Yurii Butusov: questions - answers
A lot of questions arise now on my social media pages. I realized that it is impossible to do this only in addition to some broadcasts, but I need to fully allocate time so that I can systematically talk about them all.
I would like to thank everyone who posts such questions on my Instagram page. I will also answer questions from my Facebook page and, of course, most of all in the YouTube chat. I am grateful to everyone who supports my channel, who watches and likes it. And, of course, all those sponsors of the channel, thanks to whom we can work systematically and continuously, and go on air. As of today, there are 2390 sponsors of the channel. I am grateful to all these people, it is a great honour for me. There is a commitment to work harder and do better.
Yurii, what about the million drones? Do the brigades receive enough drones?
Of course, this drone production program is only now starting on a large scale. Only now is the number of drones under the state order becoming noticeable. In the first three months of 2024, the state handed over - don't laugh - 20 thousand FPV drones to the front. This is just nothing at all. In general, the figure is probably the consumption of the frontline in two days, something like that. That is, at the beginning of the year, there were no systematic supplies of drones from the state at all. These were FPV drones, almost all of them, volunteer drones, something that people and local governments buy themselves.
The situation started to change only now, only in May. But I want to say that the supply is increasing, but still most of the drones at the front are volunteer drones. I think FPV is still around 80 percent, 70-80 percent are volunteer FPV, at least. I'm being so optimistic about the state's supply. And if we talk about other types of drones, for example, mavic, autel, what are needed for reconnaissance, again, 90 per cent of them are volunteer drones, thus, the vast majority of drones used to strike at the Russian occupiers, reconnaissance drones to adjust artillery - all these are volunteer drones. So, to be honest, I am surprised by this attitude. The money has been allocated. According to official data, if we count all the figures that have been announced since the beginning of the year, the state has allocated about 60 billion hryvnias for the purchase of drones. This is a big figure. At least, that's what was announced. But, to be honest, no one can see where these drones are, for such a large sum of money, and where they are. It's an incomprehensible story. And I would, of course, like to hear about it from the person who, in principle, made such promises about a million drones. This is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the President of Ukraine. Where are the million drones, and I hope that Volodymyr Oleksandrovych will tell us at least in one broadcast how his task is being fulfilled. It would be very interesting to hear.
As for drones, the fact that civil society is developing the topic of drones is very important, because a large number of projects are funded by volunteers and partially by the state. It is worth noting the position of the Ministry of Digitalization, which has sponsored several very successful drone development startups. Still, at least half of the projects and startups funded by volunteers are developing. Thanks to civil society, new drone technologies are developing very rapidly in Ukraine. We have an advantage over the Russians in some specific types of drones. But we do not prevail in terms of the number.
Russia buys a lot of them and also uses them on a very large scale.
Yurii, do you think Tyshchenko will be punished for beating a soldier?
I spoke with a soldier who was attacked by the bodyguards of Mykola Tyshchenko, a Servant of the People deputy, head of the Transcarpathian regional organization of the Servant of the People party and compadre of the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak. The police are currently collecting testimony in this case. As soon as there is at least some progress, we will have information, of course, we will make it public. This moment, think about it. He is the right-hand man, relative, and partner in many projects of the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak. A person who is the most influential in Ukraine, in many respects much more influential than President Volodymyr Zelenskyy himself. So what can happen to our law enforcement system, which is controlled by Yermak himself, with his compadre. Let's think about it. I think that there is nothing since there are no penalties for any relatives, friends, business partners, Zelenskyy himself, Yermak. So, frankly, I don't believe that the authorities will do anything to bring these criminals to justice. But it is important for us that the servants of the people, Tyshchenko and all the others in Yermak's entourage and people in power who are similar in their intelligence and morality understand that this will not go away. It is so easy for them to think that society will react, that it will be impossible to put pressure on a soldier whom they attacked in Dnipro, and the person was with a baby buggy, with a child, and it will cost them a lot. That is why it is important for me that we use the investigation to find the names of all the attackers, these brick shithouses in uniform who hide their faces behind balaclavas, who run around Tyshchenko and behave like bandits. We need to find out who these people are. And society needs to know that these, you know, used to be titushky under Yanukovych, and I think that Tyshchenko is some kind of titushky (mercenary agents in Ukraine who supported the Ukrainian security services during the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, often posing as street hooligans in sports clothing with the purpose of serving as provocateurs at pro-European and anti-Yanukovych political rallies that would incite violence in order to get protestors arrested - ed.note), and these titushky need to be laid bare, of course. That's why it's important for us to give maximum publicity to this case, so that when we finally have a change, and when we have a government that will pay attention to the law again and will publicize these crimes that are being committed under Zelenskyy's backing, these case files will be ready so that these criminals can be caught up later. And to protect the people they are attacking.
