[000:00:00;00] sometimes it seems like this to me, but many lives have started to be collected because, well, our lives , because, well, there are already a lot of my acquaintances, whom i personally knew in the last month, two died under the bakhmut , so i understand what you are saying, but i just don't know i'm just sharing as a person from the rear, how should we perceive what we are learning more and more about such sad news in our country where there is a full-scale war and unfortunately it is a war, it has surely entered every house and every ukrainian family we have understand what there is still a long road ahead, which will have to be covered, unfortunately, it will be associated with losses, and each of us does not know whether we will see

the apparatus of victory, but each of us clearly understands that there are tasks that must be rationally completed here and today, and that is why i emphasize this the price that we are now paying for the ban on the city of bakhmut. if compared with the potential assault-assault actions to retake the city of bakhmut, it is lower, and thus we will lose more personnel in the future if we leave these positions because what will happen the domino principle, what we talked about with you, everyone can analyze and make their own decisions, that is why the colossal work of commanders in the field who manage the personnel and of every soldier who is currently in the city of bakhmut and is fighting back is going on right now . sees the war in his own way we cannot rely solely on the opinion of one or another military because someone had to

be semi-surrounded and try for three days without food with a limited amount of ammunition to get out of those positions as god wills, someone else managed to carry out a successful shock-assault action and take positions to dig in means a sufficient number of the enemy , we have to look at this situation comprehensively that the holding of the city of bakhmut gives us the opportunity to keep tying our hands and feet grouping of the enemy and powerfully smashing it without giving the enemy the opportunity to release this reserve and transfer it to another direction, respectively, when the strength of the defense will be sufficient, i am sure that the de-occupation of those positions that were occupied the enemy in the city of bakhmut on the approaches to it will go a little faster uh-uh, as is customary now

, i will ask about the weather uh-uh , is it becoming easier to fight ? the objective weather is rain, if it's sunny, but it's because of the intense rainfall that doesn't give the soil a chance to dry, so the water is ankle deep in the trenches and it's muddy. it's like just some kind of suction cup on which it's extremely difficult to move. but despite this power the defenses are doing their job, we expect that in the near future the weather will stabilize , it will be warmer and everything will dry out a little, but it is worth noting that the discomfort we feel is not only washing , it also significantly affects the intensity of the enemy's actions and the possibility of tearing him from me . thank you very much, yuri yury fedorenko, commander of the company of the attack unmanned aviation complexes achilles 92, a separate mechanized

brigade, joined us and i understand from somewhere approximately in the direction of svativ. thank you very much , congratulations and thanks to our viewers, mr. viyu and traditionally, when he appears, veteris already write him congratulations to our courageous warrior and defender. they are handsome, by the way, about beauty , ukrainians were included in the top ten most attractive people on the planet, so they made a letter, not so artificial intelligence made such an artificial one, yes, recently artificial intelligence was asked what he he thinks about me, he said that i am a nobel laureate , so i know what he likes. if you flatter yourself, you can be flattered. according to artificial intelligence, this is what average

ukrainians look like, but there are also ukrainians in this prescription got into among the italians, for example, among the french, among the brazilians, canadians, japanese, swedes, and so on, in a word, ukrainians have so far taken the ninth position in this top ten, but what is interesting is when there is a prescription for ukrainians, god , what is this, try to find these words, so and so, there are such and such words the birthplace of many hollywood actors and it is not a surprise that ukraine what is ukraine actually doing in this top ten but i think that it is not only that ukrainian hollywood actors come from ukraine and that is why ukrainians are all in the top ten just a huge merit in this in this in this rating it is to such soldiers as yuriy fedorenko as our other defenders and defenders as our doctors as our volunteers all those

people of good will those people who in difficult moments under e-e lend a hand to each other and leave no stone unturned who help to hold on all these days of a full-scale invasion and survive in this war and actually all these people contributed to the fact that now ukrainians appeared in some ratings and appeared not in ratings of something worst but in ratings of something better actually about one more thing such a beautiful person, because beauty is not only about appearance, but also about what is inside . she survived the hellish events of the russian-ukrainian war , lost a loved one, and now she is getting an officer's rank and her story. she told in our khrystyna

parubiy, let's see for several years during the war, iryna melnyk with the call sign sabrina was a military medic of the 24th royal brigade in 2019, rescued soldiers in donetsk region and met a full-scale russian invasion in zolote and is still performing tasks in forward positions , i will tell you honestly, now almost 4 years have passed. - i still went to the military commissariat, but i collected all the documents for a month or more, i think that i might change my mind, but i would have gone then. to be honest, i never once regretted that the girl went to the army after finishing medical college. she did not want

to work in a civilian hospital, but decided to help the military at the same time she was still studying at the university to become a psychologist, but this did not stop irina and she signed a contract, she was the first to enter the combat zone in marinka in donetsk region, at that time a positional war was formed there after a month of being on the front line , irina had her first injuries and had to save two heavy soldiers, well, it was the first time, like there, i opened the bag, i was still looking for it, it is lying in front of me, i can’t find it , you understand, but in a panic, panic, i can’t say that there was no panic, like everything was like ok there one was severe, there were multiple shrapnel wounds all over the body, there, well, he was completely average with shrapnel, the other also had a chest i remember there, uh , one or two fingers on his hand were torn off by a full-scale russian invasion iryna melnyk met in

gold in luhansk oblast. this was one of the longest rotations of the 24th brigade since june 2021. they were in positions at first they had to be changed in november , then in december. a week before the full-scale invasion, more intensive shelling began. and what was not typical, then they fired at the bodies of the enemy, it was the exolot that was interesting at the time when there was a breakthrough for 5 years because there was a kpvv. but then they blew up our bridge, they had no passage there and they began to storm put because we already later we took the first one in the house and then we already moved to the basement . as i remember, who was coming out of the basement on the uh side , that's how it was to look. yes, where is the side of the shepherd's house, that's the house. there, 9 in the evening, it's already there on that popasna there is just such an orange sky, as if it, well, i don’t know, it’s lunchtime there, for sure everything was on fire there at that time and it was scary because we would probably be in

the ring, the girl was twice at the positions in zolote in july, iryna’s unit was stationed near lysichanskoye of the oil refinery covered the flanks of the brigade when it was leaving the city, during the exit the russians were able to find between the two battalions of the brigade from the left flank , then the first serious injuries began , the commander of one of the companies that was evacuated was e he was wounded, he got into the stomach, uh, there was 90 percent internal bleeding, but in fact, there was nothing like that on top , his arms and legs were intact, just a small hole near his stomach, he was brought to us, uh, there they connected something, there must be something there, and he was taken it turns out that he went to the transfer point, and then i remember that the commander came and i said , petro in the morning, the commander of the machine gun unit , where is he coming at me from where is he coming at him here, the whole

hand is in the flesh, rudely speaking with the turnstile, i then helped him irina had to work also in the direction of bakhmut, there the point of evacuation of the wounded was very close to the enemy, there were cases when they could not even provide help during the evacuation, but the worst thing was if they could not find the wounded, by that time some of the medics of the company were already wounded and they were simply handed over to us by fighters from we were told to evacuate because they didn't have a doctor there, and it happened that people were sent to evacuate without any communication and we just came there and we drove and looked for boarding places wounded and shouted through the window where there are 300. is there anyone wounded and if we heard a voice there , we drove closer to them and they were simply taken away. january 1 was a day when very tense days continued at the positions, then against them came to us with fear and they just

rolled over each other's grenades were such a close contact, and then, well , this one was wounded. where are the wounded? says somewhere roughly that 10 iryna was changed by the war and above all by personal losses, because the girl lost a loved one in the war , her boyfriend died in the fall in the kherson region, so she obtained the rank of officer in order to continue his work. missiles , it was assumed that they would be khapid 550, 555, and

these are large, powerful cruise missiles that are used by russian e-e air launch vehicles. this is how they look when shot down by ukrainian air defense in the form of this from the kyiv region, the state emergency service released these shots, this is just a fragment of this rocket, it flew in order to fall somewhere in the center of kyiv by itself, but luckily it did not reach, the air defense worked, on the contrary, all the rockets that flew in the capital to the kyiv region were neutralized this is such a good news for all of us. well, then we will talk about the situation at the front in general , about the ukrainian counteroffensive, about how the russians are already afraid of it. mr. serhiy good morning good morning greetings mr. serhiy the pentagon says that

the russians have lost 100,000 since december, a total of 20,000 of their troops have been sent to the other world. now there are 25,600 russian invaders fighting against ukrainians in bakhmut , and this number is more than some armies of some countries in the world. well, when we talk about bakhmut and the figures of losses, the first data you are talking about are the data of the coordinator

of the u.s. security council of the united states, john kirby , who said that since december, russia has lost 100,000 servicemen, of which 20,000 died, the rest are wounded, and part of the media wrote down these numbers directly to bahmut himself, although already in the morning i saw clarifications that kirby said about the general losses of the russian army along the entire front, and regarding bahmut there was such a general environment that ukraine itself is on the defensive and any actions there on the enemy's advance are not critical for the line of defense of ukraine, but in any case we are talking about the fact that bakhmut is really the toughest point today where the enemy will concentrate maximum forces when we are talking about 25 and a half thousand soldiers , this is quite significant

indicators for the area of ​​the front which now tells you that within six to eight kilometers, if we take all the areas of resistance there, this is a significant concentration of russian forces, and we understand that for 10 months our military has been effectively they receive this section of the front, and the advance that is taking place is carried out precisely at the expense of, well, the superiority in numbers, the superiority of the artillery, because when serhii cherevaty talks about the data of the artillery, then there is talk of 154 guns of various calibers, about 50 of the ssu system, and this, by the way, is a significant number artillery on a narrow section of the front and remember this story of prigozhin, who says that more shells are needed, otherwise our vagners will die there, as he says, and there will be no advance, he was answered there cancellation of the defense about the fact that we have given a significant number of shells and then the handsome man says again that he did not get this

one, then if we understand that despite the presence of artillery, the presence of guns, they found a number of such a class that goes in addition to this art systems of the enemy - this is extremely slow the choice of the ukrainian team in the following regarding the acquisition of bahmut in - revealed that , in view of the tirative, if the enemy succeeds and continues to use the advantage in common meat, the same kilbi said that there are lines of defense around bahmut that will allow further conditionally speaking, to get a defense system that is effective enough, and this is true, because on the prevailing heights, literally a few kilometers from bakhmut, there are stretched lines of defense, which have already been prepared by concrete for a long time, and we understand that

bakhmut is in the lowlands, and this is the artillery that is located on commanding heights and this advantage can be used further by turning pakhmut into such a systematic trap for those russian troops who will try to advance to pakhnut or beyond this place so that the attention to the ba will continue to be riveted for political and military reasons and we understand that the choice of the ukrainian company was generally rational and the driver will see how the enemy of these cabins will act for him the situation i will ask such a pro -fair question i understand the logic that they said valeriy zaluzhny and today we also heard from yuriy fedorenko, a soldier from the 92nd separate mechanized brigade, who says that if we give bakhmut now , it will be much more difficult to return him later. i understand

this logic, but on the other hand, sometimes in war we have to give something and we will give it back when it works out, because with the same logic, you can just storm now, for example, crimea . well, why not now? well, i mean that if we say that the priority is to preserve the equipment and the lives of the soldiers in the first place, on the contrary, the lives of the soldiers secondly, in terms of technology, it is possible that sometimes you have to sacrifice territory if it is really more important than territory . well, when we talk to soldiers on the same topic with our military, you will hear absolutely tougher arguments, but i am there often i am talking to my friend who is providing there. well, the turkish directions and he says that we, on the contrary, received ammunition . to be honest, we would have a little tanks , you would have

more artillery. the enemy tried to make about 10 near bakhmut. we would have knocked it out in a couple of weeks. and then we returned all this territory , so that in fact the sentiments of the military operating in the bakhmut area are somewhat so much tougher than the assessments of experts and politicians, and they understand on the one hand that it is impossible to allow the advance of the enemy. not even a meter, and this has already become, as we can see, such a dominant rule in the actions of our military . that is, we are no longer changing the territory for the time being , and i think that the potential that is now concentrated around bakhmut from our side allows us to solve this mission completely effective if we are talking about what is squeezing us or trying to squeeze us out of the bahmut . this means that this is an element of hostilities that is included in the scenario calculated by

the ukrainian military leadership and the line defenses for this were arranged with new forces that are directed to the bahmut zone, despite the fact that other forces are being created to carry out offensive actions, but in any case , we will evaluate the value of bahmut only later, when we will understand uh, how in due time we understood the meaning of severodonetsk and lysychansk which was held for a long time and then there were drives on offensive actions if i think that in fact we as experts and as politicians or journalists have enough less information than what the general staff has and on the other hand sometimes motivation the military itself is the decisive factor that determines the behavior of the units on the battlefield in support of this strategy implemented by the general staff of mr. sergiu. one of the scenarios that consider the development of the war says that putin wants to take bakhmut by may 9th

and announce it on may 9th and once again to announce the end of this special military operation, and probably that's why there's such a huge cloud of troops , almost $26,000 is now there, it turns out that they didn't even liberate donbas, well, what's the point is this scenario realistic that on bahmut he will say that everything is the end of a military special military operation and will this end really come on the ninth property? i think that this is such a uh, no, it is not a realistic expectation, although the situation with the capture of bahmut is extremely important for the enemy because we understand at first the second so-called offensive on and began at the beginning of february in all there five directions in fact we understand which can be

sold to our own population now we say a line of 800 km is the entire enemy force or partially concentrated glory to bakhmut which eh on area is it 6x6 km in a seemingly technical absolutely city and all attention is focused on bakut precisely due to the excessive propaganda machine on the one hand, and on the other hand i understand that in any case the enemy will not stop at this because the economy in front of us is the complete destruction of our country

