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vasyl winter's big broadcast. a project for smart and caring people. espresso in the evening. yes, this is a chronicle of hostilities, we continue to talk about the southern direction of the front. we are talking with ihor lapin. this is a special-purpose officer of the armed forces of ukraine, and we were joined by kostantyn denisov, a fighter of the legion of freedom, freedom zaporizhia branch. greetings, mr. konstantin. glory to ukraine. i congratulate you. well, we already talked a little here about some general situation, you can literally add some such specifics to us, maybe, well, first of all, for example, yes, and this general staff of ours says that there are attempts by the russians to recapture their positions, there are attempts by them to organize some even slightly non-offensive actions there, that's how far it is, how it looks in practice, what they are trying to...

do what they are, and who are they trying to hold back the ukrainian offensive, actually, yes, the general staff is absolutely right, they go on counter-offensives, counter-attacks, their paratroopers cut hard, i have already told your colleagues this many times, they are supported by their artillery, because it works simply, well, not to say, of course in non-stop mode, but unlimited, of course threshing of all the types of weapons that they have, well, the maximum that they can repel is some tamra, but again, then everything is carefully cleaned by our artillery , beautifully, competently, in particular, this is western long-range artillery, cluster shells are working very well, that is, all these russian counter-attack forces are multiplied by zero, but nevertheless they are walking, i say that first of all it is their landing...

units, and besides, we have to understand that there, for example, everything, well, artillery is, as they say, from the ground, but from the sky, they are constantly supported by their drones, the same half-drones. with lancedrons, they work on our infantry, on the positions it occupies, with great difficulty, knocking out the russians from there, and on those equipment they constantly hunt with lancets, well, as if it also happened that the activity of the russian aviation, in your direction, calmed down a little , how do you rate it, well, i don't know how much, this morning their planes and helicopters came in, huh. well, because there was even the impression that the russian helicopters did not feel very comfortable there, but, well, it’s not it means that they don’t work at all, but as if there were such reports , no, well, of course, the marines here, and in particular the zaporizhian

national guard, normally filled russian helicopters, that ’s why they still did, you know, because they felt like going for a walk, and now they became wiser, grew up. and now they are working very carefully, and with airplanes , they generally try to carry out bombing attacks at least 60 km from the contact line, or whatever they call it, because our anti-aircraft defense is also already experienced has gathered and is also working on them, that is why they protect the equipment, then they throw cannon fodder there, into battle, and they protect the equipment , but you raised a question about helicopters, but there is already confirmed information that they are now russians, their this defense industry will increase the production of these missiles specifically for helicopters, which they attach to helicopters and then chase after our equipment, so we need to think about something here, work, well, they will give us aviation support, the western ones there, we really need it, because if

they they will bring those missiles for helicopters, then of course, there will be a lot of trouble for us, as well, somewhere at the beginning of the year, they increased the production of these... long-range so-called smart projectiles for their art, then we felt how they beat them very well, even though ours are knocked out there, and artillery installations in the zaporizhzhia direction, but nevertheless, when modern new weapons are delivered to the russians, it is given as a sign, after that we have very large losses and wounded, unfortunately there are dead, our brothers in technology, so we also need it reinforcement of modern weapons, they are very... very helpful on the field, well, when you say that you brought modern weapons, what exactly do you mean, because for their part, the russians, for example, complain that our artillery is more long-range than they can

get it, that is, they can’t get it that directly well, well, that means the front artillery, and that is, what can they do, well, prove what we haven’t seen yet, or well, we have seen, but in a smaller amount, well, i have in mind, first of all, long-range artillery shells smart ones, with which they covered us, it is in terms of technology, the thing that bothers me the most, and they have tanks here, the same t-90s, and they have a lot of drones, drones of various purposes. the same i say lancets, of course they beat us very well with our equipment, we saw a body here once on drones, well , usually they are lancets and we saw them once, it seems to be called a bunch, it is made by the kalashnikov concern, well, i could be wrong, as it is called, well, this infection is also, of course,

