[000:00:00;00] requisites dear tv viewers, let's help our fighters better defend ukraine and protect us all, history is extremely important , join us well, khrystyna yatskiv and i are gradually completing today's broadcast, and it will continue to be picked up by our colleagues about the most important events of today, about trends and, of course, the most interesting expert opinions now you will hear the verdict by serhiy rudenko in the program . antin burkovskyi and i say goodbye until tomorrow literally glory to ukraine this is the verdict program my name is serhiy rudenko everyone good day and good health. today is february 22, the 364th day of heroic action against the ukrainian people by the russian occupiers. today, the russian occupiers shelled the center of kharkiv before arriving in the kyiv

district of the city in the morning for the residents of belgorod, voronezh, neighboring ukraine, and not neighboring kazan, ufa, the new split of novouralsk and near moscow . "i heard an air alarm signal, the propagandists write that this is the result of a technical gathering, according to preliminary data of the armed forces of ukraine , shells arrived from the ukrainian armed forces at port 18 warehouse 3 in mariupol. about this the adviser of the city mayor andryushchenko reports, we are not waiting for the details of this event, meanwhile, the russian occupiers continue to lose manpower and equipment in the country, as of the morning of february 22, russia has already lost 145,000 people in ukraine in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 620 orks at the beginning of the great war the russians have already lost in ukraine 334

tanks 6,569 armored fighting vehicles 2,345 artillery systems 471 rocket salvo systems 243 anti-aircraft defenses 299 airplanes 287 helicopters 5,212 11 of automotive equipment, 18 ships, boats, 873 cruise missiles, 2,026 drones and 226 units of special equipment about the air alert in russia that biden gave to putin well, medvedev is hysterical about the words of the president of the united states of america that russia will suffer a fiasco in the russian-ukrainian war, that's all we will talk for the next hour, i want to introduce today's first guest - this is yehor firsov, a tereo fighter, a military medic who is fighting in donetsk region, sir, and the mountains

. good day, good health to you, and thank you you are protecting us from the russian occupiers. i wish everyone good health. so, mr. igor, let's start with the current situation on the eastern front, because this coming week and these days are considered the most critical and the most dangerous from the point of view of russia's use of additional force and additional efforts in order to uh, they celebrated february 24, the day of russia's attack on ukraine. what is happening there now. where are you ? look in our direction exclusively. in our direction. manned his brigades new life force has arrived according to my thoughts and feelings new force life force this is the only thing they have left

now, i.e. human resources which they use as meat, they have problems with wounds, they already have problems with missiles, and they have problems if to believe international analysts with heavy equipment, but they have no problems with people , that's why they will mobilize, they will dress them, give them shoes , hand them a machine gun, drive them into battle , that's why, in our direction, they have completed the brigades, these are relatively recent the days before yesterday and yesterday were like a small lull, but we know about the enemy, for example, the pump in their direction, and where they want

to break through, they want to break through with tanks. a wave of new attacks. well, i am convinced that i will not celebrate it on february 24, 25, or on any other date. president zelenskyy yesterday held a stake meeting with reports from the front line. he said that in his evening address to the ukrainian of the people on the battle of prezhov, missile strikes and intense pressure from the enemy, the front line has not undergone changes, we will hear from zelenskyi, the commander-in-chief gave a useful report on the general front -line situation of enemy missile strikes on our positions, of course, special emotions are evoked by reports on donetsk region, luhansk region, we are doing everything to deter enemy attacks there, constant intensive assaults by russia does not stop although he suffers tremendous losses there, the syrian general

reported on the bakhmut and lyman directions , fierce battles, principled battles, we do everything to support our guys, general tarnavskyi reported on the battles in avdiivsk and other areas, the occupiers are using the entire range of weapons against our guys there , including even tear gas grenades, but it is very important to beaver all the pressure on our forces , the front line has not undergone changes. so, this is how president zelensky reported to the ukrainian people yesterday yesterday also two events took place asynchronously but important for the beginning of the russian-ukrainian war. putin addressed the federal assembly of the russian federation, you obviously either saw or read, well at least reports about putin's statements, and in the evening joseph biden spoke in warsaw, who said that ukraine will win this

