ukraine became an independent state, but the struggle of ukrainians for freedom is not over. god grant us to love ukraine above all else today, so that we don't have to love bitterly after losing vyacheslav chornovil. happy independence day, we will defeat the enemy who dreamed of capturing ukraine in three days and we did not

let our freedom be taken away together stopped the russian ortova and together we will liberate our native land, we will definitely rebuild the destroyed cities and villages because we ukrainians are fighting for our country as one, sbu, we are defending independence, we are getting closer to victory dear tv viewers, the news editor is ready to tell you about the most important thing for this hour, and i will start with the fact that in myrgorod, poltava oblast, an hour ago,

four air raids were recorded, the occupiers hit the city's infrastructure. this was reported by the head of the poltava regional military administration, dmytro lunin , there is no information about victims and destruction, the terror of the civilian population of kharkiv continues, the russians fired cluster munitions at a small danylivka village in the kharkiv district, the regional military administration reported that two people were wounded there in addition, private houses and infrastructure are also damaged. artillery is also being driven away. there is no information about victims or destruction in the vicinity of kharkiv. people are urged to stay in shelters today in the region. there are fewer traitors in mykhailivka, zaporizhzhia region. the gauleiter of the mykhailivka village, ivan sushko, was killed in his

car. blew up himself, the occupiers confirmed this information, at first they took him to the hospital, but he died there. let's say no one will be able to master another 150 russians on ukrainian land. and in general, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the enemy's army has reduced by 45,700 soldiers, three more tanks, 5 armored combat vehicles, 10 cars, three art systems and one anti- aircraft weapon have also become scrap metal one helicopter and two drones of the occupiers landed permanently - the enemy suffered the biggest losses in a day - the enemy suffered in the donetsk direction, but these data are approximate, the general staff reminds that until february 24, ukrainians freely left for

the border was removed cash moved around the cities at any time martial law limited our life in many aspects, so let's watch the top 5 tough decisions of the authorities since the beginning of the full-scale war february 23, people's deputies worked in the session hall until ten in the evening consulted for a long time about the introduction of a state of emergency and of the related restrictions spoke out against the military so as not to provoke russia. literally in a few hours, kremlin rockets were flying at kyiv. decisions began to be made much faster on february 24 at eight in the morning 300 people's deputies voted for the introduction of

martial law, which involves full mobilization , curfew, restrictions on freedom of speech, the possibility of confiscating private property for the benefit of the armed forces of ukraine, etc. at the beginning of the war, the national bank fixed the exchange rate at 29 hryvnias , 25 kopecks for $1, in july this figure was raised to 36 hryvnias 56 kopecks, they say that this helped to ensure the stable operation of the financial system, in addition, the authorities limited cash withdrawals to uah 100,000 per day in the spring due to massive russian attacks on our oil refineries and gasoline storages in ukraine fuel shortages began and prices jumped sharply the cabinet of ministers introduced state regulations for

gas stations, set the maximum markup level, the government also canceled the excise tax on fuel and reduced vat from 20 to 7% in order to regulate its cost for consumers soon fuel shortages increased because the authorities returned to market pricing, the situation stabilized in march, the deputies passed a law that allowed the nationalization of the property of russians and their companies in the money for the alienation of assets will not be returned to ukraine, and the final decision by the national security council applies to people who publicly deny whether they support armed aggression against ukraine, for example, the court seized a part of the capital's marmalade shopping center, which was owned by the head of gazprom, in particular, alexey miller, through offshore, on august 2 in the cabinet of ministers ordered

the mandatory evacuation of the population from donetsk region. there is no electricity, gas, communication damage, but some people are still trying to live under shelling, they will be evacuated to safe areas in 13 regions. the authorities hope to evacuate more than 200,000 people. independence is possible only when there are people ready to fight for it. the commander-in -chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhny, congratulated the 31st anniversary. he said that independence is a responsibility that lies on everyone's

shoulders defenders of our state and declared that it is an honor to serve together with them all, this is the voice of our ancestors, they died in battles in the gulags, they were swollen from hunger and paved the roads of the empire with their bones, those who, in moderate letters and villages, ask for help under the ruins of their destroyed bodies, the voice of our children who did not choose time and place of birth, but who had to live during the great war, independence is possible only when people are ready to fight for it independence day is celebrated from the morning and in lviv , our journalist will tell what events have already taken place

