a minute of silence for all ukrainian defenders of those who died in the second russian-ukrainian war. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

my greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is oleg galiv and we are starting. telegram channels say that in the direction of bakhmut , ukrainian forces have already crossed the railway, which the russian army supplies itself with. there are no confirmations in this information, so let's find out the details and tell the most important ones news from the front. the separatist nagorno-karabakh republic will cease to exist on january 1. the relevant decree was signed by the unrecognized authority of the region. meanwhile, azerbaijan detained the former head of the government of karabakh while trying to enter armenia. what will happen to the ethnic armenians inhabiting the region is also the topic we are currently discussing in the broadcast. and 41% of ukrainians who are currently abroad because of the great war. definitely plan to return home,

this is evidenced by survey data from the center for economic strategy, as far as these numbers are concerned have changed compared to last year, and how it will affect the ukrainian economy, we will also talk. do not forget to subscribe to our youtube channel, and also like this video, if it is interesting for you, as well as a traditional request, write in the comments where you are watching us from, so that we understand the geography of our viewers. russian troops carried out a missile attack on the city of mykolaiv tonight, the head of the regional military administration, vitaly kim, announced. the attack took place after 4 o'clock in the morning, according to the data of the regional military administration , an infrastructure facility on the outskirts of the city was hit. it is also reported that dry grass caught fire, which was extinguished by firefighters in local mykolaiv telegram channels. residents of the city reported that the explosions took place even before the air raid sirens sounded. oleksandr hinkevich, the mayor of mykolaiv is already with us on i greet you, good afternoon

, please tell us about the morning attack, what is known, are there any possible victims, what are its consequences, well, actually, as you said, the attack took place at 4:13 a.m., and it was, again, at an infrastructure object that has been actively attacked by the russians for the past week, i don't know what they are looking for there or who, because in fact this object was destroyed back on the beginning of the war, but they have been targeting this object for the second day in a row, so he did not resume his work, so in fact, the attack took place before the siren went off, this past week, well, the week is still passing, there have been three of these attacks, and all three, first there were explosions, then a siren, so currently unknown

the type of rockets that were fired, but it is known that after them there is great destruction , and fires are burning, the fire was extinguished for more than two hours, patrolmen were on duty at the site, restricting traffic, all so that all services could work promptly, we clarify the information from specialists , so i can't report something like that in addition, i can say that there are no victims at the moment. mr. oleksandr, please tell me. regarding the object we are talking about now, it is closed information, what kind of object it is, if it was already destroyed all the more, or can you clarify somehow? well, this is an object of transport infrastructure. well, please tell me, you said that there have already been several such attacks in the past week, in particular, what do you associate their activity with, perhaps the fact that the armed forces of ukraine are having success at the front in terms of advancement and the russian forces react in this way, is this a constant tactic of the russian forces, they shell the city, but there are no weapons, they do it more, when they have

fewer missiles, they do it, they do it less. mykolayiv is being shelled with some periodically, after the liberation of kherson, systematic attacks stopped interfering with the functioning of the city, but in any case, now they frighten the residents even more, because they happen unexpectedly, we do not have the movement of military equipment on the territory of the city or the abrams, who are so often loved tell the russians that they are destroying them, it is more or less calm in our city, only these last few days have alarmed people a little, eh, i don’t think that this is some kind of attack directed there, i think that there is some intelligence data, or data people, let's say yes, they cooperate with the russians, to whom something is possible, perhaps it seemed to them, perhaps they saw something, perhaps they thought that something was happening there, and that is why they transmit

this information, but the russians use it to attack, because the sbu, just recently again captured collaborators who cooperated with russia. and these people are not some special agents, they are people who work on the territory of the city of mykolaiv, at some factories, in lyceums, and in other services. mr. oleksandr, two more questions, literally short, about why air the alarm starts sounding after there is already an explosion, it’s some other type of weapon , maybe i don’t know, there’s the area from which they are shelling, it’s closer, why does this happen, don’t you like it, i’m sure i’m not a military person gunner, but from what i've been told, it could be... with the fact that there's an attack with ballistic shells, that is , ballistic-type shells, and that gives our air defense units the opportunity to find them, or detect them in time, so actually we're left when

they ask me if it is possible to return, people of mykolaiv, me i tell them that i cannot take responsibility for your decision, but take into account these recent events and the fact that today in the city of mykolaiv schools are still working online, because we are still in the zone of impact of these ballistic missiles, who can target, before even we can run and hide the children, before the children should have been my last question about the people, how often do they return to mykolaiv now, if such attacks occur, is there an outflow of people, that is, those who decides that it is still better to go to for some time, well, very little is said about mykolaiv in ukraine, but since april 12, 2022, mykolaiv has been without potable water, that is, we are still with technical water, people are still walking around the city with five-liter plastic bottles in the cities of distribution of free drinking water

