or among the military, who were also civilians before, but took up arms and went to defend their country, so this moment of silence is in memory of them. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this morning's stream we talk about the following topics: sochi, putin, talks on nuclear security, rafael grosi met with ... the russian president and they had, quote, an important exchange thoughts about of nuclear security, and they talked about the occupied ukrainian armed forces, and here again the quote and ways to ensure its security. and is it possible while the station is occupied? the forces of the russian federation have destroyed the hi mars surface-to-air missile, as stated in news week. the first loss in more than a year and a half requires a thorough investigation, according to roman kostenko, secretary of the national security committee. how serious is this loss?

for the armed forces of the russian federation russian troops cannot break through the defense of the armed forces of ukraine near avdiivka, but they are constantly trying to advance, the third assault brigade said. and the commander of the land forces of the troops, pavlyuk promised counterattack actions of the armed forces of ukraine this year. what is it about? we will talk about these and other topics further, i promise it will be interesting, but in the meantime , subscribe to our channel and like this video. thank you. ukrainian intelligence confirms the liquidation of the organizer. of the so-called presidential elections of russia in occupied berdyansk is about svitlana samoilenko, who, according to gur, cooperated with the russian authorities and in 2022 received a position in the local so-called administration. she was also a member of the election commission of with the right to a decisive vote. the head of the local mba, victoria galitsyna, reported on the explosion in berdyansk the day before. she noted that one of the organizers of illegal elections was eliminated. when samoilenko got into the car, an explosive

device was working. russian publics publish the video consequences. the russian side started an investigation and qualified this event as a terrorist act, as reported by the occupation investigative committee of the zaporizhzhia region. the so-called military commandant of berdyansk previously appointed samoilenko to the post of deputy mayor for affairs economy, so uhur told. agent-director of the international atomic energy agency , rafael grossi, visited the russian ones. sochi and met there with vladimir putin to talk, as he said, about the safety of the zaporizhia nuclear power plant. most of the meeting was closed, the kremlin did not disclose the details of the negotiations. let me remind you that the russian operator rossatom, which manages the occupied military base, insists on launching one of the reactors, as reported in greenpeace. moscow wants the electricity produced at the nuclear power plant to enter the power system. even before the visit to sochi, as he writes. voice

of america rafael grosis said the issue of the launch needs to be well thought out. according to him , the two main problems are the physical integrity of the plant and disruption of its power supply, which could prevent proper cooling of the reactors. and then the general director of mht added: we must not forget that the station is in a war zone, after talking with putin grosi added that it is important to act in concert. there was an international consensus, and we know that today international consensus is very difficult to get, but there was an international consensus that nuclear energy should be accelerated, it is very important, and it is very important, if you can say so from the russian point of view, because of course russia is one of the most important users of nuclear energy and you can even say a supplier of nuclear technology number one in the world. during the government meeting on march 5, ukrainian prime minister denys shmyhal noted that during

the two years of occupation by russian troops of the city of energodar, where the power plant is located, more than 150 gross violations were recorded at the military service. ivan fedorov, the head of zaporizhzhya, joins our broadcast. greetings, mr. ivan, thank you for joining. i congratulate you. tell us what the situation is at the occupied military base, and what, i quote, ways of ensuring its security could putin and gros discuss at this meeting in sochi? look, well, i see only radical things that can ensure safety at our zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. radical things are the output of the rashist forces and, of course, i will return. under control zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under the control of the state to which it belongs, under the control of our state, ukraine and our energy atom. any other ways definitely do not guarantee security, because if we look at the last two years, for more than two years, the zaporizhia os has been completely occupied

by the enemy, then we can see a trend where the enemy has taken over, the enemy has done everything so that there is not enough employees, because without russian citizenship, they completely expelled people from there. the enemy planted explosives at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, the enemy did everything so that there were eight blackouts at the zaporizhzhia npp, and therefore there was a threat of abnormal functioning of the cooling system. after that, international observers appear who are at the zaporizhzhia as, but we understand that two people, three and even 10 are not capable of controlling the situation that thousands of russian soldiers are creating there today with... being on such an important and extremely dangerous place objects, so the only way to ensure, excuse the tactology, the safe life of our zaporozhye as, is to return it under control of our state ukraine, of our energoatom system, and then we will be able to be responsible for

