war is a way of deception, when you can, pretend you can't, when you're close, pretend you're far, these are the words from the treatise the art of war, written by the chinese strategist sunji 25 years ago. the operation in the kursk region is a confirmation of their relevance. for the second time , the ukrainian military managed to achieve the effect of surprise, leading the enemy into deception. it happened for the first time in the fall of 2022, during a counter-offensive in the kharkiv region, just as then, now the russians were clearly not ready for such a scenario. as a result, the lines of defense in the kursk region broke through very quickly, as according to the british edition of the telegraph, in less than 48 hours, the defense forces established control over an area larger than the entire failed counteroffensive of the summer of 2023. preparation for this operation is different from. the counteroffensive

was carried out in complete secrecy, and until now ukraine does not officially comment on the course of hostilities, limiting itself to only hints. ukrainians know how to achieve their goals, and we did not choose to achieve goals in the war. russia brought war to our land and must feel what it has done. we strive to achieve as soon as possible their goals in peacetime under the conditions of a just peace. and it will be. one can only guess about the ultimate plan of the ukrainian command: different versions are heard in the ukrainian and western media. few believe in the intention to establish control over the kurdish autonomous region, as it is too difficult a task. the implementation of which will probably cause a sharp reaction from the western allies. some assume that the purpose of force defense is to create a buffer zone for the security of sumy oblast. observers also draw attention to the fact that ukraine now controls

the suja gas measuring station, through which passes through the key and currently the only route for the supply of russian gas to europe. after all, control over russian territory should strengthen ukrainian positions on the eve of negotiations with the russian federation, which have been talked about more and more recently. but most likely, the main task of the operation is to force the enemy to withdraw at least part of his forces from the east of ukraine to protect his own territory. in any case, the kursk operation has already caused painful image losses to putin, and the confused dictator called full-scale military operations on the territory of the russian federation a provocation. the west has an opportunity once again make sure that the so-called red line of russia blev. more and more russians are realizing that their border is porous. talks about the second army of the world are false, and the russian authorities do not care about them. stop everything.

everything is standing, you see what is happening, horror, just horror, just horror, we were left alone, we were used to shelling, we supported the svo, we were left with children, without a roof over our heads, without payments, without money, we left what were we , our children are afraid to sleep at night, the court was attacked, bombed, we had no power, nothing. but not only the loss of russia image, the number of captured russians is unknown, but we are talking about dozens, and possibly even hundreds of servicemen. only this video shows how more than 30 border guards and military personnel, who were supposed to guard the borders, surrender to the ukrainian defense forces, and this is the result of a well-aimed attack on the convoys that the russian command sent to eliminate the breakthrough. dozens

of soldiers were killed and hundreds were injured by an untested formation. that's what's left. how many boys, how many boys. such in addition, the russians lost several boards. in particular, two helicopters were hit by ukrainian drones. and for the first time we have the opportunity to see videos of unique operations. on the demilitarization of the russian air force. according to some observers, by starting the kurdish operation, the defense forces took a risk, because for its implementation reserves are used, which are not enough in donbas, where the enemy, albeit slowly, is advancing towards pokrovsk. an even greater risk is the reaction of the west to the fact that hostilities have moved to the territory of russia, and these are no longer sabotage forays of the russian volunteer corps, but scale... the operation of regular units

of the armed forces of ukraine, which use, in particular, western weapons. did the americans, who until now imposed strict restrictions on ukraine, know about it in advance? the white house claims that it is not, but the official reaction of washington, by the way, as well as of brussels, for many turned out to be unexpectedly calm. we must remember that there are russian troops in the kursk region, they are stationed there and attack ukraine from this region, we must not forget about it, we will continue to support the ukrainians, but they will use common sense actions to protect yourself from these. so what the americans and europeans say to the ukrainian authorities in private is unknown. on may 13, 2023, the armed forces of ukraine brought the patriot system to the border and flew two mi-8 helicopters and two combat aircraft, su-34 and

