i begin to calculate the target, i gave the boys a command to run to the car, drive the car out, start to aim, after that, when they reach it, i give them ready-made coordinates, according to which they will work out, when they work out, then they can rest, with us 2s1 eyeball, yes, which, by the way, is also quite effective. it works and hits both enemy infantry, light armored vehicles, dugouts, and anti-tank weapons, and it is also quite effectively used in counter-battery combat, that there, come on, come on, op, op, there is enough work, now, all the more so, since the enemy are all...

groups, so if they are accumulating and are going to go, i understand it in an offensive, then there are enough ideas and, accordingly, their reconnaissance and probing of us, well, the half-vesks fly in with the rpshka on board, well, god forbid that they did not hit us directly, fly in 10 meters ago, the 152nd tank and the 120th also worked for us, this is no longer a cover, it’s practically... a target, but thank god, everything passed, all targets and equipment are intact, plus i accepted, thank you, before the battle, teams to battle and run different ways with the boys.

come on, one projectile fire. shot, i'll resume guidance and one charger.

the shot, let's go faster, because it's coming here, you see, this is how it happens, the work of the artillerymen of the marines in the southern direction has also been done in the shelter. russian attacks could achieve more significant and threatening gains, especially west of bakhmut, if the us does not continue to provide security assistance to ukraine. this is stated in the current summary of the american institute for the study of war. according to experts, currently the russian forces are using the shortage of ammunition in ukraine, which is caused the lack of assistance from the usa for its own, albeit very tactical, successes. what are tactical successes? well, for example, look at what

the city of chasiv yar looks like now, this video was published by fighters of the black swan assault battalion, the minister of defense of ukraine rustem umyerov said that the situation in the east of ukraine is tense and that russian forces are currently concentrating their efforts west of bakhmut in the direction of the temporary ravine, but if the us delays aid to ukraine, future russian operations may reach larger and more threatening levels for ukraine scale, according to the report of the american institute for the study of war. if the us congress does not... vote for aid to ukraine, then there is no chance of victory - volodymyr zelenskyi said in an interview with the american public broadcaster pbs. the ukrainian president was asked how long the ukrainian troops will be able to hold out if american aid is not restored? i tell you frankly, without this help we will not have a chance to win, and we must be much stronger than your enemy. that's what i'm talking about: an artillery shell today. to 10 or

can we stand like this no, but the planes are one to 30 with russia, well, how can you fight? we are not asking for any special weapons, we are not talking about some... missiles for 2 thousand, 300, etc., there is nothing like that, and no one is asking, sorry, to give 500 planes, or 300, like russia, by the way, they use 300 planes only on the territory of ukraine, in any case, with these statistics, they will push us back every day. well, in the same interview, zelenskyi said that during the russian attack on the trypilsk tess, ukraine ran out of missiles for means. it also gave russia the opportunity to destroy the station. let me remind you that last week the journalist bilt-julian ryobka, who monitors the hostilities in ukraine, said about 500,000. i say this because you need to call more than you actually intend to call at once, because at some point the troops

on the front have to be changed. the us has been through this several times in history, it's a very complicated process, there's a lot of politics involved, public opinion has a lot to do with it, but... the thing is, when you get recruits into the military, it is necessary to conduct very thorough training. if you do not do this and do not train recruits, you will have problems at all stages of combat missions. so that's key. ihor romanenko, retired lieutenant general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces, 2006-10, has already joined our broadcast . good evening. good evening. i, of course, will also start with the law on mobilization. well , just now we were listening to a retired american military general and he said that ukraine should call up 500 thousand there, he said, maybe even more than announced by the ukrainian authorities. i will remind you that the representatives of the ukrainian authorities have repeatedly stated that ukraine does not need

500,000. tell me, please, do you agree with your american colleague? i agree, i agree, and this was the need at the beginning of the past. year, and a year passed, and they formed the military at the beginning of last year, unfortunately, they did not listen, they began to talk about the fact that they were studying the number, that we would carry out a replacement, rotation, and so on here, but in fact this did not happen, and even with taking into account acceptance of the law, decisive changes will not happen soon, because it will come into effect at least in a month. appropriate activities are currently being carried out, but we see that even this law does not solve the issue in principle, there remains, for example, the delivery of summonses, that is, the main purpose of this law is to replenish the ranks of the fighting brigades and

form a reserve, a reserve for fighting at the front , and if the reserve is what the president, the supreme commander-in-chief speaks about deoccupation, this means... it is necessary to carry out counter-offensive offensive actions, then this most likely, more than 500 is needed, that is, elementary calculations show it and you can look it up and so on. so now , even taking into account the adoption of this law, he will start working there in a few months, if not in six months. well, yes, under these conditions, we can see how the situation is developing at the front, how all this will be carried out, you see. both the president and general syrsky already agree with this, with difficulty, and this was obviously last year, and from the very beginning it had to be held, but in any case, after that is, it was found out that the counteroffensive action failed, the transition to

defense was unsuccessful, and the following actions had to be taken, in general, we have the consequences of the fact that the mobilization was not carried out... after the start of the war, this is six months, whenever there were more volunteers, everything else, i would say, it cooled down, so in this sense , all these apparatuses are state-owned, and the requirements are appropriate, after that it is difficult now, on that toolkit, when the military commanders and recruitment centers shackled and tried to help the evaders there for two years i explain that on the internet come in there lawyer... the offices are all around, what is being done wrongly, wrongly and so on, and we are now reaping this kind of approach, i am definitely for justice, i am definitely talking about the fact that rotations are needed there, how they do it, on it's a pity for the russians, they have gathered resources, because they are doing rotations, and the look has

the meaning of rest, which means, well, it's better, unfortunately, than in, but in order to carry out everything. it is necessary to start the resource first, and in order to start it, it must be armed, equipped and prepared, from the fact that you they just said, i... drew a conclusion, your answer is that ukraine does not have time to prepare and train new recruits until may-june, because precisely for this period of time, again, ukrainian authorities, ukrainian intelligence announces a new offensive. ukraine does not have time to do this. i want to tell you that this is not yet obvious, although the enemy has more resources at the moment, and therefore the question is somewhere before the beginning of summer, who will be able to do it sooner. to collect the appropriate resource, whether we are for stabilizing the defense, or the enemy for, say,

the second impulse of offensive actions, it is not yet obviously, no, because processes are taking place, look at the processes, the russians call up 150,000 conscripts from april there until, and we start releasing conscripts from may, well, how can this be? to explain, so to speak, because we have an extremely difficult situation, and this is our internal task, in addition , they are preparing eight divisions, about 120,000 somewhere in the east, in addition, there is the question that due to all the events, they are transporting everything evenly covert mobilization, contracts and everything else, and they would be until the summer, the question is when it's summer, what do you mean there can be up to 400 thousand, and we, what are we? what, and we, i, we have already analyzed with you that it will not work quickly, and that, in principle, this law does not

provide, well, a car, so that a person comes, when he refuses, it is necessary to go through three steps, that is normal under the time of war, now the only positive thing is that the accounting will be carried out, after the accounting it is necessary to make a decision on how much there is, everything else, the same accounting does not solve the issue of military service supplies. you know and that's why it's so ahead the work is being carried out now, but if in very difficult conditions, because no one has improved the tool in two years, and we still have the old soviet system of mobilization, although we have already exceeded the set standards, the general staff is not part of the ministry of defense, and this is a function of non-armed forces and the general staff, and the function of the ministry of defense, the state, the government and... below this link, it can be the ministry of defense, conducting mobilization,