, they raise it to the floors themselves and in general prepare food for themselves and drink exclusively this purified water, which is obtained on the streets of the city, as it was during the second world war. that is, we still have technical water in the pipeline, which has an increased level of salt, and how you understand, this does not make it possible to say that the people of mykolaiv will totally return, well, actually, the impossibility of teaching children offline, that is, to get an education in person, that is exclusively through the internet, also made its corrections and many people who planned to return already. .. from the month of september to the city, they changed their plans and left the city again in ukraine or abroad. mr. oleksandr, i thank you for the prompt activation that clarified the situation, oleksandr sinkevich, mayor of mykolaiv, which again succumbed to the russian attack.

defense forces of ukraine in klishchiivka, south of bakhmut, allegedly crossed the railway on one of the sections. such messages come from the so-called russian military bloggers, in particular... alexander kots. in his telegram channel, he writes that there is an active counter-battle near klishchiivka. the ukrainian side is using artillery and mortars, writes kots, referring to the russian military from the front. officially, the ministry of defense of russia does not mention this, it only states that the russian forces the federations near klichivka allegedly defeated an assault group of the ukrainian military, as well as a group of equipment. meanwhile, the ukrainian general staff reports that the defense forces are continuing their assault and offensive operations in the bakhmut direction. russian forces, according to the general staff of ukraine, did not conduct assault operations in this direction. meanwhile, analysts of the american institute for the study of war noticed that russian forces have reduced the pace of their local offensive operations on the kupyansk-svatovo kreminna line, on the border of the kharkiv and luhansk regions, analysts

came to the conclusion that the ukrainian offensive diverts russian forces from this direction and significantly weakens russian offensive efforts on this line. according to a preliminary assessment by the american institute for the study of war, the russian offensive operations on the kupiansi swatova cremina line were aimed at pressing ukrainian troops to this line and distracting them from more important areas of the front. and offers. nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, who arrived on an unannounced visit to kyiv , also stated positive trends at the front for the ukrainian military on the eve. he stated that ukrainian forces are gradually gaining ground in their counteroffensive against russian troops. today, your forces are advancing, they are fighting fiercely, but they are gradually gaining ground. every meter returned by the ukrainian forces is a meter lost by russia. there is a sharp contrast here. ukrainians are fighting for their families, their future, their freedom,

moscow is fighting for an imperial delusion. meanwhile , a new drone attack is being announced in kursk, russia. governor of kursk oblast roman starovoytov reported that this morning drones allegedly dropped explosive devices on the substation, as a result of which power was cut off in populated areas. russian telegram channels, for example, the border telegram channel, reports that two explosive shells fell on the vku substation. oblast, one of the transformers allegedly caught fire, power was cut off in five settlements and a hospital, rescuers are working on the spot, meanwhile, the russian ministry of defense reported the successful downing of 11 drones, 10 unmanned aerial vehicles, allegedly shot down by russian air defense forces over kursk oblast, and one over kaluska. there are many topics for discussion, we analyze them with our guest, oleksiy hetman, a military expert, joins the broadcast of freedom mornings. i welcome you. good morning. sir oleksiy, let's go smoothly, i have already completed my briefing in kursk, and i will start with it. what do you think about this

drone attack, or is it really, if it happened and as they say about it from the russian side, it was specifically aimed at substations, let's say energy infrastructure, and does this story start a playable game together, when ukrainian substations are attacked and russian ones can actually be attacked, and this is done either by the ukrainian side, or by the underground, or by those who launch these drones. well, you know, the answer should be mirrored, ruslan, our minister of defense said that we will neutralize their energy structures, energy facilities, in order to weaken, including their defense enterprises, their repair bases, which repair their equipment, they are in general the armed forces of the russian federation, this is a completely normal practice, given that, excuse me, what they are doing not the first year, but the second, the same with our energy structure, how legitimate is it, how is it in line with