war, russia will be defeated. - it is quite such a historic and revealing moment when the leader of the largest country and the world leader flies to kyiv , the capital of a country that is under aggression from the russian federation. well, you know mr. serhiy, frankly, i am even afraid to discuss such public topics now, because there is no when to follow them and there is no time to analyze them, that's what the moment is, but here i will say yesterday directly at the headquarters. well, in the headquarters there, not far from the front line, i see at least two fighters who connected to the starlink and saw

biden's speech in poland is for understanding, that is, if it's someone's speech and the guys see it, and if they follow it directly on the front line, then it means that this speech is very interesting. and i would say even historical. i think that i don't know. this chemistry by the way when biden i came to kyiv again guys, it's on the front lines and the mood and energy is extra, and we don't analyze what he said, how deeply he promised, but it's a powerful signal even for the guys on the front line, which adds additional strength. it means that we did everything right for this year and we need to continue to continue doing this. such signals give us hope that we will have additional

heavy weapons, which we need very much, and gives us hope that we will have most of the outfits , most of the outfits, which are also great here we perform the necessary, you know, i work in the territorial defense, we usually perform the function of infantry if we have problems with cover, namely heavy weapons cover us sometimes trouble yes we how well, first of all, we are very interested in the fact that there were more shells believe it a terrible dream of an infantryman when he calls support for artillery cover, for example, tank support, and he knows that there are tanks and their comrades, but there are either not enough or there are no shells, this is a terrible dream for an infantryman, but if there were less, but not at all

i had such terrible dreams. we need not only weapons. we need projectiles, and for these projectiles to be produced most likely in the countries there, relatively speaking, nato. maybe even the united states of america, precisely for the war in ukraine, we do not have enough projectiles, because i would like more 155 caliber there are not enough 120-caliber mines. of course, there is probably a problem with missiles for the himers system. if there are more of them, this is exactly what can make a turning point in the war. allies of the anti-putin coalition provided ukraine with enough weapons, well, obviously not as much as we would like, but at least they helped significantly, british intelligence says that in yesterday's speech, putin testified that russia

will continue the war against ukraine, analysts say that putin continues to maintain a bellicose tone, but yesterday did not name any specific measures that would help russia to get out of the deadlock on the battlefield, the russians constantly talk about the fact that we will never be defeated on the battlefield, what for russia - according to you, this is similar to death, is there a limit beyond which the russians will still understand that it is not necessary to cross it, maybe it is human losses, maybe it is resource loss, maybe it is economic loss, or in principle, for the russians, for our enemies, there is no such limit they didn't go over but hmm a difficult question a difficult question why because it is difficult to analyze sick people a sick nation of sick leaders and this is probably because i work as a tactical

medic on the frontline yes but for sure this is a question for my colleagues and psychiatrists psychologists, yes , and i’m saying this now without any jokes. this is a sick nation, sick people who are difficult to give in to any specific analysis . well, using it. you probably know that the soviet union suffered losses of about 24 million a-a people during the second world war, approximately 16 million 16 million and these were military men , the stalinist school has not disappeared anywhere. soviet er-e russia is right as it is

the rightful successor of this school and for them, human lives are worth nothing. that is, we know that according to official statistics , the figure for human losses will soon reach 150,000 personnel, here they remained , the majority of them remained here in ukrainian land, which harm the environment but nevertheless, yes, 150,000 per month is not a number for them, they will drive, they will, er , conduct additional mobilizations, and as i said, this is living meat. this is the only thing they have left, they will use infantry attacks, that is, with everything else, they have problems with taking some vanka stove , e.e., he sat e.e.

well, if you believe it. yes, in the testimony of the prisoners, they say that they. well, they say that. yes, i emphasize, i am not saying that it is true. they say that they did not expect to see so many corpses on the front line at ground zero. but they knew about the losses, they learned something about the problems there. but real shock for they were provoked when they were driven to attack and they actually went to attack on these mountains of corpses and their own. and here it is. well, they say the prisoners. this type of thing was provoked for them, which is why it is difficult to say what will stop them. well, i mean psychologically, they they understand the language of power, the harder we beat them everywhere, the better they will understand us . well, maybe somewhere in the russian panchayat they will finally understand what an air raid is and how our whole country has been living under an air raid for a year

