[000:00:00;00] the black sea yes, in the dnipro-bug estuary, that is exactly why there is spreading, uh, and that is why there is no such a powerful wave of the datsi, well , the tsunami, which was expected to be washed away, no , that is, the water is spreading for a fee, but the water level, as we can see, is equalizing and the entire volume of the kakhovsky reservoir. it has to go down just in time and it will spread and flood the settlements that are usually there at the level of 1.2, it will rise three . maybe there are four, but no more than 6 , because six - this is already the level of the black sea, as they say, where water falls, therefore there will be water spread out and last for a long time because, again

, the drop is small, it will go down for quite a long time and for quite a long time. it is necessary to understand that now we are entering the summer period , the water will still flow right into the sea, and later the dnipro river will find a small channel from the zaporizhzhia dam, and it will be this small frost that the river will find the dnipro will also remain floating lakes, as it was before the construction of the kakhovsky hpp dam, that is, you have to understand that the consequences are simply catastrophic, you know when oleksandr dovzhenko wrote the script and then shot the film a poem about the sea and the kakhovsky hpp began. well, he actually wrote about the kakhovsky hpp and they started building in 1947 or 1948 and

completed it somewhere in the 50s. in the 50s, he shot his film a poem about the sea, so i think that if dovzhenko were a modern day, he would surely have made a film a poem about grief, writing about it and shooting what is now the enemies did with the kakhov hpp, which was built by ukrainians in the 20th century after the second world war, after the second world war, and so. how then there were certain terrible consequences for the surrounding environment, for nature, for the villages there , when they built it, when they built it, the sea is the same now, the tragedy is much greater, even when it the sea and you, but i would like to call again because many people write even to me because my father is from the kherson region, so who is not there now, but my native friends are writing and what will happen there, let's say with the kyzburg spit, will it flood, and those villages who are going to it there gola prystan, a fishing pier, heroic, that's where it's all for your assessment. in your opinion, it will also be all under water, or will it partially be flooded, of course , there is a fishing pier and gola prystan, eh, all these

settlements will be now already beginning to be flooded just like gola prystan, that is, the water will come and submerge the kinburg beauty of the bay, maybe not all of it. maybe somewhere , er, it will no longer be a spit, but the island will wash somewhere, er, that is , there will really be flooding, you have to understand that the consequence of all this is that the water level in the kakhovo reservoir it will fall, well, the rest remains without water in the crimea, because they obtained it all there and promoted it there and, as they say , spread it on their propaganda channels . so now the north crimean canal remains without water, because the water in the north crimean canal just flowed thanks to that that there was a dam of the kakhovka hpp and the water level was maintained and the water went there by self-floating, only the kherson region remains without irrigation for many years , accordingly, the cultivation of agricultural

crops is under great threat because as we saw that according to ukrenergo's estimates, it will take at least 5 years if it works 24/7 and a billion dollars is the minimum estimate, but then you still need to understand that it will take several years for the kakhov reservoir to be filled with water, because even after the construction of the cascade of dnieper reservoirs , water was filled for several years in these reservoirs, as they say, in the kakhovo reservoir , the dnipro reservoir, and the kyiv reservoir. therefore, this is a problem for years, a problem for the kherson region, a problem for the economy of the kherson region, and it was caused by the rascals that we we see absolutely no matter what is happening absolutely no matter what to blow up absolutely very much mr. serhiy thank you for joining somehow for comments serhiy khlan is a deputy of the kherson

regional council and indeed one explosion changed the fate changed the ecology changed the entire fate of the region of ukraine one explosion of sick irresponsible terrorists who today do what they are about they don't even think about what they are doing. they have to answer in any case, this will in no way change the situation that is now ecological , first of all. well, let's talk further with serhiy zgurets, the director of the defense express agency, is the host of the military summaries of the day column serhiy i congratulate you vasyl i congratulate our viewers to move from this terrible tragedy that happened at the kakhov hpp from this man-made disaster accident to the military topic. of the kakhovka hydroelectric power station to the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine , please, well, life will tell, but according to the conclusions of the strategic communications department

of the ministry of defense, all measures will not affect ukraine is working to liberate our territory occupied by the enemy as quickly as possible, we will talk about this with our guests in our military program, as well as about the details of the enemy's blowing up of the kakhovsky hpp dam and about the historical parallels in 1941 when the soviet army blew up the dnieper dam actually in a moment so today, june 6, on the night of these days, russian troops blew up the dam of the kakhovka hpp . in fact, this is another violation of the geneva convention on the conduct of hostilities and is currently one of the biggest war crimes of the russian our intelligence spoke to the federation about the risks that the peanutists could take such a step. last fall, however, there were hopes that the enemy would not decide to do so. well, if only because the water from the kakhovsky storage comes through the southern crimean canal to the occupied crimea, but the enemy is again resorted

