[000:00:00;00] our territories, our people. thank you. next in our stage will be a project from our colleagues from radio svoboda, freedom in the morning, we will return at 10:10 with andrii, and now we will honor the memory of ukrainian military personnel and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war

that developed it with a moment of silence. yazala russia my greetings is freedom, morning, my name is oleg galiv, it is only important topics and important guests , and we are starting. the white house condemned the shelling by russian troops of the civilian population of ukraine, including the shelling of kostiantynivka, and in the european union due to the attack on this city called on russia to stop the inhumane and illegal aggression, the latest news from kostiantynivka, further in our broadcast on the kerch bridge, the russian occupiers installed a new span instead of the one damaged by the explosions, instead, ukrainian intelligence officers say that the special operation on the territory of the temporarily occupied crimea continues what is happening on the occupied peninsula

now and how the russian army trying to protect him, the secretary of state in the united states of america, anthony blinken, during his visit to kyiv, announced good progress. it was direct a quote in the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine. he himself said that he came to make sure that ukraine has everything necessary for success in the counteroffensive. details of this visit are in the review of my colleagues. if you are not yet subscribed to the youtube channel of radio liberty, i suggest you do so and also share in the comments. information about where you are watching us from today around three in the morning residents of rostov-on-don heard the sounds of explosions , the governor of the rostov region, vasyl golobiv , said that the air defense system had been activated in the city, allegedly shooting down two of strike drones, one drone allegedly fell outside the city, another in the center of rostov, however, local residents shot this video and in particular other videos

of drones exploding when they fall. oh my god , the drone was on fire as a result of the fall. as a result of the drone falling, the car was on fire. of the region reported that one person was wounded, but she refused hospitalization to the russian telegram channel, the base notes that the drone fell two blocks from the headquarters of the russian southern military district on emergency services were spotted at the crash site, the police and the military asked local residents to leave the site of the explosion, the russian state agency ria novasti also reports about the attack by drones, the mayor of the russian capital, serhiy sobyanin, reported tonight, according to him, and the villages of the russian air defense forces shot down a drone in the city of ramansk 50 km from moscow, now there is a paratrooper on the street to block traffic, local residents are posting photos and videos with broken windows and the wreckage of a drone. and this is what happened in

moscow immediately after the arrival of the drone. i don’t understand at all what happened, they say that the drone is here. there it is lying away from us. another drone, as reported by russian officials , was shot down over bryansk. this was reported in particular by the governor of the region, oleksandr bogomar. the russian occupiers installed a new span on the kerch bridge connecting the occupied crimea peninsula with the territory of the russian federation satellite photo service planet.com published by radio svoboda, it is noted that these photos were taken on the third and fifth of september this year, journalists compared them and determined that a new span appeared on the bridge instead of the one that was damaged due to the explosions on july 17, earlier barges were installed south of the bridge

as the journalists let in, they served as a barricade and protection against future attacks on the bridge, these barges did not sink, rather , they were anchored in one place earlier , the head of the press center of the force defense of southern ukraine nataliya humenyuk on the air of ukrainian of the news telethon stated that the kerch bridge was closed more often due to the unreliability of the structures. this is a direct quote because , according to her, the weather does not contribute to the strength of the structure. the air and water are disturbing, and the occupiers are afraid that it will not withstand such loads, she said . the ukrainian special operation on the territory of the temporarily occupied crimean peninsula continues and the fighters are ready to use all the assigned tasks and carry them out until the complete liberation, the representative said andriy yusup, head of the intelligence department, according to him, active actions are taking place constantly, but at the moment the intelligence officers will not reveal all the secrets and details . i will remind you that the first explosion on

the bridge illegally built by russia took place in october 2022, then an explosive device planted in a truck that was moving on the bridge after the kerch bridge was detonated. the bridge was attacked by rockets, there were explosions in the occupied crimea and in sevastopol, they sound there almost every day, the russian authorities explain this as the work of air defense ukrainian drones or exercises in july of this year, president volodymyr zelenskyi said that the crimean bridge is a legitimate target for ukraine, because the occupiers transport weapons over it, according to him, this target should be neutralized at this moment . serhiy mokrushin, a journalist of the crimea realiy project, joins us. i congratulate you good day thank you for finding the time, there is an opportunity. well, yesterday , radio liberty's own photos of how the russian occupiers allegedly restored part of the destroyed kerch bridge were published on the network. to what extent have these photos been verified? to what extent is this information actually verified at this time and what is happening with the crossing in general, is it protected or not

