only the process today we will talk with two of our guests , retired united states army general ben hodges and military expert mykhailo samus, but before that how will our guests get in touch from the studio, i offer you a few demonstration videos of the past day, this night , russia was attacked by drones again, let's see how it was, here it is, cabbage , the vocabulary of our neighbors, when drones are coming to them, we just had to bake and bake this video, and in the meantime, the secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine, oleksiy danilov, announced that ukraine has a new missile development capable of flying at a distance of 700 km. let's see how this missile development takes off 4 3 2 1 launch well, you see, danilova made such a surprise by announcing about the wunderwaffe, about weapons , unusual weapons that ukraine possesses, you know that yesterday the airfield in skovi was attacked, the maternity hospital in skovi is located at a distance of 700 km from ukraine, well actually obviously, this video is of this new missile development and was demonstrated b

our friends are the same ben hodges. he says that he, well, he is basically a republican.course he looks at it from the point of view of the national interests of the united states , as well as what is happening in europe. so he criticizes biden for what he did not find the right words and the right, let's say, messages that would convince ordinary americans that it is worth continuing to support ukraine, and this is meant primarily from the point of view of the national interests of the united states. we have to fight with the russian federation and only 0.3% of gdp is what they gave us since january of last year. this is too small , well, a nice small price for destroying half of the combat potential of the largest nuclear power, which considers the united states to be the biggest threat to it. what is called political realism, the arguments should be more, let's say, use the administration rather than the fact that this is an authoritarian world against a democratic one, which means that ukrainians still need to be helped. since here there is also a genocidal war going

ben hodges was commanding general of the us army in europe during the minutes agreements on ukraine. he commanded the 100 and 1st evelyn in operation iraqi freedom and was the director of military operations and kind of afghanistan and he joins me now from frankfurt in germany. lieutenant general, thank you so much for coming on going underground. we've had assistant secretaries of state on national security advises presidents never come under of the entire us . so i mean, your of, i have to say, so let's just start with them. i don't know what you thought of the soul is bugging you, of times claiming its sources, told them from the us administration on your a p invalid that ukraine just has too many soldiers in the wrong places. that's why it's all going wrong. yeah, well i'm, i'm always annoyed with people from a 1000 miles away making commentary or judgments about technical situations of people who are actually on the ground in the fight, especially when they choose to be nameless. so i, i would pay no attention to the assessment. i trust the ukrainian general staff. yeah. you sai

he said it was a false flag, lieutenant general, ben hodges, i'll stop you. the bullet from the former commanding general of us army and your incarnate major of senior men, 2 of logistics after this break the the welcome back to going underground. i'm still here with the right side. just have the general band hall, just the phone with them on, in general of us army in europe incognito senior mental, full logistics. when you were uh before you became come under of the us army in europe at the, for a 100 and 1st and born. it's 2 years this week that the us left afghanistan. what it well is the 100 and 1st ambling because, you know, people find it difficult to remember all these different divisions different. uh, i mean, is it complicated enough as the other day someone was saying, how many 4 star generals there are now in the u. s. military, so what is the 100 fast ambling? so if you ever served into a 100 per share of one division, of course, you know, because you never be confused about who and what it was. it is one of the 10 at the time, 10 divisions in the

man, he said, it was a false flag, lieutenant general ben hodges, i'll stop you. the bullet from the former commanding general of us army and your incarnate major of senior mentor for the just accepting this break, the american voters are rarely interested in for policy during election cycles. kind of said the issue between maybe the exception this time around, particularly among t o p voters, much of the republican base us our w brain policy. they see it as findings for the, the welcome back to going on the ground. i'm still here with the right side, just had a general band hall, just the former commanding general of us army and your of incognito, senior, mental for logistics. when you were uh before you became come under of the us army in europe at the, for a 100 and 1st and born. it's 2 years this week that the us left afghanistan. what it well is the 100 and 1st ambling because, you know, people find it difficult to remember all these different divisions different. uh, i mean, is it complicated enough as the other day someone was saying, how many 4 star genera

