[000:00:00;00] from the 26th, kharkiv region and donetsk region, as well as the south of ukraine, odesa, mykolaiv, kherson-zaporizhia. tomorrow, until the 31st, in odesa and on the 27th in zaporizhzhia, there are also cloudy conditions. well , the crimea is temporarily occupied by enemies tomorrow plus the 28th, sun and clouds . yatnytsya and now serhiy rudenko and the verdict program of good evening continue. crimea, the russian hunt for zaluzhny and budanov and putin's isolation, does putin control everything and everyone, and most importantly

, is a civil war possible in russia , we will talk about this and other things today for the next hour, starting traditionally with information about the losses of russians in ukraine, uh, already in ukraine 221,460 russians died in the last day alone , the armed forces of ukraine destroyed 1,010 people with the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in ukraine 3,997 tanks, 7,750 armored fighting vehicles, 3,88 artillery systems, 614 rocket launcher systems - 372 air defense equipment 314 aircraft 36 helicopters 6645 units of automotive equipment 18 ships boats 1214 cruise missiles - 3393 drones 529 units of special

equipment i would like to introduce our first guest today - he is a colonel of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine roman kostenko mr. colonel i congratulate you and i am glad to see you in to our broadcast i wish you health we give up so let's start with the main topic of the main topic for ukraine and for russia because the russians today actively commented on the progress of the counteroffensive and putin and shoigu and other leaders of the occupation army about how the counteroffensive is taking place, as reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, the defenses are advancing in the melitopol and berdyan directions, it is about novodanilivka, a large tokmachka , a free willow field, makariv, where our military had partial success and is currently entrenched in the achieved boundaries. well, of course, about that what

is happening on the southern front , the spokesman of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, andriy kovalev, said, we will hear this in henichesk on the mobile phones of collaborators sms messages are coming with detailed instructions and coordinates of evacuation points, which in turn cause panic, so i understand that the counteroffensive may not be as rapid as everyone expected, everyone hoped that it would be similar to the kharkiv region and part of the luhansk region, as it was a year ago in may and june of the 22nd year, how do you assess the first three weeks of the great offensive of ukraine in the south and east about text messages, it is interesting that they just said that collaborators are coming there, it is interesting

from whom do they come, from vasyl vasylovich the kid or from bogdanovich or from i don’t know whether from uh really uh russia because ours also uh work and you with questioning information operations so that the enemy could not for a second feel himself in safety uh on our land uh, as for our uh counteroffensive, let's say so well, we understand what was there uh, inflated expectations were you there , the society was warmed up, and after such two lightning operations, let's say, let's call them kharkiv kherson operations, then probably carried out in the understanding of our entire society and probably our western partners that every counteroffensive is a minimum i don't know liberation there uh hundred hundreds or tens of kilometers with one blow i will say that those times have passed and now our soldiers after this winter campaign the enemy

realizing that we are gaining strength he understood the main directions of our counteroffensive and prepared himself quite well. therefore, now there is a fight for every meter, our soldiers are fighting for every meter of our land, and even now , when we liberated the population there every day points or several populated areas. now we can reach several hundred meters there , and this is already the result of passing the line that the enemy prepared in the engineering plan and where he placed his fire equipment, and when the enemy still outnumbers his forces and means, at the same time, we can still impose to him the initiative and to select the land for this is a skill of the highest class , let's say to fight against such an army as the russian federation, that's why our soldiers do what is possible, we see that despite the fact that we are attacking in the southern direction, the enemy still he still hasn’t changed, the lady will say his goals

later, his reluctance to pursue his goals . well, his desire, including the desire to seize luhansk and donetsk regions in the administrative borders, to enter the administrative zone in donbas . the enemy still has the strength not only to defend, to defend, he even has superior forces, but also to attack and conduct operations, and what we talked about in several directions, that is why the situation is quite difficult, but our heroic warriors are doing it in order to change it to their own side mr. colonel, today i listened to putin, who spoke before the military in the kremlin and talked about the fact that during the counteroffensive, the occupiers have some kind of advantage, he talked about some hundreds of vehicles that were hit during these two or two for half a week about the fact that for some reason the ukrainians stopped, well, a lot, a lot of different information. so when he talks about the destroyed equipment, what do you think, does he include

