for such a leadership, this means the lowest level of trust and a guaranteed, uh, guaranteed defeat, so i am actually happy with this message , because we are actually going back to what we have already seen in history, and we know very well how it ended. if we talk about uh, counterattack on the south to the region where the russian military was most powerfully crowned, i mean the kherson region of the zaporizhzhia region, what are the prospects from your side for the liberation of these territories , well, first of all, i want to note that they are not the level of defense structures in the donbass of russia, well, the level of the enemy’s occupiers is much higher than in the south, plus the specifics of the area do not allow to gain a foothold there, as it could be done in the donbas itself, and therefore, based on that , there is more optimism about the possibility of our troops to carry out e- e counteroffensive taking into account

the specifics of the terrain and the density of enemy troops located there and the possibilities for maneuver, that is , using the latest weapons that are available to us, the use of new methods of conducting tactics we have every reason to say that such a counteroffensive in his case and at a time when he will be fully and comprehensively provided and prepared. he has all the chances, not just the chances. and i am convinced that he will be successful. please tell me if you already see any effect from e weapons that the ukrainian army would have and have already received, as there were relevant messages from western countries, from germany, howitzers from the united states, you know, i see the effect of how our guys act, how they effectively use any weapon, let's let's understand. so even the 90 howitzers that were transferred to us by the united states, this is only 5

divisions, 5 divisions, well, on such an extensive front that we are currently holding. well, they are not very noticeable, instead, uh, some elements of tactics regarding the use of such types of weapons, they testify to the fact that we learned to use these weapons in a very short time and very effectively, and we already have results when, thanks to the combined actions of artillery, electronic intelligence systems, radar or counterbattery combat and with the involvement of drones, we are already achieving outstanding results and the enemy has nothing to oppose us in this case. well, unless putin is in the role of brigadier general, well, god forbid that this would be their most terrible weapon. the russian military

held five young men captive in the open air for about half a month. this happened in the village of termakhivka, kyiv region, which is located 60 km from the belarusian border in moroz. the men were lying on a sack with a small straw and covered themselves with several light blankets. all this time their hands were tied with ropes and caps were taped over their eyes. one of them was shot in the leg by the russian military. we tied our heads, eyes, hands behind our backs, we lay here for 15 days, then it was still cold at night until 10 , it was cool, it was raining, it was snowing , everything was basically the whole time, we were lying and we were not even allowed

to move, there was a plastic bag above us they said if you ask, all of you will run away at once without warning, we will shoot you home five russian soldiers found a military casket, it turns out my brother was serving his military service, he had his uniform left, they took me to the neighbors, put me on a bench nearby, presented a machine gun and shot him in the leg, shelter two i fired two shots at once. before they started shooting, they started saying that i was correcting the fire , as i said that it was not true. i told him even if i was a corrector, but i am on my i would have defended my land, it didn't matter to them, they shot me in the leg because of this, they drove here and there, they say dill, they say they won't become, someone

looked, they didn't even understand. why didn't you kill them? let's see, we'll bury them there. and that's what they told us, maybe the volume of you can be released every day. well, it's on the ninth day. i just came, processed the ointment and rewound it, nothing more, he said, and in nine days my leg hasn't rotted, yes, everything is fine, he says we're there another grandfather was killed and we tell him his fingers were broken. and he says he didn't even wince. he says he was under some kind of drugs. in fact, they believed that we were under some kind of drugs. they interviewed us. it's about your drugs. the americans are adding your dead body. that's how they killed him. they threw him there, and it's sunday. a russian soldier was lying there, he came up to us drunk and said

now i will bring him to you and put him between you so that you sleep well so that he stinks between your legs. who did this guy bury us or who are they digging a hole for? well , they say there is a man to bury , that's what he was lying here, it turns out a dead man is here like that, pretending to be wearing a jacket, that's how he was lying down . one for this one, and so it turns out, they put him here and buried him, he had a gunshot wound to the left leg

, they mocked the pope, the t-shirt was mocked, the trial over the expertise established three gunshot wounds on both ends of both lower legs, then there were some such attempts to provide the first help, but he has hematomas, hematomas, numerous

hematomas on his body, including on his face, that he was beaten, well, which were formed exclusively from the infliction of physical injuries, that is, either blows or pressure, most likely the person was shot from a position. because when this person is located and, most likely, i am in this lying position, then lying on my stomach , they even talked to each other, well, there was one who got drunk and sat above us, saying: you will be digging up those whom we dug there for a long time. well, i think there will be many more such graves

