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avdiyiv directions. the occupiers continue to conduct assaults to attack our positions in the districts of 30 settlements, meanwhile, the russian army continues to lose manpower and equipment in ukraine as of the morning of december 20 russia has already lost 99,230 people in ukraine in just the last day, the armed forces of ukraine have destroyed 430 orks since the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 2,995 tanks, 5,974 armored combat vehicles, 1,960 artillery systems, 410 rocket launchers, 212 air defense systems, 281 aircraft, 266 helicopters, 4,599 units. automotive equipment 16 ships boats 653 cruise

missiles 1657 drones 177 units of special equipment about zelenskyi's visit to bakhmut and also about the negotiations that took place the day before two presidents, or rather, one president of the russian federation and the other the self-proclaimed president of belarus, we will talk for the next hour, we will talk about the situation that is currently developing on the eastern and southern fronts of ukraine, and accordingly, on the northern front, we are in touch with a people's deputy of ukraine, a cyborg colonel of the security service of ukraine roman kostenko mr. colonel good day to you good health to you i am glad to see you on the air good day we give serhii congratulations thank you so mr. colonel today the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi visited bakhmut, donetsk region, he thanked the soldiers defending the bakhmut fortress and presented them with combat awards. let's see how it all

went. let's support you as much as possible. you know that you inspire our entire society. you know that this is not just bach. the symbol is the bakhmun fortress. he wants all the fortresses to remain, russian flags will be placed on them, thank you sages, everything is fine, good luck to mr. ukraine, let's start our conversation, mr. roman, with an analysis of the current situation takes place both on the eastern front and on the southern. as far as i understand, you are in the south of ukraine, let's start from the south . well, i would like to comment that it is very nice to see when the supreme commander-in-chief is now in the fiercest place. that is where the fighting is going on, and this is what distinguishes

us from the russian federations really, when their president doesn't come out of the bunker, and it's enough for them that he came somewhere in moscow to the headquarters of the united armed forces and read some document or he pretended and the russians are already building it. as if the president is involved in the war, here the president reacts directly, no matter what, the president arrived, the president awarded the fighters and charged them, let's say, well, he charged , let's say, on the three hundredth day before the start of the war, he... once again i motivated them by the fact that this is our land, it needs to be protected, it does not need to be surrendered, it is very cool and everyone else should admit it, i do not remember at all that any of the presidents was so close to the front , uh, directly during such times aggression

well, it breaks in the mind of the 14th year at the very front at the very front not close to the front and at the very front yes yes yes at the very front that is why it is here without politics without anything here uh very correct things and very high motivation even for us e here from the south, looking at it, understanding where the bloodiest battles are now going on, it’s very nice to see that when the soldiers directly of the supreme commander are working, if we talk now about uh, directly, you’re talking about the south, let’s start, yes, yes, well, about the kherson direction. well, i’ll say that the kherson direction is, i think, now one of the most, from a military point of view, the calmest of all military directions, if we take the military component in particular, where active combat operations, defensive operations, offensive actions can be carried out, that is why he himself after the release of the right bank, when both

sides and the enemy and we rested on our dnipro river, then here the question is only artillery duels, the work of our reconnaissance groups there, the sabotage of enemy groups, the activity there is more or less on the dnipro islands and the dnipro rivers there are still some intelligence groups fighting among themselves, but everything else. the defense is being built and the defense lines are held by our and our armed forces and the armed forces of the russian federation. from a military point of view, our country and the dnipro river are really under control and because it is not realistic for the enemy to take any active actions now, because the dnipro well, let's say so, it takes a lot of effort to force it. and with the organization of a normal, good defense, it is practically impossible. if everything is correct

to organize, therefore, from a military point of view, i think it is the most peaceful here and there is an opportunity to work with the local population to rebuild and build correctly. as for the local population, as for the atmosphere in general, the enemy continues to strike the cities and towns near the dnieper zone, these are the settlements that are nearby the dnipro, which relatively recently before the liberation, was still there more or less in the rear of the occupying troops, was now being destroyed by the enemy, and this directly applies to kherson itself, in the enemy’s hands almost every day strikes with artillery and missile systems of volley fire and all others along the dnieper from, say, kherson to nikopol and manganese along the entire line of the dnieper, the enemy strikes with strikes, therefore there is more danger here, of course, for the civilian population.

