of the commander-in-chief, and that is against the background of the competition of these two views, because well, in principle, i am more than sure that the russian regime monitors the public reaction to the first and second versions, and according to which version will win, and one will be elected if the final plan of action because, well, for the russian regime, it has already become obvious that their general strategy for ukraine as a whole and their general strategy for the war against ukraine was spilled in the first week of the invasion, and that is why they at the moment they switched to the mode well, so to speak , they act on the basis of the situation, on what is happening at the front, how it is happening on the e-e moods inside the country e-e. than to make a decision about mobilization, about the declaration of war, and so on, they must understand how it will be, and where the wind is blowing, so to speak, in the half-empty heads of the russians, who are toothed by this propaganda, and this is a competition of versions a-a, however

who is to blame and what to do next, it will actually be such an expensive directive for the russian regime. and what should be chosen next, well, the format of continuing or curtailing this military campaign. and i also wanted to ask you about the kyselivka, this point in the kherson region, its release was now reported to the american institute for the study of war, although i didn't see any official confirmations at least an hour before the broadcast the next one is unfolding in the south, well, actually, in the south , we see a slightly different pace of counteroffensive operations than, er, we see it in the east, so, well, this is connected with several factors, first of all, efficiency, the factor of disinformation, and the russian command and eh- still, well, it is more obvious that our forces were preparing for a blow

in the east to a counterattack in the east, thus misinforming about the contour offensive actions in the south , but nevertheless, we still have enough resources for that so that in the south in principle to conduct operations to liberate our territories, and the second factor that affects the pace of these operations is the climate of crystal priorities , this is also geography, in principle, the south, yes, where is it well, let's say that the terrain does not help because ukrainian forces to move so fast with the same level of let's say minimizing losses for themselves how can they do it in the east so in principle in the south and we obviously adhere to the strategy of a little bit more gradual squeezing out -is the russians, but it helps us a lot in this, so to speak, the homework that we did before that completely violated all logistics related to the southern direction and the provision of russian troops in the southern direction on the mainland

of ukraine, therefore, in principle, there is no such urgent need for us to hurry forward all the more so that we must understand that in the east the south is also going, all these victories of the ukrainian armed forces, they are given at the cost of losses, after all, on our side, because, well, it is still an offensive an operation that carries such risks, therefore, in the south, we act at a more measured pace and, accordingly, we start from the circumstances that exist for us there and for the preparatory work that we conducted before that, actually the pace of what we see in the east and what we see in the south generally add up to a very good picture, although the speed of our advance there is different. well, but the end result is still strategically the liberation of our territories with minimal losses for our military and for of the civilian population of the civil infrastructure thank you for your analysis taras zoftenko, an expert on national security issues, candidate of political sciences, was on radio svoboda the night before,

russian troops hit the center of sloviansk with rockets, this is donetsk region, so far it is known about one dead man and one wounded woman , eight high-rise buildings were damaged by shelling this was reported to the police. many broken apartments were empty at the time of the attack. the owners either evacuated or moved to other areas. city ​​report from slovyansk by serhii horbatenko , i don't know the meters, there have been more than one arrivals there have been one after another flying, that's the body until now, the cat is shaking and the windows

have flown away from the entrance to the exit, there are no people, how do you know, they are still alive, but i don't know, but they are alive daughters to the apartment who would have done the renovations, self-scrutiny, stretched? and what are they doing to us? on the 14th of the year, i myself personally suffered from cherenkovka, the house burned down, everything in the house burned down, and now you and your daughter are left with the children somewhere, you yourself know this kopiyochka noch hands passed there and no more returned i never wish for their children, maybe they will grow up to be normal children, not like them. on september 12,

