i think so. thank you vitaliy kulyk. we will see you after after after. i think we will literally be able to see what will happen in the coming months. christmas is a time when ordinary things acquire miraculous properties. it is time to gather together to celebrate and we will decorate our christmas trees even during wars, our christmas trees will become places of strength, we will meet christmas together with our military, all together we will become even stronger, and as in carols, light defeats darkness, so in life, ukrainians will defeat moscow's zays, look with a sincere eye to the son of god, a gift came down

from heaven to our land, to ukraine, brought it to be glorified forever. merry christmas, 2023 will be decisive in russia's war against ukraine. not only the ukrainian military and politicians, including the president, but also the russian leadership and western experts are talking about this in this edition of donbas reality, we will talk about how the events on the front will develop in the future, we will analyze the previous 10 months of the war, we will show exclusive footage from the island of snakes and evaluate the mood of the ministry of defense of russia, the corresponding stock of the telephone conversation between the two officers were given to us by our sources in ukrainian intelligence. we welcome the fuel tanks and armored vehicles on the fields and in the landings. the dead russian soldiers who were never taken away by their colleagues. that they were retreating in a hurry, such a picture

in the direction of svatovo is criminal, that is, there was, let’s say, such chaos because the orcs were retreating from our they were attacking from all directions, there were places just where they were, a few fighters who entered there, our unit, not our unit, the orcs came out , they were simply afraid, and they left their equipment and were able to flee, coming to the oskol river for isa in the fall continued to advance on the luhansk region, although the pace of advance has now noticeably decreased, the occupiers had time to prepare and the weather also played its role, we are now having rains , the ground has thawed and this does not give the opportunity to carry out offensive actions, the enemy is strengthening his defenses he is preparing to defend this area with sufficiently strong means when there will be a counteroffensive when the counteroffensive resumes, we already understand that it will not happen as it happened in izyum or

in the estuary this will be much slower it will rather about displacing the enemy than about such large-scale assault raids, we see, we observe that he is bringing forces and means here, the personnel is bringing them up, we already see, we observe that there are new mobilized eyes, they also came here, they are trying to transfer artillery here, and we understand about non-techniques that the enemy is preparing for our assault , for our next bullet here, the more traces of heavy fighting on this part of the front , destroyed columns of equipment, the continuous whistling of shells and ming at some distance from the sight that their large drones are constantly flying, first of all, this is the orlan-10, this is a reconnaissance reconnaissance drone. they

work both day and night. they try to detect the accumulation of artillery equipment and personnel, as well as we already see here, we observe their attack drones, such as the lancet or the ones they call haryans, in fact, they are iranian martyrs, we also have information that they are here in this area, they also work not as intensively as in the direction of bakhmut, for example, but here too there is this coming this was an exit but before that there was an arrival it is possible we are just observing the so -called counter-battery fight when we fire they are trying to calculate the exit point and it will fly there, of course, taking into account the well-known accuracy of the russian troops at the end of 2022 the front line with active battles stretches on 880 km, 330 of them are rivers , including along the dnieper, everything here is limited to artillery and the actions of small groups, the other 500 km

are overland in the south of the left bank , the front line is conditionally stable in donetsk region russian troops are trying to attack in different parts of the front, and more actively from maryinka to soledar. ukrainian forces are attacking in the svatov region. the criminal initiative belongs to ukraine from around the middle of the summer. accordingly, it is ukraine that decides where and what further actions will be taken, in what format , russia has lost the strategic initiative . when it was stopped on the approaches to kyiv, accordingly, in the future, it could try to capture at least something using what is at hand, individual actions of the enemy on in terms of directions, these are only tactical actions that, purely physically, cannot develop into something, the majority, if you add up some intermediate

summary of the military company of the 22nd year, then russia occupied significant territories in the south of ukraine, but at the same time victory in the battle for kiev counteroffensive in the kharkiv region and the liberation of kherson the successes of the armed forces of ukraine are obvious from a political point of view, from a political point of view, this is a failure . because the goals that were set were not achieved, and the goals are well known , this is the occupation of ukraine, its actual inclusion in part of russia, but at the same time there is no reason to talk about the defeat of the russian army so far, there is no reason to judge the current mood of the russian army, but losses and military defeats in general do not go unnoticed . an exclusive audio recording of a conversation between two officers, which gives some idea of ​​what is being discussed in the troops, the voice belongs to dmitry kozlov

