i hope it will be done. mr. serhiy, thank you a little for this note of optimism at the end of our second hour with ulyana panasiuk. well, now a moment of silence. let's honor with a moment of silence the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that... it was unleashed by russia.

today we are talking about the situation at the front. the russian military has crossed the siverskyi donets-donbas channel and is entrenched on the outskirts of the city of chasiv yar. military. ref - group by group of four to eight people cross, how are the defense forces holding them back? and the f-16 is officially already in ukraine, will these fighters be able to return the situation on the battlefield, and the escalation in the middle east, will there be a new round of confrontation and how russia plans to use it in the war against ukraine. this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and we are starting. join in the comments, be sure to write your thoughts about it. heard and be sure

to also like to support our project. russian troops crossed the siversky canal with assault units donetsk-donbass and is fixed on the outskirts of the city of chasiv yar in the zhovtnevy microdistrict. analysts of the ukrainian deepstate project write about this. portal analysts describe that the situation here is very dynamic. russian troops cross the canal in groups of 4, 6, 8 and try to establish themselves in private houses. and while the defense forces liquidate this group, a new group approaches. the day before, late at night , deeppstate reported that the forces of the armed forces were forced to withdraw from the tract of stupka golubovskyi 2 - this is the territory of the local botanical reserve military 41st separate mechanized brigade and political scientist kyrylo sazonov describes a similar situation to dibstate in his own social networks, he writes that an active assault began in this direction on the morning of august 4 and that the russian army. operates with the tactics

of small paired groups and that several of these groups failed, broke through, broke through to the channel, but they are repulsed, but they continue to advance. as of 10 p.m. the day before, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reported 15 offensive actions in the kramatorsk direction, i.e. in the area of ​​chasovoy yar, ivanivskyi and andriivka. the armed forces of ukraine repelled 11 attacks during the day, four more attacks continued as of night, the general staff wrote. in russian. the ministry of defense does not describe the situation near the temporary ravine for the past day. there are more shellings, less volunteer help because of this, and people are being buried right in the garden. borys sachalko, a correspondent of the radio liberty present time project, recently visited the temporary yar, saw how people live there, and what remains there. let's look at its plot together. what else to do on your lunch break?

born, lived long, so often his ideas chasivyar is a special city for him, it borders on logic there, but it is very symbolic, it was he who installed the christmas tree near the front line there. a few days ago he celebrated the day of the city in the broken city center of time ravine, i understand that it is complete stupidity, but i can't do anything, happy city day chasivyar, well, i decided to take a chance to congratulate miss, cheer people up in this way, today he is taking water to the city in his pickup truck and bread time in the world continues to live about five hundred civilians, and it is not true that people do not leave, because i i remember that about... two months ago

, twice as many people lived here, but as the front approaches, and the number and density, most importantly, of shelling increases, people still try to... at least somehow evacuate, the population wakes up , let them get out of their burrows, and as usual, whether they bring food or not, volunteers bring it, so they rarely brought it, it's scary to travel here, come, nikolay, several locations in a day. graves are dug in the garden, did you not hear, graves in the garden are the only way to bury a person in a temporal ravine, a person died here, from old age or? no, he was sick for a long time, he was in the hospital, romchyk knows, the mayor of the city

knows everything, you are right in the garden, and what to do , they are burying everyone like this, in the cemetery, and how to get there, there is no transport, there is no transport. sometimes this woman is in charge, if you believe that danger and difficulties make a person love life and believe in humanity, then here is a clear example, and i am a grandmother, grandmother, yes, i am only the boss here on all the streets, bunny, what is your name, grandmother tanya, grandmother tanya, how are you? the situation here is normal, good, we live okay, despite the cheerfulness okay, grandmother tanya is walking quickly to yevhen's pickup truck, to get water to the bridge.

i was offended, she is a doctor, my son is in kyiv, i had to take chocolate, my daughter valentina is in donetsk, maybe she would have left, but - says civic duty, someone has to work, today there were already two dressings, wounded, yes, bleeding, one with burns all over... on her bench, opposite the broken house and broken windows, a book by victor hugo, notre-dame de paris. well it's just very sad, sad, and that's why, at least if you read it, you'll be distracted, you'll read it differently.

