[000:00:00;00] an important thing, as a national resistance , where we help the military at their request. thank you. it concerns the assistance of the military. in the eastern direction of the ukrainian front, the head of the ukrainian front, wagner, said that he was withdrawing the mercenaries from bakhmut to replace them, allegedly, that regular russian troops should come, or that the destroyed city would become a trap for the russians and from putin's cook to the head of one of the most violent armed formations, what you should know about yevgeny prigozhin and the price of defense bbc correspondents spoke with a ukrainian family who gave

their son's most precious life in the battles for bakhmut as a mercenary of the wagner unit, they are leaving bakhmut this statement was made by the head of the pvk yevhen prigozhin , they are leaving to reformat the units of the regular russian army until this past weekend, prigozhyn announced the complete control of bakhmut, according to him , it will be a week before june 1 they transfer not only the position and weapons, although earlier the same handsome man complained about the lack of ammunition, which threatened the russian authorities to withdraw the wagnerites from bakhmut after may 10, and then changed his mind. the ukrainian side denies all statements about the alleged complete capture of the city, and whether bakhmut is still important for both sides, because 80 -thousand-year-old city, now only the ruins remain. if bakhmut was really captured, will the russian troops be able

to keep it, we will try to figure it all out . so far, how do bbc correspondents frank gardner see the situation, because they smelled something to glue strategically, bakhmut is unimportant. it is more of a symbolic city. since it was the longest and bloodiest battle on european soil since world war ii, and thousands died on both sides , the ukrainians said that they were satisfied with it because they destroyed a significant russian force, but they also lost many of their best fighters, so it was absolutely a bloody bath meat grinder, technically bakhmut can be called a stepping stone to the capture of the adjacent cities to the west of it , kramatorsk and sloviansk, but it would be a very difficult battle for the russians if they tried to do it so it's a kind of pyrrhic victory now russia reigns in a city that once had 70,000 people now it's empty it

's an absolute ruin unfortunately and once bakhmut was famous for its peasant mines and champagne here was the birthplace of the soviet champagne so what else is there so it's really a road victory for russia, it would be interesting to see if ukraine will now try to use it to surround russian forces there, but i think the main focus will be on the south , it makes sense for ukraine to strategically move on south and try to pass through the front lines to reach the black sea in an attempt to disrupt the russian supply lines to crimea. this would really attract the attention of the world, and a few hundred meters in the destroyed bachmut will not make an impression on the western allies of ukraine in nato. serhiy cherevaty is in touch with us, mr. serhiy thank you for joining well, first of all, i wonder what the current situation is in bakhmut, do you see evidence

that the wagnerites are really leaving the city if so, then who controls it now, well, bakhmut remains first and in the future the battlefield, now their attacks at the last moment have greatly decreased by three days, and instead of several dozen as it was now, there were two two two days three, because the collision during this period was two stabbings in the mountains about for all these months, i received crazy losses and was exhausted , so i started rotating measures , in particular, before the place of bahmut - this is a number of divisions of the so-called criminal organization of wagner, a terrorist organization. because it is very doubtful to take the enemy at his word, because the prisoner himself can make controversial statements for several weeks. and have regular russian troops already entered the city? do you know this? is this rotation already

happening? there are a lot of us here. we send messages to someone every day. i, including myself, and we said that the regular russian troops had long since gone in to reinforce wagner, because for many weeks in a row he lacked his own forces and a cover was brought there. we needed landing units, then certain motorized rifle subdivisions subdivisions some special subdivisions and subdivisions of other so-called private companies well, in fact , criminal organizations, including from the ministry of defense veteran and we showed this video on our social networks, well, you talked about losses yes , but prigozhyn himself said that they are throwing what eh he won there a what is the situation now on the flanks? somehow i did not understand the logic of the flanks , the losses from the armed forces, yes, ukraine has information that advances on the flanks

