but at 9 o'clock we bow our heads in memory of ukrainian citizens killed in russian aggression, a minute of silence continues, we honor their memory. we will observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war. that it was unleashed by russia.

breakthrough of the russian border by ukraine. the russian ministry of defense writes that 300 soldiers with tanks and armored vehicles attacked the kurdish region. that the attack was repulsed, but the governor of the region at the same time says: the fighting continues. what is happening in kursk oblast who is attacking the russian border and most importantly - why. we will also discuss the statements of representatives of the russian opposition, released during the exchange. the politicians just got out of prison and immediately called on the west to soften the sanctions against russia, because they say this is putin's war, not the whole of russia. in ukraine, they also reacted to this, let's discuss exactly how, this is svoboda

ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and we are starting. so, let's talk first about the breakthrough of the border in kursk region. in the comments , share your thoughts, what is happening there and whether you follow the news, from there. so, in the russian ministry of defense , they announce the fighting in the kursk region in the area of ​​the settlement of suja. the russian agency said that allegedly fighters of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine attacked units of russian border guards on the border between ukraine and russia in the north, in the kursk region. the version of the events of the ministry of defense of russia is as follows: on the morning of august 6, allegedly after fire training, about 300 soldiers with the support of 11 tanks and more than 20 armored vehicles, i quote: attacked cover positions on the border of the russian federation in the kursk region in in the districts of mykolayevo, darino and oleshnya villages. moscow declares that... the forces of the russian federation are repelling

attacks and, i quote: inflicting a fire defeat on the enemy in the area of ​​the state border and reserves in the territory of the sumy region. meanwhile, during tuesday, local russian media published videos with footage of explosions, a plane in the sky, burning cars, they say, these are footage of battles in kursk region. we cannot quickly verify these footage in war conditions, but the video with the plane, which we will show next, was verified by the reuters agency. she confirmed that the location is the kursk region near the city of suja. the shooting date could not be verified. airplanes overhead. imagine flying fighters. this car is on fire, even the fire engine has not arrived.

the acting governor of the kursk oblast, oleksiy smirnov, also announced military operations in the border areas of the suzhansky and korenevsky districts. the night before , he recorded a video message in which he said that the situation is tense, and that people evacuating from the border area are ready to receive others. places, he used to reported that among the local population there are wounded, in particular two children, and those who died due to drone attacks. at the moment , the situation at the border is tense, the operational headquarters has been switched to a 24-hour mode, we are constantly interacting with security forces, the ministry of defense, border guards, there are battles on the border. this video was published on the smirnovo telegram channel around 9 p.m. he says that fighting continues on the border. it is interesting that the russian ministry of defense

published a statement on its own telegram channel an hour and a half before this statement, that the border breach has already been stopped, and i quote: the sabotage group has left the territory of the russian federation. on the territory of ukraine, however, later this post was edited and a part of the message that the breakthrough was stopped was already removed, screenshots were published by ukrainian journalist yuriy butusov. the ukrainian side, which is accused of this breakthrough, is silent. neither the general staff, nor the ministry of defense, nor gur, nor the 22nd brigade, which the russian ministry of defense accused of crossing the border, are not commenting on the events in kursk oblast. they were also addressed by... the editorial office, and our colleagues also addressed them. the new voice publication, referring to its sources in the main intelligence agency, was able to learn that these actions did not involve fighters of the russian volunteer corps of the red army, who are fighting as part of the armed forces. it was they who were involved in raids on the territory

of belgorod and kursk regions in the spring of this year. at the same time, the ukrainian general staff reported in the evening briefing that during the day, russian troops carried out 45 shelling of the border territories and settlements of the sumy oblast, which borders the kursk oblast, and the sumy oblast military administration reported that the ukrainian military shot down a russian helicopter over sumy region, although without details. the ukrainian monitoring projects deepstate and monitor wrote about the alleged downing of the k-52 helicopter and even published photos. in addition, the day before, ukrainian telegram channels massively published videos with allegedly captured russian... military personnel in the kurt region. the osind cyberflour project, which is engaged in verification and research of videos and photos by geolocation, published a video with an alleged column of prisoners. they indicate that this location is the border of the sumy region of ukraine and the kursk region

