there are about their relatives. that is, this is precisely the point of exchange of information in order to establish exactly these people who are located and find them, and there are many organizations looking for them. and not only ukrainian ones. well , they establish their location . the advice is to apply accordingly to the rooting headquarters e-e and there are also lawyers and e-respectively specialists who can help with this on internet resources e-e pages there are all contact details you can fill out forms even remotely if it is not possible to come personally, for this information, they will call back and give feedback simply and now. there are such cases when relatives are not satisfied. well, for them. well, how about they wrote a statement, for example, that they know a person and want the person to appear. well, it

doesn't happen like that and we constantly repeat the same phrase that the keys to liberation are in moscow , yes, that's why our task is to win, and then we will definitely return everyone to everyone, ah, it's just happening now, you know, there is no such process, you know, this is manipulation when they say that someone is there mr. petro said correctly, it is possible to add to this that if there is a lot of pr, it is very expensive for us . and that is what you need to understand. well, relatives already have a road map of how to contact whom to contact in any - in any case, the person returned, mr. petrovich, perhaps he was answered exhaustively, so thank you, please english and what was your opinion, what did you

feel for the first time e minutes after the capture, thank you after the capture of the city well, fear for your relatives , first of all, because from the first minute on you starts to press and says that if you don't agree with everything we are chasing you, your family and friends will suffer and you have to understand that you are in isolation there. well, there was no possibility of access to a lawyer and you didn't understand everything what is happening? i just heard the screams of the people who were being tortured there, and the scariest thing is the first one. i have a terrible feeling - you won't hear familiar voices in these screams. i was

very afraid. the fact that i can't help my relatives, because i'm so powerless, and for me it's very hard when i can't help them, that's the first fear . i'm probably already used to the fact that we are nobody to them, and they probably treated dogs better than us, because most of all, they were terribly immature. i'm just such a person that i always know that i can help. morally, physically, i can help my

family. and at that moment i was just powerless here this is the only thing that destroyed me from the inside , uh, it's a bessiya, when you can't do something, uh, at the very moment when the exit from azovstalia was going on, by the way, the russians called it a surrender to the allied forces for the cancellation operation, uh, it's certain to a certain extent, it immediately gave us some hope that it would not last long, that the conditions for maintaining food and living would be in accordance with the geneva conventions, it would be later. we understood

that all this would not happen. a certain period of communication on azovstali well, it was not that they could even know something that we are alive at least, but i want to thank the combat team of my battalion of hospitalists that all this time my daughter received the certain information that could be given to her, she knew that i was alive, she knew that everything necessary was being done for the liberation so, accordingly, there was also financial and moral and psychological help, i am very grateful for this, but even at that time i did not know this, and this despair he undermined a little, well, this kind of spirit and that led us to liberation well, i have a little the second story i was in the bunker with my daughter a-a i left a little

earlier than azovstal when the red cross er-e made green corridors and took out the civilians, we were taken to a filtration point where they said that they would take her to an orphanage and i was captured since i am a military ah, that's why, of course, when the girl offered to help me and said, if you want, i'll take your child . nearby, because i understood that it is possible that i will be asked, er, with her help, that the child needs to be pressed on the um well, no matter what, no mother er, well, she will not allow the child to be mocked, sunny. i am very glad that it is simple was not around at

this moment. thank you very much. do you have any more questions? well, there is an informational and analytical marathon on the espresso tv channel. you were listening to the press conference. our ukrainian women fighters were released from russian captivity. they heroically resisted the enemy's intervention but were captured. and here they shared the most important thing easily it was difficult to listen to it without emotions well, but we understand that you can continue the broadcast, you can analyze it and listen to it on our youtube channel, the youtube channel of the express tv channel, this broadcast was also important because we were able not only to hear our freed women, but also to understand. well, let's say, what principles does the coordinating headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war use in its

work, and from that, to conclude what are the prospects for freeing even more of our people from prisoner my name is khrystyna yatskiv, this is antin berkovskiy, we will continue to provide constant information and analytical work on our live broadcast, and it would probably be appropriate to start with information, in particular, from the ukrainian regions . in the same place or not far from it, we will analyze the situation both in the east and in the south of our country with military experts and actual military personnel from the fields. to say that this russian hysteria is on the wane. well, very briefly, the main topics of today 's broadcast are, meanwhile, the armed forces in the kherson region are actively defending the territory, we are not losing it, deputy defense minister of

ukraine hanna malyar reported that there are literally battles going on there, the general staff itself is positioned as defensive actions, within the framework of which some offensive actions are carried out, not a week , the intensity of events is somewhat decreasing at the front and we are actually in active defense, she urged trust in the armed forces and emphasized that the situation is under control, we are not losing territory, assured the deputy minister of defense. and we are in touch with the executive director of the ukrainian helsinki union for human rights, oleksandr. we congratulate you. glory to ukraine. thank you. many simply terrible moments of their lives in captivity, but the key question is the fate of our defenders, our

fighters, who are still in russian captivity. oleksandr, i would like to ask you whether there are already some summary statistics, er, about the number of our defenders, yes, and maybe there are some blatant , most revealing crimes against them, we are talking about crimes that are used by russian interventionists, er, the first question about statistics is, er, it is closed today and the information that is made public is often er well , let's say that the latest information that needs to be clarified, i can refer to the information made public by the minister of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories ms. larishchuk information that two and a half

thousand after that big exchange and after the return of the women, the figure of 2,500 ukrainian prisoners of war are now in captivity, and at the moment this number was different in the summer and changes are taking place here, we do not know for sure this situation, as far as today is the first officially registered, perhaps this figure of 2.5 thousand applies precisely to those who, according to the standards of the icrc of the international committee of the red cross, are registered as prisoners of war and in fact, the number of officially registered prisoners is about the same as the number of those

who are still in captivity. according to official information, the number is 2.5 thousand. but what is the actual number, taking into account those who are not registered and those who are not officially included in these statistics? well, it is more difficult to say that they are counted according to a different account, these are persons who have gone missing or the whereabouts of some have not been established to date, in fact, they may be in captivity, so this number of 2.5 thousand may be higher, we will not say what it is, what it is, what it is number but at the same time, we are being pushed somewhere by this church. i'm sorry,

i would like to clarify. and how is it that people may not get into this list, the fact is that those who are captured must be registered, and a card is issued accordingly a prisoner of war who is transferred to the ukrainian side and is located in the structures of the international committee of the red cross if it all happens according to the rules and officially, but it does not always happen according to the rules, not always officially, and a large number of their prisoners pass by this procedure without falling under this registration, they er, they can, er, practically confirmed to be considered by the ukrainian side, those who were captured, but the russian side does not register them as prisoners of war on the ukrainian side of such cases, as far as i know that is, there is no such thing as all russians who fall into

ukrainian captivity are drawn up in accordance with these procedural standards, mr. oleksandr, what is the bad motivation to add to the lists of our own fellow citizens well, we always thought that it was even beneficial to show as large a list of prisoners of war as possible, accordingly show that you have a resource for the exchange of their well and so on, this is really and uh, the question is uh, why do the russians think that they can treat ukrainian prisoners of war in fact not uncontrollably because that er, those prisoners of war we do not fall out of actually any registration er, accompanying records er, you know that those who, for example, were officially registered, they even had the opportunity to write letters to their relatives and there was such an er exchange of letters from that territory to the

ukrainian side through the ministry of integration and when the letters from ukrainian prisoners of war to their relatives were played out and it actually happened here even simple things are the observance of the rights of prisoners of war and you asked in the first question what violations they admit this is one of the first violations, not even a notification about the status of a person who was captured, this is already a violation because the rights of this person are not respected, and even, let's say, control the place of stay of this person, the conditions of stay of this person seem impossible. thank you, mr. oleksandr oleksandr pavlichenko executive the director of the ukrainian helsinki union for human rights worked live on the espresso tv channel at 1:45 p.m. we are working for you

together with khrestina yatskiv." were not held and were postponed to february 19 the minister of defense of ukraine reznikov spoke about the three stages of the war in ukraine, the final

stage is now the liberation of the occupied settlements. in the south, it slowed down a bit because the occupiers use irrigation canals as trenches, while our minister of defense added that the armed forces will advance with the onset of winter when these russian troops are mobile federation will decrease according to the minister of defense ukraine has a real plan to liberate all temporarily occupied territories well, we are in touch now oleksandr kovalenko , military-political observer of the information resistance group oleksandr, we welcome you glory to ukraine, does mr. oleksandr kovalenko hear us, colleagues

all the same, i would like the communication to be of high quality. moreover, there is something to talk about, the latest information that appears to us is actually very animated, as our uh used to say the neighbors are now exclusively enemies, and in fact there are reports, and in particular, the foreign mass media are now writing about it, that the russian federation is trying to recruit commandos of the afghan army, we are talking about those commandos who escaped from the taliban, regardless of what they have in terms of quantity, they were significantly more equipped p. oleksandr kovalenko just recently made his last publication on this account p. oleksandr, we congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes good day good day you can hear that you hear us so by the voice

i'm glad to see you, if it was possible to start with the topic of a-a afghan teams. now they will try to recruit in the russian federation or have they already started to do it? here is such information, how valuable is the insta story. i understand that these are people who studied precisely by american, including a-a specialists, so since the russian federation thinks that america is at war with them and they probably want to understand in general the principle and approach to this war in our country p alexander , how trustworthy is this information and why she can be crowned, please. well, in fact, i really don’t understand why russia can turn to these afghan teams for some kind of help, or it is known, for example, that in the

information space of last spring there were many reports that efforts are being made. see once. yes. his units are ready to go to russia to fight in ukraine. the number there is about 15,000. and then there were many reports from africa, africa, that they are preparing units there to help america russia well, khalifa khahar is a war criminal from the lily, he also intended to send some education units of the lviv national army to russia, but nothing happened, nothing happened, because it is a big problem to actually use mercenaries, and that is exactly what you are. first of all, they are low-quality, this is a low- quality resource, what are the series, what are the african servicemen, what are the libyans, they are even far behind in terms of the quality of their professional skills, and from the russians, and that is why the russians

the russians also helped to fight, their ideas are somehow assa and still different, but we see real wars, what exactly does the russian army actually represent, and everything else? it is much even worse if we talk directly about the afghan command, then about the afghan army regularly, i am the lord's army he has not been in afghanistan since soviet times, soviet times, the attitude is enough . it is without any compromises, and she is not professional. in general, no matter how much money was invested in the afghan army, they will still flee. they the numbers will still be posted. do you remember the first information that russia is holding talks a little too early in the morning regarding drones, and then many people said it's okay, first of all, they are not super technological on the battlefield, they are unlikely to change anything, unless they will be used for anti-aircraft guns and in the

early days there were not so many of them, now we see that these estimates were very modest and in fact we have a big problem that we hope to clarify in the near future . khaki color refers to mercenaries who can be bought by russia itself, the russian federation in various markets, starting from afghanistan and ending in some distant africa. well , the situation is also with the green one, it is very similar, by the way, until the first iranian uav was destroyed. and there was a question regarding their supply , the same with the afghans, and until we see them destroyed, if we still see e, then it will be possible to talk about this supply, but first of all, what is a mercenary in general, what does he hire a mercenary in general, this is primarily a language

barrier, and it is necessary to give some commands to these mercenaries, that's why when i heard, for example, russian propaganda that in the 14th and 15th years, instead of the armed forces of ukraine, and in ukraine, poles and turks were fighting there estonians, french, germans, americans , for example, it was a complete explosion, because the units cannot exist in full, such and such a chaos of language barriers, and there must be some language, for example, english or ukrainian or another, but when we talk about syrians in afghans others representatives of other countries. well, what do you think? how is it possible to control such a mass with a completely different approach to training others with a completely different approach to conducting hostilities that have completely

different experience? in advanced positions, it is still necessary to give them some commands so that they carry them out, it is quite difficult, at least from this position, then another position, and they have gathered a number of their officials there, and they cannot fully provide them with everything necessary, will they be able to do so to collect, for example, 1,000 of some incomprehensible mercenaries, whom they will be able to provide with this, and provide them with financial support much more than the contract workers of the russian army, because well , he has completely different prices . it will really go, well, it will be a step forever, it will be a step-by-step, which also does not solve anything, because the drones are early, by the way. they also did not solve anything in the war zone, the fact that you and i are sitting without electricity or without the internet from time to time is

already, the problem is of a civilian nature, it is a civilian population, and in the combat zone, the counteroffensive continues and the russians continue to flee . in the south, they also cautiously characterized our offensive, which has signs of defensive battles, etc. and so on. well, they say that the plan is to advance. but now the situation is somewhat so to speak slowed down. what is happening? first of all, in the right bank part of the kherson region, we are now observing that on the one hand, the russians are withdrawing part of their units, first of all, it is the air to the airborne units of the airborne troops, they are representatives of the marines, and they are withdrawing a-and they take away their doctors , medical equipment

, equipment from medical institutions, but on the other hand, they continue to saturate the right bank with representatives of all partially mobilized infantry, why with burns. that is, we can now say about the fact that they are really trying for this resource, with this resource, to temporarily slow down the counteroffensive of the armed forces, and what are the doctors taking out then and so on, i don’t understand this brownian movement of russian servicemen on the right bank, and why leave them when you do not intend, for example , to treat the wounded, which is a valuable resource, the resource is a professional soldier who has experience in combat operations, which is more or less uh. today, uh, he has some kind of price. no price uh this

this is exactly the resource that is called living meat , that is, they are now, for these partially mobilized , actually making such a living wall that will inhibit our counteroffensive actions, as well as a very important aspect that must be understood. of actions on the right bank part of the kherson region. it is quite difficult for counteroffensive actions that do not have prepared conditions of formed conditions. right now , this is the formation of conditions, and directly to these counteroffensive actions, it is again the destruction of positions the destruction of ukroprios, the destruction of the line of defense, the simplification of the line of defense, and, of course, the blow to the record- setting positions of the russians, and not only because artillery is the biggest enemy for the counteroffensive in the kherson region, it is a large open space, and therefore

when you start your counteroffensive, tens of kilometers away you can see a crop of artillery , the ability to command enemy artillery, this is very important, ah, to start a counteroffensive, mr. oleksandr, we still have a few minutes, eh, for symmetry, let's talk about the east, the situation in to the matchmaker and in the crimea region, we have work in these settlements and threaten the capacities there today from the armed forces of ukraine, there are even very good such hits. along with how powerful the enemy group is there and how logistically everything is normal for them there. yes they are really there so er. now they have concentrated a rather serious er complex of forces and means, and in fact i can even compare it with raisin before the liberation, because in the area of ​​raisin there was also a fairly serious and powerful resource for the offensive in the direction of slavic and kramatorsk by the russian

occupying forces, but this is the point. just as they fled from under the raisin, they will continue to flee in the same way, but today it is not so much about the fact that something may happen in the near future. near svatovo or krimina, although it is there that these conditions are formed in order to start all the more active and intensive actions. and what is more interesting is the section of the plot between svatovo. yes, krimina is the r-66 route, it is a logistical artery for today, some the locations on this route between the fourth and the crimena, they are under full fire control of the armed forces of ukraine, what is fire control , that is, the russians cannot fully use it for movement now, because they are under the heads of the ants, it is not so much fun for them today there they can a-a move from north to south and from south to north, that is, logistics are already complicated, but

the main thing is not so much fire control as physical control, and this very week we saw that the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine reported that some of the population centers in all their locations were liberated, that is, they are now under the control of the armed forces of ukraine, if we look at these population centers, we understand that in the near future this artery will be physically will be cut off, when it will be cut off, then we can say that the conditions for a counteroffensive have actually been formed, and it can begin well, if not in a few days, then in a week and a half or two who knew very thank you, mr. oleksandr. well, we will wait for this moment and will respond accordingly. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for the always high-quality analysis .