the entire united states army in europe with some 100000 troops are tied us to attend a general, ben hodges, a head of the 2nd down about 3 of the us defeats in afghanistan until then. you can give it to us. why would i social media if it's still intensive in your country? and then to a channel, i'm going i'll be going to give you a normal, don't come to watch, new and old episodes of going underground. see you monday, the american voters are rarely interested in the world policy during election cycles. said the issue between maybe the exception this time around, particularly among t o p voters, much of the republican base us our w frame policy. they see it as vice for the, the leisure reportedly posts its armed forces on maximum alert. fearing potential intervention is also ordered, the french in boston are to leave the country. us relations with parties and funds to in, you know, we go live to the region in the bottom. it's also a head suite. said one, follow denmark and plumbing, said from the public desecration of any holy book in the country following a series of per run burnings in no

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territory, this opinion was expressed by the former commander of the us ground forces in europe, ben hodgesn interview with the georgian service of the voice of america counteroffensive - this is more than just a ground attack, which we see, people are focused on this as if counteroffensive is only tanks and infantry trying to pass through mini fields. this is only one of its elements, at the same time ukrainians they carry out what we would call multi-component operations, they carry out long-range drone strikes on moscow, long-range strikes on targets in crimea, strikes on fuel storage facilities throughout russia , they use naval drones to keep the russian black sea fleet away from the ukrainian coast, so i think that the criticism is not justified ukrainians the approach is adjusted and two months is not much time, i am simply more optimistic and patient, but unfortunately ukrainians will continue to suffer great losses because we, the west, did not provide them with the necessary the full version of this interview can be seen on our programs and social networks already on thursday, aug

which they all burn out, they don’t believe in this either, because if you think that this fool ben hodgesone says such things that we they did it, so the russians never do it, then we are very wrong. they all think so, they are all sure that they are watching our programs , some of our guests speak, and it is their truth that happens. i believe that i speak from the position of people. goodwill, and therefore voiced the position is not against it. not for some kind of escalation against the escalation in order to keep the conflict from further escalation. from the west, it is necessary to go to a small, but extremely necessary an escalation decision on kiev at the very moment when one of the western leaders is there, so that he, sorry for this methodological term, crap himself once, god forbid he got there what kind of injury and then would tell about his new feelings to other western people, here is the second moment, after all , i can’t get past this favorite anecdote of vladimirovich zhirinovsky, which he tells here. yes, i think that, in principle, for now, you can limit yourself to o

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being hit by missiles and drones dozens of airbases and commercial airports, according to general ben hodgesn ukrainian airbases were trying to prevent such a turning point in the war. here's what he says, the russians know that they are extremely vulnerable and the worst thing that can happen to them is that ukraine gets the opportunity to start regularly and strike at the base of the black sea fleet in sevastopol, airbases and logistics hubs , in the end we see that this is already happening yes and in the meantime well, just a scandalous case in odesa so the police in odesa twice they came to a pensioner and fled in the city of belgorod-dniester, odesa region, a couple of police officers had an accident. the incident happened on wednesday morning, august 16. yesterday, according to the police report , a law enforcement officer drove out of the yard in his car in reverse and ran into her and an elderly woman at the time of the accident together with the man in the cabin was his wife , who also works for the police, as was clarified in the dbr , the policeman ran over the woman twice after

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ben hodges was commanding general of the us army in europe during the minutes agreements on ukraine. he commanded the 100 and 1st apple and in operation iraqi freedom was the director of military operations in kind of afghanistan and he joins me now from frankfurt in germany. lieutenant general, thank you so much for coming on go.

ukrainian weapons and weapons approaching ukraine from the west, today we will speak with general ben hodgese former commander of the united states forces america in europe, lieutenant general in the united states of america, the army of the united states of america , and with mykhailo samus - this is a military expert, we will talk about the latest strikes of ukraine on the territory of the russian federation on military objects. 15 minutes ago, friends, wait, i hope it will be interesting, vasyl, thank you for your word, we are very much looking forward to serhiy rudenko at 20:00, well, now it's time to see and hear lena in chechen, what will be discussed today, scandals and intrigues sometimes these concepts can also be applied to books in kyiv, the opening of the redya bookstore is currently underway, which became famous for its rather scandalous promo. i will remind us of len chechenin and show what the bookstore looks like, which is actually composed as innovative and extremely original. what innovation and originality is there? vasyl, please. hello, i congratulate you, i congratulate