, in this regard, i wonder what the situation is around the city. and is there a possibility that bakhmut will become a trap for the russians, this is absolutely what i said to the commander of the eastern group in minsk, colonel-general oleksandr syrskyi. he said that the wagners fell into this trap and the same thing awaits their other group, no matter what group it is, because the main goal i absolutely do not agree with the author of your previous material that there was absolutely a well-thought-out logic and strategy of the battle . the advertised russian has been destroyed, it is simply unbelievable that we have just admitted that not only rear admiral kirby, the white house adviser on strategic communications , job biden, the president, relying on the data of their

analytical intelligence, said our minister of defense, that is, the main goal of the defense operation was achieved, the combat potential of the enemy was destroyed, it was broken the order of battle in e-e is broken, its ability to carry out large-scale offensive operations in the future and therefore when will our units that have spoken about training in different countries and in the same in ukraine, in various other countries, they are an offensive battle, and they will have to wage an offensive battle. it is always much more difficult than defense, and it is much more expensive in terms of losses in equipment and personnel, and the more you demoralize the enemy, knock out his potential, the less losses you will be able to throw him out of of his land, mr. serhiy, thank you serhii cherevaty, spokesman for the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine thank you for the conversation well, let's talk about prigozhin himself in his recent

interview, he stated that he considers the ukrainian the army is one of the strongest in the world and the first in his opinion, it is wagner who, as a non-military person, became the head of one of the largest private military companies. my colleagues tell us who yevgeny prigozhin is. this man's private army became key in the course of russia's war in ukraine. yevgeny prigozhin heads the famous the brutality of his gang of mercenaries wagner he is a former prisoner who became a businessman before founding a chain of expensive restaurants he spent nine years in prison for robbery one of his restaurants became putin's favorite and this the connection helped prigozhin to expand his business in russia, and he himself became one of the richest russians, he was even hired to feed kremen, for which he received the nickname putin's cook, but his interests go far beyond cooking. since 2014, pvk wagner operates around the world in syria, libya and many countries in africa, the organization is often accused of human rights violations, they do not just fight, they control the mining

of diamonds and gold, offer private security and train troops, their activities correspond to the kremlin's agenda, but give putin has a chance for a believable denial next to private mercenaries of beauty created an army of online trolls that gained fame by interfering in the presidential elections in the usa in 2016 until recently he denied the involvement of the wagner group before that, everything changed dramatically after the invasion of russia into ukraine , everyone began to act openly when wagner, among whom many convicts were released and committed, joined the hostilities, it was at a time when the advance of the russian army stopped, the wagnerites suffered great losses in the battles for bakhmut in our country he also publicly criticized the military strategy. for some, these appeals raised doubts about how long prigozhyn will be able to retain putin's favor. ukraine returned prisoners of war from the direction of bezmahmut. these are 106 people, six

officers and 98 soldiers, according to the head of the president's office andriy yarmak. did not allow the enemy to advance deep into the territories among those who were returned from captivity, many were considered missing in the usa will be at the g7 summit, well, japan said that russia lost about 100,000 people on that part of the front, and it is not only about the killed and wounded. these are so-called irreversible and temporary losses . it is difficult to verify everything because neither the russians nor ukraine . bbc correspondents jonathan beale do not disclose such data. on the example of one family, he tells what a high price has to be paid for the defense of every meter of ukrainian land, and then the story of the brothers maksym and ivan who defended bakhmut, news about funerals in ukraine

is heard as often as artillery fire the death of every soldier here is a sacrifice for the country and for the family an irreparable loss, and in some places the grief covers the whole city in the village of tomakivka they mourn maksym who gave his life for his brother ivan when the war started they went together to defend the country well done at that time maksym was 22 years, and ivan is only 18 years old, the whole time we were fighting, we were in the same positions in the same

crews. for me, this is very very , they last saw each other here in bakhmut, a place that their mother calls hell on earth. this video was recorded by the boys during a fierce battle before because a russian projectile fell next to ivan , he managed so well that i really can't do it. i fell, i realized that i was waiting for my health very much, because i was already hug me that i knocked it out in these conditions, i decided to give my video in which

the wounded ivan is holding in his hands, the ukrainian flag became known in ukraine, first a group of medics who went to help ivan was hit by a russian cannon, maksym had to puncture his brother's airways so that he would not suffocate for the next 9 hours, maksym did not leave his brother for a second when finally the second group of medics managed to save ivan maxim decided not to leave his comrades and remained in bakhmut to continue the fight a week later a russian sniper killed maxim his mother is consoled only by the fact that one son died saving the life of another maxim mosch will leave with ivan and since there were comrades left there and the nightingale did not

only he knew that he was no longer visible because we don't believe it, we didn't tear out a soul and i have to live only glad that he saved the younger ivan, there is no rain for me, tell me more and ivan was their only child kyiv does not reveal the number of dead or wounded soldiers in this war, but for a local priest, this is the third funeral in a week. if you look at the cemetery, it becomes clear that ukraine is paying an extremely

