[000:00:00;00] defense and as far as we understand in some places they even counterattack, but in any case, the commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine, colonel-general oleksandr syrskyi, who visited the hottest spots in the bakhmut direction, says this in a message from the military media center, quoting his commander of the ground forces, the most intensive the phase of the battles for bakhmut , the situation is stable and difficult, the enemy is suffering significant losses in human resources, weapons and military equipment, but continues to conduct offensive actions, our super heavy defenders under the conditions, they are heroically restraining the enemy's influx and leaving no chance for the enemy to realize their plans, mr. peter, we would like to ask you about what is happening to the north of bahmut, there was a fairly powerful enemy group, but as far as we understand, it plunged into the north of bahmut, they were betting on it very much

our hopes are high, our hopes are quick , the grip of the pincers you saw there was not launched. that is , we entered through the top of the berry grove and leaned against our commanding height - it was we who caused them the most impressions, where they suffered this one is such a big one, you can see that we from chasovoyarok have all lined up quite nicely and shot interactions with the birds. in other words, we are working on their manpower , which tried to throw and throw. therefore, at the moment , the battles are mainly for the approaches to chrome bogdanivka, everything they are trying to physically cross and block the highway of life, but at the moment they are not succeeding, even correctly you said that in some places we do not go into a counterattack, right here we went into a counterattack and pushed them back

several hundred meters, which made it difficult for them to work with ipturs there is no longer that direct visibility, you understand, and it is also difficult to work with the mortar calculation, which was thrown with more dense shells, that is why they have a chaotic gross fire, which they were before that, and so we have a little success there on the chrome thanks to this, and this whole line is holding and there was a supply trail, and colonel general oleksandr syrskyi was coming. and after analyzing the situation again, he drew conclusions and correctly raised the spirits of the guys, everyone here, as well as the defense force, hold this city and we we will continue the fight and there is every hope that we will continue to do so, and later on it is possible that no one is talking about it because i thought that everything would be as it should be. it is possible that a counteroffensive is already there, but it is so

specific and it acts more than large-scale that's why we simply liquidate them, these stormtroopers, there is a discrepancy between them, and we take advantage of this, they throw up new groups among themselves, and it's to our advantage, because they don't have time to reconcile with each other , that's how we succeed, mr. peter. well, if believe so publicly available of information, the enemy is trying to advance along the slavyansk highway right in the direction of this city. well, it is difficult to imagine that they really intend to reach slavyansk in the near future. what are they trying to achieve in this area, in the area of ​​the village of minkivka, in particular? i look a little suicidal, so why? and what to do, as they say, you know, they got it in the teeth right next to these same bogdanovkas, vasylivka

, and they got the chrome one in the teeth too, and they stretched this pincer a bit again. petro voloshchenko, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, there are nuances of communication, it is interesting how much difference the analyst has regarding the bakhmut direction , in recent days the number of battles has decreased there, but the statements of british intelligence about the depletion of russian troops need to be clarified , the command of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine comments on the situation in bakhmut, now our defenders as they say , they report directly from the ground that enemy pressure remains noticeable , enemy tactics are changing somewhat, but in general, eh statements about the possibility of some kind of elegant famine look very strange, because

in reality bakhmut is being wiped off the face of the earth by artillery. in particular, you understand. they are trying to expand and stretch a little. our forces, er, so that we don't hit them so concentratedly along that northern ridge, and they are moving forward. they have chosen such a one at the moment . er, well, perhaps the only way is to er the remnants of those e-e main army, they are moving exactly along the highway in the direction of slovyansk, i don't know how long it will take them, but so far . so far, they are moving forward, but very, very little , and they do not stop trying to enter those villages precisely in they are now attacking minkivka, trying to twist their fist to get out, it is possible to get out more, more northerly, to get

out at the time of the ravine. that is, it is such a big, big, idea of ​​theirs, and you can see how on the map, if you looked at dibstate, how they stretched their red so big, big the cliché where they cover ot this is where you are you see, here in the north, they went along the highway right up there, but uh, this is for them , to do this, i thought that they needed another there would be a mobilization, that is, they completely uh , lost this, you know, uh, like the government, a sense of reality and but they have an order and they are going forward to do what we have and to protect what we have, so at the moment there is no such threat to the slavs, you correctly said that there is no such thing at the moment, i.e. they are trying to use detours to somehow have some kind of victory somewhere and they

captured the village there on their channels. it seems that they kyiv again - they ask if it will be captured, that is, they have absolutely no time for victory, that's why they are pressing on various such small villages, where even our people are not there. unfortunately, we are fighting for these villages of ours and we are causing them huge, colossal losses, as the commander of the ground forces said he said everything correctly, because we are inflicting on them the most important thing in this whole bakhmut arc, we are inflicting colossal human losses on them, which will be more and more difficult to replenish. thank you, mr. peter, for your service. voloshchenko stone, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, we are now joining maksym morozov, a pledge of the freedom legion of the armed forces of ukraine, glory to ukraine, mr. major, for the avdiiv district. we congratulate you. well

