for sabotage actions against ukraine, sabotage - this means some kind of full-scale offensive, such as a full-scale military formation, a large military formation that poses a threat, for example, to odesa region and odesa, but these possibilities are now in these in this unrecognized pmr there is no so-called there is none , even if we take into account the so-called a-a contingent of the russian federation that is there, which is called as peacekeepers, in fact, this contingent is not enough on the entire front, even in if we count them as battalion-tactical groups, it is no more, it is even less than 10 battalions of tactical groups, and which er should be er used on the front of the offensive and

more than 150 km this is the front directly and of the so -called pmr it is not the tactical and strategic case when it can be used effectively is suicide, because sabotage is a threat, but we see that they are not even using this sabotage threat and yet let me quote another statement of the american intelligence general scott beryar, who heads the intelligence department of the us ministry of defense, just yesterday at the hearings in the us senate said that so far none of the sides is winning the war, one of the senators asked him to describe the situation and he replied, i quote, the russians are not winning and the ukrainians are not winning won't win, it 's a kind of stalemate, do you agree with this

assessment? no, of course not. and i have examples. okay, the russians won't win. i agree, that's all good . and the armed forces of ukraine won't win. what happened in chernihiv oblast what happened in kyiv oblast what happened in sumy oblast what happened in poltava oblast what happened almost in mykolaiv oblast what is happening right now in kharkiv oblast north of kharkiv and directly northeast of kharkiv is that ukrainians the armed forces of ukraine will not win, they will not directly push back the russian occupiers from which territory they occupied and in february a-a this year i do not agree with this yes, thank you from the usa directly

for their support, but you need to understand what is meant by these a-a reports er-e they are now trying directly in the usa, here are these political battles in this field, let's say so, to somehow get some er-e preference directly for ukraine and more supply of weapons, more supply of ammunition, more direct financial aid, that is why they emphasize the fact that this war will be quite protracted, but there are no advantages now, why should you understand these er emphasis because er, unfortunately a lot of ukrainians, citizens of ukraine, they see exactly these a-a speeches, they see some kind of treason , this is not treason. we don't understand geopolitics, but

the overwhelming majority of ukrainians is mostly uh-uh, so they don't understand exactly the geopolitical ones, these uh-uh negotiations, here uh- e of this rhetoric. they somehow take it literally, it is not necessary to take it literally, it is local, it is local, they are talking in their own field, and you, this pool, should understand what our armed forces of ukraine are doing, they are doing a very big thing, they are defeating the so-called the second army in the world, what they say outside of ukraine, they say that, first of all, all this to help ukraine as more effective than mine , which was not 100% effective, but as they say in the russian federation, 146%. here such rhetoric for the domestic consumer is somehow understood correctly now. and one more question, the

investigative journalists who deal with issues of the russian special services - this is the well-known journalist andriy soldatov iryna burgan inform that the kremlin has put e-e at the head of intelligence operations in ukraine has a military intelligence game instead of the fifth directorate of the fsb. explain what this should tell us all about. well, first of all, it says that one of you is in the kremlin, namely the ministry of defense of the russian federation, whose branch is directly a branch of the armed forces of the russian federation, which is a game and it's a little bit now, let's say the fsb won, and they have had this competition for quite some time, and we've been watching it almost since 2014, when the game and the fsb were fighting each other directly on the occupied part of donbas. but these are the so-called lpr and

the dpr when the fsb was in charge of the lpr directly in charge of the game. she was in charge of the so-called dpr. maybe you even know that such a curator is vladislav surkov. he directly managed the pushylina. this is a very interesting story. she has it is very long, such a long period of its existence, but still what we see now is the operation, which is called a special operation, a so-called special operation in the russian federation, what they call it, and it is directly controlled by the russian federation, what took part in it and some elements from the fsb well, this is not correct at all, and what is happening now is primarily the victory of the russian federation over the fsb, but it should be noted that the russian federation is a structure that uses soviet methods, and

that is why all of their projects that they implement are foreseen in this first of all , they are quite primitive, if in the future the russian federation will completely manage the direction of hostilities in ukraine , well, this is very good, what does this mean that the armed forces of ukraine will soon achieve victory, that is, to the borders of 1991. and one more thing the last question, the belarusian military leadership reported the day before that the so-called special operations forces are being mobilized to the border with ukraine, they say in the general staff, they want to respond to the threat from ukraine, as these messages , messages and actions from belarus should be read in kyiv, do you see any threat in this? it is necessary to understand that in transnistria, for example, it