, because we know that the russian occupation authorities tried to protect this bridge in different ways , and a lot was written about it, in particular, your colleagues and you - well, what is known about this bridge that was restored in the summer, i didn’t see any refutations, i didn’t see people driving on this bridge , there are no queues in front of it today, i looked at the morning publication of the local mass media, and there are no refutations that they restored this span no yes on the bridge itself, increased security measures have been introduced, 100% of cars passing through this bridge through the kerch strait are checked a-a er-e , security measures have also been increased in the strait itself around the bridge, we know that russia has also set up such barrier fences for in order to prevent access by an unmanned

surface vehicle. this is how russia is trying to protect the kerch bridge from the following events . and if the russian military is currently in crimea, is it possible to observe the movement of units that they say themselves with which they succeed to communicate and whether troops are transferred further through the crimea from the territory of russia itself. in addition, it was and remains an important hub for the transfer of military military equipment to support the occupation contingent in the territories of e . we saw this summer that they are forcing the russians to look for some alternative, the route through the arabat arrow, which was not actively used before, is currently being used, there is also data that indicates

the fact that the kerch crossing guard and the kerch sea port are already used as military logistics facilities, and this is a continuation of the strategy of the russian army's leadership of such a mixing of civilian and military logistics, possible in order to somehow secure its the military under the guise of those civilians who are going through the chongar bridge, who are going through the kerch defense crossing, which they put to work, by the way, big amphibious forces , big enough ships, and the situation is like this it seems that russia is trying to compensate for losses in military logistics at the expense of civilian ones, and in particular they write about the fact that a very serious increase in prices is felt, but this may also be connected with the general economic crisis of russia's neighbors . but if we are talking about the summer season

in crimea, to what extent was it a failure or not a failure , do people continue to leave the territory of the russian federation in order to rest, because after all, the tourists who come are also money for the economy of the region, well, look at the russian head of occupied crimea serhiy aksyonov according to aksenov's documents, he claims that almost 4 million tourists visited crimea this year, this season, for comparison with the results of the 2021 season , the last year of such a relatively calm year, they announced almost 8 million tourists in crimea. and according to the results of the 21st in 2018, nine and a half million tourists were called such a number, but even then experts emphasized that the infrastructure of crimea is not capable of containing such a number and the numbers called by the occupying authorities of crimea. they need to be divided at least

it is quite difficult to say with what ratio serhiy aksyonov's words are perceived now, but there is one more detail that illustrates the general situation in the resort sector of crimea. according to the results of this season, the occupying authorities of crimea are now collecting applications from the tourist sector, that is, for material assistance to those who were able to maintain the staff at the level of, if i'm not mistaken, 80% of them are given four minimum wages each. this is about 50,000 rubles per person. well, what is this for a person who is actively involved in the resort season in crimea and works at resort facilities mostly well, i don’t know, it’s a well-known fact in crimea that you need to earn for the whole year during the summer, will this financial aid help me stick around for the whole year?

these funds, but this is actually eating up regular subsidies , this is what the tourist business serhiy is dealing with right now , two more questions are very important, in fact, the ukrainian special operation in the territory of the annexed crimea continues, the representative of the main directorate of ukrainian intelligence said about it earlier in fact, news appeared very often, in particular, in local telegram channels, that is, the crimean wind about cotton, and there, there , how is this cotton so small that it is so actively written about, and yet the peninsula has become calmer in the last few days, well, if you use such terminology as the cotton season, it continues, it is not the same, it is not the same intensity that we observed in the height of this summer. but in crimea , there are periodic reports of the arrival or attacks of drones, which the occupying authorities report that they are shooting down, it is not true

intensively, but this is how it is happening, another sign of this cotton season is that the gur has demonstrated the possibility of landing a small landing force in the west of crimea, and these messages were left without a reaction from the occupying authorities of crimea, and one more observation that i can say is the permanent authorities of crimea there is still a widespread notification of the population of crimea about an air threat or other types of threats if there is an attack by drones, for example on the kerch bridge , the siren can be turned on at the kerch bridge and the semeyker or sirens do not turn on, that is, they respond locally to the end, which is very brief about whether the so-called elections are taking place on the territory of aksenov crimea, what is known about it, because we know that this so -called election process, these pseudo-elections, has begun in the occupied ukrainian regions as for crimea, i said that crimea is such a military

logistics hub for russia's war against ukraine, it is still such an electoral hub now because, uh, they are now very actively using those methods that have worked in the occupied crimea over the past 8 years, as part of the so-called elections in the occupied territory, now in crimea there are voting sites, so-called ex-territorial voting sites for those people who have been transferred from the occupied territory since 2020 to the so-called dpr and lpr there elections are held and even a certain turnout is called, according to some indicators it is more than 40%, but 40% of what number we still do not know . the total number of voters who should take part in this is not published. so to speak in the process, the russian state edition

