[000:00:00;00] embezzlement goes to the stage when they understand that and then it is possible that they won't be able to steal anything, please, thank you for your questions today there are trends, there are facts about which we can clearly speak a the first fact is that the enemy is quite panicky determined because he sees the trend of any new settlement they will definitely not be able to occupy in the zaporizhia direction because our heroic armed forces of ukraine clearly control the movement of the enemy along the zaporizhia front line and on the contrary the enemy today sees that he constantly has something explodes especially on the zaporizhia front line, especially in those cities that are as close as possible to energodar , vodyan tokmatka , vasylivka, molochansk , and so on. on the other hand, we see

a trend that, for example , is unfolding today in energodar, where residents are given whole instructions that they must evacuate and that children will be evacuated at least until temporarily occupied crimea, and most likely to the continental geography, and in the leaflets they hand out to the residents of energodar , the evacuation on may 5-7, also today in the tatakmar districts of vasilkiv, loudspeakers traveled and also agitated those who received fascist passports to evacuate at least to melitopol. so today we cannot talk about the fact that the mass evacuation has started, it is still too early to talk about it, but the enemy is definitely in a panic mood and the enemy is definitely already talking about evacuation. by the way, you mentioned that the the enemy with the help of the armed forces of ukraine. i read today that there were explosions somewhere outside melitopol. if you have more information about

these strikes, the possibility of the armed forces , please make it known . we do not have the details of today's strikes near melitopol, but today we have detailed information about what enemy copper is being destroyed directly in energodar. enemy copper is being destroyed today in vasylkivska and that's for sure. i 'm sure that it's a little. of military equipment will definitely no longer be able to stand up against our armed forces. in general, we can see that over the past three weeks, dozens of military formations of the erefi have been completely destroyed in the zaporozhye direction, and this trend will increase every day. and yesterday i read that in crimea, the russians are once again luring russians with crazy discounts its citizens and rest in crimea, because the desire of russians to go to crimea is frankly too little , especially after the attack on the well, because of

the explosion on the crimean bridge. but to the resort area of ​​zaporozhye, especially on the coast of the sea of ​​azov, the russians are luring someone that they understand that no matter what happens, the armed forces will not break through to the sea, but for sure this summer will not be a holiday season. well, i would not even take into account the fact that they will not break through. and i am sure that the sea of ​​azov should be this year to meet us, the residents of our state of ukraine, and for recreation a-a, but today the enemy uses the azov coast, namely the two settlements of primorskyi passat and kyrilivka, as their logistical bases. it is through them that the transshipment of ammunition and transshipment of city weapons and these two settlements are today as saturated with enemy troops as possible, but as for

crimea, i am also sure that it is not the residents of ferifi that they should lure with discounts . we support the armed forces of ukraine ivan fedorov, the mayor of melitopol , the situation in the city about the preparation of the enemy for a large-scale counteroffensive, and they have a great defense, or is that what they will call it? vitaly belyak, a military serviceman, an instructor in terms of tactics, he is now fighting in the area of ​​kryminnaya in the luhansk region. vitaliy, i congratulate you. glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes. i will ask you to describe in general over the last few days at least so that we understand the dynamics of the events near kryminnaya on this part of the front. please tell me more, the situation remains steadily tense, but is fully controlled by all our units of the armed forces of the national guard , border troops of airborne assault troops and

various special forces. i want to assure you that those enemy attacks were successfully repelled by the enemy is storming our positions in the sryblyan forestry most actively, but all their attacks have been repulsed. i want to inform you of such wonderful news that several tanks have been destroyed in this direction in the last few days, the most modern of them is a t-90 and also two t-72 tanks. please tell me , these are the battles in the forest i understand that mainly well, as you talked about forestry, mainly there are hostilities taking place in the forest now well, soon, i don’t know everything there, obviously you have these pine trees and there they are, in principle

, always green, but the situation now with the onset the spring is already such an active spring, because we have already crossed the middle of it, it somehow changes, it affects the course of hostilities on the capabilities of the armed forces of ukraine, and maybe the enemy or a change in the weather and the prophet of special changes. it does not bring special changes on the battlefield , please you know, i'll tell you that the direction of the attack is artificially happening , both ours and the enemy's, the war continues without any weather conditions. donbas actually the intensity of the battles taking place here is simply phenomenal, and the intensity of combat operations

using heavy equipment, because the terrain here allows the enemy to use and us to respond to these enemy attacks, and please today in the combat operations that you carry out daily against the enemy, are there any needs that should be mentioned i mean exactly what will help to beat the enemy better , it is impossible other needs that relate to the arrangement of military life on the battlefield and in the positions, because if something so important is needed, you can voice it. well, it will be please hear in any case, first of all, we need drones more , because drones are used here very often and drones are lost here. because the rebus system is very much bought by the enemy because there is an opportunity to hide them actually when we believe that mr. vitaliy

now we will return to the matter of prodrones - it is true that they are needed when someone may have a p vitaliy we already know please continue drones are most needed because the enemy fish work here and the local ones actually allow us to disguise them after all we detect, but here the intensity is so high that it allows the enemy to accumulate a lot of ribrov systems, but the border is a lot of drones, we are losing here, but we are also working effectively. and by the way, yesterday i spoke with our soldier in the direction of bakhmut, he says well, he actually deals with drones, this is his area of ​​work of his division, they lose anywhere from seven to 10 drones of various types in a day, in the direction of bakhmut. that is, not all of them are super expensive, but there are such working ones. as they say, they are not horses, but working birds. and what statistics do you have? well, with what can be said because again i think that information can not always be disclosed well he said maybe you don't want to say this but still how

important is the need because again you know somewhere away from the front line someone may have a question a how many drones do we need? and why are we constantly needing drones ? we need to explain to people, please. well, for today in our unit , four friends were lost in a day, or rather, it was three years old, even a third is a consumable here in the war, if it sounds strange to someone what a cool thing there for 100 for 120,000 uah, so i want to tell you that this is a big waste, but regarding the fact that we also plant enemy drones, this is also true. actually, you can use drones. we plant and further transfer this information to various services for further processing. please, those fighters well, we know, let's say about the wagners in the direction of bakhmut, there is a lot of attention now, but we understand very well that

this entire section of the eastern front, this stretch of the eastern front, is very hot, very active in the fight against the russian the occupier if we talk about those tribes that oppose you, if we know that on bakhmut it is mainly the wagnerites reinforced by various fighters of different quality, then in the area of ​​flint, who mainly opposes you and how much rotation of the enemy here is connected with his losses and possibly with for some other reasons or the transfer of certain forces from reports to bakhmut or from where else to you. please, there were also in our direction . initially, when we came here, these were various units of wagner, but they were not here for a long time they were delayed because they were all concentrated on bakht in our direction, they are mainly russian paratroopers, airborne assault troops, various special forces groups. there are

even small groups of the akhmat here, these are the kadylians , and other special forces are also working here, as well as infantry, motorized rifles and units you know, even though our military-political leadership says so, i absolutely support him in this, the very opponent of talking a lot about the counteroffensive, because it is dealt with by specialists, but i will ask with reference to kontrnavskyi, because again his date is known or will be known by a very small number of people, and in your section of the front, under the conditions of installation, from what i can say , i am asking this in general, but you know how to say it correctly so as not to reveal any secrets, not under the condition of strengthening quite serious by trained people on good equipment , which we did not have on the battlefield before. i mean, first of all, western -style tanks there, bjorn bmps and others, and the

