i was in the direction of bakhmut, they were talking about soledar about bakhmut, and then volodymyr zelenskyi said that the office of the president actually promised that they said that the units that defend these cities, meaning bakhmut, soledar is provided with all the necessary ammunition promptly and without interrupting and finally, he said, during the meeting, it was discussed about strengthening the armed forces of ukraine with equipment and weapons that come from partners, and the president also said that the advisers considered the issue of strengthening the defense forces with the help of weapons equipment, which as i said they come from partners and are in service with the ukrainian army . we are talking about the situation in soledar for the fourth, if not the fifth, day in a row . eh, as i already said, the soldiers of prigozhina are again reporting, at least they are writing in the channels about the fact that now, as of the evening, the

city is allegedly captured, although there is official information confirming or refuting anya from the armed forces of ukraine anya, what is important to note here anya from the ministry the defense of russia did not arrive two days earlier , wagner's command center had already reported that they allegedly captured soledar, that soledar is completely controlled by wagner's mercenaries, and on the same day, from the ministry of defense of russia . the ministry of defense of russia just received information that the fighting is ongoing, that the city is controlled by russia from several sides, but not completely, so we are now waiting for confirmation from all possible sides who can tell what is happening in soledar and i understand that andriy illenko, an officer of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, has already joined our broadcast. good evening, representatives of freedom will

join our broadcast for the third time in a row. andrii what is happening in soledar, i am reading telegram channels er, the wagnerites , in particular, are once again spreading the information that they took soledar. can you comment. can you hear us? look, you have to listen to the wagnerites, there’s some other er-er nonsense. and you have to listen to the official reports of the general staff, and they actually give information that is true and relevant at the moment, satanaria. the situation is difficult, there are heavy battles and all that the ukrainians who are in it can do now in order to to help the defenders of solidarity is to maintain informational discipline, listen to your army and help in everything you can. and

do not inform the general staff about all important events, important new ones. i see that you are connecting with us somewhere from a trench or from a very dark place. well, i'm just explaining to our viewers that you are directly somewhere on the foothills near soledar. i understand that you are in the bakhmut direction. let 's look in the bakhmut direction in the bakhmut direction - this is 50-60 km from the front . plus or minus, we are oriented because this is also our direction. well , then, tell me what happened today. maybe recently or just now, do you know what is happening in soledar? well, i just said that, there are heavy battles, that's all for now moment we can say yesterday we quoted the western press, in particular cnn journalists, we know from reuters journalists work in soledar on his tricks and they record the testimony of the ukrainian military and the ukrainian

military also talk about the difficult situation and wonder if there is any sense in continuing to defend soledar or is there not a big threats to the lives of ukrainian servicemen, and because we know of cases when the ukrainian army left the city to save lives, or as you wish, whether or not it happened there at the moment this situation is not a surrounded city, for example , firstly, it is not surrounded by ukrainians, ukrainian units are not surrounded, this is the most important information, secondly, look , such decisions must be made with all the information i have . we have our tasks that we perform in our area of ​​the front, this is the level of information, the level of decision-making that i have is the general staff, where

our best officers sit, the best tactics strategies that analyze all the completeness of information and they make a decision on how best to act in a certain situation, when it is better to do this or that tactical maneuver or make this or that decision. i think that for almost a year of full-scale war, everyone has become convinced that they know their business and do it well. they make adequate decisions based on the situation in order to be as effective as possible in order to destroy the enemy and to uh, including and it is very important to save our soldiers and their lives, that is why the decisions they make they accept them on the basis of exactly the entire full information therefore well, i will not take but i am not a military expert in kyiv on the couch who knows everything about everything and definitely knows better to do better than for alkaline and so on i do as i trust our military command, i trust that they make the decisions that are

