she did not pass or run to negotiate, well, or they have already emigrated, in principle, for them today, this question is not acute. it will simply be an inconvenience, just like there was for the other turkey, i will only add that, for example , these four are no longer in the verkhovna rada, they are no longer in principle well and there still a large part of the psg remains in the verkhovna rada. well, there is indirect evidence that they still help the servants of the people to vote on a number of laws . in ukraine, more specifically, its deputies, i traditionally remind you to subscribe to radio svoboda pages in social networks, as well as on youtube , radio svoboda and radio svoboda ukraine, two channels and until tomorrow, cinema, television , sports, music, education, free people have a choice, choose

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from monday to friday at 11:10 on espresso i am iryna koval mother wife host of the espresso tv channel i am also a volunteer our military on the fronts need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this. the war caught me at home in irpen. the alarming suitcase was packed, but that did not reduce the excitement. explosions are burning every minute. gostomel airfield russian fighter jets i have a cold basement in my window, then i left irpen under shelling for a month after being abandoned by my relatives , and in the end i ended up in lviv, returned to the airwaves and started volunteering together with my colleagues

helping our military is now an integral part of life, we collect drones and thermal imagers, we weave nets, and on weekends we are going to prepare vitamin teas for our defenders at the front, here together we cut fruits, pick berries, whip everything and pack it is always very gratifying to think that in a few days this tea will warm the ukrainian soldiers, everyone of you can help even a small contribution to support the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer, i congratulate you olga land - this is a chronicle of combat operations for a week of the most fierce battles now they are going on in the area of ​​soledar and bakhmut , er, we will talk about them now in more detail. well, first, let's see er, what happened on the front, er, in recent days

map of combat operations map of combat operations - 5.11.01.2023 russians have little time to to seize soledar and bakhmut in donetsk region and luhansk region, the most fierce battles are taking place, the results of which may affect how the military situation will develop in the next few months russian troops somewhat reduced the pressure in the frontal attacks on the city and redirected their efforts to the north and south in order to take the city in a semi-ring, although the occupiers have no way to completely surround bakhmut, however, they are trying to take the logistical routes under fire control and create a defender of the city, there is a shortage of ammunition. if the enemy tried before to push through the road between bakhmut and soledar, now the invaders hit soledar from three sides at the same time, and everywhere

had some success, moved the clash by 1.5-2 km thanks to the concentration of a large number assault groups and neglecting human losses, the occupiers actually partially entered the center of the soledar with their corpses and approached its northern outskirts. they also almost completely occupied the village of pidhorodne in the south and are moving in the direction of the red mountain. the main supply of our soldiers in this area is carried out by the bakhmut siversk highway . the main tactical goal of the mass offensive of the invaders, because its capture will significantly complicate the defense of bakhmut. and the severska, despite the shift of the contact line, the defense forces control a significant part of soledar. but not they allow the enemy to break through the front, a significant number of troops and other brigades came to help, who will try not only to hold back the enemy, but also to push him back in the middle of the battle. the battles continue on the eastern outskirts of the

city along maksimanka street, without any advance of the russians of the city from the south, the enemy is targeting capture of the tick that stands on the obstacle of access to another logistics artery kostyantynivka bakhmut in 5 days the occupiers were able to occupy about two kilometers west of the village considering how much attention is focused around of this battle, it can be concluded that the russian nazis are desperately clinging to the only window of opportunity to achieve at least some political goals and to be able to report to their population that they are not dying in vain in a month or sooner , the armed forces of ukraine will be reinforced with new manned brigades that will go to the counteroffensive the battle for soledar and bakhmut will definitely destroy a significant part of the chmobyks from the first wave of mobilization, so the second wave will come. the first wave will not help, but instead it will even have the same prospects buried in luhansk region, as both the occupiers

and the defense forces are all forces in the battle around bakhmut and other areas of the front have temporarily frozen in luhansk region, positional battles and artillery duels are taking place, the armed forces of ukraine continue to create conditions for the encirclement of the crime zone and the election of russians from the village of dibrova on its western outskirts. the mercs destroyed a large number of invaders in the village of landrativka, the partisans blew up a railway track near new aidar, which is one of the main logistical arteries of this section of the front, and near the matchmaker artillery destroyed military base to the west of svatovo, positional battles for control of the kupyansk highway svatovo crime are underway southern front during the week, the armed forces of ukraine demilitarized more than 10 ammunition warehouses and the same number of military bases, command posts and headquarters, traditionally, the most cotton was spread on the southern front well, in

