[000:00:00;00] this is a military expert, the director of the information consulting company defect express was in touch with us. well, let me remind you that the russian federation declares that the sea of ​​azov is completely controlled by them, and therefore any speculations about where and how a drone could have been launched, or maybe two in the crimea bridge well , they deserve such a normal analysis with a minute of silence in ukraine , let's honor with a minute of silence the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens

of ukraine who died in the war that unleashed it russia greetings everyone, this is the freedom of the morning. my name is kateryna krecha and in this stream we talk about the following. putin threatens to respond to the attack on the kerch bridge. in russia, they say that they will fully cope with the consequences of the explosion in november, and in the usa they once again declared that crimea is part of ukraine and it is kyiv's business. how to conduct a war , is the bridge subject to restoration and how this strike will weaken the russian forces, he praised the training

of ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters , several weeks are needed to prepare the training centers when the training will begin and does the training permit guarantee the provision of american fighter jets to ukraine ? for the armed forces of ukraine, what role will drones play in this war and when will the production of drones be established in ukraine, you can ask your questions to the speakers of this morning show just below this video on to the radio freedom channel and don't forget to subscribe to our channel, set favorites, russian forces went on the offensive in the direction of kupyan, there they set themselves the goal of defeating the ukrainian troops and continuing the offensive into the depths of the battle formations, this

was announced by general tsar, the commander of the ground forces of the armed forces of ukraine, and here, the spokesman of the eastern group of forces of the armed forces of ukraine, serhiy cherevaty, even mentioned the number of personnel currently concentrated in the estuary in the kupyat direction, which is more than 100,000 soldiers in terms of equipment and armament of more than 900 tanks, more than half a thousand artillery systems and 370 rocket launcher systems , according to the deputy minister of defense of ukraine , hanna malyar, russian forces use such tactics to withdraw the defense forces of ukraine from bakhmut , the russians panicked at our advance in the direction of bakhmut, because it is gradual , but daily we occupied almost all the commanding heights around the city. therefore, the expected situation was that the enemy moved in the distracting direction of kupyan, as he had already done more than once, but without success.

god is with us so that they work 24/7 and respond promptly to the situation. last week, in the direction of bakhmut , the defense forces of ukraine liberated seven square kilometers of territory, says the painter, and also adds that during the offensive of the ukrainian forces, the armed forces of ukraine liberated 31 m² in the entire bakhmut region . direction. currently, offensive actions continue there, in particular on the southern flank around bakhmut, during the past week, the ministry of foreign affairs advanced daily to the svoboda ranok broadcast, serhiy cherevaty , the spokesman for the eastern group of the armed forces, joins forces of ukraine. i welcome you, mr. serhiy, to our broadcast. thank you for joining and i would like to ask you. the syrian general announced the offensive of the occupying forces in the kupyan direction . who formed these groups? in this direction, the situation changes several times a day. does it really remain such a trend

? well, in fact, for some reason, there is such a heightened attention in society to this direction, and it has been there for a very long time. grouping of the enemy's troops and he has been trying for more than one week in a row to take over the initiative and to be active and break through our defenses and also for many weeks in a row and he does not succeed in this direction either. we have been emphasizing this for a long time as the leader of the pop - during this day, the enemy was killed 536 times by artillery shelling on our positions, mortars were used to create artillery , the salvo fire system carried out 10 air raids, in total there were eight strikes, during which we destroyed 34

occupiers, 115 were wounded, and an enemy tank was destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle, a self-propelled gun cutter, a pion, two cannons, an unmanned aerial vehicle, three warehouses with field ammunition and seven cars that transported mr. sergey's ammunition. if we talk about the areas of the front in the east . in the yansky direction, are there any other important areas that society should not forget about? we have two main areas - this is the kupyansk estuary , a large area where, as you correctly said , he concentrated serious forces there. well, here by the way, i should go a little to the first question, coming back to the understanding that serious forces, we emphasized several times that they have a large group in terms of volume, which, unfortunately , still has enough shells and equipment, but the quality of the personnel of this group is very, very not let's say raises such doubts and

we have repeatedly shown these in our social networks, their prisoners. that is, this is such a conglomerate of regular troops, these are airborne infantry carts, they are more or less high-quality , and they have already acquired the best that they have as reserves, those in more secondary directions this is the bars combat army reserve, the poorly prepared territorial troops are also somewhere around the same level already as such an extreme e-e extra, let's say the water lily variant of combat orders - these are assault companies of stormzets and private companies of the type veterans of which rules are provided from the criminal the only thing that differs from wagner that they are affiliated with the ministry of defense, so two of these directions are lymanokupyansk and bakhmutskyi, in bakhmutskyi we firmly hold the initiative gradually, you know, let's say thoughtfully without

