well, the process shows that the latest events at the front show that the occupiers have concentrated on holding their positions. there were reports yesterday that they were shelling the antonov bridge again. manpower and equipment to the other side of the dnieper. to what extent can these crossings replace the enemy's bridges? no, these crossings certainly can not replace uh, near the antonov bridge, the occupiers have placed uh, such a ferry crossing that is, from the pantonium, they made, hmm, a few such peculiar fruits that move with the help of boats, and which push them along the dnieper , respectively, from the left to the right bank. the time for such a crossing there takes more than two hours, and

such logistics do not provide the necessary the need for overturning and strengthening, but at the same time, the occupiers began to build a floating bridge under the antonov bridge, using stolen goods from entrepreneurs, they are now collecting them where they were laid according to the antonov bridge they fix them under the piers of the antonov bridge to the akur of the antonov bridge. and on these barges they are trying to arrange just the right road surface, that is, they want to build a floating bridge under the bridge. this floating bridge has not yet been completed, but the occupiers

are building it and are trying to put it into operation. tell me, now more and more information is appearing that the russians are ready for a referendum the accession of ukrainian regions to russia, in particular, the kherson region. deputy head of the administration of the president of russia serhii kirienka, who is responsible for the internal policy of the putin administration and has been to the occupied territories on several occasions in order to prepare it for the day of reference . polls on the support of the residents of the occupied territories for the idea of ​​joining russia 90-92 percent in the territory of donetsk luhansk region 77.2% in the territory of kherson region and zaporizhzhia, we understand that these are inflated numbers, but it is obvious that they are exactly what putin would like to see in the results of the referendum. what do you think of these referendums, how will they end when in the occupied kherson region

there is a gagulaiter with three people, and by the way, recently appeared that streimausov's interview, well, according to propagandist journalists, uh, but it didn't get such a wide distribution. i understand that it was blocked. but in that interview, the same streimausov says that currently a referendum is impossible due to low support for it among the local population, er, that is, he actually admitted that they are not, we understand that for them the numbers of support or support are not important, it will be successful and the results, by the way, are immediately known, but they are all the same, i see it that way they are worried not that they will not be able to create even their own propaganda picture, because there is really such a spirit of not accepting this referendum and it

is very powerful in the kherson region and it will be difficult for them to break the fact that someone went to rent to explain that people did not go there because even the same streamous admitted that 80% of the population categorically do not support the holding of the referendum and only 8%, some of them, agree to go to it, others hesitate and do not know what to do, even according to these of the figures voiced by the collaborators, they understand that in fact even the picture will be disrupted . communities. and for now, they have made 21 administrative units, that is, 18

districts, and the city of kherson separately and nova kakhovka separately, that is, in these 21 administrative units that they have come up with today , they do not even have a collaborative vertical, because not only cannot they find traitors who agreed to work with the occupiers, and in principle this is the very idea of ​​this referendum when the enemy did not establish control over this territory of kherson region, he is from this territory of zaporozhye, or will they try to establish everything after all, they control 19% of the territory of the kherson region today, if we even compare it with zaporizhzhia, they have a better picture here , but they stubbornly say not only about the kherson region, but also about zaporizhzhia part of the zaporizhzhia

region, and by the way. they already announced it there very firmly starting from the month of may, er, the date of september 11, er, understanding that most of the administrative borders, they will not be able to, er, that's why i think that they, and by the way, the same thing was announced there that it will be there tauriysk province, it would be something there, some tauriysk district, that is, they have already given up on the principle of going to the administrative borders of the regions, namely sumy and zaporizhzhia, and in general, they welcome this idea with a referendum, as they say . there is a conversation about holding a referendum. by the way, the same person pays a lot of attention to him. he says that

we will hold it when the people themselves give their consent , that is, never. well, in order for russia to get consent , people just need to say that there is consent, you know. they well, not really, but somehow they mean public opinion. well, i understand that only the armed forces of ukraine can stop this disgrace, right . yes, of course. er, the position of the kherson people is us, and secondly, that a month ago, a little more than a month ago, when high-precision weapons arrived with the help of the hymers , in fact, there was such a certain break-in because, er , our artillery was already heard in absolutely everyone let’s say

yes, in the cities of the occupied kherson region and the presence of orcs there, and this is exactly this month and the first days in which, in the first days of the panic, which by the way, the occupiers and collaborators fell together with them and there were somewhere around two, maybe a little more than a week, of such a panic, when the occupiers were generally hiding uh, there was total silence there and they didn’t even talk about the referendum because they panicked until, as i understand it, they didn’t receive a letter from moscow that let’s you continue your propaganda work there, if only after that they left, that is the armed forces were one of the key factors in the destruction of the plans for the referendum. well, most importantly, of course, we all hope that every khersonian, every ukrainian, believes in liberation, and

we are still waiting for the de-occupation of at least the right bank part of kherson oblast, because it is the most in fact, the sequence of actions suggests that the first priority we will see is the de-occupation, just as the law was made in the city of kherson itself. shelling the russians, yes, as they are now shelling other ukrainian cities, as soon as the city is liberated , it immediately becomes a target for these bandits, of course kherson will become, kherson will become a target, it must be recognized, but mykolaiv will no longer be a target, and here we must understand that this is a war yes, there is no other way to hope, as there really were such

hopes. at first, when our map and may the mercies began to work out the enemy’s warehouses and precisely the transport arteries blocking the transfer of equipment from the left bank to the right, and we all they hoped that the occupiers would understand that they were staying here, well, in fact, in such a peculiar environment, they would show, as they say, already with good will, but now you can still see that there will be no such good will, they will stubbornly stay here, they will stubbornly hold on to it easily of course it will be, and accordingly, as we see, when the occupiers leave, they don't collapse on the way out. thank you, mr. serhiy serhii khlan, a deputy of the kholoston regional council, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, was in touch with us about this on the air, we talked about the situation in the kherson region, we

know that today there was something new in the teleposition of the occupation in novaya kakhovka, these shellings are supposed to slow down the capabilities of the russians who are preparing for ukrainian counterattacks and for the occupation of the ukrainian cock, and now we will talk about what i choose to call er, create it er the leader's leadership to appoint the general of the armed forces in the united states in the morning is to what extent it is a bureaucratic formality and how much is a demonstration of readiness to help ukraine on such an institutional basis on national grounds, well, in my opinion, this is interesting information, an interesting development of events, it indicates several things, in particular, in my opinion, it indicates that the united states of america is ready to help ukraine, so to speak, in the long run, that is, it

looks like the presence of this the mission shows that the aid promised by the united states, although it has already been declared, is not a one-time issue, not an issue of today and tomorrow. this is an issue that will exist in the long term. it seems that the amount of aid is so large that they need such a systemic approach, and that is why it is definitely a mission as they called it, but you can also name the headquarters there or in some other way it will contribute to the fact that this aid is the provision of it, the definition of the nomenclature and in the process, so to speak, which of you are accompanying and the financing of all the rest will be under the direct control of

some one person, that is, i positively evaluate such a step, by the way, i want it, it is called a mission, well, it is, strictly speaking, an internal decision of the united the state is in place, which will go somewhere or what will it be? it’s just that they will systematically deal with assistance issues, that is, the efficiency, in my opinion, should increase. well, there are some caveats , and there are, so to speak, comments in the sense that not everything is so fast, we get it. i would like and so on, that is, such a mission. it seems to me that this is a very important step, they say, these three billion dollars of military aid that the united states allocated to ukraine exactly on august 24, when it was announced by the president of the united states, joseph biden. this just an increase in such aid or a qualitative one? i would say changes in the order of sums, well, look, this is of course

an increase in aid, well, it cannot be said that this is such a breakthrough step for today, the aid of the united states of america is estimated, you are not mistaken, 26 e. amount and three billion in this large amount, they do not look so convinced, but it is significant and symptomatic that it was done precisely on the 24th of august 24th, let us not forget that we still have real work ahead of us with venlisom, that is, although the letter is formally working, but in fact it will work at full strength at the beginning of the new er budget year, which begins in october, and by the way, this mission that we talked about er, in my opinion, is also related to what will work in the lend-league is large

