how will the armed forces decide? i fully trust our army, it is necessary for us to have some kind of understanding with them, what our guys were doing, what our guys were doing, and what their soldiers were doing here, humanitarian aid there and maintenance, everything. these are the answers we received and one more question in the context of the kursk operation, how will the offensive on the kursk region on the kurdish territory change the balance of forces on the front and in the donbas, first of all, what is the dilemma facing vladimir putin himself? satellite images analyzed by analysts indicate that russian troops have already started digging trenches on the territory in the area of ​​lhova, this city is located almost 50 km from the border and in the area of ​​the city of kursk, which is located even further. in russia, they began to look for trench builders in the kursk region. the russian service of the bbc writes about it. journalists have found more than 30 relevant vacancies in recent days.

russia's ability to quickly repulse the attack on kurshchyna and losses on other areas of the front may force the russian authorities to conduct a new mobilization, writes bloomberg, citing two sources in the kremlin. one official stated that the kremlin can submit the mobilization as such a rotation, so as to give rest to the military on the front lines. another, another source claims that the mobilization order may appear at the end of this year. well, the president of the united states, joe biden, who first commented on the kurdish operation, said that the offensive of ukrainian troops. in the korsk region presents vladimir putin with a real dilemma. listen. this creates a real dilemma for putin and we are in direct contact, in constant communication with ukraine. that's all i'll say about it for now continues well, while the kurdish operation continues, the russian army continues to have the initiative in other parts of the front. although slowly, russian troops are still advancing in donbas. now we will show you the deep state map, how

the situation has changed over the last week, russian troops have almost completely occupied the villages to the south and southwest of turetsk, 50 km west of turetsk, russian troops have come close to the pokrovsk agglomeration, through which it passes the most important lines of communication of the armed forces. russian troops were also captured the villages of ivanivka and lysichne, moved to the eastern outskirts of grodivka, a village that covers the agglomeration of myrno, myrnograd and pokrovsk. will the offensive of ukrainian forces in kurshchyna be able to stop the offensive? in donbas, this is probably the main issue that we will also raise now, serhii grabskyi, a military expert and a colonel of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine, joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. studio, good evening. how much time do both sides still have in order for the armed forces of ukraine to receive some advantage in other areas of the front as well. and russian troops began withdrawing their troops from donbas. oh, you know,

no one will answer this question, not even general syrsky. and it must be understood that here, first of all, we are talking about taking into account a very large number of factors, and let's say this, if we can assume that today we can so carefully assess the situation with the russian troops, then they are beginning to experience a certain shortage of personnel, weapons and equipment on everyone does this mean they will start to leave? no, none way, because here we are talking not only about operational expediency or possibility, but also about a political order, so here the question is clearly not for us, further, in order for the russian troops to start retreating, they have to bear such losses, they have losses, that which are not comparable with the ability to hold certain territories, besides, they will not retreat just like that, they can retreat.

under the pressure of the ukrainian defense forces, and for this we must have a corresponding advantage in forces and means, do we have it now, no, well and i'm sorry, if you take the ratio of forces and means only in the poprovka direction, 40,000 russian troops against 12,000 ukrainian troops, you yourself understand that the question is very, very rhetorical, as i understand it, serhiy, but the goal, as far as i understand, was precisely in in order to draw back the troops in donbas with this kurdish operation, or am i wrong? who told you and a lot of military experts who were on our air spoke about this very thing, well, this is a delusion, sorry, a frank delusion, well, let's go back to numbers that i have already announced: 40,000 russian troops are conducting an operation in the area of ​​the pokrovsky prominence only. tell me, please, during the week at least one soldier from this direction was transferred to the kurt region? no, there's no way they're going to do that. these are completely different operational

directions, for these directions russia is currently using about 10,000 troops, which it collects from the kharkiv, kupinsky and , by the way, from the kherson direction. then they can afford it from secondary ones, because, sorry, now against ukraine only in 527,000 russian troops are active in the active phase of the hostilities at the front, they simply do not need to remove the relevant group today, as they think, in order to close the holes in the khark, sorry for the kurdish direction, this is an outright delusion, let's say it again , and it is about a completely different situation. we created pressure on the russian direction, on the russian regions in the kurt region in order to disperse the enemy's troops, so that his reserves could not move freely in a certain direction, so that

they had to maintain more troops along the entire border, stretch the front, you mean not stretch the front, i emphasize again, stretch the forces along the entire border, can you guarantee? that tomorrow we will not advance in the bryansk region, i definitely cannot guarantee anything, you definitely cannot, and none of us can guarantee, can we guarantee that we will not start advancing tomorrow in the belgorod region, there are already some movements there, let's say yes, likewise, no, the enemy also feels a certain threat, certain the threat is translated in human language into the need to maintain the appropriate amount of forces and means at all areas of the front, and sorry, the russian army, it is dangerous. and they have to take these positions into account in a certain way, i.e. deploy troops on those areas of the front, if they are stationed, roughly speaking, in the bryansk region, then they cannot be used in donbas, so here it must be interpreted in a slightly different sense, namely given that the russian

