in the life of our army and the defense of the industrial complex, and today my interlocutor is ivan yakobets reserve colonel, ex-commander of airmobiles, and now it is the airborne assault troops of ukraine, a participant in the hostilities in kosovo and a member of the expert council of the center for army conversion and disarmament research ivan , i welcome you to the espresso channel. i will start with the most general question: was ukraine ready for the scale of hostilities launched by the russian federation on february 24, which happened on february 24? i i think our military and political leadership was not ready, they were carried out in practice, especially this is characteristic of the offensive on kyiv, they did not expect such a massive offensive and even from the direction of belarus so deeply, despite the fact that there were no troops in belarus . and it happened that this direction was acquired and gostomel was not covered, and it was possible to quickly enter the territory of ukraine and the outskirts of kyiv, but where they were expecting the whole of chernihiv, the sumy det