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volodymyr ostapchuk every sunday at 9:30 p.m. on espresso hello everyone, this is freedom life, i am sashko shevchenko, we start today in the issue, see about this, the russian army continues an attack on bakhmut from three directions, trying to surround the armed forces of ukraine , as they say, the ukrainian military russian forces simply throw bodies at the ground , but this very tactic allows them to advance , how will they defend bakhmut and why the city it is important to keep, let's discuss the belarusian partisans or the ukrainian trail, a russian reconnaissance plane worth a third of a billion dollars was allegedly disabled permanently at an airfield near minsk, what does this mean for the defense of ukraine and how will lukashenko react? putin admitted that the russian people may not survive if russia does not hold on to its borders and the bear once again threatened with nuclear weapons in the kremlin, are they preparing for defeat

or are they blackmailing the world again, we will talk about all this in a few minutes, but for now please like this broadcast and subscribe to our channel on youtube, we start with the situation of the bahmuti of the hottest point of the front, yuriy syrotyuk has already joined our broadcast, wrote to mamai, a soldier, a grenade launcher of the fifth separate assault regiment of the armed forces of ukraine, as well as the deputy head of the all-ukrainian freedom association. good evening. i greet the company already p by a separate assault brigade . artillery bombardment half an hour ago another attempt of assaults in our direction ended without success today and yesterday almost non-stop constant

artillery bombardments of the enemy are trying to destroy our positions, then i give battle to the assault group, it gets a bit of a kick, it licks its wounds a little and after a day or the next day it continues assault actions today are very active assault actions of the enemy in our direction in the south of bakhmut in the area of ​​the plane where the enemy is trying to reach in the area of ​​ivanivsk well, but these actions are without any success there is no enemy advance if we talk about the situation exactly, where exactly are you south of bakhmut a , are the troops actively advancing there now, in particular, the latest news was about the advance of a in the north, what is the situation specifically in the south, in the south of the enemy, there were certain successes a few weeks ago, movement towards the highway kostyantynivka-bakhmut , the enemy's efforts were destroyed, the enemy was stopped, and now the situation here is stable , the advance guard does indeed constantly carry out assault actions, but these assault assault actions have no

result except for heavy losses of operatives. have, but it is obvious that the enemy is aiming to continue storming, because today the artillery is working very densely, it works here every day. it is dense, but today it does not stop. because when the evening comes, then the artillery of the crow and the assault actions subside somewhat and stop . let's talk, the artillery continues to work actively, but if we really talk about artillery shelling, i understand that there is actually an advantage in the advancing forces of the russian forces, and we remember that also the representatives the wagner groups allegedly complained that there were not enough shells, this is the situation in terms of the supply of shells, it is no longer the same advantage as it was in the summer of last year . at one time, about 20 to one, the enemy fired artillery shells at our side when the heads could not be raised, but today they are working all day effective systems of volley fire are being developed, the theory is working, tanks

are working, mortars are working on the street , it is almost impossible to move around, the enemy still maintains a significant advantage in artillery, not in accuracy, and at least in quantity, because they are just trying to shoot. where did they hit? but there is no longer a situation like at the beginning of the war, when the enemy created such a barrage of fire and swept away the living, destroying any opportunity to hide and the ukrainian army is a piece of garbage retreat now every meter of advance in the swamp because now here today it rained knee-deep swamp yesterday the ukrainian weather is on the side of the ukrainian army the ukrainian weather allows the ukrainian army to hold out until the end of this year february and we hope that the ukrainian offensive spring will begin soon, so there is an advantage, but we are holding on because of the task in the last weeks here, if there is any progress

, then it is minimal. there are some rivers and woods . the enemy is trying to pull up . he is taking huge losses. we detect him and destroy him again. he continues like a locust in this direction i understand that now the situation in bakhmut looks like a war of attrition. and actually, by jesus, they are now trying to exhaust this offensive potential of the russian federation first of all, aren't we there constantly here with such chloride he destroyed their offensive potential everything that putin prepared for the big on the so-called great offensive on ukraine, a significant part of these efforts is concentrated here around the coal miner and instead of carrying out any meaningful offensive actions, he simply grinds away and destroys his army, so bakhmut is a sawmill for the russian of the army is working perfectly, in the end i want to ask you who is fighting against the armed forces of ukraine is it the military regular army of the russian federation is it wagner’s mercenaries or

