so is the situation with kherson and people cannot be judged who came, but threats cannot be dismissed either , despite the fact that in kherson, as yesterday , our guest from the kherson region told me on the air that there is no way to notify people about threats in a timely manner shelling, because it can be artillery shelling and rocket shelling and a salvo fire system. that is, this is how it will arrive and they are paying. thank you for listening to me, listening to mr. valery chaly , a big thank you to him for his work, and literally in a few minutes it will be continued in a few minutes it will be in 10 seconds radio svoboda watch stay with us and i wish you a good evening i congratulate you this is freedom barking my name is vlad and lazur the russian military shelled kherson again today as reported in the office of the

prosecutor general six civilians were injured as a result of the shelling in addition the building of the kherson oblast was hit the military administration was informed by its head yaroslav yanushevich that two floors of the building were damaged, according to the head of the region, the shelling was carried out by rocket salvo systems look at what the building of the regional administration looks like after the shelling . well, this morning, after the air alert was announced in kyiv, the ukrainian air

defense forces shot down 13 kamikaze minecraft drones. this was reported by the mayor of the capital vitaliy klitschko, the regional police later confirmed that the attack on the capital began around six in the morning. it was heard. explosions , my colleague iryna sysak will tell about the consequences of wednesday morning in kyiv began with an attack by kamikaze drones, one of the 13 downed fraudsters fell in the shevchenkiv district of the capital and destroyed part of administrative buildings, a sleeping area of ​​kyiv, rescuers are sorting out the rubble after the morning attack by iranian drones. in the morning, i was still lying in bed with a hodor as it came. it was a nightmare alone. i was scared, i grabbed the window. they called and said that they were very busy, the windows were opened, flower pots

fell on the ground, and that's why we go to see what's in someone's apartment, they live in neighboring houses , google also felt the blast wave, so what but what did you hear, but we already got hit once on march 23rd, yes, our house and my apartment were hit. so it was bad, but now i go and cry here, it’s necessary, viktor saw the consequences of the flight from the window , there were some lights in the crimea, but there was such a fire somewhere around 6:30 and our house shook. well, i think they are buying it, but we survived with the windows. not everyone was lucky to do that until the whole house was turned off from the heating by a breakdown. all my windows must be strong and fortunately, the glass curtains flew away, even though they did not fall on me.

the wreckage of the drone also damaged a private house oleksandr lives here with his family in the kyiv region. there is a big hole in the wall of the house, now there is a hole, the windows are broken, a bigger funnel, i don't know. maybe it's here, something else fell. i don't know. everyone got it capitally , everyone got it. something like that, that's it, that's the pieces of the remains, well, they didn't have time to explain it, it's just not possible to explain it's a second it's just that it turned out not exactly opposite because a fragment, well , it flew into the ear that's right and we were not opposite the window well, a little to the side thank god that all

there was no one in the room, so there were shards flying through the glass right away and the district leadership came here with them, where were the seats, everyone was here, all at once and immediately sent brigades that should restore it at least for a period until then, until it was warm. the morning attack of russia was without casualties, they reported the capital forces of the ukrainian armed forces said that the russian army launched drones from the eastern coast of the sea of ​​azov. svoboda on facebook and on youtube, if you watch us on the internet, subscribe to the radio svoboda page, like it, so you can support our work and independent journalism in general. well, further on

in the program, today there was another exchange of prisoners, who was returned, and how many more ukrainians are in russian captivity, what the ukrainian parliament implemented all the recommendations necessary for the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union, or should we really talk about it, and the brave ukrainian people received the andriy sakharov prize for freedom of thought, the ceremony was monitored by a correspondent of radio svoboda in a few minutes, we will add it to the broadcast melitopol , zaporizhzhia region, occupied by russian troops, may be the next important stage in the process of de-occupation of southern ukraine is stepping up efforts to isolate and weaken russian forces in the strategically important city of melitopol in order to push russian troops out of southern ukraine, melitopol says in

