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you can leave your lines, questions, comments in the chat during the broadcast, we will discuss them with our guests ukrainian military conducts successful counterattacks in severodonetsk, which indicates a decrease in the combat power of the russian army, this is stated in the current report of the american institute for the study of war, by the way, the head of ukrainian intelligence, kyrylo budanov, visited severodonetsk on the department's website, it is noted that budanov inspected the work of the units of the main intelligence department. well, the day before, the forward positions of the ukrainian military in zaporizhzhia, donetsk, luhansk volodymyr zelenskyi visited the regions in the office of the

president of ukraine. to lysichansky, they were in the soledar, it started in everyone, everyone . i won't go into detail about it, but it is located close to severodonetsk, which the russian army has been trying to capture for the last few days, how is lysychansk living, what's more, the

center of the city of lysychansk has been shelled again with a maximum of russian pillowcases, the pitiable houses have been destroyed, the infrastructure is documenting their criminal activities, we are working.

it was lysychansk, luhansk region. well, in the past day, three civilians were killed in the donetsk region and two more people were injured. this was reported by the head of the donetsk region, pavlo kyrylenko. a correspondent works in the donetsk region. radio svoboda maryan kushnir is with us on direct communication maryana my greetings how do you feel about the situation in luhansk, the situation remains a difficult control russia forces are trying, in addition to the e-e attack on north donetsk, from this city they are trying to pass from the side of slovyansk this not glorious points dolyna sdya tohirska where in the days of the beasts one of the temples of this city and there today i visited with the ukrainian artillery, which are already using the aga provided by the united states of america in the side of the m-77 as

the soldiers said, in fact, these are howitzers help not only to destroy the forces controlled by russia, not only to destroy certain strongholds or perhaps its equipment, but also to morally adjust both themselves and the infantrymen who are on the front line to the fact that there is support after all, there are weapons after all, and well that they can keep the lines of defense reliable, this one is done with which one, which one did we shoot, which one did we show, which one performed the task eh well, this unit talked with someone, they say that literally the other day they destroyed more than 200 wholes with the help of such eh hmm such weapons, and they use these weapons with two types of projectiles, these are ordinary long-range projectiles that fly for more than 20 km, and what is very important for a-a artillerymen, these are such important

projectiles as e-e reactive active projectiles of 155 mm that fly at a distance of 30 km what does this mean, it means that the ukrainian artillerymen can be safe to inflict fire damage and they cannot be reached by the russian soviet 152 mm artillery, which flies no more than 24 km , this just makes it possible to talk about what exactly with such howitzers, the ukrainian military claims to be already in the artillery, so far, i say to the military, this weaponry is not enough to dominate the artillery in the artillery competitions, but i have heard many times how these howitzers work. yansk bakhmut and other cities along the contact line, how does it all look like the ukrainian military has mastered the m-77 howitzer and is working here

directly on the front line, let's see in the report, there is no good, what is this protractor valery, they studied it for 5 days this was more than enough, all these nuances that were related to more work were understood along the way, there is nothing absolutely difficult. if you can say yes, it is even impossible, it is a little easier in parschena. recently spoke in our place,

a few days ago there were already 200 people, now in my background the artillery of a new attack on targets from reactive projectiles from the m-77 howitzer, which arrived from the united states of america armed with the ukrainian military, it probably first of all raises the morale of ourselves as a map of the flights that the infantry if they see somewhere that cover is coming from them, that is, it feels like this, you know, a kind of help from partners who help us in one way or another there are still our soviet systems, which are also here with you, they are working, they already see something new

that we are quickly mastering and, quite frankly, we are firing loudly , that is why we have repeatedly even received words of gratitude from some ukrainians, so it changes yes, unfortunately, not yet in such sufficient quantity that we could work more effectively and send more gifts to our enemies. that they came to our land and did not do enough great trouble, almost every one of us felt it on ourselves, because in different countries they wasted some of our comrades in arms, and to some extent this is a kind of anger for the fact that it should not have been done sometimes it is even difficult so the hands are lowered, so intense that you can’t

