[000:00:00;00] it's a pity, we don't have time to go through it in detail, but thank you. i think that somehow we'll be able to talk in more detail about what the prerequisites should be in order to talk about a real solution to this russian issue for a while, although there would be someone who would provide ukraine well, i would say a peaceful life for a certain time thank you, it was vitaly kulyk uh, this is the director of the center for researching civil society problems and we will meet next week, in the middle of may ukrainian troops launched offensive actions to the north and south of bakhmut with the aim of recapturing strategic heights and aligning the front line successfully, at the same time the russian army is advancing in the same place, but at the expense of which it was possible

to break through the russian defenses. we talked with the direct participants in the assaults and also visited the artillerymen without with the support of which there is no attack on the enemy's positions, this is the reality of donbas, congratulations, you opened the device, run away . the fighters who took part in the assaults or the last role played a certain effect of surprise from the constitution when we flew the m113 castle . at first we thought that there would be quite a lot of enemy there, but before we got there , the tanks worked out enemy positions. there is a video of them on the field without anything weapons without armor simply fled in the direction

of their own well, of course, they did not know about this, we worked with grenades , cleaned up, entered enemy positions, i was a machine gunner a little more on the periphery, on cover, always remained, the guys worked when we advanced closer to the evening when the guys examined the bodies of the enemy and found documents on them . they found out that this was a soldier of the regular army of the 72nd brigade of the 82nd brigade. where are you from? ulyanovsk brigade, which 72nd brigade ?

they cleared the points, held the defense, and the second group went to their back, petre, the group went to spin, it turned out that we were stuck there alone in the windstorm . did not expect attack and the guys started throwing grenades at them, and then they took the first prisoners, they went into the dugout, he was sitting behind his brother, he was coming out this way or there, i don't know what to call him, and he was sitting behind his dead brother, they got him and he was whole, although they threw him

there are a few grenades, then a thermal bar and he survived, let him carefully throw the machine throw the machine throw the machine resets well, you get out or not if you get out, you will be alive, then he got to us and when we chatted together, we learned about the number of the enemy in general at these positions and they learned such general information, but the enemy fiercely resisted the stormtroopers for jesus, every meter of ukrainian land was won back with difficulty, says ilya, whose group during the recent assault was the first ani , by the way, they are good, they dig in well , they dig in all according to the books, such holes the dugouts do even when a grenade is thrown into the dugout, sometimes it just concusses them during an extreme assault, they threw a thermobar at one of them and even injured him, only concussed him, he got out unharmed

we took him prisoner he got out unharmed we they took him into the cell, they resisted there for a very long time, they could not push them, a-a a few e group there, the call sign is shkula, i will say their group tried to push the enemy several times. then until they pushed the enemy and the landings are quite difficult in the landings it is quite difficult it is difficult to pass through the thick green thickets plus the visibility is quite bad 15-20 meters of the enemy it is quite difficult to spot them in this way plus they have high-quality camouflage therefore, it is difficult to see what kind of camouflage the clothes are wearing, it is difficult to spot, one of the reasons for successful assault operations is that there is no detailed planning of the operation of small things here, although

of course you cannot predict everything, the fighters say , oh , how are you? we are getting entrenched. well, when we arrived, the territorial defense unit is usually used in assault actions moderately, and actively in holding the position. we are faced with the fact that the enemy is trying to storm us later. actions from the enemy. yes, we have to keep the command of all levels of the senior commander informed. we make reports. usually our report is reduced to

the fact that we have 24/7 artillery fire. during the breaks of the traffic light and in the light and in the dark they are trying to carry out assault actions in personnel the ukrainian army began a series of offensive actions on the southwestern and northwestern outskirts of bakhmut on may 9 according to the ukrainian project dibstate until may 19 for jesus was released about 11 m² of territory, the main advance in the area of ​​the berlin reservoir there, the ukrainian army took the high ground and near the village of klishchivka, in both cases it helped to make the passage along the two main roads to bakhmut safer and to level the front line a bit, attempts to advance are ongoing , counteroffensive actions are being conducted by those units that directly eh take part in hostilities in this direction. we are not building up groups there. that is, we are acting with the same

set of cities that were defended somewhere by probing the front edge of the enemy finding out what the enemy is capable of, how quickly he can shift and in what quantity and how many reserves to one or another direction of the front . formations that surround bakhmut in order for them to be able to make those appearances they were created in order to surround bakhmut instead, we understand that the enemy is trying to act in the same way or to fulfill our next task

a-a projectiles flew by, joyfully broke off maybe i stopped to get out of the car i realized that i didn’t have a job i arrived with burns i waved my hand the guys stopped with a spill they helped me they drove me the way they brought me and the shopping ambulances continuously run between the positions and the stabilization point the wounded go in a stream doctors work around the clock they sleep and live right there this is the reverse side of artillery assaults, gradations of the sso, and in most cases it is explosive mine-explosive damage to the wounded. this is the first point where we can provide professional medical care that is, we will help him to stabilize the patient, because he is brought in with severe blood loss with homologous shock, often here he stabilizes, here an examination is carried out. as you can see, we have ultrasound, x-ray, first surgical

