they all try to compensate for it with pontoon crossings, but pontoon crossings are absolutely not the same capacity, firstly, and secondly, they are spread much easier than the actual bridges, that's why it's there, let's say, i would say that it is only a matter of time there, how soon we will almost double the areas that we control there, because there are actually almost 1000 km beyond the cut bridges, i understand that they are conditionally already ours, but... we need to push it, the 30,000 that the russians have so far collected for the kurshchyna, but so far it is on a large scale the war does not decide much, but the word is still not accidental, but i am ready to vouch that our 30,000 will not be enough for them there, they will have to throw more and more, and at what moment they will have to throw there exactly the most combat-ready part of donbass, this is the question. time, the situation in donetsk

remains difficult, and the occupiers will advance as long as the russians believe they can expend that much manpower per meter. they have a clear intention: not to shoot a single fighter from the donetsk direction, but the pace at which they are advancing - says a military expert. from a military point of view, well, they will take the same poklovsky, and after a few weeks of heavy fighting, putting another n thousand personnel. ok, so what? well, then they will enter krapatorsk, then they will enter slavyansk, then they will enter kostanpinka, yes, they can all potentially be taken, but excuse me for many months, if not years of battles, well, they have already taken the donetsk region for two months, well, one more two years, excuse me , two years, they have been taking the donetsk region for two years, let's look at bahmud 10 months, let's remind you of the four-month campaign, the time of the yar in which they... the first one was five months

ago and they still haven't passed it, well, that's how they will take other cities of donetsk, yes, we don't have reinforcements for all areas of one time, well, the orcs don’t have any, and the two general staffs are forced to compete where to direct the limited forces that each side has, and the russians are currently betting on pokrovsk, but we are betting on the course and on mine personally, let’s say this , a stupid opinion, even though i don't have that information. eugene dykiy says that currently, in addition to the task of advancing in the donetsk direction, the russian federation also aims to mediate and distract from the successes of the armed forces of ukraine in the kurdish region and other areas of the front. they are now doing everything to, firstly, continue the offensive in donbas, secondly, to inflate us in the donbass as much as possible in the media, that is, simply to inflate this bubble, and thirdly, to distract as much as possible in the media. attention from

all other directions, primarily from the course. this, by the way, is a media war no less than an army war, and i am sorry that our mod warriors don't always understand what responsibility they really have and how much depends on them now. they are not withdrawing troops from donbas, but they are already withdrawing troops from zaporizhzhia, we will see how soon we can take advantage of this. they are already taking troops from kharkiv oblast, and we are already there. somehow , for some reason, few people passed through our furniture field without being noticed, the fact that in general... in the offensive on kupensk, we are already advancing from under the estuary, there the third assault division, yes, the third assault division does not cover such huge distances as on the cursor, well, because there, excuse me, a solid front, yes, but this front has already been breached in several places, there they advanced by a kilometer, there by 2 km, i remind you that there was no such thing in the last year, such, moreover, neat, precisely thought-out separate strikers, but simply already takes and eliminates that front line, and this is precisely because the reserves from where they went on the course

became possible precisely because of this. the central intelligence agency of the united states believes that the ukrainian armed forces have no intention of leaving the territory of the kursk region. about this during the summit with security issues, said cia deputy director david cohen. he also noted: the first assessment of the intentions of the ukrainian operation in kursk region. obviously changed. moreover, the american special service recorded the construction of new engineering facilities on the territory of the kursk region. david cohen says: ukrainian armed forces know what they are doing in kurshchyna. therefore , there is no reason to believe that in the near future the armed forces will withdraw from the territory of the districts in kursk oblast, which they currently control. western military analysts believe that

at least 50,000 military personnel will be needed to dislodge the ukrainian defense forces from the areas controlled by them in the kurt region. now. sources say that russia was able to transfer about 30,000 of its military personnel to the territory of kurshchyna, and even most of them are not ready for such an operation. it is also noteworthy that this week russia announced the closure of the city of kurchatov, the very city where the kurdish as is located. putin's spokesman dmitry piskov said this week: "ukraine is doing everything for increase." of nuclear escalation, and even more so, donald trump, the candidate for the presidency of the united states from the republican party, while commenting on the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine in the kursk region, said: "we are getting closer to the third world war." in response to trump's remark, the kremlin said: "these words have

