glory to ukraine is a program, my name is serhiy rudenko. good day and good health to all. today is the 110th day of heroic ukrainian resistance to the russian invaders. the enemy continues to storm severodonetsk in donetsk region. active battles continue near avdiivka maryinka. of private houses, two hotels, railway infrastructure, transport substations , donate power grids, the russians continue to shell sumy, kharkiv region, and kherson region for the last day, the russian occupiers lost 150 people in ukraine, the biggest losses were in the direction of bakhmut since the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost 32,300 people in ukraine, 1,432 tanks, 3,492

armored fighting vehicles, 718 stem artillery, 226 rocket salvo systems, 97 air defense systems, 213 aircraft, 178 helicopters in 2,460 units of automotive equipment 13 ships boats 125 cruise missiles 585 drones 54 units of special equipment about the fate of azov citizens and marines who were captured before russians a month ago about the eighth anniversary of the liberation of mariupol from the russian occupiers and the current situation on the eastern and southern fronts of ukraine today we will talk during this hour with two of our guests with a military expert coordinator of the information resistance group kostyantyn mashovets mr. kostyantyn and slava ukraine good day thank you for participating to our

program glory to the heroes good day and our second guest - it's like commander maksym zhorin p maksym glory to ukraine glad to see you thank you for participating in to the heroes program, it is nice to see you, but i would like to clarify that i am the commander of azov in the 16th and 17th years, an ex-commander, well, a commander at that time, you were a commander when hostilities took place in the east of ukraine, you defended mariupol, as well. so, as of the morning of june 13 the russians control 70% of north donetsk, the head of the luhansk regional military-civilian administration, serhii gaidai, says about this, about 500 people remain at the nitrogen plant, of which 40 are children of the industrial zone, shelling enemy large-caliber artillery the day before in their in the evening address, volodymyr zelenskyi also spoke about the struggle of the ukrainian military for severodonetsk, luhansk region. let's listen to

how the president of ukraine characterizes the current situation on the eastern front. the key tactical goal of the occupiers has not changed . lysychansk, bakhmut slovyansk, etc., the russian army is trying to establish reserve forces in donbas, but what kind of reserves can they have now? will try to throw into battle poorly trained conscripts and those who were gathered at the expense of hidden mobilization of russian generals consider their people simply as cannon fodder that they need to ensure an advantage in numbers in the number of manpower in the number of military equipment. so this is the opinion and assessment of the situation from the supreme commander-in-chief

of the armed forces of ukraine p. maksym how do you assess the current situation around severodonetsk well, and the prospects of its capture by the russian occupiers because we are talking about two-thirds of the city which, unfortunately, are now controlled by the occupiers for me. this is a difficult question. the fact is that i myself was born in luhansk oblast and spent my entire childhood and adolescence there. i was born in a border city, it is right next to north donetsk, and it was captured even earlier e- as for the situation , i definitely follow it, even though it takes part in hostilities in another direction, and i can say that the situation is, to put it mildly, very difficult for us , the fact is that hmm, despite all the bravery , despite this bravery of ukrainian soldiers who defend luhansk oblast. the fact is that they

are really trying to bombard us with russian meat and equipment, and no one there is counting them, and that is why it is extremely difficult in this regard, because the forces are not commensurate, and the situation there will be difficult in the near future. speaking, i don't see any chances for it to improve there, to improve in this direction, but my vision is that it is necessary to choose uh from tactically convenient positions in order to hold them, sometimes for this you even have to leave some territory thank you mr. maksym sir konstantin, tell me how you assess the current situation and what the enemy will achieve in the event that he does take control of severodonetsk, how will this affect both the eastern and southern fronts, and possibly even the northern, the enemy is conducting an operational-technical retreat operation in the eastern operational zone the purpose of which is the

origin and defeat of a part of a part of the united forces of the armed forces of ukraine, namely that coup that operates in the area of ​​severodonetsk and sechanska, so for this he uses hmm four groups from three of which are performing the main function , which means that the fourth one is engaged in the frontal pushing back of our troops from severodonetsk from an operational-tactical point of view, which means that if we leave the territory of severodonetsk, then well, this does not complain about the general uh. i have i mean, in military terms, um, how he complains about

the general strategic situation, uh, here is uh . by the military well, you mean for him, it is important for the enemy to take the capital of the luhansk region and show that the entire luhansk region is now under the control of the russian ponts before i watched today the summary and evaluations of the american institute for the study of war, they say that the russian forces continue to experience difficulties with the formation of additional combat-ready elements and the ministry of the united kingdom during the last two days says that they are trying to create a third battalion-tactical group, while usually

they can be created with just two words. foreigners say that the russians may simply lack those people who they can throw into battle. to what extent do you agree with these conclusions, or is russia so big and do they have opportunities with -e hidden mobilization together will be enough to continue to send new forces here and well, maybe of a completely different quality, but at least as they say cannon fodder from putin will always come to ukraine, the russians are really feeling now uh lack of personnel because they suffer huge losses along the entire front line in absolutely all directions, they have, er, constant constant losses, they could not transfer almost anyone from under mariupol to the zaporizhzhia direction, because the mariupol garrison was

almost completely destroyed. practically all the units that were transferred there. they they still can't complete the formation of their new marines, which was also almost completely destroyed on the territory of ukraine, and this is happening in all directions, yes, it's true , they have a problem with personnel, but i wouldn't count on it to hope for salvation or there is a turning point the fact is that the russians have a huge, in principle, human resource reserve, and for them it is not a problem to throw further, there will be a battle there, well, not at all , you are not trained personnel, it is not a problem for them, what their commanders there will know banal some basic things because the more experienced will all die on the territory of ukraine, they will continue to throw them throw throw throw their quality will constantly decrease there their effectiveness will decrease but in the plan

numbers, the russians will keep pushing here until they achieve the goals they set for themselves. by the way, the russian aggressors also do not understand why our troops are defeating them and are mobilizing cannon fodder again. 5 months, two and a half months, every day they have tanks tanks tanks tanks tanks i said that mobilization is needed, we will not be able to cope with such a big country, we have come, uh, replenishment has come volunteers were yesterday the day before yesterday, that's when the boy shel the volunteer arrived himself, signed a contract for 6 months, came to us here even this year, when it was fun, it was fun, it was fun, when they brought it, we gave the guy a weapon, a cap, it was adequate. well , because of this sniper, the goat that shoots at the eggs also got a beehive a little lower in the groin.

well, you see, the russians here wanted to receive flowers from grateful ukrainians at the meeting, they receive a bullet upah p konstantin, how is the situation, today is already the 110th day of the great offensive of the russian federation on ukraine , what can be said about those calculations and those forecasts what the russian military did, they obviously still cannot understand what happened during these three months and why the russians actually did not count on a people's war because we are now seeing a people's war in ukraine well, of course, i do not know for sure what calculations the russian military chiefs made there we have strategies, i am not familiar with them for sure, well, at least in terms of e-e. let's put it this way, by the

methods, forms of planning and organization of conducting hostilities, it is possible to understand that certain certain approaches in them are such systematic, principled e-e of course, it means that they are in the first stages of this invasion. let's put it this way, they experienced a fiasco, probably because they did not calculate and planned theirs. and based on completely different circumstances and conditions, but it is worth noting that they are learning well, not as quickly as it was possible, but fortunately , they are correcting their mistakes. thank you, mr. kostyantyn, today is another important date in the

history of the city of mariupol. today is the eighth anniversary of the liberation of this city . maksym zhorin also took part in the liberation of this city. i want to congratulate you from on this date because we all remember what happened in 2014 on june 13 and in 2022. as you say, maksym, mariupol has become a historical shame for the russian federation that will not wash away with the ages. now, several thousand defenders of the city are in captivity who left the azovstal plant a month ago, according to the agreement between ukraine and russia, the russians say that there are about two and a half thousand ukrainian people in captivity, which is much more than what you currently have. maxime, do you know about your brothers in that country, because there are a lot of azov people there

today is indeed the date of the liberation of mariupol, but it is the date of the first liberation of mariupol. i am sure that we will also celebrate the second date of the liberation of this ukrainian city in the 14th year. i took part in this operation directly as one of the stormtroopers in to one of the groups and you know, it is very revealing now to look at what the city looks like after the ukrainian liberation and after the russian capture, then in the 14th year, the city was already living its life after a few hours. there were no destroyed buildings there. the entire infrastructure worked, the city flourished and lived and developed all these years, but if we look today, it will probably be difficult for us to find at least one whole building in this once beautiful place, as for the situation with the