well, the artillery duo as for the cock, the problem is very big now. and we talked about it today with the dniester farmers, and what everyone is talking about is the problem of the great dominance of the area. the enemy mined the area even while leaving, and even exaggerated all of this. i think norms of mining that are needed only in order to make the land impossible for there in the near future, including agricultural work and for movement, people who lived there all their lives were used to going there to different places. yes, for example, there is an elementary cemetery that was mined. therefore, eh now a lot of work needs to be done by our ministry of internal affairs, our e.e. ministry of emergency situations, e.e. the army, too. of course, it is necessary to speak for the students of international companies in order to make life normal. there is not enough light to give water, but this is also very important, but

the area needs to be demined, because i already know in a certain number of cases when you are just free people in a family with children were blown up on their own, when tractors in the field were blown up there, engaged in agricultural activities, were blown up. therefore, this is a big problem that will still be we have been responding for decades. i am sure of this. that is why we also need to do our best to attract the sign that concerns the direction of bakhmut. today, president zelenskyi spoke about the fact that bakhmut turned into a fortress, but we know that probably half of the city has already been destroyed by the russian occupiers, they continue to destroy this city and like other cities both in the east and in the south of ukraine, what is the goal set by the russian army, how strategically important is this city for the russian federation, why are they they are storming

this city so persistently. well, actually, as a result of these storms, they can get one strategic goal, but it is strategic, but in war conditions, it is not strategic in russia's war with ukraine, but for them within the framework of the defeats they have won recently, it is strategic for them. it is also strategic for them and the seizure of the borders of the luhansk and donetsk regions is the exit and presentation of some minimal , well, for them, this is the maximum victory and for their internal through propagandists market let's say yes for our civil society, well, and show outwardly that it's like we're doing what we'd like, and we're pursuing it because we have a large army, we understand that russia failed the war as a whole, all of its my plans failed, and now they are trying to redo their goals somehow and look objectively. and what can they do? and they see that, in principle, if from concentrating

efforts to take away part of the axis of this direction and concentrate them on the east, then you can still try to add luga chernivtsi region and submit this victory to that eh they are trying to gradually push there exactly if we talk about bakhmut within the framework of the eh large-scale war that is now going on in the territory of our state, bakhmut does not have any strategic eh strategic place he it does not have any strategic er strategic importance er it is not even operational, there is no operational-tactical one there, this is the exit to the road to bakhmut kostyantynivka, which one will have to go through again later, the same minefields, the same our preparation, the second line of defense you need to look at the terrain there, as far as i can see, it is still better for us even behind bakhmut than bakhmut itself, that’s why the russians are now trying to capture bakhmut in such a step-by-step way, to capture

the entire donetsk luhansk region, why exactly bahmutu also, i have already talked about it more than once here. also , in addition to the military and operational-tactical significance, it has a very great political significance for them, first of all for the russian federation itself after the loss of many settlements that they lost after the kharkiv offensive genius operation after withdrawing from the kherson direction to our defense forces forced them to withdraw after the loss of kherson itself. kherson is a slap in the face to putin , yes. it was the only city that was captured and of regional significance that he needed to win. some city because, well, bakhmut is considered a big city, they considered it a war, and they have already spread it so much, and they are trying to take it politically, and the subtext in this political also plays, uh, this is wagner’s chvk, which plays its politics in this political in

this political battle for the russians for us, this is a battle for our country, for each, for each home , for each citizen. they are trying to show putin and russia that they, as a separate such structure, can play some more significant roles than just some a team carrying out tasks somewhere abroad, a series or something, the same handsome man is trying to show putin that they are worth something, and there we know from our intelligence data that they almost outnumber the enemy's forces nine times, that is, they threw everything there and for several months they can take i've already talked about it, i'll say it again that under bakhmut, you know, military, political, and gangster goals have now converged, because in a different way, i'm criminal, let's say it in another way, i'm chivyka wagner on the sound of criminal goals of the russian elite, which everyone sees as something

