[000:00:00;00] there is only a small part of the military secret, and today everything is closed under this situation, many situations, the wrong approach, society must work together with the army and accordingly, mr. mykola, we must finish, now there will be a moment of silence, we will honor the memory of the ukrainian military with a moment of silence and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war

started by russia. how to win a war from valery zaluzhny and the lonely struggle of volodymyr zelenskyi, high-profile articles by vzz economist and time, which have already ignited discussions in ukraine and abroad. how it will affect the help we receive from the usa, and what the situation is at the front now, about this and much more in today's issue. greetings, i, iryna koval, are in the studio and this is the news, the results of the week on

the espresso tv channel. so, valery zaluzhnyi's article for the british publication the economist caused a real resonance not only in ukrainian society. the commander-in-chief frankly said: the war has turned into a positional trench struggle, that is, into an exhausting and static battle, where the armed forces of ukraine liberate the territory in heavy battles, for every landing and every meter. it turned out that for someone it was a real unexpected discovery. they immediately reacted to the interview in the white house. john kirby believes that the article only proves how important it is to continue supporting ukraine. he noted that work in this direction can be greatly facilitated by congress if it adopts a comprehensive aid package for ukraine. but it must be understood that, on the other hand, part of these funds will also go to replenish the stockpiles of weapons

in the warehouses of the us army. president volodymyr zelenskyi did not hesitate with his opinion regarding the interview of zaluzhny. he said, i quote: today people are tired everyone gets tired and there are different opinions. all people, regardless of their status, and this is understandable, but this is not a stalemate. the president's office also reacted. ihor zhovkva advised the military not to comment for the press, for the open public, about what is happening at the front, what may happen. on the front, because everything has been carefully read by the russians, noted down, conclusions have been drawn, but the kremlin always draws conclusions, unequivocal, singing the same song, and this time piskov responded to an interview with an eagerness to talk about any prospects of ukraine, to win on the battlefield is absurd. so, how does the commander-in-chief

of the armed forces of ukraine see the victory of ukraine in this war, see below. i hope that we will still be able to watch the story that we have prepared for you, but you know, shortly before the high-profile interview of a british publication, an equally controversial publication about zelensky was published in the american time magazine. on the cover is a photo of the president and his quote: no one believes in our victory like i do,

journalist's article. and simon shuster caused considerable public interest. close surroundings the president of ukraine in a conversation for the tiym material quite boldly commented on the chapter. states and prospects of ukraine in the war. secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine, oleksiy danilov, said that anonymous people provided false information, and law enforcement officers should find out who these people were. simon schuster, the author of the sensational article in time, said that he communicated only with zelsky's current advisers. what exactly shook the ukrainians, let's find out. from a hero leader to a defiant and evil president, debatable an article in the american magazine time about ukraine and zelskyi was literally disassembled into quotes, its author, simon shuster, describes

the problems that zelenskyi faced in order to keep the world's attention on the war in ukraine, among them, corruption, loss of interest in our state, mobilization and the situation at the front, from the photo of the president on the cover inscription. the lonely struggle of volodymyr zelenskyi. in the material of tami's october issue, zelensky is described as no longer so lively and optimistic. after his last visit to the usa, the author of the article asked one of the members of zelenskyi's entourage, how does the commander-in-chief feel? the anonymous answer was clear: the president is angry and betrayed, all because the support for our state from international partners is slowly falling, and zelensky. remains categorically against the truce and does not plan to stop the fight. as it turned out, such unshakable faith in ukraine's victory over russia worries some of his advisers. the journalist quotes the opinion of an anonymous associate of zelensky: ukraine has no chance of winning

the war. after the stormy reaction of ukrainians to the article in the president's office did not hesitate to respond, first the head of this office, andriy yermak , published a post in his telegram channel recommending to read simon schuster's material, but he soon deleted it. at the same time , his advisor mykhailo potolyak stated that the time article is exclusively a journalist's view and added that the heads of state do not have any anger or feeling of betrayal by their western partners. this is not the first article by journalist simon shuster about ukraine. man for more than 15 years, worked in russia and ukraine, made reports from both countries. in the 15th year, he wrote seemingly incriminating articles about the neo-nazi movement of the azov regiment. in april 2022, the journalist spent two weeks in the president's office, where he communicated with zelskyi and his entourage.