su-35, over russian territory at once. there were no more such campaigns, and within a year the german publication bild reported that there were angry actions in washington and berlin. ukrainians and threatened to stop the supply of missiles for air defense systems, there is hoping that this time there will be no intimidation, it seems that while the allies are watching the developments, perhaps they should finally reflect on another aphorism of the chinese thinker sunzi. those who don't want to be defeated defend themselves, those who want to win attack. there are discounts until independence day on bionorm detox 10% in pharmacies psylansky, bam and oskad. the book women at war is a joint project of the espresso tv channel and the spirit and letter publishing house. the book is based on the reports of the presenter of the espresso tv channel khrystyna parubiy. 20 stories, 20

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this week's judicial control program with tatyana shustrova. free knyazeva, why did the ex-chairman of the supreme court lose his position for renting an apartment? dismiss knyazev vsevolod serhiyovych from the position of judge of the cassation administrative court. but who in the vrp helped the prince not to answer for a multi-million dollar bribe? the record holder is simply the first to close cases. on thursday, august 15, at 5:45 p.m., watch the judicial control program with tatyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel. greetings, i'm olga len, these are the chronicles of the war, and during the time that we did not see each other, important events happened that we will definitely talk about, but first i will remind you that the espresso tv channels and the vesna charitable fund are collecting funds for the purchase of modern drones and

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what happened last week, our map of hostilities, and then we will discuss, the map of hostilities for the period august 8-14, 2024, drama on the pokrov-turkish front and euphoria near kursk. meanwhile, in donetsk region , the russians continue to advance, moving forward every day. the ssu is doing the same thing in kurshchyna, whether it is the fighting in russia or other factors, but during the week the number of offensives on the entire front decreased significantly, but at the beginning of this week the fighting broke out with a new and even greater force, especially on the pokrovsky and lyman directions. due to the destruction of two airfields in russia, as well as a significant supply of kabs, the bombardment of the defense line was reduced, in some areas of the front on a few days disappeared altogether. the southern front practically froze on others. offensive actions decreased, except for pokrovsk , the front around

siversk and the southern part of luhansk region became a special area, however, despite considerable efforts, the enemy was unable to achieve anything here. just like in chasovoy yar, where defense forces continue to hold defense lines along the canal. the russians entered toretsk, new york is being surrounded. from the village of severnych, the occupiers broke through for 1 km along the main street of dzerzhinsky, thus bypassing the terekon mines of pivnich. if if this breakthrough is not urgently eliminated, the enemy will have the opportunity to storm terekon from several sides, in the event of its occupation, it will equalize the high-altitude possibilities of fire dominance over the central street, along which the defense forces are currently holding the front. in fact, this terekon will be the gateway to the city for the rashists. the occupiers continued to expand their control on the flanks, completed the occupation of the village of pivdenni, and joined forces advancing on the eastern flank of new york. here the armed forces were forced. retreat to the rate system, after all otherwise they were threatened by the environment. thus,

from the left flank, the enemy has finished capturing the outskirts of toretsk and new york and is ready to attack the city and begin the encirclement of the village, moving from the iron to the non-stick. in the central part of new york , the armed forces managed to conduct a local counteroffensive and recapture the area around the school, but these are our only successes. on the western flank, roshisto significantly expanded the control zone between yuriyivka and panteleimonmonivka. our garrison in alexandropol, which is located on a commanding height, maintained its defense throughout the summer route to kostyantynivka, found himself in a rather difficult situation. in the case of the encirclement of alexandropol, this section of the front may again dynamically change not in our favor. in the coming days, the occupiers will continue to advance on the western outskirts of new york in order to create a threat to surround the village and force the defense forces to leave it. the pokrovsky hell for a whole week on the pokrovsky peninsula, the number of battles decreased by 30-40% every day, but already on monday the attacks increased to a record

