organized the celebration of russia day on behalf of the leadership of the so-called lpr, the traitor issues letters of thanks to the relatives of the dead separatists who fought against the ukrainians in the swativ district of luhansk oblast. ludmila rusanova, a deputy of the district council from the russian federation , agreed to work for the benefit of terrorists controlled by the russian federation. by the way, on russia day, she received a passport of the lpr . photo, we congratulate her on such a dream achievement, now every homeless dog in ukraine really has more rights than lyudmila rusanova to establish a dictatorship in valery pakhnyts took charge of the starobel district on behalf of the terrorist lpr. he already managed this district in 2013 as a supporter of yanukovych. he even headed a branch of the riga party for his loyalty to the ideology and hatred of everything ukrainian. he earned the respect of

muscovites . also smell the person involved in the fact that the services viber, google and youtube do not work in the area for a little while longer, and by order of taras, they will rename starobilsk itself prehistoric or kamyanovix is ​​still in luhansk region, troitskyi district , serhii tokar was appointed to oversee it, a local seller of products, cigarettes and vodka, a person who is not public, tried his hand at politics only once in 2020, did not make it to the village council from the party of our region, it is now known about his work for the occupiers not too much, but on the example of the turner and his other associates, we see that mainly as heads of the pseudo- administration, the rashists appoint people from the party of the regions of the russian federation and our region, who have already lost the credit of the trust of the population, they are frank ukrainophobes who wholeheartedly implement the rashid dictatorship and in every possible way help the invaders gain a foothold in luhansk oblast, about police

prosecutors and soldiers who betrayed their oaths and went over to the side of evil and now keep the civilian population in fear, i will tell you in the next program, collaborators, a list of miklushkas, do you know about such people in luhansk oblast or donetsk oblast write to me on facebook or send information to this e-mail address and we will check everything and show everyone and make the scoundrels famous together, see you in exactly a week congratulations on the broadcast of the program of the ukrainian service of the voice of america time, i am its host ostap yarysh temporarily occupied crimea program new explosions at the russian air base near simferopol and at

the ammunition storage near dzhankoy after that a line of civilian cars formed on the kerch bridge to leave the peninsula in russia called the explosions in crimea, sabotage, on the other hand, the armed forces of ukraine say that the incident occurred due to non-compliance with the rules against fire safety . our own sources say that an elite ukrainian unit may be behind the explosion. more about the west's reaction to the events in crimea. let's talk with yulia yarmolenko , who is joining us from the white house. ostapa natli these news we once again asked the white house today whether the biden administration considers the russian military bases in crimea to be legitimate legitimate targets for the ukrainian military, to which we received the following the answer from the official of the national security council of the usa, he says that ukraine has the right to defend itself and we

support ukraine's efforts to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. capabilities that can hit the target points in crimea, at the same time, the pentagon emphasizes that the americans do not give instructions to the ukrainians on how to use weapons there. they say that the ukrainians are fighting, and therefore they themselves determine the necessary goals, as well as the question of the legitimacy of russian military bases as points to be hit by the ukrainian military in crimea, uh, this question was also asked by a number of world leaders earlier . today, this question was also put to olef scholz, the chancellor of germany, to which he

did not answer directly, but said that germany supports ukraine by providing weapons and in this way ukraine can defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity yuliya, what do analysts and experts say about this matter? and what do they think is the importance of hitting targets in crimea? this is very interesting. ostap mark galeoti, a british analyst, a researcher of russian soldiers. found the achilles' heel of the russian troops and it is logistics, because according to his data, according to his estimates , the russians prefer and rely on a small number of large transport and logistics hubs which are located not far from the front line, and it seems that the ukrainians have shown today once again, according to the geleoti brand, that with high-precision weapons, as well as with the skillful use of

intelligence data, as well as data from open satellite sources, they can hit very important strategic targets for the russian troops and also on in marka galoti's opinion, this shows that ukrainians can adapt to the new conditions of modern war faster and more effectively than russians , read only one quote from his article today he says that it is not only a matter of a huge number of soldiers or striking power and not even of tactics or general composition, it is a war of imagination and adaptation, says mark galeotsky, here the ukrainians have once again demonstrated their superiority, at the same time, he says that you cannot underestimate the russians, because again, it is a war the war is still ongoing, also marktling is a former american general, now a military analyst has said that he has already drawn attention several times to the fact that it is not even about the uheimers, but simple people also make a big difference

but skillful and very effective ukrainian soldiers, other analysts, as well as philip o'brien from the university of st. andrews. he says that , again, today's incident shows that russia actually opens very different targets for vulnerable attacks. i want to touch on one more topic today, the american edition of the washington post published a long article detailing the behind-the-scenes decision-making in the west before the full-scale tuesday in russia in february. what new did we learn from this material ? the prophet of their in-depth research a month ago, citing a number of data from a number of sources, the u.s. administration says

