[000:00:00;00] and so on. moreover, until certain e-e actions are carried out, the russians were also not trees, they can sometimes retreat from a certain populated place, ours go there , the civilian population returns, but the russians start with the radio, then cover first of all the civilian population that returns to those or other settlements unfortunately, this was the case last year in the territory of the melitopol district , when, let's say , people left a certain settlement and began to return there, they were simply watered with hailstones . in general, if we talk about the situation in in the zaporizhzhia direction, how well are the positions of the russian army arranged there and can we talk about any peculiarities of the conduct of battles? in this direction, of those areas , i will give an assessment of the areas where our guys are standing and the frantic defense of mini fields, walking fields

, tunnels, trenches, everything is a game - russia is not a waste of time for the last year. they are actively hanging over our heads with drones . they beat our technique to the location of our guys well, not only on military facilities, in particular, yes, yesterday they bombed a private homestead, yes, a house in the attic of which there was a satellite dish, they mistook it for a nato radar station . this shows, well, this is proof that they are just pounding with artillery on everything that moves and does not move, if

you can say so kozyatina i thank you very much for taking the time to join our broadcast kostyantyn denisov fighter legion on freedom that is in the direction of zaporizhzhia. thank you that in calm weather it is clear. how do the russian occupiers talk to each other, to the ukrainian military who hold positions near bakhmut, they say that the trenches and the invaders are no more than 50 m from them, how does this affect the work for jesus. is such proximity of gunfire frightening later in the video afi , it is called fire, the point is to prevent them from feeling at ease, we on earth will say so well, in the morning we leave and just start to put them to sleep with everything so that they

feel as uncomfortable as possible here and do not have even the desire to move forward, because even more so to advance somewhere, that is why such working fire is very effective in a positional war, they show more movements at night, hear the sound of equipment and if they talk loudly, then you can hear that they are there somewhere, something is wrong with them , then you can hear if there is no wind at night, the weather is calm if they talk like that, all three are 150 m, in fact, the gray line is where the enemy is, the enemy has been

. until we knocked them out, we opened fire on the enemy who tried to get to us , tried to push us out, but they had nothing it turned out we are here it turns out here we got here we dug a lot damn how did ours beat us how did we get pps tickets damn did you dig in you cling to this land here in ahmute there goes here fromm there goes here and there walks in the frame here we are here 4 we are standing we have not survived anything of course i feel that this is my place. i don't. i don't know how to explain it to you. well, it's difficult . it's what you think. but who? who else ? correctly guided by

those people, we all want to live, but if we now we will not do our work here, we simply will not have life already there, russia has begun to transfer parts of its dnipro group of troops from the eastern bank of the dnieper to strengthen the zaporizhia and bakhmut directions, this has been happening for the past ten days. 49 of the army, including its 34th separate motorized rifle brigade, as well as parts of the airborne troops and marines, analysts note that such a redeployment likely reflects the conviction of the russian military and political leadership that the great ukrainian offensive across the dnieper is less likely after the destruction of the kakhov dam, at the same time, the american institute for the study of war in its next report suggests that the ukrainian army will or

has already paused in its attacks in order to reassess its tactics; the authors of the report remind that the ukrainian the army has not yet led the bulk of its reserves into battle and they add that operational pauses are a common phenomenon in major offensives and this pause does not mean the end of the ukrainian counteroffensive oleksandr kovalenko, a military-political columnist of the information resistance group, joins the broadcast, oleksandr. my congratulations, well, i mentioned the current reports of the institute for the study of war. and there it is said that ukrainian units in the last day, on the one hand, continued attacks on four sections of the front, and from other analysts point out that they will probably take a break to reassess their tactics .

military actions, large-scale offensive actions, but i do not completely agree that there will now be a pause, operational point, because we see that the defense forces of ukraine are continuing their pressure in the e-e semi-axis of support in the zaporizhia region, as well as partially in the donetsk region e-e, for example today it has already been officially confirmed that the release of a-a settlement has five cards, which is very important in the zaporizhzhia region, because this settlement actually controls the road e-e 0.8 e-e 12 a and precisely because of this the settlement is possible, the next advance of the defense force of ukraine in the direction of vasylivka and not only vasylivka is a settlement for action. well, let's say that in several directions, even very unexpectedly for the enemy. in addition, we see the advance of

the defense force of ukraine in the area of ​​bakhmut. that is, it is again after all, the flanks, we are talking about the flanks that continue to be destroyed, and luhansk region is unexpected, the russian occupiers intensified their actions there, and so that we understand that the attention of the command should be diverted to this direction perhaps even with the aim of having the command of the defense forces of ukraine move some of its units from the zaporizhia or donetsk direction to the luhansk region, and all this does not indicate that there may be any operational pause in the near future. well, you see , the british solution so far says that these last 10 days, russia began to transfer parts of the dnipro group of troops from the eastern bank of the dnieper to zaporozhye to bakhmut. and what does this mean for bakhmut

