[000:00:00;00] and great britain, they are together in solidarity and we see that thanks to this the world is a safer, better and more prosperous place, and that is why i think that such a partnership between us is necessary . let's come to the first question. thank you, mr. president . thank you. we understand that it depends on the funding that comes from the us congress . now we are expecting a counteroffensive when you expect a request for new funding and what do you think how much of this funding will be needed to be provided in the country and how do you

do you think whether speaker makar or according to mccarthy will agree to such funding, i can say that yes only yes and the question to the prime minister this week you talked about the importance of finding long-term security guarantees as well as agreements for the protection and defense of ukraine for the coming years , do you think that have you already found a certain common denominator with president biden on this issue, what is your model for a long-term agreement on security for ukraine, and will it be possible to settle that before the vilnius summit, i want to start with that that we understand that when we talk about ukraine and also about their military operations - this is the word for the leadership of ukraine, we did

everything we could, in particular, and we and our partners in order for ukraine to be ready, we gave ukraine what it asked for in order for it to continue give the same age to the aggressor bka when we talk about ukrainians and also during the conversation with president zelensky and our allies so we are committed to providing ukraine with long-term security after this war is over we now understand that the ukrainian counteroffensive is very depends on the help we provide to ukraine and we want to strengthen the ukrainian army for the long term. i hope that if there are necessary funds, we will find these funds and we will look for as much as necessary. also, i am convinced that indeed this level of this support will be

unwavering and i have already heard certain voices today about and concerns about whether we need to help ukraine in the future, and i very quickly asked a question about what kind of country in the world will be if we stop providing aid to ukraine and my question was whether russia will be satisfied with kyiv and i think that the vast majority of my colleagues imagined this picture and understood that no , putin will not stop there, and therefore i think that this is the answer to your questions. and i also want to focus on the first part of your question and in fact it is clear to the american people what i will say in order to express gratitude for the help from the americans, in particular with regard to the events taking place in ukraine, indeed great britain

has a great honor to be behind the usa because actually the lion's share of assistance in the protection of democracy and the protection of ukraine belongs to the usa , but we are together and now we also want to carry this burden . we don't stop at the minimum also we look at security if something indivisible the atlantic divides us but our partnership is getting stronger only we are strengthening in particular our presence er and also now we share this burden together as well we work together in all possible areas i agree with

in the words of president biden, it is about restraint, so putin is waiting for the fact that he will just wait, we will get tired and we will give up, but this is not the case. he will not be able to wait. that we are not automatic and that is why he wants to speed up some calculations in his head, he understands that now he really needs to withdraw his troops and stop the aggression. i also want to point out that it is not only about the reaction from the side of europe and the usa, where it is also about the reaction from japan, we see that a large part of their budget was sent to the country, their support was unwavering to ukraine , as well as other aspects, japan is also

in solidarity with ukraine, it condemns the unprovoked aggression on the part of russia and understands what is the danger of aggression in the 21st century regarding the next question now please have the floor thank you thank you mr. president continued as we speak now laws are actively being promoted that oppress representatives of the lgbt community as well as transgender people who are facing problems in providing appropriate and proper medical treatment and some of them are even

considering the possibility of leaving the country and what can you say to such people what can you say to the parents of such people who want to leave the country because they do not feel adequate security and mr. minister e you talked about artificial intelligence, what do you think , we are on the threshold of the presidential elections , they will soon take place, and how would you say there may or may be some potential danger, threat, what exactly caused by artificial intelligence maybe there will be some discussions or some obstacles generated before the time of the democratic elections what are your thoughts on this so in answer to your first question i want to say that

first of all i think that how do we end this press conference give me the numbers of those people those parents who want to leave the country, i will talk to them and discuss this issue. i actually, when we speak, after becoming the president, i signed all relevant legal acts that protect the lgbt community, as well as human rights and rights regarding of same-sex marriages, that is, i want to say that there are always people who will have certain prejudices, they are all over the world, it is not only about our country, again, it is, er, it is some kind of appeals that are connected with fear, which is absolutely unjustified people

