our next guest is oleksandr khara diplomat, expert on foreign and security policy of the center for defense strategiesr. oleksandr good day good health to you thank you for joining our broadcast good day mr. serhiy, it's nice to see you too, let 's start with information about a possible meeting between biden zelensky and duda a few days ago information appeared in the polish press that biden will visit poland and will have a joint meeting with zelenskyi and duda zelenskyi , he will discuss plans for holding an international conference in support of ukraine duda, while on an official visit to latvia yesterday, confirmed that joe biden is visiting poland in february and will also emphasize that poland will continue to support ukraine. however , we will hear duda not at the expense of our own security. we must remember that we must also remember that we support ukraine, but we also care about the security of poland, at the moment we have about 50 f16 fighter jets . in the polish military, we are here ready to talk with our allies on the topic of supporting ukraine, but i say once again, we help ukraine,

need for active defense, which may also involve withdrawing to positions that are more suitable for further hostilities, and then we have andriy ryzhenko, experts of the center for defense strategieschief of staff of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine , captain of the first rank in the reserve, andriy vitay good evening, but yesterday, the head of the armed forces, valery zaluzhnyi, in a conversation with mark milli, also mentioned another detail related to the specifics of the hostilities and the actions of the enemy, that there is a certain concern in connection with russia's use of naval surface drones that poses a threat to civilian shipping in the black sea, this is probably related to the reports that on february 11, the rashists attempted to use surface drones - this was for an attack under the bridge leading to the bay, although serhiy bratchuk says that in reality it is more informational attack than the actual actions of the enemy if it were not there, how do you assess this current situation, does the enemy really have such naval drones and why exactly at this time was there just such an activation in three directions of the cities under the bay, strikes ag

introduce my next guest , oleksandr khara, an expert on foreign and security policy at the center for defense strategies, oleksandr. congratulations. glory to ukraine , glory to the heroes. oleksandr, well, how would you answer the question that we asked people who watch us on youtube: can china help end the russian war in ukraine? well, i was probably in the third category, although i would like to join to the majority, because they look at the problem soberly. well, it’s just me, it’s not a binary problem for me. china can’t stop this war. if it didn’t want to, but it can have an impact, we don’t see it yet, and on the contrary, it’s hesitating, and maybe we’ll say so, okay? with him, he cannot help putin win this war, but he can help putin continue to kill ukrainians. and that is precisely why we heard from the mouths of the president of the united states , the secretary of state and other american leaders. and what better way to not go down this path. let's continue the chinese topic, they announced in heaven their plan for a peaceful settlement, as they always call crises in ukraine , not wars, and

its page well, we will ask our guest with us about everything on the link of the expert center for defense strategiesiplomat oleksandr khara . i welcome you to the broadcast of the evening. the first question is , what were the reasons for such a sudden closure of the airspace? well, you know. it is possible to draw a parallelism in which way on february 24, 2022 , the large-scale invasion of the russian federation of ukraine began, they tried to capture the airfield and gostomel vasylkiv in order to land the air force and provide a bridgehead for the capture of the capital of ukraine. said that transnistria was preparing something against the actual integrity of moldova and the surmite, and then there was a statement by the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation when he threatened moldova that it will become the second ukraine, of course, what is this diplomatic covert threat to use weapons against moldova? well, of course, what the ukrainian president said to the president about the prime minister of moldova, that there is a plan, i'm sure that uh, let's say that's how plans were dev

projects and readiness for recovery and cooperation volodymyr miller deputy mayor of dnipro straight from warsaw alina frolova deputy chairman of the board of the defense strategies centerty minister of defense of ukraine in the 19-20s playing minister of information policy now on our air glory to ukraine ms. alina, good afternoon. kudos to the heroes for asking you to give a dry summary of what happened at rammstein. you are an extremely professional person. well , there are a lot of different informational reasons on the great gal. kyiv positive and negative but i think that you will be able to expertly analyze the rammstein climate, so to speak, and accordingly progress in several directions . well, i will probably not say about the climate, because you need to be there in order to understand. behind the scenes of robinstein itself, what actually happened was what everyone expected, that is, now rammstein is like that . well, it is more like a political declaration, because the agreements with eh in advance eh are established between the partners and ukraine and in rammstein is actually confirmed for all of us now, i can say that the tank coalition is developing, of

