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greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about the following topics: on-site searches. the tragedies in odesa are over, the victims of the russian attack carried out on march 2, 2 people, including five children. the smallest baby was four months old. let's talk about the circumstances and consequences. oleksandr syrskyi announced the replacement of commanders who do not understand the situation or their actions, and i quote: they pose a threat to the lives and health of subordinates. and to individual brigades where there are problems with the preparation of the headquarters, the head sent specialists to provide assistance. in the avdiiv direction, the armed forces say, the situation has stabilized, analysis of the main statements and events. the front continues:

the bundeswehr has acknowledged the leak of the recording online conference of the german air force, however, they did not rule out that the recording was edited. the audio was released by the head of russian state media, margarita simonyan, and on it, german officers seem to be discussing how taurus missiles could hit the kerch bridge. we talk about the consequences of this scandal and whether it will change the opinion of olaf scholz about the transfer of these long-range missiles to ukraine. write in the comments under this video where you are watching us, how you and that. what topics do you think are important to discuss this morning. and we begin ether. the search and rescue operation at the place where the drone was hit in odesa was completed. the bodies of 12 people, five of them children, were found from under the rubble of the building. the odesa regional military administration announced the names of the dead children. they are four-month-old timofey, seven-month-old lisa, three-month-old mark, eight-year-old zlata and nine-year-old serhiy. so the day before, people carried all day to the place of the tragedy. and toys let me remind you that on the night of

march 2, the russian military shelled odesa with eight mortars. seven of them managed to be shot down, so they say in ok pivden, but one hit nine-story residential building. the head of the joint press center of the southern defense forces, natali humaniuk, suggested that the drone that targeted the house could have an enhanced combat unit. because of the attack on odesa , the regional prosecutor's office launched an investigation into the violation of the laws and customs of war. the attack on odesa was condemned, in particular by the president. of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe theodoros rousopoulos, he wrote on the x network that russia will be held accountable. radio liberty's correspondent in odesa, kateryna bankova, is with us at connection katya, congratulations, my condolences, a rhetorical question about the mood of odessans after such events. however, tell me what people are saying and how the search and rescue work went. katya, good morning, regarding the mood , i'll be honest, this was one of the most...

emotionally difficult shootings for me, because standing and looking at people who are waiting for news about their relatives near the house, and without hope, hope, it's just indescribable pain and we are still recovering, yesterday mourning was declared, all day people carried flowers, carried toys to the place of the tragedy, but there was such silent sympathy for each other, i will also say that the people of odessa were very consolidated, there were many gatherings for the victims, in order to somehow at least somehow help them with resettlement, with the restoration of what they lost, but of course, unfortunately, you can't bring your relatives back, the search did not stop for a second, the utility workers, rescuers, all volunteers worked for almost two days, we managed to save five people, and... one man, by the way, was taken out of the hatch

of the heating line, he is absolutely unharmed , here is another such a pleasant detail that three people who were considered missing, but... who were being searched for, turned to the emergency services themselves, it turned out that they were not there, in that building, and everything is fine with them, they are alive. as for the victims, 12 people, unfortunately, died , five of them were children, two of them were not even a year old, this is very painful, this news is literally on everyone's lips, and these two children died together with by their mothers, the apartments were completely destroyed, and this will indicate that almost the entire entrance of the nine-story panel, andriy kostyan, prosecutor general, in a comment on the spot of the tragedy said that this is the first time we have

such damage from a drone attack, the military speculates that it may be because the drone had an enhanced warhead, local speculation as well. they point out that this is also possible due to the construction of the house, because it is a panel house, i will repeat once more, and regarding resettlement, i know that three families were sheltered simply by people who did not care, who simply decided to help, others settled with their relatives, but the city hall notes that it is ready to accept applications from people for resettlement, to help, they also arranged places in schools. suddenly someone needs to stay somewhere for the night, to eat, to warm up, then they are ready to receive them, well, of course , requests for assistance in housing restoration, repair, etc., etc. are also recorded, and i will also note that the heating has already been restored, because as a result of the hit