number of 50. thanks to the decline in intensity the enemy never managed to occupy the almost surrounded desired defense forces, in the future they control half of the village. also, our soldiers held back the offensive and prevented a breakthrough on the eastern bank of the vovcha river in the area between novoselivka first and yasnobrodivka. in the same way, our heroes repelled all assaults on vozdvizhynka yaka. is the last obstacle before the enemy's exit to the pokrovsk-kostiantynka highway and to karlivka, which holds back the attack on selidove. also, the rashists did not manage to make their way further along the railway line to novogrodivka. the only thing that succeeded for the russians, it is to complete the occupation of sergiyivka and expand the zone of their control along the left bank of the treasury end, capturing sveredonivka and lysichna. zesu has completely retreated to the right bank of the river and is holding a defense in a key fortified village. grodovka the russians began an assault on this village, which may give them the key to getting behind

the defense forces and the opportunity to break through to mirnograd. the battle for grodivka will be one of the culminating battles in the pokrovsky direction. the viewer is getting closer. the entrance to the road ugledar kostyantynka - village. it continued for the third week in a row. the russians are successful here, they managed to push back the defense forces from several positions and completely push them out of the way. the front line now runs along this road, so it has lost its logistical functionality. at the same time, the occupiers entered the southeastern streets of kostyantynivka and expanded the gray zone to most of the eastern part. parts of the village, as well as the entire neighboring paraskoviivka. the next kopyansk, although the number of battles in the opyansk direction decreased by 30%, however, the uzezhrashists managed not only by a kilometer break through to the west of pishchannoy and 2.5 km from tabaivka, at the same time on the left flank of the offensive, they significantly expanded the control zone between the previously occupied villages of bereztove and

novoselivske, and also developed an offensive on stelmakhivka by almost 4 km and began. storming its northern outskirts. in this way, the occupiers ensure the width of the front before attacking the villages covering the southern flank of kupyansk. kurdish shock and panic, exactly a week has passed since the beginning of the entry of our troops into the territory of russia. during this time , unknown good forces legalized through statement of syrskyi and zelenskyi. at the same time, this week spent in perfect informational silence on the part of both the general staff and all other branches of government allowed the armed forces to catch up with russia. shock and panic and develop their offensive in five districts of the kursk region, as well as in the belgorod region. most of the data that we have to study, we get it from russian sources, which are obviously lying. in their social networks, the ukrainian military provides cursory information from two or three days ago, thereby also introducing the enemy into oman. russian local the authorities recognized the occupation of 28 settlements,

the military, not having all the information, counted almost 50 by eye, and the president. ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyi officially announced that 74 cities and villages are under our control, but no one except the general staff knows where exactly the zesa are fighting and where they are advancing without an opera. therefore, our map is quite indicative and shows only those areas of the front, about which there is already confirmed information. sujo uzu was captured on the first day of the offensive. then our troops were divided into many small groups that began to advance north, west and east, entering behind. the enemy, surrounding him from different sides. thus, they advanced 35 km to the northeast, approached the district center of korinivo and began to cover it from the north and south. moving in parallel along the border, they liberated all the villages from suzhia to snyagosta. it is quite likely that this movement in the corridor between the borders and the left bank of the seim river will continue all the way to our border in the area

of ​​the tetkino crossing. by the way, there is information that a thousand russian soldiers who were stationed in this area and... were preparing for an offensive on sumy oblast, may now find themselves surrounded by those of our forces who came out from the side of ukraine to meet those who are advancing from suja. the russians lost contact with tetkino a few days ago. to the north of suzha, the armed forces of ukraine are advancing in several arms in the direction of the cities of lhov and kurchatov. if the russians themselves admitted that the ukrainians came within 40 km of kursk, then apparently the defense forces got even closer to these cities. however , at present, only battles in the vicinity are known. village kromsky byky in the lhovsky direction and the transfer of the village of bolshoi soldatskoe under our control. however, tracing the direction of the offensive of the armed forces, it is logical to assume that here, too, they intend not only to cut the rylsk-kursk highway, but also to reach the shores of the seym. to the east of suja, the advance of the armed forces is currently the most modest, and it is also here that they met the greatest resistance from the russians, because the threat

