, in particular, he noted the success of the air force in destroying hypersonic dagger missiles. 000 warplanes, and the air force shot down more than 3,500 aircraft, helicopters and rockets occupied the territory, and we will definitely create a reliable air shield of ukraine, which will be able to be the basis of the air shield of this europe, and it is only a matter of time when there will be f16s in the ukrainian sky that will give even more power to our defense, the Ukrainian Air force has already become the most powerful in all the years of its existence, and it will become even more powerful to take scalps from the enemy, the president of ukraine on military day of the air force visited the combat units at one of the airfields, got acquainted with the equipment of the ukrainian attack aircraft, which is equipped with french longrange scalp missiles on one of them, and left the inscription glory to ukraine and sat in a chair the pilot, although it is not known whether the head of state was allowed to take to the air, a historic event today at the motherlandmother monument in kyiv, instead of the dismantled soviet hammer and sickle, our trident symbol was installed , it was delivered on the evening of august 5th, one management of the National Park where the monument is located decided to postpone the installation due to the impossibility of fixing the coat of arms in the dark period of the day, work was resumed today at 5 in the morning, the monument was erected in 1981 , it is considered the tallest sculpture in europe , the size of the trident is 4. 5 by 7 and a half meters and the weight is half a ton, he is good from all sides, but he is not small, not too big, not thick, not thin, that is, he is just like that, that is the golden mean, but you know, he is the golden mean , but he is not mediocre, that is, he is like that. He is impressive. He is impressive because he is our national symbol, a symbol of our victory, chebureks, pizza and pies for our comrades on the front lines svitlana oleksandrova with the call sign prepares a flower for the soldiers of one of the brigades that will receive defense a few kilometers from the enemys position, and even during the war she began to write her poems the story was told by a woman to khrystyna parubiy. I had a dream as a child. I always didnt want to be either an actress or a ballerina, although i would like to be a soldier or a police officer. At the moment, it has probably come true. I think its cool when women join the army. In the seventh battalion of the area of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army in civilian life, the woman was a master of decorative plaster, decorated the wall , decided to go to war after the beginning of the fullscale invasion of russia into ukraine , her husband and a younger brother, a woman joined later, i was not accepted from the beginning. I started volunteering, and then i received an award of thanks as an honest volunteer and Serhiy Vasyliovych zherebilov, he is currently our combatant there, i approached him, i listen , i want, i want to go, i want to serve, i want to carry benefit to the state and the army and the battalion, he says he understands that this is a blow i say yes, i understand, i want it if you want it here, its not like i wanted a candy, ate it and forgot it doesnt work that way for me either if i want it this way this is what i want to mean it should be, she started serving as a cook in the battalion, first she was in the war zone in the kherson region, then in the nikopol direction , she cooked food for her comrades everywhere just a few kilometers from enemy positions , she had to work in different conditions with field stoves with gas and braziers , they went to bed very late with girls go to sleep at 12 00 at one oclock in the morning at three in the morning already get up hey come on there has never been such a thing that there is no connection and the boys need to pass food to them in the yard they need food for when we have now and you start running with the girls hmm well thank god, we have such a strong team, we have a very good supply of food, we have everything, and we try to make it even better and tastier from all of this, six women work in the kitchen to make it easier, they are divided into two shifts , they prepare breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a variety of pastries every day , you need to feed about 600 people, pranks, we come, there are boys there or girls who pass by here, so how do you say to the rotation, yes, to the boys for zero, then we cook and to the side it is separate, we have portions, such boxes are divided there, we pour hot food there, cutlets are fried or ham, some vegetables, salads, pastries for rolls, they like such goodies, some kind of pastry , a sweet for the neighbors, in the dough, pies, chebureks, we fried them now , according to svitlana, it starts at half past five, immediately prepares breakfast and partially lunch, in the morning we had boiled macaroni with poppy seeds, fillet stew green borscht was cooked with vegetables and gravy for lunch. Young potatoes with mastic. What did we cook . Cheese, sausage, sausages. We just started baking. The girls are baking rolls with strawberries and buns with currants. A woman in the donetsk direction says it is calmer here now because our military is pushing the enemy away from the family at the front, she is left alone, her brother died under fire and her husband was seriously