as much as possible, the council is also using hurricanes and aviation in the direction of avdiivka. the only thing i can say is that during this short period, they did not surrender a single position in avdiivka, and visovu holds the defense. despite all the difficulties that exist, they will not list them. well, let them do the general staff of the official statement yes, but it is difficult, but avdiivka is holding during this time, i can say that in six months already, in almost six months in the direction of avdiivka , the enemy advanced 400 m, and there our troops were forced to leave the mine it no longer represented any strategic importance because it was completely destroyed and the 400 m that i told you about around avdiyivka was simply turned into ruins and the ground was dug up and

there was no point in keeping it and this area simply turned into such a a gray zone, therefore the situation is difficult, of course difficult, for sure i don't know the situation in other territories in other directions. here , but in avdiivka, it is really difficult, but what can i say that the court is holding its position and avdiivka is completely under control of the landslide, there is such a, well, there was such a russian official novikov from the altai territory, he came to the so-called dnr to help terrorists, what did he come there to do? and he was either killed or died . there is no information about what happened to such a tender hearted official who came here to do some work. i got to a concert in kobzon, please. oh, you know. i wish him only to have fun at the concert and kobzon. yes, but to be honest, there is no information about this . i wanted to ask, you know. i didn’t make a

fuss. are now in the area of ​​the sands of the sands and they also say that we need support, at least a little boda artillery, some drones there will strike at the enemy in order to somehow stop this barrage of fire that the enemy is rolling towards our positions in the donbass . how complicated is the situation and is the issue resolved somehow, because the military says that the technician is an alkaline. i understand that the general staff understands everything and knows everything. is there really a lack, because you see somewhere possible long-range support artillery, maybe other forces and means, maybe missile strikes on the enemy, please. and why did this situation of aggravation of the maximum uh-uh in pisky arise in the first place, because ah-ah, the enemy could not and cannot take a's driver's side and begins to bypass it in the so-called, well, semi-end with on the one hand, from

krasnogorivka, on the other hand, just in the direction of the sands, the situation has been changing there for the last week, well, almost every hour, it was controlled by the armed forces, then it was controlled by the rashisti, but as of now , there were so many heavy battles that part of the sands well there was just a village there and i just don’t have anything at all, nothing alive at all and the territory just turned into ruins eh yes eh russian propaganda there says that the sands were released, this is probably the case when russian propaganda does not lie and in the plan that the sands were freed from this living thing. that is, there is not a single person, not a single animal, the village has simply been destroyed, and even the footage that you are showing now on the screens is even a little outdated footage because

, well, there is no such thing there anymore, yes. all the houses broken and once again emphasize the ruins there, as far as support is concerned, well, keep in mind when this is how the situation was in avdiyivka, there is a certain certain territory that turns into ruins and it is already difficult to hold it because it has no strategic importance ah, um, it is difficult even well , it must be said that if it is not of strategic importance, then it turns into a gray area even for the rashists, that is, they will not even be able to fully control this territory because it is technically impossible. i do not know the situation there from the general staff with fire support because this is a bit like my profile, my profile is medical, you know, and the situation on the sands

was really difficult, there were many three hundred and overcrowded hospitals . even if we withdrew our forces, it was only where the territory was no longer of strategic importance yehor i thank you very much, thank you for your comments, thank you for your service take care yehor firsov, people's deputy of the seventh and eighth convocations, a tactical medic , now he is in the avdiiv direction on one of the of the hottest points of the front along its entire length , according to president zelenskyi. now we are joining kateryna, she is a lawyer, her specialty is international humanitarian law, an analyst , there is still chaos, mrs. kateryna. i congratulate you. good evening , we are russia talking about the fact that it makes such metal cages as you know in it's a tradition for them, they used to take pugachev in a cage to moscow when he was taken prisoner, it's obvious that they

treat this show as it should. well, i don't know the truth, what kind did they expect? preparation for this tribunal over the defender of mariupol is exposed by the azovians, they call them nazis there as soon as they are not called, although we know that our defenders and this is a violation of the engineering conventions of all possible rights of a person and a prisoner of war, why, in your opinion, does russia organize this demonstrative fake tribunal on captives in which no one but obviously from north korea, eritrea, please don’t believe a-a in russia, in fact, key messages e-e concern not only a-a dispatches for ukrainian servicemen but and for another initiative. as you well know , ukraine is actively lobbying for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute and punish the highest political and military leadership for the crime of aggression, and we see that in parallel with this work of the

ukrainian authorities and partners of ukraine and from different parts of the world, russia is lobbying for the creation of the so-called second nürburg and it is interesting that these conversations are actually taking place in moscow itself, but at the same time statements about a special tribunal for the ukrainian military really come from the so-called pseudo-republics and russia here, to some extent, she is trying to disabuse herself, of course , by saying that this is a decision exclusively by the leadership of these countries to be independent in the states that only she and her satellites recognized and that any negotiations should be conducted with the representatives of the ldr. but in my opinion , this is a signal not only for ukraine and the armed forces of ukraine is a signal for ukraine and its international partners regarding a greater initiative to punish the top

leadership of russia for the crime of aggression. articulates in accordance with international law that all captured representatives are really prisoners of war, and it should be emphasized that ukraine also says that this applies not only to ukrainian servicemen and servicemen, but also to foreigners who are members of the regular armed forces of ukraine and all of them have the right to the status of prisoners of war on dignified justice and humane treatment in captivity and, accordingly. realized countries will support ukraine and will not recognize the results of this court, it must be said that recently, a few weeks ago, the so-called supreme court of the donetsk people's

republic convicted two britons and moroccans who are members of the so-called foreign legion of ukraine, also for participation in armed actions, which is prohibited, and at that time it was clear that russia was clearly trying to give a signal to great britain, for example, regarding military and political support for ukraine, at the moment we simply see that russia and its satellites have extended this policy of persecution through the so-called courts to ukrainian prisoners of war and is it possible to exchange azov citizens after the so-called tribunal? punishment or some other such thing or life imprisonment, it will not affect the negotiations, will there be such negotiations, who can be the guarantor now, because we have already seen the guarantees. when did it happen , when did they come out, so to speak

the enemy from azovsteel also had guarantees of the video, not this of the international red cross, in fact now , uh, can there be guarantees that they will be exchanged after even this fake tribunal, please, it’s nice that there is a lot of musical will of the highest political and military leadership of russia , they need these courts first of all for the domestic consumer in russia any wrong alternative discussions about the second world war and the myrhorod trial are criminalized now they are doing the same thing they want to create a second nürburg to which they show an unambiguous narrative about the events in ukraine for their internal consumer, to what extent will they then see any advantages for themselves in the exchange of these illegally convicted prisoners of war, it is difficult for me to say at the moment, this issue is more geopolitical and political, the fact that any legal process is similar to those who are

not connected with real suspicions of committing crimes is not a law and does not simply contradict international law a is a serious violation of the geneva conventions and a serious violation in accordance with the rome statute of the international criminal court from a legal point of view this can definitely state i thank you very much you know at the very end i will say that even the nazis are the real nazis led by adolf hitler they did not try soviet or any other prisoners of war they sent them to camps there for some work somewhere else well, but definitely not a court of law because no one, normal military men, do not judge military men who defend their country, this is nonsense , but for putin, this is not normal, it is a very thank you. kateryna busel was with us, a lawyer specializing in international humanitarian law , an analyst. there is still chaos there, we are talking about this tribunal in the azov region, the so-called tribunal. it concerns the hostilities serhiy good evening to you, a word to you vasyl with my

return to the helm of the big ether and i congratulate the viewers of the espresso channel . in the south of a kind of storm in the steppe and about how we shoot down enemy helicopters, planes and missiles and what kind of air defense we need about all this in a moment, i will start with the fact that the armed forces of ukraine struck the headquarters of the private military company wagner in the occupied pasa area in the luhansk region in the enemy of the meaning of the loss, the story began with the fact that on august 8, one of the russian propagandists published a post in his telegram channel about what he quoted came to popasna, stopped by the headquarters of the central committee of

wagner, they met him like a relative, several told of funny stories, the end of the quote was added to the publication. several photos of the propagandist himself and the wagnerites were added near a residential high-rise building where a sign at the address was visible, and already on august 14 it became known that the armed forces of ukraine probably hit the building at this address with heimers in popasnaya, and today, august 15, in a series of videos and photos from the site of the attack on the base of russian militants appeared on social networks, the russian public wrote that dozens of mercenaries had been eliminated, while the data on the number the wounded and dead militants there are also discussed on social networks. could that cook pooh putin and the curator of the pvk wagner yevgeny prigozhin himself be at the site of the attack,

saying that he could also be at this base, but this information has not yet been confirmed in fact, all this looks like a textbook violation of the enemy's demands conspiracies and indeed in this sense - this is a funny story, but we are quite satisfied with the results, because the destruction of the headquarters and hundreds of wagnerites, serhiy gaidai wrote about it, may, by the way, have an effect on slowing down the actions of the rashists on in the bakhmut direction, where the wagnerites contribute to constant offensive actions, now to other details on the fronts, and this time i will isolate - i will isolate directly east and south, the enemy is trying to conduct offensive actions along the seversk line solidar bakhmut to bakhmut, the enemy is trying to approach from three directions this is from the east, from the south , from the south the east, the enemy has no significant successes here, although our general staff says that the enemy has

