as well as distinguished guests of the studio, andrii parubiy, people's deputy of ukraine, was also the chairman of the verkhovna rada of ukraine. the events of the day in two hours, vasyl zima's big broadcast, a project for smart and caring people, espresso in the evening. the premium sponsor of the national team represents. united by football, stronger together. greetings, this is svoboda life and my name is iryna sysak. the head of ukrainian intelligence, kyrylo budanov, announces the offensive of russia in the summer. europe is looking. additional air defense systems, and the states are on

the way to the final military vote aid to ukraine, including long-awaited atakams missiles. we talk about this in today's issue. and we begin with a report from the lymanskyi direction. there, the russian military does not stop its attempts to storm. in addition to a large amount of living resources , a lot of artillery, drones and aerial bombs are used. film crew of radio svoboda. visited the positions of ukrainian operators of strike drones operating in the liman direction. see further about the details of the work. how is the situation here now? in this area, i am learning a lot it's difficult, because a lot of infantry moves through the forests, and well, there are a lot of them, we find...

according to the norms, and then during the day they make their eyes moronic incomprehensible assaults, that's all, their tactics do not change, meaty, only meat, meat, only meat, here you have a very wooded area, you have forests.

oh, here, there are a bunch, yes there are several of them, three, we have this gap where we can hit them, he will now have to run, что сайка, a cluster-fragment projectile, this is something to work for, this is infantry and light armored vehicles, we in the infantry also use it, because normal fragments fly normally, that is , will you work now? then by life force, yes by life force, to the right, to the right, to the right, something, something is taking away, now there will be light, i understand, i see, there are three, four of them, on the right at the bottom, i am moving towards the landing , ih there thursday,

russia will launch a major offensive in june to try to capture donetsk and luhansk regions. this was stated by the head of the main directorate of intelligence, kyrylo budanov, in an interview with the washington post. according to the words spy later, russia will focus on the presidential elections in the united states, which will be held in november of this year. and before

the inauguration of the new american head of state, the russian army will try to capture as much of the territory of donetsk and luhansk regions as possible, probably hoping that the re-elected president donald trump will be able to. to approve their achievements, kyrylo budanov suggests. at the same time, the head of ukrainian intelligence talked about the possible continuation of ukrainian attacks on the territory of russia and even shared the plans of the military leadership. in particular, gur will support and support the attacks of russian volunteers operating on the territory of russia. budanov also predicts more drone attacks. and here the main goal is to show that putin cannot protect the population from the penetration of war into russia, he explained. we have proposed a plan aimed at reducing russian capabilities, it covers many aspects, including the military industry, critical military facilities, their airfields, their command and control centers. when you sit, say, in st. petersburg and see the war only on tv, you will always

support her, but people start to get nervous when some object is attacked near their house. we will now discuss the statements of the head of ukrainian intelligence with serhiy hrabsky, a military... expert, mr. serhiy, good evening to you, good evening, mr. serhiy, kyrylo budanov said that the russian army is preparing for a large-scale offensive already in june, plans, in particular, to completely capture donetsk and luhansk oblasts, how can you evaluate these statements, because the ukrainian president had previously made a similar statement in the western press, about that the offensive will take place at the beginning of summer. well, you yourself understand that you and i cannot even technically have that volume, even half, even 10% of that... this information that the president, the supreme commander-in-chief, and the head of military intelligence have, so they have every reason to do such statements, because they have certain powers to do so, at least. is it news to us that the russian federation may be preparing an offensive with the aim of seizing donetsk and

luhansk regions, not in any way, because these were actually the goals that were defined earlier april 17, 2022. it has already passed. for two years, the russian army has been trying to fulfill this task, they have not succeeded in it, and they are persistently, if you can say so, trying to fulfill it. is such an attack or attempted attack possible? yes, of course, and that is why we are preparing, in advance, informing that yes, we know what is being done and we know how it will happen, so we are waiting, preparing and... fulfilling our tasks for the defense of the country. the day before, ukraine struck the military airfield in dzhankoy, where , in particular, the launchers of the complexes were damaged anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense and other equipment.

andrii yusov, a representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense, reported this on svoboda ranok. let's listen to it and discuss it now. there are also launchers of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems. there are destroyed radar systems, there is information about damaged planes of personnel, this is a serious harvest and a successful operation of the armed forces of ukraine. and today in the afternoon in gur, by the way, they specified that they were impressed, in particular four s-400 air defense missile launchers and three radar stations. these numbers are not yet final, noted v gur. and in your opinion, what losses did russia suffer from bdzhanka, perhaps they are different than what ukrainian intelligence has announced. it is necessary to turn. on two aspects that are, in my opinion, extremely important, namely: the destruction of the launchers of the s-300, s-400 systems are extremely important, because they are used for air defense of such important objects as, in particular

, dzhankoy, the ukrainian dzhankoy airport , temporarily occupied, the airfield, excuse me, and for carrying out terrorist attacks on our facilities using modernized s300, s-400 missiles. therefore, the destruction of such objects fulfills two tasks: reducing the activity of the russian aviation, because it will be forced, even if we did not hit a single helicopter, although you and i cannot talk about this for sure yet, they will be forced to transfer this, these aviation units to other airfields because they will not be able to defend any time soon, even if we don't have not damaged any helicopters in that area, so we're talking about... that the enemy is relaxing their pressure, and that allows us to talk about a broader range of operations. let's not forget that , in addition to the helicopters of the ground forces of the russian federation, there were also helicopters of the navy

conducting patrols based at this airfield. in this way, we are talking about the possibility of expanding our operations, about striking enemy targets, in particular, enemy ships. therefore, we will... continue such strikes, and such strikes are extremely important for us, and this is also a signal to our allies that ukraine pays attention to... remarks that may be expressed by our allies, but at the same time we will continue to fulfill the tasks that are in front of us ukraine, which are urgent to be implemented. mr. serhiy, please tell me how, in your opinion, ukraine could have struck the ukrainian dzhanka, do you have any guesses, because the russian media wrote that it might have been an atakams missile. well , you probably know when we have some journalists, some. the mass media so dramatically declare that the aid has stopped, well, this is not true, we

continue to receive aid, we would like, of course, to receive much more such and such forces and means, but even what we will receive can lead to such consequences, which you and i are currently discussing whether it is atakams or something else, well, maybe atakams, but you know, here, as our leaders say, and you need to carefully... follow official reports and pay less attention to assumptions, here i wanted to point out that this object was affected, i also wanted to add that mordovia was also under attack the day before, where drones attacked a radio engineering node, and also, according to gur, the mi-8 helicopter was destroyed in samara. in its report to the latter, the institute for the study of war noted that ukraine carried out a coordinated series of strikes against the aviation and air defense systems of the russian federation. how do you rate this attack? well, you know, this attack must be understood. as important as it is, this attack is extremely necessary for us, and this applies to

strikes on jonka, it concerns strikes on objects in mordovia, it concerns strikes on the plant, why? because compared to the ground component, russia cannot quickly restore the air component, and this is a very serious and vulnerable place of the russian federation, so the destruction of any, i emphasize, any air... object is extremely important for us, because it reduces the effectiveness of russian aviation, to date, according to our supreme commander-in-chief , the ratio of aviation is 1:30, we understand that we will receive aviation, but this does not mean that we have to wait for something, we have to strike now, and striking targets in mordovia, targets in the depths of the russian federation, in particular, which were struck, allow us, first of all complete all the tasks according to the possible use of cruise missiles, because the strike was

carried out on the enterprise where the tu-22 and tu-160 are produced, and we are blinding the enemy, and here we can mention that the strikes on the radar systems that we carry out, and we eliminate the tactical link, that is, we are actually talking about the airfield in jonkoi, as the last example, and it is not the only one. in this way, we are engaged in an active struggle with... the air forces of the enemy and by analogy, by analogy with the navy, not having our own air fleet that could carry out such strikes, but nevertheless we perform such tasks, perform them very successfully, and this very good. and if we talk about the front, what is the situation today in key directions, in particular near the temporary ravine, because today the spokesman osuv hortetsi stated that there is no enemy in the temporary ravine, the defense force fully control the city, what do you know? ah, approximately, approximately the same, i can confirm that in the temporary yar in

the settlement itself, there are opponents, there is no enemy, he is making desperate attempts to break through and gain a foothold, because, as the president himself and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine already mentioned, general colonel syrsky, and the task is to capture the times before may 9. the enemy is desperately trying to rush forward, realizing that the window is possible... to take out, which he had somewhere around the second half of february for it is closing, so they are not counting on losses now, they are not counting on the fact that they are significantly reducing their combat potential, they are rushing forward, the situation is extremely difficult, and we understand that we will be in such a situation for some time, and this applies to the time gap, it also applies to the section of the front to the west of avdiyivka, where the enemy is trying to break through, bypassing the line, i want

to continue the topic of atakams, the armed forces of ukraine can strengthen atakams missiles, at least their transfer is mentioned in the aid package ukraine, which the house of representatives is going to vote on on saturday, we will talk about this in more detail later, but now i want to ask you about the extent to which these missiles are a priority for the armed forces of ukraine, because ukraine has long asked its partners to provide these weapons, for what in general ? it is not for nothing that these missiles are called operational-tactical missiles, that is, it allows us to strike at the enemy's concentration, both in tactical and in... hostile depth, to strike at command posts, at important objects, in particular at the same tactical airfields from which barbaric bombardment of our cities and villages is carried out, and our troops are seriously, i emphasize seriously, suffering from guided air bombs, so the use of such weapons will allow us to significantly reduce the pressure on our line

of battle, this will allow us to minimize the enemy's capabilities carry out an offensive operations, but you yourself understand, you yourself understand, that you can have a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, even a thousand tanks, but if these tanks are not refueled, if they are not will be provided with ammunition, they simply turn into a metal motlog. thus, atacoms will allow us to solve a much wider range of tasks, including striking the temporarily occupied territory, in particular, the crimea. it must be understood that without resolving the issue of crimea , it is impossible to talk about the liberation of ukraine and... mr. serhiy, there is also the issue of air defense, i want to talk to you further, speaking at a special meeting of the european council, president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi said that the target of the strikes russia can become and ukrainian nuclear plants, let's listen to his direct speech. russia has already destroyed almost all of our

thermal power generation under the strikes of terrorists, dams and equipped. hydroelectric power station, as well as gas infrastructure. we also see that russia does not give up on radiation blackmail and, in particular, plays with the security of the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in a dekun style. we do not rule out that the infrastructure of our other nuclear plants and distribution networks is also under threat from russian terror. how do you generally assess the threat of a nuclear attack stations of ukraine, taking into account the latest russian attacks and president zelenskyi's statement about the critical shortage of anti-aircraft missiles, etc. in the same speech, zelenskyi noted that russian terror can only be stopped with the help of anti-aircraft defense, and discussions about the transfer of systems are actively unfolding today in europe, we also hear statements from the netherlands about the possibility of buying air defense systems and the un secretary general, stoltenberg confirms that the alliance has enough systems to hand over to ukraine. which countries actually have enough of these systems,

in what quantity, and who can actually use them to share you know, just to be clear, there are two aspects that are not put into the public space, these are the aspects related to nuclear weapons and the aspects related to air defense, in no handbook you will find accurate figures that explain the number of selto air defense means , because this is a strategic indicator, and this information is very hidden and very confidential, so it is impossible, or whoever will tell you that there is too much air defense in such and such a country, there will be not enough in that one, well, it is known. that's what i'm talking about frankly, it must be understood, every country experiences a certain shortage of air defense forces and means, and therefore this issue is very acute, everyone understands ukraine's urgent need for air defense forces and means, and everything is being done now to ensure at least our minimum needs , and this applies not only to, let's say, the type of patriots, we are talking about

tactical air defense equipment, about everything that can shoot down an enemy enemy threat flying in... ukraine, as for, as for nuclear power plants, you know, first, we certainly, we certainly need such protection and such protection will be provided. it is also certain that the world community closely and very carefully follows the development of events surrounding nuclear power plants. i will tell you honestly that we... there are certain doubts that russia at this stage will risk striking nuclear energy facilities, because at least the magate mission is currently operating in ukraine, as they are currently represented at the zaporizhzhia station, but you yourself understand, given the exceptional importance and danger of these objects, this mission can be deployed, and no matter what,

no matter how we demonize russia, it still takes into account such a factor that... this is very dangerous at the world level, it can raise the level of hostilities to an absolutely unattainable, unattainable height regarding the danger of using such salt agents or using them against atomic objects, nuclear objects. therefore, i have certain doubts about the fact that the russian federation will deliberately strike nuclear power facilities now, in the near future, although it must be understood that there is always such a concept as human factor. and taking into account this human factor, we will emphasize and place a special emphasis on minimizing the impact of the human factor, on ensuring the priority needs of ukrainian air defense and cover. it is nuclear power plants, as the most critical objects, after cities and villages, after ensuring the life and health of our people,

the most critical objects that can be affected by the enemy's means, but it must be understood that if we are talking about protection of our airspace and our and protection the lives of our fellow citizens, it is not only about defense, anti-aircraft defense, it is usually for... you do not win a war with defense, and we talked about this with you today, about the need for increased pressure on the enemy's aviation facilities, increased pressure on the launch areas missiles carrying out terrorist attacks on our, thank you, we heard your thoughts, it was sergey grabskyi, a military expert, thank you. in just a few weeks, ukraine will receive the airisty air defense system from germany, and even more. there will be complexes delivered this year, this is the statement of helmut rauch, the head of the company deal defense, which manufactures these sams. today, together with the vice chancellor of germany, robert habyk, he visited

kyiv. according to rauch, ukraine currently has three airist anti-aircraft missile systems in service. meanwhile , the foreign ministers of the g7 countries gathered in italy today, and the leaders of the 27 eu countries consulted in brussels for two days in a row. one of the topics. exchange provision of additional air defense systems for ukraine, what they have decided and where exactly they will look patriots, our colleague in brussels, olena abramovych, will tell us. on the way to the eu summit, the leaders of the netherlands, denmark and the czech republic stopped by the headquarters of the nato apartment to consult with the secretary general of the alliance on how to help ukraine. on the eve of this visit, the dutch prime minister told his parliament that he could not transfer additional patriots to ukraine, because it would violate nato standards for ensuring its own defense. when choosing between meeting nato standards or helping ukraine, countries should prioritize

ukraine. marcoryute then announced: his the country, together with denmark and the czech republic, will join the initiative to find patriots for ukraine, and the danish prime minister said they will send their own. wouldn't it be better for us to send in some of our own anti-aircraft systems? defense in ukraine, at a time when they, and not us, are trying to repel the endless russian attack every day. we know that we have systems in europe, some of them now need to be delivered to ukraine, and i think the answer to this question is, of course, yes. the summit began at 7:00 p.m., and the leaders consulted until one in the morning. meanwhile, the western media wrote details about searching for air defense systems. the financial times newspaper wrote that berlin... sent letters to nato countries, as well as a wider circle of partners outside the bloc, in particular to the arab states of the persian gulf, asking for patriots and other systems, the french-italian sams pit,

the american- norwegian nasa complexes, mark ryuta told reporters at night after the first day of the summit, where to buy. we have to see what we can find everywhere in the world. we know that many countries are sitting on a large pile of systems. perhaps unwillingly transfer them directly, we can buy from them, we can deliver to ukraine, we have money, this is extremely important. meanwhile , the estonian prime minister, arriving on the morning of the second day of the summit, talked about the pressure on european partners and the discussions, which, according to her , have not yet led to concrete results. we talked a lot about air defense and what can be done, of course we looked at those countries that have a system. air defense, please give, but of course we did not make any promises, because everything depends on the countries that have them, but on these countries of course, there was a lot of pressure,

the patriots are being asked to clean up. we know where they are in europe, and these countries do not need them as much as ukraine. politico specified which countries these could be, naming france, spain, italy and greece. on the fact that it is necessary to look first of all within the bloc, the chief diplomat of the european union, josep borel, arrives. we can't just rely on the us, we have to take responsibility and stop saying oh the us will do it, we have to do it, we have patriots, we have anti-missile systems, we have to to take them out of our barracks, where they are just in case, and send them to ukraine, where the war is raging, and i am sure that we will do it, but it must be done quickly. germany reacted, in addition to the previously announced additional patriot system, today they promised to deliver another arist air defense system in a week. as

for kyiv's request to... ensure the same security for the ukrainian sky as for the israeli one, here it was made clear that it should not be expected that the west will raise its fighter jets to shoot down missiles and iranian drones over ukraine. chief diplomat jestep borel said that the us and france primarily defended their airbases on the territory of jordan, through whose airspace rockets flew at israel, in the us they explained that they did not want world war iii. olena abramovich, marek hajduk, radio liberty, brussels. meanwhile, russia still uses western technologies in its weapons. this is evidenced by the exclusive list of imported electronics, which our colleagues from the scheme project received from ukrainian intelligence. it has more than 2,000 foreign parts that make up the brain of russian su-type fighters. these are exactly the planes that the russian army actively uses for strikes on ukrainian territory.

we will talk in more detail about western parts in russian planes to bypass sanctions. the author of the investigation, a journalist of the scheme project, kyryll ovsyan. he joins our broadcast. kirill, i congratulate you, and please tell me more about what western parts the russian federation uses, what kind of electronics it is and who makes it in the west? this is a very large list of western parts, especially microelectronics, this microprocessors, gearboxes, these processors are common, it's quite a... as i said, a large list of various electronics that are used for missile guidance, that are used for aircraft navigation, and also for means of foreb on aircraft, and including to carry out of communication on such planes, that is, in essence, these are devices that help the pilots of the russian federation to fly the plane, to carry out their tasks more qualitatively and holistically, it is mostly

electronic. from the usa and from japan, but there is actually a very large list producing countries, there are many countries of the european union and quite a few countries that are friendly to russia in terms of sanctions, for example, there are only a few parts from china, including parts from kyrgyzstan and belarus, but the largest number are still american and japanese parts, and they are produced almost... 90% of such parts are produced in taiwan, which also reacted quite harshly to russia's invasion of ukraine. kirill, please tell me, did you manage to find out how these supplies are made, who is engaged in mediation, because in the material it was said that western companies oppose the use of their electronics in weapons, in particular in russia. yes, indeed, both japanese and american companies are calling for their... their dealers not

to resell their products to russia, while we see that russia is only increasing every year this full-scale war, it is only increasing the import of such parts to to his country, despite the fact that these parts can be used in various weapons in missiles, in drones and including in airplanes, we investigated dozens of companies and decided to highlight one of the most interesting... cases, when a citizen of latvia owns two companies in cyprus and hungary, and they supply parts first to the company, which is a direct supplier of the ministry of defense of the russian federation through the company rostyag, including, and then it falls under sanctions, he starts supplying.