[000:00:00;00] to say that it is unequivocally pro-russian, it is very, well, it can be interpreted in different directions. it is very optical, but the point is that this whole statement does not in any way imply that china will suddenly take it and start supplying weapons to putin. well, somehow it is not does not come out of this statement at all, that's why i think that the americans rather take certain such informational steps in order, and so these are mainly statements at the press level, in order to show that we celebrate this issue carefully and once again remind the chinese that it is not necessary, it is not necessary to supply weapons to russia not it is necessary to cross certain certain boundaries, i very much doubt that the chinese need this and they will start now there, i do not know such things , that is, i think that china will be the opposite , now they will look at how weak russia is, and it is unlikely that china needs it directly

collapse of russia is unlikely, but the fact that china needs russia is weakened as much as possible, which will simply fall before it finally, which in principle is already happening, then i think that this is exactly the scenario that china is arranging . thank you, mr. andriy, for the conversation. it was andriy illenko, officer of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, friends, we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our social networks for those who are watching us now on facebook and youtube , please like this video , subscribe to our social networks, we work on all social networks if you do you want to become part of the sponsor club of youtube channel espresso here is a link to the qr-codes that you can follow and get detailed instructions on how to join this sponsor club, well, besides

remember that we have a website that works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. espresso tv . check out the news from ukraine, the world, as well as the front chronicle, everything is on our website , read our website, support our resources , we will be grateful to you. well, i want to introduce a friend of ours today's guest is oleksiy hetman, a veteran of the russian -ukrainian war , a reserve major of the national guard of ukraine, mr. major. good day. good health. thank you for joining our broadcast . good day. over the past few days, we have been receiving messages about what is happening the situation in bakhmut near bakhmut is quite tense. volodymyr veliky spoke about this yesterday in his evening address to the ukrainians , and volodymyr veliky was also leaving for bakhmut or bakhmut oleksandr syrskyi. how do you assess the current situation

around bakhmut? it is a steadily tense situation, but we know. the statements of putin and the leaders of the so-called dpr and lpr about what is needed there by march 1, today , march 1, was to go to the administrative borders and all these plans that they constantly voice that bakhmut will fall and we will finally get control only over this city, and we will go to kramatorsk, slovyansk and other cities that are within the administrative borders of the donetsk and luhansk regions. well, for now, the conversation is only about bakhmut, now it is in a semi-surrounded state. so this is true there. banal words, but they are like that, or there are heavy battles going

on, they, well, it didn't work out, but they control the m-03 road that connects konstantinovka with bakhmut, they left already 5 km south of the temporary ravine. b they tried to surround this city from the north and the south directly in the flood . since almost before the time i left there 5 km south of it and they manage to block the m-03 road to konstantinovka, then most likely there will be a command for the withdrawal of our troops because they will remain there is no sense in the operational environment, and so bakhmut has already performed his military function several times , a large number of military personnel and equipment of the russian federation were destroyed, by and large

, wagner's private military company was destroyed, who said nothing at the start of the fighting even last year for bakhmut . well, i’m at the beginning, because they already had it, after a certain time, more than 40,000 soldiers of a private military campaign were used there, well, it was mostly criminals now there are no more than 7,000 of these servicemen left, it is not a fact that they are there in large numbers, there was information that they were moved somewhere to the left bank of the horn and the dnieper south of kherson, therefore, wintering there, there are really heavy battles, and if they continue to increase the number of artillery mortars and of manpower there. well, tanks are used, of course, other armored vehicles , so there is no point in holding on to this city. this is exactly what president zelensky said that we will not hold on to the name of a place if it is convenient

it is more convenient to withdraw to more prepared positions there, hold the defense and we will do it for the russians bakhmut, does it make any political sense, they have planned many times there, the plans change about what on a certain date they have to release him, or rather capture this technique, terminology, release, so far they have not succeeded how will the events develop further ? well, we understand that the situation will not change along the dnipro for hours , perhaps during our conversation with you there are events that will change something directly on this part of the front a few hours before our conversation, a friend of the major's copper, who is an artilleryman, wrote on his facebook page that he put a mark next to eh with chrome, if i'm not mistaken, thunderous eh and yes yes yes yes and he wrote about what and wrote about what this mark that he put on the map on social networks says that this is the last road that connects the troops

in bahmut with us and says that a critical situation is developing precisely well, that this road can also be blocked, or will something similar happen again , what we saw already in mariupoli, god forbid there is the creation of a cauldron for our people and getting into this cauldron, because this friend of mine writes that thousands of our soldiers can end up in the cauldron and die, or can we hope that the military-political command of the country clearly realizes and understands that this will never happen it will be and this cannot be allowed militarily. he definitely understands the military and political . we hope that he also understands. all the more so, again, i want to remind you that president zelenskyy said that we will not hold on to any city if there is a possibility

encirclement or uh, a large number of losses on our side, well, we hope that he did not just say that and that some political aspects will not prevail over the military aspect , i want to believe everything so far weapons, equipment, people, on the side of the enemy, so if it continues like this, if they reach yaru by the time they have blocked the road 0:3, which is just under fire, there are other roads. well, there is not one road, we understand that there are many roads, well, they know it too. there are certain maps if they will try to surround this place, then we will have to give the command to temporarily go there , because the withdrawal of troops is also not a very easy thing , as it will be in mariupol, well, i hope that it will not happen , because when mariupol was surrounded, the russian troops there very quickly passed through our cock

and there were conversations about whether or not we should release the people surrounded by us in azovstal, that is, whether we could, or would not , of course, whether we had the opportunity to do so, we did not have the opportunity to break through to the encirclement of people, so a decision was made to order these people to lay down their arms, because otherwise they would simply have died, they would have simply lost , the red cross intervened there, although its functions in this line look no less strange, it is possible to save the lives of these people, there is no point in repeating it in bakhmut because behind uh, well, constantine, in a different place, our armed forces are located there, there is not a large number of uh, the armed forces of the russian federation around, and so far it is possible to encircle deep in this city, they do not have such an opportunity, we have a place where of withdrawal, the possibilities for withdrawal are still preserved if it has to be done, i want to believe it

, otherwise it will not look very good that the order for the withdrawal of troops will be visited once again, this is not a place, it does not have any great strategic military significance, it has a political significance, but more for the russian federation p. oleksiy, commander of the detachment south strike serhiy ilnytskyi talks about spring at the front in the bakhmut area, we have to fight not only with enemies but also with the consequences of the first warming this is mud and swamp, even so, our soldiers are approaching victory says serhii ilnytskyi, we will hear it, i ilnytskyi, we have already waited for this spring, we have waited for spring, we have waited thank god, spring will come, summer will come, there will be victory, and for now we are fighting not only with the enemy, but we are fighting with the consequences of the first warming, it is manifested in us here are such stories, this is not the worst option, because

today there is no rain, all the warming of the swamp , the conditions and nothing, we got used to mr. oleksiy, how will the dynamics of the war change during this period, we are just march because it will be at the crossroads, it is clear that equipment and people will not be able to move. or will this movement on the front be slowed down according to your opinion . will there be any sharp changes on the front in the east and south of ukraine during march, which began today? of an active offensive movement on the part of the russian federation, because it is really difficult for me to drive there with heavy equipment, so with wheeled equipment it is also very difficult for the defenders, those who hold the defenses

are also difficult. it happens in the dugouts, where people have to rest and sleep, just there, too, the same thing as you do there, it is diverted, well, everyone knows how to build dugouts, there are enough of them. we have very big ones, but it’s the same, i won’t. and anyway , water collects there, and it’s not there. well, you know, i don’t want it to comment on this as someone who was there knows that it is not very good because you wake up why are you asking where are your slippers? well, they are nearby and it melts normally. that is, everyone knows this , but on the other hand, to attack in such conditions , i still see in the archive between holding defense this does not mean that it is difficult for us to sit in the mud, live in the mud and even under fire to maintain the defense, to fight, but on the other hand, it is still impossible for the russians to move with heavy equipment, most likely it will be, they can strengthen the artillery mortar on

shelling than is inherent in the fact that they created, well, now i am trying to disturb the so-called inter-attack brigades, this is what they tasted so much back in the second world war, when they captured some berg in this way. of course, a unit, for example, a company that is simply strengthened by a large number of er, mainly artillery is added there heavy equipment and such groups well, people are added , that is, a company with a fortune of conditional people turns into companies and about 250 people, and this is already called an assault group, which we tried to do certain actions of the german end-bergs were successful in three days, they captured this city there, but then there was a very high density of artillery shelling. now we do not have such an advantage in artillery. well, they have an advantage over the wartovers, but not as much as this it was during the second world war, when this region was being formed, that's why they advance, send people forward, our experienced