, just now petro voloshchenko from the bakhmut district spoke about the current situation there, well , accordingly, we would like to ask you to describe what is happening now under the avdiiv district. under the audio i would say that there is a certain operational pause, if you can call it that, the necessary blows do not stop because we do not stop but in my opinion now there is a certain formatting of their forces regarding a possible offensive or possibly a defense on their part . tell me, please, mr. maksym, today it became known that avdiyivka is moving into the red zone , the local military, the military administration in particular, no volunteers, no journalists will not be able to work in the city as far as uh. to what extent do you support this decision, how timely is it possible and

what way will the defense forces have from this , that is, in principle, i support this car should have been in the red zone a long time ago, and not only she has been in the red zone for a long time, and if you are talking about volunteer journalists, then you need to add around the city, you also need to add that even those utility workers who voluntarily stayed in the city, that is, no one could give her an order to stay or to leave, they are not military, they are civilians, they themselves chose to work in the city or not, in the current situation in avdiivka , it is simply impossible to stay, they did a tremendous job, they first of all helped everyone with drinking and technical water local residents are provided with, and in principle, their livelihoods, they provided them with the opportunity to charge their phones, they supported the mobile phone tower, that is , in fact, in such conditions, it was already a colossal job for them, but unfortunately, uh,

muscovites began to really need to be at the place of their the stay caused a missile strike, this does not mean that they did not attack communal objects in a full-scale war later this year, they attacked communal objects, uh, on garages, on places of stay, and so on, and rocket strikes and tanks and always, that is, they fired at each other, but in recent weeks they began to systematically and purposefully fire at the very place of residence of the utility workers , despite the fact that they were there in the basements . leave, therefore, they will leave the city, and the same applies to journalists and volunteers, and

some volunteers are still in the territory of avdiivka, but this is all in the process and this ban as for me, it is even well, it will be timely, but it is necessary because i cooperate with journalists who come here . whether they are volunteers, this is all a huge additional danger and burden, both for us who accompany volunteer journalists there and for them, because they unwittingly become the number one target when i got into the air mr. maksym and what about the mobile connection, there was a message that it would be disconnected in the same way. in the audio store, uh , what is the idea, why should it be done now? i am not saying that it should be done or not. i say that i will not disconnect because the utility workers ensured the recharging of these mobile services and, accordingly, the mobile connection worked in action, this is now when the utility workers

partially or completely, they and so many of them could not stand it. communication is the essence of everything in avdiivka will cease to exist as such because utility workers will stop recharging these e-e mobile towers of mobile communication p majora if we talk about the concentration of the enemy on in the avdiiv direction so you mentioned that there is a feeling of some kind of operational strategic pause on the ground, but in any case we understand that the enemy will continue and continue to try to advance in your direction, in particular. to say, well, if i didn't know their good plans, i would probably be in a slightly different place, we can only say my subjective opinion, as for me, the enemy carries a significant theater and

despite excellent logistics, because we are near donetsk and the enemy, it is great to throw manpower here and quickly means he can quickly renew manpower, he can quickly renew equipment, he took such a certain operational pause, that is, we are so used to massive and constant shelling here that this day is, so to speak, relative silence. is very alarming and we are waiting for the actions of the enemy . i will say once again that they can be both offensive and defensive in nature. maybe i do not have such reliable information, maybe the enemy really appeared in our direction and he we need to go on the defensive right now or take an operational pause, wait for reinforcements, wait for equipment, this is also a possible option, really, so to speak, there was silence for a certain time for vievka, a few hours of silence is

a very long time, and i think that these are only two options, or the vlog will go to defense or the enemy is preparing again with new forces to attack some armored vehicle in the north or from the south . included or the equipment, we know with you that there would be no such problem with the military vehicles, it seems that we just discussed with you that they are removed, pawned, and the tanks are outdated in terms of equipment and so on, they immediately if it is uh fit to drive before the attack, they immediately let her fight there, absolutely not expecting that she will return. tactics regarding the exchange of 3 m of our ukrainian land for the huge

number of victims of her citizens and equipment, she did not change the true direction, at least until this morning, until this a couple of hours of alarming silence, it did not change , a large enough amount of equipment, well, a large enough amount of manpower rushed, but i want to tell you that once again the professionalism of individual wolves on our wolves on the ukrainian front he shows it in action recently we saw how another one of our wolves burned 10 pieces of military equipment in one day, that is , the number of equipment does not seem to be a lot of the enemy, but our professional soldiers, our professional comrades, are from different groups of of the legion of freedom, others, as a group, know how to fire this technique. but we all must understand that until it is burned, it carries a threat

