er, to somehow correct the situation in ukraine based on the fact that tomorrow he will meet precisely with the adequate side of this conflict with the ukrainian president and un representative antonio guterres , it would be good if he convinced his colleague vladimir putin of the need for the dsk of latsia with whom , by the way, recently we communicates actively and even talks about joint russian-turkish projects. turkey, let me remind you, launched a special military operation last night, and it is changing quite dynamically on the border with syria, and i think that my colleagues who monitor the events in the internaro will definitely tell you in more detail what is actually happening on that front and whether the actions of the turkish side will stick a bone across the throats of the russians, because russia has been flaunting its successes for a long time. series and the

situation of settling the situation there for a long time were for them well, one of the main geopolitical goals is a bit of a hassle for them. as they say erdogan water in this direction, we will talk about it very soon. lapin - a special officer, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a people's deputy of the pre-convocation, igor, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes. well, i will immediately ask you to comment, if possible, on the message from the representative of the press service of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense andriy yusov says that it is necessary to prepare for august and september in the coming days, before the escalation, in fact, on all fronts, do you, as a person who directly participates in military events in our country, agree with this thesis, or do we really expect even more active

escalation, first of all, let's say from the point of view, well, let's call it a military-political point of view, what is needed for putin, for putin and for russia in general, we need some kind of stability and some kind of justification for the big things that they are losing in ukraine. what is needed for ukraine ? we also need some kind of big victory that could speed up some political processes in russia, there may be dissatisfaction and so on, and to date, in fact , all the cards have been dealt, all the cards in the hands, of course, ukraine will try, and i am in this i am convinced to do what we are planning to do in the kherson region, let's say yes, i don't, well, i don't think that there will be some classic frontal attack there , counterattack and so on, but what we are doing now, i think are quite justified steps. this is to cut off the mystique from that group at the expense of the destruction of

bridges and the gradual let's say so well, i will shoot that group, the russians will either surrender themselves as prisoners or do not know how to swim, especially since the generals have already moved to the left bank, then the russian generals, and therefore this too demoralizing factors for the personnel, in this option, the russians will have to have some success elsewhere, and of course, where they are most concentrated today. let's say that the artillery means of defeat are in the donetsk direction, and they will strangle and press there, as they are currently doing there in bakhmut the sands of avdiyivka and so on. that is, where they have a significant advantage in artillery and they will use it, but this will result in status quo parity, and of course they will need something else, something else they can achieve at the expense of missiles attacks on land, for example, as comrades, i don’t

say there that from the belarusian side, how many there they collected in total, 13,000, somewhere they say, well, according to intelligence data, they will directly want to go north on a large scale along the entire border line with belarus and ukraine, well, that is, this the border is almost 1000 km long. i doubt that such forces are enough, and lukashenko to throw the last power structures loyal to him into a meat grinder in ukraine is also not comilfo, because his internal processes will then be torn to pieces, as they say, and there will be no who is going to protect him inside in belarus, the russians will not protect him there, that's for sure. they don't need lukashenko right now. this is the same thing as what andriyusov is talking about. in principle, this is exactly the moment in order to knock down maybe some of our victorious steps that we are taking today attacking objects in crimea, well, let's put it bluntly, their question now is not what it was done. whether it is

sabotage or not sabotage, whether it is rockets, it is not important now, let's say so, the political sense in russia because of this there are certain problems, they will need parity due to the fact that they are suffering in the kherson region and they will try to put pressure on all fronts , that's why i think that these theses that my colleague said are enough , well, let's tell the truth, say similar things, mr. igor. to you , putin's goals in ukraine seem clearly defined, why do i ask recently, he spoke at the army 2022 forum. lord , sometimes you have to watch all this to understand what is in the enemy's mind. he noted that our soldiers, together with the fighters of donbas, honorably fulfill their duty, fight for the russian federation for peaceful life in the donetsk luhansk people's republics are clearly fulfilling all the assigned tasks step by step liberating the land of donbas and

in this statement the analysts of the institute for the study of war emphasize the attention of the russian president did not mention the territory outside the donetsk and luhansk regions when describing the goals of russia's war in ukraine is now talking about the fact that it is possible that he is forced . it is clear to you what putin wants, at least for now, for ukraine. look, he can't say for his own consumer that we wanted to grab everything from here, we got everything in the face near kyiv, he can't say that, he can't say that we raked in kharkiv, he he can't say either, he can't say that we are now digging somewhere under kherson and the ukrainians are winking at us near the raisin

, he can't say that and he returns to his previous version that i am going to help the people of donbas, well figuratively speaking, i don't know the truth historically, the people of donbass are such a people. i am not aware of such a thing, but i remember studying history at the historical school of such a nationality. there is no such separate nation . but nevertheless, he simply now, seeing that he cannot achieve success absolutely anywhere, no regional center except kherson, which which we will not repeat. regions. let's still be frank. what they are doing now at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is blackmail of a world level. will he be able to

park something in his consumer? our peaceful cities there, we know how to fly there and to vinnytsia and kremenchug, and it doesn't matter there and to frankivsk. if only this blackmail didn't fly, so that he might hope that now the population will come out and say that we want peace at any price and we will enter into the negotiation process. in it won't work, why are we getting angry, you understand, well , let's still speak frankly. well, as they say, i see how people in the cities react to the alarm . let's see how the russians react to the explosion in crimea, and for them it's the first time, so here i am. what is it? i know that this is putin's blackmail that we are going to bite off all of this right now. it will not pass. the people did not become a population. but they stood up to protect the homeland and withstand all those bombings. let's say something else. the

question is, what is the main question for today? day is what follows and then again i stress to my own consumer that putin can feed all he wants, he will not be able to do this already, and only donbas was discussed, because there are minor successes there. yes, almost the entire luhansk region, except for two villages, has been captured there, and there are certain promotions. well, i am in favor of the bakhmut direction more can be oriented. well, there is some progress forward, but i will tell you that if you count from the moment when i was near makmuth until today and in general this entire period starting from april, they are, well, no more than 7-8 km pass in a month for such for the second army of the world in one - in one area, such rates, well, this is unacceptable from the point of view of military strategy, and they are digging there for what it is. yes, of course, the guys hold the boundaries with their bodies, as they say, but i

emphasize once again, well, to him there is nothing more to show off, mr. igor, maybe you can give some detail to the situation in the donetsk region, we understand that the situation in specific directions there can vary greatly, but there are many signals about the difficulty of the situation in pisky and avdiivka, but the military environment, people who are directly engaged in the protection of our state. i see that they are somewhat stopping society and saying we are doing everything we can and we will deal with our affairs in accordance with our knowledge of preparation and assessment of the situation how to find a balance for us everything - it is still correct to respond to such alarm calls from the military, which signal the complexity of the situation, at the same time

not to breed treason . speaking of the situation today and the situation as it was before, well, i ca n’t comment now, for example, on the pisky audio store because, well, let’s just say that in order to comment there, you need to have more information and be directly on the spot. but what can i say in general in this direction of the russians? in artillery, the russians really have a colossal advantage in terms of ammunition for this artillery, and if dispersing the treachery. today the situation is evened out due to the fact that the western partners supply us, but due to the all-powerful hypers, we disrupt their logistics, we blow up their warehouses, and as a result, the

intensity of their shelling has significantly decreased. i am not saying that we have added that soviet caliber 122 mm for mortars or 152 mm for artillery, but we already have 155 mm and caliber and, accordingly, ammunition from western partners , so in the donetsk direction they really are not enough , we need many times more artillery for parity today there is no war, soldier against soldier, the russians continue to use their tactics in donetsk region, they pour artillery after after the infantry receive blows from our soldiers, the russian infantry crawls back and again sprinkles artillery on these territories of ours, which we hold the borders, so they burn the ground in pieces step by step and that's why in

this situation i'm sorry, because here i'm just getting off the phone just as the picture is ringing, the picture may be jumping everyone , yes, that's why in this situation we have that our partners are really helping us, but let's talk frankly well let's say that for 1,000 russian barrels, er, 250 of ours is a little bit, it's me now, without betrayal, it was even worse, now it's much better, and the supplies are growing, this is the main thing, and since the supplies are growing, it means that we will be able to focus more on the donetsk direction, also the artillery in the kherson region, but look, mr. igor well, we expected that maybe in the east it would make things easier for our defenders and uh, i am actually now rebroadcasting what i heard from our defenders from the south when it became clear that the russians were transferring their forces there and when it became clear that the armed forces of ukraine had certain successes in the raisin direction. and this small town

is actually the key to donetsk region. well, there were hopes that, as they say, our defenders in the east would take a little breather, but no, the situation is not changing , that's because the russians actually have a lot of resources. that they weakened, for example, the donetsk direction due to the fact that a certain part of the troops of the large kherson troops, this does not mean that the number of artillery has decreased in them, you understand, i emphasize once again that the main pressure is artillery today, as in the 14th year, there is no such concept. well, as it is, but it is not meant in such a proportion . 15 wounds, one in the field, the others are all going, uh, artillery

, shrapnel, mine-explosive, and so on, that is, i emphasize once again that the artillery, well, the artillery, it worked and is working. so it wears out, so they are there now, we are disrupting the logistics . well, we still have to smoke and smoke there that's why this pressure takes place first of all by means of artillery, let's not forget the second point. well, i understand that we are fighting against the second army of the world, and if we hold them, then we are becoming the first army of the world. but nevertheless, let's not forget, well, the russians are 140 million people and it has not yet dawned on everyone that putin is leading them to ukraine, you understand. they continue to believe in the holiday and that hidden mobilization and all that is happening today in russia. there are really many of them. well, one more thing is meant by the extent of the seizure of the territory of donetsk region. well

let's speak frankly, but 90% of donetsk region voted for the upszh and russian peace. let's speak honestly that today they also have personnel replenishment there, because the russians are entering, they are not celebrating, they are not playing democracy, you understand, they are starting to they clench their teeth and say, go fight, you don't fight, your family is gone, and those who were supposed to escape from there, they fled from there, and those who remained to meet the russians, not all of them, eh, be more careful with your grades, mr. igor, because eh i have good friends who work for us in evacuations there was nowhere to go, but russian peace was in their hearts today, of course, after mariupol was broken, they will no longer vote for the sharia party in the local council, and the sharia party in kharkiv

will no longer enter the local council either, but this is due to development and due to that blood and i'm sorry for that misfortune, but i have this opinion, you have the right to it, but i would like to note that the list of those political forces that you are now calling them should not, in principle, be on the list and the ukrainian state should systematically deal with this issue why do pro-russian political forces in our country take part in any kind of competition at all? let's say they were admitted to the elections. well, that's another question, and p igor. i am very grateful to you, this is the last thing, thank you, thank you. ihor lapin was in touch with us, a special forces officer from dobro glory to the heroes of the day, oh, the russians are trying to advance in several directions, they are passing through the area, the general staff of ukraine tells us that they have partial success in some places, eh, it is

presented very dry in the latest summaries, but nevertheless , we understand that there are certain successes in of the armed forces of ukraine, yesterday we had a conversation with roman kostenko, we talked about the situation in the south, and mr. roman was somewhat alarmed by the fact that we are now, well, let's say, for various reasons, not using the golden time for a counterattack before these crazy downpours begin it is autumn , november, and everything that does not contribute to the advancement of our troops in the south of our country. how do you see the military situation now? if we talk about the east, about the south , yes, and in general, please. for some reason, i would call it the current situation , because there would be well, for what i would call it almost a part because, on the one hand, the armed forces of

ukraine, thanks to well-targeted strikes, are accumulating in the south of ukraine, they are accumulating there these changes, which should later pass into that situation, which we call an act of goodwill in the kherson direction by the other dashed lines, apparently the russians were able to accumulate, let's call it, a certain amount of reserves of such a tactical level, which they may or may not be able to help break at least some of the area of ​​the front, the situation is in their favor, but let's say that we must constrain our actions, this is the reserve accumulated by the russians, for example, there are prisoners who suddenly became wagnerites there, or there are additional hundreds or thousands mobilized in the occupied donbas . appeared there. they are actively trying to use it to limit our initiative in the east of ukraine.

well, that is, they are resorting to offensive actions, and on others they are carrying out remote mining of the area, which in general means defensive actions, that is, the russians. maybe even if they do not hope to achieve any tangible political success there in the style of taking the entire territory of the donetsk region or let's say to resume offensive actions in the south of ukraine, they are doing everything, perhaps to hide our initiative, all the more well, somehow the russians turned out to be active against that background. when we started let's say that a certain resource and a certain resource - this is the resource of barrels for artillery systems of western production. my colleagues have repeatedly mentioned, for example, about that moment even on these german panzer howitzers to a thousand, suddenly it was time to repair the barrels because there how did the resource of the table of this 3000 shots and the germans did not expect that, in principle, such guns would be fired actively, we can also

assume that the situation is similar with other western-made artillery systems because even there were the first messages there when the first howitzers of the m-77 type had just arrived, so there were literally 2-3 weeks of intense fighting and the first several dozen howitzers had to be sent for repair purely to replace the barrels , so unfortunately, really mr. kostenko is quite right, especially since he is there because of his type of service. let's put it this way, this situation is better visible, but unfortunately we found ourselves in such an almost frequent situation, as if the ability to accumulate positive changes, but on the other hand, we cannot use it in time for ivan well, we hope that the situation in the south of our country can somehow change in our favor, at least in connection with the events in the crimea. and yesterday we observed the zhankoy district and the town of gvardiyske near

simferopol. if we talk about zhankoy, then in my opinion the explosions stopped there today at noon. well yes , only at lunch, er, and something to note, it stopped exploding only at lunchtime. and the crimean administration presented the joining of train traffic sometime in the evening. regionally on their side, in any case, there was some accumulated power of the russians, it was destroyed in the dzhankov district, in addition, there is information about the damage to the iron of the road surface of the railway track, which is used to dress it, everything is good. sorry for the occupied the south of mainland ukraine, eh, will the situation somehow change, or eh, in fact, it is not so difficult to fix everything and continue to logistically provide the recently occupied

territories, you know, and here we can have quite an optimistic conclusion that the real result of these cherry blossom explosions will depress the russian occupiers , well, that is, it will become tangible for the russian occupiers in about a week, let’s say in two, because if you think about it like that, from the materials that we saw there at all these points those boxes were literally lying in the open sky, yes. so , in bulk, what influenced the first two conclusions? well , these boxes were recently unloaded from the wagons because the wagons were needed in other areas due to other traditions, the boxes were deliberately placed so so that if anything can be quickly loaded onto the wagons and quickly delivered to the positions of the restists in the southern mainland of ukraine, you know, bypassing the stage of storage in warehouses already in our occupied territory, well , obviously, this is all the goods that should arrive there after some time to the russian occupiers, so that systematically, well there to replenish their stocks of shells

. well, yesterday it took off in the air. and you know, in fact, here, well, it doesn’t matter anymore. how quickly the russians will manage to fix that literally tattered railway bed because well, somewhere from at the pace demonstrated by the russian engineering troops, it may take from two days to a week if they fix the crossing there, about a week for the railway. and as for the electrical substation there, the situation can obviously be more difficult because under the russian occupiers. the electric substation is falling into disrepair - it really is for them a tangible blow in something like this, but all the same, ammunition was lost, near which there was even a certain amount artillery systems, for example, there are up to a dozen bm-21 grads and even up to a dozen 203 mm pion guns, do you know just such a

tractor or not ? let's hope that it will be served before the onset of the cold season, at least the success of the battle for kherson, because it will be for ukraine, well, mr. ivan, let 's be careful with you and just try to imagine. and if, in the end, what happened in the chaykov district and the simferopol district after all, it happened thanks to the ukrainian side and not because of the fuses and so on. how can such complex operations be carried out? and in general, it is difficult to imagine that they would fly to the example of a missile because, well, then it would be necessary to blind them somehow air defense to do something with the radar, for example, well, it's like a boy's mind, you know, how a civilian thinks about it, if it's

sabotage, it's also difficult to imagine, because such objects and that they guarded them poorly , is it possible, how could it at all implement all this all the good that we observed yesterday in the crimea in your opinion. well, of course, we are here just like that, empirically pondering the voice, not asserting anything. on such a postulate that the armed forces of ukraine will seemingly do nothing for the defense of their country, this was their biggest strategic miscalculation because the fact that the armed forces of ukraine will do everything even it was impossible, but they didn’t show it on february 24. well, it seems that this year they still haven’t learned what it’s like to blind the radars there. well, what are there? well, let ’s say so mysterious and mysterious missiles about the radars, what are there? here’s the order of the armed forces of ukraine, because it’s been about

two weeks ago, and there is still no confirmation that these were precisely air-based harm missiles, on the other hand, there are reasons to believe that suddenly these were appropriately modified guided missiles fired from heimers, that is, there is such a complete uncertainty that plays into our hands and plays against russian anti-aircraft defense, as for this branded russian friendship, thanks to which, let's say, caring patriots of ukraine can penetrate all kinds of formations, you know, there is such a media phenomenon, there is a wonderful publication in addition to reality that writes about the realities of life under russian occupation from time to time they produce the following genre of photos of russian ships of the black sea fleet near the suburbs, imagine why there are russian occupiers there, the agent literally can walk around the occupied sevastopol and take pictures of all these submarines that are standing there near the docks, frigates and amphibious

ships that are standing there at the repair plant or there, you know . it is possible to fix it, but imagine if hm. let 's put it this way, the russian occupiers lack operational skills. you know how to extinguish even such a thing, obviously, the armed forces of ukraine and other defense forces skilfully use the opportunities that are created well and that are created there mainly by russians and show all their skills and abilities that they have acquired well over the last year, including in cooperation with western partners, thank you and the adviser to the head of the president's office mykhailo podolyak said that the crimean bridge should be destroyed as a legitimate military target, i would like to remind you that as of today, the operating mode of the crimean bridge is somewhat blurred, it is not clear to the end whether it is closed for entry and exit, but there

is less traffic yesterday enough, and it was a record number, but you also need to realize that the orcs often run out of vacations at this time, maybe just as they say, they left according to plan, although they left somewhat anxiously and, uh, with appropriate groans, like, it's a shame, we're here like ourselves home thank you ivan krychevskyi, a dfs-express expert was in touch with us, i will also remind you that in melitopol the mayor reported that explosions were heard and eyewitnesses even talk about the sounds of automatic queues. i really hope that we will detail this information later, but more purely i have some cool, dry journalistic information from my fellow journalists and anna, please. thank you , khrystyna. well, this issue is about the most important things, as usual, i will tell you together with the news editors, but this

issue is about the situation at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant