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armed forces of ukraine report on the liberation of new settlements in the east and south, how the counteroffensive of ukrainian forces is progressing and how the defeats of the russian army will now be explained in the kremlin. about 10 nato countries supported kyiv's desire to join the alliance, but for the majority of nato member states, ukraine's statement came as a surprise, we are taking our decisive step by signing ukraine's application for accelerated accession to nato, which prompted volodymyr zelenskyi on this step and what are the real chances of ukraine becoming a member of nato, while the war is going on, nato intelligence has warned the allies about a possible test of nuclear weapons by russia, the level of nuclear tension is higher than in any other period of the war, what

but who is there exclusively, see in svoboda life i congratulate it freedom, my name is vlad and lazar, we speak live, we are on the pages of radio freedom on facebook and youtube, as well as on the air of the espresso tv channel, if you watch us on the internet, do not forget to subscribe and like the deputies of the state today, the duma of russia ratified the documents on the annexation by russia of donetsk, zaporizhzhya, luhansk , kherson, and even part of the mykolaiv regions of ukraine, the russian service of radio svoboda transmits for this, as reported by our colleagues, russian deputies passed four constitutional laws, now they must be approved by the federation council and signed by president vladimir putin, this will probably happen already tomorrow well, according to this decision, which i will remind, no country in the world recognizes the donetsk and luhansk regions of ukraine. administrative boundaries of 2014, at the same time within the borders of the

kherson zaporozhye regions, which are partially occupied in the documents, are not defined, but they are trying to annex part of the mykolaiv region as part of the kherson region. well, as long as the kremlin is signing and approving so-called documents, the ukrainian military continues to allow the seizure of ukrainian territories, in particular, the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine serhiy cherevaty reported that literally the day before the ukrainian military liberated the village of torska near estuary in donetsk region, and on the evening of october 1, i will remind you, the ukrainian authorities officially confirmed that the armed forces of ukraine entered the estuary of the donetsk region. with the creation of a threat to the environment after taking the estuary, the goal of the ukrainian troops may become the territory of the luhansk region captured by russia in the spring and

summer of 2022, military analysts believe. the liberation of the estuary in donetsk region showed that the ukrainian armed forces are capable of effectively resisting the russian army and pushing it back , nato secretary general and genstonberg did as ukrainian forces liberated liman and yampil, this is a city near the estuary. the forces of ukraine, namely the 81st separate aerology landing brigade, together with units of the national guard of ukraine , the kulchytskyi battalion, liberated and captured the five-town inhabited lyman of the khmelnytskyi region i need to know that they will not have a life on our land

glory to ukraine glory to the heroes glory to the ten strictly to the troops of the armed forces of ukraine glory glory glory to ukraine on october 1 we unfurl our state flag we install the estuary on our land this will be ukraine the russian military who survived the liberation

of the estuary in donetsk region went to the city of shchastya of the luhansk region, at least that is what the head of the luhansk region, serhiy gaidai, says. well, yuriy butusov, the editor -in-chief of the online publication censor, is joining the air. it was not like these two operations actually it there would already be such a continuation, that is, the front after the breakthrough under the cloak was destabilized in the kharkiv region and our troops took advantage of the fact that the enemy could not

stabilize this front line, continued the advance, imposed active combat operations on the enemy, created a threat to the enemy to access his communications in time the russians did not react to this, although in fact it did not happen very quickly, in contrast to the breakthrough near balaklia, where, in principle, everything was done in four days , the advance was very significant by several dozen kilometers, the advance took place at a slower pace here, but it should also be noted that instead of such frontal attacks on resistance nodes, a bet was made on evasive maneuvers to create a threat to enemy communications, the advance was slow. nevertheless, the russian troops could not stop this advance, that is, unlike balaklia, where uh, the factor

of suddenness and speed played a key role here, there was no suddenness here, the enemy saw our actions, saw the threat , concentrated all efforts, the reserves understood where and how we we will act, could have foreseen our actions, but could not stop the advance of ukrainian troops into the russian command. all the reserves were all the reserves were destroyed. did a large number of russian troops fall into the cauldron? did the russian troops fall into the cauldron? did the russian troops fall into it? a significant number of troops fell into the encirclement, but the enemy did not. resisted, did not fight for liman and took advantage of the fact that the environment had not yet become completely dense, found a loophole and through this loophole they fled very quickly and for the time being

cover units, but in principle, the enemy did not show any resistance in this area and they very quickly scratched and in that way, the entire district center of the district, a large communications node , was surrendered, in fact, well, without the great battle, there were no such fierce battles in the place itself, and all the battles were on the flanks, the most cruel and fierce headlines speak rapidly - rapidly scratched remember look, you follow the mood in the ranks of the so-called warlords, this is what i will remind you of the kremlin bloggers who cover the war in their telegram channels. tell me what their mood is, what they say about lyman in particular. what conclusion can you as a journalist draw from their messages and moods? well, i can't say that this is good

