oleksiy ezhyak, an expert of the national institute of strategic studies, will continue to talk on thehe military is currently the main threat to the facility , the representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, andriy yusov, told the council about this in a comment on the tv channel. and he also denied all rumors about a possible detonation of the station in the near future, according to him, similar pseudo-news appear in russia to divert the attention of the citizens of the aggressor country, only some events occur that require a diversion of attention , including attempts to demotivate ukrainian society, and so in this situation we are talking about events at the front and the successes of the ukrainian security forces and defensively such moments appear . the federation, in particular, the kursk nuclear plant, and this is also not news, and such scenarios are being worked out by the russians. the situation at the gas station was discussed by our colleagues with oleksandr kovalenko , a military-political commentator. greetings greetings, let's discuss

of the new challenges department of the center for foreign policy research of the national institute of strategic studiess, for several paragraphs with this type let's talk about russia, er, i would actually start with space, right away with space. it seems to me that this is so important to us , the russians tried to carry out a very ambitious mission, namely to land their station, so to speak, on the moon, and this is what it was called, by the way er, this flight was called luna 25, that is, the moon 25, why 25, because the 24th mission was in 1976, since then well, the russians did not succeed, er , the russians still did not succeed in carrying out such an ambitious mission, this mission was also prepared for 10 years and was postponed eight times her start for the ninth time they decided not to postpone it and as a result, everything went from the very beginning somehow not according to plan, i said the late chornomordin wanted as best as possible, but it turned out as usual and they could not brake and at a speed of something like kilometers per second, it hit, which means in month of that station

of some problems. now mathias pulling going keith, thank you. joining us now from keith is nicola believes golf, a research fellow at the national institute for strategic studies, which is part of the office of the ukrainian president. welcome to the program, and thank you so much for joining us. it appears that ukraine's counter offensive is making very slow progress, while the loss in personnel and weapons is considerable. is there costs for ukraine and it's western supporters to worry. the? first of all that you saw a relative, i mean you said about the low associates, you look you in that open panel in on the data is that the scene pages are using and you can collins, that's russia losing more in terms of artillery in terms of for our more and those are kind of scenes and the that's why russians are losing more and ukrainian forces like whites and system. so we had just a dollar tactics and now we try to undermine the system created by russians to successful defense. so we try to inspect as much as damage on artillery a $24.00 for an hour defense. the grades opened in full major mechanize formation committees and was out of major risk. what role do you see

long grinding slog we call the police golf is a research fellow at the national institute for strategic studies, which is part of the office of the cranium president. and i asked him earlier if keith and its allies should be concerned, given the slow progress and human costs of the counter offensive so far. the 1st of all that you saw a relative, i mean you said about the low associates, you look you in that open bed panel in on the data is that the scene pages are using and you can cones that structure losing more in terms of artillery in terms of the arm or, and other kind of scenes and the that's why russians are losing more and ukrainian forces like whites consistence. so we adjusted dollar tactics and now we try to undermine the system created by russians to successful defense. so we try to inflict as much as damage on artillery. 24 for an hour defense, the great opening and full major mechanize formation, the comedian was out. major risk. what role do you see the weapons and the training by the west playing in the offensive? i mean there, there had been some hope that this would lead to faster progress on

institute of strategic studies candidates of economic sciences mr. ivan good morning good morning good morning studio good morning columnists mr. ivan well, we understand that the nationalk of ukraine adjusts its forecasts following the improvement of the forecasts of the international monetary fund, which took place literally 10 days ago. that is, this is such a technical thing. may, june, and several leading world structures, for example , the european bank for reconstruction and development, and later the world bank, they gave a forecast for ukraine, and if they said that already in in the current year 2023, the growth will be 1% of gdp , then the world bank even lowered this figure to 2%. that is, we see that, in principle, the leading world institutions say about growth, and that is why the national bank of ukraine is studying all these forecasts and it also agrees with them that this should be expected even for the current year of growth of the economy of ukraine. growth will be well, according to economic theory, the limit of three percent - this is actually what we can say this growth is very loud and yes, but you know, many people were worried about the opposit

of strategic communications of the us national security council, june kerby, on tuesday in a new report one of great britain's leading think tanks, the royal joint institute for defense and security studies , says that on the eve of the counteroffensive , western leaders hesitated for too long about sending key weapons. in this way, russia got time to create several lines of defense that are strewn with tens of thousands of mines and a wide network of defensive earthen fortifications . the experts with whom the voice of america spoke emphasize that russia had too much time to organize a defense through which it is difficult for the armed forces to pass. the ukrainian counteroffensive faces the most difficult tactical a task that can only be imagined, namely to overcome stationary defense structures, imagine the sequence of a strip of minefields of obstacles , including physical obstacles such as ditches and tank tanks are controlled and observation lines of direct fire, as well as artillery systems are supported by russian attack helicopters, this is the most difficult tactical task, if the american army did it, it would perform this task only under the condition of superiority in artill