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their assessment and forecast of the development of events, do you want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch saturday's political club, what saturdays on espresso, welcome to the weather freedom life on radio freedom my name is serhiy stetsenko we we start today in the release they seized the initiative in bakhmut achieved tactical success this is reported by the american institute for the study of war, however, the russian army does not give up its efforts to advance on the city, what is happening there, sergei shoigu allegedly visited the forward control post on the front of the zaporizhia region, why did the russian minister of defense not visit bakhmut on prigozhin's invitation and whether the ukrainian forces could get it to discuss well, in georgia, protests against the government's official-bilisi resumed

air connections with moscow after four years breaks does this mean the end of the european integration of the country, we will discuss all this in a few minutes, and in the meantime, do not forget to like this broadcast, we start with the bahmut, where the armed forces of ukraine continue successful counter-attacks , the analyst of the american institute for the study of war writes about this in his report, the report says and about the interception of the initiative and the tactical successes of the defense forces of ukraine, analysts rely on numerous reports of the so-called russian war-cows, who for several days reported on the breakthroughs of the russian defense on on the flanks of the city. also, the institute cannot claim that the successful counterattacks of the armed forces of ukraine are the beginning of a major offensive operation of ukraine at the general staff of the ukrainian armed forces. however, in another report, it was reported that russian troops continue to attempt to attack the positions of the ukrainian army in the same place. earlier, the head of the ukrainian army, wagner prigozhin, confirmed that his mercenary had to retreat at least

half a kilometer north of bakhmut. well, over the last day, the armed forces of ukraine have advanced several hundred meters in various areas of the bakhmut direction. this was reported by the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine serhiy cherevaty what is happening on the approaches to the city, we will talk right now with us live yuriy fedorenko commander of the company of the achilles attack unmanned aviation complexes 92 of the separate mechanized brigade named after the basket chieftain ivan sirko i congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes and i would just like to note that your unit fulfills tasks in two directions , these are matchmakers, and bakhmutsky, well, let’s talk about bakhmutsky a-a , please tell me what the situation is in the place where you are are the armed forces of ukraine really present? as reported, they are advancing further. the main thing is that the defense forces succeeded in thwarting the enemy's intentions to cut off the main

communication routes, that is, to capture the city of bakhmut . what exactly did he want to do against them? of the city of bakhmut over the past week, the defense forces managed to advance almost 2 km in some meetings, driving the enemy away, improving their position and knocking out the enemy's pronoun position, i.e., the vise is squeezed, the initiative on the flanks, the defense force has been completely captured on its side, as far as the city of bakhmut is concerned, extremely difficult and brutal battles are going on, because the enemy has no intention of maneuvering or retreating instead from other directions that are less priority for the enemy, the reserve of manpower is withdrawn and as well as equipment that is sent to the city of bakhmut despite the fact that the enemy bombarded the city of bakhmut at the expense of aviation despite the use

of prohibited types of ammunition of the phosphorous type the forces of the incendiary defense managed to withstand the onslaught and now systematic systematic work is being carried out both to repel attacks and to improve its position in the very place in this defense also managed to knock out the enemy in some sections and occupy other positions that were previously under the occupiers. it is worth noting when we discuss in these minutes are spent on difficult battles both in this place and on the approaches to it. but the initiative really passes to the defense forces. and what is very important , friends, is what it becomes. perhaps including for thanks to your support, because at the expense of the national defense forces, the defense force is given the operational ability to provide the necessary means, such as a saw, for example, to identify the enemy and eliminate it, so we can say with confidence that the professional management of the defense forces , international military aid, and the support of the ukrainian nation make it possible

to ensure the result that we we are discussing with you today and, of course, the heroism and feat of every defender who fights on the bakhmut direction or on any other p fedorenko well, here is the head of the pvk wagner prigozhin has been complaining for several days that his mercenaries do not have or do not have enough ammunition, as from the ukrainian side . the armed forces of ukraine in your direction have what you can say with ammunition. there is no such thing as extra ammunition, so i will say that there is enough ammunition to introduce an active defense and carry out shock-assault actions , but ammunition is always such a thing . the more the better, therefore for more effective

