cases when russian interventionists deliberately hunted for media workers well, of course, but of course, but not the way you say it is wrong what are they hunting with a rifle? no, they are hunting for the skills of these journalists . for this inclusion, efren lukacki, a photojournalist of the us correspondent, and here the press, an honored journalist of ukraine, was in touch with us, antin borkovsky worked independently on the live air of the espresso tv channel, colleagues from radio svoboda , greetings - this is freedom, my name is vlad and lazur we are talking on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and on youtube, as well as on the espresso tv channel, the leaders

of the european union countries have agreed on the sixth package of sanctions against russia, which provides for an embargo on the import of two-thirds of the volume of russian oil. we will talk on air in a few minutes. and just now about the situation at the front, the political goal of russia is to occupy the entire territory of the donetsk luhansk regions, and in case of capture of north donetsk, russian troops will try to take control of kramatorsk and the m-04 route that connects the dnipro and donetsk, this is stated in the intelligence review of the ministry of defense of great britain, there they report that the captured lyman plays an important role in supporting russia, whose efforts are currently focused on the encirclement of severodonetsk and the creation of a so-called boiler for ukrainian forces in the luhansk region we will return to luhansk oblast, but now about donetsk oblast, three civilians were killed there the day before, two in turkish oblast, one in avdiivka, said the head of the oblast, pavlo

kyrylenko, and at the same time, it remains impossible to establish the number of victims in mariupol and volnovas - he says, well, the russian army launched a missile attack on slavyansk last night pavlo kyrylenko reports on at least three dead and six injured destruction of a school and at least seven high-rise buildings in slavyansk, a radio correspondent is currently in slavyansk svoboda serhiy horbatenko he is with us on direct communication serhii in my greetings, what is the latest information about the dead and what is happening in general in your city here today is really a tragic day for slavyansk it started at one o'clock at 30:30 a.m., a powerful explosion rang out above , since february 24, since the beginning of the russian full-scale invasion, such explosions have not been heard in this city, then people began to write that ambulances are plying the city, and at the moment the

most recent information is that there are indeed three dead civilians and six wounded. the school building, the kindergarten building, and the garage cooperative were destroyed, as well as about eight-story buildings, first, the head of the slavic military-civilian administration a-a lyag talked about the fact that it was an air donation, and later the police of the donetsk region reported that the russian troops hit slavyansk with missiles from the iskander operational-tactical missile complex , this is the latest information. at twenty-two, there was a clap and a sound and the pasta was poured. we have all the glass, all the

windows, and we have everything starting, eh, the third, the fifth, the ninth school, everything was burning in our house, the apartment was burning, eh , in the tenth house, the apartment was burning in the fifth house the apartment burned for a shorter time, well, you know that i left in two days. i knew that this would be the case. no matter what, nothing else could be expected . when the air conditioner arrived, people should simply pay 1000 . the bed is lying around. and if i got shrapnel in the dog, and if i hit the house with shrapnel projectiles , i don’t know what to do now. the video needs to be done here . repairs in the room have been made

and postponed. well, here is the closet. multi-apartment houses are damaged, almost destroyed, damaged, too, they call it difficult, also the school, here are the preliminary data, three dead and six wounded have already been clarified, of course, the saddest slogan for the day for us, today, so it will be worth calling people to evacuate once again to show people how far it is necessary to evacuate. it is in a safe place from the front line. this was the material of

serhii horbatenko. slavic donetsk region. well, we have another material from donetsk region, the city of mykolaivka is located on the path of a possible offensive of russian troops on sloviansk, it is increasingly coming under fire, not all residents want to leave, people spend the night in basements and due to the lack of gas, they set up stoves just in the yards, see mykolaivka near sloviansk loud and almost empty at first glance, except for the siren, there are explosions here, this store burned down at night after the shelling of russian troops. when we arrived, there was no gas and water, and there was no electricity. the shelling here closed the city forming the enterprise slavic thermal power plant, how is the situation, it's terrible, it's just terrible, they keep shooting, we 're now in the private sector, the house is walking slowly, the windows are

rattling at night, it's impossible to sleep, you know, it's very scary, it feels like the best land is moving, there were good flights yesterday, and many times well, for the time being, all this is for the time being, while we are trying to get out, we are holding on . yes, we are three families here, and then the entrance goes to the boiler room, there are tanks, we collected water full of bach, one there, they made cast iron here, well, a burghuika, what is it called, there is a second exit. we have sugar and flour and heat here, but in general, neighbors in we are very friendly and have water in reserve, see what we did, well, today we started serum here, of course , but nothing. but in the basement, the locals say that there are

problems with purchasing medicines, but with food. sausages there is a shop, there is little left. well, there is a cart of sausages, the market is fully operational, the private parties are trading. so thank god, so far, everything is in order, they prepared the stoves, they built a house there, oh, the local authorities organized an evacuation, for example, mykola will have to go back with his grandchildren tomorrow . i've been silent for 12 years, and uehal's mother is stuck on earnings, she can't leave now, but not everyone goes to someone's bed, sick, age, or their own apartment, and someone has a different motivation. to the russian looters who will come here and learn that's

all, they'll rake up that's all. a few hours after our arrival, the power company fixed the electricity and the people had a ghostly hope, but they 're leaving. what will we do? while we are at home, we hope for god's sake. all will be well. the city of kyiv is building fortifications in case the russian army tries to storm the ukrainian capital again. this is reported in the kyiv city military administration they say that the first line of defense of kyiv is being equipped at a great distance from the city to make it impossible to use, in the first place, the artillery units of the russian army, contact us, oleg zhdanov, a military expert, my greetings to

you . they are strengthening the capital. i will simply quote them. they say that you need to be ready to meet the enemy, even if such a scenario seems impossible. and to you, such a scenario seems impossible, so to date there are no such there are direct signs that the russian federation is preparing for the second campaign on kyiv , we do not see the creation of a strike group, but one must always be ready, but here is the secretary of the nsdc oleksiy danilov. he said that ukraine is closely monitoring the belarusian direction and is aware a threat from that side, the belarusian direction can be threatening for us in the sense that they can open a second front and fight on two fronts, it will be very difficult and the belarusian direction if putin does not force mr.

invasion of ukraine, then most likely it will be the direction of the lutsk-lviv in order to cut off ukraine from western aid. that is, it will not be kyiv region in case of anything. no, it is not kyiv region. there, it is much more important for russia than anything. today, russia shudders at every mention that western countries will give ukraine that or other help in terms of armaments, but let me ask you one more question about the kyiv region, but we are now seeing a picture of a video of how these fortifications are being built there . and please tell me what prevented the construction of such fortifications earlier, for example, the government often says about the fact that the war was being prepared in advance, some steps were taken in advance, just not publicly, i will post the story now does not tolerate the conditional, but still i want to somehow clarify these things, well, she explained to us how much our government today explained, she did not want to panic and did not want to disappoint well , or scare scare the population because they didn’t and they didn’t

notify and in fact we didn’t prepare, our armed forces met the war in the peacetime states, they weren’t deployed, and i myself am a resident of the suburbs of kyiv, and i didn’t see trenches being built here, or any strengthen the districts, but these are the things that could have been done in advance, or not? well, in a year, it would be possible to transform almost the entire border if the money that was spent on large-scale construction of roads, if that money was spent on the construction of defense borders, it would be possible to fill them with concrete and build a new line along the entire border, this is the same question. i just remembered that they asked the mayor of mariupol, and he answered roughly the same way. then the countries of luhansk, donetsk, and i. by the way, let me remind you that in the last report, british intelligence

reported that after the capture of north donetsk, the russian army can concentrate in kramatorsk and on the dnipro donetsk highway. what will this all mean ? the political tasks that putin has set before his military, namely the capture of luhansk and donetsk regions, if they reach the administrative border of luhansk region, it is quite likely that you they will go from e-e to slavyansk and then return to the south in order to surround our troops in the zone of operation of the joint forces in the donetsk region and thus go to the borders to the administrative borders of the donetsk region and then announce victory and demand and then demand it is possible then to demand from the international community to force ukraine to peace and what are the prospects here,

what are the development scenarios. that russia today has no efforts to further occupy or invade ukraine and putin needs two or three years to gather an army and then continue the occupation of ukraine, he will not stop because he has not changed since the 14th year, he has not changed his political goals and the capture of all of ukraine and the creation of the soviet union and then the absorption of europe . is holding on even though the fighting is already going on there, says the head of the region on the outskirts of the city, uh, do you see any signs that today and tomorrow severodonetsk, for example, will be surrounded and uh, taken over? no, i don't see such signs, although uh, the

situation is very critical . they asked for a course of action, i then told you what the russians would do if they were able to take it. by the way, after severodonetsk, there is lysychansk, which is in a more favorable position on more favorable borders, and there will be more favorable positions there, and there will be the siverskyi donets river in order to to keep him, well, for as long as possible, but for today, i understand that the armed forces of ukraine have a chance to get severodonetsk. inexplicably hit long- range targets, ukraine is very much looking forward to them, high-ranking ukrainian officials say that the usa has not announced anything yet, but various publications are already writing

about it, for example, reuters writes that the usa does not plan to give ukraine such weapons, the washington post wrote that there is no final decision, tell me if it is clear to you what is the reason for such hesitation, what can they be wary of in washington when they do not make a decision for so long to give ukraine these weapons, well , it is very strange to hear such a question from you , because yesterday the white house gave a clear answer clarification regarding these jet systems first joe biden announced that they will be provided but not with full ammunition with ammunition to joe biden yes well yes and then and then the administration of the white house clarified that they will be provided complete with e-e launchers will be provided with missiles from dalnya, more precisely, ammunition with a launch range of up to 70 km, and in the future it is possible to transfer other types of ammunition as well, it was 200-300 km, the rest

is left if missiles are provided, or rather if rocket munitions with a range of 470 are provided km е there are two types of ammunition, so further, this means that the third type of ammunition for these launchers is an operational tactical missile with a launch range of up to 300 km. you hope that ukraine will receive such a weapon the future of time is the first moment and the second moment - this is purely political. the united states does not want to irritate the russian federation once again in terms of the fact that russia has repeatedly stated that they cannot drag the united states and nato into this war and therefore russia, every time there is a question about transferring weapons to us, says that everything we consider that you entered the war or this ukraine. and

therefore, in order not to translate, not to give russia a ghost for such statements and threats. i think that the united states has caught up a little with the fog regarding supply to us e-e in the system of rocket systems of salvo fire in full configuration i understand you and i also want to talk to you about rhetoric, but i hear more and more often from high-ranking ukrainian officials , but the other day danilov said that the war will not end quickly, adviser to the head of the presidential office, mykhailo podalyak, in the last interview i also said that the war will be protracted and protracted. and i am observing such a clear change in rhetoric in contrast to the one we heard in the first weeks and we will only remember the arrestee who said a little more a little more a little more and it will come there is a turning point or a victory. if i were to ask you now to inform the population and our viewers very adequately and objectively about the duration and form of this war, what would you say? i would

say that the hot phase of the war will last for several months, and indeed it can that the weapons are late, the main weapons that we need , er, the hot phase may last until the end of this year, and then the issue will be resolved in b- less intense er- reduction of the intensity of hostilities, thank you very much on the radio freedom, please radio freedom met with the mother of the officer of the intelligence department of the azov regiment ilya samoilenko this is the same soldier with an artificial eye and a prosthesis instead of his left hand what a wonderful english retelling the news for growth he defended mariupol for three months where is he now what are the chances of his fast the return conversation with the mother of a soldier was recorded by taras levchenko i'm waiting for the return i'm waiting for some reason i'm calm ah the only thing is

this absence is very tormenting and it doesn't let me sleep i imagine how i hug him little my name is alla samoilenko, i am the mother of ili samoilenko, i promised the azov regiment, i have a total of three children and two sons. they have a very small age difference of one year and three months. at first, they were just interested in weapons in general. yes, there are tanks, airplanes, and they reached such a level when they were 12-13 it was years ago when i brought them a rough editing of one of the tv series i worked on and they took it apart and wrote two pages in small text, er, i notice that they didn't wear such face masks at that time, and there were no such weapons here . is this an older brother or a younger older brother? the war started, at first i asked him, i

just didn't know what would happen to my younger brother with the soil , and i asked him to find it for the war for the time being. although he told me then, mom, you don't understand, he just came to me and told me everything, i 'm going to azov, we they didn't talk about it for a long time, he didn't ask whether he agreed or not, after a few months he already had some commanding duties there, he uh helped lead the platoon and the artificial eye. can you tell me how it happened? december 17th, and it happened during the combat sortie, a projectile landed nearby, and because of this, his own charge detonated in his hand, he was a voice away from death, he commanded his evacuation, he told the boys what to do , he was unconscious, well, i can see with one eye of course

, he was conscious and when he was evacuated on a plane by helicopter, he was generally joking, as the nurses told me later, and somewhere around the end of 2018, he returned to the hospital and was there on duty until 2021, he found a job in an international company, it is a company that sells all kinds of products , he did not expect to return to the army anymore, he was invited there to give a lecture and he did not stay there. well, somewhere on the 19th, he went there in february, he just announced that he had been promoted . now a junior lieutenant, he was engaged in intelligence, he was a senior at the headquarters, he was very good at conspiracy, he is excellent and he has good english. and this became his area of ​​activity, which is very important

, that is, he became the speaker, i did not hear his voice except press conferences of his public speeches, we only corresponded in simpler words, you can search. and when the contacts are like this, when you call and you risk just starting to sob at some point. well, who needs it? i wrote that my greatest wish is for him to return, and he wrote to me, and if not , he is the fastest commented on several events, mmm, an event related to the fact that the 36th brigade came to them and there was a lot of pain in his comment. he also commented to me about their operation when they went to the seaport and took part of the people there also commented on the process of exchange and the process of removing civilians, they were really waiting for help at least to

china, they had been talking since may 20, when they were leaving, i called the hotline and they told me that he is there, where everyone is, that's all i know. no more information, a video appeared on the network a documentary filmmaker from hong kong who, accompanied by the ukrainian military and other journalists, came under fire near the lysychanska road, on which the fire occurred, led to severodonetsk, where heavy fighting is currently ongoing outside the city

, for example as a result of this specific shelling, no one was killed in luhansk region, but since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, according to the national union of journalists in ukraine, 32 media workers have died. well , street battles continue in north donetsk, the russian army has advanced deep into the city. to go outside and

stay in shelters. let me remind you that the day before, an evacuation vehicle near lysichansk also came under fire. by the way, this city is very close to of north donetsk and during the shelling, the french journalist frederic leclerc imhoft was killed and several other people were injured, after which the evacuation from luhansk region was stopped, what is happening in the region now, and in particular in north donetsk, let's talk further with us, serhii gaidai , the head of luhansk, to you and to you greetings, let's start with severodonetsk. what is happening in the city now? i read some media reports that now the front line actually passes into severodonetsk , yes, from the severodonetsk side, the fighting is really already underway in the middle of the city, russian troops control most of the city, unfortunately for today, but there is a fear that somewhere our military will be surrounded, this will not happen, we are constantly

communicating, there is an opportunity to maneuver, so the military, well, they are keeping calm now defense in the positions currently occupied by the city. at this stage, 90% of all buildings located there are damaged, 60% of them are critical in general. that is, the entire critical infrastructure is almost impossible to restore. completely destroyed, that is, there is no central supply of water, gas or electricity, and now there is no way to bring humanitarian goods into the city, because the fighting is already going on inside, that's why i called on the local residents to hide in shelters right now, because i understand that there is no way to leave there is no

possibility to leave, well, at least with a certain part controlled by the ukrainian troops, maybe, but it is on the verge of a foul, it is very risky , and there are very few chances to escape, in fact, that's why to risk people's lives. well, it just doesn't make sense. now we'll get back to the civilians. i have another question. you said that the environment is currently unreal because at the beginning i reported that military analysts indicated that the russian army's goal in the north donets region of the luhansk region is to create a boiler the so-called cauldron for the ukrainian military, you say that there are no prerequisites for this, you know, the goals of the russian army are worked out in the course of the war, where they are defeated , then the plan changes where they have some kind of success oh, that's great. this will be our goal, that is, they are already in the course of conducting military operations. they are

drawing targets there for themselves, but of course they would like to surround all our troops . er, should we just cut the route and lysichansk-bakhmut, or capture severodonetsk as soon as possible, but they are not able to er and er completely capture the entire region, we have been holding the defense for the fourth month, er, the guys are motivated so hard, so all efforts are now abandoned by russia on that to seize severodonetsk in particular, and luhansk oblast in particular, but they have not yet succeeded in this, and how many civilians are left in the region? well, roughly, we can only roughly say, but approximately somewhere a little more than 40,000. 15,000 people. do you

personally understand until what moment you will be in the region? well, look while we can , but something happened . serhiy aydai has already announced serhiy aydai , the head of the luhansk regional military civil administration was on radio svoboda. well, the kotelevsky district court of the poltava region sentenced to 11.5 years the arrest of two russian soldiers, oleksandr bobykin and oleksandr ivanov, who shelled civilian areas of kharkiv region. and the custom of war, both soldiers served in the murmansk region, one was the driver of the charger, charging the volley fire systems, the second gunner of the same combat vehicle as a result their shelling in two villages of the kharkiv region were very bad