and this is very important for us, mr. serhiy, thank you, we must conclude, serhiy zgurets was with us, and now the moment of silence is approaching, 9:00, when we honor the memory of all those who died in this war. we will observe a minute of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war that started it. russia.

russian soldiers have become more active at the front and are trying to seize several settlements in the kharkiv region, this is reported by the soldiers of the third assault brigade, while putin, meanwhile , paid a visit to north korea, viewers sure the president will negotiate with kimchynin about weapons. this is the svoboda ranok project, my name is oleg galiv, and we are starting it. there is no need to panic, as there is information about increased attacks by russian troops in the luhansk region, their intentions to capture the village of borova in the kharkiv region, commented nazar voloshyn, the spokesman of the khortytsia operational strategic grouping of troops. on the air of the telethon, he said that it is not worth raising this information to the mountain, they say, everything is up to the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine. it is known that the defense forces are ready to

any development of events. i noted that the day before , analysts of the deep state project announced the strengthening of attacks in luhansk region, plans to go to the borders of luhansk region and capture the village of borova in kharkiv region. they say that the russian army has built up 10,000 soldiers and 400 units of weapons and military equipment in the recaptured raigorodka and novovodyanny areas, and i want to repeat last year's offensive there, the strategy of which is to first go to the line of settlements of nadiya novoyehorivka, then... to cherneshchyna on may day, continue to occupy borovu, located in the izyum district of the kharkiv region, close to the oskil river. analysts say that for the past three weeks, the russian military has been looking for weak points in the defense of the armed forces of ukraine and has been continuously storming the positions of the third separate assault brigade, which is actually fighting in this direction. the presence of a large number of mercenaries, who are mainly used for offensive rather than defensive actions, is a cause for concern. so far, the tactics of the so-called meat assaults have not yielded a substantial result, only... due to the fact that

there is a strong brigade in the area - say the deep state. but they emphasize that the forces are far from equal and warn against last year's defensive mistakes. the general staff has not yet commented on this information, the third assault brigade said that two divisions of the 20th russian army are fighting against them in this direction, and they are also involving detachments of private military companies and special forces. the russian army is advancing with tank regiments, using anti-aircraft drones, guided aerial bombs and chemical weapons, and they are going on assaults. entire platoons and companies of personnel, they say in the third assault unit. losses in the russian army are compensated by weekly replenishment of 250-400 people. rodion kudrishov, major, deputy commander of the azov tactical group, deputy commander of the third assault brigade joins our broadcast. congratulations. i congratulate you, i wish you and our viewers good health. thank you very much for participating, for finding such an opportunity. mr. rodion, how has the day passed in the direction where your brigade is now and what it actually testifies to.

activation of the russian army in the luhansk region, on the strip bordering the kharkiv region. in a whole day has passed, and during the whole month, from the first numbers of this month, the enemy is trying daily to storm the line of responsibility of the third separate storm brigade. these are both raid and strike actions with infantry vehicles under the cover of artillery, as well as the actions of assault units of the enemy's infantry under the cover of artillery again. every day, the enemy makes three or four attempts to storm our positions, that is, at least at the same time the enemy is able to storm two, three, four company strongholds with all platoon support points, including, therefore , the situation is very dynamic, we work 24x7. tell me, please, if we are talking about populated areas, for example borov, yes, kharkiv region, at what distance the russian one is conventionally located now. army to this

settlement and how high is the risk of capturing this village in general? i will answer you in such a way that the distance is sufficient and there is no distance here. in the question of the number of the enemy trying to break through the line of defense, there is a directly analogous borov knot, now the main direction the concentration of efforts and the direction of the main strike is now, first of all, the lane of the third separate assault brigade, and for more than a month the enemy has continued to accumulate, accumulate troops and send these troops into battle without... average in this area, so we will use all available forces and means in order to respond, to keep the defense, today the enemy does not have any successes, we are not even talking about operational ones, these are exclusively tactical successes, but even for these tactical successes