a reason behind them." the kremlin is also very dissatisfied with the comments of the general director of magate, raphael grosi, who... saw with his own eyes the safety of the situation at the kursk as. however, the kremlin very much wanted grosi to blame the ukrainian side in the escalation of the situation. the official spokeswoman of the russian foreign ministry, maria zakharova, said the same. however, grossiy himself says: he was shown the consequences of the arrival of drones over the kursk as, but whose drones they were and whether they caused any damage, he did not explain. grossi also met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky this week. but despite all this, i would like a clearer argumentation from magate regarding the situation at the zaporizhzhia as captured by the russians. as we know,

nuclear danger always appears only where the occupying russian troops appear. and no other way. on monday, august 26 , russia attacked ukraine with an unprecedented number of missiles and drones. only according to official data, during the shelling, the enemy used 127 missiles of various types and 19 attack drones. according to the state service for emergency situations, as a result of this rocket attack, seven ukrainians were killed, and another 47 were injured of varying degrees of severity. among them are four children. in addition to the obvious terrorist goals of intimidating the civilian population, the russian invaders aimed at the ukrainian energy infrastructure. among others, the kyiv hpp was hit by russian missiles.

fortunately, neither the dam nor hess itself suffered critical damage. read more about this situation in our story. on august 26, the russian army carried out the most massive combined attack on ukraine of the first full-scale invasion. according to the air force of ukraine, russia launched 109 attack uavs, 127 cruise missiles of various types and launched 11 strategic bombers into the sky. 201 air targets were shot down, but 15 regions were affected. civil infrastructure, in particular energy, was damaged, the premier said that day. denis shmyhal of ukraine. the energy infrastructure has once again become the target of russian terrorists. unfortunately, there is damage in a number of regions. ukrenergo is forced to use emergency power cuts to stabilize the system. the heads of the ova were tasked with deploying

points of invincibility as needed. around 1:00 p.m., president zelenskyi commented on the attack. he said that the consequences of russian terror are being eliminated. and victims are provided with the necessary assistance. and now the liquidation of the consequences of the russian strike is ongoing throughout the country, it was one of the biggest strikes, combined, more than a hundred missiles of various types and about a hundred shaheds. like most previous russian strikes, this one is just as nefarious, targeting critical civilian infrastructure. in most of our regions, from kharkiv oblast and kyiv to odesa. and our western regions, unfortunately, there are dead, my condolences to all relatives and friends, there are dozens of wounded, everyone is provided with the necessary help, there is a lot of damage in the energy sector, but wherever there is a power outage

, restoration work is already underway, our repair crews will work around the clock, we will restore the electricity. on august 26, at 9:90 p.m., de... of ukraine reported the number of victims and reported that they had completed work at all locations affected by the morning's mass attack by the russian federation. in total, as a result of the attack across the country, seven people died, two of whom died in hospital and 47 were injured, including four children 2014, 2017 and 2024 year of birth rescuers extinguished 22 fires, two people were rescued. in total , about 740 rescuers and 176 pieces of equipment were involved in eliminating the consequences of shelling. against the backdrop of the attack, nek ukrenergo issued an order on the morning of august 26. conduct emergency power outages throughout ukraine. after the massive attack by the occupiers on august 26, minister

of foreign affairs dmytro kulebo of the x social network appealed to the allies for help. there are two specific decisions that our partners can make to help us get off the ground faster an end to russian terror. first, confirm ukraine's right to long-range strikes on all legitimate military targets on the territory of russia. second, agreement on... the air defense capabilities of partners to shoot down missiles and drones approaching their airspace. koleba also noted that none of these decisions is an escalation. on the contrary, they will deter russia, help reduce terror and the number of russian attacks, as well as the casualties associated with them. act now, not later. help us save lives. self-proclaimed president of belarus oleksandr lukashenko said that someone is allegedly advising him

