publicity began to me, they began to contact our komerniti association of parents for clarifications for the interview. we spoke with independance with deutschly with a large number of ukrainian resources and er, more feedback . we began to feel from the authorities, that is, we had there a couple of days ago, there was even such a small meeting at a fairly high level with the participation of the honorable mrs. vice-prime minister miryaschuk and the heads of other departments were also there and you know well, they succeeded me to convince me, i saw that the government is doing really max, of course, taking into account that while we don't have the result is not still doing

but but trying and i saw their motivation uh also and uh what's going on i mean i don't know what 's going on at the factory in this hell i can look at what 's happening here and i see that there is really a lot of publicity, we made a petition for the parents to appeal to the whole world with a demand for this extraction and it has already received 1.5 million votes. i think that this is a pretty good number and we had exactly what is possible to do specifically last week there was a press conference at which we appealed to the honorable gentleman with a request to provide this abstraction because we understand that from a geographical, technical, and political point of view, turkey is the most likely candidate, and almost

immediately we received a signal from uh-uh turkey, well, it 's not. for me personally, the cardigan has already called a we see that the boat is already technically equipped with medical and all the necessary civilian things, i emphasize the boat that is already standing under steam, ready at any moment to go to the coast of ukraine in order to save our but there are not enough fighters. you know that kind of good will from our enemies to agree to this, and here there is still a great potential in diplomatic relations, and now our message is that we are turning to mr. sinzipin in order to well, as a representative of a powerful and at the moment

neutral state that has a certain e-e influence on the russian federation, we ask you to become a guarantor of such e-e humanitarian places to become a guarantor of the extraction of e-e well, technically, turkey is already here ready to help us. that is, well, we are pressing now is the moment please tell us about your son, how old he is, what is his name, how did he end up there, he is 24 years old, he has been serving in azov for 4 years, at the time when he was 18, he was already studying at the university and had a certain suspension, and then he went to serve at 21 well, it is customary to use callsigns for

security purposes, his callsign is reporter, and the irony is that he is your colleague. that is, this callsign appeared precisely because he managed to get a certain education at the university and even work a little there for professional reporter olena nu yesterday, the day before yesterday, this appeal to the president of turkey, erdoğan, was partially reacted to in russia, the head of chechnya, ramzan kadyrov, addressed erdoğan himself, urged him not to give him the opportunity to leave mariupol, he called them atheists, nazis , murderers, e.e., the azov regiment, referring to which shows that, after all, in russia, they take a similar development option seriously, when turkey can help the ukrainian military, i

understood correctly, that they have already connected heavy artillery to such a diplomatic dialogue in the form of ramzan kadylyuk is positioned as an infantryman, then you can say that the infantry has already been connected, so all bandit bandit folding infantry, this shows a lack of awareness. i think because it is obvious that azov is not in this state. my son's friend he is a muslim he serves he they serve next to uh shoulder i saw this appeal and there is an appeal just before that well, how is it, how is it that muslims can save the fascists, no, no, there are no fascists there there are muslims among them and when we are there. well, also regarding this fifth, february 24, my son and i talked there, and not just there at the level of some text message, but in full, i really, when he was there in the barracks and i heard that the guy next to him well, what is the sound

of this namaz, what is it there, what muslims have there several times a day, eh, yevhen does. well, what happened to the eurovision event on saturday late at night, where the ukrainian band called in english after their performance or before i don't remember the azovstal safe and after that azovstal became the leader of queries in the world search network google that is, if attention is attracted and it is possible to create some kind of international initiative to save azovstal, it is well, i think that it has become a trend now of global importance, after which, well, probably russia could no longer behave so contemptuously to the whole world to save i am asking these people, is this international publicity, this vase is steel, we have been talking about it for quite a long time, and

now i really hope that a large number of people in this world in europe have turned to us. attention and er will join us and i apologize , what am i leading to that if people here are the search statistics yes there is, that is, if people are so actively typing what is azovstal, then it means in google, then they simply did not even know about this problem before this eurovision and i didn't know what was happening there in the correct understanding, yes, yes, i understand and there is a schedule, i also saw it, and this is exactly what i'm talking about , that is, there is no meaning here, something so new, er, to create a new association, to form some kind because it already exists. and those good people who finally find out about found out about our tragedy after the last one they can connect to us that is, all these hashtags this mariupol this vasoztal they are already in the information space and really

thanks to the guys from kalush the orchestra well my my real heart as a father just me i understand that it helps - this little the phrase she will help save my son save well i'm really very grateful to these guys i understand what they risked when they announced the slogan from the eurovision stage because there are usually certain restrictions regarding topics on which you can express yourself, they risked , they risked everything, er, disqualification, but nevertheless they took a risk. thank you very much, you really helped us a lot, the greatest hope for er, china, turkey, mediation from this er. well, in this operation, and maybe more do you have any appeals or

appeals to someone and what can you use our air for? we don't want to disperse this focus right now, so let's focus on china for appeals to panaceas and er, well, this is what we consider the most promising now if er, i i will give you a dozen slogans right now, so this will lose focus on the main issue . and our main question is the main one. our hope now is that china is accepted. thank you , yevgeny. thank you to your reporter , young man, we are holding on and waiting for the results. our colleague mykhailo zhirakov is with us, a military expert, mykhaili good day, good morning, the us minister of defense, luvyt austin

, held another telephone conversation with his ukrainian colleague, oleksiy reznikov , the day before yesterday they discussed the situation on the battlefield and the current needs of ukraine, austin himself informed me on twitter, i informed my colleague about the telephone conversation on may 14 with the minister of defense of russia, his sheikh, and confirmed our unwavering support for the sovereignty and security of ukraine, austin noted. last week, the head of the pentagon held the first telephone conversation with the minister of defense of the aggressor country during the full-scale invasion of ukraine during the conversation, austin called on him to immediately cease fire in ukraine and emphasized of the cost of maintaining the communication line in the russian ministry of defense, in turn, said that they discussed current issues of international security, including the situation in ukraine, mr. mykhailo, which is usually discussed during such conversations by the us defense minister and the russian defense minister during the hot phase of the war in ukraine, well, first of all

, it can be and most likely it was not. the main question is now, uh, more interesting for the russians is the question, for example, of finland and sweden joining nato, and uh, where does the understanding come from, uh, why do they need the baltic fleet and how to react further, secondly, such a hotline is, first of all, to avoid confrontation during flights of planes in the international e-e zone and their interception by both russian and nato planes, well, besides, ukraine too, i think was e- it was the turn or the country was discussed about it, but what was the main thing? well, you know, by the way, i am a small connoisseur of nato history. it was a discovery for me that the soviet union also applied to

nato in 1954. when stalin died and the khrushchev thaw came, but this application was rejected well on unfortunately or fortunately, i don't know, but now you mentioned sweden, finland, there, so far, the main opponent of this entry is turkey, although in turkey they explained that they are not against it, but let's negotiate . in 1974, what did tamerlane say that we had already done? well, he said, first of all, that according to his version, the leaders of the kursk workers' party are hiding there, on the territory of these scandinavian countries, they must have received political asylum, and secondly, he said that we will not make such a mistake that we once made when we agreed to the inclusion of greece in nato there are special relations between

greece and turkey. in 1952, it seems that both entered, but in 1974, when turkey attacked northern cyprus, greece left nato and returned, it seems, in 6 years, and that's when turkey gave this formal consent when it returned, being already a country full-fledged nato. what do you think about this trade, what will the turks bargain for when they agree to the accession of finland and sweden, and how steadfast will erdoğan's position be, at the same time, please o-o-o , there are only two things for men in the east - this is trade and war and erdogan he can do all these two things very well, and that's why i think that his trade will be, well, if not long, but quite powerful there, except for the kursk issue, and

turkey ties it to joining the eu and we we understand that nato and them are very related organizations and uh, that's why erdoğan is now talking about the eu and economic preferences, that's why turkey is now in turkey. it is in such a state that it can get uh, well, a lot of things from nato and the eu, military intelligence, and what is the name of this company who say that the russians will now obviously withdraw from the territory of the kharkiv region and focus on the occupation of the luhansk and donetsk regions, but in general they do not have the power to provide the equipment e in order to

carry out active offensive actions during in the next 30 days, are you all based on an analytical reference? how do you feel about it? of course, i am familiar with this reference, but there is also the idea of ​​the kharkiv region and nothing is said about the southern ones. i don't agree with the groups in donbas, because now additional military formations are being formed in the belgorod region every day, every day, volunteers go to the divisions, their quality is not very high, but they are forces and you have to reckon with them somewhere somewhere roughly so, the possibility of a ukrainian

counteroffensive in the area of ​​the raisin seems to be too. all the analytical references are about this. my sources in the military sphere say that today or the other day we will see some interesting things in this direction regarding the more substantive military situation regarding weapons these are the howitzers that we were waiting for, the american yes, yes, 777. we already understand that they are working on the front lines, how can we evaluate their effectiveness ? well, without having any official information on hand, it is quite difficult to talk about it, but what is coming from places, this suggests that these howitzers are quite effective, but not all of them are still in battle, and the preparation of calculations is still ongoing, and these howitzers work