, this story from kyiv is not yet recorded in dmytro zhulai nu and then another story: a family left donbas because their child woke up at night from explosions. this is a family of immigrants from vysochansk. they moved to odesa at the beginning of april. the family now lives in artsyza in the south of odesa. however, russian rockets found them, and mykhailo shtekel will tell their story here. old men, grandmothers, and helpers didn't just fall on these railway tracks, we picked them up, dropped their bags, asked someone to help them, well, it was scary , nelylarionova tells about the situation at the station which she saw during the evacuation from lysychansk , her family left on april 1, we were at the rate of shooting, we were at home, and if it was already somewhere

in the center nearby, we went down to the basement, so we they stayed until march 31. the decision to leave the house was very scary. it was very loud. people were dying. nelly says that her family survived the shelling for more than two months , but then she decided to leave. only the most necessary documents and medicine were taken for the last two days weeks while we were there, it was especially at night already they started shooting more often. she woke up in my house. my little child, 5 years old , woke up at night with screams. mother ran to the basement and there was simply no strength left . the road from lysychansk to arciz took two days . now nelly's family lives in a local outpatient clinic. nelly's sister, 15-year-old daria, she is a candidate for master of sports in acrobatic rock and roll

, has been practicing for more than seven years and has several dozen medals before the double. ego was not here in the fall, in november, in my opinion , the championship of the world came and we became the winners of the fifth place. the medals hang above daria's bed and attract the attention of everyone who enters the room. there are awards for the regional and all-ukrainian shooting championships . daria remembers that she does not want to come. it was scary to the center, but we left now, it's scary , but also to vartsizi, where the larionov family fled from

shelling. already in odesa, a family from lysychansk survived rocket attacks, because of them, the city was left without electricity and water except the electric substation, blows were inflicted on the elevator and the bakery, the first leg, and a bang, the window opened, that is, the window was opened completely, and the window was opened completely from the explosive wave, and it took out two, one, that is, well, where to hide in our house, at least there was a basement the evacuation from luhansk region is currently continuing, at the same time the cities of severodonetsk and the mountains located near lysychansk are under heavy shelling in lysychansk, in particular , on may 16 due to russian shelling residential buildings were destroyed mykhailo shtekel radio svoboda in kyiv today they said goodbye to the first president of independent ukraine, leonid kravchuk. he died on may 10 after a long illness in munich - this is germany, where he was being treated. the farewell ceremony for the

first president came in the ukrainian house on the european square in the center of kyiv. the mayor of the capital, vitaliy klitschko, came to say goodbye to kravchuk - minister of culture oleksandr tkachenko, ex-speaker of the parliament oleksandr moroz, current people's deputies also arrived, president volodymyr zelenskyi with his wife olena zelenska, as well as three previous ukrainian presidents petro poroshenko, viktor yushchenko and leonid kuchma, this is not just a person who goes there, a person who created our independence with his own efforts, and our independence consists in the fact that the creation of the army and the creation of state institutions were also initiated. i think that everything that was there has some negatives. with the president, they

were in our lives, it can't be like that, he will be the same person as in history, he will remain one of the relevant figures of ukraine in 2019, radio svoboda recorded an interview with leonid kravchuk they talked mostly about crimea, but the full conversation was never published, then now we are publishing this interview in you can watch it in full on the radio freedom channel on youtube and no one wants to understand one thing that ukraine today is on the front line restraining aggression because putin frankly he says he wants to renew the borders of tsarist russia, and this is far beyond the borders of ukraine. well, what is not visible is visible , so there is no need to flirt with anyone. they already

flirted with hitler. it is necessary to objectively strictly violate international norms. you must be responsible for everything. needs to be reformed in accordance with the interests of the world community, we live in a global world, we have to set up hot spots, we have to control everything together and prevent the most terrible war of a large-scale world. countries to nato, the day before the swedish government officially decided that the country, after more than 200 years of neutrality, will apply for membership in the alliance earlier, a similar decision was made in finland, and

now the parliament of finland with an absolute majority of votes supported their country's application for membership in nato, and sweden and finland believe that the russian invasion of ukraine has radically changed the threats and risks to their national security and in the new conditions is the best way to stay safe it is to become part of the military-political bloc of nato, although turkey, which, i will remind you, is also a member of the alliance, expressed doubts about the admission of scandinavian countries to nato. well, russia is here, russia here, in fact, there is nothing new, she warned that she would consider the membership of sweden and finland in nato a threat to herself, more about all this zoryana stepanenko, correspondent of radio svoboda in brussels , zoryanno my congratulations to you, my word, my congratulations to the government. new allies and sweden, which has maintained neutrality for two centuries and, as western analysts write, it is peculiar even in the dna of the swedes that their

country is a non-aligned country, so it officially submitted the application to join nato is a big, serious event, a step that the swedish authorities consider to be the best in view of the current situation. this is how the head of the swedish foreign ministry commented on this decision, signing the document in the morning on his request to join the most powerful military alliance, which currently has 30 members. stockholm synchronizes with helsinki this was the plan from the beginning and to issue an application for official entry into russia's neighbor finland also today has a historic decision already approved by the finnish parliament 188 deputies were redundant only 8 against the formal decision for president and he can approve it remotely and symbolically from where he is now on a visit and is leaving, he emphasized that russia itself pushed non-aligned countries into the arms of nato, russia's demand to stop the expansion of nato was aimed at limiting our choice and sovereignty, but russia's large-scale offensive against

ukraine made it clear that russia is again is ready to use its armed forces in the neighboring areas to achieve its goals, the sum of these factors demonstrated that our traditional positioning was at odds with russia, which is so alarmed by nato's approach to its borders in the very the heads of space already threatened sweden and finland with a missile strike in the event of their joining the alliance, and let me remind you that russian planes with nuclear weapons on board demonstratively violated the scandinavian airspace, but in the end, it seems, they admitted that nothing could be done with the next wave of nato expansion . and the day before, vladimir putin also stated that russia is not threatened by the accession of sweden and finland to nato, because there are apparently no problems with them, unlike ukraine, later clarified putin's statement dmytro piskovsky added that with ukraine, moscow has the territorial dispute over the annexed crimea is how the spokesman

of the russian president explained the difference in this rhetoric, and i will also say that the chief diplomat of russia, following the kremlin, also changed her rather sharp statements about accepting reality. well , indeed, serhiy lavrova. i also hear completely different rhetoric about the possible replenishment of lav nato by two more countries. they have been participating in nato military exercises for many years, so in this sense, there is probably no big difference. to be used in the northern alliance будем делать выборы finland and sweden approved the decision to become part of nato when they really saw what russia was doing with ukraine, then in the face of

a threat to their own security. tomorrow and for our information at eight o'clock in the morning they will be on the table of the secretary general of the alliance jens stoltenberg and for the time being the procedures a i would like to remind you that all 30 allies must agree so that new allies can join them, and then the decision is already too complicated. it must also be ratified by the parliaments of all member countries, so as long as these procedures continue, the scandinavian countries are under the protection of their future allies, since they were given defense guarantees in particular, the nuclear country great britain. and although nato in nato promised sweden and finland a warm welcome and the fastest possible accession process, at the last moment an unexpected opponent of such an alliance appeared - this is turkey, officially rajab, and its leader explains his position by the fact that these countries once allegedly imposed sanctions against turkey, and they also

refused to extradite those whom ankara considers to be terrorists. well, at the same time as tough statements, there are also more peaceful ones that can be interpreted as turkey's willingness to talk and this readiness has also been confirmed in the united states. and i will note that the leaders of finland and sweden will also go to washington on thursday, where they will personally see joe. it seems that there will be great diplomacy behind closed doors before nato allies will become 32 if in the end they all come to an agreement well, western analysts believe that this may facilitate the reception of ukraine in the future, well, in particular, on the eve of the us chargé d'affaires in ukraine christina quinn said that in the future when ukraine wants to join nato. it is possible to bypass, in particular, the procedure of the pdc, that is, the action plan regarding membership. i will remind you that for a long time, ukraine has been demanding that this action plan be provided, but so far

there is no agreement on such a decision in the alliance among allies and there is no consensus. well, sweden and finland. by the way, they didn't need this plan. as i said, the procedure is accelerated, please. thank you zoryana stepanenko from brussels. last night, lviv oblast suffered one of the largest missile attacks in the yavorivsky district of lviv oblast. russia fired at a military facility. the object of the missile wreckage damaged the railway infrastructure. this was reported by the head of lviv ova, maksym kozytskyi . according to him, earlier the missiles flew from the east to communicate with us andriy sadovy, the mayor of lviv lviv andriy ivanovich my greetings, where will be the health, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, you said that not a single rocket landed in lviv that night, but either according to your feelings or according to your information, it was one of the most massive attacks on the lviv region how many rockets