we actually understand that people in our country and they um no one forbids anyone there is no violence against people lgbt people q and communities they have the opportunity to get married they have the opportunity to serve in the armed forces and keep what our military knows how to do and very soon we were on the left bank ah, thank you very much for your comment oleksandr tolokonnikov, the spokesman of the kherson regional military administration, we talked about what is happening in the kherson region, and in particular, on its occupied territory, in most directions of the front, ukraine holds the initiative , this is stated in the current british intelligence report, russian troops are probably still receiving the order to return to the offensive as soon as possible, chechen units led an unsuccessful attempt to take the town of maryinka near donetsk, where the front line had moved little

since 2015, this is also discussed in particular in the review intelligence well, the destruction of the dam of the kakhova hpp significantly changes the geography and topography of the kherson section of the front in the south of ukraine. this is stated in the review of the american institute for the study of war. numerous reports in russian and russian military and military publications about the beginning of a large-scale ukrainian direction in zaporizhzhia, i.e. tauriysk direction. well, in addition, the washington post, referring to four military forces of ukraine, reports that the ukrainian military has launched a long-awaited counteroffensive at the front. according to them, on the evening before the armed forces of ukraine intensified strikes on the forward positions of the russian army in the southeast of ukraine. well, the ukrainian side officially at least so far he does not comment on this information

, as well as the timing of his offensive operation , the situation at the front, how it may change as a result of the destruction of the hydroelectric power plant and as a result of the flood we will discuss further, andriy kramarov joins our broadcast as a military expert, an officer of the reserve of the armed forces of ukraine. good evening. greetings. here i have just cited a quote from the current review of the american institute for the study of war, which states that the destruction of the dam of the hpp significantly changes the geography of the kherson section of the front, tell me how does it change how significantly and and what does it mean it is not even significantly changed absolutely completely and also i would like to add regarding the information of the institute for the study of war that the russians probably tried during the detonation of the dam itself so that the wave of water that further moved this water mass destroyed only

their first line of defense, in fact it broke their second and even partly the third line of defense there, there was no third line. this coastal fortification is actually there. well, yes, from the point of view of military science, in principle there is a main coastal raft. then there is a certain reserve to which it is necessary to retreat . the placement of operational reserves there is different . the construction of the line of defense is different from the land line. well, in principle, all their defense lines were completely destroyed, the geography has changed in the context that now, first of all, all those islands or floodplains on the dnieper that were in the kherson region between the left and right banks now actually constitute, well, even in some places , i would not say that even shallow water. that is, it is now all just a wide channel

, the mouth of the dnipro river , eh, plus also additional positions further south where the kinburn spit exits. the mainland part, accordingly, the speed of the water slowed down significantly when the water was under the control of the dam, which was located in the lower part of the river, it was usually very, very fast, we could see, in particular, during the destruction of the antonov bridge, that all the debris that flew away from it did not immediately manage further down the river, and additionally it is also worth noting that now those parts of the kherson region that were flooded to a large extent have accordingly changed completely if both the landscape and the state soils, that is, accordingly, now when moving to the left bank, it is necessary to take into account, well, this is in the part that specifically concerns

kherson, completely different ways, for example, to choose places for a conditional bridgehead, if it is the forcing of the river, the landing is like that, then it is necessary now, well, absolutely, if you were to plan your bridgehead in other places however, there are places to the north in which the river has now become shallower. and there is a question about the landscape of the area , that is, to mm, let’s say the steepness of e-e days according to the geography of the tidal bank, which can also be perform well, again, i was preparing attention, in my opinion, you need to carefully look at the horse code of the place where the kinburn spit was, because it was such an outlet to the sea of ​​soil , which is now actually flooded, is an island , and the place where the water reaches the mainland is already

became much closer to the two settlements, that is, conditionally, if it is used as a certain bridgehead where the landings will be quite short, it can also be a quick shoulder to transfer our visas to cut off a theoretically possible departure of the enemy to the crimea that is, we can block one of the two main routes to the crimean peninsula in this way. theoretically, a small clarification immediately, but today there was shelling of kherson, there is a separate area of ​​korabelny, but if now the russian troops have retreated there, according to various data, by 15-20 km before the next ones there of their fortifications. does this mean that kherson will be shelled much less now, of course, because the list of artillery that they can use has significantly decreased, that is, now they have, well

, conditionally, it can be 152 mm and long-range barrel artillery as well as rszv systems. well, you can’t use salvo fire at such a distance as they have moved. and it can be either death or a hurricane, and in this section, well, in this section of the front, in principle, they have such means. well, not so much, either there was also a lot of talk about the fact that all these fields were previously mined by the russian military and that all these mines are now floating somewhere in the water and it is not known where the wave will finally hit them . please tell me. and how will this affect the russians military if they are there fight back against the ukrainians who will attack, and i also had to hear how realistic it is. i heard such a version that if mina spent so much time in the water, it means that she does not pose a danger. maybe explain to people who are not connected to the military how it actually is, first of all, very many of those cities where it was tinted were flooded for the second time. well, let's say water or

moisture, for example, on an anti-tank mine. and she said, well, moisture does not affect it much , because they are usually buried there and buried underground, there they can be in a certain moist soil. to use, however, they were simply actually washed away, they most likely already dissolved, or detonated, or simply their detonator lost its combat capabilities, in accordance with the fear that they would detonate . as a rule, to the left bank, let him there, retreating to these katsaps, they continued to detonate for them, uh , look at their line , here

is the coast, it first passes, then it is lined up. mined fields of the first line of defense, the second line of defense, well, how to say it, it partially remained somewhere to the north, and in the south, it is also not there. it was destroyed , accordingly, for the russians, now the question is about what actually needs to be built, well , if so, and according to this logic, build a new line of defense i would also like to add that regarding the personnel, as a rule, they left mobilized mobilized, including the ranks of the russian army from their colonies, prisons, and correctional facilities, plus mobilized units more combat-capable of the regular army with equipment, they did not all try to withdraw a couple of days before this explosion, which also tells us that they left their positions and

tried. they left former convicts there, well, those who, in principle, are pitiful, and there is even information there, which means that they recorded a video with the interrogation of one of these mobilized former prisoners. well, counteroffensive, eh , today we see what western publications are writing that a counteroffensive has begun in the italian direction, someone says that these are some limited local attacks, do you see any signs that this large-scale offensive has begun? the largest military operation in europe since the second world war, which consists of a huge number of steps and actions that will

be taken by the armed forces of ukraine and now we can see that there are some successes preparation for them, they are usually carried out with certain uh well, yes, a check , which is called reconnaissance, combat and um, our fighters in the zaporizhzhya tauriy direction have been conducting it for several months, they were local, now i understand. they are simply uh, more systematic in nature, it is connected the artillery moves forward, a certain mechanized unit is there, a platoon or a company, even with armored vehicles, and accordingly makes an impression by fire on the positions on the defensive positions of the enemy, and then, well, as a rule , retreats, i understand that the information is in the fact that since the level of equipment equipment is low, there are problems with the ammunition of the enemy. on this in the tauri area of ​​the front, and as a combination of these factors

plus their reserves, which should be an operational reserve that should be located behind the backs in the case of the fish of the front line or some other well the problem in some area is to quickly advance there in order to help the unit that got into a more difficult situation, is holding a certain certain section of the front, so their reserves were used three months ago during attacks on avdiyivku and vugledar eh avdiyivku vugledar and bakhmut, that's where their reserves were used there in the number of 30-40,000 men and therefore there are no reserves, there is not enough artillery for such a width of the front, there is little eh plus i understand that the armed forces were accumulating very badly ukraine concerns ammunition for western artillery systems of the rsv of the himers type, and a massive strike of a certain type was delivered

. from soft. that is, where we just wanted to do some reconnaissance, we saw that the enemy was immediately gathering and, uh, starting to retreat, we should not expect that there will be any immediate offensive because, well, this is absolutely from the military point of view of our command, it is excellent i don’t understand, hmm, well, not effectively. i’m sure that it is possible that there will be some local ones, rather, i even called it not operational, but tactical -level successes there . maybe there will be some front-line villages, in which they were, in fact, the entire zone, it is possible to come under the control of the armed forces, although there is now a message about a village that has already left, allegedly, but so far from our soldiers or from our command. we also have no confirmation of the information. therefore, you need to be very careful about this as well . remember that the russians

have launched a fairly massive valuable - a psychological special operation regarding the fact that the armed forces of ukraine have allegedly launched an active offensive and are not advancing anywhere, at the same time they are losing an extremely large amount of western weapons and e-e personnel prepared allegedly by our counteroffensive precisely in began to fail. that is why we need to be careful not to help our enemy with his informational throws and to understand that well , i believe in our command and our supreme commander in his words that really when this very complex , multi-stage, multi-step operation reaches its culmination, it will quite quick effects - the maneuvers of our e-e armed forces of mechanized units are effective and effective even from a military point of view, and we will see a fairly quick