, the enemy, believe me, pays a very high price, and i will say that only for the last a week we prepared a report and, if we can put it this way, we have already counted at least 200 unique bodies of the enemy on the battlefield in the last week alone. but also in the statement of tretya sturmova, in that publication, which was in particular in the telegram, it is said that the risk remains the advance of the russian army, you yourself say that the russian army is constantly strengthening, how high is this risk after all and what will depend on how the situation will unfold further, well, deeppstate analysts say that due to the fact that a strong... brigade from the ukrainian side is fighting in this direction, the russian military actually cannot be successful, but do you need reinforcements, or did you perhaps appeal to the armed forces of ukraine, to the general staff, so that these reinforcements arrive on this site and , accordingly, no loss of position was allowed there in the future. well, first of all, i will tell you

that the enemy still, even after losing a very large number of his personnel and equipment, having spent a lot of resources, yes, including. who has ammunition on this section of the front has still not given up his, let's say, his appetites to go out into the wild, and about our situation, yes, part of the third separate brigade, which is on the front edge, i will say that the third brigade is always from the very beginning of creation, if you can say so in the hottest areas of the battle line, starting with the liberation of kherson oblast, then a long-term company in bakhmut and the adjacent territories to bakhmut, then avdiivka, now it is again, the main direction, one of the main directions of the attack in the kharkiv region, and i will answer you as follows, i will say that we are a powerful

brigade, and we will do everything to ensure that it performs combat tasks qualitatively, but the more reserves, the more modern weapons and ammunition will be... in the hands of capable brigades, the directly capable brigade of the third separate assault brigade, the safer and most importantly, the more efficiently we will carry out combat tasks. that is, let me rephrase my question, that is the need is still for reinforcement, it constantly remains at the hottest points that are currently on the front line. yes exactly , especially with such, shall we say, the track record of the third brigade, which for quite a long time and... and as it performed, continues to perform tasks in the most responsible areas of the battle line, and please explain, namely borova, which we are talking about, why this settlement is so important and why the russian army is concentrating its forces and attention in this direction, there is some understanding why this is needed, or

is it just for promotion and in order to then sell the victories there to the russian audience, which supports a full-scale war against ukraine, i will say the following, that of course there is an advantage. from the point of view of the terrain, that is, it is interesting for the enemy to enter this particular section, there are also interesting points in terms of the fact that the enemy wants to build its defense, including on the water surface, and for this , one of the most important nodes is borova, but and no one rejects, shall we say, motives the enemy, who at any cost want to show off their own. square kilometers, meters, the capture of our country, that is why there are your components here, both to show the media result, and to actually win certain logistical connections in their

defensive lines, from the reports of the third assault unit, it also became known that 250-400 russian troops arrive every week on this section of the front in order to strengthen the russian one. and what is the level of training of these soldiers, but with them there was already an opportunity, i don't know, to have a clash there for to understand to what extent these people are professionally trained or simply not trained , including the russian troops. who are thrown on this site to continue these meat assaults? we recently and on the channel of the third separate assault brigade on youtube threw out a video where we made public a recording of prisoners of war that fell into our hands in the last month, these are more than 40 servicemen from the country of the aggressor, so if anyone is interested, you can watch it again, but i will tell you , what mood they have, how they feel and what they say. on interrogations, this military personnel who drive them immediately from the training ground to the temporarily occupied territory

of our country, they go through a maximum one-month course of young fighters, they are told that there is no one ahead, the ukrainians do not resist, they are sent to assaults, by the way, they will be provided with very high quality. them, with bulletproof vests, fairy tales, that is, with all modern devices of their kind, surveillance and protection, and in this way they let them go on assault actions, which objectively and even logically do not end in any victories for them, in the best case they get captured, in the worse we are we confirm them as two hundred on the battlefield. about the capture, i have two more short questions. the first will concern

the capture, the secretary general, the prosecutor general, i apologize for ukraine, andriy kostin, said that the prosecutor general's office received information that the russian commanders were ordered not to capture ukrainian servicemen, but instead to kill them by beheading, in a brutal way. those russian soldiers who are captured by you, what do they even tell, that's how they are instructions may be received on how to behave with the ukrainian military. but in this context, do they know something if you communicate with them? very cruel, it is confirmed that they do not want to take prisoners, they carry out criminal orders to er liquidate all those who are captured, they do not help wounded servicemen, not that we are talking about our servicemen who are wounded are found in captivity, they execute their soldiers who are wounded, throw them on the battlefield and so on and

