[000:00:00;00] while most of the women were being evacuated from the capital, the girl went to storm the military. to get into the army, there is a lot of work. i think that women can also participate. it is better to live now in the barracks, but then live in a free ukraine in civilian life. everyone has a machine gun, everyone has a machine gun, everyone shoots, everyone shoots, that's why there's no such thing as you're a girl, you don't shoot there, and you 're a girl there, you live there , that's it. what can they be for girls and i don't know any without comfort far from their native cold dugouts and under constant shelling without pitying themselves they choose our victory because they say they know what they are fighting for and most importantly for whom they are fighting i made a decision what

well of course i have to stay and of course i have to defend, otherwise my children will have to do it now, the ukrainian army is not only one of the strongest, but also one of the most beautiful armies in the world , tens of thousands of women stand guard with weapons in their hands, according to the ministry of defense of ukraine, as of last november, almost 60,000 women defenders serve in the armed forces of ukraine, 18,000 women and civilian workers in the armed forces, 41,000 hold military positions and 5,000 are now fighting at the front since the first days. women soldiers have proven that no enemy is scary to them for their land, they will fight until the last but also strong women cry especially when they talk about their relatives and what they want now most of all you will see loved ones lyudmila gavrylyuk we are ukraine marathon only news ukrainian volunteer and paramedic yulia

poevska it is known that how tyra became a laureate she was awarded an international prize by brave women today at the white house. a ukrainian woman demonstrated extraordinary moral and physical courage while defending ukraine from merciless russian aggression. this is stated on the website of the state department during the evacuation of women and children from mariupol. she was captured where she was for three months this year. of the 11 laureates, among whom are also activists from afghanistan, argentina, kazakhstan , and poland. today we see 11 really outstanding people here, they fight against the russian invasion of ukraine. they defend the rights of mongolia they protect the rights of refugees as well as lgbt because of their work what they do every day we are faced with extraordinary challenges and hearing about them and reading about them is really impressive in many cases

they have survived intimidation some have lived in prison discrimination and each one of them did not give in it's time to put an end to intimidation in this news release the next one at 2 o'clock see you in a moment victoria malosvitna and maksym sikora in the analytical studio fight you will overcome god help you for you the truth for you strength and will saint taras hryhorovych shevchenko to beat, to fight, to take revenge, because war is revenge for mariupol and bucha for the dnipro, and stanislavsky cliffs for ayudakh, and each with a lattice roof for each foreign scar

. the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine is forming special brigades of the national guard of the state border service and the national police, these are elite combat units equipped according to the last word of equipment and technologies that will return ukraine its lands eight brigades one goal to finally destroy the enemy with honor without pity until the last battle join the lava it's time for the offensive guards to return theirs. thank you to the military journalists, i see the war from the other side of the video camera. thank you that since the first days of the war, you have been showing news from the front lines . now we are at the positions of our artillery. thank you for

exposing fakes. thank you for taking risks with yourself every day. it is very hot here so that people can see the truth and then the cleanup began . it is difficult and we know it. you are the real heroes of our ukrainian flag. we will endure everything thank you and take care sincerely, the audience and the whole team of the marathon the only news good peaceful night to all who are with us now the marathon is going on the only news thank you for watching in the studio victoria malosvitna and maksym sikora and the tv channel we ukraine during our our broadcast we also follow

the events in tbilisi, you can see live footage coming from the capital of georgia there. as you know, large-scale protests are taking place against certain decisions of the parliament of georgia that relate to a law that is almost exactly on 100% copies the russian legislation regarding the so-called foreign agents. if there will be extraordinary events there, accordingly, we will tune in to this broadcast and comment on it for you, while we will talk about the events on the front. the battle for bakhmut can significantly reduce the combat readiness of units of the wagner pvk . and this will deprive russia of a part of the most effective troops of this opinion at the institute for the study of war , according to analysts, the russian forces in bakhmut are now reinforced, so to speak, by the best wagnerites, as well as russian airborne units. and this undermines russian military capabilities, because

the armed forces of ukraine constantly counterattack and do not allow the enemy to advance the front line - they say in the institute that victory for ukraine is not only the deoccupation of populated areas, but also the mass destruction of russians and their equipment, and it is our soldiers on the bakhmut direction who destroy the most this was stated by the deputy minister of defense of ukraine, hanna malyar, and added that the enemy surpasses the ukrainian military in the number of personnel and weapons, but under these conditions, the defenders continue bravely and in fact on parity to resist him all, well, i really want news about the liberation of certain territories, and this is considered a victory. at the same time, the fact that for several months in a row, our brave soldiers are destroying the enemy and the most powerful , most professional units of wagner there, this is a victory, the fact that today a large number of weapons are being destroyed there and the enemy's techniques, this is a victory

