and radar, 22 occupiers are missing, a point for receiving and repairing military equipment was also hit, according to preliminary information, the blow was inflicted by two atakams tactical ballistic missiles. so, mr. general, what do these blows mean? in ukraine, there were more opportunities to strike on the territory of the occupied crimea, or so to speak, planned works to destroy the occupiers. on the peninsula? we understand that every missile that we have now, uh, in our stockpile, in our arsenals, it is valuable and expensive enough, so to choose from a huge number of targets, that we have, the number one task is to make it the most efficient use of these rockets, so that we don't forget the nails with the microscope, so it's a planned job, it's a very great job, we wanted it to continue. and not only

on the territory of the occupied crimea, but also the destruction of a huge number of objects on the territory of the russian federation. this is task number one: we still have a window of opportunity, the more factories we destroy that manufacture weapons against ukraine, the less russia will be able to strike our territories, as it did today directly on the example of chernigov. yes, a very tragic story with the iskanders, who... flew around the city and killed civilians, but i would like this very information that we see on ukrainian television to be on all world channels today during the day and tomorrow, that's what it must be said, unfortunately, the lack of normal strategic communication with our western partners leads to the fact that israel reacts brightly, clearly and quickly to any threats, shows the consequences of these threats, shows. how they

work and support, we see how much strong support for israel itself. our government does not like it when the actions of the israeli government and the actions of the ukrainian government are now compared, because against the background of israeli politicians , ours look simple, you know, like schoolchildren, and that is why we have what we have, we must raise the level of awareness of our partners about the realities of this war, which die in... this war, not only military, but a huge number of civilians, and the realities of this war must be conveyed to every citizen, those countries that support us. undoubtedly, since we are talking about terror, this one too terror is not hidden, it is open and brazen, well, at least what happened today in chernihiv can definitely be regarded as a terrorist attack, which was carried out by a terrorist state, and there is no doubt about it. at the same time, the head

of the armed forces of ukraine, syrskyi, says that the russians want to capture chasiv by may 7, and on may 7 the inauguration of president putin is to take place, and apparently the russian occupiers want to give him some kind of gift. how likely is the deployment of such positions that will allow to take time and then go out on those. positions that are critically important for the armed forces of ukraine? the russians have the capabilities , we clearly understand that the capture of the time gap is not only a purely political nuance for the inauguration of the pseudo-president of the russian federation, it is primarily a threat to us for the further advance of the enemy in the direction of konstantinivka, kramatork, slavyansk, there to

from by the time of oyar, there are almost four villages to kramatorsk and there will already be kramatorsk, so it is quite a, you know, threatening situation, and the russians will make every effort, we are also making every effort to prevent this, but other parts of the front should not be neglected, because the russians can, having accumulated resources and at the expense of the express. overturning and probing for weak points in our defense, it is enough to react quickly in other areas, we see how threatening the situation is now in the zaporozhye direction in the rabotino area, and other directions should not be rejected, therefore the task for our intelligence is effective, fast and large it is possible to detect with a huge margin the advance of the enemy in other areas, so you should not... forget about other areas, looking

only at the time, mr. general, and zelenskyi and general budanov say that at the end of may, at the beginning of june, you should expect... a bigger offensive, now the russians are advancing, but this advance should be much greater, as they say, and this is due to the fact that new human resources will come to the russian army, and that they will deploy their capabilities not only to the eastern and southern, as i understand it, fronts. how do you assess the capabilities of the russians in may? the end of may, the beginning of june unfold and unfold. a larger territory for hostilities in ukraine, well, they already have more than enough offensive capabilities in various areas, if you mean the territory that borders russia from the sumy and

chernihiv regions, then such a threat also exists, and they perhaps they will want to repeat the option they justified in february, march of the 22nd year. but given the mistakes they have made, and i think they will do their best not to repeated, so for us the number one question is not what the russians will do, for me the more interesting question is what our government is doing to strengthen our defense capability in terms of preparing reserves, in terms of transferring the economy to the rails of functioning in wartime conditions, and the third. not the equipment of the area, these are probably the three main ones, and maybe the fourth one, that we see that the authorities in certain positions are failing, people do not understand what to do and do not perceive the threat and do not know how

to solve them, then the creation of everything of the government of national rescue can significantly improve the situation than what we have now, because now the actions of the authorities remind me of pulling a blanket, a short blanket, pulled on the head, the legs are dying, pulled on the legs, and the head freezes, so this way, considering on the fact that there is a fairly short period before the big offensive, as they say, once again, and president zelenskyi and general budanov, or whether there are still these opportunities when the ukrainian authorities can manage to make sure that this offensive is not so ... painful, including for the northeastern part of ukraine, you mentioned the chernihiv and sumy regions, and for the kharkiv region, because bloomberg writes that russia wants to isolate kharkiv in general and make it uninhabitable, and that they are bombing so that people