publication is a key node for regaining control over it can help the ukrainian defenders to bring back under their control not only the entire zaporizhzhia region but also the rest of the neighboring kherson region and this can potentially even open the way for the displacement of russian troops to the occupied crimea the supports of the road bridge were damaged - this was confirmed the night before by the mayor of the city and the occupying russian authorities, and a day earlier ukrainian forces struck the base of the analysts fsb at least this was reported by the mayor of the city, ivan fedorov well, could melitopol become another front or could melitopol become the next big city that will be liberated by ukrainian forces, we will talk about this later oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military legal research, joins the broadcast good evening good evening. well, the new york times writes that melitopol can become, so to speak, the next

front and can potentially become the next city to be liberated by the armed forces of ukraine. do you agree? these forecasts of podillia because after the deoccupation of the right bank of the kherson region it became noticeable and it is clear that in order to actually continue the deoccupation of the south, it is clear that melitopol tokmak and the surrounding settlements are extremely important in order to continue the movement there with the deoccupation, it is obvious that the liberation of melitopol is the key to the liberation of the entire south e- it should be understood that as soon as the enemy is struck by a low -level blow to the surrounding settlements, the group that is going will actually be cut in half . to the land forces, which in fact creates and receives this land corridor to the crimea, the russian troops on the left bank of the kherson region will be forced to retreat to the occupied crimea, they will be pushed back there

, and the troops that will be located further east from melitopol, respectively, will be forced to retreat towards mariupol and further there, of course from the point of view of the direction of the south in general, it is necessary to understand that this is the key to the defeat of the russian troops in ukraine, in fact, today , if you look at the map of the hostilities of that bakhmut and avdiyivka and efforts to contain the ukrainian forces in the region of the matchmaker crimea, this is all russia is doing in order to and is conducting active offensive actions there in order to strategically prevent the ukrainian troops from concentrating all their capabilities and all their power in the south. it is clear that the hostilities continue in the east and there it is necessary to hold the front line, but what does this evidence show that for our enemy, for the russian troops, holding the southern direction is one of the key tasks and extremely important, they

understand that the execution of the south will actually be a loss at this stage of the war and this is the biggest lost battle. and as for the specific actions that the ukrainian troops are now taking, we can see that accurate, high-precision, effective strikes on the concentration of the enemy's forces, the concentration of his manpower or equipment, or the concentration of ammunition, shells, etc., what we see in melitopol in the vicinity and in the tokmak, where russia is placing s300, with which it is shelling zaporizhzhia, this can be perceived in particular as artillery training and as prerequisites for future counteroffensive actions, there is now exhaustion problems are now being created in logistics, it is noticeable that russia, the russian occupying forces are now unloading their munitions far from the front line, in fact, because they are wary of damage from ukrainian artillery, what does this mean, this

means that, taking into account the weather conditions and the fact that it is winter on the front line, the only thing everything and from that provision is still needed, accordingly , logistics will also be complicated, in particular, by weather conditions, that is why it seems to me that now we are really observing this very preparation and in this neither the analysts of the new york times nor the analysts of the forbes publication are asked. they are obviously not wrong, and we do not hear any hints either from the russian military or the so-called russian military cows. do you remember when they were preparing to leave kherson, there was frankly even the same cheese? he said that we will have to make some difficult decisions hinting that we will have to leave kherson so far we do not hear such hints from russian servicemen, i will tell you what was noticeable when the alarm was sounded in the occupied part of zaporizhzhia

oblast, this is near the front line, the city is partially russia has withdrawn its occupation forces and they are somewhat leveling the front, it is noticeable that they are preparing to defend themselves and all their actions indicate that they are going on the defensive, so they may not make statements, but it is noticeable that they are preparing to defend of course, not yet it can be seen that they are ready to retreat in fact voluntarily, that is, to commit another so-called act of goodwill, but at least they are somewhat nervous about the situation that is connected with the efforts of the ukrainian troops. you understand what the situation is they cannot understand and they cannot catch now uh these are the maneuvers that our defense forces are doing and this has an advantage, that is, the experience of previous uh battles won and won for the armed forces of ukraine has shown that the enemy is quite serious to outwit