does not have any real combat experience today, if you compare, for example, with the armed forces of ukraine, it is firstly, secondly, and in the majority to you, the belarusian army is a paper army, it is an army on paper, its technical capabilities, and the capabilities of its personnel, etc. - this is just some fm-mayor's office, it is such a myth in the first place, and that is why it is a threat. what is the threat that it can distract attention of the armed forces of ukraine directly to those directions from which an attack by belarus is possible, but we now see that we have may 11, 2022, we see that the russian federation is losing this war, it is gradually retreating, so it has no prospects perspectives and not at all if in the matter of a

direct offensive and even some diplomatic negotiations, that is, only capitulation , nothing else, what can we say about belarus, which all these two and a half months, she resisted the russian federation in order not to use its army in this invasions on the territory of ukraine. yes, they gave their territory for this. okay, but not the army. and now that almost russia has already lost this war, this is already a question, and in the coming months, they will provide their army. yes no, i don't believe it, it's a game, first of all, it's a local game to pretend like this is an imitation of some kind of activity, but the belarusian army, er, the belarusian generals, they understand very well that against the armed forces of ukraine, just like the

transnistrian so-called generals, they are very they understand well, they will not be able to do anything, and if they say something, it will be very bad for them. thank you for your comment oleksandr kovalenko, military-political columnist of the information resistance group, opera singer from poltava, serhii ivanchuk, since the beginning of the full-scale war in in his own car, he evacuated more than 100 residents of kharkiv, okhtyrka, and other settlements in poltava, where shelling continued. on march 10, during another evacuation, his car was fired upon by the russian military. none of the passengers were injured, but serhii ivanchuk himself received five bullet wounds in the intensive care unit, he spent 16 days and days ago, doctors without borders brought him by special train to lviv, where he was met by the correspondents of radio svoboda .

drop of a drop he cut off the day of the war serhii changed his profession from an opera singer to a volunteer from poltava drove to kharkiv quickly delivered medicine food fuel picked up people and returned to poltava i don't know how to fight there shoot you my trick was that i went to such a hot area and every time i drove here further, further, further to the border, where russia had already captured our parts of ukraine, and there were moments when i took people out of okhtyrka, and the next day or a day later, rockets hit their house, you understand how much i risk how could he not do it. on march 10, he was evacuating people on duty. the russian subversive intelligence group began to chase and fire at the car. an automatic volley hit me. i felt everyone. oli felt two bullets in his legs . he hit his back. he hit a lung. he

pierced his liver. there are bullets here. and i saw the moment when my fingers were shot off, that is, i was right, by the way, it’s very scary when you see something coming off you , it’s time for you, but i had one thing in my head to get people to go to the checkpoint to rescue me and i managed to say that i was hit in the back by the people who were sitting in the back, and what saved me was that one of the people i evacuated was a medic named victoria. and she managed to close the hole in my back with her hand. for 16 days , he was in intensive care critical, no one in the car was hurt at all, niki, we were saved by the boxes that were in the cars, they extinguished a lot of cubes, we were saved by the fact that at some point, well, for some reason, everyone ducked, the car was there for more than 30 hours, er, five in me. well, maybe more because of the college everything is fine with people, it’s real, it’s a miracle as a result of the

injury, serhii lost half of the little finger on his left hand, two fingers were broken, the bullet damaged the liver and lungs , and two were hit in the legs. wounds during the two weeks before the day of wounding serhii evacuated more than 100 people, it is not known whether he will play the piano again, but he will perform on opera stages after the full recovery of his body galina tereshchuk radio svoboda lviv appointed by russia, the so-called new government of the kherson military-civilian administration announced that it will ask the president of russia, vladimir putin, to include the kherson region in russia . the occupiers appointed him deputy head of the region