maybe someone else, we have already encountered all of them here and with the first lviv corps of collaborators from donetsk and with the wagnerites, now they say that the regular russian military has stepped up . we don’t care about everyone who came here with weapons . we have no chance to return . we live in them. to know that they will not return from here alive. thank you very much . yuriy syrotyuk was in touch with us. he wrote to mamai, who is currently holding the defense of bakhmut. therefore, the russian troops continue their offensive on bakhmut and try to to encircle the city, fighting is already taking place in the very place, according to the dibstate monitoring group, in recent days, russian forces managed to advance north of bahmut, in particular , on february 25, the fighters of the wagner group shared this photo near stela. at the entrance to the settlement from the east, this village to the north of bakhmut, ukrainian

official structures do not confirm the loss of yagidnoy in this particular settlement. however , today the spokesman of the eastern group of troops for jesus, serhiy cherevaty, confirmed that heavy fighting is taking place in the area of ​​jagidnoi, and the russian the army is suffering heavy losses, the city of bakhmut, the russian army has been trying to capture it since the summer, according to the ukrainian army, the units of the russian federation do not spare their personnel . however, it was the tactic of throwing bodies on the ground that allowed the occupying forces to advance into the city, now there are street battles going on, what does the battle in bakhmut look like and what is left of the city see in maryan kushnir's video, now

the machines have broken down, they have worked perfectly , the guys have come forward perfectly , restraining the russian forces who are trying to storm the city, but it is actually street fighting and we lose in one of the rooms, and the situation is actually not as critical as it would seem, but under tight and it is interesting how for me the street boys, of course, the feeling is female

bakhmut and the projectile seems to fall once a second , what does it break, and that every time i drove, i was looking for yes and come and go again in the center of the city now the ukrainian military is there, they are holding the lines, it looks like there will be claps on the head, fucking cockroaches from

behind the stove we hold on, we fight and do everything so that, as the very famous uncle magyar says now, so that we keep the earth free from worms on the internet, but it's not difficult. well, it's difficult , that's the advantage in this, but what can we do, we fight with what we have, there's no one way, we'll have something from the fact that we are holding back the infantry, that is, the main problem is the infantry, because i see that they do not spare the people here, it is just sown , that's all, that's all, the line is now just sown with corpses , but but here it is no longer in sight of the prisoners , maybe there is a part of them standing here regularly, the army is standing here airborne forces are different but the airborne forces are getting burned and our guys are fighting with them, the infantry is fighting, we are hurting, well, we are doing everything

we can to help our infantry and such kind of means, even he is sitting a little bit , but we have a machine gun and when we see the enemy, we beat them already from here so that the advanced positions are even less fired upon to charge them with what intensity they climb every day every day in small groups well, there was not a day that someone did not advance somewhere, maybe somewhere it will be calmer, there might be some flank tighter, but now we are on a tighter bar where we asked for a little bit, they just somehow , i don't know, rested there the whole way later, but well, small groups, uh, they can't do it anymore, like on soledar, they don't run there, 50-30 people . they run along 10 well, the standard scheme accumulates further and further, but what did i lead to, that these are some kind of regular troops and they are evacuating their three hundredths, they are withdrawing their two hundredths, they well, in short, they are steaming with this, i

have a feeling that something has changed, the galaxy has not changed anything critical and how they fought like pearls yes, and against, the only thing that can be, well, they are a little thought out, not so daring, stupid, there is full growth without combat money , they already run in normally , it is moved , it is fixed.

there was a plot from bakhmut by maryana kushnir why russia is so eager to seize bakhmut despite probably heavy losses, what is its strategic importance for the armed forces of ukraine , we will discuss this further , valentin batrak, director of the research center, is already in touch with us army conversion and disarmament good evening good evening let's start with the news two weeks ago after rammstein of the ninth meeting in the rammstein format, the chairman of the joint committee of the us chief of staff mark miley then said that according to jesus it is very important to stand in the battle of attrition for bachmut that it will help to achieve why why is bakhmut really so important for the judgment, well , it is really such a nodal station of this war , or rather this stage of the war, and er, in fact , it is a berry that mark sweetly had in mind, and

the military command understands this very well of the ukrainian armed forces is that if the ukrainians manage to stand up to ukraine and not hand over bakhmut, it means the possibility of exhausting the russian groups and actually repeating, or rather advancing in that idea of ​​utilization already er, actually speaking of the contingent that we call the mobilization contingent because in fact the removal of prigozhin and uh, the removal of mercenaries and , in particular, prisoners of the wagner pvk. and this actually demonstrated the transition of the russian side to the direct preparation of its