injured and is currently in the hospital, but the woman is not going home , it will be difficult for society to accept people after the war and we do not know how will we lead everything there, completely different worlds we live somehow in contrast here one thing you see another there and it s hard to accept codesh but i want him here well i dont know i say so what is it here brothers they are standing, the atmosphere is some kind of connection, communication is different, trouble has changed svetlana, she has become crueler, stronger and cries less, and she has also started writing poems, she is sitting alone , sad, blue eyes full of pain , her hand is not young, she has no son, grief has come , the mothers mind does not want to accept it, and why . Loss of life, my son, why would you leave me, you went to protect the land and you will die on it khrystyna parubiy tv channel espresso this is how this day was in the presentation of the News Editorial Office , of course more about what is happening in ukraine and the world and about the situation at the front read on our website espresso tv subscribe to our channels in social networks we are on youtube telegram Instagram Twitter like and stay close and further in oter espresso meet Vitaliy Portnikova congratulations friends we continue the informational broadcast on the tv channel expresso with you Vitaliy Portnikov we will talk today about what is happening at the front, what is happening in politics, what is happening in russia, which does not stop the war against ukraine, what is happening in the west in our neighbors, our first interlocutor mykhailo, myself, a military expert, a director, a politician, the Deputy Director for international affairs, the center for research on the army, conversion and disarmament. Greetings, mr. Mykhailo. I congratulate you, so lets start with what is happening on the fronts of the attempted offensive of the Russian Federation in the zaporizhzhia direction , what does this mean, what is happening at the front, are the russians really have only chances, in fact , if you look at the front comprehensively at the strategic situation that is taking place, then of course the russians have been trying for at least two or three weeks to launch an offensive on asfativ direction. That is, it is the Luhansk Region where they tried to create a threat precisely to the Ukrainian Forces to break through the ukrainian defenses and create conditions when the ukrainian ukrainian command of the Ukrainian Armed forces will be forced to drop reserves from the east and south in order to stop the defensive offensives in the swativ direction and thus stop ukrainian attempts to break through the defenses in the south and east. But the russians did not succeed, that is, they had no operational success, they were certain tactical successes that were later leveled in principle by Ukrainian Forces and now the front there is in a more or less stable state. Of course, the situation there is very tense , very heavy battles and ukrainian soldiers and ukrainian officers are stopping these very powerful attacks of the russians with their heroism the russians are not able to complete their task. What i just described is what i just described. If we talk about other directions, then the bakhmut direction is also in the east. The direction in the south is the zaporizhia direction. This is the melitopol direction. Ukrainian forces have the initiative Ukrainian Forces continue their offensive actions of course, after the Ukrainian Forces achieved their tactical successes in the zaporozhye and er special melitopol directions , the russians tried to counterattack. That is, these were not operations of an er offensive nature , but precisely counteroffensive actions that had the goal is to stop the ukrainian advance because the Ukrainian Armed forces are initially conducting formation operations by destroying artillery with longrange, highprecision means of destruction command posts of warehouses with ammunition, logistics, aa, accumulation of personnel, and then, when the conditions are met, it moves forward , but in these conditions, the russians try to carry out counterattacks in the flanks or other directions. Trying to stop the advance of the Ukrainian Forces, this again fails, and we can say that that the last attempts of the russians to stop the ukrainian offensive in the south did not end in failure, and the Ukrainian Forces continue their movement, of course, conducting and forming and decisive operations to move forward now it was reported about the next strikes on the bridges that connect the occupied part of the kherson region with the crimea, to what extent the strikes on chongar on other bridges really change russian logistics and complicate russian actions in the south of ukraine. This, of course, is connected with a more strategic task, including preparation for the deoccupation of crimea since both chongar and henicheskyi bridge have, after all , lets say so, bilateral, bilateral significance is not only logistics for that group, which is also located on the left bank of the kherson region, russian what does it matter of great importance for them, as well as the exit to melitopol, and you are a group that is currently attacking the Ukrainian Forces, but also in the opposite direction , that is, if we destroy the kerch bridge and destroy all the logistics that connect crimea with mainland ukraine, this will mean that in the event of the deoccupation of crimea