? the zaporizhia direction is now more promising for them, so to speak, it is important, first of all, we are talking about the zaporizhzhia bridgehead. because they really lack resources there, the fact is that the russians, uh, they built a line of defense there, three lines of defense are quite dense, that's true. - and although sometimes they were built chaotically, but a lot of them were built, but there is a problem that they do not have enough resources to fully fill them proportionally with personnel. therefore, they need personnel, which they drag in this case well, from the left bank of kherson oblast, precisely in the zaporizhzhia region, and with these units they saturate the second and third lines, i.e. reinforce it. while the second and third lines themselves are partially already some units were today already up to the supply line , i.e. to reinforce the first line of defense and that's all this is due to the fact that they have a catastrophic lack of resources near bakhmut, a similar

situation in their flanks is collapsing and because despite the fact that they sent their units there also for reinforcements starting from the middle of may, but they don't care this resource is not enough. so, in part, it will also be the kherson forces of the kherson bridgehead, a resource that has already been used to strengthen the bakhmut fruit. russia. what do you think so far it is possible to say that they use mainly the forces of the ministry of defense as well as some other formations?

army corps and also these volunteer units of the paps which are being formed precisely on the territory of the russian federation and that is what they drove and will primarily use regarding the further active use of the wagner anti-tank missile system, well, there are some questions about this, because they are currently actively participating in hostilities. they do not accept mr. oleksandr - and we have been talking a lot about the ukrainian counteroffensive in recent days, of course the plan is unknown, they are calling for a regime of silence, but what can be stated is that the expectations or forecasts of many experts of the representatives of the event did not come true, i want to mention, for example, david petrivs, the former head of this movement, he predicted that the armed forces of ukraine there , literally a day before the start of the counteroffensive actions, would immediately deliver the main blow, which would reach its maximum strength there in the first 72 94 hours and end the breakthrough of the russian defense, how in your opinion can you explain the difference between the forecasts and what is happening on pravda , are such forecasts made on purpose are these really the

forecasts that did not come true well, here i am i remember the forecast, i think that kyiv will fall in 96 hours, and everyone remembers very well these forecasts from some western experts. and not always the analysis is western, it is of high quality. that is , it must also be recognized, and it was obvious that in order to... to launch some kind of combat operations of an offensive nature precisely on the zaporizhzhia bridgehead, it will be necessary to first pass through the very dangerous supply lane a, which has the densest concentration of minesweeper barriers a to do it there in 24 hours it is almost impossible and for this you need a-a very advance carefully to preserve the lives of personnel and equipment as much as possible, and we see all this very carefully, slowly advancing

, and dagger blows, e-e, in separate directions , and all this. provision as soon as the defense forces of ukraine go to the second line of defense, i.e. the main line of defense, then we can already talk about the use of the main strike groups that will magically break through the bridge on a large scale there already with all the attributes of tim, which well in fact, they like that in the usa, but for now this is a very cautious advance to prepare a bridgehead for the main strike. by the way, earlier the western media wrote that the united states allegedly asked ukraine to slow down the offensive in order to wait for all the promised aid. in your opinion, did the offensive begin too soon? and did it make sense to wait more, and wait for what exactly if

it is about planes, for example, fighters. well , it would be necessary to wait another 4-6 months during this period, russia only increased the ability to conduct defensive actions, it would build more more line of defense and fortification, what kind of structures, and wait for some other elements, tanks, factories, or something else? well, it all depends on exactly what kind of weapon we are talking about, it is time again, and wasting time, we give the patient an opportunity to gain a foothold even more, and we will need more more resources for the enemy to knock out these positions, and therefore the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine predicted the possibilities of the resources that are available to start these actions already for this period in june, they heard

oleksandr, thank you very much, to join the on the air oleksandr kovalenko military-political columnist of the information resistance group thank you state secretary shantony blinking said in beijing that china has again made progress and expressed hope that thanks to this visit a more positive contribution will be made literally to the stabilization of their relations this is quoted by sisinfinia bloomberg damn threw his turn indicated during meetings and the fact that the united states does not support the independence of taiwan and has no intention of entering into a conflict with china , i will remind you that the meeting is taking place in beijing linkin is there for a two-day visit and this is the first meeting of the us secretary with a chinese leader since 2018. blinkin also spoke with the country's top foreign policy official wen yi and foreign minister tinggang for the last 7.5 hours , which is much longer than expected . these meetings can ease the tension that

