with all due respect to my son svoboda , good evening, congratulations - this is freedom, my name is my own azure , we talk on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and youtube, as well as on the air of the espresso tv channel in mariupol, the assault on azovstali continues, the spanish police arrested the pro-russian blogger anatoliy sharia or there will be an extradition to ukraine, we are talking about it during today's broadcast, but we are starting from avdiyivka, this is the donetsk region, there is an increase in the number of victims

due to russian shelling only after the impact of rocket artillery on the territory of avdiyivka of the coking plant on may 3, seven employees of the enterprise were killed and another 18 were injured , the correspondent of radio svoboda levkostek tells and shows how life is in a front-line city in the conditions of war. in recent days, the shelling of avdiyivka has noticeably increased. civilians are the first to suffer. employees of the avdiyiv coke-chemical plant on the third of may, after the work shift, people came here with them, a bus arrived at this very moment, a projectile from rocket artillery hit here after the last according to the data, seven people died and almost two dozen were injured, an

airstrike was carried out in the garden, and an aerial bomb fell on this place. well , there were two people, one at the same time , the second one, 15 minutes later, he died in the hospital, too, he died, probably 10 in a row, really, every morning there were two aircraft airplanes sometimes make two attempts, mostly uh, they are bombarded by aviation unguided rockets there s8 nurs - this is an old one well, soviet, let's say so, a rocket is dropped there six by five by eight, there are rockets like that objects, where are they aiming, yes, the hospital, utilities, shopping center, gas station , the market, well, that is, where the nine-story buildings are hit , the old part of the city, where the private sector is, they don't fly there, because i understand that they are not interested in it

they need the scale of the destruction, oh well, we are now transporting humanitarian aid to the disabled with limited mobility, those who cannot move freely, there are a lot of such bastards, the city is a lot to travel during the day, it seems to be more or less, but it can change, well, that is, mainly in the morning and also a restless time at night in the evening but it's all very loud and when there 's nothing to play, it's already

the third month. leave at night. today, the russian army launched a rocket attack on residential areas and the central part of the city of kramatorsk. this is donetsk region again. 25 civilians were injured. this was reported by the mayor of kramatorsk . according to oleksandr goncharenko , at least a three-story school and a kindergarten in kramatorsk were damaged today, radio liberty correspondent serhiy horbatenko was in touch with us, serhiy moye greetings, what is the situation in the city, and maybe you know something about the injured people, and congratulations, well, all the explosions in kramatorsk, the residents of the surrounding places of sloviansk heard the friends of kostiantynivka

early in the morning, i woke up in sloviansk to the fact that my house was actually shaking, then i began to monitor social on the internet, people wrote that something was on fire in kramatorsk and then wrote about a large number of wounded people, and it is known, first of all, that rockets hit an industrial enterprise, and secondly, i saw several objects in the central part there are no military personnel in the city. i saw a sinkhole with a depth of about 4 m. it hit one of the pumping stations of the kramatorsk city water supply and completely destroyed it, and between this sinkhole, there are residential buildings on both sides of buka, and they have completely destroyed windows, doors, and roofs. i visited the inside of the apartments and the apartments are also in complete disarray and people are desperate, people are starting to find where they can spend the night, and i suggest you listen to what the residents of kramatorsk told me today.

all the russians were knocked out in the apartment, all the appliances were damaged , all the partitions, balconies, what’s up, a draft, i thought that the roof must have collapsed into the corridor, we currently know about 20-5 victims, and six of them are currently being treated in a hospital, and the rest were sent home with minor injuries, such information from donetsk of the military administration well, when i was in kramatorsk, the air alarm sounded several times. but luckily, it is quiet so far, but everyone is waiting for the night, because at night, that is why people are waiting for the night, and some residents of kramatorsk will from now on

well, it is not known where people in despair spend the night, because they have nowhere to live. now, thank you very much. serhii horbatenko is following the events in donetsk and luhansk regions. thank you serhii. for the third day in a row , fighting continues at the azovsteel plant in mariupol. the russian army stormed and managed to break into the territory of the plant where ukrainian fighters as of yesterday evening, when the russian troops were already on the territory of the enterprise, the ukrainian authorities had contact with the defenders of mariupol, at least this was reported by the people's deputy of ukraine davita arkhamiya the commander of the azov regiment, denys prokopenko, in his video message late yesterday, reported that heavy and bloody battles are ongoing in azovstal, and today the deputy commander of the azov regiment, svyatoslav palamar, appealed to president volodymyr zelenskyi to take care of the wounded military community, evacuate civilians, and

