[000:00:00;00] and the donetsk direction, the east-donetsk direction, and they threw this entire horde along the front from the flint, ending with the coal degram, and now they are the mercenaries of firemen, they use only the remnants of these firemen to perform the function of fine bats and such live bait in order to detect the firing points of lini defense forces defense forces of ukrainians bakhmut began volodymyr thank you very much thank you for taking the time to join the broadcast volodymyr nazarenko interrogative svoboda was with us in direct contact thank you president of russia vladimir putin allegedly visited the partially occupied kherson and luhansk regions, his press service reported, well, the kremlin did not specify the time of this trip, instead, on the released video in the light of a forest fire and then a convoy of jeeps is seen coming out of the helicopter, which is allegedly entering the occupied

city of genichesk well and according to the kremlin , putin visited the headquarters of a group of russian troops, where he listened to the reports of the commander of the airborne forces, colonel-general mykhailo teplinsky, and other military personnel at the same time, the russian media believe that this trip took place even before easter and that putin was not far from the border with occupied crimea. for more details, see the story by max grabovsky. in this footage, vladimir putin is getting out of the helicopter. here, from the car, you can see a style with the inscription genichesk without putin in the shot about the kremlin media in the morning. they informed that it is he who visits the headquarters of the dnipro group in the kherson direction, i have yours, i have the situation, they will listen to you, i have this information, according to the official statement of the kremlin

, the president of the russian federation arrived in the kherson region the day before on april 17, the russian edition of the agency notes that, judging by the video, putin traveled by helicopter only on the territory of crimea, and he drove to the kherson region by car. on the footage of his departure, the chongar hotel is visible, located right on the border with crimea. also on the video , the commander of the group of troops - dnipro oleg makarevych and commander of the airborne troops, mykhailo teplinsky, the day before, american military experts and british intelligence reported that teplinsky had recently been returned to the front after his probable removal from in january, in addition to military instructions, putin presented his subordinates with an icon of the territory, one of them being the minister of defense of russia. the next phrase of putin raised doubts that the video was

shot on april 17. christians of both western and eastern rites have already celebrated easter, so it is likely that the trip was last week. even before easter , analysts considered this phrase agency publication and this is already footage allegedly from luhansk region about the kremlin media assures that the headquarters of the russian national guard vostok putin is met by colonel general oleksandr lapin who in january of this year was appointed chief of the main staff of the russian ground forces, the ministry of defense of the russian federation informed about it. i wish the colonel good health from february to april 2022. lapin commanded a group of troops - the center in the chernihiv and sumy directions. ukrainian prosecutors declared him a suspect for attempts to seize three regions of ukraine and ukrainian intelligence reported that lapin was later appointed to lead the western

group of russian troops in russia, and it was he who was credited with the capture of lysychansk. in october, they were blamed for the failure in the lyman region. and the head of chechnya, ramzan kadyrov, even called him unfit. it is interesting that in the video footage during putin's alleged visit to the kherson region and luhansk region, minister of defense serhiy shoigu and chief of the general staff valery gerasimov were not seen. the speaker of the russian president, dmytro piskov, explained their absence with security considerations . whether putin's trip to the occupied territories of ukraine really took place radio liberty can neither verify nor refute max grabovskyi radio liberty expert of the national institute of strategic research oleksiy the hedgehog joins our broadcast p oleksia i congratulate you good evening i congratulate you good evening in your opinion

why exactly what effect did the kremlin media expect to achieve in the occupied territory and did they achieve it there? who is not afraid of close contact with strangers who has not been quarantined and what this figure of putin wants to show is that she wants to be like the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi who regularly visits the front and its dangerous cities of the front well, speaking generally, this is a common signal to the russians that yeltsin used to have a firm handshake and that russia is going to hold on to these territories. i think this is a signal to the fact that russia is moving to the defense of these territories , the offensive is practically over and now they will wait, wait for the ukrainian consulate , there will be an occupation of the territory, mr. oleksiy. allow

me to clarify what you say and the figure of putin, who is not afraid of the close distance of other people. they are running away from the fact that this is one of putin's double about which there is a lot of talk, well, you know, when everything is over and they find everything that is hiding there in the bunkers, it will be possible to say that it is probably just an obvious fact that sometimes putin keeps a very long distance and sometimes he does not keep to the station , this seems strange to me, it can simply be stated that there is such a peculiarity of behavior which are in the way of some people. he keeps them at a distance. and sometimes they meet very close . well, personally, if it’s my personal opinion, i think putin has doubles, which, but you know, it’s at the level of conspiracy theory, it’s just an obvious fact. there is different behavior and it often changes suddenly. today, one behavior is different from others. ugh, you know, literally yesterday, we talked with an expert on the air about the fact that even