enemy can be effectively broken through and advanced in this area, or here, too, some he has such superpositions against which it will be very difficult to fight even with significant reinforcements . well, i will tell you that in fact this area is very heavily buried and a very huge grouping is actually on the flint. you can look at it and wash the dipsteid . troops of the eu and elite units are located here, but i want to assure you that our best units are also located in this direction, and i think that we drove them from the kyiv region from the chernihiv region from of all ukraine from kharkov and here in donbas we chased them and we will marry them further here there is understanding i think that there is understanding from you and your fellow soldiers who today in these

difficult battles are holding the front line again starting somewhere, for sure, from the ugledar and here to the crimean matchmaker there further and now you are giving yourself a chance and time to learn and come to this counteroffensive they did not accept very much and he knows he came to some political plane to a large extent but you as a military according to what expectation well not with what in your mood, you expect it to be a counteroffensive, and why is it important now for ukraine , for the armed forces of ukraine, please, because it will bring our victory closer . it is impossible without countermeasures, the enemy will not simply leave and turn around and not sorry, we are going home this is not the enemy

we know about such a one we are standing these people are coming here to kill us they have come to our land so there is nothing left for us but to simply get out of here and we successfully more than once a counter-operation was carried out on the territory of ukraine. i think that this counter-offensive also has a lot of opportunities for us. finally, i will ask you, well, this is a completely practical question . i can't look like this. 70% of the alleged provision of the armed forces of ukraine, well, there it is, because the defense forces are not only the armed forces, it is also the national guard and border guards, there are also other special forces, e.e. anti-aircraft forces and so on, but how much is there in your area or providing this summer uniform or her understanding of what it will be, because it is also important, in fact, it is not only comfort, but also the ability to conduct combat operations effectively

, please, well, look, i will tell you from my side my personal opinion as a person who has been directly at war for a year and directly in combat operations that every self-respecting male deputy should have at least one thermal imager or night vision device in order to go out to perform tasks and this is for his own safety. and the issue of clothes and uniforms, come on we will reveal to you a big secret that is in the military thanks to volunteers who, as they say, make this our army a widow and i think that there is no need to wait for someone there, someone will give something summer compote or winter compote, we need not wait for someone, don't wait for help in the country war and it's time to think

for himself, too, on his own, and of course there must be provision, and what i see is that provision is simply that everyone chooses for himself whether he does not want to walk in better clothes or whether he wants to wear what was given to him. thank you very much, mr. vitaly, for that who joined thanks for your comments vitaliy bilyak, a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, an instructor of tactics in uh, criminality in this area, he is fighting the enemy and told in general about the situation in this area of ​​uh, quite a long eastern front , and now we continue to talk about the war and what is surrounding the war serhiy zgurets is with us, the director of the agency and france express , the host of the column, military results of the day serhii good evening good evening to you vasyl vitaly our viewers, but the russians in russia canceled the annual tank biathlon by the way, the winner the former tank of this biathlon lost a long time ago on the battlefield in ukraine, and in your opinion, what does this indicate that there is nothing for tankmen to play biathlon anymore? well, really, if we

are talking about the number of russians destroyed , it is 3,600, that's 600 by the way more than they started a military company, no, then they had 3,000 tanks . then there were better t-90 and 80 t-80, then t-72. now we see that they are returning the t-62 and t- 55 so that really, under such conditions , it is really not for biathlon because there is no on why not fight or hold biathlons, and later in our military program we will talk about the state of affairs at the front level, about the preparation for our offensive, about the unexpected story with the supply of b-supplies to ukraine from egypt, and about the fact that neighboring poland started serving summonses to what we will find out in a moment, let me start by saying that today the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi visited

the advanced positions of the ukrainian defenders in avdiyivka where he presented state awards to our soldiers. in my opinion, this is very important because the military must understand that they, together with their top deceiver, and actually that the military defend extremely important areas of the front, and this is noted by our society . avdiyivka and maryanka and bakhmut by the way, if we are now thinking about bakhmut today , then the commander of the troops of alexander the syrian said that the enemy does not abandon the intention to capture bakhmut at any cost, they are concentrating their efforts here

