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a more dangerous situation, the conflict intelligence team came to this conclusion. the researchers explain that they expected that the russian army would capture novogrodivka, a city in the pokrovsky district of donetsk region, in the coming days, but the pace of the russian forces' advance exceeded expectations, and on the approaches to the city, it not only did not slow down, but even accelerated. the situation is also difficult in other parts of the front. if the ukrainian command does not take measures to stabilize the situation, russian... forces may find themselves on the outskirts of pokrovsk already in a few weeks, the conflict intelligence team assumes, although earlier there were inclined to terms of several months. the aggravation in donbas is linked there with the events in kursk oblast. all this suggests that the offensive in the kursk region not only did not lead to the transfer of part of the russian forces from the donetsk region, but also increased the shortage of personnel in the armed forces. only this, in our opinion, could lead to such

a rapid retreat of the ukrainian military from prepared positions. by taking pokrovsk, russia can weaken ukrainian defenses along the eastern front line. this is an important prerequisite for a broader russian offensive, which could lead to the full occupation of donetsk region, forbes reports. pokrovsk - a city with a pre-war population of 60,000 people is located to the west of avdiivka, at an important intersection of several railway lines. the city is a key delivery and distribution hub for the railway. contributing to the supply of ukrainian forces through a wide front line from ugledar to the north of donetsk and beyond, summarizes the frontelligence project inside. in view of the difficult security situation , locals continue to evacuate from pokrovsk and nearby towns. in august, compared to the previous month , the rate of evacuation increased by 3.5 times. this was reached in the regional authorities, counting actually those who are being evacuated. next, we will show footage of people leaving pokrovsk and mirnograd. also the selidovga, which is nearby. bags,

carts - everything you can get your hands on, people run to the train that arrives at the platform. mirnograd herring pokrovsk. people were urged to evacuate while there was still time. after collecting things who could take what with them, people loaded onto trains and left for safer cities of ukraine. mykola and valentina, as well as their dog. they themselves are from mirnograd to the city of russian. the village came very close, the neighborhood was under fire, the family couple chose dnipro as the place of evacuation, how difficult was the decision to be made, and how can you say, to live in the city for 69 years? i was redoing, i was carrying things to the basement and redoing them, yesterday i was redoing all day long, or as much as i worked, i made money from my work, and now i have to drop everything and go. at this time in pokrovsk itself, which is an important transport hub and the last large city before the dnipropetrovsk region. it is also alarming, according to various data

the front has already approached by almost 10 km, local residents are also thinking about evacuation. 80% 80% will go, they don't want to, but they are going, we have already signed up for evacuation on sunday, we are going to kyiv, i don't know what will happen next, i hope we will return, of course, there is little hope, but we hope. in just a few hours , the evacuation train makes its first stop in dnipro, mykola and valentina step onto the platform with their dog, boots, jackets, we took autumn and winter clothes, we took a little bit of dishes, we are going like nowhere, what will happen next, it is not known, but it was not possible to stay. night falls, i slept in the hall on the floor, because i was afraid of this whistling, and i could not hear it at all, but when the cabs fall, there is such a tremor, my flower jumped and fell like that. the volunteer closes the door and takes mykola and valentina to where i don't care... forever will have to start from

scratch, like many other residents of the donetsk region who got into this evacuation the train andriy kuzakov, natalia maiska, vasyl martyshchen. radio svoboda. in such stories, rfe/rl correspondents constantly record when they work in those directions from where evacuation is ongoing, you can find them on our youtube channels, these are rfe/rl and rfe/rl ukraine. at this moment, we are joined by marina bezugla, a people's deputy of ukraine, who is not a member of any faction and is the deputy head of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence. mrs. mariano, i congratulate you. congratulations. let's start with more general question. the situation in donbas is really as complicated and threatening as the international press has described it so far. group, or do you still disagree with their assessments? unfortunately, i have to agree. i actually have to agree, you have posts every day where you describe the situation in donetsk region carefully, you were there, you saw what was happening, i want