army will have to pay more attention to other parts of the front to prevent such well, let's say this, the daring and extremely effective actions of the defense forces of ukraine, this is the first to... the second, the task, the criterion of the effectiveness of the actions of our troops is the destruction of the enemy, it is not about territories there 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000 km, not about this, it is about what forces and means we destroy, these forces and means will already understand themselves, they will never in their lives take part in hostilities on the territory of, for example, the donetsk region, and this is our criterion of effectiveness, if tomorrow is it is necessary to withdraw from this territory, we will withdraw, or this will be... by no means such a forced decision, and can we stay, for now yes, we stay, but do, well, even if you take scaling, elementary scaling of the territory that we control now in the kursk region, i emphasize, only control , and what

is happening in donbas, well, these are not commensurate values, and i emphasize once again, you need to know the specifics of the russian army, this is a different operational direction with a different command, not only that, a counterterrorist operation is being conducted in the territory of the kurt region, which managed by representatives of the fsb, if i’m not mistaken, such a mr. dyomin or demin, it seems, something like that, in the past a bodyguard of putin, something like that, maybe that’s why, that’s why we ’re talking about completely different directions, about completely different tasks, for us, let’s not forget, are important, you can search for my words, i spoke about it, we need to create a so-called buffer or sanitary zone, and we are making this sanitary. and we do it in parallel with the pressure that the russians exert on donbas. well, if, to be completely frank, let's be already absolutely frank. tell me if there is a probability that we will ever achieve parity on the ground with the russian federation in the number of troops, armed equipment. i think

it is likely. this is, well, excuse me, well, if we have a mobilization resource of about 2.5 million there, in russia it is about 5-7 million, at least. the whole answer, please tell me, does putin now have any solution, any way out, other than to declare mobilization? well, you know, he would be happy to announce the mobilization, but they have a big one problem, and this problem is called the russian state, if they could announce mobilization without a serious impact on the economy, they would do it, i explain what the matter is, and i mentioned the russian state for a reason, the point is... because the russian state there is a very bureaucratized state, it is a state of, well, let's say this, an apparatus of repression and violence, and this apparatus must be obtained, if you take into account the specifics of the labor market of the russian federation, you will see that an extremely large amount of these

resources are used precisely in the non-production sphere, it starts with the army, it starts, continuing with the national guard or rosgvardiya, as we call it. forces of the fsb, the official apparatus and so on and the like, so it is possible to extract only from those resources that are directly involved in production, and only this one. the mobilization that was carried out led to the fact that russia lost 1,700 working hands, pairs of working hands, despite the fact that they called only 320 00, this is the first, secondly, it is necessary to understand that mobilization can be declared, but it is already more difficult, because ah, russia has certain restrictions on the training base for the training of troops, you and i have already talked for a long time, and we can repeat once again that the russian army can... add to its ranks in a more or less organized way per year from approximately 320, well,

a maximum of 350 thousand, if they that will affect the capabilities of the belarusian training grounds, and that ’s all, and this is the norm that, let’s put it this way, forces russia to act quite carefully and pay those drawn rubles to its contractors, or force conscripts to sign a contract, so what our western allies write, that's fine, but come on... no to forget that they are a little further from reality than we are, who are aware of what is happening, that's why we are doing two parallel tasks, and i will say that the task of the kurdish operation is absolutely clear, and the last thing it can do is of course , to withdraw forces from donbas, where the enemy feels his superiority, and where he desperately climbs forward, although at the same time it should be understood that if you take time, both the total number of strikes decreases and pauses. so-called tactical operatives are increasing, because the enemy needs to regroup those forces and means that

there are. come on, come on, we don't have much time left until the end of the program, let's dwell on donbas in detail, the maps of the last week show that russian troops are advancing, albeit slowly, but occupying villages. there are also more radical forecasts, they are that ukraine has to accept that in the near future it will lose such settlements there as new york, turetsk, maybe a little later, but for... pokrovsk, do you share these forecasts and does this mean that at least these territories, to which the settlements, to which the russian troops approached close, can they already be considered lost? well , you can’t say that, because you understand and what’s the matter, that on the one hand we are talking about the operational capabilities of the russian army, and on the other hand we are talking about a political order, let’s realize the following: the task of this spring-summer campaign 24 in the year there was a seizure of the turks. as the last city of the so-called donetsk agglomeration, can the enemy do this? well