that is, the state must call and hand over to military personnel, in our case, mobilization is engaged in the command of the ground forces, this is an anachronism, that syrian who fought near kiev, kharkiv, and then there were solidar and bakhmut, and at this time he should, as the commander of the ground forces in the past, should have been engaged in mobilization, well, this is only our case . ukrainian know-how can be, i will only add here that in fact, i will remind, more precisely, this draft law, the law already signed by the president, today, he is the government one, here, and rustem umyerov also came to the verkhovna rada there , however, he is not up to anything there did not report to the deputies when this law was adopted, but, but it is the government's, and you know, many people who watched how it was adopted, they say that it was terrible, because the government and the deputies overturned this. the law on each other there and tried to somehow shift the responsibility for these unpopular measures. and please tell me,

do you have an answer, and why so? the answer lies somewhere in the political plane, or maybe it's just that there are no personnel in ukraine and people don't know how to do it and when it was necessary to strengthen the mobilization or change it, because, for example, in public, from the president, there and to the prime minister, everyone says that it is calm, the mobilization in ukraine does not stop. everything goes in its own way, as it were, in its own way, and this law, it was simply supposed to improve the mechanisms of mobilization, so to speak, well, to improve or worsen, or to do something, this is a matter of the process, the final result should be staffing, if we discuss with you, how is it with the russians, and all these processes, that is, our soldiers, you make, let's say, a video with them and they complain we fought all day, we broke their unit until the evening,

we were tired, we suffered losses, after all, in the morning as many as they destroyed appear, they have the opportunity to replenish, they have the opportunity to conduct rotations, they have a possibility for, but it can be us only if we fulfilled, you say, why did it happen, because we did not fulfill the objective laws of the requirements, the objective laws of war, after a large-scale war it was necessary to conduct a full. to increase the mobilization in the 22nd year, it was already obvious last year and since the beginning of the year they have been talking, but they have been dealing with... this, unfortunately, and then, when the law, which should have been improved, but it fundamentally and quickly does not solve it, unfortunately, and that is why they considered it for four months , until it works, then for all this, and it is necessary, as i said, the deputies want to figure it out, let them go through with these teams from the tcc, with

the tools they have, and, therefore, they will be able to call for the implementation of plans in our regions was there... 10% and so on recently, well, how, and this toolkit has not changed now, it will in a few months will work to the full extent, and quickly, i'm just giving an example, that's not what, it means that if he is detained, even the policemen will bring him, they will bring him to the ccc, they will hand him over there, he will then refuse, and all the hassle, and this should not be , that is, the document has been handed over, it should be, and so on, it should be as much as possible. they speed it up, the authorities definitely speed it up there from 27 to 25, but russians are called up for conscription from 18 to 30, and we release our conscription service, that is, we have the oldest army in europe, 42 years middle age, but we are also fighting, after all, 42

years old is the most physiologically, let’s say, prepared man to carry out... especially in infantry, assault, offensive or defense, yes, no, and everyone knows it, no need , because relying on objective approaches and the laws of war, and loving deviations, regarding the implementation of these laws, they lead to the complication of the situation, as is happening in us now, steps are taken, but they will not correct the situation, we will discuss the law on mobilization with by all participants in the process, in literally every broadcast, of course will... explain, but i cannot help but mention the fact that very often we hear from ukrainian officials that mobilization is, of course, good, but without american help, ukraine will not be able to continue waging war in a high-quality way, do you agree with the president when he says that ukraine will lose the war with american help? well, in a broad-scale approach, in a strategic approach, unfortunately, yes,

well, that is, unfortunately, not because i agreed there, unfortunately, because this is the answer. gives reality, because for this you need the potential to to fight, and the potential consists of weapons , equipment, ammunition, well, by and large, as well as personnel, personnel, we made this issue difficult for ourselves, very bad, and here the americans primarily helped with weapons and equipment, and in aviation, f16, you see, they are now periodically justifying... the affairs of britain say that yes, you don't have to, you need anti-aircraft missile systems, yes, you don't need aviation, if it will be delivered, although he himself says, but we are very busy there are no missile systems, we have aviation, i was in britain, i studied, they have weak anti-aircraft defense, it will come down to aviation, because they are there on an island, their own