after that, tyme magazine published an article about zelensky, and his photo appeared on the cover. in june 2022, simon shuster announced the publication of a book dedicated to the current president of ukraine. in the same summer, volodymyr zelensky awarded the author of the material, simon shuster, with the order of merit third degree and i suggest to return to valery zaluzhnyi's article for the british edition of the economist, which caused a real resonance not only in ukrainian society. so, let 's see how our commander-in-chief sees ukraine's victory. in the british edition. economist valery zaluzhnyi published three materials at once , the commander-in-chief of the armed forces stated that the situation at the front has reached a stalemate, neither ukrainian nor russian troops can advance, the technological forces of both sides are relatively equal.

under such conditions , there will be no devastating breakthrough in ukraine, general zaluzhnyi admitted. in five months of active counteroffensive, the armed forces managed to advance only 17 km, and the main problem is that they started giving their tanks long-range missiles to atakam sy only now. zaluzhny publicly declared: now the war is entering a new stage of static and exhausting battle in the trenches. in contrast to ukrainian forces, this will allow the occupiers to restore their reserves, modernize air defenses and strengthen defense lines. general zalozhnyi emphasizes, in this war only a powerful technological...invention will be decisive for ukraine, namely, a combination of all technical solutions that already exist, this is modern aviation for dominance in the sky, radio-electronic warfare and drones, means for counter-battery work and demining, and also the mobilization of human reserves for

war. general zaluzhnyi fears the most in a positional war that it can drag on for years and exhaust the entire country, it remains to invent a complex of the latest weapons as soon as possible. otherwise, there will be no one in the armed forces of ukraine to fight and volodymyr ogryzko, diplomat, ex-minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, is with us. in touch, mr. volodymyr, i congratulate you. good health, glad to see you, good evening to all our dear tv viewers. mutually, mr. volodymyr, so we have just reviewed two materials, heard the main theses, so i suggest to you, let 's discuss these two articles by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhny for zeconomist volodymyr zelensky for time. who do you think they are aimed at? and don't they testify about the split in power and political leadership

of our country? well, you know, i was personally affected by this thesis that some unnamed advisers do not believe in the victory of ukraine, you know, after that i would, if i were the president, i would very quickly deal with my advisers, and i think that after a few hours they were already working in other guises, it cannot be that the president's entourage presents a completely different picture than the president himself presents, well, this is really something incredible, i can't imagine how then can this team work for the president if they don't believe what the president believes, he said very clearly and clearly.

no negotiations with the aggressor, we will fight until victory, then if the people standing next to him do not believe in it, they simply must, if you are going even just from a moral point of view, write a statement and say that i am leaving this position, because i don't believe in what the president believes, well , at least it should be like that, the truth is that our political culture is limping on all four legs, like they say, and it is not yet clear that it will change in any way, but if there is no such political culture, then administrative decisions must be made, well, it seems to me that we must act in this spirit, and as for measures against corruption, well, unfortunately, this is no longer a novella, it is already something that we experience and hear repeatedly, and the president must also draw a conclusion. or this topic is removed from the agenda and we

move forward and we demonstrate to everyone that not a single dollar, not a single euro is leaving, sorry for the words to the left, and then we do not have problems with asking , demanding, help, of the highest quality level, well, then we will constantly hear that we are accused of stealing , that we are corrupt, that we are not capable of managing our state, and so on other, so here i think, the signals are quite clear, everything else, i mean the article in time, well, these are the opinions of a particular journalist, for god's sake, we live in a democratic society, he has this view, someone else has a different view, well god, i don't i don't i don't understand why we already

for the third day, we are discussing this as the main news of a global scale, to be honest, we need to look at all these things very calmly and not make a supersensation out of it, well, probably because these two articles are completely different, if we are talking about valery zaluzhny's article, then, we see here a completely different side of the coin, i was not particularly surprised by it, but there are people who were surprised by it and it is not clear why. well, you know, she, i would say so, was not something that surprised, she, to a certain extent , perhaps demotivated some, well, well, there it is about the fact that we did not actually fulfill the plans that we had hoped for, but on the other hand, it is very positive, because it clearly and clearly... says, our dear

