[000:00:00;00] from this show, they are all so very competently throwing in their photos, we definitely understand that this and the propaganda component is clearly present here, uh, now we have 9:00 in the morning, this means that ah, now we will remember all those who died in the russian-ukrainian war of light and may their memory be felt with god, let's honor with a moment of silence the memory of the ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed

by russia . greetings to everyone, this is the freedom of the morning. my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about such topics as passing through kerch bridge is not working, traffic jams have formed, russian tourists are asked to keep calm and look for a land route to crimea, the occupying authorities of the peninsula reported damage to the illegally built crimean bridge , russian telegram channels write that

at least two explosions were heard, what is happening in occupied crimea, we will tell you the details in a minute, we will also talk about the counteroffensive the ukrainian military adjusted its strategy and reduced the losses of western equipment to 10%, the new york times writes, meanwhile , russian troops have stepped up and are advancing on the kupyan direction in the kharkiv region and near the village of bakhmut, the defense of ukraine is taking the initiative, they say in the command of the armed forces of ukraine about the situation at the front, we are talking with the military and an expert from the odesa port, the last ship with food from ukraine has left within the framework of the grain agreement, the ryders agency reports that it will continue in russia was even offered the lifting of sanctions, and the turkish president hinted that he had already agreed with putin whether they would continue the black sea grain initiative and under what conditions if you watch us on youtube

on the radio freedom channel, be sure to ask your questions to the speakers of our morning show just below this video, and also do not forget to set your preferences and subscribe to the radio freedom channel , an extraordinary event occurred on the crimean bridge, the traffic on the crossing was stopped at night, the head of the occupying authorities of the peninsula serhiy aksionov reported an extraordinary event occurred near the 145th pillar from the krasnodar region of russia, wrote aksenov in the telegram channel, but he did not specify what exactly happened, at the moment it is known that not only the automobile was stopped, but also railway traffic of the crossing as a result of which car traffic is established on the crimean bridge are clarified on the spot by the law enforcement agency of the ministry of emergency situations, respectively, and the service authorized by the krasnodar territory ministry of the russian federation and the republic of krym, the relevant information will be published on official sources from the point of view of railway communication, i want to address

all tourists i just discussed something with the first deputy minister of transport of the russian federation kostyuk mandra aleksandrovych until 9:00 lezhnyk road communication from crimea will be restored. but in one of the telegram channels of the krasnodar region they write that the railway connection between the occupied crimea and russia has already been restored , but there is no information about this from the occupying authorities at the moment, the russian public reports that the cause of the situation was missile attack telegram-channel shot writes that explosions were heard in the area of ​​the bridge at night, and telegram-channel sota reports that one section fell, and the base writes about two dead and one wounded person, russian public also assumed that the cities were attacked by unmanned sea drones and that the supports of the structures were allegedly damaged. but the russian ministry of transport does not confirm this information , they say that the supports are intact and only the road surface on one of the sections from

the crimean side is damaged, and in ukraine they deny the accusations of involvement in the missile attack on the crimean city is the head of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, kyrylo budanov , said that no one knows what is happening in russia and hinted that the situation with the crimean bridge is everything that happens on the crimean bridge in rostov or voronezh in moscow is allegedly a sign of the collapse of power in russia, the internal problems of moscow, which is at the stage of disintegration, the government 's inability to control the army of hired killers from private military companies, internal protests of the attack of disobedience to the dictatorial regime will continue to flash brighter and brighter in the news the agenda of the occupying country , the course claims that there were no missile strikes on the crimean bridge on 07/17/2023 in the comments under our stream, there are options for what could have happened and who contributed to of this effort and here they publish a video of long-kilometer queues on the crimean bridge, while russian police officers offer motorists to get to crimea by ferry

or turn around and go back to russia, but here it is worth noting that the movement of the kerch ferry between the krasnodar region of russia and the occupied crimea was stopped the day before on sunday evening this happened , while the reason for such a stop was not reported , the russian public also wrote that because of this extraordinary event on the crimean bridge in russia , the security council was convened and what about the situation informed putin, the state russian media, meanwhile, do not report anything about it. and it is interesting that another representative of the occupation authorities , the so-called head of the ministry of resorts of crimea , vadym volchenko, asked tourists not to leave

