1 hour to discuss it but yes, if you make such certain assumptions, but for today, if you look at how the troops are distributed, it is obvious to determine the level of threats for further operations. Well, you can do it simply such a conclusion, i skip all those intermediate stages, it is necessary to understand that the south is the most Priority Task for the enemy today, because you know the actions in the east and the factor of approaching the borders of russia, that is, it explains both the shoulder of the carriage and factor a of the saturation of troops and opportunities uh, the concentration of additional continents there and the factor that there is a border, what uh , the enemy has been creating defensive positions for almost 9 years and the specifics of urban development, and so on and so on, we all understand that it is very, very difficult to advance there with the set of troops that we have today, on the other hand, if we are talking about the south, then we must realize how important the south is for russia and how it can turn out , that is, the defeat of russia in the south and the liberation of crimea, including that with a breakthrough with the breakthrough of the enemys defenses in the south, with access to the melitopol region. This is simply what we have talked about many times, and we are talking about the fact that the enemy is actually losing crimea. And we already see what it means to lose crimea today, our concentrated successive strikes on objects on the territory of crimea have significantly weakened the russians ability to attack the western waters of the black sea, the need to understand that the main components, or rather the three components of any war, are money , once again money, that is, the opening of the possibility of ship navigation in the western waters of the black sea, without much probability, the impression of ships opens up wide prospects for us, firstly, it is the opening of additional ports, it is the possibility of carrying out such trade operations and exporting our goods receiving additional export revenues and the like is a plus for the enemy this will be an extremely serious image blow because crimea is a sacred place for them, we must understand how much it hurts for them to lose it and so on and so on and so on we are talking about the fact that the southern direction is obviously becoming such a priority direction for us and for the enemy, and that is where they are desperately trying to hold the defense today, we are just fighting extremely hard battles , uh, what happens there, you know sometimes to communicate, i talked to the guys before our program with you. Its just difficult to even convey from time to time what we do not face in this direction and but we understand what this cost is for, why we are fighting in that direction, of course in the east in the east we are the same we are conducting hostilities, and by the way, what general syrsky said that our troops in the east in the area of bakhmut are receiving 52,000 Russian Troops, preventing them from moving to the south. This is the task that our it is about the fact that we want to put hundreds of thousands of lives of our soldiers there at any cost to enter this place that was once called the city of bakhmut because it makes no sense, but acting with the determined set of forces and means that we have today, we hold the enemy from the possibility of moving his units to the south in order to further strengthen the defense of the south. Therefore, it is necessary to determine that this direction is also a priority for us from the point of view of preventing the movement of enemy units, that is why we are saying today that the entire front line. It just resembles, you know, such a burning line, because it is impossible to find out where there is a calmer place, where there is a place with high intensity everywhere, high intensity of combat, what exactly are you saying, we started to draw such conclusions from this and came to the institute for the study of war that this is the maintenance of the bakhmut direction , for which certain western politicians and officials were once criticized, the ukrainian command now admits that it was actually to draw Russian Forces away from the south. Well and in general this is the release of the tick, which we talk about a lot, now they call it a bridgehead for further actions and in this direction , that is, it is about releasing directly into bahmut, already there 7 km to bahmut or to the surroundings of the city. It is necessary to conduct more counteroffensive operations nearby, i repeat once again, the target is not on today is the liberation of the place that was once called the city of bakhmut in this unfortunately, it does not sound like a pity sorry for such cynicism there is not a single military session the task is to get the maximum number of troops currently operating in of Russian Troops operating in this direction and inflict maximum damage er with all available forces and means if we look at the map we see that er our further advances will allow us to reach such an additional row er if we look here on the map to the east, which will allow us to fire already on the forces of the enemy, which is secured along the road that goes to bakhmut, which runs parallel to the front line, the socalled blockade, so for us, i repeat once again, it is necessary to break through and advance as far as possible to the east from the goal is the maximum destruction of the