, of course it can, because well, we have already understood that only in the pokrovsky direction the ratio of forces and means, as at least one to three, but at the same time we should not forget that they bear such losses that they can stop at any minute, on donetsk, on the donetsk direction, on the donetsk direction, as well as eight studies, well , which were conducted regarding the technique, say that the average ratio in... in terms of equipment for the last six months is at least 2.7 2.9 to one in terms of equipment, so they can rush in with all their strength and push our troops in the turetsk area, well, of course , what can they do, does that mean we can put up with it , no, no need, moreover, we now we are conducting a defensive operation that destroys the enemy's capabilities, and whether they can achieve this result, well, in principle, we cannot rule it out, but you know, there is such a thing as a pyrrhic ... victory, when they reach a certain point, and that's it that's all, and they can't advance any further, and this is exactly

what general budanov said, let's remember, that a month and a half and the russians will be forced to stop, because the number of losses they suffered, well, simply excludes further advancement, a similar situation develops from in the pokrovsk direction, and it is not yet known where they will go, whether they will go in the direction of pokrovsk, or they will turn from novogorodivka to selidovo in order to block... the route and create a threat to kurakhov, there is also a very serious situation here, but for now we are holding a bridgehead on the left bank of the breech end and so on and so on, and we repel these attacks, thank you, the enemy is advancing, thank you very much, serhii grabskyi, military expert, reserve colonel of the armed forces of ukraine, we talked about the situation in the kursk region and talked about how it can affect the situation in donbas, thank you very much. that's all for us today, i urge you to subscribe to the radio liberty website, like this

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you are watching the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time. my name is maria ulyanovska. congratulations. the defense forces and the security service of ukraine carried out the recruitment. the oldest since the full-scale invasion drone attack on russian military airfields in voronezh, kursk, savasleyka and borisoglebsk, reports radio svoboda. interlocutors of the publication say that this was a specially planned operation so that the enemy could not use these airfields to carry out airstrikes on the front line and ukrainian cities. we will talk more about these events with andriy borys, who researched the topic. i congratulate andria. congratulations. so, tell me what is known about these strikes on russian airfields and? what goal was ukraine able to achieve? maria, well, first of all, i would like to start with the latest news, there was just a briefing from the white house spokeswoman, karin, who

stated that... actually, russia can end this operation at any moment, simply by withdrawing its forces from the territory of ukraine. and actually, returning to your question about the latest attacks by ukrainian drones on russian lithuania, the western media, including the american ones, are writing a lot about it, and experts are talking about it, including we spoke with george baros, an expert analyst of the institute for the study of war, here he says, they are currently studying the details of what actually happened, but we can already tell... that the main goal is actually of this operation was not so much to destroy the planes at these airfields as the airfields themselves in order to reduce the so-called intensity of flights of russian planes over the territory of ukraine for strikes on the territory of ukraine and against the ukrainian forces, in fact, the carriers of guided aerial bombs take off from there. which used to be on ukrainian territory, and now

they are actually hitting ukrainian forces, which... are in the kursk region, also writes a lot about it, writes, in particular, the publication forks, which indicates that up to 50 drops of cabs carried out on the day by russian forces actually against ukrainian forces in the kursk region, the forbes publication writes that ukraine also began to use its own aviation in response, in particular, we are talking about an attack by an su-27 on a command post in the kursk region in a village. also notes that ukraine could use more weapons, more use of aviation, in particular the f-16s provided to ukraine, but for now, according to forbes, ukraine protects, protects these aircraft, since there are still not many of them, and the operation is actually in kursk region, it is quite risky. andriy, how do western experts and the media evaluate the responses of the russian authorities to this and that advance in

kurshchyna? yes, as a matter of fact, the western media write a lot about it, they constantly remind that it is actually a failure of putin, who promised to complete this operation as soon as possible, that the conquest of ukraine is a matter of time. interestingly, george also writes about this, george barus, an analyst at the institute for the study of war, speaks about this, he expected that putin would actually introduce martial law, so he officially decided to refuse. from this, and instead announced an anti-terrorist operation, i ask you to listen to his motives in the interview he gave us today. i did not expect that they would create an anti-terrorist operation led by the fsb. the operation is actually managed by bortnikov, according to some reports, or by general dumin, who is close to the kremlin. and in terms of command and control, we have a joint headquarters that

is managed by the fsb, internal forces. border guards of the fsb, russian guard forces, subordinate to the administration of the president of russia, there are forces of the ministry of internal affairs and regular troops of the ministry of defense of russia, and also conscripts who were on the border. the fsb historically does not operate under a coordinating command over all of these structures, and it is very unclear to me how the russians are going to create an effective joint command and control center to respond to this significant ukrainian operation, when in principle an organization that... better the russian general staff and the russian minister of defense are equipped for this. what does it say? about the russian command and the possibility of waging war? i think this tells us a lot about putin's intentions, he made it clear to the russian people that he is not interested in another mobilization. i also think that if putin declared war or imposed martial law, it would cause

panic throughout the russian federation and... reduce political stability, which is a major factor for putin. therefore, i believe that putin's decision to once again subordinate what should be adequate military planning to his political goals for own internal stability, is another problem. historically, he has always made mistakes about how to wage this war against ukraine, and he has prioritized political considerations over a militarily credible response. thanks to andrii, we will definitely follow this topic. i will remind you that andriy boris told us the latest news about the operation with... on the territories of the russian federation. on july 29, ukrainians remembered the leaders of the terrorist attack in volenivka. the colony, in which at least 50 prisoners of war, mostly defenders of mariupol, who were leaving the territory of azovstal under the guarantees of the international committee of the red cross. so far, none of the international organizations has been able to conduct their own investigation.