the hotels and sanatoriums until further information , but ukrainian pravda, referring to own sources, writes that the night the attack on the crimean bridge was a special operation of the security service of ukraine and the ministry of defense, it seems that naval drones were used for this , there is no official confirmation of this information at the moment, but about what could have happened on the crimean bridge and how can russia use it in the future, we asked the spokeswoman of the operational command of the south, natalie humenyuk, that it is known that it really continues that they are restless, they are worried about the fact that we warned that it was necessary to leave the crimea for those who came here a long time ago, they should have listened our recommendations are so overloaded, they probably overloaded their business, the fact that they are now actively pedaling this topic may indicate that this can be used if one argument

regarding the grain agreement and in particular many it is in principle for specialists. obviously, in the conditions of a hybrid war, it is difficult to trust the media, which no one trusts, even they themselves, and we can only talk about what we see. which were used by the russians long before e-e, we remember these queues at the control points for entering the bridge, the activation of the fleet around that area of ​​the sea and the constant presence of the ship group there and including and even from the side of the sea of ​​azov if you remember our summary for the past three days is atypical activity

of ships in the area of ​​the sea of ​​azov, they were just on the other side of the bridge in order to expose the surface situation, that is , they concentrated their efforts as much as possible on all kinds of protection of this object. in crimea and understand the situation, what is currently known about what happened there, what consequences will this have, so stay with us , write your questions and your thoughts about what could have happened on the crimean bridge a now let's talk about the situation on the front. well, in particular in bakhmut - in bakhmut, the defense village of ukraine and the russian military are firing at each other, deputy minister of defense hanna malyar said about this, and in general already in the direction of bakhmut , according to her, the ukrainian army is gradually moving forward, in particular on the southern flank around bakhmut is advancing every day, but on the northern flank of the village , the defenders are trying to hold the occupied positions , while the russian forces are attacking, while in

the city itself they are digging in and withdrawing there elite units, the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine, serhiy cherevaty, said on the air of the telethon that on the russian side , the army reserve bar and stormtroopers, as well as units of the special forces and airborne troops, serhiy cherevaty also noted that the initiative on the battlefield is on the side meanwhile, the russian ministry of defense reports on the alleged repulsion of four attacks by the defense forces of ukraine. this is us on weekends in the lysichan and soldarovo artemiv directions, i will remind that the russian forces call artemiv the ukrainian bakhmut. major petru kozik, the commander of the svoboda battalion as part of the fourth operational brigade of the ngu, joined our broadcast. i welcome you to our broadcast . thank you for joining us about the news in bakhmut around bakhmut. tell us about the situation around bakhmut in general. can you please explain? and

why is it that on the southern flank around the city there is an advance of the armed forces every day? as the painter reports , but on the northern flank is the village of defense they are trying to hold the occupied positions, are the russian forces attacking more there, or are they only attacking the northern flank? congratulations, glory to ukraine , the situation is really difficult, well, it is conditionally in the northern, southern, it’s simple. advance. i am grateful to the leadership of the general staff that they do not demand a large sharp advance there in order to minimize losses, but there are sectors of work where the enemy stands, in particular, and just opposite the section, we are only saying where the enemy

has occupied the dominant heights, has strong points such as like an oil refinery and so on, he has accumulated a lot of equipment and is trying to counterattack, that is why such a dynamic work is being done that in some areas it seems that there is a gradual movement by the millimeter. well, there is no need to go forward there, the task is just to hold the line and in active defense there to fire water because you are the enemy, so the situation is not just the situation is complicated by the fact that, despite the various optimistic statements, the enemy still has a rather serious accumulated or a set of a large number of tanks, in particular, there on our site, uh, several assaults were exclusively tank assaults there, and already with tank assaults on the tanks themselves, the landing party went accordingly

after the tanks caught fire, they are already trying to use this unit of the stamzet, it is basically the same prisoners, only they have the contract is with the ministry of defense directly and not with a private company, but they are used in the same way as meat is thrown by direct assaults. well, it does not make the job easier. but nevertheless, that is why there are areas where they are actively attacking , they use what does not pass there. tanks do not is coming and they are using an allation for a hundred, there are all possible options available to them, it is very important now to extinguish or slow down the development of this attack on the ukrainian armed forces because, er, if they do not contain it , they will really spill something, but there is no need to hurry on our part either, that's why

that the enemy has seriously prepared everything for the offensive of our dreams, they dug in where possible, where possible they built engineering mines and other barricades , well, it’s such a painstaking painstaking work the work is normal that it doesn’t go as fast there as it would have liked absolutely everything is done correctly, there are difficult areas. we also work on them where we have to fight back. well, no, let's say it seriously. well, there is a problem with logistics , but we are also working to solve it, in principle , the results are good, and we are gradually moving forward slowly, even after

and with each of their assaults, a small setback occurs, and somewhere, where, where, it was, somewhere , we try to take away some small area, even after their assaults , tell us about how the russian forces are being strengthened in bakhmut well, because according to the official statements of ukrainian representatives, of self-defense, we understand that you just mentioned that the russian forces are strengthening there and the landing forces there have. so you are talking about a large amount of weapons, and that is exactly how the russian forces manage to strengthen themselves in the city of bakhmut, because we have heard that the zsu is under fire control the whole city thanks to the fact that it controls the flanks, what kind of fortifications are these and to what extent