well, let's see where there will be ben hodge with him.at we will come out on the border of the eighty-eighth year. yes, i think the ninety-first thing is us will also arrange. well, of course, mars. of course, i have a dream all the boys. here is the warsaw pact. let's go back. here is the gdr to restore at the same time, and i draw attention in this report to the fact that they are the worst thing that these ukrainians can soon. start blaming it. yes, that they drove these most unfortunate people there to die at the front. this morning i was talking with ori johnson, with whom ah, this former cia analyst is such a serious person, and he says, say a. how do you verify the data, because this is the most important thing, then there is, and he said that he takes different sources there, how they evaluate, in particular. he says, look, and the rt of 2022 is a giant column there with a length of several tens of kilometers in russian military equipment. i didn’t burn it, they destroyed it, then they take it and leave, which means the defeat of

for example, i will quote ben hodges, the former commander of the us forces in europe, who directly saidesources and the conditions given to us by the allies , the american army would not even start us , and our army not only started it, but has been successfully continuing it for two months and has already overcome it the first of the three lines of russian defense, this is the assessment of a professional, but yes, we are dealing with a very powerful information wave of non-professionals who for some reason invented a fairy tale for themselves that as soon as our offensive begins, the russians must flee , but it turned out that the russians are not obliged and from our side no one had such illusions, especially in the army but not so even from the rear and in the rear we all perfectly understood that the kharkiv miracle will not be repeated the essence of the kharkiv miracle last year was a surprise, we caught the enemy by surprise the russians, as often happens, underestimated us and for some reason did not think that we could attack in two places at the same time , but they were wait

and now retired army lieutenant general ben hodges joins me.rs in that piece, wondering why the russians fire on them when they're recovering the remains of fallen soldiers, many of whom are russian. they say that russia knows this, russians firing on them know that they are in there recovering the bodies of dead russians. they choose to fire on them anyway. what do you make of that? >> so, erin, thank you. the u.s. army also has what we call a graves registration team. and these are professional soldiers who are out there to help recover remains of our soldiers who have been killed in combat. this is an important part of how we do things. soldiers know that if they fall on the battlefield, that there is a whole system that will bring them back. and this is the important part of the moral component of warfare. and what you just showed in this excellent report by nick, how the russians view their soldiers versus how ukrainians treat their soldiers. i don't know if you could find a starker difference than what we just watched. >> the horror of it

. >>> "outfront" now, lieutenant general ben hodges, former commanding general of u.s. army europe.or being with us. what would it mean if putin was behind this as so many experts and laypeople believe to be? >> well, brianna, interesting. i don't think a single person on the planet believed for one second that this was an accident. i mean, russia's reputation now in the world is such that all of us immediately assumed there was a murderer, an assassination, or something. now, it could be putin behind it, of course. and i think nick just did a great job of explaining all that. but we know that this is a mafia state. they hate each other. prigozhin would've had a lot of other enemies who might've wanted to see them destroyed. lukashenko looks very weak now. he was the guy that helped broker the deal. now he looks totally weak and irrelevant. it'll be interesting to see what happens there. i think ukraine, nobody there is going to be mourning prigozhin's death if in fact he actually is dead. i'm not convinced of that yet. but it does reveal even further the fraying of russia's leaders

. >> reporter: retired general ben hodges is former commander of the u.s. just like one line of mines sitting on top of the ground. it could be 200, 300 meters, 400 meters deep. until you get through that you never have a chance to really break through russian defenses and get to your real task, which is of course isolation and destruction of russian forces. >> reporter: the training at fort carson begins with suppressive fire to make the enemy keep his head down and smoke to hide what happens next. the armored breaching vehicle rumbles to the edge of the minefield, protected by two bradley infantry fighting vehicles. >> time is a big deal, so we get in and out as fast as we can. >> reporter: 25-year-old sergeant jasmine luna commands the vehicle, which carries a rocket attached to a 175-yard-long cord coiled like a snake and packed with explosives. >> it carries 100 meters' worth of explosives. >> launch the rocket. >> launch rocket. >> reporter: she fires the rocket and it carries the cord out over the minefield. after she detonates the cord to set off th