what will happen in the future. ivan, to what extent do the kremlin and putin himself listen to your opinion about his concerns? look, i am sure that putin will not listen to anyone's opinion, except his inner voice , which we have seen for a long time, which leads to terrorist actions, to the destruction of us as ukrainians, to the fact that dozens of civilians are killed every day, and we are on the territory of the zaporizhzhia region, as no one feels, when more than 250 shelling of the frontline units took place in the last day alone. zaporizhzhia region , when the civil infrastructure suffers, so answering the question whether he listens to the opinion of the money, in my opinion definitely not, but on another topic, ukrainian intelligence confirmed the liquidation of the organizer of the so-called russian presidential elections in occupied berdyansk, how many people in total

zaporizhzhia, in occupied zaporizhzhia, who cooperate with the occupation authorities, are involved in the organization of the so-called elections, including. i think that, first of all, that's for sure not enough to organize it. fake elections, as a result, we see the constant importation by the enemy from the territories of the temporarily occupied crimea or the continental republic, the constant importation of both observers and organizers of fake elections, etc., and therefore our residents who agreed to cooperate with the enemy is definitely not enough, but i i want everyone to remember the story, why is it not enough, the enemy has this third iteration of fake elections, the first... was in the fall of 22, when they held a fake referendum, the second was in in september of the 23rd year, when they held so-called local elections, and now the third iteration, so during the first and second, our resistance worked extremely well with those who

agreed to cooperate with the enemy at the initial stage, and indeed then a huge number of traitors even left from the temporarily occupied territory, she completely left, fearing s... who will answer precisely and prove his arguments to all those traitors who agree to cooperate with the enemy, the same was the case with the collaborator from berdyansk, who did not understand from the first and second time, she was clearly repaid the third time, this is an absolutely illegal farce, what is currently happening in the temporarily occupied territory, and you will definitely have to answer for it, and how did the occupying authorities react to it, did there increase detentions because of it, searches and what... in general, the situation in this sense, in the sense of security for civilians in occupied zaporizhzhia? to be honest, i think that, ah, the occupation authorities also thanked our resistance for helping to clean up the collaborators, who are no longer needed by the enemy. i will explain what is happening:

at the initial stage, when the enemy entered our territory, they tried their best to find traitors. who will join the ranks of the enemy occupation authorities and so on, they needed a sign that the local people supposedly support the heresy and... the arrival of the russian special services, but the trend we have seen in the last year is that all those collaborators and appointed, the enemy himself begins to remove the chief rikals of the rikars, heads of various villages, towns and settlements, somewhere in melitopol in the district already in the fifth, they changed the government that supposedly manages the city, not to the government, they send a huge number of russian retired pensioners. who also exercise power today. so

, on the one hand, the enemy was definitely not upset, because for them minus one traitor, and traitors are absolutely not needed by anyone, but on the other hand, of course, the enemy is currently intensifying repression, taking such total filtering measures, and as an example in melitopol, for the second week in tokmak and berdyansk, the enemy began patrolling the streets of drones, drones, sorry. they are trying to clearly identify all movement on the streets, houses, in order to understand in even more detail what is happening in the temporary occupation, interesting details, thank you for joining, ivan fedorov, head of zaporizhzhya ova, was a guest of svoboda ranok. about the events in odesa: a reckless attack that shows putin's readiness to escalate, such as yesterday's attack on the city, at the time when president volodymyr zelenskyi and the prime minister of greece were there, i will comment... eu high representative for foreign affairs borel, he wrote about this on his page

