er, to alexander, alexander's question, er, look, er, we know that in that near bakhmut, the wagnerites are standing there, er, we also know that earlier they used such tactics that there were armored cars, that is, the infantry was still supported by armored vehicles cars , it seems that this tactic has changed a little and there is practically an assault by light infantry without support, at least i have seen such an assessment, and in connection with this, what forces are now opposing our defenders , only wagner still someone er and well actually which one they are what they are the method of action now at the moment they are using because it well this whole story was changing so today we can say that ah the main assault element eh these are really representatives

of wagner's private military company and there are also representatives of the league and er redoubt er there are also bars bars-13 - these are volunteers a so-called but they are in small numbers and er directly the first and second army corps these are mobilized from the temporarily occupied territories of the so-called lpr and dpr so this is the main on today, the resource is that until recently there were units of the 31st airborne assault brigade of the central military district, but these units very quickly lost their incapacity, so they were withdrawn, on the other hand, it must be understood that they have full support today, artillery is sometimes used. it even seems that all the artillery of the combat zone is concentrated by the occupiers in the direction of bahmut and the artillery of the central military district, but after

the explosions took place in irmino, which was one of the largest formations from the battle the set is the very use of artillery, it becomes more difficult, and if we consider each location separately in the combat zone, well, for example, the left bank part of kherson region , the temporarily occupied part of zaporizhzhia, and the zaporizhzhia region, luhansk region, and donetsk region, then exclusively only in donetsk region, they have the possibility of using proportional artillery and the use of ammunition a to simulate exactly this tactic of the flywheel, but now there is a problem with this, that is, even on this bridgehead they have problems with this regarding the equipment of the standard equipment of each division seven. they also have a problem because each unit has a standard equipment according to equipment, the number of bbf, the number of technicians

, tanks and the number of e-e artillery, both self-propelled and with a barrel-towed rocket launcher system, etc. and so on. now there is nothing and it regularly does not correspond to the number. well, we see that they use primarily the infantry unit, they use the infantry for all constant attacks on our position, and that they use elements of these mobilized of the first and second army corps and how, in fact, like living meat - let's say it as it is a in this way they try to hide the positions of our units of our e-e servicemen and after that they send more or less what can be called combat-ready units of private of military companies, first of all, wagner, well, in particular, the commander of this group of the northern syrian, in

an interview, the economist said that one should not underestimate the number of mobilized people who were sent to the fronts one should not underestimate their impact on the situation in general, because well, after all, when there are many people to close some areas there, it is obvious that it still has an effect. well, it complicates the situation for us. soledar, there was such a situation that, in fact, over the last week, the russians captured yakovlevka and belogorivka, two of our strongholds. they went straight to the soledar, how threatening is the situation in general, yakovleka and belogurovka are a little north of the solidars to

the side, that is, the olitarka is such a thing, that is , they are already, er, the russians cannot pass between the solidar and bakhmut, later they began to go around already asking themselves and even the solidar, including therefore, they have a certain natural progression, since they actually use a very large number of infantry. this is the weather as it is now, therefore infantry is thrown in immeasurable quantities to perform certain tasks, it is supported by artillery with the same barrage of fire, because it is a little further north, solidar eh-eh determined movement - this is from the side of both lysychansk and the lysychansk refinery, they are working from there the russians are mainly by the way. there, the cossacks are also involved with the plus of the fact that there are

chv-shenniks and the corps. the cossacks were still working along this north, well, a neo-cardinal change of the front, that is, it does not carry any problems for let's say the same solider or for bakhmut, this is more of a question for our severskogo severskoi gruppirovka, and they made a decision to allow these at a certain distance in order to better hold the russian troops, that is, did they move away from the belorussian troops from the yakovlevskies, but the big problem is for the general front line it is absolutely clear. let's go up there a little further to the north and look around the flint. well, in principle, it was said on our inspection that this is a place where our troops are now a little are moving forward and here are the games, actually, are there already these prerequisites for movement, i.e.