something like that, there is a lot of confirmation of this, and among them i will emphasize that their moral position, well, directly in the line of responsibility, yes, the third brigade, what can i say, our actions very often lead to, including suicides on the part of the enemy, when the opponent finds himself in a dead end. those when the enemy does not know what to do, there are many such cases, including we confirm, they execute themselves with the help of small arms or grenades, that is, the russian military in order not to to surrender, not understanding what will happen next, because conditionally they remain at the positions themselves, there they kill themselves in order not to fall into the following picture is homalized: under such stress, under such and such information, which a serviceman receives... of the aggressor's country , that is, shoot all the prisoners, kill the wounded, and so on, he does not understand

what is happening, well, in reality and under the fear, let's say, of being captured by ukrainian soldiers, that is, under the fear of this illusory propaganda, they will execute themselves, here this is what i can conclude, mr. rodiono, there was the last case, for example, with which you can draw this conclusion, when... there was, i don't know, there a week ago, two weeks ago, or is it some kind of general picture that emerges from what the ukrainian military sees, in general. to be clear, this was a couple of days ago, and such cases during the last months of our stay are very frequent, you can even see on the internet that such videos are appearing more and more, that is, the latest case, about which we are talking a few days ago, exactly in that area in the area of ​​responsibility of your brigade , in conclusion, briefly, we talked about provision. of the russian military, they are constantly being sent to reinforce this area, what about the provision, in particular, of your brigade, is everything enough,

or is there perhaps also a need, i don’t know for additional drones or something else, which is very important now in this area? i will say that there are always needs, so formally and i need to say it, because the whole team wants me to say it, we need more more ammunition, even more means of modern weapons, and thanks to these means... we will, first of all, be safer, and secondly, more effectively , in terms of drones and what can help, let's say, our civilian population? these are gatherings for mavics, gatherings for fpv, this is absolutely necessary today, because we, the armed forces of ukraine, the third brigade, are more about quality and not about quantity, we are trying and will do everything to minimize our losses, precisely to minimize the presence of military personnel at the front

regions, of course we will not move away from it 100%, but it is necessary to minimize, and in this there is a ... directly drones, which we, both the armed forces of ukraine and the third brigade, use more and more, that is, it will increase in geometric progression, therefore, in these formats, this help from civilians, from our partners, is absolutely necessary and necessary for us. mr. rodyan, i already wanted to end our conversation, but one more short question, taking into account the information that was previously on the network about fortifications in the kharkiv region including, please tell me, but now those settlements, which are conditional... may be under threat of occupation or capture by the russian side, there with fortifications, how they were somehow built by the local authorities, what do you observe when you arrived there in the area of ​​responsibility, where your brigade is now, what about the fortifications on the ukrainian side? i can answer you frankly: there are fortifications, but this does not mean that they do not need to be increased, every time

we move to any new area, we we arrive so... at the position, yes, at the definition of vopa, ropa and so on, but we constantly improve them, this applies to all parts, and this is a permanent story. thank you very much, mr. radion, for joining in and talking about the current situation in the area of ​​the front where you are. radion kudryshov, this is a major, deputy commander of the azov tactical group and deputy commander of the third separate assault brigade, a guest of our broadcast. global personnel reshuffles are underway in the european union, where they are preparing for a change of power in brussels, the chief diplomat eu instead. josep borella may become estonian prime minister kaia kalas, and the place of president of the european council may be taken by ex-prime minister of portugal antonia costa. candidates for top positions in the eu, the leaders of the 27 member countries of the bloc already discussed at the beginning of this week at the summit in brussels, they are also preparing for the transfer of power at the summits to hungary in the next six months. our colleague in brussels, olena abramovych, will provide more details. a new

leadership of the bloc is being formed in brussels. traditionally, every 5 years , the european elections are held here the heads of all european institutions change, and sometimes their approval is delayed for more than six months. this year, the leaders of the key largest countries held a series of meetings before and immediately after the elections. german chancellor scholz, french president macron and italian prime minister meloni agreed on the main candidates at the g7 summit in italy, and they went to brussels for an informal dinner on monday with a ready decision and the hope that negotiations would take place. will not be delayed. i am sure that everything will develop quickly and rapidly. all the talks i've had in recent weeks and months, were aimed at quickly finding a constructive solution. i hope it won't be long, because the french president has to attend his football match at 9 p.m. however , president

