an essay on some website about where and how the presenters of this marathon behaved before and before the ofigenstva as a real i would say a public intellectual can be relevant i would say ukrainian patriots absolutely how many minutes already, in fact, there are no minutes left, we pass the microphone to our colleagues from radio svoboda, which has always been engaged in reporting realistically about those who are agents and who are not agents, have not listened to them for ten years. and here we have what we have, everything is fine, thank you very much, take care, see you soon the ukrainian army is leaving severodonetsk, what does

this decision mean and how will the battles for luhansk region end? is russia preparing to attack the baltic states or is nato ready for this ? and on youtube, as well as on the espresso tv channel, you can leave your comments and questions in the chat under the broadcast ukrainian forces that held the defense of north donetsk in the luhansk region were ordered to withdraw to new positions this was reported to the head of luhansk ova, serhiy gaidai. according to him, there is such a situation in north donetsk that it makes no sense to stay in positions that have been broken for many months, because at the same time, neither the general staff nor the ministry of defense have

commented on this information. it will take time to get out of the city, they say this is a matter of not an hour or a day, there is currently no question of the retreat of lysychansk - he said, and according to the calculations of the local authorities, there are about 7-8 thousand left in north donetsk the population of lysychansk was 10,000 before the large-scale invasion of russia, each of these cities had 100,000 people over the past few days, russian forces have made significant gains in the severodonetsk-lysychansk area and ukrainian forces continue to suffer moderate losses, according to a current review by the american institute for the study of war analytics at the same time, they emphasize that the ukrainian forces mainly achieved their goal in the battle by slowing down the advance of the russian forces. well, despite the fact that the ukrainian forces are leaving north donetsk, as i said

, there is no talk of leaving lysychansk yet, and it is known that, but at the same time, it is known that lysychansk is heavily shelled, the roads and bridges leading to the city are being bombarded by russian forces from helicopters, the head of luhansk, serhiy gaidai, said this what is happening in lysychansk itself, we will show further.

well, the analysts of the institute for the study of war, which i have already mentioned, continue to claim that the loss of severodonetsk and lysychansk will not be a serious turning point in this war about the situation on in luhansk oblast, in particular, in severodonetsk and lysychansk, we will continue to talk from minute to minute , yuriy butusov , a journalist who, by the way, also reported that ukrainian troops are beginning to withdraw from severodonetsk and yuriy butusov, should appear with us. as far as i understand this time he is also in luhansk region from minute to minute, i hope to appear. well, in the meantime, i will say that the general staff announced that they will not comment on the information about the possible withdrawal of ukrainian troops from the city of severodonetsk and at the moment, the hottest point is being reported there and they are asking for a section of the front and they are asking representatives of the

state authorities to give the armed forces of ukraine the opportunity to report on the actions of the ukrainian army independently later on the information that is open and well, as there is traditionally called to believe in the armed forces of ukraine well and but at the same time e-e to the general staff confirmed that the population points in the southern and southeastern directions of severodonetsk remain the most dangerous for living and staying there, i will remind the local authorities to the latter called on the local residents to evacuate but not all people listened and in particular about six hundred people are still in the industrial zone and severodonetsk at the nitrogen plant in the bomb shelters there and e.e. the head of the luhansk region serhii gaidai literally yesterday during our broadcast said that these people have there is no other way out than to go to the controlled territory controlled by the so-called group of the lpr and surrender and obviously these people are waiting for

filtering and from minute to minute we are waiting for yuriy butusov, but so far there are problems with communication, he can't connect with the studio. well, in the meantime, slovyansk is preparing for the offensive of russian troops, the city and villages that are nearby, along with other units, are being defended by the fighters of the territorial defense of the kramatorsk district, the villages remain the hottest dolyna and bogorodichna tell me that yuriy butusov has been contacted. i hope that he is. if there is, we will return to sloviansk a little later. yuriy, can you hear us? i hear you well. it's great that we were able to contact you. the situation in to the luhansk region, i understand that you are directly somewhere in severodonetsk. can you tell me whether the withdrawal of the ukrainian troops from there is already taking

place ? the withdrawal of the ukrainian troops from there has already taken place. i will refute the local authorities, what are their powers, my understanding, i said what, in my opinion, it is necessary to say that no one was forgotten and everyone left. in the area of ​​the front that i saw there, the front is very large , but in those two areas where there was expression, let it be said that it is important for people to know what is behind this issue, control was not a chaotic process, it is important to know and understand that there was no chaos , everything was made possible on a large scale area of ​​the front that i know about in order to check

