days in the morning, i went out and realized that it is really very warm outside, unseasonably warm weather is felt in most parts of the continent. in belarus, a record temperature of 16.4° celsius was recorded, which is 4.5° above the previous record. the situation is similar in poland, where the temperature was 18. 9°, this is also 4° higher than the previous record, and in the spanish city of bilbao, the temperature in general reached over 25 degrees, which is 10° higher than ever. at this time of the year, compare this with what america has been experiencing in recent days, low temperatures and snow drifts and then the forecast promises only a worsening of the weather, many assume that all this is happening due to climate change, but it seems that this process can take very different forms and that's all for today . take care.

congratulations, this is freedom. life on radio freedom. my name is vlasta lazur . budanova announces a major offensive in the spring and a victory for ukraine in 2023. how realistic are such forecasts? the attack

on the vocational training center in the occupied makiivka testifies to the fact that the professionalism of the russian army contributes large losses among the military are taking place in a review of british intelligence, as told by relatives of russian mobilized people who were in makiivka at the time of the attack congress, like our broadcast, support independent journalism in this way , kyrylo budanov, head of the main intelligence department, said in an interview with abc news that ukraine on he is planning a major offensive in the spring, and the fiercest battles are expected in march. the leader of the group is convinced that after the counteroffensive in 2023, ukraine will inflict a final defeat on russia and return to the borders of 1991. he also added that the attacks will take place, i quote this

, deeper and deeper inside russia, but who delivered these blows budanov says that he will be able to comment only after the end of the war you should not be wary of the transformation of russia, it will only benefit the whole world putin's regime is a laughing stock russia is no longer a military threat to anyone in the world, it is just a myth how realistic the forecast of the head of ukrainian intelligence is and whether there are real grounds to believe that the ukrainian army will launch a major counter-offensive in the spring. head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine 2005-10 joins the air . general of the army of ukraine mykola malomuzh good evening, so according to budanov is planning a big counteroffensive for the spring, perhaps he has more information than anyone but nevertheless, do you see real grounds that allow you to make the same predictions? first of all, i want to congratulate you, the hook.

well, the prospects are good. regarding his forecast, everyone. i see that the euro has a position here, so it is strategic regarding possible options for action. he has already repeatedly predicted that we may be in a free territory by the end of the year, but that is the scenario that could would be involved in the fact that when we prepared large strategic operations, the term is being transferred, the training system is being transferred, this is related to almost all models of actions, mykola malomuzh, there are some problems with communication. i hope that in a second, we let's get back in touch mr. mykola malomuzh head of the foreign intelligence service 2005-10 we discussed the further prospects of the great counteroffensive in ukraine, as kyrylo budanov, the head of ukrainian intelligence, said in an interview with abc news today, according to him, ukraine will go on a counteroffensive and during in 2023

, it will liberate its territories and take control of the border within 1991. mykola malamuzh appeared on our air again . please continue. there are several scenarios. indeed, it could be an offensive in the spring, but there are more winter is here, a very long period when we can conduct offensive operations, especially before the strike that bohdanov spoke about, that in the concentration of the large forces of the russian federation, i am also talking about this , and they predict that it can be february, march, but i apologize that the other format that today is on time and the armed forces of ukraine are working on various strategic operations, it is possible to attack in the winter of our armed forces of ukraine until the time when russia is not yet ready to conduct such offensive operations throughout the territory of the south in the east, maybe in the north, as they say, so at the moment we need to consider the posinaria, there is no winter method, and

luhansk oblast, and then hit accordingly powerful hoses in donetsk oblast, this will be the prospect of liberating these territories, and of course this is a strategic operation in zaporozhye and the left bank of the kherson oblast . just the fact that today, with the onset of cold and frost, we can develop such offensives, we have prepared forces and means for this, there is extremely powerful support from our e-e partners, and the latest weapons are already arriving munitions, which depreciate precisely the enemy on long approaches, are especially important. these are their warehouses, respectively , the means of fire that they bring along different , so to speak, communication routes, and the living force that they are constantly trying to bring precisely to strategic directions. it is clear that the zaporizhia direction, when they see that there is a threat, the south is freed, and this is strategically important for the russian federation , so i predict that there is not only one scenario

can be more effective in the winter until it is dispersed and generates large forces, as we say, 200,000 or more, it is possible, of course , that weapons are also being prepared. the equipment is not new, it is old, but it can be much larger, massively , therefore, in this situation, we will have to work a lot. offensive operations when the enemy is not expecting what are we saying there for the whole we will attack or will we really attack there in the winter we are preparing for these offensives everything must be prepared covertly a disorientated enemy in different directions . where were you going to attack when exactly why were there no goals? that is why winter is one period and of course it is spring. this is another stage where we can continue the offensive operation, but we need to prepare. miley is recovering , she will already prepare at 80 military training centers those soldiers that