the russians not only from a Military Point of view, but in general there will be a critical situation with logistics, which of course will affect the actions of the russian whiskeys, in principle , it will strategically change aaao lets say so ee the tension on the battlefield because the ukrainian the armed forces and ukraine in general will have more arguments to put pressure on the russians when carrying out just the deoccupation operation, but at this at this stage it is precisely this formative operation when longrange highprecision means destroy logistical routes, including in order for Russian Troops to e from the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions could flee , for example, or move to the occupied crimea during the time when ukrainian troops will put more and more pressure on not only the zaporizhzhia region , but also the kherson region, that is, this district now it is in such a standby position and the Ukrainian Forces are not conducting active actions here across the dnipro, but there may be a moment when the conditions will be created and just then the Ukrainian Forces will begin to press and carry out their offensive actions in this area, which means that they will have only one way to retreat through armeniansk aa which now, in principle , remains the only way of logistics in this direction eh and well, of course, this limits their possibilities both in the logistics of providing troops and in principle of retreating to the occupied crimea, mr. Mykhailo, to what extent can you Pay Attention to these assessments, which now appear more and more often in the western media and are connected with the war itself, not with a political solution to the conflict, but with the war as such, thats what you need to prepare for a long road that this is a longterm conflict, that military operations can continue for a long time. That the russians may not have turned out to be so. I said that they were weak in their defensive positions on the ukrainian territory. It could be considered or really said that from a Military Point of view, this is a longterm war. Well, if we take into account the fact that indeed, we can liberate all our lands, including the wing. But russia will still have the ability to carry out , for example, missile strikes on the territory of ukraine , to carry out sabotage actions, in general to create a constant threat of carrying out or about carrying out new offensive actions. Well, for example, from the territory of belarus or other territories of russia, in principle, a huge front remains for us, that is, it really is a war of attrition, a war of attrition in which putin understands of course that as soon as he stops the war, his political and possibly physical life will be under great threat. I think that he will not last long, even as a phenomenon , so of course he will try to continue it as long as possible and we really have to prepare or already act within the framework of his exhaustion for us. What does this mean . We have to once again rethink our relation to the war , do not expect that this war will end. And in august or september, this war may end from the point of view of deoccupation from our territories. Indeed, maybe next year, but a long war. What does the functioning of our our nation within the framework of the laws of war, it can really last for years and here, of course, it immediately comes to mind. Well, for example , the relationship of the ukrainian state to the same production facilities, that is, russia is now investing huge finances in the sphere where we remained leaders at the beginning of the war now we are starting to lose this leadership i mean, for example , the production of drones because russia is starting to invest billions of dollars there at the state level and this sooner or later may lead to their leadership on the battlefield and fp from the drones of this person view and the same shahed lancets these are the drones that are causing us a huge problem now, so far we see that all these programs and sea drones and longrange strike drones and other types of drones are basically the same are implemented at the expense of public money and volunteer initiatives , i think that the time has come to rethink this and the state should invest billions of hryvnias in this area, including within the framework of the activities of the ministry of strategic industry, since now there is a new management i think its time for the ministry of strategic industry to have its say and not, for example, the ministry of digital policy, which is more concerned with the development of the same drones through the united 24 army drone platform than the ministry of strategic industry. I think this is not correct that the ministry of startprom should just take the leadership and the main responsibility, and in this area, because we have to win precisely due to asymmetry, russia will always have more tanks, more asystems, most shells, well this is how it turned out, there are more people in them, this is physical. We will never be able to somehow outplay them, but you have symmetries in technology. Of the ukrainian state itself, because i understand that the russians are still hoping for a military victory or not, but today the press secretary of the russian president pisco said that they are only interested in those regions that they annexed, do you believe that . Well, of course i dont believe that, of course russias goal of destruction is clear they will