on batteries, and in several directions at once, when there will be a large counteroffensive, then all these howitzers will be brought into some e-e one e-e unit in one group and then we will see a lot of e interesting detachments with damage to the equipment of the occupiers from germany, a batch of weapons has been promised to us. so what should it be and how much will it help us? not enough in i am wary of the supply of german weapons, it is very slow and does not always correspond to what we currently need at the front, but of course there is information that german weapons will still reach ukraine, at least there, except for from the

artillery, there are a few more interesting positions, this is primarily about electronic warfare systems mykhailo, returning to the ukrainian luhansk region and to this report, the americans report that the russians will obviously focus on the battle for severodonetsk and lysychansk at least for the next from the south, perhaps focusing on cutting the last highway that connects the production of lysychansk with the rest of the territory of ukraine , unfortunately, i already quoted the head of the regional administration of luhansk, serhii gaidai. he said that only 10% of luhansk region is currently controlled by ukraine, is there a real threat to the encirclement of lysychansk, severodonetsk and there still seems to be a mountainous community, a representative of the lysychansk district administration told us that only three territorial communities remain under our control or encirclement is real, general threat

of encirclement, encirclement of this territory, unfortunately, there is a real possibility of encirclement, and the situation there is getting worse every day. yesterday, our military blew up an important railway bridge, and in that area, but the troops are holding on. professional comments mykhailo zhirokov, military expert and analyst of military affairs, andriy kovalev, historian, press officer of the 112th terrodefense brigade of the kyiv region, will be with us further. and yesterday there was

information that the new defense plan of the capital was approved and kyiv is preparing for a new offensive how did this preparation begin? it is possible that there is some information about new attempts to storm the capital. actually, this teroborona is related to this, can you tell us when it will be andriy kovalev andriy we welcome you to ukraine glory to the heroes well, let's start with the plan of the defense of the new connection, with what it was approved, why, well, are there any grounds for concern, uh, operationally, the capital is preparing for a new offensive, i talked about it in particular and on your broadcasts, a few days ago, we recorded activity on ukraine in the belarusian border, it is difficult to

call it belarusian, because there is no longer such a state, unfortunately, as we understand putin as at one time, hitler opened the gates of austria for you, as well as putin opened fire on belarus, there is no longer such a state, unfortunately, there is only a territory as a bridgehead with which the russian federation plans to conduct its aggression, that is why we really record activity on the belarusian border along the first belarusian and russian troops there conducted so-called exercises, again we know how these bloody exercises end, uh, we see the activity of their drones, uh, they recorded attempts to cross subversive intelligence groups from on the side of belarus, but i want to reassure you. well, first of all, i am an officer of the 12th territorial defense brigade . i want to assure you that the 112th brigade is a huge number of our servicemen and will continue to be on the defense lines of kyiv. our guys are on

duty 24/7 in the trenches that created er that in february er during the defense of kiev er preserved all fortifications all defense structures our guys are on duty 24 hours a day those who are involved in the duty are either resting or er there is constant training every day guys from fire training from combat tactics in the city er from tactical medicine, that is, the guys are constantly improving, they are preparing because i want to remind er practically none of them had military experience, all of them gained their military experience directly in battles for the defense of kyiv, some -e in the battles, for example, e-e, cleaning the gostomel airport, e, from the russian bio-light, someone wets buchi irpeni, e, these are all servicemen of our 112th territorial defense brigade, e-e, i also want to remind you that

our sappers, e, literally every day without a day off, yes they continue demining the suburbs of kyiv , there is still a lot of work, i said about it that one year of war always drags three years of demining, so the sappers continue to work . that those who live in belarus and those so-called oppositionists who left the territory of belarus are now in poland, they do not think so. what do you think of this statement by svitlana tikhanovska? well , the so-called belarusian opposition in the direction of itself she says that it was the belarusians who saved kyiv, she said that the belarusians once again demonstrated their courage, in particular, thanks to them, the attack on kyiv failed, the russian army did not feel comfortable on belarusian soil, that is, not those belarusians who are now fighting in volunteer units on the territory