needed at the moment, there will be some decisions , they will inform about it, we know about it. of course, all of them will, well, all these decisions will be really based on destroying the enemy as much as possible and preserving the lives of our soldiers as much as possible, we will also wait for official information, definitely then. please tell me what you currently lack in the direction of bakhmut. i see the statement of the president. he says that the situation in soledar in bakhmut was discussed today. he says that operational and uninterrupted supplies of ammunition will be provided . what is the situation with ammunition, which weapons do you need ? there is one more point that is missing, which i often had to hear from the military yesterday that the temperature in the direction of bakhmut is sub-zero and that there are very big problems with frostbite soldiers, please tell me, of course, the weather conditions have a very strong effect, because when the temperature is -15, the steppe wind blows, and no matter how

warmly you dress and how much thermal clothing you wear, after 2-3 hours of being in the position, it becomes extremely it is cold, there is a risk, including frostbite of the limbs, and so on. therefore, now the primary issue is the provision of chemical heaters, well, those that can be tucked under gloves and shoes. this is an extremely important thing. we provide this to our soldiers, and we try to maximize to provide, well, if only now. who is collecting, helping the army, this is very important now. these are very important things that are very necessary, fortunately, today the weather is already starting to warm up according to the weather forecast, there will be warmer days, and such severe frosts are already being left behind, this is very good because of course, this will make it much easier for the soldiers to stay directly in the trenches at the front, what else is important, well, ammunition, of course, in

war there is no situation when you have enough ammunition, as always happens. not enough because you want to pour more on the enemy i want to destroy it even more, but in general, i can note that the supply situation is, in principle, completely normal, stable, on the contrary, it can be noted that the enemy has serious problems with ammunition. in fact, they talk about it all the time, including publicly. we have seen all the statements of those what about the wagnerites who said that they have a shortage of shells and so on. our high-mars are working very well, destroying their warehouses with ammunition and destroying their logistics. and that is why we see it, including on the front line by the way, i want to say again, returning to the official sources of information, i note that, for example, the russian ministry of defense does not confirm the information disseminated by wagner's mercenaries about the alleged capture of soledar andriy,

please tell me what tactics are currently being used by wagner's mercenaries, as they are now in these days they are waging a war there in the direction of bakhmut, and has their behavior changed in any way in recent days ? prigozhin did not cope with his task in the direction of bakhmut, and they say that now he is enjoying himself - soldiers, this is his last chance to secure a position in the russian army there, how the whole political situation in russia may have somehow affected the situation on the battlefield, well , look at it from the point of view it is quite difficult to assess a specific section of the front, how it changed there in a day or two, it did not change in any way, that is, it is obvious that we are talking about more global processes, which consist in the fact that we already see the outlines of the complete probable future civil war in russia i

believe that after ukraine finally defeats russia in russia or what is left of it, a bloody multi-family terrible civil war will begin and we already see this wagner, we see these cadres, we see their conflicts with their military command that is, we see that it is already maturing and this resignation of surovikin and the appointment of gerasim, but it is definitely not an accidental process and is definitely part of this internal struggle in russia itself, their military and political leaders right there the next day it is displayed well , it can't happen so quickly in terms of tactics well, actually, tactics well, if you've watched films about the second world war, you can roughly imagine that tactics only add to this drones and, more precisely, artillery. this is what will happen now in the direction of bakhmut, that is, it is general troops, this kind of battle is the

use of artillery, tanks, aviation, but the basis is still the infantry, because until the infantry enters a certain position, it means that this position will not be captured, respectively, until the infantry is in a position, which means that this position is still controlled, as a result, the main role will still be played by the infantry, infantry battles, infantry assaults, very often, very close contact, there are 50, 100 m going to go , a lot of artillery, so this is a battle like the second situation only i speak with drones and more precisely with artillery. thank you very much for finding the time and connecting to our broadcast. andrii illenko, an officer of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, thanks to which we have the opportunity to hear live what is happening in soledar and andriy lenko said that the city is not surrounded and that there are currently ongoing battles there, thank you very much. well, about the situation in donetsk region, not only about soledar and also about personnel rotations

. once good evening good evening i'm sorry there's just no light and no connection, it 's just me i think today they outlined them in the general staff that allegedly russia is going to seize the donetsk region in the near future and then transfer its efforts to zaporizhzhia, how realistic is this in principle well in theory maybe in practice i think it is very unlikely look more than 7 months in the direction of bakhmut , the russians are the second army of the world how they positioned themselves, there are almost no gains. the only thing is that the salty influence somewhere in them is getting something, but also with great losses, and before that, all the more so in the offensive in the zaporizhia

direction, they have to do soledar bakhmut and only after that they can worry about gaining fresh strength and moving somewhere further, but as long as he is just like that, they will not let him do anything. well, what can you say now about the situation directly in soledar, if if the russian army mercenaries manage to capture this city, then this will become, i understand, the greatest achievement of moscow in recent times, how close, from your point of view, is the russian army to this goal ? he says that the city is not surrounded, but heavy fighting is going on, which the wagnerites themselves say, they have been saying this for a week, but they are again spreading information that the city is allegedly captured, so what could be the situation there in the coming days, or will the fighting continue for hours you rightly

pointed out that they urgently need a victory, they need a victory, because the situation is very difficult, very difficult, he took on a lot of obligations before he was allowed to recruit prisoners a lot of equipment, but he did not fulfill all his promises, and he understands that the longer he drags on and the fascination, the greater the probability that he will simply be thrown into the dustbin of history. well , so figuratively, but in fact he can lose his life. and they will supply some new owner of the nominal volume, he, taking into account all these circumstances, beats his hoof and tries to inform that we have already seized it, we are already cleaning it up , that is, you see, our military does not confirm this at all, but he has to to be visited by higher management that the chief of yours is still hopeful i have justified and then i can

not but ask you about the personnel changes in the russian army that literally took place against the background of fierce battles for soledar e. troops in ukraine, the chief of the general staff valery gerasimova, political scientists say that this was a decision of the exceptional putin, what does he tell you about this decision, why did they replace syrovyks with gerasim, i will explain everything correctly political scientists say that the decision was made at the highest political level, it was made directly by putin, now what do we have? i wanted to say mr. simply gerasimo, types of gerasimo, the chief of the general staff, look at its structure, the general staff can conduct a dozen different operations at the same time in the central

african republic. yes, in ukraine but now it turns out that he commanded everything, everything, the entire command of the russian general staff is focused only on the ukrainian company, only on the operations in ukraine, they call it. that is , we understand what their rates are, yes, they are high , extremely high, what a high price, what efforts to throw there, and i see that in this way it was recognized as such. no therefore, rather, with such a move, putin is trying to rebalance the military such a component in the russian federation. recently, preference has been given to a couple of militarist organizations. there are some others, including rusi or kadyrov, and the russian army, it was completely discredited, do you remember latina, how they filmed , how they insulted the sheik, the plywood marshal, how they insulted

gerasimov in an obscene manner on the air, now we see how this throne begins to bend in the other direction, putin takes the side of the security forces and i think that the influence of prigozhin may decrease very significantly in the near future, especially if we do not manage to capture anything in the next few weeks, i guess i am already counting on your comment ivan stupak , military expert of the ukrainian institute of the future, we talked about the situation in donetsk region, about soledar and about personnel rotations in the russian command, thank you very much, and one more topic, is it possible to rest in paris and bukovel during the war, publish photos from your vacation on social networks? well , we can assume that the answer lies somewhere in moral - on the ethical level, hardly on the legal level. although now we will talk with a lawyer, but if you are a civil servant, your place of work is the state border service and you receive a salary at the expense of ukrainian taxpayers

taxes and if at the same time there is reason to believe that your expenses significantly exceed your official income, here are a number of such questions . during the last week, internet users voiced their opinions to the address of ivanna bluntovska, the spokeswoman of the southern department of the state border service, who impressed users with her vacation in paris. well, not only with a vacation, but because the prism of platovska came to the attention of bloggers and activists and even some politicians in the head of ivan serhiy mul, a top official of the state border service, wrote on the network that he allegedly has a passport of another country, that anti-corruption authorities are interested in him, that he is being searched, we tried to find out what is true, and what is not, well, of course, we started with a bright vacation in platov, the spokeswoman of the southern department of the state border service spent the new year holidays in paris, as she writes, with ukraine in her heart on a mercedes with a name plate on vacation in bukovel or

