mockingly, this is such a slap in the face of families. greetings, this is svoboda live, my name is vlasta lazur. the situation on the polish-ukrainian border, american aid to ukraine and preparations for the counteroffensive announced by president zelensky. these are the main topics of the issue. let's start. commander-in-chief oleksandr syrsky conducts an audit of the armed forces of ukraine. this was stated by the head of the servant of the people faction in the verkhovna rada, davita rahamya. according to the deputy, 800 were already discovered during the audit, which, according to arahamia,

simply on a business trip to the general staff and did not fight. at the moment, the general staff did not comment on this information, but we will talk about it in more detail in a few minutes, and in the meantime, president volodymyr zelenskyi said that in 2024, ukraine plans not only to defend itself, but also to prepare a new counteroffensive. he said this in an interview with fox news, which took place near the front line in the kharkiv region. to keep up: task number one: to continue our success story on the black sea. we will do it. i won't go into details, but they get some surprises, i mean the russians. south is very important. the defense of the east, where they have more than 200,000 soldiers, is also very important. and of course, we will prepare a new counteroffensive, a new operation. of course, i am not saying that we will just stand there. it depends on many things. and among other things, in the same

interview, journalist brad bayer asked volodymyr zelenskyi whether he knows what losses ukraine suffered during the war. in response, zelensky did not name specific figures, but stated that the losses of the armed forces were five times lower than those of russia. to our broadcast joins serhiy krivonos, major general of the armed forces reserve, first deputy commander of the special operations forces, 2016-19. good evening. good evening, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. let's start right away. from the president's statements, he said that in the 24th year ukraine will not only defend itself and prepare a new counteroffensive, do you see any signs that ukraine will be able to implement either a counteroffensive or at least prepare for it next year? be it, the success of any event in the army depends on some guards, people, time and money, and there are people, you yourself know the answer, there is money, you yourself answer.

you know, time, well, time is not working in our favor, so to prepare, yes, it is necessary, but the question is when it will be, it will be at the beginning of the 24th year, at the end, or it will be during the year, and then in it will be implemented on the 25th, well, i understand that if we talk about people, there are high hopes, first of all, for the bill on mobilization, and also, if we talk not only about people, but also about new technologies, at least. it was announced that it was ukrainian the army must be smarter, more agile, more actively apply new technologies , money is probably an expectation that american aid will still be approved and will come, and well, time, you yourself said, well, your optimism is great, but at certain moments in the war you need to calculate the worst options for yourself and prepare directly for these options, because as far as people are concerned, well...

resources, and what prevented the authorities from implementing these things during the previous two years, nothing, and pay attention, they are talking about an offensive again politicians, the military are absolutely silent, because they understand all the threats and they understand the degree of responsibility, that is why we have already heard from many of our politicians about a powerful offensive in 23, so it is better, let 's still trust the military, than politicians, to fly... to this is what politicians are trying to divert attention from existing problems in society and are thinking about the distant future . i will only remember that yesterday at there was a war veteran on our airwaves, and he suggested that after avdiyvka there are three directions where russia can go on the offensive, he called the kupyansky, the robot spawn, do you agree, do you agree with such... gnoses,

well, or you don't at all another vision? i don't know who spoke on your broadcast directly, so it's hard for me to say yes or no, i have my own point of view and the enemy has... enough resources to attack any areas from the front that are currently hot, and kupyansk is hot enough for us, the bahamud direction is just as hot, and that's it marinenka, i also would not rule out the zaporozhye direction and the kherson direction, as you said, krynyk, there are more than enough of such options, the enemy can shift forces to these areas and we should not, let’s put it this way, do not forget that we have there is still a huge section of the russian-ukrainian border and the belarusian-ukrainian border, where the enemy can also use it for offensive actions. yes, all the same, do you think that after taking the video, there will be some kind

of break, or they can immediately go on an active offensive somewhere in one of the directions? the intelligence officer always says so , there may be options for the enemy's actions, he insures himself twice, therefore... giving in war is a thankless thing, we don't guess on the spur of the moment, it depends not only on the enemy's wishes, it depends mostly on our capabilities in terms of timely detection of the enemy in preparation for the offensive before the offensive in certain areas and fire damage to the enemy's manpower and equipment in the areas we are talking about. and how would you rate the quality and level of defense in those positions where the ukrainian military has retreated after. listeners, well, this is not a completely correct question, sorry, firstly, there were no battles there yet, and secondly, directly, at this stage, it is such, relatively speaking, a secret, so time will tell, i ask this question because

