submarines, that's all estonia didn't give us one way or another oleksandr hara expert center for defense strategiesast p oleksandr i greet you good evening let's talk today about the russian lobby in well, we know that this is a country that for many years has spent enormous amounts of money on lobbying for its interests. this is how it looks now, in particular in the united states and in europe, how effectively their lobby machine is working now. well, i would share, actually, about certain russian statements the positions of the governments or politicians of western countries on several such types, the first is definitely those who cannot get any profit from the fact that they broadcast the russian position, and the second is tactical, let's say, allies - these are populists who they use certain theses of the kremlin, and it is certain that some of their interests coincide tactically . in relation to moscow. and now they very often broadcast such messages, which are very similar to those of the kremlin. well, of course, certain countries can have different interests, and therefore they can tactic

conversation with the viewers of the channel express of viktor kivlyuk, expert of the center for defense strategiesktor. greetings. good evening . the first question is how do you assess the current situation on the fronts, primarily in such high-profile areas as in severodonetsk, lysychansk, and directly in the mountainous and zolote areas. what conclusions can be drawn from this situation from the point of view of the development of its e- judging by the fact that the enemy concentrated most of its forces and resources around mm , in the area, more precisely, it is more correct to say between raisin and kostiantynivka to the front line mainly the majority of the battalion from the tactical groups that he has at his disposal, it can be concluded from this that the plans are not to leave the enemy with counterattacks from the raisin from konstantinovka in the direction of kramatorsk, but to surround part of the armed forces of ukraine that are engaged in combat operations there and, accordingly, after that to impose in ukraine has some negotiations regarding severodonetsk. here is an interesting op

oleksandr this was oleksandr khara, an expert at the center for defense strategies, a diplomat thank u for participating in the program, we will be in touch later anna hopko politician people's deputy of ukraine of the eighth convocation ms. hanna is now in the united states of america ms. gana good afternoon or good night good morning good morning time good morning here good afternoon so yesterday joseph biden announced that the united states of america will provide ukraine with a new package of military aid for 1 billion dollars please tell me how this news is perceived in the united states of america itself, what the media say, what ordinary americans say, well , yesterday i was at a meeting in the national council security of the white house, where the directors of four key e-e departments were. of course, this is not a meeting with national security adviser sullivan, but it is a good opportunity to talk with key people who are preparing analytics to discuss the situation in ukraine and what military assistance we need in order for deo to buy territories in order to make counter-o

close the sky, and here i want to cite the opinion of andrii zagorodnyak, head of the center for defense strategiesategy is not a realistic desire for ukraine, then should we return to this issue? i am not criticizing the first lady, but just your opinion on this matter. well, it actually seems to me that when zelenska talks about it, it is still a topic that needs to be raised, why. what do i tell you? by the way, i don't agree that it was a completely unrealistic strategy because you can close the sky and look at it from different angles, for example, it was at least to close the sky with an overhead view of key objects, for example, atomic objects, yes or facilities that are there by large chemical enterprises. that is, it could be, let's say, a partial closure by them. and secondly, even in the political circles of western countries, e.g., for example, our neighbors poland or romania, it was discussed, and technically there is a possibility that they, for example, on part of the territory of ukraine, which is close to the border with these countries. and we see that the missiles are flying almo

very much for your expert assessment and point of view oleksandr khara - an expert of the center for defense strategies was the only one in contact with us news together we are strong will support the ukrainian army with money scan the code to open the door to membership in the european union for ukraine and praise the granting of candidate status for such the chairman of the supreme council ruslan stefanchuk called during his speech in paris at a joint press conference with the chairman of the french senate gerard large i please do not lose sight of the topic. i ask you to understand that today ukraine stands on the defense of the whole of europe. i ask you to understand that every ukrainian defends not only his land, not only his people, he defends european civilization and does this not as a member of the european union, but simply as people who share common values ​​with you, who share common principles with you, who share a common future with you, to speed up the supply of weapons to ukraine and introduce sanctions against russia before that, during a meeting with the ambassadors of the j7 countri

germany ulof schultz, we are talking today with oleksandr hara, a diplomat, an expert at the center for defense strategies , mr. oleksandr. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. good day, mr. serhiy. we are glad to see you. thank you for participating in our program. the meeting of defense ministers from more than 40 countries of the world is an association that helps ukraine in confronting the russian federation, nato secretary general jens stoltenberg announced that nato will continue to help ukraine rearm the army and provide the necessary resources so that outdated equipment leaves ukraine and new equipment arrives in its place. at the same time, stolter merg also informed us that the president of ukraine zelensky will participate in the nato summit in madrid, whether it is real or virtual via video link, it is not known for sure but obviously it is obvious that at the madrid summit it will be about admission to the north atlantic alliance or my prospects of admission to this alliance of finland and sweden e-e however, the future of ukraine in nato is not being discussed yet. does this mean that the

