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for kyiv watch on wednesday at 21:30 our the advantage is the motivation - this is our earth, they have no motivation we stand on our land we are not aware of them belgorod region mr. colonel i welcome you to the first channel of public broadcasting and thank you very much for taking the time to come to our studio we we know that now is a difficult time for all the military, but your brigade is now one of those fighting near the bahmut, very recently we all had the opportunity to see photos of ukrainian soldiers knee-deep in mud in social networks, some western media are already comparing it to photos from the trenches first world day. please tell me what the situation is now. good day to everyone present

. thank you for inviting me. well, i think that it is not the first time in the last few weeks that i will tell you about the situation and events under the bachmut situation. stable, tense, difficult, taking into account the running conditions, it is even more difficult for us, but it is good because it is also for the enemy, taking into account the weather conditions, the influx of the enemy's manpower troops and weapons equipment is complicated now, so that the main forces are concentrated on the implementation of assault operations itself bahmut and attempts to cover bahmut, e-e, to continue the offensive on the territory under the control of our units, a large number of artillery units of the zk , which carry out the development of the battle, that is, play back

er, the role of live intelligence material, which is not a pity, er, and the units, er, are coordinated units prepared or not? wagner, er, the wagnerites are the main opponent of the ukrainian army now under fire no, not only now, the composition of units removed from the kherson direction has increased oh, but one with the driving force, these are units, dude, you can schedule it like this. well, let's put it this way, groups that, as it seems to me, are tyrants, maybe even myths. so, what kind of enemy is this, this is an enemy made of flesh and blood, which also uh, i periodically want to die in our territory in ukraine, it differs from uh, standard units of the russian federation in that they have more decentralization in decision-making, uh

, because of this, their regular units, which are airborne troops, what is the purpose of infantry troops, uh- they dislike the marines and among other units. they have the right to make decisions not mainly without agreeing with the command of their group. training in them is basically the same program, but it is carried out these people are interested in a higher ruble . so, accordingly, there is an opportunity to carry out selection at your own discretion. as we can see, among the legeners, there are different divisions, more elite, less elite . the head of the pvk wagner was gathering volunteers let's say this among the prisoners of the russian colonies. have you encountered the fact that

among your enemy there are also prisoners under the bachmut? yes, of course, during the last few months, when the unit worked in bahmuti under bahmut eh, there were cases when they got eh, their eh, so to speak of servicemen in captivity, e, with a strain on them, a serviceman, a phrase, a word, is stretched, they are usually restricted in communicating with the local population, which are still very few there, but they limit communication with e -e with other combat groups that carried out assault actions there and had losses of wounded and dead, they try to limit them in this communication so that they do not have time to think.

the units of fire fighters are successful and the object and the direction of the attack are indicated, they somehow partially fulfill the task, they lose their soldiers, they lose their strength, someone can get a foothold, a foothold is attached to another group, and they are already dragging and throwing us into the group. the one who did not communicate with the previous group which lost its personnel. well, there were reports that their leadership intimidates them by saying that they must not be taken prisoner under any circumstances. unit, he was painted like this under the eyes on the left and right, uh, on one of the uh video interrogations. well, in the first video interrogations, he points

out that this is how the educational work is carried out in the units of chvk wagner. on the territory of the russian federation, one of the extreme prisoners was directly a citizen of the republic of belarus . people are bought for money. and the propaganda that has been working for 8 years is not in favor of ukraine. you said that they have the ability to accept decisions. let's say more horizontally. this is an obvious advantage if you compare them with the rest of the russian army, like on the front of the russian-ukrainian war, but when we talk about their training, can we say that they are better prepared than the soldiers of the regular russian army , in some cases it is better, i say now it is possible to distinguish several units that were already formed during the war in ukraine , their war in ukraine, older units that

perform special tasks, units that have such an average level of importance, so you can say that their infantry and units that were raided, in principle, if you compare elite units, well, they are more prepared, let 's say, their units are better equipped and better prepared, and mainly these are people who have already come to several conflicts er syria, the middle east there and so on. did you meet those russians who were mobilized er this year ? in general, let the audience forgive me, scott, who was driven to the oboe, there is no other way to express myself, they could already go to the states and say something, and in

principle, they work in the same way in the war, or the presence of these new mobilized e-e among the russian military is somehow significant changes the picture for you eh on the front does not significantly change the picture changes the picture for our partners so that we ask for more meat what kind of propaganda eh kill ukrainians destroy smoke that is, no moral principles of ethics, no military ethics i no longer i am talking about such serious things there, what kind of geneva conventions have they not heard about it at all, the battles for bakhmut have been going on for a long time, for several months, it is obvious why the ukrainian military is on this front, but it is not entirely clear why bakhmut is for the russians. and how do you assess which one it is the city is important for them, it is one of the important cities of the donetsk region, by taking bakhmut, it is possible

