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to talk about the pokrovsky direction with serhiy tsekhotskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handziuk. mr. sergey, good morning to you, good morning. sir serhiy, right before you we spoke with a journalist who is a resident of mirnograd, but has now left for pokrovsk, she tells about the fact that the evacuation is ongoing in mirnograd, but there are still 16,000 people left, she says that people are also leaving pokrovsk little by little, but there are still many people there, as far as the presence of the civilian population in these settlements, a little, a little interferes with the activities of our army, well, even if there is one person there, it will interfere, you know, because, well... always, somehow

we treat well, civilians, if it's even there from our side, or even from the side of the enemy, because very carefully, and this really prevents us from performing there, let's say, the 100% performance of the task, because it is already in practice to take the liberation of kherson oblast, which is from that one... . areas of the front where we were, all the villages were destroyed, but where the enemy was, all the windows were in all the buildings, so when we went there, and this was over the course of eight months, it was not just an assault there one or two days, this is the handwriting of these russians the occupiers, to destroy everything in front of them and...

not at all sorry, but we have to take into account the fact that civilians may be there, the russians have been advancing there again in the past day, and they are already very close to you mirnograd and pokrovsk, if they advance further, that's all, then more street fights, or pokrovsk, will begin. this is the next bakhmut, conditionally speaking, or avdiyivka, well, we really hope that there will be no bakhmut, after all, during this time we, well, we have strengthened ourselves even more our western partners believed more, so we really hope for this, we are doing it simply and the general staff is planning, and i

already said that, unfortunately, somewhere we have to retreat in the sense of what needs to be preserved personnel, and the life and health of everyone, even one of... logistics, this is a combination, this is what i thought, you know, the symbol of the donetsk region, the city of pokrovsky there, well, the inhabitants, and the city itself is big, and so on, i hope that your general staff... monitors this and plans operations in such a way as to prevent this from happening, that is, to prevent not only the capture of pokrovsk, but specifically to prevent this its, let's say, the destruction of the same barrel artillery there, for

that, well, let's say, i hope that there are opportunities, but regarding the direction where, as you said, there is myrnograd, yes, they have the same again there in some. success in development, let's say, in that direction, in the direction a little further south, this is novogrodivka, mykhailivka, the efforts, the attempts of assaults, have not been successful, so far, thank god, god willing, it will be so, at the cost of incredible efforts, the resilience and courage of every serviceman, who is also standing in this direction, and there is the south . even further south, where our brigade is already directly in the group, tactically, in the group of krasnogoryuk, in the composition, the enemy has not had success there, well , for a long, long time ago, let’s say so, and it ’s all a general struggle, a general situation,

somewhere they throw more, you have to understand that the reserve in there is no enemy in particular, all that they are now. if available, they use everything to have some, well , quite, in my opinion, primitive success in fulfilling the goals of the svo, the so-called, well, their efforts, this is an attempt in the pokrovsk direction, this is an attempt to break through to the karlivka, pokrovsk track, no, no , this, this, this, the situation, let's say, enter ovselidove from this side, here is an attempt to exit from this side. it does not provide a route in the strategic plan, because we have a lot of logistical routes, and this will not give anything in particular, but there is a threat to selidov, which may end up there, selidov in such an operational environment, let's say this, that's what can be here, and selidoo just has

key heights, as far as i understand, and it also allows the russians to control, plus this and... again, they say there a large number of people live there, no everyone has left, so there are a lot of nuances that need to be paid attention to, but at the same time i say that something tells me intuition that they are in for such a great surprise will be waiting for the enemy very soon in this direction, or rather from by what is happening in... the field of intensity, what is it now, describe it, because because we simply read reports from the front line and see the news that the muscovites are simply pushing and i see that they are somehow not stopped, so, well, let's say before the kurdish operation

even before this one, let's say this offensive was our success there, i think , that this is a really good strategic plan... that means the enemy has been advancing in the pokrovsky direction practically throughout the last month there, absolutely all along the entire front line, in all positions , at the same time, all our positions were attacked , shelled, shelled, practically, well, there 240-270 shellings of 200 and more occurred per day there, approximately where our brigade is there. there were drops from drones and so on, plus cabs, so now, well, i can say from the numbers that at the moment we have about 100 drops per day, and about the same number of shellings, but at the same time, there are assaults,

the number of assaults has also decreased assaults, attempted assaults, i'm talking about our area right now, this means that the enemy is exhausted and... the enemy does not have reserves to attack on such a large scale along the entire front, but above our neighbors, there it's a little more difficult for them, they are attacking there now... they aim at this point and hit constantly, constantly, as you know, at one pain point , as in boxing, yes, hit until the opponent breaks down, well, we don't break down, we go where we need to we retreat where necessary, again we counterattack , we don't give the enemy, let's say, complete all the tasks , but the situation is tense, hot, and we believe in success, we believe in what will be accepted. decision and at the right moment

