does not stay in the black sea. i weaponizing the export of ukrainian grain through the black sea, putin has already shown his willingness to bring the world to the break of the global food security crisis. russia's actions affect that only the countries bordering the black sea, , but also dozens of countries in africa such as somalia in kenya and asia and other parts ofa the world. countries whose food security depends on russia's actions. it's also caused extreme volatility in grain prices overo the past year and a half which creates increased cost and uncertainty for use consumers and farmers. he's up into the global energyy market contributing to rising costsrk in europe and here at home. and most concerning, russian attack drones that crash landed inva romania and moldova risking further escalation in europe to given that romania is a nato ally. president biden has said congress and assistance package that includes more than $60 billion for ukraine. i hope we can get this done and get ukraine what it needs. sup

the black sea is home to three nato nations into countries. for them the black sea as a connector. for security and economy. i saw this firsthand during a visit to romania and georgia earlier this year. as the ukrainian ambassador shared with me what happens in the black sea does not stay in the black sea by a weaponize in the export of ukrainian grain to the black sea not only the countries bordering the black sea but also dozens of countries in africa such as somalia and kenya and asia and other parts of the world. countries whose food security depends russia's actions extreme volatility and grain prices over the past year end a half which increase in costs and uncertainty for u.s. consumers and farmers. he has upended the global energy market contributing to rising costs in europe and here at home. most concerning russian attack drones have crash landed and romania and moldova risking further exhalation given romania's nato ally. present brightness that congress a package that includes more than $60 billion for ukraine. i hope we can get this done and get ukraine what it needs.

during the western black sea into a no go area for russian warships ukraine with the help of the black seat nato allies has successfully established a humanitarian corridor art to tot russia's de facto blockade. despite these recent successes we cannot allow ourselves to be loath into complacency. russia has failed and its goals on the battlefield, it's also shown its ability to adapt. as russia looks to disrupt the corridor with mines the u.s. must find ways to enhance the naval capabilities of a bulgarian friends to deter destructive tactics. turkey is a native ally and gate keeper of the haunted seat but also continue to play a pivotal role in constraining russia. but turkey after pulling both sides about the conflict must make a choice if it wants to play a productive role in the region. ultimately the black sea future hinges on russia's clear defeat in ukraine. as ukraine continued this long-term plan to push russia out of crimea it should do so with unwavering american support. the biden administration recent decision to send attack comes was a welcome reversal after 18 months of

fleet, the russian fleet, in general in the black sea, there are not only ships of the black seanow there are such possibilities, the russians have them, they were somewhat, somewhat limited, the fleet has to be pulled east, and from the area occupied by janka, they really launch iskander, and if if this information is finally confirmed that it was iskanders, then this is far from the first case, for example, itself... from here, from the dzhankoya district, the same iskanders were launched on july 31 of this year in the city of kryvyi rih, as a result of this attack, a residential high-rise building was damaged , dozens and dozens of injured people were killed. a new factor, a new factor of danger may be mig-31 aircraft with calibers that, according to yesterday's statements or threats of russian president putin , will patrol in the neutral zone of the air... space over the black sea, but maybe this is how the russian leadership wants to counter the reconnaissance that is constantly conducted over the black sea by nato drones , well, representatives of the atesh movement in yevp

in the black sea ...ense forces of ukraine. it was they who provided a real grain corridor, which is actually already working, and we already have, well , in fact, more than one successful case when grain goes from our ports to destinations. in addition, today we received a rather pleasant confirmation that the patrol ship of the russian federation pavel derzhavin was damaged in a certain way, somewhere not far away. from sevastopol, what happened, well, for now the representatives of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine do not emphasize, they say that there is none, something exploded there, and thank god, and we are just as happy about it. pavlo lekiychuk, head of security programs at the strategy 21 global studies center, is in touch with us. mr. pavle, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine. good day, glory to the heroes. let's certainly start with the general situation in the black sea. our nato partners note that the work of the defense forces on the facilities of the black sea fleet is bea

this probably became another attack by ukraine on the facilities of the black sea fleet.e remind you that september 22 missile attack was carried out on the headquarters of the black sea fleet of russia, and according to the ukrainian side. about three dozen senior officers of the headquarters of the black sea fleet were destroyed. this week, western analysts reported the withdrawal of more than a dozen ships from sevastopol, the main base of the russian black sea fleet, to novorossiysk on the russian coast. in particular , frigates admiral makarov and admiral essen, as well as three submarines, were withdrawn from sevastopol . what is happening in the black sea fleet, the ship composition of which is systematic destroy ukraine, now we will talk with the spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, dmytro pletenchuk. good evening. good evening. studio, welcome viewers. ah, well. actually, let's start with how you can comment on this transfer of more than a dozen ships and submarines of the black sea fleet of the russian federation to novorossiysk, is this

