our guest on the live broadcast right now is donetsk region, but the history of civilians is also very important. yes, it is true. andrii ilenko, a fighter of the freedom legion, contact me, who is currently in donetsk region. congratulations to andriy. good morning, we are glad to see you. please share the latest news . actually from donetsk region, what does the operational situation look like at this hour, please , the operational situation looks like this: the enemy is regrouping on one side, on the other side, the hostilities do not subside for a minute and accordingly, we see attempts to attack in some directions a-a, but they are all conjured because the ukrainian defense forces are ambitious, and to date, in none of the places where the enemy tried to advance, he has not succeeded, e-e, ukrainian soldiers firmly and systematically hold

their determination that is, we understand that it affects, first of all, the fighting spirit of the ukrainian army . but the long-range artillery, which was handed over to us by our western partners, has also started to play a very important role. i think everyone has noticed that in the last few days, we have already, in a good sense, gotten used to the fact that ammunition depots are constantly exploding in the good rear, logistics centers and headquarters are constantly exploding, and this is of course a very positive factor, which, in many ways, changes the logic of this war in general, and with another aerial activity and carries out criminal strikes, and the night before, volodymyr zelenskyi in his video message talked about the rocket attack by the russian occupiers on the city of yar in donetsk region and said that this is a terrible crime

and that those who give orders for such strikes are in fact, nazis and nazi murderers are now being found all over the world, they are being tried even when they are 96 years old, so that the world will not forget this. and let us remind you that this attack took place the day before and 15 people died under the rubble, and 23 more people were rescued yesterday as of evening . the head of donetsk ava kirylenko informed about this. what do you know about this, mr. andrii, and how can we comment on this terrible crime, which once again shocked the whole country and the whole world, a terrible tragedy, and i can say that what happened in the time gap is actually another page in this tragic book of the crimes of the russian occupiers on ukrainian land, that is, they do not need to look for

logic in their actions. morals , these are bastards and you see what they bring, they talk about what they are freeing there, what do they mean, they want to liberate donbas, but at the same time, they are just systematically destroying the cities of donbas, razing them to the ground they kill the civilian population and thereby show their absolute inhuman animal nature, i can say that on the one hand it is a terrible tragedy and an eternal memory for all the dead, on the other hand it causes anger in ukrainian soldiers and shows that this bastard is not for nothing under no circumstances should they be allowed to advance further so that they could kill further so that they could bombard more and more cities and villages and they must be driven from our land. what

does the situation look like? i will try to capture the enemy along the route. there is 40 e british military intelligence about it. reported and quoted in you by the british ministry of defense that the russian invaders continue targeted attacks along the highway connecting donetsk and kharkiv . and actually this control over the highway connecting donetsk and kharkiv is a strategic goal of the russians in their attempts to advance through the donetsk region what does it look like through the eyes of the soldiers, the shelling is going on, but there is no question of cutting this route, and the ukrainian troops are firmly holding the defense , so sometimes there are very difficult conditions, sometimes there are very difficult circumstances, but at the moment, there are no changes in the front line. there are none. this is how the events in donbas can develop. how do you feel about it as a politician, as a soldier? well,

today i am more of a soldier than a politician - we will leave that for after the victory. i can say that the situation is as follows. we all perfectly understand that the enemy will continue to try to conduct offensive actions and i can say that absolutely well, here is my personal opinion . i do not pretend to be a forecaster, but i believe that a very serious new stage of the battle for donbas awaits us, and we are preparing, in particular, our the battalion that came as part of the fourth brigade of the operational assignment of the national guard is very serious and i consider heroic battles in the frontier in siverskyi donetsk and continues to prepare for the next battles and we are doing everything to meet the enemy in such a way that he doesn't seem too close to it. that is we all understand very well that the war

continues, when they say there is a pause, it is not a pause , it is all very conditional and there is always such a concept as what incites, the only thing is that once again i want to say that , after all, how has the situation changed in my look, two factors are very important, the first is the western long-range artillery, these are already legendary high-mars, they usually do a fantastic job , on the other hand, this is the huge loss of the enemy, so, unfortunately, there are three for us, a tragedy, what a loss of each of our fighters - this is a tragedy for us, but we must understand that the enemy is suffering much more losses, an order of magnitude more, and today they already have problems with this too. that is, they need to somehow replace those who they lost, they need, let's say, to saturate their units again with cannon fodder and accordingly, this factor is also their exhaustion because well, for the battles for the same severodonetsk there and