khrystyna parubiy khrystyna greetings i congratulate you on the main holiday of our ukraine and what is the current situation in the city of the studio greetings greetings to all viewers of the espresso tv channel today independence day in lviv began with commemorative events at the lychakiv cemetery and first all lviv residents as well as high-ranking officials of the city came to the field of mars where honored those soldiers who had already died during the full-scale invasion, and then everyone moved to the 76th field, where these servicemen who died since 2014 are buried, and in fact today, this independence day, we we realize a little differently, how we have to live now, what will happen next, today we will also talk with mykola, the knyazhytskyi people's deputy of ukraine, he is now next to me, mr. mykola , in fact, on february 24, we were given ukraine, we were given three days, a week, someone gave the world yes, but already in six

months and half a year and we are now celebrating independence day , in fact this is independence day today we are a little different today deliberately so with what mood do you have today what do you want to say to this war today we will win it observers who underestimated our army and spirit ukrainians, and here at this cemetery in lychakivskyi lviv, unfortunately, the sad history of our independence is sad and hopeful because we are now among the graves of ukrainian sich riflemen, people who fought and died during the second world war, people who died since 14 of the year heavenly hundred, the first defenders of ukraine, people who, unfortunately, are dying now, they all find eternal peace here in this cemetery, ukraine lives and i thank each of them on this day

. by the way, the dissidents are buried here, this struggle for independence lasted for a very long time and, well, now you can sadly joke that we reached the finals and we will defeat the aggressor, because now we have defended independence and our soldiers are defending it, and each of them just has to to say thank you is actually very difficult for us. it is given, but thank you for it. mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine. i actually want to end on such a positive note , because there is a study of the democratic initiative fund, er, where 90% of ukrainians are proud of their we are proud of our nationality that we are ukrainians and we are proud of it because we have one studio in ukraine khrystyna this was our correspondent khrystyna parubiy talking about how today they are celebrating and celebrating and in general, how is this

day going in lviv today well, we are celebrating together with the whole world for the past six months ukraine left about 7 million people. however, in their hearts, they are with our state among them, and our correspondent tetyana belinova is now in brussels, where together with her they are celebrating the independence day of ukraine. more than 50,000 of our compatriots, as a colleague, congratulate us on the holiday. tell me, i congratulate you on the holiday, i also congratulate all of us , all ukrainians, er, to all the viewers, i congratulate you on the holiday . and wants to come back , just like me, like you said, there are already more than 50,000 ukrainians in belgium. so today they are all joining the celebration. there

is a very festive mood here in the center of brussels. behind me, you can see one of the positives of brussels, it's thousands it's a boy who pees on me they changed him into the clothes of a ukrainian cossack , real trousers, we see red boots, too . he is holding the ukrainian flag, eh, the mood is festive, and in half an hour we will all be singing ukrainian songs on the main square among them, chervona ruta, eh, gay falcons, like us in ukraine, eh, too then we will unfurl the 30-meter ukrainian flag, and in an hour after the unfurling of the flag , the ukrainian band patsyka from franek will add a performance of real color, and then at 3:00 p.m. in kyiv, we will all

sing the national anthem together as part of the the performance of the national anthem of ukraine in 50 countries of the world, in my opinion, it will be something fantastic, and in the evening in brussels, we expect a real mystery at around 10:00 p.m. local time, at 11:00 p.m. kyiv time, and for the center of brussels, all the buildings of the council of europe, as well as the main square, are painted in ukrainian colors, there will be such illumination in blue-yellow colors, for sure. then we will show you what it looks like, and there are no ready words. thank you sincerely. this was our correspondent tatiana blinova and talked about how are celebrating the independence day of ukraine in brussels for the moment i have the next news release already at 14:00, well, our independence is very annoying to

the russian nazis, now it is defended by our warriors on the battlefield so let's always remember what brave people are behind we are with you and appreciate the sovereignty of our state, see you on our channel, watch espresso news and the euroespresso program for ukrainian refugees in europe, a joint broadcast with the atp channel , radio svoboda programs, time-time voice programs america, the inclusion of public television journalists, bbc news ukraine and france 24, as well as the broadcast of the information marathon, the only news, together we are the power, glory to ukraine, some creatures, he

hunts in practice. to us love ukraine above all else today having so that we don't have to later love bitterly after losing vyacheslav chornovil happy independence day we will win the goal will be in 25 20 you will be 15 i want to drive this fool out of of our land 5 3 2 1 fire

congratulations on 9 years we are celebrating independence day in a state when our country is fighting defensive battles i am olga lazy and this is a chronicle of the combat days of actions for a week let's see what happened in the last few days at our front a map of military operations in ukraine overview events of august 20-23 southern front, despite the strikes on the bridges across the dnipro , russian troops still find an opportunity to partially transfer reinforcements august 22, the armed forces of ukraine again struck the antoniv and kakhovsky

bridges considering the fact that there has been something there for a long time the rockets hit either the reinforcements that were moving across the bridge or the equipment that was repairing it. in one way or another, the invaders use and use floating bridges, for example, to move the barrier on the right bank of the kherson region. the invaders launched an attack on mykolaiv at once in four directions . the ford resisted and repelled the enemy attacks, but near the snow river they stormed and occupied the southern part of the village of the blessed from the south from vasylki and from kalynyvka, which is in the southeast a few kilometers next to snow river, the russians unsuccessfully tried to attack our troops near novopetrivka, a little further south, the invaders attacked another village of blagodatne, which on the mykolaiv-kherson highway, part of the village was stormed from the northwest from the side of the green grove, and the battles for blagodatne in the southeast are still ongoing further south, the rashists managed to capture oleksandrivka and

attack in the tauriysk direction, this assault was supported by other invaders and the real one, but their offensive was choked on the approaches at the same time the armed forces destroyed five air defense systems mainly in the southern direction, which allowed our aviation to carry out about 10 airstrikes every day. the eastern front, the entire front line in donetsk region trembles from the continuous artillery barrage, the enemy is trying to break through the defense line around donetsk and move the front further away from the city, the russians are trying to break through the main defensive lines redoubts that were built since 2014 and thus clamp the ukrainian defenders in a vice in the south, whether the defense forces stopped the onslaught of the crashers who stormed behind many in the direction of zolota niva, pavlivka, volodymyrivka, and velyka novosilka, the positions of the marines are shifting, the russians are trying to bypass from the south, from the side of novomykhalivka , and from the north, through staromykhalivka, and also from staromykhalivka, the enemy is trying to advance on the pervemayasky

, behind the sands, which, unfortunately, are already almost completely in the hands of the invaders, from here they want advance to nevilskyi, which is located on an open and flat area, then the attacks go in the direction of spartak-opitna to bypass avdiivka from the south and novoselivka the second krasnohorivka to exit the city from the north to the turkish, they are trying to approach from the south by storming the outskirts of new york and from horlivka through majorskoe in all these directions fierce battles are going on right now. villages on the approaches to the city from the seven hills, the occupiers turned to the southern outskirts of zaitsevo, however, in the neighborhood of the kodymi defenders, they courageously hold a blow to the northeast of the city of soledar, which according to reports the russians have been occupied for a long time, they are still on the defensive, and nearby in bakhmut, 8 km from bakhmut, there is already a civil war going on, the attempts of the russians

to advance to seversk through ivano-frankivsk did not lead to anything, as did the unsuccessful attempts to attack north of slovyansk here defense forces steadfastly hold the front line and are trying to counterattack in the direction of the long-term shelling of ukrainian cities and the destruction of enemy warehouses and bas a rocket destroyed a high-rise building at the southern ukrainian nuclear power plant, nine people were injured and four children were in serious condition, in addition, rocket fragments were found in the surveillance zone of the nuclear plant for two days in a row, mykolaiv was shelled from the s-300 and rocket artillery. another h31 missile was shot down by our odesa air defense forces attacked five rockets , two of them were shot down over the sea, the others hit an agricultural enterprise in the dnipropetrovsk region with 52 rockets from the mlrs, nikopol barrel artillery and grady were hit by manganese and the apostoliv community without significant casualties

of destruction and a victim. on august 21, four calibers were shot down over the dnieper. on august 23, instead, the armed forces of ukraine again hit the antoniv and kakhovka bridges. another warehouse destroyed in chernobaivka exploded for more than four hours, so our artillery and rocket troops destroyed the warehouses of the military bases in kherson, kakhovka, nova kakhovka, old women in henichesky and twice in the boryslav region of crimea came under mass attack drones worked several nights in a row in many cities of the peninsula air defense tried to shoot down drones rashists found themselves in a stalemate if not shoot down drones, they will destroy warehouses. and if you shoot down the topio reveals its positions and is vulnerable to specialized missiles harm. however, two kamikaze drones did fly to sevastopol and blew up at the headquarters of the black sea fleet in the zaporizhzhia region of the armed forces of ukraine. they destroyed a rare radar intelligence complex of the zoo occupiers. in august,

another base and ammunition depot were destroyed near the airfield in melitopol. demilitarization was also carried out in the pologiv vasilkiv and melitopol districts of the zaporizhia region in donetsk region. shelled a school in kostyantynivka and also launched a rocket attack on houses in the turkish udf from the ukrainian armed forces hit the base of the pyatnashka battalion on the outskirts of donetsk and also targeted the administration of the leader of the local occupiers in poshilina, the ammunition depots of the ukrainian armed forces were blown up in horlivka and starobeshev in the occupied part of donetsk region, as well as valchev and slavic-serbian in the luhansk region almost every day rockets destroy the much-suffering kharkiv under fire these days were shevchenkivskyi kyiv and novobavarian district of the city we are winning daily death to the enemy in each separate place where they are trying to advance somewhere, this is all happening

in such an area of ​​no more than 10 km, however, the military is limping, let's talk about what is happening now with petro chernyk, this is a military expert and viktor tregubov, a captain of the armed forces of ukraine. greetings, gentlemen therefore, let's start from the south, an attempt to move near mykolaiv, given how much more precisely, how many forces do the russians still have there and why can we still wait for them in the south, let's probably start with you, mr. chernika, well, in my opinion, the enemy has great forces and means in order to carry out really deep contour offensive operations somewhere at a distance of up to 15-20 km, the enemy is not there at the moment, but in no way would i enchant you to know such a thesis that the enemy has already expired as a matter of fact in my

opinion, their mobilization resource is still quite large, estimated at 8 million people, and stocks of artillery weapons and practically unlimited shells for them. they still have more than that, even today's shelling proves that they such anti-aircraft missile complexes as the s300 have been transferred to the surface-to-surface mode. it is a rather serious missile that cannot be neglected with a warhead from 80 to 180 kg and which can deliver fairly severe blows within a range of up to 200 km, so i think it should be treated quite carefully and seriously what is happening along the demarcation line in general what is at this moment i would call the point of strategic balance the enemy can no longer carry out major counter-offensive operations and we still need to prepare very carefully for that counter-offensive we all dream ah, viktor, but this movement in the south

is the goal, most likely mykolaiv. is it something else , what do you think? well, theoretically, there could be two fc directions, one to mykolaiv and the other actually to kryvyi rih, and if the thickness of kryvyi rih was not was a little more likely because it was a little easier geographically there in some moments, but on the other hand , colleagues, it is absolutely useful. i apologize, it means that we now actually have a point of strategic balance when the russians do not, well, it is not that they cannot , uh, start an operation, but most likely not will be able to complete them, er, in this case, they have logistical problems, and there are also problems with the fact that they do not really imagine what capabilities the ukrainians actually have. some moments become surprises for them, so russian

planners are on the spot also, in fact, we waited and looked at the situation and the situation here is quite a violation of the situation, which also means that there is an internal political factor in russia itself, as we can see from what happened in crimea, no one wants to take responsibility for the defeat. no , this is such a pleasant feature of dictatorships that if uh um everyone they try to blame each other for any deed, for any defeat, no one wants to take risks, no one wants to be who they say the parties won't say oh, he is the one to blame for this, that's why they will delay and that's why they do n't know what to do and these relate to the offensive in the kherson region outside the borders of the kherson region as well as to the actual political projects that they are trying to implement there, such as referendums, they themselves do not know how to conduct

them badly on the one hand, and on the other hand to conduct them very badly that's why now they are not stretchers, and this is sometimes a pleasant thing to watch. well, if we talk about political projects, it remains after all, as always, we have the luhansk donetsk region, where the russians still hope to achieve some success, at least a point . and i see avdiivka as such a point it seems to me that they are concentrating their efforts there now, because it is no longer a question of getting control of sloviansk or kramatorsk there, as it was before, even i have already heard that their television is already saying that well, slavyanska motuzk may be the goal of autumn there for november, but this point remains on one side of avdiyivka, on the other side of bakhmut, and yet one way or another, but their point attack near

kharkov led to the fact that they pushed back the defense forces of ukraine. so that the ukrainian the army is not able to get to this junction in kupyansk , what opportunities does this open up for the russians and what opportunities can there actually be there? well, what do you think of mr. chernyk's actions my as a military expert i would not neglect any point of the front as this is the reason why there is good old eastern military wisdom. war is a way of deception, that is, a visible concentration of troops in one point can be followed by an invisible concentration of troops in another point. the enemy has a very specific military logic, i call it a collective black war there is also its own such a collective concept called a collective pontoon across the

siverskyi where once in a day they burned almost the entire tactical group of the battalion and in one place i emphasize one place five times then they did what is generally a violation of common sense. not to mention some kind of military mastery. but again, despite these considerations, i would underestimate the enemy, so they can strike at any point where it will be, well, it is almost impossible to predict with your logical and correct opinion is around avdiyivka, why should the donetsk bridgehead be more strategic for them, because they said that they should go to the administrative borders of the donetsk region, will it be possible, in my opinion, now, no, we ukrainians have intercepted the strategic the initiative should not be confused with a break before the break yet