ukrainian. at least internet segment, which is actively discussed by ukrainians, in particular, i quote: western ukrainian officials have decided that the basis for negotiations can be essential security guarantees in exchange for russia's control over the occupied territories of ukraine, in particular, under these essential security guarantees , they consider including and membership in nato, at least that part of the country or those territories that are... under the control of official kyiv. the publication also notes that this would be a tacit agreement that these lands should be returned through diplomatic means in

in the future ukraine has. to define a military defense border, to agree not to station troops or nuclear weapons on a permanent basis on its territory, if it is not threatened by an attack, well, this is one, some, relatively speaking, one spectrum of those, actually, articles that were in the foreign press, we will also talk about others as well, but let's at least discuss this mass of material that we have now: ukraine in nato, about it again... the second issue also began to be actively discussed, this is actually this so-called tacit agreement, by the way, i also want to add here that according to media sources, some who published a response, allegedly in the president's office, reacted to the article, one of the tv channels notes this, about supposedly security guarantees, again, in

the president's office, they allegedly talk about , that... this is a delusion, it is not true, there is no such conversation, no one in the west has officially and clearly offered such security guarantees to ukraine, which would definitely prevent the expansion or repetition of the war. well, these are the things: mr. vitaly, the arrival of mr ryute to kyiv, his opinion on nato, jens stoltenberg's opinion, and here are these articles in the western press, what they testify to. precisely on this so-called political-diplomatic track, and whether today our western partners really consider the possibility that ukraine, at least in some perspective, or perhaps within the framework of some formal or informal agreement, joins nato, but without the actual occupied territories.

well, look, this... history is being discussed from 2022, not 2024. if you remember, i publicly talked about it, that in 2022, as a possible variant of the development of events, and by the way, at that time i said that the question of what the zone should look like that will not be embraced by the guarantees of the fifth article, i.e. ukraine and accepted to nato in all its territorial integrity, but the issue of the fifth article is approximately. not like germany, it is true that germany believed that she had the right to all her territories, including the territory of the gdr, but the fifth article covered the territory of the federal republic only germany, well, the german democratic republic was a completely different state body, part of a different defense union, as, say, uh, happens with the occupied territories of ukraine, to a certain extent, but...

again, even then there were options that discussed, one of the options was to provide a security guarantee along the line of contact, another option was to provide a security guarantee without the territories that are considered disputed between russia and the country, and many people were offended at me then that i called these territories disputed, but with from the point of view of the constitutional law of the two countries, whether we like it or not, these are disputed territories, it's just that russia has destroyed international law, but that does not make... the fact that the dispute is invalid, the non-existent constitution of russia is the donetsk, luhansk, kherson, zaporizhzhia regions, and the republic of crimea and sevastopol, and even if we liberate these territories by military means, they will not go anywhere according to the constitution of the russian federation, it will consider these territories occupied by ukraine, it will consider that it has these territories to return either politically or militarily,

it will prepare for... revenge, well, roughly like azerbaijan with nagorno -karabakh and its regions, which were the so- called security zone, of course, international law was on azerbaijan's side there, we will not even discuss this, i think we will argue for a minute, but azerbaijan believed for a long time that it would be able to return these territories through political dialogue, but all this time it was preparing for a new war with armenia in order to solve this issue by force, let 's say, if... we would win back ours territories in russia, and russia would leave these territories in the constitution, it should be understood that it is preparing for the moment when it can take these territories by means of a new war with ukraine, by the way, there is still a turning point, even if we these territories we do not release