continuation makiiv flash mob, the armed forces of ukraine struck an enemy concentration in the kherson region, in particular in havrylivka, where about five hundred occupiers were wounded and killed, as well as in the which destroyed a warehouse of missiles for s300 complexes in plavniy on the dnieper near kherson, as if gunners sunk a russian boat in zaporizhzhia in vasylivka, our soldiers destroyed the headquarters of the autokmak almost every day they report serious losses of the enemy, we win daily, death to the enemy, look, to say exactly what is there, what are the positions on the now the armed forces of ukraine and russian troops are located, well, at the moment it is impossible, but we can say in general that the enemy is trying to completely cover the defense area from the show in the city by advancing in the direction of krasnopivka, this is

krasna gora is on krasnopolivka from the north of the krasno rapo, raskovivka is from the south. in this way, they are trying to cut off logistical routes in order to block the possibility of supplying those forces of the armed forces of ukraine who are in soledar. it can be said that so far the russians have not managed to somehow change the situation there. ukrainian forces are in such a semi-encirclement, but still, well, they have the opportunity to attack so far. so, this is the general situation. let's talk with igor lepin, special officer, officer of the armed forces of ukraine, people's deputy of the eighth convocation, and viktor trigupovym, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, journalist, publicist. congratulations, gentlemen. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. well,

let's start with you, mr. igor, with such a question. roughly so on january 4 and continues now such active actions and what has changed compared to the end of december, what happened there what allowed the russians to actually start such an active offensive on soledar and to achieve well, let's not come to achieve some serious success there, well, it is my deep conviction that what has changed is that by easing the pressure on the bakhmut direction, the russians managed to overturn a significant part of the wagnerian wagnerian groups, uh, from under the bakhmut a little higher, the distance there is small, but the fact that some analysts estimate the overturning there about 10,000. well, this is quite a serious group. i don't know how it went unnoticed or undetected, as much as we prepared for it, but the fact that the russians

will not change their tactics for today is already obviously, they are trying to do something. they are trying to make such a horseshoe so that there is a threat to the environment. and so that the defenders of the horseshoe, so to speak, and so on, the bigger the operation, the bigger the size of that horseshoe, that is, bakhmut. and the river, secondly, there are dominant heights that we control, this building is urban, which helps on these dominant heights and urban in terms of structures. go to the private sector there, they were already ground up and knocked out, after understanding this situation, the opponent used history in exactly the same way, only by simply defending himself above solidar. that is, they operate on the same principle there, but if you take the general picture of hostilities, then solidar is just a part of it of an overhanging visor, so to speak, when

covering such a large coverage of bahmut a little further. is it the city specifically? and with a larger reserve there for 10 km and with an effort to get out just in time to cut these of logistic routes konstantinivka bakhmut well, if we are talking now about solidar, then this is the prospect of entering the urban agglomeration , because if until this moment the war actually took place in the steppes of green fields, then now we know how things are going there . these are urban things. yansk is growing smoothly into kramatorsk well, and so on and we know that those who provide that in slavic kramatorsk well, konstantinovka is a little further. works of our artillery, because catching with a cannon a group of three or four people who are moving somewhere between houses, well, let's say, not so expensive in the context of projectiles, as they

say, because it's from a reserve with pleasure, but it's very long and it's not effective, so the enemy is just and is trying to enter at this very moment, here is soledar, well, my deep conviction, again, other intelligence data must be taken into account, i do not have such extensive information resources, but nevertheless, well, my vision so far is viktor, if to evaluate it so that it could give the russians admiration for the soledar and what it will not give them . how would you evaluate the orderly is not very interesting - this is a big word, in fact, the population there before the active phase of the conflict was 10,000. and now it is much less, but the story is rather in a strategic perspective, because they want to simply surround pakhnesky, you say, the path of

theology , and no, we partially allow it. next, why exactly soledar? come on, there is still a kind of political component. that's why people speak. the fact is that russia needs to show us victory somewhere, because otherwise, everything we ca n't demonstrate for you is not in the war police, it's defeats. to show victory, it wants some kind of progress. they can exclusively in the direction of bakhnu, and this actually explains why there is still the main point of laying their efforts precisely because the density of buildings there, firstly, and secondly , it is very short, and there is no need to actually try to crawl out of your skin and do something there is a long supply there, the distances are such that pedestrians can actually go from donetsk to the bakhmutan gift to us, it is simply not far, and this

allows them to constantly concentrate that meat in which they do not have, let's say, any shortage, to advise him in those directions and try to achieve some success there but this is a political story in prigoshena, which i really want to demonstrate. this is what we can win, and the russian army will. the official russian army cannot win, it only retreats, and that is why it is very important for them. they gave a map of the keys and gave a huge amount of uh in the form of why some prisoners and they simply dispose of this huge amount of meat with a story for themselves and actually some kind of critical, this is what is happening now under the soledar, it is difficult for us here precisely because i we can use ours effectively. and the enemy can effectively use their advantage. and actually, the amount of meat that was used can simply be thrown at