increases the activity of heavy artillery and the number of airstrikes turns the city into ruins, and our fighters inflict maximum losses on the enemy and then make this city a fortress. and now we are joined by a military expert, colonel in the reserve serhiy grabsky , mr. serhiy, i congratulate you my greetings, mrs. serhiy, it is nice to see and hear from you and i would like to start our conversation with the fact that general silsky says that he is conducting offensive actions against the enemy in five directions, and the head of the main intelligence department, general budanov says that the enemy is moving to a defensive concept , although there are only two hot spots where the enemy is trying to advance. how do you assess the current situation and who is taking the initiative on the battlefield ? in view of the areas in which the enemy conducts offensive operations

on which we conduct in the next operation , it should be recognized that for now the initiative belongs to the enemy because he has an advantage in the number of personnel, weapons and combat equipment and he strikes on the heels in the areas where we are conducting defensive actions, i.e. ukrainian troops are not advancing anywhere today, they are restraining the enemy or, uh, they are carrying out so-called uh, preemptive actions. thus, if we talk about the general situation, the enemy is starting to move to strategic defense, by the way, on his own initiative also because it turned out to be unable to accumulate enough resources, you are conducting some active combat operations, but to say that we seized the initiative and are now er-er dictating conditions to the enemy would be more it's a little early, and again the enemy is trying to carry out local but offensive actions in five separate areas, which is also considered as

an initiative that is in the hands of the enemy , and it should not be forgotten, as they say and to realize in what difficult combat conditions we are currently conducting our military operations, mr. serhiy, we will now show instagram , based on these open sources, the pentagon has prepared a map with the placement of russian troops on the territory of ukraine and there in fact, it turns out that the largest grouping of russian troops is just at the distance from belogorivka to ugledar, there are about 80,000, now i think that this infographic will show us a large group of russian troops just in the north of the luhansk region , about 49,000, and in total, we calculated that there are 170,000 personnel, but what is interesting is that the main intelligence agency, when it goes somewhere in january, gave an analysis of the russian

presence, it spoke somewhere about 326,000 or so russian military personnel operating in the territory of ukraine why are there such large discrepancies in the indicators, are there approaches in the estimates, are there any stations that we do not know about, in my opinion, this is about well, first of all, this is not about the entire front line, and part of the forces and means is stored in the areas that are here not marked, that is, let it be a few tens of thousands, but they are smeared, if you can say, at a distance of about 600 km. it will already be about 200,000 and plus, let's not forget such a concept as the second echelon, where the enemy tries to concentrate his forces and means and the third concept, when the main directorate of intelligence called its numbers, the smaller ones meant all the military formations of the russian federation that are involved in one or another direction. and here we are talking about the first echelon groups, and it is probably more

about the ministry of defense itself, because it is difficult to count the e- are those units of the national guard or not? private military structures , it’s not only wagner, it’s also dozens of other private armies of companies that are now fighting on the side of russia, and these are the so-called units of the chechen irregular forces, and so on and so forth similarly, in principle, taking into account the losses, we can say that the approximate total number of russians operating on our fronts is up to 300,000 personnel, taking into account the reserves that can be used and that are still on the territory of the russian federation, because if we look at the concentration of forces and means that e-e exists in the belgorod region, in particular, it is quite a powerful potential, let's not forget e-e here, too, and those units that undergo training at five training centers in belarus

it's the same according to various estimates from 5 to 7,000 who on such a conveyor current e -e e-e cycle conduct training and replenish the ranks of the occupiers, therefore i do not see a big difference between the data that was voiced at the time by the main directorate of intelligence, etc., displayed on that map is about strike groups and we can see those directions of strike groups. they completely coincide with the data submitted by the main directorate of intelligence . the donetsk direction is not the main one, and the luhansk direction, which actually fits into these strategic tasks that the enemy faced well, until the end of march, which he did not cope with. and what do you think, can the enemy continue the same tactics of action in all these directions for a long enough time, making it difficult for us to prepare for concrete offensive actions, you know yes, you know yes it is necessary to understand that they have found