combine harvesters among the destroyed equipment, or do they still have their own accounting department? well, of course, this is not the first time see there communicating in the committee when the intelligence gave us a report er at the committee there we see that they are specially overestimating the er destroyed equipment and we communicate with everyone and those who come to us bring real numbers and we see real numbers that we have we lose less equipment than the enemy loses while on the defensive and when the enemy shows the cities there, we are there, our equipment is destroyed, well, listen , people, and our society, first of all, must understand that no counteroffensive can take place without losses, there are large losses, there are smaller losses, but they can be of course commanders should do everything possible to keep these losses to a minimum, but in a war, especially an offensive , in such active actions, there is no such thing as lossless . the main thing, of course, is technique. the main thing is

to lose less in the lives of our people. well, the highest value and always technology can be restored people, we are not alone, and we see that even our ministry of defense said that even when the enemy destroyed a few tanks there, a few infantry fighting vehicles there, the people are just like us they saw it even on video, they remained alive and the equipment will be repaired, they will not sit down again and go to storm the enemy’s positions , this is the ukrainian people, so of course they exaggerate and they try to show in front of their people that everything is going according to plan with them, but the plan was different than three days to capture kyiv , now they are telling how they are heroically taking place from our counteroffensive because he said the plans they are always adjusting and now they began to adjust from the offensive to maintaining a deaf defense in the direction of zaporizhzhia now we see that in the zaporizhzhia direction, there is also a general who worked there, who also sees that this is a strategic direction for us

to arrive there, where we saw the video, which, well , recently became, he will work at one of the e-e headquarters, so who leads the troops and i after that, i think everything will be fine. zelenskyi said in an interview with the bbc that the progress of the counteroffensive is slower than desired , but this is not a hollywood movie, wild people believe that it is a hollywood movie and are waiting for the results, now it is not on the map people's lives are at stake, the president said when asked what the end of the war looks like in his opinion, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine made it clear that victories on the battlefield are necessary, that ukraine will never sit down at the negotiating table, whoever will be the president in moscow if the russian invaders remain on the territory of ukraine according to you , do you understand our western partners, who sometimes mention that we need to

agree on something, i do not mean our strategic partners, but many representatives western countries, african countries, south american countries are talking about the fact that they need some kind of recognition of this new territorial reality, do they understand that this story is unacceptable for ukrainians, this story is not acceptable for those who are at the front and this is not the story is acceptable for those who know what the price of victory is and what is invested in this price. well, the first question of the president is absolutely, well, he is right in that it is not a hollywood film, but it is precisely our mass media there in particular, by some or let’s not say so by the authorities. perhaps it will be correct to say that through the means has its own information. it was uh , we will tell you and we will say raised expectations from

the counteroffensive there, all this was generated like that, there they advertised the offensive brigades of everything and the people with this may have been correct, but we need to say more about the fact that russia is a strong enough enemy, we will fight what is created to fight and we will not give up and we will not until the end of may, for example , when we enter the crimea, but until the end of the year or until some date as we like there sometimes they tell that the war will end there, and we will fight for victory. when it comes, when we win it, and everyone has to talk about it, because setting some specific dates, then disappointment came, and then people have to be motivated in a new way so that they do not fold their hands, i went through it as soldiers, i went through this many times, i understand that people must have the truth and the real course of events and give them information, but at the same time talk we will fight and no one will sit down, let's agree with the enemy on something at the expense

of our e-e partners well, of course, some of our partners, which are our closest partners, they understand that after what the russian federation did, there is no one there to negotiate with, or if there is to negotiate, well , let's tell them. you have no intentions, not exactly . the negotiating table, put an ultimatum in general. where he is, let them be there or several, let them simply remove the troops from our territory, that’s what we can talk about. yes, for example, i mean to put an ultimatum and then continue their hostilities , sit down at the negotiating table, do some kind of a truce is only in the hands of the enemy and it will show everyone that look at the radio, don't shoot anymore and sit down, let's go to the table . continue under no circumstances, of course , you can't do this, this society will not allow it, eh, as for those partners, well, partners are not always they are partners there, including african countries, because there are countries from south america. well, they have their own opinion , they express it. we have our own plan

