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tv viewers, live news in the studio, anna eva melnyk, and we begin with the fact that the enemy has treacherously fired at kharkiv, the shevchenkivskyi kyivskyi and pavlovo field districts were hit. it is already known about seven dead civilians, 17 people were injured, among them a nine-year-old child, the head of the kharkiv regional military administration, oleg synogubov, said the city authorities are asking the residents of kharkiv and the region to be in shelters, the enemy is again insidiously hitting the civilian population, insidiously terrorizing them . therefore, i ask once again not to be on the streets without general needs, to listen to the signals against the air alarm and danger, to be in shelters during such signals, to relax. with maximum intensity, the enemy storms the position

simultaneously in several directions, he reports to the ministry of defense there, the situation at the front is called difficult and such that the enemy can escalate is trying to seize new territories and surround our troops in some directions, this is so much along the entire contact line and in the depth of the defense of the ukrainian troops in the donetsk operational area, is using tactical missile complexes , aviation and artillery, deputy minister of defense hanna malyar said, an extremely difficult and long stage awaits us ahead of us struggle, she said, the ukrainian military destroyed the russian checkpoint and there were about 50 occupiers on the lysychanska bakhmute highway, and part of the

anti-sabotage-reconnaissance group remained on ukrainian soil already forever, the head of the luhansk military administration, serhii gaidai, said. he added that this road is the only one that connects the luhansk region with the rest of ukraine, the road is being shot at, but the access to lysychansk and severodonetsk is functioning, humanitarian cargo was delivered there yesterday, the enemy is still planning to force siverskyi donets russian troops are trying to establish full control over the luhansk and donetsk regions, but this goal has not been achieved to date, the deputy chief of the main operational department said. oleksiy gromov of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine added that the enemy is not giving up attempts and is preparing to cross the river siverskyi donetsk in the area of ​​the belogorivka armored car at the beginning of may, the enemy troops already tried to cross the river, and what to

do with the ukrainian forces in the north donetsk region, but they found themselves surrounded, our defenders destroyed expensively the rashist crossing over the river siverskyi donets and cars stopped the invaders in this way, the enemy tried to advance towards mykolaiv, but the ukrainian military inflicted the occupiers e-e prevented the occupiers from bypassing their positions, it is reported in the operational command of the south that the enemy had two tanks and three bmps with the support of helicopters, our defenders inflicted losses on the occupiers, all of their riflemen and two infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, the enemy retreated to the defense lines of the kremlin, posypaks continue to destroy settlements, artillery kutsurovsky community in the mykolaiv region, four objects of social and administrative infrastructure were damaged, one

person was injured in the village of pervomaiske, one person was killed in in the village of kotlyareva of the shevchenkiv community, a shop and a residential building with outbuildings were damaged, shelling again in shykivsk community damaged, destroyed residential buildings, there are no victims, and in the bereznoguvat community , there is a dead and wounded person after day and night shelling, the court sentenced a traitor who violated the oath to the armed forces of ukraine to 14 years of imprisonment, reports office of the prosecutor general in crimea in 2014, he went over to the side of the enemy. on february 25 of this year, the convict, along with two other traitors, came to part of the russian army to seize nova kakhovka, all three deserters were captured by ukrainian paratroopers, the other two traitors were sentenced to 14 and 15 years in prison,

respectively . art shelling of the kharkiv region from the territory of the belgorod region destroyed infrastructure objects, residential buildings in the cossack glopan of the kharkiv district and a school in dergachy, after which they crossed the border of ukraine and continued to search our country, however , later they were captured, they admitted their guilt and repented. the prosecutor's office is asking for 12 years of imprisonment for the russian military. what do you recognize here , grandmothers ? - they were loaded tomorrow, the territory of the russian territory of

ukraine, let it be added to the changes. may i tell you, i am asking and a little asking to dethrone the moscow patriarch kirill, the orthodox church of ukraine is asking with such an appeal, the clergy turned to the ecumenical patriarch metropolitan epiphat e metropolitan epiphanius reminded that kirill volodymyr gundyaev is a co-creator and propagandist of the russian world and this ideology falls under the condemnation of constantinople, the head of the pcsu also called on the leaders of other local e-e churches to condemn the words and actions of the moscow patriarch, who supports the war against ukraine, kirill