and above the black sea. er remained unchanged, two ships continue to patrol the sea, and the boat, which is a missile launcher, but according to our information, it is not equipped, is found. in principle, the situation is stable, which is why the ship is not equipped with the same calibers, so the submarine is in the sea, which is there, but not equipped, but please tell me whether , as of today, the ships of the russian federation can safely use their base in occupied sevastopol, well , as an indication, taking into account the last case that occurred with patrol ship pavel derzhavin, which was damaged during the external raid of sevastopol, besides, mykola muru is a military tugboat that went to his aid, and so they said, they feel safe in this water area at the moment , and the enemy understands this very well. this is precisely what causes the redeployment of the main, main number of ships, the most important for the black sea fleet, to the novorossian and other bases, and mr. dmytro, can we talk about w

fleet continues to launch missiles and can probably do so from the eastern part of the black sea as well. natalya humanyuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the defense forces of southern ukraine, captain of the first rank , is in direct contact with us. mrs. natalya, we congratulate you. glory to ukraine, i congratulate you. glory as a hero. hero slava, which you are now watching with the russian fleet in black and azov. how do they behave, where are they, in the end? they are really redeploying, it is obvious that there is a movement from those bays that they considered to be different harbors, and now they are returning to the historical shores, they are really gravitating towards novorossiysk, but the rotation in the black sea and the deployment of the ship group are kept in a stable order, we are now recording 13 ships, 12 of which yesterday. sea, one in the azov sea, they expose the surface the situation, they can also carry unmanned aerial vehicles, of the reconnaissance type, which are also actively launched to study the situation, and there is one missile -

well, we perfectly understand that just like from the black sea equator to the crimean region, these carrier ships launched calibers, these calibers, they can also do it from the equator in the novosiysk region, to level this threat, it turns out, has become more difficult from the point of view of logistics, since , well , then you need to be logistically novorossiysk . there were cases when the enemy attacked us with calibers from the waters of the sea of ​​azov, but it should not be forgotten, and at least in the summer the enemy did this, as far as... loading, for example, with calibers, that is, the relevant technical, routine work that takes place at arming the rocket launchers with missiles, this happens only in sevastopol, then they will have to return to sevastopol after a possible attack, and it is clear that they are trying to close the bays there as much as possible today and somehow they are already closing them in order to secure their ships, of course, at the same time various situations are possible during the transition. and our intelligence is sure that it is usuall

at the first opportunity, our western partners, our black sea neighbors will join in, and if all facts are confirmed at the official level in our country, it will be great news, and it will significantly speed up the process of restoring maritime communication routes , that is, shipping channels in our black sea, because for ukraine, which i emphasize , the sea is the main export and import channel, before the full-scale invasion, it accounted for about 90% of our exports and imports of our country. dmitry, we have literally two more minutes, i don't know if you monitor the activity, so to speak, in quotation marks of colleagues, the russians and and and their all these naval actions there. but the latest news related to the commander of the black sea fleet, sokolov, was in the public space about two weeks ago, well, there is no longer even an attempt by the russians to assure us that he is alive, we have to draw some conclusion, maybe there is some more info if not then no we are currently waiting for confirmation that we just played black jezek with them lose... our frigate, i

fleet will obviously not be able to have the same control over the black sea as before.e same time, the russian forces have changed the tactics of using their fleet in the war against ukraine, say the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine. now, russia uses only caliber-type missile carriers in battle order to launch strikes against ukraine. territory, and other enemy ships actually do not take part in hostilities, said the spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, dmytro plettenchuk, however, it is still too early to talk about changing the balance of power in favor. ukrainian troops in the regions of occupied crimea, because russia has more than 30 warships, not counting boats and auxiliary fleet. meanwhile, in occupied sevastopol, a large patrol ship of the russian black sea fleet, pavel derzhavin, could have been blown up, this was reported by local telegram channels, in particular crimean vetir. subscribers of the channel informed the administrators that they heard a loud explosion at 10 o'clock in the morning. monitoring group after that, a

at the first opportunity western, our neighbors on the black sea, and if these facts are all confirmedthe official level here, it will be great news, and it will significantly speed up the process of restoring sea communication routes, i.e. shipping channels, in our black sea the sea, because for ukraine, which i emphasize, the sea is the main export-import channel , before the full-scale invasion, it accounted for about 90% of our country's exports and imports. dmitry, we literally have two more minutes, i don’t know if you are monitoring the activity, so to speak, in quotation marks of colleagues, russians and and and their and all these naval figures, but the latest news that connected the black sea fleet to sokolov was in the public space for approx. two weeks ago, well, there are no longer even attempts by the russians to assure us that he is alive, we we have to draw some conclusion, maybe there is some additional information, if not, then no , at the moment we are waiting for confirmation that we just played black jack with them, lose our frigate, flagship, lose control post, lo