, the fact that today the enemy is actually tied up there and forced to concentrate all its efforts there, and thus its offensive potential is reduced, this is also a victory taras zoftenko, an expert on international security at the ilko kucherev foundation for democratic initiatives, joins our broadcast, mr. taras, good night. good night. so, mr. taras , the institute for the study of war said this morning that the wagnerian russians probably captured the eastern part of bakhmut, but we know that the day before, it was bakhmut that was taken the elite ukrainian troops, and it was these troops that allowed the russians to be pushed away from the route along which supplies are carried out, what are the forecasts for how events in

bakhmut may develop, or will we be able to in the near future oust the russians from the eastern part of bakhmut, well, actually, the first thing we should understand about what is happening there in general is that the dynamics of the situation are actually very, very high and uh, even despite the fact that we can receive messages that at what point or at in some direction, the russians moved forward. this does not mean that they have gained a foothold there . that is, we must understand that the entire logic of the actions of the russian invaders in the east of ukraine and in the direction of bakhmut is basically the same. so if on the territory of our state it it is complicated by the fact that, well, to move forward - this is only part of their task, yes, this is part of that function, which function is actually entrusted to them, and the most important thing is , after the advance, to be able to gain a foothold and defend that new territory , yes, on which they advanced, and so the russians actually have the biggest problems with this, that's why we have to remember about this dynamic. we must remember and, in principle, we must

react absolutely calmly to any such messages that well, we perfectly understand that the russians really they take us with quantity, but absolutely not with quality, and the fact that the russians can, simply taking into account their quantitative advantage , somewhere in some places in a certain period of time , push our defense, which is concentrated in the first place, in addition to restraining the advance of the russians. it concentrates on not bearing losses themselves among our military , among our equipment, and so on, yes , that is, for some such certain tactical reasons, our soldiers can temporarily leave somewhere in order to concentrate greater firepower and knock out the russians, in fact, that’s how b the next point in time ago, in principle well, if this dynamic should dictate to us a general understanding of what is happening there well, in general, we really see what the experts of the institute of war studies talked about , and many military analysts and american and other countries also talked about it

- members of nato, in the end, their ukrainian colleagues , the fact is that the logic of the russian army's actions in the bakhmut direction is that they use wagner's units. well, as such, they are front-line meat squads in order to, first of all, exert quantitative pressure on the ukrainian defense lines and at the same time preserve the lives of the remnants of this russian so-called professional army that remained, that is , wagner essentially plays the role of a human shield that allows the russians to somehow preserve but if separate fragments of these combat units, including the russians, were able to withdraw at one time from the kherson direction, and according to this logic, we must understand that, in fact , the russians will not be able to hold out there for a long time in such a format they will be able to because, well, we have repeatedly heard from

prigozhin’s statements directly that the agners are already running out and there is no where to take them from, they started going to sports clubs somewhere , but well, we perfectly understand that well, this lack of manpower, which, uh, is critically important for this is the form of war that the russians are actually waging against us, and the fact that prigozhin additionally complains that they are not supplied with artillery ammunition, that in principle these remnants of the personnel army of the russian federation do not cover the units in any way wagner, when they go there for an assault, well, this all indicates that, in principle , the russians, well, in the near future, we can expect problems with exactly this form of conducting hostilities. it's another matter, what decision will be made by the russian command in this situation. so, that is will they be looking for additional resources in order to be able to continue fighting. since they are currently fighting, will any other decisions be made, it will depend again on the situation that will be at that time, uh, and in

the bakhmut direction, and you are generally on uh on the eastern front in well, taras, you know that according to the reports of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, there are five main directions along which the attacks of these armed formations of the russian federation on our positions continue, do you not rule out the possibility of any of these p' in several directions, for example, from the ughledar region, troops can be withdrawn from there, the same 155th marine corps brigade, and redirected, for example, to support the efforts of the wagnerites under bakhmut, definitely yes, because in fact , in fact, that political goal is actually yes because we must understand that the russian military-political leadership works as an army before wagner, yes, before all the armed formations, let's call them so-so, which are fighting in ukraine, they do not set military goals in the first place, but political-politic-political and political-propaganda goals, yes, in them however, the minimum task is to liberate, as

they say, the entire territory of the luhansk donetsk oblasts, so if they were to focus on the eastern direction , it is obvious that all the additional units are all reserves that are constantly sent from belarus to strengthen the russian group in ukraine because we also hear in the news that at least once a week there is a report that the next echelon of the railway has left the territory of belarus and it is transporting personnel and ammunition, some of which some kind of equipment, that is, if the russians first use belarus as a resource base, extracting everything they can from them , and they also prepare a training base there, and these mobilized people are coordinated with the regular military partly by the russians and so on. and they are pulling everything up from there, and first of all it remains in the east, but in this, the main strategic task of our defense forces is to prevent the russians from using this potential in order to strengthen and accumulate forces for