volumes of supplies, and that is why such a mission is necessary , that is, you know, in my opinion, it is not possible to talk about a situation that suddenly arose in sports, this is a continuation of the strategic line that is occupied by the combined dates, providing a multilateral support to ukraine and 3 billion is estimated in this sum , they are also there, but further on, of course, of course, other sums are waiting for us. i think it is important to understand here that it is important to understand these political statements that are accompanied by the provision of the provision of the provision of some kind of accompanying the provision of these noises and a political statement with this means that the united states and its closest allies will help ukraine exactly as much as it needs, and this is important, and we need to stimulate and

work with such an approach so that this position will continue in the future. of this, new steps are now being taken to, let's say, limit cooperation with russia, today there was a publication in the newspaper that the european union should talk about looking for a compromise option to the opposition of the countries that come forward to stop the issuance of schengen tourist troops to russian citizens and those ukrainian women who insist not to cancel the agreement on the simplified issuance of visas to citizens of the russian federation well, you and i know very well what is not a simplified issuance of troops, the whole whole story, how do you understand for pavlo obtaining a visa. do you think this is a step in the right direction or is it just another result of a compromise between different positions of european states? well, this is probably the result of a compromise. you remember that it started as a total bank for issuing visas to russians by russian

citizens . of course, such a position was not accepted by all the countries of the european union, without exception, the czech republic, what a presiding person she is, so to speak , you had a leading role, and today, the czech republic made such a proposal that, in my opinion, it is also a compromise option, namely the cancellation of the simplified regime, that is, on general grounds . as they say, but i understand that i agree with you that the cancellation of the simplified regime actually means the installation of additional barriers on the way to the surrender of troops that is, without talking about the ban on issuing visas, in my opinion , such conditions will be created that will actually make issuing a visa a very, very difficult, complicated procedure, so you know, there is still a golden mean here, and

visas as such are not visible, this is a very important mechanism and very important, let's say, weighs in the foreign policy of the state and it has always played such a role. so , in fact, visas, each state approaches the issue of troops in its own national interests, takes them into account, and therefore achieves some kind of such a unified mechanism or a unified solution that united well let's say, in this case, 27 states of the european union, it is very difficult, that's why i think that in fact such a decision is not bad at the moment, of course, from such an emotional point of view, it should have been a long time ago you know, hang a barn lock on the border with russia and throw the key into some river, but unfortunately, this position is not supported

by all members of the european union. therefore, the cancellation of the simplified visa regime is an important step and another question seems to me to be any solution regarding visas, it should be targeted, it should be clearly aimed at different strata . well, for example, in my opinion, it is much more important to ban the issuance of visas by diplomats and russians. well , now citizens are allowed. lavrov should go to the session of the general assembly, well, this does not concern the european union of the united states in the process of the un general assembly, and there the question is about issuing a lavrov visa. a real

special one. of course, there is a certain dissonance where we are the obligations that the united states has in relation to how can this be done? castro is there. well, they made such conditions that it is better, well , they even flew in and spoke at the general assembly, but i don't know if lavrov will want to endure such restrictions that were imposed on those two leaders . -th street and not a single step than it will be because this is an example of diplomatic visas, visas for other categories of citizens, but

100 from the point of view of ordinary citizens of the russian federation, you know, i passed, i thought, i had to say about it that the departure of some categories of citizens well, let's say in europe, it's still a week or two, they break away from their propaganda. you just need to ensure that in the hotels of the european countries there or in the hotels of turkey or there in antalya and greece, the russian-language broadcast is not played, you know, the ban is heard all over antalya for broadcasting. and by the way, not only is there a satellite and this is a propaganda church. well, you can also catch the first channel and everything else there. therefore

, it should be limited, and in this way, the citizens will have poems and they will immerse themselves in that atmosphere. of democracy and the atmosphere of evaluations given by the western world to the events taking place in ukraine , and we must not forget that er, 70% of the population of the russian federation has never traveled anywhere outside the borders of their er state, and of those, 30 or so they went to turkey, they went to egypt, yes, egypt. by the way, the effectiveness of a total detailed ban seems to me to be a debatable issue, but this er-e withdrawal of simplification seems to me to be a normal way out, which the european union receives, so to speak, no , no, the question does not arise the work is that

what do you notice about this 70% - it is so that we also do not nurture an illusion because we were talking about visa riots. it seems as if if russians were to be banned from leaving the european union, they would immediately go to take the kremlin. but really, most people have never been there and it would be small if there was a pandemic when people are already used to the fact that they do not go anywhere, not because they are not allowed, they are not given visas because no one goes . well, this period will continue there, of course, i agree to myself. my name is and this is such a problem that we do not very well understand the mood of ukrainians of russian society, and there, around 75% now support president putin precisely when it comes to war, and among those polled there, even there, levada is the center of russian citizens who believe that ukraine can win the war, as much as one percent, one, five, seven, no ten one and that's a lot to talk about

, this is president putin's war, the russians don't support it, but it doesn't even occur to the russians that ukraine can survive and win at all, they simply reject it as a fact, if you shut them up in this cauldron, then it can also be counterproductive let them go to europe and listen to the bbc, other channels that say completely different things, listen to the new bbc in russia, they can listen, somehow, they don’t listen very well. well, how about you there, it’s not so simple, there is already a choice between skabeeva and bb, well, listen, mr. volodymyr, we we lived with you in the soviet union. who wanted to listen to the bbc listened to the bbc despite all the jammers. who didn’t want to listen to the bbc watched the vremya program and thanked dear leonid ilyich for all the good things, absolutely right , but there weren’t so many songs. i i want to talk to you more about the bogate mission, it will come and there will be observers in it, including observers from such countries as the people 's republic of china, the republic of serbia, which are known

for their warm relations with the russian federation. how far can the exhibitions of this mission be about objective and won't there be any special opinions of the members of this mission after they visit the zaporizhzhia npp, you know, everything can be, i think that this mission, despite all its importance, of course we say what is right is important. everything, i don't think that this mission is somewhere produces some kind of very serious serious report that will form the basis of some there, let's say , the price of the real situation that is developing at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the mission. but it is important for everyone from the point of view of bringing the attention of the world community to what is happening there because, as always, it is a fire i can stop you, it will be known to you and ours, it will be an attempt to express concern, it will be an attempt to call on all parties to follow some rules and so on. that is, i do not expect any

unambiguous report and mission, but we must not forget that this will still be the report of the mission and the main issue is, rather, the main event will be the discussion at the meeting of the mgt . and maybe i think that this is the case at the council as well. -e missions, they were submitted for consideration by the un security council, well, before that, at the meeting of the board of directors of the mgt. so, it is important from the point of view of keeping this issue on the surface, but uh, in reality, i don't think here we will get any extremely important results that b we have satisfied what you said china serbia absolutely right you know look at the composition of this month exactly that is the attempt to maintain that infamous balance, you noticed there is neither the united states of america nor great britain in

the composition of this mission, the states that are the first to really have all the technical capabilities carry out the necessary analysis there, and on the other hand, those who take a principled position in relation to russian aggression against so what can the representatives do there, as included there? let's see, it will also be interesting that she did not come, it seems to me that the question of the route of this mission will also remain until the last moment an important element of this entire situation. so, i think that they will want her to go under their control, this is obviously true. yes , and the russians they allegedly agreed that it will enter the territory of ukraine as required by international law. but at the same time, the same russians are creating some technical problems there that make it impossible. they agree, but

you see, you can't come here, you have to go around well, i don't know what it's like over there. in reality, it looks like they say on the ground, but this is an important issue. and it's a fundamental issue that we must get to the end . we will wait for these results and the actual fact of the trip of such a mission. ukraine and what to expect from the place of the mahatei who should visit the zaporizhzhia npp because the international component in this war, which the russian

federation has been waging against ukraine for six months, it remains quite important and quite weighty, you perfectly understand that ukraine can withstand this war only at the expense of serious and constant international e-e support and we continue to talk about all these and international humanitarian aspects in the second or e-e part of the broadcast that i am conducting today with you on our e-e tv channel espresso i will remind you that at 19:00 at 18:00 i apologize 40 will be such a small interactive, i will try to answer the questions you will ask on the espresso tv facebook page. dialogue and now our news service is ready for work, which will tell you about the news of this hour of the day. i will pass the floor to my colleague iryna koval so

that she can familiarize you with these news. please thank vitaliy about the situation in ukraine and in i will tell the world literally in a moment the 18th in ukraine news time on the espresso tv channel i greet the viewers in the iryna koval studio this morning the occupiers shelled shevchenkiv in the mykolaiv region, as a result of which a private residential building caught fire .