mariupol season, which is now temporarily under the control of the russian federation, that is in principle, the condition in which they are located, the conditions in which they are located, they are satisfactory, now the processes of exchange negotiations are continuing, and the processes of exchanging the bodies of the dead have already moved from place to place we have already been able to carry out two exchanges. the first one was with us - it was 160 by 160 bodies and the second was 60 by 60. all the bodies of the ukrainian heroes that we took are already in kyiv, and now there is a huge amount of work ahead of us regarding recognition of these bodies because most of them are in a terrible condition and visually it is absolutely impossible to know how to identify a person, so it will take a lot of time, but also the negotiations and processes for the return of absolutely everyone who left the

history of growth continue, this is absolutely the marine corps and the border guards and the police and the sbu are absolutely all the heroes who defended mariupol. they must return home and we must work for this every day. it is known that the russians worked very actively to create some kind of myth, a negative myth about the azov regiment and the people of azov. i know that for myself. that over the past month i have been talking a lot with dutch, spanish, portuguese , and italian journalists, and every time they talk about azov, and this was especially the case in may, they say, well, azov is already such a story in the regiment and in people of azov, what do you think, in what way can the world be convinced or stop this russian propaganda, and well, i always say that azov is a part of the armed forces of ukraine, that is, the national guard

of ukraine is an official armed formation. there are no nazis there, neo-nazis, as the russians say, why did the russians concentrate on azov and create such a negative myth and shell for azov, precisely in the west that even the americans doubted that. are there nationalists or nazis there, or are there no prophets? russia really spent an insane amount of money and resources to demonize our unit , first of all, convincing everyone in the west that there are all these mythical, terrible fascists , nazis and similar things in azov, but the point is that all these definitions there are characteristics, well, by which they are defined. if we talk about nazi fascism, then we must understand that it must be based on something , like azov for the entire time of its existence

. and all these eight years, this unit was uh every day on front line and never from there he went out, changing sometimes only internally, rotating units on the front edge, but all this time he was on the defense of ukraine, and during all this time, azov absolutely never claimed, for example, the territory, or never once, like inside, outside, we had problems related to racial, religious, any other issues in general, er, moreover, i always use a very simple example, which is very symbolic, or when i was the commander of the azov regiment, the er, artillery was commanded by one of the commanders in artillery was a person who was born in israel , had a jewish name, a jewish surname, and absolutely nothing prevented him from commanding people in azov , which suggests that he apparently

did not experience any problems in relation to himself, while the entire russian federation time shows exactly this sign of nazism, or it is customary to call it racism, because it is a slightly different, slightly different form, i am actually happy that today many people in the world are already opening their eyes from russian lies and are starting to see the truth about who azov really is and what is happening in ukraine and that azov is exclusively about the protection of the country and about love for ukraine and you don't know anything more about him. azov has always been a structural part of the national guard. and to this day there are already several units in azov, and it is included and not only in the national guard. and there is an azov unit in the armed forces of ukraine, and these are always those units that carry out orders and actually perform combat tasks on the front line for the defense of ukraine.

you won't be able to find other meanings in azov, because azov is only about protection and love for ukraine. by the way, dear viewers, i want to say that today at 10:30 p.m. on our tv channel, the television premiere of a documentary will take place artem shevchenko's film mariupol , the city of the unconquered is dedicated to the events in mariupol in 2014, including the actions of azov during the liberation of mr. kostiantyn's city. captivity a necessary condition for the further exchange of prisoners of war during the last month, we witnessed how the so-called court of the so-called dnr began to pass sentences to those people who fought for ukraine, well, in particular, the death sentence was announced

to three foreigners who fought for our country, the un says that this is a war crime such decisions that the world and ukraine can make, including to protect our military, including from the azov regiment and border guards and representatives of the marines who have now been temporarily captured by of the russian federation so that there would not be these sentences, which he calls a war crime, well, the first thing to do is to ensure that they receive the status of rural prisoners, because er, when people are er, people are prisoners of war, they are prohibited according to the rule of conduct to subject them to some kind of prosecution, if they did not

commit war crimes, and moreover, even if they are prosecuted, it is necessary to prove that these war crimes are connected, that is, it is written that it is necessary to achieve with e, why it is recognized of the status of prisoners of war because, judging by the fact that servicemen of the national guard of the armed forces of ukraine are beginning to be tried there, and it is not clear which jurisdictions, it is not recognized by international law. - these are such structures. well, these tortures, including i understand, are difficult to avoid, especially when it comes to some

self-proclamation of a pseudo-republic, and it is so clear that if president zelensky had not spoken there, because on june 6, on journalist's day, he bbc said that he did not know whether ukrainian soldiers were being tortured in captivity or not, he said that there was no such information. and regarding the so -called tribunal, which i have already mentioned, zelenskyi said that it should not be taken seriously, since the plans of the russians are constantly changing, it is similar to the usual pr said the president of ukraine, can the status of this public prisoner, mr. maksym, save the captive ukrainians because it is in the eyes of the whole world well, at least it was announced that russia and ukraine agreed that the fighters blocked at the azovstal plant will come out and they

they guarantee that their status as a prisoner of war has been transferred and then an exchange is possible. i understand that now it is obvious that there is a lot of closed information that military intelligence is currently dealing with this. i understand that now they are not trying not to talk about it, including president zelensky publicly, and yet first of all, you should understand that after the ukrainian heroes in mariupol became out of touch, relatively speaking, it is extremely difficult to contact them now, in principle, the russians began to distribute a lot of including and the so-called people of ukraine, who were impersonators of the russians, began to spread a lot of completely inadequate information that has no meaning, more precisely , nothing to do with real life, and almost all the

absurdity about the courts about their deportation. complete lies and exclusively information manipulations and provocative such information operations in relation to us to provide all the legal support they need to the world, but i also believe that we are dealing with an absolutely inadequate enemy who does not care about everything, including international rights, and that is why it is extremely important here not only to comply with all the legal subtleties and similar things, it is very important that the whole world rallied and moved to more decisive actions and a tough conversation with the russian federation because it is a country that only understands the language of force and no other language. it does not understand even if it promised something. even if there there were agreements about something - this is

absolutely worthless in the case of the russians, and you can count on the fulfillment of any promises or agreements only when you have at least some tools or strong positions in your hands, and especially when the russians constantly lie because the same human rights commissioner or the so-called commissioner for human rights in the russian federation, tetyana moskalkova, says that in reality, relatives and friends of those who are in captivity do not really want them to return to ukraine, we have a little synchronicity. i hope. now we will listen to him today. a new category is coming to me. it is addressed to the kamensky conferees, and they are not asking me to return their scripts. because they believe that they will either be re-sent to the front or they will be under

the control of the enemy. i am not entirely sure that she she was sober when she said that, but it seems very similar to the fact that she was a little inadequate, mr. kostiantyn, well, such an outright lie, as i say, maybe the eyes are just activated every time, and uh, i understand that this is probably directed at the internal consumer, because well, to say that no one here does not wait for those who are in captivity in russian well, it can only be a russian propagandist or, well, a drunken person , which in this case is from moscow, well, i do not understand your code because well, what do you want from a russian major general the ministry of internal affairs and itself in the cooperation of the human rights commissioner in them human rights and the major general of the ministry of internal affairs eh, from there they wanted to hear something else from her. well, you know

nadiya dies last, especially well, i want at least some kind of adequacy when man is completely inadequate then in the russian government, and the position of the commissioner for human rights of the russian federation is, in essence, a person who is part of the vertical of power, there is no adequate, and no, no, it is not known whether they can be called people, i absolutely agree with this, maksym on april 18, the security service of ukraine published a video in which the detained viktor medvedchuk, the best man of putin, who is accused in ukraine of treason, asked him to exchange for the fighters of e-e azov or the fighters defending mariupol for civilians. it is clear that

the time has already passed, russia was talking about whether we need medvedchuk or not, but in a boyish way, putin shouldn’t just abandon his godfather, can russia, after all, exchange your associates for this state traitor in a liar and putin putin's best man unfortunately, i am convinced that the people of azov have a much greater value for the russians than, uh, this idiot who is not needed by anyone now, who is trying to put at least some kind of price on him in order to change. i very much doubt that at all they will exchange for medvedchuk well, because even for russia these are absolutely not commensurate things, i am sure that we are waiting for you to be exchanged for something somewhere, but it will definitely not be a very high price and for sure it will be uh, for sure it will be non-azovs russia

, in principle, no no to be honest, i have already observed a lot, including inside the processes of exchange of bodies, exchange of prisoners, and i can tell you with confidence that it is extremely difficult to talk about this with the russians, in principle , because they sometimes do not even understand why they, well, why should they return someone, why should they take the bodies of their dead, why should they take captives who are with us, they even sometimes have to explain that these are your people, that they probably even have relatives somewhere who are looking for them we will not understand each other with the russians, we are from completely different worlds and i am sure that we will change the azovians and return home, but most likely it will not be medvedchuk thank you maksym thank you for joining our program this was maksym jurin, former commander of the azov regiment