[000:00:00;00] there are supplies, but the situation is difficult, by the way, now there are probably significantly less than 50,000 people living in nikopol. this is true, that is, the last census was 112,000. well, when on july 12 the rashists began shelling nikopol using a nuclear power plant. of course, the absolute majority left and it is difficult to count, but i think only about 10% is left now, this has made the water situation even worse and it is extremely difficult to be there because you are under fire both day and night , and now even in the absence of water. of course , most people from nikopol try to leave

i went to the nearest villages and cities, but every morning she still tries to return to check the consequences of the shelling. nikopol has been under fire for almost a year. you say that people even save themselves with rainwater. and how do the factories of dnipropetrovsk oblast work in such conditions. as far as i know, the factories have not stopped yet but it is a big risk that they can become because the two biggest giants - it starts ferrosplanes and er corpse sites er they are one of the biggest employers and budget er fillers so it really could be an economic collapse in general, with this situation that has developed due to the explosion of the kakhovsky reservoir, there are many directions and problems both in industry and in ecology, and even taking into account the amount of water has decreased and we were separated by 4 km from the nuclear power plant through the water. well, of course, the land

land is getting bigger, and of course there are possible provocations from the enemy who is quite close. by the way, president zelenskyi did not even rule out that the next terrorist act of some kind could be a detonation on the part of russia. in fact, i am trying to convey, both on my own behalf and with many foreign partners, that the probability was still the same six months ago, and given the absolute cynicism of the rashists , this is really a very big danger, and it will affect not only our region, it will affect the whole world, and - this is what we have to unite absolutely everyone now that we need to demilitarize the zaporizhzhia npp, although it will be extremely difficult to do it. i even had a meeting with president borel in the fall and just before the relocation of the magathe mission, and he

said that it is very difficult because the russians will use the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant as a joker. therefore, this challenge is very serious. it must be resolved. i think you think in a diplomatic way through concessions to russia. is the military option possible ? it is difficult for me to comment on this. i think that we we have to be strong, because i will tell you that the enemy uses very serious information attacks and tries to divide us, and this is not only in nikopol, but throughout the country, and of course they use the topic of the kakhov hpp and the atomic bombs are very accurate, so we have to hold on as much as possible, because people get tired of war, of war , we have to talk about it. we have to act. our humanitarian headquarters does not stop for more than one day, we still feed and clothe both civilians and

soldiers, so we have to hold on there are no other options. now, due to the situation in the southern part of nikopol region, infectious hubs have been opened, how do they work in three regions, in fact, after the russians blew up the kakhovskaya hpp. have you seen these hubs or is it just a sign that they are there? in fact, i don’t have anything. is it really effective and helps people? you know, i haven’t heard anything about any hubs. i know that there have been some outbreaks of some diseases in odesa and kherson regions. thank god, no cases have been registered in our region, and the radiation level is normal. the water level has dropped to nine meters, and in the reservoirs of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, it is within the normal range of 16.7 m, that is , there is no threat there yet, but considering that the russians themselves are shelling the nuclear power plant and

blaming us, it can be absolutely the situation can change at any moment, a video actually appeared also from nikopol about the fact that people came across a cemetery at the bottom of the kakhovsky reservoir. not far from the church .

the grave, the whole person was lying in the grave, here is her head, some decorations, or what is this , i don’t know what it is, a spine, there will be another grave, another skull, and there the grave is such a grave. that is, it is some kind of solitary burial and not just some remains of people this is obviously a cemetery after all tell me more, i haven't heard anything about this cemetery . but of course anything can happen, because taking into account that nikopol was famous and was the capital of five cossack sichs, and then a lot of things took place, including battles, then anything can happen and i'm more worried that the number including radiation and some negative discharges of wastes that were at the bottom now, everything can go