western partners, eh, if you think that you can achieve success without having the tools for this, then you are wrong, if you need to dig a hole there, conventionally speaking two by two, then dig it with a spoon, well, somehow it is very inconvenient and very long, for this you need a shovel, or better a small excavator, then all this is done instantly, quickly and efficiently, well, that's actually what the article is about...' i really hope that our western partners will finally understand and hear this, well , you can't give weapons for victory, by the way, yesterday. yesterday, and even in minimal amounts, well, look, the tsahal went on the offensive with gas when, and then, when the aviation worked out, because no textbook on military art foresees an offensive

without the beginning of serious strong strikes by aviation on the enemy's positions, first the enemy ' is squeezed out by aviation, artillery, and so on, and then the offensive begins, it doesn't work in any other way, and why should it work in our case? why should our troops somehow miraculously go through mined fields for tens of kilometers and have no casualties , well, that doesn’t happen either, well, for this you need to have tools to at least make passages in these minefields, sir - it’s a mass examples, so i think this is a very clear signal to our friends that if you want this war to end with our joint victory, then please think about what you are doing, otherwise it will not work, see

without us and nato financial support, the ukrainians may lose this war, us defense secretary tosin and secretary of state anthony blinken said this week during a senate budget committee hearing. austin believes that putin hopes that the west will get tired of supporting ukraine, so he will soon get his way. if that's the case, if we don't support ukraine and putin wins, he won't stop at ukraine. therefore , both officials believe that aid to ukraine and israel should not be divided, since both wars are related. however, we know that the us house of representatives has already approved the bill. about emergency aid to israel and in this project, unfortunately, there is no mention of ukraine , despite the fact that us president biden asked the house of representatives of congress to combine aid to israel and ukraine, let's see now, mr. volodymyr, let's see our

material now and then we will discuss it with you, 226 for, 196 against. the lower house of the us congress approved the aid package for israel on more than 14 billion dollars split along party lines. democrats mostly did not support the bill. the reason is that it does not have funds to support ukraine. president joseph biden proposed adopting a joint $106 billion aid package for ukraine, israel and taiwan. but the recently elected speaker of the chambers. republican trumpist mike johnson opposed. he said that israel is an indisputable ally of the united states, and if the white house wants to help ukraine, then let it, but on the condition that the american-mexican border will be strengthened. through which illegal

migrants arrive in the usa en masse. ukraine will appear in the near future, it will be next. i said that we want to unite security. borders with ukraine. if we are going to take care of the border in ukraine, then we should also take care of the american border. the future of the approved bill on aid to israel is doubtful. to become law, it must pass the upper house of congress, that is, the senate. and there the majority of the democrats and their leader chuck schumer has already declared that he will not put the initiative to the vote. veto on the document in this form is threatened by its president. in addition to joe biden, the leader of the republican minority in the senate, mitchell mcconnell, advocates the simultaneous allocation of aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan. he sees all three conflicts as a single challenge that the dictatorships have thrown to the west.

think of it as an axis, an axis of evil, china, russia, and iran , so this is not just a test for ukraine, it 's a test for the united states and the free world, and the path to greater security for all of us is simple, help ukraine win the war. more one of mcconnell's arguments is that the billions of dollars that the united states allocates to ukraine eventually return to the american economy. defense enterprises in 38 states receive this money for the production and modernization of weapons to replace those that washington gives to kyiv. but not all of them are party members of macon. both the house of representatives and the senate agree with him, some of them outspoken isolationists who oppose even indirect involvement in any conflicts abroad and consider the actions of the biden administration a waste, says the white house allocates funds to ukraine without any strategic

goal. this week, eight republicans in the house of representatives sent a letter to president biden with the conditions for further assistance. a simple strategy. you and i will not win yet, or we must win. not a winning strategy. how ukraine will win and how much it will take. time, let these estimates do not have to be exact, but we must understand the ultimate goal. is there such a strategy in the white house, this week defense secretary lloyd austin and secretary of state anthony blinken, during a hearing in the senate budget committee, persuaded senators to support a joint aid package. they did not mention the victory of ukraine, instead they talked about the need not to give victory to putin. in ukraine, putin felt that he could wait, this is part of his strategy, the main part of his strategy. he

hopes that the west will get tired of supporting ukraine, and in this way he will soon get his way. if that's the case, if we don't support ukraine and putin wins, he won't stop in ukraine. fuels the fire valery zaluzhny's article also spread around the debate about ukraine. opponents of aid cling to the words of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces that. the war became positional and reached a stalemate. supporters emphasize the need for increased aid in order to get out of this impasse. observers assume that in the end, a compromise could be the allocation of an aid package to ukraine, but less than the $61.5 billion offered by biden. it is likely that the military component will not be touched, instead , budget support for kyiv may be reduced, and this means that ukraine will have to think about where to get money to pay pensions and salaries to state employees. in any case, the controversy surrounding aid is a bad story for ukraine.

the issue that united the american political community at the beginning of the full-scale invasion has become one that divides it. support for ukraine is also falling among ordinary americans. according to the october survey of the sociological company gelab, 41% of americans believe that the united states is doing too much for ukraine. this is almost double. than in august 2022. more than 60 us citizens believe that neither ukraine nor russia will win the war. well, mr. volodymyr, yes, again about help, as politiko writes, zaluzhny’s article for the british publication sparked discussions in the us congress and inflames party passions, some republicans believe that zaluzhny’s words reveal deep differences in the ukrainian... in the leadership, that zelenskyi's military goals do not correspond to reality, these republicans are a minority in the senate, but

still, such an opinion already exists, so how can such differences of opinion and wording regarding the situation at the front between the president and the commander-in-chief, on our international partners and on aid in general, i think, in fact, there are no differences, there are different interpretations of what is happening and i think that we do not this line should be promoted or promoted in any way, our only chance to win is the unity of all, government, army, society, as soon as we start to find out who is a greater patriot and who is a lesser patriot, we will lose, that's why it it seems to me an axiom from which we

should not deviate under any circumstances. now regarding aid, well, there are figures that american aid was 0.3% of us gdp, thanks to this aid, according to the americans themselves, half of the russian army was destroyed, biden himself said that this is not ... a better investment in security usa, your article also talked about the fact that most of the aid money actually stays in america, er, and so on, and so on, so it's actually about things that are obvious, well, for the sane , there are definitely people, there is a wing of filthy trumpists, no logic will work for them, but it is not actually about

them, but about the fact that one way or another we need to form the highest political leadership of america to understand that this in the interests of the united states itself, and to prove it with very simple and concrete examples , regarding the prospect of this bill , which has already been passed in the house of representatives, well , you know, here it seems to me that the republicans have fallen into a quite, skillfully ... set trap by the democrats , look, now the senate is not will accept this resolution and prepare its version, its version that will unite ukraine, israel, taiwan, and the border, and return it to the house of representatives, the house

of representatives, if it does not vote, then the democrats will immediately say , look, the republicans do not want to help not only ukraine, but also israel, so it seems to me that this joint resolution, which is proposed by biden, will be voted on, and the compromise here seems to me to be absolutely obvious, indeed some adjustments are possible, in aid amounts, but i think they are not will be essential, and those mechanisms that both the president and the secretary of defense have, in fact, and therefore to the situation at the front, the defense forces of ukraine are holding their positions and continue to advance in some areas. in the lyman-kupyan direction, the attackers carried out assaults near synkivka, ivannivka,

kharkiv region, stelmakhivka, luhansk region and in the verkhnyokamsky district. donetsk region, but the armed forces of ukraine repelled them. in the direction of bakhmut, the armed forces of ukraine have advanced near klishivka and are storming south of bakhmut in donetsk region. the occupiers tried to conduct assaults in maryanka and novomykhailivka districts of donetsk region. they unsuccessfully tried to restore lost positions near klishchiivka and andriivka, and the ukrainian troops inflicted losses on the enemy in terms of manpower and equipment, and are entrenched at the achieved boundaries. the invaders also failed in the zaporizhzhya direction near robotiny. at the same time, defenders continue their liberation battles in the melitopol direction. they are inflicting losses in manpower and equipment on the troops of the russian federation. exhausting meningococcal along the whole front line ukrainian forces hold positions and continue offensive actions on the left bank of the kherson region. our soldiers

conduct a counter-battery fight, inflict fire damage. the enemy, they peel the enemy's combat equipment like seeds. units of anti-tank missile systems are the first to meet russian tank columns. at the beginning of october, soldiers of the 66th separate mechanized brigade held back the enemy's offensive near makiivka in the luhansk region. in just four days, they destroyed 25 units of russian armored vehicles. team. espresso met these warriors on the front line, more details below. if you ask a soldier what is the scariest thing in war, the answer is almost always one, the attack of tanks. you have to experience it, you can't tell it, it's fear. well, when you're scared, it's good, then you