at around 10 o'clock in the evening, russian occupation forces fired three rockets at the city of slovyansk, as a result of which eight high-rise buildings were damaged. as of this morning, investigations are ongoing. regarding documentation of their criminal activities, materials and entry into the unified register of pre-trial investigations under article 438, part two, violation of customs and laws of the introduction of war a-a-a-a-a-a it was slovyansk well we are returning to kharkiv oblast, where the counteroffensive of ukrainian forces began with the liberation of the city of balaklia, and by the way , the nova poshta and ukrposhta postal services have already resumed work there today. and today, as i said earlier, the first group of journalists was admitted to the liberated balaklia, among

them radio liberty correspondent yehor loginov. there is grief in contact with us. my congratulations. tell me what you saw in balaklia, colleagues. i congratulate you, but in fact the situation is difficult. the city is still recovering from the consequences of the russian occupation, although visually not many buildings are broken or completely destroyed, like in other cities of ukraine. probably because the occupiers just fled the city very quickly. there is no water in balaklia, no electricity, no gas, well , any communal services, big problems with products. today we saw a long line of people who they stood waiting for the humanitarian truck brought by both the local authorities and volunteers, but the people are still not elated, they are incredibly happy that they were released and many are crying.

what did the occupiers do in balaklia? today they showed us the bodies of two local residents who were shot dead at a civilian checkpoint. two local men have now opened the first criminal cases related to this crime, and unfortunately they say law enforcement officers, this is far from an isolated case in the local police station, russian soldiers arranged a torture chamber for tradition, as in many occupied cities. we also had terrible conditions there today, four cells. a small room, literally a few square meters, in which 8 women were kept, according to the police, men and women were tortured, they were constantly taken to interrogations, in particular, electric wires were connected

to the toes and hands, and they were beaten with electricity, they were also beaten with cakes on the groin and right now, investigative groups are documenting all these germans, by the way, when they were fleeing, the russian army was waiting from balaklia, they just left people locked in these shelters without food and water, and they had to get out of there by themselves, breaking out the windows, but at the moment, all of them fortunately they are already on the loose. these are the ones we saw today, but we would still like to end on a high note. as the deputy minister of defense hanna malyar stated today, as of today, more than three out of 300 settlements in kharkiv oblast have already been liberated. that's close. that's about 150,000 people and the operation is currently ongoing , as the military promised us, it is far from the end , colleagues. thank you yehor yehor loginov. i see that you are from kharkiv,

the correspondent of radio svoboda, who today literally just returned from the liberated balaklia, thank you very much, head of the office of the president of ukraine andriy yermak and the former secretary general of nato anders von rasmussen have now presented a draft agreement on security guarantees for ukraine. previously, the president's office announced the appearance of this document several times. well, today the details finally became known. so, the so-called kyiv security agreement is offered to sign the guarantor countries that could b to speak united states great britain canada poland italy germany france australia turkey baltic countries north central eastern europe as specified in the agreement is not a substitute for ukraine's accession to nato, but only a means of ensuring security until this accession takes place; the draft agreement provides for such guarantees, the ability to defend itself against an aggressor in accordance with article 51 of

the un charter; this requires long-term and constant investments in ukraine's defense and industrial complex; large-scale transfer of weapons intelligence support from allies training missions joint exercises under the auspices of the eu and nato preventive measures military financial infrastructure technical information nature in order to avoid new aggression, as well as measures that must be taken immediately in the event of a new encroachment on the territorial integrity of ukraine, as well as a full package of sanctions against the aggressor country, an agreement on the supply of modern air defense systems to ukraine, as well as regional agreements for security in the black sea with turkey, romania and regarding bulgaria, i would like to remind you that in may it became known that it was the head of the president's office andriy yarmak and former nato secretary general anders von rasmus who headed the international advisory group that actually develops these proposals regarding security guarantees for ukraine, i

see that volodymyr zelenskyi's reaction to this document has appeared, he calls it a recommendation, and he responded quite favorably to what was presented to him today. well, now we will discuss security guarantees. oleksandr kraev, an expert on international foreign policy , joins the air ukrainian prisma, my congratulations to you. i will also add that the reaction of the kremlin has also appeared. well, not the kremlin, russians, let's say so, namely, the deputy of the state duma from the ldpr ldpr e-e leonid slutsky i called the recommendations on security guarantees published by the office of the president of ukraine escalation and threatened ukraine's western partners with a conflict with nuclear russia. these are the reactions to these security guarantees from the kremlin. what do you think about this document that was presented today in the president's office? well, first of all, you are very they said correctly, in principle, russia can already be

limited to the kremlin after the russians were unable to stop this aggression, they were unable to speak out against their own domestic dictator in principle apart from the kremlin, russia is no longer left, in fact, if you look at the document itself - it is much better than the first variation of the guarantee that was discussed back in march in istanbul, let's remember then we were offered these guarantees to visa together with the russians, to visa them together with the chinese and hope for that they will follow simply at the political level. that is, we have finally smoothly evolved from a repetition of the budapest memorandum to a seriously full-fledged document in which what i liked the most is provided for that these guarantees will be supported by the permanent financing of the ukrainian defense sector by the permanent exchange of technologies in ukraine and advanced modern high-precision weapons of any type, that is, in fact, now it will not be just political guarantees or guarantees to

secure certain concessions or guarantees at the expense of certain services, these will be armed guarantees that there will be guarantees that in themselves will ensure this, first of all, secondly, it should still be noted that geographically they have become much better. well, the fact that they removed the aggressor country and its posipa has already mentioned this, but it is an important small but important detail in addition to the classic, as they say in the west, the classic suspects in the form of nato countries and permanent member states of the un, or rather the security council. we also have australia. do you understand international issues , over the past two years, australia has first become a key country in resisting china's expansion, it has become a key ally in curbing china's aggression against other democratic countries in the region of southeast asia and the indo-pacific

region, and thirdly, it is simply an indicator that the issue of collective security now does not concern only europe, only america, they really have become global, and therefore the issue of ukrainian security is becoming global, and this is, in my opinion , the most important indicator well, i also paid attention to what is said in this document, it is about such constant support of ukraine with weapons and training and money for infrastructure projects, you know, it looks like such a permanent lend-lease, an open-ended lend-lease, and from this point of view, some well, the document is too ideal, how realistic can it be if we say, well, are all the countries listed there ready to sign such a document, we just need to understand at what point we will be able to talk about signing this document in fact, why exactly now have we started this conversation again, why did these consultations resume, because the armed forces of ukraine began to win, because we are again showing class, we are again showing class, both military

and diplomatically, informationally, that is, in all spheres resistance to russian aggression and ukrainian society, the ukrainian nation shows that we can move from the minimum plan, i.e., going to the borders on february 24, according to the maximum plan, to the liberation of all territories of ukraine, and that is why this plan rose again in the mountains , that is, i understand the countries to sign, well, with them, of course, certain consultations, but they were ready to sign the agreement only in the case of ukrainian victory, that is, the most difficult part of this document is not so much what is written there. and when we will be able to implement it. and it will already depend on how quickly we can withstand the russian invaders from here. that is, this is a document that is being developed, agreed upon, finalized and then postponed, we don’t know for a while, and uh, all these countries that volunteered to sign this document are watching what will happen on the battlefield. if ukraine

wins, then they sit down together and sign this document. well, i may be simplifying, but it’s roughly like this. if no, then let’s look further. i understood correctly. well, not quite . well, at least the absolute majority of them are members of the rammstein program, most of these countries support ukraine on a bilateral level, more of these countries have done an incredible amount for our victory , that is, in fact, it's not just that they made such a beautiful frame, now, ukrainians, let 's wait, you are calm more needs to be done , in fact, all this time they are actively helping us to get to the point where these guarantees can be signed. that is, it is a two-way process. there is no such thing as in a certain part only we should work there, or only our allies, why do i say that it should be implemented after victory , because at the moment, no one can give us a guarantee , we are

fighting . and therefore from the date for almost anything, well, no one will now give us guarantees for anything, even if they are given. well, we understand that they can be violated at any time. technologies and it is already happening, that is, in fact, why these guarantees are important precisely after the victory, because the west well, the western countries have finally realized that russia may not stop. means that russia will give up ukraine and this, and that is why these guarantees will be important precisely after our victory in order not to repeat this. that is, we can win once, but i repeat, this does not mean at all that russia will give up and leave to conquer ukraine and that's why these guarantees will be important after our victory and you really share this opinion well, it is noted that the agreement

is indispensable for joining nato, but only there as a means of ensuring security until this entry comes. that is, it is some kind of this is how the temporary measure is planned. i understood correctly. that's how it is and i think it is necessary. well, it starts with the fact that sweden and finland were able to join nato without hindrance only thanks to the same guarantees, because let's remember with you the week after the announcement that sweden, finland is going to sleep in nato, we had threats from the kremlin again there about the apocalypse, a nuclear winter, they started to gather troops on the border, but exactly one week after the start of this process, britain and the usa announce similar guarantees for sweden and finland at the moment while they will to join nato for a transit period, and immediately there was a statement by putin that and we have never had a claim against sweden, finland, you misunderstood us and independent countries and we are generally all the same that they do, that is, this scenario showed how to rub the

noses of the russians, how to point them in their place. and therefore, accordingly, they want to work out this scenario with us, give us guarantees until we become full members. thank you for the explanation . on radio svoboda well, the achievements of the ukrainian army were discussed today in the european parliament at a plenary session in strasbourg, the head of eu defense diplomacy was asked what else to help ukraine so that it could to confront the aggressor with us, this discussion was followed by the correspondent of radio freedom in the european union, zoryana stepanenko. she is with us on the star link. my greetings, are our partners ready to invest in ukraine and strengthen its productive capacity ? what are they saying about this in the european union? you are even vitally important for europe in strasbourg was heard more than once today well, the

finnish prime minister, who was invited to the session, reminded the euro-deputies that russia broke the principles on which security in europe is based, and if we do not act decisively now, there may not be a second chance - she noted the bravery of the ukrainian military, which managed to dislodge the russians from many areas - she said that there is hope, and with the help of the european union, in particular, ukraine will win the war says that, in particular, it should strengthen diplomatic pressure on the aggressor, the eu should be ready to introduce stronger sanctions so that the price of war for russia becomes even higher, and in this context, the prime minister of finland emphasized it is necessary to close the borders of the eu centrally for russians, for now i will remind you that we limited ourselves to the suspension of the agreement on the simplified visa regime with russia, it is wrong when

, while russia is killing civilians in ukraine, russians can travel freely in europe, we must significantly limit the issuance of visas, the suspension of the agreement on the simplified visa regime the regime is good, but it is not enough, the course of the war, meps in the regime discussed questions and answers with the head of european diplomacy. and many emphasized that they had heard positive news from the front and they asked whether it is possible to jump over bureaucratic obstacles and, accordingly, speed up the supply of weapons, the meps were interested in whether it is possible to encourage individual countries to form more intensively, spain, france, and germany were mentioned in this context. the last one, i will remind you, has a ukrainian request for leopard tanks and marder infantry fighting vehicles after the successful counteroffensive of ukraine. and the german political forces, in particular the coalition ones, the chancellor refrains from this, and

the head of the ukrainian foreign ministry, dmytro kuleba, was disappointed by this position, wrote on twitter today of european diplomacy to the calls of the deputies to put pressure on individual member states, let me remind you that he is not quoting the minister of defense of the european union who would centrally approve such his role of coordinating aid and at the same time assured that he continues communication with national governments and emphasized that now we are on the threshold of an energy crisis and therefore the possible dissatisfaction with gas and electricity prices on the part of ordinary europeans , it is very important to continue to actively support ukraine i am using this opportunity to appeal to european citizens and urge them not to hesitate in supporting the ukrainians. now is not the time to weaken it. on the contrary, we must maintain it in order to achieve a situation of