that the joe biden administration, based on intelligence data, was well aware that russia would launch a full-scale invasion or prepare a full-scale invasion as early as october at least in october, a group of high-ranking officials, a group of intelligence officers, held a classified briefing for the president of the united states, joe biden, reporting that according to their intelligence, satellite data, as well as data that managed to gather infiltrating military appeals and political circles in russia. they knew that moscow was preparing a potentially large invasion, but here the biden administration, according to the washington post journalists, faced several problems, because there was no nato. regarding the answer that the west should have sent in response to this, there were also problems with the fact that there were concerns from the ukrainian authorities that they did not have enough

intelligence from the united states to really prepare for a full-scale russian invasion, another thing that was worried about the biden administration is how to deter a potential attack by the russians, but by providing weapons to ukraine not to provoke russia into the third world war, therefore, in fact, there is a lot of interesting data about which we did not know before, and then the journalists of voshin-donpost say there will be even more, really yuli, we will keep an eye on the following the materials of this edition, thank you for your inclusion, i will remind you that yuliya yarmolenko was with us, who was joining from the white house and we continue our publication ukraine has agreements with the usa on non-use american weapons on the territory of russia, but there are no restrictions on the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine, the minister of defense of ukraine, oleksiy reznikov, told about this in an interview with voice of america.

ruslan petrychka had an exclusive conversation with the minister about the development of hostilities, ukraine's plans and what to prepare for in autumn and winter, see more below in the interview, mr. varshikov thank you very much for the interview for your time today and i want to tell the audience that we are recording this conversation a few days before independence day eh it's also almost 6 months since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, mr. reznikov , this war has been going on for six months. how do you assess the state of what is happening on the battlefield today ? the report says, yes, the situation is difficult but controllable, that is, every day we observe, uh, us, attempts to attack the enemy in various places on the front, but there is no serious advance deep into the territory

of ukraine. the plan is the complete de-occupation of the occupied territories by the russian federation and exits to the borders that are internationally recognized as of 1991 not the 14th not the 15th not february 24, 2022 the final story is the victory of ukraine restoring itself in the borders over the state in 1991 this is the main plan you are considering you , as an option, it is possible to freeze the situation, as it was in the aftermath of crimea, after donbas, i do not think that the option of freezing is possible, the option of reducing activity is possible, depending on the season and, again , the modern vination of the war of resources of resources of course, they are exhausted on both sides, and accordingly each side needs time to recover, the same applies to our enemy. today, according to various data, they also lost

at least a third of their combat potential there, which was used in the attack. we know for sure that they lost er 30 % of its elite corps, the design is only for marines, special forces, and for officers and sergeants, which i have seen personal personal documents, uh, they were all 35 years old on average. that is, the number of helicopters, which rotorcraft, that the ukrainian armed forces shot down by the russians means that they lost up to a thousand pilots of various levels of both combat aircraft and rotorcraft, and this means that the flying elite who can fly with majors at night and so on have been lost. so on. therefore, these resources are being spent in them, this means that they will need some recovery, so let's say a cooling of the situation from the point of view of hostilities, possible freezing,

so that people want to call it a conflict. i don't see because this is not a conflict, this is a war, this is an open war of two regular armies, and one army invaded the territory of its neighbor without any legitimate explanation. and in general, the right to this, therefore, this is a war for survival, we will defend ourselves in order to survive, talking about people without giving in in the tactics of conducting hostilities, what should people prepare for this fall, this winter, i would, i would, i would very much like people to honestly understand that we have experienced the worst, because the enemy's goal is to seize the capital of ukraine, kyiv, to put on the knees of the government or the escape of the president from kyiv, the creation of some kind of government in exile and in this way the whole of ukraine

is essentially captured. marathon and we need to accumulate and save energy, keep faith in ourselves, and in ukraine and in the security and defense sector, we need, with all that, who can work, pay taxes, create jobs, fill the economy with money, because today, in order to survive, it is necessary to pay financial support to the armed forces, and in this security and defense sector, to buy weapons, to buy cartridges for these weapons, because international technical assistance is not everything does not cover all needs, clothing, food, fuel and many other things today, on average, the minister of defense spends from the point of view of the needs of the u.s. armed forces in a month, the usual annual budget for which the ministry of defense used to spend a year ago, it is necessary to understand that lack of money in the budget, lack of receipt of excise taxes, duties, and so on. and so on. this