to quote one of your posts: the trenches in front of novgorodivka were empty, once 200 there was practically no ukrainian army, the 31st brigade in front of the cities were taken away, instead they were sent here. an unknown unit, this is not the only recent rotation, turetsk, pokrovsk are planned, there will be more, if they now conduct a rotation in gledar, we will lose it, all such rotations lead to breakthroughs and deaths, this is a direct quote from your publication, from the last one from your last posts, it turns out that big cities are lost due to military rotations, because experienced brigades are replaced by inexperienced ones, or what you wanted to say with your post, incompetent management, that is... in addition to the fact that we are attacking the russians, who have an advantage in the number of people, equipment, ammunition, etc. and tp, we already have a crisis of management, military management, which has simply grown, in fact close to collapse, since, starting from

the operational level, the staffs are not able to adapt to the realities of modern war, in i have written more than once about the fact that i was corned. the gap is growing between combat units, that is , brigades where people fight and headquarters from troop groups to the general staff and the headquarters and the apparatus of the glavkom, which are not set up for rotation, these are all scientific and research institutes that develop, which should be fortifications based on soviet standards, etc., etc. that is, the detachment from reality is colossal, and this collapse was bound to happen eventually, and this actually leads to the distortion of information about what and how it is happening, it reaches certain absurd values, you must have heard about such,

so to speak, the art of reporting, when they belittle , change, etc., and information is lost at each stage. telephone reports etc. are still used there. as for my post, it's a personal observation, i.e., a week ago, i was, as i wrote, in polidovo, in particular, and accordingly i simply went to the edge of the city, there are buildings further on the edge of the city. fortifications, yes, there are problems with fortifications, we all remember the case when we left avdiivka, nothing was prepared behind avdiivka, and this will be confirmed by every combat unit that took part in the defense there, which, unfortunately, tried

to restrain the advance of the enemy very fast after the audio, but here i just go to the edge of the city, accordingly, i go to the field there and fortification fighting is going on behind the field, there are terekons, and accordingly there is already shelling, there are russians, and there is no one in this gap, it was a week ago, and how did it happen, mrs. mariana, that there is no one, and this is a typical picture, that is, some of our the gaps of the front in the pokrovsky direction are empty, because some of them will be taken from the pokrovsky direction from the donetsk region. sections and quite a lot to send them to the kursk region, you want to say that, yes, mrs. mariano, it is important, bye one thing, when we talk about pokrovsk, in your post, in fact in the next paragraph, you wrote about the fact that people are leaving through pokrovsk, there is an evacuation, and so on, and you write there such a

very vivid phrase about the fact that people are leaving , as well as the military, and the military is leaving through pokrovsk, the last few weeks the military has been continuously leaving through pokrovsk, this is again what do you mean by these words, someone gave this order to leave through pokrovsk, the military themselves are leaving, what is going on? er, of course it is order, because forces and means are being redeployed and the military is leaving. through pokrovsk, i wrote this observation, because this observation can testify to you a dear civilian military man who was in pokrovsk, or visited him there in the last two weeks, that is, there were continuous columns of soldiers who left it through this direction, since pokrovsk is, of course, a transport logistics hub, because the divisions are reorganized, this is such a decision, you know that i am not silent about these or other decisions, because i do not idealize... eh incredible military science, uh, because very, very much, unfortunately, i saw one or another

elementary consequences, there we also remember the southern counteroffensive, now, uh, or the turkish rotation, remember how the 24th brigade withdraws from the turkish new york , for which she was responsible, the turkish new york immediately collapses and then a bunch of units, a large number of losses, deaths, er, bedrooms. cities, now new york is already under the control of the enemy, turkey is partially under our control, and if they break through from turkey and to and from the time warp, then, accordingly, this is already the kramatorsk agglomeration, and this is a consequence, this is a consequence of such military decisions, it cannot be said that these are some big military technologies of the headquarters, when the leader of the front, as you remember, during the turkish rotation, was drinking in odessa, i i'm opening up everything and... here in the pokrovsky direction, a number of rotations were also carried out, while some of these rotations were connected with

the fact that the glavkom had a conflict with the brigades, i gave an example just in that post, this is the 31st brigade, brigade commander, this brigade, it is not one of our elite brigades, ground forces or cheap, but nevertheless, when the conflict arose, the kombrig was going to be removed, the team acted and they removed the whole brigade from the direction, redirected it to another, and it poured even more , and such rotations are not the only one, this is how the issue is resolved, and i am already shouting about the fact that the bugs of our military culture of decision-making lead to a disaster, i will say one thing, and the point is that you can ask, and what was not like this before there was, but there was just a scale... there were others, if we will to mention there, do you remember, the capture operation near

ilovatsk, where is babaltseve, i remember what my comrades from the 128th brigade told me when i was mobilized in the 15th year, they were already standing near luhansk, as they were given orders, we constantly do not have a lot of answers to the question of what happened to the generals during all these years and how the army was reformed, but now, now... what is happening in the pokrovsky direction is a direct consequence of the management crisis, in particular from our side . i have another short question about pokrovsky, if such rotations take place, do you criticize them, what can this lead to and does the ukrainian side now have the strength to hold pokrovsk, as one of the main cities of donbass? well, eh, i would tell you, but i don't want to say that in public, about what our chances are for pokrovsk, give your opinion, you probably have. if

the situation develops inertially like this, no way. and with regard to the generality, you constantly criticize the generality, you mention it there always and in the head, and diligently you criticized and often criticize the syrian his decision, but at his press conference, the great president zelenskyi, i will quote now, said that rotations have begun in the ukrainian army, and this is very important, and he did not actually criticize this process, what should be done then? if there the supreme commander supports what the head does, is it a joint decision of the state? well, look, there was already support for the southern counteroffensive, i published a post today, mentioning literally about 20 examples of how the generalship was given to the supreme to the commander-in-chief, there are some or other arguments that there is a bahamud fortress, to the south it is necessary to attract... they will attack the best, because untrained, or rather, people who have not known combat, will be

braver, in fact, they had such a serious argument, this led to deaths and to what happened in the robot, you know, and what happened with the attack on melitopol, takmak, so it is a pity here, but precisely the problem of this entire general subculture, such of our elite, which in many ways... carried out anti-selection for these 30 years, well, it's not, it's not only them who have such a problem, we know that in our country and in the state administration , the entire culture of officials, there are corruption risks, it's just a mirror, there's more. this is a question of circular suretyship, that is, when i observed more than once, when there is preparation and materials there and deliveries there within the framework of the nsdc there committee, it is all very well put together, all this information together, it is meant that there is nothing that is knocked out of the general protection of the art of speaking, and unfortunately, not only on not only this

president, but all presidents, well, that is, this it is a subculture, the presidents change and... the circular guarantee of this subculture, it remains, and we can now see, in particular , the consequences, we should not forget that the mad offensive of the russians, we should not forget that huge forces are really thrown at pokrovsk , but the question is that in the pokrovsky direction, in particular, there is a colossal management crisis. mrs. mariana, two more short questions, if the elite ukrainian brigades had not been thrown into the kurdish region, specifically for the kurdish offensive, would the situation... in the donbass have been calmer? i don't think she would calmer, but obviously, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces admitted that they hoped that the russians would reduce the pressure on the pokrovsk region. that is, zadon did not justify himself. yes. and i have a final question, you wrote another post today, because today the deputies are celebrating the five-year anniversary

since they took the oath of the people's deputy of ukraine, and you said there that you have been working in a team for 5 years. please tell me whether you have addressed zelenskyi personally, whether you had a conversation, a meeting, or maybe you are planning a meeting as a representative of the profile committee of the verkhovna rada regarding what is happening in the ukrainian generalship, about the fact that wrong decisions are being made, as you claim, about these rotations and so on, do you have some connection with the president's office directly, not through the general staff there. look, i've been working with the president's office for five years, with varying degrees of success, and , of course, i heard some things, and some things i didn't hear, but... the reason i'm stressing is that this problem is so deep that we it is even difficult to single out individual leaders who, who have not undergone this anti-selection and do not, appear let's say this, with the coordinated elements of the circular guarantee of the art of the report, well , you talked about this with zelensky, about what

is happening in donbas today? well, look, you're asking me something that i can't answer you in public. thank you, mrs. marijana, maryana bezugla, people's deputy of ukraine, who is not a member of any faction, deputy head of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence on the situation in donbas, guest of svoboda live, well , we are going further, actually to that , which is russian the army is starting to counterattack in the kursk region as well, we will discuss this later, and now the next guest is actually joining our broadcast about the situation also in the direction of pokrovsky, this is serhiy tsyhotsky, officer 50. i congratulate you, mr. serhiy. congratulations. thank you for joining. i understand that you heard part of our conversation, before that, with the representative of the committee on defense security and intelligence. we talked about the situation in donbas. what is she like now? tell me, you actually have your military working in this direction. what now is happening and is it possible to stop the advance of russian forces? so, i would say