the presence of all fighters withdraw weapons as much as possible do not leave heavy weapons to the enemy to take away and the entrance was organized quickly and people did their best maybe under these conditions yuriy tell me please, what strategic meaning did this long defense of north donetsk have, in my opinion, it was a political decision by the leadership of the state, which in principle was not tied to the tactical necessity, well, it was a political decision that it was necessary to hold on and people only complied with what was necessary and left quite by order. and can you clarify, if possible , what was the purpose of this political decision, maybe it

was a calculation that we would get this city for as long as possible and uh well, it’s difficult for me honestly saying how many times i was there in the process in the very place from the very beginning of the battles for this city well, not only me, i can now say the position of all the soldiers who were there that uh, in these conditions, this defense it was pure heroism and you can be proud and it is necessary to be proud of the fact that many ukrainian soldiers, perfectly understanding all the shortcomings of their position and our position, nevertheless did everything possible in order to get every kilometer, every meter, every

house that they had to protect for as long as possible, and a lot people fought to the end and in this way held shirodnetsk, this is the story of such a very great solid heroism yuriy, how did you continue exclusively on heroism and did you see any signs that luhansk oblast will be able to be cut off from the rest of ukraine in the coming days? in principle, i want to tell you that everything depends on two things, from the supply of ammunition and, secondly, from the organization of the management of centralized management in the

battle area, therefore, in principle, these two factors can in principle, to stop the russian offensive, the russians do not suggest anything, of course, the quality of our troops is sufficient, the motivation is much higher than that of the enemy, there are certain problems that must be solved by the command, it must still, in my opinion, review the tactics of political actions, whose contribution must still be understood now, the administrative construction of which taking not a step not a step back it was justified in february in march everything that could somehow be explained in april but now after the transition of the war into a protracted war for the destruction of the whole

of the ukrainian state. that is, we see that russia is not going to just take some political steps, there are limits somewhere, but they want to destroy ukraine as a state, and all their tactics are now specially adjusted , and we also need to change the situation. knowledgeable in this field, today the american publication politikus, citing sources, reports that it is alleged that volodymyr zelenskyy intends to fire the head of the sbu, ivan bakanov, you have always watched closely processes around the sbu, how true can this information be? and who can replace bakanov, maybe. do you have any thoughts on this matter, and i don’t know what they look like? the war showed that the security service simply made very serious failures because

of close family and friendly relations with the president the sbu did not react in any way to the numerous facts of contacts with the leadership of the president's office by russian methods, and this is a real dust- up and they kept quiet, covered up and gave them an assessment . and now the war has shown that this truce is immeasurable what the ukrainian people were fed to us by the government's public relations officers, unfortunately, it was ultimately a preparation for a covert move that the enemy deliberately implemented thanks to the assistance of high-ranking officials under the president.

the war will replace him, but it will not be replaced by some other friend, relative, or business partner of the president, everyone has at least a person who understands that these are once blogs capable of managing the special service under time of war yuriy thank you for your comment yuriy butusov journalist who is in luhansk oblast yuriy take care thank you alexander lukashenko is visiting russia again kremlin media reports that the next time putin lukashenko will meet in the belarusian city of grodno on june 30 as part of the forum of the regions of belarus and russia grodno if you look at the map, it is very close to the polish and lithuanian borders. whether putin will dare to physically appear in person, so far his spokesman dmytro piskov has not directly answered this question. in the meantime, answers to the military, political experts are trying to answer the question, why exactly is

putin going to the group? some say he will go there to finally persuade lukashenka to attack ukraine and thereby distract ukrainian forces from the eastern or kharkiv front. others are paying attention to the situation in lithuania . banned the transit of sanctioned russian goods through its territory to the kaliningrad region, the kremlin promises to respond , maybe putin is going to negotiate with lukashenka about the implementation of some kind of provocation on the territory of lithuania or another scene will then try to take control of the suval corridor that opens the way to kaliningrad, at least this scenario is voiced by the military expert mykhailo samus, in this case it will be the first in the history of the invasion of the territory of ukraine by nato and, among other things, the baltic states to such the scenario is treated as quite realistic . now the baltic countries are in favor of adopting a nato strategy that provided for the protection of the territory from the first day of the attack. currently, nato's plan for the defense estonia, latvia, lithuania predicts that the countries will be released only after 180 days, says