abroad, ivanna published all these photos already during the full-scale war between russia and ukraine. come to the defense of this woman who works as a press secretary because i see how she is now being attacked and poured with shit and the main complaint is how she looks mixed with the fact that she is a civil servant i apologize and what is wrong with her in her appearance, what does her professionalism even matter here whether her income as a civil servant coincides with a luxurious lifestyle. although this is also the question. the question is that publishing such photos during the war, being in such service, is an incurable disease. the press officer herself from odessa has now stopped communicating and closed her profiles in social networks before that complained about haters and noted that we will soon hear her truth, will she remain in the service or not, this is what they answered to the request of radio liberty in the main office of the border guards, the decisions will be within the framework

of the legislation, it is a pity that in wartime when most of our brothers with weapons in with their hands, they defend the country and die for it in the ranks of the dps, those who pay more attention exclusively to their personal life, at the same time flaunting it, to put it mildly, moreover, the demonstration of which contradicts moral norms and is unacceptable during the war, everything will be fair however, not only ivanna platovska, but her chief serhiy mul, major general of the dpsu, also found himself in the focus of public attention about him in the context of the story with the press officer, wrote facebook user andriy boyechko, who has more than 23,000 subscribers, saying that major general of the dpsu , during the searches, the law enforcement officers found millions of dollars in undeclared cash, such a passport in the name of a colombian citizen, the post was collected for a thousand distributions of my meta-post so that during the state war scumbags did not serve military structures

and did not steal people's money, they are convinced that sergei mol has a passport of a colombian citizen, of course, i am not convinced, but i am 90% sure that he has a passport of another country, another benefit of colombia, then it was a joke, for sure, i understand what you are saying about what you wrote that the general of the state border service has a colombian passport and that it is a joke that you are not sure that this is true at all and then why write? you do not think that what the readers of which 20,000 see are taken for fact although there are not so many resources, they submitted this information in the 21st year, i simply translated it from russian to ukrainian, put the text to my belt, the published information was called false in a comment for radio liberty, and serhii himself went to court for defamation. now his lawyer is preparing and one more lawsuit, law enforcement agencies must prove to society who originally published the

false information, who spread it and who should be responsible. i believe that the actions of these persons should be dealt with by the security service of ukraine, which should give an assessment of the actions of these persons or do these persons work in the information field of the aggressor country last year information about the colombian passport and million-dollar fortune of the major general of the dpsu was first made public by one of the channels' telegrams, some media and bloggers reprinted it, but after finding out the original source, they officially doubted the authenticity the head of the regional division of the state border service suspects the non-declaration of a house in the suburbs of kyiv worth uah 1.5 million. well, now we will try to analyze this whole story without emotion with an expert before the air maksym kostetsky, lawyer,

legal adviser, joins in. good evening. greetings. good evening to you . let's go in order. let's start. by the way, i liked the vacation of spokeswoman ivanna pantovska . the income of the question is that she rested on the background of the war and what, whatever you say, does this situation lie in any legal legal plane , you know, there are really two aspects of this issue , that is, the number one issue of morality and the ethics of how an official behaves during martial law, that is, what people react to very sharply now is how when people who in war conditions give absolutely everything and sometimes it is greater than those who are among them in order to help the armed forces or directly protect the country in the ranks of the armed forces, it

hurts them a lot when there are people in the country who, unfortunately, do not live by war, but try to satisfy their personal needs in some way, and there is definitely a second component to this story, that is, they roughly say that the earnings of an ordinary employee of the state border service of ukraine, we can talk about the fact that the level of expenses published on its public pages may probably exceed the income it has, and if we are already talking about such things, then we can talk about the fact that the border service is not just about any region of ukraine, and one of the most scandalous in fact, because the southern administration, which is located in the city of odesa, has repeatedly faced searches from both the state bureau of investigation and the anti-corruption bureau of ukraine connected with alleged abuses as well as corruption offenses, just