material for analysis. there is very rarely anything interesting. i watch it for that. to see just some things when they confirm their own losses, in principle, this is the only thing that is interesting because when the opponent talks about himself, when he gives us an assessment, it is interesting only from the point of view of how they imagine it, and i understand what credibility there can only be in the case when they talk about themselves, because it is obvious that they have an idea of ​​what is happening in ukraine, of the fighting capacity of the ukrainian troops, of our enemy's capabilities, there is no clear understanding of such an analysis, that is, they simply have some individual facts, but there is no consolidated analysis i look at it simply as a direction of information warfare and against. i see that since all these units, all

these bloggers are so-called units of information warfare e.e. of the ministry of defense of the russian federation and the russian special services i am interested in who is given tasks, what directions they need to cover, where they are directed, what shortcomings they note, what they focus on , that is, i understand that this is an echo of what the leaders tell them, the superiors and we, for me, in order to determine the nature of the enemy's actions, an understanding of psychology of the russian command, er, very well, this is big, great, is of great interest. well, what’s next, eh, how can this counteroffensive develop? after the estuary, well, it’s far from a counteroffensive - it’s basically balaklia balaklia it was an offensive operation of the ukrainian troops and it continues now. now we

see that i have repeatedly said more than one. can you hear me? hello. yes, i have repeatedly said that the enemy will have a crisis of combat capability in the fall. it was obvious already in the summer . they are trying to do something about it. well, the ukrainian command certainly does not allow them to stabilize the front , it uses the advantage of our more numerous and better motivated infantry, the motivation of the ukrainian soldiers, their experience. of course, there is a struggle now to preserve such a strategic and

tactical initiative. the offensive on bakhmut, in fact, there has been no progress over the past month, the enemy has not been able to achieve anything serious, ukraine has the tactical initiative, we are limited by many factors, first of all lack of ammunition of course, these are obvious things, there are other factors, but hmm. we are moving forward because now we can only use our advantage best if well-planned, i emphasize well -planned offensive actions on the entire front yuriy, thank you very much for joining our broadcast, yuriy butusov, chief editor of the internet edition of censor.net, we were a military correspondent on radio svoboda well, in addition to the east, the armed forces of ukraine are making progress in the southern direction, as president volodymyr zelenskyi has already officially confirmed the liberation of two settlements in the kherson region of

arkhangelsk and myrolyubivka, here we are showing them on the map right now. in addition, the day before, it was reported in social networks about the liberation of the village of khreshchenivka in the novovorontsov district of the kherson region by the armed forces of ukraine, but this data was not officially confirmed by the head of the united coordination press center south natalya humenyuk stated that there are successes. well, i will add that the united states defense minister lloyd austin in an interview with sinn stated that in the kherson region, ukraine is achieving of progress, about the situation in the south and how events can develop there, and also about the east, let's talk further with us, please contact roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, faction, voice, secretary of the committee on national security, defense and intelligence, romana, my greetings, i congratulate you, let's talk about the south first today, experts of the american institute for the study of war reported that the defeat of russian troops in the estuary shows that, obviously, holding positions in luhansk region is less important for vladimir putin than the south of ukraine

do you agree with such conclusions strategically yes strategically yes and first of all take back what you said that the u.s. defense minister said about kherson why did he draw attention to this about the kherson direction because it is really difficult to advance here the enemy because of that that i, to him, this is a very important direction, concentrated here a rather large group of my own, both in terms of personnel and numbers, and especially in artillery equipment, and is doing everything to ensure that his supply routes are not destroyed, precisely the provision of this bridgehead, because from the military point of view, he is, he must be developed, you can’t stand still. they have to either advance or withdraw to the left bank, and they hold back on these , and the lives of their soldiers, they hold back because it is really important for putin. and from a strategic perspective, the south itself is e- is more important than

other directions because it is an opportunity to connect ukraine from the e sea, it is possible to connect it to connect with transnistria and this quasi-formation of the republic that they created just like other republics in wedged into europe well, just like that to blackmail, as we saw before, they blackmailed the world regarding the grain trade, they saw that it is effective, uh, only terrorist methods are used, therefore, for him, he is strategically more important in relation to the east, for him, it is important in terms of what they announced, uh, the liberation of donetsk luhansk regions, but when we said that we are here to advance, they concentrated a lot of troops. they concentrated here and are now trying to restore the supply routes, despite the fact that they were destroyed by us. now we see that they have restored in part, the novokakhov dam, through which they want a limited, but they can advance their reserves again

