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on espresso i am olga lentsa the chronicle of the fighting for a week and let's first of all let's see how the military operations have progressed in the last few days, a map of the military operations for the period of january 19-25, the offensive on bakhmut slowed down, the russian offensive near bakhmut slowed down, the occupiers decided to sweep next zaporizhzhia, however, it ended in failure, the week-long battle summary came down to a conditional parity, despite the fact that the russians continue to accumulate manpower to break through the bakhmut direction, luhansk region, active positional battles are taking place in the area of ​​the recently liberated novoselovsk, the russians are trying every day to force our soldiers to retreat from the matchmaker near the flint army, the armed forces continue to approach city ​​through the forests on the southern side, and the occupiers at this time are trying to counterattack in the area to the west of the city, as

well as near the bakhmut platform without advancing after the complete capture of soledar, the front line of the breach on the northern edge of soledar in bakhmut itself, there is a slight advance of the enemy in the sector of low -rise buildings, gradually disappearing under a flurry of artillery strikes to the south of the city , the russians occupied klichchivka, which was previously actually surrounded by their troops and for several days in a row passed from the hands of hands further south, the enemy is trying to break through from kurdyumivka to white mountain, which covers the approaches to kostiantynivka along the entire length of the bakhmut meat grinder, russian nazis they are increasing the number of manpower and throwing it in all possible directions in order to find weak points in the defense, meanwhile, their meat is getting less and less, it has already gotten to the point that the 640th and 6410th artillery divisions, which are the elite backbone of the occupying army, have been transferred to the rifle regiment

aka1 which used to consist exclusively of those mobilized in donbas, in addition , the enemy's logistics is not able to cope with the supply of shells, and the aid to ukrainians has increased significantly, therefore, if at the beginning of the war, the enemy prevailed in our country, spending tens of times 60,000 shots per day, now a conditional parity of 5,000 art shots per day has been established on the front, the russians have switched on economy mode, which is caused not least by the destruction of ammunition depots, last day we exploded in kadiivka. storming maryinka, staromykhailivka, vugledar, prechistivka , and the great novosilka, but these attacks are not of the nature of a powerful offensive, it is rather a reconnaissance by battle near zaporizhzhia, the enemy tried simulate a real major offensive that began simultaneously. at five locations with a length of 40 km, small groups of invaders

attacked through lugove pyatykhatky , nesterenko, small shcherbaki, and also the area of ​​small tokmachka . the main directions of the attacks were kamiansk , nyativka, and malynyvka. at first, the russians managed to advance through the gray zone but after receiving a tangible response, they retreated to the previous position, it is noticeable that in the absence of a sufficient amount of artillery , the enemy uses fighters and rotorcraft for the strike force as a result in recent days, our anti-aircraft troops have shot down four k-52 helicopters and two su-25 attack aircraft, while the defense forces continue to destroy the warehouses and concentration of the occupiers in zaporizhzhia, another accumulation of ammunition in the canopy flew into the air, as well as the military base in berdyansk, kherson region, the ukrainian armed forces demilitarized the occupiers in the kakhovka region novoi kakhovka skadovska head of the marina of the great kardashinka, as well as in cornflowers

. we defeat death to the enemy every day. so let's discuss it in more detail with ivan marchenko, a soldier of the ukrainian armed forces, an expert on security issues, and oleksiy hetman, a military analyst, a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war . greetings, gentlemen, do you hear me ? good day. glory to ukraine . glory to the heroes. mr. ivan and mr. ivan, tell me something like this, our observers said in the map of hostilities that the actions in the area of ​​bakhmut have slowed down and in principle some kind of parity has formed there in the artillery, is it related to what has been exhausted, is it preparation for something bigger? what do you think? well, in fact, today

, the activation package of the active armed forces of the russian federation is taking place, and for me it is similar to the activity that the russians showed at the end signed on at the beginning of the summer, when it became known that the timers would come to ukraine. they knew exactly what kind of weapon it was, they knew, approximately, in this case, they already knew what its weight might be in a modern war . of the wider front, that is 1,200 km of the front line, they observed extraordinary activity with the resource that the russians had at that time, namely the resource of artillery weapons, and accordingly we understand that it was then that the russians actively tried to wake up, and somewhere with a barrage of fire, where was the signal to their own that we have everything in order, everything is fine

