and five britons are now in the city where the british volunteers disappeared ukraine is strengthening its position and their parents are eagerly waiting for news about their sons sss for today, look for more stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks and we will be on the air again tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. good luck and take care of yourself , sports - free people have such an education, choose what you want on megogo. congratulations, this is freedom, lime. my

name is vlasta lazur. today, we are monitoring the situation, colleagues, and discussing the prospects of ukraine receiving western tanks and let's figure out why armenia suddenly refused to teach dekab on its territory. well, we'll start with footage from the occupied makeivka of the donetsk region. a video from a drone was published by the reuters agency. the barracks were hit by the armed forces of ukraine, with the approval of the ukrainian side , about 400 russian soldiers were killed in makiivka, russia reported 89 dead watch these footage without comments

these were footage from the occupied makiiivka well, i will remind you that svoboda life is broadcast live on the pages of radio svoboda in facebook and on youtube. you can leave comments and questions in the chat for the broadcast. well, please like this broadcast if you watch us on the internet , support our work in this way and further in the issue, russian troops and wagner's forces probably control most of the city of soledar, this is stated in the current review of british intelligence, what is the situation in soledar

, will russian mercenaries be able to regular army capture this city completely for a high-quality counteroffensive ukraine needs heavy western tanks german leopards american abrams or british challengers president biden chancellor scholl or prime minister sunok which of the western leaders will be the first and finally give the green light to the supply of western tanks for the ukrainian army and as such weapons can change the course of the war. well, after the russian occupation of crimea, ukrainian judge yaroslav vasylenko traveled to crimea 25 times. at the same time , the judge's wife and daughter have russian citizenship, can judge vasylenko hold the position of a ukrainian judge and actually, where are the guarantees that after the judicial reform, only honest judges will remain in the courts about this freedom life today, in the last day, the city of soledar and its surroundings in donetsk region

were shelled 86 times by russian troops. according to him, russia is suffering heavy losses in this direction, but is moving forward, russian troops and the forces of the wagner pvk probably already control most of the soledar, this is stated in the current review of the british intelligence, according to intelligence data, russian forces carried out a tactical offensive on soledar in the last four days, in particular, battles were fought for the entrances to the abandoned 200 km of salt mine tunnels that pass under the district, both sides are probably worried that these entrances can be used to penetrate the rear, says the soledar review, let me remind you is located not far from bakhmut, the capture of which is probably the main goal of the russian troops about how the ministry of defense of great britain believes that it is unlikely that the russian military will be able to surround bakhmut in the near future, because ukrainian forces maintain stable, deep defensive knives and control supply routes. at the same time, the american institute for the study of war notes in its review that the founder of the

wagner pvk, yevgeny prigozhyn, uses the battles in soledar to strengthen the authority of mercenaries. sources about the kremlin and about the military talked about the fact that the forces of the wagner group may soon surround bakhmut at the institute for the study of war came to the conclusion that prigozhin uses, as confirmed, also fabricated information in order to strengthen the authority of wagner as the most effective and fighting force in the entire russian army. well, what is happening right now in the bakhmut direction, in particular in the cities of soledar and bakhmut, we will find out later, the company commander joins the broadcast of the freedom battalion yevhen oropai good evening good evening studio good evening tv viewers glory to ukraine, the day went smoothly in the direction of, well, restless constant precipitation constant shelling

enemy tanks came out several times, our positions were constantly fired upon, the boots flew in, crazy orcs flew out, fired rpgs, the tents worked, that is, the day was the same as yesterday, and the day before yesterday i was restless. in the trench a-a we have starlink here, i apologize in advance if by chance the signal disappears or it is bad because here we have a really weak signal frames so what are you saying now regardless of what quality it will be link see the american institute for the study of war. today, in its review, it was reported that the ukrainian troops maintain control over the artemsil enterprise and the adjacent high-rise buildings in the north

of soledar, but at the same time, wagner fighters allegedly control a large part of the territory of the city of soledar. can you somehow confirm this at the moment this information, or simply tell which part of the city is controlled by ukrainian forces and which part of the city is already under russian control, well, look, i can’t give anything in front of our leadership comments yes, there are some problems specifically on soledar, uh, some part of soledar was really not lost, so they did a small maneuver because it was very, very difficult, and indeed there the pvc was strong, they really want to seize the entire part of saladar now, but our defenders defenders of ukraine who are there are as competent and as strong as possible, trying to push back the enemy and take them back to our positions. i hope that everything will work out for us, or that