? when working in cities, it generally makes it difficult to work as a curtain because by themselves, even destroyed houses, they are a serious obstacle in fortifications, and since our army is civilized, we would give people for their city e not such an amount of ammunition we cannot afford to introduce work as they led in the frontier police in donetsk, they simply burned down these cities of the frontier , there is no place there, only ruins are left now, they simply destroyed every house systematically and so on, because, well, for the infantry, for the battles in in the city, the building is the most organic management itself, you don’t even need any additional engineering structures, exactly from the most destroyed houses, basements to the first floors, er , construction debris from them, it is already for infantry with experience, you can’t think of anything better. to be honest,

ours is much better. well, we felt more comfortable fighting in the cities than in the fields where uh well, apart from the trench, there is nowhere to hide from the artillery, and for the artillery it is also a serious problem, because to knock out the approach from one house, you need tons and tons of supplies to wipe the face that house is actually the problem in bakhmut, well, it’s not a problem, but with c- the situation is such that it definitely can’t be a blitzkrieg, it’s once and for all knocking out the e-e siege that after equipping the infantry there , re-equipping the buildings under the e-e protective lines, it’s already surgical the work is surgical because of the hyphen, the union is about the situation in bakhmut and on the flanks and how the russian forces are being strengthened there . major petro kuzyk, the commander of the

freedom battalion in the fourth brigade of the operational assignment of the ngu, explained to us. thank you for your participation y-y, but the aerial scouts on the outskirts of bakhmut are looking for russian guns , after which they are already destroyed. real time borys sachalko offers to watch this is the calmest air reconnaissance crew i've ever seen. in a year and a half of full-scale war, it doesn't work in the forest market near bakhmut from a height bird's eye view, they find a russian cannon, give the coordinates to the ukrainian gunners, the shot went off at us plusplus there is a gap, several

aimed shots and the target is damaged, everything is very calm, without unnecessary words , here it is, yes, there is more than just gunpowder , well, they were lying, yes, it's stupid, it's a fury, a ukrainian drone flies at a distance of 50 km are actually eyes for destroying the bodies of the enemy to control the fury. the crew came for training by the irony of fate. serhiy used to be an anti-aircraft gunner , he monitored the purity of the sky, he had to retrain it is difficult to learn in the sum, but it all comes. as the hurricane willed, they will destroy and not to climb. they will learn quickly in the truck, they change the batteries and prepare for a new flight . there is a lot of work. ivan says that lately the behavior of the enemy near bakhmut has changed . masking is better. well, of course, because they have already destroyed we don’t have enough of their equipment and

tanks, and well, fat and barrels were burning, so ours are already trying to be guided, we are working harder , as accepted by plyusplyus. kill lately in ukrainian military telegram channels information began to appear that the russian army is withdrawing its reserves to the bakhmut and in some places they are trying to counterattack precisely in order to find out where these reserves are located. such drones of medium and long-range radio judgment are so necessary for the ukrainian army at a height of about a kilometer, all attention is paid to the planting of trees there the military says that the enemy is gathering forces in the morning. it was there maybe half a month ago. they had two or three men there. they went like this, well, not many. and now

they have already gone to more of them . the ukrainian army is also gathering forces right there in the bushes of sanya. the club flew there last time. everything is like in real life, what this tactical training gives out is these words instead of automatic queues , i took you down, you were sitting higher up there, and that's why for the third day now, a few tens of kilometers from the front line , novice assault units are training side by side with experienced military personnel, the task was to take a forest plantation, so we threw one grenade there for 200, but they took down a lot of them, they just hooked us up and surrounded us. well, it didn’t work out. nothing terrible happened. we rework we rework in a circle after each fighter carefully the instructors pay attention not so much to the physical form as to the behavior

, not the card, the person can withstand the psychological hmm , the person came up and talked to her a little, i already understand whether she is ready for this or not, that is, there are those who seem to be ecstatic everything is strong, but he is psychologically ready for this, this unit is ready for a real assault, and in order to make the task easier, the ukrainian army traditionally tries to destroy the rear of the enemy, pay attention to the roll if overrun means they are somewhere near there, just like an example, there is a hare right here. his scout crew during the flight notices several places of deployment of the russian military, several cars and several guns . here it is, it is at work. today it was covered, yesterday it was covered .