conflict resolution in such a way as to protect the integrity and sovereignty of ukraine. putin expects that the approach of winter will weaken and shake the european democracies consolidated around of support for ukraine, said boreli warned that on the contrary, we should continue to help, especially since this dad is effective actually thank you very much zoryana stepanenko from brussels close 10 citizens of belarus started military training in poland, for some of them , the war in ukraine was the impetus. both the participants and the organizers of the training are striving to free belarus from the regime of oleksandr lukashenko. the organizers are actually former belarusian security forces. the founders of the bipol initiative to oppose the belarusian authorities support ukraine in its fight against aggression. in russia, the correspondents of the belarusian editorial office of radio svoboda visited the training of women and asked them about the motivation to undergo such military training

beautiful arrow, you could call her that. ani continues the violence. they continue it for two years. after the protest and the second choice, it was not for myself. they were motivated by the war in ukraine and not for myself . to liberate belarus from the regime of alexander lukashenko oleg concluded prisoners are shot every day someone is taken away what is happening in our country we have such a beautiful country it was possible to develop it like that i was certainly not satisfied and that's why i went out to fight for my rights for my child i'm ready but i i won't hold on, i don't have the stamina, that is, i 'm waiting for violence - this is my position, of course i want

power with me in some peaceful way, well, as we see it, it can't happen because we have it, it's very big, this is a military purchase. let's say so the police apparatus, yes, i am ready to shoot. i hope that it will not be necessary and we will shoot many people there . the instructors are disarmed and train women. bypol is a belarusian initiative. bypol was created by former employees of the security forces of belarus to oppose lukashenko's rule. they say that they want to introduce a democratic system in belarus. bypol also supports ukraine in her struggle for freedom, she does not plan to go and fight in ukraine. well, at the same time, i want to note that right now, the guys from the militant volunteers are fighting for on the side of ukraine after the elections in 2020,

lukashenko introduced brutal repression, he was declared the winner, and it is obvious that the election result was falsified, the mass peaceful protests that began after that were met with violence and large-scale arrests began on the part of the authorities. creates violence, they didn't understand, they didn't listen, they continued the violence, and they continue it for two years after the protest and the second election, no, we are no longer we can go out with flowers, weapons, many belarusians were forced to leave belarus due to repression. they came to poland and other countries at 4 o'clock in the afternoon with a car, took the tv, announced that a criminal case was being created, it was specifically me and i had to take a second suitcase with my child at night, to go, that's all the first women's group that is

trained by members of the belarusian bipol initiative, we are preparing, er, we have been doing this since last year, we are preparing a kind of special forces that will er play the decisive role in the launch of the victory plan was prepared exclusively for boys, the main priority was 12 . in the composition of our copies to belarus to participate directly in special operations, let's first try to catch it unsuccessfully, well, about something, and it turns out that the wound is the first combat wound and i hope the last one is not scary

it's not scary because i know that i'm for the truth, the truth is not in the country please last 26 that there are two six years 27 already that we are the best that we are very peaceful we tried to justify it probably still be peaceful enough to be so girls it was very nice to work with you when ети 5 дней много чего наулилис, starting from the hammer cocktail and ending with tactics. bypol declares that its fighters will not use force to achieve their goals, but they are ready to protect people from violence and from the belarusian regime in the future. it was report from poland well, finally, i urge you to subscribe to radio svoboda pages on the internet in social networks, as well as on youtube, and svoboda life will return to the air tomorrow, the technical partner

of the national team of ukraine will present the ukraine-scotland league of nations match on september 27 in the cockpits of airplanes under radar monitors stations at the control points of anti-aircraft missile systems at 1,000 combat positions throughout the territory of our country, they are bringing victory closer every day. kudos to the air force of the armed forces of ukraine