recently inspections were carried out in odesa, in one of which, for example, an mi-2 helicopter was found, and according to preliminary estimates, the value of the goods amounted to at least one and a half billion hryvnias, for which there were no documents and there were no corresponding funds sent income of the state from customs payments that should have been paid to the question of how the customs and border service work in conditions of war, they are definitely present in society and if does the administration of the state border service show the high level of expenses that it incurs and moreover flaunts it? of course, this raises questions in society, but in addition, it should raise questions in law enforcement agencies as to whether there is abuse on the part of such a person and more there was no question of the fact that she, as well as the persons under her supervision , may commit some offenses related

to corruption or corruption crimes directly. and this is what the dbr should was to take into account, taking into account the whole scandal, to say that there are law enforcement agencies that can check the declaration, the declaration is now closed for the nasal passages but nevertheless, i think that the law enforcement officers have access to the declaration to see whether ms. ivanna earned money for such a car there or not. if not, it is the one who is he from, where is he from, she does not have the ability to check the declaration and this or that official at the same time, you absolutely spent in the fact that the law enforcement officers have access to these registers and they can carry out these proceedings, here is the question of course that law enforcement officers are incredibly overloaded with work in the conditions of martial law, at the same time, i am convinced that the issue of corruption can not be completely secondary during the war, because when the country seeks literally dollar after dollar abroad from international partners, trying to find additional resources to protect the country from aggression

it is absolutely unacceptable to spend state resources on the support and whims of individuals who are also officials. that is , we cannot assert we cannot assert that this or that person of course, she committed some crimes, but if there is reason to say that they could have been committed, then the law enforcement officers are obliged to carry out an inspection in our place in literally two minutes, just one more question. i also want to analyze the story with sergi, well, this is the direct manager of ivanna's company, the head of the southern the customs office, well, there bloggers say that he allegedly has passports, and the lawyer says that this is not true, but there is a specific suspicion, yes, from nabu, allegedly, for not declaring a valuable house somewhere near kyiv, and what do we even know about mr. serhiy amul well, it has been a long time, let 's say, there is information circulating on the network about some undeclared houses worth several million dollars, about cash, foreign currency

that was discovered during the search, at the same time , this information was not officially confirmed by bloggers. when they publish this information, they do not refer to it. to some specific sources related to law enforcement agencies , that is, they say that such information was discovered. simply, if it is really confirmed, then the question arises directly about those people who carried out if it is open criminal proceedings on the fact of possible illegal enrichment or non- declaration of property on the part of mr. amul and because in such a case he must definitely this case should have long been submitted to the court in the form of an indictment and the prosecutor's office and we will bring it to some logical conclusion in our unfortunately , very often everything ends at the stage when there is either preliminary suspicion of a person

committing an offense or, moreover , even without suspicion at all, just a preliminary check that does not even reach the logical level the consequence in the form of expressing suspicion to some official and if it does not reach the stage of complicating the indictment and transferring the case to court, then this is simply history written with saws on water, and not the fight against corruption, and i hope that the state investigation bureau, which allegedly conducted searches of mr. general - major if this information is really confirmed, it will bring such cases to a logical conclusion, because the head of a separate regional department of the dpsu is not just an official, he is a person who is responsible for millions and millions of funds that were supposed to go to the state budget in the form of customs duties and other payments that should work for the people of ukraine and for our armed forces, well, it’s interesting, then we’ll wait for information. by the way, i want to say that the

state border guard promised not even about mrs. ivanna service to make public some kind of internal investigation to make public some kind of summary of this investigation, but so far there is none well, ivanna herself promised to tell the truth, but so far she is not telling the same as her manager serhii mul, the lawyers are also preparing lawsuits regarding this passport information thank you very much maksym kostetsky lawyer legal adviser we talked about what is happening in the state border service we will monitor the situation in soledar or not miss anything subscribe to the pages of radio svoboda on the internet and svoboda life will return to the air tomorrow