the ukrainian positions, so again, it seems that this size is the size from the ukrainian point of view and is actually effective when the russians storm. dear, just a huge number, it is very funny to read russian soldiers who say that on the contrary, it is ours who are destroying all the reinforcements, dill, watermelon, your task is approaching dense paid buildings, where it is absolutely obvious even to a person who was far from any kind of urban education that you probably still have a little to lose more well, if you don't have superman from the capital , it's all, well, most likely, what type do you still have from the side, he lost a little more, especially if you understand that the following is not the biggest word, otherwise, and it motivated the person, but that more or less, they can afford it, the components, they think so and they use it to make a

mistake . another option that i heard is that no, after all, it is mainly due to the fact that there is an assault by these small groups. what is the situation? can you clarify what the russians are fighting there for? no, well, look at the tactics of the russians, they really learn to fight, especially in urban development, and it is precisely the success of assaults by small groups, and this is true, it is due to the fact that at night they try to move as close as possible to our position and then rise, let 's say, go on the attack, if we are talking about the line of defense, which has trenches in the city buildings, storming in small groups is what, in principle, the wagnerites who were imprisoned, who had, let's say, the experience of hostilities in other countries, and today there are not

only there, are there any bikies, are there prisoners, let's still speak frankly, today there are and specialists, whose profession is the war of phenomena, who would like to emphasize another risk in the context of capture, god forbid, wednesday, well , that is, ok, the russians then come out and have an operational space in front of them. and where will our second line of defense pass, so i think that the general staff is also a question takes into account we remember that if the seizure of north donetsk was permissible, then there was a natural obstacle , the river, and a certain line of defense was built , including where lisychansk was, and so on . after that, we were preparing for of the second and third helmet defense in this situation. i can only recall my theses that i spoke there a month ago that, in principle, we all need to carry out additional mobilization because the russians are really disposing of their vizek criminals there, and on our side, on our side, the flower of the nation is dying.

therefore it is still necessary to think about reinforcements and about the construction of additional lines of defense, because such cases may not be isolated. a square with the ground, that's how they did it in popasnaya, that's what they did when they had a colossal advantage in artillery, that is, i remember it very well when they simply demolished a quarter from the ground and went in, got it, stopped, retreated 10 m by 20 m, and again leveled the following quarter with the ground, and so they they did in the solidarists, it's a little different story, they still advance, uh, what makes them so fast, because they don't spare meat, that's understandable, but not only because of the artillery, but it's still connected, well, with in small groups well, it's ready

yes, the mobilization of this and the active work of the same pvc wagner for gathering people made itself felt, but there is still such a nuance, if they work at night, it means that there are more drones among the russians at the front night vision devices, thermal imagers, what they lacked before, let's be frank , the military now has a special kind of drone of this level, at a time when we have such prohibitions and obstacles, there are obstacles for volunteers that we cannot get armor, because we have to negotiate with customs, you understand and the russians, on the contrary, have noticed the effectiveness of this work of drones and they have given the green light not only that, but they finance these things at a time when our ministry of defense thinks that these are wedding toys. that is what i said, the great minister of reznikov, regarding the small estates of third parties. well, you

know, it is very strange here in general that there was this small request, uh, to give some additional piece of paper, and that was exactly the moment when the russians started ironing there. it's as if you know that these two things are synchronized, well, but here's a question for viktor, it's good if we can see what the russians have already saturated the front with this, and it is at the expense of, or at the expense of, the budget of the ministry of defense, or at the expense of the fact that they have attracted business there, let's go. well, we don't know at the expense of what, but it should somehow affect the change of ukrainian tactics , because before in these means we prevailed at the expense of active volunteering, let's honestly admit that literally everyone who went to the front carried a thermal imager with him, a night vision device brought to him there by friends and relatives, but we need to really solve this issue and we need to do something active about it there is no reason to somehow respond to this change at the front, since there is not enough, at least there is

no initiative regarding anti-drone e-e measures . absolutely not just like that, that’s exactly what russian life is all about, i understand a little bit what he means, there are different things when he talks about the wedding he says that even it’s really not a little bit not what it should have been well, not a crossing but it’s a kind of replacement according to the principle of the marian auto industry, when you don’t have anything to drive, you go to zhiguly, of course it would be