military potential of the enemy, and the destruction of the military potential, well, the territory will be unconditionally liberated, and there then it will be a question not of the number of destroyed enemies, but of the pace of the advance of our troops. Summer units were transferred to work on a and that these units were supposed to perform some such high impact functions mobile a is currently used as line infantry and it turns out that after all there are certain reserves that are not used in the russian army or are understanding how many such idle reserves there are in russia well, you know, you need to understand that the russian army has and i made such an interesting observation for myself, that is, when we talked about the beginning of the Summer Campaign , the Russian Troops amounted to approximately 400,000 troops and somewhere approximately where if i i am not mistaken, 2,000200 tanks today, the total number of troops operating on the eastern, well , line on the fronts of ukraine is approximately 425,000 Russian Troops and, if i am not mistaken, approximately 2,600 tanks, that is, the enemy is desperately recruiting Everything Possible and you can imagine what reserves they had. They still have such serious losses that they bear every day on the front line, supporting even , well, approximately the same, er, the same number of armed forces and trying to increase the number of weapons and military equipment, that is, they have reserves, resources, lets not forget that they, as they say, recruited quite a large number of socalled contractors to serve in the armed forces, one can endlessly argue about the effectiveness of their use and the training of these units, but it is necessary to understand the following what is the manpower that is needed in any way to destroy and, er, to win, they just need to be pushed or ground, thats what the use of reserves is, and it is. Well, i would say that it is very difficult for the enemy to increase the number of reserves accordingly, because there are violations of logistics and even if im not mistaken, there are about 120,000 who are currently operating there. We are in this direction. They feel a certain and projectile hunger. They feel a lack of fuel. They dont feel a lack of food. It is difficult to throw up reserves and everything the enemy is doing there, and mostly he is hunting me with the troops that are now on that part of the front, transferring them from one part to another in order to keep the situation under control in the east, the situation is a little different there , as i already have the possibilities and the logistics of the approach to the borders of the Russian Federation and the specifics of this area, it is easier for him to concentrate there and directly transfer ee reserves from the territory of the occupying country. Infantry how demonstrative it is and how often they are forced to resort to such steps in the russian command. Well, you know the elite of the troops is a very relative concept because it must be understood. By definition, Airborne Troops are essentially light infantry. And thats why their equipment is that they are armed with light armored vehicles. That is, by default, they are light infantry and use them as simply line infantry or simply to plug holes on the front line, this means a method such desperation in the actions of the Russian Troops is therefore summer this is a matter relatively even more according to some data to the composition if i am not mistaken, the 76th parachute division introduced two regiments of the socalled socalled territorial troops , which even the name is called airborne, but they are part of this action, this speaks of the quality of those units that claim to be medicine in their essence, this is now all that the enemy uses and it is a very interesting observation that is, when we look at the list of military units that operate on, in particular, on the stretch of the front from the shelter to the willow, then you can find everyone who can be gathered on that part of the front, it is about Airborne Troops and about infantry and territorial troops and leopards and storm units z and so on and so on, mr. Sergiu, here we have literally a minute, i will ask you to answer briefly, but here is this information about the alleged death of kadyrov. We will talk about it in more detail, but you mentioned diversity, so to speak units, and i wonder if there are many kadyrov soldiers in akhmats regiment who are currently at the front, and if they are, he goes for the information that i know, and i know that they were active in the area in the maryanka area, er, talk about what they are actively used precisely in the first line, it is not necessary because, lets say, they are essentially their own distraction, they are not shock units. This is a slightly different situation, and if they are used on the front line, then this already means the highest degree of ee involvement or, forever, precisely russian ee planners and russians commanders because they are at the front. Yes, but lets say i havent heard from my friends for a long time that they were in contact with kadelivites. They heard mr. Serhiy. Thank you very much for joining the broadcast. Thank you very much. Russia invaded ukraine for selfdefense. This argument was voiced by the russian delegation at the court in the hague. Filed on the third day of the fullscale invasion of russia on february 26, 2022 at the first hearing in march last year there were no