historical sou in the black sea. as a result, the russian fleet is expelled from sevastopol. it is safer for them to be somewhere in the baltic sea. will escape from ukrainian defense forces save russians? they are like there. moscow or makarov from essem simply become big targets. and what to do with caliber carriers hiding from our drones. first, the missile strike, secondly, we analyzed the real situation in the black sea. a russian vessel, the large patrol ship pavel derzhavin, which entered service only two years ago, is on fire during the sevastopol raid. in addition to derzhavin, the tug professor nikolay muru was hit, say the naval forces. and this is a case of naval drones, a kid with experimental weapons. a joint operation of the sbu and the navy of ukraine. the news about a new successful attack by ukrainian surface drones on the black sea fleet of the russian federation immediately spread around the world and only intensified the talk that historic shifts are taking place in... russian ships, big and small, are fleeing to the west of the black sea, trying to hide f

including on the temporarily occupied territories of the crimean peninsula or in the waters of the black sea. and actually, i would like to go back to what you started this morning's meeting with, that is about the explosion that happened in the sea, we can talk here precisely about the role of the black sea fleet of the russian federation in the near future, because this is precisely the effort to create such zones of mine-explosive danger with the help of underwater drills, first of all, or civilian students working for russia, i think that this is exactly the prospect that can be in the near future, because along the grain corridor, of course, because the enemy's grain corridor is a bone in the throat today. therefore, he will do exactly as happened with this ship that sailed under the turkish flag, today the type of mine is not determined, what it is, but we understand that the legend of the russians, it will be only one, that it is a mine-explosive danger from the ukrainian side. mr. serhiy, you mentioned submarines, hostile, as it were, well, at least at the first approach, it seems th

dolphins are a very powerful force for the russian black sea fleet, and in all seriousness, welllly said that they would put dolphins in the defense of the military naval bases, including in sevastopol, etc., and you know, well , in principle, they talked about combatants, there were mosquitoes and they went to such lengths, but how much really , i just want to hear from an expert whether they can really use them there somehow, to things of our dolphins in their purposes, or that just this kind of propaganda, which is designed for poor russians and , well, people like that, you know, these news from... have been circulating for quite a long time, and every time, i say the same thing and the same thing, the same thing, if i were the russians, i would be afraid that these dolphins recognize us, on the other hand, well, i honestly don't know why at all, it was on their part to spread this information, because of course it looks funny to most people, and so they in a variety of ways. the soviets are trying to protect their aa bases in the temporarily occupied territory, crimea, there

the black sea plays the role of a safe artery, on which it depends global food security, without ouricultural exports, food price crises and social chaos threaten dozens of nations from the west coast of africa to bangladesh to indonesia. this is a cornerstone, when ukrainian food exports disappear, the entire global... food market is destroyed, and we understand that it would be simply impossible to achieve this goal without the naval forces, the armed forces of ukraine, without the defense forces of ukraine in general, and the behavior of those naval bases of russians who are now in crimea and not only, in general in the black sea equatorial region, it is also quite characteristic, let 's talk about it with our next online guest, and this is dmytro pletenchuk, spokesman for the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine. dmitry, congratulations, glory to ukraine. hello glory, greetings to the studio, greetings to the audience and guests. well, let's start with such ordinary, in some sense, questions, the state of the black sea fleet of the russian federation, as of today. how many

>> the black sea fleet by its name is there to control the black sea and it has been stopping gettingorts over which has been fairly successful. the boats that get in cannot carry as much grain out. there have been some efforts and some running of the blockade by the ukrainians but it has not been near the levels of export they usually expect. by pushing the black sea fleet back, ukrainians hope they can get their economy going better. it is still of the occupied lands were they produce the grain that are still taken, but they have a lot of grain they are trying to distribute through other means that will help them get it out that way. >> i want to ask you about our correspondent james waterhouse and his reporting at the top of the program. really distressing, unimaginable for what that small village is going through with so many people killed. we have this back-and-forth and forth now, local officials saying this was a deliberate attack from russia. russia saying they do not attack civilians. getting to the exact truth will be difficult. what is your assessment given the location of

fleet from the black sea, from the crimea, and is actually starting to not rule, maybe still onuation, but already... to increase our role, can we talk, actually, what can we talk about, how confident we already feel in the black sea, somewhere there, maybe in some space, in the vicinity crimea, as of today, well, i can tell you that it is big in the distance, if the british intelligence can see it, it is quite reliable, it is obvious and will be visible to everyone in the near future, for' now we can say that we are not so small in the black sea , we have a certain strength, power and pose a certain threat to the black sea fleet, although they are trying to pressure from the air, in particular, tactical aviation continues its dominance and pressure on civilian shipping in the district of the snake islands, where they direct guided... aerial bombs, many sea transport routes pass there, let me remind you, and the enemy is trying to provoke trouble in this way, in particular - the strikes of the submarines can cause the detonation of sea mines that are in the territorial sea of ​​