capture by surprise and strike where he may not expect it and that is why today i think that we certainly do not see everything and of course representatives of our general staff will not tell us everything at this stage, but my opinion is this i i am almost convinced that we will see some brilliant strategic move from our command from our military command, which in principle will give us an answer to how the further de-occupation of the south with melitopol will be carried out. of course, i also want to discuss with you the last one of the last statements of dmytro kuleb, minister of foreign affairs of ukraine stated that russia can launch a major offensive by the end of january or in february, and the diplomat insists that russia still hopes to break through the ukrainian defense lines a does russia have grounds for such hopes? does russia have

the resources? the key question is what they want. and they would like to create such groups in general. in the fall, they planned to create two strike groups in the spring. one group was supposed to be in the zaporozhye region. we talked, but now it is not visible, because they are moving further to the rear, and with the logistics of the problem, it is not clear that the logistics brought them up and prepared them for assault actions and the second direction - it is either belarus in the spring or, uh, the north, or uh, our northern the borders ukraine's border with russia in the area of ​​kharkiv oblast, luhansk oblast. this is how it is seen today that they are gathering these mobilized people. they sent them to separate training centers from belarus, but in belarus, the concentration of the strike group is not visible. to this day, it cannot be said there. in the east, the situation is also dynamic. but the problem with them is that they are mobilized, there are not enough weapons and there are not enough resources, they would

like to, so i think that despite all their wishes, they will not be able to form something like them formed a similar one on february 24 of this year, i understood you. and one more question, cnn also reports that the administration of joe biden is already completing preparations for sending patriot anti-missile defense systems to ukraine, and that they can already announce this this week. explain once again for people who have nothing to do with the military and military affairs. what will happen to ukraine if ukraine gets these systems because there are german air defense systems in ukraine and they seem to be very good and have justified themselves 100%. they justified it's just their insufficiency, all the systems that were handed over to us, and the german iris and the american nasams and espait, which was handed over by spain and also the hawk , they are all the same in my big book. they work extremely efficiently. we need more

, and patriot, i believe that when this system will be handed over this will be the implementation of exactly what was agreed upon in rammstein on the rammstein format in october, and the head of the joint staff committee, general milley of the united states, said that the united states and the rammstein format will help ukraine create an integrated, much-hyped anti-aircraft defense system, the patriot is just the best in terms of range and effectiveness of the system from the point of view of the fact that it can work for various purposes, starting with airplanes and ending with ballistic missiles, and this is quite important and necessary for us, and something that can really strengthen our efforts took place today another exchange of prisoners returned to ukraine from russian captivity, 64 servicemen who fought

in the luhansk and donetsk directions and, in particular , participated in the defense of the city of bakhmut, these officers the head of the president's office andriy yarmak, according to him, also managed to free a citizen of the united states of america, his name is murakezi suid, who lived in kherson for more than three months and was captured in an occupied place by the russian occupiers in june, and was returned home the bodies of four ukrainian e-e defenders well, maryana mamonova melnyk, a medic of the 501st marine battalion, one of those who held the defense of mariupol at the azovstal plant during the russian occupation of the city from there together with other ukrainian defenders. she was captured by the russians all this time. the girl was pregnant and returned to freedom just a few days before giving birth. in what conditions was she kept in the colony in the

deer pen? and what happened there under the time of the terrorist attack, when 50 ukrainian prisoners were killed, listen, my life changed when i saw the inscription ukraine , chernihiv region, that is, this moment, well, that is, my life changed radically because i became a free person to be there is not always a chance for salvation where we were you lose all human rights terrible attitudes humiliated the boys too let's say yes they killed they abused and did not stop them and the fact that women hear all this was difficult but i knew that i had a child i will need a strong one, i want to thank all those girls, those boys, you know who sold me, they sold me candy, cookies , apples, you know, you can say that all the military personnel who were there because we were on a visa on a reindeer herder and you know, each of them something gave at least a piece of food, the girls with whom we were in the cell, you know, they took out pieces of meat from their plates and put them to me