priguzhen said that the war should be stopped . well, of course, not on the terms that ukraine is ready for. on the contrary, he demonstrates his intention that he is not going to stop, this is a signal about which i think it is still consistent with what prigozhin said, it is not known to what status he said as the speaker of the kremlin, after all, he is a hot person, judging by the indirect data, but he seems to be said what russia has actually been doing since august of last year, when the construction of the church dugouts and the entire defense system in general began, now prigozhyn was the first to say that he came from the storming of bakhmut to the storming of information networks and began to promote this thesis this week, the offensive is ending, it is necessary to move on in control, in defense, in strategic

defense, and then it seems to me that, on this background, it shows that they will defend themselves , here we are talking about the fact that they will uh, as they said before, uh, capture luhansk, donetsk, and kherson, zaporizhzhia region, here we are talking about the fact that they are on the defensive. well, in the kremlin , they talked about negotiations several times before , but now they are silent, but the last ones are at least there for 1.5-2 months, and putin is ready for negotiations. what do you think, how can he even see the end of this war for themselves, for the kremlin well, they are not silent about the negotiations, they are constantly talking about it, well, at least, someone is saying this, the last lavro seems to have said somewhere in brazil , er, there is always talk about it, but

the question is what because what is meant by by the subject of the negotiations, russia means by the subject of the negotiations that it should take over the occupied territories, it should legalize it, it wants to talk about it extremely, ukraine and the position of all ukraine's partners, it is about the fact that the negotiations can only be about de-occupation, so this is theoretically possible, for example, on the administrative border like crimea, when the ukrainian troops arrive there, they can, we can say that the algorithms for the deoccupation of crimea are ready by other methods, not by troops, but by diplomacy, e.g. russia constantly talks about negotiations and all her efforts about negotiations, but talks about annexation, about having a conditional minsk-3 , about saying that russia has the right to own the territories it occupied, that's about putin himself and his visits or his figures mr. oleksiy, you asked about the fact that for the internal audience this is done with a demonstration, supposedly to be similar to zelensky, who often visits the front, but

now we have learned that in moscow and other cities of russia, in 2023, this year , the traditional action of the immortal regiment was canceled the so-called and this despite the fact that the parade has been a kind of demonstration and military strength of russia for many years, as evidenced by the fact that the immortal regiment was canceled in the regions bordering ukraine , any celebrations were canceled in general, or it is time for putin to cancel. these are the measures if he wants to demonstrate his own power as the leader of the nation in russia, there is a crisis of the ideology of the great victory of such a celebration as it was last year, it was the last, it is already clear that there will be no such ideological filling is happening now

perestroika, well, one of the views of the russians, well, the russian government, russian geologists, is that it is necessary to concentrate on one parade somewhere in moscow, and the regions do not have, well, they just have to watch television and celebrate with their souls , celebrate with the capital as well, so that there is no separatism , but, in general, the ideology is being rebuilt because what is happening now, there are two processes , the first is that there is a real sense of danger and , as usual, when the governors received the right to make certain decisions, the same is true of the governors of certain russian regions of the bio-purchased crimea, they think that it is better that

nothing happens . it is necessary to ban this one process and another process so that this holiday is the main russian holiday . that he is in disgrace with the kremlin , but at the study institute he says that he is again winning the favor of russian president vladimir putin. and what could this be related to, because in that institute believe that it is probably now due to the inability of the russian regular military to carry out the tasks that putin sets before them during the winter offensive in donbas , including that the bet on prigozhin is being made again. others are looking for him again, they are returning him to the foreign front, so to speak, to africa , maybe to latin america, in general , it seems to me that lavrov's last tour is in

the middle east and twice in africa and now in latin america, they talk a little about where the children moved to us with all these mercenaries, well, the russian elites still have a problem with preparing airfields, just like the fascist german elites after the second world war, when they ran away from a country that was collapsing, i think there is a little about this although it is not excluded that the internal politics of russia are already undergoing fluctuations, the frequency of fluctuations is increasing and putin is more often starting to change those people whom he considers favorites but it seems to me that if we talk about the internal politics of russia it's a little too early to talk about the restoration of the role of the victim, although he really did a great deal now, the first to say that we need to end the offensive and go on the defensive oleksiy, thank you very much for joining the broadcast oleksiy the hedgehog, an expert of the national institute of strategic studies, was

in direct contact with us well and oleksandr lukashenko this morning in minsk met with the leader of the illegal armed group of the dpr denys sent by the meeting took place in minsk. this was reported by the telegram channel pu pe first of all, lukashenko was interested in pushylin how things are going at the front and offered help . it's hard for people, and in this situation , what can belarus do for donetsk, what can we help to work ahead, there's a lot of work to be done, there's a lot of work to be done, there's a need to rebuild the industrial enterprise, to revive agriculture, and

in the end, people will live there 100%. and feed the people. it is necessary, therefore, we are ready to provide appropriate support for another visit. at the end of 2022, the leader of the lpr group, leonid pasichnyk, met with the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, and before the meeting, he spent a whole week in quarantine in one of the moscow hotels, this is evidenced by an audio recording which the journalists of the radio freedom donbas realia project received from their sources in one of the ukrainian special services verified the recording with the help of western expertise by contacting the national center for media expertise in denner means that on the 20th, i have an appointment until 7 p.m. i can’t get out of the room. they closed the two-room apartment. i ’ve been sitting here for the second day already. my side hurts