the prime minister of estonia, kaia kavas, during this time, she says that estonia can be erased from the scandals about the danger about the security in europe and the danger and the new strategy of nato, we will talk further with us in touch oleksiy ezhyak expert of the national institute of strategic studies good evening well , first of all, what do you think, will putin decide to go to grodno, because if so, it will be his first visit outside of russia since the beginning of the invasion obviously, this will mean something. well, he can come, and i think it depends on his general condition, how he feels here, he has no political restrictions, is he afraid or not afraid, that is the same question. when will the so-called direct line with the people be established? for some reason it is postponed, for some reason there are changes in putin's schedule, they say that it is related to his personal health. i also think that it is

because if he does not go, it is only because of this, not because of the reasons that he is afraid of a new escalation, and precisely from the point of view of escalation, it is it is important because it is actually russia no longer has real forces for a major escalation, but with political escalation it can push and push all those scenarios that you mentioned about involving belarus directly in the war with ukraine, blowing up residential buildings in a belarusian lake in order to drag belarus into the war, do you think these things somehow connected, all of this is connected, it is really important for putin and at first it was not important to involve him precisely to achieve

the possibility of direct participation of belarus in the war because belarus was left with such and such an option a decision was made to withdraw from this war and it was recorded in one of the osce decisions that as long as belarus does not directly involve its troops, it only provides territory, then belarus does not want to be a participant in this war, although sanctions are imposed, but they are not considered in the context of this war crimes or direct participation in the war, that is , lukashenka has the option to jump out of this war and he is trying to do so. this game continues now, another stage, another stage is connected with the fact that in belarus there is even less money than in russia in belarus lacks real financial resources. it seems to me that

putin feels that he can try to push once more in the baltic countries i mentioned. they are seriously concerned. will nato be able to respond quickly? if putin really decides on some provocations, or even an invasion of one from the baltic countries and what are these fears based on, well here , er, perhaps a little more explanation is needed, er , we are talking about nato's determination to defend the baltic countries, but from the very beginning of the discussion of the issue membership of the baltic states in nato in the late 1990s, there were discussions about how to practically protect them within the framework of the fifth article of the washington treaty, and such a strategy was adopted, it consisted in the fact that the forces that are constantly there they must give a certain time to the person varnish in order for nato as an

organization to react and one of the extreme scenarios . i think it is precisely about him that we are talking about now that if russia invades the baltic countries, as it has now invaded ukraine with armies, guards, there with police, various pike, that is in order to collect troops for de-occupation can be achieved in three months to gather armies, gather e-e divisions, gather aviation and vot and defeat the russian troops in a large influx, but this does not mean that this is the only scenario and vot now such a situation has occurred. as far as i understand that for the baltic countries in general, it became clear to the nato countries that the level of acceptability of the occupation has decreased after irpeni and buchi. everyone understands that the level of acceptability has decreased , that is, such a situation may occur that even with

a small partial occupation, such countries relatively small compared to ukraine, they may simply not be able to withstand this, they have a smaller reserve than ukraine, and because of this, here are the statements that he made now regarding the 18 insufficiency of protection, this is not about nato's determination, but about the increase of stable and e troops that are located the very beams of the beam countries and the troops that are there now are deployed to such a level that it becomes unacceptable for russia . they endure, and there was such a conditional inclination that if something like this happens, then maybe it will be very difficult. that is, i don't think that now it

is about the fact that russia can once again create such a situation as in ukraine on the same scale simply there are no forces in russia, but the level of acceptability of any provocation of any military idea of ​​russia has decreased, this level of acceptability therefore needs greater protection, and as for the probability that russia will dare to take such an action against a nato country, she did not think that's all still remains relatively small. but really, the life and infrastructure of the baltic countries is now clear that this is too important, taking into account the fact that russia is acting in a war without e-e without observing the norms of international humanitarian law and with a flagrant violation of all these norms, well, actually at the end of the day we , the times, referring to our sources in nato, reported that to report that moscow conducted simulated missile strikes on estonia and this

