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an independent democratic state on august 24, 1991. ukrainians understand more than ever what independence really is. those who were deprived of freedom understand well what a great value it is. we will win and make such a state where ukrainians will not die because independence is a state that protects each of its citizens fear is natural, you don't choose to feel it or not but it's only your choice what happens to it will he win or will you turn him into righteous anger anger that will ignite the heart and give strength to move forward this fear we have something to lose and therefore to defend at such an incredible cost but great freedom cannot be gained by a small

every step we take today is a step into a happy future . each of us is here because we tamed the city, learned to manage it, made it our ally, no matter how difficult it may be for us, but we will definitely not be ashamed in the cockpits of airplanes behind the monitors of radar stations at the control points of anti-aircraft missile systems by a thousand combat positions throughout the territory of our country, they bring victory closer every day, glory to the wind forces of the armed forces of ukraine for more than 150 days without days off on the front lines, more than 30 units of captured enemy equipment tankist yevhen

every day brings victory closer and every day he says i am not tired i am not tired of defending ukraine glory to ukraine this is a verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 180th day of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers the russians hit the infrastructure in odesa region this is reported spokesman ova serhii bratchuk, fortunately there were no casualties from august 23 to 25 in kyiv, kharkiv and other cities of ukraine, mass events are prohibited it is expected that the russians may strike this week and in particular, on independence day, friends

, please take care of yourself and in the event of an air alert , do not ignore these messages go to the bomb shelter, the enemy continues to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine, as of the morning of august 22, russia has already lost 45,400 people in the war in ukraine in the last day alone the armed forces of ukraine eliminated 200 occupiers, at the beginning of the great war, the russians lost in ukraine 1,919 tanks, 4,230 armored fighting vehicles, 1,032 artillery systems, 266 rocket launcher systems, and 145 means against air defense 243 airplanes 198 helicopters 3149 units of automotive equipment 15 ships and boats 194 cruise missiles 815 drones

99 11 special equipment suffered the most losses against them in the donetsk direction so about what awaits ukraine in the coming week and these days about crimea as an aircraft carrier which is no longer an aircraft carrier, but is only an object for ukrainian drones, in particular military objects, as well as about the actual how will the current war end, about the possibility of ending it diplomatically and about how russia is trying to blackmail ukraine with the zaporizhzhia npp, we will talk with us for the next hour on the line of ihor romanenko, retired lieutenant general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010, mr. generals. good health to you. i congratulate you and i am glad that you joined to our program i congratulate you and

wish you the best thank you so, mr. general , one of the most important weeks for ukraine begins, because this week we celebrate flag day on august 23, then independence day on flag day, the russians will hold a trial in mariupol over the captives with sheep, besides, we expect that the russians will experience the ukrainian independence day very painfully, because we know that russia does not want to see ukraine as an independent state, and therefore that um, these days are holidays for us. they can arrange e provocations, the probability of this is quite high e p general, will russia go according to your plan for a massive shelling of ukraine what various sources, foreign sources and

ukrainian commentators believe that they will go. the question is how it will all happen, that is, it is clear that they can use e-e use to use missile strikes, there are possibilities, moreover, from different directions and missiles can be launched from e-e different types of us, it means ground air and sea, that is, ships or submarines, in addition, in some areas, in some areas of the introduction of hostilities, we know that they are quite close to our separate places, and they were located in them barrel jet artillery well, air strikes are carried out on objects close to the contact line. it is quite large in our country, about 2,500, and where they

have such capabilities, they use it. well, recently, as you know, strikes with anti-aircraft missile systems that are old for them have been added to the strikes s300, but we have these complexes in service, they have been in service since the soviet times, uh, what they have completed, well, the regular mode, they have a ground for shooting, if they were modernized to increase accuracy, but relative to accuracy, there are big questions, but uh, they they are used precisely for striking a ground object and not only a military one. unfortunately, it can also be a civilian one, as a result of the combination of which, in addition, it is not connected to the actions of sabotage groups , which we see during the previous

stage and after in the 14th year and already at the stage of a large-scale war after february of this year, and the special squads of saboteurs and so on. a significant number simply left kyiv temporarily. well, in those who do not have such an opportunity, it is clear that they will use their surnames, it is necessary to do this because they spend their time in the mountains, this is not new for us, besides, there are means of prejudice. that is, our anti-flood

defense is quite experienced, it will be used to the maximum, and in addition, it is added . the zyabrivka airfield of belarus, which means that the belarusians handed it over to the servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation. in other words, we are not just waiting, we are seeing what measures were taken in this regard from the military point of view, and what kind of moral and psychological effect did all this have directly on the servicemen of the armed forces of the russian federation and their families? they tried to quickly transport from the cream, there was such an opportunity to send chips. well, also those citizens of the russian federation who tried to enter here

