[000:00:00;00] videos from the lips of our shareholder, anatoly sedykh, he said that the main thing in your activities is to love people, respect them, take care of them, and do it selflessly, then if you succeed, then your company will receive competitive advantages, and you know, in these words, uh, he defined the principles of uh entrepreneurial culture that guides our, our company, broadcast of the web session on the sidelines of the cultural forum in st. petersburg. general bondeswehr, former chairman the nato military committee gave an interview to one of the german youtube channels, in which he literally dispelled the main myths of modern western propaganda about the conflict in ukraine. kiev cannot be defeated, the loss in sou is enormous, the russian army is only becoming stronger, the countries of the north atlantic alliance are governed by people who replace the lack of knowledge and competence

with self-confidence. and ignorance, we bring to your attention the full version of this interview, greetings, my name is philip hop, in today's video hakm we will talk with a very a special guest whom i have the honor to introduce , general kuet, mr. kuet, it's great to have you with us today, thank you very much, glad to be here, a few words about you, i'll be brief, because if i read your entire service record, we if we were sitting here until tomorrow, a few facts to give the listeners an idea about you: you were the inspector general of the bonds sphere , therefore the highest-ranking military man in our country, that is, you were higher in rank than all other military men in the country. you also

headed the planning headquarters of the federal ministry of defense, it’s you, could you briefly explain to my listeners what the chairman of the nato military committee does, yes, perhaps it should be clarified that the chairman of the nato military committee is the highest military officer of nato, nato can be said to be on two columns of political and military at the head of the political column is the secretary general. and at the head of the military column is the chairman of the nato military committee. the chairman of the nato military committee is elected by secret ballot from among the chiefs of general staff of member countries.

they elect a chairman from among themselves. i suppose this is rare in the military sphere, but it is a tradition in nato. thus, the chairman of the military committee chairs the committee meeting. subordinate to him are two strategic commanders, who, i carried out a reform of the nato command structure, making a transition from a regional one. there are two strategic commanders, one responsible for operations and the other for transformation, it was important to me that nato's armed forces always fit the context of the current security situation, in terms of

security policies and technology. so as far as planning is concerned, including operational planning, all this is the work of the nato military committee, the members of the nato military committee meet at least twice a year, the rest of the time they meet weekly with representatives of other commanders, this is a small military embassy, which is usually headed by a three star general, a small staff, they do the work on the ground, it's worth mentioning one more thing since we are going to talk about the war in ukraine, being the chairman nato military committee, i was also chairman of the commission of the chiefs

of general staff of ukraine. nato, so the chiefs of the general staffs of the nato countries, the chief of the general staff of ukraine, sat, so to speak, at the same table. i was also chairman of the russian nato chiefs of general staff. the chief of the russian general staff was present at these meetings and, on top of everything else, i was also chairman of the council of chiefs of staff of the euro-atlantic partnership, where military representatives of 48 countries gathered together and discussed the future peace, nato security as well. crises and conflicts around the globe. i would also like to mention this. it is probably also worth saying that in germany no one has ever held

so many posts at the same time. well, it's all the more interesting now to be able to ask you questions about just these topics, because i think a lot of people are noticing that reporting has been going on in recent years. have generally become very one-sided, and people often react very sensitively when alternative voices appear, each time it seems that a miracle has happened, each time, the media apparatus reacts more and more sensitively when opposing opinions suddenly appear that can bring a new idea or a new perspective to people's minds... let's move on to the next point, mr. general: the war in ukraine has been going on for more than a year and a half. remembering that time, the beginning of the war, tell me, were you surprised by the reaction to it from politicians and the public? i mean,

before they always said no to the supply of weapons to war zones, but today the same voices say weapons for peace. where do you think it comes from? this is a readiness for escalation and a clear lack of understanding of the potential danger. basically, the problem is that we have people in politics who shape german politics , who, due to incompetence and also due to their ignorance, are carrying out the policy that we have seen with the last change of government, so i was not surprised by this development of events, it rather disappointed me, because first of all, the fanaticism with which

this policy is carried out, blinkered, without looking around, and above all, without taking into account the well-being of its own population. and also, not taking into account the consequences such a policy has for the population of ukraine, suffering from this war, in the form of hundreds of thousands of dead and the destruction of this country, this is what is hidden behind the beautiful words, ukraine must win, it is almost a spell, as if reading a spell, foreign minister, this is not politics, this is fanaticism, and it is very disappointing, first of all because it

throws out all the lessons of our history that we have applied to our foreign policy security policy. of the last decades, based on the accumulated experience, and it was precisely this policy that led to the reunification of our country, this policy has allowed us to live in security and prosperity for decades. all this is under threat because of our new policy. is carried out without taking into account the risks, you have already mentioned the possibility of escalation and without taking into account the possible consequences, both for the ukrainian people