i personally appeal to the supreme commander-in-chief to take care of wounded soldiers who are in terrible agony, dying from improper treatment, give the opportunity to take away the bodies of soldiers so that ukrainians can say goodbye to their heroes react properly to a critical situation, which enemy does not observe any ethical norms , conventions and laws, destroying people in front of the eyes of the whole world, they manage the administration of the azovstal plant, i wish you a good day. you are probably one of the few people who knows the building itself very well, the premises itself. the account of what azovstalyu mariupoli has become the most reliable shelter for military and civilians during

the war. built in 1933, the first cast iron was produced then, and the main modernization of this enterprise took place during the period of the soviet period when the active phase of the cold war was active and there - all structures of such a plan that are of strategic importance were equipped with protective structures and in 2014 , when there was a request to capture the city of mariupol for the first time, the metonvest company and the general director of the azovstal plant decided to restore the entire bomb shelter those on the territory, we updated the dry rations and stocks

so that they could be used at any time, and in the first days of the war, after february 24, a decision was made to open the passage so that all the residents of the city could come to the shelter and you have a name and it is located there and how we see er, in that period, bumblebee refuge was built azov indeed on the conscience and native wall withstands more than 60 days , the hotel treacherous blows of russian er cannons and artillery well, after the evacuation from azovstali, fighting has been going on there for the third day and it is reported that the russian army broke into the territory, tell me how long it is possible to hold the defense there and what it may depend

on . the entire territory of the combine is 12 11.5 km away, and it has been shelled literally since the first days , and the attacks are carried out by both ship artillery and hails with guns and tanks. дней выдживает practically direct hits every day and in and people who were able to evacuate 156 people, they tell that for 60 days they could not even leave bumblebee for 5 minutes because the shelling did not stop, not an insect, well, how do you watch the video, read the news you can probably read the news more. what is happening in azovstal, you can better

imagine what is actually happening there. do you have any predictions. how much longer will it be possible to hold the defense of azovstal. i believe that our war, they are real heroes and their heroism is imprinted in world history, because both of them that take place in mariupol are absolutely not smaller in scale than the battles that took place during the second world war . we all know the siege of stalingrad from the garden leningrad's brest fortress is actually passing through, it's horrible and even scary to imagine what's happening there, people who were evacuated, they just tell terrible things and it all depends on the situation that's developing there every second, it's changing you see, the people who were evacuated

once again confirmed that no agreements with the russian soldiers are absolutely not valid. what establishments cannot be visited because the soldiers just took the people to the bus in what we watched on the video here the russian snipers opened fire on them and the soldiers came under fire . well, this is not in accordance with international agreements and norms. let me clarify for you. i recently read the news. it was also reported that the construction the rest can even withstand, well, even a nuclear attack, the bumblebee shelter, as i said, was built according to soviet norms and standards, they are quite strong with reliable metal doors and ventilation systems, but we must understand with you the following that any bumblebee shelter is

intended for people to carry out they were able to work in a short period of time, they will leave their workplaces, descend into them and wait for the air raids or some kind of strike, and the territories of the plant were absolutely not intended for that to turn into a fortress that can withstand constant pressure for 60 days, this once again confirms that everything was built on conscience and that the heroism of our soldiers simply surpasses everything imaginable norms, thank you, thank you very much, ivan holpenko, director of personnel and administration of the azovstal medical complex well, the day before the humanitarian corridor from mariupol managed to evacuate 344 more people to zaporizhzhia, vice prime minister of ukraine iryna vereshchuk informed about this for assistance in the evacuation, she thanked the un and the international committee of the red cross civilians

i will remind you that they have been hiding for weeks from shelling in the basements of mariupol, among them until april 17 was iryna bilan, a woman was able to leave by russian evacuation bus that took civilians from mariupol to the village of nikolske in donetsk region. was able to bypass the procedure and left with private carriers to berdyansk, from there later and to zaporizhzhia, we had the opportunity to listen to the dnr radio in the basement, that is, from all fm stations they broadcast only this radio, in my opinion, it is called radio respublika, some of it was allowed by rossiyskie novosti, and partly after this, lavyev was broadcast, and this was the only source of information, but we listened to it, but how would it be perceived, for example, if they said yesterday that raisin was taken and

