let's start with a conversation with taras zhovtenko, an expert on international security of the democraticive foundation, congratulations, sir. taras, congratulations, good evening. well, let's start, if we talk about security, from these priorities that valery zaluzhny, the leader of the armed forces of ukraine, put forward in his essays and interviews for the economist publication, which of these priorities do you single out as the most important for us? actually, general zaluzhnyi concentrated on the most basic ones moments that are connected with the analysis of the current situation at the front, the fact that the situation has really turned a corner, taking into account the fact that the russians were able to adapt to the situation, looking at how the west somehow helps ukraine a teaspoon at a time, conveys to us new types of weapons, but these types of weapons are transferred too slowly and in too small quantities to have such a decisive effect on the battlefield, and in the end this is what gave the russians the opportunity to transform their approaches to tactics, to strategy. to

dear friends, we are already on the air, we are coming back and now we will talk with taras zhovtenkornational security expert of the democratic initiatives foundation, candidate of political sciences and member of the public council at the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine about the important events of the week, which are both about ukraine and about the world, mr. . taras, congratulations, let's start with today's news that volodymyr zelenskyi 's planned visit to israel has again been put on hold and is being postponed for the time being, or is canceled, who knows, by the way, this is happening against the background of the visit of, for example, the prime minister of hungary, that is, hungary with a lot of problems and calmly accepting, blinken three times already, and, in fact, already, i do not know who only from european ... countries, i have not gone there, but something from zelsky is already the second time , what is happening, what is happening , congratulations, i think that here, the main role is actually played by the fact that, well, our western partners are trying,

reporting, yes, we have 14:10, and we will be ready to start our conversation very soon with taras zhovtenko expert on international security of the democratic initiatives foundation, as well as promised, we will start with the situation at the front, but let us remind you that together with you, dear viewers , we are volunteers, not only journalists, but also volunteers of the tv channel have already managed, you know, to very competently and specifically help... our military, i emphasize once again, that without your support, without your daily donations, this would not have been possible, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the activity of our volunteers has increased, although we have been engaged in this since 2014, espresso takes care of providing the units of the armed forces of ukraine with the necessary equipment, vehicles, clothes, and as of november 2023, we have collected a total of over 17 million uah for our zahs . ... the other was donated to the armed forces by viewers and readers of espress. all thanks to the meetings published daily by journalists on the spresso

some individual countries regarding this, they will actually be removed, thank you, thank you, taras zhovtenko international security, the democratic initiative foundation named after ilka kuchariva, thank you, the president of the united states, joe biden, and the president of china, xi jinping, can meet this month. the leadership teams reached an agreement in principle to organize a meeting at the atec summit in san francisco. the white house noted that both presidents are eager to hold a constructive conversation, and this personal meeting can be the next stage in the process of normalizing relations between the countries. after all , it is important for china and the united states that the rivalry does not get out of control and does not... jump into an uncontrolled escalation. what can this meeting be like, let's talk further, yuriy oliynyk, we are in touch, he is an expert of the center of the ukrainian studio of strategic studies. greetings, good night, mr. yuri. glory to ukraine, glory to the hero, therefore, the main messages that want to under the time of the meeting to inform each o

taras zhovtenko, expert on international security, democratic initiatives foundation, candidate of criticalf the public council at the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, is already in touch with us. mr. taras, we congratulate you. greetings, good day. mr. taras, let's try to see, yes to try to look a little into the future, it’s not a matter of gratitude, but that’s all , but in fact this is what we are most interested in, this is what we really want to know, yesterday there was romana, yes, yesterday people said, today romana, and there is this, there is this, there is this, this is folk wisdom, no, a proverb, a saying, the one that they say in roman, which is, what is the weather, the whole winter will be like that, so, well, since we really have today the first kind of snow fell, at least, i don't know, in lviv, and accordingly, try to think, predict what it will be like winter, not only, of course, in the sense of weather, in the sense of politics, in the sense of war, let's try, at least take a look... the article that is being discussed in foreign affairs, and whose authors are a