representatives of russia and today they are speaking for the first time, we will learn more details from our colleague olena abramovich , she is following the process in gazi and is now in direct contact with us olena, i congratulate you, please tell me what other arguments, so to speak, were given by the representatives of russia, where is daria well, i will start with the judges of the lawsuit , there is one important point that ukraine accuses russia not of genocide, but of abuse of the convention on the prevention of genocide and because both ukraine and russia previously signed this convention and the first article states that the countries to sign are obliged to prevent the crime for themselves and punish for its commission and because the president of russia putin announcing the beginning of the socalled special military operation said that its purpose was to protect the population of donbas from, quote , genocide by the kyiv regime, the ukrainian authorities appealed to the un court, explaining that there was no court in ukraine and moscow did not had the right to use force of such a scale in order to stop it. And as evidence of such rhetoric, the ukrainian side previously cited a number of statements by russian officials , president putin, the secretary of the council of state security and medvedev, and the head of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, lavrov, later in russia at the un and the european union. And today, the russian representative insisted that they are doing that these statements, the russian authorities did not refer to the Genocide Convention per se, and these statements may or may not be considered as crimes, and in general, russia is trying to explain at these hearings that the un court is not has to consider this case, this is one of the arguments that were heard today ukraine does not accuse russia of committing genocide ukraine also does not accuse russia of failing to prevent or punish genocide on the contrary ukraine insists that there was no genocide, this alone should be enough to dismiss this case jurisdiction of the court, if there was no genocide , then there cannot be a violation of the convention on genocide. Governed by article 51 of the un charter, which gives the right to selfdefense, and the fact is that in the charter it really allows the state to defend its territory, and since russia announced the annexation of the territory in the donbas within a few days, and it immediately allegedly began to defend them, and here i will remind you that the annexation practically no one in the world recognized the territories occupied by force , russian representatives talked a lot about the supposed prosperity and nazism in ukraine, they also mentioned bandera shukhevych, these arguments caused laughter among the journalists who listened the court will present its counterarguments tomorrow, ukraine will comment on russias statement today, the ukrainian delegation did not show a desire, as it must first present its arguments in court. Ukraine, in addition to lawyers from the ministry of Foreign Affairs , will also be represented by representatives of a Reputable International law company, as well as a team of International Scientists headed by professors from the Gaelic School of law and the university of paris, and on wednesday the court will hear the representatives of 32 countries that have joined the process, and this is unprecedented case, all the countries of the european union, except hungary, as well as britain , canada, australia, etc. , decided to support ukraine in this case. Well, we will follow in the next issues, we will tell more later. Thank you, olena. Editions, thank you, the us president will be able to offer to expand the composition of the Un Security Council in order to weaken the influence of russia and china, the telegraph writes about this , referring to a conversation with the spokesman of the white house on National Security issues, john kirby that they can invite new permanent members, in particular india, brazil, germany and japan, and the south african republic, so that, as kirby put it, the architecture of the Un Security Council is more inclusive and comprehensive. Answered, i will add that britain, which is a permanent member of the Security Council, has already expressed support for such actions. Well, they promised to support the corresponding decision in the european union, as reported high representative of the eu jozep forel well, i will remind you that from today the next meeting of the Un General Assembly is expected to begin in new york. It is expected that the Climate Crisis and the war in ukraine will be the topics of the event for tomorrow , among other things, the planned speech of the ukrainian president , in addition, previously the National Security adviser of the us president jx lebanon reported on the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyi and joe biden in washington. Valery, good evening, my greetings. I greet you. Glory to ukraine. Glory to the heroes. Valery, why do you think the practical implementation will continue . These movements will have little effect on us because the un has shown its complete impotence , incapacity from the point of view of the un charter, which should have prevented wars, and having russia as a permanent member of the Un Security Council, it all fell apart, that is, a complete failure here and no in my opinion, these changes, such as the rearrangement of chairs, will not give anything