. well, accordingly, somewhere to destroy the greater part of the ukrainian armed forces and to advance in certain areas of the front at the expense of such , they were the only sleeper to date the resource that the russians have is the only noticeable one, of course. and they have a little bit of everything else. but at the same time, it is far from the fact that they did not start a large-scale aggression . human flesh as they use it and because of that they are trying with all their might to attack tens of thousands of newly mobilized citizens recruited in russian prisons in all areas of the front where they are at least close approaching the ukrainian forces. i associate this with the newly announced in 2023 deliveries of new weapons to ukraine and

the american two tranches that they are currently allocating and of course the decisions at rammstein at the rammstein site and the decisions that are currently taking place regarding the provision of the ukrainian defense forces with german leopard 2 tanks that more than a dozen countries in the world are ready to give us. well, we're talking about all these supplies. let 's talk a little later. later in the second half of the program, uh, because there's a lot to talk about, and you don't want it like that. in passing, i want to discuss in more detail, but now , i would like to clarify a few more nuances of the situation of bakhmut and the soledar itself, mr. oleksiy, the loss of the soledar. secondly, i wonder if we can now understand where the russians are trying to advance from there, after all, the conversation about

solidar has been going on for more than a week about what if there is a large concentration of russian military forces in this direction then it makes no sense to keep our line of defense there, because it simply leads to great losses among our servicemen, therefore it makes sense to withdraw at dawn from pre-prepared positions, which are well behind bakhmut behind soledar to slavyansk konstantinovka , certain professional structures have already been built there, on which we can hold the defense no worse than us, she kept her defense near solidar, and well, in solidar, now near bakhmut, what is she trying to do? well , it can be seen on this map, what you are showing now , they want to surround bakhmut from the north and from half a day, eh. in this way, we can make a ring in which our armed forces can find themselves, and then, well, then we will understand that it will be difficult. i think that they have a little bit

, now i think that they actually have a little bit of a change in the tactics of conducting hostilities. president putin is now the minister of the vikings of the gerasimov team, he sees differently the tactics of launching hostilities, if prigozhinsky, the wagner pvk engaged in mass attacks in small groups of three or even 30 people, depending on the area, where they tried to attack, now battalion-tactical groups are already attacking there, well, that is, large military formations in terms of numbers , well, this is inherent in the iranians, their vision of waging war is different from theirs, what can this mean, first of all , parity in artillery well, for now that the advantage is still the nearest russian federation in terms of the number of shots. but the weapons provided to us by our partners are more accurate , so if you take into account how many targets were hit at which the shots were fired, our

number exceeds that number hit targets on the part of the russian federation, that is, it is necessary to introduce not just the number of shots, but also some conditional coefficient on the quality of hits. therefore , for the time being, we are holding the defense there. it makes sense for us to continue to hold this defense. they will still attract a large number of people , then i don’t see the point of holding this particular place , you can retreat to positions that have already been prepared there, large engineering works have been done, and there already hold the defense of bakhmut for the russians well, just like solidar - these are cities that only have a state of war as much as a political garden in order to show inside their country that they are achieving some advantages for us. well, what do they want to do , they want to be on the constantinovka, this is understandable because it

a large railway junction and here it is. well, it may prevent us from supplying certain resources to our armed forces. but it seems to me that even if you listen to their cucumbers, but he says that in order to advance there they will need five months, as it was, it will continue already almost six months with bakhmut, and even more time, even more resources , so there is no need. well, we need to, among and about the solidar, there is no need to panic, sprinkle ashes on the head in a big way in the general picture of the conduct of the war . is to destroy the line of defense that goes from seversk to maryinka , that if bakhmut is captured there

, for example, the ukrainian forces will have to retreat as well. it shows what uh, what kind of gear lines are there, you can’t hear very well now uh, so the practice of modern war already shows enough examples when they had the opportunity to actively defend themselves, to work, including in a semi-surrounded state, including even in the environment, they were able to provide effective the result of the destruction of the enemy, our fighters, and therefore such lines, forecasts that once they moved away from the soledar, accordingly , they should move a couple of kilometers along the entire front line, no , in fact, this is not so, we are waiting for those gray means that will allow us to move to large-scale offensive offensive operations. but at the same time, in today's defense, which is an active defense

on the part of the ukrainian defense forces, we are capable of demonstrating almost every week the ability to repel the enemy or at the position from which he began to attack or further and further and accordingly. this logic does not work. i absolutely do not predict that we will have to retreat in other parts or withdraw in other parts of the front, on the contrary, there is an expectation that we will not to wait for spring in order to start active offensive actions, because the enemy is exhausted and the enemy is waiting for the next wave, which they are gradually announcing, for which they are preparing public opinion in russia, the next wave of mobilized people, he is now exhausting that part of the mobilized people who gathered, although it is necessary to pay tribute to about a hundred thousand or they still have more than a hundred thousand in reserve that they have not yet