is it already cold enough for this , is there a possibility from this point of view , and what kind of prospects are there now? that the general plan is clear to surround from the south and the north, er, crime, in my deep conviction, we have already heard in the donetsk direction and of course in the luhansk direction , such an application does not quite work for them in the context that there is simply all this good, as they say, there is less i'll tell you what's there significantly less, well, but less. therefore, they still manage to hold back, but i want to say that this advance at the front is not some kind of counteroffensive operation on the part of ukraine, er, i will say yes, it is far from the fact that it has already

begun, although in principle it is a prerequisite for we have such a contour offensive operation and the process stated and the commander-in-chief zaluzhny that we will strike, the question is where we will strike and how much it will be rapid contour offensive operation and global well, we will see it, but based on the general trend, we are also looking for where they have weaker places for subsidence and it is clear that this is the flow let's say somewhere er-er 100 500 m in one direction or in the other direction is this the very attempt to push the enemy's defense in relation to the future er-er counter- offensive operation with the god of the armed forces of ukraine well i can only say one thing that if we expect against the background of total mobilization in russia, which continues, a possible counteroffensive by the russians for february, january, february, then we need to do something here

in advance, so that we can just throw let's say that the grouping of troops that are currently on the territory of ukraine and are conducting direct clashes and the log indicates that we will need to do this. well, after all, i think that this should be done more in the donetsk direction, because there is the biggest threat today day, for the current period, because our front is static there, and this entails losses for us already in our fellow countrymen. but again, there is a question of where to take the troops that were on the right bank of the dnieper near kherson. only zulazhnyy knows where he is planning what he plans to do with electricity, he knows maybe it will be. but what do you say, do you think the crime branch or other direction there in zaporizhzhia, maybe there in melitopol, this question is already debatable. we

continue our conversation with oleksandr kovalenko, the military-political analyst of the information resistance, oleksandr. the russian occupying forces are not stopping their attempts to advance to belohorivka, which is a little further south. is it possible in principle to buy a crime if we do not eliminate this threat to belohorivka? and yes, it is completely and completely possible because belohorivka well, it should be considered as such in this way, it is a springboard precisely for a counteroffensive and the subsequent liberation of the lysychansk north donets agglomeration , especially mastering the turn of the criminal, it plays a slightly different role, primarily as a

role that will allow in this south-western in the direction of e-e luhansk region in this location, cut this connection along the r66 route, well, not only between svatovo and krymina, but it will allow you to go to rubizhnye. and that is, if we are talking about some contour offensive actions, it would be great if it took place at the same time , combined, namely near ah, belogorivka is already from belogorovka. more precisely, it would take place in the direction of lysichanska, north donets numbering, and with crime in korobizhnaya, and thus we can say that the armed forces of ukraine can go to the location by opening the road to luhansk oblast to luhansk oblast, and that's why the russian occupiers are constantly trying to carry out such assaults in the direction of belorovka, but i see it

as a one-hour scenario that took place in kharkiv oblast and from balaklia in the direction of husarivka. so they tried to expand their buffer of security by constant assault offensive actions in the direction of the hussars, but how did it all end , especially for balakleya? parallels with the kharkiv operation on the counteroffensive with what can happen in the luhansk region well, because these regions are very, very close to each other, namely, in terms of the possibilities of conducting counteroffensive actions, what is the threat near kupyansk when russian troops try in the area of ​​the two-year-old there is such a house with valuyok and they are specifically trying to

carry out an offensive, and it seems that even there they have some kind of promotion. well, first of all, what are they trying to do there? there were no actions. now we see increased shelling again, we see activity there again, what is it, and i perceive it as an imitation only as an imitation of offensive actions, and that's why. well, for example, if we take luhansk oblast, and also very promising location, asvatova a this is a holiday in the starobyl direction. let's put it this way. so , for example, in the a-a region of the gerbils in the enemy , i am currently placing two msr from the fifth a-a division of the leopards there in order to strengthen this defense in this direction, and they tried to

counterattack simultaneously in four directions a-a battalion tactical groups from the 74th msbr of the 41st combined arms army in the direction of the krasnopivka ah eh-e well, they did not achieve any result, they are also trying in the svatovo area with the forces of the 423rd msb or the fourth tank division of the first tank army and the ninth msf 18th msb to pass in the direction of kolomyichakh there are kuzilovkas, but they are also not successful. why? because this is an imitation of offensive and counteroffensive actions, but a resource of a full-fledged resource for offensive actions and the capture of populated areas and large territories in them again there is still not enough resource for technical

