[000:00:15;00] the armed forces of ukraine are moving from small attacks along the entire front to more large-scale strikes, however, what is happening at the front is being discussed on today's broadcast of bbc ukraine . i am olga polamaniuk. we will also show an exclusive report how ukrainian snipers operate in bakhmut, the ghosts of bakhmut, as they are called, after a certain break, russia struck again at least 10 kamikaze drones flew over kyiv at night to the capital, they were all reportedly shot down by the ukrainian military, in

addition, the drones hit the south of odesa, we are talking about ports on the danube, where, despite russia's efforts to set up a sea blockade, ships are still going for grain, the prosecutor's office indicated that the elevator, grain hangars, tanks of one of the cargo terminals, production warehouses and administrative premises were also significantly destroyed, the three-story building of the marine terminal was later damaged or destroyed, the minister of infrastructure oleksandr kubrykov reported that 40,000 tons of grain were damaged as a result of the attack, which african countries expected china and israel, after russia withdrew from the grain agreement, grain deliveries from black sea ports were therefore suspended the danube was considered an alternative route. the hopes of the kremlin indicate that putin is preparing for a bigger and longer war. this is how the western press writes feinen-schaltaems, and this is despite the pressure of the sanction of the gradual recapture of the occupied

territories by the ukrainian army and the conflict in the russian military leadership along with the fact that if we talk about the offensive of the armed forces forces of ukraine , the bakhmut district remains one of the key areas of the war, the bbc film crew received exclusive access to a squad of elite snipers, correspondent jonathan bill talked with the ghosts of bahmut, we are heading to a classified base, this place will be called the edge of the abyss of life behind the wheel, they are afraid of the call sign ghost, we are ghosts, and ghosts cause great harm to the russians , the sniper from his group is known as the ghosts of bahmut, because they bring silent death, their base is already within the range of the russian artillery group it was close arrival but the group

approaches the enemy positions even closer from the artillery you can hide and you know their work is more accurate than ordinary shelling you know from several russians your team killed it this is confirmed number 523 524 already units here uh of them 76 are personally my last six months ghosts work on the outskirts of bakhmut often look for important targets among russians each of them is recorded through such a scope kuzya will be the shooter on today's task before the war he worked for zavodi says that when he was a civilian, he did not like weapons at all. the enemy is very simple. at this time, they have come to say weapons and defend their country. a quick prayer. with the onset of dusk, we set out to play

some music to lift the mood and silence. sounds of explosions recon the road a driver with a call sign bush several times warns the enemy they are being fired upon military uniforms from britain this part of the operation the landing of the group is often more dangerous the next couple of kilometers they have to walk to get to their position there was a big explosion soon we found out that shrapnel had torn one from the rear wheels it's a long road in emergency mode now nervously waiting for the return of the group

the ghost says that he chose each of the fighters for his patriotic position waiting for news calls his seven-year-old daughter he has already taught to disassemble her weapons in seven hours, groups of two snipers are picked up early in the morning, just before the resumption of shelling, there is a sense of relief in the air without a loss, the sniper says that the task was successfully completed, only one shot , one shot, one target, the ghost commander is calm again because he is subordinate to security and every such exit you you understand that he is dangerous, he may be the last, but well, we are inferior to them for 6 months, i say it once again, we are doing a noble work, that is why everyone is healthy, this is one of the elements of the ukrainian

psychological war, to kill from a place that is not the shot of which is not heard. and how is the ukrainian counteroffensive advancing? western analysts say that the armed forces have adapted their tactics and are now using small infantry units . and this makes the offensive slow. also, mini fields and even cleared territories are making the advance difficult. the russians are again quickly pelting ammunition from drones and artillery with their observations the counteroffensive on the air of the bbc was shared by the rear admiral of the british royal navy in retirement through perry ukraine has been looking for several months weak points in russian defensive fortifications and these are three lines of mines and about three times more mines than expected and russian artillery attacks everything that approaches the minefield so it is quite difficult and it would be very difficult for any army in the world but we are already seeing signs of a breakthrough on south of zaporizhzhia is in danger if the ukrainians can

break through down to the sea of ​​azov by the end of august dima we will already see a real change on the front because then the russians can cut off from the crimea if there is a breakthrough, first of all this the split of the russian troops will cut off crimea for the second time from the reinforcements that may come from donbas and russia, in addition, it will be within the range of medium-range missiles and can even provoke the collapse of the russian army in ukraine , and the russians know this, but the ukrainians should pay attention to the fact that if they manage to pass to the sea of ​​azov, then they will open their flanks to the attacks of the russian aviation and, in fact, to the attacks of any units of the russians that they can withdraw, therefore they must be careful and neutralize the russian military formations as soon as they appear relative to time i think that if there is no breakthrough during this season of the military campaign, ukraine will be scattered, they will begin to look for possible ways to end the war in russia . i think that there is a change of power now. putin no longer controls the power, he is currently

a puppet, there are other forces that are trying to take power ukraine is exhausted both economically and politically and needs certain results , the country agrees to make sacrifices until certain goals are achieved, but when the whole is not achieved, even the smallest number of victims becomes problem we saw this during the american companies in vietnam and other places , so ukraine must soon demonstrate its achievements for which there were such efforts and sacrifices, otherwise everything will look pretty good for the russians because they will simply continue and wait for the ukrainian offensive to give a crack about we talk about the situation at the front with the expert head of the center for military and legal research, oleksandr musienko. i welcome you on the air. it will be approximately two months of the first offensive of the armed forces of ukraine. so, without exaggeration, almost

the west is looking at it with a magnifying glass, and someone says that the ukrainian army is acting rather slowly, or is it true? the fact is, you understand that in order to analyze the ukrainian counteroffensive from the perspective of western partners and analysts, it is necessary to proceed from the fact that the analysis must be based on and if the representatives of the nato countries fought in this situation , if the commanding officers of these countries fought, if they commanded their armies, and it is clear that the emphasis would be on aviation, on which ukraine cannot make such a serious emphasis today. how much do we understand that we rely on soviet-type aircraft that are now in the air force of ukraine and, by the way , we use them as efficiently as possible, using today british missiles from the shadow torrent, which help us a lot to destroy the enemy's logistics, but this is not enough from the point of view of achieving and defeat russia in the air and gain air superiority , which is very important because russia uses its aviation, shock gels, now they

also use e-e bombs, guided air bombs, missiles, drones, and so on, that is, there is no a sufficient number of fire shafts in order to affect the entire depth of the enemy's defense. what is also important and this is what i am actually saying now . what is written about in books and in nato textbooks is how officers in britain, france and other countries studied and are still studying, and then ensure after massive artillery fire after the use of aviation, the passage of other units of heavy equipment and so on and infantry, and therefore it seems to me that with all due respect we are entering a somewhat deadlocked situation if we evaluate from the point of view of evaluation and the criteria of nato standards, the offensive does not have all the tools that the nato countries would have, if we, ukraine, had these tools, then

i would criticize the fact that the counteroffensive is advancing slowly. and as for how it is advancing, it is advancing as it can advance in those volumes the help that is currently available for those resources, the forces , the means that ukrainian commanders are currently operating, which they can use with great risks , because there are many mines, because they are effective against the russian troops, because it is all necessary to proceed with heavy battles and because i, as far as i understand, the ukrainian command is in no hurry to bring all available reserves into battle, being wary of losses, being wary of the fact that without carrying out massive artillery training, the destruction of the enemy's fortified defenses , it is currently impractical to conduct such maneuvers, therefore it focuses and concentrates on such struggle, i will tell by example how it can work in general. well , for example, artillery can work out certain areas, destroy the fortified defense of the enemy, this

can last a month and after that for in a few days for a few weeks, infantry troops will enter directly, which can actually liberate these areas and advance further , well, at the same time, the western media write that ukrainian forces are coming from small attacks along the entire front to larger-scale strikes . how far can these large-scale strikes bring changes? i think that we have seen certain changes, this is the liberation of the village of stare maiorske in the berdyansk direction and , let's say, further attacks, in particular, in the melitopol direction, where the fighting is now going on and our forces are trying to break through the line the defense of the russian troops in the tokmak area, which is also important plus, there is a certain advance and our gains in the bakhmut area, where there are no such reinforcements and such reserves, but the hostilities continue, well, actually speaking