drone 11 houses nearby were left without heat, but for the moment everything is fine. thank you, katya, thank you for joining. kateryna bankova, rfe/rl's correspondent in odesa, told the details, and before the events in odesa, we also we will return at the end of our broadcast, we expect a separate activation of the odesa authorities. and in the village of ivanivske , in the direction of bakhmut, fierce battles are taking place, where russian forces are trying to break through the ukrainian defenses, the head of the press service of the operational-strategic group of the khortyts troops, ilya yevlash, stated this on the broadcast of the news marathon, according to him, the ukrainian military is resisting and try to throw the enemy from... yevlazh also says that the russian army is trying to attack near bohdanivka, which is further north temporary yar. russian airborne units are being transferred there. in the reports of the russian ministry of defense for march 3, meanwhile, it is said that in the donetsk direction , russian units have taken more advantageous

positions. but in the avdiiv region , the situation is stabilizing, and this statement was made by the commander of the usu group in tavra, oleksandr tarnavskyi. ukrainian forces, he notes, continue to be led. defensive operation, and here, well, on the right flank of the avdi direction , assaults from the russian side do not stop troops, this section of the front is held by the infantrymen of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade of the armed forces, radio liberty correspondents spoke with them , and the soldiers told what the current situation is and how they are holding back attempts by the russian army to attack. our area of ​​responsibility, the right side from avdiivka, the right front, let's call it that, this is our area of ​​responsibility, how is it there now? everything in them works so well that it is difficult, very difficult both in positions and on approaches, a difficult environment, we

must train, combat training of the boys, it is on we have the first place, only the boys leave the position, immediately wash themselves there, wipe themselves. wow, for the next day, preparation is mandatory, so without preparation it is very difficult, well, little by little , they climb through the small pits, but with these small ones, not like before, when five tanks are driving, all surrounded by infantry, they got , returned back, now it’s a little different, now without equipment they are walking in a larger order, i monitor the situation, the others... the drone flies, so to speak, closes the mouth of our positions, and they at this moment they climb and climb under the noise , accordingly at these moments their artillery also works well, we lack artillery and fpv drones, ordinary drones, we really need them, they are directly changing the cardinal situation on the

battlefield, this is only one of them the problem is drones and artillery, people seem to be fighting, want to fight. they have just the right equipment, and maybe until the weather doesn’t allow it, well, they’ll go with the equipment, but they ask, well, sometimes they go with small... stoves, sometimes they go with the equipment, i think they will want to level the line, well, it will certainly be in our direction, too, everything is taken by the quantity, at the expense of which you then hold on, training, quality, again the motivation of people, because i say that people know what they are here for, people have families , people have their own land that they protect. no matter how hard it is, we try, we try to hold on. they didn’t have so many drones

before, we had a lot of drones, a lot of drones at first, but now they just have darkness, they can launch dozens of them, we started using fpvshkas, they intercepted and just now they are pelting us with them, a shot. shot, shot, this is our reserve, we have weapons that are in one place, in the hospital all the time, and this is our reserve, it is used if, for example, the hospital is burned down, the guys can't work, the second calculation, which is here, sits down, takes ammunition with him, goes to the prepared point and starts working from there to support his pride. shot, everything hangs on the infantry, if it

wasn't difficult for her there, but everything hangs on her, if it weren't difficult there, but i think that we will stand up and everything will be fine with us, i would like it, of course, to do everything as quickly as possible, but, but we have what we have, military analyst denys popovych joins our broadcast, i congratulate you, mr. denis, thank you for joining. good morning, the immediate question for you is this: how do you assess the situation at the front, how complicated is it now, where are the biggest threats, as far as possible is the predicted situation, it is complicated, each front has its own threats, i would single out bakhmut direction, this is the time, there are threats that very, well, very soon may begin, may, i emphasize, battles for the city may begin, and this is necessary for this. and definitely this is avdiyivka , the avdiyiv direction, or for the enemy, this is the pokrovsky direction, from which, from which side

, you can see where the russian army is trying to advance west of davdiyvka, these are the settlements of berdychi, tonenke, steppove, orlivka, that is, where now, that means, there are battles going on in populated areas. and what does ternavskyi's statement that the situation is in the aldiiv direction mean stabilized well, it is quite possible that it was possible to stop it, the enemy did not succeed, it was not possible for the enemy to get on the shoulders, on the shoulders of our troops , to advance far, well, but before the end, let’s say, the end of his offensive potential, well, and i think, very far, i i think that the enemy will continue to try to advance in these directions, since he obviously believes that this is our weak point, and it is due to the fact that the enemy also has an advantage. in this direction, as well as the fact that, unfortunately, the fortifications there were not quite ready, and now in

in principle, they are trying to eliminate this process, that is, to build these structures west of avdiivka, so here, as they say, it is too early to rejoice, and the enemy there will continue offensive actions in order to try to advance west of avdiivka, how great is the need for reinforcement now defense by the ukrainian side, and are there any problems with this, well, this is actually a complex issue , that is, did i start before fortification, which in a broad sense includes mining, and trenches, and dugouts, and something that would allow shelter from cabs, and these are already capital structures , in order to equip them, time and money are needed, whether this time and whether there is money is a big question, it is definitely ammunition, and of various nomenclatures, starting from artillery ammunition and ending with... rifle ammunition for ammunition for small arms, it is definitely people, that is, rotation is necessary

, fresh parts are needed, well, that is, everything that war needs, drones, armored vehicles, well, where, let's say, everything is needed at the end, the commander-in-chief visited the forward positions, in particular avdiivka district, syrskyi reported that he had sent groups of specialists to individual brigades where there were problems with the preparation of the headquarters to transfer experience and provide assistance, whether the commander's approach to situation analysis and supply control had changed, and how this could affect the course of the war ? well, unfortunately, not everything depends on the head, security. he can work and act within the framework of what can be given to him, and i have said many times that oleksandr syrsky, he will work depending on the situation in which he got into, and this situation is determined by it the amount of ammunition and the capabilities of the ukrainian defense-industrial complex, what our partners give us, and the domestic and foreign political situation, that is, its

ability to influence the provision of troops, they are quite conditional. in fact, and what he is saying now are personnel decisions, those teams that, in his opinion, have not shown themselves to be effective enough, they will obviously be replaced by those people that oleksandr syrskyi considers to be able to bring, let's say , a new look at management brigades, and transfer experience and better manage military units, we perfectly understand that in the civilian sector, the military sector, a lot can depend on each other. personalities, well, but it is also interesting that the head reported that in some cases, when the commander does not control the situation, and the actions and commands directly pose a threat to the life and health of subordinates, syrskyi is forced to make even personnel decisions, so such a statement is something new for the ukrainian military command? well, it was like that everywhere, we just heard it now

from the headmaster, well, in fact, if a person behaves inappropriately, you need to make personnel decisions. let's talk about the scandal in the bundeswehr, about the fact that ukraine needs the taurus to destroy the kerch bridge, i would, as i learned from these films, confirm the leak of such conversations in germany, but the authenticity of whether something was mounted there or not, about they haven't said that yet, so for now taurus missiles are the only possible means for such a special operation with destruction. kerch bridge, and if so, so how many such rockets could potentially be needed for this? well, first of all, regarding the shower itself, here is a big question for german counterintelligence, there obviously the roof is leaking quite seriously, if at all it got to the russians and became, let’s say, a deception of society, well, through russian propagandists, i

mean, it well, this was the way to cheat, so the question is how this information got there. to the russians, sensitive information related to the transfer of taurus and in general the transfer of missiles, including scalf, stormshedov and so on, the technology was transferred there, even colleagues began to wonder how they got to the territory of ukraine, there were conjectures and there were there, so there were versions, in relation to your question, in fact we live not only in taurus, and the crimean bridge, it is so-called the crimean bridge, it was destroyed even before the taurus, let's remember... there are two cases, it was on october 8, 8 of the year before last and july 17 of last year, in particular , on july 17 of last year it was brought down with the help of drones, unmanned sea drones, so it can be damaged not only by taos, and this is not the only means to destroy it, there are different possibilities, different models, how many taos are needed for this, but