of russia, near the suja guevo-gornal highway. what is happening there? let's try to sort out the versions. oleksandr mosienko, head of the military center. of legal research joined our broadcast. greetings, mr. oleksandr, thank you for joining. i congratulate you. did the ukrainian troops enter the kursk region? i think so. well, because we should understand very well, i think we will wait for official comments, of course from the general staff, but i can say why it would be appropriate to do so, because i have a perfectly reasoned explanation. after all, you have to understand that the situation in the east is difficult now, i will start with that right away. in order to create problems for the enemy, and this is well understood by the military, especially the military from the headquarters, they need to create problems, well, when we see that the enemy is advancing in one direction, we must try to launch a counterattack in that direction, where the enemy may not expect .

there weren't many options, i'll tell you, if you count up to today's moment, or the left bank of the kherson region, but it is more difficult there, because we understand in a few days. and the enemy still has significant forces there, or directly on the territory of russia, the belgorod or kurt region, it’s very simple: from the belgorod region, the enemy is now conducting offensive actions in the kharkiv region, the story is somewhat different there, and our forces are trying to knock them out from there, and the situation is interesting for the kurdish oblast, because as of the end of april in the city of sudja, as of april 29... a group that had actually carried out or could carry out offensive actions on sumy oblast, that is why even ukrainian military intelligence publicly warned about this and said that the enemy could prepare such actions, they were from two sides of sumy oblast, this is graivoron, but it is already from

the belgorod oblast and suja kursk , various units were brought there, including the kadyrovs, special forces, and the russian military, numbering somewhere up to 15-20 thousand. but due to the fact that, in fact, from the direction of belgorod to the direction of kharkiv oblast, everything did not go as we would have liked and not as the enemy planned, they were forced to withdraw some of their forces from the kurdish region to the grouping of troops, to help them in the vovchansk region and in the lyptsi region of the kharkiv region, where the enemy is conducting offensive actions, and therefore the enemy left certain forces that are conducting. artillery mortar shelling of the border areas of sumy oblast and small forward units that occasionally acted as drg, and also filmed a movie there about how they entered a ukrainian village in the gray zone and so on and so forth. well, at this moment, in fact, when you can say

the russian command frankly, i think, did not expect such actions, but a certain blow was delivered to them, he, and therefore these actions, they are from the point of view of... the military situation, they are absolutely correct, with the aim of drawing back enemy forces , with the aim of creating a challenge for the enemy and trying to seize the initiative where we can do so. strike even where the russian troops are not expecting it, and therefore i understand the excellent justification of the argumentation of these actions, i see that preparations were probably underway, because if we look at the chronology, then we can trace that the strikes on the kurdish region, on their military facilities , have been carried out for a week or two, and at the same time , the acting governor and the local authorities complain that they even used rockets. well, probably neptune, because our general staff made an official statement that

the armed forces, defense forces, naval forces were working and attacking military facilities in the kurt region, so we understand that if the naval forces, then this is neptune, well in russia they said that this is a modified neptune rocket that could to fly, that is why these actions were being prepared, they are aimed, in fact, i don't think it is about the permanent presence of ukrainian troops in... russia in the kurdish region, it is about conducting powerful raids, not like we seen earlier in the performance of russian volunteers, more powerful, with the capture of, let's say, temporarily certain objects, with their destruction, with the capture of russian prisoners, forcing the enemy to divert his forces from other directions, and you know, a very important moment, indicative, i but even on i paid attention to one detail, the fact is that there were two tractors with t-62 tanks on them. were on their way for repairs, and even if our fpv drones destroyed these two tanks that did not

get to kharkiv oblast or somewhere else, they destroyed them there until they reached the position of the ukrainian troops, this is already good, it already has an effect, if we destroyed one helicopter , this is also not bad, and one more important nuance, i think that because the residents of sumy region are very often interested and ask what to expect, not judging by the fact that this night in the sky over sumy region there is a message from sumy ova not only was downed ballistic missile, i hope that the situation there with the protection of the sky, it will also improve, and by the way, the fact that the missiles are being shot down, there now more intensively indicates that this operation, it has a certain scale, from the point of view of those facts, which you mentioned, and the withdrawal of russian forces already from those directions where hostilities are ongoing, and russian forces have a chance to advance and preemption, actions on preemption, so that there is no invasion of sumy oblast, and... from a military point of view and logic, this it is more powerful to go in this

way, to attack russia, to enter russian territory in order to pull these forces away, than to throw these forces of the armed forces of ukraine in the directions where the confrontation is already going on, and throwing, look, one does not cancel the other, that is , it is definitely necessary to strengthen the directions where the confrontation is going on, of course, but with points of view, let's say so, will bring. striking where the enemy is not waiting, and seizing the initiative where they did not see it, and taking advantage of this situation, this is important, this is how they act, well, this is a military art that has been known a lot for centuries, to capture the enemy suddenly out of the blue in those areas where he is not waiting, to try to seize the initiative and create a certain point of tension, which is the least oleksandr, and you say that there are no waiting, but this is not the first time in the spring of rdk svoboda. of russia, these are russian citizens who are fighting as part of the armed forces, they have already entered

the territory of the russian federation, that is, why is this unexpected for the forces of the russian federation? and because you see, because it is very simple, the fact is that they took away a certain military presence, and they were forced at this moment to transfer it to belogorodskyi direction, to the kharkiv region, and in principle the enemy was not waiting, that is, they thought that the ukrainian forces, which are located... everything is very logical, look, an intelligence report appears, an interview is given by the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense kyrylo budanov and says that threats from the north persist, everyone for some reason grasped that it is belarus, no, or many, not all, but what was it for, in order to make it clear, to justify the presence of our troops, the enemy understands that our troops are present in order to protect the border and thinks that distracts us, our troops will still be present, because we understand that the enemy can... change plans and leave at some point , including to act in sumy region, but they

realize that we are present for defense, here ukrainian troops carry out certain actions directly on the offensive, which certainly, i think, captured the enemy, well, definitely unexpectedly, they did not expect that such actions would take place now, moreover, for some reason in russia they began to believe, apparently, that all almost all actions of ukraine are controlled directly from the pentagon , and that is enough... inka bilousov, the minister of defense of russia, lloyd austin, the minister of defense of the united states, and that's all, and here the actions will be only as russia wants, well, in principle, no, and therefore they did not expect that this could happen. mr. oleksandr, they did not expect that it is possible that the armed forces of ukraine, not only the rdkt freedom of russia, namely ukrainian citizens could enter, and in this composition, and this is not a violation of certain red lines, for example, from western partners, again the question , and whether western weapons are used there, or are there no risks for ukraine? look,

international law and ukrainian legislation is in this, it supports international law, incorporates these norms, defines and. that if the aggression continues and the enemy's troops are present on the border, then they are a completely legitimate target, if as part of the aggression the enemy increases the military presence near the borders with your state, these are completely legitimate targets, because the aggression is already ongoing, and therefore any actions of a preventive nature in order to prevent the invasion of russian troops in ukraine in order to prevent shelling of ukrainian territory, for the purpose of protection. of the civilian population from terror, it is absolutely justified, there can be no comments, ukraine in this case definitely does not violate anything within the framework of international law, if there are western weapons, tanks are hypothetically used, well, hypothetically, you understand, hypothetically the situation here is this, it we still need to prove once, and secondly, we need

to understand that i don't think that ukraine would carry out certain actions without z'. without agreeing with our partners, got your point, thank you sir oleksandr, oleksandr mosienko, head of the center for military legal studies, joined us, and we talked about what is happening in the kursk region of russia. russian military expert yuriy fedorov, analyzing videos and information published by russian pro-war telegram channels and so-called russian soldiers, says that the russian border was breached and advanced by at least 7-8. he suggests what the military purpose of this raid could be? let's listen. the goals may be different, but at least an attempt to break through. actually, this is not an attempt to break through, it is a border breach, because what russian officials, officials and representatives of the fsb are saying is actually hanging noodles on their ears, the border