i wrote about four of them stan mcchristol phil bridlow david bitrius and ben hodges.ver won a war, none of them ever fought against a real opponent. now they are giving. advice to ukraine is criminal, military negligence on the part of nato generals and all retired generals who continue to call on ukraine in the style of screens make a big sacrifice. everything is very. just. you cannot attack fortified positions without air advantage or at least parity. here it doesn't matter. what advice is given is important, who in the white house, of course, continue to sing their command. denator of strategic communications in the us security council john kirby says that the ukrainians achieve it turns out to be progress the war continues ukrainians. still making gradual progress in their contour offensive, the united states, in turn, will continue to support kiev in terms of security systems. konstantin konstantin what in fact? it's the same thing, that's what eastolntenberg says. from what? as a matter of fact, you and i started, but did not have time to complete this thought.

. >> reporter: retired general ben hodges, former commander of the u.s.gh density of mines. >> reporter: how important is breaching these minefields to the success or failure of the ukrainian counteroffensive? >> it's essential. until you get through that, you never have a chance to really break through russian defenses and get to your real task, which is, of course, isolation and destruction of russian forces. >> reporter: of all the battlefield tasks, how would you rate getting through a minefield? >> getting through any minefield or obstacle is extremely dangerous because you are so exposed. >> reporter: the training at fort carson begins with suppressive fire to make the enemy keep his head down and smoke to hide what happens next. the armored breaching vehicle rumbles to the edge of the minefield, protected by two bradley infantry fighting vehicles. >> time is a big deal. so we get in and out as fast as we can richltz 25-year-old sergeant jasmine luna commands the vehicle, which carries a rocket attached to a 17 r5-yard long cord coiled like a snake

you say, they always think this way, in fact, they do the former commanders of us troops in europe ben hodgeh russia on wait a minute, but the truth is there is a nuance to the war, not on its own territory. army and aviation, all our services are constantly training to maintain combat capability in order to send a signal to the kremlin. we are ready for this deterrence and, of course, constantly, working with our allies in exercises. we are all trying to increase our air defense and missile defense logistical capabilities. i would say that we are always preparing for a war with russia in europe, we were preparing for this all the time, when i was still a lieutenant in 1981, action creates counteracts newton's third law, but america has its own laws, and she writes these laws for everyone, as she considers for physics, including changing war correspondent dmitry razin , a direct connection comes to us. let's find out how situation in avdiivka volodymyr hello to you. in fact, fierce battles are going on. eh, that's extreme. uh, there is such an anomalous heat in donetsk for several days, uh,

in which they all burn out, they don’t believe in it either, because if you think that this fool ben hodgesry much mistaken. they all think so, they are all sure that they are watching our programs, the performance of some of our guests is saying, namely their truth. here, but here i am exactly speaking as a person who is sitting, when andrei anatolyevich already says what i am saying, and i believe that i am speaking from the position of people. goodwill, and therefore voiced the position is not against it. not for some kind of escalation of oneself against escalation in order to laugh at a further escalation of the conflict on the part of the west, it is necessary to make a small, but urgently needed escalation solution on kiev at the very moment when one of the western leaders is there, so that he is sorry for this methodological term i messed it up once, god forbid, i got injured there and then i would tell other western leaders about my new feelings, here is the second moment, i still can’t get past this favorite anecdote, vladimir igorievich, zhirinovsky, which he tells here. yes, i t

yes, we are here watching how we will dismember ben hodges, he says, listen, we need to think about whatthere in this category, they were, and now he says, or maybe, after all, the negotiations are something else. and for this already very clearly gave the answer of the minister of foreign affairs to lavrov at the forum on security in the army. uh, army 23 said e talks. this is a trick of the west in order to stop active hostilities so that they can rearm we do not need this. and now the next stage will be depression series. the media is already at this stage. oh, why did we underestimate the russians, and the sanctions were removed on us. but then there will be acceptance and acceptance will be very tough for them, because we will be engaged in the displacement of american dominance not only in europe, where it will happen in ukraine, and africa, it will be latin america, these will be those countries where they really want to. they definitely understand your idea correctly, that it's us it's a much more, how to say, multifaceted thought. i wanted to sum up that, well , today is the day