and for us, i consider this irresponsible, yes, i am pleased that you say such words, because this is precisely the policy of escalation carried out by people who, covering up... as supporters of peace, actually go for escalation, but at the same time do not have the basic knowledge to understand the consequences. what horrifying consequences it could bring to society for decades to come, was it possible to prevent this war, and if so, how, of course, the war could have been prevented, we saw how at the end of 2021,

increasingly acute, on december 17, russia sent a very voluminous , a very demanding document to the united states of america in nato. at the core this document contained a certain view of events. events that, from russia's point of view, threatened the world. and they touched upon the interests of russian security, in fact, in a nutshell, it all came down, firstly, to the question of ukraine’s accession, membership in nato, and secondly, to the question of the fate of people who consider themselves russian, or at least russian-speaking citizens ukraine living in donbass, and looking back, we see that. the west, represented by some

nato countries, and primarily the united states, was not ready to talk about this if they started a dialogue, this would have been at least an attempt to prevent war, but even this was not done with due seriousness, instead, tensions were only fueled, i remember the comments... of our foreign minister, who said about ukraine's membership in nato , that every state has the right to choose allies, this is true in principle, but in relation to nato membership, this is not true, from russia's point of view, this was perceived as a hardening of the western position, which ultimately led to their

attack, this cannot be justified. but the speech is not about this, the only question is whether we did everything possible to prevent this aggressive war, and the answer is clear, no, there are american scientists, very respected scientists who say that the west provoked. i would not go that far, but we did not do what we could, and here it must be added that the war could have ended in about 6 weeks, very intensive negotiations took place in istanbul, initiated by the president of turkey and both sides achieved, in my opinion , a very good agreement for ukraine. but after

these negotiations, although there was a final document, it was initialed, but it was not signed , precisely because of pressure from the west , maybe johnson visited kiev on april 9, just to prevent its signing, be that as it may, this did not happen due to pressure from the collective west, at least from a number of nato countries, led by the usa, i find this especially special. regrettable, because, in fact, all the events, the numerous deaths that subsequently occurred on the ukrainian side, as well as the destruction of their country, originate from this very moment, everything that happened on april 9, from the moment of johnson ’s visit, it could still have been prevented, we must understand, and there was another chance in mid

-september, before the partial mobilization in russia, and this chance was also missed, at the moment there is another opportunity, because the military actions last week in ukraine began to unravel, so it will no longer be possible to advance with mechanized forces, at least for... a period of time, i think, until the beginning of december, that is, a period of slowing down of the war is coming, and this is always a possibility... jail opponents negotiating table, but the decision on this should be made not in kiev, in washington. now you said two very important things that are always presented to us in a completely different way.

first, we are told that the russian attack was sudden and completely unexpected. that the russian side always refuses to conduct peace negotiations, the west wants negotiations, the west extends its hand, but the russians refuse, and you have made it absolutely clear that everything is not at all the same as what is being said in our media day after day. come on, i i want to say that putin recently said the exact opposite, i could give several quotes from putin in which he... explains that he is ready for negotiations at any time, for example, on june 17, when the african peace delegation was in russia, he

said, that he is always ready to negotiate with everyone who is ready to negotiate honestly and recognize mutual interests in the field of security, that here, here everything is quite clear, the refusal has always come from the west, and sometimes from ukraine, the president of ukraine zelsky even issued at the beginning of october last year, a decree prohibiting him and his government from negotiating with russia, so for negotiations to begin, this decision will first have to be reversed, as i said, opportunities... there are those who want war, there are those who do not want to prevent war, and

there are also those who cannot prevent the war, so you can determine for yourself who belongs to which category, yes, i think our viewers will be happy to write in the comments what they think about the ukrainian spring offensive, which then turned into a summer offensive, about him much has been said, and small territorial changes have always been greatly inflated in the media, i would like to ask you, since you are well familiar with the situation, whether during this offensive, which apparently has already come to an end, the goal of this offensive was to break up the land

corridor between russia and crimea, for example, having reached mariupol, the point here is that crimea is essentially a logistics hub, fuel, food or ammunition goes, not all, but most of it goes through crimea, the idea was that if the supply of this supply is interrupted, the russian armed forces will weaken, and this... will turn the situation in favor of ukraine, well, this did not happen, and will not happen, contrary to what is presented by the western media as great successes, in practice

, we see partial successes of ukraine, partial territorial acquisitions, secretary general nato said some time ago, the ukrainian armed forces will march every day, conquer 100 m, if we take the distance to mariupol, it is 86 km, then ukraine would need 860 days to reach the goal. this, of course, as you can see, sounds like a lot of nonsense. in fact, the situation looks like this: we see asymmetric operations being carried out. the ukrainian armed forces need to return ukrainian territory. as ukrainian commander-in-chief zaluzhny described in an interview with the

washington post some time ago, every square meter comes at the cost of great blood. the losses of the ukrainian armed forces are exorbitant, especially in this offensive. the russian armed forces, on the contrary, will at any cost, and destroy the ukrainian armed forces, this is the von clausowy principle, make the enemy defenseless, then the rest will follow, now live broadcast on our channel. colleagues, in general, i assess the work of the assembly very