because you need you, you are pregnant, you are our child, you need more boys, they passed, they passed, they passed, for pregnant, they passed, for pregnant, so yes. you know , i thank them all, because you can say that they all nursed my baby, no medical services were provided until the seventh month of pregnancy, only then i was taken to donetsk for the first time for an examination and an ultrasound, where i was told that my baby she is developing well, everything is fine with her, but we had to use our medical knowledge, international organizations did not communicate with us , they did not have access, the red cross came for the only time, and as far as we know, even the conveyors themselves said that they would not let her here, it was impractical, when this one remained a terrorist attack, if the convoys and let's say it like this, they closed us completely, they went to this explosion after 2 hours, they took us to the dizone, that 's exactly the wounded who were there, and our surgeons, our doctors came and bandaged them and treated because the doctors did not come from donetsk and

scoffed that the ukrainian army wanted to kill us all here and later they themselves admitted that if they did it because they scoffed at the fact that very few died there, that is, unfortunately, as they said , very unfortunately, that so what happened? what happened? why didn't you sit there anymore? i lived in a cell where we had 39-40 women. find and find many of them. someone lost a child. someone lost a family. now and rejoice because you have, you know, you need to appreciate the moments, that is, appreciate life, that is, just live, don't pay attention to any mundane things, it will find everything, everything will pass, i'll say it, and the difficulties will pass, and as i know, i don't know how to properly explain, love more , you know, and every time it's like in the last thing is to do everything as last time, how is the exchange of prisoners going now, let's talk further,

andrii yusov, representative of the press service of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine, joins the broadcast, by phone, good evening, good evening, i congratulate you the previous exchange took place on december 1, then 50 defenders returned from russian captivity, today another 64 and in general, in the last month, we very often hear news about the exchange taking place, this is definitely positive news, but i want to ask you why, er, russia increasingly agrees to exchange in in the first months, this was not observed , uh, really, thanks to the systematic work of ukraine and the coordination headquarters on the treatment of prisoners of war, all state structures managed to, well, let's say that to establish such a system process, and there are a lot of factors that affect this, the success of our defense forces at the front is also a strong negotiating position of the conflict group of the

coordination headquarters, this is special attention, including the unconditional support of the president of ukraine, who really cares about real issues of our prisoners of war and the release from captivity eh well, of course, this is a factor, including the request eh within the russian federation itself, they have losses, the losses are huge, and of course it is necessary to show that they are also trying to return although i will show them once again, i emphasize once again that ukraine in this situation is very transparently motivated and the whole world can see that ukrainians really do not abandon their own and want to take them back and exchanges will be prepared . was illegally imprisoned by the occupation authorities. well, it will continue. tell me, please , we know that on the ukrainian side, the

e-e intelligence is responsible for the exchange. and who are you contacting from the russian side, is it the human rights commissioner or someone from them contacts with the ukrainian side from the side of ukraine for the exchange and for all issues related to prisoners of war is responsible for the coordinating headquarters for the treatment of military guards, this is a temporary body that was created in accordance with the resolution of the cabinet of ministers, the interagency body is headed by krylosia bohdanov, the burmese head of the coordination staff it includes figures of the sbu, the ministry of internal affairs , e.e., government representatives, e.e., the office of mine integration of many other structures. therefore, it is not only the work of the group - it is a great teamwork in russia. formally, it is a similar organization, it is an interdepartmental humanitarian headquarters, but in fact it does not perform the same functions as the coordination headquarters in ukraine, therefore negotiations are conducted with everyone, including officially and unofficially, that is, ukraine

uses all opportunities to return its a week ago, there was a message from the international the red cross committee that red cross employees visited ukrainian prisoners who are being received by the russian side, despite the fact that they made this information public only a week later after they actually visited the ukrainian prisoners, i.e. not right away, and please tell me how you would evaluate the work of the red cross now, because previously the ukrainian authorities and the highest officials very often criticized and complained about the work of this organization, which now we wanted to see the work of the red cross is more effective. but at the same time, it should be noted that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, cooperation between ukraine and the red cross has become much more active, and the position of the red cross itself has become more active. another matter is that the key issues still lie in

