Such a paradox here that on the one hand, ukraine depends on the volume military aid in order to advance further, and on the other hand, the amount of this aid depends on the extent to which our partners see a perspective in the deoccupation of ukrainian territories, so i am personally sure that there will be very substantial changes, they will not just as our partners expected for six months, because by the end of the year, ukrainian troops. Will be on the administrative border with crimea, but something very substantial can of course happen, and it certainly will, uh, we are today, after our program on radio liberty, there will be a premiere the era of the investigation about the redut pec, this is a russian pec, please tell me, is there any information in the expert community, what kind of pec is it, what are the plans in the kremlin for this, the socalled pec, of course, this is not a private military campaign, and thats exactly what i want today. Ours will tell about it colleagues, but nevertheless, is this some special group of redoubts, or are they ordinary mercenaries , well, as far as ive heard about it, they have existed for a long time, and when wagner started, the redoubt started somewhere right away, well, wagner started right away, thats what that putin called them not there, they are not there, it was wagner, but somewhere around the same time , such a group of redoubts appeared, as i understand it, it is more. Much older in the sense of personnel, that is, they are mercenaries, but more, well, at that time they were so elitist that now, well, now in general there are a lot of such in Russia Companies and all of them do not exist, as putin himself said, because there in russia, just like in our country, such private companies are prohibited , so how do they exist, well, as informal associations, as divisions, sections of military intelligence with a special logistics, which is also special financing, which is not built in the same way, not just from the budget, but there a whole network is created in order to launder funds for these companies, but i think, in general, the situation remains the same, wagner did not justify there were trusts, mercenaries in their pure form, plus criminality, and the redoubt is such. An elite group , it must have remained due to the situation in russia, British Intelligence today wrote about the fact that in november, so far, such an unofficial but preelection campaign in russia is preparing for the president ial elections, please tell me , and how can this campaign, in the form in which it did not begin, directly affect the war, mobilization, and other things that are directly related to the war in ukraine . There will obviously be no mobilization until the elections, and this means that russia will insist on everything by means of pressure, wherever possible, to start, as they say, negotiations, to force ukraine to stop hostilities, deoccupation and start negotiations, because they are taking a lot of risk, in general, the entire russian economy, one might even say, it depends on whether their front will fall or not, they have now calculated that they will last until the president ial elections, will last without mobilization, without, and they will have enough manpower, because russia now has a big problem with manpower, due to the war on the one hand , on the other hand through defense industry, which works in three shifts, so if ukraine is successful in deoccupation, russia will face a very difficult problem. To carry out an unpopular mobilization, because it will be unpopular, it will destroy this whole idea of elections, this whole political project of president ial elections, and. On the other hand, it will have a very strong impact on the russian economy, so i think they will try , well, keep seizing the territory and insist through all your hybrid means to influence the fact that, well , to stop aid to ukraine and force ukraine, to force us to abandon the offensive, but i think this will not happen, i have the last question, does it already concern the war in israel . We will now talk about it in more detail, but i have a question for you, how can the war in israel affect the war in ukraine . Well, in general, we can only confidently say that we and israel will become, we will become closer, russia and israel will become a little further, the distance will increase there, but i think that there is such a direct connection, well here, here it is simply difficult to say, on the other hand, here is the convergence with with israel it is positive, well, it is enough to say that the rapprochement with israel, which azerbaijan made, it was, well, very useful for him, it was a very powerful change in his, well, in his strategic goals, the same for ukraine, but tactically everything can be , whatever, because of course we understand that international aid, well, it is limited, and many of our partners will now decide. How to rebuild international aid, or in one package ukraine, ukraine, israel, and possibly taiwan, or separate packages, and there are certain risks here, but i i think, in general, the situation will not get worse for us, i understand you, oleksiy ezhyk, an expert of the National Institute of strategic studies, was on radio liberty, we talked about the situation on the ukrainian front, how it can change and how the war in israel can affect the war in ukraine, thank you very much. The israeli army has regained full control over the border with the gaza strip, the wall street journal writes that israel is preparing for a ground offensive and is driving tanks and soldiers to the border of the gaza strip. Aircraft carrier the Us Strike Group will deter iran, Lebanese Hezbollah and other potential allies of hamas. Tsakhal snipers are training on the slopes of the hills, waiting for the order the newspaper reports. Well. Israels air force said it was repatriating hundreds of israelis living there from europe to fill the ranks of reservists , israel is expected to launch a