, well, first of all, indeed today novorossiy can already de facto be called the main base , the black sealeet of the russian federation, this is what we talked about and dreamed about even before the beginning of the great invasion, when we talked about the de-occupation of our ukraine. of the peninsula, of course, this process is forced for them for the russian fleet, because we understand that sevastopol has become very inhospitable, very inhospitable, well , we actually see it, missile carriers, although they were present on duty this evening, two surface ships, these are 16 calibers , missile carriers also try to hide, there are storms periodically in the sea, this is also a factor that is very quite serious, despite the fact that it let's say this, the country's use of natural resources, well, actually, if you are talking about abkhazia, also a temporarily occupied part of georgia, the ochamchira base, we know that there, even today, there are certain conflicts, i will explain why, because they were based there maritime border guards of the russian federation, the occupiers, i have a

an opinion that the best it is possible to secure the ships of the black sea fleet by dragging them hrough the narrows to the caspian sea, and it is possible to use the internal waters of the russian federations, you see. free of charge we give advice, all the more so the burghers on the volga - it's about russians, it's not about ukrainians. sergey, finally, today is a special day , as we mentioned before our conversation with you, today is the day of defenders of ukraine, we know that at 9:00 a.m. such a unifying initiative will take place, which was announced in particular by president volodymyr zelenskyi, who called all ukrainians, regardless of where they are, to stop for one minute in order to honor the memory of those who died and say i thank those who are now defending ukraine with weapons in their hands. what possible events will take place today in the territory of the odesa region in connection with this day, and perhaps you would like to say something about this? well, first of all, i would like to say that all our soldiers of the ukrainian volunteer army, regardless of w

the top of the russian black sea fleet was destroyed. the second question, a large amount of secret documentation was demolished, now in the fsb, i am sure, they are manually searching for these documents. the third such aspect is communication. there. large communication lines, communications, now this is the subscriber, the subscriber is unavailable, degree in the occupied crimea is rising, the siren is sounding more and more often. the occupation council of ministers of the peninsula has switched to remote work, officials are taking families out of crimea, the fsb has begun a series of arrests and inspections. ships were removed from the 13th ship repair plant in sevastopol. first. the military moved a ship to the port of feodosia, raptor-type missile boats are being transferred overland to sevastopol, and also a partisan movement, and also recorded that the russians, after the attack on the headquarters , began to reinforce the pppo of simferopol with obsolete osa air defense systems from the 70s, propaganda and incredibly expensive

so the authoritative edition of the financial times writes that the black sea is now becoming a more competitive space thanks to the exercises of the ukrainian defenders, they say, the russian fleet no longer feels safe because of ukrainian attacks on enemy ships, so every day there is actually more balka. which export our food and not only food, whether this route will restore the ukrainian economy or raise the gross domestic product. we will talk about this with oleksandr kolinkov, president of the ukrmetallurgprom association, adviser to the prime minister of ukraine in 2005-2006. good evening. good evening, thank you for the invitation. sir oleksandr, should we expect that this alternative route, which our state has achieved, will now raise the gross domestic product, because, for example, in the ministry of finance serhiy marchenko, the head of the department , noted that this year should be a record, almost 4.7 % growth, what are your predictions? absolutely, without access to the black sea , the growth and recovery of our economy is impossible, we are an exporting state, we ex

fleet, but from the point of view that there are still ships, on this c to the russian black seabe considered that it does not exist, it is still combat -capable, it can do some damage, but the advantages are the same as they were... even there, well, let's say, there six months ago or there a year ago, such an advantage they do not have, and they are no longer able to control, a large part of the water area of ​​the sea of ​​azov, temporarily occupied territories, where our territorial waters, which they consider their own, if in this sense, if it was meant in the british ministry of defense, what they already have such an advantage, they don't have such an advantage, so that's it can be called with no difficulty, what is it, we defeated the black sea, russian fleet, no, it still exists, so far it will be capable, but, advantages, such a significant advantage, unconditional, as they say, they no longer have an advantage, well, we will continue to sink, well, actually there they compared this impression of the black sea fleet in the occupied crimea with the kharkiv breakthrough i

fleet is a very powerful force , these are black sea dolphins, and they are completely serious,, they actually said that they... dolphins will be put on the defense of naval bases, including in sevastopol, etc., and you know, well, in principle, they talked about combatants, there were mosquitoes and they went to such lengths, but to what extent it is true, i just want to hear from an expert whether really, somehow they can use our dolphins for their own purposes, or is it just propaganda aimed at poor russians and people like that? you know, this news has been circulating for quite some time, and every time, i say the same thing, the same thing, i would on the spot, the russians were afraid that these dolphins would recognize us, and on the other hand, well, i honestly don't know why at all, it was their part to spread this information, because of course. to most people it looks ridiculous, really, and so they, in various ways, try to protect their bases in the temporarily occupied territory, crimea, there are barrier barriers, and monitoring systems, surveillance of the surfac