, an employee of the russian ministry of defense on matters of eastern culture. he consults in particular of russian officers in syria, his son with the rank of senior lieutenant is fighting on the territory of ukraine , the war is really raging right now, here is our generation, you know until the age of 40 what more soviet hardening, arrests are not needed for that, i can tell you this is where this line of defense is built, the line is good i'm telling you how you can, but manerheim, this is the border of the russian federation, the new one will not go to kharkiv, it will not be taken, how will you take it, the city of a millionaire, a solid industrial zone and also the subway below. how will you take it, so that brothers, it is necessary to take a strict blockade and bombard morning until evening with fabs morning until evening in september, precisely after the defeat of the kharkiv region, the kremlin had to announce the partial mobilization of tens of thousands of unprepared russians, in fact, they immediately

sent them to the front and at least one task they had already completed with their number, the russian command managed to slow down the advance of the armed forces in the luhansk region, a russian soldier, a russian soldier fights in this war simply because he sees no other way out , this is how it turned out, it is typical for russian passivity of the population is the kind that dominates in most cases of mass consciousness . the feeling that well, well, if you are called up , it means you have to go, you won’t do anything. this is roughly how russian military personnel think. the lieutenant general should stand what a lady with the rank of captain or major could say. and then he stands cheerfully like this and that question is like in the problem book. and did you study at the academy in general, what is the talking head for

what are the projects of these speakers, what are the ones ahead in the assault battalions and forward i can generally tell you that 90% of the ministry of defense is sitting there wiping his pants with a swollen belly from drinking and a victim, he could kill all of them and ahead of the alonivoda, his cattle will be slaughtered well, even if he dies after human but despite all the losses and failures in russia, in the future they say that the so-called special operation will be extended until the tasks set by putin are fully fulfilled, serhii shoyguk said on december 21 at an extended meeting of the collegium of the ministry of defense of the russian federation they also announced plans to increase the size of the army to one and a half million people , taking into account the size of the russian army and the economy of the population, of course the war could have gone worse for ukraine, i think most analysts were shocked and surprised by what ukraine has already done today, to expect more and to say that it could be even better is too much for

example, because it is very difficult for ukrainians to achieve a significant advantage in such a war for a long time, and over time it will become even more difficult in ukraine, commander-in-chief valeriy zaluzhnyi in an interview with the economist said that he has no doubt that russia will try to capture kyiv once again, they say that the russian command is currently preparing 200,000 military personnel, according to official data, the kremlin has mobilized about 300,000 people as of november, which he stated that 87,000 of them are already at the front, the educational material base of the russian federation allows to organize more or less such pleasant training for 120-130 thousand. that is, everyone else above this number or studying in belarus is about 20,000, although now it is realistically 12 all

others are somewhere and are busy with something, that is, to talk about their training, well, at the level of downloading the tank operation manual from the internet and reading it under a tree in the forest. accordingly, we are dealing with, for example, luhansk, donetsk regions with demobilized people who, as in 41, were given a machine gun instead of a rifle elementary equipment and on foot were sent to attack our positions. the question is if they and their in-laws will go to kyiv on foot , when they come next new year, if they come. of course, if you want to advance 350-400 km, when the enemy, which intervenes, leads the defense , has prepared several defensive lines, which is supported by half the world, well, you probably chose the wrong format of the operation, that is why i do not

agree with the fact that somewhere there is another alternative russian armed forces numbering 200,000 people, although this absolutely does not mean that the enemy has given up there is a plan to visit poltava dnipro or capture which ios i miss that they still want more territory, they are not satisfied with what is now and if this is true defensive tactics will not last forever defense now is a combination of two things of necessity, taking into account the current situation of the balance of forces and delaying the time until the mobilized are prepared and sent to the front and as soon as the numbers reach a point that will be considered sufficient in russia, then we will see the russian offensive, i assume not along the entire front, but concentrated on one of the directions a if this is not enough, they will not be surprised by another wave of mobilization, despite the political risks associated with it, according to the

