taras zoftenko, an expert on national security issues, we welcome you, mr. taras. glory to ukraine.nt on national security on the leadership of the front-line regions . here are several important points, the first point is that even in the current conditions, in the conditions of war, and our political points are not going anywhere , in fact, and we must understand that the regional dimensions of these political points he is a little, well, let's say so, more different from how he is seen from the capital and how he is seen at the national level . well, actually, there are a lot of points that are actually connected with the security situation with the way they work in certain regions, our power structures, starting from the units of the armed forces of ukraine, especially this applies to those regions that are actually pro-frontier, and accordingly, how does the law enforcement system work, how do our special services work, and so on, and so on, well, ideally in fact, the decision on the appointment of the head of the personal pro-front regions should be made taking into account th

oleksandr lukashenko will react to what happened umy chulyschach, let's talk further with us, taras zoftenkoal security of the democratic initiative fund good evening good evening father, we can say for sure that these explosions really happened or that the plane was really damaged. will it still need to be independently confirmed? is there enough information? which is now in the open, well, at least from what can be judged by looking at the reaction of the belarusian authorities, and looking at um, all the circumstances of this incident, including the side effects, that is, well, we remember that there was also a small incident on the belarusian-ukrainian border ended tragically for one of the soldiers of the territorial defense on the part of ukraine, and in the complex, all these circumstances allow us to say that this incident really took place, this incident was really so serious that it was reflected in this meeting that lukashenko was holding today with his security forces and it is obvious that it is serious, it is precisely related to the specific now we are showing satellite images

limit operational capabilities of mercenaries in ukraine and now with us in direct communication taras zoftenkopert on international security issues mr. taras good night to you taras in perhaps we should not be concerned about what is happening over there, how they behave, hate each other, frame us, we should be concerned about how this will affect the military campaign, which in particular the wagnerites are conducting on the territory of ukraine in bakhmut and other ukrainian cities. the fact is that these are all uh, their infighting and uh, round dances led by different groups of influence around the russian leader, in fact, this is one of the elements of uh , their typical such military-political management, this is in their style, this is in the style personally, the current russian president, who considering that this war, which he planned to end there , kyiv was taken in three days and held a parade, and it dragged on for a year, it is obvious that there is an objective need to extinguish criticism in some way, to appoint the guilty in one or another situation, but at the same time, as

taras taras zoftenko, an expert on international security and a military expert, was in touch with uswell, maybe now there are definitely no broadcasters left in ukraine. well, no one will say now. well , maybe muntyan. well, the sbu is finally on to her. opened three criminal cases that a long, long time ago should have been done, so what you should have done with vatutin, what happened to him yesterday at the end of the day, what should have been done a long, long time ago was done in the 44th year , it seems, ukrainian partisans of the soup, so here they are they did their homework, they did ours, if these children did it with him, mazi vishnevskyi did it, you know vishnevskyi, he was wounded in one causal place. to the soviet union well, he was smeared with vishnevsky's ointment and it didn't help him in the middle, well, i don't know, vadym poznyakov ukrainian public assets were generals of the red army vadym poznyakov ukrainian public activist head of the public organization and svitanok co-founder of projects decolonization of ukraine to us e- e joins e-e actually in our discus

well, we we continue our special broadcast, taras zoftenko, an expert on international security of theemocratic initiative foundation, joins the broadcast . are you in touch with us? yes. congratulations. yes. you know my greetings. zelenskyi and he also stated that ukraine received four leopard tanks from poland . i understand that this is only the beginning because poland promised 14 tanks and then there was a statement that ukraine would receive another 60 tanks from poland . if i am not mistaken, this is polish a combat tank, that is, it is probably such a brass, it is so symbolic, precisely on the anniversary of the invasion, uh, i wanted to ask you about the tanks, more or less clearly, about the fighter jets, because today volodymyr zelensky was asked about them at the press conference, as well as the same polish prime minister which i brought the tanks, but i said that poland is ready, within the framework of a broad coalition, to establish training for ukrainian pilots and is ready in principle to consider the option of providing ukraine with aviation. the broadest coalition a

