[000:00:00;00] and the vassals of zaporizhzhia, mr. roman, what are they mainly shelling kharkiv? yes, do they have any stationary points , or do they bring equipment there, or do they use aviation from the left bank of the dnieper in the city? artillery of volley fire systems and self-propelled artillery installations , i.e. indiscriminately what they have at hand goes to the positions from that and they fire and unfortunately this leads to very serious consequences and

casualties among the civilian population and there is water now in kherson, what is the situation with the same electricity currently in the city, there are separate microdistricts, separate streets, where there is no water, the suburbs of kherson , antonivka, sadova, komysany, trans-dnieper , zelenivka, that is, where the most intense shelling is also located, the coastal zone below perekopsk street, indian street the highway is closer to the dnipro and the ostriv microdistrict, that is, there are several microdistricts, mainly hydroparks, oil fields , there are systematic shelling, there are serious problems with all social benefits, first of all, water, electricity. well, of course, in in the place itself, everything depends on the intensity of shelling and hitting this or that infrastructure, and this is a constant mode of change, there has been a shelling on this or that street

or, for example, a quarter of a microdistrict, there is no light, and emergency services in this mode 24/7 under constant shelling restore these vital supplies of services for the citizens of mr. romanov noted a very important point: the enemy is doing everything possible to simulate its large-scale presence on the left bank, that there are many of them and that , accordingly, there is a lot of equipment that can be used and what is the state of affairs in reality, uh, there are some such symptomatic things, such as medical equipment that they take away from doctors located in settlements near the dnipro, nova kakhovka, for example, and kakhovka, there is such information. where do they take all this to their hospitals ? which they organize more deeply or for some other needs, yes, such

information really exists, it is confirmed . to note that until now they practically did not serve the civilian population and mainly there the occupiers brought their doctors and e there they treated the occupiers who joined the troops of the russian federation . wounded servicemen of terrorists of the russian federation and the civilian population in such conditions are practically unable to receive normal medical care, this is a permanent operation, and such

transit hospitals, and where are they delivered wounded occupiers are already being transported to the crimea and to russian this is more for military experts, but i want to point out that now there is such a trend that it is present, but from time to time, let's say , certain nervous military personnel are noted during rotations and they now they have started to take such active actions in relation to such relocations where different cities are located. because our military continues to act and strike at points, including in the enemy's rear, in terms of manpower and equipment , literally this morning

, information about our military came in this morning. i think that it will be known in more detail from official sources from the general staff. well, they are present, and they are forced to imitate. well, they are not present at all. it should be. because our military has proven more than once that they can to switch to the left bank and attack the troops directly already in the places where the armed forces of the russian federation are deployed. thank you, mr. roman roman, the head as the deputy mayor of kherson, the head of the humanitarian project, the kherson hub was in touch with us as usual with relevant information about the kherson region and we are moving on let's talk about the ukrainian east andrii illenko, officer of the national guard freedom battalion , people's deputy of the previous convocations from the donetsk region, congratulations to andrii, glory

to ukraine glory to the heroes yesterday, the general staff of the armed forces forces of ukraine refuted the reports of russian propagandists about the capture of the wagnerites from the village of blagodatne, which is north of bakhmut, please share the current situation also near blagodatny and in general in the area of ​​bakhmut, well, first of all, i always say this and will say that you should trust only the official reports of the general staff ukrainian military personnel should always understand that in addition to the war that is being waged directly on the battlefield, there is also an information war, and this information war also has its own logic, has its own goals and is one of the main goals that the enemy of the information war is facing is the spread of panic in our ranks, the spread of disappointment, and the spread of all kinds of negative consequences of mutual distrust, and so on. and that is why they very often spread outright fakes , exaggerate their successes, or simply

invented these successes, and so on and so on. that's why, of course , you need to pay attention to and trust only official, verified ukrainian sources, and not various fakes, various uh, well, various informational crap. to be difficult, nothing super exclusive, i can't tell you everything is as it was there yesterday, the day before yesterday and a week ago and two weeks ago and more the battle for bakhmut has been going on since the middle of the summer, the battle is very intense the battle is very tense er there are constant attempts by the enemy to introduce offensive actions ukrainian defense is repulsed, attempts are underway, heavy battles are going on , mainly infantry battles at fairly close distances, and i can say that our freedom battalion, our fourth operational brigade of the national guard, all