this is sevastopol as the main base for the black sea fleet, and despite the deployment in the black d the sea of ​​azov, the transfer of units to novorossiysk, they will still be forced to periodically enter the base in sevastopol, this is how their logistics are built, and what does it look like at sea now, in particular the entrance through the kerch strait to azov, because there was information that a whole galley had entered the port of mariupol in ogo, bringing something there and so on, that is, they are now began to sail more actively there through the stream to azov, or whatever you are monitoring, we cannot say that any fundamental changes will take place, especially given the fact that periodically some ships enter with the ais identification system turned off, and it is impossible to actually track them in general, to say that somehow the situation has changed radically in the sea of ​​azov, we cannot, it is fixed in the same way, the security of this object, the so-called crimean bridge, is periodically stationed there by the maritime security group of the fsb of the russ

talking about is rather a statement, or is it just a process, because we understand that the russian black sea fleet in the occupied territories in crimea, it definitely has ... not one ship, and i wonder how it happens in the projection? well, of course it is process, and you see, the situation at sea, it is by and large, well, it is, well, enough, an approximate drift, but it will still try, because we talked about frontal attacks, for example, in the area of ​​novoprokopivka, we talked about frontal attacks in the area of ​​avdiivka, that is if we take the land, and if we are talking about the sea, then the enemy also does not understand that he is not welcome here today, he really needs to... go to novorossiysk and this will be his salvation, although not i'm sure, because those facilities, which are, for example, in the novorossiysk port, they remain legitimate military targets, here we can also talk about the following, ships, of course, because they are combat units that carry threats, of course we are talking primarily about missile carriers, somewhere over 100 calibers today, if i am

the black sea fleet. in ukraine — the united nations is sending investigators to the village of hroza. 52 people were killed. also on the programme... ai—powered live facial recognition cameras. new calls for them to be banned immidiately. the winner of the 2023 nobel peace prize narges mohammadi — is still in prison in iran. we look at her campaigning for women's rights in the country. and as the labour party win in scotland, what does that mean for their chances in the next general election? to discuss all this i'm joined by lord kim darroch — former uk ambassador to the us & eu, and also former national security adviser, and the democratic political campaign strategist, mo elleithee. united nations investigators are on their way to the ukrainian village where a missile strike killed more than 50 people on thursday, in one of the deadliest single attacks on civilians since russia's invasion began. they will gather evidence and testimony, which could be used in any future war crimes trial. ukraine has ac

what is the current situation on the black sea? the sea subsided a little, the storm halved.very powerful, 4-5 points for the black sea is a very big concern, now it is two or three points, but still we observe that the ship group is affected by such a powerful storm, in fact it has halved and the rear guard has been moved to the base points, mainly in novorossiysk, now it's left five ships in the black sea, one in the sea of ​​azov, and a missile carrier, even a submarine could not withstand such shaking. so i also went to the base point, that is, now there is no direct threat from the sea, but we remember that the enemy can use the missile of the nations that are also in the bays. what about those hit ships actually, do they regenerate after being hit, stormshadow? they went to novorossiysk and slowly assess their condition as not very... very good for further service, it is obvious that they will cable - some repair work has been carried out, the damage suffered by the tugboat and the patrol ship, they are not critical at the moment, but they still require the involvement

what's the logistic of the black sea fleet and all these things? and the point is. what's the overall picture? what's the logistic i think, um on uh on the front line, on on, on the different front lines and in certain villages yes, this will be a problem, but the overall offensive will go on. general ben. do you agree on that do you think ukraine is not really running out of time? as so many people say, i do agree with thomas on this. uh look, this is the year 2023 um we used to in the old days in the 18th and 19th century, armies would go into winter quarters because they depended on horses and oxen to pull wagons and artillery and so they could only do campaigns when you had grass available when there's no grass available because the winter, they go into winter quarters. now, in 2023 of course, we can go uh around the clock um every day. uh but it is a fact that this part of ukraine, the soil when it's wet is a very nasty type of mud. so it will restrict some ground movement. but the ukrainians know they cannot, they cannot hesitate at all. they cannot give the r

the black sea, of course, has great attention to the temporarily occupied crimea. mr.y, a lot of things are actually happening in crimea, yes, on the one hand, we regularly hear about some, some explosions there, over the weekend there was jonkoi, the composition of the occupiers, well, we understand that they are restless, are beginning to strengthen, air defense has been moved to occupied simferopol. near feodosia, around feodosia, the dragon's teeth are being strengthened, they are starting to erect, as if they are afraid from that side, they want to protect themselves , but our friends are not sleeping and actually discover new objects, please tell me, is it possible to hide something somewhere in crimea now , somehow transfer, i don’t know, pppo systems, some installations, something else to protect them from... from justice, and from fair actions our special services? well, if we take, for example, russian crime, which now lives, thrives, and works on the territory of the temporarily occupied crimea, it is really possible to hide something from it, to hide from t

