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you can express your opinion on the day with a phone survey, turn on and turn on. verdict with serhii rudenko, from tuesday to friday from 20 to 22. here we are, dear friends, and now we will talk about the times of yar. serhii chas, head of chasovoyarsk city military administration. are already with us, mr. serhiy, we welcome you, good morning, is this a good morning to the time mayor, mr. serhiy, nazai, the connection is a little bit, please repeat something, if possible, what is the current situation in the time of the mayor, mr. serhiy, tell me , please, unfortunately, the situation... since we last

since we talked to you, nothing has changed fundamentally, every day there are attacks, every day the enemies try to cross the canal, they try to go further into the city, but at the moment the situation is under control, although it is difficult, almost not a single high-rise building has survived, but still there are still civilians and ... which cannot be evacuated, they refuse, you said correctly, the multi-storey building is all damaged and damaged quite badly, the people who remain, most of them live in private houses, and a certain part lives in basements, we continue evacuation work, we try to convince people that they should leave. you can at any time, but frankly

, at the moment, at this hour there are very few applications and very little evacuation work, although we continue. the regional military administration has created another center that works directly from the regional military administration, let's say , we are increasing capacity, the ability to call and ask for evacuation. you know, mr. sergey, i'm watching the russians evacuate, they don't ask if you want to stay or not, packed and taken away. i... well , of course we don't want to be like russia, but should we still listen to these people, who probably already have psychological injuries caused by this war, because living all the time in such conditions, as you say, in basements,

in fact, this is far from the norm, well, i think it is necessary to start that we still live in a state governed by the rule of law and... the right of the law, it is at the very front, accordingly forced evacuation, that is why it is so difficult for us , that people need to be proven that they need to leave, but i agree with you 100%, people who lived at least for a certain time, at least for a month or several months, in such conditions, well, if we already take this as an example in which we live now in the times, then probably we should help them in such a way... but frankly i must say, it is difficult, really difficult, because to take a person from his home, from his home, against his will, it is probably not entirely possible after all, we are now showing the footage taken by

our colleagues, journalists from donbas realia, the project radio svoboda, you are also there in this report, it was recently somewhere in the register. of course i recognize, let's start with the fact that i am a local resident, so i know the city quite well, the project has already, as they say, been going on for some time, but that's the way it is, some people whom we just saw have already left, thank god, but most of them, unfortunately, remains in place, and they are still under... risk, risk of death, which in general, the situation right now on the contact line that passes through the city is actually difficult, frankly, difficult, because the attacks do not stop, and during the day, and

at night, and in the morning and in the evening, and different means are used, as they say, including artillery, and aviation, by the way, the city also continues to level the cab. despite the fact that we already have a lot of damage, but it still continues, so the situation is quite difficult and very dangerous. well, thank you very much for this conversation, mr. serhiy, serhiy chaus, the head of the military administration of the city of chasoyariv, was with us, and he told us about the situation during the sumoyer, the city, where there is, there is so little left, now hostilities continue there , intense, is the key. such a direction was also alive for the russian offensive, where they have not actually progressed for several months now, but are advancing further in the pokrovsky direction, we will talk more about this a little later with serhii zgurets, listen to the funny, father lukashenka, there is

such a thing, and i remember, i remember, speaking at bell tv, this is belarusian television, i started to step on belstupav bell tv, you know, it's like that. all kinds of television, there is white television, so on the belt and that he babbled there, and he babbled, which turns out that ukraine has already fulfilled putin's main condition, she was de-nazified, where did he get that from, i don’t know what it means to be de-nazified in general, he is probably alluding to some kind of minsk talks, he is probably alluding, he said that but to whom is he alluding to us or putin, he says, he says, there are only a few natsiks left, and those says that it is no longer in trend, maybe he just watches ukrainian ones in tiktok. so it can somehow be stretched, as if we have already achieved the main goal of our offensive, well , come up with something like that, maybe donazification, you will succeed, i just don't know how to explain it, and you see, lukashenko everything turned out,

he said what he said, let's sit down at the negotiating table, so once again he directly invites the aggressor and the victim to reconcile, although, you know, here it is a little... it has risen in places, in some places, you know, who is the aggressor, then the victim, well of course, i'm joking, and it's not a very funny joke, because of course the aggressor remains the russian federation, which captured more than 20%. ukrainian territory, i don't know, i can't imagine the situation, let's imagine that, russia lives for itself, separately, we live for ourselves, and here neither for that nor for that, for some reason the ukrainian army decided to enter the kursk region, this is unreal, so the fact that the ukrainian army is there now is only because the russian army came to our land and is destroying our land, that's all, it's interesting that lukashenko also stated, that a third of his army is transferred to... the ukrainian borders, so i also don't understand something, it's how he is, on the one hand, such