to turn his back on russia and fight alongside ukraine. traditionally, lukashenko did not specify who exactly proposed this to him and did not provide any other details of all his dialogues with unknown advisers. one of the reasons for such stunning revelations of the belarusian dictator may be popera. which ukraine made to belarus in connection with the recent build-up of belarusian forces on the ukrainian border in the gomel region. we will remind that on the evening of august 25, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine called belarus should not make a tragic mistake due to pressure from moscow and withdraw its troops from the border with ukraine. in addition, ukraine officially warned the belarusian authorities that any violation of the ukrainian state... border will prompt our country to take the necessary measures, in accordance with

international law. what is behind the military and diplomatic activity of the belarusian leader, see further in our story. under the guise of exercises, belarus is concentrating its troops near the border of ukraine. this statement was published by the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine on august 25 and called on minsk to immediately stop unfriendly actions. according to the intelligence agencies of ukraine, the armed forces of the republic of belarus, under the guise of exercises, are concentrating a significant number of personnel, in particular special operations forces, weapons and military equipment, including tanks, artillery, anti-aircraft missiles, air defense equipment and engineering equipment in the homol region near the northern borders of ukraine. the presence of kolish mercenaries is also recorded. pvk wagner, conducting exercises in the border zone and close proximity to the nuclear

power facility of the chornobyl npp poses threats to the national security of ukraine and world security in general. belarus has already had time to react to the statement of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine. the spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs of belarus, anatoliy glas, said that they had not received official requests from kyiv to withdraw troops from the ukrainian-belarusian border, rfe/rl reports, referring to the belarusian state language. tion agency of belt. officially , we have not received any such appeals from the ukrainian side in any form. we only saw this message on the internet. you know, there is enough of everything. so we ourselves would be grateful if someone could explain to us the logic of such statements. in our opinion, very cunning and wise. the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine noted that in the event of a violation of the state border by belarus, ukraine will take all measures. all necessary measures in order to implement the right to self-defense guaranteed by the un charter, all troop concentrations, military

facilities and supply routes on the territory of belarus will be legitimate targets for the armed forces of ukraine. however, according to the military expert, former platoon commander of aidar battalion and ato veteran yevhen dykyi, the self-proclaimed president of belarus oleksandr lukashenko only creates the appearance of readiness to enter the territory of ukraine. they tried to pull lukashenko in. it is meant not as an ally, or rather, not as a northerner of russia that provides territory, resources, etc., but rather as a direct participant, they tried to drag him in, starting from... 22nd year, but he did not agree to it even then , when the whole world did not believe in us, but lukashenko allowed something, when everyone believed that kyiv will stay there for three days, three weeks, and for some reason lukashenko even then did not risk getting into it, and to think that now, when we are walking on the course, he will make such a fatal mistake for himself, is to completely underestimate

oleksandr hryhorovych lukashenko, charging as many as 3,000 soldiers to the ukrainian border, once again 3x. this, this is even, this is not even funny, you see, they got 30,000 here, and this is absolutely a figure that can stop us, here imagine that lukashenko with 3 thousand went on a campaign to us, well, custom, of course not, but this is a game for putin, he demonstrates that he is helping as much as he can, pulling away our reserves, all affairs, our foreign ministry very competently plays along with him in this with their statements, because we are interested in so that this game of his continued. we are absolutely satisfied with this, in fact both sides , ukraine and belarus, know very well that nothing will happen there, but lukashenka needs to demonstrate something for putin, and we are not interested in revealing this game of his, we are not interested in hindering him in this, so that's all there all ok, you can not worry there.

on august 29, the independent belarusian telegram channel belorussian guyun made a sensational announcement. news: at night , belarusian monitors recorded another flight of the russian shahed over the airspace of belarus. nothing new, if not for one very important detail. as reported by the sources of the belarusian grove. russian shahed was chased by a fighter of the belarusian air force, and most likely shot him down. if this information is true. this is the first recorded case when the aviation of belarus hunts and destroys russian shaheds. the motivation behind this act is extremely interesting. pavel durov, founder of the telegram messenger, was detained in paris on the evening of saturday, august 24.

