[000:00:00;00] this practice is shameful, but what is behind it and how does such an approach affect the army in general, the state bureau of investigation announced the exposure and detention of businessmen who allegedly sold eggs to the ministry of defense for uah 17. this story seems to have no end and no end . we will discuss new details. well, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine demands the georgian authorities to return mykhailo saakashvili, who is a ukrainian citizen, to kyiv, what can tbilisi answer and why is saakashvili telling the georgian authorities about this today in svoboda life ukraine, hardly will be able to recapture the occupied crimea in the near future, four high-ranking officials of the us ministry of defense made

such an assessment at a closed briefing in the house of representatives committee on armed forces. content of the meeting, but according to them, the pentagon does not believe that ukraine will be able to dislodge russian troops from the peninsula in the near future, the fourth interlocutor said that ukraine cannot to guarantee success if they decide on an operation to return crimea, the pentagon has so far refused to comment on this information to journalists. but why is it important because the ukrainian authorities have repeatedly stated that the war with russia will end only when russian troops leave all occupied ukrainian territories, including crimea, the united states does not recognize the annexation crimea has been called ukrainian territory since the beginning of the occupation , and after the full-scale russian invasion, washington refused to provide kyiv with weapons that could be used to strike strikes on targets on the peninsula. well, just in january, the new york times reported that the administration of the us president is gradually softening its position on this issue. well, according to the routers, right now

washington is allegedly preparing a new package of military aid to kyiv where they can enter missiles with a range of up to 150 km well, in the meantime, the ministry of defense announced that ukraine is on the eve of a very active phase of the war , intelligence representative andriy yusev predicted that active hostilities will continue in february , march, what does the active phase mean and what does ukraine mean is ready and will resist this phase, that's what we'll talk about now on the air, an expert on international security, a military expert, taras zoftenko, we congratulate you . congratulations taras, what does it mean in this case, as of today, the active phase of the war, for which ukraine is preparing, it's tanks, it's an amphibious landing how it was a year ago b this is a breakthrough of boundaries where exactly can you elaborate on these scenarios and two key points actually define here er this description yes this characteristic of the current

situation er the first point is that in fact, both the russian side and we are preparing for large-scale offensive operations, and the russians are doing this in order to get out of the strategic impasse in which they have now fallen, taking into account the state of their troops and the circumstances in which they are now forced to fight and in the southern direction, where they simply went on a big defense after all the logistics were disrupted, and accordingly they were forced to retreat there. so, if in the kherson direction, it was already last year, yes. that is, it is such a long period preparatory work on the part of the armed forces of ukraine to weaken the russian potential in the southern direction. well, in the east, where the russians have a land border, and their logistics are a little better organized purely geographically than they can afford in the south , they have a little position, but still there are not enough of them to move forward , well, we will give the pace enough for it to suit putin's regime, which is aggressive and

actually from the point of view of the russian military and political leadership to exit from this situation, it is necessary to organize a large-scale offensive operation, preferably in order to use additional elements in order to draw back the armed forces of ukraine and their combat units that can either resist these operations or, on the other hand, we are also preparing our own large-scale offensive operation about it er, our military-political leadership has spoken quite loudly several times already. well, we are doing this in order to, first of all, break this strategic plan of the russians and, accordingly , prevent them from taking the strategic initiative return it back into your hands, that is, ah, this is actually the general context and what is happening now and what is obviously meant by our main intelligence directorate is that today there is active training going well , in fact, we are competing to get ahead of

the russians who the first will be able to prepare to gather resources for an offensive operation. will they be the first or will we be the first and what we see from the russians and this is obviously what the band means is that the russian forces, especially in the eastern direction, where they have no logistics with a concentration of personnel the composition of manpower and, accordingly, firepower, they have fewer problems with this than in the south. they are trying to e-e point directions where they are pressing, as we saw it there in the bakhmut direction, in ugledar soledar and so on. they are trying to pull back the ukrainian combat units as much as possible in order to prevent them from passing and, accordingly, this is coordination to staffing so as not to become part of our strike group of our strike force in time with which we will conduct our future contour offensive operation and so these are the active months, now these are the active months of preparation of both sides for this offensive operation. for our part, we will try