was already confirmed in estonia that they confirmed this information and we know that at the end of june will happen themselves. that is, where exactly are the baltic countries demanding that he become a cold shower for russia? can you explain what is meant by increasing the presence of troops in these countries or something else? well, first of all, increase the presence of troops and possibly change the strategy, not more offensive, that is something, well, a declaration that in the event of an attack by russia on the baltic states or on any nato country, the hostilities will not be limited to the territory of the attack. and that certain, uh, certain strikes on the territory of russia are also possible, perhaps this is what we are talking about here about such a cold shower, perhaps it is about new sanctions, perhaps well, i think this one is about the fact that in

the event of an attack by russia on any nato country, the answer will be that there will almost be russia, and i think it is precisely about what is the threat escalation that in the event of an attack even on small estonia, hostilities will be for russia, er, to have a much larger geography, please understand that there is the second russian capital, st. petersburg, which putin himself said was rebuilt on the territories captured in sweden, thank you very much for comment oleksiy ezhyak - an expert of the national institute of strategic studies was on radio svoboda, thank you russian military launched a missile attack on kostyantynivka in the donetsk region, as a result of which at least one person was killed this was reported by the head of odesa ova pavlo kyrylenko , after the news of shelling, the correspondent of radio svoboda in donetsk went to kostyantynivka

serhiy gorbatenko, he is now in touch with us serhii u my greetings to you i congratulate you who i want to note that the russian troops shelled yesterday, not only kostiantynivka, i am in slovyansk, slovyansk was also shelled, and it is typical for these shellings, it was cluster munitions, according to my information, several neighborhoods were hit, but at the moment there is no information about destruction or casualties. as for kostiantynivka, it is a rocket hit the territory of the city boiler house, there is a huge crater, part of the building is destroyed, cars are destroyed, unfortunately there are two victims, and the electrician who was on duty at the boiler house at the time and miraculously died a woman guarding the territory there survived . when the shelling began, she was just in the room and the floor slab turned out to be so that the

woman was not hit by a little collapse, but luckily she was taken out of the elevator and taken to the hospital, here are the employees of the boiler house, currently spreading their hands and talking about the unknown how will the heating season in kostyantynivka now pass, because this boiler house heated one of the large neighborhoods, besides the boiler house, there is also destruction on the territory of the fire station, there is also one fire truck there received such damage, in addition, windows were broken in the surrounding houses and the cultural center was also damaged, and i suggest you listen to what the eyewitnesses of this shelling say. the boiler itself that will work even more envy of that will be ego already on the

tool the equipment is working on the broken one i understand 100 times this is also where a man died here yes, the man is an electrician himself and he worked here at night, they were on duty, that's it, that's the same here, the women fell a little. well, live, but the guy is not, oh, i can't even say what i feel. here's to you, and the russian world has come. well, it's all clear at once. why did we fly here ? there were some military objects flying there, there is nothing at all here, that's all гражданская всё also, the russian troops are receiving attempts to attack the slavic areas , the ukrainian military is holding back these attacks and literally half an hour ago and i was driving along the highway of the city and it was noticeable that hostilities continue in the urban-type village of ryhorodok, it is located in the direction of uh, there is a possibility of an attack of russian troops

from the side of the occupied estuary, also in this ryhorodok . horbatenko works in donetsk region well, let's return to the european perspective of ukraine, the day before i remind the leaders of the countries of the european union at the summit in brussels supported the granting of candidate status to the eu for of ukraine and moldova how such a decision was made and what was left behind the scenes of yesterday's discussion will be told by zoryana stepanenko, who followed the process directly in brussels, the motorcades of european leaders one by one stop by the building that is symbolically called europe , the usual meeting place in brussels, but it is this one that starts the next summit a new page in ukrainian history, we will once again show solidarity with ukraine and also make an important decision for the

european perspective of ukraine, this will have consequences for europe and, of course, directly for ukraine and its efforts, the state in the east of the european continent has long been heading west, despite russia's attempts to prevent it with war, a full-scale attack only prompted ukraine to declare more loudly and persistently where to the european union and brussels to reciprocate what was not so long ago and hoped for ukraine is fighting for their freedom and in my opinion , ukrainians fully respect all european values ​​and fight not only for themselves but for the freedom of the entire democratic world, they are very brave and effective in the fight against the aggressor, but they need political support to protect ukraine in the fight for it already inside the european union, its entire eastern flank was put up by those who are geographically closer to russia and know better than it politically to be as far as possible from it, they had to be convinced