kilometers, moreover, it not only affects offensive actions, but about 3.5-4 weeks ago they concentrated on exactly two directions, namely bakhmut and avdiyivka, and that is where the concentration of almost the main part of the provision of the advanced units of the russian occupation troops goes today or are supplies, and fuel and lubricants are personnel, again, and it is primarily the resource of the so-called lpr and dpr that is used, that is, their army corps, as well as wagner's mercenaries. they also have some support from the units of the russian occupation forces, but this concentration is due to the fact that after a-and they were forced to transfer a rather large number of their units to the southern bridgehead, and they

made a decision regarding the fact that pisky and avdiivka, because it seemed to them that they think they can capture quickly enough, so they will do and just such an imitation is enough a-a large-scale advance in exactly this direction, they say and the fact that the redeployment of forces and means to the south is taking place does not change that the situation at the donbas bridgehead, but we can see how events are taking place in the district a and list a-a - this is, for example, that they declared on august 3 that they fully control this settlement, but as of august 17, they do not control it and this is actually already a settlement , it is almost completely destroyed, it is, well, let's say it is an element of the gray zone, but they still ca n't enter it, and they control one hundred percent together, this is a zone where everything that

appears is destroyed, their advanced unit appears it is being destroyed. and although they still have it, let's say it's the advantage of the artillery, because almost the main part of the donbas bridgehead is concentrated there . it is the artillery of the donetsk region that is concentrated. moreover, it is logistically easier to provide this location with forces and means, and it is much easier than, for example, to provide advanced subdivisions somewhere on the right bank of the kherson region and others. that is, there is a direct supply of a by logistical means, both by road and by rail, from russia through the temporarily occupied donetsk region directly to the agglomeration of donetsk. similarly, in bakhmut, the development of this situation is slow, but despite the fact that they are advancing in some areas for some distance, this is not the pace that can be said to

have some phenomenal effect. blocking by the armed forces of ukraine is carried out as much as possible because, again, the concentration in this direction is the same as in avdiivka, the maximum concentration of those units and the equipment that i now have in the russian occupying troops on this very bridgehead. therefore, in the near future there will continue to be quite serious combat ids, and their concentration will be the largest in general on the entire donbas bridgehead. roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine and secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, joined us greetings , mr. roman, greetings, ms. olga, greetings, mr. oleksandr, according to

your impressions, was it possible to seize the initiative in the south from the russians, because we know that new forces have moved there, they have stopped somewhere, but there are the situation when on the left bank well, it's as if they found themselves in such a situation that they can't strengthen there or uh, looking, what kind of initiative do you mean if it's a completely military initiative ? well, no, we're not on the counteroffensive yet. we're on the defensive. the initiative is when we we will already go on the offensive completely, maybe if we are talking about a joint military initiative and when we will beat the enemy from all sides. now we can have an initiative, for example, in some directions, for example, a captured impression or artillery shelling by aviation. this is what i am saying i'm talking about an example, and if a few months ago in russia there was a complete initiative on artillery

units, then now, after heimer , the strikes were carried out after they realized that they still needed to save money. and let's say that they still no, they don't have such a hunger for ammunition that they would allow them to go there or just sit there without firing, but they already understand that after those hits that we did on the left bank of the dnieper and here many warehouses were destroyed well, there were not many warehouses destroyed, they already understand that they need to save, and since before that they can no longer simply shoot their ammunition and considering that the supply routes are also more or less limited, they are not the same as they were. well, they are not destroyed, but they are therefore limited in some directions i will not say on some of them specifically, but i came there yesterday, even the initiative is with our units, and this is not even due to the fact that we have a lot of ammunition. it is due to the fact that in some areas , it is the command that is the right choice of weapons.