much better to have a mother or something of an even more decent model, more protected by a blanket, etc. he says, er, toys, they save lives, they save lives, they actually provide us with our line of defense, well, at least with advantages at the tactical level, that's why we need them, they are definitely necessary. and the one who will be here is very right. well, if there will be an advantage with its high situational describability and is famous for airports and the like, that's why we have to fight here, and it's a shame , including that we have to fight and her tendency to excessive rationing, well, here i am i don't work with that either. with that, i have to say . it's not ideal. but with them, it's

more likely due to the fact that their volunteer at the event is ukrainian. most of the volunteers are also on the password. front at the expense of volunteers of this organization with all the devices eh well, the state has relaxed and well, the volunteers are already sorry, they are not pulling so hard now because, after all, the economy has worsened yes, please, mr. igor i would say that the state has not relaxed and this is frank sabotage , because if you yourself cannot buy well you can't or don't think it's appropriate to buy it, well, don't, don't obstruct the volunteers. well, what do you know? well, i 'll tell you, everyone knows that the army needs, for example, cars. yes, and everyone is trying to buy cars for the armed forces of ukraine to try to get a piece of paper from a military unit for the customs office in some military unit

that it is asking for such and such a car no, this is not a problem now because according to the documentation and instructions in the military unit, there should be so much, period , and if they want more well, only when the tpp is on fire. let's say this. and when the test is on, then you don't collect money until you use it until you repair it and paint it, then it will already be . get in the way because the volunteers are running around looking for some letter for the unit commander to sign so that it is possible to drive that jeep and at the same time let's remember what the state did at the beginning of the war and it did very simply, it said there will be no tolls for cars, go take as much as you need and what the people did economically, they took dollars and took them abroad. and they brought that junk to the bazaar, but not for

the volunteer, but for their business, and as a result, we had a shortage of suvs in europe for the army, it is not it happened, but today they say. and now collect a few bills, you know the bureaucracy in the army today derails any commander of the first and second echelons , that is, a platoon commander, a company commander, a battalion commander, they fall asleep with the thought of an official investigation for dismissal or for some other purpose and wake up with that thought , the company commander must find a piece of paper in the trench, fill out a written paper version of the vehicle write-off report and provide a photo report, do you understand that this is but for today, i won’t even tell you about the schedule, that’s it, and the owners of the peasants in the dugout. i won’t talk about it anymore. you understand what they’re thinking now. and when will we fight? we have to

do official investigations recently, colleague yura . a serviceman wrote after being hospitalized after being wounded in order to receive a military uniform. well, everything is already cut there, the doctors cut them when they were saving lives and so on, so he has to go through several circles of hell in order to collect all the relevant signatures and pieces of paper so that he could smoke, gave him another set because it is supposed to be so much water, you understand what we have lived through and we want in those white fields with cleaned papers. and you know, the bigger the stack of paper with reports and official investigations, the more covered the ass is in front of our famous dbr unfortunately, they are bringing us to this, and this is more of today's hostilities, well, you know, it reminds me of the 15th year, when it was also the impression that the military bureaucracy recovered and decided that well, it turned out that military operations were not so dangerous. well, let's go

let's get involved and get busy. what do we also need to show that we will go there a couple of times to the front, check the documents, we will get a ubd for this, let's also not forget that the bureaucrats in the rear have a great motive, so, well , we've already gone through all this once and i would really like it to go through this stage. we have somehow already stopped it, finally, so that it does not go back to the circle, but somehow it has to be closed. from the requirements and this should actually be done by the minister, don’t invent why there is no need for lighthouses, why are they there? people came up with it. it’s all right, it’s just that it’s all right to ban it with your decisions. he has every right to do it. he has all the authority to do it, in the end. we have a certain special time like this, a special period on this

occasion, he needs to intensify his efforts as a minister . ok, let's move on to hostilities again. well, in the svatov direction, in principle, there are also attempts by the ukrainian army to level the front line with on the other hand, we know that in the svatov direction and in the area, the enemy has been criminalizing during the last few days there, and has also continued attempts to raise troops there to carry out local offensives in order to stop the ukrainian advance. in the area of ​​soledar and bakhmut, as if, well, they actually stopped their active actions in all other

directions . some certain potential viktor what do you think well, it seems to me that this is more likely connected with the fact that now there is a russian army from the crack of an independent one-man, so the structure of rebirth and the desire to show it is now more interesting to show that it is further, we er, it does not run everywhere and but it is precisely a resource that needs to be protected because it is not such an undesirable resource , that is why in other swellings we are rather trying to hold back ukrainian advances, including at the expense of a counterattack, but it is necessary to understand that now it is in this war with your names, that is, what does it matter to him the principle imposes interests, they do not try in different countries will measure a piece of five