er, some kind of sycophancy and rapid throwing of personnel into the enemy’s battle formations, they understand that we have parity somewhere in the forces using the maneuver coverage er , other such not s- sometimes asymmetric actions, we force the enemy to retreat, we put pressure on him er and er, i release hundreds every day meters every week, kilometers not yet dozens of kilometers in the bakhmu region, but you, of course, gradually and relentlessly, we achieve our result , we do not let the estuary in the kupyan direction break through, we press on and uh, we go forward in the bakhmut direction serhiy and here are the numbers simply thousands of new personnel described who it consists of and what kind of russian forces are formed there. if we talk about uh, also experience, there are already fighters who have been to the front, or many are recorded , for example, and fighters who just got to the

front without experience and if talking about heavy armor, we are talking about 900 tanks and bmps and what else there can be heavy equipment and in fact such large numbers or is it not considered such a large number, considering the scale of the driver in that direction, this is definitely a large number, the only thing that is somehow possible before release the resonance with what i compared to the soviet group in afghanistan and to-, well, people began to understand with the equation what a large number it is, but it has been like this for many months in a row, and in fact it is a clear marker that there should not be any fear, but on the contrary , pride for and such respect to our e-e defense forces, which have been restraining and destroying and knocking out for many months in a row, and forcing why they are constantly rotating, because there are colossal losses, if you go by technique, it is

usually the old soviet time machine, but today you and i even called it a t-72 developed in the 70s, modernized . the latest models with which they started the war from the btr-82 , are they a russian development or bmp 3? they are almost invisible even during the kharkiv operation. there is m-m er-e let's say very high-quality, prepared and absolutely not motivated, that's why it's big, so with him, you have to constantly take into account his size, but it's, well, it's this problem, it 's not new, it's not today's, and the strength of the defense has already been many places in a row, they don't give them any

progress and powerfully carries i mean, it wasn't yesterday that a hundred thousand plus minus appeared. this is this figure . it's been a long time. a little bit less . do not live in along with the war, yes, yes, such comparisons were really shown this morning. i emphasize once again that this is just an indicator of some new threat or reason for fear that has appeared, and this is an indicator of an incredible defense force that is doing what in the latest stories that no one tried to stop such an armada from destroying and essentially forcing it to retreat already in several operations and now serhiy archim is on duty at bakhmachi and how the enemy is resisting , perhaps some new attempts are being fixed, again, i don’t know, they

are somehow showing creativity in a way not to miss defense force to liberate more ukrainian territories. and we heard there about mining, we also know from the military , including those from the front, about russian artillery that does not touch, that is, again, what methods does the russian side use to restrain ukrainian forces, well, first of all and most it is effectively artillery, this war has shown that it is an artillery war. despite the fact that some theorists wrote that only aviation will belong to the future war of drones , rocket artillery has a significant advantage troops 486 times, for example, in the bakhmus region, they struck where they are restraining our er-er p- our movement er-er and from various artillery systems, both creative and creative, two air raids were carried out in total in this direction since this day there were 10 threats in the course of which we destroyed 80 occupiers 184 wounded and destroyed an enemy tank two self-propelled 240-mm mortars

tulip self-propelled artillery installation hyacinth - five guns two anti-aircraft missile complex strela 10 electronic warfare station field 21 three field depots with with ammunition, four drones and one kamikaze drone, a lancet, that's what i listed, that's exactly what they are, from what you use to keep it in us, and uh , guns, what systems of the smell of fire, mining the area, creating fortifications , uh, wire fences, uh trenches and in such a different way, as we see, we are destroying the anti-aircraft missile complex , the radio electronic warfare that is trying to provide our communications and our unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as kamikaze drones, for example, theirs, this is such work, a tangible thing, against which we are also

we develop tactics against lancet nets, er, mock-ups of our equipment, what er, are they like a fake model that distracts them, and also machine gun calculations that try to shoot them down , and in fact, that day, this time, this time there was one kamikaze, there are three or four five that destroy therefore, this is a war, a constant competition , constant improvement, and we try to always be one step ahead. further on in our broadcast, we will talk in more detail about these e -drones, lancets, and about the power of russia, there they declare great power to the viewers announce stay let's analyze this situation about the situation in the eastern direction spoke with the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine serhii cherevaty who emphasized that the increase in the concentration of enemy forces is such a compliment to the ukrainian forces, i thank you for your time for inclusion and i encourage our viewers to submit their questions and be sure to subscribe to our channel, we follow the situation at the front very closely

with such experts. thank you, serhiy, this is freedom in the morning. the increase in the production of lancet drones in russia was reported the other day on the russian state tv channel russia 1 and they say that at the beginning of the so-called special operation , and i will remind you. it is mentioned in the plot, but the exact number is not disclosed, or whether the truth of this information is true . ukrainian analysts already doubt the military expert oleksandr kovalenko says that the news about lancets are an attempt to pass off the desired scale of production as real, which was shown by russian television on video, and he counted only 39 drones, but the military experts of defense express previously missed that russia can produce well, approximately 60-65 such drones every month, now there are no more than 50