advance to a certain section of the front there, so far this everything is in the stage of preparation, i understand that this and the preparation are already close to the final stage of this preparation. thank you very much for your comment. andriy kramarov, military expert, reserve officer of the armed forces of ukraine , was on radio svoboda, thank you . dnipropetrovsk oblast experienced a massive plague of fish, approximately 28,000 fish died, the local government reports, the damage is estimated at over seven and six million hryvnias, now we will show you what it looks like we show the village of marianske, where a mass plague of fish actually occurred, in some places the water receded to a distance of up to 300 m, our correspondent reports that the shore has already been cleaned and the dead fish were disposed of through the sea of ​​fish in the dnipropetrovsk region of the prosecutor's office, yes, the prosecutor's office also started an investigation into

ecocide yanske dnipropetrovsk oblast these are my friends, the scale was effectively and quickly localized, it was bestlé at the end of the day. yesterday, everything was completely liquidated and cleared . the police and representatives of the environmental inspection were also present. the fish that was collected there was about 860 kg of fish that posed a threat, this danger was all eliminated according to the protocol in the health station, there are a lot of beret, and the fish are disappearing , and there is nothing for them to eat here, they will still have a market that i do not know at all. we will dig a well and i will drive out the water here, it will be if the sea is 20 m of water, so let’s dig into it, it

’s not the people, or did they call us brothers, what kind of straw will there be without a centralized water supply, but we have already developed plans to bring water for people and we have already passed this way when they fell in the winter, after the winter the water level fell, our banks reached about 300 m , we already knew how, there is already land. well, we will irrigate everything , the pools will disappear, the collected water will be enough for a month or two months, maybe even further, i don’t know what will happen to the wells in

the village we will take wells from wells, there are people who will come up with where we cannot go if the water disappears, of course it will be extremely difficult to survive and grow crops in the village because you understand the climatic conditions of our region. they are not the same as even in other regions. the amount of precipitation or it is unlikely that we will be able to grow the crop that is needed in normal quality and in normal quantity that is, it will make life very difficult for people in the village for sex in every pool there is some capacity in the pool filled for life will not be filled next we will drink from a well city 15 acres 25 i don't know about the house behind it. we will hope for god

. well, i don't know. we will use the available reserves for now. well, it won't help us. western analysts agree that the destruction of the dam was profitable for russia, but for now in the capitals refrain from final conclusions and declare the need to conduct an investigation, a pre-trial investigation into the facts of ecocide has already begun in the office of the prosecutor general of ukraine, at the same time, historians remind that the destruction of hydroelectric structures on the territory of modern ukraine is not the first time, and the construction of the kakhov hpp in the 1950s by the soviet authorities can also consider ecocide, my colleague daria kudimova spoke with historian and military officer oleksandr alfiorov

, you can read the full version of this interview watch on the youtube channel of radio freedom and right now an excerpt of this conversation . the united states and great britain are currently talking about the fact that it is too early to draw final conclusions. the investigation is ongoing and later it will be clear what really happened. it depends on what and from whom what will be studied . in history, what will be written in history textbooks about the tragedy of the kakhova hpp in 2023, history will be written by the winners and only when we win, then the world will know. that is, if we win tomorrow, the truth will be known tomorrow, because independent experts will be able to see the destruction and not be influenced by such phenomena as pictures from satellites, and see the internal destruction of the structure, which will have traces of engineering mining, and all this will

really be visible from the gaps along the flight hmm links ago first of all, history is written by the winners. we will win. we will conduct all the experiments with international observers, but the only thing that is truly terrifying is the reaction of the west in this situation. i understand that there is roman law and there is the presence of innocence, so everything must be proven. the geneva convention speaks of the destruction of dams as a weapon of mass destruction, that is, that a nuclear weapon that blows up a dam is characterized as a huge catastrophic event that affects the civilian population, and it is clear that the world is now standing on that limits that it is time to emphasize to the russian federation that they have caused weapons of mass destruction, it is very dangerous for them for their architecture that they built, the united nations,