the implementation of the geneva conventions, this is a matter for the aggressor state and russia in many cases does not comply with the geneva conventions, it does not provide access to the mission to the places of detention and to check the conditions for receiving medical care and other things, so here the question is of course not only to the red cross , if they don't let him into the territory of the colony, he can't force the russians to do it, i understand you. and please tell me if you have any data, maybe you can share them on how many prisoners ukrainians remained in the camp, for example, in the same occupied reindeer herd of the donetsk region. by the way, i will note here that the red cross did not report whether they visited the reindeer herd. by the security order of several hundred, we are announcing the precise numbers, in particular, because the

negotiation process is underway and any such accurate data can affect it, and on december 1, volodymyr zelenskyi spoke about what has become of ukraine it is possible to return one thousand 319 servicemen who were received in russian captivity as part of the exchange. please tell me if you have accurate data or at least an idea of ​​how many ukrainian prisoners are in russian captivity in ukraine . and the register of the national information bureau, but we do not disclose or comment on these figures for the same reasons, since the negotiation process and preparation for the next exchanges and all this the information voiced can affect the outcome of these negotiations, the data are definitely such ukraine collects and records all information on missing persons by status, search for identity and on prisoners, of course, and on the homes of prisoners of

war, including on illegally obtained civilians. and how often does russia keep civilians as prisoners of war and accordingly exchanges them for his prisoners of war from a formal point of view we are not talking about the exchange of civilians we are talking about return but so often they are returned as part of the exchange and that is for now well let's say it's not a mathematical formula, it's a subject of separate agreements each time, and we will fully comment on it much later, when everyone returns home . rules out that ukraine will liberate crimea from the

russian invaders in 2023, because in addition to being an american political scientist, he is also the director of the center for the development of democracy in stanford university. and in an interview with our colleagues from the voice of america, he said that he does not rule out the return of crimea in the next year, and he makes such conclusions because ukraine has already hit the kerch bridge, so russia will continue to act very hard and support its troops in the autonomous republic of crimea. well, he says that every time there is a retreat of russian troops, and we see and regard it as a rather humiliating retreat. these are the predictions. by the way, i want to say that the french are not the only ones an expert who predicts the return of crimea to us in the next year. for example, the american general hodges also gave a corresponding forecast a few days ago, and he also said that he does not rule out that he will return crimea in 2023. well, in the meantime, the brave ukrainian people in person

its president elected leaders and civil society received the andriy sakharov prize, an award of the european parliament, which is awarded for the protection of human rights and compliance with international legislation, the ceremony was also attended by an international correspondent of radio svoboda rostyslav khotin, he is up to- he is contacting us, rostyslav. my congratulations, i pass the word to you. thank you, really . the sakharov prize was awarded this year, in the 22nd year. received a symbolic president zelenskyi, who spoke on the internet announcing the awarding of the award to ukrainians and the ukrainian people, the president of the european commission, robert matsula, quoted the former soviet dissident andriy sakharov andriy sakharov, academician sakharov, once said that a country

that does not respect its own people will not respect its neighbors, so it happened, taking into account the political situation in russia and taking into account the fact that russia has now unleashed a large-scale war against ukraine. president in his speech, zelenskyi said that russia is waging a terrorist war against ukraine and is terrorizing not only ukraine but also the whole of europe, and the president of the european parliament, roberta medtsova, said that europe will stand with ukraine to stay as long as necessary and that ukraine is now fighting not only for its freedom but also for values, including european values, let's listen to roberto mazolo and volodymyr zelensky today we are awarding the most prestigious award of the european parliament and may it be dedicated to all those brave ukrainian women to the men in the field, to all those whom we welcomed into our homes with open hearts and to all those who lost their loved ones, i know that the brave people of ukraine are not give up and let me