. we have our own destiny. we have our own war. we have to do everything in our own interests and not in the interests of africans there countries or some others, we did not take away their territories, there is no such bloody war, and now we must do everything to return them and in the future, in other countries, such precedents no longer have a place, let's say, when one country comes in the 21st century and takes away lands another, and then they still try through some tracks to the fourth and fifth countries to come to an agreement by blackmailing them there with hunger, maybe they will blackmail them or that they will not supply them with grain, go to ukraine, make an ultimatum that you will starve, well, this is of course a tourist tactic on june 6, eh, the russians they blew up the kakhovsky gs and today columnist julian repka wrote about the fact that the armed forces of ukraine may launch a counteroffensive through the dried-up kakhovsky reservoir. according to him, the width of the reservoir is from seven to 30 km

. soldiers may already be able to cross the dry bottom of tracked vehicles. the occupiers do not expect this because they have set up mini-fields and trenches in a completely different place. at the same time , the spokeswoman of the press center of the operational command for the south, nataliya gumenyuk, said that the russians had increased the intensity of shelling on in the dnieper direction and is gradually returning to its former positions after retreating due to the detonation of the hydroelectric power station , the russians blew up the hydroelectric power station in order to slow down the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine as it looks now. this story is especially with what the german julian repke writes about that ukrainians can attack russian positions because of the dried-up kakhov reservoir . well, let's put it this way. here today in kherson oblast, mykolaiv oblast, the head of the supreme council ruslan stepanchuk was working. he visited kherson and

watched all the consequences that we had before what i am leading deserved the commanders who are in this direction let's say that there was so much information a long time ago, but if we speak concretely, answering your question here, everything will depend in the long run on what exactly this reservoir will look like, how it will be here now near the dnipro in principle what we see is that the water is already becoming its own. well, there is a normal channel, that is, below the dam from kakhovka and here to the confluence with the dniprobuk school. the left bank remains there, but then gradually we can see that the dams are higher there, there is nikopol marganets boryslav there. of course, everything will be, let's say it has dried up there, the water has receded somewhere for a kilometer , somewhere maybe more, but still, there are no

such ones there, let's dry it up there the equipment may simply pass and it will be clear, you know, i will not say whether it will be an offensive, but the fact is that new areas may open for active hostilities, which are right now in this direction, there is no such thing as the dnipro in these areas and just artillery duels, but if the water recedes and it will dry out there, there will be new directions for active hostilities, the front will expand precisely. well, there, let’s say, the land counter will expand . that’s why it will be there for us. it’s clear there, i think in a while, when we will understand how the weather will affect the russians, yes, they are returning to those positions. that the channel already enters there below the kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, its uh, let's say it's natural, that's the situation, but it's clear that he called the first line to them there, but we can see that they're already scrambling for something, putting some sort of order and occupying it again

i am defending here, right here, or the dnipro, er, across from kherson, aleshki, there are other settlements taras burivka. i think that the hostilities will be approximately the same as they were, will they be storming or will we actively teach for the future, time will tell a few days ago 73- and the naval center of strategic operations named after the chieftain of kosov, antin holovatoy, released a video of the offensive of ukrainians in the south and how our fighters entered the enemy's trenches and destroyed 10 occupiers, that is , they entered from the rear and destroyed them, we saw how these defensive redoubts were set up of the russian troops, you are a military man. what can you say, how did they build this line of defense, and what are the so-called lines , how many lines did they build there in kherson and zaporizhia regions

? first of all, i want to say that it is the 73rd center that i had to work with there and often have to work with it, that they are heroic guys and very skilled. them and that's why we will say that we see videos of how they work in cold blood destroying the enemy in the rear in the trenches of the enemy that's why we will say that special operations forces, we have many such units, but this is the 73rd - it is our only one that works specifically naval and the center of naval operations that works on the water, but there are components of the land-based one, which we have seen also successfully performs its operations very clearly , as regards their fortifications well, they prepare their fortifications very cool, we

noticed that at the beginning, he writes like a book i myself graduated from the military military institute, and we had statutes there. yes, in which it is written there how a platoon defends itself as engineering barriers, there is a company, a detachment of a battalion, and you know everything there, it was so beautifully drawn. so their trenches, those from the first line, can be taken like that and e- to insert e-e directly into the statutes and write new statutes, that’s how skillfully they approach it, they draw them out and it is very difficult to then knock them out from there, so the question in the zaporizhzhia direction is why they hold on like that because they pay a lot of attention they are allocated specifically to defense structures, they use there machines and barricades, machines for digging trenches, excavators and everything else , so here they have it. it is very

well established. to break through their defenses. this is not my personal point of view. everyone can see who flies and who controls what the enemy knows how to dig and defend. moreover, they always had a time when they supported us , seized the initiative in the rear, they were already digging trenches and equipping areas for that case if we counterattack, british intelligence has shown russian defensive fortifications in the north of crimea, because the russians are also digging trenches and creating defensive redoubts there, they are located 3.5 km north of the city of armyansk on a narrow isthmus that connects the peninsula with the kherson region , the length of the fortifications, according to british intelligence 9 km, well, the british conclude that the russians are obviously preparing according to the scenario that ukrainian troops will try to enter the crimea, well, this is what these redoubts look like, and

again, we see these lines of trenches and protective dugouts of all kinds of structures that may stand in the way of the approach of ukrainian troops according to your e-e, do we have enough strength to pass all these redoubts, because the russians , unlike the ukrainians, after all, e-e, on the administrative border of crimea and ukraine, everything they did create these defensive lines, which i understand did not happen, probably on february 24, 2022, when they came to us , do you know this? this is a very difficult question that you are asking me, are we ready for it here? i will not just say that we are ready or not here is the question you need strength calculations, means of analysis of these, there is no such portification structure that cannot be overcome, the question of the strength of the means and the price that

you are ready to pay for hmm, let’s say overcoming this or that engineering structure, let ’s say, and the price of war is the life of soldiers, it’s resources, it ’s that equipment is knocked down and everything else therefore, now, you know, we have to give commanders to the marines when we plan something for some kind of marines. so there they are defending themselves, for example, a motorized infantry platoon has 3 infantry fighting vehicles in it, it is reinforced by three tanks and some artillery. senior commander, and regarding this, we are already planning what forces and means we need in order to break through there, there are no mini-pellets , which means that we need some means of demining there, some artillery for suppression , some such and such a density of fire per linear meter, well it's me so that the audience understands. that's why everything needs to be calculated and there are no boundaries that are impossible to take questions there, as long as you have the resources to do it, so it will be clear with what

resources we will reach these boundaries now the main thing is to overcome the first frontiers that stand in the zaporozhye direction, and only then will we see how we will advance further , which according to you gives confidence to putin and the sheikh that we will not succeed in this counteroffensive, that is , they now have the resources to restrain ukraine in order to not to let ukraine further into the crimean peninsula to the east to the south and to cut off the land corridor of the russians from russia to the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, look, they still have serious resources, they are restoring their the agro-industrial complex and defense are the industrial complex, they are restoring it faster than there, we are increasing it, they are restoring the construction of the missile there, it is already there to the pre-war level , they have reached it, they are working on it, so they have a serious

resource and they rely on it. but we will also say that we have prepared reserve brigades, we also have a resource and point sometimes uh, you know how napoleon and napoleon said god is not on the side of the big battalions, he is on the side of the best shooters. well, our shooters really better hope for what is on our page turned his neck to all the resources of the russian federation a few days ago, uh, biden said at one of the meetings that the reality of the use of nuclear tactical weapons by the russians is quite high, and he talked about this colorado river that dried up there and said once they didn't want to listen to me that this river it will dry up, it will dry up and now they don't want to hear about the use of nuclear tactical weapons, i remember how, before the great war, bidenbuzz appealed that putin had already decided to attack

ukraine and that this attack would happen perfectly but taking into account this experience of the lessons from biden, is it still necessary to treat his current reservations more carefully, taking into account the fact that he usually draws such conclusions or gives some kind of message to the world based on this intelligence or the data, uh, it’s from ru or other services , this should be a serious alarm bell for us if i’m talking about viber, uh, it’s real , some experts say the same thing, i always said that i don’t have it, let’s rule it out to the end, i want to not believe it and it is up to you to find various facts in order to yourself to convince myself and everyone that this cannot be any more common sense, that there are many factors, you can talk about the whole world about the fact that this is the last straw, but we see how putin is gradually approaching this red line when he blew up the kakhovsky

before that, the hpp made an invasion of a fake hpp and gradually i don't see such a strong reaction from the world alone kakhovsky after that, only there, of course, someone condemned him, he did something there. yes, i'm sorry impotent about what the african countries told there we came there to negotiate some issues , but they are not interested in it at all. they just want our game there so that they can perform their role theatrically between ukraine and russia. we remember how president zelensky understood this in his briefings, so we should not rule out anything to be there of course, we are ready to do everything automatically on the military front so that this does not happen, but you can expect anything from putin , and he has already proven it, so we must be ready, but in no case do not be afraid, in no case do not to appear a or

mr. colonel, do you understand that putin has been acting as a terrorist for a long time and as a person who holds the whole world hostage because we have known for more than a year how the russian army is holding the zaporizhia npp and blackmailing ukraine with it in in russia, now they have blown up the kakhov dam, and in addition, on the russian popadin channels, they are discussing the topic of possible terrorist attacks and on other hydroelectric power stations, there are four more up the dnieper, including the kyiv hpp . i think he realizes that somewhere there is, let's say, his henchmen who are there understand that this is the only chance they may have to stay in their positions, and some of them have no choice, but

i think they all realize that someone will try to help him there get in the way, and someone understands that he is a dead end for us there, he should understand, but it is bad that he is not doing anything so far, except for some diplomatic statements. well, maybe there are some negotiations going on where we do not hear them. i think we are sure that they are going on there. there are agreements going on that we don't see, but all of them they talk like a monkey with a grenade, you know, i understand that at any moment he can throw it at you , how will events with our strategic enterprises and critical infrastructure objects develop further, because everything putin has done so far for the past 15 months, he has been using this principle of slicing up the peasants , that is , he has slowly carved out ukrainian critical infrastructure, and he continues to do so

because every night the territory of ukraine is being shelled , and in the cities, some ppp facilities are being destroyed. ours is struggling with this, but there is such a hit in the south, in the east, there, well, in general, the situation is quite critical with cities and villages, and in general with the functioning of uh, will nadal go for further escalation, because he and voenkor said that well, we are there to get into some house in kyiv there, well, it means somewhere in pechersk, it is not a problem at all, or whether he will go to increase this degree, well, definitely, i think that the rocket terror will continue because i will say that somewhere approximately we expected somewhere there december, uh, probably january, they spent about 80, there were 85 rockets a month, and then pico left, now in the spring. they started with 100 to 120 rockets, plus or minus, they may spend more

, even though they increased it, but we see that they are just about the same plus or minus , pre-war production is increasing, therefore, in principle, they can with their monthly production of missiles, if sanctions are not imposed against them, those enterprises cannot everywhere make their missiles in order to strike us again next month, and maybe they will be able to increase it, because they are trying to increase it, so it can continue, and we need to strengthen our air defense, and our partners need to impose sanctions against those subsidiaries, because it turns out that against the foundations of these enterprises, it is as if they introduced missiles that are being assembled, and a missile cannot be made into an enterprise alone estimates are collected, and there are still 20 entrepreneurs who buy them, make homing heads or some engines or something, and they do it without a sanction, and they calmly buy it and then collect it and therefore the company, in principle