the correct organized fire system, the correct detection of targets, the correct adjustment and the correct organized counter-battery fight, and all this gives even though russia prevails in numbers, gives us an advantage in some directions and the opportunity to hold the initiative, what to give sharp fire, what aviation, as russia did not want to take over they didn't succeed in air dominance, you have to see how they er-er bombed, they er-er don't even cross the open zone they try to fly up and release all their ammunition or ammunition on our side, because this means that all their desires at the very beginning of the war to completely suppress our air defense and destroy our aviation, they did not achieve this goal, and i did not achieve this goal, and therefore now we will say that we are waiting for their aviation sometimes on

the front line for her to fly there, that's why we have parity here. but if we talk about the entire initiative here, you know, i know that each section and each unit has its own initiatives at the tactical level. general and those and other units of the armed forces of the occupying russian federation of the armed forces of ukraine stand on the defensive and take the occupied lines . there won't be enough strength, er, and they themselves leave from there . how do you react to this opinion? well, i don't think that such a gesture can be voluntary. such a gesture can be voluntary if we fulfill certain conditions, for example, the destruction of their logistical supply routes and this, for example, will bring them closer to

er directly this gesture of goodwill, for example the destruction of some more warehouses, their er bas storage on the left bank, for example the destruction of how we destroyed the er rail junction prilivka, they have now started to unload others on the er eh and a little further there to the crimea eh enters for peace eh if we don’t give them the opportunity to do and of course not sit in the trenches and if we do some non-local and at least operational-level offensive actions, this will force them to already good will just sitting on the defensive if they come to this gesture of goodwill, well, for me as for the politician, it will look like who just, well, someone has agreed on something, so if everything is as it is now, if really we will do everything as i say and will constantly ask they will leave with a blow. well, then it will really look like we have created such conditions that

they understand that they have the only bridgehead in general on the entire front of ukraine for the russian e-e is on the right bank and it has only two lines of supply plus go these pantones that they build there, let's say that this is, well, from a military point of view, this is a group of groups - it is under threat, if it is right to create a concentration of whiskey, it is right to do everything according to, let's say, military affairs, then of course it was possible to take him from his operational entourage and into the operational tactical as part of an effort but for this, everything has to work. that's all, i'm telling you what can be done, but simply that they will turn around and go, no, for this, we need to create conditions. tell me, how do you evaluate the russian counteroffensive in kryvyi rih? and zaporizhzhia is already uh-uh this threat has been eliminated or not yet no it may be a threat because uh-uh the russians directly if returning to what we

talked about in order to secure themselves on the right bank of the dnieper e for them it would logically be all this - to develop, take kryvyi rih, for example, and go in the direction of mykolaiv, they are the city itself, for example, and along the administrative borders there in the direction of voznesensk or there, uh, yuzhnoukrainska, where there is a nuclear hydroelectric power plant, and just break this distance uh, when we can there is an opportunity to hit them eh line eh logistics lines, therefore, there is one option that they need to capture more territory here and secure their bridgehead . and a very big reputation blow , russia came to win in three days, seize the south, confess from transnistria, uh, bring back novorossiya there, even if they are stones from the sky, as we can see, and the most important thing is that we are in the homeland, so for them it will be

uh, if they leave on the left bank, that's a lot strong, such an impactful potential, they understand it, that's why they drop with uh, let's say, think about the fact that they won't go further. i wouldn't do it, on the contrary, we need to prepare that they can uh, develop their offensive , mr. oleksandr, on the same topic, what is your point of view in sight, there may be movements in the south of the russians. how did they have an effect on these loots in crimea? well, in fact, these cottons are any kind. they have an influence on the provision of advanced units of the russian occupation forces, and if we talk directly about the radius of action of reactive systems volley fire 42 heimers e-e exactly ammunition m-31 aa1a2 modifications that is, it is 70-80 km we are talking about the radius of providing advanced units, but what is happening

in the temporarily occupied crimea is already more about providing not only advanced units and also go hunting, that is, those who are in the deep rear and they also need support. why? because in the rear, for example, there are battalion-tactical groups that need to restore combat capability after they have suffered quite serious losses. but what is happening? well, in fact, i look at the situation like this. when, almost three weeks ago, the russian occupiers began a large-scale redeployment from the donbas bridgehead to the kherson region, to the zaporizhia region, to the southern bridgehead, then this really happened. the impression is that they are from the right bank of the kherson region, they are accumulating such a large number of forces and means that they are preparing, well, not only for counteroffensive actions to go to the a-a administrator of the

kherson region, but also to go on the offensive not only for example, there in the kryvyi rih direction, the zaporizhia direction, and the nikolaev direction, that is, in all three directions, but now the situation is very interesting. they are the most combat-capable precisely on this bridgehead. they remain on the left bank, they do not move to the right bank, and it is also very interesting that and after the a-a 76.10 and also 905 units of the 95th russian airborne division were concentrated on the right bank - landing party division and the 106th for some reason the 106th traffic police for some reason was also in no hurry to join and it remained on the left bank, well, that is, the question arises if you do

not try somehow not to get the right bank even in defense to go into some offensive actions. why don't you accumulate a exactly the number well, the forces and means in order to fully ensure this offensive potential and on the other hand a-a now we see er-e what exactly in the zaporizhia direction a-a 42 msd-508 of the combined army and 19 msd and they received additional reinforcements in in the form of 36 units of the 36th, then 29th combined military and army, you know that this may rather be directed to zaporizhzhia, this whole story, and most likely, i do not rule out precisely on the zaporizhzhia bridgehead in the near future, precisely in the zaporizhzhia region, some a-a counter-offensive offensive actions of these units but the fact is that

they will now concentrate on actions that are more similar to defense, on a defensive format, and will there be enough large-scale counteroffensive actions? well, for example, in the area of ​​snowurivka, if we let's talk about the right bank, they already tried to carry out offensive actions, but they ended unsuccessfully. and the fact is that the right bank itself is under the full fire control of the armed forces of ukraine. also, every day and every night, we see how ammunition warehouses, fuel warehouses are destroyed lubricants , as well as command posts and control points, if we talk about the management system and the support system, then in fact a-a it is now on the right bank of the level and is ineffective and i can’t to say that it is undeveloped, that it is destroyed , no, it is extremely ineffective, therefore, to provide

er during an ineffective management and security system, it is offensive actions. well, it is a little. and more tightly a-a defense and also to carry out really accessible actions, that is why it seems to me that today the raf command is already taking a-a actions which a-a well, it can be characterized like this: they understood that the right bank is in their er-e m- m of some in the medium-term period, therefore, they are concentrating on the left bank, and precisely from the left bank. they will not only strengthen the defense of a, but also take some actions in the direction of the zaporizhzhia region. well, i see that mr. roman does not agree with this point point of view, am i so interested in oleksandr's opinion? well, i said my point of view. well, look, we're not oleksandr, i don't know

how 100% it won't be me on the article, we just take it , analyze it, and say that it can be in this, too, there is the fate of the truth and e there also in what alexander said that we really do not know what the plans are for 100% of the enemy, we each look and analyze from our side what options there may be. i can say, for example, that despite the fact that many of their units are located on the left bank of the dnieper, but i always said that the battle for the south is still ahead, if the enemy finishes in donbas, then we will see a battle for the south. and i am convinced of this that they will go here. but this question is already before zaporizhzhia or after zaporizhia, it is already the same and simply when we talk about those reserves that are still once i say on the left side, we must not forget that those bridges still have some carrying capacity and, for example, from the snow bridge to the snow bridge, which mr. oleksandr gave as an example, there were some attempts by operatives to advance there