obviously there, by the way, there was an analysis in these showers, there they said there about 20 rockets, i think, if my memory serves me well, in general, this is a complex issue, in fact, these rockets, in my opinion, they were not very adapted, only with these rockets, you can only damage the bridge, obviously on my view, and in order to completely destroy it, to do such that it will never be restored afterwards, then it must be a complex operation by various means, including taurus, including obviously also unmanned naval drones, including those powerful means that could... build the defense of this bridge, we see that the russians are now paying attention to it, there are air defense equipment, there are barriers, and barriers, that is , they drew conclusions from these two previous cases when it was damaged, see, but nevertheless talk about missiles taurus, not giving them by germany, there there are also internal political conversations, and even some of scholz's associates

criticize him for such indecision, this is such an important issue, and how serious it is for the russian language. parties, to what extent is the russian army afraid of transferring these missiles to the ukrainian army? well , let's admit and, let's say, state that germany helps ukraine in many ways, today in financial terms it is the leader among european countries, and obviously , taking into account the fact that the united states of america now we are not helped due to certain political reasons, this is in principle the leader in helping ukraine both militarily and militarily. technically, refugees too, but with regard to taurus , they were stuck on something, that's the question, this question is not resolved for various, let's say, reasons, are russians afraid of taurus? well, any missile can actually be shot down, both winged and aircraft, it depends on how much shalunov will have an air defense system.

obviously, this is a red line to a greater extent for scholz, for some reason he is afraid to cross it, and in this way, and in this way he finds more and more reasons not to hand it over despite the pressure exerted on him in germany's political environment. we will talk later. about what is happening in the political environment of germany, including. thank you, denis, for joining. denis popovych, a military analyst, was a guest of svoboda ranok. russia is waging an information war aimed at divisiveness within germany. this was stated by the minister of defense of the country, boris pistorius, and in response to the interception disclosed by the russian media conversations of alleged german officers. that this incident is more than just interception and publicity. tion of air force talk, it is part of putin's information war. there is no doubt about it. this is a hybrid attack aimed at disinformation. it is about

division, about undermining our unity, and accordingly, we must respond to it with special discretion, but just as decisively. i will point out that it is a conversation of almost forty minutes between german officers regarding the technical aspects of the supply cruise missiles, taurus to ukraine, they will discuss the possibility of being hit by these missiles. kerch bridge, the head of the russian state television channel russia today, margarita simenyan, was the first to post this audio recording on social media, but it is not clear where she got this fragment from. as simonyan herself insists, the conversation allegedly took place on february 19 between the head of the operation and training department of the air force command, an air force inspector and employees of the air operations center of the space command. against the background of the publicized conversation, deputy secretary of the security council of the russian federation dmytro medvidev abandoned preparations for war in germany. with russia, and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov accused germany of preparing attacks on the bridge. we recently witnessed the facts about the confrontation between chancellor scholz and

the bundeswehr, about the cunning plans of the bundeswehr, which became visible after the publication of this audio recording of how they are carefully preparing an attack on the crimean bridge, on other objects, on ammunition depots. and most importantly, they are want to deceive everyone so that the suspicion does not fall on them, on the americans and... the british, this is a frank self-revelation. german chancellor olaf scholz called the alleged leak a very serious matter, and german military counterintelligence has launched an investigation into the incident. the official authenticity of the records made public by russia has not yet been confirmed by the german ministry of defense. i will also note that german chancellor olaf scholz repeatedly opposed the transfer of taurus cruise missiles to ukraine. andres umland, analyst, joins our broadcast of the stockholm center for east european studies. welcome to our broadcast, thank you for joining, good morning, thank you for the invitation, tell us how important you think what was discussed in these