so-called elite and equipment, they keep uh-uh in the back , and when they find out where our firing points are, where our position is, by and large, then it goes mortar artillery shelling after passing through it, the suicide bombers and more prepared ones are already trying to sneak in somewhere and they are advancing if they woke up even a few meters there, 10-15 m. they immediately make some fortifications there and try trenches or dugouts in order to gain a foothold in this position, i.e. otaka they have a slow advance such a way they have it first the people are suicide bombers then after them they are more or less prepared more than the equipment if you can drive there and there are no soldiers, artillery and the process is strengthened by 10 established advanced established taking into account that they have a very large number of infantry mobilized and in some areas of the fronts it is possible, but we anticipated this immediately. well, maybe not the political leadership and the military leadership announced that in some areas of the front

you will have to retreat, well, that’s normal during the war, it’s active defense, and there ’s no, no, you can’t talk. our offensive action in various areas yesterday, mr. oleksiy , was informed in russia about a series of incidents allegedly related to attacks by ukrainian drones, in particular, it was about the downing of drones in several russian regions including near muscovy and st. petersburg, even the airport did not work for several hours yesterday due to the alleged threat of drones, in addition, the wreckage of three drones was reported in belgorod, and a fire broke out at the tuapse oil depots in the krasnodar region ; in addition, the fall of drones was reported in

the bryansk region and adygea now the ministry of defense of the russian federation also reported that there was apparently a massive drone attack on crimea. according to the russian ministry of defense, six drones were shot down, four of them were disabled from with the help of rep. podolyak, this is the sly fellow of the head of the office of the president of ukraine, commented on the drone attacks in the russian regions. ukraine does not carry out strikes on the territory of the russian federation. objects of infrastructure from unidentified flying

objects, mykhailo podolyak said to mr. oleksiy, despite the fact that it is not yet known for certain whose drones are these and how successful they are and how necessary now is the tactic of transferring battles or let's say war to the territory of the russian federation from the side of ukraine and in what way do you think ukraine should do it ? called well, it seems to me that this has some political undertones, because we perfectly understand that it is unlikely that these are any other aircraft or any other weapons besides the ukrainian one, or that the armacon is supplied by our partners. all this has some kind of political meaning , why exactly we or we have to attack e-e

objects inside the russian federation, where we are obliged to do it, we are obliged to read those objects and from which our country is being attacked, we are obliged it is necessary to destroy their power towers with strategic bards, their strategic warehouses, even the logistics center and even the centers with which the information component of this hybrid war is conducted , what was it? only what we will receive from our partners, not everyone remembers that at the beginning of december there was information from our military-industrial complex from ukroboronprom that we have already produced uavs that are capable of flying shock waves , some capable of flying at a distance of up to a thousand kilometers and already in december were their tests carried out directly on the field of god, well, almost three months have passed , i think that during this time these devices have been perfected, they will be perfected, what capabilities do they already have to launch combat operations,

should we attack, well, first of all, it is psychological psychological pressure on the enemies is very, very necessary. they announced the so-called blanket plan, that is, they even the planes that flew from moscow to st. petersburg were turned around and returned to moscow. of our air defense where and everything that is being done there, maybe there were no aircrafts , maybe that’s the case, well, we don’t know what it is somewhere, maybe it ’s an english trick on the part of the ref, but i want to believe that all this was our deadly truth that they were just training, doing reconnaissance in order to find out where they could be. well, where they could fly and regretted that they could not inflict damage. should we shoot at the territory of the russian federation with our attack? not only should we do it, we must it is necessary to do this and not just on the territory of the russian federation or the federation , we need to attack moscow, we need to destroy the remains

- about the station and the state of the cinema and television tower, which is waging an information war against, including against our ukraine. i think that these conversations are worth shouldn't we destroy our places? should we kill our people? i'm not the president, i don't call for the killing of their civilians . it's a war crime. we won't do it the way our enemies are doing, but we must destroy the objects that are there. during the war, look at israel, no one attacked from those factories in israel that manufacture certain aircraft there, the same bpl, but in israel they decided it was not during the war, it was peacetime there, but they decided that it could be used against israel, and it inflicted shock they did not hesitate, they never assembled there, they destroyed certain production facilities. we continue to hesitate, whether it is worth it or how it should be . we need to attack moscow . we need to attack st. petersburg. political