50 km from novaya kakhovka of the same even if 100 if we talk about the troops on the march, yes, well, they will pass them there in a few hours for the offensive. and you can concentrate the troops very quickly, and the invasion of the russian troops showed that they came from different directions of the battalion in tactical groups and advanced very quickly through our territory , that is why we see their accumulation, and this is the main thing, and this reserve, which stands where alexander said, can threaten both the zaporizhia direction as well as the mykolaiv direction, and here the task of our intelligence, our military, is to find out where this direction will go, well, where it will be directed, this is the main war - this is a maneuver first of all, and i can to give an example, when i was studying at a military institute, they studied the history of war and military art, so in the second world war, many

people there imagine that it is constant hostilities and constant shooting. in the trenches, there are some bombings, and 70% of combat of actions was occupied by the transfer of units there, er, the soviet union transferred there, the germans reacted and it continued in this way, that is, combat operations occupied only 30%. that's why war, as they say, maneuvers in uh, the main role uh, intelligence also plays here of course well, if we talk about these forces that mr. oleksandr mentioned, well, in the case of a ukrainian offensive, well, in principle, we will definitely also have to cross the dnipro and, uh, come into contact with these forces, well , that is, such a question is also not a fact. well, look, we have. from the russians, we have on the left side, we have large, er, our bridgeheads, where are our troops, our territories. well, many people say that if we cut off these bridges, you are right, you will be injured on the okopol dam, which then

we will have to, yes, we will have to, but in we have a bridgehead. from where can we develop an offensive on the left bank of the dnieper? the russians are worse off. this is the right bank. this is a piece, and you are right. you say that it is almost completely under the influence of our firepower, so they have the right bank is worse, and that's why i say that they need to either dig in and endure that it won't be enough for a long time, or a gesture of goodwill with our help, or if they see a whole means to develop this plan and make it wider here many of them have no choice well, sitting and enduring is like that, you know, any army will not do this for long, they won’t last like this here, either go on the offensive or retreat , go from the left to the right, well, let’s finally, we have

literally seven minutes left, let’s talk about everything - still about artillery, because it was the main problem and remains so. here is the last statement made by zaluzhny about the fact that there are 500-600 e-e shots there every day, about the fact that we have, in principle, a ratio of 500 to 550 of our systems, for example, volley fire and close the russians have 200 rocket launcher systems, 2,500 artillery systems, 1,000 rocket launcher systems of the russian federation. well, actually, when we talk about the fact that they may run out of stocks there, they also have hopes that, for example, north korea will bring them something. there, for example, there is a constant shortage of food , you know, shells in exchange for food. that is, we have to, six months of the war have passed and we still have to do something about

it . problem uh and sir roman, what? what could be the reason that we lost the sands, well, or partially lost them at some point, exclusively due to the lack of artillery and we had to repel it with heavy battles and infantry, and the artillery is also not very good. you can generally talk about the war and the main means of defeat. - this is artillery because it is a war, it has already been christened missile artillery, this is a war in which aviation does not win, does not play a significant role, even there missiles do not play a significant role where they are in the russian federation, but they destroy our the infrastructure is being hit by the er-er, but the artillery plays an equally decisive role er-er well, let's have missile troops and artillery, yes, a missile artillery war, so er-er, really win by being the one who has the better er-er means, who has enough means in the russian federation, you hope much more that they

will run out in the russian federation, you can't, because look, we also had a lot of warehouses, they were stolen from us , they were sold, they exploded, and even more so, we are still fighting with many types of ammunition they fought for eight years and now, after a full-scale invasion, we are still fighting against the russians even more, and they, plus, they have the opportunity, well, such primitive things, i don’t call them missiles, yes, missiles, they are now traveling all over the world. there is more to do there. detonators can do that, so there is no need to hope for it, that they will end up with something. here is another matter. yes, luzhny is right when he says that they have much more barrels there, much more jets, jets, jets, these machines. systems salvo fire, but we need to understand what kind of weapon this weapon is, for the sake of the times, and i have already said