we will not have any problems in this direction, and the city of soledar, which are all the other cities of ukraine again will be under the full control of ukraine, but at the moment there are very, very difficult battles there, at the moment life is being fought there, how are the battles there not for life to the death and the guys who are holding from the direction of the soldier they they they you they they well done what do you think and why did the russian army suddenly switch from bakhmut to soledar what value does the city represent for them? well, in fact, the value is that it is there. well, they tried- they tried several times. well, for several weeks, they went head-on to bahmu- on bahmutka, and after a while they realized that going head-on is impossible and they began to beat such panels, that is, launch their groups from the flanks of the flanks from the left to the right, that is, to the north and south of bakhmut. that is, this is lake kurdyumivka - this is soledar, and there

are currently the most difficult battles, that is, it is much more difficult than on bakhmut itself, since bakhmut is very, very fortified it is this direction that is protected, that is why the soldier and the bottom of bakhmut, they will try to push through, and you know, try to make such an operational encirclement in order to take, at least somehow , at least some minimal encirclement of bakhmut itself, but at the moment they have no business in the southern direction much lower from bakhmut, but to the north of bakhmut, they conducted some successful operations and crushed the number purely because the guys were tired, purely because they had a lot of artillery, which they thoughtlessly wasted , they threw a lot of troops there, what was in kurdyumivka what happened in ozeryanivka is also confirmed by this, that is, they spent the maximum amount of their manpower, which had to be simply crushed,

you know how to poison cockroaches and dig into our ukrainian land, and here it is on soledar well it was a bit difficult for the boys, you know, it was very, very, very difficult, but then, once upon a time, it was very cold here, brother -15 -17 on some, and also on some landings, and since our defenders, in quantitative order, have much less than such orchestra players, we have them that's what we call it, they just overwhelmed us with the number of people. well, we are tired, that is, this is where the inhabitants of szoldari in the bakhmut direction are. the guys are already tired, that is, all these constant assaults are making themselves known, and in this direction it is really difficult now, that's why they are so little we have made progress, let's hope that this situation will normalize. i am sure that we have bought all the defenders of ukraine who are standing on bakhmutsky

in this direction in the east . there they promised that they would hand over heavy artillery and heavy equipment, which we need very much in this direction, actually give what should happen and the situation in their favor more power more power these are soldiers, not soldiers who understand their who are trained in the matter is not just a person with a weapon who was just mobilized there, she was only called up there, she is immediately sent in this direction, no, it will be very difficult for such people, this is really a very hot point, on which you need to know such moral and physical preparation, that is, morally, you need to understand that you are here you will sit in a cold trench for 3-5 days, sometimes a week, and it is very difficult, both physically and morally, and you also

need means, means, this includes everything from artillery, mortars, tanks, heavy weapons , and some saushki, that is, everything that can be applied to the enemy at a distance, some kind of damage, that is, more of the same high-mars that showed their effectiveness in the destruction in the point destruction of enemy positions and enemy concentration groups there, they take their bull, that's how it was before the new year, before the new year, there were a lot of arson, burned, destroyed uh, enemy bases where they grouped their combat kits and by the new year they had a little bit of their appetite, you know, they couldn't shoot as much as they shot there in the 10th and 11th months, but now i understand them again they have become active again both

in the northern and southern directions near bakhmut and now it is getting very, very hot here, that is, despite the fact that it is freezing, but it is still hell here. we are just now showing what soledar and its surroundings look like. yevgeny , in yesterday's evening address, volodymyr zelenskyi said that thanks to the stability of the armed forces of ukraine in the soledar, ukraine was able to win additional time, while russia, they say , only lost time and its military, and by the way, anna also commented on the soledar yesterday painter of the deputy minister of defense she said verbatim that the occupiers are advancing in this bakhmut direction with the corpses of their soldiers. what does this mean? at the beginning, you started saying that uh, they are throwing a lot of people . could you elaborate on how much more personnel there is ? russian troops prevail in your direction. well, let's go to our direction, where the svoboda battalion is stationed as part of the

fourth operational brigade from the guard. this is a 3-4 times greater force , that is, it can be six to seven times a day. infantry assaults are groups of small small groups of five to seven servicemen who are going to be tested by combat. that is, they are sent as cannon fodder. that is, they are sent forward with light armed men there - only with machine guns, and we have to destroy them from their positions thus revealing their means of fire, after that a more experienced group of people follows the same corpses on top of these corpses and again storms our positions, it does not work out, they leave and again begin to iron on us iron on mortars to iron out the boots of saages there shoot there, work with the barrel, the tank can leave, work on our positions, and this is repeated over and over again, it can be in a day, for three or four hours in a row, that is, then there is a rest for two, that is, those guys who are now

sitting in the trenches, i tell you directly, all the defenders of ukraine who are now in this direction. each of them. this is just leo, he is a hero who, you know, proved that he is really morally and physically ready to defend his country. he is just ready to give everything in order to save our villages, our cities and not surrender to the enemy, do not give in to the enemy yevgeny , thank you very much, thank you for joining our broadcast live right from the trench yevhen ropai - commander of the freedom battalion, a lieutenant of the national guard of ukraine tuned in to us on freedom radio yevheny, thank you very much well, let's make today happen in the direction of bakhmut, as they comment the situation of the military there. we also show it further, and we now support our guys who are climbing into the trenches and we give us coordinates

either from the position of the advanced positions and buried, or they give coordinates from a

drone. well, then we don’t shoot so intensively at their positions, but then we can shoot at their positions , that is, we have the coordinates of the target where they are hiding, we know them. germany can transfer the leopard tank to ukraine, but berlin will not go to such a step was announced independently by german chancellor olafsholtz. the day before, the politika publication wrote that france, together with poland, is trying to convince germany to unblock the supply of leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine, since the manufacturer of these tanks is a german company, so their shipment to ukraine requires permission from the country of manufacture in this case from germany, and germany, judging by chancellor schulz's statement today, is looking back at its nato allies. i would like to make it clear that we will consider this issue in the coming days of the week and

months germany will not resort to independent steps germany will always be united with its friends and allies especially with our transatlantic partner the united states of america everything else would be irresponsible in such a dangerous situation so tanks for the supply of heavy modern western tanks until recently . a real taboo was imposed, they didn’t even talk about it, now the discussions have intensified, especially in the last month. but as of now, no country that has modern tanks is ready to provide them to ukraine last week, france, germany , and the united states agreed to send infantry fighting vehicles to ukraine, but kyiv does not lose hope of receiving western-made heavy tanks, in particular the american abrams or the mentioned german leopards, the situation with which resembles a game of ping-pong, so that none of the countries that has these tanks does not want to be the first to

transfer them to the ukrainian military, we will now discuss why so at the same time as the sky news channel reports with reference to an unnamed interlocutor who is familiar with the negotiations, britain is allegedly considering the opportunity to supply ukraine with two challenger tanks that are in service with the british army for the first time london can offer kiev about 10 challengers such a step will encourage other nato allies, in particular germany itself, to follow this example the government of rishi sunak has not yet made a final decision , reports sky news and the ministry of defense of the great britain does not confirm and does not deny that the british government is considering the possibility of supplying tanks to ukraine, what is stopping the ukrainian e-e western countries from transferring tanks to ukraine, why are they continuing like this long these discussions and how the transfer of tanks could change the situation on the battlefield, contact us, the chief editor of the military portal defekt express, oleg kadkov. good evening, thank you

for the invitation. of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhny he said that to win, to defeat the enemy, he needs 300 tanks, 6,700 bmps and 500 howitzers, this was a quote, if ukraine now got 300 modern tanks to make it happen they started we began to bring them to operational readiness , the units were being adjusted for the use of this new machine , the entire material and technical base would be adjusted, it would take a certain period, and after that these tanks got into battle, where it would show itself on several heads higher than any tank of the russian army that they currently have in service, and especially considering that what they had there in the beginning, here i am, there are all kinds of t-72 b30 t90 breakthroughs, it’s not much different , in fact, from the t-72b, and if so generally so

take globally, then all western tanks were created in order to be as effective as possible, taking into account all the circumstances, to resist, including the tank of the soviet union . the publication already mentioned by me in politics that the ukrainians really want to get leopards , these german tanks in particular and because there are a lot of them in warehouses throughout europe, is this really the case or are there really a lot of leopards in european warehouses is a rather difficult question because there is certain information. what exactly is in storage? for example, if we take such a source as to replace ribalas, that is, such a weapons cadastre from iccas, then we must remember that, for example, in germany, there are about 50 leopard tanks stored in the a4 version. if you calculate there using other methods, then you can see approximately what should be somewhere in

the region of uh, well, about half a hundred thousand tanks, but the fact is that these tanks are stored in us, and here an important aspect is what quality they are are in storage because quite often, especially when we talk about the german stocks of these tanks, they went to convert them into psh-2000, they went to maintain the operational efficiency of leopard-2 tanks in the nissan bundessphere and in other countries, and there the question of what from those reserves are left and this question is open, well, the only thing is that even if the country has declared reserves, it is possible to repeat the situation as with spain, from spain they offered and said that we have leopard-2 a4 tanks in stock. they are in storage, we can transfer them they are not poses a threat to the defense capability, they started working on it, raised the tanks, checked them, and then the quote was that these tanks were so badly stored that they pose a greater threat to the crew than to the enemy, that is,

the question is how this equipment was stored in principle . variations of tanks in this german leopards american abram sinuet last week in the discourse there was information about the british challengers, which without these machines would be most ideally suited for the war in ukraine and for the conditions of the conditions that developed in this war , taking into account everything, i explained the power of the leopard-2. the point is that the version of the wish is at least 2.4. that is, we simply do not have the older ones anymore, but the newer ones have already passed into disarray and it is possible not to reach the only well, let's say the only and only example that can transfer the countries in view of everything if it is pragmatic , if we reject optimism there , take off the rose-colored glasses, then we will see that there is an opportunity to transfer only the leopard 24 reasons, first of all, this tank is in storage in which countries they can transfer it, in particular, for example, in

finland 111 2.4 in stock e-e in poland she can take it with the order because there is more than here i am money in general to take the indicator for leopards there about 250 a of all versions and then in germany there is a leopard for storage 2 a4 in spain again, there are leopards 2.4, er, hmm, and norway there is a small amount, but also present. and if they pass during the transfer, well, they will be restored themselves in any case, that is, storage will be removed and some repairs will take place if during its restorative repair, it receives additional booking packages from the a5 package, that is, without installing the commander 's panorama, only booking, then this will significantly improve it, so its good characteristics . why is the leopard, in my opinion, better than the abrams , with the fact that no one has canceled the issue of logistics, and she in general, in my opinion, it is the main issue in the matter of transferring such

equipment as sneakers to ukraine. there, field repairs are carried out. thanks to ukraine , medium repairs are also carried out by ukrainian specialists, but in the rear. and here are the factory repairs, which require design documentation, skills, and equipment, and the appropriate equipment . ukraine, which has a leopard in its arsenal, which not only exploits them, but also modernizes it independently, that is, from the point of view of logistics, from the point of view of provision, the leopard is the second one . well, let's say it has an advantage in the matter of availability and maintenance more than abrams because the factory repair of abrams can most likely be carried out only in the united states of america, that is, we must understand all the logistics. and when we talk about tanks, it is not artillery, it is non-heimers, that is, in which

the tank is not on the battlefield, it is a machine that is directly on the battlefield and its appearance on the battlefield means that it becomes the number one target for all the enemies who are struck by it, everything will fly into it and therefore the issue of maintenance and repair for it is critical as and quantity. perhaps this is exactly what can be said about british challenger tanks from the point of view of service only in britain, it is still closer than to notify america, but in relation to the challenge year, we must understand that there are not so many challengers in service with great britain, if we take the formation indicators of titanium whites, well build somewhere around 200 years, more than 200 units if i am not mistaken and if we choose the resource that great britain can transfer, then they plan to reduce their number to approximately 130 by upgrading to the challenger of the third new versions, that is, up to 70 are released. well, approximately 70 challengers are second and drowning in questions. because

some will disappear, they will be signed completely for, well, simply because of the quality, they have already produced one resource and the other. to armored vehicles, your country is an important number, an extremely important number, one more question. it probably lies in a more political plane, however, about the supply of tanks for ukraine, they are talking about western tanks they have been saying since the spring, and not a single country in europe, the united states, or great britain has dared to transfer western tanks to ukraine. this is one of the reasons that we often hear from western politicians: the fear of becoming a participant in the war, a participant in the conflict. please tell me how sincere these fears are when they are voiced. politicians, because ukraine will receive quite powerful weapons literally last week, combat vehicles arrived, well, it was announced about infantry fighting vehicles, before there were these patriots, plus ukraine is getting

tanks, they are simply soviet tanks or theirs the clones that were not built were created in the countries of the former social camp. did the transfer of modern western tanks make these countries participants in the war, and they also understand this perfectly, but here the question is who should organize the transfer, i.e. to berlin. as much as possible , just in the last aid package, that is , there is no need to criticize berlin for not transferring weapons, it is necessary to remember that they transfer a significant amount of weapons in principle, that is, thank you madly for the cheetahs according to zbzh2000, according to a huge list, there are hundreds of positions that were transferred by berlin, but there are certain moments that exist, and one of those moments is the issue of transferring, for example, patriot batteries, which were announced by berlin so that they would simply transfer literally a month before there was a

situation when germany offered poland let's return the patriots to poland for protection, to which warsaw officially informed you, let's move them to the country at once, it will be better for everyone and there was a large number the statement was rather like a fight between warsaw and berlin, and one of the extreme statements from berlin was that well, we can hand over petriv if it is a collective decision of nato, well, after that, biden is the phone messenger and germany hands over the patriots, that is, well, the collective decision was most likely made from the very beginning of the entire conversation with an overview of everything, i.e., there are such mechanisms such questions relative to political aspects must be remembered that tanks are an important resource for any nato country in principle, and this resource if we will, for the sake of understanding, germany is 25