on the x network. the attack was also condemned by the head of the european council, charles michel, and the president of the european commission, ursula fondelein. similar statements condemning the russian attack were also made by the president of moldova, mae sando, and the us ambassador to ukraine. i will remind you that the day before during a joint press conference with the prime minister of greece in odesa, president volodymyr zelenskyi said that he saw the attack of russian troops on the city. and that as a result of this blow there are dead and wounded, greek the prime minister also confirmed that he heard a big explosion at the moment when he and zelensky were in odesa port. i should note that the air alert was announced in the southern regions of ukraine at 10:41 a.m., the local authorities did not report the consequences of the attack on odesa, but the spokesman for the naval forces, dmytro pletenchuk, in a comment to ukrainian pravda, said that five people were killed. according to him, the port infrastructure suffered a blow. head of the united press center. south natalya humenyuk said on the air of the radio liberty donbass reali project that the strike by russian forces in odesa is not connected with

zelenskyi's visit there, but rather with the terror of russia. humanyuk assumed that russian forces hit odessa with a ballistic missile. cnn, in turn , citing a source, informs that a russian missile exploded 500 m from zelenskyi and the prime minister of greece. the russian ministry of defense confirmed the attack on odesa, they say that at 11:40 moscow... time, that is, 10:40 kyiv time, a high-precision missile attack was carried out on a hangar in the industrial port area of ​​the city, where, according to the russian the ministry of defense, the armed forces were preparing to use unmanned boats. the aim of the strike was achieved, the object was hit, the russian ministry of defense said in a statement. the ukrainian armed forces are preparing counterattacks in 2024, the commander of the ground forces of the ukrainian armed forces , oleksandr pavlyuk, announced this. of the telethon, according to him, the defense forces plan to stabilize the situation at the front and regroup

to withdraw the units that need to be staffed and restored to training grounds in order to create a strike group and carry out counterattacks this year. before in an interview with the wall street journal, the head of the main directorate of intelligence, kyrylo budanov , stated that the armed forces of ukraine will conduct competent defense, weakening russian forces and will be able to launch a new counteroffensive. already in 2025, oleksandr kovalenko, a military columnist of the information resistance group, will join our broadcast. welcome to our broadcast, thank you for joining. good morning. the commander of the ground forces, pavlyuk, promised counterattack actions of the armed forces of ukraine this year and said that the situation at the front would stabilize. these are reassuring messages, or really trends observed? if we get the help we need from our international partners. we will be able to form reserves and , accordingly, accumulate the resources

necessary for counter-offensive actions, then we can certainly proceed to counter-offensive actions or systematic counter-attacks at one or another location, where there is an opportunity to restore our positions, so it is quite possible. speaking of the loss of the hymars system, and the fact that this loss requires a thorough investigation on our airwaves. the people's deputy said the day before roman kostenko, he said that such means cannot be lost, it must be investigated, do you agree with this and how serious is this loss for the armed forces of ukraine? this is a multiple-fire rocket system that operates at a distance of up to 80 km, we have used it for more than 20 months without losses, none of these systems have been destroyed during this period, this is a record, no system in the combat zone is so densely active and intensively

conducted hostilities, she did not live that long, that is, this is a unique case. ah ah in general, we are in a state of full-scale war, we are losing equipment of any type and any purpose and functionality. we are losing the challenger 2 , we are losing the leopard 2, we are losing the abrams, because we cannot do otherwise, this is equipment, it must save the life of the crew, and the fact that this iron can burn, it can all burn, i will say, even more , if we get f16, then some of f16. will also be shot down, and by russian aviation or russian air defense means, because this war, and the loss of the ms42 hymers is not some kind of critical brand situation, again, it is simply a unique situation in itself, that it has been possible for so long not to lose this type

of rocket launcher system, which, although it has quite advanced technology. the use of rockets, but there is not, and other long-range means of destruction have not been used so often in odesa recently, for example, the p-800 onix (bprpk) bestion, therefore the arrival of this missile is precisely during the day, not at night, because i emphasize that most of the missile shelling, well, as well as raids by kamikatsy drones 36 by 1. in odesa , they take place precisely at night, so the arrival of the means of attack during the day is so rare both for odesa and the odesa region, and in the immediate vicinity of the meeting place between the prime minister of greece and the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi, well , i don't think that it a coincidence in fact, but