their own operations, so definitely well, of these five directions, the further the russians go, the more they will be forced to simply transfer the resources they have from one direction to another, because the farther they go, the less and less it will be enough for the russian troops to continue fighting like this how they fight with them with assaults, we can already see that they are already starting to combine tactics. well, there is no such thing as that from day to day they invest several hundred of their chumiks there, and well, it is obvious from the calculation that there will be constant replenishment and when it became obvious that this is unlikely to happen so regularly. they began to combine tactics, that is, one day it is a meat assault, the other day they try to break through with armored vehicles, and so on. if in such combinations, on the one hand, they try well, to somehow seize the initiative and gain some advantage over our military, on the other hand, we perfectly understand that this is also evidence of the further the more critical lack of resources, primarily

human, which is now the basis of the russian strategy, mr. tara, now our viewers in the field window can see the live broadcast of this is what is happening in georgia, i would like to remind you that on march 7, despite the opposition of the opposition and activists, the law on foreign agents was approved there, and it is the same in the russian federation. was adopted back in 2012 and we all see what the consequences of this law are now felt by russia, this law significantly suppresses the freedoms of not only human rights defenders but also the opposition press. until the parliament becomes not russian , but georgian, but taras, we saw protests in ukraine in 2014, we saw protests in belarus in 2020, according to which

possible scenario can the protests go, what we are seeing now in georgia. well, if we talk about the dynamics of the protests themselves , then a lot will depend on how well this movement is organized and how determined the citizens are in principle in this situation. on the other hand, we see the same scenario of hybrid influence that russia has been using for the first year, and they used the same methods against us in fact, and in belarus , the same methods were used, and in the end, the same in georgia, yes that is, well in in principle, the current situation in georgia is a kind of micro -model of what could happen in ukraine if the russian regime had not lost its temper and they had not started a war, that is, after the armed aggression of 2008 , when, relatively speaking, part of the territory georgia lost, and this territory continued to remain under russian influence, we

now see the consequences of all this, that the russians, this is a hybrid toolkit. it is, as they say, focused on using such an artificial local conflict to influence domestic politics. and now we see that from 2008 to today , starting with the financial and ending with the tools of the special services for domestic political interference and so on , the russian regime has achieved the fact that in fact now in power in georgia there is a significant number of politicians who simply, absolutely, we have concluded that they are copying the russian experience one by one without regard to the fact that this experience absolutely does not fit into the vision of the majority of georgian citizens and how their the state and where it should move, that is, in fact, we see that with or without war, but this russian hybrid influence does not lose its relevance at all, the russian regime

continues to use these hybrid techniques in order to influence the victims and the so-called so and so, respectively. well, everything will depend in fact, from the will of the georgian people and from the extent to which they feel the truth behind them and the fact that they can defend this truth, we see that in fact there is already enormous support from the western allies, so the european union expressed support for this position, which is against this law on agents, and so is the united states, so today we see that the civilized world is being stimulated in this way. eliminate, but how will the situation develop further? well, we will have to watch it, because we perfectly understand that the actions of the georgian authorities and georgian law enforcement officers now clearly follow, well, practically the same

logic that once existed during the revolution dignities yes that in fact what we saw on the euromaidan yes ms. mr. taras that is exactly how foreign agents mentioned this word medusa edition russian which is actually recognized in the russian federation as a young agent now it is following what is happening on rustaveli avenue in tbilisi journalists are writing barricades are being erected security forces are detaining protesters water cannons are used, tear gas , stun grenades, well, it seems that nobody is going home tonight, there is one more factor that i would like to point out attention is the fact that the president of georgia was in washington at the moment when all these speeches began, to what extent it played its role and inspired people on the streets, it really played its role because, judging by at least

the public statements of the president of georgia, she is in principle in the opposition to such legislative initiatives, and she directly from washington, interrupting her official meetings there, so to speak, she emphasized in her address that she will in any case veto this law, which well, so far in the georgian parliament just adopted it in the first reading. but such a story with the presidential veto of such frankly pro-russian laws has already happened in the political history of georgia. it seems that last year they also had several such legislative initiatives that were also prepared by the president, but they have a mechanism where the parliament can to overcome this veto with its own majority, that is, in principle well , we see that from the point of view of domestic politics, this is such a tight time, but the fact that the georgian parliament used the absence of the president in the country in order to consider this draft law ahead of time because