Also a question from Instagram. In your opinion, what are the top 5 organizational and managerial measures needed to improve the situation and bring victory closer?
Friends, there are no easy solutions. There are no such solutions in life, in politics, in the war of the state, no top five solutions. There are complex problems. War is a struggle between two systems. One system has to be more effective, has to apply new measures and more flexible solutions on a larger scale. Therefore, of course, to say that these are the five solutions and this is the priority... there is always one priority. It is people. Promoting quality leaders who prove their effectiveness in all positions. The commander of a squad, platoon, company, battalion, brigade, minister. General, when there is a constant renewal of personnel in these positions, and each subsequent person who is appointed is more competent, more professional, has clearer and greater achievements behind him, then management improves. And when appointments are made solely on a populist basis, let's replace someone with someone because they are someone's acquaintance, brother, compadre, co-father-in-law because the person being replaced talks too much, let's remove the one who is silent, as we often do, unfortunately. These are not qualitative changes. Any processes in the country, especially during the war, require rapid changes. And changes begin with the appointment of leaders. The war is not won for Ukraine by the number of shells, the number of tanks, the number of drones, but only by the quality of leadership, the quality of people, the quality of management. This is the key. Because the enemy is now outnumbered in airplanes, in shells, in bombs, missiles, tanks, in the number of infantry, in everything related to equipment, in the means of striking. But our advantage, why Ukraine is defeating the Russians, why they have such huge losses, even more than we do, despite all their advantages, they have such losses, is because we have a higher quality of people, a higher independence of people. Despite all the shortcomings of our bureaucratic system, our political and populist system in power, we are nevertheless a democratic state, a democratic free society. And we still have some levers, not only official ones, not only bureaucratic ones, to change something from below. So, in order for us to have a victory over the enemy, we need personnel changes not only from below, but also qualitative changes from above. And in the Ukrainian army, the defence forces have a sufficient number of commanders at all levels to make such changes on a regular basis, to remove those who are incompetent and to appoint those who have leadership qualities. This is the main thing. And when you set such an important main task, you have to detail these tasks. For example, I keep saying that we need an after-action review. In other words, an after-action analysis of every action at all levels. No hitting commanders over the head, no threats. I'll write an internal investigation against you, give you another severe reprimand, write off your money, open a criminal case against you. But there should be joint responsibility. Leaders of all levels, starting with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, must understand that war and victory in war are a common cause. We need to sit down together, understand and realize what is going wrong, what we need to improve together at all levels. Then there will be a result. Then there will be an objective selection of leaders and objective promotion and evaluation of results. In other words, there are a lot of complex factors. We have to think about leadership. And I want to tell you that this is a big problem, because many incompetent people are now being appointed who are not fit for their positions. And both in the civilian public sector of managing resources and in the military sector of managing people. There are big problems. I hope that the state leadership will finally pay attention to where we have the source of victory, of gaining an advantage over the enemy. It is people. We have nothing else. We have to recognize this. The Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief must recognize this. And focus on how to promote quality leaders. How to compensate for the enemy's superiority in technology, in iron. And to create our victory in intelligence, in the use of troops, in organization, management, combat training, intelligence. That is, everything that depends on the intelligence and will of specific leaders, specific leaders in specific positions. This is the No. 1 priority. Everything else, there are a lot of them. Not the top 5, but the top 55.
Pokrovsk. There are terrible rumors, tell the truth.