. a large-scale air raid started this morning, well, relatively a large-scale alarm because the crows of zhabelhorod, the old school, ufa, novouralsk and the moscow suburbs of the republic of komirena are writing about it in the public. business fm relax fm yumgor fm comedy radio and autoradio will hear and see what it was like to watch in the cover , distraction, the threat of a missile attack attention attention is announced air anxiety you know you can look at this forever and be happy that they finally feel or at least partially feel the

emotions that ukrainians feel before air alarms and to those who cause these air alarms of the russian occupiers, what do you think about the resource potential of the great russians, some of them are standing behind the border, the ukrainian border, and all the way to the kuriles and alaska, hmm. is it possible to somehow bring them to their senses, it is clear that there is putin, there is this clique that sat next to him yesterday in that hall of the federal assembly. and there are millions of people, hundreds of tens of millions, who sincerely believe that, as he says, putin is here . the punisher is not about nazis or anyone else. there and posypaks there or how to treat them you can how paramedic, do you still have a prescription? yes, i am a doctor, but i am not a psychiatrist, but i can say from military experience that the only thing that

can bring them to their senses is force, and it is this fear of this force. by the way, you mentioned what they will feel. is the same as the ukrainians in fact no in fact believe me i have already been an eyewitness to many shellings in rocket attacks in cities such as sloviansk armatursk-pokrovsk when something flies here and in elderly houses real terrorist acts i do not feel panic and fear in the eyes of ukrainians on the contrary they all they run out, they help the soldiers, they help the paramedics, the military rakes the rubble, pulls people out despite the fear that now rocket strikes may come again, that is, people do not run to the

basements instead. they are simply causing panic , and i am 1000 percent convinced that they are in fear. and this is the only way to defeat them. i will remind you that valery zulazhnyk in his first article, if you remember when he wrote, he wrote very wise things as a commander-in-chief you wrote the next one that ah only when the enemy is carrying lost contact with egor firsov i hope that we will now restore this connection he is located in donetsk region on the eastern front so please forgive me, dear viewers , for now we will restore this connection i would like to say that we work simultaneously on several platforms on the air of the espresso tv channel , as well as on our social networks. for those who are currently watching us on youtube and facebook , please like our video

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will continue and valery fedorovych wrote there in this article golden words he said the following: what if the enemy will have a symmetrical missile attack? maybe even an asymmetrical one, but the answer is yes, then the enemy and the civilian population will think that maybe it is fun for them to watch rocket attacks hit residential buildings, we will not a-a shoot at residential buildings, but we have a-a have the right to respond with a missile response and hit military facilities, warehouses , other military infrastructure, that's when it is possible that the enemy's sick nation will start to think about this at least a little, and so far there is no such e- well, we have the technological capabilities, first of all, the technological capabilities, then the enemy will treat us and continue to shell us

, we must have the right to launch fire, including missile fire, directly at the russian federation at military facilities. we remember that the last rammstein extreme ramstein took place on february 14. and there it was decided to provide ukraine with a rather large package of military aid. there is an anti -putin coalition, which includes representatives of more than 50 countries of the world, powerful countries of the world who understand that the future of the world depends on what happens on the battlefield in ukraine and our experts, ukrainian experts talked about the fact that this is the time lag that was between the meeting of rammstein - 9 and the arrival of this heavy weapon that you mentioned a little earlier. is this a long enough period?

it is not clear what will happen in this long period, how russia will react to it, because they also understand that over the next six months, it will obviously be determined what the end of the russian-ukrainian war will be, according to you, is there such a possibility that russia can pull the entire the weapons that they have there and all their capabilities and in what way to try to turn the tide of the war, which is currently in our favor, taking into account the support that we receive not only from the united states of america, from representatives of the western world. well i am convinced of this. i am convinced that they will now pull out all weapons from all reserves, carry out additional mobilization , and try to transfer the economy to exclusively military rails, that is, they have all bets on the stars. as they say, but at the same time, well, i

