together we will send all the traitors after the russian ship, see you in a week on espresso. today we will talk about... the situation in the donetsk region, almost every day we receive news that russia has captured yet another settlement in donetsk region, or has come very close to it. does ukraine have the strength and resources to hold such cities as, for example, chasiv yar, kostyantynivka, kramatorsk, sloviansk, what are the moods of the locals and what do the military say? my name is vlasta lazur, this is svoboda live. at the front turned out to be the most difficult for ukraine. the situation since

the beginning of the war and it may worsen, deputy head of military intelligence of ukraine vadym skibytskyi told the economist in an interview. he stated that he does not see ukraine trying to win the war only on the battlefield, according to top official gur, even if ukraine could push russian troops to the borders of 1991, it would not end the war. according to skibytskyi, such wars can end only through negotiations, and now both sides are trying to occupy the naive. niche position before how to negotiate. the two sides are currently jostling for the best position ahead of potential talks, but meaningful talks may not begin until the second half of 2025, by which time russia will face serious headwinds. russian military production capacity has increased, but will reach a plateau by early 2026 due to a shortage of materials and engineers. in the end, both sides may be left without weapons, but if nothing

changes in other aspects, ukraine will be the first to experience this problem. in the same interview vadym skibitskyi said that the russian military was ordered, as he put it, to take something before the victory day celebration in moscow on may 9, or before vladimir putin's visit to china a week later. the city of chasiv is of particular concern now, as its capture opens the way for russia to the last unoccupied cities of the donetsk region. according to skibitskyi, it is likely that the occupation of the temporary ravine is only a matter of time, and the city will fall in the same way as avdiyivka, which was completely bombed and occupied by russian troops in february. for a canonist at the same time notes that american arms supplies are unlikely to be comparable to russian stockpiles of shells. the ukrainian army is far from stabilizing the situation at the front, and the russian army is currently acting as a single body with a clear plan under a single command, according to the publication...

our broadcast is joined by yuriy fedorenko, commander of the attack drone battalion of the achilles 92 separate assault brigade. good evening. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. yuriy, what do you say about the situation under the time gap? how would you like her? characterized, evaluated? let's dive into the history of the beginning of a full-scale war, year 22. what was happening then, our allies handled the embassies, so the consulates took away theirs? they gave us weapons with the exception of what is intended for guerrilla warfare, inlovs, javelins, everything related to that. then the world did not believe in ukraine. the ukrainian nation in resistance in the war of national liberation showed unrealistic results that no one in the world believed in, including our strategic partners. we were able to stop the enemy and prevent him the opportunity to occupy the heart of our capital. kyiv, yes, of our country, kyiv. but after that,

if you remember, we started getting general military assistance in a big way, which is guns, ammunition, and light armored vehicles, and unmanned vehicles, a lot of other things. the world got involved, in particular the united states of america got involved in supporting ukraine. what is happening at the moment: the russian federation does not abandon its intentions for ukraine, that is, the complete destruction of ukrainian statehood, the destruction of all ukrainians. she is this plan divided into certain parts. occupation of donetsk and luhansk regions. this is a priority for the enemy, at the moment under the symbolic dates of the seventh, the inauguration of the ninth, the day of obscurity and then the visit of the additional dictator putin to china, the russian occupation forces must show results, they have an order from the dictator putin, which the generals follow, according to at any cost, without sparing personnel, equipment, means, to occupy the city of the times, why is it important, because it really is a commanding height, in the case of possession of the enemy can take. under the fire control of konstantinivka,

drushkivka, separate fire means kramatorsk, and this is a successful springboard for organizing a further offensive on konstantinivka, with the aim of occupying the entire donetsk region kostiantynivka, drushkivka, kramatovsk. slavs, will the enemy succeed in occupying the settlement of the times in the next two weeks? i don't think so. can we have the enemy's tactical successes at will? unfortunately yes. but at the same time, in the last week, despite the fact that the hostilities do not smell no day and night, fierce battles are going on around the clock, the defense forces managed to gain all the positions on this stretch. yes, yuriy, you said, at the beginning, you started your speech by mentioning that at the beginning of... the large-scale invasion of ukraine was not believed by the international partners, but let's not forget to refer to what happened two years ago, as of now , the top official of the gur, general, major general vadym skibitsky, he himself declares that the loss of the time gap is a matter of time, here we are already talking