in this area, but they can lead to certain processes that will change the un, and i do not know how it will be in the future after such initiatives. The fact is that the expansion the soviet Security Council was offered to you, let me remind you, russia proposed the expansion of the soviet Security Council, china proposed it, and then the United States was against it, now the United States played uh, i think they approached the matter in such a creative way and they seized the initiative and who want the same india , germany, japan, and brazil, what do they stand for france from Great Britain should probably also give places to the south african republic, but at the same time you said it is impossible whether they will have the right of veto, they will not have a legal one. That is, there will be two groups of countries. Well, at todays stage, it is not proposed to have two groups of countries, one by ones affairs, or by another. Without the right to do so, i will remind you that the radbez has been reforming for as long as it has existed, and there were 11 members of the radbez now, 15 of which are zero. I will tell you more in the oun statute in the chapter on the radbez, with the nonexistent state of the republic of china this is taiwan, it is still pir was recorded there, but in principle it excluded and transferred these functions to the peoples republic of china in today s china, that is, russia, we know very well , did not legally formalize its presence in general. Thus, they now grasped it by the head, but it was already too late, because it was a pure political decision that russia there he is sitting in a chair, that is, it is possible that the initiative of the usa will finally be useful to start some titanic sums, which in my opinion should lead not to who will be there, how many members, but simply to a council liquidate as some separate group of countries that now determine the fate of the world, this will not happen, i think that it will change if we go further, but on this issue, one year without iron councils is not in the form in which it is now. Well, you actually answered my next few questions, no. I understood you correctly that rebooting the council without it does not make any sense, that is, this structure has completely exhausted its resources that were to be reformed , there is no sense, and the word reboot is possible and correct because i, uh, i dont know i will honestly say whether it is necessary to liquidate the un as a whole, because there is a system of the un organization, the advisor is one of the organs of the un, and there is already the International Court of justice, which you just talked about in the same statute, a deep reset is possible, the right word for this is not reform, you heard. And what about of the agenda of the General Assembly itself, will it be possible to make the topic of the russianukrainian war a key topic, are all member countries interested in talking about it . Well , it just depends on the topic as a platform. I generally think it is correct to call it a forum now the United Nations or the forum of the disUnited Nations, as a forum as a platform for discussion, yes. This is an important tribune. It remains the same, although frankly speaking, only gourmets watch what is in the United States and what is more in ukraine because of the war and so before. We werent such fans of watching all the un meetings, thats why only specialists watch it all , well, now in the period of war and really, the topic of it cant be dropped just like that and how key it will be depends on the speech the president of ukraine from the work of our delegation of our partners, mr. Valerinov, in august, ms. Ambassador of the United States thomas greenfield, she said that she expects that most western countries will put, literally, intense pressure on so that she withdraws the troops of neighboring ukraine. Does this socalled matter intense pressure and how it manifests itself within the un , taking into account their status, what powers and the work we are currently talking about within the un is not manifested in any way except political pressure. Well, political statements from the usa consistently they are really taking a position and even you already know they are moving away from this vocabulary eh other countries especially i like the position of the speech of britain eh well and how surprising albania is an experienced diplomat of the representative of albania he always speaks very clearly and placing all the dots on d but countries such as india, brazil, china, and mexico, they are twisting and turning, and in this way, you know , they will make this platform not a place for clear statements , but some kind of regular conference. They listen to this gasoline all the time who is lying, benza, thats what putin called him. Its not me, he actually doesnt have the surname benze, but this is it. Listen, listen, churkin told me, he died there under unknown circumstances, now this day begins and the whole world has to listen to it. I am i believe that it is necessary to end this story, to give a platform to war criminals simply because they were once there many years ago. Ports decided the fate of the world. Well, this period has already ended. Russia destroyed the world rule. Russia trampled on everything for the first time. The word of the un charter of the preamble has already been trampled, i no longer tell the simplicity what we can talk about, the reference to the 51st article is