the geneva conventions, what will be the reaction of world society, well, we'll see, but you know, there is a premonition that very large waves of indignation will rise now, that there are some countries, which i do not want to name, that still believe that the russian peace is something, that it is their everything, and that it must be supported, that they are well done there , will begin to tell that we are ice-terrorist attacks. we do, well, but it will only be on the condition that, if it is proven, in fact, ukraine will take responsibility for what it is, even, well, even, if it does not take, they will talk about the fact that we are doing this we, and you know, maybe it's even a good thing, because if they start to accuse us, well , they will, well, they will be found, well, listen, well, let's go, i don't want to list these strange, well, let's go whether i want to or not, you you think hungary won't say anything, you think iran won't say anything. that won't say anything there north korea, which will not say anything, well, you can list

the people who are in the putler coalition, the putler anivants , well, they will start belarus, lukashenko, i will show you from which sides they tried, and so on, well, we understand everything, but here there is a certain positive in this, i think there is also a diplomatic and political positive, if they start to tell, well, those that we listed there, well, roughly conditionally, about attacks on russian infrastructure objects, well, you can immediately ask, and what keep silent when attacked ukrainian infrastructure facilities, if it's so bad and it's so unacceptable, well, let's stop it, as they say, no , it's not us, it's the partisans, we won't take responsibility, well, in fact, these are the same the words that you have already prepared, i think that these methods have already been prescribed and these people are already waiting when they will have to say them out loud, well , actually it is not russian, but what is the difference, it is the same thing, they do the same thing and you are silent , it ’s kind of self-explanatory, as they say, nothing, they attack, yes, they destroy

our infrastructure, our energy and heat systems are being destroyed, well, that’s what it is, but if we do the same in russia, but that ’s okay, you can’t do that, so wait, let’s decide somehow, i think when they raise two, maybe it's even such an idea, well, let two raise it, then it will definitely be possible to expand this water in exactly the same words, exactly in the other direction, well , let's see, but if we talk from a military point of view, then it's not at all... it is necessary to do, because these stations feed, well, certain military structure, well, when we we attack, for example, russian lithuania, somewhere in kursk, then, of course, certain power plants, distribution stations or what is there are destroyed, of course, some part of the civilian population will be left without peace, i have to interrupt you, because we still have a lot questions, and not so much time, the bakhmut direction, the bakhmut direction, in fact , the information that is available, that is not, what is written about in telegram channels, confirmed, not confirmed, in your opinion, could the armed forces of ukraine really have already crossed such

an important railway in this area, which the forces of the russian federation use to supply themselves with provisions, weapons, and so on, or is it still the case? is it too early to talk about it now? well, it is too early, the research institute, the war research institute, the american one usually makes such statements a little earlier than, this is happening, well, there is an official notification from our general staff, who have the right to indicate the official position of our, well, our military and political leadership, if well , they don't often make war mistakes, if that the truth is, it is very important, we, well, we have such narratives since the second world war, we ... react very emotionally to, positively react to the liberation of some settlements , starting from the fact that the information that we provided is the information that is actually being spread the russian so-called warlords with reference to the russian military, and, that is, this is really not yet confirmed information from either side , meanwhile, the institute for the study of war, which you have already mentioned, gives us other information, which

we would also like to discuss, about that last sometimes the russian forces lowered the topic of offensive actions on the kupyansk line, matchmaker, kremina, what could it be, you came to the newest directions, well, yes, yes, i will finish in a couple of seconds, the main thing, the main thing, after all, well, the population point, this is very important, but settlements, they must be tied to something , these settlements that we are liberating, this is exactly the railway, this is exactly the logistics, which supplies everything necessary for the armed forces of the russian federation, this very important, it is more important to destroy the railway on which everything is being picked up, rather than liberating some small settlement, well, it is important to vacate the settlement, but to disrupt the logistics , well, that's it, we won't fight, well, that's it, about the kupinsko-limon direction, of course they weakened there, they are so actively offensive actions, they made assault groups, they tried to attack tanks, make tank attacks, which they had not done before, but we remember that it was from

the kupin-liman direction that their 76th russian airborne division was transferred and transferred transferred to south to takmak, in the same way that the seventh was removed from the kherson direction and transferred there, because there, once again , the war is not for takmak, it is the war for the railway that goes to volnovakha tankoy, and it is one of the two major arteries that supplies everything necessary from the temporarily occupied crimea to the russian troops and in general to the south in the kherson region, that is why they stopped, well , there is nothing for them to fight, they are moving the troops , because they are not capable, well, to restrain our offensive actions and also to counterattack. .. actions at the same time, so they move troops and that a very important detail, they are not bringing reserve troops out of style, but they are moving them exactly along the front line , this is a sign that they do not have any powerful capabilities in the rear, some additional armies, hundreds of thousands of additional tanks and so on , what they tell us, if it were, then why move