repeatedly stated that russia did not attack anyone and blessed the russian military to kill ukrainians ukraine can introduce sanctions against belarus, a corresponding bill was submitted to the verkhovna rada, the seizure of belarusian property, as well as the property of other persons associated with this country, is also proposed to be increased of ukrainian citizenship of persons with dual citizenship of ukraine and the republic of belarus in mariupol, the russian occupiers are preparing to expand a mass grave in the old cemetery. they are preparing new trenches for burial and then they will accuse ukraine of mass murders and inhumane burials - said the adviser of the mayor of mariupol petro andryushchenko. i will remind you that

at least four mass graves were found in mariupol according to the regional administration . allow the repair of two hydro units at the kakhovka hpp , this has already led to the partial flooding of novaya kakhovka and may also flood kherson, the russians do not they allow repairmen to the hydroelectric plant because one of the control points of the southern military district of russia is located there, they do not make any efforts to maintain the captured objects in a safe condition, which can lead to an ecological disaster. and water, and how many are not working, two hydro units, which the occupiers are not leaving, add to the possibility of repairs, this has already led to the partial

flooding of novaya kakhovka, the embankment and the local city ​​park also, the russian occupiers continue to loot the kherson region, dozens of trucks are taking tons of agricultural products from the region on the way to the crimea. the video was published by a journalist - a member of the ukrainian delegation in the tkg from donetsk region, denys kazansky. grain and military aid for ukraine were discussed by president volodymyr zelenskyi and prime minister of finland sanna marin ona and met in kyiv. zelenskyi emphasized that weapons sanctions and the unity of the issue of ukraine's accession to the eu will also help to protect our land. marrin saw the consequences of the russian peace with her own eyes. she

visited irpin and bucha. the prime minister of finland promised to help rebuild the destroyed during a meeting with the head of the government denys shmyhal. they agreed on assistance from finland in reforms on the way to membership in the european union, we continue our work thank you for your important symbolic visit for our country today in dark times for ukraine when there is a full-scale war with russia thank you for your courage courage to visit kyiv is really such a significant step from our friends from our partners whom we highly appreciate president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi addressed the diet of latvia the head of state noted the determination of this country with which it supports our state and expressed gratitude for this he emphasized that the fate of all europeans is being decided in ukraine today, and that

when the principle of the importance of each people will work in europe, then true european unity will appear atrocities and establish justice for the victims of groszism, experts from the european union, great britain and the united states will help ukraine investigate war crimes committed by the russian invaders, according to the prosecutor general iryna venediktova, experts will act in two key directions, this is an advisory group of prosecutors who specialize in war crimes , investigators, military analysts, experts, criminologists, as well as mobile groups that will help directly at the scene of the incident, they will document and investigate serious international crimes chernihiv oblast is preparing from of the war, repairs are ongoing in the chernihiv regional hospital and in the regional center of emergency medical

aid and disaster medicine, the head of the regional military administration, vyacheslav chaus, said in chernihiv itself, power grids are being restored in the bobrovytsia microdistrict, on the highways, work is also underway on a number of routes, potholes are being patched, in total, more than three thousand square meters have been restored meters of road surface, clothes and shoes for immigrants in poltava , the company forex on kostyantyn zhevago, together with the football club vorskla, organized the delivery of humanitarian cargo for the relief center, more details in the material of my colleagues, the hub is set up in the premises of the poltava puppet theater, volunteers received more than 4,000 sports suits, more than three thousand t-shirts and more than 2,000 pairs of shoes, as well as toys to be handed over to children of various ages, leaders, coaches and athletes joined the

unloading cost of the party aid amounted to more than uah 2.7 million at the beginning of the full-scale war, poltava received more than 113,000 displaced persons already the second part of the humanitarian cargo was was delivered today to the poltava academic doll theater, where a kind of hub for forced migrants has been organized. and if for the first time they brought exactly the goods that they needed, the migrants need first of all - household chemicals , baby carriages, etc., children's beds, toys, then we are already responding to these requests and today we delivered clothes, shoes, especially summer

clothes for any age. the management of the company's enterprise in ukraine, in cooperation with representatives of local authorities and national authorities, approved the budget of the humanitarian fund forexpo in the amount of 12.5 million dollars. these are the affairs of the nation. of course , read more news on the espresso website. subscribe to our channels on youtube, telegram, instagram , twittery, be near with us and the ukrainian view of the world, and further on the espresso talk show , the great lviv speaks, watch the espresso news and euro espresso programs on the air on our channel of ukrainian refugees in europe, a joint broadcast with the atp channel, radio svoboda programs , time-time programs of the voice of america, the inclusion of public television journalists, bbc news