in general it should be treated as another crime that has been committed. by the russian federation. yes, i will remind you that we quoted natalia hemanyuk, who does not connect these events, so to speak, that it is a direct attack on president zelenskyi. well, by the way, in odesa, zelenskyy addressed his partners. he stated that there should not and cannot be a shortage of courage in the matter of partner supply of long-range weapons for the ukrainian defense forces. bloomberg writes that within a few weeks, ukraine can receive projectiles within the framework of this czech initiative to purchase 800,000 ammunition, which the allies are said to have already collected. almost the necessary amount for this, and what is critically lacking in ukraine today in the conditions in which the country found itself, can partners without the usa, that's all provide to ukraine? well, we have a need for this, in fact, we very often talk, first of all, about ammunition, about shells, but not only in this, there is a need for a shortage in the entire

nomenclature, as well as providing ammunition not only. artillery, as well as in matters of equipment provision, i.e. we need anti-aircraft guns, and armored combat vehicles, we also need tanks, directly we are talking about ammunition, and why not talk about the need for artillery, and i mean in a broader informational sense, and besides everything else means of electronic warfare , means of demining, means of anti-aircraft... defense, which we constantly talk about, but one must understand that even air defense is an echeloned, echeloned system, there are means of air defense of short, medium, long range, and each of these echelons, they are needed, and many other things, unfortunately, the european union does not have such a developed military-industrial complex

as the usa has, and europe can help ukraine. but if we are talking about the preparation of the next counterattack and in general contour offensive actions, in this matter we will need the help of the united states, europe can help us with the defense and system of counterattacks along the line of battle, which we can afford, if we are talking about any major counteroffensive, then without the military-industrial component of the united states, we cannot let's go around the commander of the ground forces, returning to mr. pavlyuk, noted that according to the estimates of the killed and captured, it can be said that the russian forces are throwing people to the front who have just... been mobilized without any preparation, that they are given only a small briefing, and then give up the battle, all in order to seize the initiative in this way, and what is the situation, if we talk about the personnel

of the russian forces now with training? exactly two weeks, two weeks - this is the period that can be from the moment for a mobilized russian, from the moment of mobilization to the moment of his already... being in the combat zone along the battle line, that is, two weeks - this is exactly such a period , when the occupiers were captured or destroyed, and according to the documents that were with them, they were were mobilized almost two weeks ago, and the standard period of training, basic, very basic training of a mobilized person is up to three months, they don't have that time now, they immediately send everyone to the combat zone , and this... is due to the fact that that they need to compensate for heavy losses very quickly, and that is why they minimized training, they

need not a professional military now, they need, let's say, this assault meat, which would be sent to the positions in waves, just throwing our positions with these mobilized reuters writes that russia can fight for another two years. with ukraine with such intensity, as it is now, taking into account the training of the mobilized russian military and the means they have, do you agree with such assessments, with human resources yes, with the mechanized component no, they already have an acute shortage today mechanized component, they cannot provide the number of troops that are in the combat zone, which is approximately 465-46. personnel of the general russian occupation forces in ukraine, they cannot fully supply this amount with equipment on a full-time basis, and

according to the staffing schedule, they have somewhere around 30% of the equipment that they should have, and at the same time, the military-industrial complex of russia does not have time, does not have time to compensate for the losses of the mechanized component, and therefore, if we are talking about human resources, then two years. probably even longer, they will be able to exactly compensate for the loss of human resources, but the mechanized component is much less, that is, observing the trends, they will constantly only degrade, and in a year and a half, we will already see critical changes in the equipment, which will reach less than 20, perhaps 15% of the regular one, and this is critical for any unit, it will not be able to perform. complete its combat tasks, it seems to me that two to two and a half years ago we also heard on the air such estimates that russia will run out of resources in a few years, and now we hear

