next, on our espresso airwaves, there will be a project of radio freedom, freedom in the morning, and we remind you that traditionally at 9:00 all ukraine observes a minute of silence in memory of those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression. and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed by russia

. my greetings are the freedom of the morning project. my name is oleg galli. at this time, we are traditionally talking about important things. don't miss the ukrainian troops in the direction of bakhmut. they promptly intercepted the initiative, says deputy minister of defense hanna maleru tim, in spite of everything, according to her , russian

forces are trying to hold on to the city by pulling up reserves. with the defense villages and then demand huge sums from relatives for liberation. what is the situation in the occupied regions and how are the armed forces of ukraine liberating the south from the occupiers look, large-scale exercises have begun in ukraine in the event of an accident at the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, we are talking about the zaporizhia, dnipropetrovsk, mykolaiv, and kherson regions, which are included in these exercises . well, we will ask the representatives of the authorities for all the details . if you watch us on youtube, radio svoboda . then be sure to subscribe to our channel and also share this video with your friends, then high-quality and verified information will be available to an even greater number of people, the armed forces of ukraine are advancing under fire, this was reported by the commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine oleksandr syrsky in the telegram channel also published a video of the work of artillerymen and infantry from the direction

of bakhmut, reports that the ukrainian forces destroyed the russian cornfield mortars and the warehouse of ammunition. these shots, which we will show next, can shock the defense of ukraine, they intercepted the initiative of the russian forces on this part of the front , deputy minister of defense anna already says this painter, according to her, the armed forces of ukraine advanced in the villages south of bakhmut, in particular, in the direction of the village of klishchivka

, 1,200 meters further south, in the direction of kuryumivka, by 1,500 meters. the bakhmut direction and cite are praying for bakhmut with all their might . they are trying to hold the occupied positions to carry out counterattacks, but are gradually retreating after the losses suffered in the meantime in the daily summaries of the ministry of defense of russia for for the last day he has been trying in the direction of bakhmut, it is not mentioned at all, but in the village of nizhny syrogoza, in the temporarily occupied territory of the kherson region, to the east of kherson itself, the russian military has detained about a hundred people and is holding them in order to obtain a ransom for them , deputy minister of defense of ukraine hanna informed about this the painter mostly says the painter, the people they keep are wealthy local residents , for example, businessmen, they are formally accused of cooperation with the defense forces of ukraine and demanded from their relatives, large sums of money, all this is done by the russian military for their own enrichment, the deputy minister notes, two people died and two more people were injured as a result of the shelling of kherson itself. this was reported

by the head of the kherson regional military administration, oleksandr prokudin. people died when they came for humanitarian aid to the local school in which the point of invincibility, it was russian troops who fired at it, in addition , residential buildings, a medical facility and an official car came under fire - he says about putin, he is reported by the headquarters that over the past day, russian forces have shelled the village of antonivka on the right bank of the dnieper, and the artillery of the villages of veletenske and dniprovske, meanwhile , conflicting information continues to arrive from the russian public as to whether the ukrainian military is present on the left bank, i.e., on the occupied bank of the dnieper in the kherson region. i immediately have to note that the ukrainian general staff does not say a word about it at all, next to the russian ministry of defense, the presence of ukrainian forces on the left bank was denied the day before by the department published a video in which the chief of staff of the regiment with the call sign bely says that the ukrainian army was not there and is not

there, however, an extended version of this comment was published by the russian state agency ria novosti, and there he says that the ukrainian military took advantage of the terrain they got under the antonov bridge on an island near oleshki, the russian publication moscow time notes that there is a discrepancy in the words of white published on the telegram channels of the ministry of defense iryna novosti, that he actually acknowledges the presence of this information of ukrainian forces on the left bank of the kherson region, the presence of ukrainian forces in the area of ​​the antoniv bridge continues to be denied by the head of the occupation authorities of the kherson region, volodymyr saldo, the day before he again stated that no bridgeheads of the ukrainian forces were created there and they allegedly do not have the potential for this nataliya humenyuk, head of the united coordination press center of the defense forces of southern ukraine joins our broadcast. i congratulate you. glory to ukraine says that in the area of ​​the antoniv bridge, the entire

bank of the dnieper is under the reliable protection of the russian troops i will try to correctly formulate the question whether the russian forces are really doing so well in this area and there is no fear of the armed forces. with those provoked in order to justify their e-e fire work on residential buildings of civilians that night, in particular, more than 47 times were fired upon. the right bank is de-occupied and people suffered very heavily from these shellings, in fact not having the opportunity to rest at night, eh, the enemy really concentrated, concentrated his efforts now on kherson, antonivtsi, these ticks