, all that is happening in order to break through, our actions are aimed at to break through the defense line of the russian troops but of course if we had additional fire support i think it would have happened faster but in the end i will tell you that i think that this defense line will still be broken in which place i am not ready to say today but even breakthrough defense lines does not mean that we will immediately see a very rapid advance, although it is important now to break through those defense lines and those in the border where the russian troops are now concentrated in order to ensure, let's say, the installation of our artillery at certain heights and our other types of weapons in order to better reach the enemy's positions well, that is, the logic in this is that there are absolutely difficulties with the counterattack, they are also related to the fortified line of defense and the lack of

the necessary weapons, as far as i am concerned. but i think that we will still see deprivation and acceleration a counteroffensive and the involvement of larger forces as soon as the artillery works against the enemy's fortified positions and then it will be easier and faster than the answer for the analogue was on our air well, what is all that we have time to tell about today, look for most of the stories on our website bbc.ua and on our pages in social networks and we will be on the air again tomorrow at 21:00 good luck and

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to friday at 20:00, repeat at 12:10 defender my congratulations are freedom life my name is vlasta lazur and today in the issue poland demands to explain how two belarusian helicopters flew into its territory belarus calls the accusations far-fetched and nato said that they are monitoring the situation, could poland have shot down the belarusian helicopters if so why not knocked down and how nato will act if this history repeats itself well, meanwhile , relations between ukraine and poland have noticeably

cooled due to the statements of representatives of the ukrainian authorities in poland who have declared that relations with ukraine have not been the best, and even earlier there they said that ukraine should have appreciated what warsaw has done for kyiv in recent months, where did this misunderstanding come from and what is behind it, we will talk soon well , military commissars are burning in russia. there has not been such a large-scale wave of attacks on military commissars since the mobilization was announced on september 22, what is happening and will it affect the course of the war in ukraine, about it today svoboda life poland demands an explanation of how two belarusian helicopters flew into its territory, the day before polish media reported on the flight of two belarusian helicopters over the city of białowieża near the polish-belarusian border , there are photos of these helicopters on the internet, independent

investigators established that mi-24 and mi-8 helicopters flew approximately 3 km deep into the territory of poland, after which they turned to the territory of belarus. the ministry of defense of belarus rejects accusations of violation of polish airspace and calls poland's accusations far-fetched. poland is about this incident informed nato and declared its intention to send additional forces to the border. i would like to remind you that in recent weeks, the columns of the wagner group have been near the belarusians, which undoubtedly worries poland. on july 23, oleksandr lukashenko said that he was allegedly stressed by the wagner fighters stationed in belarus because they want to go on an excursion to warsaw and already the day before, lukashenko said that he started printing, i hear, poland recently got mad, that supposedly some detachment of 100 people is coming here , no detachments, chvk wagner, er, 100 people

did not move here. and if they did move only in order to pass on the combat experience of the brigade that has been discussed in the press and in the press, i have to teach my soldiers because the army that does not fight is half of the army. you also know how to fight perfectly. shoot down the belarusian helicopters that violated its border. if these trips become regular , what will happen , we will talk about it further. the incident of violation of the airspace by belarusian helicopters, and poland is told in poland itself, how do they comment on it, how do they explain it, and is there any explanation why poland still did not dare to shoot down these helicopters . congratulations to my colleague, someone overslept, so a well-known polish expert commented on radio liberty

about the violation of belarusian airspace by helicopters roman polko, the former commander of the military unit of the polish special forces grom believes that the air vehicles of the eastern neighbor did not accidentally fly into the polish the territory, they say, the pilots are smart enough to be able to use gps and other devices . they know the territory in which they work perfectly, and the border itself is clearly visible from above, so the expert rules out a mistake, instead points to the mistakes of the polish military leadership, saying that this is the second such mistake , the first was at the end of last year when a russian missile flew into the territory of poland , the operational command of the armed forces did not react in time to find and identify it, this time the belarusian side warned about the training and it should have been an alarm signal and the need to conduct training on the other side of the polish training to check

the air defense of poland, the expert believes that it seems to me that this is a bit of post-soviet thinking, i do what they tell me , but the local leadership is expected to take the initiative of steps to anticipate the actions of the enemy unless there is a problem in the organization of communication, it is possible that the upper management blocks information from the military on the ground, in this situation the reaction should have been a concrete system must recognize and then expose the warning signal and if the helicopters do not react, then they must be shot down , as was the case in 2015, when turkey shot down a russian bomber yesterday, two belarusian mi-8 helicopters, in particular, designed for landing and a combat mig-24 crossed the airspace of poland, this happened under during the exercises, about which the polish side was warned, the belarusian helicopters were noticed the day before in the morning by the local residents of the polish border village of bialowieza, they