offensive, and uh, in the event that the ukrainians are ukrainian the self-defense forces restrain bakhmut with their actions and can do such things as are being done now around bakhmut and around , meaning the destruction of the 155th marine brigade, this means directly the bloodletting of the very mobilization contingent that the russian general staff and putin prepared in order to create the conditions for a powerful offensive, in fact, it can be argued that success in bakhmut depends on the success or lack of success of russia in the ability to create conditions for such a powerful large-scale oil, and we saw that they

they are preparing for provocation, they are preparing for various possibilities of missile attacks, they are currently creating active conditions in order to replenish their weapons, but now they are not ready for such an offensive, and above all thanks to this, thanks to the stability of the ukrainian defense forces under fire. that is why it is very important . well, of course they they are trying to speed up all the expansion of their capabilities and for this they are now trying to use rivers , various such creative schemes in quotation marks , when they could get additional weapons. well, they increased the work of its own military-industrial complex, now experts say that this happened at the level of november 22, and they began to produce tanks and missiles, armored vehicles

in larger quantities, but in lower quality, so that it is on the machine to compensate for it now the kremlin is resorting to a variety of such opportunities, among which they see the potential of china and russia in this war. the war is a very powerful blow to china and actually deterring china from its intentions , in particular to seize taiwan and therefore china, which in in general, he is not interested in such a powerful, powerful russia . he is still interested that russia did not fall. that is why he dedicates to this . and e these rocket

systems of volley fire, experts do not rule out that actually, lukashenka's trip to beijing and the possibility of ordering the same rockets may indicate the intention to supply topics through e-e directly through belarus it is possible that it is also through the arab emirates , because the arab emirates actually bought russian energy carriers and , uh, they are doing uh, or they are building such a policy that directly corresponds to the interests of their own country and does not take into account any, let's say , possibilities of protecting the democratic world . well and in general, such and such values , er, values ​​of the modern world, which, well, belongs to

the enlightened forces, we will say so unconditionally . i apologize, but let's still return to the situation on earth. they showed a map of the advance of russian troops. i have to ask the directors to show it once more. first of all, this map was provided by the monitoring group of the dis-dibstate and according to their information for the last 10 days, despite the fact that the defense of the armed forces of ukraine actually continues to hold in the bahmut, but still the advance in the north, we saw what exists , if we analyze this card that we now see on the screen , what are the russian troops trying to do, is this an attempt to create a cauldron a-a and say let’s say that surround a-a to surround bakhmut not from three sides. and from the fourth or not, it is certainly true that the intentions are there. and it is, in principle, obvious to anyone here. all this is clear. the question is how

powerful is the ukrainian army able to hold on and actually demonstrate stability. well, before that the situation was just such that the stability is impressive. and actually speaking, the western partners and in the ukrainian ukrainian society, we can only be proud and pray for the defense forces in this area and believe that there will be opportunities, there will be opportunities not to surrender the city although probably i understand that such a decision may make sense at a certain moment, so if it is necessary to threaten the environment, it is likely that the general staff will be able to come to the conclusion that it will be necessary to leave the city for the summer, this is not new information, and president zelenskyi said about it that what should be kept will be the ukrainian

the army as much as it is reasonable, yes, this is such a normal answer , yes, which indicates that such a thing is not excluded , military experts who are directly connected with well, let's say that this is the case with the bombing of this war with the theater of military operations, that is why such a decision can be, of course, it is not a tragedy for ukraine and it is not. well, i would say that it is a decisive moment that can be. this can be an acceleration of russia's preparations for a large-scale offensive, that's how these are possible here things, but i want to emphasize that if russia's offensive in many directions actually depends on the armed forces of ukraine, then the capabilities of the armed forces of ukraine themselves

largely depend on the pace and quality of the supply of weapons by western partners, so as a matter of fact, it can shake things up a bit in the camp of the western partners, and we know that this is actually the main debate going on right now, in favor of ukraine getting , first of all, airplanes and anti-aircraft missiles, well, airplanes . it is clear that even if there is such a decision , it is still six months away, and it is long-range missiles - it can be much faster decisions and their implementation much more quickly , that is, from the decision to receiving the actual missiles , there can be a distance of about three weeks or a month , but at most one and a half for sure. thank you very much we were in touch with valentin batrak, the director of the center for the study of the army, conversion and disarmament, we talked about the advance