the reserve will turn on something, well, and some other forces that will be able to break their desire here to storm in the direction of pokrovsk, well, for now , large reserves are diverted in another direction, but we hope that there are also spare reserves, mr. sergey, everyone who is watching our conversation now, they can help right now 59. they want to collect 10 million hryvnias, this we are collecting 3.5 million hryvnias here, and i am afraid, but 10 million is a crazy amount, mr. serhiy, what are you collecting for, and maybe, we really hope that our viewers will help a little, that your collection is also replenished, tell me now you see exactly the account number, while mr. serhiy will say, a also qr-codes, you can just now

send directly to the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade, which is holding back the advance to pokrovsk and mirnograd, from where the residents are now forced to leave their homes en masse, so it’s not the way they led, yes, it’s not that big the amount is 10 million, so we are asking you to join, well, first of all. our partners, i call partners, partners in the rear, who constantly help us, and thanks to this, today we can, say, destroy the enemy precisely with our drones, fpivishkas, there others unmanned systems, and i will also say that we have already reached the level around the clock that we deactivate, on average, with the means of rebs, which we also make up from our... others that we purchase, up to 100 enemy drones, for a whole

day, that is, in the past day it was 90, well , the plus-minus average here is somewhere around 100, this is every day, and you understand what a deactivated enemy drone is, which carries ammunition with it, and which can fall somewhere and cause damage to health and unfortunately for the lives of our servicemen. first of all, and not only military personnel, they today they are actively hunting for civilians who leave these same settlements, novohorodivka, silidova , and so on, that is, they control even this , they still see that a civilian car is driving there, they hunt for it, that is exactly what we and we collect, and when we have something to work on, you see, it is precisely in the area of ​​the front of the brigade that they do not have success and do not have promotion, why? because there is work to do, dear friends, the card number on the title you see, also

the qr code, scan his card number 5375, 41,12, 1684, 43,11, 59th, separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handziuk, collects uah 10 million, let's help them too, because it's all, everything for our defenders, it's all in... one family, so to speak, for one big goal, in order to save the lives of our soldiers, and destroy our enemy, expel him from our land. mr. serhiy, thank you for participating in our broadcast, thank you for what you are doing, send greetings to your brothers, serhii tsykhodskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov hondzyuk, who is currently at pokrovsky hot direction is in. dear friends, we are going to take a break, then we will come back and continue and we will. talk about what 's happening on the front right now, stay with us, there are

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of war. exclusively. on the air of the espresso tv channel. friends, we're coming back, and it's time to talk about what's happening at the front, look at that qr code, during that time you can donate, less than 600, and we will have uah 1,111,000 in our collection. meanwhile serhiy zgorets, i say to him, good morning, the director of the information and consular company defense-express is with us, mr. serhiy, we welcome you, good morning to you, good morning to our viewers, mr. serhiy. what is the situation at the front? well, if we are talking about the area on the territory of ukraine, then, of course, the pokrovsky direction is the most difficult right now, we see a significant number of combat clashes, it already exceeds 60 per day, this indicates that this direction remains a priority for the enemy. we see on separate maps that

the enemy is trying to advance in the direction of pokrovsk, but here... one of these, well, the expansion of this flank involvement in our defense, because the enemy already controls mykolaivka, this is precisely the settlement that is directed, relatively speaking, to the south of this of the russian wedge, and it just threatens the road that ensures the supply of our troops to karlivka, that is , in fact, we now see that the enemy is trying to... intensify actions in the pokrov direction, expands the zone of its wedge, does not spare its reserves, and this actually, what in... affects our line of defense in this area, we understand that here the enemy has an advantage in manpower and equipment, we understand all these challenges, and this

really creates certain risks for our defense, if we are talking directly about the pokrovsk line itself, then there is an advance along the railway and just the exit to this line of defense, grodivka-novogrodivka, is actually already... uh, buildings, and here it will actually be difficult for the enemy to advance, because before that, areas were open where the enemy tried to advance faster, if we are talking about other directions, it is just as difficult a situation around new york, where our armed forces control about 20% of the territory, here the enemy is also trying to advance, and when we talk about the kursk region, then the dynamics are in our favor. it is precisely this combination of these two theaters of military operations, where on our territory we maintain defense, and the enemy uses this linear tactic of

advancing with an advantage in manpower and equipment, and the situation in the kursk region, where we we carry out maneuver actions and such asymmetric approaches provide us with an advantage in those areas, so this combination now actually determines the perception... happening on the front line. if we talk about the kursk region, they say that after those three main bridges were blown up, a large group of russian troops was actually surrounded, and for sure they would desperately need some reserves from the pokrovsky direction, but on the other hand, we were just talking, 59 -the brigade also very much hopes that there will be some reserves after all will enter the battle, at a decisive moment, because the enemy is already very close to pokrovsk. and you know, one of the foreign experts wrote recently that both sides decided not to use the reserves in those critical