deadly, that is, they are constantly, constantly being picked up, they have these pseudo-volunteers, plus there is even such a feature right here, i don’t know how it is in others, in other areas of the front, in the zaporizhzhia region of russia, these so-called political parties, they divided certain units among themselves and take care of them, there the communists drive their own, there is a fair in particular, russia drives mobs from the moscow region, these are regiments 1429, 1413, they are mobilized from russia from the moscow region, united russia drives there with its own, oh, there is also some ldpr there with its own, that is, there are also such types of party patronage here, well, this is another says that there is no no in russia neither the government nor the opposition, there are all scumbags, all ukrainophobes, they all support this separatist war against ukraine, well , in fact, they have their own volunteer movement, this is their attempt, you know, to actually copy from the ukrainian volunteer movement, only it has this volunteer movement, this

not a voluntary one, but it’s just such a spot, it’s also a state order only from the outside, well, it’s like that, that’s why it’s through the party, but none the less, none the less, it’s humanitarian... they just push these loads hard, they deliver them, i’m saying , that from this modern technique, the same thermal imagers, night vision devices, atvs, for the same calculations of tourists, here too, yes, by the way, here in the zaporizhzhia direction, they quickly arrived, spread out, fired at our equipment, gathered and got back together, that is, that is why this equipment is constantly under their control the same rations give a ride to modernity for communication, because communication has always been such a disease of the russian army, and if, but they still get a ride, it means that they a analyze, b, they learn, they are no longer such idiots as we used to laugh at them. year therefore, that is why this enemy is very dangerous, and we can, i told your colleagues, that

we can even see how they behave on the battlefield, how they competently, i emphasize, competently use certain features of the terrain there , how they conduct defensive positions, it can be seen that there are cadres of officers who we also watched there, monitored there, they even have officers and the same soldiers, sergeants, who have been fighting since the first russian-chechen war, that is, imagine... ' these people have more than 20 years of combat experience, whatever they are there, they are stupid, but nevertheless, these are people with combat experience who have already gone through more than one russian war of aggression, the same units of the times there, which participated in the russian-georgian war, the russian-syrian war, in the annexation of crimea, the same paratroopers, special forces, so here i say that the enemy is very serious against us in the zaporozhye direction, look and see, well, when you say this , well, in principle, yes, well, in the end, they dug trenches and did engineering fortification, well

it is clear that they are not stupid, to say the least, igor, when konstantin talked about all the new ammunition there, which are more intelligent, and about helicopters, how exactly what kind of weapons would be necessary now in order to, well at least counteract... more effectively, because it is obvious that they made a one-time success there, they were able to somehow restrain something there, but everything changes, everything, someone learns, something is added there, well, let 's be frank, they put on an industrial flow , the production of the same lancets, it is done on a national scale, please tell me, name at least one drone that is produced in our country on an industrial scale at the state level, well , all of this is possible, yes. you can’t explain anymore, well, let’s start with the fact that israel didn’t want to sell us

those drones that it sold to russia, which were used to make lancets, well, wait, what else should they do instead of us, that is, at a time when the whole world shouted, dig trenches, we shoveled asphalt, and now we complain that someone did not add or sell us something there, i i will tell you that we have good brains and the ukrainians themselves, no matter what, but they are the same... surface drones, baby, or the same non-submersible drone that we are currently making, sorry, we not stupid either, it’s true, we also have missile production capabilities, we skillfully now use neptunes not only against ships, but also use them on land , we managed, we have missile programs, so you know, israel didn’t give, well, no gave, and now buy four boards, dig a hole for two meter and lie in your own grave, no, of course, that's how i want to say here that we have a different kind of drones gathering in each garage, and this is wrong, on a state