a peacemaker, on the other hand, he brings troops to the ukrainian-russian, belarusian-ukrainian border, in short, well here is an interesting situation we will talk more about this, maybe he has some kind of disorder, you know that split personality, bipolar, yes, dear friends, whatever lukashenko says, we will discuss it further, by the way, but i want to remind you about our collection, and you and i for this morning, well, almost... we're already at 17,000, but so far it's almost, please join us, less than 35,00 separates us from the first hundred and second of our million, now there is a qr code on your screens and you also see the picture, these pictures are what we collect, we collect on repsystems and on drones for of our defenders, three brigades. who suffered losses in the avdiiv direction, we need to replenish their arsenal, and you and i

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up news from the kurdish region, well, actually. the situation in the kursk region is one of the directions where the armed forces are now continuing offensive actions, there is a little less information than before, that is, a certain fog of war remains, from the positive things, this, as i see it, is still a confirmation of the destruction of the third bridge over the seym river, let me remind you that this is a river that... uh, connects with, passes through russian territory, there are actually three bridges there that were destroyed on the 16th-18th, and now we see the destruction of the third bridge, in the sam river, why is this important, because it actually creates the conditions for blocking a certain number of russian troops between the sey river and our state border,

according to various estimates, there may be up to 200 russian soldiers, and now... it is extremely important that the further offensive actions of the armed forces, which are now carried out on in several directions, in particular one of the important directions, this is precisely the movement towards the settlements of koreneva and rylsk, this will allow blocking this section from the east, so that in fact now the situation there is quite dynamic, and if you consider, by the way, the publication in editions of the economist, it seems in... evening, i.e. today's publication about the fact that such a situation is now being created, where the enemy will try to advance quickly on pokrovsk, and we will try to balance these actions in the kursk region, here i think will be important and endurance

the general staffs of both sides, and the reserves, and the specifics of the hostilities that will be conducted. both sides, so now, relatively speaking, well, we are entering such a new stage of confrontation, where the kurdish front opens up new opportunities and in a certain way creates certain risks, if we talk about these risks, by the way, in a publication in the economist it is also about the fact that, apparently, once again, sources in the general staff are saying in ukrainian that syrskyi was preparing this ... operation with terrible secrecy even told yermak, well, i’m not joking, they really say this, and he didn’t tell, didn’t share it even with the main intelligence department, and the intelligence was developing this very thing of the armed forces of ukraine, this is the whole option, and it seems that at the beginning zelenskyi wanted a very

quick advance, but the syrian is careful, as it says, the syrian is not a fool, and i understand that this is too much ... we started with this, when it was only the first day of this offensive, you said on the air that the main thing is not to do mistake and not try to hold all these territories, if any the strategic goals of this offensive will be achieved, president zelenskyi said that the goals of this offensive are the creation of a buffer zone, it is just about trying to hold these territories, is it a risky attempt, and well, mick ryan writes about it after all, that trying to hold the territories can cost ukraine a lot. and to devalue, nullify all these psychological and moral achievements, well, look, we actually couldn't not advance. because in other areas of the front, the enemy uses that permanent approach where the advantage in manpower and artillery, well, in fact , we allow the tactics of gradual,

slow, but advance, and the actual advantage in weapons and manpower, actually did not dictate the third component, which we have to apply now, this is maneuverable warfare, which we have now demonstrated in combat actions in the kursk region, now the question arises, what 's next? in fact, it is possible to move forward there to kursk, to lhovo. the second component is to expand the flanks, and i think that's the most important thing right now because, relatively speaking, control of these two flanks, on the one hand, is precisely the root of rylsk, and the right flank is precisely the suja and movement in the belgorod region. allows you to create the prerequisites for the creation of such a theater of military operations, where between two rivers, between the seim river and the psyol river,

it is actually possible to build a line of defense with the limited resources currently available to the armed forces of ukraine, and now the question is where exactly to carry out this line of construction defense deep into russian territory because... the deeper we go, the more we need forces to secure the flanks, and risks are created for the counterattacking actions of the enemy, now we just need to find an optimal balance, i think that the search for such a balance is still going on, and on the other hand , the russian federation thinks that now, as for me, they will resort to a decision , when it will now try to precisely block our advance on the flanks and... conditionally speaking, create a line of defense there in front of kursk, in front of kurchatov, and in fact not particularly forcing hostilities in