artillery. well, the provision of logistical support, that is, ammunition, it is clear why they are trying because there is a straight road with a rampart, like boulders. this is such a stronghold for them, and in principle . there was another event where they hit shchebeky as if it were a squid. what was the point of this strike, because it is also opposite our vovchansk er in kharkiv, opposite kharkiv oblast, what was the point about this attack, i will say yes, and about shchebekino, about some other populated place. did we receive any official confirmation that there were shellings on the territory of the russian federation? well, unless they were. yes, no, probably something happened there, some kind of man-made disaster at the local level. i

have no idea that it could be, but such local disasters also occurred in the area of ​​chaplinka and further on, actually in the southern part, here, here, actually , catastrophes and strikes, which, which, what is the point of them, what kind of tasks can they solve if we say directly er-er temporarily occupying the territory of ukraine, then the armed forces of ukraine really have the full right er-er to exercise any fire influence and pressure on these locations. therefore, there is still a difference when we talk about our temporarily occupied territories and also about the territory of the russian federation well, where in them there is a man-made collapse and something is constantly happening in their infrastructural facilities, and as for ours, we

strike at those facilities that play an important role, for example, as a transport hub, as a transit transport node as a logistical element we have long understood one simple thing ah the russians as it was and still are everything is very bad with logistics and the logistics that works in them it works exclusively on some i don't know but on some fantastic essence that cannot them to fully allow this to be done regularly, that is precisely the influence of the element on the undervaluation of their defensive and offensive capabilities, and it is precisely these that we deal with, again, if we are talking about the temporarily occupied crimean peninsula , then it should be treated exactly as for transit to the transit node it performs transit functions from the crimean bridge to the southern bridgehead and the destruction of these objects in

command posts complex with ammunition and repair bases of control points and so on and so on and all this is not a negative part but a lack of their potential in the future on other bridgeheads and the acceleration of the liberation of crimea itself, and it is precisely in chaplinka , it is interesting, well, how much it can now affect the situation, because there are such important points, as far as i know, the airfield, is he currently deciding something like that, you know tactical tasks, this, this strike, because it is from the other side, yes, yes, for the south, this is a really important element, why, because, first of all, it is a direct route from the temporarily occupied crimean peninsula, as i said, it is a transit node. and direct logistics to chaplynka, from which it is already an

element of e-e logistics distribution in the direction of, for example, novaya kakhovka. of the operational zone 10-20 km deep today on the left bank there is already an operational zone of influence of our artillery on the positions of the russian occupiers . of new let's say units that will be reinforcements in the case of the defense of zaporizhzhia region or the left bank of kherson oblast, and it is chaplinka that plays the main role in this transit logistical role in the accumulation of ammunition resources and so on to then be distributed among tim

units that will be placed in some other locations, but not advanced units, so the destruction of these facilities really undermines the logistical capabilities of advanced units of the russians. well, we have a couple of minutes left. let's talk about such a general situation. an offensive is possible, a russian offensive from the other side, there was an interview with zulzhny, an economist, where he mentioned the possibilities for our offensive, this is concentration. he said that if there were 500 howitzers, 300 tanks, 700 bmps then, in principle, there could be a successful offensive when these numbers are said, what do they essentially mean and how much is it possible to obtain such a number of weapons because it is commensurate with the resources of two european countries, literally, that is,

all of them, and it is even some countries are larger and have less than 10% of tanks from the number that we need. and yes, in fact, this is a resource that is necessary, but mr. zaluzhnyi said precisely in perspective. i understand that in perspective, the perspective of what we we can get and what are the three machine tools in which tanks exactly if we are talking about t-72m1 tanks well, yes, there is such an urgent need for this equipment because it is an integral part of the offensive potential, but on the other hand , did it somehow prevent us from implementing a counter-offensive in kharkiv oblast, another resource, and how exactly are the conditions being prepared for a contour offensive on

one or another bridgehead? international partners just what they need and what should be done to help the armed forces of ukraine in the near future if they want this war to end as soon as possible. that is, it is an acceleration of the process in the first place and well and literally two words for how much getting a patriot can change the situation on the field well in general with shelling with the protection of countries as much as it can be this is really a radical change, is it not possible? well, it will not be a complete and absolute protection of our airspace, it is necessary to understand that the air defense system and other partners increase the effectiveness of countering the russian threat, but they do not

exclude 100%, and this is impossible in the modern world, no matter what technology we use, but the fact that we will begin to destroy their missiles much more effectively, both ballistic and cruise missiles, and other objects, for example, airplanes or helicopters, if there is such a need in the event what is the threat if they will be in the zone impressions from rkpriot this is how efficiency will increase yes it will increase thank you it was oleksandr kovalenko military-political columnist of the information resistance we will continue our broadcast well, see you in a week i'm iryna koval mom the wife of the presenter of the espresso tv channel. and i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine. did i, the author and host

