because it is tactical or strategic, if it is inappropriate, this island is snake, there is a struggle around it. and i am sitting there thinking that the russians will constantly transfer troops there, the ukrainians are trying somehow to prevent this. and is it possible for the ukrainians to bomb this snake island so that it will never be a base for russian e occupiers, and already after the war, we will somehow restore it when there is peace, if we need it, we don’t need it, we don’t need it. well, somehow, in short , we will find a purpose for the existence of this island. is it so necessary today that they are for it? they are fighting, i understand why, because this is ukrainian land. and what can’t we just demolish it? well, just so that no one there can go up there and finish everything in one second, well, management. i think it is now that

such an operation is being carried out, but, well, destroy it physically. well, of course and weapons are not so easy. and to maintain the island, the snake is under constant fire . this is absolutely true, it must mean periodically striking it with artillery rockets and destroying everything that appears there and is brought by the occupiers in order to carry out their task so i think that this is currently being carried out, for this we need a weapon capable of firing at a distance of 35 km ukraine already has such a weapon, andrei, one more question. watch this for the ignorant, like me, for example. look, now

such information has come out that ukraine will receive from the pentagon, ten-meter boats, twelve -meter naval warships, 11-meter ships, and when we see some moscow, which was fortunately sunk by the ukrainian ukrainian army, and we remember what boats are located on the russian side of sevastopol. well then when there was ukrainian and russian, now it is all russian, although it is legally ukrainian here, how much is it, well, a person on the street will say, well, they have forty-meter boats, 100-meter boats, and they give us 11-meter boats, then well, it is generally proportionate. is this some other doctrine in the ukrainian military - the naval forces will be dominated by small ships with a huge composition and combat capabilities, and small boats that will inflict some such

semi-guerrilla attacks, well, first of all, that are needed in the course of assistance, they are formed in to the general staff in the species commands. i understand that this request was formed by the command of the naval forces in connection with the current development of river forces on the dnipro river, and i also know that it is planned to create such forces on the danube river on the river e -e southern bug and dniester because now it takes time because before it was internal waters and now it turns out that some of these waters are already occupied, for example the dnieper, we know that a large part of the dnieper is now under occupation and the enemy is very active there water, so that this does not happen, he

uses the same, the same, fast, uh, he has small boats. by the way, on the island of the snake before , they delivered cargo there, for example, by raptor boats. these are also small boats, but they are armored boats, 15 meters long. now they cargoes are delivered there by ten-meter boats, which are similar to those that will come from the united states of america, that is, these small boats are for operations on rivers, at sea, at sea, we need more boats with other capabilities, and these boats have to introduce and carry out how to protect ports er-e means in coastal waters and to protect convoys and boats that should be able to carry out missile attacks and non-missile weapons, but there are promises about the

supply of such weapons about help from western partners. are we still at sea? they don’t help very much, well, before the war, we planned to supply mark-6 boats, which is just of this class, and we planned to build british missile boats, the project of this was already practically agreed upon a boat that had a displacement of about 500 t, a length of 55 m, that is, it is such a light corvette , but now you understand how to build it somewhere, and now the priority is these river forces. i think they are already again. the crew must be prepared as soon as possible crews will be trained, then i think there will be further expansion and we need to move from the rivers to the sea. but we don’t need to mirror the russians

because, by the way, their fleet is the main task of the black sea fleet and the projection of power in the mediterranean sea and in a car and this cruiser moscow, which was sunk two months ago, and its main combat tasks were in the mediterranean sea and in the atlantic, the destruction of the air strike groups of nato countries, primarily the usa and great britain, the fact that we are destroying it is a very big gift to nato, namely the forces acting against us. they are all were still ready. these are nine missile ships located in crimea and capable of firing caliber missiles. missiles that were also fired recently by these holidaymakers at our ships, these are 18 ships, this is the

number one target, we have to fight with this, now we have such capabilities, there is a coastal complex, a harpoon , he is already trusted, i think so, he is now preparing to destroy these ships, but we need a surface front, which unfortunately we don't have now mr. andrii, look at one more maybe one last question. does anyone have experience in conducting river wars? the last time i heard about it was when mykonos, vietnam, there were big icons for rivers. hostilities there, the americans fought with the red communist government of vietnam, and the soviet union helped there, in short, there was experience , they understood what to do on the rivers, now someone has such experience in ukraine, in the american world there is such experience, and there are enough americans, i'm sure they

