len, tuesday, thursday, friday at 17:10 on the espresso tv channel, our first guest is general ben hodgesforces troops of the united states on the european continent. i congratulate you, mr. generals. well , we understand how difficult the situation is on our fronts. i would like to ask you to give an objective assessment of how our actions are unfolding, in particular, it is about attempts to conduct combat testing of russian defense lines, first of all, ukraine has stepped on the path that will lead to the liberation of crimea and the expulsion of russian troops from ukraine, so the beginning of the counteroffensive is an important step for ukraine , but its main phase is not yet began. in my opinion, the armed forces of ukraine continue to put pressure on the russian defense, looking for vulnerable places, confusing the russians as to where the main offensive will be and, of course, that there will be certain losses. i mean that the following a few days will be very difficult, but i expect that in the next few weeks we will see much greater success and progressive dynamics of the movem

i'm also joined by retired colonel ben hodges., prigozhin's group is credited with the most ruthless attacks so far, including the city of bakhmut. do we know where those troops have gone, are they in play? any immediate impact on the ground? all those questions. >> reporter: chris, most of those wagner mercenaries from the area around bakhmut had withdrawn already. big picture across the southern and eastern front where the counteroffensive is raging, we have not seen any major breakthrough. we have yet to see the ukrainians find a way to capitalize in a big way on the chaos on the russian side. you can absolutely bet that officials here in kyiv very closely monitoring what's happening inside russia, looking for any weaknesses they may be able to exploit. ukrainians did announce this morning they had liberated another village in the southeast. this is the ninth village since the start of the counteroffensive. chris, they were hoping to be talking about liberating cities rather than villvillages. as you said, this is very difficul

ben hodges, what would the allegedly neutral white house say to this and whose rhetoric supported podzhasig germany urgently build a rembat for german leopards? didn't expect them to burn so well. and how many more service centers for military equipment in europe, and who pays for it , soros's structures were inherited by his son, alexander, who is not even forty. he says that he is more involved in politics than his father. so what to expect from the heir to the empire. on the beauty front, barbers and manicurists tidy up fighters in hospitals as the military responds to beauty volunteers. today they announced new attempts to cross over in the attack on the donetsk, south-donetsk and zaporizhzhya directions in none of the cases , the enemy was successful. however, according to ukrainian propaganda, the picture of events is completely different, they say , the militants managed to capture as many as seven settlements within a week, and somewhere - then in confirmation of the so-called jumps. at the cranazis, they even allegedly managed to wave yellow-block rags. you really don't get it he

ben hodges, a former commanding general of the u.s. army europe standing by. first, let's go to kyiv where greg palkot is covering this live. hi, greg. >> hi, martha. we're doubling with a trouble aftermath of those troubling events over the weekend in russia. as you note, we could hear more in a short while from vladimir putin. remember, the wagner mercenary group took over a major city in southern russia and then headed to moscow, got close, only to return when a so-called deal was made. its leader, prigozhin, had an audio-only online most today. he said he wasn't trying to topple putin. he was worried about moscow putting an end to his forces and ran a very bad war in ukraine. take a listen to a bit of what he said. >> the goal was to prevent the destruction of wagner and to hold those that account with their unprofessional actions made a huge amount of mistakes in the special military operation. >> this as moscow posted a video of the wagner chief is abe grip with, the defense minister. he was said to be in eastern ukraine. they also posted a supposed toda

and don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel espresso tv next we have ben hodges as a guest lieutenanteral of the armed forces of the united states of america retired former commander wax of the united states of america in europe mr. generals greetings thank you for joining our broadcast on what fedorich what invited so, mr. general, a few days have changed the situation both inside russia and in favor of putin in the world, the mutiny of prigozhina demonstrated the weakness of the russian government, putin is now trying to recover and show the whole world that he is and was strong for the whole world and strong in the confrontation with ukraine, according to you the attempt of a military coup will affect putin's actions, in what way can putin regain your strength and respect for himself first in russia well , of course, in the world, please that during the last four days of military activity which army believes that it is on the way to victory, we see that russia is facing many problems, problems and cracks within the russian command, we see what is being done to the command spirit of