had time to plow in ukrainian land for the 300,000 that they collected last fall, we also understand that this is the resource that is important which will definitely add and adds to today's trouble eh requires additional efforts from us but at the same time, i will repeat myself again, we have no other land, we have no other choice, of course, we will remove them either eh in soledar or under bakhmut or on other areas of the ukrainian front, the advance of the russians, which they ensured during this week, these are definitely pyrrhic victories of a small, smaller or larger scale, because we understand, we see what losses they bear, these losses are confirmed in that among the development of our partners, we understand that

there are hundreds and hundreds of creatures placed in ukrainian land for 100 m of ukrainian land . well, that is, they are not worth the promotions that they have won. the announced weapons have still arrived and there is some sort of reformatting and we only have it in order to get at least some important, not important, different positions, and even this is not just throwing manpower, for example, it has not been for a long time beating of the russian air force and in the last week, three su-25s have already been shot down. that is, these are already involved planes, this means that they are actively conducting offensive actions, or are they now probing and looking for places for these offensive actions, what is happening with such an administration because they are not

they used aviation well, they almost didn’t use it the way they do it now, well, it can be considered that they have , well, they need to see how our anti-air defense works, because we received a lot of ppp tools from our partners, they they want to see how they work. well, they looked and saw that they work well. first of all, secondly, about the so-called front line, when we look at the map and there is some kind of border drawn, where are our military personnel and the military personnel of the russian federation, well, this is, by and large , a little conditional the line of such a line, well, there is no such clear line. this is not the first world war, and you do not dig trenches in the fate of this line. there are certain places, well, in the fields, where for several kilometers there are no urban legs of our troops at all, that is, it cannot be said that

there is such a clear line, the line of collision, you can say that certain places are controlled either by our armed forces or by the armed forces of the russian federation, therefore , uh, it is assumed that they are uh, surrounding bakhmut , turned around, solidar, that they will somehow change the front line. well, let's do more since there is no such front line as we are used to, according to some movie we watched there about the first or second world war, for now, a slightly different war is being held by certain groups in certain places , so there is no need. well, you need to worry that they are somehow trying to do something powerful the most important thing for us is to control the roads along which we can deliver e.e. supply - supply ammunition e.e. rotate people because people cannot be constantly in combat, they need to get a sense of the weapons to clean the weapons at least that is, there must be a certain rotation, there must be a certain medical help because it's cold, people can just catch a cold, sorry, it's such a small thing

, but we need a drink there or something . therefore, for now, we control the main roads that supply, from which logistics can go for of our army and to believe that they will make significant progress somewhere. well, they say correctly that they are starting to breathe out, they are already the guys who are directly on the battlefield and what they tell, they say that we are continuing, but there is a feeling that they are already losing strength, that is already this is the last strength, they say they are trying to do these actions, let's see, god forbid that this would happen, oleksiy, i will question you then. look, you said about the roads, well, if you say around bakhmut, that is the siver and bakhmut road, well practically, well, the russians have reached it. if well, it seems that they have already reached it somewhere, well, at least they are there, for sure, and they can shoot very well in several places there. i am not sure at all that it is possible to move along it, but how

did it affect, for example, the capture of a tick on the road that is going from bakhmut there, uh, i could go to kostyantynivka, but in that direction, another one, because, well , this is the key, in principle, the road is for securing bakhmut now, well, the roads, they used to be under fire control of the enemy, as well as their certain places of movement there are under with our fire control because of that. well, you know these roads completely. well, let's talk about the road. it's not just one road. there are many roads. it's just that if it's some kind of road. well , as they said before, without asphalt , it's bad somewhere when a person walks now. cool weather, by and large, you can work and, well, you can also move there, well. usually, this is done in small groups. well, they do it in the same way. russians do it in small groups . transport is moving at a low speed. we have such a

transport that can transport. these these ammunitions to transport people back and forth in order to carry out certain missions, that's why, so far, they have not been able and will not be able to advance to konstantinovka, this place . yes, we are. i think that losing it would be, well , very unpleasant for our armed forces. would then think about some new logistics like this how to do it so far this once again has a significant impact on everyone on the course of the war these actions are not that by and large after all it is not a political sense within the russian federation in order to show certain successes yes, there are fierce battles here and there right now, the front line that is being pressed about is nowhere, it could have already changed to one or another object during this transfer because there is constant fighting there , there is constant movement of small groups in