new york times with reference to the interlocutor in the us state department in the leadership of russia so far there is no unity in solving the issue of attacking ukraine in a new way. this winter or not, some in the military command are sure that it must be done now, others are doubtful. will there be enough forces for this ? offensive, the second motorized rifle division of the armed forces of the russian federation is busy with something in belarus, but they do not look particularly optimistic that they will walk again on the road they took to kyiv in february. preparation for offensive actions, the enemy withdrew his troops from the dnipro as far as possible beyond the reach of ukrainian artillery , i.e. the same way as preparations for the

offensive would have gone. to talk about the fact that active actions are being prepared almost four dozen kilometers from mainland ukraine, the island of zmiiny, even without having forces at sea, the ukrainian army was able to liberate it on june 30 after 126 days of occupation that rushes in the eyes of the snake, this is destruction in principle, almost everything is broken, everything is broken whole, only broken bunkers and all the bunkers that were built here, probably by romanians or something, i don’t know who they were built there, but they are also

some kind of historical, and still on the mountain everything is destroyed among destroyed russian equipment , the fighters of the international legion of russians fighting on the side of ukraine say they are constantly on duty here periodically, groups change among the military on the islands ilya bogdanov, an ex-fsb officer who switched sides in 2014, local valik of ukraine volunteers undocumented illegals all fought as volunteers undocumented illegals and now they receive military tickets, it's very cool. it's very symbolic. that the russians are back on the snake island, but there is a nuance, but there is a nuance, such as the trolling of dugin and his food company they left as well as ammunition, just here you can live autonomously, i don’t know, for a few years so that there was water, the military tried to

strengthen the nets after the ukrainian forces destroyed the cruiser moscow, it was a kind of with an anti-aircraft umbrella for an entire area in the black sea. and after this ship was destroyed by a missile strike, the ukrainian forces of russia rushed there against an air system of this type . and boats, so the russian garrison ultimately could not withstand the ukrainian shelling on the island, they systematically worked out the grating and hurricane systems, including from the sea and barrel artillery the contingent that was there for 10 days just seemed to be able to withstand it. and you were invited to evacuate them, they were evacuated by helicopters, even there part of the equipment remained, but it was possible to actually

push the enemy out of the island from the snake e-e in two such positions, the first is the effect of fire on the e -e by subdivisions and secondly, this ee means damage to the logistics chain of supply of weapons, ammunition, food, and so on, only after the release of the snake, the destruction initiative and all the ships that are now leaving the of ukrainian ports with agricultural products for foreign countries pass near the liberated island, control of the serpentine would give russia the opportunity to influence the sea routes to develop aggression against ukraine, if the problem were serious and with the most shipping with the danube, such was, say, a lock castle in

the northwestern part of the black sea and on the danube. here is the preparation for the landing, if it was planned, then the beginning of the landings should have started precisely with the snake in the same interview for the economist valery zaluzhny stated that to liberate the territories captured after february 24, 300 tanks, 700 bmps - 5,000 howitzers are needed. and he hinted that an offensive is being prepared in one of the directions, but there are not enough weapons to implement it, and we see that he is cleverly emphasizing the need to preserve reserves why reserves for carrying out a contour offensive operation sometimes and how it will be carried out is difficult to say personally, my preferences are to destroy the land corridor between, for example , zaporozhye in the direction of berdyansk

will complicate the existence of both groups in the kherson region and northern crimea, as well as groups operating in the ugledar region of mariupol and partly in the donbas, as well as actions in the kherson direction, which require packaging of a very powerful water obstacle, which is the dnipro river, difficult, winter is the best time for water procedures, donbas yes, maybe, but operates in the luhansk direction, we place a flank under the border with the russian federation, children from the donetsk direction, from the donetsk direction , we will face the problem of actions in the city agglomerations, i think there is urgency for ukraine to attack in attempts to drive away the russian forces

for political and military reasons, because every time the ukrainians can show that they have an advantage, it stimulates western countries in matters of continued support. and the longer the war lasts, the more difficult it is for the ukrainians and the bigger the advantage is the size of russia, i do not think that ukraine has the luxury of a kind of free time, it should be continued and if there are successes on the battlefield, then in addition to the constant support of the event, it is important to create of political pressure on the russians at home in order to more effectively liberate the occupied territory in the south, it is necessary to continue conducting operations at sea, including in sevastopol, the main naval base of the russian federation in the annexed crimea, so far ukraine only has drones for such purposes, including naval ones missile boats are needed for small rockets against ships;

multi-functional shock e-e boats are needed for conducting raids for cars, areas of the mark six type, if to block or neutralize, how to minimize thrusting of the russian naval forces and aviation, that is, it is very useful for us further there, during the further liberation of our territories, the audio recording we have already mentioned, despite all the skepticism about the situation at the front, russian officers are sure of the need to defend the captured ukrainian territories, they say, any military defeats or diplomatic concessions threaten putin's regime at the expense of and victory, i have general doubts about a great victory , i have doubts, god forbid , that we should keep what we have taken, because in that the number in which we are about victory is out of the question. another question is that something has not been fired, and now they will give everything they can, then in a white

tailcoat they will tell how everything was . for the fools then it will be and i tell you it will be a civil war and i tell you unequivocally and this is what is sitting there in moscow ssoshniks etc. they will not save anyone they may be guys and of course they are good but they are not drawn against the front-line soldiers they will be among the first to run, why should they disappear for their salary or what else will they tell us about all the non-idealists in warm places, there are no idealists, especially when there is a war, who is snowballing and ugh, what a war is going on, we have become more experienced, but the enemy, if only if only if they were not slow but he is still learning, so let's put it this way. what was easy there was done in june now requires much more effort, that is, now to advance even a small area there is, let's put it this way,

require much more preparation and you have to understand that the enemy is more active and smarter. pity responds to our actions, the question of change is tied to armored vehicles to ammunition to artillery, that is, in order to move the front forward, you need to have an advantage over the enemy, both in addition to the fire target and in the cities . there is never too much on the battlefield, the more it is, the more our guys will remain alive , assessing the course of the war in the future, experts first of all talk about the repeated offensive of russia in january and february, primarily from the side of belarus, in turn valery zalognyi hinted at a counteroffensive operation being prepared in one of the areas of the front, no matter what the strategic advantage, ukraine now possesses, having liberated more than half of the territory originally occupied by the full-scale war, the last serious success of the russian army, the occupation of lysychansk

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our first room, the registration room, here we have a cooler tea coffee, it's an opportunity to recharge your gadgets here, we have a room for children, we've arranged it, it's so bright and cheerful , there are books, toys to have so that you can lie around, including, er, pencils to paint, and in this room next to our room for the elderly, so that the children do not disturb the elderly. if they want to rest a little, this is one of the points of inviolability . it is arranged on the basis of a school in the shevchenko district of the capital. up to 100 people despite the visitors, there are not many here, this is my

drawing, the flag of ukraine, there is a heart embroidered on the hotel, this is a heart, and here it dripped into ukraine, well, i have it, this is me, my mother and father, father. i am at war now. well, nothing i miss him, well, he used to come, well, sometimes he comes, arina is almost the only visitor here, she came on duty together with her mother, it is the school employees, yes, the representatives of the terrodefense receive people here 24 hours a day, with the exception of air alarms, during an alarm , the point does not work, everyone must be there as staff of the point and visitors must be in a safe place in a shelter. that is why we are closing and everyone is moving to shelters. such a small number of visitors is due to the absence of long-term blackouts in this area of ​​the city, but in the districts and near kyiv

there was no electricity for several days in a row, so the gostomel police support point was visited by several hundred people a day in case of power outages, people can come here to warm up, drink tea, have a snack and charge their phone gadgets. we are here 24 hours a day and this point is open 24 hours a day, we provide all police services if people want to make any statements. yes, we accept them here under the conditions during long-term power outages points of unbreakability turn into a working office half a day i work at home while the battery holds and half a day i work at a point of unbreakability i charge all the gadgets for teenagers electronic devices are also important so schoolchildren bohdana kyrylo