, and they are constantly setting up either pontoon crossings or uh ferries that they use for constant uh replenishment of their ammunition. therefore, this once again says that it is strategically important as soon as they will replenish themselves with mobilized people. i think they will try to make a dash forward, this is to continue attacking the south, this is a matter of time, the south, what are the prospects for liberating kherson, and here i want to ask right away, since there is time for this well, considering the weather conditions, winter is coming soon, well , you know, there is no time to adjust to anything, well, now, in fact, there is not much left. yes, you can say that if there are constant rains, there will be no rain at all , but these are other combat actions that affect both the attacking side and the defending side

you can conduct combat operations in the rain and in the winter, but of course you have to adapt to them. for example, if it is worse to fly there in the winter, well, it is worse to conduct reconnaissance because, first of all, there is no such thing as leaves where you can take cover, but this the enemy is worse off, well, elementary batteries wear out faster. yes, in quadcopters, i already explain such things, that is, mud, if you take it now, it does not give us the opportunity to pass, but until now , ukraine is it is necessary to occupy the key highways, at least the exits to them, and this is what our armed forces are doing now, so we can say that now offensive actions will be as effective as in the summer, we can no longer because the weather has already worsened, but we can to adapt to them, and for this there are now battles going on we see active actions in order to occupy advantageous

positions that the proof of hostilities is already in the new conditions in the new season, our generals understand how to do it, the date will be more difficult for the number of soldiers, but this does not mean that we will stop, well, but after the liberation of the estuary in ukraine they talked about the prospects for the liberation of luhansk oblast, what are the chances, or at least some key cities in the lysychansk severodonetsk region? well, looking at what time frames we are talking about. there are armed forces. i think that we will do it, but i think not in the near future, that is, until the winter , it is unlikely to be a military matter, so if tomorrow, i don't know, one decision will be to make a decision to go to the borders, for example, of donetsk luhansk russia and the donetsk region, if i don't i believe. and

it will be one thing to concentrate all our efforts to cut off the south. if we are in the context of those political decisions that putin has already made, and those military operations that are currently developing, that it is just the enemy on the defensive, and we are on the offensive, then to at the end of winter, it will be very difficult to do. especially since the enemy is currently mobilizing and i think i will be there by winter. if untrained soldiers come there now, and immediately there are cases when they go back in sacks on the same day, because then on at that time, we will understand that more trained soldiers will come, this is a problem that we will also face. and now we understand that we have to prepare for this, there is nothing more, their resources still need more active actions on our part, so our main task now is this knock them out carefully with plasma and then it will be easier why we will secure the south in the short term and long term perspective when we get beyond the dnipro we will build and free part of the eight, we will be able

to, for example, transfer it to other directions so that they help liberate our territories and one more question please tell me and what about you maybe you know something additional from your sources about lyman, which ukraine received, well, in addition to liberating its territories, maybe you know how many russian soldiers were captured there or which the equipment left after them, well, some details, i ’ll say less than what we received before in the kharkiv offensive. sometimes, when it actively began, much less is the fact that the enemy did not leave much equipment, but there is information about those people with whom i communicate with the commanders directly that each brigade that took part took some trophies for themselves, including prisoners, well, i think dozens of units. thank you very much for joining our broadcast. roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine faction

the voice of the secretary of the parliament's committee on national security, defense and intelligence was on radio liberty. well, here's a short report from the raisin. and i'll remind you that the city was liberated on september 11, and radio liberty talked to a local resident about the consequences of the russian occupation. listen to his story. if they didn't come, i would cook on gas, i see, but i will have to boil water right away on a fire. well, wait a minute, there is a drip, there is something there , there are no russian soldiers, young boys, well, that is, they are 20, 22 years old. they were standing next to me. well, i'm going. they stand, he says, you can act, i say, he says, well, how do you understand, i say that vladimir vladimirovich putin wants to revive the soviet union , and so on. and i say to him: and you lived in the representative union , and no, well, i was born there in 2006. he says no. and

i say, i lived. in front of the soviet union i say i don't want it to live, i already lived normally in ukraine, they did, say, father, suffer a little and everything will be fine, and i think it's good, but to move on, they fell apart, what a good winter yesterday, the apparatus in izyum, today the flag of limania, and tomorrow, what will the head of chechnya ask rhetorically in his telegram, ramzan kadyrov demands that vladimir putin impose martial law in russia and use nuclear weapons against ukraine. the head of chechnya harshly criticized the commander of the central military district, colonel-general oleksandr lapin, who was in charge of the defense in the liman direction. among other things, there were units of the so-called kadyrovs it is interesting that kadyrov was also supported by businessman yevgeny prigozhin, putin's so-called cook, who recently stopped hiding what exactly he stands for. activities of tvc wagner and recruits prisoners in russia

for the war in ukraine, in public and telegram channels, wagnerites have been criticizing the leadership of the russian ministry of defense for the first month. opinion that more radical measures should be taken up to the use of low-power weapons, putin's spokesman dmytro piskov, in response to kadyrov's calls, said today that the heads of russian regions can express their point of view, but even in difficult moments of emotions must be excluded what is happening inside the russian political elites how the defeat of the russian army can affect the regime of vladimir putin, we will definitely talk about it now, but first about the use of nuclear weapons by russia, a nuclear strike can become a weapon of terror and can be inflicted on the back of people's places yes russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons is evaluated by the american institute for the study of

war, while the probability of such a strike is still low, analysts say, radio correspondent svoboda serhii stetsenko spoke with mason clark, an analyst investigating russia's war against ukraine. this is what he said about a possible nuclear strike by russia, the caribbean crisis , today the world is closer than ever to a nuclear war . will be under threat now that russia has annexed the occupied ukrainian territories, how much is the nuclear threat increasing and what might be the response of nato countries to a possible a nuclear attack on the territory of ukraine ann, it will be withounds as you have already noted, the level of nuclear tension is indeed higher than in any other period of the war, the threats come from the kremlin, in particular from dmitry medvedev, but here at the institute for the study of war we believe that the chances that russia will use

nuclear tactical weapons in ukraine are low they are definitely trying to intimidate ukraine and force it to back down as well as intimidate western partners to stop their aid but we don't think he really wants to use nuclear weapons on that is several reasons, firstly, he obviously understands that this will lead to a serious response from nato and the us, we have heard quite clear messages from the white house and other nato partners, they have stated that the use of nuclear weapons will provoke a large-scale conventional non- nuclear response from the us and nato will be the target russian troops on the territory of ukraine , and secondly, it is incredibly unlikely that he will be able to effectively use nuclear weapons on the battlefield, because the russian forces are not in the best shape. they will not be able to use the damage they will suffer the ukrainian army is in its favor, moreover, the fighting spirit and the will of ukraine are so strong at this moment of the war that it is unlikely that ukraine will surrender to the forces

when, but still, when putin and all his entourage say that this is not a bluff. what do you think could become their goal, kyiv - the capital of ukraine or it will be another big city or according to ukrainian forces in the war zone probably if putin used nuclear weapons it would be a weapon of terror it would be a place with a large crowd of people kyiv-lviv maybe odesa if it didn't sound terrible it's unlikely that a possible nuclear strike will be carried out on the positions of the military, because from the point of view of russia's nuclear tactical doctrine, at the beginning it is necessary to strike a nuclear strike on the key positions of the ukrainian army, and then use its consequences and attack, however, the russian troops are in such a bad state that they will be able to fight on an infected by radiation emissions from a nuclear explosion on the battlefield it is unlikely, so it must be a part of the country in the rear but again, i

do not think that this will lead to the surrender of ukraine therefore, it makes no sense for putin, because it will only lead to a serious response in the event that russia uses nuclear weapons in ukraine, the united states will give an adequate response to this in an interview with the abs channel , ex-cia director david petraeus said, listen to him. i did not speak about this and by the traitor of the us president on national security jacob sallin but i can say hypothetically we will lead a collective response within nato that will destroy all conventional forces of russia that we can see and identify on the battlefield in ukraine and also in crimea and everyone a ship in the black sea fleet is not the fifth article of the nato charter because ukraine is not in nato but it will be the answer of the us and nato to what is absolutely unacceptable, it is so terrible that the answer must be , it cannot be left unanswered, but it will not be

anything more than that there cannot be a nuclear strike against a nuclear strike, no one wants a nuclear escalation , but we believe that this cannot be acceptable. there is no nuclear threat, the intelligence on maintenance will sow everything with a nuclear charge, the italian edition of lara publica wrote about this, according to the intelligence of the russian atomic the belgorod submarine left its base in the white sea beyond the arctic circle, the submarine is probably heading to the kara sea to test the poseidon nuclear torpedo, which is also called the weapon of the apocalypse, the publication says . what actually holds back vladimir putin and what consequences dissatisfaction with the kremlin elites can lead to, the situation on the battlefield, we will talk about this later

ivan preobrazhenskyi joins the broadcast and a political scientist expert on the national issues of central and eastern europe ivan hello, i repeat the question once again, what exactly is holding vladimir putin back, so that he does not use nuclear weapons ? nuclear conflict vladimir putin does not look like a person who is ready to die. the recovery of life is clearly not going to end itself in the next few weeks in such a difficult way, and the next problem is his relationship with the russian military, which is not up to the mark .