, romania, poland or the baltic countries, but now we are talking about that's it, let's talk taras zoftenkoxpert on international security, a military expert joins our broadcast taras my greetings greetings, let's start by leaving moldova behind because it is not a nato country, we will talk about it separately but romania is a nato country and that's another matter and the whistleblower says that a russian missile crossed romania's airspace and romania says it didn't and one of them says he's not telling the truth, here's our previous expert. somehow it connects more like these political statements no less, what do you say, who is telling the lie, or is it possible that both are telling the truth here, but actually, you see, there really is such a delicate political moment here. the fact is that it is destroying as a nato member country, and moreover, such a small nato member country, which is maximally dependent on ensuring its own security from the collective security system of the alliance must be very careful with its political statements, especially at the official level, because we m

what we'll talk about now on the air, an expert on international security, a military expert, taras zoftenko, we congratulate you . congratulations taras, what does it mean in this case, as of today, the active phase of the war, for which ukraine is preparing, it's tanks, it's an amphibious landing how it was a year ago b this is a breakthrough of boundaries where exactly can you elaborate on these scenarios and two key points actually define here er this description yes this characteristic of the current situation er the first point is that in fact, both the russian side and we are preparing for large-scale offensive operations, and the russians are doing this in order to get out of the strategic impasse in which they have now fallen, taking into account the state of their troops and the circumstances in which they are now forced to fight and in the southern direction, where they simply went on a big defense after all the logistics were disrupted, and accordingly they were forced to retreat there. so, if in the kherson direction, it was already last year, yes. that is, it is such a long per

it was taras zoftenko, candidate of political science of the public council at the ministry of foreign of ukraine, international security expert of the democratic initiative foundation. let's go further and know that the european union is planning to introduce restrictions against several russian banks and some individuals as part of the 10th package of sanctions against russia. bloomberg writes about this, its journalists refer to the draft proposals for a new package of sanctions against russia, i want to talk to the correspondent of radio svoboda zoryana stepanenko ms. zoryana congratulations to you thank you joined our broadcast, i know that many of you are also present at various international platforms where, in particular, such sanctions packages are discussed. it is about the evaluation, you know what to approve this 10th package of jubilee sanctions, it turns out that the european commission presented it today , it was planned to do this before the anniversary of the war, and i mean precisely to approve the package because the presentation differs in that the european commissi

nevertheless, this logic is will definitely return to the american strategy, thank you very much terasa taras zoftenko, an expert on international security of the democratic initiative foundation, we talked about the new security architecture and the role of ukraine in this architecture, thank you, in the first days of the full-scale invasion, mariupol, the city of mariupol was blockaded, the russian military initially did not allow civilians to leave and they refused to let humanitarian aid into the besieged city, mariupol residents found themselves under constant shelling without electricity gaza heating water products in that among them, pharmacy shops and some workers of emergency and communal services who, despite everything, continued to work, could not fully perform their work completely without electricity, the city was cut off, there was looting throughout the city and the whole of mariupol, the attack was on march 8 from the air force, the entire intersection of mira avenue and trade street bought windows this center of mariupol march 10 studio tv channel donbass tried to condemn with a fire

taras zoftenko, an expert on international security of the democratic initiatives foundation, was on the phone. they talked about the incident at the military airfield in belarus . at the same time, the deputy head of the russian security council , dmitry medvedev, hinted that the war in ukraine could end in the destruction of human life. of civilization, if i quote, the question of the existence of russia itself will arise, this is stated in his article for the publication of izvestia, in it medvedev writes that the west is providing weapons to ukraine to protect against russian aggression, further the quote does not want to understand that their goals are deliberately leading to a total fiasco when the former life will have to be forgotten for a century, until they stop emitting radiation, strange piles, end of the quote, it is worth noting that medvedev had previously threatened the so-called doomsday, referring to the use of nuclear weapons earlier by the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin also raised the issue of the possible disintegration of russia in an inter

to move on to the discussion of organizational and logistical points taras thank you very much taras zoftenko expert on issues of international security was with us in this block we continue to monitor what is happening in munich today is the final day , which means there will be more statements and possibly some additional results for us about this soon when all the machines will be silent and we will finally feel spring, how thirsty we are to move to wash off the war itself dissolve its cursed smell in salty sweat together i will learn everything about how god created you and when the cannons cool down, how hot it will be in the beds until you are bitten, they will kiss you to erase from remember the horror, let your groan frighten the emptiness, i will have you as a tired sleep and we will have it endlessly . support russian propaganda or conduct a referendum in the occupied territories cooperate with the occupiers to obtain positions or perform tasks set by the occupying power if a person provided housing to the occupiers provided food or passed on information about ukrainian defenders of