russians today at 9:00 a.m., as every day, remember all those who died at the hands of the russian occupiers and civilians and military. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

hello everyone, this is svoboda ranok, my name is oleg galiv and we are starting. the commander of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine, lieutenant general naiv called for the evacuation of residents of the border regions of northern ukraine. all because of the regular shelling of the russian federation and the involvement of the drg. let's talk about the situation in more detail. the german parliament rejected a resolution in which a group of deputies called for the transfer of taurus cruise missiles to ukraine. meanwhile, the deputy chairman of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on national security, defense and intelligence, yehor cherniv, said that another bill on the transfer of missiles to ukraine is planned to be submitted to the bundestag for consideration. so do german politicians have the will to support kyiv in this way? the sbu seized

discs with recordings of cameras in the complex, where the bigus-info team secretly filmed. about this was reported by investigative journalists from the scene . this was preceded by the opening of criminal proceedings on the fact of illegal wiretapping of project journalists. your likes and comments are important to us, so share your impressions of what you've seen. positional battles continue near bakhmut, but changes in the front line have been confirmed. no, this is reported by analysts of the american institute for the study of war. in the general staff of ukraine, they say that during the day they repelled seven attacks by russian forces in the direction of bakhmut, in the russian the ministry of defense in turn is informed about six repulsed attacks by the armed forces of ukraine. the reuters agency showed footage of the work of the ukrainian military at positions near bakhmut the day before. in a comment to journalists, ukrainian soldiers told about attempts to break through russian forces, in particular at times, about the influence of the weather. on

military operations, as well as about the lack of shells. considering the weather conditions, we switched to defensive actions, our units, the enemy is constantly trying to carry out some offensive actions. the main goals for ours units have a counter-battery fight, i.e. enemy artillery, or mortars, or anti-tank guns, the same self-propelled artillery as ours, tanks in positions, often happens. also infantry, advancing, advancing to rotate enemy units. over the last couple of days, the enemy tried to carry out offensive actions against our units a couple of times, but they were unsuccessful. there is nothing good in bad weather. birds will fly very poorly, intelligence will be at the minimum level, let's say, the maximum emphasis will be on then on what the infantry sees with their own eyes. we need shells, we need charges , we need shells, we need... charges

, we need replenishment of people, we need equipment, if we do not have all this now, we will stand in one place, if the enemy understands that we have resources already zero, then of course he can calmly put pressure on us, if the countries will help us and provide us with shells, people and equipment, everything will work out for us, uh, at the moment we are firing little, but there are very few shells, that.. it's been a long time since we they shot 5, 10, 20 outfits a day. we continue to talk about the situation in the bakhmut region in our broadcast with a guest, oleg kalashnikov, he is an officer of the press service of the 26th artillery brigade named after general khorundzhy roman dashkevich, joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. good morning. thank you for finding the opportunity and time. please tell us briefly, to begin with, what is the current situation in the bakhmud direction? situation. quite

difficult, in places it really is so hellish, it is clear that the command of the yug troop group, which is responsible for the bakhmut, aldiiv direction, it is, by the way, more numerous among their group of troops, tactically decided, nevertheless, how they should act in the near future, and started a new series of their assaults literally this week, if before that we observed their counterattacks simply by infantry such groups, now we observe that they used as heavy equipment, these are direct tanks, also armored fighting vehicles, they are attacking... i would say along the whole line of our bahamian shade, i.e. this hryhorivka, bohdanivka direction, khro, khromov, klyshchivka, ivanivske, battles literally continue along the entire line of our front. please tell me, is the use of this type of equipment

during these assaults something new that the russian federation is now using, or have similar applications been used before? no, this is basically a normal phenomenon. it's no secret that you can't break through the defense line, especially our defense line here, which is here, only with small assault groups, you can press, of course, because they have such a large number, they don't they are sorry, but it is impossible to seriously break through without the use of equipment, combat vehicles, and now they are again attempting such small mechanized strikes on... on some of our directions, well, of course , direct use constantly, i would say so, sometimes in non -stop, your infantry units. before this activation, we heard the words of the military from your direction, they said that there is a shortage of men and shells, can you confirm this information,

how difficult the situation really is, for example in the context of shells? so to speak for my unit where... i am directly located, today we certainly do not have a shortage of people, we are artillerymen and control this situation, but as for shells, we do have them, but of course not in such a quantity, which we would like and which our front needs, because the situation, which is now becoming more complicated, naturally requires a greater expenditure of all types of projectiles, so if our... partners will provide us with direct shots, we will only be grateful to them. but in the bahamian direction, as in the case of shells of the russian army, as for the people, for example, are reinforcements constantly arriving to the russian forces or that group, which is focused on this direction , is enough to carry out the actions that they