Well, terrible rumors, I don't know what to be afraid of. There is a war going on, the front is close to Pokrovsk, and the enemy is trying to advance. Pokrovsk, Myrnohrad, Selydove, which is the target of the Russian offensive, Kurakhove. So the Russians are trying to advance. Of course, our soldiers are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from approaching these cities. Of course, we have objective problems that we are all talking about. There are still no troops there, no stationary echeloned defense line to protect people and infantry from air and artillery strikes. But there is nothing to be afraid of, our troops will not allow any rapid breakthroughs by the Russians. Russian troops have suffered huge losses, which makes it impossible for them to make any breakthroughs or large-scale actions, and there will be nothing sudden. A large number of Ukrainian soldiers are doing everything possible to keep the enemy from approaching Pokrovsk. The situation is very difficult, very difficult in this area. And it certainly causes great concern. But we need to understand that a large number of people in the army are doing everything possible to keep the enemy out of the city. I hope that the Ukrainian command will also take systematic measures to build strong defenses and to avoid the situation like we had near Avdiivka, when the fighting is constantly in the open field on some improvised positions that are poorly camouflaged, poorly tied down and which are constantly stretched in one echelon in our narrow unit.
This question is already from YouTube. Are the F-16s here yet? Or is it still there? What do you know?
Friends, I don't know. To be honest, I don't even care where the F-16s are. I do not believe that F-16s will be a key factor in winning the war. The main factor, after all, is the actions of ground forces. Having squadrons of two or three F-16s there will allow us to simply kill a much larger number of Russian occupiers. But this will still not be the key factor in the war. The key factor of the war is ground forces, that is, the organization of our troops, drones, interaction with firepower, kinetic weapons, artillery, mortars and everything that can stop and destroy Russian infantry. So when the F-16s arrive, I think we will see them immediately. It will not be such a secret.
Why was there no Krynky on your maps?
Look, there were no Krynky because there are no active hostilities there. We are holding a small area of land on the left bank, the enemy continues to fight, and there are also limited offensive actions to knock out our foothold. But not really, not so active now. They are actively shelling that area, but there are no such massive attacks there either. Still, the Ukrainian soldiers inflicted heavy losses on the Russians on the other side, and they have now reduced their activity. Why am I not talking about Krynky? I have spoken about Krynky many times in previous broadcasts. To be honest, I don't see the tactical feasibility of holding the bridgehead across the Dnipro in such conditions. Perhaps our command sees it. The battle for Krynky made some sense at a time when there were active operations in the south of Donbas, where our offensive operation was taking place. Well, I could see the logic, our command wanted to seize the initiative and stretch the enemy's reserves. Now I don't understand, so I can't say. Because I don't see any tactical expediency in it. Perhaps there is some other reason.
What happened in Odesa between the TCR and the ambulance? Do you have any information about this?
By the way, I have the same information as you from the Internet. I think there are certain problems in the organization of mobilization. We can see it. The main problem is the lack of an electronic register of men. Not only men, but all those liable for military service. Some of them are women. We have no management of our resources that are fighting the war, that we need. Therefore, it is unclear how many people are needed by which industrial enterprises. No one can determine this until now. Who is to be mobilized, how many people are needed for mobilization, and when the draft should be held. All of this is not regulated. That is why there are such chaotic actions.
Bezuhla said that Russians had broken through on Toretsk. She says there are no fortifications again. Is this true? Because she is a so-so source.
I have talked about this. Yes, it's a complicated situation there. I explained it in more detail on the air. You can watch it, and I paid attention to this area. It is not true to say that there was no fortification at all. Our brigade was stationed in that area, and there was a front line there for about a year, even more than a year. The front line did not advance at all, not even for a year and a half. The situation there was completely stable. How was it stable? Our well-organized brigades were there, inflicting constant damage on the enemy from favorable heights, preventing them from amassing, approaching assault operations, and holding the tactical initiative. For some reason, a few days ago, the brigade that controlled and completely dominated the area was decided to be deployed, and someone thought that everything was fine there, everything was quiet, probably because there were no attacks on Toretsk. Let's move this brigade to another place. It was completely ignored that the absence of attacks on Toretsk and New York was due to the fact that the enemy was being massively destroyed in this area for a long time and its tactical initiative was completely blocked. The whole of it. We prevailed. And it was not the enemy's passivity. It was simply