never give up the ukrainian state from this. Moreover , in any iteration of russia, it will be a democratic russia or an imperial russia, in any case, the ukrainian question will always stand. With the aim of depriving the world, first of all, of ukraine , of this gloom that hangs over us in any case, we are there, they have one, the destruction of the ukrainian nation, ukrainian statehood from the point of view of a military victory. Here i think that the majority of russian generals, well, what can think, the majority of russian oligarchs, what can politicians think, they understand that there can be no military victory, well , except at the expense of hybridity, that is, we know with you how it is always done from among us, uh, start to destroy as it is for the russians often succeeded in the last centuries and then there is a possibility of er, including military victories, but at the moment and internally we are holding on more or less lets say so, we will not specify and from a Military Point of view we are very er powerfully holding on to that and er, in fact, i believe that there is already a party of people in russia who understand er , it would be advisable to remove putin and start er to try to form some new paradigm, and moving forward, that is, searching for some ways of er negotiations or agreeing with the measure on withdrawal sanctions and already entering into some new relations with the west, and of course with ukraine but again, is this party of people ready . Trying to demonstrate my dissatisfaction with the kremlins kremlins commands but i think that at the moment the understanding that a military military victory by itself is impossible in ukraine, but if you take this linear forecasting , that is, the ukraine of the middle does not change, there is no hybrid threat, ukraine continues to build up its military capabilities, and russia is in the state in which it is , even achieving certain successes in the production of the same drones, a military victory is impossible in this case, as you perceive what is happening now in jeddah this is really a preparation for some kind of negotiations at which russia will be forced to agree to the territorial integrity of ukraine or simply some kind of agreement on the position in advance. I think that this is an attempt to find a platform after all and an attempt to find a model for future negotiations because the participation of china is extremely important. Is still trying to play his game, well, its clear. They are trying to achieve world leadership, and its obvious that they re talking about voronili, we can say this war like that, they dont have their own arguments on how to influence the situation in ukraine and in relation to what is happening on the battlefield, and i took part in several such closed meetings with russian comrades. Lets just say that they invited us to simply discuss the situation. Well , they spoke with their servants with slogans, as they always do from the communist party, we said what we think, but i, for example, conveyed to them the opinion that ahah now a process is taking place when china cannot be invited to the table when gentlemen after russia will be defeated gentlemen when china, which is currently standing, will sit at the table aloof and demonstrates some kind of neutrality do they make statements that contradict each other, that they, for example, support the territorial integrity of ukraine , but at the same time do not declare that it is necessary to take into account some respect some interests of russia, it does not happen that way and they are at this table and they cannot be invited because they have nothing to put on the table as arguments, but now china is trying to be in the process , trying to demonstrate that they are ready to put something on the table, i wonder what it will be, are they ready to take responsibility, for example for the future transformation of russia, because china could play its role in the future transformation of china, they can influence russia, but unfortunately, for now, they are engaged in helping the putin regime to survive by trading with him, giving the opportunity to earn from oil, for example, again, all these billions dollars that go to russia every day, they are used to wage war , to wage ee, to carry out the reform of the defenseindustrial complex, and so on, that is , those yes, and here india plays a huge role, yes the participant herself took part in this meeting, too. Of course, she has much broader views than china and has the opportunity to take part in the postwar transformations of russia and the restoration of ukraine. But again, they have to decide on the current cooperation with russia, for example, on india and china, is now largely supported by the Financial Stability of russia itself, so there is much work to be done here. I think that this meeting marked the beginning of a very important process, the process when the global south and the collective west begin together to think about how to end this war, of course, based on the interests of ukraine, the interests of the common interests, that is, russia is already a factor of instability, a factor of future instability, and in these conditions , of course, this meeting is very important, that is, it is impossible to start any way the formation of new views on the future will not be resolved , well, without taking the first step, this first step was taken. 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