is growing between the two countries, the interaction between the states should always be based on mutual respect and sincerity. i hope that thanks to this visit of the minister, you will make more positive contributions to the stabilization of the chinese of american relations in recent weeks, china has repeatedly told not only us but also many other countries that have expressed concern that they do not provide and will not provide assistance in the form of lethal weapons to russia for use in ukraine, i will add that linkin - this is the highest american official who came to china from at the time of president sharjah biden's inauguration, and relations between the united states and china have deteriorated significantly in recent years due to trade disputes and the situation around taiwan as well as russia's invasion of ukraine, what consequences will this meeting have for ukraine, including that we will talk about it in a minute, well, now listen to how people in beijing reacted

and to one of the two countries and blinkin's visit , he probably wants to resolve the recent conflicts of warships between two countries in the south china sea and to push economic development in the second half of the year if the united states does not adhere to the 1992 consensus on the status and ivan we have nothing to talk about for china and taiwan would be best reunite peacefully otherwise we can only resort to the power of learned states it is better to develop together peacefully it is pointless to impose sanctions on each other it is not good for scientific and technological progress which is good for humanity the united states is following a double standard they recognize that taiwan belongs to china but then they sell weapons to taiwan, by the way , i hope that there will be

peace and love between the two sides so that i can travel to the united states. i think that now these two countries are like lovers who have quarreled both parties have their own personalities and interests and do not want to compromise, but they are also quite similar in the sense that they take quite radical positions in a few minutes we will return to the discussion of this topic with experts from china no, just now he is ready to join the air petro shevchenko analyst and there should be direct communication with us, mr. petrychi, can you hear me, good evening , i congratulate you, i hear you, thank you very much, we see you now, you know, we mentioned that this is the first meeting at such a level in the last 5 for years, how much attention was paid to it in china itself and in what way the events were covered, well, a lot of attention was really paid , but i would add a little that this is the first

official, such a powerful, powerful visit to china . and before that there were missions by tim cook and also by gates and i think that it is precisely their missions and visits. they would push china to accept this long-awaited visit of anthony blinken. i think that in the future we will already witness what will happen to the bidens themselves. there will be a rumble at the summit of the apec countries. well, we will see how it turns out, and as for the tet, how it covers it very carefully, very carefully, but still, it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that china maintains such a vision of this visit that it is like the americans they asked very much for this visit and even this is such and such entourage of winken's meeting with seven he would give us an understanding of the fact that this is already this meeting, this meeting was more important to the americans because that's how

we learned about the meetings and all literally there for half an hour until the meeting itself, it seems that he already sat down like that, he made such an indulgence , well, i will meet you there, so i think that after all, china is trying, he is trying to show that he is already talking to the usa on an equal footing, although we understand that so far it is not the case. it is about what the meeting was when it was prepared. and as for the results of the meeting. and here is the positive rhetoric, which is one from the secretary of state anthony blinkin, it is characteristic of chinese high-ranking officials, which official statements are heard there, yes, quite yes positive rhetoric regarding the fact that there will be a certain structuring of relations, taking into account this meeting between biden and asa at the ball . last year, when such a certain well, i would say even such a half-hearted agreement was reached that relations although they will be in a state of such well as biden puts it, it will be a stickered strategy

, or they also call it concurrence, that is, such competitive interdependence. that is, it will be competition. but it will be so controlled and within certain limits. that is, it will not be. to enter, she will not heat me up to a state of conflict. i think that the chinese will understand this simply because of these i literally just now read the chinese copper and they said that the main achievement of the meeting with this wedge was that the americans and the chinese they said that no one is interested in the new cold war and also in that on increased also so that there was not there was not a very strong pattern of these emotions of ambition precisely in the indo-pacific region , therefore i think that the results are positive if we look from the point of view of what is now there will not be such a strong confrontation. but if we look from the point of view of whether there will be a qualitative reset of relations, i think here we must still look from a realistic point of view that if two countries are in a state of struggle for world leadership, then now they