a mockery of common sense and International Law in general, they all know this and listen to this lie for the 51st time, so i think it should be removed from such of countries, or the radbeziv site, it could also be an assembly, a forum of all countries , there are dictatorial regimes, there are democratic countries, well, thats how it happened, Everyone Wants to somehow keep their own, or maybe the martians will attack and we will need this structure univska and yes , it is impotent and powerless and we really need it transform i think that this is a discussion, it will go hand in hand for decades again because, well, everything rests on financing by china, russia, you know, stop financing these countries, china, russia, well, not even russia, but china, the usa, stop financing, it will crumble immediately, therefore, in principle , the system must be seriously look at it and conduct an audit of which organizations of the un system are effective, but in conclusion , for the sake of justice, i will say not only that the osce has generally shown that it is an unnecessary organization in europe. That is, it cannot do anything at all, thats why it the world crisis and russia together now with some countries that look at it like that, trying not to see some things. She broke putin broke all these rules , thats why the cold war is probably over and this system needs to be rebooted. They are ending this era with their defeat, they are still using the weapons of those times, but after that there must be a complete change, a complete reset, how will it be. This is a serious question that no one has an answer to yet. Well, you are asking rhetorically what to expect if listening to war criminals lavrov plans to attend a meeting of the council of security at which zelensky is expected, and ria novosti, a Russian Media outlet, has already published this with a reference to nibiemsya. Will the presence of lavrov and zelensky in the same hall affect the agenda . Countries so that you can try to organize a conversation between highranking officials of the warring countries. No , this is only for the first time. They will not be in the same hall. I think because the days of the performances are different, well , at least there was one time, i remember when i i was part of the delegation then, and there was a russian delegation headed by putin. Well, then we simply turned our backs on him and expressed our attitude towards him with our attitude towards him, and our support group raised and there the corresponding flags, although it is prohibited, another point is the tolerance of its own when there are tribunes above the balconies and you cant show anything there at all, not the flag, not the flag that was shot by russia for it is ours by the way, the people who traveled then represented the public every year in ukraine, they were deprived of the right to visit it. Well, you know its such a very bureaucratic system, and you know it too , when they see 190 there are more plus on this one they see an attitude that is towards you like this, with your back to you , then you can, the picture plays its role there as well. Thats why you have to be creative approach this participation. I believe. Well, you see. Half of the world , more precisely in russia, they appeal to the fact that more than half of the world supports them, resorting to the fact that it is about the population of india and china, but i also wanted to ask you about the meeting between biden and zelensky which was announced, which i mentioned. And what should we wait for . Will there be a decision about all of this . In your opinion, i have no doubt that there will be such a decision. I was very surprised if there was not one. Moments that you thought you would hold back, you wont hold them back if there were such considerations and thats what i didnt want, after all, the issue was limited to these missiles there and its about more serious things that will be talked about and the help of a new package of Financial Assistance to ukraine of 24 billion i in general, it is necessary to talk about the key issue, in my opinion, and i really hope that the president of ukraine will talk about it, despite what it may be, well, someone can say that it is not the time of this visit. I consider it timely that ukraine joins nato, a security umbrella for ukraine the defense of ukraine is not an agreement on the socalled security guarantees, but ukraines accession to nato next year, at the washington summit, there is now an opportunity to negotiate facetoface, to reconcile all the tracks, so that, well, not the same, the delegations. Therefore, from the configuration delegation, i will immediately see what will be discussed, thats why i really hope that there will be representatives of the minister of defense , well, there will also be representatives of the general staff , because the term of office of the militia general and the command of the united command of the headquarters is already coming to an end this month, it would be great if the ministers of defense talked to each other, that is, the minister of defense was also in rammstein. Just now , a new package will be given to ukraine, namely, our minister of defense and the commanderinchief of the joint team also got to know each other. Well, i i think that the delegation name has a lot to work on, there are a lot of issues, Energy Stability during the winter, Economic Issues of the recovery of ukraine, mrs. Prince karpeni, princeka, we