locals are very careful in their statements, no one knows who they will wake up with tomorrow. now there is a lot of talk about peace talks. so, how do you feel about it? well, as a pacifist baptist, from the first. days for peace negotiations, the sooner the better, because you see, military aid is coming, but we are retreating, i am not measuring in the territory, not there in the cities or villages, i am measuring in human lives, from the time of my brother-in-law yevgeny is leaving safe hopefully in a few days to return to his hometown. barychalko, serhiy dekun for radio liberty. i will note that our colleague borys sachalko was in the city of chasiv yar a few days ago, the situation could have changed in the last few days and obviously has changed due to the ongoing assaults and we will talk in detail about what is happening in the city, andriy polukhin, representative of the press service of 24 of the separate

mechanized brigade named after king danylo, joined our broadcast, congratulations, thank you for joining, congratulations, can you confirm that the russian troops crossed channel siverskyi donets donbas. at the moment , this has not happened in the area of ​​our brigade's responsibility, yesterday's information was not entirely reliable, even the one who gave this information, well, for now, later corrected it, indeed, for the enemy, it is a very important goal to cross the channel in order to be able to capture it later the whole city in the time of yar, but now it is a serious obstacle, and our guys... every day there are indeed assaults on the tower, almost half of all the battles that took place in the past day were precisely on our direction the russians are storming exactly as there is information, these are small groups, they drive up

to the shelter on light vehicles, collect a few people and then in such a small group they start to storm, pass, try to remain unnoticed until... no, were there any attempts? attempts are made from the beginning, as soon as the front line has entered the canal, these attempts are constantly happening, the enemy is constantly trying to storm these positions, trying to cross it, but it is necessary to understand that it is important for the enemy not only to occupy infantry positions, for infantry, but also to make it possible crossing for mechanized operations is another task. which is even more serious, even more difficult for the enemy to carry out at the moment, as it

is happening, the number of people there are four-six-eight men, russian military, how, if we talk about these attempts, how they are happening, how they are trying to cross the channel ? ah, they make out in cover, as i said, and find cover nearest to the position where they are to storm. and the closest to the channel and only then begin to stick out, of course, this happens at that time of the day, when they are most difficult to notice, that is why it also happens in such small storm groups, because they are not very noticeable, that is , the enemy tries to get to the other shore by surprise, we see that he is not very successful in this, but here... they just accumulate and leave forward to the position of our boys, and how do they cross?

there is not a very big channel to use any special means, so they can do it and just on foot, ugh, on foot, and that is, their goal is to make a certain bridgehead there, as far as i understand, and then to build some kind of more passable situation for your technique, that's right. analysts write that the russian army used the technique of these paired assaults, which we also talked about, how is it possible, that is, at the moment, for the moment, thanks to these paired assaults, the russian forces did not manage to gain a foothold, you can do it for the moment to confirm, but it was not possible, one thing is to sneak in unnoticed, another thing is to gain a foothold, we still need to reach the position with the full composition of the group, if there are a few people left after the work of our... drones and of our infantry, well, it cannot be

said that they can gain a foothold. this story with the fact that they are trying to cross the channel with a small number of people, it is about being invisible and slowly accumulating strength, that is, were there any attempts to cross more massively, let's say this channel? the last such attempts were when there was an opportunity for them to deploy. and use this equipment, these were still battles for the neighborhood across the canal, then the enemy used mechanized equipment, but it must be understood that our guys are actively working with drones, and it’s just very difficult to pass by equipment inconspicuously, this also applies to these small assault groups that they try to be inconspicuous, including because of the work of our fpv and aerial reconnaissance pilots, and they are so and so, i apologize to andria. that's why they use exactly such tactics, that's why mechanized assaults are not being conducted yet, because again they

need a crossing so that later this technique does not face an obstacle and does not become an open target. andrii, can we say that now these attempts have become more frequent and with what with what intervals do they take place, and do they do it several times a day, or do they just constantly try to do it, and they try it constantly, we can say up to several dozen. times a day these groups pass not only to our unit, but also to neighboring units that also conduct defense in a place and time, it is impossible to say that the trend has become more frequent, because it has not decreased, ugh, but deepstate writes, that the russian military has entrenched itself in the zhovtnevy microdistrict, and kyrylo sazonov, a soldier of the 41st brigade, writes, that they... are being kicked out of there, is this really happening now, can you confirm this? this information was for yesterday, at

the moment there was no information about a similar situation, also the military kyrylo sazonov, he wrote that the forces of the russian federation do not have a bridgehead yet, but they will create it, with great losses, but they will, he wrote, is it possible to predict , do you agree with the same predictions that russian forces can operate there so... intensively that there is a real threat that their plan will be implemented? this threat is always there exists, we must... remember that the enemy exceeds us, both in human resources and in ammunition at the moment, and therefore this possibility may be, but we need to calculate other circumstances for such analyzes, this is the number ammunition of our guys, this is how much international aid will affect, even the same f16 planes,