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next, we have ben hodges as a guest , retired lieutenant general of the armed forces of the united stateser of the forces of the united states of america in europe. greetings, mr. generals thank you for joining our broadcast, such a fedorich, for inviting me. so, mr. general, a few days have changed the situation inside russia and in relation to putin in the world , prigozhina has shown his weakness of the russian government , putin is now trying to recover and show the whole world that he is and was strong for the whole world and strong in the confrontation with ukraine. how do you think the attempted military coup will affect putin's actions? of course, in the world, in the past four days, the actual military, which the army believes is on the way to victory, we see that russia is facing many problems, problems and cracks within the russian command, we see that it is done with the command spirit of the russian soldiers and i think that today probably president putin does not know who he can trust and we know that there are no allies, no inspector, no oligarch gives him such support, eve

hour, we will have three guests, andriy illenko, roman tsymbalyuk, and united states army general ben hodges, all this over the next hour, i will traditionally start with information about the losses of russians in ukraine in 226,000,170 russians have already died in ukraine in just the last day, the armed forces of ukraine have destroyed 590 people since the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost 4,036 tanks in the country, 7,834 armored combat vehicles, 4.83 artillery systems 626 rocket launcher systems 386 anti-aircraft defenses 314 aircraft 308 helicopters 6772 units of automotive equipment 18 ships boats 1261 cruise missiles 3492 drones 539 units of special equipment i would like to introduce today's first guest of ours, andrii illenko , an officer of the freedom battalion of the fourth operational brigade of the national guard congratulations to mr. andrii you and thank you for joining our conversation. good evening, let 's start the situation on the eastern front , deputy minister of defense of ukraine hanna the painter said that during the planning of the offensiv

happening around this wagner, but a few days ago there was a general on my air, the american general ben hodgesabout the fact that wagner may turn into a security guard for lukashenka, mmm , we are discussing the topic of whether wagner will go to ukraine from belarus or not, it is possible that wagner will be transferred to belarus, what do you think about the history of this in the military formations from the private army, it comes to an end. that is, it is simply poured out and obviously some newbie is poured into er, some tea or something, well, first of all, what i want to say is that i understand what just said the same thing. by the way, as in ro- viking i have a surprise, but i have the impression that well, they speak like that, it's as if they were put on bottles, so before that they were like that, how do they rule, there was no such thing, they performed so brightly and now they are trying to do something , torture themselves, squeeze out some words and what in general, with faces, what happened with special ones, ah, this is the first, second moment, you know. i think that no one

it seems to me that an understanding of this is also spoken by general ben hodges a-a and others whatbout what will happen after the victory of ukraine and after the victory of ukraine there will be peace after which russia will not have a frozen conflict because this is what it is against что сейчас as part of the counteroffensive of the contour offensive, we hear more and more appeals from different sides, which , well, in general, we see where it comes from... and even putin himself seems to have said that he is ready for peace talks , well, it's too late , it's too late. goes on to discuss the negotiations, but for now we see only an empty statement from the other side and no strange actions from putin, because he could show that he is vindictively ready for peace, so the conclusion of the world is very simple . he can just stop fighting, it’s all in his power just stop, here, we are talking to you now, there is a military alarm from if you, putin was seriously interested in some kind of peace, he could stop it right now, but instead of this, we observe what we observe and uh noth

words, as if hinting that now is not the time to talk a lot about it, that's all on the other hand, ben hodges former commander of the american forces in europe, minerals, a retired lieutenant, wrote a column about the possibility that the major offensive of the ukrainian offensive has not yet begun, he says that everything we see at the moment, judging by reports from various sources, these are only small attacks at the battalion level, while he says that the offensive will begin when we see 2-3 large heavy mechanized brigades in action on one of the directions. do you agree with this assessment of mr. at the same time, regarding has the counteroffensive begun, what do we call our er summer spring offensive operation? let's take a look at literally saturday's press conference of the president, where he said that er counter offensive and defensive actions have already begun, they are ongoing. is in contact, of course, with our generals, and they, well, are positive about the course of hostilities, so indirectly the president is talking about the beginning of counteroffensive actions, which are