illegally, and i emphasize this, that is, according to the requirements of international legislation ukrainian legislation appeared there in crimea violates whether our legislation should leave the body or fulfill it with border procedures according to the law of ukraine on such matters by the way, mr. generals, over the past few days we have been hearing and seeing what is happening in crimea is shot down by drones on the territory of the crimean peninsula, which is ukrainian, the story on saturday was with a drone around the headquarters of the black sea fleet of the russian federation, then we heard what is happening in what is happening in yevpatoria and in other regions of the crimea, so that the crimeans understand absolutely clearly, we remind you that ukraine

is, after all, the territory of the ukrainian state, that this is ukraine. the beginning of the preparation of the great offensive of the ukrainian army on the crimean peninsula is this in this way, the ukrainian army is trying to keep in tune and show the russians what we have. now there are such opportunities for our drones to fly to the headquarters of the black sea fleet and hit literally, well, in the roof of the black sea fleet, that is, what purpose is psychological or, after all, here in the intelligence purpose and aspects of military and moral psychological, that is, it is going on as part of a large-scale war, a hybrid war, where informational psychological

special operations are used. and we also have experience in conducting all of them from the point of from the point of view of the military e-e because the opponents have e-e exceeding the potential of the armed forces of ukraine their military potential so far and to e-e if planning counter- offensive actions must first be stopped of the enemy, well, it is actually a static front in the south, but in the east, as we know, the advance is slow, that is, in the area of ​​fierce battles that are taking place around the slavic kramatorsk bakhmuta, especially there, the northern solidar, and it means avdeivka, the area of ​​​​the sands of

mar' in other words, it is necessary to stop the advance here and everywhere along the entire line of contact in order to fulfill the task of our granite operation, it is necessary to stop the enemy, force him to force him to go on the defensive, and if available at this time, we will have significant reserve capabilities, so it will be possible to carry out not only the counterattacks that we saw were in the kherson direction, some were successfully carried out about a month ago by the armed forces of ukraine and 9 several dozen settlements were liberated , but it is possible to have a conversation about conducting the code of the offensive operation is somewhere at the operational level, that is, in one direction, for this, additional weapons are definitely needed, which

are not fast enough and massive on the budget from our allies, that is, many factors must to compose, but in any way, one of the principles of preparing for the conduct of war is realized, the principle of constant influence on the enemy, we can see this and the events that are taking place in the crimea and belarus and in the border regions of the russian federation, and this kind of actions must increase in quantity and increase the quality, that is, by increasing parturga of influence on the enemy, and our armed forces are working on this and the general staff is being organized. in order to psychologically influence the

russian army and the citizens of the russian federation as well. you have already mentioned the belarusian swallowtail, where it is located, where the s300 complexes are located . of this war in which literally in two days it will already be six months of the great war er-er when russia dared our large-scale offensive er-er belarus played a very important role on february 24 when the military of the russian federation entered from the territory of the republic of belarus quietly visited the territory of ukraine for half a year, but the belarusians actually did not receive any response from the

ukrainian army. regarding the implementation, but it is more of a question of a political vein, because, well, targeting the objects of the russian federation or belarus is, as it were , prophesying and accordingly unfortunately, we lost contact with mr. general igor romanenko, now we will restore this connection, we are talking about the situation on the eastern and southern fronts of ukraine and on the northern, mr. generals, you are with us , so please continue, because there would be some advantage in the issue of striking the crimea er-er, it means a border object er- e russian regions as well as belarus still has a rather serious military-political factor, that is, a political component. well, in russia and by their means

, our allies asked us not to influence e-e in belarus, too, if the union thus, and crimea, we determined that this first of all, this is ukraine, and secondly, we have our own means and we can see how all this is manifested there lately, that is, the official hybrid approach is the official position - it is true to our military and political leadership that let them deal with security measures there. but in essence it is clear that there are signs of the use of missile weapons and that the special unit is being deployed in accordance with the law adopted by us on the national resistance to the actions of special forces and underground partisans, all this should only grow over time and have a corresponding impact on the enemy because, at the beginning of our joint work, i spoke about the need to destroy, reduce

the potential of the enemy's weapons of the armed forces of the russian federation on the territory of ukraine, and this means destroying manpower and weapons and equipment. well , first of all, we need to compare with ours and then it means the presence of reserves or an exaggeration of this potential of talking about not only counterattacking a counterattack, but conducting e counteroffensive operations starting from the operational level. and the ultimate goal is to conduct counteroffensive operation to liberate the entire territory of our ukraine from the occupiers, mr. generals, the morning summary of the british ministry of defense indicates that, according to their data , it is a shortage of manpower of the russian

federation for the continuation of hostilities in donbas , russia is increasingly trying to motivate additional forces that it uses to strengthen its regular troops in donbas, and here the british say that the problem is complicated by the fact that they call the war a special military operation, this limits the state's ability to apply forced forced delivery to participate in hostilities and whether russia can now in what way compensate for the lack of this manpower and if it is already the end of them, can russia go to declare war in ukraine, well, accordingly, the mobilization of everyone is all for the war from ukraine for russia, this er, it makes a small difference. because putin does not stop his legislation, he violates it. he has long gained experience in his state. all this violates what is