that, in general, we slowed down their offensive. now it is blocked, there is no such further advancement as it was a few days ago, but at the cost of incredible efforts, at the cost of, let’s say, the skill, yes, the courage of everyone, everyone and everyone who stands on this site, the enemy is still , let's say slowed down, we can say that, in comparison, i will say that... only in our direction for the past day , 20 assault actions were carried out on our position, today there are 15 of them, that’s for today, well, the day is not over yet, that’s why the occupiers were eliminated , respectively, yesterday, for yesterday’s day 67 and the current day already 82, can you tell me which section,

well, just to understand, the pokrovsky front is obviously big, it’s not one settlement . kurakhivskyi direction, pokrovskyi, kurakhivskyi direction, here, count like this, pokrovskyi, kurakhivskyi, exactly, exactly where, hot, here, well, south of novogrodovka, let’s say so, and here and there further, the situation in this settlement is close to that also complicated, both the international press and analytical centers write that the russian forces have actually accelerated their advance in the direction of this city, although something else was expected after the armed forces of ukraine demonstrated a very... hasty operation in the kursk region, and what about you do you evaluate the words that the deputies say about the situation in the donbass, they say that unknown units are being thrown there, what can you say, how knowledgeable, prepared for... the certified ukrainian military are currently protecting the defense of the donbass? well, you see, we well, i will say from myself, from my

brothers, we don’t really have to choose, we, the personnel, who come from completely different places, the participants of the ato, whether they served in the armed forces or not, we still accept them, we still we train them, and the training takes place practically... i won’t say frankly that we don’t have such a thing every day, well, maybe there are some exceptions, but as long as our instructors don’t chase this serviceman on the training ground, well, how they chase, i’m speaking figuratively, no teach, not they will show, they won't look at what he is capable of and so on, he doesn't go out for a combat encounter , he doesn't go out for the execution of combat tasks, this must be understood, that's why... it's better when he's a specialist who trains for a long time, let's say, that's it passed the appropriate training school and so on, yes, it is much better, but all

of us, these are all our citizens of ukraine, these are all, all, all relatives, so to speak, and it hurts for everyone, mr. serhiy, this is frontelligence inside, the group, which investigates what is happening at the front, they write that it is extreme it is important for the ukrainian forces to prevent a quick and ... capture of pokrovsk, as this can buy ukraine the time necessary to organize defense outside the pokrovsk district, the ukrainian leadership, in their opinion, has several options for stabilizing the situation on this part of the front, there they call the deployment of newly created brigades, the redeployment of forces in the skursky or kharkiv direction, or the withdrawal of battalions from more stable fronts. how do you estimate that in order to keep pokrovsk? the most in-demand state for the armed forces of ukraine at the moment, and which way would be the most logical. to leave, because the russian forces continue to advance in this direction, look, geography is also localities, logistical routes, everything else

is very, very familiar to us, because we have been here for more than a year, and this is all native, and when we look these photos, videos, where the enemy has already entered, well, it hurts to look at these destroyed buildings, where not long ago there was spare coffee, i must say. so that here it is necessary to approach absolutely comprehensively everything, starting from a larger number of shells, that is, a larger number, including the use of aviation assets, more actively than it is, to attracting more units, and fresh ones, and simply adding to reinforcing units that have long been they are standing here and they are a little tired, well , to put it mildly, they are tired, that's why... it is necessary to take a comprehensive approach, for this there is a very simple, simple formula, and all citizens of ukraine must join this war today, to

repeat, there is no left in the country one person is indifferent, we have enough others like you you see, enemies are found, these agents are caught, who adjust the lights there in kyiv, in other cities, you know, for those pennies, i don't know, for ideas, for what they do it, and they lead to... civilian buildings, therefore, i will say, in the complex it will all work, now, even with those forces, although the enemy outnumbers us, he, they practically do not use heavy armored vehicles in this area, you understand, and why they don’t use them, but because we immediately destroy them, here , although the commander-in-chief declared, yes, about a large number of tanks in russian-ukrainian precisely on our territory, on the territory of ukraine, but they are afraid of it. to use, they send whom they are not afraid to send to death, this is their infantry, they have enough of this good, and they are stingy, and i told you the numbers, how many