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several days, where the armed forces of ukraine will break through the defense of the russian army, we will discuss belarus becoming a nuclear state, but with russian missiles, minsk and moscow signed agreements on the placement of tactical nuclear weapons in belarus , what changes and how will the belarusian society react to this, more about everything , first of all, please like this broadcast so that more people can see our work we start with bahmut, the head of the communist party of ukraine, wagner, yevgeny prigozhyn, announced the beginning of the withdrawal of the mercenaries under his control from the city. this morning , this video was published on the internet, where prigozhyn the camera communicates with their mercenaries and informs them that they must leave the city by june 1 and arrive in some rear camps , according to the words of the leader of the wagnerites, bakhmuti, they are to be replaced there by regular

units of the russian army. we are leaving the military, come to me guys, bieber and fate, this is bieber, she will do it, so as soon as it is difficult for the military, they will stand up and block the path of the ukrainian army in the future, as his subordinates claim in the footage of prigozhyn have received new combat tasks in the russian ministry of defense, this message has not yet been commented on. earlier this month, russia announced the final capture of the city of boise, which lasted more than 220 days. the video published in recent days by the russian media and telegram channels indicates that russian units have reached at least some areas to the western borders of the city, ukraine declares that its units that previously controlled part of the objects in the city, in particular

, the deputy minister of defense of ukraine anna the painter reported in her telegram channel that the bakhmut riots are still going on. well, what is happening near bakhmut, are there any chances for the armed forces of ukraine to start recapturing the city in the near future, let's talk with us live yevhenu ropai, the company commander of the freedom battalion , the lieutenant of the national guard of ukraine, i congratulate you good day studio good day tv viewers glory to ukraine glory to the heroes please tell me your information about where you are now e-e do you have data on whether units of the armed forces of ukraine are still in the city whether on its approaches, at the moment, some military personnel are still taking positions near the outskirts of bakhmut, i don’t know how the fire fighters are completely out there, but now on the outskirts of bakhmut there are still defenders of the village of barany of ukraine, yours can. can you say that

specifically your unit was given an order to retreat to positions that were already outside the city limits, the svoboda battalion as part of the fourth operational brigade of the national guard was being coordinated, we received a combat order to find out in the zone carrying out combat operations to carry out combat tasks and now we are. well, unfortunately, i cannot say where, but it is not far away and we are carrying out the assigned tasks. his mercenaries er from the wagner pvc must leave the city by june 1. do you have any information, er , is it really observed this departure of the wagners from the city

? with regular troops, but this is not we will be completely open in the attack, because wagner has recently lost a very, very large number of military personnel, especially convicts, as lycers, officers who constantly brought them up, officers who expelled them, who gave them combat orders, and because of this, the wagner military command center is now in great difficulty, and this is not something planned rotation is what they were forced to do in order for wagner to retain at least some political or general military weight in the arena of the military forces of the russian federation. that is why it is unplanned and that they are there bb was left in bakhmut and was still shown on video. well, this is just funny . well, this figure was announced the other day by a handsome man about 20,000 losses of wagnerites near bakhmut, and he allegedly revealed that 10,000 of them were exactly

uh, what kind of people recruited in the colonies, in particular, this is true, although approximately no and much more, there were much more losses on the part of the russian federation, it was wagner’s accomplice, there were such areas where they lost a very, very large number of their personnel, so what he says, you know, well, there is such a phrase, you don’t need to trust the enemy because the enemy is giving true information on live broadcasts, well, by the way, no one should provide. he said that at the moment they have a ratio of military personnel of five to one, but i am more. i am sure that somewhere on average somewhere to one, that is, to our defenders, the defense force in the bakhmut direction for the last time in the bakhmut direction, there along the contact line, the enemy suffered simply insane losses during the assault actions and died there in a very, very large number because they went purely with live infantry by the zhukovsky method without cover without tanks without any heavy heavy mortars in the artillery school or just

