win, that was a direct quote. and the blocking is planned at least until march 10. polish agrarian solidarity called on polish society to support their protest. meanwhile, five checkpoints have already been blocked by polish protesters, the state border service of ukraine reports. and the day before , work was also stopped for an hour at the sixth korchova-krakivets crossing. czech farmers may also join the protest, as reported by the czech newspaper. on february 19, they want to protest in prague and... will send a letter to the minister of agriculture, marik elector, demanding the czech republic's withdrawal from the european grain agreement. halyna tereshchuk, a correspondent of radio liberty, is currently in touch with us. halyna, congratulations, what is the situation on the border now, what are the expectations and how high is the degree of tension, especially after the ukrainian grain spilled on the ground? greetings to all the viewers of radio svoboda, i want to explain, here... look, this is the road that

leads to the checkpoint of shaginya medyka, actually in medytsia, this is one of those five points pass, as oleg already said, which is now being blocked by polish farmers, but i specifically stopped right here near these trucks, because, as you can see, there are quite a lot of them here, and along the road, when i was driving from lviv, also near gas stations at the stations you can see trucks standing, nearby there is a border guard who passes one by one from... but the electronic queue actually passes these trucks to the checkpoint, because shegynya is a village, it is a settlement, and they cannot stand there in long line say these trucks. such a system , that is, there is no such, say, huge accumulation of cars here, as there is along the road, as we drive from medyka to przemyśl, where about 200 trucks have already gathered there in the direction of ukraine, the biggest queue is in front of korchovo, korchovo- kraków because this

checkpoint is active, and there are about a thousand lorries currently standing in line, the situation here is like this, and in fact, i have already had time to talk with the drivers, they tell me that they are receiving information according to the electronic queue to drive up, they drove up here, and one of the drivers said that he had already been waiting in line here for four days, and it was moving very slowly, that is , it is not known how much longer he will have to wait, but i will try to drive up to one driver, forgive me if i have to knock on this window until... and they open it for us, tell me, please, how long have you been standing here in line? the second day has already passed, and what is the system, that is, you received some information to drive up, what does it look like, well, it comes to our phone, this time when you can drive in will already be, and well, we see in the electronic queue that we go, and we see when it is possible to drive in and then we leave, and well, the second day has already passed.

during this time of the second oak, cars passed in front of you, nothing moved at all, what do you think about the fact that, say, there was this action on sunday, that grain was poured from three trucks that were supposed to transit through poland, what is your assessment of these actions and how does it affect drivers? well, i don't know this rudeness at all, probably they will come back like that someday, well, well it's ha then i can't even comment on that, it 's bread and that's all, thank you, uh, actually, we 'll communicate even more with ukrainian drivers, and i'll also go to this polish side. well, maybe there are some more questions so that it would be easier for me to answer them. yes, thank you, galina. well, for now we have learned everything promptly , we are waiting for a great material from the border from you, as always you know a lot on the topic of polish-ukrainian relations, and in particular we are waiting for you to analyze how this situation can affect

polish-ukrainian relations. galina trischuk, a radio liberty correspondent from the border, the situation, i will remind you, was complicated there due to the blockade. thank you, galina. the state bureau of investigation received permission to seize the real estate of roman hrenkevych's ex-fiancée sonya morozyuk. we are talking about two apartments in kyiv, one in kharkiv and land plots. according to tetyana sapyan, communications advisor of the dbr, the majority of morozyuk's property was acquired during a full-scale search. war, in addition to morozyuk , the property of one more accomplice of the hrenkevychs may end up, the sbi noted in the criminal proceedings the real estate and transport of igor hrenkevich, members of his family, his wife, son and mother-in-law, two of his classmates and companies controlled by them were seized, the sbi said, they are accused of embezzlement with military tenders. sonia morozyuk herself wrote on instagram three weeks ago that she never received an apartment or a car from roman hrenkevich or members of his family.