positively, it was perhaps the most productive year in our work, i won’t list it, so much was done, and the adoption of model laws and monitoring of elections, and congress activities, so much important events took place on the platform of the interparliamentary assembly, in which all countries of the commonwealth were interested, they received very positive resonance, this is a huge work of all the parliaments of the countries, a member of the interparliamentary assembly, we did it all together, our headquarters, the tauride palace was filled with life, movement, new ideas, and this is wonderful, and of course the plenary council went very successfully meeting of the interparliamentary assembly in kyrgyzstan our kyrgyz colleagues tried very hard, everything was prepared at the highest level, very respectfully, and strictly

speaking, with our parliamentary event we completed the year of kyrgyzstan’s chairmanship in commonwealth of independent states, which, according to the heads of state, was very successful, productive, and you know, there is such satisfaction that we are not working in vain, the cis is in demand, it is a very important integration mechanism and tool, a very important integration structure that benefits everyone states, all peoples, very good results of economic cooperation, strengthening of our humanitarian and cultural space, and this is such a self-sufficient format and valuable in itself and which will confidently live on, because

that it works effectively and today it is even difficult to imagine if there were no inter-parliamentary assembly, yes it would be a bird with one wing, it would not fly, here is the parliamentary dimension of the commonwealth of independent states, it makes a huge contribution, uh, what are model laws , model laws are laws that bind... stitch together our space, that harmonize legislation, that create favorable conditions for mutual trade, for investment, for expanding our economic ties, implementation of major projects, today we discussed as the main issue, since the heads of state declared the twenty-third year of the russian language and we discussed the topic of the russian language, you know, like this... relations of parliaments, the public, and of course, heads

of state , preservation and development of the russian language, its use as a language of interethnic communication, as the main language of integration construction, and so on, again in the cis countries this year there were a lot of events dedicated, of course, to in russia, organized a number of events dedicated to the russian language, here is a complete understanding of the importance of the russian language for the future, yes, of course, we need to protect, preserve, develop the national languages, but without the russian language, we would not be such a single community, cemented by our history, friendship, and our recommendations, our resolution, we also expressed our attitude to how we will continue to preserve, cherish and develop the russian

language in the cis. and i also want to say separately, uh. every year more and more i am convinced of this, there is a special atmosphere of communication, in this case of parliaments, of the cis, this is such friendship, such goodwill , such a constructive attitude, deputies of all countries of the commonwealth communicate with each other, they exchange experiences, they are friends, thereby, naturally, they organize a lot of events aimed... at developing our cooperation, interaction and thereby strengthening the friendship of our peoples, and this is such a wonderful platform for such communication, strengthening our friendly ties , our mutually beneficial cooperation. thank you, thank you, russia 24, your questions please. victoria dadayan, russia 24. the west

is increasingly trying to influence the cis state and. precisely to split the commonwealth, what are parliamentarians doing and can do within the assembly to counter this threat? well, this is, as they say, a diagnosis , this is a medical fact that western countries are trying in every possible way not only to drive a wedge between russia and the states of central asia, but are also trying to divide the countries of central asia in this region. attached to this, it is necessary to say, considerable efforts, these include individual meetings with the heads of states of central asia, this is a powerful information policy, as it were, information processing, and specific actions, we know what is being done, our head of state, vladimir vladimirovich , spoke about this, we understand the goals, their

task, of course, it is dangerous, but so far it has not been possible to do this and i am absolutely sure that it will not work, well, it is impossible to break, here is ours, our common history, our common victories, to break the existing friendship, mutual respect for our peoples, everything that has been done over the past 30 years to strengthen our cooperation, then, i already said that this is valuable in itself and the main thing is that it is beneficial for all states, look at the growth of mutual trade we have, what we have large infrastructure and other investment projects being implemented in the cis, the volume of trade turnover is simply off the charts, let’s say with belarus, we are already reaching level 3

, three rubles, with other countries, this is positive. therefore, no matter how hard they try, they will never the cis countries will not become their satellites, they understand the importance of cooperation with russia and will never break these ties or cause such serious damage to their own national interests, at the same time, each cis country has the right to develop its ties, as regards interparliamentary assembly, then of course this is the harmonization of legislation, which allows expanding economic interaction, these are model laws aimed at developing humanitarian cultural and educational cooperation and

concrete steps are not just model. yes, in fact, everything we do is aimed precisely at this, we don’t need to resist like this, actively, there is no need for this, we need to strengthen our interaction, fill it with specific actions, specific content, so that it is in demand, necessary, necessary, this is the main thing on which we are focusing our efforts, a very quick final question, news, when will the procedure for moldova’s withdrawal from the ia cis be completed and what do you see its consequences for the assembly and for this very countries? well, as for when the procedure will be completed, yes, this is all spelled out in our rules, after moldova’s statement about leaving the ipa, the procedure will end on february 8, from