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we will have three guests: andriy illenko, uh, roman tsimbalyuk and united states army general ben hodges, all this over the course of the next hour, i will traditionally start with information about the losses of russians in ukraine in ukraine already 226,000,170 russians died in just the last day, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 590 people with the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost to the country 4,036 tanks, 7,834 armored fighting vehicles , 4,083 artillery systems, 626 rocket launchers, 386 anti-aircraft defenses and 314 aircraft, 308 helicopters 6,772 units of automotive equipment 18 ships, boats , 1,261 cruise missiles, 3,492 drones, 539 units of special equipment, i would like to introduce today's first guest of ours, andrii illenko , an officer of the freedom battalion of the fourth brigade operational assignment of the national guard border mr. andrii, i congratulate you and thank you for joining our conversation. good evening, let's start the situation on the eastern front. deputy minister of defense of ukraine hanna malyar said that during the pla

interview with the telegram, are cited by the former commander-in-chief of the us army in europe, ben hodgeschance he builds theories and gives advice to his su. here, look. here are quotes, the strategic goal of the ukrainians return, crimea is clear here, nothing new. and then, if the ukrainians have to kill or capture every russian on the peninsula. they will do it, says hodzhas, that budanov podlyako and reznikov have been bitten by them for a long time they have been singing this song about the genocide for a long time they have been accumulating poison. purely in appearance, the call for genocide of such figures who dare to make such a statement against us will suffer inevitable punishment. we are ready for any development. e, events, crimea is securely secured. uh, defensively. not one leg of bender. haluya, who does not enter here, will find his last performance here. in general, the russian crimea clearly haunts the hodjas. here he declares that they say, it is necessary to select. we have control over the black sea, while mind you, hodges is well aware that russia will not give up

. :00 immediately after the big air will be a guest general beethoven - frederick benjamin ben-hodgeshird he is also called by all the american military officers of the us army who served as the commander of the us army in europe now he heads the department of pershing's strategic studies at the center of european politics at the moment, he graduated from the us military academy, it will be an interesting conversation. especially now, during another tension in europe, there is something to talk about with a general who knows how nato troops in europe can react, us troops in europe can react to threats from of the russian federation, we immediately add to the conversation of our guest with us on the link mykola dovbnya , a member of the druzhki city council, mr. mykola welcomes you, i greet you from the front. today the russians fired s-300 missiles, not only podruskovka, the enemy also fired at several settlements in donetsk region, but i would like to ask about this attack itself, how it differed from similar enemy attacks on the settlement, there are about the consequences, of cours

remember, ben hodges is never ending.y repeated this, it seems, as if they are not talking, but they are already talking about the end of the war by the end of this year, preparations for a protracted war. now. i said that contouring will not last and will not solve anything. and now rammstein has been discussed for a long time. koreans and japanese are already attracting a personal program in order to plant them somewhere, zaitsev is trying. and this means that it’s all over, it’s no coincidence that zelensky spoke before the swiss parliament that to defeat them and unblock this very military assistance, if everything else has already been gobbled up, there is not enough, in my opinion, the main problem for nato now can be, of course, to come up with another formula for the sauvinlev summit, how to present to ukraine what we have raised, in which means remember how many times already called graduate students advanced features. ah, the main ally. i need something that they just didn’t come up with. now they are thinking a