that they had heavy losses and could not get closer to us. Unfortunately, this was ignored. And this mistake in assessing the situation, unfortunately, was made by our command. It led to the fact that immediately after the brigade was withdrawn from this area, the enemy began to attack the very place where our forces were withdrawn. Instead of an experienced, well-organized brigade, they sent there one of the newly formed ones with poor command, weak intelligence, and poor cohesion. There are good people in the infantry, but the command is an unaccomplished unit, one of the newly formed ones with very low combat capability. The combat capability is not the soldiers. The combat capability is the commanders who are not ready for it. Perhaps, if they continue to train at the front for a few more years, something will happen. Unfortunately, the enemy does not provide such opportunities. And so what happened happened. There was a breakthrough, and the enemy managed to quickly capture two of our company strongholds. And there were good field fortifications there. Yes, there were no such stationary ones for a long time, but there were good field fortifications. Due to the loss of control, the enemy broke through very quickly, literally in two days. Now there is another crisis, which again requires someone to send some experienced units there to close another hole. A hole is a managerial organizational decision. An organizational and managerial mistake. And we just have to think, because we have already had so many such cases. The breakthrough near Ocheretyne was due to exactly the same reasons. An experienced brigade is removed, and an inexperienced team and inexperienced commanders are put in charge. They cannot organize defense in accordance with those conditions. And the result is a collapse. Because we don't have an analysis of the aftermath. We don't analyze the problems we face. We just keep hitting, hitting, hitting, hitting, repeating them like a rake. And it is not clear when it will end. Because no one recognizes any mistakes. The Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is busy every day preparing an evening video, where everything is basically fine, everything is being resolved. There is no need to do anything. Unfortunately, kindergarten management leads to the fact that there is no analysis and professional analysis of what is happening at the front. And the fact that there are no fortifications in the rear is true, in principle, in most parts of the front. I would like to remind you that Ms. Mariana Bezuhla is a deputy of the Defense Committee in the Servant of the People party. And it is her duty, as well as the duty of the entire Servant of the People party, and especially the Defense Committee, where she is a deputy, to check the availability of fortifications, including the allocation of funds for these structures, and the progress of work. And not on Facebook, but to inform the country's leadership in advance, to raise these issues at the Committee, in parliament, and to file statements with law enforcement agencies, if necessary. The Servants of the People do not do any of this, and now Ms. Mariana suddenly finds out how bad things are. It's so bad because Ms. Mariana Bezuhla and all her colleagues, the Servants of the People, the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the President, Yermak, who made her a deputy, are not fulfilling their official duties. They are bloggers, writing newsletters in the evenings, posting on Facebook and gesture helplessly. And everything is always bad for them. This is done to show that, look, there are some bad generals, and it's all their fault. And the government has nothing to do with the war at all. Yes, he just manages everything in the country, appoints generals, allocates budgets, appoints construction companies that receive billions for these fortifications. And there is nothing. And what happens after this statement by Ms. Bezuhla? Will something appear? Will something change? Perhaps, in some other areas, properly organized fortifications will be dug? Are there any criminal cases? No, there is nothing. It's just that, as they call it, they are scapegoats. There is a constant search for who is interfering with our state, why is it that the servants of the people have nothing to do with the war, they are only for all the good, and someone else is doing all the bad. So, dear friends, this is a very shameful post by Ms. Bezuglaya, a shameful example of complete political irresponsibility and complete impotence of the ruling authorities in terms of the war. As long as they keep writing such nonsense and feeding the population noodles, we will not have any changes. We need a government that is responsible for the war, that in the third year of the full-scale invasion takes on the task of solving problems, not just stating how bloggers sit and compete with bloggers on Facebook in their statements. Well, resign your mandate, stop getting paid by taxpayers, and become a blogger if you like it so much. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Mariana Bezuhla, Andrii Yermak would be great bloggers, with a sense of humor. And they can write like this every evening and tell us what is not being done, what is bad, and how it will be good. Well, you are not the authorities, the authorities cannot write and behave like that during such a terrible war. You are there to solve problems, not to tell us here, after a breakthrough has already happened, that you did nothing. Oh, unfortunately, this is a big problem for us.
How threatening is the situation in the 3rd Assault Brigade's area of responsibility?