, well, the opposition first started talking about the fact that this was a violation of political agreements, this draft bill should have been considered later , obviously already when the president of georgia was supposed to return to the country. the actions took place i think not without a tip from the kremlin and accordingly this story played out exactly in this way well, in fact, it became a trigger, yes, if someone started the process of protests well and accordingly, we we see that it was really played out, this is the moment when the president of a country that opposes this law, yes, she was on the other side of the hemisphere, and yes, it is clear that the time for a political reaction is, well, it is needed , she needed it a little more than if she were in the country and accordingly the government took advantage of this and now we can see the consequences of this situation, taras. it is clear. thank you for taking the time to talk with us about such

important topics today. taras zoftenko, expert on international security of the democratic foundation ilko kucherov initiative was in direct contact with us, a tragic reminder of the importance of observing the laws of war. un secretary general antonio hoteriash reacted to the shooting of a ukrainian soldier under fire during a joint press conference with president volodymyr zelenskyi and assured that the organization would work to support ukraine until victory itself. the recent shocking footage of the arbitrary killing of a ukrainian soldier is another tragic reminder of the need for strict adherence to the laws of war we must

to achieve all these goals, recognizing that each of them has value in itself and our allies, the work continues and this is a complex interaction of the ukrainian security and defense forces, but also many friends of ukraine already outside the borders of our country and the entire civil society in such things very often help including volunteers, in particular, the information front of human rights defenders is very, very appropriate, friends, now we have the opportunity to show you an interactive map and you can see that the alarm has now been declared in the sumy region, the sumy region in the zone risk, so if you can hear us now, look please do not ignore the alarm and go down to the shelter, it can save your life, but our conversation is joined by yuriy bilous , a lawyer and human rights defender. i congratulate you and mr. yuriy, good night. thank you for taking the time

to talk to us. so, the topic of treatment with the captives she is again and it sounds quite loud we remember the situation a few months ago with that video that went viral and was studied for a very long time and continues to be studied remember so when a group of alleged military of the russian federation were next to a group of ukrainian military personnel, then there was a shooting, now this is just an extremely blatant case, which probably does not even need to be analyzed because it is obvious , what consequences can we expect from the results of the investigation of this incident , which means that the consequences are very clear and very concrete overgrown with the shooting of an unarmed ukrainian soldier who posed

no threat to russian soldiers is a war crime and is punishable by life imprisonment, this is a specific violation a serious violation of the rules of war is the protection of those people who either surrender themselves as prisoners or at a specific moment in time are already under the power of the enemy side, this is a very old norm of the international rules of war, this norm has been around for more than 100 years, a judicial assessment of such crimes was given after the first world war after the second world war , as a result of the wars that took place there after the second world war until now , therefore, this norm, which is a concrete crystallized norm of the rules of war, killing

a person who does not pose any threat to the forces enemy who is not trying to escape and who is under the full power of the russian side. this is a serious violation of the rules of war, a serious violation of the geneva convention , the reaction of the conventions of 1907 and this is, of course , a war crime in our country, for which mr. yuriy is sentenced to life imprisonment, a war crime, it has no statute of limitations and all war crimes and how realistic is it to find these people who were behind the scenes at the moment we can only recognize their voices how realistic is it to find and bring them to justice and i think it is realistic because that's what people did, it's not aliens, but any person can be found. moreover, with today's possibilities of intelligence investigation, and it is very important that today's help and technological help, in particular, from the most developed and civilized countries of the world. that's why these people can be found. it happened on the territory

of ukraine. it happened somewhere in some place , moreover, you correctly note that one of the people we heard his voice and with the help of these frames we can establish on the basis of the fact that we hear a voice in the future it will be possible to verify the person, moreover, we understand from this video that there are at least two people there, maybe more, and that is, these are people who, if they are alive today, they know the russian side, knowing the russians, they know exactly this incident, they flaunted it, they talked about this incident, they talked about this incident therefore, these people can also be found with the help of the fact that we take prisoners of war prisoners of war so they cannot be tried for only taking part in hostilities prisoners of war can be tried for war crimes and those

people who are in our captivity. they may have the information that we will need in order to step by step find a specific person who knows something about this video, who posted this video, who knows about this video, who did it, who did he explain this to the person who was directly present during what happened to our soldier , because we see the actual end of the video? is it maybe just a piece of the video that only exists, but something happened before that, maybe without video and it happened with the participation of people and these people are soldiers of the russian army or soldiers of, for example, a private military campaign wagner and such people can be found , i am sure that our system and intelligence and the military and the investigation will do their best to make it clear to yuriy thank you yuriy bilous, a lawyer, a human rights defender, now an urgent message is spreading in

ukraine , an air alert has already been announced, as well as in kyiv and the kyiv region, if you hear an alert signal , please do not delay for your own safety go down to shelters yes, kyiv and cherkasy oblast, sorry, not kyiv, kyiv and cherkasy oblast, there is also an air alert in sumy oblast, in a few minutes, it's all, let's go glory to ukraine glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes where