[000:00:00;00] forever summing up the informational morning on the espresso tv channel, veterinarian news, i'm hrystyna parubiy, i'll tell you about the most relevant at the moment, tonight there was an explosion in kyiv , so far we know about two dead people , our correspondent valeriya pashko will tell you more about

the cause of the tragedy. what other details do you have? good afternoon. so far , two reasons are being considered: one is a gas leak , and the other is possibly explosives. this was reported by the mayor of kyiv, vitaliy klitschko, but in general, the rescuers say that the more probable cause is the botik gas, now the emergency services continue to work at the scene of the incident, clearing the rubble, a large number of services and the red cross help people and medics in general, two people died and four were injured. this is reported by the city military administration. by the way, according to the city prosecutor's office five people are injured, we know that two of them went to the doctors and are in the hospital , the city authorities also inform about this, the situation here is now calm at 8:10, the fire was already put out, i

will remind you that at night around three 45 was heard people say that the explosion was so powerful that it was not at the beginning of the war, many people thought that it was a rocket, but there was no air alarm. and we will hear what eyewitnesses say . so people continue to work here, about 70 rescuers and 13 pieces of equipment, and in the local government they say that everyone the people who were affected will definitely be helped and will be provided with temporary housing beforehand. four apartments here were destroyed. by the way, the mayor said that there were six, and they are still interviewing witnesses and trying to find out the exact reasons. tragedies, why did this actually happen? there are 126 apartments in this building, and those

people who were injured in their own house are being provided with the necessary help. five of them turned to psychologists in particular, and now they are already in a safe condition, by the way, we have not met people here who have been injured they have probably already been distributed to the place of temporary stay . the local authorities have promised to cover all the damages. by the way, the prosecutor's office has already initiated criminal proceedings for neglect of fire safety rules that led to the death of people studio thank you valeria, this was our correspondent, valeria pashko, from the details of the explosion in the capital's high-rise building, there are already five injured, among them a child will also be injured and pets will be killed . the russians

shelled pokrovsk in the donetsk region the previous evening. of houses". i was in the house, lying on the bed, the tv was turned off, it was like the window flew on me, and the tv flew onto the bed. leaving the crimea via the road bridge in chongar it is also impossible there, his gulyater serhii aksyonov writes that there was a hit at the moment, explosives experts are conducting an examination, traffic on the bridge has been stopped, the campaign is asking to remain calm, but the crimeans are already complaining on all their telegram channels, their level of anxiety is increasing, it is known in advance that the attack was carried out on june 22 at 5 in the morning according to the measurements, the neighboring

cities of chongar through lake sivash were also affected. now the armed forces of ukraine are advancing in several directions in the south, this has led to the agony of the putin regime, so russian propaganda is distributing videos on who alludes to the explosion of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is a terrorist attack being prepared at the gas station, this will become a key topic in the conversation with the guests of the project, says the great lviv, the journalist of the project andriy didovudiuk andriy will tell you in more detail, his word is yes, studio congratulations to the viewers of the espresso tv channel, this is indeed one of the key topics that the great is talking about today lviv will become the topic of the ukrainian panternatus, we will analyze this situation that we currently have in all areas of the front, we will talk about those areas where our armed forces of ukraine manage to advance. what difficulties do they face during operations? of course, we will talk about this in the context of the event that took place today in the crimea, where, as already reported, the bridge that

connects the peninsula with the mainland of ukraine was blown up today. this is an important event, because we understand that this is one of the elements of the complex of measures in which the armed forces of ukraine are taking to liberate the liberation of ukrainian territories , we will have yevgeny karasya, yulia mykhalchyshyn and other military and political experts , so it will be interesting, join the viewing thank you to andrii. it was the correspondent andriy davydyuk. he talked about the details. he talks about the big lviv that will be today - press . and that's it. until tomorrow. goodbye. glory to ukraine. this is a program. my name is serhiy rudenko . good day and good health to all . counteroffensive. the armed forces of ukraine live

on russians southern russians are preparing for the defense of crimea, the russian hunt for zaluzhnyi and budanov and putin's isolation, does putin control everything and everyone, and most importantly, is a civil war possible in russia , we are talking about this and other things today during the next starting the hours traditionally with information about the losses of russians in ukraine, 221,460 russians have already died in ukraine in the last day alone , the armed forces of ukraine have destroyed 1,010 people since 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 of fire 372 means of air defense 314 airplanes 306

