and the darkest night of the year in fact, and a round number of good russian 350 00, it's great, let's observe a minute of silence on this, remember all those who died in the russian-ukrainian war. let's honor with a moment of silence the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that... it was unleashed by russia.

greetings to all, my name is oleg galiv, this is the svoboda ranok project, and then we talk about the most important thing at the moment. the local authorities resumed the evacuation of the civilian population from avdiyivka, and they are still staying there. over a thousand people, say the city's military-civilian administration. russian forces continue to advance on the city. let's talk about what is happening in the avdiiv direction. the occupiers in mariupol have strengthened the security of military bases, the adviser of the mariupol mayor, petro andryushchenko, said. according to him , the forces of the russian federation installed new cameras, as well as barbed wire and additional observation towers. what are they preparing for? zelensky appointed a new representative of the president. in the verkhovna rada,

from now on the position is held by nardepka halyna mykhailiuk how will this affect the cooperation between the parliament and the president's office and what tasks the ukrainian president sets for the new representative. i will remind you about the importance of likes and comments under this video, this will allow you to promote quality content. russian troops tried to attack the steppe northwest of avdiivka, but the ukrainians. the military pushed them back to their starting positions, at the same time fighting continues near the railway to the north of the steppe, where russian forces occupied one of the positions, analysts report this of the deep state project. they also say that the armed forces of ukraine repelled the attack near pervomaiskyi, which is southwest of avdiivka. analysts of the american institute for the study of war do not confirm the advance of russian troops near pervomaiskyi, as stated by the russian telegram channel voenkor kotyonok. the same telegram channel wrote about the ukrainian counterattack. troops near avdiivka.

the ukrainian general staff says that they repelled 13 attacks in the avdiivka direction, in the reports of the russian ministry of defense about avdiivka not mentioned meanwhile , the evacuation of people from avdiivka itself was resumed the day before. this was announced by the head of the city's military administration, vitaliy barabash. according to him , 1,220 people remain in the city today. the day before, a video of volunteers setting up a christmas tree in the city center to the sounds of shelling also appeared on the network. video on your facebook.

of the administration at this moment joins the broadcast freedom morning, my congratulations, glory to ukraine, congratulations, glory to the heroes, please tell me the latest news for the past day, how powerful were the attacks of the forces of the russian federation? well, they are pushing, pushing, storming , in principle, to say that something has changed in our direction, then no, as hot as it was, it remains so, of course, which everyone would like, especially before the new year, yes, a little bit. .. the weakening of such offensive actions can lift the spirits a little , recently people often ask if it has become quieter or easier in our direction, unfortunately, no, ah, well, it has not become quieter, it has not become easier, the enemy is constantly changes his tactics, constantly changes some directions of assault actions, directly, then goes directly head-on, then stretches, let's say, attention along the entire line of defense around the city, well, really. storming

almost 24 hours a day, we hear shooting battles around the city, also 24 hours a day, and at night, unfortunately, they do not subside, which means that it is very difficult for our guys, ah, but... well, there is, let's say so , one positive thing, as the commanders say, we are keeping a line of defense, this is a positive thing, well, of course, we should at least try to look for a positive thing in everything, and really, for that, respect to the guys and thanks for that, that they hold our city, well, on average , for the last week and a half, we record somewhere around 30-40 shellings, massed in the community , happening in a day like this. in terms of positions , of course, there are many times more of them there , even counting the number, well, we have no way, i am sure that the boys are also there, they also have the exact number for the day, well, they hardly have, because there is a lot of shelling on positions, aerial bombardments, and actually i would just like

to clarify, the ukrainian military, they are talking about the fact that the russian forces are trying and want to cut the so-called the road of life that leads to avdiivka, let's maybe stop at this, how often? it is this road that is being shelled and i don't know if the armed forces of ukraine can temporarily lose control over it, how threatening the situation is in this area, well , everyone has the impression that if the road is shelled, it will be somewhere, let's say so, how they say, they shoot directly at it , there is no such thing, dear, there is no such thing, let's put it this way, there is no shot, everything that is given to them on the way, the first is, of course, during the time of a full-scale war, they have it all at... with artillery, if there are weather conditions, they launch the eagles, the eagles detect some movement on the road, and then the fire is adjusted, and they try to hit that vehicle there, and they don’t care what is it civilian transport, is it evacuation transport

, is it humanitarian aid, or is it some kind of military equipment going there, and if we say so, this is the first option, the second option is epividrons, the last 7-2 kilometers to the city, the last sometimes they are very active they use them, let's say, when on duty he takes off in a pividron on the road, and he also doesn't care, because he has a very short life of a ufidron there, so his main task is to hit something, what will it be, i repeat again, they don't care , whether it 's civilian transport, whether it's military, or evacuation or something like that, ah, control over the road, let's say, they don't have a direct one, and of course they try to cut this road. they are trying to cut it in several places, the first is usually the steppe, where they have it closer to it of this road, the second place is that they storm koksokhim, try to enter koksokhim, then of course take it completely under control and also cut the road already at the entrance to the city, or near koksikhim,

let's say the entrance to city, well, and the third place in the district from the water side, they are also trying to cut the road between orlivka. and avdiyivka in the area of ​​lastochkina, but from the side of the thin, they try to storm sometimes from vodyanyi, of course, that is a little further away , and it is unlikely that they will succeed there, well, about there is no question of koksokhim at all, because , well, let’s put it this way, it is not easy to take it, first of all , it is very difficult even to enter the territory of koksokhim, and not to take it completely under control in order to cut that road, so of course , that they are trying a lot of their efforts in the direction of... stepovoy and in the direction, bypassing stepovoy on ocheretna, but lately they have been trying very hard along the railway, well, lately they have been active. mr. vitaly, you mentioned koksokhim in metinvest, earlier the management stated that the coke plant is practically destroyed, and

you have already said about the situation there with the shelling and who is in control, but about the plant itself, is it really all of its infrastructure there or not all of it, maybe what part of the building is now destroyed as a result of these attacks , huh? well, you know, if you drive around the plant, right there or from afar in front of the plant, it seems that it is intact, because most of the pipes are standing, they are visually intact, and therefore it seems that this plant is really almost intact, if you drive closer to the plant or on the territory itself plant, of course, it is obvious that not everything is as they say rosy, one must understand that the heart of a coke chemical plant is coke batteries, if they are already there. or their work , i.e. they have cooled down, that’s all, well, there are certain technological processes of preservation, cold preservation, well, this is, let’s say , more specific, that is, it is impossible to restore, no longer, only to build anew, the question is what will relate to the evacuation of people, 1220

civilian residents, this is the latest information that is in the media environment, tell the state for now about the evacuation, how is it happening, are there new agreements when people are ready to go? and how exactly in this context? and there is agreement, we talked about the fact that we did not have an evacuation on sunday, because we, well, we canceled it, it was not possible, because people wanted it. but there was a lot of shooting , there was an evacuation on monday, there was an evacuation on tuesday, yesterday, unfortunately , on wednesday we also canceled it, because it was very hard, so as of now the number is unchanged , as of this morning, we are sure that today, well i wish we would people were evacuated today, because there are people who want to leave, and the main task is to evacuate them after all, how many of these people, 10, 20, a hundred, but from what is known, well... well, there are, let's say , plans for there were evacuations for yesterday, for today and for tomorrow, that is, for three days

on average we manage to bring in 5-7 people , recently there are three or four, well, three is the minimum that can be brought in per day, well, let's say, not so much, how it was there a month ago, because at that time the maximum number of people who left us was 28 people per day, on average then up to 20, now three, four, five, hello, i understand correctly that from the existing plans, conditionally for today, if the evacuation takes place... then you will be ready to evacuate seven people, at least from those who agreed, because this the average figure there for the day, conditionally, well, i hope it will be like that, i will have a final question, it will concern christmas, after all, ukraine, other countries enter this christmas-new year period, what about those people who are in avdiivka, who are hiding from constant shelling, do you possibly know what will come to them with volunteers for example, a clergyman, but how in this context, would there still be any christmas, shall we say, celebration or all? well , it's not about that, and it's not even about that, although , as we saw, the volunteers put up a christmas tree there

in order to at least lift the mood a little. and yana and her boys put up a christmas tree, yana is well done in general, she is a bit fearless in our country, as we call her, we often scold her for doing such things sometimes, risking her life, at the expense of the townspeople, well, no ... uh, clerics, of course we will not lead into the city, it is a risk to life, there is one priest in the city, as far as he will spend there, that is, the priest alone remains in the city, as of now , who has not left either, yes, yes, let's see how he will be to lead, because to be honest, he is still from the moscow patriarchate, there are certain questions for them, of course, ah, but let's see, it seems that lately he has started to change something in his head a little bit somewhere in his head and... let's say in general slightly different things to say, as it was before full-scale

invasion, maybe what wounded him at the time and it changed him a little, who knows, in general, well, really a little not to that, a little not to that, to celebrations, of course, that people will do something for themselves in their basements, in those places where they are hiding from, well, volunteers will bring them, probably there, i don't know where, but traditionally, what is celebrated from this. about the conversation were, let's say, or were not, if you can be brief. there were no such conversations, and i ask everyone not to do so, because it is a risk to life. thank you very much, mr. vitaly, for that promptly turned on, told about the situation. vitaly barabash, head of the avdiyiv city military administration, take care . russian troops attacked ukraine with drones last night, releasing a total of 35 chess-type drones. 34 of them were shot down, according to the air force of ukraine. anti-aircraft defense worked. kyiv, dnipropetrovsk, vinnytsia, cherkasy , kherson, zaporizhzhya, mykolaiv, khmelnytskyi, sumy, poltava,

chernihiv and kirovohrad regions. it is known that the drone hit the warehouse building in the kyiv region, there was a collapse of structures and a fire. this is reported by the state emergency service . the fire on an area of ​​1,500 m2 was extinguished. as a result of this attack , a warehouse building was destroyed, as well as two cars and an suv. russian soldiers at night with mortars. the krasnopil community in sumy oblast was also shelled. this was reported in the sumy regional military administration. during the past day, the forces of the russian federation fired 14 times on the border of sumy oblast. 62 were counted there explosions, the night before the air defense forces shot down two martyrs in sumy oblast. the ukrainian general staff reports that during the last day , 20 settlements in the north, in addition to the sumy region, were also hit by artillery and mortar fire. a day earlier, the commander of the combined... serhii naev said that military sailors from the river division formed new mobile fire

groups that protect the sky in the northern regions, not only on land, but also on the river. yuriy povh, spokesman for the united of the press center of the defense forces of the northern direction is currently joining the svoboda ranok broadcast. my greetings to you. good morning, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. thank you for finding the opportunity to join and inform about what is happening in your direction. in the northern regions, actually significantly. the activity of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups has increased, the state border guard service announced this earlier. please tell us what you know, what the situation is and what the activity is, what it actually looks like. it is necessary to confirm the information that was made public by the state by the border service: the enemy within the borders of the chernihiv and sumy regions from the ukrainian side, er, intensified the actions of subversive and reconnaissance groups. the purpose of the actions of these groups is quite different, there are intelligence functions, there are completely terrorist goals

pursued by the enemy in this area, and the general... the enemy's goal, well, it is known, is to bind our troops with their actions and not allow the transfer of additional reserves to other areas of the front. tell me, please, in which of the areas of these attempts to penetrate the most of the observations that exist today in the armed forces of ukraine, what can this be related to, and for example, if we talk about these sabotage and intelligence groups, how many people are in their composition, what weapons do they have, that is, how do they do it? these groups usually have light weapons, their number varies depending on the potential target they are chasing, it can be five people, and eight and 10 people, the tactics of penetration are also different, either covert movement in the area, or an attempt to enter to the territory of ukraine under

the cover of artillery fire, which concerns. the contacts you asked about, we put that word in quotes, of course, this is a fleeting story, and the numbers change almost every week, so to say that the enemy there has some targets more in one area or than another, you can't say that , in general, in recent years , there have been eight to 10 attempts to penetrate the state border per month. mr. yuriy, according to your feelings, these attempts to penetrate into the territory of ukraine, to the border, will increase or not increase, but it is possible, if compared with what was last year at this time and with what is now, isn't there some, i don't know, conditional parallel, according to which it can be

