society in the framework of the russian federation. in principle, i am generally very skeptical about the propaganda machine of the russian federation. well, somehow, let's say, they will change their accents. they will obviously continue to manipulate, they will call everything these pseudo-acts . of good will which they seem to be doing and supposedly for some of the humanitarian reasons that concern their military and this will unfortunately continue to be perceived by russian society, so i would not i expected that this would have some extraordinary consequences for public opinion in the russian federation, and that this public opinion would in some way influence the further actions of the russian authorities, that's for sure, we shouldn't expect that .

such a political struggle because we read dugin's statement there, which there, er, already hinted in some words about the fact that putin, er, is doing some wrong things, taking into account the troops from kherson , this story is also important here. and if we talk with you about the internal political struggle, and there are definitely different towers inside the kremlin, let's say that they are trying to secure a certain future for themselves and obviously look at the immediate military situation on the battlefield. well, these things will obviously have a certain influence and well, the question is who will win internally in this struggle. but at the same time, i still think that there is no such strong force inside the russian federation that could, as a result of these

military victories of ours, somehow influence let's say a radical change in the policy of the russian federation, and up to the displacement of today's head of the kremlin, uhu, putin's thresher, in particular , they say that nothing will change from the russian forces on the right bank of the dnieper. kherson is russian territory in the understanding of russia. why do you think they continue to deny this reality, look , they deny in principle the entire reality of the very beginning and the war in 14

russian federation, she came up with it herself that these territories, these regions of ukraine are part of the russian federation a-a pseudo er-e legal the pseudo-legal method of a-a has put its seal that this is supposedly our territory and is now trying to convince the whole world of this, and that is why all their calls for victory today, which they make there are

different on different sabers, they only talk about one thing and have and we have to understand them only one thing is that they need a certain military respite now in order to regroup and attack us further, and therefore i believe that it is an absolutely correct approach that ukraine today does not show any readiness to introduce with these the victory of the terrorists, so actually about the negotiations, i wanted to talk to you further in the russian ministry of foreign affairs , they clearly hint that they are ready for them, and if we assume that the ukrainian side said yes, ok, we are sitting at the table, so that the kremlin can now offer them your opinion. look, they they say that they are ready for victory and they confirm this at the same time that these newly captured additional ukrainian regions zaporizhia region kherson part well, part of zaporizhzhia part of kherson region part of

donetsk part of luhansk region are er theirs territory, they set it up as a basis for the possibility of these further negotiations, what can we talk about, we, ah, we are simply in two parallel worlds and in two parallel worlds of perception of reality, so i think that uh, well, these negotiations are, again, just like that and if you want to shout about the fact that we need a break, and in various ways, they are trying, and now they will continue to try to accuse ukraine of the fact that, as they say, ukraine is so-so aggressive and does not want to sit down, while the russian federation does not ready to concede at all any point of their er-er far-fetched claims to ukraine, their negotiating position, if you can talk about it at all, it is no different today. maybe it is even worse er-er with which they

approach the announcement of these negotiations than was in the eu in march, so it is likely that it can be directed in some way to influence western partners who help ukraine, for example, and in particular the western media write about disagreements among the american in particular to the political community regarding further further negotiations, why do you think some american generals are happy to negotiate with russia just now? and such an opinion and what he is guided by, of course it would be possible to comment on it if we really heard his publicized position with arguments, but eh hmm i understand what we will say in various politicians and not only in the american one politicians will appear all the time or

periodically will appear, well, such proposals from one or another point of view, maybe it is from a military point of view, so it would be, maybe it is some kind of this ira of this, but i a-a political point of view, not this time i see and therefore hold the same opinion that we as ukraine today should not agree to negotiations with the russian federation. how do you think the liberation of kherson can affect support for ukraine? separately, or maybe on the contrary, there are risks that they will say , well, here we are in kherson, you won back there, and that’s enough. and you know that this situation in general has been developing very dynamically since february 24, and i just returned from brussels last night, where uh, at one of the

meetings with representatives of countries and members of the european union, it was very, very clear that it was precisely the successes of the ukrainian armed forces in the kharkiv direction at the beginning of autumn that allowed them to avoid the previously predicted after summer predicted such fatigue from ukraine that it was predicted that it will happen among the society and this may affect the further support of ukraine by the free world directly because of such events that we are now watching, praying, rooting for and hoping that everything our armed forces will succeed exactly in the kherson direction eh, then eh, they also add to the readiness to increase the amount of weapons that eh provide to ukraine, because the ukrainians use them

effectively, the ukrainians with them eh, well work so that it gives concrete results. and i am convinced that in the near future we will be able to break this closed circle, which we have not yet managed to break in relation to the provision of modern tanks to ukraine by our partners, and also move on to receiving such medium-range weapons that that's all there. or even get a decision that our pilots can fly on the planes of our partners, thank you very much for your comment on radio svoboda, there was a people's deputy of ukraine, ivan klympush-tens, thank you. well, and meanwhile, the armed forces of ukraine have the initiative and are in the process of securing a great victory in the kherson region. analysts of the american institute

for the study of war report this. the ceasefire will give the kremlin a break it desperately needs to restore russian forces. the great ukrainian victory ongoing in the kherson region will not be the last . it is said in the analyst's report, in russian official reports on the situation in southern ukraine , it is reported that the withdrawal of troops is proceeding according to plan and not a single unit of military equipment is left on the right bank of the dnieper. the same is said about the alleged lack of losses of the russian army during the withdrawal, according to volodymyr zelenskyi , the armed forces of ukraine liberated at least 41 settlements in the south of ukraine in the last day. the president of ukraine also announced that the russian military left thousands of unexploded mines and munitions on their own, first of all, houses, social objects , communications, roads, the entire space of people's lives are demined, but the occupiers mine all the power lines of the building

enterprises, fields, forests well, as we have already noted, the russian side, in particular, putin's spokesman dmytro piskov and the deputy head of the russian security council dmytrovidvidev stated that the withdrawal of russian troops from kherson was temporary and they will definitely return there because this is according to the words of russian politicians again the territory of russia , will they be able to do it, let's talk with us live, military expert ivan stupak i'm going to celebrate , i see you already, i congratulate you yes, good evening, studio, i congratulate you well, earlier this week there were even the expectation that kherson will be liberated somewhere in a week that well, although this process will last for a few days, everything will turn out well, much faster, what do you think were the reasons for such rapidity of the armed forces, well, look, it is really undeniable that it was very fast, because it must be taken into account that the russian military there

were approximately 30,000 military personnel in kherson, approximately 5,000 a-a units of various types of equipment , there was heavy equipment, there was between them equipment, that is, the force was so serious, and for 9 months, almost russians were in the city, that is, they had the opportunity to make fortified areas there, to dig and concrete them, but i see that due to the fact that the ukrainian military systematically visited the supply lines of this equipment of this group, the logistics chains , food products did not arrive on time, yes, and fuel did not arrive on time, because what about ammunition i don’t even say it anymore because it really is the blood of war, that is, there are no weapons, there is nothing to fight for. well, the war is ending, and finally our military is in a radius 70 km from the line the russians knocked out all warehouses with ammunition because they had already seen, that is, who was appointed as

the commander of these special operations in ukraine, he saw that this group simply does not pull out any neza o-o-o any possible offense resistance, and the ukrainian troops made a decision to withdraw, so far it is not known for sure whether they have withdrawn all their equipment and whether there are any russian groups left on the right bank that are now surrounded, but it is known for sure that the russian military is changing into there are numerous photographs of civilian uniforms, when russian soldiers are in civilian clothes, but these are small arms, but it is not yet known for sure whether these are isolated facts. is this some systematic work with possible underground harassment to make some kind of underground movement inside ukraine? well, here they have already said about military equipment

i looked at them today by the russian military command, it is noted that the emphasis is on the fact that no equipment was left and no one among the living er living force no one of the enemy was allegedly killed or detained there, well, whether it is possible or not, these are the words of the russian team, the russian teams do not trust themselves, you will not respect yourself, we know this, we have to wait for some unofficial data, but our fighters are already there, well, for prejudice, they are posting photos and videos of captured equipment if there will be one . for example, in the kharkiv region, e.e. izyum and kupyansk, they taught earlier than our genstadt, when they say, look, the orcs left a lot of equipment, so far i do not have such photos and video materials i saw it, but it is known for sure that ours are actively pouring the russians into the backs of the retreating russians - this offends them very much there in the russian

segment of the internet, you just know how popcorn breaks, but how come the ukrainian fascists from bandera shoot in the back well, i want to ask, well, the commune, what did you expect that we in this way, we will calmly see you off and wait for you to return, fantaser and no-no. that is, they will be reprimanded and there will be no mercy, mr. stepak. of the army, what is the alternative in general, except for the retreat? well, it was possible to hold the city there for a certain period of time, you know, at the expense of some kind of provisions, yes, which was concentrated there in some fuel and lubricant materials, and there was an ammunition kit that was 9 months old, but i see well, they assessed their strength and realized that even the political expediency of holding this city, and the political expediency of it, was extremely high. let's put it this way: the russian

political command was not convinced to leave the city. well, as it is that is, a decision was made to withdraw from it, they did not understand that if our military takes the ring . our military could go to the history of the zaporizhzhia region, energodar, move on to melitopol, mariupol, and this is a sacred place for russians. they fought so much for it there, they laid down their lives the military, yes, and our civilians, uh, they understood what had to be done. here they go for this one . they did it. after the capture of kherson , is it possible to speak precisely about the fact that it is possible to put an end to the russian plans to cut down, so to speak

, this land corridor through mykolaiv odesa in transnistria ah, can actually mykolaiv and odesa breathe a sigh of relief after the liberation of kherson, i can tell the russians that boys and girls, this bed is already concreted. that's why these pink dreams of yours can be left at fantasize somewhere on the telegram channels, draw some maps, this will not really happen anymore. because our military is already ready, well, after every full-scale invasion, they were ready to resist in this direction, but the russians are no longer in the mykolaiv region, they are already almost completely. from the territory of the right bank of kherson, and now i want everyone to understand that your audience is not talking about the defense of ukrainian troops, that is, ukrainian troops are not on the defensive, they are on the offensive and

this offensive has already been going on for a certain period of time, more than one month, and the russian army is not talking about a large-scale offensive, so somewhere in separate directions they are counterattacking with these mobs, they are trying to advance somewhere in separate e-e garage cooperatives on certain e-e outskirts of certain small cities but about a full-scale offensive, this topic is already closed. it's all just a retreat for the russians. it's for them. it's good for the next few months. well, how is the strategic situation in the south changing now, in particular in the context deoccupation of crimea because they are already joking on the internet that kherson russian troops left kherson to protect crimea, let me tell you this from the highmars, now you can see the crossings of the autonomous republic of crimea, that is, partly with the help of squids. you can cut these connections. that is

, you can break logistics even more next. and this is the period. it is a matter of several months to completely neutralize those warehouses with demolition kits. yes, with fuel materials and there with provisions that the russians made on the left bank of the kherson region. yes those supply lines from the crimea will be there, they will be cut by high-marts, and the issue of the transition of our troops to the offensive on the coast of kherson is, well, this is really not an issue, it will not be there in the spring, it will be even earlier, probably even before the new year. well, in short in conclusion, do you believe in the forecasts that the war may end by the summer of 2023, it is very likely, it is really very, very likely, provided that the western countries will not reduce the supply of

aid that they are helping us by, i don't know, not by a kilogram, not by a ton especially weapons especially long-range systems. and if we even get these missiles, which you were told a lot about, and you even have some kind of heavy equipment in the form of tanks, then this issue will be reduced, well, the deoccupation of the whole of ukraine to a few months, and in your opinion, first of all, or winter will somehow affect the advance of the offensive of the ukrainian armed forces of ukraine and whether they will continue to act just as quickly after the capture of kherson. look what is stopping our military in the first place . on a rotational basis, on a rotational basis, wet weather, that is, mud - this really slows down our offensive in a certain way, because light equipment, i mean these jeeps and pickup trucks on which our soldiers move, they cannot move through fields, only on roads, certain roads are

shot at there by certain mined in a way, but when it is winter, that is, the ground will freeze and then you can move through the field and in those places that were previously in the mud, and this, on the contrary, will speed up our counteroffensive and the russians, on the contrary, will have a harder time, that is your occupation is more difficult to dig trenches in frozen soil and this is a question of heating their positions. yes, this is also a question of winter clothing, which, as the russians say, one and a half million sets were eaten by mice in the military warehouses of the russian federation. thank you very much for your comment on radio svoboda live, a military expert ivan stupak , thank you, the commander of the group of russian troops in ukraine, serhiy syrovikin, earns money from the war, this is stated in a new investigation of the team of the russian opposition leader oleksiy navalny, as noted a forestry company from the sverdlovsk

region, gooseberry, associated with syrovikin's wife, received money from a phosphate mining company in syria, which is associated with a friend of russian president vladimir putin, hennadiy timchenko , syroikin . in 2007, he commanded a group of russian troops in syria at the same time that timchenko's structures began to resume mining at the phosphate deposits in december 2007. syroikin personally reported to the president of the russian federation putin about the release of two deposits of phosphate ores, navalny's team assumes that the russian military also took part in the safe removal of phosphates from syria , syrovikin's wife hanna became a co-founder of the agros firm in the 2000s. according to navalny's team, the firm is still working, although the owners changed in 2020-21, the

firm received 104 million rubles in the form of loans from a company related to gennady timchenko. tymchenko's associates believe that these are probably bribes . they conclude that syrovyken got rich by protecting the business interests of putin's friend gennady tymchenko. well, in the center of zhytomyr today they dismantled a monument to the russian poet alexander pushkin, which was created at the end of the xix century. and then in december, according to the mayor of zhytomyr serhiy sukhomlin, in the future they plan to exchange the monument for ukrainian prisoners of war or return it to the museum earlier the famous ukrainian writer serhiy zhadan took a selfie with a bust of pushkin in zhytomyr, but did not call for its dismantling, it is zhytomyr, if he signed

his zhytomyr selfie earlier this week, zhadan already took a selfie near the pushkin monument in kharkiv , and two days later, on november 9, pushkin was dismantled in kharkiv well, to discuss this fall of pushkin, which is currently taking place against the background of the war between russia and ukraine, we invited the writer dmytro kapranov. he lived with us on radio svoboda. they talked about the fall of lenin in ukraine after the revolution of dignity, in particular, now there is a fall of pushkin, what are the differences? do you think there are no differences because the symbols of the empire are falling? of the so-called unification of ukraine with russia, e-e, in ukrainian nationalists blew up the freshly erected monument to

pushkin in kharkiv well, and accordingly scattered leaflets there explaining what it was because in russia there is such a the practice of using art as a weapon. that is, it is a representative of art. that is, it is used as a weapon. and as you know, there is newton's second law, which says that the force of action is equal to the force of opposition, so if you hit someone with a stick, the stick receives the same blows in return if iron is beaten with sticks, a finger will be broken; if a person is beaten with a finger, they will be beaten like this. so, if you beat ukrainians with pushkin, then pushkin will get equality, and i say in response according to newton's second law, eh, and how much the principle of relativity eh regrets and newton's, that is, this is a normal process, it's just that they used their pushkin's

fat dostoevsky's and other weapons in the field of culture, thinking that this would ensure their inviolability and newton's second law would not apply to them, but that's right, but well, someone can say that putin's pushkins are not the same thing, they are different things, but still, why is it important for the decolonization of ukraine to remove the pushkins, relatively speaking, that is, figures of russian culture, even those who are not currently creating and writing there well, based on the concept of the russian world, everything where there is russian culture and where everything speaks russian is russia, therefore, first of all, it should be done for self-preservation, so that russia does not attack, because as you know, russia attacks precisely on the russian-speaking territory, on which pushkin is also, according to that out of a sense of self-preservation, it is not necessary to destroy everything that

can er. how is it in this case on the russian landscape , that is, everything that er can give them a reason to think that they will be met here. and how can they die, they can only die from the arms of odessa, so that all this is not was it is necessary to destroy the very manifestations of the external manifestations of all this, if russia did not have such an aggressive policy, er, i assure you that this would not be worth doing, but there is a real danger for the ukrainian identity there from the side of pushkin tolstoy there from maxim gorky a-a is it still true these monuments should be removed and why, in your opinion, or how do you think it should be done, as it is now being done during the war or after it ended? strangers because in the baths, you know how it is, when the persians

came to scythia, the scythians said that you can touch it, we will not touch it. if you do not touch our monuments , that means a war is brewing. ancient stories from the fifth to the third century bc and it is very important to control it so that we do not wake up the day after tomorrow from a country with a foreign culture with foreign sights because all these pushkins are thick dostoevsky they are declared to be the goal of the earth much more valuable instead of gray native cultures and it is from this position that they are given certain monuments, what is it, it's a separate value, the pushkin monument is still a separate value, er, there's something there. what , look here, something like that, it all means a stupid place, that is, it's a colonial monumental propaganda would not exist in the soviet union even such a concept separate monumental propaganda, this is what it is in the end. as for the influence on ukrainian

culture, we see how once again the excessive use of russian culture leads to aggression on the part of russia. this is all a matter of self-defense. i am not raising the quality of pushkin's writing here. dostoyevsky, they are tolstoy, or who will he be there tomorrow , eh, this is a separate conversation and the conversation is more difficult, but in the conditions of self-defense, war and unallowed wars, we should perceive it as a weapon. thank you very much for your comment live on radio svoboda, the writer dmytro kapranov was talking about the demolition of monuments pushkin in ukraine and that's all svoboda life says goodbye to you until monday, don't forget to subscribe to radio svoboda on facebook , instagram, telegram, youtube and twittery there you will find exclusive materials of our correspondents from the front and unique stories of people who tell what they experienced in the war, in particular

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