has been breached. the armed forces of ukraine, as far as can be judged from the footage that is published, and published by russian bloggers. zetbloggers the armed forces of ukraine approached the settlement of goncharivka, god forbid. this is actually the suburbs of suji. this means that they are at least 7-8 km away. this is no longer an attempt, it is a breakthrough of the border. so the goals can be any. well, first of all, there is a political goal, to show that the russian region, the border region, whatever it is, is quite vulnerable. if we talk about a military goal, then it is rather an attempt to drag away the defendant kursk. the area of ​​some forces from other areas of the front, well, first of all, to prevent the transfer of reserves to the front in ukraine on the occupied territory of ukraine, which can be placed, for example, in the kursk region and accordingly demonstrate these political goals, this is a minimum task, but if it turns out , which is in kursk region on a permanent hotbed of hostilities has appeared on the territory of russia, this already significantly changes

the strategic picture of the war. everything that is happening, whatever it is... is a fantastic failure of russian military intelligence, because of course, such an operation carried out by the armed forces of ukraine has been prepared for a long time, and it is well prepared, which means that it has been prepared for a long time, and it was not exposed, as it is customary to say, among the professionals of these departments, neither satellite intelligence nor front intelligence, i.e. the same intelligence groups that throw themselves, well at least must rush into the enemy’s territory and collect information there and so on, nothing like that, so for... in the kursk region there are really somewhere 10-12 thousand personnel, plus a corresponding amount of equipment, this is known, this is not disputed, this is the intelligence data of the armed forces forces of ukraine and they are not disputed by anyone in the west, they were preparing, this is a reserve for

operations in the kharkiv region, because russian troops are stuck there. the battles are quite intense and difficult, but... the troops are stuck, they are not moving anywhere, so they have to be changed, so they change, including on a rotational basis, transfer to where they take from, but now it will be more difficult for russian generals to do. we have a separate analytical track in the comments under the video, under the broadcast on the radio liberty channel. i thank you for your activity, thank you for your thoughts, and it will be interesting, by the way, to see how the recently released people react to these events in the kursk region. russian political prisoners, opposition politicians and journalists, you remember there was a recent big exchange between the us, and russia, and these russian politicians, so ... immediately publicly caused such ambiguous reactions from ukrainian and russian experts and political scientists, as well as from users of social networks, and this is why: politician

andriy povovarov at a press conference after his release, for example, declared that he would work on countering russian propaganda, and at the same time that he is against sanctions, because according to him, they are against the common people, they should be removed. politician volodymyr karmurza supported his colleague and said that... the sanctions are not directed against the authorities, but against them the whole country. in an interview with the novaya newspaper , pvavarov also said that he does not consider it appropriate to support the armed forces, because he remains a russian politician. journalist and oppositionist ilya yashin , commenting on the russian rain, said that it is necessary to sit down at the negotiating table, because the situation has reached, i quote, a bloody impasse. let's listen to their statements. do not associate. it is not necessary to associate the people of russia with the policy it leads, that there are many citizens of our country who may not be visible, but they think differently, they are not

agree, yes, there is fear, because not everyone is ready to end up where we ended up, and here it seems to me extremely important that we have the opportunity now to turn to the western community, so that this picture of the world, which is painted to us by propaganda, which is poured daily on me that we are in a besieged fortress and surrounded by the enemy. it began to fall apart, i would like to use this opportunity now to appeal to the world community, to the western countries, so that they return to the people of russia, to the people, not to the authorities, and extend a hand, this maybe it's the little things, maybe easing the pressure on the people, the people themselves, giving simple things like allowing educational visas for young people, some simple things where we'll give the russians a chance to see that they're not all enemies like my tv shows , and the same people.

very often, western sanctions of western democratic countries are directed not against the putin regime and against specific criminals in the top ranks of the putin regime, but against the entire country, against all russian ... citizens, and this, first of all, in my opinion, is extremely unfair, and secondly, counterproductive, because it gives putin's propaganda excellent material for what ilya and andriy said, to present that we are surrounded by enemies, surrounded by a fortress, so it seems to me very important, and i intend to give a great attention in their activities, to work to ensure that the sanctions of democratic countries against the putin regime are sanctions against the putin regime.