have set themselves as a goal. well, they gathered that rather significant number of personnel, it is more than 60 thousand. up to 70,000, today it will not be more than that, they really have enough people, they constantly find them both from the proxy republics, the dpr, and directly from russian territory, that is, they are not counted with their losses, they do not even feel sorry for their wounded who remain on the battlefield, as for shells, the enemy managed after... after they began to have a shortage of them, after all, a shortage of shots appeared, he realized that on some areas do not even need economy, they maximize, like today in the bakhmut direction, they maximally try to provide their barrel artillery, their rszzvo directly

with shots and try to inflict the maximum fire damage that this number and the usual number of barrels allows them, in this really helped them... southern north korea also helped with those shells, we know that they had supplies, although these are supplies from soviet times, so they are not too high-quality, but in our shade, their artillery can work in case if necessary , a full day, that is, both during the day and at night. mr. olezh, about the defensive war, which ukraine has entered into in certain areas, and which, according to the western media, ukraine's allies have called upon. her, please explain in plain language what this means on the line front, that is, what does this defensive war look like? well, i would say that today we have an active defense, that is, when we are in

certain positions, we do not allow the enemy to advance directly, and at the same time we continue to attack, we find his weak point, we counterattack... counterattacks, this is our active defense, we could observe it at the beginning of last summer, at the beginning of last summer, when precisely on our bakhmut direction the enemy... decided that he had achieved the necessary goals for himself, switched to other directions, and we did not there were less counterattacks on the northern and southern flanks and they began to liberate our territory little by little, this was its active defense, that is, we are not only on the defensive and fighting off the enemy, but at the same time we are also imposing ours on him. initiative, that is, he is forced to react to our actions, and not just be,

so to speak, the king of the mountain. and in conclusion , the question will concern heavy equipment, constant temperature changes, sometimes cold, then warm, how they affect the movement of heavy equipment, and whether the question actually how this equipment can be transported and so on. of course, climatic and weather conditions have such an influence in general on the development of combat events on the line. of the front and of course on the mechanized component, what we see , after all, it is iron that can break, that has its specified maximum performance characteristics, and when it rains, when the weather is bad, then of course these donetsk, donbas soils, they are quite so heavy , so viscous, the technique is difficult to move, it is heavy, that's worse maneuvering. that is, it also affects the temperature directly affects the operation of all

its systems, mr. oleg, i thank you for such simple information, in simple language, which you convey to the audience, oleg kalashnikov is the press service officer of the 26th artillery brigade named after general khorunzhy roman dashkevich, take care . former chaplain of the strict regime, father of eight children, now commander of a platoon of anti-drone fighters, ivan with the call sign batya left. to the war immediately after the mobilization of his eldest son. this is a story about a father and son, who are already fighting in the zaporozhye direction for the second year in a row as part of the 65th separate mechanized brigade. and see details about this story in the video from radio svoboda. two dummies, we are on the spot, covering. well, we are already going specifically directly to the position on us. and this machine is used to evacuate

our wounded, in addition to our duties, there is also an obligation to evacuate, so there is not enough work , there is not enough people, come here. table, this is an american anti-drone

gun, which is engaged in, with which we will plant an enemy kamikaze, enemy, all so to speak, literal devices engaged in reconnaissance, who are engaged in bombing our equipment, we hear a drone, it flies in our direction. we are already looking at the situation, where he can fly up, where he can fly in, and already from his own place, we choose the point where we can land him, drones often fly here in such weather as now , and we have not seen them at all today, and how in good weather, there are five times as many kamikazes, as well, because here it is not so far from... praise our dance and it was repeatedly covered, we did not start all this, but we have what

we have, and next to my father to fight it is such , do not describe us above, because it is a great honor, first of all, when really such a father, and he is both a friend, and a brother, and a commander, and all in one, he was this before, really my friend, number one, i found husband tortured him, in short, where is my agenda, what agenda , get out of here, i say, no, my agenda, come on, i think, no, it is necessary that in my form, as they say, christ was next to the boys, so what?

the boys were saved, they just took them out, everything is fine, and they themselves remained alive, although there is a war, i have peace in my heart, because my conscience is clear, i know that i'm doing something, and i'm not hiding somewhere , you know, because the messengers are coming, they'll take it away right now, trouble has come to your house, and what are you doing , just sitting around waiting for someone else to do something for you, so then let him be with you she lives as a woman, she brings up your children's children, and you go somewhere for a holiday. spiritually, physically, i don't say physically, because it's impossible, well , morally, spiritually, that's the same, that's the most important thing, no one can take away from our spirituality , what we have inside is what you have , this is a rod that no one has in you, well, how