are next to them and are trying to use as much as possible, including prohibited incendiary shells, in order to create eh such a dusty land eh indeed, this is justified by their fear that the defense forces can actively operate from this direction, and they are trying to create an open space for themselves and, in addition, to hinder the actions of the forces in this way the defense of ukraine in the conditions of the probable advance, as they believe, they feel powerful oppression - this is the zaporizhia direction , they suffer significantly in the east and cannot give advice and understand what threats directly await them in the dnieper direction, i remember if we are talking about russian troops in the occupied territories

the left bank, how many of them are there now, and it is possible that some additional transfer of forces is observed, they have nowhere to raise their forces , and there is no need for them, because the grouping of troops was formed at that time when they expected any active actions from the defense forces, it was quite powerful, there are enough of them there to spread out in three directions to supply the reserve east and be strong in the zaporizhzhia direction and hold the defense in the dnipro direction. therefore, in principle, they do not have reserves needed, but we are methodically working to prevent their potential from being negative, and including using the example of the chongar bridge , we should not deprive them of the opportunity so that they do not have such an opportunity to raise the reserve

the official reports of the general staff say that in the kherson direction, for example, the russian forces are concentrating their main efforts precisely on the prohibited advances of ukrainian troops , what can you talk about? and how is this happening , that is, is the involvement of aviation, or is it possible that there are any new methods of how the russian forces are trying to do this first of all, they are trying to keep such a carpet fire on the opposite bank, because let me remind you, this is a difficult job for us, they are hiding behind the locals , and we, realizing that people there suffered from there are floods and there is still water in many settlements and a very difficult humanitarian situation. we cannot hit civilians and destroy the enemy who is hiding behind them. we need to find their concentration where they are. their destruction will still be safe for the local population. work, but the enemy manifests himself as a criminal terrorist who fires at peaceful settlements and completely covers the right bank with fire

in order to prevent any advance of the troops of the defense forces, but the situation in which they got to the left bank, after all, it is quite difficult for them, all the positions they can regain because of their mining . spontaneous when the water blew them up than my barricade on the explosive and moved them in such a chaotic sense, they do not know where it is now mined, where no, they are they suffer from intestinal infections , they suffer from moral and psychological disorder and discord within their units, because you and the events that happened on the weekend eh. in a moral and psychological sense, what are they doing here if this is happening in their country? tell me, please. deputy minister of defense hanna malyar reported that

in the settlement of nizhny sirogoza in the temporarily occupied territory of the kherson region, in order to obtain a ransom, the russian forces placed about a hundred people in custody , in particular among they are entrepreneurs, then they will allegedly demand money from their relatives for their release, do you know anything possible about the fate of these people and how often such cases occur but it is possible not only in this in a locality, this is basically their tactic. they very often resort to such police methods of putting pressure on the local population, eh, they can’t apply it everywhere due to the peculiarities of even the local contingent, but here they really found people who, eh, let’s say, make up the businesses of the summer of the relevant population point and try to press er, which may not, in principle , be a direct way to confirm that they

are preparing for a certain gesture of goodwill. looting, this means that they already understand that soon they will not be here . please tell me, maybe there are some new instructions that the representatives of the occupying power received from the kremlin. and the matter of how to act before the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine, which has already been announced, is happening. is not as powerful as it imagines. there, the russian side a-and they hardly have any additional instructions other than to keep er-er the defense that they have built er-er because their advance in our direction, in particular, where the front line runs along the dnipro river, in principle, they do not see and have no prospects for this task, because they understand that they will not be able to advance to the side where the dense defense of our forces is, and even

such sorties of sabotage and reconnaissance groups are no longer applied in particular and losing every day, in fact, from our combat work of the world and non-flop which was stolen from the local e-e and re-equipped for their needs, they actually have no prospects for promotion, they are forced to maintain these boundaries, but they also they are very deeply and seriously aware that they have additional lines of defense behind them and they are already looking at them, realizing that they will have to leave, one more short question to conclude: it will be in two parts in crimea, do the russian forces continue to build possibly some additional lines of defense and what is the situation with missile carriers in the sea as of this morning as of this morning in the black sea one missile carrier that was taken out for duty yesterday is uh eight missiles in caliber

may be ready for admission to duty hmm it was resumed after a two-day break, and it is quite likely that during this time they planned and developed some kind of new strategy of missile terror , we are observing the activity of enemy drones, this indicates that they are looking for new targets, which means that we must be on the alert. and as for the construction of additional defensive lines in crimea itself , we we do not observe such activity , there is no resistance, and in principle they have already realized that what they have been building will not help to build additional ones, there is no sense and, in fact , resources, because now they have another problem it is necessary to somehow deal with the problem of my water supply, which they created for themselves. thank you for this inclusion . natalya gumenyuk, the head of the united coordination press center, the defense force of the south was a guest

of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in the occupied kherson oblast in crimea, and whether russian missile carriers have been withdrawn into the sea actually the probability of a missile attack on ukraine morning project about important things we talk to current guests on current topics in order to understand what is happening in ukraine and the world ukraine and the events here, the full-scale invasion of the russian federation into ukraine . these are the top topics for discussion in recent months . we continue to talk about the situation at the front. ihor romanenko, a military expert, reserve lieutenant general, is in touch with us. the situation in the direction of bakhmut , the ministry of defense says about the advance of the armed forces , it is about the villages around and about the battles actually on the flanks of the city itself. do you think that the russian army will have enough reserves of equipment and people to keep bakhmut under its control? control well, in principle, strategically, no, at the moment, they are transferring

reserves here because this is a creaky place, eh , joint solidar and bakhmut are almost the second russian stalingrad, eh . of the soledar church, yes, it is around bahmut, it is, well, it is valuable from the point of view of what place it will occupy in the future, but the offensive force of the barons of ukraine, they understand all this and try to get as much as possible. moving forward er on the flanks and uh, there is an encirclement directly of bakhmut, but recently our uh units that operate from the north from the solidarity have been activated, and therefore uh, there are definitely

five such views that are the most promising . ato is not yet in general grouping of enemy troops in the sledar region of bakhmut and carrying out thus, mr. igor, the actions of the offensive, but analyzing the situation at the front from your point of view, where is the power of the russian federation? more precisely , in which direction is the weakest position from a military point of view, that is, perhaps few troops maybe because of weak defense, did the army of the russian federation prepare carefully, as the minister of defense of ukraine reznikov says about it, that it paid off everywhere, they mined enough everywhere, and therefore it complicates the advancement of the armed forces, well, this cannot always be the case everywhere, but there are places where they did it stronger and where is the weak baron and here is the initial action of the defense forces of ukraine, the units of units that operate on e-e during

e-e 1500 and more km of active hostilities - this is from kharkiv to kherson region there are sections where they, let's say, change their attitude to defense, for example, they flooded the territory on the left bank of kherson, parts of their units withdrew from this direction and reinforced zaporizhia and donetsk, now those territories are drying up. they are becoming more and more suitable for use from the point of view of the introduction of hostilities, and enemy units are returning to this position, but in general and from the point of view of defense, it has not yet been restored to the enemy, it is not so strong, but the conditions in it seem to be

quite difficult. well, in general, to open areas there, it contributes to the use of aviation the enemy and well, one way or another, it will be a week or 10 days from now to make a decision on further actions, because now the hostilities are taking place on the line, for example, in the zaporizhia direction of the tavria group on the tactical line, that is, the first line of defense of the enemy, and it is necessary to make a decision on where to inflict fire damage and concentrate the introduction of reserves at least operationally at the previous level, in the near future this situation should be clarified, and the de-occupation of the south of ukraine, in particular, the left coast of the kherson region, which today goes to which is occupied today, how far is this process

it will be difficult to assess how the russian forces behave in preparation for the counteroffensive actions of the armed forces of ukraine and the detonation itself. for example, the destruction of the dam is more accurate, that is. how do you think this process will be complicated, difficult and long? the enemy has been preparing for 9 months and has been building his defense in different directions, for example, zaporizhia understood that this was a perspective for the advancement of the defense force of ukraine in that direction, and that is why they prepared and built a strong defense, but this does not mean that it is impossible to take it in certain directions. and that is why we see that groups of our generals have been several times directly to the more difficult areas of the front, where the situation is being studied, intelligence is being conducted, and at the same time tactical level actions are being taken to dislodge the enemy from the first line by inflicting

maximum damage and forming prospects for a further offensive. and kyrylo bogdanov says that private military the wagner company will no longer fight in ukraine, at the same time , experts call the wagnerites one of the most combat-ready and well-prepared russian military, on whom the russian the military command must fill this gap, is there no such need, and russia has enough of a regular army, the need is definitely prepared infantry, especially those that have good experience in assault operations, which are in aggro , there is such a need, but how much are these wagnerites who are now, well a return to the old structure is impossible, it is now brought to belarus on a contract, several percent of them are going to sign a contract with the armed forces of the russian federation, that is