units that are in the armed forces national guards of other defense forces. those who are in the direction of bakhmut , all of them honorably carry out their tasks, destroy the enemy, hold the positions that have been determined and, despite very difficult conditions, continue to perform all combat tasks . as well as all other settlements around bakhmut because he is trying to surround the city to get out on its main roads that connect bakhmut with the rest of the territory under the control of ukraine, and actually the same attempts are being made from the south the same attempts are being made from the north , that is, in this way they are trying to capture the city of the flanks and around this, around these populated areas, heavy battles are being waged, well, i want to say that well, in general, the question is why muscovites

they do it here, in principle, it already has such a philosophical character, because in principle, if you understand it, in principle, no, they do it because they want to destroy the ukrainian nation, and each and every settlement, every city, every village - this is actually another step, and in order to destroy us on the one hand, and to protect us on the other hand, and to prevent them from doing this to mr. andrii, we are constantly following ova's reports about the number of victims among the civilian population, of course. and it seems to me that the last the other day, thank god, there are no direct reports of the deaths of civilians in bakhmut, meanwhile , we have the times of yar periodically, kostiantynivka would seem to be more stylish places in the donetsk region, eh, how can this be explained, eh, they are

shelling different settlements, we are different weapons, if we are talking about bakhmut, then it goes directly to the wagon barrel artillery mortars, that is, they are already firing there with mortars, they drive the wagons, of course, from the barrel artillery, it is chaotic fire , that is, in fact, in bakhmut itself, it is unlikely that anyone will find even one whole house, that is, there uh everything is either destroyed or at least cut by debris , windows are broken by blast waves, and so on. that is, it is like this, well , a chaotic fire, eh, in a populated place, in a city, eh, if we are talking about cities that a little far from the front line, this time, iv yar or kostiantynivka or other settlements, they are already going there, well, let's say more long-range weapons, mostly missiles now, lately it's

mostly modified s-300s there may be some other missiles with which they are already hitting at a fairly long distance, er, there they are already trying to implement at some specific points, but again, er, it is very often completely chaotic fire, they shoot at ordinary civilian infrastructure, that is, how recently there was a shelling of kostyantynivka when they just got into the yard of a normal residential building , that is, to look again for some logic in their actions, well, it’s just stop , scoundrels who have the opportunity to shoot at the peaceful city, they will shoot, well, we have already seen this, for example, in mariupol volnovakha e- e severodonetsk in kharkiv mykolaiv well, now kherson, that is, they are just having a cake who are drinking it personally, they are getting drunk with the opportunity to beat people to beat ukrainians, well, fortunately

, the answer is eh they get a very harsh and a bloody and washed-up step, mr. andrii, how great is the need for the announced western heavy armored vehicles in your opinion. yes, we understand that this story can be stretched, although we want to believe that our western allies or friends, so to speak, will try to do everything as quickly as possible. so, how much tanks in this war they are needed. well , they are very needed, even here. i think. well, why are you explaining why tanks are in the war? well , to fight, to destroy the enemy. to conduct offensive operations, eh, these are obvious things and by the way, this war in many ways violates many concepts that had absolutely no basis because, for example, not so long ago, there was a common point of view what well , in a modern war, who will fight with tanks, everything will be done by some super-duper

technologies, i clicked on the button and that's all, what tanks are there, what infantry are there, what artillery are there, what super-duper technologies are there, and so on , yes, technologies decide a lot in this war, first of all, it concerns drones, it concerns the analysis of intelligence information there are many, many other things, but this is the main, let's say, the main firepower is made up of the same tanks , the artillery is the first, and the main role is still played by the infantry . and by the way, this is what many western countries did when they radically reduced their tank fleets when they actually disarmed their own armies because, well, the prevailing concept was that why do we need tanks in such a quantity, let's just give ourselves 100 tanks there and that will be enough. well, today it is already obviously clear that this was an absolutely false strategy and that's how modern war is in general in principle, i will say perhaps a paradoxical thing, but in principle it is very similar to the war that was, roughly speaking, the second world

war, the main element is still a general military battle, drones were added , artillery was added much more precisely, and tanks were added, they are used a little differently than they were used the same world war ii, we do not see large tank breakthroughs in the style of gudyrian, but still, in essence, we are dealing with the same tactics and the same weapons, just more modern and more modified, which were in the times of the second world war war thank you mr. andrii andrii illenko officer of the freedom battalion of the national guard people's deputy of ukraine of previous convocations is fighting now in the east of our country well, we inform you about the most important 14 hours 43 minutes to finalize this hour time to invite military expert reserve colonel oleg zhdanov to a conversation he did she know