along the length of the front, waste strength , weaken in one place to strengthen in another, this means that not everything is good with them even with such a number, there to according to our data, there are 4,000 people in them now in this war, russian-ukukin, and nevertheless, they are still not enough, they need to move troops along the front in order to restrain our offensive actions, well, this is a good sign. mr. oleksiy, you have already mentioned, and in particular bbc sources, among the ukrainian military command , say that the city of tokmak in the zaporizhia region, i will remind you, is now the main target of the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine, the counteroffensive, and the main hopes are based on that he should be released before the end of this year, that this you know, this is the minimum task that the armed forces of ukraine set before themselves, how do you assess the situation, from the data you have, the data published by the ukrainian side, in russian, what are the chances that by the end of 2023, everything after all, tokmak can be released, there is a very, very high probability that we will succeed in doing it, and again, you see,

it is not exactly for takmak, but we, well , we like it, released takmak, released... kushchiivka, they liberated another settlement there, the fact is that volnovakh ottekmak, well, further to the south, to melitopol and further to jonko, there is a railway, along which it is a rocket road of the russians, along which they transport everything necessary for the front line, without these, without this road, there will only be automobile roads, well, there is not much to do on them transport for such a large group, so look at all their fortifications, there are the first, second, third lines, sorovitin's lines, they run exactly parallel to this road, they protect the road, they protect the railway, and a separate settlement, although populated point, this is very important, and they perfectly understand that we will succeed before the end of the year, to get on this railway, to block them, one of the great arteries of supplying everything necessary, to leave the crimean bridge, which was closed all night today, because there there are many questions, so they, they even started to do quite

reasonable things from a military point of view, they started to build a new railway along the coast of the sea of ​​azov, away from the front line, well still south of tekmak, even south of melitopol, in order to as long as they don't have a railway they understand, there will only be those weapons and the equipment and shells that are in the operational unit, that are in the cream, well, in the south of the kherson region, and that will be enough for a month or two and that’s it, further on, if they don’t have a railway, by which all this can be supplied, then they will not only have worse with the shells and everything else with the equipment , there will be nothing at all with the fuels, and they understand this perfectly, then in two months they will be throwing pebbles on the black sea coast, no more , i catch you here and thank you for who found the opportunity and time to join, really a lot. what is happening at the front, what to expect next. thank you for enabling.

this is the freedom of the morning, we traditionally talk about the most important thing, and ukrainian refugees will stay in the european union. the council of the eu has extended temporary protection for them until march 2025. in this way, refugees seeking refuge from the war in european countries will be able to stay there. year and a half, the interior minister of spain, which currently presides over the council of the european union, says that this is the right time to find a way of further protection for them and over they are already considering an alternative, but the minister hopes that peace will return to ukraine, exactly how the european union will now accept more than 4 million refugees, more precisely, it will accept from ukraine and what will be done with them when the protection expires , because they believe that this time its continued, zoryana stepanenko, correspondent of radio liberty in brussels, will tell. unique and unprecedented, but temporary. when russia invaded ukraine, forcing millions of ukrainians to flee their homes, asylum

in the eu was the first and obvious solution. right here looking for shelter from the missiles, the ukrainians ran and the european union found its way relatively quickly, it is often said that it opened its borders for ukrainian refugees, but de facto, they were not closed, rather it opened up opportunities that, before the war, only ukrainians living here used for years , those who found a job, married an eu citizen or entered a local university. of course, the list is not complete, but these are the most common reasons for moving. they waited for months for the appropriate visas, and the refugees, as an example , were close to getting the appropriate legal one status for years, and before that they could neither rent a house nor get a full-time job. for ukrainian refugees, another unique procedure was applied in the eu for the first time in history to make it easier to deal with the huge flow of people from the war-torn country. officially, asylum can be obtained in a day by registering in the centers of the country of arrival. and this protection status

gives ukrainians access to many privileges almost instantly. stay in the eu for a short time, not 90 days, as visa-free allows. and now the term of temporary protection has been extended until march 2025. work in any company, private, state, arrival in ukraine, that is, access to the labor market. unlimited, a ukrainian has the same rights as citizens of the eu or its permanent residents. free housing or for minimal costs. ukrainians are accommodated in special centers designated for them, however, after a year and a half of the war, they run out of places, but that is a separate story. social benefits, financial payments, to an unemployed family, but this is in wealthy eu countries, for example in germany or belgium, assistance for children, this is available in poland , or discounts on utility bills, free primary and secondary education, medical insurance, that is, getting sick and then being left alone with sky-high bills for treatment, this should not happen to ukrainians in the eu. there is one thing, however

