Candidates participate in the squads, but the cec did not register any opposition or antiwar candidate. 71yearold putin, who has ruled russia for 24 years, will apparently be reelected as president for another six years. We would like to remind you how the promises and statements of the russian usurper have changed over the past 23 years. Any Prime Minister after two terms in power goes crazy says the english proverb. Putin has been in power for 23 years. In the meantime, he is going for a new, already fifth president ial term, which will end as early as 2030. If the russian dictator makes it to this date, he will be exhausted by the length of his stay in power stalin how do you feel about the idea of increasing president ial powers and the possibility of being elected three or more times . I feel negative about it. For more than two decades under the power of the rhetorician putin, the cardi has changed. On december 31, 1999, the first president of russia, boris yeltsin, announced his resignation and named the newly appointed Prime Minister as his successor. The unknown exhead of the fsb quickly gained popularity by unleashing the second chechen war. We will pursue terrorists everywhere, at the airport, at the airport, so you will catch me in the toilet, we will soak them in the toilet. This loud phrase, which russians liked so much, was voiced by putin after another bombardment of grozny by russian aircraft. Even then , some people in the west were wary, but most of the statements of the new political leader did not give cause for concern. During the 2000 elections , putin talked about partnership with the us and the eu, the need to fight terrorism, develop Democratic Institutions and protect independence. The construction of a democratic country is still ongoing far from finished, but much has already been done, we are obliged to protect the achievements. At the beginning of the 2000s, putin, at least publicly, did not yet challenge the west and voiced much more modest tasks for russia, for example, in 15 years , to catch up with the level of gdp per capita of portugal, at that time. One of the poorest countries in the eu, it was not possible to do this, but the sharp increase in World Oil Prices enriched putins elite and made putin himself dizzy. Antiwestern motifs began to sound more and more often in his speeches. The orange revolution in ukraine, the arab spring in the middle east, everywhere putin saw the hand of the usa. In february 2007, he made an infamous statement. The munich speech, which started a new confrontation between russia and the west. Putin went to the 2012 elections with antiwestern rhetoric. What i see now and what i talked about in munich is not an alliance. I sometimes think that america doesnt need allies, they need vassals. The point of no return was 2014. First, the occupation of crimea, then. The war in donbas unleashed by russia. He lost touch with reality. German chancellor Angela Merkel told us president barack obama about this after a conversation with putin in early march 2014. Since then, antiwestern and antiukrainian paranoia in the kremlin has only intensified. Putin began to be openly delusional about the threat of biological weapons that the west is supposedly developing against the russians. You know that biological material is collected all over the country, and among different ethnic groups and People Living in different geographical points of the russian federation. So the question is, why is this done . The situation was complicated by the covid pandemic putins communication narrowed even more, he delved into reading historical works and himself began to scribble pseudohistorical articles about ukraine, and in the end, he started a big war. For more than 20 years in the elections, putin sold the idea of stability to russians, now it has been replaced by the idea of a special mission of russia, which, together with its new ally china, is resisting. A treacherous measure. Russia is turning into north korea before our eyes. The economy is on the military rails, political opponents are being killed. Dissenters in prison. They can be arrested for cursing in social networks. The dictators current goal is to destroy ukraine. Putin is a sick person who hunts and does not even understand what he is doing, or does not control his army, which shoots at civilians, at. Diplomats, at leaders of other states. Putins global goal is to change the world order. On the eve of the socalled elections, he repeatedly declared his readiness to use nuclear weapons. Putin is 71 years old, his fifth, and in fact already sixth term in power, this is the beginning of his end. The question is how many more lives he will have time take with you you know, i will make such a Short Historical excursion, i think that it will not surprise anyone if i tell you that many rulers, more famous, less famous, the only thing they were worried about at the end of their lives, i think so, more influential, great politicians, is that to live forever , well, of course, there were different people who until the last cared about the development of the state, about the wellbeing of their people, about how to strengthen the army, about how to improve their geopolitical positions, many great emperors, roman ones too, until the last day lived by it, but were lets say genghis khan, he was looking for sorcerers , doctors who could give him the elixir of immortality, the same, lets say, a more modern story, this is maut zedong, the leader of communist china, who actually created yoga, well, he was also looking for different doctors until recently , connoisseurs from tibet , he was looking for them somewhere in the world, who should come and give him this elixir of eternal life, putin also has a shaman in altai, who probably promises him something, putin needs, he will not understand , he is a sick person, to understand that eternal there will be no life, well, but this is such a manic desire take with you as much as you can, you know, here at the end ill tell you this story, why he loses, actually in the movie red dragon, its one of the series of films about hanni. The director behind a famous bestseller, and the director was caught by an fbi agent, and he says i was doing everything right, how were you , i was hiding, i was hiding, i was doing everything right, how did you find me, what was the reason, and the fbi inspector said, performed by edward norton, told him, youre just sick, professor, so putin just sick, thats why he, that he does it right, he has to win, it must be so, great russia , the empire, the soviet union, he is simply sick, and therefore. He will lose, well, but, unfortunately, many more people will die, unfortunately, serhii zgurets will talk about exactly those people who prevent us from dying at the front, these are our armed forces of ukraine and all those who help them, serhiy, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today in our military column we will talk about weapons and ammunition for the armed forces on against the background of the new ramstein format meeting and beyond, and about what is happening on the front line and whether another dew is exhaled. Attack, more on that in a moment. The 20th meeting of the Contact Group on defense of ukraine will be held tomorrow at the Ramstein Air Base in germany. The participants are more than 50 states that have joined the supply of weapons to ukraine in order to counter the aggression of the russian federation. It will be such a personal meeting, not online. As before, us secretary of defense lloyd austin invited defense ministers and senior military officials from around the world to discuss the war in ukraine, various security challenges facing allies and partners of the United States. So far, there are no details about the plans for this meeting, but it can be expected that the ukrainian side will raise issues regarding the strengthening of air defense, the transfer of missiles for various purposes, and the supply of artillery systems. And ammunition, probably drones and military training, as well as the situation with the repair and maintenance of westernmade equipment and weapons. I will remind you about the already known ones. Public examples where, for example, in order to repair artillery received from the us, here, in particular, m37 howitzers, which we now we see in the video, the repairmen of the armed forces have to go to the creation of such frankenghams, that is, when to restore one howitzer, they have to take components from another damaged artillery system, there were as many as 20 such damaged howitzers at one base, of which individual parts are used for repair these m3smok and our repairmen have to resort to such a certain cannibalism of spare parts, since there has been no help from the usa with components for several months, the actual production in ukraine only partially covers the needs, the situation on the battlefield does not allow for procrastination. The same applies, by the way, to the repair of tanks, here you can give an example of 18 tankivleos. Ward 2 a6, which germany supplied to ukraine, about a month or so ago, german politicians appealed to the management of the rain metal and kraus mafia wegemann concerns, which produce these tanks, that it is necessary to urgently improve the situation with spare parts, because unfortunately , only part of the tanks delivered to ukraine remain suitable for combat operations. Due to lack spare parts, and these repairs are carried out in lithuania, and there is a shortage of components, the same applies to british challengers and american abrams. In any case, among the proposals is the improvement of the training of ukrainian crews, the supply of instructions or the repair of tanks on the territory of ukraine itself. It is clear that it will not be easy for the contiguous states to hold this 20th almost anniversary meeting in the reinstein format. And most importantly, first of all, because of the slowing down of American Military aid to ukraine, which is already affecting the situation on the front line. The United States recently announced the delivery of a 300 million aid package there, but this is a much smaller amount considering the real needs of ukraine, and the biden team, which promised to provide aid to ukraine, actually understands this. As long as necessary, and so that russia does not defeat ukraine, and now the coordinator of the National Security council for strategic communication, john kirby, during an interview with abc, it seems yesterday, spoke about the fact that, that is, they, that is, we are running out of ammunition in donbas, now they are already retreating there to the second and third line of defense as the russians continue to push westward, kirby said. I dont know which lines the second and third were referring to. Kirby, but i understand that this earlier interview was aimed specifically at an american audience, at american politicians, because now the Us Administration is conducting this dialogue or discussions with the speaker of the house of representatives and his associates in order to approve such allocations of aid to ukraine and to accelerate this allocation. At the same time, there is some progress from the europeans, and i think it will be scaled in ramstein, first of all, it is about projectile. From czech president petr pavel, we know about 800,000 projectiles of various western and soviet calibres there, but the other day it became known that the Czech Republic has discovered another 700,000 units around the world, which can be delivered if funding is available, i. E. In total we are talking about 1. 5 million shells, and this is actually a colossal amount, and even the first batches that. Arrive in ukraine, they actually, well, relieve hunger from our and artillery units, and a shell diet for our artillery, i hope it will be weakened. And then we will talk about what is happening on the front line, where ammunition and various Weapons Systems are needed. Over the past day there were 72 collisions, and the left part. Of them fell precisely on the avdiyivsky direction and novopavlivskyi, these two directions remain the most difficult, therefore, about these directions, about other sections of the front, what affects them and the situation on the front line, we will talk about this with our guest, viktor joins us kevlyuk, reserve colonel and expert of the Defense Center strategy, mr. Viktor, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear, good evening, mr. Serhiy, take it, we already have such things. Its a biweekly tradition to do this kind of review, based on your experience and your detail of whats happening on the front lines, there are a lot of questions from me and our viewers, and i wanted you to. Start by assessing what right now is happening on the front line, where russia has actually been conducting another offensive campaign since october, and how can you now assess the Current Situation as a whole and in these two hottest directions, it is precisely at west of avdiivka and the novopavlivskyi direction, where now, as we see the most combat clashes, well. It should not be called a campaign, it is an offensive operation in a separate operational direction. The situation is now as follows avdiyiv direction battles continue on the border berdychi, orlivka , tonenko, pervomaiske, nevilske, in the direction of the berdychi landfill, the 15th and 30th motorized Rifle Brigades of the enemys second army are attacking, but their advance is seriously hampered by fire control. The defenses, which are defended there on the full heights, and very often counterattack effectively. The 114th brigade of the First Army Corps and the 55th brigade of the enemys 41st army captured the village of tonka, advanced a little further west, reached the outskirts of semenivka, but were stopped there by the Defense Forces and are not advancing now. Ninth motorized Rifle Brigade of the First Army Corps. The 35th brigade of the 41st army is trying to break through to pervomaiske, but they still cant. The 110th brigade of the enemys first corps captured nevilske. The situation is even more dynamic in the novopavlovsk direction. Battles are going on border georgiivka, pobeda novomykhaivka. The enemy brought the 20th Rifle Division of the eighth army into battle in almost full force in this direction. Most of the 150th motorized Rifle Division, most of the forces of the 155th marine brigade of the pacific fleet, and here they had the 1219th motorized rifle regiment of the Territorial Forces in reserve, it was transferred to the 20th division and has already been fully deployed in battle, thats all is done with the aim of opposing the enemys command, trying to maintain the pace of the offensive. Regiment right here additionally with the 10th tank regiment transferred here from the pokrovsky direction and its units are already north and northeast of novomykhaivka , together with the 33rd regiment of the 20th division, the 1219th regiment of territorial troops, are actively attacking the positions of the Defense Forces in the novomykhaivka area. For the enemy, mastering novomykhai is extremely difficult. Important, and they are actively risking their planes here, which are about to deliver from four to six hits with guided aerial bombs, and some days even 10 hits. The 242255th regiments of the 150th division of the enemy captured the settlement pobeda, the 110th motorized Rifle Brigade and units of the forces of the fifth brigade of the First Army Corps are trying to break through to krasnohori, but the Defense Forces there conducted several very successful counterattacks, the situation was stabilized, and the enemy was stopped. The 39th brigade of the 68th army corps is the coastal troops of the pacific fleet, attacking in the direction of slavne novomykhaylovka and sweet water. They cant make their way to the road o50 0532 marinka ugledark, its white on your map , you can clearly see it. This is a very important logistical route for forces defense, thats why ours are quite active there and the defense continues successfully so far. All these actions are definitely connected by a single plan and plan of the enemy command. As for the prospects, in the direction of vdiiv, the enemy will try to advance in the direction of pervemaiske nitailovo with the aim of bypassing the right flank of the Defense Forces in the area in the nitailovo area. On novopavlivskyi, the enemy will try to cut the same mariyankouglidar road and enter the left flank and preferably go to the rear of the Ukrainian Group that is defending coal miner this is the situation. Mr. Viktor , you say quite categorically that they will try to advance, that is, the idea is understood, but are there forces and means for this, if we say that since october the enemy has been conducting offensive operations, theoretically. He should have already exhausted himself or to regroup, this does not happen, and after this, questions arise about russian reserves, that is, relatively speaking, whether you. This hidden mobilization there is enough to restore losses and whether the enemy now has variations to accumulate some more there operational or larger Strategic Reserves to support these offensive actions or to plan others, in response to your question , only mr. Budanovs department has clear and accurate data, accordingly we can browse open sources. The picture that consists of this flipping, the losses of the enemy every month this year are 2225 servicemen, the manning system supplies about 2000 troops every month, that is , there is no reason to talk about accumulation, but the enemy maintains manning at a level that allows continue execution. Combat tasks, if we talk about reserves , the enemy currently has practically no Strategic Reserves, in order to deploy and form them , it is necessary to mobilize, which should be expected in the near future, now at the base of the 21st motorized Rifle Brigade of the Central Military district, the enemy deploys the 27th motorized Rifle Division, and the formation process is very interesting. The 433rd motorized rifle regiment of this division is formed at the Training Ground in the area of trehbinka, luhansk region, Everything Else at the totske Training Ground, in the Central Military district, well, lets see what they will get out of it, in terms of operational reserves, more of them have been spent, at least in the groups that are conducting active hostilities, for example, in the turkish direction , the operational reserves. Today it is estimated at one motorized rifle battalion, but in the pokrov direction the enemy has three motorized rifle regiments, three rifle battalions of the mobilization reserve have been recruited in the donetsk and luhansk regions and somewhere up to two detachments of the combat army reserve, so it can be said that the enemy has something to strengthen his offensive, these are extremely limited opportunities, and. In the event of a breakthrough in our defense, he actually has nothing to develop his tactical potential success in operational, it is definitely not worth calming down, but the picture for today is like this, then questions arise about how we to behave on the battlefield, because, relatively speaking, i cannot help but mention the publication in sandy times, based on the results of the minister of defenses stay there in kyiv. The commander of the British Forces there, messrs. Shabs and radakin, where sandy times wrote about what they advised the ukrainian side to abandon the plan of offensive actions there on the front line, instead to maintain defense on the northern and eastern fronts, they are afraid that syrsky, for some reason, is not too interested in ground operations, and that the main emphasis should be placed on carrying out strikes on. With the help of missiles both there and on the black sea, and then it was presented in sufficient detail in the british press, why these advices are heard, what are they related to reality and why exactly such accents are put by the british, perhaps, hoping for your historical experience , what are your assessments of these tips, first of all , britain today is one of the leading partners and allies of ukraine in the fight against. Russian aggression, of course, the officials of the Defense Sector of Great Britain are making a huge amount of effort in order to collect, generalize, analyze the situation, look for optimal options for actions in such a situation, they have appropriate mechanisms for simulating combat operations, and based on the results of this simulation, they probably give. Certain advice to the sector security and defense of ukraine. What can i say about this . Why is the first advice to focus on a strategic defense operation in the first place . All sides perfectly understand that ukraine does not have the necessary resources to carry out an offensive operation today, there are no prepared reserves, there is no adequate provision of everything from ammunition and ending with heavy weapons. And in general , conducting a largescale offensive operation takes a lot of time, so defense is a kind of natural way out of the situation, about this. Said general zaluzhnyi before his resignation, this point of view, as i understand it, was supported by general syrsky, the new commanderinchief, so there is no miracle or any such big news here, why is it about the domination of the black sea, the chief of the Defense Staff of Great Britain, Anthony James radakin, first of all an admiral who gave more than 30 years of his service to the fleet, he. Understands this deeply, he is one of the shapers of the new accounting of the naval forces of ukraine, and the fact that there are certain, well, for example, antiship missiles we received, it is to his credit, preparation for the transfer of minesweepers from the fleet of Great Britain to the naval forces of ukraine in the same way, er, and plus all this can be multiplied by unmanned operations, without. Crew boats of the naval forces, armed forces of ukraine on the black sea, which gave an unexpectedly high effect, the enemy does not withdraw, for example, carriers of cruise missiles to the black sea, there is no rotation of ships in the sea of azov, the squadron is rotating in the mediterranean, which we have so far we cannot get, accordingly, such a method, such an option. Symmetric actions creates a huge threat on the southern flank, which is relatively safe for the enemy, after its antiaircraft capabilities in the crimea are destroyed, its forces and means on the black sea are extremely limited, then access is opened to conduct an air operation against aviation bases in the krasnodar territory in rostov region, stavarpol region. Accordingly, i think that admiral radakin had in mind just such a development events, perhaps in an operational or strategic perspective, in fact, they are probably ready technically to provide these concepts that they are currently offering to the Ukrainian Armed forces, but in any case, we need not only means, but also forces, and here we are one way or another up close lets come to the issue of our mobilization, it takes place through the initial legislation, and the new law on mobilization continues to be debated in the parliament, what consequences will this delay in the adoption of the new draft law have, how do you assess these risks . First of all, the parliament does not have a new version of the law on mobilization, but a draft law on the introduction of. Mines into the legislative acts of which there are 12 pieces regarding the procedure for conducting mobilization, that is , the very mechanism that was, and remains, talking about the fact that something to us today it is difficult to equip the armed forces with personnel, well, it is hardly possible, because all the necessary mechanisms are in place, because since 2014, we have conducted six rounds of partial mobilization. General mobilization has been ongoing since february 2022, and the draft law is focused on creating more favorable conditions and giving certain structures, and these are not the armed forces, to be more effective in facilitating. In general, it should be understood that mobilization is the transfer to functioning in wartime conditions, first of all, of state bodies. Power, the National Economy and the National Transport system, the armed forces are mentioned there at the very end, therefore it is necessary to separate the staffing of the armed forces and, properly speaking , mobilization, to which armed forces have a relationship by and large, and which threats the delay of this draft law carries, if we lose, and the enemy outpaces us, firstly, in carrying out from. Mobilization, secondly, in deploying its Strategic Reserves, the situation for us along the entire front line will be very difficult. We hope that this will not happen, and your evaluations will be heard by our politicians, thank you for your time, for your professional evaluations, i would like to remind our viewers that viktor kevlyuk, a reserve colonel and expert, was on the air of the press channel