, the representative of the general staff, oleksiy gromov, spoke about this in an interview with ukrinform, ukrainian artillerymen are forced to defend themselves against raids from lancets with improvised shields and all that or wires, i also recently wrote about this the british newspaper telegraph and it is known that kamikaze lancet drones can fly up to 40 km and during an attack gain high speed, this drone is controlled using a joystick or other reconnaissance drone, but in addition , lancets fly low and due to this, they are hardly noticeable for air defense, all this makes lancets a threat to the ukrainian army , the newspaper telegraf wrote about this in a comment to the publication, the adviser to the minister of defense of ukraine yuriy sak reported that the data of ukrainian intelligence they testify that the production of lancets in russia has really increased well, she about increasing the production of lancets in russia caused a violent reaction among the ukrainian military and volunteers, and many of them expressed concern and

asked why there is still no industrial production of drones in ukraine, in response , the minister of digital information mykhailo fedorov said that in compared to last year , the production of drones in ukraine increased 100 times this year, and i will talk about this in detail now about ukrainian capacities about the power of russia with the expert mykhailo zhiryo from the military, the viewer joined the freedom of the morning mykhailo i welcome you to our broadcast good morning, despite the skeptical attitude of some experts to the scale of the production of lancets, which was said on state russian television , in general, if you say well, you know by to the figures that are visible there at the front , and about the information that is available, is it about the fact that russia is not looking after the rear, that it is really increasing production, perhaps not on such a scale as

it claims, and is there a possibility that this war drone technology, russia can win. well, it is very difficult to talk about the total production of drones in the russian federation , because this is closed information, but i can say that in the last couple of months at the front , the number of lancets has increased many times, and it reaches the point that in order to to destroy one of our self-propelled howitzers, they use up to three lancets . that is, the russians have no restrictions on this, so it is possible to say that they managed to scale the production of these e-e lancets, and the main thing is that they it was possible to fix the gray import, because most of the electronics, unfortunately, are of western production, that is, what does this mean that russia buys these electronics and then the assembly takes place directly on the territory of russia

, or what does this process look like, how can it look, it is absolutely certain that the cases are produced in russia there is not very er not very modern technology there you need only er epoxy only people only er only some premises everything but electronics electronics they are purchased er in the west in china and through third countries this is first of all turkey, kazakhstan, armenia, uh, and uh, a system has been established that allows them to produce, that is, housings can be made by the tens of hundreds a month, but here is the electronics. this is a problem, and they have been solving this problem for the last year. and judging by this, they have solved it. well, also i remembered strenzhorny wrote that this spring, while studying the iranian drone that was shot down over ukraine, western researchers found

a chinese part there, probably manufactured in january 23rd, that is, all the parts are being assembled and then they are being assembled in russia those drones, because among the critics of this information of this plot, it sounded like, look , it’s happening somewhere in shopping centers, in some offices. they are working with this to establish production on a larger scale automated and no, it is not done automated even in china it is more or less manual assembly because it is not possible there so far these are the forms that allow you to do only manually and well, i think that there are no problems with personnel and people who will collect in russia, and the last information was that

these drones are collected even in labor lessons , and in some schools in some regions of russia , the workforce can be taught so to speak, for this there will be a mykhailo tell me what is at such a moment because this discussion this plot he caused a discussion a about ukrainian capabilities and what were spent, so to speak, these 1.5 years of a full-scale invasion, what can we say, what is known about the production of ukrainian drones for the ukrainian forces, or there from western technologies, again, is the assembly taking place in ukraine? well, because after this criticism, in principle, of the ukrainian government, ah, vice prime minister , deputy prime minister of ukraine, mykhailo fedorov he stated that ukraine did increase its own production of some models of drones by 100 times compared to 22nd year, what is known as of now and here you are joining the critics of the ukrainian government. let's say so , do you still think that this time was not wasted