can you, as christ himself says that no one has you maybe you will leave my love, if you don't give yourself away, well... so that, well, just give up or something else, well , that's the situation, and how do you look at how weddings are walking and having fun there , have fun, in short, and here we just dragged ours out here in the mud, in the swamp in the mud, and you understand that i didn’t understand something, in short, am i a loser or something, or do i need everyone more, in short, well, it turns out that way, well , it seems like it should be, because yes, i have a family, yes , i have friends, i have those for whom i am, who i love, whom i respect, and why i'm here, for them, that's it. that's all, now these are my children. late in the evening, russian forces attacked with attack drones, in particular the north of ukraine. the head of the sumy regional military administration, ivan kalchenko, reported on at least four shakhet type drones. he also reported that due to the fall of the fragments of the downed drone, the roof of the technical building was destroyed and two trucks burned. meanwhile

, serhii nayev, the commander of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine, who is responsible for the defense of the north of the country, called people. to evacuate, says russian troops regularly attack the border areas of sumy and chernihiv regions with various types of weapons, and also use sabotage and reconnaissance groups. he adds that residents of the border areas should understand that it is dangerous to be near the border with russia. russian forces can take people prisoner and destroy entire villages and towns near the border with shelling. civilians have no place on the front line where hostilities are taking place. because the enemy is trying to harm our military personnel and civilians. well and the russian authorities announced a drone attack tonight on moscow and st. petersburg. the mayor of moscow serhii sabyanin says that two drones were shot down. at the place where the debris fell, there were no casualties. this is also stated in the ministry of defense of the russian federation.

in the meantime, residents of the city of podolsk, south of moscow, are posting videos where explosions can be heard. and already this morning they reported an air alert signal in belgorod. local publications wrote about the operation of air defense systems. the first meeting of the ukraine-nato council in the format the meeting of the commanders of the armed forces took place without the participation of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhny. he was supposed to join the meeting in brussels via video link. but at the last moment, the situation changed, and instead of being a bad boy, he asked. the military representative of ukraine to nato informed the allies about the situation. our colleague in brussels, olena abramovych, will tell more details about the course of the meeting. a new era has begun and it's time to be ready. to hostilities, these words opened the meeting of the commanders of the armed forces of nato countries, the head of the military committee alliance. the heads of the armies of three dozen

countries, members of the bloc, gathered for a two-day meeting in brussels to discuss the new reality. to strengthen our collective defense and support ukraine in its struggle for survival, we need a community-wide approach. the public and private sectors must change the cape. from an era in which everything could be planned, predicted, controlled, focused on efficiency, to an era in which anything could happen at any moment. if you want peace, prepare for war - the admiral repeated a phrase that has recently been used is increasingly heard from the military leadership in western capitals. just the day before, the minister of defense of great britain also announced a new era. the era of peace is over, we... moved to the pre-war world, he said. the swedes, as well as the military leaders of the country, were recently called to prepare for war. analysts in brussels say that such

statements come precisely from the military, because politicians, although they understand, are not ready to talk about it. you know, there is still a kind of wishful thinking in the eu public that there is no war here will happen only because europe is smart. or at least the eu countries are members of nato and protected by the fifth article. we see that politicians do not do a good enough job of explaining to their audiences that war is possible, and of course this is also a consequence of democracy. politicians have to be re-elected every four years, so they don't really want to give bad news to the public. the nato headquarters reminded how many military personnel there are now in the countries of the alliance, it is more than 3 million. their action plan in the event of a threat is now more coordinated than ever. - said the commander of the nato armed forces and added: "the alliance must transform itself into a bloc capable of fighting in a war." later, behind closed doors, the commanders-in-chief

of the european armies discussed ukraine's defense needs. meanwhile , a vote was held in the german parliament on the supply of taurus cruise missiles in the country, which did not find sufficient support. the french authorities, on the other hand, promised ukraine a new batch of 40 long- range cruise missiles. scalps as well as hundreds of bombs. from brussels. olena abramovich, marok hajduk, radio svoboda. well, the german bundestag really rejected the proposal of the cdu-csu parliamentary coalition to supply ukraine with long-range taurus cruise missiles. the voting on the resolution of the group of deputies took place the previous evening, the press service of the bundestag reports. 485 members of the german parliament voted against the initiative. 100. 78 deputies voted for it, which is less than the number of seats in the parliament of the party that submitted this resolution for consideration. vitk, the initiative was rejected. representatives of the greens and

the free democratic party, who during insisted on the supply of missiles for a long time. yehor cherniv, deputy chairman of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on national security, defense and intelligence, wrote on his facebook page that the proposal was rejected due to a violation of the procedure for putting it to a vote and added that the deputies of nime'. the bundestag intends to vote on the joint bill of all parties, and the vote on it may take place on february 22. it was a separate draft law of a part of the opposition, which it wanted to put to a vote without agreeing with the others. bill was rejected not on the merits, but because of a violation of the procedure and an attempt to use it for narrow-party pr. the plan to submit a joint bill of all factions to the bundestag remains in force. the taurus is one of the most advanced long -range cruise missiles, with a range of 500 km, it can hit targets such as bunkers, weapons depots and supply lines from high altitudes.

ukraine requested this weapon in the spring of 2023. oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military legal studies, at this moment joins svoboda ranok broadcast. good morning! good morning! mr. alexander, thank you for joining. well, what are the chances that germany is pogo anyway? the transfer of these missiles to ukraine and what is required for this, is there unity among the german parliament, if the voting procedure is not violated? and the fact is that the vote of the parliament in this case is exclusively of a recommendatory nature, it does not oblige the german government to do anything, it is worth simply understanding, this is a very important point, so that we do not make reference exclusively to vote, the fact is that even if the vote is unsatisfactory, as it was in this case, regardless of ... whether it was a breach of procedure, a failure to follow, or other considerations, and the members of parliament had a german, that does not prevent the german chancellor now from passing the decision on

the transfer of these missiles. to ukraine, because these decisions are not absolutely binding for him. ah, i think that, after all, we should start from the fact that in the end it should be the decision of the government directly, and it can be adopted only chancellor scholz. if of course there was a positive decision by the bundestag, of course i think that it would be additional pressure, increased pressure in a good way on the german government, and of course that it would obviously stimulate them and... to make a positive decision, but for some reason it seems to me , according to my information and, let's say, what can be analyzed, that ukraine will eventually receive tavrus missiles, well, because there will still be pressure, and from german politicians and ukrainian politicians, and the united states will be the same, i think, talk about it , we see that president biden and chancellor scholz spoke by phone and a decision was made

to increase germany to 7 billion. financing of ukraine out of four, which is also positive in the end. so, look, the funding has been increased, and this makes it possible to put tauruses there as well. for some reason, it seems to me that it can happen as with france. when president macron announced that he would visit kyiv in february and that ukraine would receive at least 40 missiles in the coming weeks, scalpi-g. i do not rule out that chancellor scholz will also visit kyiv, maybe even with emmanuel macron, this will take place synchronously at the same time, and they will come with the purpose of signing security agreements, for example, with britain, and scalp missiles and taurus missiles will be transferred to ukraine. in the context of kyiv's support, the bulgarian defense minister said that the shipment of 100 defense personnel carriers to ukraine has not yet begun. the same applies, for example, to canada, which officially appealed to the united states with a request to transfer the nasams system to ukraine as soon as possible, which was

paid for almost a year ago. why does this happen? why are these lengthy processes, it is logistics , it is bureaucracy, this is the root cause of the fact that kyiv cannot receive the promised aid, you know, just last week i had discussions with representatives of canada and the expert environment, and they were really shocked that how does it happen that the decisions were agreed upon, and they take the new ones very seriously, let's say, negatively. that nasams has not yet been installed, that is, they are now calling on the canadian government and politicians to take measures there, i think that is why canada and activated there are a number of explanations for this , it is a bureau, it is a bureaucracy first of all, i will give you an example, you know, for example, there was an interview with the ambassador of canada in ukraine, who said that an agreement is being prepared with ukraine, and yesterday i spoke with the canadian a colleague, and he...

is waiting 24 hours for an answer from the canadian ministry of foreign affairs about whether this is really the case, that is, you understand how much this is just an elementary example, to understand how it all works somewhere, and of course that bureaucracy is added, moments are added that something is needed somewhere produce, prepare for shipment and so on, but of course it can be speeded up, i hope that it will be regulated, well in this matter, i will say for sure, in the matter of nasamsa, there are no political... against, no, everyone is just in favor, and now i think this issue is becoming more active, the attention of the public is focused on bulgaria, the situation was a bit more complicated, because you know, the position of the president of bulgaria is one, the position of the government is different, and i don't i rule out that it is precisely certain bureaucratic ones the obstacles could be because of this, because i mean the position of the bulgarian president is such that not everything is so unambiguous. as

they say and that it is possible to consider the scenario of some negotiations in the future between ukraine and russia, that ukraine is not capable of defeating russia, the position of the government is absolutely pro-european, the opposite, that ukraine should be supported, so i do not rule out that this is also connected with there is a technical point, prepare them for shipment, check their condition, and so on. here is the news that arrived just a few minutes before the broadcast with reference to the french media, we can say that the minister of defense of ukraine rustem. myrov canceled his visit to france for the launch of the artillery coalition, which was scheduled for today, and kyiv allegedly took such a step for security reasons. it's a short phrase, a short quote of how it's explained. how would you comment and what could actually mean these security considerations, due to which the ukrainian minister of defense could not go to france in person, but will join this via video link.