to close the phase of the capture of the solidary, accordingly, several routes of supply, several arteries of supply to our units are blocked, a number of heights that can be used to continue their offensive actions, but here one of the reasons is that they are ready to put so many people in front of this, and we constantly read about the fact that the losses of both sides are heavy in this direction, but well , the russians also, as it seems, simply do not count them, no , they do not count, well in general, as i understand it, prisoners are not counted in them. no way. just as in the beginnings of luhansk oblast, the mobilized people of the occupied territories of luhansk and donetsk oblasts were not counted, respectively, the tactics are the same, and we have it in our hands the more. they

people are thrown in. thus, they have the opportunity to destroy them in a bigger and better way. the more we can destroy them on such a scale, the less they will be able to engage later in more competent planned operations . for a long time and we see that so far the russians have not succeeded in achieving the goal you mentioned, our advantage is our motivation - our land, they have no motivation , we stand on our land, we did not come to them in kursk, champsigngrad region, the main motivation for every serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, nothing of the national guard of the state border service and units of the national police who also take part there under the auspices of er-e assault er-e local actions, this is our earth, they do not have such a thing under their chest, mr. colonel, you led this brigade, since the end of

march, i'm not mistaken, that's the end and actually the war didn't start for you on february 24, uh, you took part in hostilities until february 24, 22, please tell us a little about your path on this wars, well, the war began for me, as well as for most of the military and those who defend ukraine in various spheres, on 14.2014, one of the first business trips. it was the city of luhansk. at the luhansk airport, it was already clear then that the next object is luhansk donetsk region after crimea after luhansk direction there was mariupol after mariupol again luhansk direction such a settlement as three zbinka crimea and then the

battles near debaltsevo then in 2015 maryinka well at the time the war started you were already personnel servicemen. yes, at that time i was the company commander, the captain of your brigade's deployment - this is gostomel and the airport of gostomel - this is the place where on february 24, the russian landing party landed on helicopters, which aimed to capture kyiv. how did your brigade meet the russian landing party there? how did i i understand that with all the strength that participated in the defense . it was there that the national guard brigade took part in combat operations on the summer strip of the airport in the first hours of the battle in gostomel. it was our unit and it was one of the intelligence management groups on

that moment is on february 24, our unit, according to the brigade of the e-e battalion, the tactical group went on the planned rotation of the luhansk region. that is, you can say that the combat composition of the e-e brigade was no longer in the brigade and remained e-e in the part of the servicemen of conscript service, several dozen servicemen under contract, e-e officers. well, body units, and approximately how many people in total, if you take people, it was up to e-e 500 e-e servicemen . lithuania 30,120 military personnel and how many russians landed at gostomel airport to understand what the numerical advantage was exactly the number i think that you are not on zelena now

but nobody is used to saying that i don't know i will tell you something that in that we had no casualties that day, but there were people who were captured in distant positions. and several servicemen have already been released. i spoke with one of them in more detail. on the third day of captivity, he was forced to collect the killed russians. personally together with another comrade, they collected 80 of them in packages. that is, we can say that all the incibulins of at least three landing companies were involved in the first hours. e-e airport during these last few months, it seems that two or three times in the american media appeared

information that back in january, american intelligence warned the ukrainian side that the russians could start an invasion of e-e, in particular from of the gostomel airport. did you know anything about the fact that this could happen, that this landing in gostomel could happen? did you somehow prepare for this? we know about the direct gostomel airport . to carry out such actions, but until the last moment, as i understand it, the information was uh, okay, the brigade leadership did not have it at that time, uh, i was the deputy commander of the brigade, and in the first days of february, we left for coordination with the 80th brigade of the airborne assault troops for the conduct or coordination of it and er, to sneeze at the plan of the gatekeeper to the east, i performed the duties of the commander of the consolidated

unit of the battalion of the tactical group, that is, as the deputy commander of the unit that has the duties of the commander of the battalion of the tactical group directly on february 23 was carried out by a combined method of movement from wide olen at that time to the luhansk region on the 23rd. you tell me, it looks like we were preparing for the invasion to be more massive in the east, we were preparing for it. so, more to the side , everyone was preparing for the fact that there would be a full-scale invasion from the territory of the occupied luhansk donetsk region, and possibly from a part of the territory that is on the border with east of ukraine. i know that fellow journalists, when they had the opportunity to come to gostomel, they were amazed by the amount of destroyed russian equipment there in

gostomel, and this again leads me to question how in these conditions, when there was such a great advantage in the technical equipment of the russians in their numbers, how did the ukrainian side manage to knock them out of kostomal, first of all, secondly, in principle, to stop the russian advance on kyiv well , first of all this is thanks to the courage of the ukrainian people directly, the armed forces of ukraine, the national guard and all the special forces of the defense of ukraine who worked on this issue, the second is that the management of the entire front line that was formed at that time in the east of ukraine was not lost that the south, that the territory was adjacent to the kyiv region , they were controlled by the defense forces of ukraine in some locations, they had to withdraw their forces in order to preserve them, drag the enemy into the offensive

, accordingly, there was no possibility and they did not think through the logistics of supplying their advanced units which, after the withdrawal, there was an opportunity to destroy the artillery units with artillery fire, as for the kyiv region, the expedient management of the troops, the leadership that carried out carried out by the armed forces the coordinated work of the national guard in the armed forces and other components of the defense forces. well, there is such a thing as factor ot . after being interrogated in captivity, they asked the following questions: why did they shoot at us? well, we came to free you. well, there the serviceman explained that he was a member of the national guard.

i waited and was a propagandist that they would be met here with flowers, salt and bread, that there are no troops here, all are in the east and the troops are morally weak, and for them it was a very big surprise that what they were told during the reconciliation, they did not the first year there, while they were climbing our borders, this all happened in the spring of 2021. for them, it was a surprise, and that personnel. i just remember it, i don't remember. it's in the east, and at that time i was in the east with units that fought with us 8 years of the occupied part of donetsk luhansk the region was not much more difficult to fight, and the units of the russian federation, after receiving the first weeks and months from the holes, they fled, threw equipment and so

on . did it happen or was the dream destroyed in the fighting? was it some kind of deliberate destruction at the very beginning of this attack? the dream was destroyed during the fighting. but the main impression of the dream was given by the units of the russian federation. specially set on fire. representatives of the flight school of the russian federation were sent to gostomel several times, which shows that the main components, what are the higher prices, we were picked up from the plane, so to speak, with the roots of rooting there, there are boards, there are wires and so on, that is during this time, during these active battles, they still managed to steal some elements of the plane. ruslan did not suffer from this not only from the fighting but also from

looting. we talked to you about the situation in kyiv region at the beginning of a full-scale the invasion of kiev, fortunately, the kyiv region of northern ukraine managed to hold er, but there is also such a difficult episode in the history of the already full-scale russian invasion - these are the battles for severodonetsk, er, severodonetsk was not held, now it is occupied, your brigade fought in this direction, everyone knows that these are mine were very difficult. if you can generalize and summarize based on your observations , why was it not possible to get severodonetsk? at that moment there was no need to make the second mariupol and it was not necessary that mariupol was at that time rubizhne and this lisychansk-severodonetsk triangle was the place where the units of the russian federation were absorbed during the time when the

defense was held mariupol by units of the forces of the defense forces. what is there? what is there? the core of the defense was the national guard. there was the azov special forces unit with units of the marines and the national police . the unit of the 79th brigade was defending directly in severodonetsk, and it was the core of the defense at the beginning. rubizhne was our battalion's tactical group e.e. during the fighting, the tactical group rubizhne was formed. good collaboration, let's say, units e.e., the interaction of which was the core, again, the unit of the nation's party e.e. gave the opportunity to hold for a long time. after the main strike forces of the enemy had already been provided and destroyed, the military and political leadership of the state made

a decision to withdraw the units, which was done expediently and correctly, they saved a lot of personnel personnel and equipment and artillery and managed to develop an offensive in other regions of ukraine. did we draw any conclusions from the whole defense of the severodonetsk retreat in order to do something different in the future, fighting specifically in the east of ukraine of course, everyone at each level of the tactical level yes, there is a battalion commander, a brigade commander, an operational-tactical level there and higher, each commander with his headquarters made conclusions about how and in what way to cause more losses to the enemy, well, respectively, at the highest levels state administration, we saw this, the result of the offensive in the kharkiv region, the liberation of the kharkiv region, the kherson region, and now, the great successes of the donetsk region, mr.

colonel, at the very end, i want to ask you what your expectations are from this -e winter because it will be, well, in fact the first winter in this format of a full-scale war, are we ready for this winter and what do you think will be the key difficulties? april, kiev in three days, it turned out, kyiv did not work out in a week, it even turned out that way what went on, the active liberation of the illegally occupied territory of our state, the enemy needs to prepare for winter, he is not ready for winter, thank god, even with the difficulties that we have. we have the support of the entire western world. well, the only thing is to tighten the belt for the civilian population, because now the free population is divided into two parts

in the army. and who is not yet in the army? prepare for at that moment, how will you be an army or be useful to the army if you are not an army? in other words, you are advising our viewers to prepare for the fact that more and more ukrainians will be militarized. er, to be in the army because if you are an army, you are already er, busy with something. you are already training and preparing for war. and the war will catch up with you in any case. sooner or later for those who are not yet in the army, er, we do this so that they did not join the army, our people our armed forces, the national guard, and other military formations are doing so that fewer people get into the army now, by carrying out active defense and offensive actions, while you are a civilian

, there are no weapons, buy eh, hmm, you don't know how to use them, find an instructor, find a shooting sports club, do holesty e- e is studying tactical medicine, a mine-explosive case, every conscious citizen should have a first-aid kit 1-2 turnstiles on foot when walking or walking around the city. you understand how we use them, because they may be needed, maybe not for you, but for those who are near you during the missile attack, that is, it is not about the fact that, in your opinion , the zone of actual combat clashes will expand, but about the fact that russia, uh, will deploy this aggressive activity against civilians