[000:00:00;00] the rest are serhiy bratchuk, spokesperson of the ukrainian volunteer army, south. we are waiting for one more guest. i will not announce him because suddenly well, this is the place or the area where the situation is not easy, where enemy shelling continues , where combat operations continue. the front line passes from there. therefore, anything can happen and that's why, and besides, there was an attack from today . because someone doesn't want to, we have a wonderful understanding that today someone wants to but can't, someone doesn't have a connection, someone has urgent matters , someone got a call that you have to save people, but we don't have water there. and there the car broke down, and the person who position or almost perform certain duties she will not first say excuse me for inclusion in the ethereum of the press and i will not come and he is coming or again has no connection therefore therefore we will wait but we will not

wait looking at each other i into the camera or at me on the screen, i will tell you. so, if we talk about kramatorsk and druzhkivka, it is about this, about this shlamova. today, the enemy launched a missile attack on these cities, which are actually not far from the front line, we know that the front line now passes in the area of ​​bakhmut, and well the bakhmut kostyantynivka route is there shchedrudzkivka and kramatorsk there is still slavic but it is very close and the enemy is of course not having the ability despite the terrible battles not having the ability to stop the movement of the front which moves it does not move the front itself it is driven by the ukrainian army with losses with losses of equipment losses of personnel with wounded with various unpleasant and tragic things that accompany any offensive actions, but the armed forces of ukraine are moving the front without being able to stop this front, the enemy is trying to hit the civilian population and today in as a result of the attack on the cities of kramatorsk and kostiantynivka, i will remind

you again that this is not far from bakhmut , we can talk about three dead and three wounded. well, i just read that in mariupoli, towards which also in which direction the armed forces of ukraine are advancing, the enemies are already so scared that they are even trying to check the children now to see if the children belong to the resistance movement, the children can simply give out the positions of the russian army or the kadyrovs or whoever else is there and then they will come, they are afraid of this, this panic is spreading, spreading even to children. they are even afraid of children, and that is good. despite all this, it is good. and it is good that serhii zgurets, director of the defense express agency and columnist, is already with us military summaries of the day serhiy congratulations i congratulate you vasyl i congratulate our viewers today we are here, i asked you, other people came up and asked you and they talked to each other like that did dream khan die? well, the so-called right hand of kadyrov, he calls him brother, friend and

so on and so on. today there was information that allegedly his column was pocketed, as they say, came under fire and he is there all day or not . i don't know, can you tell me more about it, what's wrong with him , but they said yes, there was such information that there was allegedly a conflict with wagnerites there with do you remember drimakhanov there, he said nicely, let's talk, prigozhin, and instead of politely putting up his deputy, he said let's talk. well, there were such arguments against there, and they say that the people of bagneri have angered the armed forces of ukraine about his positions. and that's why the armed forces targeted this colony in the primorsk region, it's near berdyansk. and what do you think , do our forces really use such , as they say, calls from the enemy for their own benefit, please? to be honest, i rather i hope that our intelligence and obtaining data on the movement of the enemy relies on its own intelligence network and its own intelligence sources, and i think that this is the basis for the destruction of important

enemy objects and leaders of certain enemy occupation forces, so i think that here rather, we are trying to do our best, and in addition to the person you named , i will also mention the chief of staff of the 35th russian army, major general serhiy goryachov, who also died, according to russian sources, from strikes by the ukrainian long-range systems, but what surprised me is that actually when this vinkor appears to be a peg in reporting on the destruction of serhiy goryachov , i think that in reality he is covering up probably even greater losses among the russian military leadership because, as far as i am concerned , some strange things are happening with the command of this er group of the east, which is responsible for the southern direction , because instead of andrii kuz kuzmynka , a new commander, oleksandr romanchuk, was appointed, and i don’t understand why

this personnel change happened. no, not because it is possible that the commander of the actual group of the russian east died along with this. so we will wait for the continuation of this information, because we see that now the key figures of the russian leadership are being destroyed point by point, which should actually affect the weakening and chaos in the russian military front as such and then directly about our military column, we will talk about what is happening on the front line in general , about the events under the watchful eyes of our military about the new package of american military aid and about the prospects for the development of our defense industry, more on that in a moment. so, if we talk about changes on the front line in

the last day , we are talking only about meters. advanced 200,500 m on the bagmuth direction and 350 m on the zaporizhzhia front. by the way , on the zaporizhzhia front there are already several such formed directions of action for our goals, this is the offensive from the settlement, the pubic movement from orikhovav in the direction of tokmak, the third is an advance south from the great novosilka towards ceremonivka and actions in the vugledar zone . in fact, these four directions are now being formed so slowly and each of them can be active in view of the choice of the ukrainian side, and all this is carried out by the forces of our e- e separate companies and battalions with minimal involvement passed formed brigades without the involvement