of real news in the publication of september 4 quotes the head of the territorial commission of this so-called commission in simferopol, serhiy shargorodskyi, who directly says that there are no electoral lists in them , people are considered here based on the fact of appearing at the so-called polling stations. well, i i have to say that these elections are not recognized by the international community, they are not recognized by ukraine, these are violations of both the laws of ukraine and international law and thank you serhiy serhiy mokrushyn journalist of the crimea project. realities about the current situation on the occupied peninsula. the united states of america condemned the new russian attacks on ukraine, in particular, and the shelling of the port of konstantinovka in donetsk region. this was reported by white house spokeswoman karenjen pierre. she emphasized the importance of supporting ukraine and also reminded that the kremlin itself can complete the war is the one that withdraws its troops at any time and stops the brutal attacks. and in the european union, they called on russia to immediately stop its

inhumane and illegal aggression. this was a quote the spokesman for the eu's foreign and security policy, petro stano, let me remind you that a rescue operation was completed in kostyantynivtsi the night before, it is known that 17 people died and 32 were injured, the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine calls these figures. in the middle of the day they hit the market in the city center in the donetsk regional military administration, they say that the type of weapon is still being specified the attack on kostyantynivka took place on the day of the state secretary's visit to ukraine of the united states of anthony blinken, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, published a video with the moment of the impact, according to the donetsk regional prosecutor 's office, as a result of the attack, 20 shops , power lines, an administrative building and the fifth floor of a residential building were completely burned

, cars and eight commercial objects were completely burned in these seconds before the broadcast of our we are attaching serhii horbatenko , this is the course of the freedom radio center. i greet you . good morning, serhii. what are the latest data on the victims and destruction after the attack of the russian forces in kostyantynivka, who are the people who died, what is known in this context, the regional rescue operation was completed yesterday and the figures for the dead and wounded have not changed. to change, because the injuries of people there were really serious, i saw a lot during these one and a half years of the full-scale invasion of the russian troops into ukraine, but such pictures

are very rarely seen when just around puddles of blood and actually yesterday the minister of internal affairs klymenko spoke about the fact that some bodies were completely dismembered and they will have to be identified with the help of dna examination, that is, people received serious injuries and blood loss according to the information of the law enforcement officers. practically all the victims of this terrorist attack by the russian army on kostiantynivka are the peaceful lives of this city. yesterday i spoke with some people who became eyewitnesses and we can listen to what they say about this blow . i came i came to see my the girl is there, the flowers are all scattered, no one is there, not with me, but the girl has no one, now she was near the market well, it was not far from here , she was near the market. it was not far from here when at 3:00 a.m. a shell flew by and fell here, all the people ran

in fright, the cars and kiosks started to catch fire it is very difficult for us we are asking the whole world to stop this war we have glass we flew away only we are still alive thank god we got glass we are still alive thank god god thank you and so they say people died how many people they congratulated us on the holiday yes, the boomerang works. everything will return. all our troubles will return to them. they are inadequate, no, the president . they hit wherever they want. they hit wherever they want. these are inadequate people, terrible maniacs, and everyone, including the president and their soldiers, serhiy, regarding his own as well as the damaged infrastructure, we know that one of the floors of the residential building was evacuated, and what is the situation there now, the last woman said , the windows just flew out, the glass flew out, and there is nothing serious with such destruction and

damage to the residents of kostyantynivka and others regarding cities and new ones, donetsk region was already used to that, and there was no eviction, but when i was there, the donetsk police went around the region , actually. these houses interviewed people, asked if there were any injured people, people answered that everything was fine, only there was no glass, that is , there was no eviction, how were there additional security measures in the city or additional recommendations from the authorities , were they there, something was happening in this direction . safe cities, uh, from the first day of the full-scale invasion, the recommendations from the authorities have not changed in any way, in fact , every day residents of donetsk region are called to evacuate, some leave, some return

, some refuse to leave and children in the region. i see quite a lot of them on the streets every day, that is, people do not agree to leave, and additional security measures, well, what can they actually be, er, every day the air warning signal sounds in the cities, they installed additional mobile shelters in case of shelling, that's really all and russia they russian troops periodically use such munitions which, unfortunately, the anti-aircraft defense that is available here is simply not capable of knocking down, so the only way out is to actually evacuate and everything sergey, if you have possible information, but how many peaceful people currently live in constanta, all at least an approximate amount the targeted number given by the local authorities and unfortunately, i just didn't have time yet to collect all the numbers, but for example , for this market, we can say that there

are a lot of people in the city despite the russian shelling. at 2:00 p.m. when a russian rocket landed on this market, it was rush hour. there were a lot of people there, and i would like to note that this is not the first attack on a place of mass trade. on july 5, last year , the central market in slavyansk was attacked. the central market in kurakhovo was also shelled, because another one of the markets in kostiantynivka was also shelled, this is actually the second of such markets in the place of trade that came under the attack of russian troops and and here is one more question , is it also important or established maybe on during this period, what were the weapons used by the russian forces, and why are they hitting civilian infrastructure objects so demonstrably, this is a hint that the russian forces will possibly intensify their actions in the east, what does the local government say about this , because telegram- channel news agency hmm, they investigated and talk about the fact that since april, if i'm not mistaken

