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greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about important topics. belbek airport, ukrainian aviator. will definitely return home to their native resort, he wrote air force commander oleschuk after reports of explosions in crimea. the media talk about the strikes on the belbek airfield, what the armed forces could have hit and what they were hunting. the western media continue to write about the probable resignation of zaluzhnyi, and note that it is still ahead. what is happening in the military-political leadership of the country, how does it affect the battlefield and the support of partners? we will ask the adviser to the head of the president's office. deputies

get acquainted with the new bill on mobilization, which the government submitted to the parliament the day before. the document is already criticized and they find norms there that continue to violate human rights. what do the government officials propose and is there a chance of emphasis on the updated draft law? important news, announcements and exclusive comments, all in our morning broadcast. tune in weekdays from 9:00 a.m. on radio liberty's youtube channel. at the belbek airfield near occupied sevastopol , one of the radar stations and a fleet of vehicles were blown up, the crimean fan telegram channel reports. due to the blast wave , part of the cliff broke off along with the runway. there were explosions in sevastopol the day before during the day. the occupying governor of the city , razvazhaev, said that the anti-aircraft defense system went off in the city, allegedly shot down more than six rockets, and the smoke in the area of ​​sovastopol bay, according to him , is a means of camouflage. the russian ministry of defense said. that repelled

the attack of 20 missiles. 17 of them were allegedly shot down over the black sea, and three more over the peninsula itself. missile fragments fell on the territory of a military unit in the lyubimivka area. this is a district in the north of sevastopol. there is no damage to the aircraft, according to the russian ministry of defense. ukraine is blamed for the attack. but in ukraine involvement in these strikes is not denied. the commander of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, mykola olyshchuk, actually admitted that it was the troops under his command that attacked the airfield in belbek. and he published a video of the explosion on the telegram channel, where he thanked everyone involved in this event. did you know that the 204th sevastopol tactical aviation brigade is part of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, and its regular base is belbek airfield. ukrainian aviators will definitely return home to their native airfield, for now i thank everyone who joined the cleansing of crimea from the russian presence. yurii hnat, spokesman, joins our broadcast.

colonel of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, mr. yuriy, i congratulate you. good morning, congratulations. ukrainian aviators will definitely return home to their native airport, belbek airport. this is such a promising post from commander olyschuk, isn't it? well, don't we give up ukrainian lands, from every scrap that the enemy captured. of course, i also spent a lot of time, in particular, at this airfield, being a military journalist there. treated a lot of materials, after the occupation of crimea, i also wrote about this brigade, which first moved to the kulbakine airfield, the temporary base was in the mykolaiv region, near mykolaiv, and now it is deployed, the permanent place of deployment, lutsk, the city of lutsk, now its home is there , but certainly, of course, everyone wants it, the pilots, especially those who have already updated their composition there, of course, the brigades, but everyone wants to return to their base airfield.

near sevastopol, where they have the rest of the place. you have seen all those shots as occupiers they tried to destroy the planes, how they tried, well, to lure our officers, ours, to their side. servicemen, some of whom we managed to do of course, but then the brigade recovered, restored its combat capability and today works to protect our state, well, accordingly, the destruction of the occupiers in crimea, their destruction at airfields, this is nothing new for us, this is the usual combat work of our tactical aviation, in particular, cruise missile strikes against the occupiers in crimea. if we talk about what the armed forces of ukraine could strike, in particular. and on this airfield, and on what did they hunt there? so, for example, anonymous ukrainian telegram channels wrote about the fact that a few dryers were destroyed there, is that true? well, we need to have confirmation, i can’t state it outright right now, there is certain information, of course we will wait for