photographed the aircraft and published in social networks only in the evening, the ministry of defense of poland that the crossing of the border really took place in the area of ​​this village, it was at a very low altitude, the radar stations did not notice the helicopters, that is why the operational command of the polish armed forces from 1 did not confirm the fact of the crossing of its airspace by belarusian helicopters only 10 hours after the incident, after analyzing the information the ministry of defense confirmed that the eastern neighbor's planes flew into its territory , nato was informed about the incident, and polish defense minister mariusz blaszczak ordered to increase the number of troops on the border and to attract additional forces, in particular combat helicopters, the ministry of defense emphasizes that recently russia and belarus have intensified hybrid activities against poland. the ministry of foreign affairs summoned the belarusian chargé d'affaires to explain the air incident, but the ministry of foreign affairs in poland did not hear a colleague today natalka, i

recorded what a polish official told you. who overslept? i think this is an opportunity . we will continue this topic in a minute and discuss it with a military expert. how could it happen that someone overslept in a nato country ? and i have one more question for you. it already concerns ukrainian-polish relations, but the deputy minister of foreign affairs of poland, pawel jablonsky, stated that relations with ukraine have not been the best lately , apparently because of statements representatives of the ukrainian authorities and judging by these statements of polish politicians, it seems to them that ukraine is not grateful enough, what is happening, on the basis of which poland could draw such conclusions . well, what about gratitude, diplomatic tension between warsaw and kyiv began with the words of the head of the international policy bureau of the president of poland and the late napshidach. a few days ago, commenting on the air of polish television about the restrictions on the import of ukrainian grain, in particular in poland, chidach said that it was worth starting to appreciate the role that poland played for ukraine during the last

months and years after this statement was reacted to by the head of the office of the ukrainian president , andrii sapiga, who wrote on facebook that such words of a polish politician are manipulative and imposing on polish society the opinion that ukraine does not seem to appreciate poland's support in the fight against russian aggression, and the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine summoned the polish ambassador in kyiv, bartoshatikotskyi, to explain. the mirror reaction of the polish ministry of foreign affairs did not take long. i hope that his deputy is not sure what was discussed at this meeting, neither side is commenting on it, that is, after the verbal ukrainian-polish ping-pong, such a diplomatic silence from poland just recently published a short essay i will quote it poland wants good relations

with ukraine they should be based on mutual respect and understanding of national interests between partners words and actions that harm good relations should be avoided end of quote colleague thank you very much natalka volosatska correspondent of radio svoboda in warsaw, we talked about the cooling of polish-ukrainian relations, and also about the crossing of the belarusian-polish border by belarusian helicopters. thank you very much natalka well, there was also a satellite image of the fortifications that are being built on the training ground under the belarusian scree where the wagnerites are actually located, as reported by our colleagues from the belarusian service of radio svoboda , the picture shows the training ground of repysh with scree, which is located 15 km from the wagner camp in the village of tsel on the image shows that active construction work is underway on the territory of the landfill, in particular

, the construction of the number of fortifications, possibly dugouts, objects similar to cars and light gray can be seen near them uaz minibuses in separate parking lots, construction equipment and platforms for its transportation, what does this all mean, now we will discuss the tasks that the kremlin may set for the wagnerites, as well as the training that ended with the crossing of the polish -belarusian border by belarusian helicopters. yuriy fedorov, russian military-political the expert is thirsty live. good evening. greetings. let's start with the last one . we just showed satellite images . the belarusian service of radio freedom operates attention that, for example, on the territory of the camp, where the wagnerites arrive, there are dugouts with small stoves, so the camp can be an adventure for living in the cold season, but there is also a version that the wagnerites are in belarus temporarily and will stay for a short time and go to africa if this is

so then why are these dugouts or still putin has some sense to keep them there ? you know, i think that putin has a full sense to keep them there because these are the forces that generally subdue the winter through harnessed through the second commanders. here is the so-called honest military company, but in order to have the opportunity , in addition to everything else, to influence and somehow control lukashenko on the other hand, in order to create everything kind of мм провокоровцы provocation actions on the border with poland and on the border with lithuania and thus to cross because of the tension in