means a negative in the economy, which means that we will not have anything to buy ammunition and weapons. therefore, everyone must gather and understand that we live on the rails of a military economy, and this is necessary to be honest and this well, in fact, it is a guarantee of joint victory ah according to your estimates, how many combat-ready forces has russia concentrated near the borders of ukraine and where are they now? 115 so-called battalion-tactical groups, of which it seems 105 are actually eh yes or some other method is used 10 on recovery well, in total it is probably in human terms up to 135,000 people plus or minus but i must repeat once again that this there is already such a mixture of mercenaries and

private members of this company, which they have and pseudo-mobilized and mobilized students, in addition to the fact that in the occupied territories workglo and the national guard and whoever else is not there. well , including the professional military, so today we talk about true fighting spirit supposedly the second army of the world, and i certainly wouldn’t dare , it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t stop them . under no circumstances should you underestimate the enemy, and you understand, but it’s definitely not the second army of the world, yes, they are large in number, they have many, many more resources in warehouses and arsenals, but even this resource is already old, they will even import t-62 tanks into ukraine, that is, they almost don’t drive anymore, they hammer them into the ground there, they use them as before but realistically, but still, in the works, it is very, very dangerous, what are the tasks with mobilization you set before yourself, you know. here

everything is very simple, the task of mobilization is determined by the general staff, that is, they estimate the number of forces and means they need at one or another moment of the initiation of hostilities, they estimate losses. well, let's be realistic , we also have losses, wounded and unfortunately, our defenders were killed and, accordingly, the general staff clearly knows in which direction and in which type of forces or troops it is necessary to replace them or to take the brigade to restore combat capability to introduce a substitute reserve, they evaluate this situation and say accordingly, but as far as i know today, mobilization needs are met through the search for specific specialists, that is, we do not generally have as many as we need, we have already mobilized quite a lot of the armed forces, not only the armed forces of ukraine, now specific specialists can be there payment operators, these can be special

it officers, communication operators, gunners , and so on. military-standard equipment, and accordingly , specialists. we need some systems capable of quickly mastering such systems, which i will show once more very effectively . i am very pleased because it contains a large number of 155- caliber projectiles for the e-e artillery systems that we received, there is also a fairly significant number of e-e missiles for hyperers or there are e-e against uh-relational missiles, too, which allow our military to destroy the radars of the russians, in what

way to blind them. and this allows us to neutralize and weaken the air defense system and, accordingly, gives us the opportunity to act more decisively. well, there are other things , so we are very satisfied with it, serious serious help, and of course during the war you will never have enough of anything, you always need more and more because they, including the same systems, fail, so we count on the continuation of this support and receiving more artillery systems, more projectiles and more missiles, and i repeat once again, i hope that a political decision will be made about missile attacks, which have already changed a very significant picture of the battle . they said earlier that ukraine needs from 50 to 100 heimer vehicles for effective active defense and possibly offensive operations . the fact that there were no new

systems in this aid package does not bother you. and if i am not mistaken the previous package had four units of hymax plus we received from our british partners m270 and this counts as double hymax plus we received from our german partners three marks two and this is also an analogue of m27 so in some part eh if you multiply 9 units where are 12 launchers and 16 dku 600 approximately for the first current indicator of my, let’s say, my institution, we go out, but i repeat once again during the war, so it is never only up to 100, is there a loss of these heimers as a result of hostilities in ukraine absolutely responsible, i can say that not a single haimer was lost, so when you read in the russian e-e snakes or mia or social networks that a

soldier ivanov skalashnikov broke into and saw a truck in which he destroyed 12 caviars with an automatic rifle at the same time, you can just laugh and twist like that well, they have such a propaganda system, it's stupid. do you have we are currently armed with capabilities that can hit objects in crimea and do you have any agreements with the united states regarding the legitimacy of such strikes e.e. in crimea we have agreements with the united states that we will not use weapons at home by the united states, our partners on the territory of the russian federation, but if today you are talking about decoupling because in the occupied territories of ukraine where the enemy is located , then accordingly we have such restrictions there is no e-e , it depends on the weapon, any weapon has a corresponding distance e-e damage, therefore, depending

on what point from which location it is inflicted, the damage is planned to be inflicted and this means whether it can achieve one or another goal as i just you i remember that earlier no one believed that the cruiser moscow at the corresponding historically recognized address would become a future well-known sports or diving site at the bottom of the black sea, talking about the future. when ukraine wins, what defense system do you think ukraine should have? er service in the army or should it be something similar to the israeli er sample having such a neighbor as ukraine will build its security system, you as the minister of defense this is a very, very good question and was discussed, including with mr. general zaluzhnym, there will definitely be a need to reform the armed forces and the security and defense sector in general, we had the first part of the attempt