satellite images, this will be indisputable evidence that this or that piece of equipment has been disabled, how many occupiers will not return to service and so on further, in the forms or triads, well... and the destruction of the infrastructure, of course, this is also a plus, it is something that will reduce the capabilities of russia, in particular in in the water areas of both seas, i mean in the air space, and their ability to strike our country, to methodically and regularly strike, to reduce their combat capabilities, we can do this now, because we have some tools, of course we need more, of course we need to of the means of defeat itself, well, it has been answered. and we wanted to get the planes from our partners as soon as possible in order to increase our capabilities in this case. if we talk about the belbek airfield itself, it is the nakhimiv district of sevastopol, before the occupation, the international airport, since the 14th year it was closed to civil aviation, how powerful a military object this

place has become during these almost 10 years of russian occupation, and only fighter jets are based there, which, if you can say, well su , sud 27 , mig 29. su-30, well, these are the types of aircraft. there was also information about the fact that earlier we talked about the mix-31, but the modifications are not k, but bm, this is what the mih 31 is, but it has other purpose, he is the carrier of such r37 rackets, in particular, which threaten precisely to our, our planes and helicopters in the southern direction, that's why this airfield... is actively used by the enemy, it is one of the main airfields that are on the territory of the peninsula, there are about five litovych, the enemy uses first a full-scale invasion. i thank you, mr. yuriy, for joining, yuriy hnat, spokesman for the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, colonels, we were talking

about strikes on occupied crimea. the fate of the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, general valery zaluzhnyi, seems to hang in the balance due to tension with the president of ukraine by volodymyr zelensky, writes the new york times. western media continue to search for such a solution to the wave of unofficial reports about the alleged release of zaluzhny, which never happened. journalists of the publication note that ukraine is in a precarious position on the battlefield, both because of the increased attacks of the russian army and because of the uncertainty of allies with help. and in the event of a change in the commander-in-chief, the partners may be concerned about the instability of the leadership of ukraine, i suppose. journalists, for according to a military officer who worked in the general staff, whose name the publication does not disclose, the president's office is still considering the dismissal of the soldier, while the spokesman of the president of ukraine, serhii nikirov , denied information about the dismissal. in the new york times article, among the versions that could have caused the deterioration of relations between president

zelenskyi and general zaluzhny, they call the summer counteroffensive, which did not give the expected results. another version is valery zaluzhny's column for the economist, in which the general wrote that the war in ukraine may end up in a stalemate. journalists note that zelensky then suggested that such a comment could be useful for russia, and it could become a key rebuke to the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine zaluzhny. but the american tv channel cnn wrote in its own material, and again with reference to two unnamed sources familiar with the situation, that zelensky's decree on the release of the tyrant is expected by the end of this week. and the head of ukrainian intelligence, kyrylo budanov. which together with the commander of the ground forces sirsky, the same western ones named by the media as likely candidates for the post of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, predicts the end of the offensive of russian forces, and in an interview with a tv channel he says that we, ukraine, that the russian army, which is currently conducting

offensive operations, will run out of strength by the beginning of this spring. they wanted as soon as possible to reach the barrier line along the black stallion river in the kharkiv region and... to reach the administrative borders of the donetsk and luhansk regions. as you yourself understand, there is nothing even close to this, but their offensive still continues, somewhere at the beginning of spring is exhausted completely. according to budanov, the situation regarding further military actions will become more or less clear in the spring, i quote: now the enemy's move will end, and i think ours will begin, budanov said. ukraine will achieve success this year, and putin will have pleasant surprises on the battlefield. this is how victoria nuland, us deputy secretary of state for political affairs, summed up her visit to ukraine at a press conference during her visit to kyiv. she said this and told journalists that 2024, i quote, will be a year of absolute strategic importance for ukraine. i come back with more confidence

that, even as ukraine strengthens its defenses, mr. putin will have some pleasant surprises on the battlefield and that ukraine will make great strides this year. the us deputy secretary of state for political affairs also emphasized that the united states continues to provide ukraine with new systems. and, in particular, light aviation bombs, which are already on their way to the front. let me remind you that a day earlier the pentagon announced the transfer of aerial bombs, however, the deadline for the transfer is due security considerations were not mentioned at the time. mykhailo podolyak, adviser to the head of the president's office, joined our broadcast, mr. mykhailo, i welcome you to our broadcast, thank you for joining. yes, congratulations, congratulations. do you think that russia will run out of strength by the beginning of spring, as budanov noted, given its capabilities, taking into account the support of its partners. well, in my opinion, this is not a linear issue, yes, well, that is