concept, so to speak, well, he absolutely, well, i don’t know for what reasons , but... but it does not objectively characterize the structure of the air defense system, fighter aircraft is a long arm in the air defense system, which means that fighters must meet the enemy's air attack means on long distances, beat them, destroy formations in the air and all that another and then when they fly closer to the object , long -range anti-aircraft missile complexes come into action, then medium, and then... low-altitude and low-range, you understand, and all this should be in a complex, he suggests that now this is the russian narrative, how can you slip into this, and that is why it is completely artificial, the americans now had the opportunity to give at the end of the year, they are dragging out the deadlines and they are now building about six planes,

argentina, you know that denmark has probably already sold this show for... . looked over and sold and already left the planes to argentina, and the data that provides the planes to us, what is the difference, they say that we have pilots, the ones we have, they are already prepared to fight, there are not enough, and when it was in the second world war , the americans provided the chinese with planes and offered pilots, volunteers, we too, they do not let us recruit pilots all over the world, ethnic ukrainians, and not only that, they had, but now information. that's all, thank you for the comment, thank you very much, we will continue to discuss the prospects of the american assistance, ihor romanenko, retired lieutenant general and deputy general staff of the armed forces of ukraine for 2 years, we talked about how the law on mobilization will affect the situation at the front, and whether ukraine is ready for the offensive that will be announced in june-may of this year, and we

also asked retired us major general david grange what could deter a russian offensive this summer, according to him, two things could deter russia: weapons, particularly from the united states, which we just talked about, and attacks on targets in russia. listen. i believe that the russians will try to conduct limited attacks, especially this spring. they feel they have an advantage. they have had some recent successes. when i say successes, they are actually limited, but they are significant for putin to use in propaganda. i think there will be a larger offensive in the summer. but this can change, depending on several factors. first, will the us approve aid and... will europe also be able to step up its support, although resources are starting to dwindle from everyone, including the us, we need to have our own reserves for other threats facing

us or our allies other than ukraine. and it is very difficult, but russia will try to do something and two things can restrain it. the first is weapons, which we have already talked about, the second is asymmetric warfare. ukraine is very... doing well, i mean special operations, i mean what 's happening in the black sea, what 's happening in russia, what's happening behind the front line, it has an incredible psychological effect and creates conditions for maneuvering and for the rest of the conventional ones operations so, i think ukraine should continue in the same spirit, if not to increase the scale of such operations, they are doing very well. and then about american aid, without which, as volodymyr zelenskyi said, ukraine may lose the war. the u.s. house of representatives will consider a bill to help ukraine

this week, according to house speaker mike johnson. according to him , four separate bills will be brought up for consideration, which relate to issues of national security of the usa, as well as providing aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan. if at first there was one joint package, now there are four separate ones. does this so-called unbundling guarantee the approval of assistance for ukraine in the near future, and if so, under what conditions such assistance can be provided. i will remind you, earlier in the american political community , the idea of ​​debt relief was discussed. such, in particular, was the idea of ​​donald trump. tetyana voroshko, senior editor of the ukrainian voice of america service, joins our broadcast. tatiana, good evening. congratulations. i do not know how you, but i don't understand much in kyiv right now, because i don't understand things. does speaker johnson's statement mean a guarantee that the aid will definitely be approved, voted on and will arrive in ukraine in the near future, or guarantees, as there were none, and there are none, despite

the fact that they unpacked this aid package there? well, actually, it's unclear not only in kyiv, but also in washington, as a matter of fact yesterday after six months, after the administration submitted this application two months after the senate voted, finally yesterday, and the speaker of the house of representatives who... said that they have their own plan, he finally presented this plan, let's first listen to what exactly is in this plan. we have terrorists, tyrants and horrible leaders around the world like putin and xi jinping and iran. they are watching to see if america will defend its allies and its own interests around the world, and we will . tonight, we presented to congress our plan to do just that. we will submit separate ones to the house of representatives for a vote. we will not be voting on the senate package as it stands, but instead on each of these items separately, in four different parts. we will put to a separate vote