also have ships, or rather boats, there are tactics of use. this is very important for us, because we have many river ports . a danger to the economy and the country. our nuclear power plants are located on rivers. well , we have a lot of them. we are an agricultural country. we have a lot of these mineral fertilizers. they are stored on the banks of rivers in ports, and this is what needs to be protected and provided for. so on. thank you very much mr. andrii. thank you. captain of the first

rank of the reserve of the military intelligence forces of ukraine. of such a military-civilian administration, but for now we have time to talk a little. mykola wanted to ask you about what some analytical experts write. i read an article literally an hour ago. we don’t have to wait for putin’s death, they say it will be in two or three years. and so on. why do you think such theses are still being heard, we don’t have to wait for putin’s death, we now see that it’s not only putin, not only putin, but the truth is that putin is killing ukrainians, and the russian military plus good russians are supported, what percentage, i would always be there i think strongly when during an interview sociological

80% refuse to be interviewed, i.e. when we say 80% are for the war with ukraine, it is 50% of those who agreed to answer the questions, we do not know why, firstly, secondly, there are two two answers and both are interesting, well, there is an answer that he really may be sick, and the second is not clear to me, but since he has the kgb in his head, it could be a 152 special operation to spread such rumors that he is sick and will die now. why don’t i know that i have my head doesn't work like that to come up with ideas let me pretend to be sick and then what will be unknown , yes, for what? that is why there is an option that he is really sick, yes , because he changes his face very often

. they become ruddy, maybe it's a beauty operation, maybe it's beauty, or maybe there's something else, we don't know, but we can't rule out that it's just these kinds of pranks, which are indian, and with luck, he'll really speak very well tomorrow, yes, it was, but i'm extra, but i 'm very often i argue about this i am convinced that this will give a-ah a big break, because i know that in the history of russia, after such dark times , there have never been dark times again. there is always such a thaw. it may be small, it may be small, but it is possible or you happen, that's why i think they will start looking for zno again . any contacts, please apologize again and find something in common. well, you live here, it already depends on our senior management, get in touch with us

serhii legenky, deputy head of the avda military-civilian administration, mr. serhii, greetings, glory to ukraine, well, tell us about the situation that you observe around you because we are completely confused here, then they tell us that severodonetsk is already captured, then they say that it is not captured, then the british say that even if they capture it in radenetsk and lysychansk, it will still not help the russians, strategically, it means nothing. well, in short, what about you ? will you say that the situation in our city continues to remain steadily tense, the enemy is constantly shelling the civilian infrastructure, first of all, for example, this morning there were direct hits from hail on the hospital building. where even well and near the military, of course, they don’t stand there, which these people will then periodically throughout the day also

shelling the city from residential buildings to the civilian infrastructure. yes, you avoided the question about severodonetsk. they remain unchanged, they reliably defend the military, that's why the enemy has not advanced a centimeter in our country. this makes us happy, and what do you think? well, as an expert, it's simple, but was it necessary to hold the industrial zone for so long? north donetska it's hard for me to answer this question well, here in lviv there were very big discussions and there were people who, not unreasonably , believed that it was necessary to keep going and there were people

who said that it was necessary to leave two weeks ago and to meet people and that there are better prepared positions there, if you can't talk about it, do n't talk, we don't insist. thank you, but this is our ukrainian land. that's why you need to defend everything except military affairs, you have medicine , the possibility of evacuation, ah, me, bread, sausage, water everything is there, look, there are a few shops operating in the city, but mostly, well, that’s enough, their small number of guards, 35 are working now, only two situations say that some kind of humanitarian crisis has occurred there , no, because stocks were made, stocks are stocks, there are not only drivers, or stocks, there are also a number of higher cities that are also ours and drive to the city, but three days

ago the enemy attacked the sixth school where the humanitarian headquarters was located and the bulk of humanitarian aid to our residents was usually located there and it is for today at all how are you do you still have such a question as a military one? did our defenders slow down the russian offensive in the east, well, in our area , yes, because they shifted the main force to luhansk in order to maintain such a degree. they always continue to shell the civilian infrastructure. okay well, what have you gone on? and if there is still a need for evacuation, tell me and then we will let you go, of course, we are constantly conducting this work regarding evacuation, we take people out, but not so many of them are leaving today, well, how about us i wanted to, that is, today. for example, there were seven people