. yes, we agree with you, majors, a tank, even the oldest, is still a tank, and accordingly we wanted to ask you about the quality of the technique that it uses the enemy, that is, is it still the 1950s or the 1970s , relatively speaking ? we have not seen anything like this on our site yet, and we have not observed tanks of such an old model. note and such an old piece of junk is dangerous to us. we did not observe it, but if it is necessarily in the next inclusions, i will tell you about it. thank you, mr. maksym. maksym morozov, because there is a legion of freedom, was in touch with us. well, we let's go on, let's summarize this analytical hour-long conversation with oleksandr kovalenko, a military-political observer of the information resistance group, oleksandr. i congratulate you

. glory to ukraine and immediately a question . we just talked about the situation in the bakhmut direction, in the avdiiv direction, and about the situation in mariupol, but returning to our conversation with the head of the military -civilian administration of avdiyivka. literally a few years ago, vitaliy barabash remarked that the liman direction is being shelled by the enemy even more densely than, for example, bakhmut and avdiyivka . what is the situation? of the flint dolyman now and how important is this puzzle of our eastern front in general now, i ask the heroes of the glory of a good day a-a yes, indeed , the direction with the flint to the left, it is quite active today by the russian occupiers but why does it seem that there is quite a dense firepower from the side

, it is true that they have concentrated a large number of forces and means in this particular area, including artillery units, but this is a rather narrow direction if we consider its general along the entire line of criminal 66 total e, then this direction is not wide enough, and there you can concentrate a large amount of e-e fire impact due to barrel artillery and also rocket systems of salvo fire. therefore , the russians are trying and in situations when in them the shortage in the kit and the proportional distribution of ammunition between artillery units continue to increase. they are trying to concentrate such strikes exclusively on one location or exclusively on one direction. so for them

, the priority for today is bakhmut, the second is avdiivka. they are also trying to counter to concentrate, and also in connection with the large concentration of this force and means directly in the luhansk region in the direction of criminal ivan, they are concentrating and there is this and fire influence so and it seems that there is actually more of it there than in the entire bakhmat bridgehead. by the way, on the bakhmut bridgehead, they are now forced to deploy their resources, especially in the northern location, and therefore even on the city itself, there is not such a fire effect as happened, for example, in february or january, mr. oleksandr we would like to ask you what the enemy is currently trying to implement on the southern front, in particular , it is about the temporarily occupied territories of the zaporozhye and kherson regions, is there already

an understanding of what the enemy is up to, and what is he up to is being prepared well, it is possible that there is already a certain fixation of one or another of its additional units and additional fire systems. and i can say that what is this bridgehead. it was considered as a defensive-type bridgehead to fix some increase in the strike group for conducting offensive actions. yes, they are trying along this battle line of the collision and to concentrate forces and means by this, and especially they are very concerned about the location of the nuts, and for them it is very important to advance in the direction of gulyaipole, but it is precisely the composition of forces and means that are present there that he does not provide

fully capable of carrying out such large-scale offensive actions, and they are limited both in terms of material and technical support and even in the management system of advanced units, they have such limitations. of their resource, so we can, it may be some kind of imitation, and for example , they may even try to implement some assault actions as an analogue of assault actions in the direction of ugledar, but at the same time taking into account of the potential that they have, it may or may not somehow end with some kind of successful result, and therefore it will be precisely imitation in the first place and preparation for defense, what about oleksandr well, if we are talking about er-e

raising of certain rates on the part of the russian federation well, nuclear our rhetoric is being used again, in particular, not only from the side of the russian leadership of the russian regime , but the belarus factor is also being used here, we are right now, i think in the next hour we will slowly collect reactions from various countries to the idea of ​​deploying tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of belarus, in particular , the chinese foreign ministry has already reacted. they do not approve of this intention on the part of the russian federation, but then he noted that certain preparatory things have already taken place and continue to take place. how realistic is it that nuclear weapons will appear in belarus , which it will have consequences, and it all depends on how quickly they will be able to prepare and restore the infrastructure for the placement and storage of this battle kit, and with this