aid is provided, and in order for him to be stable, he is often tied up to answer the next stage of evacuation already at the hospital , we went from above to the position on the bahmat, we went to the fourth floor and in a second i was the first one left, then i was evacuated and dragged away e dostavelanak there they stopped the blood was taken here cape and something from half an hour passed two more resisted more now it has increased acts outside at zero that's why we have work we don't have the number of wounded anymore that's why our workload is a bit bigger we work and cope with it the lighter is correct enough er-e enough now this wounded artillery ordering is mostly, well, the regime is a bit tense , the fact that we are also close to the front line and there are constant flights

, this also affects the work, it will not affect the work, but still we work and cope with the injuries. shrapnel flew into the back. we were engaged in, let's say, defensive structures, we went to new positions, there we dug dugouts for ourselves, and two meters from us , but thank god that a mine flew higher along the trajectory in height . are there active assaults or something yet, but it’s the same artillery now in combat , mostly artillery, of course, during the assault, there will be bigger ones, someone will get concussions somewhere, someone is holding it, uh, someone is more seriously injured, someone

is lightly injured, there are directly some moments but for the most part. in my opinion, we are still holding up normally at the same time as the ukrainian offensive on the flanks near bakhmut. the russian occupying forces continue to capture the city itself on may 19. several fortified areas on the western outskirts , including high-rise buildings, are under the control of the ukrainian military. this is a few percent of the city's area for for the enemy, this point remains strategically exclusive, already in the psychological and political part, and he still has the resource to be at some time in the position of the attacking side, and bakhmut allows us to concentrate forces and means. in other directions, until the complete replacement of roles on the eastern bridgehead, that is, from the attacking position

of the russian federation, our maneuver defense did not take place, which means that bakhmut really fulfilled its strategic task and the enemy exhausts its strategic offensive potential so that it is clear in the bahnut area that we are conducting a defensive operation with the tasks of a defensive operation and the success of the defensive operation is uh the defeat of the advancing units of the enemy once they were forced to abandon further offensive actions 2 the compulsion to take up positions before moving to the defense in unfavorable positions for him positions three e-e and carrying out certain counter-concessional actions e urban enemy on a larger section of the bakhmut front actually lost their combat capability and this is precisely what is connected with the fact that we are now advancing in this direction, how far i can't say because the enemy is reacting , he is throwing additional reserves and at least

through the reserves the reserves can stabilize with the left flank. the beginning of the bakhmut defense operation is counted from the moment of the loss of the shepherd in early may 2022, but directly before the residential development of bakhmut, judging by the map of the dibstate project, the occupying forces entered only in december, and three months later, after three months of fighting , they retreated from the eastern bank of the bakhmut river , which divides the city at this moment, russian units simultaneously advanced from the north , south and east, pushing jesus under the control of which remained a few fortified areas in the west of the city, taking into account the situation the question arises as to where the military forces of the russian federation can direct their forces, the technical task of the enemy is to advance to kostiantynivka, advance to the slavic kramatorsk druzkivka , that is, it will be possible to reach this line to what extent this will help him . it is difficult to say how much they will be able to continue offensive actions. dear army, you stopped a long time ago and

have this already goes beyond the scope of any military analysis and military expediency , why and why plastic in such a large number of troops in this direction, but you already know based on our practical experience, it can be assumed that the enemy will not cross the river, but somewhere else, because the task i set back in april last year was to reach the borders of the donetsk luhansk regions . even without this, he will try to advance further. and if we let him do it, the artillerymen of 110 will receive mechanized brigades to restrain the russian troops in the avdiiv direction, because it is here behind the intensity can be compared with that of bakhmut, the army of the aggressor country is trying to seize the city of avdiyivka in order to prevent it. for them, this is somehow a throat, right , we are right near donetsk, there are a couple of kilometers near donetsk, it seems to me more like some kind of political decision

, which somehow is so stupid, how is it, in principle, from a military point of view if you look at the city from a strategic point of view, there is nothing special for them, if you know 1-2 orcs there, as they say, they ran there, no one will shoot at them , well, that is stupid, and if there they are trying to storm our positions there, what are they in principle they make them every day, there is a volume for the number of them. two wires can safely advance, even this happens . artillerymen have a lot of work already 10 minutes after our arrival , we leave for the firing line now. we become goals. we must work

, and the answer can come to us from another place, then of course we move to another place, do it and work further along this path, we get into such moments that when i was doing, i shot at that moment the moment the flight immediately arrived, we would have already been shot at positions. after which we have to get and practice, because we need to build fire in our infantry, soldiers for jesus are leading from czechoslovak self-propelled artillery installation dana, the fighters praise it, they say, despite its age, it has advantages over trojan counterparts with the caliber of the gun is 152 mm, the commander, where is the command of the day, i hear it first of all, somehow, the mine tower, as it came to the end, then this vision is in the combat position, which can be freely turned to the left to the right at 90°.