left there, and since they can't take this city, they want to just turn it into a desolation just as far as desolation is concerned. even with the resources that the russians have, as far as kharkiv is concerned, it will be quite difficult. kharkiv is not a small city, it is 350 km 23 thousand houses, a huge number of its industrial buildings, and with the correct organization of the defense of kharkov, it is possible to prevent not only an assault, even a blockade of kharkov, but certain measures must be taken. unfortunately, we have been fed for the last 5 months. er, they diverted our attention from the inaction of the government by the process of considering the law, and then adopting, well, the law on a new version of the law on mobilization, but even, you know, such a tragedy the situation consists in the fact that it will work only in a month, then

we will again for another month we will wait, and the government will say, yes, we have done everything we could, the deputies have done, the president has signed what you want from us, but it will not work by itself, and the huge... problem is that the authorities are absolutely not looking for new ways to solve problems, which have been standing for a long time, but is again engaged in the process of creating a powerful imitation of movement, but still we are marching, unfortunately, still in place. today it became known that a meeting of the ukraine-nato council will be held on april 19, this was announced by the secretary general of the north atlantic alliance stoltenberg, president zelenskyi says that kyiv will request a convocation. and actually this convocation has already taken place this meeting and will ask for help in countering russian missiles, let's listen to what zelensky said. for these two days, we have heard nothing but about different

conflicts here in europe and in the middle east, different levels of threats, different airspace , although the shahedis and ballistics are the same. about various threats from... but are people's lives different, are people's dignity different? no, we value every life equally, we must value it, we must protect it for one. levels from terror ukraine will make a request to convene a meeting of the ukraine-nato council regarding the defense of the sky, the supply of air defense, the relevant systems and missiles. mr. general, in your opinion, what is holding back our western partners from handing over enough systems to ppon in order to close at least million cities? well, first of all, in the previous speech of citizen zelensky, there is such an interesting moment that... there should be, you know, a key phrase, but why was it not and why is

the huge number of dead people responsible for the inaction of the authorities on certain stages of the last five years of the history of ukraine. as for why? well, at least because in order to be helped, you have to do a lot yourself, and when there are a huge number of examples of powerful scandals and powerful... not examples of unprofessionalism, each country will always think about its own guarantees about its own security systems, which means , somewhere our politicians, our diplomats are not working hard enough, and it is necessary to find those arguments that would be more important, and what we have repeatedly said that when practically nothing is said about the ukrainian-russian war on the channels of europe and the united states. not a single ukrainian journalist speaks good english or other languages, so there is an understanding of getting used to it, and ukraine is simply

quietly forgotten. again, the same example with israel, but israel clearly conducts its information policy and in a cruel way reminds and forces people, forces politicians to help. we, as deaf-mutes, cannot hear or see us, and the russians have a powerful position in the resources of russia, in the resources of all the countries we are talking about. and lead often enough examples of the same corrupt, permanent components of scandals that arise in our government, and they also play on this, so if you want to be heard, you need to talk about it, if you want to be given something, you need to give those arguments that would allow you to ask rub's question . the already mentioned nato secretary general jen stoltenberg called on the member states of the alliance to give priority. more to military aid to ukraine than to spend on its own defense. let's listen to what stoltenberg said.

ukraine needs even more, so if allies are faced with a choice between their own arms and providing more support to ukraine, my call will be clear: send more to ukraine. denmark is a strong example of how to provide all of your artillery to ukrainians. but they also have a specific plan to replenish their own weapons stockpile. mr. general, you rightly said that the ukrainian authorities should also demonstrate to our western partners their desire and efforts to provide their own army, including their own weapons, their own production, ammunition, and do everything to the west understood that ukraine was doing its best. you have already mentioned about... changes to the mobilization law, and this is probably one of those cases when our american

partners also talked about streamlining the mobilization system, or making it more clear, why do you think it took so long? the changes were approved, it was four or five months, that is, time was lost, and as a result, the same bill was passed, almost the same bill that was submitted, these amendments did not pass, or should they? it was such a big thing to arrange a political show, the result of which can be, well, let's say, non-acceptance by a part of society there of some norms of this law? non-acceptance, you are enough, you know, you said it enough, even optimistically, i will say so, because the process for the sake of the process, this is the most terrible thing, that, and not for the sake of the result, these green samurai, whose main goal is the main thing. to be honest, they have already had enough of the road, and this is their constant pr, they are thinking about winning the