scale they did, by order, identified the five best options and they said, yes, guys, now we all collect these five options, handed out the technological process and everyone bangs the same thing, then we will have and there will be no problems with spare parts, and there will be no problems with the unification of training and so on, but we at the moment you know it all, volunteers pull on... they are trying to solve it at customs, because we even have the same mavik , it is dual-purpose defined by some side, there is no such thing anywhere in the world, only in ukraine, where we are fighting, then in our country we have to solve components with customs officials so that to establish, the shmyhal government announced recently, we already canceled it, thank you, two years have passed, we canceled it, well, thank you, and until then, the boys and girls were dragging that mess here and still forced to... different kinds of obstacles, what's next we could still do this to

contrast the saturation of pppo systems. is there a us smart projectiles? we have missile-jets, these, or rather, artillery active-reactive projectiles and are developed by sao bohdan. 24.7 non-stop should work on production this. do you understand what are we talking about now? the russians use guided aerial bombs, yes, they do not fly into our strike zone. according to the ppo, they try to drop there 40 or 50 km away, you know, i’ll tell you, he’s a guy, he won’t let you lie, when he falls to 500 near the dugout, the pit is the same as the dugout, and the entire dugout jumps up... to the sky and all it know that we can counter it, of course our air defense systems , but we can't push them so close to the front line, of course we can't, we need, we need f16, well yes, this is a matter of priorities if we are at sea

with the help of, in the absence of a large fleet, large ships there and so on, torpedo boats and so on, with the help of small drones they drove the russian fleet behind the clouds of mazhai, so we have to... now win back the sky, because if someone remembers, at the beginning of the war the russians were walking blind, but we had maviks, shmaviks, because the volunteers still pulled , and today we lose the sky not only in the context of the lack of aviation, but also in the context of combat, drones, anti-drone handguns and so on, well listen, well, now we can here the list is to be dictated, somewhere approximately, it will be a little bigger, of course, than the list that the united states sent to our authorities in order to receive assistance, what reforms should be made. but the list of provision of servicemen, it is quite large, and who in our country is responsible for it, well, the general staff is not responsible for the provision, probably the ministry of defense, here we welcome corrupt people to retirement with applause, so what do we want to see, i’m not sure, an anti-drone gun against the same lancet, which is, after all, an aircraft-type drone,

as far as i understand, it probably doesn't work very well, ms. olga, don't overdo it, i didn't say anti -drone gun against... well, i'm just saying now, and what, and i'll tell you, and the lancet is adjusted by the eagle, and the eagle, we can to knock down with a stinger, well, for example, now i say we now we can fantasize here about saturation, and how to fight against lancets , of course we know ourselves when you didn't want to introduce a visa regime against russians in the last convocation, i remember very well, i was the author of this draft law and said, 'in russia, we have 3.5 million ukrainians, we will create a problem for them, then i would prefer to see at least 1% of the 3.5 million partisans who will blow up the factory for the production of lancets, otherwise we are very cool, you know, somehow, we want to win in white gloves, without criticizing, no turning or so on, the war will not be won until we transfer the war to

the ground of the aggressor, we will forever think here, how to knock down what the russians are producing on an industrial... scale, how we can counter their actions there, for example , well, the missiles that fly there on a ballistic-cyrobalistic trajectory, only by destroying the places from where they can take off, or how many of those mig-31s ​​there are, or by destroying the launchers or there and so on, we can destroy it by what we can, without bombing the territory of the aggressor, and nothing, and that we are forever we will ask patriots to defend kyiv, and odesa, which does not need to be defended, we don't have it there. you know, it's not you who can convince me, i think that we simply , we have now come to the point, to the point in history, when we need a massive, perhaps some kind of propaganda campaign abroad, regarding this main narrative, not to attack russia, because there will be some kind of aggravation, that's for sure, i'm not

blaming you journalists, but we know that the same massive information attack on the enemy's territory depends on the information... politics inside ukraine, unfortunately, we don't see espresso there directly fifth, and the only marathon in our country is popularizing, debilitating the population at the expense of tv series about povoroznyaks and so on, so what do you want for now what is not being conducted, the series was not filmed, okay, konstantin, let’s still go back to more such maybe specific things, tell me, you also started to talk a little about some kind of moral mood of russians regarding the fact that they, well, in principle, well, enough is enough for hell they are trying to storm and there are military units and people prepared, and how come there were also such news that one of these, cheap, well cheap, they can be said so, also seem to be paratrooper brigades, i

am afraid to be wrong here, they did not perform very well there and after that. refused to go, she had to be replaced by another one, how common is this attitude among them, not common, like you , how do you see it in general? what you can you tell us about them here, how are they in general, well, about the paratroopers, there are not their brigades here, but divisions, airborne assault, this time, the brigades here are the marines, 810, here is the 64th motorized rifle brigade, which, in particular, committed crimes in mariupoli, which also committed crimes in busha, if , well, in relation to... their moral condition, of course , it is bad, because they from those interceptions that we had the opportunity to track, they sincerely did not understand how the ukrainians, without having

advantages in the air, seeing ahead total mined fields and saturation of russian artillery, they still manage to go forward and squeeze the enemy, from the position to slowly repel him, and somewhere there just competently. giving him the same logistics, taking the important transport routes there under fire control and so on , well, how are they trying a couple of examples of how they are trying to raise morale, first of all, one of shoigu's deputies came here, brought three buckets of medals, distributed to these russian pseudo-heroes, then he came to the guardsmen, there are also units there national guards and their various police units, one of the replacements... of the russian ministry of internal affairs is also a medal collector here, putin is trying to raise their morale by giving various units the rank of guards, in

particular, it seems like the day before yesterday that the 58th army received such a rank, before however, the same 810th brigade of marines, before that 291st regiment, 70-71st regiments received such ranks , what do we know, because tracking where these units stand, when they receive these ranks, probably later, they bang hard and start, to celebrate their so-called achievements with artillery salutes, because in those days the number of artillery fire at them simply increases there and then, they start to flounder stupidly, but nevertheless it does not help them, because we see the result that they are slowly retreating , well, they either retreat or leave certain areas, there is a gray area, well, de facto they lose control over certain positions, but look, how would you rate it now, apart from minefields, there are still such

serious enough problems, well, regarding well, overcoming the russian positions, theirs is theirs, theirs is, of course, hammering hard, there are units here, so you can understand, they have everything, up to... they work constantly and fired phosphorous at our community positions here, that is what concerns russians, well, from their side, well, again, we have to say that from our side, the problems , moral, psychological support, rehabilitation and recovery after injuries, this system, it falters on all two, three, four and five legs, because it is not on... fixed, it often has to be done in in manual mode, moral and psychological services, we look with envy at some units there, which are howling here, they certainly

have it, it all works clearly, as you know how everything works according to the charter, we have no problems with this, we are trying to do this and practice, and when our boys were given leave after their injuries and were told to do whatever they want, we will immediately put them in rehabilitation centers, it is already clear how the whole system works, how to do everything, but nevertheless, on a general scale it a very big problem, because well, technology, yes, western, yes, but basically it is people, 90% of the battle is carried by the assault infantry, the boys are seven or eight, there for six to nine months in conditions of constant combat , we have freedom fighters in sapper units, it’s generally crazy, emotional stress, they are often the first to go in densely , very well, well , real exhaustion, real. wash, we really need rotations, rest, and what kind of short-term rehabilitation is there, plus such a question, nishatka, nivalka , commissions for distributing ubdd certificates are working, there are