of the main forces of the reserve and against them by the way, he has already begun to use part of his reserves for counterattacks, which is extremely telling and important especially under the conditions of the destruction of these reserves by our respective forces and means, by the way, now we see an infographic showing the enemy's defense lines, which are located 10 10 km away from the lines where hostilities are currently ongoing, and we see that actually these fortress structures are currently the main challenge for the offensive of ukrainian troops. and by the way, there are certain assessments from the nato secretary general yesterday from tovtenberg said that the offensive of ukrainian forces on

the territory occupied by russia showed the first signs of success although he said that we should be prepared for the fact that this offensive will be bloody and difficult, because the russians had time to strengthen these rather difficult defensive lines and to break through them is a difficult task , emphasized totenberg. although i think these challenges to the armed forces are understood and without such explanations, we to understand that ukraine must conduct a unique offensive operation that does not fit into the concept of oil-rich countries of the united states, which usually rely on aviation support, we must do this with limited potential aviation components and we understand that we have a difficult summer-autumn campaign ahead of us, indeed, the capabilities of the armed forces of ukraine have grown significantly, we have experience in the fire means of the communication and control system , but we should not expect quick results , we should remember, i repeat, that ukraine is conducting a unique operation that has not been conducted by any of

the countries nato and even the states, so the following forces will need courage and weapons and non-standard solutions, but in addition to the fact that the enemy is now trying to strengthen the zaporizhia direction, he is now shifting his forces to the bakhmut direction, where it is trying to contain the pressure of the armed forces, yesterday the commander of the armed forces of san-syr reported that the armed forces are moving forward, the enemy is losing positions on the flanks, but the enemy has many reinforcements, acting commander of the third separate assault brigade , major of the armed forces of ukraine maksym zhorin mr. maksym i congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes i congratulate you today you wrote in your phone bad much more strength and resources

but at the same time managed to radically change the situation and we continue here, your units continue to move forward, i would like to elaborate a little more on the situation in general around bakhmut and in those areas where the battalions of your brigade operate around bakhmut , there is constant fighting, they do not search , they do not stop day or night, this is completely true that we are in a situation where the enemy has more infantry, more armored vehicles, more artillery and shells for this artillery, as well as actively working e-e aviation, we have much less of all this but despite this, we find opportunities, we find weak points in the enemy's defense and uh , we move forward

. that you are trying to hold on to positions and er for each position there are battles er now a significant number of reserve units are being transferred here which in er already we meet in battle due to which they are trying to stop us at the moment we see them they slow down our movement, but in no case do not stop them, are you talking about the airborne units, or are we talking about the 57th brigade , the storm units, because yesterday serhiy cherevaty said that paratroopers are starting to appear in the bakhmut area, is this information confirmed, and what's more they even i am already among the prisoners in this direction , so i am transferring the landing units here precisely because they do not want to stabilize and then at the expense of these units that they also have plans to restore the positions that they have already lost

vs. at the moment they can't even stabilize it so far. well, it's too early. it's too early. what to be happy about. it's too early to shout about something. victories are complex, very complex operations and events, but at the moment we're finding strength. and with the possibility of moving forward without leopards and other cool things and western partners, the third assault brigade is still destroying the russians under bakhmut, but with western weapons everything would be much faster and easier. i would like you to explain what you had on do you mean the quality of western weapons or the fact that your brigade needs armed equipment, er, well, we are talking about the fact that with er, it is more operational, and in principle, with a greater amount

of support with weapons and ammunition, any movements of any brigade would be much as for our third assault brigade, i can also say that now probably 90 percent of our success is the courage and bravery of our people , and secondly, there is the equipment and weapons that we have. we were a greater number of modern equipment and ammunition for them, artillery systems, ammunition for armored vehicles, and we moved even faster, just a couple of days ago i had a conversation with one of your subordinates and he said that it is welcome in the brigade for each fighter to master different weapons systems different types of weapons. and he said, i was against a tank operator. now i am a marsman, that is , a sniper who supports soldiers on the

battlefield . as a means of increasing the overall efficiency of the unit of individual fighters, is there a reflection in the situation when it is necessary to replace wounded comrades there and learn new skills, and we in every way support the initiative within the units we always support the desire of people to learn and develop , we give everything necessary to implement it because it is precisely due to this that, in principle, our team has a fairly high level of professionalism and is supported. if we talk about those moments when a person changes professional direction, then this does not happen it's just that a person wanted to be there today. a sniper could be there tomorrow. someone else could be there the day after tomorrow. no, that's not exactly how it happens. that's how we give the opportunity to learn and develop, but any transfers they still take place under the general leadership and