works, of course, we call on our international partners to listen and provide more intensively both weapons and ammunition . it is also very important to note that the provision of long-range missiles of the gls db type in ukraine, which will be able to hit the enemy at a distance of up to 150 km, as well as aviation, are of priority importance as soon as possible for our partners will provide us with these types of weapons, the sooner we will manage to de-occupy most of our territories well , today and today in the next few days, aviation will be discussed , including in japan, we will talk about it talk later. and whatever aviation issues would be resolved in the direction where you are now, the first aviation closed from the sky. this is the main thing, and not only in the direction where we are, we know that the occupiers are terrorizing the entire population of ukraine, even in the most loyal regions, and accordingly for the effective fight against air attacks of the enemy, which have been happening for the last one and a half weeks, that night is

normal, it would be a means that maximally ensured our sky and our peaceful cities . we also limited the movement of the enemy in an additional way due to his aviation means in the air, they felt much more uncomfortable. now , with the available forces, it is possible to suppress them in the presence of aviation, it will be much easier and, in addition, any shock-assault actions, that is, the advance of the deoccupation of our territories with the support of powerful aviation into the air faster the result preserves the lives of the forces of the representatives of the defense forces and neutralizes the occupiers as much as possible, therefore, the components are in the air, precisely in the planes. it is extremely important, therefore, i am sure that our partners will hear and they won't delay, we need it for the day before yesterday and not for tomorrow. fedorenko literally 30 seconds remain before us . tell me, please, you have already mentioned the losses of

the russian army, what can you say about them ? during the last week of this month , if we take only part of our unit which works on the bakhmut direction , it was confirmed by the video editors that it was possible to eliminate 61 and 138 were injured and will be fixed quickly . it will definitely not return. now i will leave out of the piles the number that was eliminated due to the adjustment of the fire artillery is the gains of the artillerymen simply under our control, therefore we do not consider as exclusively our result, as well as the number of firearms starting from the agents and ending with their artillery, therefore, really in this direction, the enemy has significant losses both in manpower and in equipment, thank you very much live in sloboda life there was yuriy fedorenko, commander of the company of the achilles 92 attack unmanned aviation complexes of the separate mechanized brigade named after the kosh chieftain ivan sirk live from the bakhmut direction

thank you thank you minister of defense serhii shoigu visited the advanced command post of the russian troops in the zaporizhia region. at least this is reported by the ministry of defense of russia. there was even a video of this visit , however , it is not possible to claim or verify that these shots and shots were filmed in the zaporizhzhia region. according to the reports of the russian general staff, the minister of defense spoke with command and presented awards to the russian military. it is interesting that the already mentioned head of the pvk , wagner prigozhyn. last week, he invited bakhmut prigozhyn to visit him. to sergey's many years of experience in conducting military operations, which he obviously had. it was a kind of sarcasm, because the reality is that he does not have experience in commanding troops and a military career. he headed the russian ministry of emergency situations for more than two decades, and was appointed minister of defense in 2012 after a short holding the post of governor of the moscow region well, let me remind you that recently

he has been publicly and disparagingly addressing shoigu due to, in particular, the lack of supply of wagner ammunition his probable visit to the front, we will talk about it further and live with us oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military and legal studies, congratulations, congratulations, well, this is not the first time he is visiting the front-line command, points , well, at least, if you believe the official statements of the ministry of defense of russia and this video, what was made public by them, if such a visit really took place, what could it mean and why exactly the zaporozhian direction. i think that it means almost nothing because, in principle , all visits to places where the shoigun was and were crowned with success for the russian army so it turned out and although it should be recalled that earlier he visited mariupol, occupied not only mariupol, and communicated with those responsible for the so-called south-donetsk direction, that's what they call it, but the russian troops did not