of russian troops near bakhmut and what tasks the u.s. military can perform while defending it, thank you, after the alleged sabotage in vmochulyshchy , the belarusian border guards significantly strengthened the control of exit from the country, about this the belarusians radio freedom services reported several belarusians who crossed the border on monday and left for eu countries, perhaps the border guards are still looking for those involved in the explosions at the belarusian airfield in machylyshchi, which probably happened there on february 26, according to the baypol movement, belarusian partisans created by former members of the security forces allegedly managed to disable a russian military aircraft a50u, which could conduct reconnaissance and coordinate airstrikes in ukraine, it was definitely at this airfield before the alleged sabotage, satellite images testify to this which began to capture the media as soon as you saw them on the screen and these were pictures

from the airfield on february 19, and perhaps measures on the border of belarus are designed to prevent similar incidents in the future the ministry of defense of belarus or other infectious organizations have not yet commented on the information about the explosions or the increased checks at the border, while it is known that after the incident alexander lukashenko convened a meeting with the security forces at which he demanded to strengthen the discipline in the military units of the army of belarus, but russian telegram channels are writing about what ukraine, namely, the special operations forces or military intelligence, may be responsible for the strikes in the middle of nowhere. let me remind you that officially ukraine does not strike military facilities in belarus, but between minsk and kyiv have still not severed diplomatic relations, despite the fact that it is from belarusian airfields that russian planes take off to attack ukraine. oleksandr lukashenko previously said that he would be ready to use his own troops in the war against ukraine. if i quote from the territory of ukraine , aggression will be committed against the territory of belarus of long-range radar

detection and control of a special and whether it was really possible to damage such an object about the incident itself and the reaction to it in the material of maksym grabovskyi in the telegram channel of the movement beypo, created by former employees of the belarusian security forces, reported drone attacks on a russian plane, and 50 partisans, participants in the victory plan

, allegedly rang out two explosions. i.e., these explosions were heard. it is located only 12 km from minsk. russian fighter jets regularly take off from here. russian mig 31k carriers of hypersonic missiles, dagger, probably the a50 board conducts reconnaissance and adjusts their strikes. russian planes took off from belarusian airfields, hit ukraine, and there was reinforcement of the airfield, they even literally dug in the airfield with trenches, and military personnel sat around the clock and guarded these airfields. to damage the radar complex of the fuselage, he assumed that from now on the board will not be able to rise into the air, but he is still waiting

for confirmation of this from sources in power circles on the well-known pilot hero of ukraine vadim voroshilov also reacted to this event on his instagram with the call sign karai. i can compare this event with the sinking of the cruiser moscow. in strategic terms, these aircraft play a very important role in managing the violent actions of the aviation of the ministry of defense of belarus and the russian federation and other official structures, the incident at the moment do not comment at the same time the press service of oleksandr lukashenka published a video of his meeting with law enforcement officers , which he held after the alleged explosions in the stepmothers of an internal and external nature i would like to hear from your mouth the characteristics of the political and military component around our belarus

once again . of them , only six aircraft have been improved, the cost of one is about 330 million dollars max grabovsky volodymyr pautov radio svoboda well, the air force of the armed forces of ukraine also reacted the most likely blow-up of a russian plane in belarus, there they called this news good news for ukraine, why can it be so about the consequences of this sabotage and how oleksandr lukashenko will react to what happened umy chulyschach, let's talk further with us, taras zoftenko, an expert on international security of the democratic initiative fund good evening good evening father, we can say for sure that these explosions really happened or that the plane was really damaged. will it still need to be independently

confirmed? is there enough information? which is now in the open, well, at least from what can be judged by looking at the reaction of the belarusian authorities, and looking at um, all the circumstances of this incident, including the side effects, that is, well, we remember that there was also a small incident on the belarusian-ukrainian border ended tragically for one of the soldiers of the territorial defense on the part of ukraine, and in the complex, all these circumstances allow us to say that this incident really took place, this incident was really so serious that it was reflected in this meeting that lukashenko was holding today with his security forces and it is obvious that it is serious, it is precisely related to the specific now we are showing satellite images from the airfield, we heard back on february 19 and now we see this plane that it is at least definitely there was at this airfield please