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espresso , the ukrainian view. we are trying in our studio to draw up certain intermediate results of this war, which continues throughout our country very often coincided so that there were positive news, positive developments, but here today mostly alarming news, in particular, every day we hear that it is very difficult in luhansk region, and in particular, the head of the military civil administration of luhansk region talks about the loss of 95% of the territory of this region, and today the

commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhny openly stated about that it is very difficult, but the ukrainian soldiers are holding on and the medals are waiting for the weapons, we said a few weeks ago in this studio and many other broadcasts that finally finally signed in lend-lease europe is united in the supply of weapons, but then it was only a wish , so far not all the promises of our western partners have come true, respectively, the situation at the front is what it is but nevertheless, we think good evening to everyone this project speaks great lviv glory to ukraine glory to the heroes of all those who protect us and those who gave their lives so that we in this studio can work, let's start right away with a quote from ghana painter, deputy minister of defense, because it is important that she wrote on her facebook now the situation at the front remains difficult and shows signs of further aggravation, the enemy has used all forces and means to capture the territory and

refine our troops, the fighting has reached maximum intensity, the enemy is storming the positions of our troops simultaneously in several directions , an extremely difficult and long stage of struggle awaits us before the complete liberation of our territories in internationally recognized borders, it is necessary to understand that this is a war and, unfortunately, losses on our side are inevitable , ms. hanna wrote, and the realities that we have to deal with we have to behave as we have to understand because this is really a war and its circumstances are sometimes very tragic for us. we introduce our guests who will be with us in this studio today to reflect on what this week was like. savchuk , people's deputy of ukraine from the all-ukrainian freedom association good evening to the people of the people's deputy of ukraine of the seventh and eighth convocation petro charnets with us, a military expert, we welcome you mykola knyazhytskyi people's deputy of ukraine

european solidarity oleg synyutka, people's deputy of ukraine from european solidarity is also with us good evening, we say good evening to oleksandr musienko and the head of the center for military and legal studies congratulations, we expect oleksiy goncharenko, he is on his way to our studio, all goncharenko, who is on an international tour , visited england, in particular, was in davos, some statements , including ambiguous ones, about the situation in ukraine were made by various politicians. and the chief, well, the first question is for you, because really the last few days there are a lot of alarming news and even in the last few hours we are now hearing about the creation of an additional command of the armed forces of the republic of belarus in the south, which is the border with ukraine and the north. we read about the transfer of iskanders to the brest

region and here it is already not far to the west of ukraine after all here is the statement of mrs. malyar well, the latest absolutely tragic news from kharkiv oblast the shelling has previously already killed seven. shelling from artillery and this has not happened in kharkiv oblast for a long time. because you were once again the message of our military that it was possible to push the armed forces of the russian federation away from kharkiv . what can you do now? how can you do it ? comment on the news. and what is the situation leading to? the first one is true that the belarusian direction remains a threat. it would be an illusion to believe that there will be no offensive from this direction. i can not guarantee that it will be 100%. but it is necessary to prepare for this without fail, before reaching the operational situation directly in the southeast, i want to focus our attention on a very important aspect, in fact, probably historical, this is the last battle of the muscovite

empire, i emphasize the last one, in my firm opinion , this sub-state was on the way to its final decline. at the same time, this decline will not be instantaneous, it will be long and, unfortunately, very bloody. history knows many cases of the fall of the empire, and as a result, all empires fall, but not the same. well, the roman empire in the fifth century fell almost centuries under the blows of the barbarians, and let's say the turkish one from the battle of vienna to its logical conclusion lasted almost 300 years, this is exactly what is happening now , why i am creating this example is because if someone thinks that the battle for the rooster in the southeast of our country will be easy and will be short, then it is a pity the wrong path is unfortunately an illusion this battle will be long this battle will be fierce in fact this is the largest military strategic operation in the european theater of war and since the second world war

in view of the historical remark i made this the battle will be difficult and exhausting at the same time. at the same time, despite all the difficult moments that exist in the operational setup directly around lysychansk and severodonetsk, i would like to express the apparently strategic optimism of a large operational arc from kharkov to transnistria through the dnipro kryvyi rih and odesa as as planned by the enemy, it did not happen and in my opinion it will no longer happen, the so -called medium operational arc conditionally from the raisin and down to ugledar in order to completely close the cauldron that was called the zone of special combat operations it won't be the most difficult now either. and it's good that you showed the map, the most difficult operational situation right now is in the north donets region along the popasna line and up to the estuary. yes, there are problems there, but given the

fact that the enemy in the kherson region is moving to an echelon defense, it shows that at the moment they do not have enough large resources to carry out a large maneuver. at the same time, access to the administrative borders of luhansk region and donetsk region is a matter of principle for them, given that this war is 90% a war of artillery, grassroots artillery, yes so-called caliber 122 mm 152 mm they actually have a lot of them, they actually have a lot of them, and the combat potential of transporting personnel and supplies of shells to them is also great . to prepare for a long-term struggle i also wanted to clarify with you that there are two polar

opinions, one can be said to be quite pessimistic that the russian federation is finally succeeding in something precisely in the luhansk direction, and the other is as if he confirms for the first time but says that this is already the last battle because there are more resources, even if they do not succeed there, they will not have more resources for major offensives, you think it is very well known, the truth lies somewhere in the middle of resources for full-fledged major offensives along the lines that i outlined they don't really have but to deliver endless, i emphasize endless, numerous artillery strikes on our positions, thereby tying down our troops and not allowing us to go into a counterattack such as we need to knock out the enemy completely from our territories, i want to remind you that for a successful counteroffensive there is one very key and fundamental detail: it is necessary to create a

threefold advantage of living people if there are conditionally 100,000 of them, so we need at least three hundred, well, this is the reality in this part of the so-called positional wars we had it in the first world war or in the trench war. they have enough resources and you don't need to be fooled by the fact that tomorrow they will run out of cannon fodder, second, archaeological shells. you don't have to think like that. about the balance of power. let's talk about it. let's listen to a quote from the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, who just recently spoke about the fact that it is actually in the eastern direction . there is not enough equipment because we are fighting against such a large state and a large state army, they have 20 times more equipment now in donbas. imagine

how strong our soldiers are, what kind of people we have the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, said that it is clear that mr. musienko will have the next question what, apparently, this phrase has 20 times more equipment, does it not mean that there are 20 times more people? well, this is probably just not realistic well, this means that there really is an advantage in terms of technology, as was correctly said, in terms of artillery and what they are throwing. although, as we can see, if we are talking about technology, it is necessary to emphasize that a lot of equipment, in particular of the latest model, has been destroyed and simply burned, these are t-72 tanks 80 and 90 what appears is 62, this indicates two things, the first is that they already lack equipment , they are starting to remove old models from warehouses, and second, they really want to move to defense, what we talked about in the south and east and simply strengthen this position, but it says that they also lost their equipment and

our fighters tried extremely hard, it must be recognized that the second thing that concerns the situation in general is really extremely ah and it is quite difficult and here people need to understand that society understood that war is not something linear or only something that consists of victories, sometimes there are recessions , sometimes there are, uh, even losing battles, well, this does not mean losing the war, sometimes there are different situations, people should understand this. despite this, our military still holds and holds those lines that they have to maintain and one more moment so that it is clear and not so dramatic because the situation is difficult, but despite this, how many times have we heard the name of the populated place popasna or severodonetsk or lyman month already apparently, we are actively discussing this when there are intense battles. and the war has been going on for three months, a full-scale war has been going on since 2014. and

the full-scale shows what this shows. they have certain tactical successes, so they took the flint there, they , uh, along the svetodarska, and so on, yes, they are gradually approaching somewhere, but to say that they were able to advance globally and achieve a great advantage is not at the same time, it must be understood that if our forces somewhere will make a decision or our command should make a decision about retreating from one or another position for reasons of saving the lives of personnel and moving to a more strengthened position, this is also a normal situation, we absolutely mentioned the luhansk region the situation is really difficult there, let's give a short story. let's see how it is there, and just now the head ova is talking about the situation . luhansk region is suffering the most in all 8 years of

the russian invasion, the enemy is actively advancing on in all directions of the region, trying to take severodonetsk into the ring, for several days in a row, the nitrogen chemical plant has suffered, even more destroyed villages, private houses are burning in whole streets, in general, today 95% of the luhansk region is occupied. positions, and we are holding back a huge horde all this time, while our troops are regrouping, re-arming, and will be ready to stop and then move to contour offensive, meanwhile, on the important highway lysichansk-bakhmut, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed the checkpoint together with the russian occupiers, there were ten of them there, but the road of life continues to be shelled, driving through it is very risky