into the atmosphere and into the air through the wind and the consequences of this ecological disaster. it is even difficult for us to imagine because approximately 880,000 were left without water, 5,000 km is the coverage area of ​​the lack of water or but- lack of water or flooding and here now it is very difficult to predict anything. thank you very much, mr. mykhailo poporychniuk, head of the volunteer staff unity and development and a volunteer and defense of nikopol region , he joined us. under fire with indirect fire from russian artillery, which is located on the other bank and may remain within reach, a large city is left with only a handful of people, you can say from a population of 100,000

once, but now on our airwaves we are waiting for myroslav gai, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine and a volunteer, we will talk to him very soon, in fact, we will ask him in particular why the military cabinet convened by volodymyr zelenskyi is in the army . why did he mention it when he was talking about it in the list of generals at first, the syrian tarnavskyi zalu, and then he was already industrious and whispered whether it was such a coincidence or whether it was specifically said that way, well now for sure someone says that we are now blowing the elephant off the fly and in fact it is impossible in that age order named but in fact it's about uh, i'm thinking about many different bells and one of them is that one of those pro-government military bloggers, who is always on all private channels, ah, such

a man, uh, zhdanov said that he was removed from his post at least that's how it is, i didn't hear it myself, because i don't listen to you, it appears this week on the bbc, uh , a big article about zaluzhny, of course, has different titles in different versions in ukrainian , the title was made as the first after god or something like that well, in a strange way, all this is hmm the ukrainian expert says that he was suspended, the bbc says that he is the first after god, and in the words of volodymyr zelenskyi, he is on the third place in the list, is there actually no longer miroslav, er, with us, he actually reacted to all this and said that he

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to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday political club that saturdays are not espresso, we will return as promised myroslav guy, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a volunteer is already joining us p myroslava good afternoon , mr. myroslava, many ukrainians do not think of themselves as an unruly popular columnist, if in the military events in ukraine , what the officer himself said in the past oleg zhdanov about valery zaluzhny, i simply missed this moment, to be honest, i only read your reaction. well, he had a broadcast where he announced that things are going well at the front , so it is necessary to return valery fedorovych to the command of the troops thereby suggesting that valeriya federation was removed from the performance of his duties, this infuriated me very much because this was immediately bribed by russian football players who began to spread

it on social networks , in fact, mr. oleg. the doubt that the commander-in-chief is fulfilling his functions and official duties, this outraged me and that is why i was forced to write a post to do so and i am several more soldiers because i definitely i know for a fact that valery fedorovych is in charge of the troops, in fact, there was also a recent bbc story about valery zaluzhnyi, and there was also a moment when they said that they seemed to be very worried and jealous of zaluzhnyi's popularity, in particular in the president's office, and we often see such moments as even the last ones in the last message of president zelensky that he met in his position there with a committee with the military cabinet that there is a zaluzhna going in some third place, this is very by the way, it

even suggests the publication later that i know that music is at stake, and to be honest, now i would like to separate the uh-uh political and uh-huh political background and the military unit, namely what i wrote about zhdanov, it primarily concerns the military topic because er, in the war there are such elements of the informational connecting operation that a-a sports uses to discredit the military-political leadership, sometimes unexpected comments, in particular, from the side of ukrainian commentators, the russian spelling of words, then use their mass media to conduct active events and information operations, and that's exactly the phrase that outraged me

, because it was stretched by the russian teams precisely in order to make it look like it's real. -e and e-e, we must be very careful to maintain informational hygiene, and especially with regard to statements about the military leadership of the country during the war, this is fundamentally important. see well, but the operational emphasis on what to be careful to do not harm, they have been sounding for a year and a half, and oleg zhdanov as a military expert who comments on the situation in the country, well , he is definitely aware of it and did he make such a strange mistake, so i think that it is necessary to find out for what purpose are such stories that can discredit the likes of ukraine were allowed cherry blossoms now? of course, you can say that it is not so clear that he had something

completely different in mind, but the russians picked up on this, the russians understood it properly, they understood this as a chance to once again try to discredit the ukrainian leaders, by the way, the sbu recently warned that the russians were preparing a mass and ecological operation, and lo and behold, literally immediately after the statement with the security service of ukraine, we are already hearing such expressions, it causes at least a codec e- eh, this article that appeared on the bbc eh, in the ukrainian version, it is called the first after god in a good sense, how did general zuluzhny become what he is, this is the headline in eh on the british page, of course, another name eh valeriy zaluzhny is the man behind the ukrainian counter-offensive, and in that article, the bbc journalist actually says that at

the beginning of the full-scale invasion , there was an appeal from bakanov to zaluzhny to blow up the bridges leading to kyiv and thus cut off the left-bank ukraine and the enemies who valery zaluzhnyi will be on the left bank and said that he would not under any circumstances take such a step because it would be treason for both ukrainian civilians and military, how should we treat what is claimed by the journalist who refers to sources and whether or not after the end of the war it would be worthwhile to deal with such appeals to the industrious to blow up bridges as how to deal with the rest of the journalist to give direct speech or direct speech without referring to any pleasant closed sources because of the fact that we now see that mr. baka can not be eliminated

to remove the president from the performance of his duties . i think that there were very serious reasons for this. therefore, it is now considered not very correct to use his, let's say, statements towards the military-political leadership directorates. i think that these magazines were hacked. in this way, they used some kind of secret source. they wrote this. in this way, they committed at least a violation of journalistic technique. this is my opinion. okay, after all these scandals surrounding the military, why have there been so many more of them recently? how should society react, in particular, to what happened to alina mykhaylova and then what happened to taras chernovol, i will tell you . yes, i believe that our society

is very nervous now, moreover, we are facing a crisis in the future and are already facing such a problem as post-traumatic stress disorder, and it will not only be in the military, it was in civilians, in particular, in the families of military personnel, and that's why i think that we will still have a fairly serious public profession, and i communicate every day with the ukrainian military court and investigate foreign experience , in particular the united states of america, especially after vietnam, after iraq, or to inspectors - this was a global problem. we have the whole problem ahead of us, and the problem with veterans that was in the soviet union after afghanistan we will succeed in kindergarten because our scale is much larger, our society is very much involved in the war, not only the civil society. there is probably not a single place in our country that you suffered from the war. we have

a large number of people who are traumatized simply and psychologically. unfortunately, many families also have physical injuries. someone died. well, either a military man, if not him, because during isolated strikes, therefore , it can be definitely said that society will be traumatized, no one like that can pass by, well, during the war after the war accordingly, we need to think about using some state programs to engage in the rehabilitation of two servicemen. so it should be a massive global program that should better absorb the world experience , what is the result of america, because thank god, by the way , some american specialists in military psychologists are already coming to ukraine to give a lecture. we are already starting little by little, well, not even little by little. i would say that volunteer initiatives

regarding the physical rehabilitation of the wounded and psychological rehabilitation, and not only military personnel, but also those who are already veterans, who left the service accordingly, left, and often no one deals with such people . thank god, now the lunters in different branches in different cities are taking this responsibility, in particular, yesterday i spoke with the veteran organization in kryvyi now they are also aware that this is a problem , so i think that such scandals will be written more frequently in our country. so you see, this is such a thing. it seems to me that it has two sides, so that journalists do not it is not necessary to stir up scandals. in principle

, to create grounds for these scandals to arise, including being careful about the principles of hierarchy in the army, this is very important. it seems to me. such situations did not arise, there is no need to prove such situations, i am the government, i do not want your comment, i do not want to put you in a difficult position as an officer of the armed forces of ukraine thank you for the conversation now thank you myroslav gai, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine and a volunteer was with us, by the way, on our broadcast tomorrow we will talk about post-traumatic stress disorder and what to do about it and how more people need to be informed, we will talk to scientists about this, and now there will be an interview of the president of the czech republic, petr pavel, who said that ukraine should take advantage of the window of opportunity to conduct a successful counteroffensive this year, because kyiv is unlikely to be able to take the next steps to liberate its territories before the beginning of spring 2024, moreover, it is not known whether it is ready the event will once again provide ukraine with as much equipment as is necessary for this, the interview was conducted by our colleagues at radio svoboda, for

your attention, the opinion of the president of the czech republic. thank you for this interview. let's start with the latest events . on the plans of the ukrainian military to de-occupy the southern territories. i believe that this event had a terrible impact on many people on both sides. we still have to find out who was really behind it. did it happen by accident due to the careless actions of the russians ? did they have such an intention or did they only seek to partially destroy or completely destroy the dam, but clearly this event will have an impact not only on the civilian population, both in the occupied and in the territories under the control of the armed forces, but also on the environment, on agriculture, the disaster will cause pollution with harmful substances and also with a certain number of mines, it will complicate all

military actions, including ukrainian operations, the territory that was flooded is so large that it will affect all military actions in this region. and how can europe help ukraine to overcome the consequences of this disaster. i believe that significant humanitarian aid has already begun, starting with help in pumping water , providing high-purification plants, power generators, and much more. from all sides, but it should also be coordinated within the possible limits of nato or the eu so that it does not turn out that all countries provide the same equipment and

that the aid is coordinated and based on what are they? how do you assess the first days of the ukrainian counteroffensive? we saw the beginning, which is, let's say, moderate. i believe that we haven't seen a real counteroffensive. everything is still ahead . based on my military experience, i would call it formative operations. do you still think that if ukraine will not show significant progress this year, so we will see how this war turns into a certain frozen conflict with a more or less static front line. today we see that the preparation for the counteroffensive lasted months, and that naturally, because in order to prepare a significant military force, provide them with equipment, train them, acquire enough resources of all kinds, it takes a lot of time, it also requires a great effort of all the people involved, so even if we evaluate the counteroffensive from this point of view, the preparation for a new offensive will again

take a considerable time if we also take into account the weather conditions, which are very unfavorable during the winter, then we will come to the conclusion that everything that cannot be achieved this year will have to be postponed at least until the spring of next year with all the associated difficulties, in particular with the difficulties of maintaining the support of partners. so when i say that we will see a window of opportunity this year, it means that it will take at least 3-4 months before any other activity begins. i think this is a realistic picture given that the event constantly pushes the limits of aid from defensive to offensive weapons from medium to long-range missiles. can you categorically rule out that we will see western troops on ukrainian soil? i think that

there will be no changes in this matter, it does not matter whether nato troops begins before the operation at the very beginning or at the end of it, legally it will not matter which country or group of countries joins the conflict, this by definition will mean that nato has joined the war against russia. i think that no one wants such a war because, given all the weaknesses the russian army and the russian state, in such a scenario, they will very likely want to use nuclear weapons, they have repeatedly said so, and therefore i think that every reasonable politician would probably reject such an option. at this stage, you do you share the opinion that the ukrainians desperately need f16 fighter jets or other western-made fighter jets, and if so, when will ukraine receive them, training has now begun, but unfortunately, training on fighter jets takes much more time than training on tanks or armored vehicles, so we can expect that at least 4- 5 months

before the fighter jets can be used on the territory of ukraine, but in my opinion, we, the countries that support ukraine in this conflict , were slow in many areas and delayed the provision of some types of weapons. i am proud that the czech republic was not one of these countries, from the very beginning we gave everything we could, but some countries were less willing to help faster with the development of the conflict, they realized that there is no other way than to negotiate with ukraine until its success in this war, and that is probably why now they are more are willing to give the equipment they didn't want to give first we saw it with the example of our main battle tanks we see it with the provision of long -range artillery and we see it now with the training

of fighter pilots so i hope just this training will be completed, the pilots of those f16s that are proposed to be provided to ukraine will be able to protect the ukrainian sky much better against any aggression. i think we will be ukraine of western weapons. i have observed the transition of the ukrainian army to these standards almost immediately after the annexation of crimea, when i was the head of the nato military committee. i visited ukraine that no less than 3-4 times and i had the opportunity to observe the progress achieved by the ukrainian military, and with the beginning of the war in february of last year, the progress has accelerated significantly, so at this stage i would say that