this area from its side, and the main thing now will force actions precisely in the pokrovsky direction. now, if the president insists on maximum actions, as economiz says, then i think that these risks should be balanced by the syrian position, which is really now... primarily focused on controlling the flanks, on the training of new forces that can receive, the kurdish region along the optimal line, and actually now everything will be decided by reserves and a clear balance, now there is a lot of uncertainty and from the stage of an unexpected assault, now we are moving into the stage of uncertainty, when both both the ukrainian and russian sides initially look at each other and try to... determine the order of each other's actions, now this uncertain period is becoming so long, but i think that after a certain time

a line will be formed where we will continue the defense in the kursk region, that is, part of the territories will definitely remain under the control of the ukrainian army, and these territories, i think that this is a forced situation, because we have to take into account political gain, because this offensive, as one of the publications wrote... ukraine showed the cowards on to the west, how to fight and that the line does not exist, so maintaining the territory of a certain area will still remain an important political element of ukraine's further strategy in dealings with the russian federation. if the russians manage to reach their targets in the pokrov direction and they leave, i don't know there on the edge of dni. petrov region, are we ready to meet

them there? i said to block the flanks and to block the frontal advance to kursk to korchatov, on the other hand, we need to create greater threats that will allow the enemy, force the enemy to transfer reserves here, perhaps... the question is that the situation in the kursk region will not the only active area where the armed forces will operate now, and thus now , first of all, it is necessary to force the enemy to transfer reserves, which today the enemy has quite limited, now all the enemy's forces are really throwing in the direction of pokrovskoe, there are advancing in the direction of the grodivka-novogrodivka defense line , the defense line is prepared for me, but it must be remembered that the enemy has an advantage in manpower, equipment, and artillery, this is precisely what is indicated on the front line, just this

operation is connected. with the kurd direction, maybe with some other direction, it is supposed to reduce the advance of the enemy in a certain way, so far it does not happen, but i think that after a certain time the impact of the kurdish operation should be felt on the entire front line, it may not be tomorrow, maybe it will be in a month and because these are precisely the actions that are oriented towards the autumn period, precisely the events in the kursk region, precisely the form. will have a different agenda on the battlefield, but again, there are benefits and risks to this operation. i will also remind you of one more thing, when the royal institute of russia, a british institute of defense research, analyzed last year's failure, the failed ukrainian offensive, they, in particular at the end of the conclusion, said that the worst thing ukraine could do this

year. to dare a large-scale offensive, we witnessed this, or this, or this attack warned by british explorers? well, in fact, i think that according to our estimates, we thought that the armed forces would block crimea, this task remains, and this is precisely the fifth achilles of the russian defense, and it must be done, in relation to the offensive in the kurdish region, relatively speaking , we made an assumption that the armed forces... will hold a certain bridgehead or a certain area, i repeat, the geographical conditions and conditions for the construction of the defense allow to hold this area, if specially approved the decision of our partners to give us the opportunity to use long-range systems, because now, relatively speaking, the hymers operate quite effectively, a section of 300 km at the expense of atakamsim will, frankly, disarm the ability of the russians to use reserves and

go... drag them to kursk, to kursk oblast, and right now, when zelenskyi is talking about the need to give more weapons, it is all in the context of this balance of hostilities in kursk oblast, pokrov oblast, and other areas of the front. now it is extremely interesting and extremely a difficult situation that did not arise before, because earlier russia just stupidly redrawn our positions using cabs and artillery. now this chessboard is turned upside down. destroyed and just added a mobile component of hostilities, where we have a certain advantage, then we need to transfer this advantage to another situation with the use of forces and means and influence the enemy, how it will be successful, this is exactly what we will observe in the coming weeks and months, i i still wanted you, we have a moment left to ask about donetsk region, combatant with the call sign kucher says, told reporters.

journal that they do not have enough fighters, they send to the trenches, sometimes even cooks, and there is also a shortage of art shells, and they say that we like to watch videos from kursk, but the situation here is critical, well , in fact, such there were cases before when cooks, there were engineers, and technicians went into combat operations, when it was necessary to restrain the enemy's offensive, or to obtain certain areas of the front. such a situation existed before. now, i repeat, we have a situation when, we have to leave the paradigm, when the enemy acts linearly with the means and with the consequences that we know, now, relatively speaking, in certain areas of the front, in particular there during the sowing season, i know that there is no shortage of ammunition, and there just effectively the enemy's advance is restrained, perhaps

the situation is really difficult in certain directions. and now the search for this balance is extremely important for our military. thank you mr. serhiy, serhiy zgurets, director of the information consulting company defense express was with us, dear friends, well and now a moment of silence. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.