. my ass hurts. очень зже здесь без вывоз на 19 включетельно e correspondent of the belarusian service of radio svoboda joins our broadcast p valerii my congratulations i also congratulate you well you know it is not the first time when the leader of a formation under the control of russia goes to belarus but here is this meeting with lukashenko in minsk. it was the first time he met him at the official residence. what is the purpose of this meeting with lukashenko ? what effect is he counting on? well, we can see that he really met the bushmen at his official residence from the short video you showed. i can see that lukashenko is somewhat confused . here's what he says about some economic problems

. there was no party. well, there was, and it looks like he had such a forced meeting . i will remind you that last year in july, he already came to belarus and was not met there . ani lukashenko, which minister was he in brest ? and he put flowers there, and it was an inconspicuous visit. lukashenko did not want to accept it. and now it looks like, well, he was forced to show support for these separatist groups. that's it. as our newspaper niva wrote today and reported, it was a meeting the two puppets of the kremlin really have such an understanding that lukashenko is increasingly losing his independence, he is losing the ability to decide for himself who to meet with, what to say, and to do what he is ordered to do, this is the general opinion about

today's meeting between lukashenko and pushilin among belarusian observers and political scientists, well , indeed, lukashenko has never met with representatives before neither the annexed crimea, nor the donbas there, and last year only he met with the representative of abkhazia there, and it also looked like he was under pressure, although officially formally, belarus does not recognize the annexation of either crimea or donbas, but from the so-called republics in georgia. that is, all of this is very, very forced. and as we see what fruit will come from this, we can see here, it is difficult to say, but we can actually say that there is trade. there are some goods there, uh, with crimea and on and even with donbas and even with the newly occupied territories of ukraine, some products are supplied to belarus, that is , lukashenko belarus officially uses, well, the

opportunities offered to him by russia, putin , in particular, actually wanted to achieve this to deprive lukashenka of any political maneuvers and finally involve him in this war on the side of russia well, you know, i am still inclined to the fact that lukashenka is not ready to fight putin side by side with his soldiers, but is ready to fight with his tongue, that is, he continues what during this more than a year of war , he trades his tongue, says everything he is told, everything that can benefit

the kremlin, video, logical plan, and so on. sent a soldier to ukraine, but lukashenko succeeds. well, with such small concessions and move on, but in order not to make the main concession, he does not send his soldiers to ukraine , this is such a situation, but you mentioned that lukashenko used the words how are we doing , offered help to the so-called young republic is this such an impersonation of himself with the kremlin, or is it currently at that level of meeting with the so-called leaders of quasi-formations - this is for him only the only opportunity to promote some international activity, well, no, it is not international activity is the opposite, in fact, it is certainly true and that he always said that there should be only one spectator. you saw putin and positively assessed that he is still trying somehow to do what he needs. such a difficult situation when, under the pressure of the kremlin and for the sake

of maintaining lukashenko's power in belarus , mass repressions are continuing. through torture, torture in prisons and so on, this is also part of the paradigm set by putin regarding the renaissance, which means stalinism in the soviet union or some tsarist or russian empire and so on, that is, belarus suffers from such a if i were to say the denazification from which the occupied territories of ukraine are suffering. this and this is being done by lukashenka's hands. history will judge this. but putin and lukashenko are here . they are probably united in their actions in the

desire to restore the order of the ussr, mr. valery. well, maybe on the armed formations under the control of russia. well, unlike last year, when the arrival of the tailors did not go to the birch tree, he was actually not noticed by belarusian propaganda, but now, since it is a meeting with lukashenko, everything that lukashenko does is covered by the official media very, very meticulously details well, the independent opposition media are sad to state that belarus continues to lose its sovereignty, and this is an important sign of this . they heard it from valery. thank you very much for joining the broadcast. valery kalinovsky, correspondent of the belarusian service radio svoboda was in direct contact with us, thank you well, as we already mentioned today with the experts, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi visited the defenders' positions in avdiyivka, this was today, the relevant video was released in the president's office, there it was reported that the head of state listened to the report of the operational-tactical commander the donetsk group and