needs of theirs, and this means that someone is still wrong, either they, or we, or we, by taking their reserves in the kurdish direction , or the russians, hoping that they will still be able to hold the situation in kursk and push the defense in the direction of pokrovsk. here, when we talk about reserves, they are limited in both groups and ukrainian and russian. when we talk about our actions in the kurdish region, we use really combat-capable brigades there, which are capable of conducting maneuver operations, and let me remind you that our brigades, which are able to act so actively, in the conditions of a positional war, frankly , realize these advantages. .. they can’t, but when we take the direction of the same pokrovsk there, what does the defense look like, its fixed positions, where the enemy uses

aviation, artillery, we rotate on the lines of contact, and actually these components, which relate to the power of one or another brigade from the point of view of training, maneuverability, they do not make sense in such a positional war, and this is precisely what the enemy uses when he tries to turn the entire section of the front into just such. the format of hostilities, and when we use separate trained brigades in the kurdish direction, i think that this is exactly the right, asymmetrical answer, but it is a matter of finding the right balance and understanding the reserves that we have for use in different areas. the same similar situation at the enemy, when we talk about actions in the kurdish direction, now the enemy has pulled up and... reserves and even operational reserves, because when we talk about the western rather northern direction of the advance of our group to kursk to kursk, then

in fact there the enemy uses units of the 11th operational brigade of airborne assault troops, these black wolves, so-called, who used their forces, remember when there was an attack on ukraine, these airborne units. the russians were landing, they were units of this brigade, that's right the operational reserve of the general staff of the russian federation, now these units are thrown into the stream of our advance in the kurdish direction, and these are actually the most important reserves for the enemy, which are already used in hostilities in the kursk region, the same applies to other reserves of the russians, these are airborne units , which are primarily now scattered among the enemy both in the western direction and in the eastern direction. and in the north, where the enemy is trying to restrain the advance of our troops in the kurt region, which indicates that this operation, it already has an operational effect due to the distraction of important n.

reserves, but all the same, the enemy prioritizes advancing in the pokrovsky direction and diverting the reserves of the entire area does not happen, and here the question is that the effect of the kurt region will be, but it will be later, although it is repeated in an informational, tactical, partial operational sense , as well as in a strategic informational sense, this operation in the kursk region has already paid dividends, well, the stakes are high, and the russians, in the event of... their success, can go to pokrovsk and what does it give they have, i don't know, kramatorsk, slavyansk, not only will these cities become larger after this, they will become more vulnerable, which gives them, for example, the capture of pokrovsk on the one hand, and on the other hand, if the russians fail to restrain the further advancement of ukraine, the ukrainian military region, what trophies can be further, well, in fact, when we talk about the advancement of the enemy on

our land, then... the enemy is really pursuing the entire exits to the borders of the donetsk and luhansk regions, and here the dynamics were different , we also remember that we expected combat the actions of the enemy of active hostilities, as a priority for the coverage of the yaru, this did not happen due to the fact that the defense was sufficiently effective, and the enemy concentrated his actions in another area, where he saw more opportunities to advance precisely in the direction of pokrovsk, and this happened exactly... for how long after avdiyivka, 8 months of advancing about 30 km to cherypiny and then to the run of pokrovska, so the situation here was partly caused by the fact that we somehow strangely lost this section of the defense, which was actually supposed to hold long and stable. why did this happen? many factors can now be analyzed, but in any case the loss of reeds was caused.

the possibility of advancing towards the russians in the pokrov direction, and this situation actually suggests that the forecasting of any part of the front is quite uncertain, because we were convinced that cheretilino would hold, that did not happen, we also talked about new york , but the rotation of our brigades near new york, because that direction was calm, the 24th brigade was thrown over during, the rotation two months ago, and it is precisely the enemy who uses rotation to actively... advance in this area, and again the dynamics of the front in this component changes. now, when we talk about the kursk direction, the enemy did not expect offensive actions at all, but now we have control of 1,200 km plus maybe another 700 km in this area where the seim river flows and where we destroyed three three-eye bridges, where the enemy is now trying to choose its further strategy, so war is not

predictable, but it is precisely... taking into account these factors that allows each of the parties to use certain opportunities for promotion or formation of some offensive operations. i hope that our military leadership will take the situation into account better, will make fewer mistakes, and this will give results on the front line, although the enemy, i repeat, uses a constant strategy: the advantage in manpower of equipment and this is to slowly eat away at ours. of defense, ivan gavrylyuk, the deputy minister of defense of ukraine, said yesterday that at the beginning of the invasion this year , there were 400 thousand enemies on our territory, now there are 600 000 personnel, by the end of the year there may be 800,000 occupiers operating on the front line, this indicates that the dynamics of building up the enemy's manpower continues, and from our side we have, let's say, certain limitations, because mobilization

does not allow the result that we see... mr. serhiy, thank you, sergirets, the director of the information and consulting company defense express was with us, and now, dear friends, we are approaching 9 o'clock, when we will observe a moment of silence in honor of all those who died due to russian aggression. we will honor a minute of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was... unleashed by russia.