macron did not make it to the french match at the euro 2024 football championship. monday's summit dragged on until midnight. because the italian premiere. poloni, who is now on good terms with hungarian prime minister orbán, began to waver. viktor orban, in particular, did not like the idea of ​​re -appointing the post of president of the european commission ursuli fonderlein. it is with the president that hungary and all other countries will have to agree on candidates for the positions of european commissioners, and in diplomatic circles they say that they do not want to give hungary any more influential positions, especially in terms of the enlargement policy, because the european commissioners should be uninvolved. and the hungarian oliver vergei, in the process of ukraine's path to the eu, sometimes demonstrated the position of budapest. in the end, they could not agree on the candidacy of ursula funderlajen for one more reason. croatian prime minister andriy plenkovic proposed divide the five-year term of the head of the european commission in half so that the position goes to croatia for 2 and a half years. as the clear

winner of the european elections, the european people's party should politically lead the european union. winning six seats out of 12 , the croatian democratic union has the best result in the european people's party. the main candidate for the post of president of the european council, ex-prime minister of portugal antonio costa, also did not have full support. the minister of foreign affairs of italy did not like him. antonio tanyani told before the summit to the italian media that there is a fear that kosh's position regarding ukraine is not firm enough. there are no such concerns about estonia. kaya callas premieres. the position of chief diplomat is being prepared for her, which is currently held by josep borel. it was callas who submitted the borelio idea of ​​a million shells for ukraine a year ago and even offered it. however, to some people who are far from the frontline, ukraine, the position of the baltic leaders towards russia seemed too aggressive. on the other

hand, viktor orbán did not oppose kai kalas. one way or another, the first summit of eu leaders after the european elections ended without result. it was a good conversation. i think it's going in the right direction, but there's no deal at this stage. the leaders will continue to seek consensus on the top positions at the next summit in a week. they want to have time to agree on the formal start of negotiations on ukraine's membership in the european union, because hungary will start presiding over the european council on july 1, that is , it will decide which issues to put up for discussion at the summits. eu enlargement is one of the priorities of the hungarian program, although it primarily concerns the western balkans. what about ukraine? the hungarian government emphasizes that the accession process should be based on merit, and, as the practice of recent years shows, hungarians always have a list of claims,

whether regarding the policy of national minorities in ukraine or banks included in the sanctions lists. in general, in brussels, the prospect of hungary's presidency is calm. they say that this will be a transit period of the change of power in the bloc in general, so it is worth setting yourself up for a minimum of decisions. olena abramovich, marok hajduk, radio liberty, brussels. representatives of all countries expressed their clear support for the assessment of the european commission and called for a quick adoption of the framework agreement so that the intergovernmental conference on the start of negotiations on the accession of ukraine and moldova to the european union could take place as early as next week, june 25. in the letter to the capital of the european union, which was received by radio liberty, it is said that ukraine and moldova have completed all the steps to start the negotiations. this was reported by radio svoboda correspondent rik. at first, hungary expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that ukraine had allegedly not yet done enough to protect the rights of hungarian minorities in the country. according to budapest, kyiv has not resolved 11 issues that can be divided into

three groups: restoration of the status of the school education system of national minorities, restoration of some language rights when interacting with state bodies, and restoration of rights to political representation at the regional and national levels. the rights of people belonging to national minorities are one of the four conditions that ukraine had to fulfill. later it became known that... whether the compromise is acceptable for budapest and the eu member states and for ukraine. in the compromise text which agreed at the end of last week that the rights of persons belonging to national minorities should be protected in accordance with the constitution of ukraine. in addition, ukraine must faithfully fulfill relevant bilateral agreements with eu member states. it was a quote. already from july 1 and until the end of this year, hungary will chair the council of the eu for the presidency. the country chose the slogan: "make europe great again", which resonates. with glory. us president donald trump will make america great again. earlier, the politician, citing sources, reported that the european union and ukraine want to start negotiations on membership in the bloc before

hungary begins its presidency of the eu council on july 1. we will now discuss the topic of hungary and what to expect from this hologation with our guest. dmytro tuzhanskyi, director of the institute of central european strategy, is in touch with us. dmitry, i congratulate you. good day. thanks for joining, ask. briefly to start, how would you describe the position of the orbán government in relation to ukraine today? watch out for viktor orbán ukraine has become an important factor in his debates with european allies, in particular the right, in particular with conservatives and reformists, and they have been telling him for almost a year not to block, but he really wants to, and so... you have to choose, that's why it's a difficult dilemma, and therefore, you see how difficult the debates are about the negotiation framework, but the debates that end

in a constructive solution, that is why over the last year viktor orban has not been able to block anything for ukraine, although he really wanted to , it is possible to postpone it, but neither the negotiation framework, nor 50 , sorry, no discovery of negotiations, no 50 billion, no, obviously now the negotiation framework will not be blocked, on the other hand, russia and... mr. orban was often called there a person who advocates putin's interests in the european union, this was said repeatedly by observers, as now, which orbán's relationship with russia and whether these, you know, mutually bad things that were, have faded, or on the contrary, they remain at the level they were before. well, look, they, if they were extinguished there, if it seems to someone, then it is a delusion, because viktor orban, starting from on the 10th, 2010. i mean in the year of the 12th, very actively cooperated and continues to cooperate with russia, you understand, there are such strong ties, and not only political, but financial,

that it is so easy to leave them... it will be difficult, of course there was a chance after the beginning of russia's invasion of ukraine, yes, but viktor orban decided not to use this chance, he believes in russia, believes that it is winning in ukraine, so he will not, let's say, tear break those ties and will continue to be her lawyer in the european union, i say this so calmly not because it is safe, and because it is predicted about. to what, in fact, the presidency of hungary in the high structures of the european union over the next six months may turn into for ukraine. it is clear that ukraine will not be a priority issue for hungary, after all, it never was, but still, what ukrainian issues can be blocked and is the concern justified by other european leaders who want this negotiation framework to start before this hungarian presidency? and all these processes are european integration

including ukraine. look, hungary demonstratively shows that ukraine is not a priority for them, for their presidency of the council of the eu. moreover, the western balkans are a priority there, that is, they try to divide or even oppose this issue, and say that no, the western balkans deserve something more there, you know, i somehow had the opportunity, it seems the year before last, to visit the balkan forum in budapest , just dedicated to this. spread to the western balkans, and i was honestly shocked at how much these leaders of the western balkans, they are pro-ukrainian, at the forum peter sirto sounded very strange, let’s say so, because his reflections on the russian invasion of ukraine and ukraine in general, they did not correspond in any way to what the western balkans said, so the leaders of the western balkans, so you know, here it is necessary to make sure

that this... this opposition, which they say, look, yes, brussels is there, does ukraine want to overtake you and so on, and so on, so that it does not become such a narrative. the narrative is the following, which is really, er, an extension of the western the balkans is, it has entered a clinch, a dead end, and it is the candidate statuses and this rapid movement, the relatively rapid movement of ukraine and moldova, that gave a new impetus, yes, that is, it is not a question of letting the western balkans continue to remain there, e- i don't know. outside the european union, but to quickly integrate ukraine and moldova, we are talking about a new so-called big bang enlargement, yes, a big expansion, potentially there charles michel said 2030, by the way, this european commission will get you there. another very important point, this is the 30th year , and in the context of ukraine, actually, when ukraine or exclusion, charles michel said that, you know what i can say, he said, the 30th year should be, relatively speaking, this is a big, big expansion, it is still important. the point that

hungary's presidency of the eu council will coincide with the formation of the european commission itself and all these key european institutions after the elections, so, that is, it is unlikely that the new european commission will work until december, hungary's presidency will end in december. therefore, the issue of ukraine, it will be part of this process in the configuration, or restart, so these pods. in the european union, and let's see, because it will be, you know, internal european politics, let's see whether ursula fonderlein, the president of the european commission, will be re-elected, what relations will remain with her, or how they will develop with the reform group of conservatives and reformists, or viktor orban will enter there, which he clearly needs, he holds meetings there, and

this, you know, will be like this... the composition and so far it looks like, you know, some such sticks in the wheels of ukraine, hungary will rather harm that is, orbán's position is relative weak, today, and he needs to negotiate with, well, at least with maloney, let's see what will happen with le pen, yes, that is, now there are elections in france, even before them, look at what macron said, that the configuration seems to be, there... basic, but let's wait for the end of the elections in france itself, there at the end of june, beginning of july, and we will decide a little, a little later, as he said, let these candidates marinate a little, well, okay, that's why there will be so many interesting processes, it is very important for ukraine to monitor them and, you know, to influence they, of course, must also be understood here that we are not a member country of the european union, it is important for us to reprimand...