to concentrate this resource as much as possible, including using it as much as possible if, by then, we will have time to get faster, even though you are a british challenge and a western one tanks, and the russians will try to prevent us in this in any way in order not to give us the opportunity to use the maximum a-a. these are the units that are free from e-e execution of combat tasks that we we can use it in order to carry out our offensive offensive operation earlier than that, the russian generals will be ready for this, two points that i heard you mentioned tanks, and i want to remind you that in fact, according to the best forecasts, tanks are waiting, well, those experts , expert opinions what are we here in the studio, we repeatedly listened and heard that tanks will not come to ukraine before march , no matter what they are, challengers or leopards, this is the first, and the offensive in particular

is predicted by ukrainian intelligence already in february and in and in march that is, the offensive can happen earlier, this is the first moment, and the second moment, you said where the most dangerous dangerous part of the front can be, so the minister of defense oleksiy reznikov, on french television , to ukrainian journalists, he comments less on the situation, maybe because of the eggs, but less so , so he said about the fact that he first called on nato countries to help as soon as possible because according to his data he expects that the offensive of the russian army will be in the east and in the south or in the east or in the south, that is, is it correct i understood that the main directions are donetsk, luhansk and possibly zaporizhzhia. will the russians try to do everything at the same time, because general gerasimov , who was appointed by putin to command this united group of united groups, they call their troops the invasion a-a he is the architect of the russian hybrid strategy, he is the author of the 2014 operation to seize crimea, and he is also the main

architect of this full-scale hybrid offensive that we saw in the 22nd year therefore, his appointment in itself is already such a very serious bell for us. that the russians, in principle, consider this situation with the utmost seriousness. and in the style of gerasim, but as we have seen. so this is, well, the maximum dispersion of the enemy's attention, so he will obviously try to do so in order to divert our attention to something else and while his main forces will try to fulfill the task that he will set before them, well, it is obvious most likely considering that in russian there are a lot of versions circulating in this political-propanist space that the task is to solve the issue of control of russian troops over the donetsk region by march or by the end of march or by march, at least it is obvious that the priorities will be set somewhere before

that well, in principle, it is easier for them to fight there for the time being, and it is clear that all hybrid logics and ours is an offensive, so our counteroffensive operation , it will not begin at any one specific moment, but before even before we we will receive tanks, obviously we will receive infantry fighting vehicles a-a german marder and an american bradley, in principle , in order for us to conduct also in such a semi-hybrid style a-a preparation for er-e our counter-offensive, everything is quite enough because well, we must understand that as well as you remember, last year we were also expecting a big, well, such an offensive, which should take place at some specific moment in time , but since we are dealing with an athlete who uses hybrid tactics against us , then we have to use this tactic as well to adapt and offensive operations here will not take place, but at a signal at one er, at some specific moment clearly defined in time , everything will

begin. and it turns out that in us, and we, and the russians, we go from defense to offensive quite smoothly. well, this is correct in order not to give the enemy the opportunity to prepare, and vice versa. that is, we should not accept messages about what the coming months we are expecting a counteroffensive, as it will take place there upon the waving of a red or green flag there, as well as upon the whistle of the commander, that is, if all these things are much more serious and they must happen so that, first of all, our enemy does not guess until at the last moment, what are we planning to do, the question is also clarified by the same minister, oleksiy reznikov, but when he was asked about the number of personnel, he said that russia is preparing more than 300,000. he says that russia is ready, he called the number 500 thousand and half a million russian

soldiers, which i did not understand here, can be mobilized by the kremlin or have already been mobilized , these are real numbers, they can already appear on the front line in february, march. are we talking about some kind of distant perspective ? we must bear in mind that neither 300,000 nor 500,000 are these numbers that we keep in our memory. we should not perceive them as such that at one moment there are also 300,000 russians from 500,000 will appear at the front, and they are even these numbers are quite conditional, because ah, well, we all understand and have seen very well how the russian war machine works from the inside, so they ca n’t even prepare instructors without the help of belarusians and e. and i am watching. by the way, in this regard, it is very actively being used now. that is, all these joint trainings that are taking place are, in fact, the coordination of russian troops with the remnants of the regular army, and then they are sent in packs and echelons to the east