, the russian federation, today it has a militarized economy, 42% of the federal budget is allocated to the war, they spend constantly, they call it partial mobilization, but you and i understand that at the expense of the funds they receive, after all, for the fact that they can partly sell oil there, sell gas, continue to sell it in large volumes, they definitely conduct recruiting activities and... there are relevant quantitative material, i will even say it like that, yes, that is , there is a lot of mobilized, and a lot of old equipment adapted, in addition, they also conduct constant negotiations with such countries as north korea, the dprk, yes, and receive certain, say, yes projectiles of large calibers, and they will definitely have resources, here the question is different, the question is that, in any case, depletion will take place in the russian federation as well, we already see certain negative processes there , but we see that after all still... people understand that the 5,000, well, tentatively, yes, 500,000 losses that they bear in this war, it is still noticeable even for such a country as

the russian federation, and it will have certain consequences, in addition, with from the point of view of the offensive operations they are conducting today in the donetsk direction, well, they are significant they definitely don't have any achievements there, they advance 20 m there, lose a large number of people, and it definitely does not solve any, not even strategic tasks, as they said, yes, you remember, they said that you need to go to the admin. of the donetsk and luhansk regions, and this does not even solve the tactical issues of improving the situation in combat as such for individual units of the russian army, and definitely, definitely, look, there are three components that we must understand precisely, and we and our partners, first, the issue with russia can be resolved only on the battlefield, that is, only at the expense of powerful offensive operations in ukraine. the second component, which is very important: the russian federation , well, it must suffer tactical defeats, so that all the people who are in... the zone, who are not motivated to do something there, well, essential, besides the fact that you can just come to

ukraine to kill, that they start to lose in a landslide and flee to the territory of the russian federation, and then this will have significant consequences for social relations in the russian federation itself, and the third component, of course, is high-tech solutions, nevertheless , there is no sense in quantitatively fighting with russia, and i emphasize once again, because the russian federation treats its citizens with absolutely nothing. and it doesn’t matter how many of them will die and so on, but in order to destroy them, taking into account the fact that, for example, they are concentrating tens of thousands of people in the direction of the shavidov there at a suitable distance from the front line, for this exactly the eyes are needed solutions that even ms. noland talks about, well, that is, they must be high-tech solutions that allow mass destruction of russians on long-range approaches, you said that the issue of russia can be solved only on the battlefield, is it clear here about the support of partners for this with weapons, in particular... if we talk about the commander-in-chief, is it necessary to change the commander-in-chief in order to to

solve the issue with russia? you know, look, what is the problem, when we talk about the commander-in-chief, or about any military, we then transfer the war to the political plane, that is, we start talking about political processes, for me it is a simple vertical, i am very pragmatic about all this, there is a simple vertical, there is a supreme commander who is responsible for strategic relations within the framework of the war, as such... which is definitely a vertical of his direct subordination, which means that the main command is also included or the leaders of the osuvs, well , and so on and so on, and certainly, when we talk about war, in my opinion, it is necessary to... pragmatically approach what war is, what we have gained, where we are going next, what we have from the point of view of the 24th year will take place, that is it is not just to say, let's move to strategic, for example, there is a concept, we are in a positional war today, let's move to strategic defense, well, to accumulate resources there, i then ask a pragmatic question, and the russian federation at this time will wait, do nothing , will wait until you accumulate resources and then have