the honest answer is that i do not know how to deal with russian politics outside of russia, i do not know how, but i must definitely this i will learn it should be noted that russian oppositionists also talked about the criminal power in russia, about the fact that putin should appear before the international court for crimes, but this was lost in the background of conversations about the lifting of sanctions and the inadmissibility of supporting the armed forces of ukraine. the first words: the freed russian oppositionists were criticized by opinion leaders, political experts and bloggers. for example, the ukrainian nobel laureate, human rights activist oleksandra matviychuk wrote that it is not putin who kills, tortures and rapes civilians. population in ukraine, and what do ordinary people do? russians? the head of the ukrainian institute of national remembrance, anton drobovych, reminded that the source of power in russia is

the multinational people, and it is they who go to the occupation army, and the head of the regional security and conflict research department of the dem initiative fund, maria zolkina, believes that the statements of karamurza and povyvarov may have consequences. i will remind you that the exchange of prisoners between russia and the usa took place behind closed doors. and other countries, a total of 24 people were released from both sides, russia released political prisoners and opposition politicians as part of this exchange, instead, the usa, germany, slovenia and great britain handed over to russia those convicted of espionage, hacking, fraud, murder, as well as russian fsb officer vadym krasikov, who was sentenced to life imprisonment. volodymyr fesenko, a ukrainian political scientist, joins our broadcast. volodymyr, congratulations, thank you for joining our broadcast. we, before we move on to the russian ones. oppositionists, on the air they talked about the situation in the kurt region, in your opinion, that is, the russian oppositionists whom we heard after the recent exchange, they would not

approved such actions, if... are they really the actions of the armed forces of ukraine? well, of course, they would not just disapprove, i think that some of them would even condemn such actions, and would say that it is impossible to carry out military operations on the territory of the russian federation, that ukraine must only defend itself, cannot strike at russia federation, because it can cause negative sentiments in russia, anti-ukrainian sentiments, the reasoning is clear, in principle the logic that you... they have already demonstrated, they, this logic is a diagnosis, by the way, it shows confirms why the russian opposition loses, because it draws inadequate conclusions, it can be called the stockholm syndrome, but some already use such a term, when the victim begins to justify the actions of his executioner, his criminal, and it can be justified by their

political, let's say, interests , well, they have to do politics, that's why they want to please ordinary russians, and that 's why they try to distance themselves from the war between russia and ukraine, to justify ordinary ordinary russians and blame only regime, that is the connection between ordinary russians and putin's regime, they either do not see, or do not want to see, and this is the main thing. a mistake, and they are the main problem and danger, by the way, since they are now in the west and are trying to convince the west to at least reduce the sanctions against russia, they do not understand the essence of the current war, that the putin regime can only be defeated if he loses, this is the only way to defeat putin's regime, and if sanctions against this regime are weakened, it will become even more

aggressive, because... it only understands language forces, if he, he just wants the easing of sanctions, if the west does it at the request of the russian opposition, then putin will feel that he is winning, and he will only intensify his aggression, this is how he acts, and this is how all aggressive regimes, aggressive people act , who see to obey, maybe not to ease the sanctions, but not to strengthen the sanctions, and maybe the question of how to hit... is it possible to hit russia with western weapons, they say yes, it also slows down because of that? well, i think that there is a certain risk, but that's it for that, you know, only our speeches in the west are not enough, as lansbergers, the minister of foreign affairs of lithuania, reacted, an active reaction to the speech of the russian oppositionists is needed, because who knows, someone might listen, i still would not identify

with the position that made public russian oppositionists with the actions of western authorities, well , western countries, the situation is simply different now, that is the danger, in 22nd year there was a rather harsh and sharp reaction to the actions of not only the russian authorities of russia as such, and it was then that the syndrome of toxicity of russians arose as such, it arose spontaneously in the west, now there is no such situation, but now there is another danger, and it is felt... it seems to me that many western countries, well , especially in europe, from poland to great britain, this is what russia started such a large-scale hybrid war against the west, the organization of sabotage, the preparation of attempts, as in the situation with the head of the rain metal concern, we see the provocation of disturbances by some...