of cutting the belgorod-kursk highway would be a national disaster for them. despite this , our... the heroes here made their way at least 18 km to the village of bjelica, moving along the right bank psyol river. at the same time, they managed to cross the river and occupy several villages on its left bank. it is interesting that further south along a significant section of the border ukrainian derg were spotted in the villages of demidovka, kolotilovka and poros, and probably there were more of them. however , the offensive of the armed forces east of vovchansk could be a shock for the russians. our forces have already recorded pankovi lii in the villages. one of the goals of the operation in the kurtshchyna may be not only the curtailment of the russian offensive on vovchansk, but also the encirclement and destruction of the entire vovchansk group. already now the defense forces have launched a powerful offensive in vovchansk itself and are pushing the occupiers out of the city. however, strong support from the belgorod region can not only significantly speed up this process, but also trigger

panic in belgorod itself. a new army of many thousands of refugees will definitely collapse the military logistics in this direction. currently , we can record that the armed forces of the russian federation are pulling their reserves back to russia from all directions of the front, except for donetsk, where they still hope to maintain the pace of the offensive. instead, the armed forces are formed daily on its northeastern border a new demilitarized zone between the psel and seim rivers. we win daily, death to enemies. well , we were joined by oleksiy hetman, reserve major of the national guard, a russian-ukrainian veteran. i congratulate you, mr. hetman, i congratulate you, of course, the most interesting story is what is happening near kursk, but it is also interesting, in fact, the most recent such events are the attack... on russian military airfields, which was carried out by drones of the security service this night of ukraine, the defense forces, and what is interesting about all this is that this is probably the largest such attack

during the war, in particular the savasley airfield in the nizhny novgorod region, baltimore on the outskirts of the city of voronezh, borysoglipsk in the voronezh region and the airfield near kursk were attacked. and it was such a big operation, it is interesting what exactly this operation can give us and what its significance can be, you can see that there is a video that there are fires in one place, as if it were a fuel warehouse, and in another, damaged planes , well, that is , there are many such stories, that is, what can it be, well, sausleiki, an airfield, it's all for 1000 km, that is, again far away. it was even reported by the russian mass disinformation media that there were at least 10 hits

, what exactly was the damage to the planes, well, the planes that were damaged, so far there is no official information that the infrastructure of the airfield was damaged, then it is obvious, well, what are they giving such strikes, well, i think that all of us from you viewers perfectly understand that those airfields are located nearby. from the front line and even 1000 km away, if they are vulnerable to our means of impression, then the russians will have to transfer their planes, which will increase the time of the approach, well, in general , this will break a lot for the ability of the russians to carry out exactly such kabami strikes, which they began to actively use, and there are several tens there, sometimes up to a hundred , in a day, strikes on, well, various objects along the line. behind the front line, so if it is possible to destroy these airfields, it cannot but stop, but essentially complicate

such opportunities, well, here, you know, the question, it is almost rhetorical, what if we destroy airports or warehouses or bases or headquarters , well, it works, it’s a bloodless morass, well, you know, here’s a blow to... it seems morozivsk, yes, for a few days even there it stopped such an active bombardment with kabami, but life still shows that the russians recover quickly enough, and here of course, the question still remains that in order for these strikes to be more, well, there were more of them and somehow the intervals between them were smaller, but rather such a wish must be made, well, we can't make thousands of these per day. without a canvas, and let's remember that the disembodied body cannot carry its combat part, it is several tens of kilograms, and the destruction that occurs there is not as significant as from the impact of, for example, a missile

carrying explosives, well, 10 times more, if it had arrived at the airfield 5-six 10 anti-aircraft missiles there, five-six missiles, then this airfield could be written off, well, against the background of what is already clear. that ukrainian troops entered the territory of the kursk region to talk about the fact that attacks there themselves cannot be carried out on the territory of russia, well, this is already starting a little to sound as such some kind of anachronism and some unclear requirements, but come on , you can't hit on the territory of russia, our partners tell us from the territory of ukraine, and from the territory of russia on the territory of russia, so actually, well, let's do it anyway. .. let's move on to this very operation in the kursk region, we obviously can't say anywhere now where we advanced, how we advanced, simply because we don't know,

only the general staff knows, as was indicated, but we can at least talk about , what are the results already, and what may still be, and what if to speak of results, one such important result which we might expect is the pretense of reserves and some other troops. well, actually, to try to stop this ukrainian breakthrough into kursk, and from this point of view, what can you say, that is, what do we see, what has already happened there and what else would we like to see happen? well, of course, this is one of the goals of this operation, it is to force the russians to withdraw their troops or those who are not fully prepared, because they withdraw their troops not only out of laziness. of the front even from the reserves, which are inside, inside the russian federation, there is information that the troops that were planned to be transferred to the pokrovsky direction, where the russians

have the most, well... direction, there is also information that troops are being withdrawn from the kharkiv direction, troops are withdrawn from crimea, loaded onto platforms, and they will transfer, well, this is already, this is already an effect, not to mention the fact that we all expected offensive actions on sumy, well, on sumy oblast, something similar. did not plan to do, as they tried to attack kharkiv and approach the a distance that is not less than a shot of an aimed shot from a barrel artillery, they did not succeed, and well, the attack on the sums is already, let's say , canceled, at least in the near future on the part of the russians, they now have to hold back our counterattack, our counteroffensive actions, that's why it there is already an effect that, well, it is difficult to overestimate,

there, well... you can count, well, at least five more effects that, well, that this operation has already given, even if it ends today, so, well, it's not only military effect, although there are several components in the military effect, this is a political effect, this political military, media effect, i am sure that our partners, this argument, our attack on the kurb region, will give you the opportunity to lift these bans, and... well, this is what is needed, because we understand that these bans are not because there is scholz or there is biden, they are against us using it, they are guided by the opinion of the citizens, they analyze it, and well, at least in germany for a long time there was, well, on... the perception

of the powerful help of our army, they were afraid that it will lead to an escalation, well, everything that everything that we remember perfectly, but even germany reacted when the russians began to accuse them that german tanks were again driving through the territory of russia, they answered like this, well, i may not be verbatim, but the point is that germany really did transfer tanks to ukraine, but when she transferred them, they became ukrainian, and if ukraine is... to use them as it sees fit, it is its right, if it does not violate international laws, we do not violate any international law, we act clearly within the framework of article 51 of the united nations charter, where it is prescribed what self-defense is and what the attacked country, which suffers from aggression, has the right to do, and it has the right to destroy military facilities on the territory of the occupier, on the territory of the aggressor, as it deems necessary, the only thing that cannot not be done

is to attack the civilian population, well... a war crime that the russians are constantly committing, so this operation can affect it here, which, well, looks strange to an average, say, german or american, that we conduct offensives on the territory of the russian federation, they do not us can stop, but shoot american or it is impossible for german missiles to hit a military object there, because it can lead to escalation, well, people who say so will look no less funny. and i think that neither scholz nor biden want to look ridiculous, so i hope that something will be resolved with the tauros, and you know, the attitude of our partners when we, well even heroically you keep the defense, is not quite the same, but when we win, when we press the enemy, then the desire to join the likes of us now increases, and i think that will affect

an increase in military aid to... well, everyone saw that russia is not what they thought it was, that putin is weak, and this can lead, i want to believe, to the strengthening of sanctions and to a change in the attitude of many political elites in europe , in america, in the world to the russian federation, because we constantly hear this, and maybe not necessary, maybe it will be an escalation, maybe it will somehow dissipate by itself, well, here it is a very serious argument, so what... if to finish the thought about what this operation did, well, except, well, it is the last, she made russians understand that putin is not as powerful as they thought, and for russians it is very important that the secretary general or the president or the tsar is powerful, it gives them a sense of greatness, and they are ready for it...