many times that there were different approaches then, but nato had its own approach in western countries and, for example, the soviet union had its own approach, and in what way is the difference, yes, we have less but we can say that the quality of our weapons is increasing every day because we even receive weapons from our partners and directly when we say that soviet weapons are because they could not make good guns and good projectiles, they were targeted directly on the mass, that is, they throw them in mass, it becomes massive, who was engaged in artillery, you know me the target firing tables, for example, when a division on a separate target needs mortars, for example, to spend there 600 ammunition, well, 600 mines or 700 mines in order to hit a single target. i am not talking about blocking lights there nato - not in nato, they have every third shot calculated on the fact that they hit the target, not on quantity, but on quality. they have the opportunity to make good barrels, they are a projectile, and i saw it with my own eyes where the russians

they try there, they even see our equipment, they can put 50 and not destroy our second and third projectiles, there are three sevens or self-propelled guns. that our weapons are becoming better quality every day and they don't need as much ammunition as, for example, the russians, but can you as an expert say what it seems to me that there will be a flow of weapons here? do you have any idea? look at this tomorrow, some artillery raid and destroyed, for example, 20 and 777 or so, all our farmers have worked intelligence, you can't say it's a war and every day it brings changes and every day they can uh, because of them, they can fall to one

side or the other, if you told me the conditions are such that we do not destroy anything, the ammunition is constantly constant . so when and in such quantity every day they are supplied to us, and the russians, from me, are getting less. so how much time is needed here, so we have to say when there will be parity. well, maybe we will go somewhere tomorrow we will get into them and all the warehouses somewhere in the territory of the russian federation there will be an explosion, there are a lot of unknowns , i really well, of course, the yellow mask is trying to say, but it is impossible to say, but tomorrow it will be enough, well, to find out what we have now, to use it effectively, it is very useful also the main factor when you use it effectively, i have often seen when the army has a good thing there, but nowadays is it used? they use it by 50. sometimes by 40%. but to teach is to teach well and to use it, then the result will be the result. well, i have it i had such an idea, you know, i literally saw it there yesterday, the honor is there today, petra’s remark is that the russians are quite good

at tracking the movement of weapons to the western border of ukraine thanks to espionage in nato countries. by the way , that is, in they have spies in the structures. well, they can track it, but they can't track it after the weapons enter ukraine and with that. by the way, if you draw such a parallel, do you remember the cbs news story where it was said in direct text that no one can tell what happens to the weapon after it crosses the ukrainian border. and it seems to me that this particular scandal had, in addition to that purpose, to create some kind of hype in western countries , it had the direct purpose of introducing russian agents to places where they cannot now track the movement of our weapons, well, that's right. well, we practically have such a remark. i see it that way, unfortunately there is no time to say anything. i thank oleksandr kovalenko, he is a

military and political columnist . the chairman of the committee from the verkhovna rada and well, the person who is fighting now in the south well, this is in the electronics of combat operations with e-e actions in a week, we will meet next week on wednesday, so what are you watching on the espresso tv channel, the eight-year-old kateryna quail about the fate of which has been for more than four months nothing is known, the girl's mother, who contacted us at the child tracing service, said that she last spoke to her daughter on april 7, please help me quail kateryna serhiivna, she went with her father to kharkiv and more i can't hear her in this device. i can't see the mother. the girl has disappeared. rita petrivna said that she

lives in sumy oblast with her husband and daughter, and in january of this year, the child and her father went to visit their relatives in kharkiv oblast, in the village of pervomayske, this is the shevchenkiv territorial community, kupyan district oblast that was occupied in the first days of the full-scale invasion of russia, this is the kupyan direction, the vovchan direction, the izyum direction, and they are now fully occupied, there is currently no possibility to conduct evacuation reports, this is too much dangerously, the enemy does not allow us evacuation routes and directly corridors for the delivery of humanitarian cargo there. it turns out that eight-year-old kateryna perepelitsa and her father became hostages . they met the situation in kharkiv region and actually got stuck there, but for some time the connection with the family was on.