are destroyed every day only in the division of our brigade. tell me, please, if we are describing the situation in those settlements that are in your direction, where are the russian military already, maybe on the outskirts of cities or villages where they are not yet, where they are at what distance, well conditionally there novgorodivka. selidove, there is pokrovsk, just tell me about the location, how far the russian army is, where it is already, maybe others are coming, but what is happening now, they are already there in novorodivt, it’s not a secret, you can say that, everyone knows it, where the others are, i will say that where they may even have entered, this does not mean that it has already been captured somewhere, which i will not name, and immediately there is a reaction to this and the command takes all the means for to reduce them. squeeze out or just, well, even not to push back, but simply to destroy, that's what the question is, and that's why i will say at the very beginning of our conversation that it was the flurry of this offensive

that slowed down, but today it can already be said that it slowed down, yesterday was a very fierce day, that day and night, but today it was already programmed, but i will say more that we are the brigade there in the group of the krasnohoridka tactical group, these are attached units, and we are holding the front in our area, we are holding the front, all these days, months, we hold the front, well, where... some positions are withdrawn to new positions and so on, but in general the front is holding, somewhere the enemy has broken through a little, but it is preferable not to say anything on the air at all, because they learn the news and their communication is very weak, and this has already been proven not for the first time, they have very poor communication between their units, but besides that, mr. serhiu, you understand that there are a lot of questions in society, a lot of misinformation

appears. that's why i want the military, such as you, to clarify where and what is happening, who are directly involved they participate in this and see how the situation is at the fronts. i thank you for this conversation, thank you for joining, serhii tsehotskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handyuk, was a guest of svoboda life. and the already announced topic that the russian army is starting to counterattack also in the kursk region of russia, where ukraine, according to the latest data, controls 1,300 km of territory. in particular , the analyst of the publication bilt, yuriyan ryobke, writes: that the russian troops knocked out the armed forces of ukraine from the village of korenevo, from the so now the line of combat now passes approx. the eastern outskirts of this settlement. rebky emphasizes that, south of korenevoy, the armed forces of ukraine recently captured the village of krasnooctyabrske on the bank of the seim river and thereby completely closed the eastern border of the so- called cauldron, in which about 3,000 russian soldiers ended up. from the north and west in this area is the state border, and from the north

is the seim river. russia the radio liberty service published satellite images from august 26, which show that the russian military has built another pontoon crossing in the kursk region, the fifth, it is about the village called, it is 2 km down the river from the bridge that was previously damaged by the armed forces of ukraine. in its report, the institute for the study of war indicates that the advance of the armed forces of ukraine in kursk oblast has slowed down, the military is trying to gain a foothold and hold certain areas that they recently ... took under their control, and the ukrainian general staff, in its turn, reports only on the depletion of combat potential of the russian army in kurshchyna, and the russian ministry of defense says that it continues to repel an attempt by the armed forces of ukraine to invade the territory of the russian federation, which in itself it is strange, because the armed forces of ukraine are already on the territory of the russian federation, this was confirmed a long time ago. in the comments under the broadcast, write whether you follow the news, what is happening in kursk oblast, a lot of

journalists have been able to get to the territory of kursk oblast recently. they record podcasts there, and actually many people are interested in this topic, and we have made more than one broadcast on the youtube channel of radio liberty, you can watch them, so go there and share the videos, the ones you you see friends, this is important, we provide objective and important information, well, at the moment we have yehor loginov in touch with us, he is a correspondent of radio svoboda who visited the court, one of those journalists, in fact, who visited judge, what is kurshchan, as of now this populated... point is controlled by the armed forces of ukraine, and yehor has already returned from there, yehor, i congratulate you, good evening, thank you for joining me, i have a very specific question and it will concern precisely the security situation, how can you evaluate those particular messages which come from russian military sources, which generally come from the network, that the russian army is intensifying the shelling of kurshchyna, in particular, suji with an attempt to knock out the armed forces of ukraine, from there, are there really preparations for so-called counter-offensive

actions by the russian army and... in kursk region? yes, of course, i can clearly say that if you compare even with last week, the security situation in particular has worsened significantly, because the russian troops are already hitting the court with truncheons, this is two days in a row, they are trying to find places, places of conditional location of ukrainian troops, and russian fpv drones are already flying to suja, which are actively searching. not only equipment, but also cars, in which local residents can also leave, so of course, if a week ago i saw the reports of my colleagues, where were local residents, well, in principle, there were not so many, but they were on the streets, then this time i met in 20 minutes that we were there, literally...