valentyn badrak, director of the army, conversion and disarmament research center, military analyst andalentyn, i welcome you, i am glad to see and hear on our channel, mr. sergey, congratulations, as always very happy to join the channel, but i would like you to evaluate the objectives of the kurdish operation that the defense forces are currently conducting, at what stage do you think this operation is now? and what results are most acceptable for the armed forces of ukraine, because you can hear different voices and different assessments regarding the riskiness of such an operation, which the armed forces are currently conducting? i will try to speak about where we are now, so to speak, and at what point, what we have achieved and what are the risks, really, the whole world has been talking all week, starting with the ukrainian offensive in the kursk region, and this is a very serious achievement, because thanks to the sudden offensive, it was possible to influence russian society, to influence western society, including the political establishment, which began to rapidly change its

valentyn badrak, military analyst, director of the center for research, army studies, conversion and disarmament, joins our broadcast. mr. valentin, i congratulate you. also, congratulations and glad to join the broadcast. thank you for taking the time. tell me, how do you currently evaluate this exchange rate operation at this stage? well, of course, at this stage, she looks great. boring and very important, considerable progress has already been achieved, and these successes are in many areas, in my opinion, if to analyze as a whole, then... the biggest success, the most important success, is a psychological rise and a very serious elevation of the morale and fighting spirit of the entire ukrainian army and society, the second point is, on the contrary , a high level of influence on the russian leadership and on russian society, there they began to understand , that for the first time... since the second world war, the territory of russia has been attacked, and this is an extraordinary event, and i would even say that next to the influence on the russian military and political lead

see how the practice or time will confirm your conclusions, and i will remind our viewers that valentyn badrak, the director of the army, conversion and disarmament research center, was on etheriso, that was the main military emphasis of that day, then vasyl zima will continue the broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. thank you to serhiy zagorets, thank you to his guest, we continue the conversation, i want to say that an air alert has been declared in part of the territory of ukraine, in particular the air alert announced in chernihiv oblast, poltava oblast, sumy oblast, kharkiv oblast, donetsk oblast, luhansk oblast, there on in principle, there is always an alarm in luhansk region, but in any case, these two regions are now, and an explosion was heard in lubny in poltava region, this is reported by local sources, so be careful, residents of those regions where the alarm is now declared , regarding the threat, according to information from the air defense forces, the threat is the launch or possible launch of ballistic missiles from the territory of the kurdish region itself, wel

i will remind our viewers that it was valentyn badrak, director of the army, conversion and disarmament research center. and these were the main military results of this day, then the broadcast will be continued by vasyl zima, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. thank you very much serhii ohorets, thank you to his guest, i will say very briefly, i said in the announcement, i announced the story about the poisoning in the desna river, the statement was made by the mayor of vyshgorod, he removed this post from facebook, we will now see what the situation is. in any case, you should not panic and you should wait for certain official information from those people who are responsible for the environment, perhaps an official somewhere really made a false start, but i will say right away that you should not panic about this, inform as needed from su will be a little later, but now we will talk with oleksandr vilkol, the head of the defense council of the city of kryvyi rih. mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you and offer my sincere condolences, today is a day of mourning in kryvyi rih for the d

and now we are joined by valentyn badrak, director of the army, conversion and disarmament research centerlyst and writer. mr. valentin, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. mr. sergey, congratulations, very glad, as always , to join espresso and discuss various. no, controversial issues, especially. well, first of all, of course, i am interested in one topic today, i know that you are quite familiar with a number of workers who are involved in the creation of missile weapons and our missile programs. i know that, for sure, our enemies also watch our programs, and that is why we need to find such a balance in order not to say too much and convey certain information to our viewers, so that they have an understanding of when and where ukraine is moving with its missile program. and the first question i would like to address to you... is that the president announced the successful testing of a ballistic missile, what project is he talking about in general terms, what technical parameters can we talk about now? well, first of all, yes, let's start with the fact that, in order to