i see that there are many discussions on this topic, in particular in social networks and including from people who either participated in the war or, for example, from military correspondents, many complain that the defense. was not prepared there, you, you mean avdiivka itself, when retreating from it, already outside the borders of avdiivka, well, outside the borders of avdiivka - these are different things, the fact that the defense of avdiyivka itself was prepared very qualitatively and well, and only thanks to the failure of development, as far as concerns, they trampled the advance of the ogre in our style, using underground communications, which everyone knew about, but for some reason the scouts forgot about them, did not warn were not taken into account for our command, and as for the positions that are outside avdiivka, in certain areas these positions were prepared back in the 17th year, and in the 18th year, in the 18th year it was done quite powerfully there under the leadership general naev,

i understood you, but to other topics of statements, to be more precise, i already quoted david arahamia today, again we return to the fact that loud statements are made by politicians. well, but it already is. he said that syrsky is conducting an audit of all the defense forces, that in two years there are allegedly units that have never been to the front, but simply that they are assigned to the general staff and did not fight. he says there are 8,000 of them. the general staff did not comment on this, but what can you say about it, whether such a trend can really exist and to what extent seriously, what does it even mean? it doesn't mean anything, because the politicians are once again boasting about... certain problems of the armed forces, and they are not performing their functions at all. david rahamiya should better answer why the bill submitted by the president two years ago, regarding the declaration of a state of war, was not to consider by the verkhovna rada why, in accordance with the existing law, within two

years the economy of ukraine has not switched to functioning in the conditions of a special period, why the state authorities have not switched to functioning in the conditions of a special period, let politicians without... engage in politics, and let them not get involved in military matters, it will be much better. nevertheless, what can be said about the fact that he said that 800 people were allegedly assigned to the general staff, but were never at the front, could this be true? tell me, please, do you think that every last soldier in the armed forces must be at the front? i don't know, i'm asking you, like a specialist? well, this is unrealistic, it is again informational manipulation of the monomajority, nothing more. less by managers on the majority, because not everyone can to visit the front, because certain military units and certain servicemen perform duties in the rear, and their function is also important. let's send all the anti-aircraft defensemen, those defending kyiv and other cities and villages of ukraine,

to the front, and immediately then you will immediately start shouting, why are our cities being bombed and why is no one shooting down russian planes and russian missiles? ago. let's not take the bare words of politicians, it would be better for them to mind their own business, and 800 seconded to the general staff, well, the number is meaningless... first of all, it is not confirmed by what, this is bare populism , the same bare populism, when two years ago the same and the same arahama told in istanbul how to surrender or not to surrender ukraine, well, we don’t know exactly what happened in istanbul, in fact, i really want to, no you know that there were thousands of people, i really want to know what happened in istanbul, but we don't know for sure yet, and i will once again turn to volodymyr zelenskyi's interview, which he gave to fox news in the kharkiv region, somewhere near the front line. he was specifically asked by an american tv presenter about the reasons dismissal

of the meritorious officer, i did not hear a clear answer, but i understood that the army needed a reboot, and the army should be faster, more technological, better quality, and this is said to be the reason for the dismissal of the meritorious officer, do you understand these explanations, and maybe, how would you assessed syrskyi's first time in office, that it is too early to talk about the assessment. about the actions of the new commander-in-chief, well, this is really too little time, and as for the technology and speed of the army, then again, it is not a question of the military, the technology of the army depends from providing the army with its own economy, president zelenskyy, together with his powerful team of managers, launched the economy of ukraine, which would provide for all the needs of the armed forces, no, so again, shifting the existing problems purely to... zaluzhny's team, this is information manipulation and efforts to remove a person

whose rating and popularity was much higher than president zelenskyi, and taking into account the fact that zelenskyi has remained an actor, he cannot bear the fact that someone on the stage, on the political stage, was also me, someone more brighter than him. but at the same time, i understand that he does not mind valery zaluzhnyi remaining in his team, and it will depend, i understand, on zaluzhnyi. this is your point of view, it is not true , you think, let’s wait directly, i think that in the coming days, we will already understand what and how, and why in the coming days, well, because valery zaluzhnyi will make certain decisions in the coming days, you directly, you know about it directly, you have no idea, i understood you correctly, you know about something, you already heard, than more than i said, i... will not add, that is, you, you warn that in the coming days valery zaluzhnyi will

make some kind of decision for himself , i emphasize the decision for himself, and directly the task of ukrainians to support valery zaluzhnyi in the decision he will make. the last question, we will continue to discuss the prospects of american aid, and now there are no obvious guarantees that this aid will be approved in the near future, how would you assess... the capabilities of the ukrainian military to continue the war and defense and possibly preparations for an offensive without american support? let 's remove the words preparation for the offensive for now, okay, well, i quoted the president, i quoted the president, he never served in the army, even the four times when he was summoned to the military committee, for some reason he did not appear there, it seems three times , was reported three times at one time, not four, different sources from you and me. well, this is firstly, secondly, again, to rely purely on american

help without doing domestically absolutely nothing will be right by ourselves, and besides, in addition to american help, we also have a powerful team of other countries that support and help us, so the forecast is optimistic, more optimistic, i will say that i clearly understand that no one is fighting for us for sure . will not be, as regards the allocation of people at this stage, but as regards the provision of certain, i emphasize certain needs in equipment and ammunition, we will be given this independence, whether america will help us or not, and our task is informational, at the level of strategic communications to convey to our partners why exactly they should help us, why exactly we need to support ukraine and what will happen if we do not support, what... will russia do next in the absence of help from our partners,

and it will not be with us to do, because they will have to fight with us for a long, long time, it will simply then be able to behave more aggressively towards the baltic countries and in general towards the nato countries, and towards poland, as well as towards the baltic countries. thank you very much, serhiy kryvonos, major general of the armed forces reserve, first deputy commander of the special forces operations, was at radio svoboda in the 16th-19th years. thank you. the night attack of drones in dnipro, rescuers are still sorting through the rubble after shahed was hit in a high-rise building, four apartments there were completely destroyed, and another four were in a state of emergency, eight people were injured, well, closer to the evening, the rescuers retrieved the man's body from under the rubble , and the woman is still being sought. radio svoboda visited the site of the night attack, take a look. i haven't slept yet. i was still awake when it exploded, my daughter and i. the daughter was scared.

mom, you are alive, you are alive, i immediately began to gather, because i know that if the explosions... evict us, the entire entrance was covered with bricks, two of us to collect documents, because we were not ready, we are two men, each, well done guys, they took the people out until they found angelo under this destroyed apartment on the eighth floor, and the two-room apartment next to it, serhiy there, was not found under the rubble, and his wife climbed over, either through the roof or through the neighbors, climbed to the first entrance, and there they have already been evacuated...

i want it for myself, for relatives, for friends, this is not our rooms were not damaged too much, but the corridor was blown away together with the door, the entrance door was broken and the corridor was full of bricks, the day shook very much, we looked out the windows were burning, trees, the car was on fire, we did not understand, we thought that it was not our house, she was treated, then our grandfather came out, said that it was still ours and told where, it was very scary, that's all i can say. how did you feel, scared, screamed, how do you feel? it's stressful, i'm still on adrenaline, so we'll see what happens next. the drone hit a nine-story residential building building, destroyed, eighth and ninth floors, currently we know of eight

victims, two people are in the hospital in a moderate condition, going. collection of rubble, the work is complicated by the fact that there is a large amount of destruction, and now we have to disassemble everything, these are slabs, so destroyed structures. in poland, at the dorogusk railway station, unknown persons spilled rapeseed from three of three ukrainian grain trucks that were transiting to germany on the ground. this was announced by the minister of infrastructure oleksandr kubrako, who published a photo of himself in twitter, here we are showing it now. ukrazaliznytsia stated that they will apply. to the polish law enforcement officers, i remind you, this is already the third such incident on the polish-ukrainian border. polish farmers block six checkpoints. during the protest, they dumped ukrainian grain from trucks and wagons several times. some protesters even called for putin's help. this photo was published by the polish newspaper gazeta vyborcha on tuesday. the poster is placed on the tractor next to the soviet flag, the poster reads:

putin will not bring order to ukraine, brussels and our government. later, the polish police... reported that this particular incident was being investigated by law enforcement officers. zelensky called the situation on the border with poland absolutely unacceptable. on wednesday evening, he even appealed to the government of poland and the european commission to hold negotiations directly at the border. he literally called on polish prime minister donald tusk to come to the border, as he said, to support the dialogue. but it looks like tusk rejected the offer. on the eve he stated that the governments of poland and ukraine will meet in warsaw on march 28, well , in fact, in a month, then they will discuss the border blockade. according to tusk, the meeting at the border would be symbolic, and in the relations between the two countries, as he said, there is no need for symbolism. and literally today, volodymyr zelenskyi said that prime minister denys shmyhal will work on the polish-ukrainian border today, and he does not know whether

polish colleagues will eventually appear there, because it is their personal decision . well, in the meantime, ukrainian ones farmers brought agricultural machinery damaged or destroyed by russian troops directly to the border with poland, from today it will be placed at the krakiwiec checkpoint, as the ministry of agricultural policy said, in this way ukrainian farmers want to show polish protesters in what conditions farmers from ukraine currently work. this is a clear example for polish farmers, or for polish trucks that pass this border every day, who will see. what a problem in ukraine, what a problem for ukrainian farmers, what a problem in general, and what can await each, every farmer. in another country, who does everything, so to speak, correctly, what is beneficial, for example, to the country of the aggressor. well, our

correspondent in poland, natalka wolosatska, asked people on the streets of warsaw how they feel about farmers' protests and whether they support their actions and demands, how they feel about the idea of ​​individual polish farmers calling for putin's help. listen. i support the farmers, i think they feel cheated, but i can't say anything more on this topic, because there is no time to deepen as for the poster calling for putin, this is too much , there should be no such thing, everyone knows that putin is evil, everyone who says otherwise should be brainwashed, but there are such people, they believe that the earth is flat and that putin is doing it for good purposes, it's the same group of people, it's hard for me to say, i don't... know a lot about this subject, but if it's really bad quality grain, then it's better that it doesn't enter , the border may not be a very suitable place for protests, maybe before or behind, at the border itself such a protest

it is difficult to control, i do not support the appeal to putin, but people are different, in their emotions , they say and write different things, that is why it happens: i support the farmers’ demands, all the demands, in general i support them, let them choose their own, that poster with putin i i haven't seen it, but... i support this: they can protest, but spreading manure or grain is too much. on the one hand, of course, i support the protest, because we are talking about a polish farmer. on the other hand, it is clear that ukraine should be helped. i hope that our government officials are alone and the others will agree. from a farmer's point of view, they therefore chose a border to make their rally visible. in the same way, they protest in the cities so that people and officials feel the farmers' protests. you can't destroy polish farming, you have to help them, because for us food is a basic thing, everyone has to eat, there is power in agriculture. i actually live

near the border, 20 km from the grebenne checkpoint, i came to warsaw to visit my daughter and grandchildren, so i saw those farmers' protests, even yesterday, when my husband and i were traveling to warsaw, everything was blocked on the expressway and we had to get off, but i wasn't nervous, because i knew it was a good thing, i support it. yes , dariusz maternyak, president of the poland-ukraine research center foundation and editor of the polish-ukrainian portal polukr, joined our broadcast, good evening, good evening, congratulations, i am just now looking at the telegram, denys shmyhal, the prime minister, published a photo, where really is he and many government officials, well, somewhere probably half or a third of the government have gone to the polish border and are waiting there for the polish government officials and you know, the thing that really surprises me the most in this story is the silence, or the very, very cautious statements of donald tusk. what do you think it is connected with, what do you

think it is connected with, and in the end, well, indeed, polish government officials could, even if it is a very symbolic meeting, but could they come to the border, or is it too much? well, probably yes, probably, maybe it's even, even if it's only symbolic, then it's probably in these conditions, in these moments that we have now, it was.

just saw our correspondent who is working in warsaw, collected the opinions of individual people on the streets of the city, this is of course not a sociological study, but nevertheless most of them said that they support farmers, please tell me this, if you extrapolate here their answers to some sociology, maybe it is in poland was held, which, which, what is the opinion of polish society regarding these protests, does the majority really support these protests at the border, in fact.

someone else could work under such conditions that he more or less gets off, that is, i understand, but from the measures that we heard from protesters at the border, they say , they allegedly take ukrainian grain there all the time for inspection, because they have suspicions that it is not of very good quality, and we just heard this thesis from one of the people, from one person whom our correspondent asked in warsaw, and also from farmers, you can hear that supposedly food from ukraine... contributes a lot to the fact that prices are rising in poland, but to what extent, to what extent do these narratives prevail? uh, regarding, first of all, the grain from ukraine already goes through poland only in transit, and also the full amount, almost since april in 2020, grain from ukraine goes through poland, it goes exclusively in transit, that is, here if there are no questions about it and this, if someone

like this says about it.

the prices of their products have fallen, but this issue must also be resolved by the government, this issue must be resolved by the government first of all in relation to the european union. but the ukrainian authorities , and in particular volodymyr zelenskyi, he, they say that the matter here is not about grain at all, it is about politics. tell me, please, how you understand this, if it is a matter of politics, who has what political claims currently exist between poland and ukraine? well, everyone here, i think that...

to hide in the situation, this is such an example of a supporter.