taking into account the tasks facing the brigade . and divisions of the brigade p maxime about the effectiveness of the characteristics and skills of the effectiveness of the commanders, so i am interested in how the selection of persons for the positions of commanders is carried out from among the drivers of the company, how the best are selected who will be the most effective from from the point of view of leadership and mastery of the situation on the field or how it is carried out, in this regard we have completely gone through the traditions of azov, in which i, including myself, were once commanders, it is extremely important for us, in principle, that the commander should be that person who deserves it, who deserves it on the battlefield, who deserves it with his knowledge, skills, courage, and attitude to the personnel, in our unit , it is impossible to get a commanding post

, for example, simply having the appropriate rank, yes as it used to be, for example, in our army. this is not something that is not practiced. and any commander, starting from the commander of the department and ending there with the commander of the e-e battalion and above, is not welcomed at all. these are all those people who proved themselves on the battlefield who has sufficient experience who has the support of personnel you have colossal combat experience and when the question arises about the initiative non-standard thinking on the field both of you could give some such examples that may have impressed you personally from the point of view of the non-standard actions of our military on at the tactical level well, in fact, the majority of such actions take place at the level of work in assault detachments or assault scouts. there are a lot of processes that require sharp decisions and quick reactions, and

it is there that a quick understanding of who is capable of what and who is worth what happens it is precisely in these units at this level that it is very easy to immediately understand which person can or cannot occupy which position, the most important thing is to be able to critically and quickly make this decision there is even such a saying that sometimes in time a wrong decision is better than a right decision that is not taken in time and you are talking about the use of planning booms or are we talking about already entering the area of ​​operations of our unit, already the aircraft or helicopters themselves, what is it about works absolutely every day several times at least three at least once a day, there are airstrikes on our positions or on the second line, uh, they uh

, they happen either with guided missiles or unguided missiles from rotorcraft and uh, planes, and also quite often lately guided aerial bombs began to fall, which in fact also cause quite significant damage, this is a rather strong thing that can destroy entire buildings, so guided and unguided missiles and aerial bombs fall on our positions absolutely every day, whether our aviation is working or not you bet on defense against air attack at the expense of portable complexes and mobile systems in front of air defense, well, you need to soberly assess and understand that, in principle

, our aviation is currently in in a state when it is much less er. it is not quite modern. let's talk like that, if we don't talk about the one that should be handed over to us in the near future, for which they are already studying, but what we actually have now. what can we do about it? calculate this is an extremely small amount not commensurate with the number of the enemy's aircraft, and it is also not quite up-to-date, that's why in the fight against the enemy's aircraft, we rely exclusively on the mobile air defense systems, which we have, however, and they are not very effective now, therefore that the enemy he understands their technical characteristics and does not fly up, for example, to those distances at which we can hit him. maxim would like you to explain one more thing. i had a conversation with a representative of the harris company, which supplies radio stations for our troops. he says that the system is very protected

reliable, but far from all the military there are striving to master this reliable e-e communication system that works in rap conditions, i wanted to ask what approach your brigade has to the use of communication systems, are there charisma for equipment, if not, how do you provide effective management on the battlefield, really helsinki is a very modern and cool thing, they are trying to use them widely and implement more , moreover, when i served in azov, even then we tried to implement them and get them, but then it was quite difficult to get them in principle in our unit today it is a little easier to do that and we use the importance of it. so this is one of the best today er hmm with one of the best ways to communicate in advanced positions a-a communication in principle is one of the very important aspects during any actions, whether defensive or offensive

actions, because when you lose contact, you lose complete control of units, moreover , psychologically, people who lose contact there with their unit, they themselves are there it is quite difficult for them to carry out their tasks because there is a psychological impression that no one supports you, that no one knows what is happening to you, that is why communication is very important, absolutely important when performing any combat tasks, including we try to use harissa widely, implement and learn to work with them. because it is modern and it works . maksym. thank you very much for your relevant comments for your service, for what you do for us, for our country, and in our timecham, i will remind you that maksym was on the air of kanadspresso major zhorin from psel of ukraine acting as the commander of the third separate assault brigade, which is currently fighting under bakhmut, and then about other aspects, eh, now we understand that the war is still moving smoothly