talked with the marines of the amphibious assault mechanized and artillery units. well, as well as published footage from the visit to the military a hospital in donetsk region, in addition, zelensky presented state awards to military personnel well, once again about peace negotiations, french president manuel macron intends to address china with a plan that, in his opinion , could potentially lead to negotiations between russia and ukraine, and already this summer, all this is information from the bloomberg agency. according to sources familiar with the intentions of the french leader , according to interlocutors, macron allegedly instructed his foreign policy adviser , emmanuel bono, to work with the main by the chinese diplomat wen yi on the creation of prerequisites for future negotiations, this was already reacted to in moscow, kremlin spokesman dmytro piskov said that russia is ready

to consider, but only those ideas regarding the end of the war in ukraine that take into account its interests, the kremlin media also add that putin's office is not information about the french president's plans to prepare together with china for negotiations between the russian federation and ukraine . meanwhile, in europe itself , the strategy of relations between the eu and china is being debated by jose borel during the relevant hearings in told the european parliament that the european union will not be able to develop normal relations - this is literally with china, if beijing does not use its influence on russia to persuade it to withdraw its troops from ukraine and end the war on ukraine, our position is known to everyone, the president of the derlyant foundation clearly expressed it to china when our relations with china cannot develop normally until they influence russia and force it to withdraw its troops from ukraine, putting

an end to that war. kostyantyn elisiev , ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine eteru p kostiantyna my greetings i congratulate you why do you think zero macron is torpedoing the topic with negotiations? this is generally about some possible political dividends or about sincere intentions. what political dividends can the french president receive on this topic, if of course he can? i understand that it is the style of the president of france to be distinguished by such ideas, if i may remind you that immediately after his election to the post of president in the 16th year, he also began a proactive position regarding the settlement of the situation with moscow, tried to initiate negotiations, but unfortunately he did not succeed because he had such a certain understanding of putin's position . then i will remind you that literally at the beginning

of the large-scale invasion, several soviets tried to attack putin, called him later, do you remember his famous phrases you don't need to humiliate russia, then he came up with initiatives to save putin 's face. actually, i think that this initiative with china can also be considered in this series of the so-called peace initiatives of the president france. i really hope that in literally days, if not hours, we will still receive the official reaction of the elysée palace to such an initiative, but the key thing is, of course , that france must understand that the principle of nothing about ukraine must apply without ukraine, and this must be done to remind all the time because the subjectivity of ukraine must be fully protected but really you are right, the fact

that a number of new platforms for alleged peace talks are appearing recently , new mediators are appearing, i will just remind you china, brazil, a few days ago, iraq took the initiative to mediate. of course, it's not just that, as i understand it. what, after all, some people are trying to play according to russian narratives without understanding the essence and nature of russia's war against ukraine, this once again proves that there is a lot of work for us, of course, we have to take into account literally today's statement, exactly the meeting of the seven ministers of foreign affairs, to be honest , it's really not bad, but there are some nuances that i, for example, have certain concerns well, for example, i will clarify, you are now talking about the statement regarding the response to the nuclear threat from the russian federation. i am talking about

the official statement of the seven at the level of the minister of foreign affairs, which was adopted today in japan, and one of them was that the eu is ready, the g7 is ready to that russia will use all its available methods in this war , including nuclear weapons, is it about this or something else? there is indeed a serious passage about the fact that they condemn the kremlin's decision to place tactical nuclear weapons on territory of belarus, they also condemn its use due to the threat of using nuclear weapons, emphasizing that it has not been used for almost 70 years, and therefore it is very dangerous, of course. the so-called nuclear component is powerful. that the g7 countries will do everything possible to

prevent third countries from supplying russia with any material or military aid and will punish these countries, this is also an innovation, but on the other hand, against this background, i am a little i was concerned about the fact that the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine was not invited to this meeting of the minister of foreign affairs of the group of seven for the first time since february 24, 2020. as a rule, he was invited. support sovereignty, territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, in contrast to previous statements , there is no such statement either, and of course i cannot help but be disturbed that here they avoided putting putin is responsible for the crimes committed on the territory of ukraine. i will remind you that in the previous statement, which was adopted two months ago, in japan, it was clearly indicated

that putin is personally responsible. well , of course, there are several other points that i did not like, but i would like to say that well, i would like to receive an explanation from the g7 countries. why were such nuances omitted in the text of such an important statement, and can it not be like this, it works differently that if these statements were made before, they should not be confirmed every time in a new way or it doesn't work like that, the statement confirms the previous e-e phrases that they support, for example, the principles of international law and the un charter, for example, that they condemn attacks on e-objects of critical infrastructure, it is also said that russia should pay for the damage caused to ukraine by the territory of ukraine a-and that's why er-er here i think there is a deeper problem, instead i will remind you of one more thing, for example, the european union