limited success in the bakhmut direction, although he does not give details, in general, during the month , the enemy’s advance in the bakhmut zone is at most 10 km, and this is after the end of that operational pause, it is also hot around avdiivka maryanka and the sand here, the enemy is trying to move our line of defense away from the temporarily occupied donetsk in order to reduce the possibility of inflicting our hodars on the troops of the invaders who have established themselves in this area, but there is no advance, although the enemy has repeatedly announced the capture of the same sands, but there our defense continues to hold there, as well as with avdiyivka, where the enemy has no movement on our land, although the enemy is trying to plow through both the sands and avdiyivka and maryanka using the tactics of a fiery rampart and all the buildings, if yehor firsov said on our broadcast, become ruins, why does the

enemy still manage to do this? because directly on donetska, there is quite a large number of logistical routes for the supply of supplies, fuel , stylish materials and other directly from russia, and we do not manage to know all of this with our long-range systems, but despite a significant amount of artillery and ammunition, the enemy pays a high price for its actions, it is the loss of manpower on at least levels and also suffers losses and the command staff, if we count these losses over the last five months , then it is known about the destruction of ten generals and more than 700 officers of the middle and lower ranks, this means that, so to speak, the enemy will not be able to restore these losses, because this the link ensured the management of the troops, and now even for the positions of sergeants, you can appoint officers. well, no, not the lowest officers who

can only perform this function. our defenders carry out the defense relying on the capabilities of defensive structures and our artillery keep the defense on the front lines, and from time to time they are strengthened in reserve, although of course we need more artillery, perhaps that is why the commander of the armed forces is helpful in his recent conversation with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the us army, marko myl says about the fact that it is necessary to ensure the supply of artillery, this is exactly what is happening now in the most hot areas around bakhmut and in the donetsk area, the protest in the south and in general and on the right bank of the dnieper on kherson region looks fundamentally different. there we are imposing our own initiative on the enemy. the enemy is forced to respond to the threat of the liberation of his troops from the kherson region and has carried out a transfer of forces. we have repeatedly

said that there are already about 20 battalion tactical groups there. there were 12 of them, this is somewhere in total. i think up to 10-15 thousand russian occupiers, but this number does not remove their main vulnerability - this is the dependence on the bridges on which all the logistics of supporting this group are held. four threads there, a pair of railway cars near novaya kakhovka and avdiyivka are just under our constant fire control, and today the command of the south reported that after the strikes of the armed forces on the antoniv bridge and in the area of ​​the kakhovka hpp, the russians can no longer move heavy equipment to the right bank of the dnieper that is, in fact, we are already talking about the implementation of actions that, for me, somewhat resemble the operation storm in the desert and sword in the desert - these are operations that were connected with the release of the slave from the

jose's troops, for example, operation desert storm lasted 39 days, when aviation destroyed the enemy's entire defense, and then the sword in the desert took four days. so, the main function during the meetings in the desert was performed by aviation. and we think that the main function is performed by the hymer they destroy the logistic routes from the e-e, they destroy the e-e air defense means the command post and create the prerequisites for further actions, so relatively speaking, this storm in the steppe is already being implemented in us and we will wait for the further continuation of our actions and how we will ensure the liberation of kherson, first of all the right part of the dnieper, but the enemy is resisting , using its capabilities, in particular missile capabilities, strikes are carried out on our territory, of course we have a question for the front line and

for all our regions of ukraine, how exactly should we strengthen air defense, what capabilities exist in ukraine and what opportunities exist due to the support of our partners and figure it out we will try at the expense of our guest - this is ihor romanenko, doctor of technical sciences , retired lieutenant general at one time, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, and before that he was the commander of the anti-aircraft defense that defended kyiv, mr. igor, i congratulate you. i also congratulate you in the brigade, the position is called brigade commander, well, you know better, of course, i will start with this one, which is pleasant for us, in two days we have already shot down the third russian in a k-52 helicopter. explain why they behave so safely and thoughtlessly in our sky, well, there are

remnants of such a great imperial power, but over time, these remnants are becoming smaller and smaller. allow to fly on e-e controlled aviation, for example, except for the contact line and around it, as a rule, because despite the fact that we have e-e, in most of our anti-aircraft defenses, it is an anti-aircraft missile system and fighters, it is a release of the last century, during the soviet times, which were produced well, some have been modernized, but the experience is very extensive, and they have significantly increased the fighter pilots and servicemen of our s-300 and buky anti-aircraft