how much they will work, how much they will affect the reduction of warehouses. and enemy collapse points, it all has, well, it all affects the situation at the front, so there is such a possibility, but there is also a possibility that such a will not happen anytime soon, the places where the russian forces are trying to make a bridgehead are known, they can be shot at by ukrainian forces, and that is, to what extent, let's say, these points are clear to the armed forces of ukraine and... from what you say, it just needs weapons to, if anything, break those bridgeheads? these points, they are obvious, that is, even looking at the map, you can see the places where a crossing for mechanized equipment is possible, they are of course controlled by our defense forces, they are not just shot through, but they are in fact here the front line, the collision line, where

our infantry positions may also be, and this is more of a close front line level, here... we are no longer talking about the f-16, here we need to talk about the capabilities of close artillery, mortars , and the capabilities to defend these crossings, we now have an intensification of the storming of the temporal ravine, but now it continues for more than two days, does this mean that the russian forces want to stretch the forces of the armed forces of ukraine so that they do not hold the pokrovsky direction, or is the target simply the entire donetsk region and... go go ahead, how can you take a tactical look at this situation, what does russia want? and their goal is the administrative borders of donetsk and luhansk regions at the moment, of course, we understand that not only, but for them it is now a priority goal in order to satisfy their whims since 2014, so to say that on such

near, not very far, the pokrovsky direction from ours and to say that they are stretching our forces... it is impossible, most likely it is simply their goal, to gain control over, excuse me, gain control over, that is in the borders of the administrative regions, mr. andriy, i thank you, i talked about the situation in the time gap with andriy polukhin, a representative of the press service of the 24th separate mechanized brigade named after king danylo. and then we will talk globally about the situation at the front, on the day. the air force officially confirmed that f-16 fighter jets are already in ukraine and showed ukrainians two of them. president zelensky called their appearance a new stage and noted that the ukrainian military has already started using these western aircraft. our correspondent iryna sysak saw them with your own eyes. now a new stage is unfolding.

development of the air force, armed forces of ukraine. we have done a lot to make ukrainian. earlier , western media reported that the f-16 was already in ukraine, including the publication economist, which reported that a batch of ten fighters arrived on the last day of july. people's deputy, deputy chairman of the council's committee on national security, defense and intelligence, yehor cherniv said on the air of the telethon that soon in the summer... there will be more, ukraine expects 49 more planes from the netherlands, 19 from belgium, but to achieve the necessary the minimum of 128 aircraft has not yet been achieved. oleksandr mosienko, head of the center for military and legal research, joins our broadcast. oleksandr, congratulations, thank you for joining. i congratulate you. the f-16 is already in ukraine,

already officially, as everyone has already seen. the economist wrote: better late than never. on this. at the stage of the war, what effect will these fighters have? well, it is necessary to proceed from the existing armament , in principle you can see that these aircraft, they have adapted precisely to the conditions of ukraine, and i will tell you that this adaptation is the most difficult, therefore that the challenges that the f-16 will face in ukraine are extremely high, and this includes a challenge for our partners, who understand that they must demonstrate and maintain an appropriate image. brand, that western technology, aviation is clearly better, so these planes are equipped, among other things , with long-range detection and warning systems that the plane may... be in the zone of damage or enemy anti-aircraft missile system or actions of enemy aviation, which can launch rockets in order to save the life of the pilot and for

in order to save the plane, so that the pilot could orient himself in time and take it out under attack. the second point that is there is that they are equipped with the same systems, by the way, here is an interesting feature, because the helmets that are there, which were transferred to ukraine with the planes, guidance, which allows the pilot to actually very quickly in... adopt decision, to literally indicate with a glance, to give a whole indication of the target, this, by the way, is the technology that russia wanted, wanted to have, in 2012 they concluded a contract with the french company thalia, but because after the annexation of crimea, sanctions were introduced, russia never got it, and now, by the way, there are no such helmets, the russian defense industry was unable to produce them, and accordingly , the weapons were selected in order to first of all... perform the tasks of air defense, that is, to strengthen the defense against enemy missiles, first of all, and drones, and of course,

there is also the possibility of equipping these aircraft with modified jdum bombs, and just for that, these are guided air bombs to launch ground strikes on enemy targets, plus they can introduce storm shadow and scalp g missiles, as you can see , additional fuel tanks are installed on the planes, which... is due to the fact that the plane can cover a considerable distance without refueling and, accordingly, return to the airfields and cover equally long distances from the base airfields, absolutely right , so that the planes do not use so-called jump airfields and do not get hit by enemy missiles and drones and so on. accordingly, i think these aircraft will be used as systems at the first stage air defense, they will operate in... missile strikes, drones, gradually they will carry out the task of striking enemy ground objects, with jadem missiles and i think stormshadow, and the next

