[000:00:00;00] sometimes a serviceman is evacuated for further rehabilitation and recovery already on his native land, two of our children, whom the occupiers illegally took to russia, were returned home, two sisters were deported together with their mother from luhansk oblast to ryazan in russia, the girls' mother died and the children were sent to the ministry of reintegration for help their older sister, after the girls' return, she took them under their care, the family is now together in volyn , that's what i'm putting an end to today, i say goodbye to you until tomorrow, everyone have a calm and

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we will discuss gerasimov in the first part of our broadcast today. about the situation around bakhmut, a rather difficult situation. we have been monitoring it for several weeks in a row, we have volodymyr nazarenko, lieutenant of the freedom legion, deputy commander of the freedom battalion in the composition of the fourth operational brigade of the national guard of ukraine, mr. volodymyr. greetings. good evening. good evening, people . please outline the situation in your operational area , what are the dynamics of the area? we understand what is happening, please , first of all, i would like to urge you to trust the general staff, in principle, we are following the instructions of the general staff for the first time, and he is responsible for planning this situation

last night was extremely difficult, the enemy was fighting very hard, uh, the hotel, what could it be, it was either such a desperate attempt to break through or develop battles. nevertheless , the enemy tried to show surrender, but from our heroes, from our fighters who are holding the defense in the trenches and received the dignity, including the artillery, inflicted a reflection on you from a painful point of attack by the enemy, therefore the enemy received a decent cut-off, the enemy also tried at night and during the past day to advance in the direction of the kostiantynivka-bakhmut polis highway but in the same way there is a very strong defense of fellow ukrainian armed forces, they continue this defense, so the enemy is trying to probe certain weak points, it is possible to advance in other directions in this case, as well as distracting .

the only thing that follows is that it can be both the direction of the attack and the direction of this plane, they are a shaft of fire, that is, here is the angel of destruction, already now we clearly understand that kostiantynivka under the sights of enemy missiles, enemy tornadoes there hurricanes, etc., that is, they do not know how to fight like men in an ordinary rifle battle, they are defeated because of this. they try to fight with the civilian population with the civilian population there by fighting and, well, just destroying every building , turning e cities into stones, from the point of view of logistics, you understand why the russian is this city that in principle, it opens up for them in the case of taking positions under which the city of bakhmut itself is so, from the point of view of logistics, it is clear the goal was what was the purpose of taking the city before the new year, that is, in

order to enter it and gain a foothold to overwinter and get a certain bridgehead for such a threat as the spring offensive, these 500,000 cheap local meat , that is what i call the mobilized pigeons of the golubites who agreed to take machine guns to commit a crime, their plans failed. this is the first time that the enemy has disgraced the whole world by spending tens of thousands of lives and tens of thousands of wounded in the form of wagner prisons . by not fulfilling this goal, on the contrary, this private company of putin's cook ceased to exist as that is, the remnants continue to use these remnants to finish off these remnants with frontal attacks in the form of so we already see that even that media character, this not honorable mr. trivozhin, even presented to be afraid somewhere in some media space, that is

, the private company itself is already subordinate to the ministry of defense in other words, this is the first victory of the ukrainians under bakhmut, the second victory is the fact that they are now forcing us to use quickly mobilized parts to restore which were defeated near kherson and near kharkov, e.e., the airborne units, which were mobilized again by young , cheap guys , gave us equipment that we destroyed every day . it was lost every day, both in manpower and in armored vehicles, and we already clearly understand that even the first, most combat-capable units of the russian landing force were also defeated there and brought out for recovery. therefore , they are now fighting there in the direction of bakhmut

a certain mixture of different animals but in general i would like to call and say that the situation is extremely difficult and therefore calls on everyone to prepare to prepare unfortunately this war has affected many and unfortunately we understand that it can affect every ukrainian and first of all every man mr. volodymyr very important clarification or is the enemy present directly within the city limits, are there urban battles uh-uh, a very difficult situation, well , i repeat, different rumors are coming, different news are coming, including that the enemy has activated the system of psychological attacks there propaganda is primarily being spread, trying to spread panic among the defense forces, but it is more aimed at increasing the morale of your forces, who are counting , as if

they are counting. is going to surrender the city , on the contrary, they are strengthening the defense and holding the very place, that is, well, in the heart of the city there, well, in the part that can be called the city, the enemy is impregnable, battles are being fought on the outskirts, on the approaches of private sectors, etc., but unfortunately the enemy has advanced somewhere so that it cannot be killed . yes, we can ask one more question, volodymyr. does the enemy use it? if so, how often are prohibited weapons in your area in

the direction of bakhmut ? heard but we have to be prepared for everything, including any manifestations of the enemy, because when he suffers a defeat, but with a defeat he tried to break through to the highway , he won the majority. defense and well, in these moments when the whole world is laughing at the enemy, they can use any things in their rage, we should be ready for this, and hmm , first of all, i would like to assure you that whatever weapons are owed no, well, the ukrainian army and forces as defense bachmut will not be broken and we will effectively move it is time and with even more people thank you mr. volodymyr we wish you victory volodymyr nazarenko lieutenant of the legion of freedom deputy commander of the freedom battalion as part of the fourth brigade

of the operational assignment of the national guard of ukraine at the ukraine eu summit at the final press -conference, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, noted that no one will surrender bakhmut, well, we are moving on. now let's look a little more broadly at the situation on our fronts in connection with the game studio romanenko - a soldier, retired lieutenant general, candidate of military sciences, doctor of technical sciences, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine from 2006 to the 10th year, mr. igor, congratulations, glory to ukraine, heroes, glory, i congratulate you, we also congratulate you mr. game so, let's try to understand what the regrouping of russian troops means and the beginning, this means that due to the arrival of reserves, it is actually from the first three hundred thousand partially

mobilized who have undergone the appropriate training as well as their armament is conditioned worse than it was at the beginning of the war, but all this happened and the enemy managed to build up forces in some directions where they intensified the introduction of hostilities and lead offensive acts as storming separate our settlements , our there fortresses and so on these directions general the headquarters determined how limanska is discriminatory if we remember that for two months there, it seems that they tried to carry out matchmaking crimes in this direction, but there were no suitable forces, then this is bakhmutsky in addition to this, avdiivka and ugledar, and then there are some families of actions on

the same crime, for example , they increased the number of military personnel from about a thousand to 30 . precisely the ukrainian east with a transition to the south. but can the list of all hot areas now be added to the example of zaporizhzhia or something? also, in your opinion, does the enemy have enough concentration in the occupied territories to carry out any theoretically, additional directions can be chosen for the counterattack, but for this choice, you will say that additional forces are needed , eh, so out of these 300,000, another 200,000 are being prepared. and somewhere around half a million in the training centers of the russian federation and belarus, and for example

, with belarus, the second division of meter streletska yes, yes, the first tank army , it enters the russian one, they brought out the level of training there , or what is the next one, but one way or another , it was formed, passed the training and was introduced through the territory of russia itself into the district the introduction of hostilities this is how these efforts build up and we need to talk about it now because they often analyze the situation where and when and how their strategic reserve of 200,000 will be used at least instead of that could not this is important it must be predicted and monitored but

even more important is not the current time to follow what is happening in uh, that means luhansk region and donetsk region, where the political task is uh , it means for them to capture these regions within the borders, as you know, this task has been standing for a long time and from the podium of red square, putin talked about it spoke and then in addition and now is the time of non-fulfillment of tasks gerasimum of the commanding group of the enemy's armed forces stands until the month of march and therefore there are these areas opposite you on our side where it is very difficult to bake mine with heavy losses and please tell me today e- e deputy chairman of the security council of russia dmytro medvedev threatened to use any arsenal of weapons in the event of ukrainian strikes on crimea by american e-e american weapons how serious are these statements how much do you

believe in the escalation of the conflict and even the possibility of applying the nuclear doctrine of the russian federation in the case of ukrainian feds, the potential for such a possibility remains, but we remember that this is not the first history of crimea , it has already happened several times, and moreover, after striking a forward roma in a post-war object , it means later e- the rank-and-file commander, general zaluzhnyi, admitted that it was really from our side, but after that, it is no longer done in recent times, it is such an israeli approach. the ss has everything that makes sense for our victory , it must be carried out, and that's why they have nothing left, in fact, what did this

sucker, which is used by putin himself and his henchmen, yes textbooks, and here medvedev often plays the role of medvedev, it was rightly noted glsdb е these are bombs that can be used for about 150 km, this significantly increases our capabilities in working behind enemy lines, and this is definitely a certain psychological limit that our partners managed to cross. pieces and tanks may end up in ukraine so that we can already use them, the role of time in the situation as of now, mr. igor, in a situation where we have enemy activation in four directions, at least there are still potential directions, they have mobilized resources with

equipment well, there are different estimates and we are waiting for abrams, leopards, e-e challenges, gsdb and other weapons. unfortunately, so far, because i believe that the approaches of our leadership of our e-e allied partner countries have not been finally translated into the situation when they provide assistance so that ukraine does not lost the situation when there will be so much help and it will be so timely that ukraine will win, that's why we see such actions are very important, so examples of these missiles that carry guided bombs gl e-e scp means gl roundslenzh that the launchers are ground in them and

the diameter of the bomb is there is a small-diameter bomb on the left, part of it is really not that big, 93 kg, three-dimensional, but this is essential in order to make an impression on a stationary object, that is, if this winged bomb does not have a block of laser aiming, it can only hit a stationary one, if such a bolt is placed on the part itself, then it is necessary to illuminate it with a laser to aim from an unmanned aerial vehicle or from an airplane, for example, but this weaponry is fundamentally important for us, because at a range of 150 km, russian e- control points, communication nodes are pushed back

warehouses for logistical support of movement routes, it becomes more difficult for them to provide their units that perform tasks on the contact line, and that is, and they have now moved 100 km away due to the fact that 82 somewhere plus or minus the range of heimers missiles. that is why it is important for us. in addition, they can fly not only in a populist trajectory like heimers rockets, but also change the trajectory. that is, you can shoot this winged bomb forward, it will turn around and hit you behind the target or to the right or uhu, and from the point of view of tactical use, it is very important , useful, and we need it. bombs can be used, uh, thanks to heimers, which,

in principle, our soldiers already know how to operate we sincerely thank you for including in our broadcast, we remind you that ihor romanenko, a soldier, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine from 2006 to the 10th year was on the call from the studio, we are going further , further, the summit of ukraine, european the union of the vice-prime minister for the european and theoretical integration of ukraine oleg stepanishyn is one of the participants, we are in touch with you, mrs. olga. greetings. greetings. good evening. well, this is such an unprecedented meeting of the joint government of ukraine, the european commission, i don't remember when there was such a meeting in general, it was never true in ukrainian history. in general, the european commission met with some national government of the country of the candidate. i don't remember such a practice, but the president of the european commission said that there was one case when such a format was used, but obviously not in a warring country.

to the country so is the summit of ukraine and the eu and if outside of the declarations , what conclusions do you have? that when we talk about european integration - this is just the transition from slogans to work , the more meticulous and more detailed this work will be, first of all, on the transformation of the country and its readiness to join the eu, and the more qualitative and powerful member of the eu by bridges, therefore of course you can't be in a hurry here, but on the other hand , speaking of the results themselves, i'll tell you honestly, during preparation, we had even more restrained assessments regarding the beginning of the negotiation process and assessments of the seven

recommendations. we thought that we would not succeed let's say we reached some ambitious agreements. but they are really talking about more than just what is enshrined in the declarations , i can confirm that we have a real , very realistic hope of opening negotiations in 2023, and we agreed that already this week we will hold consultations on seven recommendations so that in the spring, when there will be an official assessment of political reforms, we can receive a positive assessment, and to be honest, i am sure that the president of the european commission and the president of the european council will be fulfilled by the end of the year. let's say these agreements which we have reached today and the negotiation process will be launched. and how do you evaluate the progress in fulfilling these 7 conditions, and i think that this is such a multi-level process by the end of the 22nd year, we