. on the basis of the appeal of the regional leadership to the president of the russian federation, where there will be a request to include the region in the composition of a full-fledged region of russia, according to aden of the kherson region, allegedly will be built by analogy with russian regions, in turn, putin's spokesman dmytro piskov said that the annexation of the occupied kherson region, i quote, should take place legitimately, as was the case with crimea. we are in touch with political scientist yevhen magda, i have a question for you. greetings. good day. greetings. good day. do you understand the plans in russia for kherson region? first of all, let me remind you that they wanted a so-called referendum to arrange now, local collaborators say that it will be limited to a decree in the kremlin, they say that it will be as it was in crimea, but they do not specify how exactly

what plans russia has for kherson oblast, the plans are simple to keep kherson oblast for themselves, to maintain control over the north crimean canal and, if possible, to seize it a piece of the zaporizhia region and there to ensure the movement of the dnieper water to the crimea. this is absolutely obvious. and that is exactly why at the moment we are observing the greatest activity there, and the way they want to formalize the occupation is actually, it doesn’t matter, by the way, i absolutely agree with president zelensky that if there is a referendum, it will definitely cross a red line and the negotiations will stop, but even if there is no referendum and only putin’s decree, it will be the same, that is, no continuation, although there are many in kherson oblast questions and for example, i was surprised that yesterday on ukrinform there was

an interview with the chairman of oda, mr. laguta, who, as they say , disappeared from kherson on february 24. and now it turns out that he is all that the chairman will give. well, i think that these questions we will put more actively after the war and now you have to understand that this is an occupied ukrainian territory and of course the world will not recognize it as russian, i think never and please tell me, do you allow the scenario that kherson region will become a subject of bargaining at the negotiations, it can happen of course well, you understand that negotiations usually do not take place at the same time. and this is certain. i would say that the game resembles chess, that is, everyone from his position will say something and state something. i think that now the russians will contribute to as much as possible

people left kherson for kherson oblast, and they are quite aware of this, i think, because they are interested in the fields. they are interested in kherson oblast as part of the ukrainian granary. and access to water, which i have already said is the most important of their priorities at the moment. do you accept that this occupation will not matter is there not going to be some kind of pseudo-referendum that the occupation will last for a long time? for example, crimea has been under occupation for 8 years, and if it drags on, then what kind of policy should ukraine pursue in relation to kherson oblast , in relation to the people who live there, will leave? and this is necessary should it be done now or should it be done after the war there during some kind of conditional armistice? we don’t know how it will turn out. you know, we have a strategy for the reintegration of crimea that appeared relatively recently , so in 2021, so we can expect that a strategy will appear now during the war . the reintegration of kherson oblast

, i still did not become the main area of ​​responsibility of our military, and it depends primarily on them, that is, as long as the hostilities continue, talk about any political or information-political steps. i think it is not worth it, we must rely primarily on our military who have proven that they can stop the russians and i think that they can also liberate different regions , that is, actually, the liberation of kyiv oblast, chernihiv oblast, sumy oblast took place, the liberation of kharkiv oblast is happening now, why should we assume that the liberation of kherson oblast will not take place eh yes yes minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba stated that now the criteria for victory is the liberation of all ukrainian territories. therefore, this means that the donetsk luhansk region is completely and occupied in the 14th year crimea, i don't think there are any alternatives here

it cannot be. let us go beyond the kherson oblast and ask you about other occupied territories that have been occupied since the 14th year. do you allow a military solution to this situation or a diplomatic one? the united states, great britain, germany , and poland, and then joseph biden separately. and olafsholz emphasized that they do not recognize the change of borders, well, in europe, this means the russian-ukrainian border as a result of the war , that is, if volodymyr zelensky says that it is necessary to return to the situation on february 24, i want to remind you that on february 21, russia recognized the so-called independence of the so-called dnr of the lpr and led troops into their territory, so i think that we should not just

be realistic and demand the impossible like the french students in 1968, but we should put to pursue such a goal and it should be a consolidating idea for all citizens of ukraine who do not care about russia from the ukrainian witch, thank you very much for your comment yevhen magda, political scientist, we talked about kherson region and crimea and radio svoboda continues to record the stories of mariupol residents who managed to get out of the city in uzhgorod. my colleagues met with the zhukov family after their house was hit by a rocket. the family left mariupol on

mined roads and under the sounds of shelling. the bathroom was completely bombed, and now we were in the kitchen and nastya was 2 m away with a shock wave. i wanted to go to the toilet. i wanted to go to the toilet. the wine room exploded. well, if they hadn’t thrown it away, i didn’t see anything and i didn’t hear anything, because it was very strong. yes that scared me because it couldn't get out of the basement after that, it sat there for a week, we couldn't get it out, i'm afraid it won't work, we had a flashlight powered by solar batteries, it had to be charged well, i went out into the yard and started putting ego on the roof of the shed, and then a rocket flew in literally ten meters from me, and just opposite the entrance to our basement. well, all of me was knocked to the ground by an explosive wave. on march 28, april 6, we ate a ration of a spoonful of jam and half a glass of water in the morning and