recordings, which simonyan made public, and how it can affect the supply of taurus missiles to ukraine, maybe after this scholz will finally dare to take this step? i hope so too, but unfortunately, the situation is with scholz now that he is so ... so much opposed to the supply of these missiles that i fear that while he is chancellor, it is not will happen, there is probably still such a chance that germany will still accept britain's offer to hand over taurus missiles to great britain, so that great britain can hand over more stormshadows missiles to ukraine, and there would also be an advantage in that... the country already uses these storm shadows missiles, and then there would be no need to train ukrainian specialists with a new

missile, for me the most interesting thing was the part of the conversation about whether ukraine can use these taurus missiles on its own without cooperation. germany, this is very much in germany a big topic, because there is such a theory that supposedly only cooperation with the bundeswehr, the armed forces of ukraine can use these missiles, and these officers, they say that this is not the case at all, that there will be enough honey for certain, well, such not difficult ones it is enough if the ukrainians are there... training for several weeks, and if they are there to attack a more complex target, such as the kerch bridge.

then it takes more training to be able to do that, so well actually it's more of a conversation more of an argument for to still transfer these missiles to ukraine, because it turns out that military experts believe that these missiles can be used without the cooperation of the bundeswehr, that is, in germany there is such a discussion about the fact that the german military. were not directly involved in such operations, right? but was there such a discovery that ukraine needs taurs specifically to destroy the kerch bridge, not for strikes on moscow, for example, the one we heard from mr. scholz, and why then is scholz against providing these missiles to kyiv, so as not to annoy moscow, because for the russian troops, the kerch area is a very, very important detail of this war, well, i am there for me...

now i am in kyiv and i think all ukrainians understand why ukraine especially wants these missiles, because they probably would be the most effective weapon against this kerch bridge, that's why german officers say that they know from the ukrainians that they want this missile for that, well, but... now, unfortunately, in germany, such the situation is that there is a majority of voters who are in favor of military aid for ukraine, but at the same time, the majority of people there are questioning against the supply of this taurus missile, because there was such an impression, well, well, such an opinion, that it would involve germany in this war.

and well, in principle, scholz simply expresses this general public opinion, well, that is, not general, but the majority of people still believe that it is not necessary to hand over these weapons to ukraine, because it will allegedly be the beginning of the third world war. that is, such a person is afraid of the aggravation of the possible, and direct participation, again, and will there be any political consequences for scholz? example, and i will note again there, there is already an internal one, here there is a question to the fact that in the bundestag , oleksandr dobrind called on olaf scholz to give an explanation, why the earlier position, why not to provide the taurus, does not coincide with what was heard there on these tapes, could there be any internal political discussions like this, let's say, or consequences for scholz's position? well, for him, of course, this conversation and everything

that happened. and then these too now now this tension with france, with macron and with great britain, all of them, they also concern forms of aid to ukraine, that's all for him , it's bad for his reputation, but on the other hand , well, i don't think that it will play a decisive role for him, these are still foreign policy issues, they, they are not so important , i think that it will not have such consequences, although who knows, there now, that is, in berlin, there is now more and more tension on these issues, and also between, there are various coalition parties, that is, scholz represents the social democrats, there is there are also greens and liberal democrats, free democrats, and they have different positions, and this tension with...

is growing now, but i don't think this is the end of this coalition. i thank you for the inclusion, for your analysis, about whether germany will give taurus to ukraine after the wiretapping scandal, we spoke with an analyst from the stockholm center for east european studies, andres umlen was our guest, next on the air bohdan logunov, i hope with good news . congratulations, briefly about the important things. ukrainian colleges are conducting a new educational program for operators. civilian drones will be taught in seven educational institutions already this year colleges of lviv, dnipropetrovsk, kyiv, kirovohrad, mykolaiv, sumy and chernihiv regions joined the pilot project. in total , the school received 28 drones, the teachers mastered theory and practice, the ministry of education said. volodymyr ivasyuk, the author of the legendary ukrainian songs chervona ruta, vodogray, and i will go to the far mountains, would have turned 75 today. on the anniversary of

the singer's birthday will be celebrated in different regions.