that 95% of western components are used there in russian weapons, or stronger sanctions, they can somehow speed up this process, when russia really will experience such and such a lack of these components, and indeed this will affect its possibility. well, we must understand that russian weapons, russian weapons still have a difference, and when we talk about components of foreign origin used by russia, we are primarily talking about missile weapons, hast-1,555, calibers, daggers and so on further, we are talking about lancets, we are even talking about shaheds and so on, on the other hand, are there any components of foreign origin in the russian tank. t-54-55, which they are de-canning, which was still produced after the second world war, or in the howitzer

d-1, 1943, which is now being sent to the combat zone and so on and so on, that is , there is a difference between this, of course, if sanctions are strengthened, and not only sanctions are strengthened, it is important another aspect, all these electronics, components are smuggled to russia. aaa must be found a really effective means to block smuggling, to counter smuggling, then yes, it can really affect its high-tech component precisely in these means and the affected, what about the technology, then we we can see that what russia is currently using in the combat zone is not even close to the same set of technical mechanized elements that they... used in the 22nd year. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for participating and commenting on these topics , the military viewer of the informational group oleksandr kovalenko was a guest. freedom of the mornings. important statements,

exclusive comments are on our broadcast, join, subscribe to the radio liberty channel, we are here every weekday from 9:00 a.m., as well as on espresso tv. let's talk about the situation at the front. ukrainian forces pushed back the russian military north, marinka, out south, orlivka, near avdiivka, russian forces advanced, deepstate analysts report. meanwhile , the american institute for the study of war sees no confirmed changes on the front line near. maxim zhorin, the deputy commander of the third assault brigade, joins our broadcast , and i apologize for saying that maxim zhorin said the day before that it was near orlivka that the russian forces were wiping out, wiping out, i am quoting now the most, they are suffering heavy losses, but assaults continue there both day and night, this is happening while the enemy is unable to push through the defense line in the avdiiv direction , - mr. jorin added. meanwhile, in the armed forces against

the background of criticism about... the lack of high-quality fortifications, they showed what the second line of defense looks like in the avdiiv direction, and this is what the extensive system of engineering and fortification structures says. in particular, dozens of new platoon strongholds with hundreds of meters of trenches, as well as anti-tank ditches, concrete bunkers and dragon's teeth. as stated in the general staff, they began to be erected a year ago in december our broadcast is joined by mykola volokhov, call sign abdula, commander of the unit in the third assault, separate assault brigade. i welcome you to ours. thank you for joining. i congratulate you. glory to ukraine. kudos to the heroes, the russian troops cannot break through the defense of the ukrainian armed forces near avdiivka, but they are constantly trying to advance, maksym zhorin said, and he said, as i quote: "the occupiers are closing in on the settlement of orlivka." what is happening there, how can you describe the situation? indeed, the russians had accumulated that considerable amount of infantry, a considerable amount armored vehicles, a large number

of russian works. means of radio-electronic warfare, means of radio-electronic intelligence , aviation, in fact, everything they have left at the moment, they are using here in the ovdiiv region, well, the good news is that they are not very successful, they are not very successful in implementing their plan, but it turns out very well to burn their armored vehicles, well, the truth is with our help, it turns out very well for them to send their infantry to the kabzon in packs, again with our help, well, with the last such... interesting thing, just imagine a wave of armored fighting vehicles is coming, four pieces and a tank of our podrons flies into the front tank, it stops, lights up, then flies into the bmp with infantry, 12 infantrymen are sitting, flies exactly into a half-drone, everyone scatters , bmp lights up, well , i just want to convey to you with specific examples the spirit that is happening, yes, but they continue to climb, from such philosophical questions, but important, how many of them

are there, for us it is... it is not clear, but we we send them here to kabzon in very large quantities quantities, it is not clear when they will run out, but we are patient and will continue until it runs out. the commander of the ground forces pavlyuk said that the situation at the front is stabilizing, and what does this stabilization depend on, how does it look in practice? this model is very multifactorial, what depends on something in the war, there is no war at all. simple things and there are no simple answers, complex questions, the whole complex also depends on how well the fighters on the ground perform their combat tasks, how proactive they are, and how good the equipment that arrives here at the front, and how good the operational, tactical, strategic decisions are made by the command, are very much a factor in...