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history, franz 24 constantly covers events in ukraine, our team on the ground and in the studio will inform you about the dynamics of events for the latest from franz 24 in ukrainian on espresso, see this week in the collaborators program, a list of werewolves in shoulder straps, some of the former law enforcement officers who swore allegiance to the occupiers do not become collaborators at the last moment, that is, they conduct some activity even before the sbu employees helped the enemy capture kherson and how our partisans drive the sellers crazy, i understand что это было provocation against us , werewolves in epaulettes, once heard such a term. it usually referred to law enforcement officers who, in their positions,

engaged in racketeering and extortion, worked for criminality in the regions or even headed it during the war, this expression acquired a different meaning, much worse, if a lot is known about the collaborators from among politicians and officials, because they are public people, then what about the security forces who went over to the side of the enemy, everything is under a veil of secrecy. but my colleagues and i did a good job and have prepared for you another list of collaborators, this time in uniform after the invasion of the occupying forces, somewhere from the ground like those worms, many former employees of the ministry of internal affairs, pensioners , illustrated ukrainophobes, and just skunks who they forgot their oath to the ukrainian people and left. where did they go? they ran to serve the fascists under the guise of the people's militia and other pseudo-power structures. it was from such that the skeleton of the punitive agencies formed by the occupiers was told honestly in the movement

. yes, there is such a tendency, well, this indicates that there is probably not enough after all, cadres among active law enforcement officers are therefore also recruited there, pensioners in the ministry of internal affairs, in particular, we have such cases from the side of law enforcement agencies , there were these people, somewhere was omitted at this moment because they do not become collaborators at the last moment, that is, they conduct some activity even before that. among them we can name volodymyr lapandin, ex-major general of the ukrainian militia, whose last position was the head of the main directorate of the ministry of internal affairs in the cherkasy region. after the revolution of dignity , he was dismissed and no one would have heard about lapandin, if information about his appointment as the head of the occupation police of the kherson region had not appeared, a logical question arises: how did he end up in occupied kherson, according to my information, lapandin has been in the past few years lived in crimea, where he received a russian passport

. where did he come from to restore order in kherson, to recruit traitors to serve in the occupiers' militia? he is helped by volodymyr bodryshev, an ex-employee of the militia in the kherson region in 2016, resigned and went to work associated with the ex-gauleiter volodymyr saldo after the occupation of the region, the collaborator saldo found a place on the bench of traitors for an old comrade by appointing bobryshev as the head of the personnel support department of the ministry of internal affairs of the occupying power, in short, his duties include agitation and even coercion former law enforcement officers to work for the occupiers. whom to agitate for sure ? it was gennadiy harkusha. he was entrusted with the position of commander of the berkut harkusha battalion. since 2004 , he worked in the ranks of the ministry of internal affairs. at first, he went on foot patrols. from children who smoke so

as not to tell their mother, doris harkusha to senior resistance commissioner participated in a peacekeeping mission in africa, later transferred to a special purpose police company that was created on the basis of the same former berkut that gained rotten fame by dispersal and coding on the maidan, similar to harkusha's taste for bullying and berkut's style of work, he once led a battalion that adopted the worst inhuman traditions, their main task is to ensure order, more precisely what is order in the imagination of the invaders, to disperse the ukrainian rally, they are in the first ranks together with the buryat kadyrovs and another fate. and if you need to find the skinniest ukrainians in kherson, maksym trubaev takes up the case. according to the sbu, he headed the criminal investigation department of the police in the kherson region. we called maksym trubayeva and asked him how it works for the occupiers. maksym. good day. good day. yevhen miklushko. my name is a journalist of the

espresso tv channel. i understand that now you are not in the service of the police of ukraine, that the sun is ukraine. what is my series? call me, i want to hear your position, find out what you actually do, let's meet let's talk, it will be convenient in kyiv. and can you tell me by phone what exactly you do and in which structure and where you are from? it's hot in kherson at 11 tomorrow if you don't mind. how could you have guessed

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