grenade launchers and machine guns, so i am more than sure that the number that called this guy is a handsome man there is a cook or who is he er she is much more , he just doesn't want to advertise what is the number yes you have already mentioned that prigozhin's words that the wagnerites are allegedly leaving the city are hardly to be believed, but nevertheless, in recent days, the armed forces of ukraine from the flanks on the sides of the city have been conducting quite successful operations , in particular, the general staff of ukraine also talked about this this departure is likely and even if it somehow happens, in your opinion, it can help the armed forces to carry out these operations, to make them even bigger and more successful, for example, from the surrounding of the city and the position of the wagnerites, who can still stay there until the new year, and i remember i read the words of the beautiful woman that they have already taken bakhmut that they are taking bakhmut in bakhmut

operational environment and soon the ring will close these were the words that are now for some reason on the flanks well our defenders of the village of brany are very good and have taken the heights well it's according to the cards it can be seen that in principle this information is available on open networks in the sources, therefore at the moment the forces of the occupiers who are in the bakhmut direction or in the very place in the winter will be very difficult to hold the line of contact, that is, they will be forced to either retreat or lose their e- e of these ac liberators in our ukrainian land, therefore i am more than sure that in the near future with proper counter-offensive actions when we will be provided with e-e normal firearms and there will be a normal number of motivated military personnel who are ready to carry out these tasks. we will not only carry out excellent assault actions, but we will drive back a large part of the captured territory, which is now behind the enemy, but

you mentioned normal forces. i understand that this question may not be for you. mobilized as part of the 93rd separate brigade kholodny yar wrote , they write more precisely about the fact that both of them are holding positions and defending themselves from the ukrainian side, they are mostly mobilized. subdivisions what, for example, is mostly stated in the article that the most experienced fighters are kept precisely for this great offensive of the armed forces of ukraine , there are a lot of mobilized and voluntary soldiers fighting in the war and those who are still left to perform combat tasks in relation to a full-scale war. therefore , there are now a lot of people on the entire front line different servicemen, it is our battalion that is being formed with a volunteer, at the same time, for the 93rd i am for the 93rd brigade of the cold ravine, i had information, we know at the moment where they

are and what their composition is, but i am sure that there are highly motivated people who are ready to carry out combat tasks, and there we will look specifically for budny yar, i have little information about it. of course, thank you very much . evgeny opa was live on radio svoboda and the company commander of the svoboda battalion, a lieutenant of the national guard of ukraine, thank you, and now we will show you a report from the positions of the ukrainian military near the bachmut, which was captured by our colleagues from the present level, they are now trying to enter iceland, here are all these funnels, they are all fresh new literally the day before yesterday, this did not happen due to the open field of the fighters of the 28th brigade of the armed forces of ukraine they are taking us to a position south of the bahmut, the thickets of this landing allow them to hide their cars and hide themselves, by the way, i know here in zelenka well, but i think that we will not stay here for long, we will go further, further landings

, we will march further we are in a fighting mood and we are in a very good mood, i would even say aggressively, most of these soldiers are people of peaceful professions , businessmen, lawyers , electricians, machine builders, now they are all mortarmen after a full-scale invasion, the motivation to be here and now is simple and clear, just follow the constitution, pay taxes, everything we have the will, do it, make money, try to go abroad, well, this is what traveling is all about . and this is what they want to take away from everything . that's what they are fighting for, too. well , we have been fighting for our land for the second year since the first days. we are always fighting. we will always say that zero together with the infantry and we both protect the infantry and make an impression on the enemy, and contrary to the latest statements of the enemy, the ukrainian defenders assure that the battle for bakhma is going on there, i don’t know what they are saying there, that they

took bakhmut, beat bakhmut, but so on . well, this is far from fake, we let's not stand still we're moving we're moving and we're moving let's go even a little bit at a time but we're going forward we're not going left we're not going right somewhere we broke off a piece we got stuck further we went bahutna we won't leave we'll go only forward and only forward while we're talking an enemy drone is spotted in the sky you need to hide in the morning works in the hall, we need a shelter, we need to go to the shelter , the better we shoot, the more they look for us, the more they worry about them in the dugout, they didn’t have time to drink a cup of coffee as the russian drone disappeared, and the fighters,

having received the next coordinates of the targets, launch we already have our bird in the sky, we see where it is flying, we correct it and make accurate shots, you are ready plusplus we are waiting i am ready to work on the southern flank of the bakhmu direction combat work is going on around the clock right now ukrainian mortars are working on new targets of the enemy mines were quickly fired and quickly covered, but not this one once the mortarmen received a command to add a couple more romanians. well, they are not fools sitting there either, although they are fools who climbed onto our land and are looking for us once again nina nina here now it's definitely masking and, as they say