elections, which is not yet clear when it will be, or about winning this war, that is the question, and they think about ratings, not about winning, so the whole answer lies in the fact that they have a basic principle, as one of the classics once said, that, unfortunately, the self-confidence of amateurs is the constant envy of professionals. so when the professionals look at these self-confident dilettantes, they understand that this green government already considers itself professionals, meanwhile they have remained dilettantes, and their experiments with our er... people are, you know, bloody enough, their inaction, their self-confidence, lulling the people that there is no war will be, what is most important, we need to allocate money for construction, well, here is a great example, if so, although 15% of the money that was spent on large construction was spent on the purchase of zenith missile

complexes, then we would significantly strengthen our defense , well, they really strengthened it significantly. unfortunately, the value priorities of this government are in making money, and not in raising the level of the country, as well as the failed option with the american law, where they simply gave us military armed forces, no, it still came down to the fact that give us money, because for money can be forgiven, pinched off a little. here are real examples of what we need and what values ​​guide the people you elected in the 19th year. thank you, mr. general, for the conversation, it was serhiy kryvonos, major general of the reserve. friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms. for those who are now watching us live there. please subscribe to our pages, take part in our survey. today we ask you about this, whether you consider russian the orthodox church as a terrorist organization. yes, no, everything is quite

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committed by the putin regime. today , pariya has passed several... resolutions, you already they mentioned the russian orthodox church and their amendment, but the two resolutions that are very important are about not recognizing the legitimacy of the russian leader putin and the country, and the pariah appealed to the member countries of the council of europe and observer countries to stop all contacts with the criminal putin government, this is one resolution, and the second that russia's oil refineries and oil infrastructure is the law. targets for the defense forces of ukraine. please explain to us what this means? this means that as far as putin's legitimacy is concerned, this means that he will not be called the president, he will not be addressed by the president, and in this way his status will not be recognized after may 7, when pseudo-president putin will be inaugurated,

do i understand correctly? look, there's one thing you don't forget, please. when we talk about the decisions of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, all these decisions are of a recommendatory nature, and paris does not have the right to say exactly what germany, france, great britain or hungary should do, paris recommends, then the countries themselves are determined, therefore, this is the tool that ukrainian diplomacy has now received, and not only ukrainian, but also all our allies... to clamp down on putin, to recognize him as illegitimate, to prevent him from maneuvering diplomatically, foreign policy, and how we will use this tool and what we are going to and what we will achieve with it, well, only life will show, unfortunately, if there was such a body in the world, which would once say that putin

is illegitimate, putin has disappeared, well, there is no such body , it does not exist, but it is a solution, it is gives us essential tools so that further this issue of putin's illegitimacy, inadmissibility, inadmissibility of contacts with him, then it is about promoting and trying to implement on various platforms, this must be understood as regards the refinery, by the way, not only oil refineries, in general the oil and gas industry of russia is recognized as the one that actually finances this war. and therefore are not objects of civil infrastructure, but are actually military objects and legitimate targets for ukraine. why is it important well that's why that the criticisms that we heard, unfortunately, even... from the representatives of the united states of america, can now be answered, you see, and the couple says that this is no, no, no civil infrastructure, and there is the un who says,

don't touch civil infrastructure, and the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and the council of europe tell us that this is our legitimate goal, well, for the un, this is good, it is generally enough, for russia, sorry, for the united states of america, well, it is obvious that they have a little other purposes. but still they will it is more difficult to promote this method that concerns the church, why is it important, because russia is actively using the issue of alleged persecution of christians in ukraine, in the campaign against ukraine, remember tucker carlolson interview and other things, when they did this , that putin is a christian leader and everything else, and just in order to give an answer to all those who do not think about the details, you know, well, relatively speaking, live. there's some christian there, i don't know there in spain, and he doesn't think about what and how they say to him, look, in ukraine they ban the church, he is like that, oh my god, what a horror, here is the answer to him, no, no, in

ukraine, the council of europe, which includes spain, recognized that this is a tool of putin, and well , okay, then everything is clear, that is, we have created several tools today with these resolutions, which must be used further, they do not change anything by themselves. but using them in reporting our position, in fighting on other platforms, in cases at the european court of human rights, because the decisions of the couple are binding on the ecthr regarding taking them into account when making their verdicts, well, it is really important, but if we are talking about the instrument, we are talking about this resolution regarding oil refineries and oil and gas. industry of the russian federation, does this open up opportunities for our western partners to provide us with long-range weapons that can fly over these refineries and oil refining