yesterday. 14 but this is not such a big number. most of the people also remain among those who remain and do not want to simply leave . square meters yes yes precisely because this is their home they are here we were born here we were born here we will live we survived 15 we survived 14 we survived 17 the club is a hospitable place he is like that he is the sharpest i think they will move now too but today is completely different case today as a person dies and during the day it also happens. this is a people's choice, they cannot be forced , but still a request to really protect your life. anna, square meters is the most important thing today serhii legenky was with us. thank you very much , you did not say everything, we understand that you could not the deputy head of the avdiiv military-civilian administration and oleksandr

kovalenko, the military-political columnist of the information group, oppose us and we really hope that mr. oleksandr will still be more verbose and will be able to answer our questions let's start a conversation about severodonetsk , oleksandr, was it necessary to hold severodonetsk for so long, in particular, this industrial zone where our military was concentrated, and can it be officially said that they left there, because except for gaidai, no one seems to have confirmed it, so congratulations on receiving the territory uh, i think that it was useful and why. well, we have been watching for more than three weeks, and the armed forces of ukraine actually blocked the offensive . the russian group of troops, it was the overwhelming number of one to ten and 1 to 20 in terms of personnel

, as well as means of defeat, such as, again, barrel-reactive artillery and others. and that is, during this very time, we enabled some of our units to do what was necessary and precisely to implement counteroffensive actions in other directions, for example, on the southern bridgehead and so on, and in general to understand the situation that is currently developing, namely on almost all bridgeheads at the same time, and the southern bridgehead is kherson and zaporizhzhia oblast and the donbas bridgehead and kharkiv bridgehead and it is necessary to understand that the armed forces of ukraine do not have the ability to implement almost all of these fruitless scenarios, for example, scenarios for contour offensive actions or simultaneously for blocking defensive actions and why because what is necessary for this is necessary for this a-a a certain

resource. similarly, the russian occupiers cannot implement, for example, some massive offensive actions in almost all directions, or maintain sufficiently effective one or the other bridgehead precisely because when we block a certain direction of the offensive actions of the russian occupiers , we can implement contour offensive actions in other directions exactly when we now let 's talk about severodonetsk, these are the same and three, more than three weeks of blocking these offensive actions, what happened during this week what exactly was happening, for example, counteroffensive actions were taking place on the southern bridgehead in the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions why because they lacked exactly the russian occupiers lacked the resources to to maximally strengthen their groups of troops on these bridgeheads to carry out defensive actions, and ukraine

had the opportunity to counteroffensive because in other directions, for example, at the donbas bridgehead, instead of mass counteroffensive actions, we blocked their advance . actions, for example, in the north donetsk region, that is, it is still necessary to evaluate the situation that is happening in a more rational way, oleksandr look, you can confirm or deny at your discretion, because it can be a military secret, many experts say that lysychansk is much more convenient to defend than severodonetsk, i'm a small expert, but i say that lysychansk is simply higher than it to shoot at severodonetsk, so actually, uh, actually , this discussion was that let's withdraw earlier to better positions and then

stand in lysychansk and fire at the russians in north donetsk and they will have no overflows there. this is the true version. in general, yes, but it must be noted attention to some points, first of all, if we are talking about the fact that north donetska had to be withdrawn earlier, uh, no, i think not, because, after all , uh, no matter how difficult it is, this is precisely the blocking of russian offensive opportunities in north donetska they made it possible for the russian occupiers, let's say , to move part of the forces and resources to north donetsk, well, it was quite a long time. this what did they do? we have a situation where they have now

concentrated a very large number of their forces and resources in this area. and what to do next? go to lysychansk. and up to this point, there was a regrouping and a forced regrouping of russian units, first of all, because they, well , again after all, we totally blocked, we made some improvements to our defensive positions near lysychansk, that is, i mean the fortifications and the planning of the defense of lysychansk, taking into account the events that we saw from north donetsk, what forces and means were used, and because, well, the russians are also learning, again, the introduction of hostilities against the armed forces of ukraine. they see what we can do. we are learning little by little, but not so much, of course, more effectively. but it is not so useful for them, they primarily