of the russian federation in crimea , business confidence in the restoration of shipping in the black seao increased. despite the withdrawal of the aggressor country from the grain agreement and threats to attack merchant ships, ukraine was able to open an alternative sea route along the eastern coast. since mid-september, they have already exported more than 3.5 million tons of grain. the export of metal also began, while the grain agreement allowed the transportation of only grain, food and fertilizers in fact, it is not too much, we need to export at least 6 million tons every month in order to support the agricultural sector as a basic part of the ukrainian economy, but this is already a good result, and the sub-cost of exports has fallen, if before our successes, the cost of logistics was about 200 dollars per ton. now it has decreased

the activity has dropped, because the weather is like this, well, in principle, it storms like the black seabut as of today we do not know anything, so tell us what is at sea, where are the moscow, the remnants of the black sea fleet, or are there threat, so it is true, because of the storm, already the second day, they actually have only one submarine in the sea, it is a missile carrier, but not the fact that it is equipped, and a mile...' to the idea that it is not equipped, and as of now, there are no more ships or other units even around the so-called kerch bridge, that is, even foreigners. the base points have entered, there are so many storms, so in principle yes, now you know how during the rain, a person always feels a little calmer, due to the fact that predators do not hunt, eh, the same is the case now during storms, one can say that a little the situation stabilized the only thing, of course, is always the threat of using onyx-type anti-ship missiles from the immediate territory, while occupying ukraine. mr. dmitry, and one more moment, we also carefully watched how the invincibl

fleet could not prevent these landings in any way, and this is the function of the black sea fleetat is why in the situation when the black sea fleet cannot fully operate in the western part of the black sea, in particular near the coast crimea, now the russian federation is forced to strengthen its coastline. in principle, these measures are clear, that is, they are now trying to predict all possible moves on our part. uhu, and by the way, returning to the issue of fire control over crimea, the establishment of such fire control, to what extent it minimizes the risk of missile strikes, that is, with sea- based missiles from the black sea? unfortunately, they will continue, obviously, because the range of the radius of these missiles it allows from a remote corner of the black sea, there is more than a thousand kilometers, and simply the action of our drones, surface ones, well, it is completely unable to protect us from these shellings. ugh. mr. denis, thank you for this analysis, denis popovych, military observer, chief editor of the apostrophe edition, we talked about the situat

, the equator of the black sea sea? the numbers are different, if we take, for example, from march of last year, what is known, the information that has already leaked, first to our relevant structures, and then we gave the usual open information, including that more than 400 min is that that was at the beginning of the great invasion, of course this process was continued by the russian federation, and i understand that the figure could be 600 there, even more, min, now, well, it is really difficult to say how many were thrown there, because it is unlikely that there are any russians there map of minefields, because they used it, and i say it again, against our states , against ukraine first of all, so there will be enough work, that's for sure, not even... for the fact that those mines were eliminated, which were knocked out, brought to the shore , not only us, by the way, and turkey, romania, bulgaria have felt it themselves, including, as well as the blowing up of their ships, then this is a tiny part of what can be

when we talk about ukraine's membership in nato, we should also talk about security in the black sea, because over the past 20 years, nato has formed its own black sea strategy, can we expect... will form its strategy in the black sea, it should be , whether there should be a separate strategy, regardless of ukraine, i want answer start answering, nato recently approved a regional defense plan for its alliance members bordering the black sea, and a critical advantage of ukraine joining nato will be that in this case nato will have control over the black sea, because the ukrainian coastline, crimea and so on, but this is a plan, it is limited to those countries that are located along the black sea, which are now nato members, that is why it is so important from the strategic point of view of nato to accept ukraine into the alliance. thank you. as we near the end of our discussion, i i want to thank you for your participation and i want to invite each worthy speaker of our panel to say a few words on behalf of the american audience here in kyiv as a whole. bomb shelters, we know the con

fleet has lost the most important thing. dominance in the black sea, it will continue, i hope soea of ​​the mosquito fleet, as we can see, is slowly being implemented and quite successfully, this is when we, well, maybe we are not ready for open naval battles, so to speak, but we can do everything to drive away these parasites from our shores, who are constantly trying to climb up and fire at us, and mr. serhiy, yesterday, yesterday, the head of european diplomacy, josep borel , visited odessa, and it was unexpected , actually unexpected... i would like to understand what kind of signal the europeans are sending us, whether it is essentially a consecration of that alternative grain route, cut through by the efforts of the defense forces of ukraine, which, as we can see, is now used by ships that go for grain, they export grain and so on, well, i would said so that this is first of all a consecration of the continuation of... broad support from our allies in our actions in the fight against the russian terrorist, the russian aggressor, by the way, about the unexpectedness of the v

crossed 672 million in 9 months tons, i.e. 10 times more than we harvest per year in the same azov-black seais says one simple thing: they depend on the sea much more than we do, and as soon as they felt it, i will not remind thanks to which actions we got the situation we have. of course, i am not calling for the fact that we should somehow destroy civil communications there, although they should be under control, but i think that everyone understands that if there are inadequate actions in the direction of ukraine, the same actions must definitely be in the direction of russia, now about the danube, so they say that the danube also helps, that some part, i don’t know which, but a small river goes through the danube, from odessa there to the north to europe and there through serbia somehow is also transshipped already to croatian ports or through croatia, it adds something, is it so easy for itself... calm down, rough logistics is the law of connected vessels, yes, that is, of course, if it is blocked, the best option, it is definitely, it the ports of greater odessa, this is chornomorsk, t

no, i think it's not, not about this signal, although we did establish a new balance in black the searity balance, yes, it is asymmetric, but nevertheless, and the recent complex use of drones, including over the occupied crimea, it shows that we control, directly or indirectly, a significant part of the black sea area. and ye more than once in his history, and i remember it well, tried to formulate a black sea strategy, sometimes it was completely cut short, the second is the best option, and in the end the european union will need to understand that the status quo, he no longer exists, need to build another status quo, and it is not those. and on the contrary, for the west, the special role of the eu in this is definitely more important, to show that it is not too much trying to seize the black sea, but that it is the eu that projects its power, but in this case not only soft power on the black sea, this is such a correct division of labor , that's why i said that the barrel in odessa is in some sense a black sea of ​​security, even a more important signal than stoltenberg, despite

putin's statement about patrolling migs with daggers over the black sea does not go beyond the usualan rhetoricians this is the opinion of the british ministry of defense. according to the department, this message is aimed at the domestic audience, which calls the measure an aggressor, and russia's actions are allegedly necessary for protection. putin's specific mention of the dagger missile and its capabilities was almost certainly made in strategic messaging to demonstrate that russia is still capable of producing and using newly developed weapons despite the ongoing war in ukraine, according to a statement from the british ministry of defense . i will remind you that yurii egnat, the spokesman of the air force command, stated that there may be more air alarms in ukraine because these migs will fly over the black sea, but i also remind you that for a long time migs were based on the territory of the same belarus , which is very close to the ukrainian border, and for example, the same kiev is much closer than the black sea, so i think that the likely number of dishes will really inc

well, we understand that in such history can be played, you understand, by two parties , well, some black seaates will appear, so to speak, and will want to scatter sea mines, near novorossiysk or near sevastopol, and so on, no one can exclude such a thing, you understand, some barbary pirates, will be taken and thrown, will the russians be ready for that or not? in any case, the service is always organized in such a way as to be ready for these dangers , for our part, of course, we cannot violate humanitarian law, maritime law, we never, we are not like that, but there are some barbaric kurdish ones so to speak, they will come up on some boats full of dovbanks and, so to speak, stuff the russian water area, in this case , most likely, it will be just a provocation on the part of the russians themselves, so why a provocation, well, because they then they will try to blame us for this, and this is their way, if they blew up high-rise buildings with their sleeping citizens, why not throw them... a mine somewhere near novorossiya, well , you can wait for it, but we will deal with it according to

the black sea fleet is, by its name, is basically dead for the black sea and the point of it really has in terms of a blockade of ukraine's southern ports, and stopping it getting its grain exports. podesta has drawn so the boats they get into their cards carry as much grain. there have been some efforts and some potentially running of the blockade by ukrainians but it hasn't been anywhere near the levels of export that they usually expect. i put in the black sea fleet back ukrainians will be hoping they will get the economy going a bit better. a lot of the occupied lands where they produce the grain are still taken, but they have certainly had a lot of grain that they have tried to distribute through other means, that would help them get it out that way. interesting, if it is ok, i want to ask about our correspondence, james waterhouse, and his report that we showed at the top of the programme. distressing and unimaginable for what small village is going through, with so many people killed. we have this back and forth, officials say that this was a deliberate attack from russia. russia

whose report the senators listened to at the meeting on the black sea. instead , according to him, russia additionally... earns by creating a shadow fleet, with its help the russian federation manages to export oil on its conditions to circumvent sanction restrictions. it is not excluded - he added, that ships can also transport ammunition. to comply with the oil price cap for russia, we apply sanctions, regulate the movement of goods through service providers, insurance companies, maritime registries, and so on. what russia is trying to do with iran is to create what they call. navies with an excuse, so they bought up old ships and try to operate them without access to the places where we impose sanctions, so you have an unregulated naval fleet, about 500 ships that we know of, and it is dangerous, dangerous to shipping, dangerous to all counterparties and dangerous to the ports where these ships call. as a first step to regulate these ships, we created some guidelines a couple of weeks ago, we need to convey to the people who do business with these shi