calculated, according to which it can be predicted? well, feeling is not that category. what the military should say, we can only talk about a tough and tactical operational-tactical calculation, there will be more or less of them, depending primarily on the reserves that the enemy has allocated in this direction, and of course the weather conditions and many other factors and circumstances, which lead to favorable circumstances for the enemy crossing the state border, but... we should thank our defenders, who are in very difficult conditions, and for this we must once again thank them separately, who hold the state border line, these actions of sabotage groups are detected in time and stopped by artillery fire and the actions of anti-sabotage reserves, which created in the northern operational zone. let

's stop again, maybe on these mobile groups that will now work on the water as well, not only those groups that work on land. what can you tell us about their activities, as far as have they effectively manifested themselves already, at least from what is known so far? they definitely proved their effectiveness, like the rest of the mobile fire groups operating throughout the northern operational zone, thanks to the actions of our sailors, the water surface is now completely covered by additional means, previously it was covered by... other units and means of fire hitting air targets, now this is an additional shield, another additional safeguard so that the enemy, using uavs, does not was able to penetrate the territory of ukraine. i would like to clarify something with you about the fortifications that are being built in various

ukrainian regions, how active the process is now, how active these constructions are. i mean, and taking into account the fact that these fortifications are being erected, do you observe a possible increase in troops on the borders with ukraine specifically from the side of the russian federation and russian troops. these processes, i.e. the presence of russian and belarusian troops on the border, their numbers and the construction of ukrainian military civil administrations are involved in the second line, they are connected, but not 100%. the construction of defensive structures is a normal practice of troops that have stopped at a certain border. have established themselves and are arranging their positions, there are no limits to perfection, the engineering equipment of the state border of the first line, the second line is constantly ongoing

, now, for example, during the visit of the commander of the united forces to the chernihiv region , a number of defensive structures were inspected and those who were present there, they saw with their own eyes how the construction takes place, in particular the second line where civilian specialists work, it is clear that they do not have much experience, fortunately or unfortunately, in creating defense buildings, these are ordinary builders who used to build houses, farm buildings and so on, now they are just war forced them to build dugouts, make waterproofing. dig anti-tank trenches, and all this happens in close cooperation with military specialists who suggest certain nuances in creating such

buildings the second line, er, the construction of the second line does not mean that there is now an immediate threat to the state border, it is a standard practice of military actions during a stay or in defense or. during the stabilization operation. mr. yuri, i thank you for the clarification and for enabling. yuri povk, spokesman of the united press center of the northern defense forces. as a guest of our broadcast, we talked about border shelling and mobile fire groups, which now work not only on land, but also on water. ukraine and great britain are the closest will sign a large-scale security agreement in weeks. the 10-year memorandum sees london use its naval expertise to help control. black sea. the telegraph newspaper writes about this. it is planned that the agreement will include financial and military assistance and the exchange of intelligence, because great britain wants to focus on strengthening the maritime

potential of ukraine. the security agreement, as the publication notes, also refers to post-war security guarantees for ukraine. this is an increase in the supply of weapons and the restoration of sanctions in the event of a repeated attack by russia. royal the naval forces are already training ukrainians in demining and disposal of sea bombs, in particular with the use of underwater ones. drones, britain is also preparing the ukrainian military for amphibious operations and has already started supplying ukraine with ship-modified brystton missiles. as the telegraph writes, the british were impressed by the actions of the ukrainian military in the black sea and decided to support their defense capabilities in this direction. meanwhile, in the united states of america, they say that the ukrainians on the battlefield did something that no one imagined possible such a statement was made by united states secretary of state anthony blinken during the final press conference. in 2023. we will continue to unite countries around the world to support ukraine's independence and ensure that russia's aggression remains