ben hodges.stated that it is necessary here in ukraine is urgently accepted into nato from because , well, he has such a logic to apologize that only admission to nato will save the world from the fact that ukraine itself will develop it from nuclear weapons. that is, some kind of german is also joyful, that at first the husky, and now and why would the nuclear weapons, damn it, the people said to france, they already accept everything is fine, that is. well, of course, there is no one to take, who will stay in what territory. this, of course, can, it sounds unlikely today about the windowed virtual theory, but i don’t meet that they some people like that can give something, like some kind of bomb, and then, and then zelensky will happily say that we bought a military store there, let's go or develop it ourselves. uh, here. well, this is actually a big big challenge and a big problem in the future. it seems to me that with regard to this wonderful conference in london, recovery, this restoration

special operations and the sbu, engrave your name on the pages of victory, our first guest is general ben hodgese situation is on our fronts. i would like to ask you to give an objective assessment of how our actions, in particular , it is about attempts to carry out combat testing of russian defense lines , first of all, ukraine has stepped on the path that will lead to the liberation of crimea and the expulsion of russian troops from ukraine, so the beginning the counteroffensive is an important step for ukraine , but its main phase has not yet begun. in my opinion, the armed forces of ukraine continue to put pressure on the russian defense.

let's talk now to lieutenant general ben hodges.hey are talking about training. how difficult is it to train somebody on an f—16? how long does it take? itruieiiii to train somebody on an f-16? how long does it take?— long does it take? well of course, it depends — long does it take? well of course, it depends on _ long does it take? well of course, it depends on if _ long does it take? well of course, it depends on if the _ long does it take? well of course, it depends on if the ukrainian i long does it take? well of course, | it depends on if the ukrainian pilot already has a lot of experience, then that transition to a new aircraft obviously is left. i've heard senior air force officers say ukrainian pilot with a couple of thousand hours could be proficient in the f—16 within three or four months. but that is just learning how to fly. so, it will take some time, but obviously this decision should have been made many months ago, and ukraine would be in a better place right now. you talk about three _ better place right now. you ta

we are going to bring in general ben hodges to bring us some military analysis on all of this.h forjoining us here on the programme. i am reading a fair bit where people are describing this as a cool, that if we look at what is happening right now, would it be fair to say this is, at this point of rebellion? it seems targeted initially towards shadow and harassing of. but where putin's responds is more and more to tell the military to destroy wagner. in wagner's responds, this looks more and more like a coup. i think they are going to see how it plays out with the population. because magna does not have enough to overthrow everything by themselves. they have got a military of about 25,000, how many of those 25,000 are actually subscribing to what prigozhin is asking them to do remains unclear. my prigozhin is asking them to do remains unclear.— prigozhin is asking them to do remains unclear. my sense is that 25,000 is probably _ remains unclear. my sense is that 25,000 is probably pretty - remains unclear. my sense is that 25,000 is probably pretty loyal. l remains unclear. my

army europe commander ben hodges about whether the russian lines will hold. >> i am waiting to see areops better at defense than they were in the attack? if they don't do any better than they did in the attack, then it won't matter how many trenches there are. i also see on the trenches, none of them have overhead cover. so, people that are in those trenches when the artillery starts, they will be killed. geoff: independent video confirmed early signs of ukrainian breakthroughs in the southeast. footage showed military vehicles driving dusty roads near rio taken villages -- near retaken villages. a r ukrainian flag over a grocery store. >> three days ago, the russian forces were still here. we chased them out. glory to ukraine. this village was under russian occupation for 1.5 years but these are ukrainian lands. geoff: moscow claimed its own rewards, releasing video of what appeared to be a captured german-made leopard 2 tank and a u.s.-made bradley fighting vehicle. >> there's a difference between them getting on the offensive, which clearly started, and the beginning of the maney te