up rammstein is now with us at school on frolova, deputy chairman of the board of the center for defense strategies minister of defense of ukraine in the 19-20 years advises the minister of information policy that the norwegian parliament has approved a multi-year program of support for ukraine for almost 7 billion euros, good news, the press service of the norwegian government reports that the name of the laureate has been named nobel prize, this program of the nansen peace prize, who in his work 100 years ago made efforts to help, including ukraine, you see while we are talking here in the parliament of norway, they think like us to help well, in general, a unique figure understands the support program, which will be the basis of the policy of one of norway 's policies. began to talk about the readiness of the bucs without proving one or another peace talks , we understand that these are rather his fakes, although it is possible that he was asked to announce this to the kremlin and stated, so to speak, that he outlined the terms of entry belarus goes to war. i am ready to fight together with the

victor kivylyuk , a reserve colonel and expert, was on the air on espresso channels. of the center for defense strategiese the main highlights of the military events of this day, and more international and economic news from my colleagues on the big airwaves. thank you to his guests for that that they told in detail about the situation on certain areas of the front. well, there is information in the telegram channel of the armed forces of ukraine about the consequences of strikes on enemy positions on the occupied territories of our state about mariupol. unfortunately, it is not told in detail . again, we will wait for the report from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine but there is some information, again, some say that this is all the information about where the ukrainian army flew, but they say about debaltseve, which was occupied by the enemy back in the 14th year, debaltseve was hit by a sports the lokomotiv complex, where the troops of the russian federation were located in horlivka and temporarily occupied, a rocket hit the correctional colony. as a result, it broke out, obviously not

espresso channel was broadcast by victor kivnyuk, a reserve colonel and an expert at the center for defense strategies. so, we see that the challenges are quite serious, but there are opportunities to counteract these challenges due to qualitative changes in the training of our armed forces, which should take place in the near future, the coming months. so, these were the main military results of this era and more more international and economic news from my colleagues on the big airwaves. thank you to his guests. i voiced a few short messages for you that the scandalous press officer who took pictures on new year's holidays in paris has been dismissed from her position. this person was a persofir. in the south of the border service and on the new year holidays went to rest in paris, of course. everyone has the right to go somewhere, but definitely not a military serviceman during the war , in any case, a scandal broke out because of this, and she was actually dismissed from her post after that, mrs. ivanna platovska is no longer a military serviceman, no longer an officer. as far as i understand, she

going to do thank you oleksandr hara, an expert on foreign and security policy of the center for defense strategiesur studio and literally in a moment , see you in our studio myroslav the czech , a polish politician and journalist. near poland and took them out, the router was informed about everything with reference to the ministry of defense in the netherlands, an unknown at that time plane approached the polish zone of nato responsibility from kalinin's council it is said mutually by the ministry and we note that kaliningrad is a russian enclave on the baltic coast located between the members of nato and the european union poland and lithuania pm greetings

, and now we are in touch with victor kivylyuk, a reserve colonel and an expert of the center for defense strategieslcome you to the espresso channel. good evening. now we were just talking with a fighter from under the bahmut , and ha what? so, there are such certain emotions because the guys actually, well, they hold on to uh, that's enough courageously despite the fact that the enemy is using all means to press on our defenses. and i would like to hear from you as an expert what is happening in other areas of our front against the background of the statement that a large-scale offensive is about to begin . although i am there and other aspects believe that in fact, don't attack. it has already begun and there are manifestations of it in the north and in the east, there and in the south. viktor, please give us the audience a general picture of what is happening in different areas of the front and at what stage of the confrontation with the enemy we are now and the general picture next, you correctly noted that the russian offensive has already begun, it is said that the situation is as follows: th

