oh, it was very rightly said by ben hodges, this opinion was also articulated, but still, if there are no red lines left on the side of the russian federation, and on the side of the west they remain these red lines of our western partners, then in what way ... these we can overcome the red lines of our western partners, which others our western partners do not have enough arguments to tear down these red lines and say: listen, we need to finish with putin, and it is clear that, in principle, this is an achievable goal, and not just, let's say, an opportunity or an attempt by such and such goals i watched this interview in its entirety, well, benhodges is really a great friend of ukraine and... a person who looks soberly at the situation, you see, an american general who criticizes the american administration for its, indecisiveness, for being afraid of its own shadow and so on , but you know, on the other hand, well, we can’t even imagine the details of all the technicalities, how difficult it is to do those things so that they are effective, well, here ’s another american... such an

and... as ben hodges said very correctly, this opinion was also articulated, but, nevertheless, if from the there are no red lines left for the russian federation, and from the west they remain these red lines of our western partners, so in what way can we present these red lines of our western partners, what other arguments are lacking for our western partners to ab... would tear down these red lines and say: listen, we need to finish with putin, and it is clear that in principle this is an achievable goal, and not just, let's say, an opportunity or an attempt to achieve such and such a goal. i watched this interview in its entirety, well, benhodges is really a great friend of ukraine and a person who looks at the situation soberly, you see, an american general who criticizes the american administration for its e. we do not even imagine the details of all the technicalities, how difficult it is to do those things so that they are effective, well, another american ex-military said , which is necessary for ukraine to completely dominate russia in the air. 400 f16, but realistically today

, and i think this is a very apt term, not an invasion or not. in a different way, this is what ben hodgesuse indeed the entire territory of the russian federation is a legitimate target for ukraine, and it is clear that we have no intention of annexing these territories, so this is part of our, shall we say, general war, and it is a counter-offensive operation, she hit putin very hard, by and large, this is the first action of our defense forces in a long time, the result of which was not only, well, at the moment, quite significant military results, this is also the territory under control, this is the replenishment of this exchange fund, and this is the accelerated destruction of russian forces and means, the most important thing is the dilemmas for putin, political, it is not for nothing that he called what he is going to do in the kursk region a counter-terrorist operation, that is, he did not even in violation of his own defense law... did not declare martial law, did not introduced those legal and other mechanisms that would be required, are required, more precisely, by russian legi

our washington bureau chief in his pole put that question to ben hodges, a former commanding general of the us army in your as well. of course, in the public we want to know exactly what has been agreed or whatever. i'm, i'm happy at least said the united states is not trying to put the brakes on what ukraine is doing. i have not heard any public statement saying that ukraine should not do this. of course, ukraine has the, the right to defend itself, which includes eliminating areas sanctuary from which russia is attacking ukrainian towns and villages and killing innocent ukrainian citizens. so is this in line with the western policy in the, in the larger sense? yes, ukraine is defending it. so this is classical military doctrine at work trying to get the momentum created dilemma as for the enemy relief pressure from other places. ukraine has no interest in conquering russian territory, but this will help force the russians to recalculate what they're doing. what does this to do with the elections here in the united states president towards your landscape? he has to, you know, he's t

operation, and i think this is a very apt term, not an invasion there or something else, this is what ben hodges proposed, because really the whole territory of the russian federation is a legitimate target for ukraine, and it is clear that we have no intention of annexing these territories, so this is part of our, let's say, general war, and it is... the offensive operation, it hit putin very hard, by and large , these are the first actions of our defense forces in a long time, the result of which were not only, well , at the moment quite significant military results, this is also the territory under control, this is the replenishment of this exchange fund, and this is the accelerated destruction of russian forces and means most importantly, these are dilemmas for putin, political ones, he called it a counter-terrorist operation for a reason, what he is going to do in kursk, that is, he did not declare martial law even in violation of his own defense law, did not introduce the legal and other mechanisms that would require , more precisely, they demand from him russian legislation, well, common