if that too by the way, our intelligence records and reports on this and we must understand that these from 300 to 500,000 and uh, all of them are mobilized russians, they will appear in waves at the front, uh, now they are talking about what russia has with by different estimates, well, very, very roughly, because uh, well, again, this is the whole mix, uh, they have a part in belarus of these uh, mobilized people, some are on their way there , some are on the way from there, uh, evaluations range from 200 to 300,000 these are those who , in the coming month and a half, russia can er-er to throw in waves as if they were plus or minus ready. well, another question is their equipment and, er, whether they will have equipment, because we saw, for example, under bakhmat and under the soledars that there they ran almost empty-handed on the ukrainian position. well, but i think that here general gerasimov will be a little better prepared than what we are seeing now and potentially while the armed forces of ukraine will grind to powder from 200 to 300,000 people who will be rushing now

during these weeks months, the russians will theoretically be able to find the impossible up to 200 where does this figure of 500,000 come from, but we must understand that if these numbers were not that the russians would be able to present them to us at the front and show us at the front and show all this number as a single mass i understood you very briefly i will ask one more question, i started from crimea, uh, well, very often we hear from ukrainian intelligence that the 23rd year will be the year of the return of the peninsula. hmm, the american media doubt this, they have conversations with american officials, and the otstril newspaper wrote today about the fact that the united states may announce the next aid package as early as tomorrow, friday, and it may include high-precision long-range missiles there for 150 km, or will they include what do you think, uh, i think that the video is because the talks about this missile actually started in november. and uh actually against the background of the fact that uh well we now uh have

such a stretch with tanks and these missiles are critically important on the battlefield considering the fact that we will operate only with our tank forces well and accordingly with those western bmps who will come to us and for in order to protect these bmps, so that there is still something left of them by the time the tanks arrive, because they have to act in pairs, in fact, yes . if we are talking about a cooperation offensive, these missiles are critically important for disrupting the logistics of the russians, moreover, this is us , the specifics of these missiles sources with dp is that they maneuver the air like cruise missiles in fact and they can be used to hit not only stationary targets like for example that 's how we are that's how they have a little more range but this is their minus and the plus of these that fly at 150 km. this is because they are maneuverable in the air, they can also hit moving targets. that is, this is one of the critically important tools that will help us now in our counteroffensive operation. thank you very much for your comment.

radio svoboda, thank you very much broke the law , get a summons probably still exists in ukraine the practice of men receiving summonses as a punishment, the military themselves call this practice shameful and this practice reminded me again of myself against the background of the news about drunken parties in kyiv well, you could have heard this story, a group of guys organized parties where girls were invited, they probably gave them sleeping alcohol, and then the guys mocked the girls on camera, a pre-trial investigation is currently underway, as the national police informed two- the organizers of the parties were served with suspicions , but according to the information of the public something else, these party participants were served with summonses to the military commissariat, the serving of summonses in the police neither confirms nor denies it looks like this that the violators probably decided to punish with summonses, this humiliates those soldiers who went to the front as volunteers and who consider their service, who do not consider their service a punishment, and they openly write about it in social networks well , in general, recently there are more and more reports that almost all over ukraine

began to actively distribute summonses on the streets in public places at roadblocks summonses oblige men to appear at assembly centers and register or update personal data, the last example during meeting of the city council of brovary on january 31, all the men present were included with the mayor of the city, they also handed out subpoenas, the topic of the subpoenas is very actively covered by anonymous communities in various social networks, in particular, in telegram, and very often it is not known who moderates these discussions, for what purpose, and as oksana moroz notes - it is a well-known expert in communication, mobilization in ukraine is one of the communication failures of the authorities, which russia can certainly take advantage of, mobilization, social networks are full of personnel distributing summonses everywhere people's reaction is fear from anger at the authorities because people do not understand the selection criteria procedures, how will the training and many other things go when there is no normal communication. and there is a question