the opportunity to destroy them, right, no, the russian federation will also accumulate resources, will behave like... shamelessly will look for opportunities somewhere in the same, well, let's go in the same irani take additional drones, will modernize these drones and so on and will attack us, that is, the understanding of what to do in the 24th year must be clearly fixed together in the domestic market, well , it is important, of course, it is not necessary to talk about it publicly, and the same for partners, so that they also understood what kind of investments should be made in ukraine, well, it is meant to be invested in ukraine, taking into account the production of these or other posts. and so on and the like, it seems to me that when we start talking about ratings, about political competitions and so on, then we ourselves we are creating a strange, well, strange kind of disposition for ourselves, we have a war, in this war we have to make optimal decisions, and once again i will emphasize that the president, for example, as the supreme commander-in-chief, has the right to make any decision, for today there are no decisions, personnel decisions, no decisions, but

you see, today, instead of discussing strategic and tactical actions in the 24th year, we are ... proposing it to partners, we are talking about political, some kind of competitive relations, for me it is strange, once again, mr. mykhailo, but we are discussing it not for nothing, in particular because, well , quite a wave this week covered all of us, information and from the western media, including from the ukrainian media, about the issue of the resignation of the volunteer, and these media are talking about that, and cnn wrote about it today, that the decision will already be made this week, in fact, that this issue seems to have already been decided by the president in the... , it is delayed due to a leak of information, or due to a reaction international partners, well, or because there is no replacement yet, can you first of all confirm that the resignation

of the commander-in-chief is really being prepared and can you give a reason why this might happen, and the first thing... it will be a fact, if there is fact , we will then comment, well, it will be speculative , if i confirm that something will happen after a certain time, well, that is , forecasting is a little different, yes, well, this kind of speculative forecasting is meant, this is the first, second, i emphasize once again, we have to talk about the war and the effective conduct of certain defensive and offensive actions, and the commander-in-chief has the absolute right within the managerial vertical to clearly say whether these or other tasks have been won or not solved, if he will make any decisions, he definitely promotes, well that is, he will talk about the motivation for making certain decisions. the third component, i would like you and i to realize after two years of war that we are not in a political electoral cycle, we are today in a war, in a state of war. the russian federation is definitely not

changing its plans, we can see it. in the same way , it is necessary for our partners to understand how we are going to achieve certain goals. a whole range of strategic or even tactical ones, because i emphasize once again, these are all such general things , we will be in strategic defense, this is a positional war, how long will we be in strategic defense, will we be able to have a comparable amount of resources to russia in order to be in this frozen war with periodic missile attacks on the territory of ukraine, that is, there are many questions that need to be answered answers, here we are with political experts, we are talking about one part, with the military, of course, about these military issues, okay? what did you say about the realization that now there are no elections on time, and we are in a war, and it seems that the further it goes, the more acute is the issue of the survival of ukraine, including, we called on you, and it is very good that you connected, because there are a lot of rumors and various reports in respectable western media and in respectable ukrainian media about this, and therefore we are interested to know exactly which the situation in the president's office, because

these are rumors, it doesn't look like just rumors anymore, there is a lot of such information, of course. rational approaches in the president's office, or even, let's say, in the president's office, he rationally assesses what is happening today, he wants to get effective actions, an understanding of what will happen in our country in the 24th year, what resources are needed for this, and so that it was obvious to the partners who provide us with these resources, if we don't have an understanding of this and a tactical understanding, i already said about the strategy that it is unchanged in our country, because if the russian federation, at least in this way, remains on our territory, it is definitely a war, an endless war, and by the way, literally yesterday... or the day before yesterday, putin directly said about this that he would, that he said that he will push back the demarcation line, because it is necessary not to attack peaceful russian cities and so on, that is, he directly says that he... will continue to fight until he loses, based on this concept, and we we have been talking about this for a long time, based on this concept, and for us and for our partners

, we need to realize that we have only a combined strategy, we have a defensive-offensive strategy, we cannot wait until russia is recognized, for this we need certain actions, an understanding of these actions on the battlefield, an understanding of what we need the tools, and partners must also believe that we have a clear tactical approach. understanding of his actions on the battlefield, everything the president will do is based on these considerations, but i emphasize once again, i do not really like to comment on rumors, i understand that there are many experts on rumors, and they are in that there are some in the state authorities, but i always comment exclusively on the facts, there will be facts, we will comment, we will understand the motives of this or that decision of the president, well, i mean as a representative of the president's office, and certainly as of today there is no fact of dismissal, the president, if necessary, he will do everything necessary and after that he will give comments there, but you surely know that such a decision is probably being prepared, or has probably already been adopted, there is simply no order, discussions of any kind are definitely always

necessary in order to conduct analysis the situation we are in, what needs to be done to make this situation look different, what needs to be done in order for us to get additional resources and so on, discussions can be of any kind, but i emphasize once again that for today there are no possible solutions ? you have read in the western media , you probably heard somewhere in the corridors, in the offices about possible candidates for the position of the deputy, the western media write that it is syrskyi and maybe it is budanov, but there is also such contradictory information and they write that allegedly, these people refused, is there really a discussion with the president, in the president's entourage of those probable candidates for the position of head of the committee, from the point of view that you mentioned several times that there should be an understanding, a plan, what will happen... this year, that this understanding both the president wants to know and the western partners, and to me , not even what it seems, i just know, most deeply evaluates certain professional

qualities, functional qualities of people who today are responsible for the defensive or offensive directions in the framework of the war, it the president, he knows exactly who holds which positions, who has achievements and how he works in these positions, and so on. therefore , once again, there will be decisions related to personnel on dismissal or, on the contrary, on appointment, we will talk about it, but i will emphasize once again that the president, unlike there, well, as one might think, does not always talk about politics, yes, the president is constantly up to date with the latest information about the war, almost every day he is visited by selectors, military cabinets, bets separately, yes, directly conversations with one or other leaders, purely about the war, all other issues have on... well , except for such important ones, for example, how is the energy supply, yes, these issues are also always in the focus of attention, but everything related to the war, who is in this war, what qualities did he show

, how do these qualities affect, the qualities are personal, functional, yes, skills, how they affect the course of the war, the president knows best everything that concerns the specifics, but he is not a military person to go so deeply into this to figure it out, although he definitely has information, you know, that's it already... a philosophical question, if you are not a military person from the point of view of formalizing your there, well, for example, educational there career paths, biographical paths, will this mean that you do not understand exactly what, or on the contrary, you understand , or those people who , for example, have formal authority there, that is to say, have graduated from the relevant educational institutions, or do they also understand this or that, it’s not about the military, it’s abstract, yes, we understand that if you want ... something to learn, then you have to go you need to learn this, yes, well, that is , you have to dive deeply into this or that issue and understand whether you are being told correctly, you have to analyze subjectively,

yes, well, that is, that you have to understand it, if you want, accordingly, as a strategic seo , well, how to seo, to manage this, you have to understand the details of operational management, in order to correctly assess whether a person really understands what he is doing, whether there are prospects in this or not, so the president is just... constantly in the material, i emphasize once again, but to a surgeon, who is probably not a professional surgeon, you would not go, but we are talking about strategic management, a surgeon can definitely be the director of a clinic, for example, well , let's go then, if we are good there, mr. mykhailo, i want what so that we have time to talk with you about such a very important moment for society, don't you think that in the office of the president, or how do they generally feel about this situation, what is happening in society, when it is in such an information swing, and this is an extremely sensitive topic and. .. so it seems that it is not communicated enough by the first faces of the state, it is not communicated enough officially, and people are in such a state that all this information from the western media is simply poured on them,