project of strengthening the integrity and professionalism of the bigus-info center of defense strategies ukrainian center forarching security problems named after tymchuk geo de m sokyra geostop of corruption research center of the army conversion and disarmament volunteer movement go together against corruption council of public control nabu vo maidan public catering association minister of defense reznikova added that the meeting of the working group was held on friday . in the ministry of defense - it's not even about money, it's about morals, on the one hand, on the other hand, we understand that there was a feeling that they wanted to remove the minister of defense from his post in an informational way before rammstein, it all got tangled in an extremely difficult tangle, on the other hand , we understand what was recorded, if this is really the case offenses can be considered recorded , yes, that is, people have been dismissed and we will, and we understand that investigative actions are being conducted , a major earthquake is brewing in the ministry of defense, in particular, we are talking about dism

for alova. who's that with the center? the defense strategies here in cave, at a former deputy minister of defense, alina, it's a good to have you with us at president zalinski says that this is the year of victory . how, how will the will be one? will it be a negotiated victory or forced upon russia while i'm no one believed? i think so in negotiations with russia, the case, the russia demonstrate no will to change their conditions to make some steps ahead of h, as he is the military power. so we see that negotiations can be sorry, it's only after the release in the hell territorial brain and that it could be in negotiations. poland delivered the 1st full leopard tanks that ukraine has been asking for today. how significant is that? the 4 tanks, as you understand, it's not sitting significant about this is some kind of flaw sign that base occasion a change in we do expect more and of course tanks, i'm sorry for any calling for offense or will, did we say is significant before isn't nearly enough of course, how many do you need based on what the

for the deoccupation of our territories. thank you very much. thank you very much. of the center of defense strategiesain of the first reserve of the armed forces of ukraine was with us . we continue our marathon. next, we will also talk with the aviator about the planes that are better for us, and we will also talk about who should be responsible for those children who are now remain in the cities where there is thunder and where there are explosions, is it possible to evacuate them and what should be done for this, well, now a moment of remembrance for all those whose lives were cut short by russia with its full-scale invasion and the war it unleashed against ukraine

brad bowman, a senior director of the center on military and political power at the foundation for defense of democracies, where he focuses on us defence strategyjoining us on this programme. ijust this programme. i just mentioned this programme. ijust mentioned china's statement they have released, just how significant do you think it is, what they have put out? thank ou for what they have put out? thank you for the _ what they have put out? thank you for the question. _ what they have put out? thank you for the question. i - what they have put out? thank you for the question. i think i you for the question. i think the comments are significant and i would say that because china and russia are closer than they have been since the 19505, than they have been since the 1950s, and vladimir putin needs china and he cares about their position. the two things they chose to highlight interesting. there should be no use of nuclear weapons, they say, it's interesting that throughout the last year we have seen vladimir putin repeatedly threaten to potentially use nuclear weapons, so i hope he listens to that, we also see china often talking about respect

shpakovsky ruslan nikolaevich pukhov , director of the center for analysis of strategy and technology, a member of the council on the foreign defense policy of the russian federation, and ukrainian military expert yuriy godekin joins our broadcast via skype. we start our program with a quick survey, in your opinion. nato can be considered a full-fledged participant in the conflict in ukraine word. yes alexander well, from the point of view of direct involvement in the conflict, probably not, but in fact, of course, i supply weapons, providing various hybrid ones. uh, ways to support the armed forces of ukraine for this, of course, is a party to the conflict. yuriy is a direct participation in the hostilities on the territory of ukraine. moreover , nato military personnel have been present on the territory of ukraine for a long time until february 24, 2022 as instructors of the armed forces. ruslan, you know, there is an opinion that the increasing involvement of nato in the conflict in ukraine is not least dictated by the lack of evaporation of fear about the response of the russian federation, that is, at some point for the wester

center for strategic and international studies. she is an expert on u.s. military strategy in the endo pacific with leadership experience across the department of defense. doctor fiona hill is a senior fellow senator the brookings institution, doctor hill served as a top advisor for european and russian policy on national security council an expert on issues related to a restaurant, central, energy and strategic competition. as a director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation institute. is it expert on u.s. defense strategy having served as a professional staff member of the house armed services committee and other national security positions pretty currently serves 2022 national defense strategy commission. our objective today is to examine national security issues that this committee should consider as we prepare for the fiscal year 2024 authorization act. the biden administration national defense strategy makes clear, china is our primary contender for is the only nation with both the intent and capability to have a sustained district challenge and security interest of the united states and its allies and partners around the world. at the same