weapon, it is not on the territory of belarus they simply took and transported a missile with a nuclear warhead to the territory of belarus, for example, in october 2022 , a statement was made to the representatives of the russian delegation within the walls of the un that they were preparing to transfer to belarus otrk and scandam-m with a nuclear warhead and would also carry out preparation for the modernization of su-25 attack aircraft to place on them a bomb load, also with a nuclear component. so it was announced back then. it is strange that now there is such a reaction to all this. they allegedly forgot what happened in october 22nd a-a and so, even with of that period for the preparation of this entire infrastructure but again, this is not an easy process, especially that it is important to know and in what condition is any infrastructure in general that can be used to

place a-a this er-e this weaponry and in what state is it in general state of affairs in belarus. and this is enough information. well, it is closed, but uh, in view of that. well, how did the processes for the uh-uh removal of nuclear weapons from the territory of belarus go ? did not happen as it should therefore, there is a possibility that it will be quite a difficult task for russia to restore all this, and this earlier than the second half of 2023 , we may not expect that something like an eskander otrk with a nuclear warhead may appear there, alexander, in your opinion, with what in general, they started to cook this nuclear porridge on the belarusian bridgehead , we understand that if necessary, they could pull up the russian strategic aviation

, so to speak, to establish their airspace , the space of belarus would not need these all the demonstrative hysterical jumping out of nuclear briefcases, but they went for it, and accordingly, it has certain important consequences for them, what they are trying to achieve in this way , and they switch to nuclear blackmail every time. this happened during our counteroffensive on the northern bridgehead , the same situation was the same with their threats against the chernobyl nuclear power plant, then the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and so on and so on the dirty bomb is also these narratives about ukraine allegedly being blackmailed because you have blackmail in the form of we ourselves will use the dirty bomb to blame ukraine and every time if they have such a problem they

are included in this process of nuclear blackmail and as we see this annoys not only the international society. and those who, let's say, friends of russia , and the same china and the same india are so lazy, they are already annoyed by the constant rhetoric, but they have no other scenario than to threaten this last. why can they threaten but the danger is that russia can actually become a distributor of nuclear weapons in the world . well, today, for example, they explain this by the fact that oleksandr lukashenko asked them about placing nuclear weapons on the territory of the republic of belarus. and if masha does it tomorrow, for example, on the territory of the syrian arab republic nuclear weapons were placed again nicolás madura of venezuela therefore it is more of a problem of the international society as a president in your opinion uh i'm sorry this creates

a precedent in your opinion and that's exactly danger and so the international community already needs to start doing something in order to stop russia as an uncontrolled distributor of stupid weapons and this is the precedent that no other country from the nuclear club has ever followed in order to increase the number of users of nuclear weapons , well, in any case, we understand that poland, in particular, and the united states , which is a framework state for ensuring the security of poland and the eastern flank of nato in general, have begun to transfer patriot systems and the number of haimars separately is increasing, this means that it is possible that putin is going to use this belarusian bridgehead not only against ukraine , but also against certain neighboring nato countries, but we are still more interested

in the context of our security , these are potential threats from the russian side federation if it started withdrawing troops to belarus , not only in your opinion, how well is such a process fixed well , so that it does not happen that they would quietly begin to pull up there, that is, since we understand that we would all and satellite troops and our intelligence, because this matter would be recorded, but not visibly, it is impossible to do today and we can record on the territory of belarus, and approximately 4,000 personnel of the russian occupation units, and this is a small number, and if there is a direct movement forces and means, then this happens not only in terms of personnel , but also in large quantities of equipment to ensure the staffing of each of these units. therefore, it is impossible to do this

unnoticed and it is all controlled as our development as well as the development of our international partners. thank god, mr. oleksandr kovalenko knows how to reassure clearly about the military , so everything is controlled, this is the main thing i wanted to hear, nevertheless, when large-scale exercises of the belarusian military are held in belarus. it is artillery training where almost all specialists are involved. precisely in this area, should this cause us any concern in your opinion? are these again just certain demonstrative actions, and in them these permanent measures of a military nature is happening all of 2022 and all of 2023 will be happening, and they, first of all, have even and these measures are a diversion of our attention and tying up our resources on the northern bridgehead, for them it is fundamentally important because, in this way, a really large number of our units are combat-ready a-a fully equipped and they cannot be fully used in any other

direction in the combat zone, for example , in order to strengthen the effect of counter-offensive active defense in action and so on, and so it is this factor that they and are used and will be used in the near future thank you oleksandr kovalenko military-political columnist of the information resistance group joined the analysts live on the espresso tv channel we have news now and our colleague anna eva melnyk will present them good afternoon colleagues , i am glad to see and hear you. i will tell you about the most important thing, be with us , to prevent a nuclear war , the ministry of foreign affairs of china urges the publication of juice reports that chinese officials recommend focusing on diplomatic