rest. no, i don’t know somehow, it’s okay not to complain. but you wake up every morning. and it’s all in your head and you understand what needs to be done. there’s such a thirst, the more the rush, the faster it is to finish it, the faster it is. to get this victory, which a lot of people are waiting for not only in ukraine, to actually return to their homes, so to speak, a well-deserved rest this was the material of maryan kushnir from donetsk region and another colleague of ours , serhiy horbatenko, also works in donetsk region today he visited the city of druzhkivka, it is literally 30 km from sloviansk, the day before russian troops struck the civilian sector of druzhkivka , it is previously known that one woman was killed and one was injured, and it is also known that private houses and a church received varying degrees of destruction, what is happening there now, look at the huge funnel

there was something here in the place of the funnel, or were there no houses, the house was the grandmother, the grandmother died, and her daughter was in the intensive care unit here, lena well, somewhere in the middle of the third, there was an explosion , then they flew away, the windows broke there, i watched i've already looked through my ceiling, it seems to be falling in. well, two walls are gone. well, in short, everything has to be done again. and you were in the house at the time. there was a child

at all. i don't know what to shoot here. it's just a sense. where were you when it exploded? they just burned it. well, you have i didn’t catch it in any way. thank god there is no window above. there was a wall knocked out near the mother, near the head, bricks fell, but they lived, the clothes jumped out, and nothing else really

lives. новый часы остановилис в время кодга удар был батерыка well, yes, battery time stopped, as you know, on the territory of the warring belarus along the border with ukraine , the presence of separate units of the armed forces of the russian federation is maintained, which are armed with unarmed operational-tactical missile complexes, iskander anti-aircraft missile complexes, pantsir s1 and s400 anti-aircraft missile systems and

operational-tactical aviation aircraft the general staff reports on how serious the threat from belarus remains and what is happening in the east of ukraine and how it can all change the course of the war in the near future , let's talk further with us on the link serhiy kryvonos, general of the armed forces of ukraine, first deputy commander of the special operations forces, my greetings. good day, i will start with belarus. do you personally see any threat from belarus , especially you know, very often this question is heard from residents of the kyiv region who return to irpin and bucha and they are afraid that this picture may repeat itself, in fact the situation er may repeat itself and i have already said about it several times with taking into account, etc., the task of the russians is to continue to stretch our forces and means that we have throughout the territory of ukraine, because they now have an excellent ability to transfer troops

along our borders during the last 15-20 years, at all annual trainings of the russians, these issues were worked out even the fact that now there is a small collection of troops, in two days there can only be much more, they are able to do it professionally and are prepared, as regards the threat from sumy, chernihiv, kyiv, as well as zhytomyr and rivne oblast it is preserved and the russians are able, in the case of advantageous given situations, to launch an offensive or the active work of their divisional assault groups in our border strip, real risks. but i literally just opened the last interview of volodymyr zelenskyi to the publication the mirror of the week and he says that so far he says that ukrainian analysts do not see real risks of repeated repeats to ukraine from the territory of belarus. ukrainian analysts, together with the

president, did not directly see the beginning the invasion in february, and i warned about the russian offensive that a year before and clearly indicate the directions, everyone has their own point of view, the president has his own point of view, i have my own. on the forecasts for russia, well, it looks like this, you can correct me now, the capture of north donetska turned out to be a difficult task and they are unable to capture the city, the fact that now the battles, uh, urban battles are going on in the north donetska region, shows that the russians we ran out of breath, our troops were able to hold these lines , so quite significant losses were incurred, but in the meantime, we got stuck and held on, and in the future , we will call it the holding of this bridgehead, so it is just the possible next bridgehead for

the counteroffensive, the battles are of local importance uh, like the russians, we directly attack in certain areas or counterattack, and so far, as on the entire front, uh, there are battles, as they say, of local importance, so siverskyi severodonetsk is very important for us, with uh, thanks to our to the servicemen, something to our soldiers, we keep it and we will continue to receive one, the russians will try to seize it, of course, it is possible that they will carry out certain regroupings in order to transfer to the army and continue to attack, in order to push us out, squeeze us out due to the superiority in the number of their troops, squeeze us out severodonetsk is such a strategic and strategically important city for russia because, for example, one of the experts on this broadcast

said that severodonetsk is mostly a political putin's goal, the city does not represent any strategic importance for russia, which is exactly putin's political ambition, and he is throwing his soldiers into this terrible meat grinder of war in the armed forces of ukraine, it was also reported the day before that the russian general major roman kutuzov was allegedly eliminated. he just died in luhansk oblast. perhaps you know more about this. i am especially interested in how much his death as a military leader of such a rank can change the course of hostilities in the east. absolutely no to change because the russian army has enough russian generals and at one time saltykov shchedrin wrote a small work where he described that the number of russian generals was such that they were

eaten by bears and anyway it was not noticeable for the russian army, nothing has changed practically because for 200 years, the situation is repeating itself well, but uh, i see that in fact, reports of the death of russian generals come very often. i don’t know. it seems that about four such cases have already been confirmed by journalists and the russian leadership well, some of them are not confirmed, that is, the fact that many generals are dying, what does he tell you about the fact that the heads of operations from the russian side are located in the immediate vicinity of the front line where our artillery can reach them, so it should be, taking into account that the russians have not been at war for the first year and that certain views on the conduct of the operation have been sufficiently worked out from

the point of view of our governing documents. and pressurize the situation in favor of the russians in certain areas where they are located, and also today there was a report that the leadership of the odesa region reported that there are several russian ships with cruise missiles on board and on board in the black sea and that there is a threat of a russian landing party yes, from your point of view, has this danger already passed? well, it all depends on how many russians there are, in itself, the landing for the sake of the landing will not be carried out. therefore, it will be a complex of certain measures, with the aim of diverting attention from other areas of the front, and this may be a demonstration landing, in case of its success, it may be, it may grow directly into a landing that can bring benefits to the russian army, let's not forget that we also have odessa on the side, practically on two sides from the side of the sea,

this is a naval landing threat, from the side of the transnistrian republic of moldova, there is also a threat that they can, uh, start action combat operations, that's why odessa is kept in such a balance between the two sides, between the enemies, that's why not i had to relax, but i clearly know that there is a good enough military group in odesa. good officers, good sergeants, soldiers who are able to repel any threat both from the sea side and from the land side, mr. krivonos , in particular, we are in our on the air, we very often talk about how strong and how motivated the ukrainian army is. and what problems are there in the ukrainian army at the moment? the problem of the ukrainian army is that the state must prepare a reserve for this army, unfortunately, at the state level mass training of reserves is being carried out and this

causes some concern because the war will continue for a long time and the number of trained conscripts must be much more than what we currently have. therefore, this is the number one problem - this is the preparation of trained named resources, people are motivated, but so far they they are not trained and from the side of the state at the state level, i do not observe this, therefore, this is probably one of the biggest problems, the problems that are there regarding the provision of the problems of the provision of shells, these problems that will eventually be solved and are already being resolved thanks to the active work of our diplomats and part of the military-political leadership. you said that the war will last a long time . you have a forecast of a spike until the end of the summer. it will not end. you are sure that this is a hot phase. -what kind of war

depends on three factors, the first is how well-equipped our armies are, the second is the economic capacity, and the third is the support of our allies, as well as russian insurance, the allies believe that less than ours, but probably the passivity of our allies regarding the countries of europe also plays in favor of russia, so when how it will end will depend on the factors of our stability and our ability to defeat the enemy on these approaches to our borders. how can you predict the events of the next possible days, weeks, but now we are all watching the east of severodonetsk, what can happen next, there may be increased efforts by russia in the south of ukraine, and still, if they do not press er, our group in the area of ​​er severodonetsk, then they will look for our other, well , try to find weak points in order to continue their

offensive in the east and in the south of ukraine, also with regard to it, the possible transfer of troops from the side of belarus or to divert our attention and pull our reserves to the ukrainian side of the belarusian border, thank you thank you very much for your comment serhii kryvonos general of the armed forces of ukraine first deputy commander of the special operations forces 16-19 years thank you very much in the kyiv region an investigation of war crimes against the civilian population is underway today, the bodies of 1,314 people killed by the russian military were discovered in the region. investigators say that they are often helped to collect

evidence of crimes. radio svoboda correspondent taras levchenko will tell kyiv about this story . in march, the local streets were occupied by russian military equipment, and now locals are already grazing cattle are planted in the vegetable garden little by little returning to the usual life i lived here for 30 years i can’t do it all i want to be in the village we kept a goat we kept a cow for 9 years it hurts my soul that i can’t plant potatoes nothing not strawberries everything has grown overgrown found such a picture nina mykhailovna after the deoccupation of the village when she returned home from

chernihiv oblast, where she was taking care of her mother, now the woman has only one problem: restoring documents, so she often visits the village council, where all local issues are taken care of by the headman galina kozachenko there are one and a half thousand people who are registered. and there are also people who live without registration, well, in general, about 2,000 people. she currently has a 12-hour work schedule, and during active hostilities, she says that she hardly had time to sleep at all. they shelled this street. so far, 14 houses have been completely destroyed. thank god everyone remained alive thanks to her, although galina ivanivna does not smile at all. however, her fellow villagers said that on march 2, a russian projectile hit a house in the basement of which there were two children and two women, their relatives were worried, so they wrote a message to the old lady, and she, as usual, got on her bicycle and went on the morning detour. i

saw that a group of soldiers was standing on the road. i gave everything that was in my pockets on the way to a girl here from our village. by bicycle i say i didn't understand what kind of crowd we have here and they say and you are not afraid of us and i say well if you are not afraid of me then i am not afraid of you and where are you going they ask me and that's all they talk to me where to you're going , i'm telling you where i'm going, i'm looking, maybe it's bad for someone what kind of help? who needs a new show, and i say because i’m the head of the village, well, they were like that, there was no scene, it was necessary to see if someone was filming then, and then they say yes, and we said they were looking for you yesterday. and how do you know it’s bad? well, what do you know? they were looking for me. i think the trumpet reached the end in this tone. as

it turned out, later she spoke with the commander of this russian garrison named shamil. he allowed people from the destroyed house to be taken, but threatened to destroy the village in two minutes. one of the locals will reveal the location of the russian troops and these were not only threats to a person. on february 25, one worker died from the year when the column was moving. he came out on the phone from the rivne region. the daughter of the head of the village, so now she has new troubles, she is looking for a place for her child, she also says that she gives the law enforcement officers testimony and evidence about the crimes of the occupiers and the people, they took everything they found to my house, and i also hid it all the map of the offensive is so healthy, so were the lists of military personnel. and also chevrons, russian

-made weapons, because despite the threats of the occupiers, galina ivanovna still tried to find out where they came from and where they were going next. she knew that it was necessary to talk to them in such a way that there would be some result, that people would remain alive. russia is also preparing before the possible outbreak of cholera in occupied mariupol , this was announced by the adviser to the mayor of the city, petro andryushchenko. according to him, the invaders are blocking the exit from the city and preparing hospitals on their territory for of potential patients among the military, earlier the head of the city, vadym boychenko, said that by the end of the year, more than 10,000 people may die in mariupol from diseases and unbearable conditions. to the occupied mariupol, we will continue to speak with us, petro

andrushchenko, adviser to the mayor of mariupol, my greetings to you. good evening. we haven't spoken to you for a long time, i didn't ask you. after russia completely occupied mariupol , after the ukrainian fighters left for growth, tell me if there is any evacuation of civilians, at least in some form, or if it is completely stopped, in fact, it is completely stopped