manage to capture the coal mines , advance further, etc. well, of course, what he drives because he wants to show that he is in control of the situation, goes where he needs to go, where he thinks it is necessary, and actually speaking at the same time he does not visit such hot destinations where active hostilities are taking place, because i want to remind you that he does not appear in the direction of bakhmut or in the direction of crimea, after all, and mariupol is occupied, it is not the nearest point where active hostilities continue, after all, there are several tens of kilometers to the front line and the collision, so he visits more such safer places, and the zaporizhzhia direction is also one of the decisive ones for the russian troops, because they strengthened the defense there, they built a trench there, maybe now we see the footage

of the awards - this is for a trench 70 km long, he hands the minister of defense of russia is a know-how of engineering technology from the 19th century, apparently well, but at the same time, maybe he came for this , it is impossible, he is just making a symbolic visit in order to demonstrate that he is not afraid and keeps his finger on the pulse, in addition , they are checking the prepared defensive positions what kind of enemy is wary of the ukrainian counteroffensive, which is particularly active on the southern borders, this is the left bank of the kherson region , this is the occupied part of the zaporizhia oblast and the south of donetsk region, etc. saying, i think that everything is connected with this, he makes and has made quite frequent trips, they can mean a lot, but this does not affect the situation on the battlefield , that is the key, well, in general, they said, they really

asked, why does he not visit such acute in particular, bakhmut can be imagined, at least theoretically, such a meeting between prigozhin and shoigu somewhere in a hot spot, or is it in principle unrealistic and he avoided i mean the minister of defense of russia without such a meeting well, i think that from the point of view, if prigozhin approached from reported to him as a movie would do as a subordinate to his military commander, yes, because he does not perceive him as a certain level, he does not perceive him in such a way that prigozhyn declares something and he must immediately carry it out not at all because of this point of view and prigozhyn is perceived differently he submits that he has already reached the level of shoigu and gerasimov and he already has the right to speak and dictate and so on and so on. actually, this is a barrier behind which they will not meet. well, if we have already started talking about passing, let's talk

in fact, there has been a lot of information about the bakhmut direction in the last few weeks, and officially, information from the armed forces and from the institute for the study of war that the armed forces of ukraine are successfully counterattacking, they are actually going to fight for hundreds of meters, and the flanks around bakhmut, ah, in your opinion, this is in the institute of studies wars say that this does not look like a large offensive operation a-a. in your opinion, this is an offensive operation from the ukrainian side that has certain successes. it now has a successful tactical character that can turn into an operational success to develop, that is, i will explain what i mean by the tactical nature of these hostilities is that the armed forces of ukraine and other units, that is, the defense forces, are cutting off these protrusions of the flanks, or what were also called the privozhensky horns or the russian horns, and accordingly they solve the problems that

they remove the threat of encircling the ukrainian troop group there, the second time they remove the threat of obstructing logistics, the third time, what does this mean, it means that by gaining such positions , the russian troop group located in bakhmut will actually be it will be under the risk of being shelled and destroyed by the ukrainian whiskey group. the enemy will no longer decide whether to interrupt our logistics or not. and the ukrainian troops will do it and impose their scenario , and this is a tactical result, as a tactical er-er can turn into operational, which operational , for example, to create a local encirclement for russian troops in a certain direction, in particular in bakhmut, and to try to cut off the russian grouping of troops directly in bakhmut or on its eastern outskirts from logistics of supply and support, then simply actually hit the enemy's targets, the next moment is offensive actions, and because

you understand what the situation is now. if earlier russia sought to create a trap there for ukrainian troops and they thought that ukrainian forces would transfer almost all possible reserves here to the direction of bakhmut and it simply cancels the ukrainian counteroffensive , now it is completely the opposite, now russia is transferring additional reinforcements. and where do they take them from? they were still in reserve, preparing to repulse a counteroffensive, and they are actually removing them from other directions . thus, allowing ukrainian forces to develop a perspective for possible attacks in other directions. therefore, this can be perceived as the beginning of such offensive actions that are not yet of a mass nature, but have the chances of them growing, provided that the development of events is favorable for us, mr. musienko wanted

to go back to shoigu's visit to the zaporizhzhia region for literally half a minute, if he really was there, and there are a lot of questions it was also from our audience and in social networks whether the armed forces of ukraine during such visits, well, i don’t know, it is possible to destroy him or other officials who come to the occupied territories there in the presence of the same stromshadu missiles, for example , on the condition that if there is accurate intelligence information and it is confirmed accordingly and there is something to get, of course they can, that is, now we do not have such, as i understand it, no , this is not a question . you understand, this is not a question. units work, you just have to understand that the enemy is planning everything in this way quite often what about it is difficult to find out in terms

of how they move, where and as a rule they avoid open areas in fact and this actually happens not so close, that is, you understand, the options for damage can be different means of ppu hit and not get because these helicopters that they showed fly far away you can hit shadow with a missile, but i want to remind you that as a rule these meetings are held in underground bunkers no no you have to make illusions that that means well, you have to try, you can also hit jw against the bunker, but you have to know the exact coordinates that he definitely did not leave the place there and so on . today, zelensky arrived on a visit to saudi arabia, where the president of ukraine is participating in the summit of the league of arab states, according to zelensky, who, by the way

, will be participating in the summit of the arab league for the first time the main priorities of the countries are the protection of the muslim community of ukraine, the return of all political prisoners of crimea and the temporarily occupied territories, zelensky also emphasizes the ukrainian peace formula to which , in his words, it is necessary to include as many countries as possible, i hope that most of us are here for peace and justice dear participants of today's summit, today is already the 450th day of the full-scale war waged against us by the russian invaders. well, after the summit of the league of arab states, zelensky is waiting for jin to the other japanese hiroshima there today the meeting of the leaders of the group of seven countries began, one of the main topics of which is that there should be a full-scale military aggression by russia against ukraine, in particular , new sanctions against moscow should be discussed, according to european and ukrainian officials

, the results of this are extremely important for kyiv, you are a union of values ​​and we will protect these values. that is why we stand side by side with the people of ukraine, we in the european union are working hard to provide ukraine with everything it needs, more weapons, more ammunition, and more quickly, this is important for of the ukrainian counteroffensive. very important things will be taken there, and therefore the very presence, the physical presence of our president, is an absolutely important thing in order to defend exactly our interests . well, what are the expectations from the group of seven, are there maybe already results from the first day , we will ask a more detailed voice of america correspondent yulia yarmolenko, who is with us live from hiroshima, and yuliya is congratulating, i see you already. please tell me whether there are any initial decisions and whether zelensky will come in person in the end, because there were

a lot of questions at the beginning of the day regarding of this serhiy, this is a very question and indeed there were contradictory statements , but from the point of view of the american media as well as the voice of america, we have confirmation from our sources that the personal personal participation of the ukrainian president in the summit of group 7 is indeed planned. and here this news actually caused quite an international resonance because usually the last day itself is not particularly rich in events, it is more symbolic of some press conference statements, but it seems that if president zelenskyi arrives in hiroshima like this, it will be or not the most eventful day today was the first day of that group of seven, it also ended with certain results , we know that today was the first working meeting of the leaders of the group of seven, which specifically concerned ukraine, and based on the results of this meeting , they issued a very large multifaceted statement, the leaders of the sumy group said in particular about

what new sanctions are being introduced against russia or are the sanctions aimed at stopping the russian military machine in order to prevent russia from circumventing the sanctions and we know that a number of countries are already beginning to announce actual specific packages great britain did it literally an hour ago, the united states announced its sanctions, they are introducing sanctions against three hundred companies that helped russia circumvent sanctions restrictions - that's 300 companies in 23 jurisdictions, they are also introducing expert restrictions against 70 one company so that russia does not have access to technology that helps her to continue waging war and sergei is another important thing that i drew attention to in this final statement . there, literally in the second point, they emphasized that the countries of the group of seven support only it can only be fair when russia withdraws all of its