their aspiration and to have some political and military benefit from it, and uh, how is chvk wagner evil, that's why they are still fighting for this city, which , i say once again, has no strategic importance. if we pay taxes, god forbid, even if we leave there, it will not mean that they won the war or they took some kind of perspective, they took some operational space, some of them will be able to develop. well, we will sharpen the battles. then we will continue to defend it, including the donetsk region, on the day when zelensky came to bakhmut, mr. colonel putin marks the day of the kdb, because today in russia is a great feast of simonians, there they congratulate him. but before that, he handed out awards in order to capture these traitors, collaborators, balance, poshilin, and others. by the way, the photo you have on facebook is very, very iconic, such a photo. thank you, balance, for the award, to be

friends there . i haven't seen him before, you were fine thank you, we have a video now. let's see how putin presented awards today. well, in contrast to zelensky, who was at the front, let's see putin of the verkhovna rada of the family, the title of hero of russia, honored military personnel having shown special duplicity in the course of solving combat tasks , we are proud of each of you. in the afternoon, the kdb of the russian federation was already licked. i'm sorry to putin and

congratulated him so much that it's also worth watching . i'd like you to see what you're going to do with blood. they will help wet people as much as it will take us, you know, when i hear them all, every time i want to live to the time when there will be a trial in the hague against putin's propagandists, because we know that in nuremberg, not only those who were responsible held a weapon in his hands physically and those who were part of the great propaganda machine of german fascism what do you say about what putin is doing now and how he is doing it because it is absolutely clear that he is now trying to show some strength yesterday he was in

lukashenka tomorrow he is holding a meeting of the collegium of the ministry of defense of the russian federation, it is not known whether he will speak there again or are there any signs that putin is panicking , he simply frankly does not know what to do and is always part of the picture for his constituents, very symbolic said samayan you -e we will do everything e-e well approximately yes what do you say and how much how much do you say here is not a question yes it is in russian federation is a question of a specific personality tell us all die well i won't go myself but i will televisions to tell that it is very good and everyone needs to go uh to die because it is quite cynical and i don't know who this can happen to whom in the russian federation and yet people perceive that and i think that here uh psychologists need to fully study in general, it is a phenomenon of the russian mass, because it is so uh, to

mush the brains of the russian society, the whole society should be able to do this. i think that here even hitler would have been killed to learn from that, uh, yes, it is really sad to watch it. but we make us do our work, not pay attention to what as for putin, well, look, we can draw conclusions from what is happening, indeed, he is currently conducting such events, this is the presentation of state awards of russia to the heroes of russia, yes, they are trying to somehow raise the motivation of the personnel so that they continue to mobilize and die for him, but such facts as excellent eh that he was supposed to speak before the assembly of his yes according to the constitution before the federal assembly yes he was supposed to speak he didn't speak either then he canceled this

annual conference that he had which of every do you remember how he pathetically sat down and asked him questions that had already been written down and studied by journalists, which he received as a salary, and he pathetically answered these questions there, as if he were answering them sharply, but it was also the beginning, but there were still journalists who, hmm , asked questions and then having all the power in his hands and still having an army, he still doesn't stick his face in the mud, he has yet to say something , scare someone, how much to answer, now , there is no such thing now, any journalist will add a question. and tell me, where is our kherson - they think his own so they are there somewhere we wrote something ourselves and we remember how we entered kherson under and passed under the posters russia is here forever kherson is russia and that's all and they will prove specific questions to which he will not find an answer and the fact that the

cancellation of all these measures and the transition to such a more solemn and which he is trying to just be good to give out awards means that they are now trying to find a way out of the situation i say again that uh i think that the first thing they consider a way out for them and that will be the exit to the borders is so-called what do they call the donetsk and luhansk people's republics in order to at least somehow explain the deaths of these hundreds of almost 100,000 military personnel and the loss of hundreds and thousands of tanks and equipment in general ? it is necessary to say at least why there were these questions and these propagandistic methods of the type of cannibals well, they will soon stop working because people will start asking specific questions and what, and where is the achievement of those goals, where is our army

and what we could do. and i don't know, i didn't watch the clip recently, and today i saw songs already being sung, and they directly threatened the whole world with nuclear weapons, and now they already have songs about their sarmat missiles. i used to be like that in the soviet union. they are already composing and they are already starting to sing about the fact that the sarmatians are threatening with tripods. well, it’s already some kind of uh, let’s say mass madness, mass madness, and it’s very reminiscent of the soviet union, because uh, it can be traced in all the steps that putin is taking now. but if it was there 30 years ago or 35 years ago , society laughed at it, then russian society is now turning into some other, let's say, common organism that is trying to resist in quotation marks, the main thing is that there was something like that after the russian