the situation was not officially commented on for almost two days, after which french president emmanuel. macron said that the detention has no political motives. the french prosecutor's office also reported that durov, in particular , is suspected of complicity in the possession of child pornography and committing a total of 12 crimes. this is stated in the corresponding press release published on monday, august 26. earlier calls for regulation of the telegram network have been heard from other countries. eu members. thus, in december 2021, the minister of the interior of germany, nancy pfizer, called on the german government to strengthen the fight against illegal content spreading in telegram channels. she also noted that as early as spring 2021 , germany's federal office of justice opened

two proceedings against telegram for violating german network law. more about this situation. see in our story. telegram founder pavel dorov was arrested judicial supervision in france, he was charged, then released under judicial supervision, but forbidden to leave the territory of the country during the investigation period. this was reported by the paris prosecutor's office on august 28. all the details of the case are not disclosed, however, as reported by reuters, durov was released on bail on the condition that he report to... the police twice a week and pay 5 million euros. in the video published by the russian media rionovosti, pavlo durov can be seen getting into a car, the journalist is asking him a question, but he is still receiving comments. pavel dorov, a native of russia, was detained on the evening of august 24 at lebourg airport in the suburbs of paris. the law enforcement officers brought him

a number of charges, writes reuters. parish prosecutor lor becu said that... the judge found that there were grounds to formally investigate durov on all the charges he was originally arrested on four days ago. they include suspicion of complicity in running an online platform that allows illegal transactions, depictions of child sexual abuse, drug trafficking and fraud, and the refusal providing information to the authorities, money laundering and providing cryptographic services to criminals. the prosecutor also noted that telegram had been used in various criminal cases and that telegram's near-complete lack of response to judicial inquiries eventually drew the attention of the paris prosecutor's office's cybercrime unit. the investigation itself began in february. the day after durov's detention on august 25, the telegram company made an official comment. telegram emphasized

compliance with european union legislation, in particular, the law on digital services. telegram ceo pavel durov has nothing to hide, and he often travels around europe. it is absurd to claim that the platform or its owner is responsible for the abuse. this platform. almost a billion users around the world use telegram as a means of communication and as a source of vital information. we are waiting for this situation to be resolved as soon as possible. the arrest of durov, who has both french and russian citizenship, had a great diplomatic impact, establishing ties between paris and moscow. kremlin press secretary piskov told reporters that russia is ready to help durov, but his french citizenship is included. the situation, glavkom reports. we hope that mr. durov has all the necessary opportunities to organize his legal defense. naturally,

taking into account his russian citizenship, we are ready to provide all the necessary help and assistance. but here the situation is also complicated by the fact that he is also a french citizen. there were also earlier statements that durov could seek a meeting with the russian dictator volodymyr putin in baku a few days ago. instead , peskov immediately issued a statement that putin did not meet with durov in baku. french president emmanuel macron also reacted to dorov's arrest. he wrote on the x social network that this was in no way a political decision. above all, france is committed to freedom of speech and communication, innovation and entrepreneurship. the arrest of telegram's founder in france took place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. this is not flying in any way. the decision is up to the judges. arrest the founder of telegram, and before that vkontakte

multibillionaire pavel durov scared many people in russia, and not just people, but people of extremely influential representatives of the government. synchronicity and from which official representatives of the russian authorities rushed to defend pavel durov. leads to certain reflections. in addition, this week there was a sensational leak of information. a whole database about russians crossing their state border in a few years has escaped to the internet. among those russians whose travels were freely accessible, there was pavlo durov. it became a sensation that despite the officially bad relations between pavel durov and the kremlin, he managed to visit the territory of russia more than 50 times in recent years, and all these trips were never officially reported before. this

fueled even more rumors about extremely close relations between the multibillionaire and the kremlin, as well as the russian special services. all the more so, as russian soldiers, as well as individual speakers of the russian armed forces, have repeatedly emphasized. just created. durov telegram is the main source for coordination actions of the russian army in ukraine, in particular, rocket and bomb attacks, which the occupying forces carried out against ukrainian units, as well as civilian objects. another remarkable statement was made by the head of russia's foreign intelligence service, sergey naryshkin. he did not fall, he suddenly declared: he does not believe, they say, that durov will before... give telegram codes to western special services, what would he be so worried about, if it were not for fear, a whole mass of secret information