adopted there by their legislative bodies, so it will not be there in principle, even if it is very different. they they do it according to hm conducts the draft and then they force these military personnel who have enlisted to sign e contracts for at least three months or more and this is already a violation, well, and many others plus the involvement of all existing e-e expansion of their private e-e companies of the military like wagner and the like , that's why there are problems. until they do it in the near future , because the social situation is already worsening, gradually it is coming to citizens, entering russia, and it will worsen even more. putin understands that this can lead to an explosion, but not immediately he is slow, so he is doing everything to

push it away from uh, and uh, you see, over the last month, how he is trying uh, to proceed to negotiations, and he is attracting his palagetes all over the world, uh, of the leadership of various states and countries. i am the last but it is clear that in the way they want, ukraine will not go for it, now is not the time when our territories are captured there agree to any negotiations and not what we are proposing in principle, that is, they can start their negotiations with to return it to start on february 23 of this year, and then negotiate on something else, they are not going. well, until this happens, it means that the issues will be resolved on the battlefield, our friends are in touch with ihor romanenko, retired lieutenant general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed

forces of ukraine in the years 2006-2010, if you have any questions for mr. general, you can write to us in the comments on youtube or on facebook. also, do not forget to like this video so that it is trending on youtube or facebook. mr. general, but when we talk about crimea and the situation in the south, we are all waiting for the announced counteroffensive of ukrainian troops, in particular in the kherson region, in the zaporizhia region, and we are talking about the fact that this way we can postpone the planned pseudo-referendum of the russian federation regarding the accession of parts of kherson oblast and parts of zaporozhye to the russian federation, because the collaborators are preparing such a pseudo-referendum. obviously, they will not have time until september, because elections are to be held there in september

in the russian federation. they simply wanted to combine them according to your assessments and according to your observations. this counteroffensive, which has been announced for a long time and it is obvious what it can be. has it already begun or will it still be a way of pushing back ? the real objectives that we have now in this direction, khersonskoe zaporizhzhya , for example, the enemy formed a group there, and gathered forces in such a way that the group has the character of being ready for an offensive, including this emphasizes that the unit of units of the air tenth troops deployed there transferred its experienced troops who took part and are

taking part in hostilities from the donetsk direction, for example from the donbass region of donetsk, which means that they transferred somewhere around 15,000 of the raisin, transferred 10,000 and established the corresponding reserves, e-e increased to about 30,000 groups both on the right bank in the direction of kherson and on the left bank. that is, more eh, not so many eh hmm groups of operatives of a defensive nature were formed there how much did russia prepare for the offensive , moreover, they are conducting offensive actions, er, such reconnaissance by combat, er, it is up to four, five battalion tactical groups, about 3.4 days ago, and we also know that a day ago hmm, it means that it is moving forward, we captured a settlement there

our uh, but there is quite a strong defense there, active countermeasures, uh, units of part of our armed forces , and in this regard, we can still say that those active actions a month ago in the kherson direction , from our side, should be considered as preparatory actions there several tens of inhabitants points, but at the present time no more than that. in addition, it is an element of an e-e informational and psychological special operation, therefore, an offensive was announced on our side, and the enemy was forced to show his forces from these directions where he prevailed. that is , it is donetsk - it is under the raisin and weakened the grouping in this way, although the fighting continues, as i have already said, in the district of slavic bakhmut, as well as the district of

piskov maryinka, that is, the avdeevskaya, e. the grouping of the beginning of more active actions and this will manifest itself. well, in the next weeks, i think it will be recorded. it is important to survive here, these days of 23-24. well, and the third 25, and we will er see er intelligence in this patty and then regarding the making of the following decisions with on the part of our general staff , there is another rather important topic - this is the situation at the zaporizhzhia npp, the russians are constantly trying to accuse the ukrainian soldiers of shelling the nuclear power plant, we know that last week the russian federation initiated a meeting of the un security council, they complained there that

this is exactly what the ukrainians are doing, although he probably should have said something to the russian federation about their stay on the territory of an independent state and the seizure of a nuclear facility now in the context of a possible counter-type of the ukrainian army in the south of the zaporizhia npp and its presence under the control of the russians, it looks like nuclear blackmail not only of ukraine but of the whole world, that is, putin does not have to use nuclear weapons , he just needs to hit the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and see the reaction of the british they are saying that if this happens, then this is article five of the nato charter, an attack on one of the nato countries, if it happens, there will be consequences from a nuclear

explosion or from an explosion at the zaporizhzhia npp, and what do you think, can this happen? what nato after all, he will become a participant in the russian-ukrainian war and russia itself will finally receive a beating from the nativists, we have a statement on sunday, as you know , the leaders of the united states, great britain, france, and germany communicated with igor romanenko, unfortunately, unfortunately, we have lost contact and i really hope that if we do not restore contact with mr. general now, we will be waiting for another guest, oleksandr