helicopters 6645 units of motor vehicles 18 ships boats 1214 cruise missiles - 3393 drones 529 units of special equipment i want to present our today's first guest 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 on our air. i wish you good health in return, 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 counteroffensive and putin and shoigu and other leaders of the occupying army about how the counteroffensive, as reported by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine , is advancing in the melitopol and berdyan directions, it is about

novodanilivka, not a lot of work, tokmachka, willow free field, makariv, where our military has had partial success and is currently anchored on the achieved borders. well, of course , the spokesman of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, andriy kovalev , spoke about what is happening on the southern front. collaborators receive sms messages with detailed instructions and coordinates of evacuation points , which in turn cause panic, so i understand that the counteroffensive is ongoing maybe not as fast as everyone expected, everyone hoped that it would be similar to kharkiv oblast and part of luhansk oblast as it was a year ago in may and

june of 22 text messages are interesting, they just said that they are coming to the collaborators, it is interesting from whom they are coming from vasyl vasyliovych the kid or from bogdanovich or from i don’t know if from er really er russia because ours also er work and you from the questioning information operations for that so that the enemy does not for a second could feel safe eh on our land eh as for our eh counteroffensive, let's say so well, we understand what was there eh inflated expectations were you there society was warmed up and after such two lightning operations let's call them kharkiv kherson it was carried out, probably in the understanding of our entire society and probably our western partners that every counteroffensive is a minimum i don't know the liberation there, uh

, hundreds of 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 quite well . therefore , now there is a fight for every meter. populated areas or several populated areas . now we can there several hundred meters 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 prevails in his forces and means, at the same time, to impose the initiative on him and to select 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 and the enemy still hasn’t changed, ms. will further say her goals , the reluctance of goals. well, and the desire, including the desire to capture in the administrative borders of luhansk and donetsk regions, to go to one canton in donbass. and they are also there in the swat region counterattacks in the e-e direction continue and our soldiers heroically repulse them, therefore the enemy still has the strength not only to defend himself, he even has superior forces, but also to advance and carry out operations and what we talked about in several directions, therefore the situation is quite difficult, but our soldiers are heroic they are doing this to sway it to their side mr. colonel , i listened to putin today who spoke before the military in the kremlin and talked about the fact that during a counteroffensive the occupiers have some kind of advantage, he talked about hundreds of

machines that were hit during these two or two and a half weeks 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, do you think he includes combine harvesters among the destroyed equipment ? they have their own accounting department. well, of course, this is not the first time we see them talking in the committee when the intelligence gave us a report on the committee. there we see that they specially inflate the destroyed equipment and we communicate with everyone and who we they come and bring real numbers, and we see real numbers that 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 occur without losses, there are large losses, there are smaller losses, but

they can be, of course, commanders must do everything possible in order for these losses to be smaller, but in war, especially offensive operations, such active actions as lossless do not happen the main thing, of course, is technology, the main thing is to lose less in the lives of our people, because people are our highest value , and technology can always be restored, people are not alone , and we see that even our ministry of defense said that even when the enemy destroyed several tanks there there are a few combat infantry vehicles, people , and we saw it even on the video. they remained alive there , and the equipment will be repaired. they will not sit down again and go to storm the enemy’s positions . these are the ukrainian people, so of course they inflated and they try to show in front of their people that everything is going according to plan with them, but the plan was different in three days to capture kyiv , now they are telling how they are heroically taking place from our counteroffensive because as he said 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, general zaluzhnyi was working there. what kind of person, too , do you see that this is a strategic direction for us , to get there, where we saw the video, which, well recently, he worked at one of the e-e headquarters. let's say the same way he 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, savages people think that this is a hollywood movie and they are waiting for the results, now it is not like that, people's lives are at stake, the president said when asked what the end of the war looks like in his understanding, the supreme commander of the armed forces of ukraine made it clear that victories on the battlefield are necessary because ukraine will never sit down at the negotiating table. whoever is the president in moscow, if the russian occupiers