of both russian special services and the ministry of defense , and other punitive bodies of russia may to be at the disposal of western intelligence. on august 24, the ukrainian military struck russian military facilities for the first time with... using a polyanytsia drone missile, president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi announced. according to him, ukraine developed this newest weapon on its own. the main characteristics of the missile, such as range, warhead and the number of units produced, are not reported for security reasons. however, it is known that it can reach several dozen russian military airfields. read more about the latest ukrainian weapons in our story. ukraine has created

a new class of weapons. far away polyanytsia already used it on independence day, hitting the positions of the occupiers. this was announced by the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi on august 24 at the independence day celebrations. today was the first and successful combat use of our new weapon, a completely new class of weapon of the ukrainian polyanytsia drone missile. it. our new method of retaliation by the aggressor, the enemy was hit, i thank everyone who ensured this, to all developers, manufacturers and our soldiers, i am proud of you and we know that it will be very difficult for russia, it is difficult to even pronounce what exactly arrived. difficult to counteract, but still very

easy to understand why. ukrainian experts do not declassify the details of the production and all the characteristics of the rocket, but it is known that the missile was developed for a year and a half, which is considered very fast in the framework of the war. two dozen russian airfields are within its range. the gladiator is launched from a ground platform and has a turbojet engine that theoretically, it allows you to adjust the thrust to achieve a more economical flight speed, as volodymyr zelenskyy noted, among the advantages is the cost of the drone missile, which is much lower than its counterparts, and work on making it cheaper and increasing production continues. polyanytsia can cover a distance of 300-400 km and carry explosives. also, due to their shape, they are less visible to enemy air defense. the head of the military legal research center, military expert oleksandr musienko, told channel 24 about this.

the one that... could now be applied, about that the president of ukraine is talking about, it is a drone that can cover a distance of 300 to 400 km, carry 4 hot kilogram explosives, it is less noticeable due to its shape and speed. the rocket drone reaches the target faster than a regular drone, which can fly at a speed of 120, 130, 140 km. it is less vulnerable, not every anti-aircraft weapon can shoot it down, there are possibilities and variations in terms of changing various technical characteristics, enabling. make it longer range. at the same time, experts of the military-analytical portal defense express note that the wording rocket drone, which has already managed to take hold, is not very correct, because we are talking about a jet drone. it is equipped, as officially reported, with a turbojet engine. and in order to be a rocket drone, a drone must have a liquid- or solid-fuel rocket engine, such as a ballistic missile. the main

reason for installation. active engines in uavs, there is primarily a desire to get higher speed. if 100-200 km/h is a standard indicator for a propeller drone, then 400-500 km/h or even 800-900 km/h for jet is quite achievable, and higher speed, more effective passage through anti-aircraft fire from machine guns and anti-aircraft installations controlled by a person. at the same time, it will not help in any way from full-fledged air defense systems. you should also remember about aviation. brf used it. to counter drones, both fighters and helicopters, and if for the former there is almost no difference in the speed of the target, or on the contrary, a low-speed object is more difficult to hit, then it is no longer possible to hit a drone flying at a speed of 400 km/h from a helicopter perhaps. analysts also note that speed is not the main advantage of a jet engine, it is more powerful, takes up less space, it affects the payload, but jet engines have disadvantages. they are

more expensive than conventional internal combustion engines, and the higher speed means that the demands on the entire drone design increase in terms of reliability and strength of materials. roughly speaking, a drone with a propeller can be assembled from water pipes, a jet can not. greater cost requires greater reliability, which entails the use of more advanced systems, in particular navigational and all this together finally leads to the question of what is the difference between long-distance. active kamikaze drone and cruise missile. however, for ukraine, the question of classification of one or another weapon is hardly important at present, experts say. and the glade was primarily presented as a means of striking russian airfields. and this means that the issues of flight time and weight of the warhead can be key. i conducted this program for you.