how can children sit in the headquarters of the black sea fleet, while their mothers are on a missilecooked, right? the ukrainian military managed to damage the rostov-na submarine. this is one of the most modern ships at the disposal of the black sea fleet six such submarines, this is the first damaged russian submarine since the beginning of the war. well, by the way, roston should be able to launch kalibr cruise missiles, which are used by the russian army to strike ukraine. but it is true, they will laugh and forget. and here it is important to understand how far propaganda went in denying the obvious. for example, last year they still so-so, but recognized the loss of the city of populated areas, but now it seems that the kremlin has lowered a black man, lie to the last, but do not admit defeat, zelsky it is clear what he will say, about the fact that he took away klescheevka and andreevka from you and me, he is moving forward, he is doing well, give him even more weapons, but we know that everything is not like that. as a result, we were really surprised when we saw that kyiv an

hippie, he stated that the russian black sea fleet in the black sea has suffered a functional defeat, what does this mean from the point of view of our military, please explain. and point for our military, this means that everything we do in the water area of ​​the azov-black sea region. in principle, they should be considered, considered as a single whole, because it is quite such a closed pool , all this has results, has corresponding consequences, for our enemy, for us and allows us to talk about some progress, in principle, more than a year ago we drove them away from ours the southern coast of odesa and mykolayiv region, from the mainland mainland coast. of our country, and as of now, yes, they are forced to hide, in principle , of course, they continue to serve at sea, of course they carry out tasks, for example, now there are four units at sea, and even among them there is a carrier, but for example, this carrier is now discharged , it is also a certain danger factor for him, he has to go to sevastopol in order to recharge, because they can only… recharge there, the calibers ar

we should all support continued efforts to revive the black sea grain initiative to enable ukraine toucts. currently , 4.4 million tons of grain and other agricultural products have been exported from ukraine as part of project. and river routes for exporting grain to europe, thus, through these solidarity routes, we provide about 60% of the volume of ukrainian grain exports since the beginning of the war. the only problem is that the sea route is of course easier from a logistics point of view and much cheaper compared to land transport. according to publicly available data on international trade volumes, more than half of the grain transported by sea goes to developing countries, so we we are fully aware that this problem greatly affects african countries. it looks like russia is ready for a very protracted war, this, of course, has led to consequences in europe in its neighbors. regions, but this also has serious consequences outside of europe and throughout the world, i believe that one of the main conclusions is, of course, food security, if russia returns to the grain deal, this

, the ship group as a whole is deployed in the amount of five units in the black sea, one in the bases are established, they will not be now on combat duty, although this is not a reason to relax, and the general staff assesses the missile threat as high, since the russians have repeatedly used missile carriers directly from the bases from the bays, despite the fact that this poses a threat even to their personnel, and they do this in order to , in order to demonstrate to their population, for example, to the russians there, if it is somewhere in new russia, that they are so strong, powerful and doing something, or is it because they are afraid of something... and simply do not want to take risks. obviously they don't want to to take risks, because going out into open sea space is already a danger for them, they have in front of their eyes the reason of olenihorsky gornyak, and pavlo derzhavin told a lot of interesting things. ugh. thank you, ms. natalya. natalya gumenyuk, the head of the joint coordination center of the defense forces of southern ukraine, captain of the first ra

the institute of black sea strategic studies showed what it looks like.lored lines, minesweeper routes, main. whose function in the fleet is to search for and destroy sea mines. by the way, dolphins effectively find explosives underwater, they are trained in this, but finding mines is not the only task of these animals. this week, on satellite images from the occupied crimea, the official publication of the british navy noticed an interesting thing: near one of the naval military bases of the occupiers, which is located in the northwestern part of the annexed peninsula, dolphins appeared exactly like those in the bay of sevastopol, where by the way, there is a training center for fighting dolphins. experts assume that in this way the russians want to protect the water area from ukrainian divers, because the dolphin is an ideal weapon created by nature. for a long time, any information about fighting dolphins was classified, and now oleksandr melnikov will tell you why. footage that flew around the world: the ukrainian gur terrorizes the occupiers in cream

this is evidenced by moscow's desire to create an additional base in the black sea - the opinions ofts were collected by my colleagues. the aggressor state is going to create a new naval base in the black sea, and this time it will be the furthest from ukraine, even in abkhazia, a region that broke away with the support of russia from georgia and whose independence is not recognized by western countries. during the times of the ussr , there was a naval base in abkhazia's ochamchir, and now it can be very useful to moscow, because keeping the black sea fleet in crimea is becoming more and more risky. since last august , the sounds of explosions have been heard on the occupied peninsula almost every day. ukraine has repeatedly managed to deliver accurate strikes with serious consequences for the fleet. look at what is happening in the black sea, while the russians are beating their chests, how cool they are, they got it at the beginning of the war, their the moscow, the main battleship, was sunk, and more ships were recently destroyed, including a large amphibious assault ship and a su