will not agree on anything ms. that someone will reduce their ambitions, both players are aiming for world leadership. and what does it depend on whether these agreements will be preserved in the practical plane. as you correctly noted, for example, these promises china should not provide russia with weapons for the war against ukraine, and when it will be obvious that these statements are political and have realistic reinforcements . things are very much like this. perhaps it is a little unpleasant for us that in the official m.m. evolutionary reports , none of the americans told about the war. but i think that this issue was raised one hundred percent , as well as the issue of the fact that the usa increased its pressure, what about the fact that china he has er

at a minimum, to put pressure on the brain, as a maximum, if only to take certain steps there in order to radically push moscow to the point that it is necessary to make concessions on the issue of war. for example, the great sami, there are a lot of factors, starting with taiwan and ending with trade and economic relations, but i just think that if we continue to see a series of meetings between commercial officials, that's why something was announced, a meeting between the minister of commerce of china as the minister of commerce from the united states if we see that there will be a certain positive dynamic in high-level meetings, so i think that in the autumn we will witness what will be the structuring of relations, but on the other hand, there are many random factors, for example, such a layer or information

about the fact that in cuba they found a base that spooked the usa, a chinese base, something happened in the usa, such moments, of course , will have a negative impact on relations. the warming of relations about progress is certain, and thanks to which it was possible to achieve such progress, is it mutual compromises or vice versa , mutual pressure , well , definitely. as well as indirect desired influences. and if certain concessions were made, yes , they were achieved. i think that it was from the us that they made certain concessions. i think that this is the kind of rhetoric that i myself in the american estepishment are

primarily republicans. well, i think that's it they may no longer make certain concessions to china because this is such a radical position for the fact that china is such a threat . i think the chinese took it very seriously , especially considering that they did not increase the supply of weapons for the tying and so on. and i think that this is where china is. he said yes, we are ready for certain concessions. i think the americans said so well , we will also go for them, despite the fact that rhetorically china is raising the stakes because these lands are important for its reputation , so the question of taiwan and even now after meeting with the biblical scholar, they wrote on the website of the ministry of foreign affairs of the people's republic of china that cinema also emphasized china alone on the issue of taiwan, and so on , that is, i think that despite the rhetoric, china made certain concessions, and the americans only then went and opened certain axis channels economic, and later on, it was already strengthened as a political part in the form of this arrival of anthony blinken, but here a very

important point is precisely what the pressure was, i think the pressure was one hundred percent. is in a certain technological dependence on the united states of america, first of all, it is the rina of semiconductors, and secondly , it is soft, therefore, this factor was also key. has not changed as much as we would like , we can continue cooperation. i am sorry to rule out the possibility of a russian military attack on sweden, given that moscow has such capabilities, it is stated in the report of the defense committee of the swedish parliament, the swedish media reported that russia's ability to conduct operations with the help of the air force

, the navy, long-range weapons or nuclear weapons against sweden remains high, according to the report , russia also has the opportunity to act with special forces, according to the document . well, besides that, as the russian federation notes, even more has lowered its threshold for the use of military force and demonstrates a high political and military propensity to risk. i will remind you that year in may, finland and sweden officially submitted applications for the accession of countries to nato , and if finland has already officially become 31 fully legal members of the alliance, then sweden's application for accession hungary and turkey have still not ratified nato. olena yurchenko , a correspondent of radio svoboda in sweden , joins our broadcast olena my greetings good evening greetings please tell me

how this information was received in sweden how actively are such statements of the defense committee discussed? well, actually, do they consider possible russian aggression as a real threat ? they are actively discussing this. today, this report was made public, but the news about it started already in the morning, and many swedish content he emphasized that sweden's security policy has radically changed since 2017, when the previous report was published, that is, now it is already absolutely clearly stated that russia is an aggressor, russia is a threat and not only a threat to ukraine and european countries, but

and for sweden, i also want to note such an interesting trend when the swedish mass media publishes information about this report. they write about the fact that russia is waging an aggressive war on the territory of europe and, in my opinion, it is interesting because in this way they make it clear to the readers that something it is not a local conflict that is happening in ukraine, it is a global problem of a large scale. and what are the consequences that can be received by people in different countries and in scandinavia, including sweden, and if we talk about the appearance of such a statement from the defense committee, how much attention swedish media paid a lot of attention to the russian -ukrainian war, and reports are published almost every day . the swedish media follow the situation in ukraine very carefully . many have their own correspondents in ukraine

. attitude in general in sweden regarding the war and sweden's accession to nato because it was a very painful issue for the swedes, a country that had not fought for several centuries and it was difficult for people to understand such consequences that the country could have e which will perform e-e security obligations regarding the alliance, but there are now many publications in the swedish media that very, very carefully tell the readers what nato is , and literally with infographics, literally with