the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, in addition, the green report states that there is still a threat of missile and air strikes from the air on the territory of the ukrainian state from the republic of belarus in the kharkiv direction . the group focuses its main efforts on blocking civilian shipping, while warships in the black sea threaten the territory of ukraine because they have four caliber sea-based cruise missile carriers, at the same time the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and combat equipment on the territory of the ukrainian state, at the beginning of the great war, the russians already lost in ukraine 37,570 people, 1,649 tanks, 3,732

armored combat vehicles, 839 artillery systems, 247 jets salvo fire systems 109 anti-aircraft defense means 217 aircraft 188 helicopters - 2669 units of motor vehicles 15 boats boats 155 cruise missiles 678 drones, 67 units of special equipment , the biggest losses in the past day, the enemy suffered in the mykolaiv direction, we will talk about the situation on the eastern, southern, as well as on the northern front of ukraine. today, we will talk with the colonel of the sbu, the people's deputy of ukraine, mr. roman kostenkom. i welcome you on the air. i wish you good health and thank you for defending us from the russian occupiers. good day

. more than 20 warehouses were destroyed, warehouses blew up in kadiivka, luhansk, nova kakhovka, a charming village in the kherson region, it is also reported about three warehouses that blew up in donetsk in connection with this. i have two questions for you. first, are these events the beginning of the great break which we have been saying for the past few months that with the arrival of equipment from western countries, the situation at the front will change, this is the first question, and the second is how quickly russia can recover after such blows to warehouses, how important is physical security that was destroyed during the last week when you just listed the settlements in which we will say yes, explosions occurred, warehouses with ammunition were destroyed, you

called such a charming village in the kherson region, i am from there, my parents' house remained there and in particular, i know that there were rashists there and we know directly where they were, these warehouses were, so we once again congratulate them and say that we will soon return all our lands and rebuild the castle on them, because my entire childhood was spent there it is precisely in these regions where i am, first of all, secondly, does this answer your question, or is this the turning point? let's say that this is the moment when we began to hit the enemy in parity, and in particular, what we hear and in interceptions and we see how the enemy reacts to this, the enemy is in the pan and it will be very difficult for him to restore these warehouses , considering that they were several months at the beginning of the war, and the same territory was occupied, practical. there they immediately accumulated these warehouses and believed that they were for ukrainian artillery unattainable but after them

impression understanding that it is now difficult for the enemy to use the railway connection with the crimea and the automobile pick-up of ammunition, we inflicted on him very serious losses and we feel it even from the activity of the artillery on the front edge, the enemy began to use it less because they really lost a lot a lot of their ammunition, so i 'll say we can't call this exactly a turning point in the war. i think it will look different when hundreds of eh warehouses will take off together with the enemy's equipment, but what eh the enemy there is no longer such an advantage of 100%, well, there is an advantage that was for 100%. and we are working on this and further increasing our capabilities with the help of our partners and with the help of our internal capabilities, the sentence of the kodei regional military

administration, serhiy bratchuk, says that as a result of an attack by the armed forces of ukraine on a russian military base in the occupied part of the kherson region on sunday, 150 russians were killed in particular, one general of the military and more than five officers, in particular, we are talking about a major general the installation of colonel kens and also about lieutenant colonel koval colonel andrii gorobets and the head of artillery of the 20th division lieutenant colonel gordeev in a word very serious losses of the lower military leadership of the russian army considering the losses suffered by the russian army because since the beginning of the great war we have been constantly talking about where this is the limit beyond which russia will be hurt for the lost soldiers, for the lost people, it is clear that they do not care about themselves very much, they do not

think very much about themselves - not only about the dead whom they they leave in ukraine and do not take them, but also about the living, and yet i will repeat this until our victory, this is an issue and i hope that we will constantly talk about it, where is this border beyond which russia it will be painful for four months four and a half months where the war is already almost 38,000 dead, if you multiply it by 30, it is even more than 100,000 wounded, the higher military command is being destroyed, a lot of those who took up arms and came to us to kill are dying, where is the limit of 100,000, 300,000 military men of russia have lie down in order for russia to feel it is russia who has understood that this war is absolutely senseless and futile, the same war that was once waged by the soviet union against afghanistan, which

took the lives of 15,000 people in 10 years, you know, a country that is guided exclusively by personal ambitions and in international and domestic politics, it is difficult to say where they have e- e border e-e directly e-e the one about which you said the question in another what e-e do you know the russians, they also chose such tactics they also e-e their russian e-e chauvinism he e-e is familiar to everyone and everyone many countries of the world already have it tested, and now the russians are sending here not directly, not russians, but they are sending other nationalities that live deeper in the hinterlands of the russian federation .

people from moscow fought from peter from the central regions of the russian federation. it would have been completely different. these borders came much sooner, because the russians themselves understand this. therefore, they take other nationalities and other republics and it's just uh, they just send us meat here. therefore, let's say this, their barrier automatically increases, you can't say that there will be 40-50 thousand russians, uh, and the russians will cross this line . no, this is the first and uh you know, they really have now , in the first place, i bypass the political ones, because they came with the help of their army to show that it is one of the strongest in the world, as they called the second army of the world, to show in order to play an important role in the future and international politics there at the international level regional politics at the level of europe and they wanted to capture ukraine in two or three days in a week

and continue to conduct their policy regarding, let's say , the influence and influence on the politics of other states, they did not succeed, ukraine destroyed all their plans and now the main thing for them is not only the sacrifices that will lie behind their ambitions for them, but simply to achieve at least some kind of victory in order to show at least at the regional level, they will no longer show it all there big eh among such world players that they can achieve some goals, but they are now for themselves have set a goal - this is donbas, this is what remains of their goal - this is that they can still accumulate there somewhere and their forces and means advance little by little in the south, they are stopped from the north, they are driven out, they are now standing there. e-e predominating five times e-e five times e-e of their equipment and personnel, but they were also stopped

. putin himself saw that if it happened to his army, he gave the command to flee because a lot of forces were destroyed, the means are starting to tighten reserves they are already taking them where they can only be taken and in the basis of the far east where else where else can they be obtained therefore now, uh, answering your question, i think that uh, the russians will go first of all to win for themselves and will not be counted as victims but of course the goal is a limit, some kind of limit will come in the end and i am sure that every destroyed russian soldier and every destroyed unit of russian equipment brings us closer to victory, well, it is about how and what the russians who came to ukraine with weapons in their hands got, let's go now let's see, because this video shows the burial of muscovites in russia, it was published on the telegram channel of anatoly shlits, a set of soviet stamps, they defended the motherland, for

us, the phrases "with you, you will be worthy" should sound, "we must understand, at what price we stood for our family, what an unbelievable wild, better, we defended our freedom, that's why" вдох чеговского помнить имя от даша жизнь очень больно очень больно очень музыку в работы рабяты и 58 сегодня. points of the world, then the zinc mushrooms returned, but you have already mentioned that they are raking people from

all over russia into the army in the republic of adygea, they beat wagner - this is a private military company , they are already recruiting prisoners, he offers to sign a contract in exchange for full amnesty, after which they are sent to the training ground to the krasnodar region is also a small video plot , but we know that on july 15 a special meeting of the state duma of the russian federation and a meeting of the security council of the russian federation are to be held, mr. romano, there is a lot of chatter about these two meetings, they say that

the russians can potentially make there, although already after those decisions that were made on february 22-23, when they announced the march to ukraine, it is probably very strange to hear and generally hope that there will be some new ideas, they say that they can announce -e mobilization is complete in the russian federation that they can officially declare war on ukraine. what do you think putin and his associates will do, those who participate in this bloody war, it is quite likely that they can declare mobilization only because they see that they are not -e them well in a lot of them have been knocked out. so when you talk about the loss of 37, we are talking about the killed, but there are still hundreds of thousands of people there who are wounded, and in particular seriously wounded, who

are being treated in the russian federation, and they too are relegated to the units and they need to be replenished with something, we see that at the beginning they were replenished there with the help of er mobilization in the ldr, they just grabbed everyone , they just grabbed them on the streets, people hid, they raked them up and put them in the ranks of the so-called quasi- republics and then they started paying luring people into contracts with money, well, recently i also saw a video where they said that they were creating a new battalion of marines , eh, eh. and before that, we saw how they raised the age of sensory conditions to 65 years. if i'm not mistaken, there is also a new battalion they talk beautifully about him there, that they are those who want to go there for protection, to protect the motherland, well, the russian homeland, and they are starting to pass. well, there are some old men, grandfathers there by the time they are 65 years old, maybe even more

, they are recruiting there, this indicates that these are the ones who are still affected by the propaganda regarding the russian world there and regarding the soviet union, it was very good, but they are attracting such people and that the youth no longer want to go there, those who were in the army yes, but those who without mobilization simply can not i will make sure too they are picked up somewhere in the villages in the far east or through and in some republics so that russians will talk less and there will be less tension within the state itself, directly in the russian federation, because they understand that there was no propaganda and everything is equal when the mass graves go and when they start to die, how do they think that their higher caste is so high. therefore , it will be especially difficult to cope with this, so i think that it is possible that they will announce mobilization if they already see that they do not have the strength of the means in order to and keep going. i think

nato is attacking us under the auspices of nato. we have to oppose nato . they started a war in ukraine, but nato came and we all need to stand up. the party is huge, so it's really realistic to declare war, i'm not sure because they you know that anyway after all, a play on words, the war is going on. but for them, they are trying to lower the stakes, like, you know. we have n't started in this format yet, because this is just a special operation. if there was a war, it would be more serious, so i think they can emphasize the war and simply call for mobilization in order to, let's say, oppose the napa, because if war is declared, it will mean much more , including and, including, confrontations can directly, and, well, other mechanisms within the state will take place, which are not hand, i think of the russian federation now, what does mass mobilization in the performance of russia

mean, what does it mean for russia, what does it mean for russia, and what does it mean for ukraine, well, for russia, what does it mean? well, when mobilization is announced, a presidential decree is made and it is determined which categories are called up, separate categories can be called up, for example , drivers, mechanics, tank drivers, or, for example, full mobilization, this is the entire personnel there, which there is a conscription age from 18 to 65 , armies are simply drafted and formed. well, brigades are formed. i think this will be done in order to replenish some units that have suffered heavy losses. i think it will be done in order to replenish some military accounting specialties that they need, i think it is artillerymen which we are knocking out tankers , there are mechanics, drivers, those who need special specialization separately, not infantry, there is also possible infantry, and they will simply for this already determine

the categories which they will be, which they will be call up, i don't think it will be a full uh million army but i think it will be partially in order to replenish what it will mean for ukraine well, really we must understand that it will be a more complicated story because the russians will come here more army, but the plus point is that time is now in our favor, we already started mobilization at one time. yes, we already have 700 troops there. experience, and the russians are those who are demobilized, these are people who will be taken from villages there, some towns. they need to be trained, and the russians, as a rule , bother with the strong, they immediately send

them. which one needs to react, well, in general, there is more enemy - it is more difficult. we will need to take this into account in our plans, but the mobilization of the enemy is always another challenge for us, but once again i say that for the time being it is in our favor because we already we have done and we are learning if they will only start doing it, it will take them a lot of time, well , whatever troops will come, we will have an advantage over them, minister of defense of ukraine oleksia reznikova, mr. colonel, says that now about 1 million ukrainians speak english, and it is understandable that mobilization in russia will obviously entail additional mobilization in ukraine, how many more people will need to be drafted into the ranks of the armed forces of ukraine in order not to resist, well, of course, you can't compare there

the number of people in russia and the number of people in ukraine, because it is one to three ten or four, and yet how much more does the army need in order for us to feel confident on the north- eastern and southern fronts, it is difficult to answer this question why? because it will depend on how many troops he mobilizes . the russian federation will also need to respond there. we have 700,000 e-e. the entire country should have the idea that the minister of defense is not the commander of the armed forces. we have a narrow command, the armed forces are the main command, although the minister of defense is responsible for defense and for the interaction between all components of the bodies that are responsible for defense. therefore, it is possible he means i think so, all the security and defense forces, this is the armed forces, the police, our

intelligence, the security services of ukraine. perhaps it has more accurate information that it is already a million. my last figure is 700,000. recently, we are representatives of the armed forces, they said that it is possible that the scale is larger, mr. colonel, i will clarify that it is 1 million in various structures, that is, 700 border guards of the armed forces, sixty national guards of the white bridge, things, yes, therefore, these are all structures and how much more we need. well, we would understand that the mobilization goes beyond them literally a few days ago, the military commissariat was watching how the mobilization was going, what were the problematic issues, and i came in. i was interested in talking to the military commissariats with conscripts and i need to pay attention to where to remove some bureaucracy therefore, we will respond exactly to how russia will , er, carry out this mobilization. i think in the future, but we are not stopping today, and here the question is different that you cannot win this war

with soldiers alone, you mean with people alone, we need equipment, we can to be a million -strong army, but you need equipment directly to protect those people, support them with fire, arm them correctly and train them and give them good experience and send them into battle, because i give many examples, many times that we have there may be 10,000 soldiers with machine guns on this side, 100 tanks, a tank crew of three people, yes, that’s 300 soldiers in total, who have 100 tanks, and i’ll tell you who knows how a tank fires, they understand that it’s very difficult even there, a few thousands of soldiers will be able to cope with those tanks, so they have to to understand that this is a missile artillery war, a modern political war, and without equipment, especially to return territories , if or in the defense, we can there and on our er-er there grenade launchers, i do not rely on the courage of the soldiers in the trenches, then advance without equipment andriy well

not at all realistic well, by the way , the minister of defense of poland mariusz blaszczak came yesterday and volodymyr zelenskyi, the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine, announced that he had brought self-propelled crab howitzers and that poland would continue to help ukraine. in june, the polish mass media reported that they delivered more than 60 self-propelled guns to ukraine, and this self-propelled howitzer is a crab - this is a modern self-propelled howitzer that is placed on a tracked chassis and has a tower layout up to 40 km. and what other equipment is currently lacking at the front, colonel? i remember your phrase that the infantry can fight there until october at the most, as long as the weather permits, and then it's simply a war

of artillery and a war of heavy forces that must oppose the russian federation i would like to say a special thank you to our neighbors, our polish brothers, and historically it has happened that we are now on the same side. south korean howitzers are considered one of the best in the world, very good howitzers and what they give us. feeling a threat too, they still have threats from the russian federation, and belarus is trying to somehow feel like the russian federation and lure them into the nato country. it's all clowning, but what they give us, he would have played it, before that they gave tanks and grenade launchers, we use them komar

, they are quite uh, too, and accurate and light fighters will also like them very much, other weapons that they provide that's why we see that the poles are uh-uh, their uh-uh leadership thinks quite strategically, because they understand that in ukraine you can't lose, because the loss of ukraine is uh-uh, god forbid. this is the beginning of uh-uh war in other countries and the baltic neighboring countries or russia's attempts to intimidate and return the sphere of influence, after all, these are the states, that's why they understand what the rest of europe must further understand the scale of. a weapon is a weapon for us will help to make the enemy at the expense of which specific weapon, yes, these are really self-propelled artillery installations that help us , especially those that fight as you say at 40 km and

more, it is there with a barrel length of more than 50 calibers, it is a very good weapon that gives us the opportunity to destroy the enemy's artillery to suppress it. these are the same rocket systems of salvo fire of the russian federation of the himart type, variously called the mlrs type, which have already shown their effectiveness on the battlefields of the russian-ukrainian war. we hear how the russians are leaving, which to they considered themselves to have been touched there by the rear, and now we simply burn them there, uh, this is another weapon, including aviation weapons, anti-tank complexes, which will allow the equipment, the equipment, tanks, which will allow us to use it already during the uh, return of the occupied lands, therefore. at this stage, our main the task is to stop the enemy in some areas, we have already done it 100%, some areas are still faltering, but there we need to stop, then create

conditions for a further offensive and knock out the enemy, but in the interval between these global things like me said that it is still necessary to carry out counteroffensive actions in order to impose actions on the proactive enemy so that the enemy reacts to them, because until now we can see who is engaged in tactics in the general staff that the enemy is imposing on us now here we are advancing, so you are retreating, or here you are defending, here we are not shooting, so you are doing smuggling , we need to find gray means now, find areas of the front where we can impose on the enemy where he should. directions for that to respond to our actions and we will take other actions so that it responds again to this sense of war that we must now wage and not

just stop it head-on, because it is difficult to stop such a machine head-on, even i do not i don't know , more prepared armies, more massive ones, need military cunning and military skill, well , oleksiy danilov, the secretary of the national security and defense council, is talking about this trickery and skill, because he is talking about the fact that president zelensky sets the task of freeing all well, before that was iryna's statement viryshchuk and this is the prime minister of ukraine who said that it is desirable for the residents of the southern regions to leave their homes because the ukrainian army will go on a possible offensive in the future when it is possible, i will not say when exactly it is possible let's put it this way, the creation of conditions and the accumulation of resources is the business of the commander-in-chief and the armed forces, but now it is still possible until the

weather is dry, you just need to create the conditions directly for this, it is created for offensive shock units - is hidden to ensure their e-e advancement to the position covertly place and let’s say normal e-e training counter battery e-e counter battery guns e-e with when we have support himer simulator that can hit the enemy’s reserves at a long distance now e-e it’s real well, i know that igorkom and the deputy glaucoma and the chief of the general staff basically control the situation in those directions where the direction of the main strike will be chosen. i think we will see there in the near future, especially those who now

are in the occupied territories, and in particular in the kherson region, they must understand that we do everything and the soldiers do not appreciate, they code their lives in order to free them, so they should consider this with understanding. now it is occupied, it should definitely return under the control of ukraine, let’s say under the control of ukraine, and under the armed forces of ukraine, and we are now doing everything politicians, well, those who have a silent command and all the others fight for it and do the maximum possible is possible in order to to do it thank you colonel it was a novel kostenko colonel sbu people's deputy of ukraine who is fighting in the south of ukraine and another officer joins us