do bet exactly a on the use of its number, both personnel and equipment, but precisely lysychansk. now, after all, we were able to prepare defensive positions that were more effective, let's say, that worked against this very of the number of the enemy group of troops than it would have been, for example, two or three weeks ago, it is very important now, i apologize well, how to voice it, oleksandr, deputy minister of defense hanna malyar harshly criticized the discussion on social networks of the withdrawal of units of the armed forces of ukraine, severodonetsk, because it disrupted the plans of the command all that can be said about at this moment are official sources of the general staff and the ministry of defense, a public demonstration by civilians of awareness that the proceeds of military operations and messages about it in social networks before official statements of the general staff partially disrupts military operations, as it was yesterday and the day before yesterday regarding severodonetsk, when they

simply did not allow the armed forces to complete the planned work. yes, gaidai serhii gaidai confirmed this as the head of the civil administration of the luhansk region, and also yuriy botusov, a well-known journalist and editor-in-chief of the censor. not, are we doing harm now or not and taking into account what we say and of course when open sources, for example, information such as geolocation or coordinates or the moral and psychological state of these or other units, the number of these units, what exactly is the situation of these units, and the moral and psychological and other not only e well, for example, how much equipment? how many ammunition does this really

harm? yes, and even more harm, i faced such a situation in 2020 when i covered the events in karabakh when... azerbaijan, i bought a part of karabakh, as he managed to do it during the 44-day war, that's when i noticed such a very interesting thing, officially at the official level in baku, they reported the liberation of certain settlements of numbers well, almost much later than they actually were liberated in the same way, any situation that had a development exactly a-a in real in real time in karabash, it was highlighted much later , that is, i understood why this was done, many people knew , for example, when certain populations were liberated point, but they didn't talk about it in open sources

, because it harmed the development of the de-occupation operation, so i understand very well the situation with the armed forces of ukraine right now, when they are moving in a contour in some directions, in others there is a tactical retreat and a departure from positions and that's why you don't need to talk about it, but when you say it in some kind of projection, well, planning. so what can it be? that's not a confirmation of why it plays. still, it's very well . at what time in the past, the future, the present, and not directly saying that it happened or that it already is. but this is actually it, i see it with my own eyes. ugh, you heard. yes, that’s not the question for

you. look, it’s been going on for a very long time, maybe a month, maybe even more, many people are talking about the fact that the russian troops are here, and the americans generally say that the offensive impulse is over. someone else will say what this means, they are already tired . oleksandr, because we already see counter-offensive actions somewhere, you just now gave an example in the south. but we see a halt to a certain extent of progress there in the lysychansk region, we see heavy fighting around the raisin, but they are already going on for two months, uh-uh, that is there is no such thing as a victory of promotion, not from the ukrainian side, not from the russian side, but we constantly say that now

they will exhaust themselves, they will exhaust themselves, they will not have enough there, when it can happen and whether it will happen at all oh, i think so, i really think so why, because we have seen and where, for example , russian troops in chernihiv and kyiv and sumy regions, in fact, they are not there now, and we do not see that russian troops are directly located, not even that they are blocking kharkiv completely, as they did at one time with mariupol, when mariupol was completely surrounded, we do not see that they had the opportunity to advance now to the dnipro, that they were near the dnipro and directly zaporizhzhia or kryvyi rih, they were also blocked and surrounded

that is, what does this say? they do not have the opportunity to carry out, first of all, quite fast, rapid advances, offensive actions, etc. and we also see how they use already old soviet equipment - this is the exhaustion of their technical potential, we see it as tanks t two ta pt -76 they now, er, delivered a rather serious blow to the territory of ukraine, precisely from the airspace of belarus. of the soviet model ha22 tah-59, they cannot now use cruise missiles of the caliber and other more or less modern strikes on these territories from their own territory, that is why they started i must kill you in us a minute and the official

information about severodonetsk appeared, the occupiers were completely enraptured severodonetsk head of the severodonetsk military-civilian administration , oleksandr stryuk, reports that, according to him, the city has already appointed its commandant, you can leave the city only to the territory under the control of the occupiers to sum it up, now we can talk about it a few times, too, say it's bad. it's good that we lost what we could have achieved during this time, so far we've been holding out for one minute , mr. oleksandr . oleksandr said that, after all, we achieved success in other areas, in particular, in the kherson region, for this, as oleksandr said, the goal was to hold on to severodonetsk. voiced by iryna kovalya and you write yours for now