all suspicions that i allegedly received something else from roman or members of his family, apartments, cars, real estate, whatever, i i reject it, and i am ready to prove it in court, and in any way. the promise to submit a declaration remains valid. thanks to everyone who believes in me as a person with morals and principles. earlier, hromadskyi journalists reported that the artist sonia moruzyuk pledged two luxury apartments and a gallery in kyiv under loan agreements to supposedly protect the property from seizure. tetyana sapyan, communications advisor of the state bureau of decentralization, joins our broadcast. good morning. good morning, colleagues, and good morning to all viewers and listeners of radio svoboda. you in in principle, the question has already been raised that , as the media, in particular, and in particular, the society also raises the question of whether those who are currently suspected, this is the family of a lviv businessman there, the lviv businessman, i mean, and the son, who are in the pre-trial detention center, and actually the relevant persons

, can they rewrite some property , well, i think that you will agree that there are two questions in this story, the first question is why the ex-fiancee... what do you call the artist, was arrested her property, and secondly, whether the family succeeds, in particular the son and lviv businessman to re-register his property. i would like to note that indeed, the state bureau of investigation, in the process of obtaining orders for seizure of property, found out that part of the property, in particular, which belonged to the son of a lviv businessman, was re-registered for a very short time. period of time, but i want to, and part of the family's property is also under mortgage, there are two apartments for rent, one in kyiv and one in lviv, but the rulings received by the prosecution do not affect, in particular, the fact

that part of the property is seized, part no, that is, the decrees on this property mean that even if the property was re-registered or mortgaged, it will all... be under arrest at the same time, this is very important, and this also applies to the artist's property, including. so, tetyana, i would like to dwell on the property of the artist, from what they say in the state bureau of investigation, most of this property was acquired during a large-scale war, and what evidence does the state bureau of investigation have regarding the fact that, i don't know, these apartments were donated, bought by her ex-fiancé, maybe he lent her money for it or gave it, or these apartments were conditionally transferred from the company that belonged to the father of the son, actually romana. what is known in this context, because this is actually a very important moment and moruzyuk herself says that these apartments are there, they are her property and so on, what is known here? olezhe, you asked all the right questions, and the answers to these questions will be clarified in the process of the pre-trial investigation. let me remind you that the artist herself does not

currently have any status, but her property is under arrest, due to the fact that she was very close to those involved. criminal proceedings, and as it was established, and you indicated that this property was partially acquired in the conditions of martial law, so the investigators will find out whether it was due to what happened, but when the answers to these questions will be found out, then this property and the artist herself will not be under, let's say, the watchful eye of the law enforcement body, and in fact, the sbi report also referred to the property that belonged to the mother-in-law and wife of the lviv businessman hrynkevich, about whom we are talking, what status do these persons have, do they actually have status in the investigation now? currently do not have a status, but you are absolutely right, for example, if we are talking with you about the property of a lviv businessman, then, for example,

a plot of land in the kyiv region and almost 2 hectares was registered on it, and, for example, a 2022 bmw was registered to the mother-in-law or. for example, there a land rover is registered to a particular company, arrests have been made on this property, by the way, we hope that the database will contain exactly all the property for which the sbi has received arrest warrants in the database, and already every journalist, or every citizen who has direct access, and will want to make sure that the family arrest will be able to do it, so they have no status accordingly. but the property, the property that is registered to them, currently has arrest warrants. thank you very much , tetiana, for what tetiana sep'ian, communications advisor of the state bureau of investigation, explained about the case of the lviv hrynkevich family, who are suspected of embezzling purchases for the ministry of defense. well,

the armed forces of ukraine, together with the units of the main directorate of intelligence, destroyed the large russian amphibious assault ship caesar kunikov near alupka in the black sea. this is reported by the general staff. earlier in the morning , ukrainian pravda, citing its own sources, reported that the ship sank as a result of drone strikes. in the morning, the crimean wind telegram channel reported about explosions in the black sea near the village. kitsiveli, which is part of the yalta city council near alupka, showed a video of a seagoing ship on fire to save the ship, one more, another ship allegedly sailed up, a boat can also be seen nearby, crimean vetir writes, the attack on the black sea fleet is confirmed and russian pro-war publics, in particular rybak, close to the russian ministry of defense. says that the extent of the ship's damage is unknown, and the public two majors write that the ship's crew