flew is known. well, in fact, there were many of them and some of them flew over the outskirts of lviv and people saw these rockets visually. and what is important is that people heard explosions, so everyone was confused because it was not clear at first what it was . we already knew later that it worked well our air defense system and it saved the lives of a large number of people, and these rockets that fell also caused damage, and part of them was directed, as far as is clear, at the yavoriv training ground, and there they were actually stopped by these rockets, one of the rocket blocks they fell in a small settlement of yavoriv district, i spoke with the head of the community , they are also eliminating these consequences, that is, in fact, the people of

lviv are proud of the fact that the air defense system worked so well, because when last time there were attacks on lviv, you you know, three electrical substations were destroyed in our country and two districts were left without electricity, but thank god everything was also fixed , so we live in the realities of novy, you know, people in lviv sat in warehouses all night and before that there were also alarms, such a difficult time for the city in general live now, what is your situation, for example, with the accommodation of resettled persons, because i know that lviv currently has the most ukrainians from other regions. well, what did you understand during the russian intervention, and more than two million people passed through lviv who lived with us, lived in our communal institutions , lived in hostels, now there are a little more than 200,000 left

, and these are usually people who have nowhere to go, if possible, the situation in kharkiv will stabilize, it is possible to return home, uh, there are a lot of people from melitopol and mariupol and from odesa and from kramatorsk slavyanska, in fact, all of ukraine is present today, we rebuilt all our schools in every school today people live in our libraries people live in them well, some of them live in such temporary towns that we started to build and everyone is asking me, mr. mir. when we can already have some hopes for normal housing , that is why we expect that approximately 50,000 people will remain in lviv after the war, because they simply will not have anywhere to go. the city has been destroyed, god willing, we will take it back, we will retake it

, but it will take a long time to rebuild it, and every day we accept the wounded, so you understand , there are a lot of wounded, very tragic fates, tragic situations, that's why we made such a strategic decision with the support of the ministry of health, to build a large, powerful rehabilitation center in lviv. we expect that after the war, more than 50,000 people will need prosthetic implantation support, and we are already dealing with it today, accepting patients and providing them with maximum support. i also read from the news, again , your statements that construction regulations have been changed in lviv and now nothing is built without bomb shelters, or will they not be built? well, in principle, basements were usually used as bomb shelters, but today's times require of a completely different approach, these should be specially

made shelters that should be equipped with toilets and a supply of water and medicines, and we are also considering options for building buildings where the shelter is located on the floors, that is, such a reinforced riser is specially built, a sign of strong concrete reinforcement, and people can be there during an attack even if a rocket hits the building, the building can be destroyed, this riser remains , according to the principle of israel. well, this is important for people who, for example, have a disability, if the elevator is not works, where a person can go down into which shelter, therefore, we are considering various options and already the next constructions that will be in lviv, they

will actually provide standards. colleagues from crimea realia have already made a certain selection of news about what kind of holiday season there will be in crimea. it may seem out of time. nevertheless, no one has canceled the summer. do you expect there to be any tourist season in lviv? you see the question what ukraine are foreigners willing to go to lviv, for example, but today in lviv there are a lot of international organizations that help ukraine because there are offices here and there are large warehouses. well, 200,000 people who live today have nowhere to go and leave in fact, today the whole city is volunteering, we all help those who can and how they can. foreigners are interested in coming. politicians are coming for them to come to lviv to ukraine. this is a serious increase in the rating today because they come to a country that is at the stage of war. let each of them go, we give a cut of what is needed for lviv

, what is needed for ukraine, so that they help. that is, you know about the times of war. well, for me, for example, there are no days off . this applies to all ukrainians . i can't even listen to music. i ca n't read a book. it's only you who think about work from morning to evening every day. i understand you. andrii ivanovych . thank you very much. tomorrow, i encourage you to subscribe to the resources of radio svoboda on the internet, on the pages of social networks, instagram, telegram, twitter, facebook, where you are comfortable. well, there are also two channels on youtube, radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine, there are more materials from all regions of the country, and until tomorrow, it is very

important in this difficult it's time to be aware of what is happening, we tell the news and help to understand the events, however, the war can make its adjustments in case the broadcast signal is lost, watch espresso on the satellite now espresso has become available at once on two satellites, if you do not have a satellite dish and the broadcast signal has not appeared, search for espresso on the internet, our youtube channel espresso ukrainian view thank you for watching greetings from the studio iryna koval and chas noviny