putin has already talked about, and as soon as they really pass coordination, they are not as powerful as they are trained, but there will be many of them. we will have to fight a lot more for the newest means in operation and indeed neutralizing them already on the approaches to the front, it is very important if they are drawn in a lot, tens of thousands will be brought in each direction, so to speak, the introduction of hostilities and new tanks, new bts, new missile systems, of course, the most effective ways of for another 340-80 km for the front, and already means, for example, highers m80 can hit at 80 km . our anti-tank missiles have already started to produce 200 km and 800 km and the prospect of up to 1,000 km . offensive operations without waiting for spring i say i am signing this already what bohdana did not say and spring - this should be an additional stage where we will have breakthrough directions maybe in the south and

this may be the prospect of a powerful offensive operation that will cause the enemy to panic and this may be a movement all the way to crimea, this scenario is very true. today, i think that the armed forces of ukraine, by the force of the supreme command, are preparing such operations in that and when it is really a hidden part, some of them voice such general information for disorientation the enemy, because as a rule they do not report that you are going to launch a particularly large offensive , then it could be and coins, actually, i wanted to ask and what is the purpose of what budanov is voicing, because we very often hear from ukrainian officials, do not reveal the plans of the military, speak little and here budanov comes out openly to western media. where is there such a detailed interview in which he voices all the future plans of the ukrainian army, and i also had to hear such a thesis, and maybe it is an ipso facto on the part of budanov and what is the purpose of what, too

what is the point, actually, the leaders can do this, it will not reveal anyone's secret, it is clear that this is the position that is beneficial in ukraine. i think that this scenario should be here, but i emphasize once again that by no means should the plans be revealed in any interview. is this the chief of the general staff as zaluzhny spoke, i think that neither the budans nor the razniks had done such a thing to say that they would specifically advance in one direction or another. does not even create any strongholds, not even in izyumin and balakleya, we reached all the way to the alkan region, these methods are to accept these methods and disinformation of the enemy of the information war, as we have already said, and against this background we are preparing very powerful offensive operations, but i would like them to be extraordinary and non-standard not only to hold positions, but it is to prepare the flanks, to strike blows where the versions are, to devalue

all the reserves, as they are talking about, and with sloppy approach, even when they were unable to mobilize something, and accordingly deploy for front-line strikes, this is there today yes, just super timely and the latest armed equipment is coming from the west and is already being produced, the anti-aircraft missile system must be on the front line, will destroy the reserves when they are not deployed, i know directly from the extensive practice of military activity, the investigation of the activity then they are not they can go into battle, they are disoriented, panic sets in and this is the period of offensive operations. i think that such a format is being prepared today, the whole thing is today, the military team and intelligence, but today just such recommendations are very valid. i think this will be the prospect of quick liberation of the territories, don't wait, as nato secretary general stolterber said, that there will be years and the like, everything can be months and everything can be winter and spring . this year, i think, and this format will force

russia to retreat then and maybe to be an extremely powerful blow to putin's prestige, disorientation in his environment and understood in russian society and this is already a global threat to the regime of putin himself, to him personally, but in all dimensions i am politically military. hardware games, already the environment that will save its situation, also in this interview he says that in 2023 ukraine will get a complete victory, including the donbass . these new year's holidays, but are there any real grounds to believe that in the coming year ukraine will liberate the territories that were still captured in the 14th year, including crimea, the prerequisites for the liberation of the donbass, that is, the donetsk luhansk region, is that despite the fact that we just talked about those operations at the strategic level, not tactically, how

we are gradually advancing on the progressive crime, but when we are half-armed and unexpectedly deployed, we will deploy powerful offensive forces , e.e. bakhmut kriminovets svatova, and then we will start offensive operations, not a frontal attack. i confirm once again, using the latest means of combating this special operations, that i am a rapid response, then landing troops the special forces of our special services, well, of course, the armed forces, if you call this format, can liberate the territory of donbas and the south by the summer of this year, the zaporizhia region and the kherson region, these are the prospects that i see that are real in relation to crimea, this is how it will turn out according to the scenario, if panic in the southern direction and we will be able to break through the front and turn the attention of the offensive shaft in this direction, they will flee to the

isthmus and there no eyes, their blocking systems will not work, they will be hit by the latest missile systems the system of ukraine and crimea will be in a panic, then perhaps for whom crimea is the best scenario, another scenario, i would still predict that we will manage to liberate donbas and the southern region of ukraine, and in crimea - this will still be a big separate topic and military, military, diplomatic, it can be agreements are already in the process of the fall of the regime or its significant weakening in the russian federation, then we will already agree on the return of crimea or the military by mandatory diplomatic means, but we are clearly oriented that we will take it literally by the stairs, there is no here, we need to be sober relations that russia is preparing very powerfully and to underestimate the situation that it has such an army there is already broken, it is still too early yes, it is not the second army in the world, we can be convinced that we are defeating it in many directions, but there are also resources and especially carts that they are mobilizing , it is hundreds of hundreds of thousands that we have they can still

throw armored personnel carriers. there are also thousands and even tens of thousands of them, which they can just throw like old equipment, but they can go with their shaft and that’s all. you have to work with this. this is a hard war, and of course you have to win both technologically and strategically to fight, but also to count on those reserves so that they do not take effect, it is necessary to act effectively, we have already said many times before, yes, indeed, the end of 2022 is the time and the beginning of the 23rd year for active offensive operations until that time, while russia has not yet grouped and large divisions corps and armies that she is preparing for a new offensive in ukraine. thank you very much. i will only tell our viewers that right in the chat under the broadcast we launched a vote on whether you believe that ukraine will return to the borders of 1991 this year. you can vote. thank you very much head of the foreign intelligence service of ukraine 2005-10 general of the army of ukraine mykola malomuzh we talked about the plans

of kirill budanov in an interview with the american media he said that ukraine will liberate all territories this year thank you very much at the russian base in occupied makiivka in the donetsk region, next to the barracks of the russian military, ammunition that detonated during an attack by the armed forces of ukraine and caused new explosions was allegedly stored, this is stated in the current review of british intelligence to the following conclusions the british agency arrived after analyzing the extent of the destruction at the site of the impact, judging by the photos and videos, the ptu building where russian servicemen were housed was completely destroyed. the case in makiivka shows how unprofessionalism contributes to the high level of losses on the russian side . ,5 km from the front line in the avdiyivka area, where the fiercest battles are taking place, let me remind you that according to the ukrainian command of the upt, about 400 russian mobilized soldiers died

that at the time of the attack there were exactly about 400 other military personnel in the building . the edition of your story was confirmed to journalists by the relatives of the russian soldiers. in the morning, the ministry of defense of russia reported that the number of victims after the attack on makiivka increased to 89, and on monday, i will remind you, the department reported 63 dead. forces of ukraine found a center for the placement of russian soldiers due to the massive use of mobile phones, they allegedly called and wrote to their loved ones too much on new year's eve commission to investigate the circumstances now it is obvious that the main reason for what happened was the inclusion and mass use. despite the ban on excessive use of mobile phones in the range of the affected

countermeasures . to exclude similar traditional incidents in the future, the culprit should be shot after the investigation will be held accountable or the ministry of defense of russia claims that the russian forces allegedly destroyed the hymer installation with fire in response, which was used to hit the popliteal complex in makiivka, but so far no russian statement about the destruction of the hymers has been confirmed either by the ukrainian side or, more importantly, by western intelligence, a journalist of the russian of the online magazine 7x7 maksym polyakov good evening good evening and maxim, your editorial team is following what happened in makeevka. the people who were in makeyevka will be allowed to ask the general question, in principle, what kind of effect did these news from makeyevka have on the russian audience, and you know, i remembered that i

first saw about this news on twitter and there was no official confirmation yet, well, literally, there is the first one on the first day of january and uh, you didn't quite believe in it yet well, that is, uh, there were reasons only that everything would have frozen, i had the feeling that it was as if everything had frozen, and there was a lot of reason to believe that uh, in the russian army it's a mess. let's say this. and which leads to such large victims, but until now there was no official confirmation that this really happened. it was as if there were such people in the middle position and they thought that the creditors did not believe it, of course, when the first confirmation was sent. from the ministry of defense, uh, and from independents published, people began to say something more about this information, uh, they began to believe a little bit, but here the most important figure is uh, how many dead uh, how many people were there, in principle, in this publication the last month of the ministry of defense

i did a lot so that their official information, well, let's just say that they didn't believe it right away, they looked for confirmation in other sources, i don't believe it. it seems to me that it is still preserved, well , basically. to be here and it is important to understand the context, first the information appeared about the fact that there were military servicemen from the saratov region and no one could really say that they were from the oratovsk or saratov region, and here are the relatives of the war a servant who was actually born , lived in saratov, began to write as a governor, what is happening, tell me, the governor was silent.