they, i think very seriously, they were detained very seriously, they were exhausted, at the same time, they were not able to surround our troops. they were not able to inflict any kind of defeat on them that is, all our troops , including the most combat-ready, the most experienced , the most hardened, they are in line and are ready to continue to defend their native land, and in the future to drive this pillowcase of the ukrainian land, mr. andrii . well, after all, you are not only a soldier, a soldier, but also a political leader, for me personally, this is an extremely important factor, and it is valuable that our most active and best leaders, representatives of ukrainian civil society, ukrainian politicians do not sit on facebook or in resorts, but with weapons in their hands today fight back the enemy at the hottest points, like andrii illenko this is done, who is a representative of the glorious lenka family, the famous director

of the legendary cameraman yuriy illenka, i always remember this when i talk to you, i think how many of our viewers, but your impressions are still interesting. you wrote about this the day before in your blog. how do you see the people of donbas in general, do you manage to communicate with the civilian population? and what do people say about this war? the war is obvious. we will have to rebuild and regenerate in all senses of the word. you know, i am from kyiv. i have lived in kyiv all my life. my family there is from central ukraine. i don’t have any relatives in donbas. it happened quite superficially, i was familiar with this region not so often, but now i can say that well, there are a lot of myths that were created about donbas, in particular, by russian propaganda, they are being destroyed before our eyes, that is, there is a problem, i don’t want to say that everything is fine, everything is fine, i don’t

i look at things pragmatically with enemy glasses, but at the same time i can say that here in donbas, there are a lot of people about ukrainians, a lot of people do not want any russian peace, and when i talk to people, i very often hear the words of support for the word of solidarity er well, er, even yesterday in one of the villages near the front lines er, grandmother saw us and she speaks ukrainian, by the way, because she lived here and in the language of donbas, she says that guys , please do everything to to prevent this trouble so that these so-called liberators don't come here , we don't need to be freed from anyone we are free people we are on our land and we want to live in a free country so in fact you know all the talk there about the donbas being something not like that, there is something that is largely russian propaganda in ours there are a lot of people in the unit, guys from donetsk region, luhansk region, and they are excellent fighters. they are

one hundred percent ukrainians, one hundred percent patriots and for me. well, donbass is an integral part of ukraine . we are doing everything to ensure that donbas is free and that it is an indivisible part of the only ukraine, that is, when you are here, you look at a lot of things in a completely different way, yes, i am here. they are waiting for russian peace, but this is a minority, this is a minority , and this is mainly the social bottom, that is, people. this is the social bottom

, this is the layer where supporters of the russian world are being recruited, but i say it again, you know, well, everyone knows this already, that is, in 8 years of war, people everything fell into place, they perfectly understand who is their friend, who is their enemy, who is their own, who is a stranger, and that's it let's say i know that there is such an opinion among some people, er, in ukraine, what is some kind of attitude. and what about there, donbas is somehow like that well, i won't repeat these things, i think you understand what i'm talking about . for the sake of this grandmother, for the sake of these boys who are now here with us side by side from donbas fighting for the sake of these children who run through the streets with sticks and say that they are playing the armed forces , setting up toy roadblocks and playing ukrainian soldiers, but for their sake, including which one it is necessary to fight for the sake of all of ukraine and it is necessary to give freedom to ukraine in this land . thank you andrii illenko, a fighter of the legion of freedom from

donetsk region, joined our airwaves. thank you for these important words. donetsk region is ukraine. of the administration, this is luhansk olexandr. good day to you. good day. by the way, what andriy illenko spoke about applies equally to luhansk oblast and north donetsk already after the events of 2014. my father and his the patriotic theater of the ukrainian tradition, the mirror played patriotic performances performances performances in particular checkpoint ukraine the first in the world performance about the anti-terrorist operation and how people there perceived it people who survived the risk of the offensive of the

enemy of the occupation then in 2015-16 years when these events took place, it cannot be compared with anything, because people are so ukrainian -minded, they are ukrainians, and what andrii illenko is talking about is the myth that donbass, donetsk region, luhansk region have attitudes there actually different from the whole of ukraine, this is not so the heart and the luhansk oblast beats to the rhythm from the whole of ukraine e-e luhansk oblast together with the lviv oblast e-e resonate in the same way in terms of e-e if everything that concerns our our reconstruction of our future and for the sake of it what are we fighting to protect our territories and our independence globally, it is important to say this, oleksandr, but let's start

with the actual operational situation in luhansk region and remind us that the minister of defense of russia, sergei sheyu hood , reported to president putin that the occupied the entire luhansk region at the same time, this is the head of the luhansk military administration, gaidai emphasized that it is not the case that the russians are continuing on the outskirts of the region, the russians are not suffering colossal losses, as the situation looks as of this morning, please look at the past day, there were really quite heavy battles, er, the russians tried to push back outside the administrative border, but our guys are standing , yes, it is small, but still, the territory of afghanistan is under the control of the armed forces of ukraine, and they should not have done it yet, if they did not try er squeeze out push our er boys from there , while here they are holding on and enough in heavy fighting, but also donetsk region and the region of luhansk region and what

is happening in north donetsk, we have been constantly hearing terrible news from there for the last few days that terrible looting is going on and what about the fact that the people who did not evacuate in time. they remain. there are thousands of people only in lysychansk. we looked at 12,000. i don’t know exactly how many are in north donetsk, but it is obvious that together these are thousands of people, and they became environmentally friendly. hostages of these serial killers-valtovets from the russian army, what is the situation in severodonetsk specifically, please share, well, according to our calculations, in the city of severodonetsk, there are somewhere around 7-8, maybe some of the population of the townspeople will be released eh, unfortunately, the conditions of stay eh, they can already say yes they are archaic, there are no communications, er, light - these are separate players that are supplied thanks to generators, and this is a

generator that is er, during the time we tried to maintain the humanitarian situation in the city when all er stationary were turned off communications water yes, there is point water in the city in some places where the old wells were restored, so it is quite difficult, and there is a great threat in the quality of that water that rises from the underground horizon, this is what it is, for four months, you and the war well, the situation in the city is tense with the dead who are buried on the territory of the city and around the city, eh, in fact, eh, russian soldiers whom no one hid, but they are located where they died, so the situation may become even more difficult in the near future uhu, oleksandr well, that's it

by the way, to the same extent, and what i said, that as long as they remember in north donetsk and mariupol, they remembered these first attempts of the enemy to occupy our cities, and that's why they opened such a desperate attack. these cities are doing and will do and that is precisely why such an invasion of the enemy is explained in an attempt to destroy everything, wipe it off the face of the earth, kill as many civilians as possible. the city and they are already ready to go back there to rebuild it under the condition of a full hour, well, it's called return this push the enemy back 20 kilometers so that they don't fly to the mouth and i will push

to rebuild the city of billions if i'm not mistaken, they estimated the rough estimate of the reconstruction of mariupol how is it in the case of severodonetsk looks as of now, well, severodonetsk is smaller in size than mariupol, but it will almost be necessary to build it anew because, er, all my communications, infrastructure objects have suffered er such damages that new planning and new engineering solutions will be needed because , well, the communications that were in the city were laid as they were being prepared in the 60s and 70s of the last century, to restore them in the form in which they were created it's impossible, but still , master, i have a city that we will rebuild and

create a bright, beautiful one. and finally, literally just one minute. actually, how do you see the prospects of freeing lysychansk from severodonetsk in the near future? we see that the american institute for the study of war has previously emphasized that the ability of the armed forces of ukraine to be flexible, to withdraw from occupied positions in time, to regroup, and to temporarily sacrifice certain settlements in order to withdraw without losing too much blood and then to liberate these settlements is actually the key to success is what military analysts talked about. how do you now see the prospects for the liberation of our cities? look well, probably not because such prospects have positive positive reasons eh we believe in our armed forces and we are waiting thank you mr. oleksandr oleksandr stryuk

the head of the north donets city military civil administration of luhansk region was in touch with us and eh what are there and such moments as for example the ones i talked about yesterday in the evening interview of the military journalist yuriy butusov nv - it reprinted the fact that the waste is in north donetsk and lysychansk it could have been prevented if it were not for the intervention of politicians who, unfortunately , often interfere with the military. there they are and so on, he put everything to the shore, he swam across this situation in donetsk to get there for gold, but you always see a question of perspective, because very often what you see is probably the confluence of events, uh, it prevents you from seeing what you see from a long distance i understand that the same valery zaluzhny sees the situation on a much larger scale than the frame, but ukrainian media is the main

director of this war, from our side, the main director, but definitely not, no, not the director, the director , above all, the director of this war exactly putin, who, by the way, how did we find out that he personally sometimes manages the most unsuccessful operations? halyna lugova and actually ms. halyna, congratulations, let's start with operational news from the kherson region as of this morning, please share. how does the situation look to you? good morning, i want to say that at the moment the kherson partisans are doing resistance because it is possible, although they are subjected to

torture, soldiers of the russian federation hunt them down and punish them harshly but nevertheless they resist , and of course the events in the kherson region are known to everyone, these are point-blank hits by our armed forces of ukraine on the streets of pestel yesterday at 5 in the morning and at 10:00 a.m. we have a military unit located in the center of the city where the armed forces of the russian federation gathered, their equipment and their soldiers , that is, there was a very bright hit and at 5 a.m. a part was killed. at 10:00 a.m. already arrived above leadership to deal with the situation and again a bright hit, that is, a large number of victims, and nova kakhovka is also not retreating, also bright hits and the destruction of ammunition depots and

in the shumskyi microdistrict, also on saturday the day before , there was also a bright hit, you may have seen comments and mass media, people are filming and secret they rejoice while sitting at home and applaud in whispers and wait for the armed forces keep their fists and are willing to endure more than one day in the basements eh wandering eh hunger and cold or our guys came and liberated kherson oblast from the invaders. well, after the destruction of the enemy ammunition depots in kherson by the armed forces of ukraine , the russian military began to transport the chernoboys to tauriysk further beyond the dnipro, namely to nova kaho kakhovka and oleshki. siva was hit for the second time in the military unit of the occupiers in kherson, 100 occupiers were also killed and 200

wounded. as a result of saturday's explosion in nova kakhovka, how afraid are the enemies of the ukrainian forces support and what is the mood of the enemy camp, are they already packing their bags straight to hell, mrs. galina, you know, you feel very afraid of the occupiers, they even began to rotate around the city, their rotation has changed from four to six, which was up to 20, they are walking in such large dozens they walk and look around and when this explosion happened in our military unit, it was surrounded by a very large part of our city, let’s say in terms of square footage, and everyone who approached the orcs shot in the air, they were scared, they were confused and i think if uh this attack by the armed forces of ukraine will continue for a certain long period of time, of course the orcs are

covering their heels and may the road be one -way for them well, we see that here, uh, there are indeed such news announcements from the ukrainian government, the military leadership, that it has to happen very quickly to take place, in particular, president volodymyr zelenskyi ordered the deo military to buy the coastal areas in the south, and for this ukraine is gathering a million-strong military force. this is what my colleague quoted from the times, with whom the minister of defense of ukraine, oleksiy, shared this reznikov says that the ukrainian armed forces are equipped with western weapons to win back their southern territory from the russian enemy. thus , we are waiting for the deoccupation. kherson is currently the only regional center of ukraine that is still under russian occupation, but the occupiers will be

released as soon as possible. sometimes our territories and thank you mrs. halyna halyna lugova, the secretary of the kherson city council, was with us on skype, how about andriy, let's take a break for a few minutes literally, we have several important informational messages from the editorial office of espresso and, in general, and after that, after the economic news, first of all, at 8 o'clock, the economic block is traditional in our country, we will talk with the adviser to the head of the ministry of internal affairs and talk in more detail about what is happening in the camp the enemy and about the scandal in the russian ministry of defense and whether we should expect hmm mobilization in russia and what partial mobilization looks like, just a small spoiler, they are now trying to mobilize russian prisoners about it they reported eh hmm the main directorate of intelligence of the ministry of defense reported all this immediately after a short pause and after the news good evening we are from

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