then she will bring the gun to the battle, then i take it, turn on the automation chain, then for the charges and projectiles, well , the charging projectile, i could fit myself with which projectile, which cigarettes are needed for that, then this is the button that answers here, there is a single shot, there is a turn shot, i told the automatic machine , there is such an option then in the future, this is the panorama of my optics and they give me the coordinates, i look here and the full combat layout is displayed , there are 54 shells . it can fire different types of ammunition in turn. it happens automatically, they give the command to fire, i press the charging button, i press on this button , that is, the projectile charge, and then the paws automatically work on the hydraulics, syngent, the charge stone comes in and the car is charged, then the charger gives me a report, the inspection went in, the projectile came in , damn it, one of the ninth year and

there will be a fire charge, but i have a further one, now it is fixed and standing, and in order to shoot , i faked it like this. if the paw does not work to shoot, then there is manual shooting. well , for sure, the paw did not work, then if luke poorly closed or lead to him opened a little then manually pressed the silver to the vector and manually fired a shot 1-2 shots of the elderly further on the damage we all depend on the number of targets well there each style is idle if it is a group of infantry then several shells if you are allowed in the technique one projectile is enough for them to hit tanks, guns, what else is the enemy's rampage there, armored personnel carriers, some kind of armored vehicles? well, infantry, soviet systems, they, as they are, their essence was not to hit with accuracy, but

to hit is to hit the number, if we will go back to the documentation of the soviet union, they all use 100 to 200 projectiles to destroy targets there , we cannot afford such a thing well, she is much more faithful than a goose to me well, just like a passenger car, you can say that on the road the same is true of this well and what should be taken into account is that it is a heavy diesel, if you accelerate it well, then they go 95 km, the maintenance is good, there is nothing so complicated about the goose, it is much more difficult, it can also drive on a solarium on gasoline. well, it is necessary to have 60% gasoline and 40 diesel, as well as mainly mercedes , it passes obstacles . it's good because even we in the career were already driving in from where. well, it will be good, it

passes obstacles, sermons, fire was fired , the firing range is up to 20 km, the base of the chassis is a four-wheel drive four-axle car increased cross-country ability of the tatra, thanks to this , the self-propelled vehicle fits into the turns on a narrow road , the control, in fact, as in a heavy-duty truck, everything started mass later. just like a passenger car, the ignition key is here it is not ignition and we start everything with the starter, it is air, oil temperature in e-e engine here without antifreeze. water cooling is one of the big pluses of this one is speed. it can leave the dangerous zone much

faster than the usual crawler power. satisfied with another assault in the russian military, knocked down, destroyed with two sniper mortars, a group of infantry and mortar personnel, this is from 10 points for how much time worked for ten from two devices this is very good, without exception, all points of the front are important, the main conclusion from the current situation in the strategic context, which should not be understood , is the so-called strategic fire balance. by the way, we have already presented it last year from may to september if the brilliant offensive kharkiv operation did not take place, then we are slowly going over the strategic initiative , but do not confuse a strategic break with a break, the string

that has the initiative on the battlefield is still quite far away from it where and when are the battles intensified after receiving the british cruise missiles storm shadow, it became possible to strike even deeper than the forces of the russian troops, where they could not reach before jesus, this was already the case after receiving the himers installations last summer, but the scale of the impact of new weapons on the war may be less than that the power of the universe as a whole and we simply cannot, as they say, mindlessly spray through the resources, that is, these are the resources of the so-called point action, if we are talking about crimea, about our crimea, then you yourself understand that inflicting such blows on stationary objects will lead to complications in the system of supply and support of operatives, but what i mean by the expression complication does not mean that it will lead to immediate tactical changes on the map. this will already be a prerequisite for carrying out certain operations and it will take time, so for

the average citizen, at first glance , nothing much will change , well , they struck and that's it. nothing has changed. but you know, it’s a little bit of a philosophical concept. when quantity turns into quality, but we don’t immediately fly in. we fly in. the more experienced a fighter is, the more fear he has because he has more experience. who goes for the first time, he does not realize this and usually shows himself well even there. and for these meters , our fighters die every a-a, it is someone's son , someone's husband, father and so on, it is very

difficult for us if we miss it the enemy by an extra meter, then everywhere we pass, he will turn our territory into bakhmut, we all saw what happened now and what is happening, in what condition is the city in which 70,000 of our citizens lived, bakhmut defense work continues for about a year, during this time the russian army lost here, a huge amount of equipment and manpower, the exhaustion of the enemy on this part of the front allowed the armed forces to carry out successful assault operations, and they continue even in the case of the complete occupation of bakhmut, more precisely

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