the main thing is that there should be silence in the press and that no conflicts or emergencies get into the federal media, so this means that the saratov governor endured a pause and he said that no, no, it’s not ours, and at that moment, information appeared that someone who was the first to post a link or photos got confused, and indeed there is probably a military man from samara . chats where the relatives of military personnel in the samara region are gathered, there are practically many of them in every region , it has started oh, well, in the sense that people have become very worried and demand an answer, how many people, how many people, and here, too, it is important to understand that uh, relatives, they are here now these days it is as if between a rock and a hard place with one country they want answers they demand them from the regional

plastids the governor from the military from the other country the military themselves say yes everything is quiet 10 otherwise we will not tell you anything at all eh so the journalists are talking to me otherwise, it means that the procedure will be too long, i don’t know by identification what it is about, in general, it intimidates people, therefore, people very carefully choose rights when talking to a journalist, etc. exact figures uh, we didn't manage to achieve, that is, they are different there, oh indeed, here are the official ones, which are 89 to several hundreds, 3.4 hundreds, uh, so far, the relatives are not talking. it seems to me that uh, well, this is a classic situation that also happened several times many times in the last месяца they are intimidated by the military a-a but uh-uh like their previous times a- ah there

is an opportunity to learn at least something about how to go to the journalists and they tell the journalists , it can be forgiven to keep the journalist, she is small, and so on, but for now, we are only approaching this situation, relatives very meticulously carefully of the dead well, what do they say, you didn't get any figures, er, second, er, we definitely didn't get the numbers, well , i'm saying once again that these figures are different, we'll talk to four of the five women, so something says that we can still according to official data, someone says well, there are 2 3 4 hundreds of dead, and the only thing they are ready to talk about is that, well, you know the first impressions that my husband and i told them.

how did everything happen there and these words are even complicated it's difficult to come up with a way to formulate that there was shelling and a-ah from the people only brains remained that leaked into the shoes, that is, as if so forty eh, he will not formulate as in his dystopia how people tell us eh, this was the first reaction takaya well, these terrible formations ugh, and here is such a question, i understand that you, among other things, talked about the topic of whose relatives survived correctly in makeyevka. yes, yes. and what about the topic of who survived? he will also get rid of them and send them to the front as soon as possible. you haven't heard anything about this, eh, the relatives

didn't talk about it in unity, what will the relatives say that eh, it means, eh, the wounded were taken to hospitals in the neighboring regions, eh it means er and there they will be treated. i only saw it on social networks. what er, well, as if one of the versions is a replica of the rumor. well, how could it be in different ways ? well, i don't know, they either kept silent, or the old option. neighboring regions then this most likely means that the military hospitals that are located nearby well , along the front, they conditionally say that they are overcrowded

, that is, there are no military hospitals, so it is necessary to involve all the hospitals that are located in the nearest cities. a-a losses or the scale of alcoholism of people who were injured in the hospital already in russia or in the occupied ukrainian territories. today we saw that this is the police. hospit rastovina has been a long time, this russian territory is good, and that too, allow me to ask a general question, uh , here are the relatives with whom you spoke, who are they to blame for what happened, if they understand that their uh, husband, i'm brothers, sons, something is somehow not quite did legally on the territory of ukraine or they are considered heroes in our community, do not even come to this question a-a well,

because how would the community be now so far very hot a-a and people to some extent are afraid to contact, explain why that once again, let them scare us, and there is a very large russian group, where it means that the wives of military personnel are there, they are discussing what is going on there, what is going on, who has been sent to what area, and so on. we are there. our correspondent is there. no one knows that this is a journalist and this is what journalists are talking about in the chat. these are the rules, that is, this is the rule that the military put down from above so that this information does not go beyond the limits . relative yes or noch he finds ways and relatives, then if he communicates with journalists, he will

inform him. that means in this picture that uh, well, one more day. well, even more soldiers don't come, press on them, stop, don't talk, then, that is, they get it - it turns out like that again. what are we coming to, that initially they didn't give much emotion, uh, it means they told them that managed to say that their husbands are there and i know that the brothers can take this one and that means that they will continue главный вопрос and how is this root then changing the attitude of the russian society towards possible mobilization? i don't know. the ukrainian leadership has warned that in russia , referring to data from its

rosette , that in russia some mobilization. what do you think? this is what leaked into the news, and it became public knowledge that there could be hundreds of victims in makeevka. this will somehow affect the mood in society. it's difficult to propose, maybe sociologists will be able to answer this question. how will it affect, eh ? that's all and those who are against the demand i want to go those who are against him are trying to avoid being sent to the front and those who were in favor of him well, as it were still generally in favor and more well, as it were, one specific a-a tragedy yes the death of a large number of people in general

is unlikely to have a serious impact on the event because it seems to me that until now many people think that this is somewhere far away. as long as it does not directly affect his ego, his friends were not taken to the front for example, that's why eh, well, how would it happen - this is the case несложенская версия thank you more 7 we talked about eh mood in russian society, in particular after the attack on maksym maksiyivka thank you last night zaporizhzhia was subjected to russian missile fire, as a result of which eight were damaged high-rise buildings and a kindergarten building , it is known that one woman was injured, in particular, she reported this to the secretary of the zaporozhye city council