In the 3rd Assault Brigade's area of responsibility, I have posted a video of the results of the 1st Mechanised Battalion's combat work over the past 6 weeks. The results are impressive. Since 12 May, 251 Russian occupiers have been destroyed in the brigade's area in open areas alone. And the battalion posted a video. So it is an impressive picture. 251 destroyed occupiers. These corpses are fresh, not even overgrown with grass. It's an impressive situation, huge losses, they have huge losses. The situation there is very difficult. Of course, the brigade needs solutions. Either reinforcement with some combat-ready reserves, some battalion, some brigade to do something in the first place. Or send people to the third assault line to reinforce it. Or to reduce the defense line of the third assault line. Make it narrower, so that in the areas where intense fighting is taking place, they can also concentrate their troops in the same way as the Russians concentrate their assault units. And to exchange one to ten losses with the enemy. Our soldiers are destroying Russians there, they are just utilizing them in huge numbers. So we need a solution here. If there are no such solutions, no replenishment, no reinforcements, no narrowing of the strip, well, yes, there will be problems, there will be a crisis. At the moment, the third assault brigade is destroying the enemy and holding all positions. But we need to see the situation in the long run and talk about problems not when they have already happened, but when we understand the trend to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of this constant pressure. So I would not say that there is a crisis there right now, but this crisis may happen in the near future. That is why we need to talk about it. Because people show professional work and they don't want to lose a step. And they don't have to. To do this, you need to replenish in time.
What do you think about the fact that you are being discredited by the Presidential Office?
You know, I'm so used to the fact that every president in our country tries to discredit not only many journalists, including me, but also Censor.NET. It happened under this president, under the previous president, and under the one before that. So there is enough history there. We have people who come to power who, in principle, do not accept criticism. They come to reign, to dominate. They want to control everything so that they don't have to face any consequences. They want everyone to sit silently and just applaud. This does not happen, because this is a free country. We have a demand from civil society for alternative information, for freedom of speech. And, in particular, I would like to thank all the subscribers of the Butusov Plus channel once again. 2,390 sponsors are a great strength and a great support. Thanks to your support, I feel like a completely independent journalist. And my entire team, we work thanks to such massive support from civil society. It's very inspiring. So thank you, and the President's Office is a job for people. You understand that if they have so many corruption scandals if they steal money in so many areas of government work. If we have a scandal every day, some head of a law enforcement agency turns out to be a dollar millionaire, a multimillionaire, buying new cars, limousines, houses for his mistresses and himself. We understand that there is a system of corruption in the state. And in this system of corruption, there is enough black money to hire armies of bots on the Internet, to order telethons, state TV channels in order to... Well, those who do this. It's very funny that those political technologists, those black PR people that Zelenskyy is hiring now to fight against me, against other journalists, are the same people who worked for Yanukovych openly. It's very funny. There are PR people from the Party of Regions of Yanukovych, Yurii Ivanyushchenko, that is, this Yura Yenakiievskyi, and Shariy's PR people. They are all criticizing Butusov. When I see this character, this panopticon, I obviously understand that we must be doing something right if, in principle, the authorities are forced to hire such people who do not deserve any respect, because their methods do not change. Well, I understand that if people don't support, people whom I deeply respect, who need freedom, who need an alternative position to what the government is doing, who need criticism, then we are on the right track. And I want to say that this is a very important advantage of Ukraine - the existence of a free critical society. It is what allows us, it is our core in the war. Since the beginning of the war, Putin has constantly threatened to strike at decision-making centers. We all know why he has not done so. Because in Ukraine, the decision-making center is not the government. It is not an office on Bankova Street. The decision-making center is the Ukrainian society, the Ukrainian people. It is the Ukrainian people who went to the military registration and enlistment offices, self-mobilized, funded the army, provided drones, and have been providing most of the drones since the beginning of the war - 90%. It is the people themselves who are financing all this. That is why we are fighting a people's war. And this war is effective only because we have freedom of speech, democratic checks and balances, and free public opinion. And this is our advantage. So I'm not at all concerned about what the PO is doing there.
What is the situation in Russia's military-industrial complex? To what extent have they increased production, and what is its impact on the front? What about armored vehicles, is there a shortage?
This is a very global issue. I will say briefly, they have a problem with armored vehicles, of course, they are increasing their production, but they are also short of them because our soldiers destroy these armored vehicles in industrial quantities, which outstrip the enemy's production capabilities. The problem is not in armored vehicles, they are increasing the number of precision weapons, and the production of drones is increasing very seriously, for example, long-range strike drones such as Lancet, reconnaissance drones, supercams, ZALA, Orlan-30, especially, which corrects precision weapons. Long-range drones of all types, and this is our main threat. The Russians are producing these spy drones by the thousands, and the number of Lancet strikes is over two thousand already at the front. In other words, the enemy is very actively using precision weapons. Weapons of destruction, i.e., guided bombs, are also a very important factor in the war. So the enemy is basically increasing the production of weapons that are very dangerous for us, and these are not armored vehicles, but high-precision weapons and reconnaissance drones, spotter drones. The situation is complicated because we have to counteract this with our industrial program, among other things. So the impact, of course, would be even if the Russians, friends, did not have an advantage in munitions, in shells, bombs, missiles, even now, at the beginning of the war, there was an advantage, perhaps, 30-50 times, now it is perhaps 10 times. But if the advantage was even one to two, they would have no chance. Unfortunately, the enemy's advantage remains very significant, a multiple of the means of destruction.