troops from the territory of ukraine unconditionally and without any conditions, and the leader of the group of seven emphasizes that any proposals for peace negotiations should be based precisely on this, so there will be a lot of interesting things, i think the next few days will be what you will say about this thank you very much, we will really follow what is happening in hiroshima, japan, live on radio svoboda , voice of america correspondent yuliya yarmolenko, thank you, thank you, the ukrainian military used the ppo-o patriot complex to shoot down russian fighter jet is not the first case of the successful use of this system in ukraine. this downing of a russian plane was reported by the cnn channel with reference to sources in the pentagon and the us congress. as noted , the russian plane targeted by the patriot was going to launch missiles at ukrainian targets, but it was shot down. it was previously reported that the ukrainians they shot down a hypersonic russian dagger missile from the patriot, which was previously considered invulnerable, now

the ukrainian air defense forces are armed with two patriot complexes handed over to the usa and germany, and several more systems have soon to arrive in ukraine well, will they be able to completely close the sky over ukraine in this petri system, we will talk about it further with us live, the spokesman of the command of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat, i congratulate you, i can already see it, good day, i congratulate you too, well, this is a message from cnn about the downing of a russian fighter jet by a patriot. i understand that this is a significant achievement of both the system itself and the ukrainian operators who apparently worked on it. who knows . it was difficult to do it. well, at least we didn’t announce it, so i guess we should ask everyone nm or in new york dance, they will be better able to explain all this to you, that is, you cannot confirm that it was really so, we do not announce such things at all, but when we kill something, we announce it on our

page our infographic shows such beautiful planes or cruise missiles. well, when did it happen? well, we didn't announce the process, so someone will announce another. as they say, well, tell me, please. we have already mentioned that several more systems should arrive in ukraine soon. do you have any information on how much exactly where and when can we expect them? well, first of all, we are expecting our people from france , another complex capable of knocking down football targets , i hope aeroballistic targets, such as a dagger , this complex is the very ones that italy and france have in their arsenal, and the time has already come when we expect their return our specialists are not empty-handed. as the commander says, with those systems with complexes that will not help in protecting our sky, the complex can also shoot down

ballistic targets and aerodynamic targets. these are the same transport and launch containers as in fact, in the petriv system, there are only eight of them, there are eight missiles, there is a slight difference between these missiles, which are from this complex and from this one, but everything must be tested in practice. as they say, the petriv complex has shown its effectiveness in practice has shown its effectiveness . the manufacturers and the patriot complex did not have such experience of use, so in some conflicts there was something in iraq, as well as with skat missiles, if i am not mistaken, and then something was unknown, how it manifested, they say that it was shot down, but not shot down well, we see here that e-e ballistics did not pass to kyiv, it is not only the e-e dagger complexes, but also such rockets as s400 or iskander-m well

, i hope there will be more such systems as petriv e sumpti e-e airisti is a very important complex because it is the newest complex especially with its super-powerful sensitive radar, as well as the system named after it, it will all be so powerful in the future ukrainian, but i emphasize that the nomenclature of the announced weapons is actually already shining, which partners from different countries are going to give, but the quantity is still not enough for that block many directions in order to make such a shield. well, this shield is from below, so if anti-aircraft missile systems such as petriv will be covered, well, the ones that i announced, well , next to the letters and the s300, it is clear that we will not be able to immediately abandon all that because we have to a lot of ukraine is big, but anti-aircraft missile systems will be covered from below, and fighter cover will be covered from above, the f16 aircraft will be used. i hope that a decision will be made in the future. i have never doubted for a single day that we

will get this plane and i hope that the decision will be made accepted regarding the training of pilots, specialist officers, there will be management and so on, therefore, two yes, it is also part of air defense , one of its functions, therefore, it is also a multi -purpose fighter plane f16, because it performs many functions, protecting the sky from drone missiles and countering enemy aviation , gaining advantages in in the air, and the task of striking ground targets, which will help our ground troops defeat the enemy on the ground, that is, where to buy our territory, and the control of our coastal waters , yes, of our sea, we have two of them. don't forget that they are also now under russian occupation. that's why this plane will do exactly what we need. when it happens, we want it as soon as possible. we want to see the solution today . there is a whirlwind of news in the arab world. yesterday, too, i had to say, well, because the beast