stage is already when we will receive more aircraft , and we will receive the promised drlv saab aircraft, i.e. flying radars, in fact, with the aim of countering enemy aircraft, which are carriers of the cabs and not only that. let's continue to talk about the situation at the front, during which we were just joined by a representative of the press service of the 24th separate of the mechanized brigade, and he said that there is no bridgehead, but the russian forces are really trying to make it, the other day the analyst of bild yuliyan ryobky wrote that the russian troops have already crossed the channel of the uchasov moyar and advanced for the first time in the western district of the city, however, according to public information , which is and it is available, what is the situation in the time ravine, the battles are going on along the river, it exists as actually

a kind of line of defense for today, the fact that there the enemy could use certain of his advanced groups and try to get in fact, on the other side of the sivir odinets on the right bank of the microdistrict that julian mentions, they were knocked out from there, there were attempts, but there already... to date , the russian unit has not managed to gain a foothold, that is, our forces continue deterrence operations, from the point of view of tasks , which are obviously facing our defenders, the task is being carried out correctly and in a coordinated manner, because today it is clear that the issue in the time gap, and not only in other directions, and toretsk, and the pokrovsky direction, and kurakhivskyi, is a deterrent blow, containment of the enemy and active defense in fact. which provides for local counterattacks if the opportunity arises and where it can be done. this, strictly speaking, is today's goal of actions and times. our fighters will cope with it

brilliantly. that is, those tasks that can be performed today within the limits of the available forces and means, they perform. and i can say that you know, russia as it is now, like a beast that attacks, that still has strength, that has grip, but that has been wounded and... continues to bleed, but by inertia, that has strength and continues the attacks. well, actually, our task , of course, would be to inflict even more wounds and continue this bleeding for this evil beast, so that he could not actually advance further and eventually became exhausted and fell. these are the tasks that are currently being set, based on the provision and capabilities of the ukrainian defense forces, and every meter of progress comes at a very high cost to the enemy. by the way, the press officer of the 26th artillery brigade, oleg, spoke about the great price of the enemy on the public air kalashnikov said that the russian army lost about 200

troops in battles during the yar. killed and wounded, this is only for the previous week, they storm the city from the flanks and also launch frontal attacks, and large losses for the forces of the russian federation are still such an insignificant story, it still cannot stop them, that is, they can afford to continue using their people as a resource in such large quantities, but they can up to a certain stage, that is, right now... i think that now russia wants to make a certain leap as early as august, precisely in the pokrovsky direction, in general, it seems to me that they want at least preliminary information about what we will see in november, and before the chinese factor, that is, chinese diplomacy , is included by the fall, somewhere by november, by the us presidential elections, by the second apparently global peace summit that is to be held quite active in the search

for victory. new format and eyewitnesses of the search for points of contact with russia there, they feel that, well, let's put it this way, taking into account their own difficulties in order not to achieve an operational-strategic breakthrough and based on the emerging trends that after all, some track of negotiations can still be implemented, start to be implemented at the end of this year, the beginning of 2025, they want to establish the best possible boundaries for themselves, they set as an ideal for themselves the capture of... this donetsk region, but there they will have to, and so now it's actually the last push and i see that russia is ready, putin is ready to disable his army because he thinks now the ends justify the means because he thinks then he's going to have a 10, 15, 20 year phase, which will enable this to restore everything, what to lose, but in any case, even in any car, whatever

donald trump or someone else... whether they call it military, everything is not perfect, and there are serious breakdowns that are already visible in russia, and therefore, strictly speaking, i think that the trends are such that in august they will still make the last thrusts very powerfully, then offensive activity may gradually decline, provided, of course, that they do not manage to break through our defense line anywhere. which looks quite stable at the moment, and even when our forces leave, they leave in in principle, quite... in most areas it is coordinated, correctly, without any significant, let’s say, chances for the enemy to take advantage of this, you see, mr. oleksandr, for example, journalist yuriy butusov criticizes a lot for the unpreparedness of the lack of coordination, but i will quote him tureck not prepared for defense, there are no equipped , organized positions in it, not a single brigade was brought there in time, he said this in an interview on

radio hb and emphasized that miracles do not... happen and the enemy is not stopped, they are not stopped, throwing troops that are not had time to prepare and to organize them in full force, as this is a common situation, and really, what about the defense structures, what about the training of the ukrainian military, who are currently fighting in the donetsk region, is it a common situation that people are not prepared, that there may not be some kind of coordination, well, the fact is that... it is necessary to understand that the enemy has a certain advantage that we have not yet managed to overcome, and this is aviation, and the fact that the russian troops support their offensive actions with the active use of cabs , which, in principle, you can say, against which it is quite difficult to hold any defensive positions, actually speaking, plus the fact that the enemy uses breakthroughs, supporting, aviation strikes, then the infantry comes,

somewhere to work... artillery, and of course, what.