What about the construction of defensive structures, have conclusions been drawn from the Russian operation in Lyptsi and Vovchansk? Is there a rebuilding of the defense?
To be honest, I have very strong doubts. Because we don't have any center, we still don't have a responsible person who should be responsible for these defenses. I want to tell you that our responsibility is constantly fragmented. Where decisions need to be made, everyone knows. There is the president, there is Yermak, they said something, and everyone is running around. But where you have to be responsible for the result, not for a video, there are always problems. Who builds our defense facilities? The main budgets are realized by civil-military administrations. This is the vertical of the President's office and the construction campaigns that are guided by them. We also have engineering troops, engineering brigades. We also have combat brigades that are engaged in combat operations. Everyone is assigned tasks, and these tasks are performed as best they can. In other words, if we had one structure, either the Civil-Military Administration or the State Special Transport Service, which is engaged in construction, or the engineering troops, or the command of the OTG, the OSGT, or the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, or the Minister of Defense, there would be one structure, one person who reports, is responsible, and whom you would contact. There would be order. There is no such person. Everything is fragmented. Responsibility for the result is fragmented. Someone creates budgets. And how is it tied up? To whom should we make claims? The servants of the people, as soon as you start saying that the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Zelenskyy, should control the progress of the work, they immediately say that it is not us. It's the generals. Bad generals. You didn't give them money, you didn't give them equipment. It's not us, the generals are bad. Let them decide for themselves. This is what it comes down to. As for Ms. Mariana Bezuhla and her colleagues from the Defense Committee, the Servants of the People, they are useless. They sit there and write blogs. People are interested. Life during the war is interesting. You get paid, you get positions, and you are not responsible for anything. It's convenient, isn't it? You just have to blame someone else for not answering.
The situation with the supply of a million drones.
Yes, it is an important issue. The budget is 40 billion. No, I've already said, the budget for drones this year is announced at 60 billion. A million drones is not difficult to produce, in principle. I don't see it now. Now we are talking about maybe up to 200 thousand drones. I don't know how many they will make by the end of the year. I don't know. It is also important to say that there is a serious problem with the state order. The problem is that since the state enters into agreements for a very long time, fulfills them for a very long time, the drones that are made, state-owned, under the state order, are of very ambiguous quality. They often arrive with outdated control units that do not correspond to the situation. And then they have to be upgraded and reworked at the front at our own expense. That's the story here. I don't know how they do it there. We need a million drones of high quality. We need a rhythmic supply to the troops. This is not happening yet.
Do the authorities plan to demobilize the troops, or will it continue indefinitely?
The government, of course, does not plan any demobilization and, of course, it is not even a question of it. The main problem, dear friends, I think, is not that even the government does not plan demobilization. The government is not planning how to use people properly. The government ignores the fact that a person at war cannot be used indefinitely. They have to rest. They need rest. Otherwise, a person becomes exhausted and completely incapacitated. And sometimes they die because of overwork. So this is the main problem. We use the word "rotation" to cover up the fact that people cannot rest even during rotations. Because the rotations are shorter and shorter, and some parallel tasks are assigned. We need systemic solutions, not just some miraculous words. There is no demobilization yet, but the main thing that is missing is the reasonable use of people.
I didn't have time to answer a few questions during the previous broadcasts. How do you predict the internal situation when we enter the ceasefire phase at some point?