for themselves, as they say, a golden vein, which gives the opportunity, they say, they want to move brick by brick, but in this way, this is the only available tactic for them, because they already they tried under the ugledar, which a few weeks ago, literally yesterday they tried to make such a breakthrough under sinkivka using standard schemes, and so they did not even reach the point of deployment in battle order, they were destroyed, they were forced to retreat, but instead, they are quite effective and, it must be admitted, they use the tactics of small assault groups, they even created those assault squads assault z that they widely use and by the way, these assault squads are such a rather vivid evidence of that improvised approach to combat operations, and having the number of personnel that you have now shown in certain areas, which traditionally we already call hot

areas, the enemy can still use such tactics for quite a long time, and for a long time they said that the most optimal directions for the ukrainian offensive are the exit to the coast and of the sea of ​​azov or in the berdyansk zone or there in the melitopol zone , and the enemy also understands the logic of our actions. does this mean that we have already entered a phase when both sides , the general staffs of both sides conditionally speaking, to strengthen the fog of war in order to create conditions so that each of the parties does not understand the enemy's actions. and you know what can happen against the background of this absolutely absolute , you know, if you look at it from a strategic perspective, that's right. exactly that so-called entry of secret materials can be considered as ... is a large-scale informational psychological operation, precisely those incomprehensible actions with the constant

transfer of units of the russian army from the avdiiv direction to the bakhmut direction , their return to the reinforcement of their air on amphibious units digging these earthen fortifications and that megalithic structure is absolutely incomprehensible. how the so-called melitopol trench with a length of 70 km is , in principle, elements of what we at one time called operational camouflage in order to hide the real intentions of various parties, what we are now on a rotational basis have entered into such a cycle that we are constantly replacing our units that are fighting in the hottest areas, while keeping those units that are now equipped with western equipment and weapons, hiding them, preventing them from large-scale involvement in precisely such grueling hostilities and is evidence of the preparation that the two sides will introduce in order to destroy the plans of the opposite

side and we are now with you in such a very tense period of our history when both ukraine and russia are aware of the importance of the future offensive operations of the armed forces of ukraine. russia simply does not have the physical ability to create a strike group to develop some kind of offensive there in the area of ​​the estuary or kupyansk, it will continue to conduct such e- is tiring hostilities in donbas, well, for us anyway, uh, well, objectively, and even your map showed that the southern direction remains the most expedient. of course, this does not mean that it will be carried out here. only our supreme command knows, ah, but also the situation in eh kherson region, where the enemy is now simply desperately looting everything they can from looting eh, and the situation and the creation of such defensive structures and the barbaric shelling

of horikhov gulyaipol, kherson, testify to the fact that the situation remains very open and we have to calmly but carefully observe the development of events anna serhiu thank you for your time and for your professional comments, and i would like to remind our viewers that on the air of the espresso channel there was a military expert in the reserve colonel serhii grabsky and further about the story of the supply of ammunition to ukraine from a country that was actually originally going to sell these weapons to the russian federation , the washington post writes about it based on new files from the same merged information from the pentagon so it is about egypt, and the story is that during the analysis of the negotiations of the president of egypt, the american side became aware that sometime in january of this year, egypt was negotiating

with the russian federation on the supply of 40,000 122 mm missiles, that is, unguided rockets for the system hail and even egypt and moscow estimate the price for each projectile there at around $1,500 for one unit and they even had to sign a contract about it, it became known to the united states that way due to intelligence information and sometime in march cairo was first visited by representatives of washington, and then defense minister austin went there and asked the president of egypt to actually ensure the supply of artillery ammunition to ukraine. it was exactly on march 9. egypt initially did not say anything, but already in the new documents from the same date for march 9, i'm talking about the divorce documents