about the fact that the ukrainian generals do not believe, no, the question is not that, the ukrainian generals are considering the most critical scenarios that may arise during the russian... invasions from different sides, and i have to tell you that it has repeatedly happened that after, including official statements, as positive that we it will be possible to de-occupy, and the negative circumstances were different, after any statement, this does not mean that the defense stops, the defense continues, war is enough, despite the fact that war is pure mathematics, this thing is also not foreseen , much depends on strength will, character and ability to use this or that weapon, the defense forces know how to do it well, so according to... my belief, in the near future the enemy will not be able to fully occupy populated areas, and what do you call, yuriy, and what do you call the nearest perspective, and we are considering may 9 and then putin's appearance, that is the next three weeks, what will happen next, in these for these three

weeks, the concentration of those funds that are transferred to us as part of the joint military assistance, it will become greater at the front, this it means that our guns will start to work more actively, it means that technical means will start to strike more actively. the enemy and it will not be so easy for the enemy to get the initiative he wants, let me finish, and here it is quite important to realize that at the moment the enemy is using everything available, and there are no significant successes one way or another in this regard, so in us, you know, in society such a story is made, at first we will defeat everyone, then everything is lost, we will lose, the truth is always in the middle, we have to do everything is possible from me in my place, to beat the occupier, and i am sure that we will succeed, right? to stabilize the situation on the front line, i think that it is not society that creates such an impression, it is a certain information policy, so there were very high expectations, and the society did not itself, it was not itself that these expectations were inflated, but there was a certain communication that was quite victorious, quite

bright, positive, and therefore, of course , even such a statement by the general now sounds, well, it already sounds and reads differently. defense forces completely deoccupied kharkiv region, this must also be remembered, we did the impossible at that time, it was simply impossible objectively, so everything is not so clear, i say that you cannot underestimate the enemy, the information must be filtered and perceived critically enough, but talking about , that everything is gone and now we are being occupied, no, this is also wrong, it will be moderate, so you said that in the near future, the nearest future for you is two or three weeks. e russian troops are unlikely to occupy yar times, do i understand correctly that american aid, ammunition, shells, they have not yet reached the front completely, or they have not reached it at all, well, how could they have reached it completely, it is simply not realistic logistics, and why is it not realistic, you know, and

why is it not realistic, so when when did they vote for the american aid, then there were statements from ukrainian and american officials that the weapons were already ready in european warehouses and that it would take several. days? well, look, there are certain stocks that arrived in ukraine quickly enough logistically, well, you must have been familiar with the list of nomenclature items, which should enter within the framework of general military assistance in the open part. in order to deliver everything, it logistically takes at least a month and a half. therefore , the first arrivals at the front have already begun. why do i say three weeks? they will be the most difficult for three weeks and a month, because the maximum concentration of resources in the defense forces will be just in three weeks, a month. everything takes time, friends, it doesn't happen, unfortunately yes, we don't have teleports to make and everything ended up at the front, unfortunately. can you say that again, you are partial it was mentioned that specifically now it gives the maintenance of a time gap for the armed forces, because

the city itself is no longer there, we are already, well, the city itself is no longer there, it is completely destroyed, we saw these shots from drones, look, any populated place for us is... important, because it is one thing to keep it, another thing to repulse it, for this you need an incredible resource, both human and, accordingly , means, if we are talking about the time of ivre - this is a conditional gate to the agglomeration. bridge, konstantinka, drushkivka, kramatorsk, and this is the dominant height, so it is for the enemy it is important, and it is important for us, to hold and not give the enemy the opportunity to form a bridgehead for further advancement in the donetsk region, that is why the fighting is extremely fierce, and here we are talking, look, here we are talking, the city is gone, as well as bakhmut, so exactly the time and believe me, there is not a single surviving building there, the enemy is shelling it with all available fire means and guided bombs, which destroy entrance after... entrance, but at the same time , the maintenance of this settlement is important for the defense forces for the purpose of deterrence

enemy groups and the impossibility of further occupation of the donetsk region. you have described a positive scenario: in a few weeks , weapons will arrive at the front and ukraine will receive the resources and strength to continue defending itself. if within three weeks the weapons don't come, or they come in insufficient quantities, or they come, but... there's either no people left there, or they're injured, they, they won't be enough, what's the negative scenario if in the next few weeks, like says skibitsky, it's a matter of time, russia occupies time, i don't believe in occupation of time to the full extent, i emphasize to you once again, i do not even consider negative scenarios, why i do not consider them, because you are not you, i understood, you do not support and do not share the opinion of skibi. i understood you correctly, look, he has his own reasons

for saying this or that thesis, but we are not talking about faith now, how a person is on the battlefield, well , just see what answer you want to hear from me to your question, whether the scenario will be occupied , if it will be occupied, as events may develop further, please do not occupy it period, if it is occupied, there will be extremely difficult battles in the city of constantine, but it will not be occupied. why in kostyantynivka, you say, if the settlement of chas is occupied, then the next settlement that the enemy will try to occupy will be the settlement of konstantiniv, accordingly , the negative scenario is occupied during the time, the enemy regroups and after a few weeks begins to actively storm the settlement of kostyantyniv , okay, it was accepted here, but will the enemy manage to occupy chasiv and knock out the defense forces from... these positions fully in the near future, i think not, in the future,

if we say, we will have a little more power and means, and it will also be difficult for the enemy to do it, if the enemy should not be underestimated, it is a very powerful army, but and you should not overestimate either. thank you very much for your comment. yuriy fedorenko, commander of the achilles unmanned aerial systems battalion (92) separate assault brigade, was on radio liberty and we talked about the situation in the direction. mass ravine thank you very much. thank you you. so, i will once again repeat what the previous speaker said. chasiv yard - tsepanov height. and in the case of capturing the city, russia will be able to take under fire control the rest of the cities nearby, such as kramatorsk, druzhkivka, kostiantynivka, and also organize a bridgehead for further advancement. not only our previous speaker, but also servicemen and military observers in our party have repeatedly spoken about this. in particular, if the loss of the time gap is only a matter of time, as the deputy head of the ministry of defense gur

vadym skibitsky stated, then what is the point to prepare for other cities, how the situation has changed there since russia began to actively storm the times, what is the mood there, my colleague serhii horbatenko from kramatorsk joins the broadcast, although serhii actively works in all cities of donetsk region. sergey, hello, good day, we started with what you quoted. official agur, who says that the most difficult situation for ukraine since the beginning of the war has developed at the front. serhiy, sloviansk, where you live, and kramatorsk, where you often visit, are probably the cities that have felt the most there has been a war there since the 14th year, or do you feel that the worst situation has now developed? if you are talking about the relatively dense cities of the donetsk region, tsepinich of the donbass, sloviansk, kramatorsk and... shkivka, then fortunately it is relatively quiet at the moment, well

, something flew into sloviansk there last night, but such consequences simply struck the people there windows, glass, shards of glass, well, in general , i consider it very, very easy, everything happened out of fear, but before that, too, in slovyansk , ammunition flew into the road, there was a huge hole filled with water. but luckily again without casualties among the civilian population, that is, the only thing that can be felt from the escalation in the area of ​​​​the temporal ravine is artillery fire. cannonade, well, even now it is not heard in kramatorsk, but before that for several days in a row we heard powerful explosions, departures, arrivals, and this was from the area of ​​chasovoy yar, and the actual population of these cities is increasing, i i'm talking now about sloviansk, kramatorsk and

druzhkivka, but if we take the example of sloviansk, then the head of the city's military administration. said that during four three, within three months , the population increased by 400, that is , as of mid-april, 54,000 civilians were in slovyansk, for comparison, if we take the aggravation, in the spring-summer of 2022, when russian troops tried to advance from three sides at once to slovyanska, the smallest town had about 20,000 inhabitants. at the moment, i see that... the number of civilians on the streets is increasing, unfortunately, i want to emphasize, unfortunately, i see more and more young people, more and more teenagers, from the grid boys, from the play of girls, there are more and more of them in the city squares, i see them walking, i see them riding electric scooters, and actually it confuses me a lot

and it annoys me a lot, because these children did not come by themselves, this was a conscious choice of the parents, but everyone... we understand that the distance from chasovoy yar to kramatorsk, druzhkivka and sloviansk is approximately the same distance, this is the zone of attack by the russian anti-aircraft missile systems, and if, god forbid, they manage to capture chasivyar, then it is obvious that there will be a repeat the situation of 2022, spring and summer. as for the city of kostyantynivka, flights actually arrive there every day, in fact every day local social networks report about... arrivals, about destruction, but fortunately, so far it is not catastrophic, it is damage to some houses in the private sector, and about victims among the civilian population already i didn't hear for several days in a row. you mentioned, you mentioned such a short story, in particular sloviansk, i will only add that russian troops were already in sloviansk, russian troops in fact, yes, although

then they said that they were separatists there, in the 14th year, then you mentioned that in 20... the second russian troops were much closer to slovyansk than they are now from the side of sviatohirsk, including, and you say that now you see that people, on the contrary, are coming to slovyansk , i don’t know, are the locals returning, or is it possible that the displaced people who are now moving from the temporary ravine and from other cities and villages, more precisely, which are already occupied, but the local residents are returning, i want to remind you, by the way, about the displaced persons of the temporary yaru, it seems, well, five days, maybe because, er... people in a civilian car left the temporary ravine to buy food in kostyantynivka, and unfortunately it just so happened that a russian aerial bomb exploded next to this car, and then five passengers were injured and two of them were in a serious condition, and from kostyantynivka they had

to be taken to the dnipro hospital, that is , in fact, the situation is such that people even just went out... to get food and came under fire, and those people who are now civilians who return here, they also take the same risk. and tell serhiy, please, and the local authorities something about the prospects of evacuation says, for example, is there such a plan b, let's say, if really within some short time, maybe it's a week, two or three, the russian troops will seize time, will this, let's say, be a pretext, a reason to carry out or start. mandatory evacuation from other cities, which you, which you just listed? i don't have information about the various plans, but i am convinced, i see how the authorities work, how the authorities work on the ground, i am convinced that this is the third year of a full-scale invasion, there are definitely such plans, but i want to note that the local

authorities in different cities of donetsk every day remind people that the evacuation is ongoing, the evacuation has not stopped, and people have the opportunity to leave any city, either by train or bus, as they like, and i say that it is safe, it is safe to leave now, but in fact i have before my eyes the story of a resident of the village of ocheretine, a 98-year-old grandmother who lived in this village until the end, until part of the village was occupied by russian troops, and her relatives persuaded her to leave, leave, she refused, and actually this grandmother at the age of 98, she was forced to overcome about 10 km. on foot under fire, she fell twice, got up twice, and in the end she survived, and i also talked with her a few days ago,

we can actually see what the consequences of such a delay are, but let's see the material, how old are you 98, it's you for your own i have seen more than one war in my life, i lived through that war, and now i am living it, the second world war, what do you remember? well, we lived normally, and the houses were all intact, and now this is the case in this war, they were beaten until it burned down, but god forbid, but how did you get out, tell me, they say, you walked through the reeds, i wake up, i think, what is it that is done here, not beans, not peas. it’s not shooting, i don’t understand anything, i jumped out of the bedroom, the poison is standing there and two daughters-in-law, and they went down the same

road, they went into the alley, and i walked along the asphalt, when they were leaving, they shot, they heard these explosions, and they shot, they shot, i’m walking i just left the second street, turned to the second, where the soldier is lying in the forest. well, at least they covered him killed, killed, dead, yes, and then i go further to walk somewhere on the second street, i went to that street, and there is a soldier lying, well , they have already covered him, he is lying like that, oh, he fell, among those stones, there such and such, and there it’s lying like that, no... they broke it, but god forbid, and there’s no one anywhere, and even if someone gave me water, there’s no water, i think,

i have to reach by evening, at least to some house, but i can’t see there is no house, i don’t see, i’m walking alone and that’s all, that shooting range, i was walking, walking, walking, and their two soldiers were in the car, and they had already driven around me and ahead and stopped, grandma, where are you going, i'm going, i say, i don't even know where, well, i'm going, they threw me in the car, brought me, why didn't they leave before, why until the last seat? ugh, and this man didn't want it, but what did you not want, well, who knows what, but they will shoot, shoot, and maybe they will go somewhere, and

they sit and sit and shoot, and then they started shooting like that , that they just need to run away, and we continue to talk about the situation. in donetsk region, russian troops managed to break through and gain a foothold in ocheretiny, this is the pokrovsky district. about this, in particular, the spokesman of the khortytsia operational-strategic grouping of troops, nazar voloshyn, said. the ocheretyn community is located near avdiivka, which was captured by russian forces. according to mykola kovalenko, the head of the village military administration, on april 29, there were 490 residents in the community, and 198 people in the reed area itself. and although in the armed forces of ukraine. only now reported that russian troops had entrenched in the reeds, for example, in the fall of the deep state project, which almost two weeks ago reported that russian forces had occupied most of the village,

later, deeppstate even declared that the management of the 115th brigade was responsible for the failure of the defense in the area of ​​the front in ocheretino. the brigade rejected the accusations and declared that they are false. well , returning to the meaning of ochereteny, as military commentators have repeatedly said, the problem in... the loss of the village for the armed forces is primarily related to the threat of the collapse of the entire defense line in the pokrovsky direction. the ukrainian command started building this line just after the retreat from avdiivka. the chief of staff joined our broadcast battalion of the operational assignment of the 13th brigade of the national guard of ukraine . good evening. good evening. how would you characterize the situation, describe it. near, or in ocheretny, or near ocheretny, whether it is correct to say that all the russian troops completely captured ocheretyne, i would not

be so sure. this is how they work both day and night, they storm us constantly, they are under the cover of their artillery, mortars, tanks, aviation, they are trying to knock us out of fixed positions, also very uavs are heavily used, but we are not losing our strength and are trying to improve our tactical position, but the village, most of the village is occupied, right, by russian troops, villages? yes, uh, what does that mean, if most of the village is occupied, how does that affect the defense, it's not my authority to answer such questions, uh, but i'm telling you, always, well, tell me , please, then, what does the capture of ochereteny give the russian forces, what additional opportunities does it open up for them, directly strategic. such

they don't have any moment there, that is , just a patch of our territory, but military observers have repeatedly said in their reports that the loss of a reed can lead to the collapse of the entire line of defense in the pokrov direction, isn't this true, in my opinion no , why can you explain? i don't want to just tell what is possible, tell me, just for people who, you know, read the news, the armed forces of ukraine in the armed forces of ukraine only now, only literally the day before about the fact that russia after all, russian troops reached ocheretny, despite the fact that independent osin analysts talked about it two weeks ago, the question arises, what kind of point is this on the map, why is it so...

important, i i believe, well, in my humble opinion, that they simply managed to develop an offensive in this direction, it would be some other direction where they could advance, it would be any populated place, any other, it doesn't matter right away, huh, is it correct i understand that just after the ukrainian troops withdrew from avdiivka, in the area ocheretino began to build a new line of defense. no, the defense line was built there in advance, that is, all positions are held on the defense line prepared for this. ugh. how would you rate the quality of the defensive line? on a four with a plus. that is, good, or on what scale, or on what scale? five-point?

that is, that, that is... there is no threat of the defense line collapsing, you assert, with certainty, well, i cannot assert, i am not some great commander, but in my opinion yes, but can you then tell me, at the beginning you stated that the russian the troops entered reed, can you explain what happened there, why they were trying so hard to get there, i 'm telling you, it's... it's just in my opinion it's because they 're going very, very full, what do you call it, with a meat assault, they concentrated a large number of their personnel here, and they just went, went, went, and at a certain time we just didn't succeed a little, something, we didn't manage to fight back, but tell me, please, you must have read message

from the founder. internet resource deepstate by roman pohorily, he said approximately probably a week ago or a few days ago, that the leadership of the 115th brigade is responsible for the collapse of the defense in the ocheretiny area, well, the brigade rejected all the accusations, but how to understand this, maybe you know something about it? no, i don't know anything about it, so i can't give any answer, that is, i'm speaking incorrectly. that someone is to blame, some leadership is to blame for the failure of the defense, yes, i think it is incorrect, but do you expect american ammunition in your direction, do you have enough of them, we generally have enough, but always it can be better, ugh, in general it is enough, i just did not hear, sorry, yes, yes, in general, in general, about the projectile hunger, which your comrades claim, it does not

really correspond? or whatever, i'm telling you.