to auto terror and it was planned i will explain why we will remember because a month ago the occupiers took their troops and equipment to the left bank deep into the territory and even left the prepared lines of defense and their trenches, that is, in fact, they were preparing for this and now these trenches will also be flooded in april and may, the water level of the reservoir behind the kakhov dam was at a historical maximum before it was destroyed, that is, in fact, russia, which controlled the locks on the east bank of the hpp , deliberately raised the water to maximize the destruction, and that is, it was planned act well, the actual detonation was carried out by the russian military using previously planted explosives because it was they who controlled all the structures of the hpp, although, of course, the order to detonate was formulated on

at the highest urban political level of the aggressor country but what is the logic of the actions and consequences, as far as i am concerned, there is actually such a russian nesting doll inside which there are several components at once. can harm ukraine as a result of this tactic of burnt or flooded land. also here is a traditional enemy, because this large-scale man-made disaster is closely related to the threat to the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant due to the same reasons that led to the disaster nuclear power plant in fukushima thus, in a hybrid way, russia creates a threat of a new nuclear disaster well, finally , is there a military sense in the actions of the russian side? - forcing the dnieper

or using the novaya kakhovka dam , i remind you of the left bank of the kherson region. and this about 230 km in length is held by the russian dnipro group, there are a number of mechanized brigades, there are art units and special forces operations and now it can be assumed that the enemy hopes that the spilling of the dnieper will protect them from the threat of a ukrainian attack and they can even try to transfer part of their forces to the zaporozhye area . of the armed forces of ukraine announced today that the russians' detonation of the kakhova hydroelectric power station will not prevent the defense forces from continuing to liberate the occupied

territories, by the way, we see the scheme just right grouping of the dnipro, where are these russian brigades located, what kind of enemy are you likely to try, do you hope that the spilling of the dnipro will ensure that they are transferred to the zaporizhia front and so today , i repeat, the strategic communications department said that ukraine is equipped with all the necessary military equipment and pontoon bridge crossings for forcing water obstacles - this is so that the enemy is afraid and will not transfer his troops further, and the insidious actions of the enemy will not stop the defense forces of ukraine , which are ready to liberate the occupied territories therefore, we understand that this extremely complex man-made disaster will not really affect the ability of the ukrainian army to continue to prepare and carry out large-scale offensive actions on all areas of the front. and what is happening in certain directions now , we will talk with our guest . kostiantyn denisov, a legionnaire, joins us

freedom, mr. kostyantyn, i congratulate you sincerely , glad to see and hear. glory to ukraine. i congratulate you with a laser of glory. i congratulate the viewers of the espresso channel. the enemy to such extraordinary extraordinary actions well, what pushed the enemy to attack last year a country that has been waging a defensive war for seven years and which was provided with weapons by the countries of the world well, no, there is no need to look for some logic in the heads of the russians. i think that they, this is my personal opinion, were frightened by the ukrainian counterattack and decided to resort to an open ecological man-made crime in order to stop the ukrainian counteroffensive, but as we can see, they harmed themselves, the most terrible thing is that they harmed

ukrainian nature and ukrainian to the cities and ukrainian civilians, i emphasize once again to the civilians that the transition is now somewhere, you and your brothers in the zaporizhzhia region, in those areas where the guys from the legion of freedom are standing, the situation is tense, constant shelling is going on, the occupiers do not stop artillery shelling, they actively use aviation in a variety of ways, we have low grammar are constantly under the threat of these attacks by air-guided bombs , respectively, ammunition, even though the guys from sister units during last week they beat up a number of warehouses in the temporarily occupied territories, still the feeling is that the enemy has unlimited security because they constantly thresh from

various systems from the lightest to the most powerful if you can call them that, that's why the situation is tense. the day before yesterday, if the situation is like this at the moment , but only from the dynamics during the week in one direction or another, from the point of view of the intensity of hostilities, the features of hostilities, the use of certain weapons systems by the enemy something is different from the previous week. well, globally, they do not carry out aerial reconnaissance. they have a lot of drones , plus they have created opportunities for maintenance and improvement of drones in the occupied territory. like you, they actively use them and then cover them with artillery fire. are there any opportunities? to fight these russian drones

. do you have the technical means to blind them or suppress them or force them to refuse to carry out certain combat missions? by the way, literally right now again they raised the aviation in the sky again air alarm in zaporizhzhia region, we need an anti-drone gun with this there is a very great need, and about whether the enemy is now trying to suppress the communication systems there that are used by your brothers well, they have these units and these installations here they already want them there and have knocked out a few, but still they work competently and even our guys who are involved in aero-reconnaissance say that they jam and plant drones if uh well, here they have quite such competent people these units of theirs. do you have an understanding of what exactly these units are and part of the confrontation with you from the point of view of training

, motivation, equipment, belongings, there are units with combat experience even before the time of the invasion of ukraine into the territory of ukraine, many units are from the republics of the north caucasus, these are various the same ones from chechnya, there are a lot of them from dagestan, from the northern set, mercenaries from abkhazia from the southern set , the russian marines are standing, there are a variety of such collective solyans from different regions of russia the bashkirs are here, they brought them there, they even gave them a certain checkpoint, they even set it up there at one time in the form of their bashkir yurt, do the fighting take place at night, or are armored vehicles used day and night

? stops 24/7 and in different ways they use equipment and armored vehicles are used and they are constantly shelling with it and are there any necessary things in the definition of our units that need to be improved, additions except anti-drone guns, what expressions - you already mentioned, you know serhii i would say now the most guys, well, technically, each unit has its own needs of the legion of freedom on facebook, there is public where you can familiarize yourself with it, i will raise another question, and the guys, by the way, asked to raise it, there is a very big need in moral and psychological support, because due to the fact that there is constant artillery fire, many boys have stress contusions, and if in terms of psychological rehabilitation, psychological support

for adaptation, there is a very big problem. and in zaporizhzhia, unfortunately, only one institution can provide such complex rehabilitation, but for you to understand, this is a regional mental institution where , to put it mildly, the conditions of rehabilitation do not quite meet modern needs, and in this regard, many units have it, including our legion of freedom and those sister units that are nearby with us, we constantly hear these requests, if we were looking for, because uh, if, well, not only we understand this situation, and uh, many people understand, or in zaporizhzhia now, well, there are not enough specialists, there are very, very few of them who can to provide this psychological support to boys in the conditions of hostilities, and it has a very strong effect, especially on those boys who are on the front lines for six months, 8-9 months, and are under constant artillery shelling. is it possible

to send people for recovery on certain rotations like this is what happens in your unit, and it all depends on the commander, our guys have the opportunity to perform periodic rotations and even go home, and if it concerns the provision of rehabilitation , in particular, why is one of the directions of my work constantly we work with various medical and rehabilitation institutions in zaporizhzhia, we communicate, we meet, we find out what are the possibilities, what is the procedure for rehabilitation, we ask the leadership of these institutions to take guys from the front out of turn for rehabilitation, someone responds, uh, i will say frankly, this week we were in the same institution whose manager said that yes , yes, yes, i'm ready to take, they started , uh, you can't ask questions, how did you find out that

, to put it mildly, he doesn't need defenders, he's ready to take their type at their word, but in fact, he's us i found 150 in order not to engage in the rehabilitation of boys, although it is a very strange situation because for the rehabilitation of each person, as it turned out, the national health service in the medical institution pays money, well, this is a question for the head of this institution. we cannot , the structure was it was a private or state structure understood that we boys are not going there. we will send them. and today we were in another institution, we talked, they are ready to take boys after being wounded, after hostilities , they have a very good base. so we will work in this regard, but this is rehabilitation moral and psychological support is a very big problem if it should be raised at the state level, because

then, well, defenders are needed there, for which there will be limited suitability or disabled boys who, after the victory, will return to a full-fledged life, mr. konstantin thank you for your service for inclusion, i think that the audience heard and the authorities heard that rehabilitation is an important component in order for our soldiers to perform their functions effectively on the battlefield . kostiantyn denisov, a fighter of the legion of freedom, and then again about the topic related to the terrorist acts committed by the russian federation by blowing up the dam of the kakhovka hpp, a similar thing was also practiced by russia during the second world war, when in august 1941, the guards guarded dniproges disabled the equipment of the station and also blew up the dam. so, about the actions

of the russian army now and the actions of the soviet army then, we will talk about similarities and differences with our next guest , military historian vasyl pavlov joins us the head of the non-governmental organization, the center of military history , also the head of the expert group on internal communications, the director and information policy of the ministry of defense of ukraine, vasyliv, greets you. glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes and good evening. there are actually some parallels with the undermining of dniproges in the 41st year, mr. serhiy, our listeners well, i wouldn't start everything too much, well , it's real to simplify because in this situation we really want to put all

the aggressor's responsibility is to make him a kind of dark lord who can do anything, but the detonation of platinum and the destruction of hydraulic structures is not something strange in world history. well, at least in the 20th century, it was really done by the soviet troops on the territory of ukraine in 41- in the same year, as you mentioned, the dniproges was blown up, this was also done by the retreating nazi occupation troops, and in 1943 , the dniproges dam was also blown up, during the defense of kyiv in 1941 , the irpin river dam was also blown up by the armed forces in the fall of 2022, ukraine, forming a ring of protection for kyiv, blew up the dam on the irpin river in the fall of 2022. i will no longer talk about the squadron of donbusters that destroyed the dams on the rhine during the second world war. that is