operation. and i think that's a very apt term, not an invasion, there or otherwise, that's what ben hodgesly the entire territory of the russian federation is a legitimate target for ukraine, and it's clear that we have no intention of annexing those territories, so that's part of of our, shall we say, general war, and this is a counter-offensive operation, it hit putin very hard, by and large it lasted for a long time. time the first actions of our defense forces, the result of which there were not only, well, at the moment quite significant military results, this is the territory under control, this is also the replenishment of this exchange fund, and this is the accelerated destruction of russian forces and means, most importantly, these are dilemmas for putin, political, for a reason he called counterterrorism operation, what he is going to do on the course. that is, he did not declare martial law even in violation of his own law on defense, did not introduce those legal and other mechanisms that would be required, or rather required from him by russian legislation, well, common sense,

ben hodges was the commanding general of us troops in europe. the so you know, you can take a truck, load of apples from poland to portugal, never be stopped. he could drive all the way through. i can't do that with military . and i had troops that were up in the baltic countries in poland, small numbers. and um, and i noticed that my ab ation, that helicopter unit was their maintenance readiness level was going down. and i asked my commitment, aviation brigade commander from onbox said, why are they not repaired which taking so long. and you said so we, we cannot get the maintenance parts from onbox to live order. it takes weeks. i said what i was not here. i just assumed driving from onbox to lou verda, that would be like um, being on the interstate $95.00 in the us from florida to virginia. you mean your it's all nato countries, all e u countries. what's the problem? and that's when we realized that there was a problem moving military equipment across borders through the different nations you had to have permission. nato is aware of the probl

nick: ben hodges is a former commander of u.s. and he has long argued the road to ukrainian victory runs through crime era -- crimea, whose annexation is one of president vladimir putin's crowning achievements. >> now, ukraine has enough to be able to hit all the airfields every shift in the harbor and other important facilities. that is the goal to make that place untenable for russian forces. nick: they helped sink a russian submarine and have damaged or destroyed russian airfields in at least a dozen batteries in crimea including some of russia's most advanced as four hundredths. and among the warships, one of the first sunk by a ballistic missile. ukraine attacks helped force russia's most valuable naval assets out of crimea into southern russia. a feat first accomplished with storm shadow missiles that ukraine has been launching since last year. >> these hits matter a lot, partly because of the fact that the russians cannot replace them. crimea is a launching pad of all sorts of different missiles, rockets, drones, that are h

former commander of us forces in europe, ben hodges said in an interview with the same economist thatheads of the mid-7 that iran had spoiled them in the next 24 hours, they could a full-scale attack on israel. the reid agency, citing a source in the white house, reports that the united states is preparing to send additional forces to the middle east. and this is what the airport in beirut looks like now, foreigners who were in lebanon are returning home, a tv channel. cbs news reported that israeli sources say the strike by lebanese hezbollah and iran may last several days and will involve the use of drones. the wall street journal writes that arab countries and the united states tried to dissuade tehran attack israel, but to no avail. tel aif claims that it is ready for any development of events. a new round of escalation began after the political assassination in iran of ismail, haniyeh, the head of the hamas political bureau, iran promised a tough response. the belgian team has officially withdrawn from the mixed relay triathlon competition at the paris olympics. one of the swimme

ok live from the ben green or port which just at a top ration for a little while. but as back on the way as robbie berman are to come to peter hodge just being telling us were, i'll be thank you. the a crack done on free speech. just one of the reactions to the news, the russian tech to i couldn't hobble do or off, has reportedly being detained by french police. the telegram fund raise accused of not giving security services, access to private information on the messenger platform. investigators, therefore, our allegedly accusing him of complicity and drug trading, fraud and crimes against children to let's get into this with our t. charlotte, do been steve joys been down in the studio for more on that and i'm just reading through that literally of, of what it could be in connection with some there's quite a vagueness that comes with that. but just in the overall situation chart, no official confirmation as yet at from par us at by the public door of being detained. is that correct? that's why at the moment, uh, these aren't just reports from a number of french out. let somebody say that they weren't close sources with the investi