: this vacuum inevitably fills the enemy's need for information, why during the years of the war and the year of the full-scale invasion did not build communication about mobilization about the system i this question is silent for me, without an answer , the paramedic of the volunteer battalion of hospitalists , the communication center of the armed forces of ukraine , kateryna galushka, kateryna, joined our broadcast. my congratulations, congratulations you, kateryna. and according to your observations, how often in general recently, maybe not the last one, but in ukraine, summonses are handed out to punish you or to scare you. in fact , i’m wrong to say that i see it very often and a lot, that is, for this you need to really monitor the information field it is too big for us because objectively there are many snakes and many people who write something in social networks in one way or another, but i am simply more disturbed at this moment by the reaction

of society as such when you open a post about the arrest of corrupt officials or about the exposure of some schemes by the authorities or how it happened in the case of this situation regarding the guys from ivano-frankivsk and er-er live there- well, residents of ukraine, citizens of ukraine systematically write there 100 comments out of conditional yes fifty it will be precisely that such a person must be sent to the front, they must be thrown into the trenches there, they must be quickly mobilized and dropped somewhere under bakhmut and this is the moment that society in one way or another begins to promote the narrative that the army is as if as a punishment and not there in a pre-trial detention center, for example, you put it in a prison, and this narrative begins to gain momentum . and here comes

a closed circle. in principle, this narrative allows this to take place in our society and in the present time. well, you yourself think that this is a gypsy practice . is this a permissible practice? subpoenas as a punishment for a criminal administrative offense does not matter, this is actually quite such a shameful practice, because we see how the army , which is actually full of people who went to defend their country, to defend ukraine, who are every day between life and death , they are re-equaled according in fact, by handing summonses to such individuals to people with some low moral, well, low moral qualities , people who joined the armed forces of ukraine and other units of the defense forces are

primarily motivated people, especially if we we are talking about the defense forces of the model until february 24, 2022, when there was a critical shortage of personnel, but at least these defense forces, which were full, were people who really wanted to serve, they saw themselves as warriors, they saw themselves as defenders, and now these people have become the same more more because on february 24, the war touched everyone. and now they are trying to equate them with criminals because when they say send them to the army, it means that the same people are sitting there in the army, it turns out that it is not very normal and in principle it is somehow even immoral in relation to the defenders themselves and the second yes yes yes yes and the second eh criminals into offenders to what extent are they the people we can trust with the self-defense of the country we have cases of desertion we have cases of refusers and if these people somehow join the

of the defense forces. where is the guarantee that they will be sent to a conditional front to defend some part of this front and they will not escape from there , this is not normal, it is not possible, well, i could not trust such a person if there was a brother or sister near me who was convicted of murder or rape now now the next i understood the position the next question you said it is unknown who creates this society with such tolerances yes such situations or law enforcement officers yes and yet you have an answer why does this happen maybe the warlords are just carrying out a banal plan they have a plan to dial i don't know hand ticket for a day and here they go and hand out law enforcement officers help them in this is it possible that you have some other hidden reasons that people who are not related to the military do not understand this yes yes i invite you and to of the full-scale invasion, after it, the military commissars always had a certain number of people who needed to be recruited and mobilized into the army, because there is not enough personnel, we have new

brigades, we have reserve corps , we have well, we objectively understand that now the defense forces are they need people because there are irreversible losses and there are irreversible losses, and during this time it is necessary for someone to take expensive weapons, all at the conditional helm of the conditional bmp chitanka and continue to contribute to the service , continue the struggle of those people who temporarily or you were out of order forever and this number they are really trying, the military commissars simply failed in communication in order to motivate people to continue going to the tcc and spr it is in general so correct to call it uh and this number it exists so really it needs to be filled preferably not by force it is not does anyone there have such an order from above that by tomorrow i have 100 people in my brigade, there is no such thing , there is simply information about understaffing , undercompensation, and they complete it as

best they can. if i understood you correctly a little bit as i can because the communication has failed on their side and they can wait a little bit for the sp-line to somehow do it qualitatively because it is really necessary to communicate with people , it is necessary to explain everything to them , it is not to catch them on the street. method of punishment well, to me, it all looks simple, firstly, as a punishment, and secondly, what is this? look, if you break the law or you, we will catch you doing something that we don't like, then we will hand you a summons, that's not normal. this is a demonstration some kind of power, some kind of power, which is not must be anitolized and not be present, especially if it concerns criminals who are not included in the army at all , that is, if you are too. during the year of the full-scale invasion , they did not build communication about the mobilization