, we should understand what is for us. seems like a crime, on the other hand, it looks like a completely reasonable element of countering the offensive, and here we also have to understand that the russians, on the one hand, committed a crime, there is no doubt about it. but from their point of view , they tried to prevent the ukrainian i will attack, although it is completely from the other side. similarly, again, i always say that when choosing a historical analogy, one must act very, very carefully so as not to fall into one's own trap, well, that is , in fact, we are talking about the scale of these actions , it is one thing to blow up a river near irpen which will actually delay the russian convoys and blow

up the kakhovka hydroelectric dam, the consequences of which will actually last for years , that is, in fact , we do not understand the comparability of the scale of actions. i say that we must understand, er, understand the state of the crime. what is it that the dam was blown up, that it caused a huge man-made disaster, that it caused a huge ecological disaster, but this is not for the russian generals, nor for the russian political elite, nor for the russian society by some criteria, they evaluate it by certain criteria of expediency on their part, it is us waging a war on our own territories , we understand that this creates problems for us, plus let's not forget that an attack today's night attack on kyiv with an extremely powerful and extremely large number of missiles most likely had as its goal not

only the intimidation of kyiv, but also a possible strike on the kyiv hydroelectric power station, and if the russians had managed to collapse the two dams at the same time and were synchronized in time, then it would have formed and the very wave of cascades of destroyed hpps, about which a lot was said in soviet military theory, as an element of nato countermeasures, as an element of preventing the events of 41st year on the territory of ukraine, that is, the destruction of the entire cascade of hpps, the creation of an insurmountable strip of the contaminated territory should be a guarantee not to advance to the left bank of the dnieper, therefore, all these elements must be considered in a complex way, that is, now we can talk about a certain new stage in the actions of the russian federation when it implements such a strategy of escalation for the sake of de-escalation, and that is, it is now raising the level of

threats and the level of challenges for the ukrainian side to cancel in the face of these threats. this is how it looks. i think that this is an action that is aside because you can observe in the public space the reaction of ukrainians in social networks. for example, today i can talk about the telegram group of my city where i live, where there was an absolutely adequate reaction to the russian shelling in this situation. i think that this is an influence on the world community in order for them to force us to do something, that is, i think that this well, let's say, as they like to say, coercion for peace, but i hope that neither ukraine, nor the ukrainian military-political leadership, nor the world community will simply act on it, because this is

dis- really terrorism and really blackmail. well then the second step of such blackmail could once again be precisely the fate of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, because this in no way contradicts the dictum that you said earlier that the enemy will use any means of influence on the ukrainian military-political leadership and the international community, then the fate of the zaporizhzhia npp is actually in the same vine . and this is already uh-uh, well, let's say it's another layer, another parallel of these sobit uh-uh of these events, let's uh-uh well, go out, well, try to think. logically, if such an act is accepted, then it is carried out how is this a proof that they don't need this territory, that they are going to leave and uh, a threat is a possible threat to zaporizhzhia npp , uh, desalination of crimea, uh, threatening

systems in the south of ukraine, uh, leaving even berdyansk itself without water, this proof of this is that they do not need this territory, or rather, in what sense it is not necessary, they cannot hold it, and accordingly they will leave it, but then they launch the classic scorched earth tactic, that is , everything possible will be destroyed here in order to push ukraine back into in development, that is, we will simply spend huge resources on the restoration of these territories instead of directing them to development and in this situation. in my opinion, this may be one of the strategies of russia that if it was not possible to seize ukraine, then make ukraine a territory either unusable or difficult suitable for life then we can talk about the fact that today is really a new stage of the russian military strategy, i.e. the refusal

to seize, but the emphasis is on the destruction of our country economically and on the destruction of dams in fact, this is clearly confirmed. i think that this is, well, rather a recognition of the impossibility of holding these territories and a transition to a possible retreat. i will not say that he will be there at the same time or at the same time, and that we will be what we saw tonight and during the day , we will see this more and more often, that is, for this we must be ready and moral, materially, the russians retreating will destroy everything. pavlov, a military historian, the head of a public organization, the center of military history. these were the main

highlights of this glass and difficult era, and more news later on vasyl zima's great broadcast. well, thank you, now at 19:00 i will talk about the most important events that happened today, during the day we will have some inclusion from the city of kryvyi rih, which is currently suffering from the consequences of the russians' detonation of the kakhovka hydroelectric power station on the night of june 6. nova kakhovka is going under water, the mayor of the city, volodymyr kovalenko, reports that the water has already reached the center of the city, flooded residential buildings, children's playgrounds, cafeterias, the zoo and the summer theater, the russians have begun jamming communications in the city, there are also interruptions with the internet, people may find themselves in an information vacuum, and in flooded settlements there is an increased threat of tinting explosive objects about it warns the ministry