, the final decision has not yet been made, where and how they will be used in the future, some of them are which is trying to return to money places in africa , the middle east, in countries such as the small central african republic of libya, but to what extent will they be allowed to do it, well, first of all, if they had gold in the head of the national guard, together with putin, they would take away heavy equipment and it was before the russian guard or when there was this well-known march on moscow , in fact , there was no adequate possibility of potential in the formation of the armed formation of the russian federation , using this gold, apparently, convinced putin that it was necessary to strengthen it with heavy equipment and

most likely, this is the first one, it will be weapons from a private company, well, private, these conditions are because putin himself spoke in his previous lie that this is a private company, private according to russian legislation, it cannot be operated in russia, but the law is what it is like in russia, where wanted to go there and went out, and that's why the process over the wagner army is going on in the form it was, this formation will no longer exist. and this in itself is good for the armed forces of ukraine, it is also important what moral and psychological damage they caused

the compass of weapons is in the armed forces of the russian federation, which sowed confusion in the minds of putin's entourage, the so-called kremlin towers, where putin is trying to raise his markets, the rating after ane would not have run away during the action of this bush, to see him activate his doubles driving around the country, somewhere, there, something, i hug and talk to people , but it is precisely for this reason that the actions show that he was frightened, that he showed weakness, that he was saving in front of the treated well, if he did not ask to forgive him, it is unlikely that he would prigozhin is meant, therefore, in the near future, the events will be known

, both directly on the prigozhin, and the army has one more final question, mr. igor, how do you assess the threat of an offensive from belarus, when , where, for example, were the wagnerites supposed to go, and how realistic is it? that the secretary of the national security and defense council, oleksiy danilov, reported that the president of ukraine , volodymyr zelensky, instructed the supreme commander-in- chief to consider the issue of the wagnerites in belarus at the next meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief, that is, obviously ukraine different options, different scenarios, considers how realistic the scenario is that belarus may launch another attack on the territory of ukraine, in terms of the attack, it is still very far away if they will try , because as we said, there are no direct troops of the armed forces of belarus, that's where all the formations are thousand 30 35 directly fighting somewhere 8-10 thousand but it is unlikely they are going to act against our group which is in the north of us in the northeast general neev heads this group from the side

of the barons of ukraine well, the wagners exactly discussed here, the question is unknown, they will not enter, they will not enter in what form , and so on, that is, the situation is developing into a dynamic panic, there should not be a pragmatic analysis of the 16 months of war , and certainly the experience of waging war and the defense forces of ukraine have a reaction this is for the majority of the society of the citizens of ukraine, so we will see. thank you very much for this shutdown. mr. yuriy romanenko, military expert of the general's reserve lieutenant, was in touch with us, we talked about the operational situation at the front and what to expect next, i remind you look at the freedom of the morning, we only have important topics and important guests, then i will tell you in particular about what security guarantees will be for ukraine from the eu, the snakes shed a little light on

the future decisions of european officials , among the most important is the continuation of funding for the supply of weapons to ukraine. what other points provide for security guarantees and what they say that in kyiv, in ukraine , large-scale exercises have begun in the event of an accident at the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, they are talking about zaporizhia, dnipropetrovsk, mykolaiv , and kherson regions, which are included in training of representatives of the authorities, we will ask all the details, by the way, i suggest that you write in the comments under this broadcast how do you get the latest news, it is youtube telegram or maybe informational news sites and which of these sources are the platforms of radio liberty, this is important for understanding what our audience is in zaporizhzhia, special civil defense training was held in case of a possible accident at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the regional military-civilian administration reported that they involved local officials, rescuers, law enforcement officers to work out scenarios

that may arise in the event of a probable accident on the air force, and also to be ready to inform and evacuate the population during the exercises , they trained to also measure the radiation level and arrange a special shower to wash off the remains of radiation, of course it is terrible, it is terrible for the family, for the child, how should the algorithm it is very scary to perform actions, we are worried that god forbid that a criminal will happen, but for a while after the training, we are much more confident that our services can do it control and will be able to help us and the population will also be protected to this world help us stop this terrible disaster so that they do not die our children, our parents , please respond to the world help stop this terrible disaster in the event of a terrorist attack on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, according to the regional military civil administration

, it will be necessary to evacuate 130,000 people say that there is currently no such threat, but such training will be held until the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is occupied by russian villages, i will remind you that earlier the head of ukrainian intelligence kyrylo budanov and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyi warned that russian forces were preparing an alleged terrorist attack on the zaporizhzhia npp and said that the cooling pond and four reactors out of six were mined. the russian side accuses them and calls them lies. of the regional military administration joins our broadcast. i greet you. good day. let's start with the most relevant. the main directorate of intelligence of the ministry of defense reported a few minutes ago that the military of the russian federation is reducing its presence on the territory of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in particular, three employees of the nuclear power plant passed through there, and ukrainian employees who previously signed a contract with the nuclear power plant were advised to evacuate by july 5