is alive. the russian ministry of defense does not say anything about the defeat of caesar kunikov, but in the morning it was reported that six ukrainian drones were shot down over the black sea. since the very morning when we started this broadcast, we have reported that this is an important topic and we are investigating this issue, so we are waiting for more comments to find out details about what happened dmytro plytenchuk is currently in contact with us, he is the spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine. mr. dmitry, i congratulate you, the studio congratulates you on this wonderful holiday morning, tell me the details of the morning, which you call festive and wonderful, what about the ship, what is known? well, as the president of the russian federation said, at one time, it sank, well, in principle, we can , according to his words, comment on the situation that happened with... with the large landing ship caesar kunnikov. how far was this ship

essential for the black sea fleet of the russian federation and what details of its actual sinking are known to you, because the general staff officially confirms this information. well, the details will come later, we can only note that colleagues from the main intelligence department worked on yet another redundant object in black. sea, i can point out that the 775 project is quite popular in the navy of the so-called russian federation, it is a large amphibious ship that has a lot of its own weapons, and the corresponding capabilities for landing landings on he has an unequipped coast, and as of now, the situation is such that of the 13 ships that were... in the black sea fleet at the disposal of the full-scale fleet at the beginning,

only five units remain fully operational. mr. dmytro, telegram channels one after the other have been posting information about caesar lvovich kunikov, this is a soviet officer, the commander of an amphibious detachment, apparently, after whom this ship was named, if i understand correctly, and here he died on february 14, this soviet officer, it is somehow possible between ourselves connect, well, it might be... luck, not every caesar manages to die twice in one day, eh, with the loss of this ship, which is confirmed by the ukrainian general staff and there is not even a word of position, i must say the russian ministry of defense, there this loss is not confirmed to what extent the russian fleet has weakened even more, in fact, as of now , it is most likely impossible to bring such ships to the equator of the azov-black sea region, because it is unlikely that it will be possible through internal inlets. will pass, accordingly, they cannot enter through the bosphorus, so this is a significant loss, in general it is necessary

understand that this is a rather large ship, regardless of its size, its functionality, it can be noted that its functionality was also quite serious, taking into account the fact that the enemy constantly threatened ukraine with the landing of naval amphibious assaults, now these possibilities have decreased even more marines and accordingly, it cannot but please. mr. dmitry, we thank you for stepping in and telling us, at least the preliminary details of what is known about the large amphibious ship caesar kunikov, which actually sank in the black sea with data the ukrainian general staff today is not without outside help. dmytro pletnichuk, spokesman for the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, is a guest of our broadcast. thank you. you are watching radio svoboda. i will remind you that we will promptly inform you about those events in the morning. that are happening in ukraine and the world, definitely the topic of war is the hottest, and here is the message about the loss of another for

the russian navy, this is a topic that will be discussed today throughout the day, so i suggest you follow the updates on the pages of radio liberty and on radio svoboda website and subscribe to our youtube channel so as not to miss the most important thing. in addition, in our networks, in particular in telegram, we promptly report verified and checked information. in addition, we also offer you that. for updates in the context of what is happening at the border. halyna trishchuk, a correspondent of radio liberty, works today on both sides of the ukrainian-polish border, she will be on both the ukrainian and polish sides, so her big... about what is happening, how it will affect polish-ukrainian relations after the blockade of the border, and i will remind you that polish farmers have announced that they will block all checkpoints, how will this affect, what will be the development of these events, also watch, radio liberty is promptly trying to find out these events, well, thank you for what was with us is the freedom of the mornings project, my name is oleg galiv, take care. we welcome you

to the espressa channel, don't forget to let us know, our collection is ongoing, we have all the details on the broadcast, and meanwhile we have an official confirmation from the general staff in dry language. the armed forces of ukraine, together with a unit of the main directorate of intelligence, destroyed a large amphibious assault ship of the occupiers, caesar kunikov, at the time of the attack it was in the territorial waters of ukraine, near the temporarily occupied alupka, and went to resupply. the bottom fleet of russia was replenished with such by ship, and in the meantime we will talk with the major of the armed forces of ukraine. the press officer of the first separate special brigade named after bohun, taras berezovyts, is in touch with us, taras, congratulations,

glory to ukraine, to the heroes, glory, roman, glad to see, well, first of all, of course... the action on this is a very symbolic option, on st. valentine's day, caesar kunikov, the uncle who, on this very day, went to kobzon, this ship is named after him, what is the reaction, actually, regarding the sinking of this vessel. roman, today is a festive valentine from the armed forces of ukraine and from ukrainian military intelligence for the russian occupiers in crimea, it must be said. traditionally, they give their loved ones some kind of memorial gift, but this gift is now eternally anchored to the coast of the ukrainian crimea somewhere in the region of alubka or simiiza, and as you know, according to the norms of international law, since these are ukrainian territorial waters, in time it has every chance, just like other russian ships,

to become an object for divers, i hope so , that you and i will eventually... have the opportunity to visit an underwater excursion, see the holds of this ship, which was built in poland in 1986, and the most important thing is that the russians today do not have any technical capabilities, no - no, they can repeat, saying in their language, that is, they do not have the technology to build such ships today, and even if they had, they would not have the opportunity to bring them into the waters of the black sea of ​​azov, because it is closed to russian warships. in turkish , well, as for as for the crimean, this is a double gift from taras and to you personally, i actually wanted to ask you about, well, we looked, now there are three moments, the first, it has already taken place the first rate of the supreme commander-in-chief with the newly appointed leadership of the supreme, again

appointed by the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine, the first interview of tsirskyi took place for... the cdf, where certain things were said, well , let's say this, about all this rapid replacement of a large number of the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine. i understand that the military, the military hierarchy, as they say, but still, what is the reaction that you observe, how did these personnel rockers perceive and even on such a scale in the armed forces? normal work change, roman, change of military command, this is the prerogative of the supreme command. tim moreover, all these teams, they are not new to the personnel, each of them held one or another high position in the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine, the new commander-in-chief, colonel-general oleksandr syrskyi, is a person who has enormous combat experience, as you know, he led several successful

military operations during the war, the defense of kyiv, the bakhmud operation, and the kharkiv operation. the liman operation, and he brought with him front-line officers, those, first of all, whom he knows personally, from this galaxy, i so i myself have the honor of knowing several officers, in particular brigadier general mykhailo drapatoy , under whose leadership the special forces units of our brigade took part first in the defense of the kherson region, later in the offensive operation, the liberation of the city of kherson, this is the same general who, as... vora, led the operation from free individual districts of the city of mariupol in the 14th year, well, this whole new team of appointees who came together with... the new commander-in-chief, a lot of good words were said by the military about several combatants generals, but one assignment still

remains resonant and unclear, i am referring to the territorial defense forces and ihor plahuta went there, during the maidan he commanded the internal troops, they were the ones who cleaned up anti-maidan activists together with berkut, it was filmed like this. you can even hear what he was talking about on december 10, on february 11, the cleaning of the government quarter, this is the appointment with the background of the period of the revolution of dignity and the yanukovych repressions, so what is the meaning of the general from the ministry of internal affairs of the internal troops on the forces of territorial defense, we never understood, roman, i am not familiar with general plahuta, we can use. use only official information, it indicates that he took part in combat operations on the hottest areas of the front from the 22nd year, in particular, according to

the information, he took part in the organization of the defense of the city of kupyansk, kharkiv region, this is one of the hottest points today the front it must be understood that if a person honestly performed his military duty, first of all the next step is to focus on her... in today's achievements, if there are legal grounds for conducting investigations into the activities of this person, then the question arises why they have not been carried out until today, so it is obvious that there are no such grounds to date, therefore general plahuta is currently the military officer who fulfills his duties, as official sources and people who serve with him testify again, he fulfills them with dignity and... and this appointment also has its own logical explanation, i will repeat once again, it was a team of officers with combat front-line experience who came, but i understand that here, in principle, today

berkutivets of kharkiv alone was just convicted of this zhivder, who beat young boys on the columns of the lobanovskyi stadium, then they were thrown into the mockery and so on further, such a berkut was condemned, why don't we have an answer as a society, for example, about the role? the commanders in these events of mintov yanukovych, well, this is not a question for you, but a question for the law enforcement officers and other leadership, we understand, we remove it from the order afternoon, but i am now talking about the first interview that oleksandr syrsky gave to the german edition of the cdf, and there we were interested in two points, this is a new stage of the war - he says, that is, we are moving to defense, but further on in this same interview... we hear about the borders of 1991, that is, our legal borders, and here such a cognitive dissonance arises, because if we are in defense, then