unstable. the situation seems to be that none of the ukrainians can forget the aggressor about the war here, i think that whether this factor is taken into account by the president's entourage and the president himself in general, shouldn't it be possible to communicate better with such people, well, although you are saying rumors, yes, but that no less, maybe we need to communicate better, this obvious, but you know, i would like to build an ideal system, but an ideal system, because it can be built on objective factors, and not on the subjective perception of one or another. people in ukraine have enough information, well, it is a common practice to use speculative topics, use hype, and so on and so on. in addition, we have seen with you how our partners work, the media of our partners, they are also constantly commenting on something or other rumors and so on, they are constantly scaring us, by the way, in the last year i have already read there how many times and then commented on the fact that ukraine will be left

one-on-one with the russian federation, they will not give ... well, they will not supply weapons and the like, and all this is perfectly repulsed, perfectly said, no, this not so, in any case you will have , look, always a conspiracy theory, any theory about language, yes, it will be in demand among the reader, it does not only apply to ukraine, it applies to the modern world, people like it, you come out and say, no, it's not like that, it's, well, it's not like that perceived, because it is, well, banal , if, well, you said no wrongly, or you said yes and so on, but you cannot say any details without... speechless, because, well, not everything should be discussed in a public space, for example , everything related to the strategy of waging war is clear in general terms, but everything related to tactical actions, well, of course, it should not be said in public space, we can talk too much sometimes and we see it, but in this case i emphasize once again, ideal communication systems do not exist, we try to build it, not always it works out the way it should, that's the first, the second component, well, there are a lot of people who like to hype, it's meant to be, they can

be in power, they can be in a... position, anywhere, and they just like to come out and become the first star, yes , well, that is, to tell some news, to comment on it there, as it is desired and considered good for him , and so on, this does not always correspond to reality, but you cannot stop it all, because i will emphasize once again, people want to show their ego, their self, this is the second component, and the third component, it is still necessary to take into account that we live in an information world, no matter how you comment on something, you can single out your phrase, add some kind of comment to it. and it will look already distorted and completely different, so i urge both you and our viewers to read the official media that have their face first source, listen, quotes, this is a very important point, i will add, i will add, it is very important, you are now so, let's say, they briefly said about a very important thing, unfortunately, there are not enough reputable institutes in ukraine, so you are absolutely right, if there is a reputation in the media, then that's cool, if it's an anonymous telegram channel or something, then

you have to treat it accordingly, they... don't have any reputation capital, and of course, the information they talk about is rather speculation , but i will also note that the information about the probable resignation of zaluzhny was heard by many, including the western reputable media, so we paid attention to it, and therefore i thank you for joining and explaining what the situation is at the moment, mykhailo podalyak, adviser to the head of the president's office, was a guest of svoboda ranok, thank you, the eu summit is critical for ukraine, which will determine further assistance to it with money and weapons... today is happening in brussels, the leaders of the member countries will try to break through the hungarian blockade and allocate such 50 billion of macro-financial assistance to ukraine , as well as determine how its military needs will be covered in order to delay funding from the us. in brussels, at the scene of the event, which would not have happened if it were not for viktor orban's veto, radio liberty correspondent zoryana stepanenko is now with us live. zoryan, i congratulate you, tell me how, what is happening, whether the intrigue persists, the hungarian prime minister, who is called the most

pro-russian. politicians in europe have not yet approved funds for ukraine? good morning, katya. viktor orban is the so-called culprit of this celebration, because the summit would not have happened now and the 27 leaders of the eu countries would not have come here to brussels, if the prime minister of hungary had not blocked macrofin ukraine in december. now the hungarian prime minister is ready for a compromise, but again, on his own terms, he is not ready to vote for granting 50 billions to kyiv until 2027, inclusive, and wants to review this decision every year and continues to insist on this, moreover, it wants the extension of the macro-finance to be approved by all leaders unanimously, with the hungarian one, respectively , inclusive, and these are additional windows for veto, understanding that 26 country leaders -members are in no hurry to accept orban's conditions, well, in particular , from the latest version of the conclusions of the summit, which is at the disposal of radio liberty, it follows that countries and others offer so-called gold.