the connection? oleg , congratulations. the americans made a certain cult of armored vehicles, that is, they actually lured the germans into the operational space, so to speak, and the germans were de facto forced to sign, so to speak, despite the fact that they may not have wanted to, but accordingly, the germans were dragged into it, so to speak, and we now we are waiting. in your opinion, how long should we wait for heavy armored vehicles and in general what may appear now from our allies? well, look, i think that everything will come, maybe it will stretch out in time for several months. well, you may have spent in the fact that uh, the united states really played such a game that they actually fulfilled the condition that they set for a foul in shock and he found himself alone against everyone and here by the way, we see

a classic option when the team is -e pressure on pressure on one person and it is impossible to stand against the team. and what happened to mr. scholz. look, if we take admissibly close partners such as poland, yes , they say that the tanks will be delivered there within a few weeks, the first tanks will already be in ukraine, it is meant tanks of soviet models which were declared in the transfer, i think the same thing will be done by the czech republic, which also transfers there 134 tanks of soviet models, a modernized t-72 and 91 polish tanks, as for western tanks, i think that we will start receiving them somewhere at the end of february at the beginning march why because we need to train the crew and our first crew is already arriving in the uk yesterday our tankers arrived

for training well, i think that in other countries in europe our guys are already arriving somewhere to start training well, according to open sources of information, it is the last in the queue, it is in the queue , it is germany, which said that somewhere up to 6 weeks, and it is 1.5 months, it is necessary to train the crews. during several months of training of our crews and then the transfer of tanks and crews, well, in any case , in a week or two we will already start receiving the first combat e-e ot the first heavy heavy weapons and e p olezhe there is a version that this decision is to dramatically increase support for us ot behind him actually

there is a fear of our partners that russia is gaining strength there, it is regrouping, perhaps a new demobilization and escalation of the situation will happen very soon, and the jordan journal wrote about the fact that the ukrainian is probably already planned and thought out the offensive is not taking place precisely because there is not enough weaponry to ensure this kind of operation. for you to say whether this is really uh heavy equipment that should already start coming to us again in the drip mode, have you commented on this now, does it really play uh- is the most important role and only when we accumulate it in sufficient quantity we will be able to talk about counteroffensive operations ah about counteroffensive operations you are absolutely right we will we will partially use this equipment today in our daily activities i have no doubt that some

part of this heavy equipment will appear almost immediately will end up on the front line, by the way, i see that our partners are starting to increase the amount of weapons transferred to us or give another permission for another type of weapons, while on the front line it begins a critical situation is emerging, now this situation is emerging in the sense that russia is preparing is preparing is preparing to resume or try to resume an offensive operation, that is why i think such a decision was made . -e in the sense that the main task for them is to exhaust, completely exhaust russia so that it disappears from the world olympia of world politics

. and this can be done, including through a military rout for a complete military rout on the battlefield well, our task is, firstly , you are in a defensive operation, and secondly, in the conditions of a defensive operation, to accumulate reserves for eh for carrying out a contour offensive. i think that part of this equipment, especially of the western type, will be used precisely in counteroffensive operations. and by the way, we are already talking about aviation , missiles are also more of an offensive weapon, and in the symbiosis of aviation and ground forces, you can achieve very, very good results in the course of counteroffensive operations. now we will try to analyze, so to speak, public information, that is, from open sources, what we generally know now about russia's preparations for certain full-scale offensive actions that are announced by various

news agencies, some experts talk like this about the fact that the russians are preparing something large-scale, what kind of plan it is about the scale of the event, yes well, and accordingly, what kind of equipment do they currently have at their disposal in the south of our country in the temporarily occupied territories of the zaporizhzhia and kherson regions, see here so we we understand what you are doing here, it does not fit into the logic, this is what we see, uh, according to the information that is available. well, i, at least, i do not see that they formed some kind of strike group, some created there, uh, well, a backbone or a core that could carry out such a massive penetration attack with an attempt to penetrate like my larger one. well, at least to an operational depth of 150-200 km, there is no such thing. why? because russia no longer has such an opportunity

, today they appeal to human resources and it must be admitted that it is limitless. yes, it is really so. they can demobilize there more than one hundred thousand e-e leakage of conscripts and this we see the human resource is located but they they concentrate in one place they e-e in accumulate ion it in the occupied territories they maximally increase the density of e troops in the occupied territories in terms of technology, they have a huge problem here, er, technology is not keeping up, industry is not able to meet the needs of the army today, and that is why there is a very big lag in technology, maybe this is also er, what motivates russia today

to switch to such tactics, i would say exhausting attacks like they are conducting in the donetsk direction, they are actually trying to push through human resources at the cost of the lives of the same infantry well, not counting losses, that's why the situation is stretching a little in time and here we have the opportunity during the conduct of a defensive operation to be able to inflict maximum damage on the russian troops and in parallel this allows us to prepare reserves for the subsequent transition to counter-offensives actions and counteroffensive operations if we talk about approximate dates, the symbolic date of a full-scale russian invasion last year she can play her role

, so to speak. he likes he likes this conspiracy theory is digital science , we see it constantly in him in his concessions and he will demand something large-scale and something big and the generals will be forced to admissibly give an order to the beginning of the transition to offensive actions in one or several operational directions, but the readiness of the russian army to date well, i have already told you a little bit. it does not correspond to the scale declared by the political leadership of russia, so yes , but we can expect and must prepare for what in february, they will try to do something. well, at least with the possibilities that they will have at that time. olezhe , the former commander of the us forces in europe

, general benkhoju, said that the fight for crimea will become a key factor in the war, it will not be easy. stresses, but ukraine will not be safe as long as the peninsula is controlled by the russian federation, well, this is an axiom, well, you actually understand crimea, and crimea is geographically located in such a way that if we begin to liberate our territory , especially zaporizhzhia, the kherson region, then crimea is a flank attack, this is a flank attack, an opportunity launching a flank attack on our troops, that's why the question of the liberation of crimea may arise even earlier than the question of the liberation of donbass. i mean donetsk luhansk and if we well, if you look at the map, i think the main task is one of the main tasks is to go to the azov coast of the sea of ​​azov, we need to cut off the groups of russian troops and cut off the

crimean peninsula with the means that are available today, we will actually get to kerch, and we can block or destroy the bridge and make the peninsula a real peninsula, make it impossible to transfer visas through the kerch strait. and then the question the liberation of crimea will be on the agenda first and not second, and now how actively is the contingent that is based in crimea being replenished, which is then pulled up to the occupied territories of the kherson region and the zaporizhzhia region, this is all by sea, they provide it via the bridge over the crossing, how do they replenish their crimean reserves, so vdo race, i would like to clarify what khrystyna says. well, we understand that it is extremely difficult to defend this bridgehead. we remember the operation that

took place 100 years ago, so when the bolsheviks began, so to speak, to enter the underbelly of crimea well, and accordingly, how can the current disposition of the enemy troops differ, taking into account the fact that they have drawn manpower there, but the issue of fortification in the steppe also remains open well, let's start with history, by the way, by the way, i will remind you that crimea was taken by nestor makhno and on his trucks he broke through the defenses and his army entered the crimea and actually liberated it, and then the bolsheviks sent yakir there with his army, who actually prevented makhno's troops from leaving the crimea destroyed destroyed his army there by deceiving him in those promises that lenin gave to makhno, so we have experience, there is historical experience , there is how to take bribes, this is the first, the second, look at

crimea today on starvation rations and there is no such large-scale movement of troops and its large-scale accumulation, they bring mobilized people there because it is easier to transport them that way, and they are preparing them. they are preparing the local population for mobilization, but the increase in weapons technology is not going at the pace that russia and crimea would like provided according to the e final principle, everything that is on the front in sufficient quantity then it is possible to supply crimea and by the way heavy equipment is imported from mainland ukraine via mariupol and berdyansk and from russian territory via kerch, so they only transport heavy equipment and ammunition by ferries today because the automobile part of the crimean bridge does not allow heavy vehicles and even buses are not allowed there

, only passenger cars and they drive, and the railway connection only work trains go eh who there is engaged in repair work on the restoration of the railway part of the bridge, so that in addition to today, and by the way, i know there is information that even air defense equipment is being removed from the crimea in order to cover the front line after the hungarians in ryazan or in the kursk region stopped supplying the equipment ppu from russia in ukraine in the occupied territory and deployed them around large cities, well, at least the mass. the same moscow it will be today, they are building there a lot of echeloned deep air defense, which includes all means of tactical operational and strategic that is why the front remains and they remove air defense equipment in crimea and send

them to the front line er in this same ukraine to mainland ukraine in order to cover their troops thank you, mr. oleg, for this extremely interesting and high-quality conversation oleg zhdanov, a reserve colonel, a military expert , worked live on the espresso tv channel . well, we're going to inform about the most important things. well, you and i will probably have a short break now. they have prepared an information release for you and will present it now our colleague anna eva melnyk welcomes you on the air and invites you to speak and i will start with this and