, it has not gone anywhere, our armed forces are so devoted to protecting every meter of our land, because this is not the way to give this enemy the opportunity to get political about small victories, no, not even more military if i think that even after may 9, of course, the situation will not end in any way. we are preparing for offensive actions, and there are not easy times ahead of us, which should remain our victorious actions and the exit to the borders of 1991, russian all the experts who express, well, there are different opinions, of course, but prigozhin wrote a letter to shoigu , the minister of defense, he said that if they do not immediately pour shells, then in principle the wagnerites will retreat and the front will fall, and the whole of russia will fall behind them, he will fall there in my opinion, he said that a catastrophe is inevitable there, and so on, he pumped up the rhetoric, and others say that the offensive of ukraine is impossible to succeed because ukraine will not be able to cover its troops from the air, and therefore they

will be a target for the russians for the russian combat aviation. so shoot two segments of the component, firstly , that any prigozhyn declares misses and so on , now i think that such a systemic conflict between the military prigozhyns is growing, because in fact there was this conflict before existed because prigozhyn, these warriors, by their rules, they do not ignore the military there according to the rules, and in this way, i think that it is quite consciously that the same paratroopers who operate on the flanks left the parish in the direction of the nava-na bakh mut disarmed and connected with the battles in the city, where exactly these banerians are being burned out, crushed and destroyed, and he wants to have more ammunition. although i tell him that we gave you

, he is fighting, how can this be, in principle, i think that there will continue to be such a clinch between private military companies in russia, which when we if we are talking about the spring-summer offensive company, then of course everyone is talking about the fact that the enemy has an advantage in the air and it is possible that he will try to use this advantage in the air in order to restrain our offensive actions and there are different estimates regarding the ability of our air defense and in addition to these statement that we are running out of missiles there to the river. we saw the work of anti-aircraft defense activity and this day and three days ago, when 95% of the missiles come true, we see that the missiles are there to perform their functions and for

according to the estimates of a number of foreign analytical structures, i looked at these, they can say that the spring and summer company, which can last for a certain period of time, will be sufficiently covered by the anti-aircraft armored personnel carrier, and i think that the fear of the russian pilots is to act in the field, then our parko after all will be powerful enough and , as before, the enemy i have seen will try to drop guided bombs there from a distance and not use the main advantage of its aviation, in particular, the test porters and other things if i think that there will be all the prerequisites for well, you better minimize the influence of the russian aviation on our offensive units, although one way or another such risks will remain after yesterday's missile attack on ukraine, the russians massively reported in their media all kinds of possible facts about the fact that they carried out this attack, that they destroyed warehouses with ukrainian equipment, they received wherever it is necessary, and they do all this in order to

distract their people from the counteroffensive , first of all, and from the fact that russia is suffering huge losses, but in this case, it means that we i mean for the civilian population to prepare for the possibility that such missile attacks will become more frequent now . well, i wouldn't say because in fact there was a long pause of 50 days after such previous missile attacks were carried out. and now we see that these attempts of the enemy are becoming smaller they are related to the fact that the means of impression are accumulating and the potential of accumulation has not become faster and more, that is , i think that the enemy will protect e-e aviation means of impression, especially guided missiles and carried out such missile strikes as he

i tried to hold it there yesterday, and i think that the main component now in the russians will be connected with the maximum such propaganda accompaniment of these blows to give out that really we are trying to restrain the ukrainian mood for this and that's why expect that russian public opinion that these strikes on ukrainian territory will be dispersed quite actively, as we have already seen with the example of the attack on pavlograd , so in any case we should not be surprised by this, the main thing is to hope that the military is now carefully preparing for offensive actions , by the way, the spokesperson of the us security council said that lev almost all the necessary equipment was transferred to the ukrainian side, if i think that many factors have already developed to the point that these hopes are connected with offensive actions, here by the way, it is already noticeable in the kherson zaporizhzhya region that

the number of missile and estimated infectious strikes on enemy targets from our side is increasing, which may be one of the confirmations that the previous measures connected with nask are already beginning thank you very much for this conversation serhiy zgurets, military expert director of defense express company was with us well, we are gradually completing this hour of our marathon, in the next we will talk about the economy and also about the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate and we will remember the actual anniversaries of the events on the greek square kulykovy field in odesa, well, now is the hour. when we remember all those people , we honor their memory with a minute of silence , both peaceful and military, or her life