empire, it somehow developed, people got certified and they studied in the direction that was given to them. there was propaganda, there was censorship, and they taught them that way to all people, and they just grew up within these frameworks, it was normal for them, but when uh, there was a breakdown of the soviet union when people had already seen and visited abroad and in general there was a certain period of warming when people could see different information and now they were driven into other frameworks well, of course, a large part is still calm i see here and go there and most of them understand and understand and at the same time, don't do it and see what makes you a fool and just agree to it, of course it's a disease. thank you, colonel. it was colonel roman kostenko of the security service of ukraine. thank you for participating in the program and friends. i remind you that we are working live espresso tv channel as well as our social networks on youtube and facebook. if you are currently

watching us live on these social networks, please like this video on youtube. you can subscribe to our channel and become a sponsor of our youtube channel . any help from you is very much appreciated. is important. well, next we have andrii illenko, an officer of the national guard's freedom battalion, who is currently fighting in bakhmut, good day and good health to you, mr. andrii. thank you for participating in our program, we have already started our the program from today's arrival of the supreme commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi to the position under the bahmut, and i saw on social networks that your brother yuriy syrotyuk had already posted photos from this meeting. were you at the meeting with zelenskyi? i wasn't there. in another

place what does syrotyuk serve in the fifth storm regiment shorter is better not important now you will tell some military secrets we serve in different units so if we were in different places this moment e p andrii, please tell me what the current situation is in that area. where you are under bakhmut, we have been talking about this regularly for quite a long time. how has the situation changed recently, when the russians are throwing literally all their forces in order to destroy the city of bakhmut and take positions? well in fact, the situation has not changed much in recent days, in particular, art continues to be, on the one hand, fully controlled by the ukrainian defense forces, on the other hand, of course, this is unchanged and

the situation is under control, it is given at a great price, at the price of the great heroism of the sacrifice of ukrainian soldiers who are holding their positions, who are in difficult weather conditions, who are in difficult conditions in general, because the enemy of the cinema is here, well, in fact, all that is combat-ready that he has now is actually all that is combat-capable that he has left what is left is that he is now charging to the donbas, and first of all to the bakhmut direction, that is, very intense fighting, and the density of the front is very high, ah, well, it’s really wall to wall now here , and the fighting is very difficult, but despite the enemy is unable to advance anywhere, the enemy is repulsed, the enemy is suffering losses and there are no signs or symptoms that they

will be able to fundamentally change something in this regard in the near future, they are fighting head-on into our defenses , sharpening their forces yes it is also very difficult for us, but we hold on and do not retreat today, zelensky said that bakhmut is our fortress in the east and he paid tribute and credit to the fighters who defend bakhmut, who died in the battles for the defense of bakhmut, which is missing now on the front of the defenders of bakhmut, the weapons of which are not enough, including from the citizens, the ukrainian fortress, which has been on the vistra front since the middle of summer , is really waving the enemy

is trying to take the city by storm because they surround it and all the time the ukrainian forces are holding on, giving our brothers the opportunity to act in other directions, as was the case in kharkiv oblast, kherson oblast, and, well, in general, the strategic role of this battle for bakhmut for the war is huge, big, once again, i say thanks and honorable glory to all ukrainian soldiers who defended and continue to defend bakhmut in the entire verkhovynskyi direction, because it is actually not a large enough shade of the front, it is not only the city itself, its suburbs, and this northern and southern flanks stretch for 10 km and i am also talking about our unit about our freedom battalion and i am asking a lot of the fourth operational assignment brigade of the national guard about all other units of the armed forces of the national guard of other defense forces which now all the heroes are here, all of them are

really cossacks who show the ukrainian character, who beat the enemy because they are enough, well, look, in war there is always something missing. it does not happen that everything is enough in war, of course, there is there is a need for some things, but we are quickly trying to solve all the problems, i am talking here first of all about our unit eh we will of course receive everything we need from the state from the national guard, as well as a big bow to the volunteers who support the great resistance to all citizens, when we need something there, for example, drones or car repairs or just cars for our work or anything else, we do public fundraising there and people help us, they support us not only with material resources, but they support us very strongly and morally, it is a big well, such spiritual support at this moment