andriy zagorodnyuk, chairman of the board of the center for defense strategies, we congratulate you, minister of defense of ukraine, in 2019-2020, mr. andriy, with your permission, in the occupying media, it is written that severodonetsk is what they wanted er, take a ton by snoring, then turn it into a bottleneck . now they write that they beat the forehead in severodonetsk. please tell me how much this forehead is really broken and whether they have a plaster to heal it. of course, my question is right here, which means we see the situation when the first several scenarios of the seizure of ukraine from the russians did not succeed , and then they concentrated about a month and a half ago all their forces in one direction, luhansk, where they tried, so to speak, with the full concentration of all their abilities, and now after a month and a half, we see that they are making very little progress, they have losses, we also of course have very serious losses, but they cannot fulfill their, well, that is, achieve their operational goals, and therefore the fact that this is the maximum

aliexpress channel and not only we are already adding oleksandr khara, an expert of the center for defense strategiesn foreign and security policy issues, a diplomat, an advisor to the minister of defense of ukraine in the past, oleksandr we congratulate you good morning and see you with us vitaly kulyk is already the director of the center for the study of civil society problems in italy welcome you i congratulate you good afternoon we are glad to see well what do we have despite the fact that a terrorist act is happening here on the eve of the 18th of the dead in kremenchuk is it worth it to combine is it somehow to be stitched together with those events that are currently on international platforms, in particular , the third day of the big seven, and today is the start of nato, is it worth looking for a connection here , sir, mr. vitaly, let's start with you well, i always get the impression that the russian command has given the order to hit the civilian infrastructure, the campaign buildings, the propaganda objects, and this is already happening not only in kremenchug, it is happening in many ot

we are in touch with oleksandr khara, an expert on foreign and security policy at the center for defense strategiesongratulations. well, 10%, if you trust the words of ms. malyar, there is no reason not to trust her. she is, after all, the deputy minister of defense. it is clear that there are those who help us tremendously, but it is certain that their capabilities are not infinite. i mean, first of all, the baltic states of poland, they have done much more than what is powerful and in the military from the point of view of industrial potential in germany, we will wait for mr. ulas shosholets in kyiv and he will probably bring something. and i don't think it will be leopards, but we will say so in some way. there must be some kind of equipment if we go to the united states . there are certain problems from the point of view of that. that the key task is not only to support ukraine, but to avoid direct escalation with the russian federation, and that is precisely why we see such a delayed consideration of the provision of new systems. weapons, first of all, for science. yes, now, in the end, they e

ammunition, and andriy zagorodniuk is in touch with you. the head of the board of the center for defense strategies and the minister of defense of ukraine 19-20 years old in the evening good, our greetings and already good night yes, mr. andriy, we discussed the popular four systems of salvo of fire they don't seem to do it in critical weather hmm what do you say and where can they be applied so that it is noticeable that they have been applied by a batch of er to it, so it is necessary to relate to the question how many of them will er in the main supply how do we know this package, the first one announced today is part of 40 billion, of which about half will be used for military equipment, and the main question is how much will the high array mean? positions of the administration of the white house, i'm sorry, that is, not from us, not from that. how quickly do we learn such cool things? unknown experts say, excuse me. no, it's not up to me , that is, the question is, we know that there were requests from the ministry of defense of ukraine. better, but not less, there are several tens of them. th

germany olaf schulz we are talking today with oleksandr hara, diplomat, expert of the center for defense strategies , mr. oleksandr glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, good day, mr. serhiy, nice to see you and thank you for participating in our program . the opposite is called rammstein. the 33rd meeting of defense ministers from over 40 countries of the world is an association that helps ukraine in confronting the russian federation. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg said that nato will continue to help ukraine rearm its army and provide the necessary resources for that so that outdated equipment left ukraine and new equipment came instead, at the same time stolter also informed us that zelenskyi will participate in the madrid nato summit as the president of ukraine it is not known for sure whether it is real or virtual via video link, but it is obviously obvious that at the madrid summit we are talking about the admission to the north atlantic alliance or at least the prospects of admission to this alliance of finland and sweden e-e however, the future of ukraine in nato is still not dis

those in indonesia are talking today with the diplomat and expert of the center for defense strategies, oleksandr khara. oleksandr. good day. glory to ukraine. it's nice to see you on our air, let's start today's news, the island of change, the ukrainian military reported that they pushed out the russians from snake island, the russians say that this is a gesture of goodwill, they say they left with the change because they are following the recommendations of the un regarding the unblocking of the path for the transportation of ukrainian grain to the world well, we know what the island of change is, the history of how it was this part from the first e-e part of the great country of romania in 1948, he this island was handed over to the soviet union, to the soviet union. well, it was very important for the russians to place an anti-aircraft defense system on the island, and it was also a very important strategic point for the russian invaders in order to control the southwestern borders of ukraine and the southwestern part of ukraine. how do you what do you think is more in the russian

conversation now we will to speak with oleksandr hara, he is also a certified expert of the center for defense strategiesdr. i congratulate you. good day, mr. vasyl. i am watching now and thinking how the world has changed in 100 years . italy and germany were in the triple alliance, and the french republic was in the entente now . unites in the eu and these three leaders should come to ukraine, meaning the chancellor of germany in offsholz, the prime minister of italy, mario draghi, and the president of france, emmanuel macron. well, at least regarding macron, there is confirmation about what i heard in day what has not been confirmed there yet, in any case, they are waiting for them on june 15 in ukraine. please tell me in your opinion, again, nothing will break, all three should arrive . to be honest, i don't really share your opinion that something has changed. it seems to me that in five thousand years of mankind, on the contrary, nothing has changed, because human nature has not changed, and certainly that we can spend the second world war crossing these countries, they are quite so interesting i'm

a former ukrainian defense minister and currently chairman of the center for defense strategies and distinguishedlow at the atlantic council and joins us live from kyiv via skype. thank you so much for being here with us. >> thank you. >> as we just heard there the implications for ukraine and for the world if russia continues to block ukrainian grain can't be overstated, so i want to go through the options. so first of all, negotiating with moscow, it hasn't worked so far. is it at all realistic given how effective using food as a weapon has been for putin? >> i don't think it's realistic to be honest. i think that russia, of course, will be saying that they're all for negotiations. they will be delaying time as they did before. and taking their time. and then essentially demanding removal of the sanctions. but, it will still be blocking the ports of the black sea. so, it seems like it's working for them, so they don't have any indications of -- that they are ready to unload. >> so if diplomacy won't work, what about military means? most of the focus during this war has been on the land battle.

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interlocutor would be mykhailo gonchar, president of the strategy 21 center for global studies, my name is serhiy zgurets, i am the director of the defense express company, and watch our future episodes on the espresso channel. good evening. my name is myroslava barchuk, and this is an online project of the ukrainian plan called own names of the project is implemented with the support of the swedish foam . let's talk about it with oleksandr rudomanov, a journalist, blogger and decommunization activist oleksandr is one of the co-founders of the decommunization project ukraine oleksandr greetings good evening hello oleksandr i don't hear you well eh i hope so well i hear i hear you already good evening my first question eh which was exactly what was tormenting for the first time well, not the first time, not the first year, this is a question of patience or, i don’t know, indifference, maybe there are some other explanations for this ukrainian society, here we are, in principle, 30 years, we already understand deep down that tolstoy chepushki appeared in the toponymy of ukraine not because they are the number one writers in the world, this

the defense express company, which, together with the espresso channel, strives to cover the most pressing security issues. my interlocutor is the president of the center for global studies strategylo gonchar. in my opinion, he is one of the best specialists in the field of both energy and military security, mr. mykhailo, i congratulate you. good health . of the environment - this is about the destruction by the ukrainian military of energy facilities in the black sea, actually stolen from us gas production towers that were located there, i wanted to hear from you what exactly these facilities were, what significance they had for the enemy in the system of providing crimea, and what was present there the military component of these objects , well, first of all, due to the fact that these objects of purely civilian gas production infrastructure began to be used by the enemy for military purposes, they became the object of increased attention from the armed forces forces of ukraine, and actually this happened not uh yesterday uh if you recall the history of recent years, well actually after the capture in 2014 back in march uh by pirate method uh of these mining platforms and self-

center for global studies, strategy 21. i congratulate you, let us know. i want to start with such a statement. here, a member of the state duma of the aggressor country, a deputy of our defense, his name is yuriy shvydkin, said that russia should attack the embassy building the usa in kyiv in response to the supply of empty himers launchers to the armed forces. how should one react to such statements? well, the territory of the embassy is essentially the territory of this state, well, actually, if it is more widely there, it seems that it is to consider the quote, there is something there, he told me about strikes on the pentagon, well, actually, not so long ago in the historical perspective, bin laden, uh, hit the pentagon on the nose, he was found in his bunker and eliminated. i think this is the fate of putin, the fate awaits putin and the author of this statements about the bombing of the american embassy, ​​well, in fact, if, god forbid, a missile hits the us embassy, ​​this can be considered a serious challenge for combat, actually, diplomatic institutions and warships are the territory of the state itself, and an attack on them is considered an attack on the territory

center of the foundation for defense of democracies. thank you for joining us. for more than a decade, report after report has documented the growing number of unfilled cyber suspicions, in the u.s. government and nationwide, while offering strategies and recommendations to address the shortfall that often goes north. the secretary of defense stated that the pentagon is in desperate need, desperately short of people with cyber skills in all services, and we have to address this. that was in 2010, and that was the secretary of defense robert gates. that was one year after amazon had a workforce total totaling already 4003rd last year, amazon had a workforce of 1.6 million people -- totaling 34,000. amazon had a workforce of 1.6 million people last year. a white paper was published on the cyber workforce in september 2020, identifying systemic barriers that worst i.e. mean existing workforce -- that were stymieing existing workforce barriers, including a lack of leadership, insufficient coordination across the government, a nonexistent federal strategy to guide priorities and resources, and ineffective organizational structure, which combined to limit the potential of the very programs designed to strengthen and diversify the federal