it is somehow incomprehensible to set the goal of going to the borders, in defense you will not go anywhere, including to the state border, do not contradict each other? i don't see any contradiction here, because the army is this conservative institution, and here we see the absolute heredity of the present. of the military leadership with their predecessors, the task of reaching the state borders in 1991, it remains unchanged, we must do so, regardless of how much time it actually takes. the christomotian operation to restore the territorial integrity of croatia, which was carried out a long time after the start of the war in the former yugoslavia, has already been mentioned many times, but the forces have not decreased. the republics of croatia were able to achieve the desired goal, and they did not refused her. it is necessary to understand, realistically, and this was said by colonel-general sirskyi, in this interview , which, by the way, with the cdf tv channel, as far as i

understand, was recorded even before his appointment to a new position, he stated that the current stage is very difficult war, that we should move to strategic defense at this stage, and it is clear that he did not say a single word anywhere that... we will restore the borders of 1991, as certain incompetent experts allowed themselves to say in two or three weeks, of course, it is not discussed, it is not discussed completion of this operation by the end of the 24th year, we understand that this is a long-lasting war, this is a game of dogue, yesterday's assessments that were given regarding the ability of the armed forces of the country, the aggressor , to wage war for another two or three years with the availability of the armored vehicles that is armed. of the armed forces of the russian federation clearly indicate to us that this war will not end in the coming years, therefore the armed forces are

a tool, it is a point. conditionally speaking, the ukrainian people in the realization of the goals, the restoration of our territorial integrity, i repeat once again, expect a quick result, given the potential of the aggressor country, no one can , well, they do not demand this from the armed forces, our main priority, as sirsky said about it, by the way, in this interview, is the preservation of the lives of personnel, well, by the way, yesterday we talked with the deputy of the servant of the people, fede. vanislavskii, he is in the committee on national security and defense in the parliament, well, in particular , he was asked why he still works in this committee with access to military secrets and maryana bezugla, who was excluded from faction of the servant of the people, well, he said that there are no votes yet, that is why she is a valid member of this profile committee, and she is the one today, well, she did not start the day with how to properly remove general zaluzhny from

the post of head of the central committee, but already... started with completely different messages, that is, we take it as an official source, she is a member of the specialized committee , says that large-scale checks in the armed forces of ukraine have begun, that they are checking, again, look, an official source that can give such information can be either themselves armed forces, or law enforcement structures, with all due respect to one or another people 's deputy, and it is obvious that this deputy, mrs. maryana, in her previous... political experience, she hardly deserves that we talk about any respect for to her, she cannot be a source of official information, but until it is confirmed by other authorized sources, i do not know anything about this information in my status, so for now i cannot comment , that is, at least with my own eyes in

you see some sudden special checks around you, i understand correctly , so exactly, of course, one more point that we talked about with the military today, maybe we should also hear your opinion, because about the danger that despite all the effectiveness of avdiyivka, which 1:13 i will grind and meat grinders, there is now this option such as slices, i.e. such salami cutting, an attempt to take small pieces to cut off our defenders. here is your vision as a military man to continue or whether it is time to withdraw the garrison, it is simply yours the vision as a military one? my vision as a military man is to carry out the orders and orders of the general staff and the commanders of the ukrainian armed forces in each specific place , again, returning to the interview of general syrsky, to whom he stated that if he had a choice to leave. save the lives

of the personnel, or fight with losses, he will choose the first, that is, for him, the priority is to save the lives of ukrainian servicemen, to comment on this or that operation from the point of view of its feasibility, well, let's say, this is his competence senior commanders, i can only say that today the enemy's task of occupying most of ukraine remains unchanged, the enemy is trying... the main intelligence department even has a video of this operation. the management of the surface fleet

of the russian federation in the surface fleet, or otherwise, i don't know, khrystyna parubiy will probably tell us more, because the espresso team has prepared for you the latest news of this hour. christina, you have a word. thank you, roman. yes, our military confirmed the defeat of the russian ship, and here are the details i will tell you in a moment, as well as in the release, about other losses of the enemy, so wait. news in eter spresso, i'm khrystyna parubiy, i'll tell you about the most relevant things at the moment. russian large amphibious assault ship - cerkuniko.