of ukraine for the ukrainian state. and those belarusians who are but in the territory that you have already mentioned, belarus does not exist, they did not give life to the russian occupiers, and that is why the russian occupiers left the territory of kyiv region, you know yegor, i have such the hobby is called the history of the study of the history of the belarusian partisans of the second world war eh and let's say about the communist ones about moscow and eh let's say the patriotic nationalist resistance movement i heard about the belarusian partisans of the sample of february march april 2022 unfortunately i did not hear anything so really i heard that there were some incidents somewhere, somewhere there was a delay of trains, but i did not hear anything about the active resistance of the belarusians and the resistance to the russian occupation, there was simply a silent sluice, as it was during the times of the third reich, as well as during the times of the modern fourth russian reich, everything happened quietly and peacefully without any speeches, uh, really, in the ranks of the brave armed forces, in the ranks of the foreign

legion, many of the sons of belarus are fighting, we are sincerely grateful to these brothers of ours, to these guys of ours, who definitely fight for our and their freedom, because after that when we expel the russian occupiers from the territory of ukraine, it is clear that there is a lot of work, and on the territory of moldova, we remember that there is the so-called transnistrian republic. this is the same dpr, the same lpr, and we have a danger in the north it is clear that belarus will have to help our belarusian brothers in order to finally restore the belarusian statehood, that is why all the brave belarusians have long been in the armed forces, because in the ranks of the foreign legion in ukraine, tykhanovsky was remembered among other things and the fact that the belarusians, such belarusian partisans, also work at the belarusian post office, which in good faith sent

all this to looted and looted property from the kyiv region through the belarusian post office. went thank you that right here to this belarusian resistance those who but but tikhanovskaya later apologized, well, i should give credit, she said the following when the scandal arose, dear ukrainians, i completely agree that the feat of your people, the sacrifice of your people and the heroism of your people cannot be evaluated or doubted you all protect your country and your future together, this is an example, an example in this world 17 but the states, neither i nor any other person on the planet can deprive you of your merits . to fight for peace and against the aggressors, the belarusians understand this every day, they help you in whatever way they can, well , thank you for such support, ihor too, if you allow me, i really want to appeal to the ukrainians and say that the danger for kyiv remains, we need to be aware of this, i have talked about this more than once for e- of the russian fourth

reich, for the russian federation, for the putov empire, well, you know, kyiv is more than that, the capital of ukraine, the military political center of ukraine, they have a certain myth, a certain simulacrum, this is just a new russian imperialism, uh, about there of special significance of the mythical significance of kyiv kyiv - it is for them the mother of russian cities and the cradle of russian statehood there the baptismal font of the russians and they pump up their electorate and their people with these myths about there especially the importance of kyiv, therefore, for putin, it is also a certain symbol and it is clear that there is a threat to kyiv, but we took into account all the mistakes of february march 2022. believe me, a huge number of armed forces are concentrated in the direction of kyiv. people are ready to of any development of events, these brave

military men and women are ready for any turn of events to repel new attacks on kyiv, and it is clear that in the conditions of failure on the eastern front in the southern part, the russian federation can resort to a new attempts to march on kyiv, one should not underestimate the stubbornness and stupidity of the russian occupiers, despite everything, such a threat exists in general, for example , not long ago, anna asked you a question about the change of the commander of the defense forces or not this change is related to those minor misunderstandings, i would say, well, to put it mildly, which arose when the teroborons, who were transferred there to the front line to zero, declared that they did not have proper training, in particular, the lviv brigade you wrote about this rotation in a minute, please, you know your attitude to the change. well, as a serviceman of the territorial defense of the armed

forces of ukraine, it is obviously not up to me to comment on the orders of the command, i can say one thing that if the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine volodymyr zelensky made such a decision, it is clearly his decision and the servicemen welcome such decisions of the command, it is difficult to comment on it. and there were indeed some facts, people talked about the fact that they were not prepared, but people always have a choice, let's say, always they can. they came for some reason at the beginning of february. i also came to donate in february, and at the beginning of the russian aggression , i came and signed up for the territorial defense of the armed forces of ukraine, and therefore i am ready to carry out all the orders that will be given by the command to those people who are now beginning to doubt whether it is worth continuing the service, well, we should have thought about it earlier, obviously, write to the airports to resign if they are not ready to fulfill the tasks set before them, so now the opposition has

reasons why the commander believes that it is now the fight for ukraine made such a decision, the main team heard you. thank you andriy kovalev , historian, press officer of the 112th terrodefense brigade of the kyiv region and on duty for participating in our broadcast. thank you andriy kovalev, and then we go to a break then we have a moment of silence, news, we will be back, stay with the press, we will honor the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed by russia with a moment of silence