facilities of the russian federation, and our western partners will say: listen, the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has generally recognized that this is a legitimate goal, and in this way it opens up an opportunity for ours western partners to provide us with those weapons, well , for example, for that scholz, so that... for him to give weapons that will fly there, this definitely gives them certain arguments and creates a certain pressure on such politicians as the same scholz, who fluctuates, well, but here it must be understood that our western partners do not give us weapons to attack even military facilities on the territory of the russian federation itself, about which no one has ever had any questions, but they still do not want their weapons to be used for striking even on military facilities and military bases actually on the territory of russia, but only... that it be used on the occupied ukrainian territory, so there is this nuance here, but i repeat, well, today, it's nothing,

you know, it doesn't happen once and again and something happened there, it all happens in small steps, yes, here they pressed, here, here, here, here, here and once and came to some kind of decision, which is already of serious importance, well , we received a number of such decisions today, well and besides, the couple passed a resolution. about support reconstruction of ukraine, stefanchuk, ruslan stefanchuk, the chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, was in pary, yesterday before the vote on the resolution , he spoke before the participants of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe, before the meps, and called for all efforts to be directed towards a joint struggle against the russian occupiers. let's listen to what stefanchuk said. it is time for quick decisions and action, it is time for responsible leadership, it is time to choose in favor of decisive, united resistance

to russian terror, and i want us all to finally understand one truth: the games in peacekeeping, lack of weapons, imperfection of sanctions, delay in the confiscation of russian assets, lack of mechanisms of responsibility and punishment... makes non-humans stronger, in this resolution there is a point about the confiscation of russian assets, about the freezing of assets, transfer to the restoration of ukraine, this is also a recommendation , i understand that in the future, everyone will, referring to the pare resolution, make this decision, or convince their governments that this should be done, all decisions. pairs are of a recommendatory nature, it should be simple understand once and that's all, but this decision is important here, by the way, all the decisions we

listed. and on the church, and on the refinery, and on putin's illegitimacy, all and on the restoration of ukraine and the confiscation of russian assets to accept unanimously. there was not a single delegate who voted against, or at least abstained. yes, there some delegates from some countries simply did not participate, not only did they not vote, but it is still indicative that there was not even a single vote, let me remind you... hungary, armenia, turkey are included, but there was no vote that was cast against it, or even received, this is important, so now today there is really another tool about pressing the issue of asset confiscation, still decisions will be made if these assets are in switzerland, then the decision will be made by sovereign switzerland, if these assets are located... in

belgium, then the decision will be made by belgium together with the european union, of which it is a part, and so on, so these decisions can to accept only the countries, but now we have received another tool to say: come on, a couple have already voted, and even more so because the representatives of these countries actually voted for it, that is, the belgians voted for it, the belgian deputies, well and now it's time in the parliament to implement it further, whether it will happen or not. i cannot say how and at what speed it will happen, but the fact that we are one step closer to implementing this is a fact, as far as i understand, mr. oleksiy, the most important thing there is a precedent, that is, if one or two countries will start to do this, that is, it will go further in western europe, or not, yes, i absolutely think so too, i just turned to the minister of foreign affairs

of liechtenstein today, it is here... it got there, the fact is that now it's liechtenstein's turn to preside, now it's liechtenstein's turn, and so i appealed to her so that, for example, liechtenstein really becomes the first example, the country is small, at the same time there are russian assets there, and what , please, directly make such a decision and set an example , well, we'll see if it actually happens or not, but... really it is important that at least one european country starts doing this, i think that it will finally break the resistance and the fears that exist regarding these decisions. very soon, the congress of the united states of america should begin consideration of the issue of providing ukraine with funding or assistance in the amount of 61 billion dollars.

there will be four bills or three bills for now. it is not known for sure, but these projects will be divided, the biden administration is already ready to consider these individual bills and vote for it, how do you assess the prospects of voting for this bill, taking into account the fact that ukraine is in dire need of american help now, and the americans understand that delaying this will lead to catastrophic consequences to... consequences, maybe not catastrophic, but to bad consequences, because from the moment of the decision in 45 days, it can will this help reach ukraine, and is this a long enough period in the context of the current russian efforts to advance deep into ukrainian territory? no, well, the consequences can be really very bad, this is a key story, well, finally such a window of hope appears, by the way, i'm still in

in december, he said that the window... would appear just after the end of march, there, i won't waste time now, why, well, but, as you can see, we are such a prediction and a forecast, well , it came true, but now the main thing is that the decision is , it is very important, i really hope that it will be voted on saturday, indeed johnson said that he was delaying the congress until saturday, because in general the congress was supposed to work. who did not have time until this friday, now it will be done by saturday and on saturday evening the corresponding vote should take place, well let's keep our fingers crossed, we are helping, as i said, the pariah appealed to the congress, and the usa is an observer country in the council of europe, i will not say that it will be of key importance, but it is also a tool, well, look, 46 countries of europe you are already being asked and expected, this also has meaning.