major ground operation in the gas sector, the evening before, in an address to the country, israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu said that there were airstrikes in the gas sector just the beginning the fourday war has already claimed around 2,000 civilian lives on both sides. The israeli authorities announced more than 1,000 dead and almost 3,500 wounded, among the dead in this war also, by the way, there are two citizens of ukraine, and the terrorist group hamas also holds up to 150 people captive, including people with dual citizenship and threatens to lose them, some of these people were captured at a Music Festival in israel that was fired upon by hamas militants, at least 260 people who came to the festival, he took place just near the border of the gas sector. So these people were killed and we will tell you more about this episode in this war later. The supernova festival in the negev desert near the gaza strip gathered several thousand visitors. People danced under the stars all night from october 6 to 7, already in the afternoon , several dozen hamas fighters stormed it from the gaza strip. After the Israel Defense forces take control of the place again. No less than 260 bodies will be found on the territory, the Music Festival has become the bloodiest mass murder since the holocaust, israel believes. Footage of armed militants shooting at festival participants, those trying to escape and those hiding were caught on cctv cameras. We will not show you these episodes for obvious reasons, the video shows how later the terrorists search the bodies of the killed, as well as the car and suitcases with personal belongings. The terrorists had a few hours before the israeli army arrived there. Here is what those who managed to survive say about these events. Elad hakim recalls how the festival turned from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. He and his friends were running away from a party when armed terrorists were already crossing the nearby army base. On the road there were men on motorcycles with kalashnikov assault rifles, who started shooting at us when we were driving, i drove past them at a speed of 180190 km h, we all lowered our heads, bullets were flying, and. And the windows were open , so that they do not crash in our faces if we survive them. The horror began, the vehicles behind us could no longer pass, because there were 14 more motorcyclists, not just the two we encountered and started shooting. The cars that were behind us stayed there. Another israeli, sahar bensela weeps as he recalls the events at the festival. Seriously, this is hell. I have never seen anything like it. I have been to two wars in my life. And never seen anything like it, bodies everywhere a real carnage, they did nt care if you were male or female, young or old, they were killers and what they did can never be forgiven. One of the organizers of the festival saw how his colleague and Party Members were killed and taken prisoner, he says even animals were shot. Children, old people, anyone, they stopped at nothing, all from animals. They cut people indiscriminately. Such cruelty. I didnt think there was an animal or a person on earth that could be like that. A war between soldiers, but girls, abuse of girls bodies, children, whole families, they just stopped at nothing. Everything was a target for them. They came to kill. Hamas militants captured an unknown number of civilians and soldiers during their invasion of israel and contained them in the gaza strip, videos with such footage are posted on social networks by the militants themselves, one of them shows how the terrorists are carrying a confused young israeli woman on a motorcycle, relatives recognized 25yearold noa arghamani as it is claimed that the militants are leading her partner avinatan. A hamasaffiliated channel later released a video purporting to show noir hamani sitting on a couch drinking water. This was reported by the astra channel with reference to noas friend. Fighters captioned this video as a soldier in the gas, where she and her partner are now unknown. The exact number of people who were captured by terrorists at the supernova festival is still unknown. Olga armyanyshina, radio liberty. Well, in turn, the palestinian side reported about 770, as of now, the dead as a result of the strikes of the israeli army on the gaza sector and about 400 wounded. According to the latest data of the un agency, which works with palestinian refugees, more than 1870. In the gaza sector have become forcibly displaced and how their the number will increase. Just this morning, israel advised residents of gaza to leave the sector through the rafah checkpoint, which is on the border with egypt, but shortly after that it was reported that the point was not working, as reported by reuters, sources in the Egyptian Security services, the vicinity of the rafah checkpoint was hit by an airstrike. So, on the one hand, israel calls on the palestinians to leave the gas sector and not be a target, on the other. It looks like the civilian population of gaza is practically deprived of the opportunity to get out of there. And international the Human Rights Organization human right watch called the complete siege of the gaza sector a collective punishment and a war crime. Well, the day before , israels defense minister announced that he had ordered a complete siege of the gaza strip. At the same time , Human Rights Watch also noted that the killings and attacks by Hamas Terrorists on civilians in israel and taking them hostage are also a war crime. Our broadcast was joined live by vira, literally physically in the studio, vira kostiantynova, an International Political scientist, i i will also say for our audience that you are a middle eastern expert. Good evening. Good evening, good. First , you know, i will start with the news coming from europe, for example, the head of diplomacy of the European Union, josep borel, invited an emergency meeting of the ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union. Regarding this situation in israel, i have this, you know, a very simple question, and what can the European Union do, on the european continent, the war in ukraine and they, they will try, but sometimes it doesnt work, everything you want, yes, and what can they do make for israel, for palestine, how can they solve this situation, well, you know, first of all, we have to understand that for the European Union, for the diplomacy of the European Union, there is now a dilemma, because on the one hand, a lot of funding, the european commission, has been allocated to palestine , and some countries of the European Union allocated funding for palestinian refugees, and on the other hand, what the terrorist group hamas did, well, to put it mildly, raises the question, in general, was it worth sponsoring and was there any at all send money for palestinian refugees, because this money could , from the point of view of the analysis, be used for such tragic and war crimes that hamas committed when it invaded israel, and now the question is whether the meeting will actually come participants are invited to this meeting, it is understood, and to speak. Side and the israeli side, it seems to me that most likely not, me too, well, according to my personal conviction, here, except until israel ends the war, it is unlikely to be possible to have any kind of dialogue, because now each its sides are bleeding wounds, and now it seems to me very difficult to talk about something constructive, but i do not rule out that there will be attempts to somehow diplomatically stop this situation, but whether european diplomacy will be able to, here is a big question, but listen, it looks like no country wants to end the war, well, at least israel for sure, and not only israel, because again, i say, an unprecedented attack that horrified, probably, the entire World Community and at the same time the palestinian side there, the palestinians who go to the rallies. Support in european countries, absolutely indicates that the parties are not just not ready to talk to each other, they are in absolutely diametrically opposed positions, well, if we bring it a little closer to our reality, this is the same thing that we have been offered now after all that what russia has done, talk to them in some way, thats why i think now it is necessary to understand how much further this situation will. Deepen, because the risks of hizballah and iran interfering directly in this war are real, and therefore the american side sent the relevant forces, i dont know if you have an answer to this question, but i will ask, lets discuss, here we see that Human Rights Organizations are already directly accusing israel of war crimes, hamas is also accused of war crimes, but hamas is a recognized terrorist, terrorist group, please tell me, but where is the line between defense and war crimes in this case, if we are talking about the war in israel . A very correct question, because i was trying to understand for myself, which one the position is comfortable for me, as an analyst, an expert and at the same time a person, yes , the main rule, it seems to me, is a very fine line between, between the right of a nation to selfdetermination, to selfdefense, as for ukraine, we defend ourselves, we apply 51 ooon article, we were attacked, and on the other hand, what hamas did, even a festival, where it is still impossible to establish the final number of killed, just killed, civilians, so the line between terrorism and the right to selfdefense is very small and very fine, and you know, it is important to understand that from the point of View International law is now war crimes, what hamas has committed as a terrorist organization , and what will now be as a response. To aggression, we know that gaza is very densely populated, more than 2 million people, suddenly, densely populated sector, absolutely correct, and a plus , for example, do you remember, we had a discussion about bomb shelters, right . Are these bomb shelters accessible to civilians, or are these bomb shelters available exclusively to hamas fighters, where they store their, their weapons, where they hide from plaques of israeli aviation, that is, the issue is that the palestinian population has actually become a hostage of certain religious leaders and fanatics who say that International Law should be imposed there by force, inna, lets talk about hamas, i am sure that in our audience there are many questions, they exist, but you are shy to ask them, because they will think that you do not understand something, lets talk about hamas, hamas has a military wing, both military and political. Wing and as far as i understand, the political wing is real politicians who were legitimately elected by the palestinians . Lets probably start with the main one, that there are actually two political factions in palestine, and palestine, as understood by the Palestinian People, is very well known in ukraine, the Palestine Liberation Organization and fatah, which is a very wellknown historical figure yasser arafat, and hamas as and the Political Party and the paramilitary at the same time, because there are alkam brigades, and the political faction hamas, which won the 2006 elections in the gas sector, and at the same time in 2007 completely seized power in the gas sector. We also have the west bank of the jordan river, where the Palestinian Authority is actually located, headed by president mahmoud abbas, and here we have a very interesting situation, from a point of view, if you try to somehow adapt it to political dimensions, because hamas sets as its goal the complete the destruction of the israeli state, that is, there is absolutely a person of hatred here. Rhetoric with a religious component, in turn, the organization of the liberation of palestine has been fighting with the same terrorist methods for a long time, and once in the 90s, when yasir arafat understood that this is a hopeless path, it leads no