aid to israel, aid to ukraine and aid to the indo-pacific region, as well as the fourth item, which will contain other priorities of our national security, namely the possibility of a loan to ukraine, the repo bill on the confiscation of russian assets, additional sanctions against iran and others measures we have been talking about for a long time. we will also allow amendments to be made as time goes on voting, that everything took place in accordance with procedural norms. thus, each legislator will be able to vote according to his own doubts. well, there are a few points to be made here: firstly, there is no text of this draft law yet, we do not know exactly what the aid to ukraine is, what amount is currently being offered to journalists, various options are being thrown out, but they even differ among themselves, that is, we do not know , as far as it mirrors the senate version of the... bill, and we don't even know what's in that fourth clause, that is the first reaction of the right-wing republicans was, what about borders, and now there was a press conference, actually with and the leaders

of the republican party in congress, and in front of reporters, mike johnson mostly talked about the border, he said that this is actually a lever for the republicans, so that the administration does, well, do something about the border, i won't go back to the previous story, because, well, this has been discussed for a very long time and they actually already had such an option, and what if we talk about the reaction of the democrats, they said that there was also just a press conference of the leaders of the democrats, they said that they had not seen the text, so far they will not comment, but if it does not mirror the 7th version, if there are not all four main points, and this the point is also humanitarian aid for gaza and other regions, then they will not support it, that is, it is still unclear, today there should be a vote on what kind of rules this is, how this bill or bills will be considered, after that congressmen will have 72 hours, after

the bill is promulgated, two hours to familiarize themselves with this text. i don't see those 72 hours really, what about the end of this week, because on friday it 's already out of session for the house of representatives, they're probably going to continue their session, they can always do that, they can do it on weekend, it is according to their wish, and maybe this option is possible, then we get into a situation, and what will happen next, if, for example, they agree, vote, support, in in principle, the democrats all that they demand and the republicans, who... do not support, to simply bring this bill on aid to ukraine to a vote, if the speaker brings it up, then it is mandatory, well, in principle , there are votes, they should support it, but and further, if this bill is voted on, it will then go to the senate, and the speaker said yes yesterday, well, it is also not very clear about what was heard, but it is alleged that this bill should go as an omnibus, that is, as a single bill should be voted in the senate, well no no, i don't know if really

senators are waiting for it. to vote together, or they will also vote separately, the session ends, it ends before the end of this month, may, the session is very short, but at least in may, well , almost the whole of may is a session session month, that is, how is it possible that everything can still be decided to be decided in may, well, i will also say about one more option, that is, the point regarding the petition about the petitions, regarding bypassing, putting to a vote bypassing the speaker, this version is not yet, it has not... not gone, it remains, the senate version calls for 200, well all any version requires 218 votes, now there are 195 votes signed, signatures, not votes, and of them all but one are democrats, but not all democrats, and according to press reports, some republicans, when they saw the plan, those who support ukraine said that they are now more ready to sign this petition, well, we'll see, tatyana, thank you very much, i understood that

it's not only us here... that's clear, but you, you too in washington. tetyana varozhko, senior editor of the ukrainian voice of america service, we talked about the prospects for receiving american aid, which is currently stuck in congress. what are its prospects? now we will continue to talk about this, oleg shamshur, the extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine and the ambassador of ukraine to the united states, from 2006 to 2010, has already joined our broadcast. good evening. congratulations. mr. ambassador, can you at least understand something about what is happening? well, basically, what... what the senior editor just told us is exactly what i know and what i've seen, and it's absolutely true, that is, as far as i'm concerned, if you look at the whole the situation, it seems to me, despite my previous superscepticism, the ice is off the chair, well, at least the process has started, but again, a lot depends on what will be

final. version of the bill, it is important whether it will be an omnibus white, that is, which will connect everyone.