, this status has an expiration date, its extension until march 2025, the last one, because the directive regulating temporary protection for ukrainians is designed for three years. what will happen next, refugees who are slowly overcoming the difficult path of integration, studying the local people languages ​​and confirming their qualifications. they don't understand, they don't understand, even in the executive authorities of the eu, as we know, thanks to our interlocutors there, but soon they will start to think about it, noting at the same time that as long as the war continues, no one will force the ukrainians here to pack their bags and take away from them fundamental right to security. zoryana stepanenko, marryn hayduk, radio liberty. the majority of ukrainian refugees living abroad plan to return to ukraine. according to the data of may. commissioned by the center for economic strategy more than half of the refugees planned to return to their country. 41% of respondents answered that they would definitely return and 22%

answered that they would rather return, but this figure was lower compared to december-november last year, when sociologists conducted the first stage of their survey. at that time, almost 50% of the respondents definitely planned to return to ukraine, and a little more, 24, said that they would most likely return. in general, according to the center for economic strategies abroad, as of the end of june this year, there were 5.5 up to 6.5 million ukrainians. 1 million 300... thousand of them are in russia and belarus. the largest number of ukrainians who are currently in the eu are germany and poland, it is precisely in these countries that they are the most numerous. sociologists say that almost 3 million people will return to ukraine under the optimistic scenario, and slightly more than 2 million under the pessimistic scenario. the highest percentage of those who will return are people over 65 years old. the lowest are people with higher education. if we talk about the conditions in which ukrainians live in other countries with the status of

temporary protection, then theirs. economic the situation after leaving ukraine compared to the pre-war situation worsened by a total of 3.5 times, the researchers calculated, the majority, more than 60%, were satisfied with their stay abroad. sociologists have researched that about half of all refugees are children under 18 years old, and this year and the previous year, the number is almost unchanged, and the number of adults, men with the status of temporary protection has increased by 2%, from 27 before to 29% now. it is economical in the center. strategists emphasize that the ukrainian economy may lose from 2.7 to almost 7% of of the domestic product annually due to the lack of refugees, and due to the fact that most of the refugees are children and women of reproductive age, their non-return is a great threat to demography. i should add that this study was conducted by the infosapience agency on behalf of the economic strategy center in two waves. the first wave of the survey took place in november and december 2022, the second in

april and may already this year. initially , more than 1,000 people were interviewed, in the second wave 404 people were interviewed through online and telephone surveys, as well as 15 personal interviews. sociologists did not interview people who moved to the territory of russia and belarus. daria mykhailyshina, senior economist of the center for economic strategy joins our broadcast, my congratulations. congratulations. a little less than half of the interviewed refugees. definitely plan to return home, this is a good indicator from your point of view, how do you generally relate to this sociology now and while the war is going on, how important are these data in order to understand how the situation will unfold further? in my opinion, this indicator is in principle normal, but you need to understand the dynamics, that is, that the dynamics towards a decrease in the number of people who want to return is of course negative, in addition, we see that

the people who even want to return are close to... the fourth of them say that they have postponed their return, that is, they are planning to return later than they initially planned, and this is negative, because if we continue this dynamic, and the longer the war lasts, the less people will want to return back to ukraine, unfortunately, and that's why it of course negative, and you need to understand this statistics to produce the right public policies to encourage more people to return, both now and after the war. let's talk about that, but this dynamic that is now observed, that they are delaying their return, why is this happening, because the shelling continues, the war continues, yes, actually, the main reason is that they underestimated the duration of the war, that is, most people, as of november, december of last year, believed that the war would end already this year, but unfortunately we see that this did not happen and

that's why they actually delay their return, if we assess the situation in general, in your opinion, only security, or the economic situation in europe, which in certain countries is better than in ukraine, become the factors that force ukrainians to make a decision that in the future to stay abroad, for some indefinite period, perhaps for a certain period, and perhaps for a certain period, well, safety, of course, is in the first place, this is both the general general pain of actions and missile attacks, because, unfortunately, missiles, they reach even relatively safer regions, but economic reasons are also important. and according to our survey, at least, economic factors in europe are not more important than economic factors in ukraine, that is, for example, the most important economic factor our respondents said is the opportunity to find a good job in ukraine, that is, it is also important , but not as important as security, here are those: