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greetings, these are war chronicles, i’m olga len, well , the last week was marked not only by active actions at the front, but also by strikes on ukrainian infrastructure, about we will talk about all this, but first of all i ask you to join our collection for three four-wheel drive cars, this is a powerful land cruiser. for the air reconnaissance group of the main

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shell hunger, the russians have increased the number of airstrikes and offensives on the whole area of ​​the front, and this, unfortunately, brings results. luhansk region thanks to the raid of russian volunteers on the belgorod region , it was possible to distract part of the enemy's army advancing from the kupyan direction. therefore, this section of the front is one of the few where there are no territorial changes. at the same time, to the south, in the direction near kreminnaya rashista, large resources were concentrated in order to... push back the defense forces to the right bank of the zherebets river in the direction of naleman. during the week , the rashists conducted several waves of assaults on the villages of terniy, yampolivka, and torske. several times the positions of the armed forces changed hands. however , the other day, the invaders managed to advance several hundred meters to the west and gain a foothold. intense fighting is currently taking place on this part of the front. chasiv yar is preparing for a siege. battles over the territory 6 km long between bakhmut and chasov. yarom lasted almost a year.

neither bohdanivka nor ivanovske have been occupied yet, but the situation is developing in such a way that it will probably happen in the coming weeks. during this week, the russians managed to break even further into the center of ivanivskyi, as well as gain a foothold in its southern and north-eastern surroundings. in addition, they were able to occupy our positions along the khromovech-sivyar road, which runs along the ridge of the highlands. it is along this ridge that they intend to approach the city and its surroundings. of which there is about a kilometer left, through the occupied observation point on the ridge, the russians can now exercise fire control, both behind bohdanivka and ivanivskyi, at the same time they are trying to knock out the armed forces from klishchiivka and andriivka, crossing the railway and the canal and entering our rear. however, ukrainian soldiers on this the area holds the front and repels all attacks. postavdiyiv front. in a week , the rashists were able to dislodge the zsu from tonenko and orlivka and... there were these villages,

as expected, the front began to form on both banks of the durnaya river and the floodplain lake that it forms. heavy fighting continues behind the central street of berdychiv, where the defense forces. restrain the enemy on the left bank of the river and prevent attacks on the main line of our defense. instead, the occupiers are trying to develop a breakthrough to the west of the thin in the direction of naumanske, where our line of defense is also located. however, in order to cover these 4 km, the enemy will lose more than 1,000 soldiers. coal mining direction. for several months now, novomykhaivka has been the epicenter of fighting at the junction of the eastern and southern fronts. despite the fact that the rashists have been attacking the village from three sides for the past few days. fought to its central part, the armed forces continue to hold the blow, and the front line remains conditionally stable. to the north of maryanka, the russians attacked again in the direction of krasnogohorivka, they managed to cross the river on a stretch of 2 km, so this will enable them attack the village from another direction. the offensive

on georgiyivka is progressing like a wet fire up to a hundred meters in a week. the armed forces flew to crimea again. a complex attack by missiles and drones not only hit two large amphibious ships yamal and our previously captured konstantin olshansky in the bay in sevastopol, but also destroyed two main communication centers of the black sea fleet of the russian federation in sevastopol, as well as at the airfield in belbek . in addition, at least three rockets were destroyed and damaged on this site su-27 fighter jets in the gvardiyskyi district, where the oil storage facility was located, rang out more than 20 explosions, bavovna also visited the railway center in dzhankoya. the biggest rocket. strike this year, 98 kh-101 and kh-55 cruise missiles, more than 20 iskander ballistic missiles, five kha-22 missiles, no less than seven daggers, two zircon supersonic missiles and one and a half hundred shaheds fell on the heads of ukrainians in three days in most of the regional centers of our country.

as a result of the largest attack on energy facilities, electricity disappeared in at least 15 cities dnipro, kharkiv, zaporizhzhia, and lviv oblast were the most seriously affected, although the capital was mostly targeted. strikes in russia: our drones hit another oil refinery , kuibashivskyi, which is located in samara and processes more than 3 million tons of oil per year, or 1% of all oil refining. all refineries process an average of 270 million tons per year. in total, in three months, we destroyed nine russian factories that processed 30% of oil, and there are another 10 within the thousand... meter range of ukrainian drones plants that process 32% of the oil volume in this industry, so sbu and gur drones can potentially stop 62% of russia's oil refining. we win daily, death to enemies. so,

i will remind you about our fee for three-wheel drive cars. please join it. well, we will actually discuss what... military expert defense express, well, first of all, i want to congratulate you, ivan, good day, i want to talk first of all about this missile danger, about these missile strikes that we saw, because really they intensified, firstly, secondly, well, it's hard not to notice that this is, well, directly an attack on the civilian population and on civilian infrastructure. and this is exactly how it is clearly visible in kharkiv, in odesa, an attempt at a crooked corner, an attempt to literally, well, cut off the electricity in our cities, how to explain what, what, why so, why now it would seem, it would be enough, we were all waiting

this was in the winter, it didn’t happen in the winter, it’s happening now, why now, let’s face it, regardless of what i say next, this does not justify the actions of the russian thugs, this just can give an answer, why now, well, let's follow this logic , in order for us to more or less independently provide for our defense needs there, we need all kinds of heavy industry, this segment of the economy, it is traditionally energy-intensive, accordingly in this case, as you know, there is no special seasonality here, that is, we need a lot of electricity all the time, but in return we even have certain successes about, sorry, certain reports about success. the numbers of our domestic defense production there are pleasantly fruitful, while the russians could there is a strategic plan to arise , let's say this, to try to literally de-energize our defense capabilities in the first place in all senses of the word, well, then at the same time to de-energize

us as a country, in principle to lower the potential as such to resistance, especially since here as if logic itself the term strategic aviation, well, that is, when strategic bombers rise in the air, then... this directly implies that the enemy wants to achieve a strategic result with this, that is, well, let's say this, we can proceed now from the fact that it is terrible the situation with electricity in odesa, there in kharkiv. in other regions there, but the russians obviously had a much broader task there, to knock out our energy system with almost one blow, for example, so that we were all in a state of blackout here, especially since this, well, should be expected, well more precisely , the intention of the russians against the background of reports of a shortage of anti-aircraft missiles in our country, but we have what we have, plus one more note should be made, if we take into account the fact that the detonators are detonated on russian missiles. at the command of the computer, and not there after the contact, that is, when it hit the ground , well, regardless of where the russian

missile was aimed, well, if it exploded, hit a civilian house, there a residential building, well, then, unfortunately, the russians aimed it that way, well and yet it has also been noticed during these last few days that the russians began to strike with drones such, well, not only in the interior of the country, as they used to do... this was done before, but in literally front-line cities, for example, today it was raisin , where drones flew right there into houses, and well, that too some kind of such a new kind of edge, and you know, can we say here that in this way they are trying, well, on the one hand, to really achieve some kind of de-energization of industry, but also demoralization of the population, preparing for some, well, maybe flying... maybe military actions , is it possible to predict something like this?

well, it really is, let's put it this way, one by no means negates the other, because maybe i just said it too metaphorically in order to cut off the electricity in the whole country, well, that is , i might repeat a thesis that has already been repeated somewhere repeated, but that the russians, when they wrote to themselves in the summer that they are not just planning missile strikes there, they are planning it as an operation to reduce potential. and the result of this operation is not only a certain number of missiles fired and a certain amount of destroyed infrastructure, but also that there is a certain level of our demoralization, there is a certain level of panic, there is a decrease in the ability to resist in principle, so that, ideally, this in them, you don't know, the situation is when one simply launches a large-scale missile strike to large-scale destruction of the power system there and drastic there, for example, a surge of panic moods, and here they unfortunately, well, it is considered that all means... are too good, especially since it is possible, well, in some ways, their actions may fall on fertile ground, if

you have to hear that, for example, yesterday's zircons in kyiv , they supposedly had nuclear reactors there, so they say you can't approach the place of impact, you have to measure radiation, well, it's clear that all these rumors are just like that, someone is generating them, and maybe it's someone who just has it epaulettes of the relevant units of the russian army, well, by the way , let's talk about these zircons as well, because, as far as i understand it... the use of these trim-22 zircons was used on march 25, that's how i call them correctly, they were used on kyiv, and this was apparently the second use, because it seems like they were beaten with the same zircons on february 7, but this time they collected more debris there, that is, we can say that these are definitely zircons, as far as i also understand this situation , but the question here is where it is from fired because... it's a cruise missile, right? well, here we can only make

assumptions, based, by the way, on the statements of the russian propagandists themselves, which some, let’s say, other commentators could have missed, because the russians in 2022 directly stated that they were so analogue over there, that they want to adapt zircon , including for launching these coastal launchers of the bastion complex, which are suitable for p-800 onyx missiles, and the russians, let's say, did not even hide their intention. to adapt to these zircons this so-called object 100, well, this so-called sotka, well , the underground missile complex of the black sea fleet, which they captured in 2014 and used there for training firings, that is, there can be two options, well, by the way, whether if you take into account today's message , the rebuttal of the operational command south says that they concentrated several dozen zircons in the crimea, then it looks like they took all of them to the crimea, maybe directly... they took all the zircons they had to the crimea and at the same time it turns out, what's up officially there are three ships, well, that is, two