. >>> i want to go now to retired army lieutenant general ben hodges.egin with some extraordinary footage that was first published by the "wall street journal." armed ukrainian drone is flying above this trapped soldier. this is on the utterly destroyed front lines in bakhmut. you see this soldier, and you see the explosions around him. his fellow soldiers lay dead on the ground. you can see multiple dead people. so he's pleading for his life, communicating by hand gestures with the drone, which is someone operating the drone from far away. so he's communicating. the operator sends him a note telling him to surrender. and the drone ultimately then guides him to a ukrainian position where he is taken captive. it is pretty stunning footage to watch, general. what do you think of it as you see it? >> well, this confirms what we have thought, erin, that most of these russian soldiers don't want to be there. they don't trust their leadership, they have not been properly trained or equipped. and they know they're in a very bad situation. so, a soldier like th

end this tragic war now, but the former commander of us forces in europe , general ben hodges, in ans, trying to to smooth the impression of the sight of hot western vehicles, the offensive has clearly begun, but i think this is not the main attack, when we see that large armored formations will join the assault. then. i think we will know that the main attack has really begun, kiev to put it mildly about the ineffectiveness of its offensive. understandably silent. but in the person of the adviser to the head of zelensky's office , the pole continues to dream. peremoguy in test mode is maximum. rigid there is one plan - the most rigid advancement with the maximum. murder the russians on this route on the route of the most mobilized are the first to destroy as many mobilized as possible frankly speaking, in order to add psychological pressure on the russian army to a friend, it means to destroy as much as possible russian equipment completely so that they do not use it. at the same time, they are gradually advancing within the framework of the test mode, that is, they are looking at w

ben hodges reiterates that if nato increases aid and supplies more powerful weapons, then before theukraine will be able to regain crimea. that is, it does not just directly link new types of weapons with the success of the counteroffensive, but practically announces if biden's reputation and global governance are now on the eve. that is, the order is based on the rules, then the red lines in terms of supply will no longer be maybe valery alyokhina was trying to understand, even if the allies are sure that time is playing on us, that they need to increase pressure on kiev , what next zelensky is ready for. after all, in theory, his every next step and the decision to continue at any cost can mean a simple one. he is sure that he was driven into a trap and there is no way out of it. after all, even after all the proposals of different options for negotiations, there are different ways out of the impasse. he stubbornly insists on conflict. there are only military decisions he was clearly convinced that he would receive a ticket to nato only as a result victory but there is an answer 10

well, let's call it rehabilitate this situation ben hodges.anks leopard version a6 newest for ryad attraction to confuse the russians pyotr pavel says, no, this is not yet the main offensive. these are such probing actions. it's not not that everyone is waiting for everyone came out here with articles. eh, as if they are talking about what not to expect. it's all right. this is planned. and here is the fourth wave, which went political. and even more seriously , the washington post came out the day before yesterday, where, guys, biden says his election campaign is clearly linked to this offensive. this authority of his is hegemony. you must show result. you must do it now. do you want to delay? yes, you want planes, something else, you need to show the result now, otherwise there will be no new help. and the main situation that is now on ramstein, which is what to do today, then the americans want to force the europeans to pay for new tanks to issue and so on. the same article in bilti, today's, but chapters. well, tanks for now. here, in retu

and here is washington's plan ready , the former commander of the us army in europe, ben hodges , saidy could the answer is to destroy the russian black sea fleet. according to hodges, biden's reaction will be swift and harsh. true, the pentagon itself does not really believe that russia can use tactical nuclear weapons, according to the us deputy secretary of defense in moscow. there is no reason for this, however, to threaten us with consequences. it doesn't interfere. what will be the consequences? of course, i won't tell you, but they will be, they will become even more outcasts than ever, and depending on the scale of what they do, we will determine what the answer will be alexander yuryevich. what could be? this answer, because again, none of the people in power, the retirees, talk about the fleet and so on, and none of the people in power directly say this. first, after all, with your permission, a few words of statements to that bench. mm. uh, here. i will try to accurately reproduce any outcome of this conflict better than the beginning of a nuclear confrontation, that is, a n