, the enemy is trying to maintain a persistent format to wait for the unity of the west in helping ukraine is betting on the development of its defense industry, and here , of course, questions arise what exactly is happening in the russian defense industry and what is happening in our defense industry, now we are joined by valentin batrak, director of the center for research of the army , conversion and disarmament, military analytics writer, valentina vitayu i congratulate you, mr. serhiy, but i wanted to ask you whether russia has taken such a military approach in expanding the production of equipment and weapons, what putin is hinting at yesterday's meeting with the military leaders. and i wanted to hear about the real state of the russian pc regarding the scaling up of these military efforts . well, according to our estimates, somewhere around november 22nd , russia transferred its pck to the actual military

rails and started doing it, in fact, immediately after the successful counter-offensive on at the beginning of september, after the successful counteroffensive of the defense forces of ukraine, that is why this situation looks like russia made a purposeful, very concentrated effort to make it happen, and at the end of the year, we already had there are various such proofs that the russian industry does work, well, in particular, in russia, they were showing off that they allegedly handed over a batch of su-57s to the military and space forces. although i said a long time ago that it is not really the su-57 in the form that they advertised, but yes or otherwise, according to its appearance, it could be a su-57 plane without the stuffing that they said, now it will not be detailed about the batch

of planes, it seems that 130 were handed over to miami , then the planes that were for egypt were fed , they got there sooner than we all expected that in iran, that is, planes were produced in the same way at the beginning of january, such an organization as amerikagnishyn e stated that the batch of t-90 tanks, t-90m, and the breakthrough was transferred to the armed forces. well, again, this is mine, as it seems to me , it is not quite, not quite a t-90m tank because, for example, it is known that they have virtually no targeting systems, and there were, as you know, the french thermal imagers of the tallis company, that is, missiles in general , but literally yesterday, russia attacked with missiles

kha11 555 kryvyi rih and president zelenskyy in his speech, he noted that about 50 types of components are foreign and even noted that there are components from the crack camp of partner countries, that is, we can state that firstly, russia produces a lot of weapons, this is true, and secondly, the weapons have become less technological in terms of personnel uh, everything is normal for them to join, there is no shortage of people, but the personnel is becoming less trained, and the weapons are also becoming less technological, therefore, the quantity they are trying to close it all, but the quality

turns out to be much worse in fact, another one an important point russia makes a lot of efforts to import substitution and it succeeds in many things and finally technological sanctions do not work technological deterrence does not work yet and there is such a conviction that it will be very difficult to do it in the future most likely at some point in the country in particular, the big seven, as they wanted to consider the issue of a complete ban on exports to russia in japan in may, but then they refused. somehow they feared that this might be an exaggeration and they refused to do it . unfortunately, this issue has been postponed. to go to a complete ban on exports in order to make technological deterrence of russia, by the way, technological deterrence of russia together with the technological rise and nourishment of ukraine - this is precisely one of the factors of guarantees for ukraine from the side of the western countries

, there should be no words, rather, we moved on to the e-e comparison or rather not even about a comparison about how you assess the current efforts of the ukrainian authorities in the development of our defense-industrial complex, what initiatives are currently being implemented, what reserves and opportunities do we have today, what can we to use it in order to really develop its own defense system well, i am just trying to smoothly transition that the technological gap between ukraine and the enemy can be such a significant factor of influence on the enemy and influence on his decision to refuse further aggression, after the end of the hot phase of that war, what is ukraine doing now? well, in order to say what ukraine

is doing now, i must remember what ukraine did not do before the large-scale invasion. uh, the 20th year and pointed out that the government should create a local industry and an agency of advanced technologies , yes, the microtech industry was created, the agency of advanced technologies was not created at all. it is happening now, now, now, only in the 23rd year, the initiator of the development of everything was the min of numbers, the first project to create a brand that can be a communicator between all players in the field of the latest developments

the second point is that the cabinet of ministers made the introtech-prom center of ukroboronprom the governing center, but for some reason on march 21, when it was presented to the 23rd year , certain points about who will form it disappeared . actually, literally 40 40 seconds. if there is an opportunity clearly hit in this way, let's say that the missile program has gone and there will be a missile with a range of 1,000 km in ukraine, yes, i think 1,500 km . uh, the unmanned program went very well, we have air drones, we have sea drones, we have underwater drones, and these targets are large, such a number. this is very good. we need to create even more somewhere like an army of drones, although 200,000 drones

should be ordered by the end of the year. unfortunately , i have to interrupt our conversation. let me remind you that on the air of the espresso channel was valentyn batrak, the director of the center for the week of the army of conversion and disarmament, a military analyst and writer, and then vasyl zima will continue the broadcast. and the channel's experts on international and economic policy, stay on the espresso channel. well, what? i thank his guests and now