decision-making, military decisions, and so on, we have to do it, they say to him that we have to destroy their launchers, which, in addition to the name, issue ballistic missiles from advisers our turn-by-turn air force says that there are some missiles out there hustle x22 from kandera that we cannot destroy with our air defense systems when they are already flying over our territory, but we can destroy them at the point of launch. well, let 's not do that, because this is it's not humane. that is, we can't destroy. i'm sorry, eskander, who started, but he started from the bryansk region, and well, we won't stand in the lviv region, because it's not beautiful yet. it will be a shame . what kind of conversation is this? some very deep deep political some kind of motivations such works such statements but you know well, to a practical everyday major reserve this is of course perfectly understandable and one more point is quite important and unpleasant which is near

the ukrainian border, this is transnistria , for two weeks russia has been leaking information about what transnistria will be destroyed by ukraine, is ukraine preparing some provocations? we remember that in 1999 , yeltsin promised to withdraw russian troops from there, but then this did not happen, that is , in fact, this unrecognized region has been for 30 years which is called the transnistrian moldavian republic, it is such an appendicitis that does not allow either moldova or ukraine to live peacefully, and even more so during the russian-ukrainian war, russia already invented the thing about a radioactive provocation, that ukraine is apparently preparing some kind of radioactive provocation masha zakharova, this propagandist went on the air and began to talk about the fact that they brought some kind

of radioactive weapon there, according to you hmm, how quickly can moldova and ukraine practice with this appendicitis , which, well, in principle, it is unnecessary and it interferes not that the excess is dangerous for both ukraine and moldova because the russian federation is controlled by two reasons , e.e. zakharov and other people who are trying to comment on it. to receive nuclear weapons from our western partners, but they did not provide us with these weapons and only provided us with biological laboratories where we make something like that, well, combat mosquitoes, or combat birds, that is, now there are talks that we we are preparing to use a so-called dirty bomb there, that is, to make some kind of radioactive contamination of this territory. well, you know this

too, that is exactly what it is to start analyzing putin's statements about whether we have any honor from them in various propagandists or whether we have combat mosquitoes that bite only russian-speaking or something else, well, that is, there is no point in us commenting on transnistria, so in 1995 , 14 armies went there, and at that time lybid was a commander who was a well-known general even in ukraine, he is quite well-known they were trying to get out of these troops, but they are still there, the limitations of the grouping, the operational grouping, the russian army does not like them there, they are people who are supposed to be led by some combat units, about two thousand other people who were engaged in serving, well, other jobs there, from six to 10,000. that is, it is not can be considered some kind of powerful military formation , first of all, secondly, those people who even have military tickets and passports of the russian federation are people who are already young, especially those who were already born in transnistria, it is by

and large moldova they came to work because the salary was relatively relatively good, these people have been fighting for a long time with the local population , they are not going to fight for the russian spirit, the zarosian peace under putin, and i think that there are results, it is like some kind of military formation, it is not worth it we heard about the possibility of a military coup d'état in moldova, that the kadirov people are even trying to go there, most likely it didn't happen, that's why she went like this and left like that, disappeared in english information that is there is interesting, why is this it is important from a military point of view, there are 150 hectares of warehouses, there is a large number of sets, yes, well, shells, all that, well, not all that, a large part of what was exported from the german democratic republic when the soviet union collapsed and germany united as a group

soviet voit in germany, the russian language was introduced into methods and that's where transnistria ended, these warehouses there, according to various estimates, up to 20,000 tons of various weapons , so uh, and it all belongs to the russian federation and is not recognized. the transnistrians of the republic, if moldova decides to get rid of this enclave and even contemplates some forceful actions , then i believe that ukraine should support it . it would be correct to introduce our military contingent there, seize these warehouses and hand over everything that is already there, the direct use of our armed forces , thank you, mr. oleksyn, or by the side we do not have there are rights, uh, we should kill the russians, are they humane? well, let me have a conversation, you know, i'm sorry to distract you for a moment , well, it's annoying not only me, it's annoying, we're their

brothers, well, what should we do? i'm sorry, why is this? oleksiy, let's put an end to our conversation. it was oleksiy hetman , a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war , a reserve major of the national guard of ukraine, friends, this was the program of the verdict of the right serhiy rudenko , tomorrow we will meet at 1:00 p.m. at our place volodymyr gryshko will talk about

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