after 2 days they start talking about the battles under the raisin, we understand that the raisin was won, if solovyev says that in europe the horse races are for food, you understand that in russia the food is bad, there are rumors about the hospitals number two are leaving navylodarsk buses, they went to us, but since these were all trips organized by the russians, there was no trust in this. we left the basement on april 12, in order to get to the territory where they don't shoot, we had to go through the front line, that is we had to go through the block through which, that is, through which the battles are taking place. well, slowly we somehow passed. we came to the place where the bus left for volodarskoye at 11 o'clock and signed up for the next

day at 8 in the morning, that is, yes, i i explained to you where this bus was shining in your eyes that we would be going to volodarskoe, that there would be a free exit from there, at first they talked about going to rostov, then it turned out that this was the road to dotoka, they would take us out for free, what would be the options to leave for ukrainian territory, we arrived in volodarskoe, we unloaded, we again saw a crowd people again . it was a turn for filtering. further. we already found out from local residents because we approached the so-called officials and explained that we do not want to go to rostov, we want to go to berdyansk, we somehow they didn't draw just in case and then they sent it to russia and then they sent it to russia at that time they will send it to russia only after passing the filter what is it in general that's all i saw and i only saw queues like

they said that people were checked there phones checked tattoos on men. what else did they check? i don't know, we didn't pass. here we came , standing a little apart from this crowd. the carrier approached us very quietly. he said in berdyansk, it is necessary. you said, of course, it is necessary. and that's it. so we left for berdyansk. we arrived in berdyansk and thought that we would come right away. when we are lucky enough to jump on the next bus right away and go to zaporozhye. well, everything turned out to be not so simple and the carriers refused to take people out. you stayed in berdyansk. they left 10 days too . it's very interesting because it was obvious that the driver was very nervous at the checkpoint. it was unmeasured. i don't know how many russian checkpoints there were. at the checkpoints, he was very

friendly and very loyal. at each roadblock, he ordered a pack of cigarettes, and by the time we reached orekhov, his cigarette blog had already ended. that is, there were so many roadblocks . as for my feelings about mariupol , we have been here since february 24. i have never cried, despite everything . what happened and i probably still won't be able to do it, and probably until i pay off, i won't, well, i won't be able to do this, until i survive, i don't quite understand the day until the end, i don't understand everything that happened there, the future in

mariupol is only in ukraine no one будет отстраивать его будет отстравиать ukraine in the town of izyum, kharkiv region , ukrainian journalist oleksandr makhov died as a result of russian shelling. his death became known the day before. oleksandr was a military correspondent, worked on the ukraine and ukraine 24 channels, and covered events on the front lines for many years in a row. he himself is from of the luhansk region on february 24 this year, oleksandr announced that he was going to the front to defend ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine 24 journalists and media persons, both ukrainian and foreign, were killed, among them i would like to remind you of our colleague journalist and producer of radio svoboda vira hyrych , who died as a result of rocket fire in kyiv on april 28. oleksandr makhov, as i already said , died in kharkiv oblast as a result of shelling the day before. we express our condolences to his family and

friends volodymyr zelenskyi mentioned the death of a journalist and a soldier yesterday in his address to his colleagues. he was 36 years old. we offer our sincere condolences to close friends, may his son vladyslav knows that russia will answer for this death, we will definitely win a victory for ukraine, we are sure it was alexander's dream and we will make it come true eternal memory to him, our students, to the heroes who gave their lives for ukraine well, today the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhny, announced that the defense forces of ukraine moved to counteroffensive actions in the kharkiv and izyum areas. well, the general staff reported that russia had lost control over several settlements on the border of the mykolaiv and kherson regions, contact us mykhailo myself, as an expert of the center for the study of the army of

conversion and disarmament, my greetings to you. good day. today we have already touched on the topic of mariupol. please tell me what scenarios of the development of events you see there, the scenarios of the events in mariupol, of course, depend on the general development of the situation on the battlefield more on an operational scale rather than on a strategic scale, that is, if the ukrainian army is really starting countermeasures , so far in the kharkiv and izyum directions, this is already beginning to manifest itself aspects that we talked about a little earlier, that the ukrainian army is preparing for a counteroffensive offensive , where offensive actions are taken, and then counterattack operations in order to liberate mariupol or start wherever the location of mariupol is, it is necessary to shake up the general situation on the front , that is, counterattack actions just in the