? first of all, i think that this time is not was lost in vain. but until february 24, 22nd, we did not have the development of attack drones, we could manufacture reconnaissance drones and the military bought them not on the necessary scale, but they also bought them, and the deployment of the production of self-attack drones was already under way during the war, when a certain amount , well, almost the entire in-tour was destroyed by a missile strike, in addition, a large number of a-a people who were engaged in drones, they either went to the theater on their own or were mobilized, and therefore , it was necessary to deploy the production of drones from scratch

moreover, not in ukraine, but in neighboring countries, we understand that this is a different country, different opportunities , therefore, everything that was possible was done in such, you know, extreme conditions, and that's why we are talking now, well, these were not the conditions that exist in russia, where they are allowed and state guarantees and funds and opportunities here, in fact, enthusiasts who, well, with their own funds, with the funds of benefactors, launched it, and only now , the state has started an army of drones there. to cover even the russian contribution is now and how much is enough that this is enough if we take into account the current needs at the front and in order to perhaps equalize there in number and it is possible to exaggerate the existing number of drone strikes in russia what should it be for production

and how many should there be? certain calculations well, it is possible the number of drones and what types . well, there are calculations, but they all have such an abstract nature, you know, and if there are such figures that if now a month is conditionally used 1,000 drones, shock drones, then e russians now they use 4-5 thousand a month, that is, the increase of our production is multiple. it should be many times more, but you also need to understand the possibilities of russia, which can purchase these chinese parts directly in large china in batches, so we have not yet established this we buy the channel in small batches, and the chinese, the chinese manufacturers , they have been overwhelmed with work for several months, just come there to buy

spare parts for the gdp drone or for some er , agricultural drones that we use for resets a-a very, very it's hard and every month it's uh, it's it, it's all, well, it's very difficult, so at the moment , the production of some parts and procurement help with procurement there through western channels or directly, and in china there is a large amount of spare parts. well, i understand from your words that to reach such a required number, it must be centralized and the government must deal with it and invest a lot of money in it . in other words, it is up to the ukrainian people with donations to not pull it out at all. they don't need a drone like that now that everyone at the front or every office is making

their own designs, which well, no, it shouldn't be, the military should have some kind of developed technical plan and what they want to see and according to these e-e plans have already estimated everything-everything-everything else that we see is when the state e structure the state machine deals with this so for the conversation about the build-up of russian drones kamikaze drones well the lancet also talked about ukrainian opportunities with mykhailo zhirokov , a military observer and calls on our viewers, stay with us, because we will continue this topic, including on the air . national security adviser to the us president jx-lone he says that european leaders have said they need several weeks to prepare

training resources and that the us will meet any earlier deadline they set. in vilnius, where the nato summit was held, ukraine and 11 partner countries signed a memorandum that defines the conditions for the training of ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters, the towers will take place in the center that will be created in romania in august, the ministry of defense of ukraine previously stated the need for 48 units of f16 fighters to liberate ukrainian territories from russian troops, more details about this and the actual main question is whether he guarantees the granting of a study permit to ukraine in 16 , we will speak with the head of the center for military legal research oleksandr musienko i welcome you oleksandr on our broadcast i welcome you, in your opinion the training permit is currently being handled by european countries and the organization of this training he guarantees the provision of f-16 to ukraine. will this also be

discussed separately? i want to remind you that there were political statements at least during the great seven in japan and the corresponding decisions were announced by the president of the united states , biden, and not only about the fact that ukraine will receive planes. i think that to date, so much effort has been made and we have passed such a difficult stage, in fact, because you know that there was criticism from the president of ukraine zelenskyi and from the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine, if only about the fact that the training did not start and this is postponed, let's say it like this the question is now, after all, there is hope that we have finally arrived at, let's say, some clarity in what sense this means that there will be training, accordingly, how long will it be, well, with different estimates, let's say it's somewhere around three or four months at least what will be needed, and then the delivery of the planes? well, it seems to me that this

is somewhere the same way, the decision will be made accordingly. in principle , the formality that remains on this issue is that the president of the united states should contact the congress to approve the transfer to ukraine. well, i think that the congress will not be against it. and this decision will be made in the end. actually, now is a very important stage of training. and then, with regard to the transfer and the number, it seems to me that there will be a question. maybe even to the number of e-e at the beginning, because we have now declared about really 48 this is as much as we would like. well, of course, we would like more , but what we are talking about, well, i would like to believe that there will not be any delays in the future, in principle, ah, oleksandr, nevertheless, training has been talked about for a very long time, but countries that already they are ready to provide it, they say they need a few weeks for preparation, well, that means that they did not prepare . is this again, well, some kind of diplomatic. let me formulate the delay of the process, and the most important thing is that

ukraine should prepare these same planes somewhere, they will have to be serviced. there must be locations, places, preparations, and what should be technically, and if 48 fighters are how many people should work for it, how many lithuanians should there be, you know, i said earlier that in order to speed up the delivery of aircraft, the following decisions should be made. well, first of all, really to start training from the moment when there was a decision during the big seven sometime in june it was possible to start a-a and in principle start this process with the aim of getting these er-er fighters to appear as soon as possible the second is still to allow for ukrainian pilots to use the infrastructure and airfields of nato countries in the early days of romania, it is possible for poland, in principle, despite the threats of russia, i do not think that there would be any actions to inflict damage specifically on the airfield of the infrastructure of the country, and yes, plus, in addition to