- the creation of the territorial defense forces, which is a component of the armed forces of ukraine. and the advantages and disadvantages are clear, so i think that after the victory, which will definitely come, it will be necessary to sit down and understand what the number of the armed forces should be, which for sure is 260,000 is not enough, maybe 360,000 or 400,000, it is normal to calculate again using forces and means accordingly, but i am convinced that, as we said, there will be a very large number of veterans who will go through this ukraine and the russian war as winners. they can definitely be that core of reservists who will be ready to join stryi and i think that the issue of arms circulation , including its legalization, as it is in many countries in switzerland, for example, in the united states, or in the same israel, it is on the agenda, and considering that we are approaching the

anniversary of the independence of ukraine, what messages what message do you have for the citizens of ukraine and what kind of message do you have for the citizens of other countries of the world? i asked you to believe in ukraine . we didn't pay so much for it with blood. and now we pay a lot, wash this independence with blood, and i want to say that today the independence day of ukraine is at the same time the independence day of many european countries , at least. therefore, please do not succumb to the syndrome tiredness, stay with us and we will win together ukraine will win and everything will be ukraine this is how the interview with the ukrainian minister of defense oleksiy reznikov was, see the longer version on youtube voice of america in ukrainian and on our

social networks and also read on our website and our next material about the tense situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, almost every day it becomes known about new shelling and pressure on the station's personnel, some experts claim that this behavior of russia is part of an informational and psychological operation to keep the world in suspense, iryna solomko spoke with american scientists, however , to what extent the events surrounding the plant are a threat not only to ukraine but also to the world, see further american scientists analyzing the situation around the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, unanimous seizure of a nuclear facility or any other dangerous production and conduct of military operations around is a violation of international treaties signed by russia, it is a very bad precedent

to use a nuclear facility for military purposes it is very dangerous and unfair because it means exposing people to an unjustified risk at the same time , according to the president of the american nuclear society, steven arnt, and it is worth calmly assessing the situation, obviously neither industrial nor nuclear facilities were created to be part of military operations against them are extremely they are strong , they are designed for both internal and external threats, zs reactors are controlled according to a very similar principle to something in the united states they have very heavy concrete shells around all vital of important components, they have been tested and can withstand hurricanes, tornadoes and even aviation richard cole, director of the program of partnership and prevention of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction at the simpson center, draws attention to the fact that specialists have a limited understanding of what is happening at the station, ukrainian personnel continue to service the site, but under the conditions of russian occupation as you mentioned the other day, there was a shelling. i

understand that it was quite precisely aimed, so there was no damage to the reactors or any release of radioactive materials, however, of course , there are risks of this, some other parts of the facility were damaged, the emergency protection system was activated at one of the active rectors, there was a small fire, other things also happen there, and they were discovered from open sources, if you look at some of the photos that are available, they quite clearly show that there are russian military vehicles and not only trucks, scientists are quite careful in their assessments of the possible development of events if it is just a mined area around what should deter people from approaching the station is one thing, and it will be bad for these people, but it will not affect the station . if the explosive object is physically inside, it can have very negative consequences for the nuclear station,

arnt notes. and prevent a catastrophe if there is a direct threat of an explosion, that is why our greatest desire as nuclear engineers is to give the personnel the opportunity to do their work, we would also like there to be no military personnel there and people not to be fired upon, because the station turned into a military base making it a military target every time you challenge one of the station systems it becomes potentially less secure so you have to have reliable staff operators should be allowed to do their jobs in a safe environment however there were reports that people were not able to freely enter and to leave the facility, to comply with the norms of the work schedule, as well as the fact that the staff is under stress, adds scientists at the moment also see problems with the station's work support system, according to maryana budzher, senior researcher of the atomic control project of the kennedy school of harvard university, the threat comes not only from information, a failure in

the power supply system of the station can also occur due to reconnection from the as to the crimean grids, the russian mass media report such plans, its functioning depends on a stable and, well, reliable supply of electricity what does this cooling system depend on? it is fuel. it is active . it is very hot. they depend on these pumps. they work on electricity . zaporizhzhia npp has 20 diesel e-e generators and this is a reserve system. the entire power plant cannot operate safely for a certain longer period of time on these generators . the real threat is the flow of traditional waters that cool the reactor, if we have a violation

of the storage conditions, it may be released into the ground or into the river or the atmosphere, regardless of how the situation of the capture of the nuclear power will develop further according to the words boujeren showed that the mechanisms and conventions that were adopted after the accident at the chernobyl nuclear power plant and were supposed to guarantee the world nuclear safety do not work in the new realities, therefore the world is waiting for the development and implementation of new practices that could overcome these challenges from new york iryna solomko voice of america and this is the end of our issue. join our briefings, which we broadcast every day from monday to friday at 18:00 on youtube and facebook, where you can ask us your questions live we for our part will try to answer them as well follow us on social networks my twitter and on facebook on instagram and youtube and of course also wait for our website in our social media team and the web team work tirelessly but to keep you informed of all

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