in the evening. there is something i don't know someone put a scraper in the chips, well, one chip at a time, that is. well, it was practically nothing, and i never found out that mariupol was in the ring. it somehow happened very quickly, but then i realized that this was the end and it would not be scary. when they left they looked at our garage from this entrance and crossed their fingers that the garage would be whole because the car was standing there . miraculously, the car survived. one of the inhabitants of the basement of our regime was taken out with corpses through such shutters. which we had never been to, he took us to the outskirts of the city

. he had never been. there is such a thing. they have some kind of filtering or verification procedure . it was somehow very scary in the pink storm. they made a very thorough search. my son-in-law west with a gun, an old gun. well, a hunter. what did it start? well, it started with what was checked. телефоны and he has a clip with the slogan glory to ukraine, this material can be viewed in its entirety on the radio freedom ukraine channel. hungary may receive compensation from the eu for supporting the sixth package of sanctions, which includes an oil embargo against russia, the american publication politiko writes about this, according

to the budapest publication can receive money within the framework of the new energy strategy of the european union, which must be presented next week, i will remind you, hungary blocks the introduction of new eu sanctions against russia and demands an exemption from the word not only hungary and slovakia, but also about european sanctions against russia, also about the european prospects of ukraine, let's talk further with us on the fifth route of ustravi or with a member of the european parliament five times hello good evening everyone, let's start with the latest news in the eu that's how i understand it. so far, there is no consensus on oil cargo. and journalists write that it is possible that countries that are not ready for these restrictions will receive compensation from the eu, in particular, hungary . how realistic is this scenario? to the sixth package of sanctions, they are continuing. i would say that they are proceeding as we hoped that there would be political political solidarity, and it will be

the main factor that i would say will decide everything. to determine the positions of all the countries of the european union, but it turned out that a few countries still remain on the side that say no to everything it is clear that some individual agreements with several countries, that is, with hungary, slovakia, and in particular probably with the czech republic, regarding what kind of additional assistance or, let's say, what kind of additional additional duration of the transitional period are necessary and necessary for these countries so that they agree to a complete cessation or, say, an embargo on russian

oil as soon as possible well, of course, the countries that will receive an additional transition period they will still have enough time to prepare and of course they will buy and continue to buy russian oil, which of course i do not like, but i would say that it is better to close the tap at 905% than to keep it open at 100. the resolution in which russia recognizes itself as a terrorist state and its actions in ukraine are genocide, please explain that all this means, this is just such a declaration, or does it imply some kind of restrictive actions, it is very clearly expressed and defined in my opinion here is the political position taken by lithuania and the population of lithuania and the lithuanians on er they we clearly understand what is happening in ukraine that er it is not

only military aggression but this aggression has a specific purpose er it is aimed against ukrainians as ukrainians how so uh how about the people and uh ukraine was signed as if uh sentence uh death sentence so what and if so yes it is of course it is no longer no i would say extraordinary war is genocide and the country that in the twentieth century, such political actions are undertaken military, but what is he talking about here, of course, we are already talking about state terrorism, that is, terrorism on the plains against civilians and so on , regardless of any methods. as a very strong partner of ukraine, you can rely on us for all issues, that lithuania will come up with initiatives. how can you better cover ukraine,

help ukraine, and i would say , create additional problems for russia uh, state. so, i think that er, i don’t see any other legal conclusions for today, but of course lithuania will be the initiator even in the prosecution er, that is, the legal prosecution of those who are involved in all these crimes of an invisible scale in the us senate, by the way, they also registered a resolution recognizing russia to the states of terrorism, there are only four countries, i would say that have such a status . certain additional actions on the part of nato especially e-e e-e cybernetic e-e

security, that is, by e-e propaganda disinformation that e-e countries western countries will undertake additional i would say measures how to restrain e-e russian russian actions later that terrorism in donetsk conditions can spread through many channels and in many countries. so this should be kept in mind and not forgotten, and this question should remain constantly on the agenda. this is very important. thank you. i would like to remind you that you can subscribe to radio svoboda on all social networks instagram telegram facebook twitter and also two channels on youtube radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine we are working for you and svoboda life will be back on the air tomorrow very important in this

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