direction of izyum and if they begin contrasting actions in the kherson direction, they will create the conditions when it will be possible to talk about the beginning of the operation to deblock mariupol not earlier. unfortunately, there is still time to wait, there is always time. well, i mean that he is probably not playing in anyone's favor right now , objectively, that is, time, time, such a concept is relative, it all depends on the fulfillment of certain conditions on the battlefield , including the possibilities for unlocking, we you are sure that if the ukrainian command had the opportunity to unblock mariupol earlier, they would have done it. in fact, the situation was such that putin ordered his generals to do anything but show at least some result by may 9. they suffered

catastrophic losses in the north of ukraine. fled from there kyiv chernihiv sumy region and they need to show at least something on may 9. unfortunately, mariupol is included in these tasks , that is, at least show that they took mariupol completely, they took azovstal, that's why there are such intense battles. the same applies to kherson. the same applies to raisin eh ukrainian troops are in principle preparing, they have been preparing for counter-attack actions for some time, the fact that they are receiving weapons at an intensive pace from our western partners is the same process when you when there will be concentration sufficient concentration of these weapons and our capabilities when the ukrainian command realizes that it is time to start active counter-attack actions in various directions, this will happen because for this several tactical conditions must be met, including the concentration of certain

weapons in certain directions, this edition with reference to anonymous sources in the us government reported that american intelligence provides ukraine with data on the movement of command posts of the russian army, and that this, they say, allows ukraine to carry out precise strikes and the same to destroy many russian generals and today the spokesman of the price of sands reacted to this information. he said that the transfer of data and other assistance, including weapons - this of course does not contribute to the quick completion of special operations, as he calls them, but it will not prevent russia from achieving its goal today 71 day of the war, what is the current goal in russia? of course, this goal has not changed at all over the past few years, it is the complete destruction of the ukrainian nation, ukrainian statehood, well, it was wanted, but it

it was definitely wanted, but from what they have on the battlefield, in particular, it is not what they wanted, and i am talking about the tasks they set before themselves, they set everything, they set everything. now, it is the very existence of russia, although of course they did not want it . planned to destroy ukraine in a few days, in fact, they planned to destroy the ukrainian leadership at the expense of landings and the actions of special operations forces, e. in 1968, to stand in the cities and receive greetings from ukrainian citizens, they so-so painted , that is, what they planned, and it is obvious that they have intelligence, they reported that the ukrainian people for some reason should support the occupiers, and this is absolutely not what they want, it is their specific the task of nazification, i.e. the destruction of ukrainians as a nation, is the

main task if we talk about the tactical plans they set before themselves. well, of course, until may 9, they set themselves the task of reaching the administrative borders of donetsk luhansk regions, as we can see, it did not succeed and it will never succeed again, because precisely in those areas where they wanted to do it, the ukrainian army today is already moving to active counter-attack actions, it is obvious that very soon we will see the same failures in russian actions as happened in the north they will now try as much as possible to hold their positions . perhaps they will start again to make proposals for negotiations in order to gain a foothold at least in those territories that they have now been able to in the first weeks of their large-scale but i am sure that the ukrainian army will not go to any consultations or negotiations with the ukrainian leadership, and the ukrainian army is ready to conduct counter-insurgency

operations. you mentioned may 9 several times here. i will remind you that the leaders of the so-called dpr of the lpr have already declared that ani is in donetsk there won't be a parade in luhansk either until may 9 because, well, they say it's not on time. that is, it also shows that there is not much success achieved until may 9. they absolutely tried, that is, the main idea was that on the 9 of may, putin should of course already have talked about the complete, complete, complete seizure of ukrainian territory after the beginning of february 24 and the councils. of the russian army and i am sure that well, our western media partners are publishing opinions that there will be a declaration of war, that there will be mobilization . i think on the contrary putin will try and his

propaganda will try to smear as much as possible reality, he will still emphasize what happened during the second world war, he will call on russians and all people who have russia in their hearts and so on to support the russian troops in the cause of the destruction of nazism, but all this will be said quite mythologically without any details, i.e. everyone understands that there is a complete failure and that is why the propaganda and putin will try to erase all this , blur the blurbs and so on. and i am sure that he will not announce any mobilization because the mobilization announcement vinnytsia strict legal norms, strict legal formats, and he absolutely does not want them to enter, because it will immediately raise the question: what happened there, that it is necessary to declare war, declare martial law, and declare mobilization. it

will be absolutely uncomfortable for putin, and what about me i have one question for you, the publication the moscow time writes that the ministry of defense of russia rehearsed a tactical strike on europe, so the publication refers to the report of the ministry of defense on training in the baltic fleet in the kaliningrad region, where they were allegedly involved iskander missile complexes, which have the ability to fire cruise ballistic missiles and that's in the report