have done a lot to start work on each of the recommendations, we have adopted its laws and a- and the appointments were , in particular , this was the appointment of a specialized anti-corruption prosecutor. today, there are recommendations, in particular, regarding the competitive procedure for the selection of judges of the constitutional court. here we have such very passionate discussions regarding measures to implement, for example , the anti-oligarchic law and the conclusions of the phoenician commission on the law on national minorities, these are all different types of dialogue dialogues somewhere at the level member states somewhere at the level of the commission somewhere at the level of the approach to political reforms itself is difficult, but every time in negotiations with the european

commission we hear a very simple message and that it's all just beginning, that's why we're also gaining experience , gaining such political armor and preparing for long negotiations ms. olga please tell us how our european partners react to the fact that our reading of the recommendations of the venice commission do not exactly correspond to how they were expressed by the special commission and it the constitutional court and in general the reform of the selection there is one of the requirements , but it is quite difficult. on the formation of legislation that should be voted on in the parliament and then come into force. we received three so-called final conclusions of the venice commission with slightly different recommendations and we

also discussed this with colleagues from the european commission . we agreed that next week we will focus on the tripartite consultation format ukraine the european commission, the venice commission and e.e., by the end of next week, we will form options for solving the situation related to the law that entered into force , first of all, the formation of an expert group that will recommend candidates to the president in the verkhovna rada, which should determine these candidates, so i am sure that by the end of next week we will have a mutually acceptable decision for the country, first of all, and for brussels as well, since this reform is a component of our political consensus regarding ukraine's membership in the eu, what exactly is our fight against corruption, all the decisions related to this, uh, against the background of ukraine

's eu, many actually parallel processes took place in our country. well, for example, the council of judges of ukraine never appointed a candidate to the first member of the advisory group of experts, which is supposed to conduct the selection of candidates for the positions of judges of the constitutional court, that is, we have such internal discussions. well , in addition to this, once again , there were searches over the forests and many more. let's say that there are so many cases, many cases concern corruption potential actions again , were there any reflections on the part of our european partners? did it add any color to the summit itself, eh, you know, i guess this is eh, the most eh, pragmatic on my part but let's just say that the assessment of colleagues from brussels was quite positive about the latest procedural measures related to

the exposure of correctional officers by sending certain cases to court, as well as certain decisions in the government in power regarding the release of persons whose integrity is in doubt this all has an effect that shows that our anti-corruption institutions are not the only law enforcement agencies working, that the legal institutional foundations of anti-corruption policy are already producing certain results. we are glad that this is the product of certain steps that were taken this and personnel changes in the e-e in the part of the general prosecutor's office in the part of the appointment of the sap prosecutor are made - these are decisions that concern the e-e from mindo legislation and now we hope that the competition for the appointment of the director of the national anti-corruption bureau will be completed and the government will appoint the e-e director of

the number of those candidates who were recommended to me, for me as for the members of the government responsible for european integration, it is of course internal, it is , there were certain scandals, scandalous emotional events in ukraine, but our partners appreciate these events as such that show that the system in our country is working how much do you, in principle, think about the prospects of ukrainian european integration together with our post-soviet neighbors, the spatialism of ukraine and moldova together they should go to the european union how it should look in reality and clearly we are going together i cannot say that this is the choice of ukraine, and in a certain sense , the european integration of ukraine, moldova and georgia already has its own history, and this history consists in the fact that it is most active towards

the european union and eu membership ukraine is moving and these countries are moving with ukraine as a package, let me remind you that ukraine submitted an application for membership, after that such applications were also submitted by georgia and moldova, and ukraine received candidate status and moldova received candidate status, and now when we are talking about submitting the steps to start negotiations, because already joining the european union, we are aware that similar decisions are being made regarding water praise for moldova, unless, of course , the political lenses and political configuration will radically change in the country itself, we can see the situation in georgia now, despite the great desire and, let's say, the rules of the european union , where enlargement countries go in groups, still the eu was not able to grant georgia the status of candidates and we hope that there will be no such radical changes in moldova and that while the situation