Dear friends, until the Ukrainian Front, our defense forces, can stop the enemy on a certain front, for a few months, or preferably forever, until the enemy sees that all their attacks are crushed with heavy losses, they cannot break through anywhere, the war will continue. Because until there is a situation where Russia is unable to break through the front, Russia will never agree to negotiations. Or these negotiations will always start like the Minsk agreements, with the fact that we are a weak country, we are losing, and Russia is advancing. A political solution is possible only after the front is stabilized. There are no other options. As long as Putin is advancing, these will always be ultimatums. Therefore, for us, building and organizing the front is a key issue. Can we stop the Russian army now? Yes. We have all the necessary forces and means to do so. What we lack is the organization of management, the scaling of the right decisions on attack drones, on intelligence, on the use of our firepower. This is the problem. Therefore, we need criticism of the authorities so that the authorities start acting in this regard. That is why we have no other options and no other way out. There is only one way to stop the war when the enemy sees that any Russian efforts are no longer possible. They do not bring any military results. Then they will think about what to do next, how to get an arm or a leg out of this trap. And at the moment, when they are making progress here and there, they think that a military solution is still possible. If we push a little more, Ukraine will collapse. Unfortunately, our government is helping Putin's strategy. Because instead of looking at how to build a front together, our servants of the people blame the generals, shift all the responsibility to them, and do not take the necessary systemic steps. And before that, friends, we have a problem. Instead of solving internal problems, we constantly blame our allies. We are constantly asking them to give us more shells, to give us a shield, why do you give us so little? Our government, instead of looking at our internal strengths, our capabilities, spends all its time appointing someone to be responsible for the inaction and impotence of the Ukrainian government itself. Either Biden doesn't give us something, or Europe doesn't give us something, or the generals don't give us something. Someone is always giving us something. Well, dear friends, the history of wars, and world history in general, shows that there is not a single country in the world that has fought and had everything. There is no such thing, no such example. In all the histories of wars, everyone who achieves victory always lacks something. That's the logic of it, that you have to build the right strategy, set priorities, and think about what you have to do to become stronger.
What are our main advantages now? We have motivated, competent people, military personnel with experience at all levels. Russia does not have and will not have such quality and motivation of people as Ukraine has. What do we need to do? We need a strategy. We don't just need to be on the defensive and receive strikes. We need to stop the enemy reliably on the 900-kilometer active front line that we have. Do we have the resources to cover 900 kilometers of the front? Yes, we do. We can build a modern sensor front, build a camera front, a drone front everywhere, use a comprehensive system of high-precision weapons against the enemy, primarily drones, missiles provided by our allies, artillery, which we have a considerable amount of in fact. We need to build an air defense system, which, unfortunately, is very fragmented. We have a very poor organization of notification of the presence of enemy drones in the air. And we have electronic warfare stations, electronic signals intelligence stations, but they are not linked into the system, they do not work as a system, as a complex. It is the same in other things. For us to win there, we need to win not just in innovation, but in scaling system solutions. This is where we have problems. And when we, dear friends, start promoting our advantages, first of all, our people, commanders, competent leaders, we will start setting competent tasks for them and evaluating commanders according to two criteria: the number of enemies destroyed and confirmed on video and the number of minimal own losses. Everything else is secondary. Not on papers, not on reports, not on what kind of commander is good, bad, how much he loves me, whether he writes off fuel to the right superior. It's those commanders who know how to destroy the enemy and save their own best. And we have enough people like that to build a steel wall on this front, not just anywhere, but on the 900-kilometer front, to destroy the Russians and prevent them from breaking through anywhere. We can do it now. And believe me, when we do, the political situation in the world will change completely. When Russia fights and fights and can't break through anywhere, then Putin will realize that he can't really do everything, that there is no military solution to the war in Ukraine. And that even for his allies it makes no sense to support this war, which has no prospects for Putin. Russia will lose the logic and purpose of the war. This is the main thing for us. And the whole world, our allies, they will not just think that they are supporting losers.
They will see that Ukraine is a strong ally that achieves its goals, and that this ally can be relied upon both now and in the future. That it is a new nation that is able to organize a state and fight for its interests effectively. This will be a new factor in world politics, and we have to move towards it. That is why we need criticism so that the state leadership understands that we have someone to rely on, we have resources. We need managerial and organizational decisions that should come from the top, not just from the bottom, from people. This will be our victory. Therefore, friends, communicating daily with Ukrainian heroes, with those soldiers, commanders at all levels, operators of weapons systems who destroy Russians every day, the results of their work, which you see in the videos I post on my YouTube channel, on my Telegram channel, on Censor, on Facebook, I have no doubt in our victory. Today I am more convinced of this than ever. Thank you for your great support, thank you for your questions, thank you to all the sponsors of the Butusov Plus channel, and thank you for the broadcast. Glory to Ukraine!