remain on the territory of ukraine, do you like it or do you understand our western partners who, well , sometimes there mention the need to agree on something, i don’t i mean our strategic partners, but many representatives of western countries, african countries , and south american countries say that they need some kind of recognition of this new territorial reality, do they understand about the fact that this story is unacceptable for ukrainians, this story is not acceptable for those who stand at the front and this is not a story acceptable for those who know what the price of victory is and what is included in this price well, the first question of the president is absolutely

right in that it is not a hollywood film, but it is precisely by our mass media there, in particular by some or let's not say so by the authorities , i guess it will be right to say through the mass media there was uh, let's tell and let's say raised expectations of a counteroffensive there, all this was generated there the brigades advertised the offensive of everything and the people were right about this, but it is necessary to say that russia is a strong enough enemy, we will fight, we will create everything in order to fight and we will not give up and we will not until the end of may, for example, when we enter to the crimea, but by the end of the year or by some date, as we are sometimes told that the war will end there and we will fight until victory. when it comes, when we conquer it , and everyone should talk about it, because setting some specific dates then comes disappointment and then people come in a new way to motivate them so that they do not

fold their hands . and no one will sit down, let's say negotiate with the enemy. and what about our e-e partners? well, of course, some of our partners, which are our closest partners, do they understand that after what the russian federation did , there is no one to negotiate with, or if they do negotiate, well, let's say give them you have not intense, not exactly. there, sit down at the negotiating table in general and issue an ultimatum. where is it, that they should be there or several, that they simply remove the troops from our territory , that’s what we can talk about. yes, for example, i mean to issue an ultimatum and then continue their hostilities to sit down at the negotiating table and make some kind of truce is only in the hands of the enemy and it will show everyone that look , now that you are no longer shooting, but sit down, where is the table? will admit, er, as for those partners there, well, as partners, they are not always partners, and

there, including african countries, because there are countries from south america. well, er, they have their own opinion, they express it . we have our plan. we have our own destiny, we have our own war, which is a future victory, and we must do everything in our own interests, and not in the interests of african countries or some others, we have their territory, there is no such bloody war , we did not take away their land, and we must now do everything to return and so that in the future and in others countries, such precedents no longer had a place, for example, when one country comes in the 21st century, takes the land of another, and then they try to negotiate with some third, fourth, fifth country by blackmailing them with hunger, they may blackmail them or that they will not supply them with grain, go to make ukraine an ultimatum, you will starve , well, this is of course a tourist tactic. on june 6 , the russians blew up the kakhovsky hpp, and

today columnist yulian repki wrote about the fact that the armed forces of ukraine can start a counteroffensive through the dried-up kakhov reservoir, according to him, the width of the reservoir is from seven to 30 km. soldiers may use tracked vehicles to cross the dry bottom. 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 nataliya gumenyuk of the south operational command said that the russians have increased the intensity of shelling in the dnipro direction and are gradually returning to their former position after retreating due to the russians undermining the hpp blew up the hydroelectric power plant in order to slow down the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine as it looks now. this story is especially related to what the german julian repke writes about the fact that due to the dried-up kakhov reservoir, ukrainians

can attack russian positions. well, let's say it today here in kherson oblast, mykolaiv oblast, the chairman of the supreme council , ruslan stepanchuk, visited kherson and looked at all the consequences that were and we together to what i am leading deserved the commanders who are in this direction. let’s say so much information was given. but if we say concretely answering your question here, everything will depend in the long run on how exactly this reservoir will look, what will it be like here now near the dnieper, 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 man well, of course, let's say already well , kherson came out, but more flooding remains there on the left bank, but then gradually we

see the riverbed, as for the higher dams there, that 's where nikopol manganets boryslav there of course er, everything will be dry there, the water has receded somewhere for a kilometer, maybe more, but still there are no such ones there, we will dry it, where the equipment can just come and it will be clear, you know, i will not say whether it will be an offensive, but the fact that new ones may open areas for active hostilities, which are now precisely in this area, there is no such thing as the dnipro over there and just artillery duels, but if the water recedes and dries up there , there will be new directions for active hostilities, the front will expand precisely well, there , let’s say, land crowns will expand. that’s why it we will be there. it is 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, once again i say the reason is that the channel enters there already below the kakhovsky hpp, its own, let's say

, this is a natural situation and but it is clear that he called the first line to them there, but they are already there, we can see that they are scrambling for something, setting up some sort of order and occupying the defense again, i am here, right, or the dnipro, er, opposite kherson, aleshki, there are other settlements, taras burivka. i think that approximately the fighting will be the same as it was whether we will storm or we will be active, we will teach for the future, time will tell. a few days ago, the 73rd naval center for strategic operations named after the commander-in-chief antin holovatoy published a video of the ukrainian offensive 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, we saw how these defensive redoubts of the russian troops were set up, you as a military officer. what can you say about how they

built this line of defense and these so-called lines, how many lines they built there in kherson and in the zaporizhzhia region, what do they look like, what do these surovikin lines look like, or what are they called there? well, first of all, i want to say that it is the 73rd center that i have had to work with there and often have to work with it, that these are heroic guys and are very skilled . very, very correct, a good commander, who himself was a combatant at one time, carried out operations, so let's say the enemy is afraid of them, and that's why we see videos of how they work in cold blood, enemy destroyers in the rear in the enemy's trenches, so let's say so, we have a lot of special operations forces of such units, but this is the 73rd - it is our only one that works specifically for naval operations and the center for naval operations that works on water, but there are components of the land unit, which we have seen also successfully

carry out its operations, very clearly , as for their e-e fortifications well, they are very cool preparing their fortifications, we noticed that at the beginning he wrote the book, i myself graduated from the military military institute, and there we had statutes yes, in which it is written there as a turn, defends as engineering barriers, there is a company, a branch, a battalion, and there you know everything so beautifully it was drawn, so their trenches from the first line can be taken and inserted directly into the statutes and write new statutes , how skillfully they approach this, they draw them out and it is very difficult to knock them out from there, and the question in the zaporizhzhia direction is why they stick to that that they pay a lot of attention specifically to defensive structures, they use machines and barricades, machines

for digging trenches, excavators and everything else, that's why they have it. you have to spend a lot of time to break through their defense. 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 equipped areas in case we counterattack , british intelligence showed russian defensive fortifications in the north of crimea, because the russians are also digging trenches there and creating defensive redoubts, they are located 3.5 km to the north and

the city of armyansk on the narrow isthmus that connects the peninsula with the kherson region, the length of the fortification, according to british intelligence officers, is 9 km, and the british conclude that the russians are obviously preparing for 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 e-e trenches and all kinds of protective dugout structures that have could 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 on unlike the ukrainians. after all, on the administrative border of crimea and ukraine, they still created these protective lines , which i understand was probably not on february 24 , 2022, when they came to us, do

you know that? it is a very difficult question that you are asking me. are you ready for it? i will not say that you are ready or not. the question here is that you need to calculate the strength, the means of analysis . there is no such portification structure that cannot be overcome. let's say one or another engineering structure, but the price of war is the life of a soldier, it's resources, it's equipment is broken, and everything else is because of it. well, now , you know, we have to give water commanders when we plan something for someone who has water. that 's how they defend themselves, for example... there is a motorized infantry platoon in it there are 3 bmps, it is reinforced by three tanks there by some artillery of the senior commander, and in relation to this we are already planning what forces and means we need to break through there, there are no mini-pellets , so we need some means there

demining, some kind of artillery for suppression, there is such and such a density of fire per linear meter, well, that's me so that the audience understands. therefore, everything must be calculated, and there are no boundaries, which are impossible to take questions there, just so that you have the resources to do it, that's why it will be clear with what resources we will reach these frontiers, now the main thing is to overcome those frontiers, the first ones standing 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 in because we will not succeed in this counteroffensive, that is, they will now have the resources to restrain ukraine, to prevent ukraine from letting ukraine further into the crimean peninsula to the east to the south, and to cut the land corridor of the russians from russia to the kherson and zaporizhzhia regions, look, they still have serious resources they are restoring their agro-industrial complex and the defense industrial complex, they

are restoring it faster than there, we are increasing it, they are restoring the construction of missiles there, they are already there, up to the pre-war level, they came out , 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 riflemen, our riflemen really better hope for that that on our page he 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 russians using nuclear tactical weapons is quite high, and he was talking about this colorado river, which is there dried up and said once they did not want to listen to me that this river will dry up it has dried up and now they do not