united states, and also what happened in ukraine, and we will start with our conversation with oleksandr kharu, an expert of the center for defense of foreign and security policy strategies, a diplomat, an adviser to the minister of defense of ukraine in 2020 , oleksandr, we welcome you, oleksandr, so let 's start from sevastopol, from crimea, as far as the activity of the ukrainian armed forces can be considered now can really disrupt the logistics of the russian occupiers on the peninsula, er, well, it is clear that what is happening today and during the week is definitely not an accumulation of the blows that we inflict, and it seems to me that it is important here to look not only at such er, quick effects on the battlefield in the south, but also other aspects, and it seems to me that they are even more important from a strategic perspective. i mean that crimea is the central problem of this war . encouraged to strike on this territory, now they are already faced with the fact that we are striking on crimea and on russian territory, the truth is not our western weapons, and in fact we are