our impressions and now our guest is a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, journalist pavlo kazarin congratulations, i'm glad to see you, congratulations, i want to start with a rather important topic of expectations before the offensive that we have always said that our compatriots have very high expectations. very high expectations from this offensive. now we see that not only the government but our partners abroad are trying to somehow lower the degree. it is about the fact that there is no need for so many expectations , it is not just one offensive to have the minister of defense , the head of the main intelligence directorate , to whom many listen , says this. actions but capable of defective defenses, the president of the czech republic emphasizes that this offensive must be successful because it is ukraine's only chance at least this year and that we should not underestimate russia. from such boiling water to such heat i would say the main thing is not to cold well, let's say this question about counterattack belongs to those questions that really annoy people in pixel becau

in this narrative that the russians gave us, i am going back to the article that you just cited, kazarinthere, there is another narrative that we will also get into, and this is the narrative that a counteroffensive automatically equals victory, this is exactly the story that is very similar to bakhmut you don't need to think that the counteroffensive will end the war, you don't need to understand that the counteroffensive is a 100% uh event that will be without victims and that some uh will fight, well, she has cyborgs and we will have absolutely no losses we are all fine we understand that during a counteroffensive or an offensive, quite a lot of people's lives are always lost, and this factor should not be taken lightly. i am certainly not calling here that we did not hope for the armed forces of ukraine, but we must understand the price that will also be paid for every meter of ukrainian land and in pavlo barracks there is also the fact that when people who somehow distance themselves from the war begin to live their lives more or less like that, when the war becomes personalized for