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we continue the chronicles of the war, we continue the conversation with oleksandr kovalenko, a military expert of information resistance, and we began to talk about what is happening on pokrovsk direction, because now this is the most problematic direction, where it is not possible to stop the advance of the enemy, well, actually mr. oleksandr has already begun to explain what is happening there, for now , for today, if you look at the summary of the general staff, which is they indicate the four directions in which battles and offensive attempts are taking place there, and they indicate that for...

the number of enemy attacks has already reached 20 today, that is, such fairly noticeable attacks with the use of both equipment and aviation, and here you are, oleksandr , began to say what the purpose of these actions of the enemy is, i would ask you to simply describe in more detail in this direction the whole situation, where the russians are trying to advance, what is their goal, and actually, well, what is it we are in danger if, for example, they succeed in advancing in the directions in which they are trying to do so. well, yes, in principle along the reeds, of course, at first glance, it may seem that their main goal is this, the primary goal is pokrovsk, on the 05:11 track, in principle, this is true, this is the pokrovsk-kramator track . exactly

pokrovsk, in this case it is about pokrovsk, but kramatorsk is the kromotorsky direction, it is still a higher priority because of the yar times, and pokrovsk along the 05-11 route they started this movement, but now it is very important for them to create a buffer zone, security to the south from ocheredin, the southern flank is completely closed. their main tasks now are to take control of the villages of sokil and novopokrovske in the shortest possible time, and then to advance to novoselivka and yevgenivka and actually close the entire left the left bank of the vovchii river and the kariv reservoir to the netaylova-karlivka line , this is the general plan of priority. and for

this, they use, by the way, the most combat-capable units that they have left since the offensive campaign of 2023. on avdivka, and these are units from the composition of, for example, the second combined arms army, which is the viscentr group, it operated in the direction of the estuaries, in the direction of the estuaries, these are brigades 15, 21, 30, that is, they have been since october 23, and after that , when avdiivka was captured, they didn't take them anywhere, they just kept them there left, and they are the main shock element in this area, the most combat-ready brigades, despite the fact that they have lost quite a serious potential, and let's imagine that they manage to create this security buffer, by the way, the problem for the defense forces of ukraine there, it is connected with the fact that they are actually being clamped along the banks of the vovchiya river and

the karlov reservoir, that is , the problem is that the possibility of maneuver decreases, the more the russians capture the territory in this area, at this location. those we have less maneuverability and the ability to somehow operate more effectively and counter the russians. and let's imagine the most negative scenario: they capture exactly this location on the left bank of the vovchia and the karliv reservoir. what's next? again , the first thought arises: they will go to pokrovsk, but no, the further movement to pokrovsk will take place from... but much slower, it will simply keep the defense forces of ukraine in good shape, that is, so that they do not redistribute their resources to other directions i think that it is becoming more important for the russian occupiers the continuation of the advance along uzdvizhenka,

especially now there is a huge amount of pressure on uzdvizhanka from the russian air force, and through uzdvizhanka, cut 0.5 of the route between pokrovsk and kostiantynka, and when this happens, the next phase can begin: ah, oh, the offensive will begin to the turk, the turkish direction, and if this is combined with the desire of the russians to capture the times by the end of the summer and the pressure they are currently exerting, then we can see their general plan, they will try as soon as possible to completely to close... the issue with the turkish bridgehead, with chasov yar, and as of 2024 they will be, well, i understand that their main plan, the main task is the exit to the kostyantynivka, druzhkivka line, and in fact with

the exit to the slavyano-kramatorsk agglomeration. well, yes, such a dangerous situation, let's put it bluntly. well, another guest, a military man, joined us. su yevhen ievlev, congratulations yevhen, i wish you health, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, yevhen, i understand that you are closer there to the horlivskyi direction, but also you are actually on pokrovsky, which we are currently discussing, and chasovayarsky, can you describe to us, well, actually, you know, such a question, does it feel that there are still, well, some... there are new weapons now on at the front, that more ammunition appeared, because, well, as if this situation was supposed to change, when it was like this, it was completely poor and completely bad, or something is already felt, because, well, we discussed here before that

the situation is difficult enough , it is still not possible to stop the advance of the russians and we are trying to understand how, what, why does this happen, or is it possible? talk and yes, i can hear you for a second , the connection was broken, look, i will tell you, i want you to evaluate what i will tell you through the prism of the fact that a serviceman is talking to you from the trench line, because some there are global strategic plans that even the regional headquarters sees, i will not tell you, and i will tell you that the skill of the open line is palpable, palpable, when there is a bk for artillery, or there is no bk for artillery, of course, when the artillery is trained normally. it stops working, advancing the enemy, and this allows us to carry out certain maneuvers there to repel some of our positions, landings there, although it sounds non-global on the scale of the entire front line there, but the repulsed landings are a very serious gain for us there as well, so to be honest, that what appeared there is critical archi new that helps us there to knock out the enemy and so on, the fact that we

work in fpvi, you know, from the point of view of fpv, we are more or less in a stable situation, when we have someone to fly, and we have more or less, let's say yes, sources that help us with drones, fvi with explosives and so on. what can really be said by the fact, what is noticeable, that arta began to work more actively, and i emphasize how this manifests itself, i told you, the enemy does not advance so freely. let's say, i'll be honest, i myself saw that there were populated areas, not so long ago, a little bit, you see, the connection is interrupted, interrupted a little bit, i hope it will be restored now, well , until it is restored, eh me then, i will ask alexander, alexander , see your colleague, kostyantyn mashovets, regarding of the pokrovsky direction said that at the moment

we already have a full-scale tactical crisis in the pokrovsky operational direction, and if the enemy additionally introduces two or three two or three motorized rifle brigades here, then in this case i do not even see any particular difficulties for him to transform these his tactical successes on operational ones, it's enough to say veiledly, but can you decipher it? what did your colleague mean, and actually how to counter it? yes that's actually what i was saying too the russians in this particular location have much bigger plans than it seems at first glance, and they do not even concern pokrovsk so much, well, there may be different options here, because i will not be surprised if they will apply their maximum. efforts to advance in the pokrovsky direction, but the way they are forming their flanks, the way they

are now forming their security visions, suggests that they will still move north, not so much east, north, but in any in any case, there is a great danger for entire bridgeheads, such a bridgehead as turetsky, in the future, such as the kramatorsk-slavic agglomeration, that is , this whole movement, it can really create a serious crisis in the donetsk region, and how can it be stopped? to stop, well, first of all, we don't have enough to counter their advantages, it's aviation, in fact every settlement that was lost, it is lost because it is completely destroyed with the use of modified aerial bombs, and this allows them to open up any, no matter how powerful the ukriom is. no matter how strong the lines of defense are, they are exposed when they are not so powerful, they open even

faster, this is the first moment, the second moment, it is true, we now have a little better situation with artillery ammunition, and they began to be provided to us in accordance with all the promised aid projects, aid packages, but still their shortcomings. and if we are talking about such a location as in the time of the yar, then it is a height in general, it is a dominant height, but even there there is no dominant role of our artillery, even there there is not enough support that could at least in this location, which is dominant height, to make it, well, let's say so, our advantage, although all the conditions for this are natural, landscape, well, i see. yevgeny evleev returned to us, you already talked about the fact that,

well, a little is felt in art, but here is the same question, in fact, what do we need now in such a case, in order to feel, after all, that we can, well at least stop the problem that mr. oleksandr started talking about, more strategic losses? yes, you know, i will be as brief as possible... i accept with both hands mr. oleksandr's thesis about that today the key story is the protection of the sky. if we wait for our f16s, which will begin to change the situation a little in the sky and beat the enemy planes, which today are pelting us with fabs and kabs, this will change the situation quite significantly. i wouldn't say that tomorrow we are there, it will allow us to quickly knock them out of the territory and go to the border of the 91s, so as not to fantasize, but it will definitely make it possible to keep them in the lanes in which we... because even though we have a bc deficit, despite the fact that we have a deficit personnel, frankly, the means available

today will be enough to at least restrain the enemy and prevent him from advancing, if the advantage of the enemy in the air space is removed. thank you to our guests, our time is up, so stay with espresso, we have a lot more to come, and we 'll see you in a week. good evening, we are from ukraine. greetings, dear viewers, my name is vasyl. this is a big ether on the espresso tv channel. another enemy attack, on which city, what the consequences, we will also talk today about kryvyi rih, the victims there continue to be in the hospital. and the results, the consequences of the enemy attack. we will talk about this today, i hope, with kryvyi rih. rammstein. serhiy

sgurets will talk about what is promised in ukraine, what is agreed upon, and we will also have the inclusion of the head of the north atlantic alliance , jens stoltenberg, today. nikol pashinyan said that he would never communicate with whom neil pashinyan decided never to communicate with again from the post-soviet leaders. armenia quarreled with russia, now we will talk about it, and also economic news, today is an important topic that should be discussed, which directly affects our wallets, you will learn about this later, but for now i will add serhii zgurets to the conversation , director of the agency. column military summaries of the day. serhii, congratulations, i would like to speak to you. i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers. today we will talk about the results of the meeting in the ramstein format in brussels with the help of ukraine about why russia is dragging the latest complex called prometheus to crimea and about the use of

our robotic platforms in combat in a conversation with the developers of these systems. about this. in a moment the united states will provide ukraine with air defense equipment, armored vehicles and artillery with ammunition. the minister of defense of the usa said this today at another meeting in the ramstein format in brussels. the silence of the ministers of defense was ochna. representatives of 50 countries were present. of course, there was also ukraine. with the participation of defense minister umerov and the ukrainian delegation, and the priority issues, as at the last meeting a month ago, are mainly the strengthening of ukraine with means of air defense, but there was also the preparation of reserves, the repair of the delivered equipment and other important things that affect the combat capability of the ukrainian

army. lloyd austin also announced a new us aid package of 100 million. dollars, but there is still no final information whether, in particular, the united states will allocate ukraine a second patriot battery, which is currently located in poland, about this previously reported by the american mass media, voices began to be heard in poland itself that it is definitely not worth handing over this patriot battery to ukraine, because it will affect the combat capability of poland itself, so we will wait for what... this story will end, at this time ukraine continues such systematic measures already from the destruction of russian air defense systems and s-300 and s-400 in crimea, and in the temporarily occupied territories and even in the belgorod region, using precisely for this purpose both atakamsy and

highmars. in just a few weeks, starting from mid-april , the components of up to a dozen russian divisions of long-range air defense systems, as well as rs and command posts, all of this, of course, affects the effectiveness of the russian air defense system and demonstrates the inability of these air defense systems to fight , in particular with the same atakams, which were still manufactured as far back as the 80s, and now russia is importing a modern artificial product from somewhere near moscow to the crimea. according to russian estimates, the s-500 air defense system under the prometheus index, the head of the gur kyrylo budanov reported this, it will be such an experimental and the first operation of this air defense system, which can use two types of missiles, one type of missiles to destroy aircraft, and the other is actually to fight ballistic

and even hypersonic missiles, as the russian side claims. the range of this complex with the second such missile is stated to be as much as 500 km, but this, i repeat, is advertising data, only practice is the criterion of truth, and not exclusively, that this complex in the analog category will not have the same fate as, in particular, russian 157 fifth-generation fighters that were attacked by ukrainian drones, but in any case , we must understand that... that the enemy should not be underestimated, he is not as helpless as we would like, and this is confirmed by the fact that the enemy is starting to use updated winged aircraft. missiles for hunting already behind our airfields and behind our planes, it is about the kha-101 cruise missile with a new warhead, with a cluster

warhead, now we see photos of what the cluster elements look like, which are placed in the additional warhead of the x 101 missile, and the russians have already attacked with these missiles resorts in starokon. foam and in vasylkov, and this is a sign that the enemy is somehow trying to prepare for the arrival of the long-awaited f-16s, and this raises the question already before our air forces, regarding the fact that it is necessary to cover our airfields more tightly, using and mobile groups, and means of air defense and also to build hangars for our aircraft, because... this is also a certain challenge that must be implemented, because on the battlefield it is precisely the quick adaptation to challenges that is one of those

that affects the situation of this or that confrontation, and then about the technological components that are associated with innovations that are extremely important on the battlefield, in particular, we know that this week a new sys was presented. the forces of the armed forces are the forces of unmanned systems, it was said that this structure will be responsible for training, for the supply of new drones of land , sea, there air base, will maintain contacts with manufacturers who are currently involved in supplying the armed forces with their robotic platforms, and how is it is happening now, we will talk with our guest, taras is joining us now. ostapchuk, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, is the mastermind and head of the company, not just the team, which is currently manufacturing a number of robotic platforms under the common name

ratel. mr. taras, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. i congratulate you. i would like you to remind our viewers a little bit what the main robotic platforms your company manufactures now, whether they have undergone any constructive changes in the... process of operation and what are the main wishes from our military users do you hear when they use your platforms on the battlefield or after the results of certain combat operations? well , four types of robotic platforms are currently performing tasks - a tow truck, a logistician, a kamikaze and a remote changer, each of them will systematically receive some updates, well , we are responding to feedback from... the front line, in fact, the fifth iteration of our robots is already fighting somewhere , and the sixth iteration with improvement is on its way. now we're going to ask

our viewers to see what your platforms look like, and i'd like to clarify about tactics of using these robotic platforms, in your opinion, should we create separate units that will be quite well versed in the specifics of this or that development. how was it done in particular with companies of attack drones, or are there any other options for the optimal use of robotic ground platforms? well, in fact , robotic platforms move the operator away from the lbz, and the operator works at a distance, but now operators for remote demining work from an average distance of 3 km, and we now have a tow truck logistician. put a record, this is a distance of 30 km, repeat once more, we managed to evacuate our wounded 30 km using

yours, now we have a tow truck, there has been no evacuation yet, now our tow truck has set a record on the lbz, this is 30 km distance from the operator, e- well, then i wanted to ask how it was implemented technically, because today i saw a message that an estonian... company is handing over to us robots of its production, which are equipped with starlinks, these are the robots of the milrem company, and they say that, relatively speaking, with starlink we can there for 1000 km to carry out management of these platforms there, as i understand, we came close to this decision using starling or some other technical solutions, our starling, our platforms have been traveling on starlinks for probably six months, if not more. so with us , the operator can be in any part of the world to manage the platform. 30 km - this is the distance according to the power reserve, there were three people with the load, this is 150 in the rear. kg, oh,

170, 450 kg each, i'm sorry, but when we talk about the use of mine platforms, because you also had several iterations of platforms that are used for these tasks, does the possibility of a combat load on the platforms increase so that you can there, well in particular there are not two mines there but six or even more in order for the mission to be the most complete, right now. well , we have multi-functional platforms, that is , a platform that carries two mines, it can actually be used as a komikatsi , a remote changer, or a scout, plus we have a logistic platform that can carry up to 400 kg, and there we are currently developing a superstructure that will carry 10 anti-tank mines for mining territories, there is already a starling and in fact the operator can be 15 km in 20 ee. from the mining point. well, against

the background of the fact that the capabilities of your platforms have significantly increased there, even since the time of our conversation in our country, i would like to ask then whether you have a projected package of orders for your products, whether these orders are growing and who is the main customer, this is the ministry of digital , is there a procurement agency of the ministry of defense, or do the military units themselves purchase your products with the help of donations? yes in now we have direct contracts with military units, we are also at the final stage of signing a contract with the ministry of digital and defense procurement agency, bray is very helpful in this, in fact they manage the needs, and what do you have now as the head of the company, well, these are the main difficulties for that , to increase scaling, which now requires more people, about components. industrial

capacity, there is metal, what exactly do you need now to make more platforms? well, as of today, we have the main problem - this is to find people, then we have funding, we have assembly plants, we have three assembly shops, now the main issue is hiring people, excuse me, that is, it is a question of the influence of mobilization on that. so that people are guaranteed, well, they get to you or they don’t, or, relatively speaking, people lack the skills to perform these jobs that are needed to create and manufacture robotic platforms, well, in fact, in our country , mobilization does not affect our production in any way, we critical, we can book people, well actually people who find out they come, they pass an interview, they work for us, but the main problem is the lack

of specialists, and that's exactly it... we are talking about electronics engineers or just people from metal processing or any professional specialties now, well, they are critical given the fact that they needed at all enterprises of the defense-industrial complex? we employ various people, these are welders, assistants, welders, people, solderers, electronics technicians, radio technicians, system administrators, that is, in fact, everyone works, but the main problem is the lack of people, the fact that people are afraid to go out, because they are afraid mobilization even from home. mr. taras, how is the accumulation and dissemination of best experience, experience, because the forces of unmanned systems have been created? are distributed among other companies that manufacture robotic platforms and, as an assessment, the most advanced solutions are implemented in... the function and in

the tactics of use, well, we are constantly working on the application method with the military systematically, we conduct military training at our company, we have already trained about 60 operators on the exchange of technologies, all manufacturers of mast ground robots know each other, we have joint chats and we exchange absolutely without questions, we exchange both materials for free in fact, yes and... by some knowledge, now all manufacturers are working to win and well , there is no competition here, there is none at all, and in fact all manufacturers of robotic platforms now have orders, the only question is to do more and to do better, that's how it looks, probably, well, in the vast majority of manufacturers there is a dare, the only issue for them is scaling, training operators, due to the lack of personnel, it's a little

slow, well, everyone is working on it. and mr. taras, i think that you...