there are a lot of splinters, white white coal, the cannon does not seem to be hit immediately, the distance is large, there is a gap there in general , well, really, yes, from the 5th shot, the projectile hits the target, there is a gap in the front, it succeeded, yes, 5 seconds gap, yes, now they are falling, there is a gap that she has or what is burning, there is no time for long emotions, another target is not far away, the soldiers say that it is nice to hit the target, but there are many of them, and they were destroyed, it became just a job. this is such a rather restrained reaction to the destroyed, maybe

the usual mode came in the sense that it's like everyday life , yes , yes. you see, they're already used to it, they're very used to it, it's been two years already, well, almost two years , but already inside. hit on it, what are the actual consequences, we are following. during this broadcast, we will further discuss our thoughts on this matter, and you can write your comments and questions under the stream and this on the radio freedom channel . meanwhile, we will also talk about the fighters of the wagnerites, and of the private military company wagner who arrived in belarus do not pose a threat to ukraine. this was reported by the spokesman of the state border guard service of ukraine andriy demchenko on the air of the telethon, however, he noted that the situation may change at the moment, according to him. it is not about the large-scale establishment of representatives of the pvc, but actually several hundred wagners are recorded in belarus, and demchenko adds that this

number does not pose a threat to the creation of a strike group, but belarus can use these wagners for more serious things, says demchenko, in particular, for example, to destabilize the border with ukraine or ukrainian border guards continue to monitor the movement of wagnerites across the territory of belarus with other countries. i would like to remind you that during june 23 and 24 in russia for about a day the rebellion of the wagnerites continued during the day, they passed through the rostov and vorontsia regions. prigozhin stated that representatives of the communist party of ukraine did not reach moscow for only 200 km. and that prigozhin agreed to stop the rebellion this evening, on march 24 , the press service of oleksandr lukashenko reported. close, and he himself was sent to belarus , they agreed to send him to belarus, that 's what putin's spokesman dmytro piskov said at the time. on july 15 , ukrainian border guards recorded

the arrival of mercenary units from pvk wagner, what is the situation with this now and is there really a threat in ukraine, what provocations can the wagnerites theoretically arrange , we will talk further yuriy povh, the spokesman of the united press center of the force defense of the northern direction , joined freedom mornings. i welcome you to our broadcast. thank you for joining and i want to ask you right away. and in your opinion, what tasks can the wagnerites perform , considering that they are moving to belarus in this very territory, what can they do , why do putin or lukashenko need them there? such a number of uh military experts military instructors it will not greatly affect the strategic situation on our northern borders uh really i agree with my colleague from the state border service

uh these people can act as experts as instructors as uh - some training of specialists, but to create a strategic advantage, to create some strategic groups, such a number of military personnel or instructors is not enough, but if we talk about who is in charge of these wagnerites who ensures their activities, where are they located, who handles the logistics, according to your information, and according to what you allow, is it the belarusian side , right now, our military intelligence is very carefully monitoring the movement of these personnel, who is in charge of them? well, we will be

frank er, in this direction, the general orientation of both belarus and russia is the same, except that belarus acts in this case as a donor of the war and not a full participant. that is, it provides the capabilities of its camps infrastructure provides the russian armed forces with all kinds of support by supplying weapons and military equipment, but as a full-fledged participant in hostilities, such manifestations have not been noticed so far, mr. yuriy. if we talk about such a possibility that they can engage in destabilization on the border with ukraine. about what could happen or do we need ukrainians there , in particular those who live there on the border with belarus, to be ready for what scenarios, well , the scenarios here are obvious, our military analysts

predict that these specialists can participate in the actions of subversive intelligence groups in the actions of small groups of militants who will attempt to cross the border, but i want to note that our forces foresee such a development of the scenario and are ready for it. if we talk about plans or provocations in relation to other countries, without talking about the country the head of the defense committee of the russian state duma, andriy kartapolov, said on russian television that the wagner submarine was sent to belarus to capture the slovak corridor. how realistic do you think it is? the fact is that

nato countries have long foreseen such a development of the scenario and a lot of attention is drawn to this corridor, so there are three hundred wagnerites against the whole . military intelligence , they are all very carefully following this story and, well , they probably won't let any of them. they are monitoring the situation of the essential, you say, well, they can’t do it with such a number of such forces. and if we speak again in the context of some provocations or some certain damage, well , what can the wagners do in this situation, or do you think they will somehow go into such