frigates and one submarine, which are in the northern fleet, well, i decided that the ships will go around, that it is more important for them to shoot it over ukraine, well, but these zircons themselves, what are they , you know, new they add to the situation, well, of course there is a new missile, but what is so special about it that we haven't seen yet, let's say, it somehow, well, it has some kind of greater striking power, or is it somehow harder to shoot down, well , that is, explain it a little, because, well, you know, there's a lot of talk about... why there's a lot of talk, it's not very clear, i think we need, well, if it didn't sound strange, to look at this situation from the enemy's point of view, why could he resort to its use, well, for that matter, the format is such that we have to quote their , unfortunately, theoretical work, well, yes they are still there in the summer, especially not hiding, you know, in principle, if

some people say that they are preparing to kill you, believe their title, they are preparing to kill you, well, yes, they are also here in the summer. these russian military theorists wrote that hypersonic weapons are very important to them a powerful thing, that is, according to the principle of one blow to all the fighters, there you can destroy the object together with the air defense system with one missile, and there , at the same time, they were substantiating these fake data about the alleged defeat of the patriot with a dagger in may 2023, and they themselves they came up with the concept that a hypersonic missile is just like a tactical nuclear weapon , only better, because the red button is always pressed . the russians thought what if they are now going to beat, alas, such ecclesiastical ecclesiastics in kiev, then it should have the effect, as if they actually hit us tactically with a nuclear bomb, but apparently no one understood this insidious plan of theirs , especially the anti-aircraft fighters, who

obviously shot down these missiles there and did not know that they were actually hypersonic, well, in theory... we have sampti and patriots, they are not designed to shoot down such high-speed missiles. now, if we talk about the characteristics of zircon itself, it turned out that there was a very small warhead, only 150 kg, of which there were only 40 kg of explosives, well, if you consider that it was designed as an anti-ship missile, well , this is not enough, even a frigate can sink a corvette, but no more, that is well, on a ship like the ones that are there now... sinking, well, the defense forces of ukraine in crimea, it definitely wouldn't be enough. perhaps the russians simply calculated here that since this rocket flies at a very high speed, there are 4.5 mahanos at the starting stage, that is, about 500 km/h, the central section of the flight, there are seven swings, i.e. oriented up to 800 km/h, and then already when approaching the target it drops to, well

, somewhere, roughly speaking, a little more than 500 km/h, well, maybe they thought that the jet would be so... very powerfully driven into the ground , and at the expense of kinetic energy to create appropriate destruction there, well, if you look at it, according to the destruction in the area of ​​the boichuk academy there, well, maybe they did not make a mistake with the calculations, but here it is just a literal miracle and a literal triumph of our anti-aircraft defense that they shot down missiles to counter which theoretically there is no one there, because no one has yet prepared to shoot down hypersonic missiles, here in principle... it just became clear that it turns out that the russians can make not just missiles with hypersonic flight speed, well, like daggers, that is , that they simply accelerate to certain speeds, but are not hypersonic, but it turned out that the zircon has a hypersonic direct-flow engine, which allows it to accelerate to such high speeds, which in theory would really make this rocket invulnerable to any

systems of anti -missile anti-aircraft defense, well, but i repeat, judging by everything, our anti-aircraft fighters, who were sitting... at the controls of the corresponding anti-aircraft missile systems, were simply not aware of this, accordingly, the trouble er, which should have brought an effect there, as the use of tactical nuclear weapons, well, it was managed to distract. well, it is as usual, you know , whether it is possible to win, or whether it is possible to defeat the russian army, here the question is not whether it is possible, the question is whether you will have enough patriots and other weapons for this, if it enough, then it turns out that all this can be done perfectly, only there are enough questions . in fact, well, the last thing i want to ask, just a minute, well, this was the statement of the institute for the study of war that the russian army is forming reserves to support the current military operations in ukraine, but these units will not be able to carry out large-scale offensive operations, they believe, and what do you think, that is, if it is clear that the russians

have a desire to advance, but the question is, can they advance now? it's simple here divide the issue, divide the vectors, because the russians always have the intention and always have the resources for an offensive, here we cannot ignore , first of all, the statement of the commander of the ground forces pavlyuk that the russians are preparing a group of one hundred thousand, well, fortunately only a group of one hundred thousand for an offensive in the summer this year, well, maybe it will be enough for one of the directions, but here the question is always that, well, it would be better to put it so that it is imagined that if there are only the right few. the army of the russian federation is not bad to stop, because one thing is the intent of the russians, and another thing is what resources our defenders will have to thwart this intent, well, because in principle. and what at the same time we could observe in the last few weeks in the east, especially after the appearance of an unknown number of shells from unknown sources, well, this is simply a military miracle from the categories, in principle there would be

chances that in theory the russians could go further, but luckily, they managed to be stopped not in their current positions, but a little more shells than usual approached, a military miracle happened, accordingly here would be it would be better, not bad, if the same institute of the study of war, if instead of fixing the obvious things, would write, please give us more old men so that it happens... another military miracle, when another russian offensive failed. ugh. thank you, thank you very much. it was ivan kyrychevsky, defense express, military expert. well, we will have a break now, i remind you about the collection for our three cars, and please, after the break, we will come back, we will talk about the situation near avdiivka and near bakhmut. there are discounts on parafa. 10% in pharmacies plantain bam and savings. there are discounts on lactials - 10% in pharmacies plantain bam and oskad. the premium sponsor of the national team represents.

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returning to the chronicles of the war, i remind you about the collection for our three cars: four-wheel drive cars, a powerful land cruiser for the air reconnaissance group of the main intelligence department, a pickup truck for the 43rd separate artillery brigade and a refrigerator for the removal and transportation of fallen heroes. please join this collection, it is very important, because the car is the most important mobile tool. in the war, let's put it this way, and if you look, well, there are three most active and three, well, the most active zones, they are actually

all of them in donbas, the first one is now an attempt to storm in the direction of leman, the other - they are trying to move under avdiivka , somehow the russians are trying to storm the yar and are also moving towards the ugledar, but now there is a little less of such a revival, well , actually, if we talk about the avdiiv direction, well, there is our previous the guest actually noted that a military miracle actually took place there, when such a miracle, when it was still possible to stop the russians from active... to say, completely stop, one cannot say so, but from active and such a rapid advance towards our defense line, which is a little further away, they managed

to stop them practically on very poorly equipped... beys, now they have to recapture every village, every part of the village there, recently they managed to capture an eagle in this area, but it must be said that in the berdychiv area, in the area of ​​other populated areas there, well, still, there is a thin line, the fighting is going on, the fighting is still going on, well , in principle, the thin lines have already been captured in principle, but nevertheless it is a little not... the advance that the russians were expecting, that is absolutely correct , and well, tough battles, nothing here you can't say, but nevertheless, it was possible to do it a little earlier, well, at earlier stages, than was immediately planned and than expected, both the russians and, in fact, it was possible to hope from our side, that's why the situation is like this.

so now we also have to say what is happening on the bakhmutsky bakhmutsky vittinka of the front, which is now also very, very, very active, and we have a guest there, andrii our father, the commander of the uav crew kara nebesna, the fourth brigade of the operational assignment of the frontiers of the national guard of ukraine. i salute you, sir andrii, and i actually congratulate yesterday on national guard day, too, good evening, studio, good evening, audience. thank you for your greetings, and i also want to say that you are currently collecting money for the needs of the intelligence of the national guard of borders, we want our viewers to join it as much as possible and support specifically your brigade, the fourth brigade of operational assignment of borders of the national guard of ukraine , this is the intelligence needs of this brigade, please see, we will have this qr code

hanging during the conversation, the purpose and... very 2 million is ambitious, but it is worth it, and i hope that it can be a little andriy, say a few words about this collection, so that we also understand. actually, the intelligence units of the rubizh brigade are currently collecting for night vision devices, as well as electronic warfare and other means that will help the intelligence units to work efficiently at night . all the devices that will help us. destroy the enemy at night period of time and at the same time preserve the personnel of our units, so i ask everyone to join our meetings and help us destroy the enemies, but at the same time protect our personnel. well, andriy, also , well, we are waiting for you to tell us a little about what is happening in your direction, because from such reports per day, it means that in the past day seven attacks were repelled, er...

near populated areas points ivanovske, bohdanivka, klishchiivka, and that, well, actually, it is known that the situation in your direction is very difficult, it is not getting easier during this time, enemy is making progress in the direction of the time gap, but still some more details, maybe of what is happening, and well, at the expense of what exactly the russians manage to attack there now and well... still continue these attacks? the operational situation in the direction is rather complicated, for several reasons: the first is the use of guided aerial bombs, as well as fabs, the second is for one fighter of the defense forces of ukraine, currently there are approximately 7-10 servicemen of the russian federation, and we have an urgent need for personal support members in the reserves and in the personnel, so i hope that the law on mobilization

will still be adopted and we will be able to defend. our country is much better, when we will have in units and the number of personnel that is really needed for the defense of our country, due to the fact that, despite the fact that there is a huge number of russians for each serviceman, most of them die and most of them are wounded, regarding some successful operations of the russian federation, i cannot say, due to the fact that, in principle, taking into account losses of equipment and personnel that the representatives of the russian federation currently have, all their local victories are a few landings, are completely irrational, that is, every time we withdraw from some defensive line, we withdraw to better positions in order to destroy the enemy more qualitatively and in order not to lose our personnel, at the same time destroying the maximum number of personnel of representatives of the russian federation. tell me what forces are storming, what, well, from the russian side, that is, what is it, who are you there are you watching, are they trying to use

more equipment, or is it now... reduced, well, that is, for the last week at least.