a strategic failure. putin has already failed to achieve his main goal - to start the country off the map by subordinating russia. it was a difficult year on the battlefield, but the ukrainians did what no one thought possible. they were up against one of the greatest armies in the world. by according to blinken, russia has become weaker militarily and economically. and diplomatically, but nato, on the contrary, rallied. in order to continue the assistance, the secretary of state said, it is important for congress to approve the relevant law. and it is also important that the allies continue to provide kyiv with the necessary weapons and financial assistance. now, by the way, in the congress of the united states, japan was asked to hand over missiles for the patriot air defense system to kyiv. this happened due to the lack of air defense systems in ukraine and the impossibility of quick approval of the package help in congress. he writes about it. journalists note that japan is expected to adopt policy changes this week that will allow it to export several dozen patriot missiles to the united states, which will replenish

washington's stockpiles, and this will already give the united states the opportunity to strengthen the ukrainian air defense system. the article also states that south korea secretly provides artillery shells to ukraine in greater quantities than all european countries. there are many military topics that i want to discuss. ihor kuziy, military expert. euro-atlantic cooperation is joining our broadcast at this moment, good morning to you, good morning, thank you for finding the opportunity, but british intelligence says that there is a stalemate on the front in ukraine, do you agree with this statement of british intelligence itself? well, it's hard for me, you know, to imagine where they get the information from, it 's an extremely closed thing, and on the one hand i can't doubt the truth, at the same time i would like to draw ... attention that even, excuse me, high officials of the united states, in their own in their conclusions, they say that they are surprised.

stability of ukrainians and were really mistaken about the capabilities of ukraine and ukrainians. well, i hope that this conclusion of the british intelligence, it has already been made without rose-colored glasses and from the real, shall we say, positions that the armed forces of ukraine are demonstrating today. please tell me how you can evaluate the upcoming memorandum on security agreements to be signed between britain and ukraine, in particular. from the details already in zmi, it will include military support, financial assistance and intelligence sharing, how much is this enough , how can you generally characterize this security, you know, in my assessments i have always been a supporter of exclusively ukrainian capacity and ability to defend its territories, because i can remind everyone of the budapest memorandum, that is the memorandum and... by and large we

we clearly understand that, unfortunately, we did not get what we expected from, let's say, this budapest memorandum, and the russian federation violated it and started aggression, so the issue of aid is clearly perceived i am positive, and it is clear that the united kingdom is showing itself the most consistently in this matter, but... we must clearly understand that the russian federation, it also monitors all events, and especially the internal political ones in countries that are ready with us to sign this or that document, or is going to sign this or that document. i do not rule out that the russian federation will look for all the possibilities to uh, well, do it through certain uh corrupt

politicians. well, such things that would actually either weaken this document, or let's say, scrapped this document at all, so you know, time will tell, let's sign it, and after that we will analyze, definitely the idea that is proposed, as well as another idea, created by a deeper alliance between, remember britain, poland and ukraine, we know that today... happening on the border between ukraine and poland, and the budapest memorandum and other statements, you know, they sound very cool, but i am interested in the implementation, because every day on the battlefield our citizens die, our soldiers die, civilians die population, that's why we must clearly understand that we must first of all protect with our own resources and

our own efforts. protect themselves. mr. igor, one more question will concern the fact that western and asian companies continue to supply components for russian tanks, the insider writes about this. if this continues to happen, how quickly will the russian federation be able to replenish and restore its military potential. but how, for example , can ukrainian allies, conventionally the united states of america, influence this process? i have referring to the process there, somehow hinder this supply. you know, this is... the more difficult issue that can be today is the implementation of the sanctions regime, yes, today the mass media showed the components of the most powerful missile of the russian federation, the kinjal, we mostly saw there the components of the united states of america, as far as the states can guarantee , so that europe does not supply, if the states supply. first of all, the states need to put

their own order in order. house, it is clearly a sanction regime, clearly, it is not bad what we are doing, what we actually take all these things, open and show, but what we don't do, we don't do at this time, we don't show the actual manufacturers of these or other component parts and we don't show them, in my opinion it would be very the key thing in terms of... that the image of these companies would be very powerful, and you know, that image point, it would play a key role in continuing to have real sanctions, powerful sanctions, sanctions that would stop them from actually supplying the necessary components even through third countries directly into the russian federation, that is what today...