, the largest mass strike that caused the most deaths actually on a civilian object that was carried out by russian forces on the territory of ukraine regarding the type of ammunition, as of now it has not been installed yet, at least in my case yesterday the law enforcement officers were collecting debris, the work was being carried out, but there is no information yet, and regarding the demonstrative strike, e. kostyantynivka comes under fire from russian troops almost every day. occupied bakhmut, so tonight they also have information from the local public that another one of these areas came under fire again, but

there is currently no information about the victims, what was the purpose of this strike, that is what is repeated here in the donetsk region every day is terror against the civilian population, because there are no military targets in the market where vegetables , smoked chickens or mobile phones are sold, i.e. in my opinion, there is only one logic - this is terror. for now , i will remind you of this simple fact that serhiy horbatenko, a correspondent of radio svoboda, told us about kostyantynivtsi . the secretary of state of the united states of ukraine, anthony blinken, promised that the united states will continue to help and support ukraine in liberating the occupied territories from russian troops and added that his visit to kyiv aims to make sure that ukraine has everything necessary for offensive actions, we see good progress in the counteroffensive, this very

difficult. we want to make sure that ukraine has everything it needs not only for success in the counteroffensive, but also what it needs in the long term to make sure that there is a strong deterrent factor. defense capability blinken arrived in ukraine the day before on a two-day visit, it was not announced in advance, the secretary of state met with ukrainian prime minister denys shmygal, minister of foreign affairs dmytro kolega , and president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky , according to the latter, the united states remains a leader in strengthening ukrainian defense when the leaders of the united states come this such a powerful message for everyone thank you very much thank you thank you thank you gift to biden thank you give them congratulations to him uh we are grateful bilateral

party supporters are a community around ukraine , what is happening on the battlefield, and i am very grateful that the united states is supported and is a leader in this matter, and the ukrainian people fully understand this and are grateful for that . during his visit to kyiv, he announced the transfer of another package of military support worth more than a billion dollars , this package of assistance includes additional air defense equipment, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, shells with depleted uranium for previously transferred tanks abrams and projectiles for himers systems, the pentagon also announced that part of the money will go to strengthening anti-air defense, supporting law enforcement activities in the liberated territories and supporting the long-term military needs of ukraine. finally, anthony blinken announced that the united states is preparing for the first transfer of confiscated

russian assets to ukraine, it is about assets under sanctions russian oligarchs who are sent to help ukrainian veterans, this is already the fourth trip of the secretary of state to ukraine since the beginning of a full-scale russian invasion linkin also announced a meeting between us president joe biden and ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky in the near future and another interesting conclusion during blinkin's meeting with the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine kuleva they allegedly went to have lunch at the stolichny mcdonald's linked ordered french fries and kuleba a pie and told the secretary of state about the fact that in his student years it was his best hangover food, vinkind said to this that he is sure i am quoting it was very rare pavlo lakichuk

, head of security programs at the center for global studies, strategy 21 joins our broadcast good morning good morning glory to ukraine glory to the heroes drones are attacking russia again moscow-rostov-on-don they are no longer surprising anyone in russia, they arrive almost every day , and the ministry of defense begins its russian day by reporting in a telegram that this is a process that cannot be stopped until the end of a full-scale russian-ukrainian war. drones for example, today in rostov where could they aim and whose handiwork could it be like this well then , i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all our military and the owls on their professional holiday and wish them even more success, the owner clearly saying that today is a festive day greetings were received by the southern military district of the armed forces of the russian federation , well, obviously, something was done there, the body did not fly , well, it flew, it flew. next time, however, you must

understand that it is not a single a single action and our military do not, uh, do not time any of their operations to the holiday, this is a permanent combat work, the purpose of which is to help those of our troops who are now liberating our land in the territory in the south , in the east, are fighting hard as an athlete and struck deep into the territory of russia on the military object of enemy logistics, this is part of our great offensive, the goal of which is the liberation of ukraine, today mostly saboteurs who are on the territory of russia are working, and yet drones are launched from the territory that is ukrainian. i think that something else

and the first one. so, definitely from the territory that is ukrainian, which is controlled by our troops, and from the territory that is ukrainian, and on which the enemy’s boots are still on, and from the territory of the enemy’s territory, of course, first of all, war is war secondly, it just seems that there are no people in russia who do not understand crime, who understand the crime of putin's regime, and who are ready to help the state of ukraine there, and the whole civilized world in general , to overcome this criminal regime. counteroffensive and this is what blinkin said in kyiv . does this mean that the united states of america will be with ukraine until the moment until