i do not encourage you to relax, but also not to exaggerate, you know, sometimes we have the impression that here and there they will additionally start some kind of special wave of attack there , well, no, they did everything they could, they already did and when they say there well, what is there in the east the offensive began there. well, my friends ask me, for example, there is someone there from kyiv, well, listen to how the offensive began, he entered here constantly every day, but today yesterday. a week ago, a month ago, there were enemy russian offensives here. and if anyone thinks that russia will additionally connect something else secret there, well, that will not happen, they have nothing left, except that i said that they will additionally arm those infantry and

throw them with these new waves. yesterday i was in this is good good good evidence that putin used the only possible color of which he has a vocabulary left this is again a song about nuclear weapons he has nothing more to say his attempts his attempts of his army to take at least something they fail the army and resources too on the verge, somehow, they constantly start begging for some kind of negotiations on various channels and start this song again with nuclear weapons, so the only, only , only solution for us is not to go to all this , to continue doing what we have been doing this year to work hard to defend our territory, to think about the counteroffensive and to implement our plast, yes, in fact, yesterday vladimir putin did not sum up the year of their so-called special military operation at all, well, that is , there was no summing up because they

did not take a single regional center for this uh year uh, a lot lost well, it is clear that there is nothing to brag about except that they are taking nuclear weapons out of the suitcase again and talking about the fact that they are going to do something there with the united states of america at the time, the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, kyrylo budanov, said in an interview, i quote from him, that they are asking for your conclusions about the hostilities until the end of spring and until the end of the year, nothing has changed since the middle and until the end of spring, there will be decisive battles - said general budanov the fate of the war will be decided by the journalist budanov. yes, this is a turning point , if you apply a football analogy to 12 of these great wars, what is the score now, what minute

of the match is bohdan, the score is 1:1, and the 70th minute is a subjective vision well, this is the vision of general budanov , well, how many days are left before the start of this great war that began in ukraine on february 24 , 2022, and the war has been going on for eight years now, mr. igorest, let's try to sum up what year this is was for the country, for the armed forces, and personally for you, i know that you, uh, signed up for the tireo at the end of february, and uh , i think it was in may. if i’m not mistaken, you went to donetsk because you worked near and in irpen and in bucha, well, on kyiv region means near the ukrainian capital, please oh yes, it's true, you know it's difficult, it's difficult to analyze it all of course, this is our year, er, the year of the heroism of the ukrainian people

, the main thing is that first we all endured. believe me, if someone had told me that er, a year ago, on february 24 , i would have said, friend, do it don't be afraid of your business and in a year you will be giving an interview from the press to tv serhiy rudenko, being on the front line you will analyze your own victories there yes well, i certainly did not lead in this so uh year year you can characterize the fact that the ukrainian people are probably for the first time for two for 30 years ago, i finally believed in myself and proved to the whole world that we are. well, we are worthy. yes, we staged revolutions and showed ourselves this dignity . and now the whole world knows that we are worthy . what is ukraine

? the armies make uh tattoos i am ukraine yes , i'm ukrainian it's cool it's cool and how much and how much we supported and received support from the whole world from the cultural component from the business warehouse from the political a component of all excuse me, well, for the first time during a war since the second world war, the president of the united states of america is visiting a country where military operations are taking place . of course, historical historical events, historical days, we must continue to do what we were doing, believe

in ourselves, first of all, believe in the armed forces and go step by step to our victory, arriving in donetsk region and being in the midst of these events which are taking place in the east on the eastern front according to your feelings. how long can the great war of russia against ukraine last? it is clear that this war will continue for tens of years, because having such an unbalanced and stupid neighbor near our border , in principle, it will obviously last tens or even centuries this war will continue to one degree or another, and it has been until now, but the current war is a great war, how long will it last, how to say i, on the one hand , bow to the knowledge of kirill's mind

oleksiyovych budanov i mean and i believe i believe in his words that this is, relatively speaking, the 70th minute of the match yes, there will be 90 minutes out of 90 minutes at hm a fracture can occur at any second at any second a fracture can be for various reasons loss of vigilance the enemy transported and supplied yes ukrainian yes supply yes yes providing us by our partners with the appropriate amount of ammunition in addition to equipment this is also important, that is, any uh, any position can serve as a certain turning point in the war , but frankly i will say that when you are on the frontline sometimes seems that there is no end and edge to this war. believe me, the most difficult situation is when you are sitting somewhere in