remember, ben hodges is endlessly incessant. they are already talking about preparing for a protracted war. they say that contouring will not be the last to solve anything. and now they are discussing ramstein. the long-term program is already attracting koreans to the japanese in order to plant them somewhere, they are trying to. and this means that it’s all legal, it’s not by chance that zelensky spoke before the swiss parliament with the idea of ​​defeating and unblocking this very military assistance. everything else has already been gobbled up is not enough and the main problem now for nato is this, of course, is to come up with another formula for the tsivilov summit, how to present to ukraine that we have raised yours, remember how many times postgraduate students have already called advanced opportunities. ah, the main ally. i need something that they just didn’t come up with. now they are thinking about what else to come up with. here is the formula for how to call the board a graduate student. we will call the main cou

units of the reserves, that the apogee is yet to come and now the former nato commander in europe, ben hodgestimate. i think that this is a kind of assessment related to the fact that the west does not consider failure this first phase of the counter-offensive of the strategic plan with which we unraveled and repelled. they believe that there were so-called avant-garde battles in which yes they did not achieve, but they suffered losses, but this does not mean that they put up with it. here is the aid package that is planned to be delivered to the united states and they say that they will continue to storm the line of combat, contact and the main issue. what to storm and how it will be decided in tomorrow's ramstein, because one of key issues - this is participation in aviation, and western circles have recognized that the air defense cover did not play. the same role was not provided by the protection of the attacking units of the ukrainian army, therefore , it is not necessary to rely on it further in the future, therefore, the efforts to supply, as we see, are mainly strike weapons. and of

i'm actually, well, always very careful about quoting ben and hodges.hen i rather agree with him and with the authors of many sane ukrainian publics, but who write that this is not yet a fairy tale, a fairy tale ahead, and i would i would not discuss this if it were not for what i received on friday or saturday. well, i try to write to all the guys. who is there basically here, well, on all fronts and in zaporozhye. they wrote to me. i even published it verbatim in my telegram. a man wrote to me. here, many are irritated that judging by the reports. we have almost taken, kiev and so far we are still only. we fight off active reconnaissance of the battle. well, uh, as a matter of fact hmm what is it about that the offensive has begun there are no questions here 30% reserves are involved, but consider that 30% of the reserves. it's so easy to throw them there is nothing to finish. this is a deeply erroneous opinion. why because i remind you, the main task is not to break through the front. this is the closest task in the military language. and there is an

theirs from the first day of the conflict, according to the ex-commander of the us army in europe, ben and hodgeshe only indicator that matters for effective deterrence and so far we cannot do it. it was the russian federation that announced the convening an urgent meeting of the united nations security council with the same demand was personally made by zelensky, who accused the russian federation of the terrorist attack , saying that an explosion of such power is impossible without mining a hydroelectric power plant. although there is obviously a lot of evidence. on this account , they have been hammering at the hydroelectric power station for the last months without ceasing. well, we got it. as a result, what the butyrish sought was the head. he just announced at a specially convened press conference that he was at home as a result of what happened today in kherson region lost at least 16,000 people 16,000 people, please, it’s worth understanding that 16,000 people are e, 16,000 people are mainly in the russian controlled russia territory of the kherson region, because again you need to rememb

such a long-awaited counter we have beaten off, of course, on the head, there are all sorts of ben and hodgesng statements, and, of course, this article is indicative . a rather well-known businessman who confuse geoffrey is a different person. yes? many today have messed up on the russian internet. yes? well, yes, and so it’s known, but they themselves are a venture capitalist businessman and so on and even more so why his article was so sold today by her elon musk commented. it's immediately understand on twitter a hundred thousand views. in fact, it has three points fixed. in this article, again, the counter-offensive of ukraine has bogged down, that is , there is no progress, and it looks like there will not be a second point. he is very important, he reminded everyone again, after looking at these shots, where putin covered up the initialed istanbul document. wait says. well, this is ukraine itself is to blame. ukraine had a chance to save hundreds of this life, according to e. conclude a peace agreement with russia a year ago, but she didn't use it. who is to blame now? whom? should bla