missile systems. helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, unfortunately , there is a problem with ballistic missiles, such as those equipped with iskander complexes. they also have cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, and there is a problem with ballistic missiles that have a speed greater than speed. well, let's say this is our perspective. in the near future, as far as we know, it is expected to receive a complex from the american norwegian sams of a short range , but a modern complex and an iris of the german type, at least it should be said that these complexes are

are based on a missile that was used very successful rockets, but air, that is, they cannot have, do not have a very high speed, and this is the basis of the anti-missile action of the complex, which must destroy, including ballistic missiles , that is, the relative destruction of such missiles is the direction to work with our allies who have such complexes means, well, first of all, the united states of america and to modernize further, which will be completed , because the complexes on sams and iris did not take part in hostilities, which is the time of modern experiments, but they were being developed, and such a spot is for the destruction of aeroballistic, first of all, air targets, but we need to move forward. in addition, you

and milka discussed the main issue regarding what needs to be learned and, er, go through this path, further destroy means er the carriers of these missiles , that is, for example, the operational-tactical missile complex from the dprk before it launched them, as well as the ships of the missile boats and submarines of the russian black sea fleet, again until they launched them. accordingly, we have airplanes and they are used quite a lot strategically , such as here 22m3 here 95 here 160 means the prices at the airfields, we have seen that such uh opportunities are there cotton feet and all the rest and besides, we definitely need to work on ensuring that

we have anti -aircraft - a missile complex of conceptual action, and our e-e planes had the capabilities of children, well , with a larger combat radius and appropriate weapons . that is, we need to switch to gas-powered modern aircraft at least 4 + development e-e, well, such as the f-15 16 18 answers actually covered all what are my questions i was going to ask you, and that's why i'll still try to detail some things today, the air defense of ukraine demonstrates good indicators of shooting down these russian cruise missiles, four calibers flew out there, all of them shot down out of seven cruise missiles there, khas-101 x55 shot down seven, that is, the shooting indicators are absolutely fine significant and impressive uhu from the point of view of

the conduct of recent local wars and the assessments of specialists are simply impressive and ours say that we found the algorithms for the destruction of these russian cruise missiles in human language what does this mean for what we have destruction algorithms, so what does this mean? i think we probably won’t be able to detail this issue on the air right now, but this indicates that the professional level of our services and missile systems and pilots are being destroyed has grown significantly, the experience of almost six months is enough experience, not training, not training and the experience of taking part in hostilities is the main criterion that gives an assessment of the actions of the relevant servicemen or servicemen as a whole, so i want to add that this is greatly helped

by the more detailed front intelligence that is carried out our radio engineering troops, which are armed with modern, i want to say, world-class organizational stations, as well as a radio engineering intelligence station, and they are used, which means that in recent times, we have seen their use on harm missiles, this suggests that most likely it was done with e -e of the launch platform, that is, from the plane , and although we have already talked about it, the soviet parks are old, but apparently we managed to prepare some planes accordingly, we were on the air there with technical specialists, there is such a thing um, so the specialist who said that in order to rework our old plane, it is

necessary to launch hard missiles if all the components are available, um, well, somewhere around a month, um, about a month is possible. the destruction of the russian air defense system, but you mentioned the norwegian-american complex that they are giving us two batteries, how many of these batteries are needed to cover the same kharkiv, there is an electronic petition about what to the president that it is necessary to strengthen the anti-aircraft defense of kharkiv , how many batteries are needed for the city, if so, my question is so well-founded, they have small , small capabilities, although it depends on what missiles they will give us, that is, most likely at the current time at an altitude of 20 and a range of 40 km. well, what if with with very high efficiency, these are probably four such complexes that would uh-uh imagine

a square that breathes because uh-uh it means from the yoke of a missile in a complex that must move constantly. happen all the time, but we still have two more, and they have n't arrived, and the german ones should definitely go there in the fall. there is more of an impression that unfortunately we don't have enough time, as always, i think we need to have a separate conversation with you for a long time er to carry out and i will remind our viewers that it was ihor romanenko, doctor of technical sciences , retired lieutenant general and at one time the deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, his explanations actually make it possible to understand the current reality that it is difficult, but our armed forces in these difficult conditions can still carry out combat tasks

with high performance. for today, stay with me on the espresso channel. it was interesting to listen to serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency, the host of the column, the military summaries of the day and his guest, mr. romanenko, and before transmitting i want to say to yuri federa that information has appeared, maybe yuri will talk about it, so i won't go into so much detail that the mood in the kremlin is not so panicky, but there are also people who are close to vladimir putin, so to speak, the creator of this aggression, but definitely not the only culprits of this aggression, because the culprit of this aggression is the entire russian people today, well, except for those who oppose it, who goes to rallies, who fights with word or deed and all the others then they support it, we understand it perfectly , and then information appeared that these are allegedly close