some guys who have been waiting for eight, nine months, submitted the documents, and these certificates to them they are not issued, and this is also, firstly, it is a step of respect on the part of the state that it recognizes your contribution, secondly, after all, this certificate gives the right to benefits not only... to the soldier, but to his children, literally the other day, the university admissions campaign ended, and the children of combatants have privileges when entering universities, but there is no certificate, but there is no privilege, no matter how great your father is , a champion there, and no matter how many russian tanks he rammed, there is no certificate, well we rest on the old phrase without a pocketbook you bukashka, that's why we need to pedal, gas up this issue, because i also looked somewhere in some news, official information, during the period of the full-scale war in ukraine , uh, 55,000 certificates of participants in hostilities were issued, so look, we have hundreds of thousands now

are fighting, well yes, well really. then these are people who are at the front, and people who are no longer at the front , but in principle, they should have this certificate, yes, tell me, and, and there is also, there is still a problem, for example, of retired freelancers, which everyone pretends doesn't exist, actually, but it does exist, well, me directly i serve in a volunteer unit, we don't have such a concept of being out of state, we are on our own, but i know such problems too, well, everything is necessary and there are relevant officials, officials who have to solve it all, especially if they can, mr. igor, you literally have half a second, there to say, the army should essentially work as a mechanism, and not only on the enthusiasm of those people who voluntarily sit there, the army should fight, and the rear should provide everything, including that what my brother is talking about, the only thing i want to say is that there is a draft law in the verkhovna rada, which

allows the issuance of ubdd. only by the commander's message, which is entered into the relevant register, a qr code, and the ubd is ready for you , well, i already said it very simply, but the horse was not lying around, they have a program there now, it's simple it is necessary, the verkhovna rada, including, thank you, it was igor lapin, kostyantyn denisov, yes, thank you very much, gentlemen, for joining us. greetings, we are looking for six-year-old varya sozonova, who mysteriously disappeared even before the start of the full-scale invasion of russia, namely 5 december 2022. i immediately ask you to share this video on your social networks, because if as many people learn about the search for the child, accordingly, the more chances there will be to find him. so, her grandmother is looking for varia. she

told us how. a girl with her mother in kyiv. in the winter of 2022, they went to moldova and were in the city of grigoriopol in transnistria. they have not been in touch since then. why mother and daughter went there, the grandmother cannot say for sure, but since december 5, 22, about the fate of little vara and almost nothing is known about her mother. i don't know, well , to look for a cat, in general, what are the possibilities, what can i do, where i want to go, i've already applied, well, during this time. saw, well, someone must see, in some school, kindergarten, in the polyclinic, the child was sick there, and we very often ended up in the hospital, straight away, i don’t believe that somewhere, well, somewhere should, something, at the same time the grandmother says , she allegedly has information from the police that her granddaughter and her mother crossed the border and returned to ukraine, but here they are again

no one saw it, they didn't get in touch... and unfortunately, there are almost no leads that could help in the search. on the territory of ukraine, no one saw them, you see, at least some kind of surveillance camera, that they are both alive and well, that everything is fine, well , somewhere there should be some kindergartens, some schools, hospitals, i asked through helsy, to find out about the vaccinations, because i know that the child should be vaccinated, well, the girl's grandmother now above all else... wants to get at least some information about the child, to make sure that she is alive, healthy, and everything is fine with her, and this is how olga oleksiivna talks about her six-year-old granddaughter. oh, she is very, very, very friendly with everyone, and with a boy and a girl, she is very companionable, as she loves children very, very much. the girl's grandmother also told us that she has information that her granddaughter and

her mother, after returning... from moldova to ukraine, could go to poland. this is just a guess at the moment, but if you actually live in poland, maybe you will see varya sozonova and her mother there, or you will have some information about them, immediately call 11630. please remember or write down this number, because 11630 is the only european missing children hotline that works in 28 european countries, so if you are in one of the european countries and want report... information about a missing child or, god forbid, you yourself have a missing child, do not delay, call the single european missing children hotline 116:30 from your mobile phone, you will receive professional help, support and step-by-step instructions , how to act in such a situation situations and finally, the grandmother of six-year-old vara says that she does not lose hope of finding her beloved granddaughter, and asks each of you

not to remain indifferent and help her. wanted please