one direction or the other therefore, let's believe that everything will be fine, the guys are on the defensive there, you know the banal words , but they are showing heroism, but resilience, and let's believe in our armed forces and morally. on on the airwaves to support these people because many watch the broadcasts and they are very important to them in order to understand that behind them there are people who believe in them, who, you know, pray for them and succeed and believe that everything will work out, and that is why this front is - this is the information front, it is also important, it affects the moral stability and morale of our armed forces, directly on the difference. as you can see, such high-pitched words, but they have their place. well, i agree with you here, too. our tv channel

helps the front with all its might. we have iryna koval which it is directly targeted by the units that are currently fighting in the bakhmut region, so you contribute to our meetings, join them. this is just direct help to the defenders in that direction . well, let's see what else we actually have to look at this situation, which is near the coal mine and in the zaporizhzhia direction, because it is well, it was already said in our review that there was such an imitation attempt , so let's try to figure out whether it was an attempt or an imitation, but even if you take today's summary of the general staff of ukraine , it says that the enemy is conducting offensive actions in the area of ​​bakhmutskyi, lymanskyi, avdiivskyi, and novopavlivskyi, novo pavlivskyi - it is just, well, not far from the coal mine, so it turns out, that is, after all, there is an activation there, and there is some kind of attempt to show something, er,

mr. ivan. how do you evaluate these actions? there, that is what is this? what is the enemy trying to achieve? as before, the enemy usually tries to show that he knows how to fight, and every time a new chief arrives, i remind him that now they have raised the level of leadership , raised the status of the leadership of this so-called them of a special military operation to the level that it is managed by the entire chief of the general staff of the russian federation well, accordingly , he is trying to add his own zest to what his predecessors proposed, well, in particular , there sorobiken, when he came, he intensified the missile attacks on our peaceful ukrainian cities and the destruction of ukrainian infrastructure in that among the energy infrastructure is

now for certain successes in quotation marks, successes of course if we are talking about military art, but what the russians accurately assess as successes because they do not feel sorry for their countrymen they are ready to put them again in the millions just to support the existence of putin and, accordingly, success for them is even tens of thousands put there in order to advance 10,000 of their own citizens in order to advance two or three kilometers in soledar, i will remind you of the ukrainian liberation operations which er, territories of thousands of square kilometers were liberated during er -er large-scale military operations, let me remind you that in soledar, for example, a very impressive ukrainian town with an area of ​​14 m² with a population of only 10,000 er inhabitants and so

the russians raised this soledar to the flag, make it a bit like stalingrad, from which they say that the successes of the russian army will continue, understanding that they are working not so much for military success as it can be evaluated entirely in the spirit of zhukovsky's strategy, what are we don't feel sorry for your soldiers, providing one by one, these are pyrrhic victories, when each subsequent victory is given with even more blood, and to call it a victory is quite difficult compared to the scale in which the ukrainian defense forces work, releasing their territory but at the same time, as long as russian society eats it, as long as the generals are ready to put millions again for some uh lives for a high-rise for a small settlement, and of course ukrainians do not play this game , ukrainians understand that the ruins of a settlement are not what they are for it is necessary to put thousands and tens of thousands of our lives of our soldiers, we will save

this resource, the most valuable resource, we understand that we grind the russian e-e forces precisely in such defensive battles but at the same time, we do not perceive it as a fetish or as some kind of information e-e chip, be it a settlement or this or that high-rise, we constantly weigh our steps in view of how much we e- e use and correctly use , based on the values ​​of military military art, this or that position and if you see past or obtaining this positions will cost more than we will have the opportunity to gain as a result of the military consequences, then of course we will make decisions , including regarding populated areas. in relation to other settlements that our troops, for example, left, realizing

that it was becoming ineffective for protection, but in another place or in the same place as raisin , for example, does this apply to kupyansk, where fierce battles were fought, where russian troops stood under those populated areas for months points, the ukrainians liberated them later during large-scale counteroffensive and offensive operations concerning our zaporozhye front and the southern front, the russians are already using the tradition that was proposed by the prime minister, namely, you will spend a in reality, i say this word spend because i understand that these creatures are treated like people, not like people, and they are also russians, that is , to spend tens of thousands in order to get something small, but what can be said loudly on russian tv channels, that is, as of