, they did not explain to the people about this process and what this mobilization should look like, who should be served with summons in the first place, and people did not they know how to react well, i understood you correctly, this side is a failure, communication is partially successful. in this regard, the failure is not that there is no information . in general, it is available, but it is simply available to those who are most interested. a year of full-scale war and now it is not up to the point of choosing who wants to go to the army and who does not, i.e. about the legal delivery of summons, for example yes, i support him there, it is a lot, in fact, all the military support it, but within the limits that a person i understood at all, because the conditional situation is a person walking on the street, they hand her a summons and that's it. and she is already panicking, she is already afraid, she is already writing a post about the fact that summonses are being served there , but at the same time, the person was not even informed

, she is not at all familiar with this, she is not there he watches tv, she does not meet, he is in the information field , which is quite true in most cases, a summons does not mean that tomorrow they will put on you body armor and send you to fight somewhere in the east of ukraine, or it will not go, it means that sometimes it is simply necessary to appear, what should be registered, what should be checked, and the lack of this information scares people. tell me, please , say yes. and tell me, please, and the lack of this information is a failure of communication in general. from communicators in particular well, in fact, russia is already using it, let's start with this . here she intimidates, she feels.

they say it is afraid and begins to work with its informational and psychological operations, first of all, the narrative that ordinary ukrainians are caught on the streets and driven into terrible trenches like this has been constant for the past six months. that is exactly the case in the information field and people are really afraid of it because they are unfamiliar with it because they believe because they are told by some anonymous telegram channel. well , in addition to everything, this can also motivate the russians, this demonstrative delivery of subpoenas. well, they see it, we cover it in ukraine, it is covered massively by them understand that there is a problem, there is a problem with the equipment, they can also use it to strengthen their attacks , including if it is already handed over, then they must be handed over legally according to the norm . there are problems with this in ukraine. please tell

me , but this kind of question is not a household one, but i hear about it very often. the supermarket serves subpoenas, this is the norm, it should be like this, it can be more precise. no, i. well, as far as i know, it should not be like this at all , because waiting sps should work within the limits of their office. there, it was really enough to simply send a summons by mail, and in general there is an algorithm that a summons is sent by mail, and the answer even to this summons can also be sent by ukrposhta , but it is not like going to catch that person ok kateryna, thank you very much for these explanations. kateryna galushka - a paramedic of the volunteer battalion of hospitalists was on radio freedom, we talked about mobilization in ukraine twice in the last day, russia shelled the center of kramatorsk, as a result of the last hit, five civilians

were injured. this was reported by donetska ova late in the evening the day before, a russian iskander hit a residential building in the city , the consequences of this shelling were filmed by the correspondent of radio svoboda in donetsk region , serhii horbatenko , around 10:00 p.m., the missile was already installed type missiles, this is a land-based missile, the iskanderka hit a residential building , in fact, in the center of the city of kramatorsk, so far three people have died, confirmed

8 people have been injured, a total of 21 people have sought medical help , a mobile headquarters is currently deployed near the scene of the tragedy and is in use, and all are adapted cities are also for the relocation of people i.e., here i combed out his ladle, my already licked ones are resting well, in short, the fat was gathering a lot, lying behind the doctor, he tells you

for singing, they sewed up the splinters, they pulled out the glass horoshnula was sick, so the blood was blown out, all the air was blown out by ora, 18 people came to us, 8 times, 8 of them were injured, two were seriously injured , one is already in dnipro, they will receive help there, and another one is currently undergoing surgery, two more patients are in the trauma department , the others are light, they received all the necessary help and