honor their memory with a moment of silence and also donate to the military so that there are fewer of those who died. 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 the svoboda ranok project, my name is oleg galiv, and at this time we are talking about the most important things, so stay here on the youtube channel of radio svoboda and do not miss such topics. fierce battles continue in the bakhmudskyi direction of the district railways. the armed forces of ukraine, as they say in the eastern group troops, causing fire damage along the bakhmud-horlivka road in the donetsk region. how close are the armed forces of ukraine to complete control over the railway, and do russian forces have anything to oppose the ukrainian military. the sbi has completed the investigation into the biggest case of the maidan. yanukovych and the entire power bloc at that time will appear before the court. arrows of the heavenly hundred, what will this

trial be like and what are the chances of actually bringing the guilty to justice, let's talk. tsnn writes that the united states of america will hand over to ukraine confiscated iranian weapons and ammunition, how much these weapons will help the ukrainian forces at the front, and what biden's statement means, in which he says, i quote, we have worked out everything that zelensky asked for. don't forget to like this broadcast if you are interested and also subscribe. on the youtube channel of radio svoboda and write from which city you are watching us. fierce battles continue on the bakhmutskyi direction to the district railways, reports the head of the press service of the eastern group of troops, ilya evlash, on the air of the 24th channel. he says that the armed forces of ukraine were able to advance here for a few more meters and now they need to gain a foothold on the occupied lines in order to hold the front. it is about the southern flank from bakhmut. earlier, the military spoke on our broadcast about the beginning of fighting for

the railway after the liberation of the villages of andriivka and klishchiivka south of bakhmut. the day before, the anonymous military telegram channel bakhmudskyi diemon wrote about the alleged seizure of the railway by the armed forces of ukraine and announced a difficult night, hinting that the forces of the russian federation would try beat this area. analysts of the american institute for the study of war, with reference to russian sources, also write about the advance of the armed forces of ukraine near bakhmut. like, a correspondent of the kremlin publication. izvestia claimed that ukrainian forces are holding positions within a radius of 40 meters from the railway line near klishchiivka. the russian military also claimed that ukrainian forces had resumed armored assaults near klyshchyvka and andriyivka in the direction of the railway line, and that fighting continued in the disputed gray areas to the northeast and southwest of andriivka, they write in the institute. i emphasize that there are currently no official reports of taking control of the railway or losing position from either side.

in the meantime, the russian ministry of defense is not talking about the advance of ukrainian troops near bakhmut, but it is reported about the allegedly destroyed positions of the armed forces of ukraine in klishchiivka district and manpower near andriivka. we cannot verify this information quickly in the conditions of war. but what we can do is communicate live with the ukrainian military. pavlo romaniuk, callsign producer, commander of the 11th company of the fourth fighting force of freedom of the national guard of ukraine is already on our air. i welcome you. good morning. good morning viewers. thank you for finding the opportunity to join. please tell me, the bakhmut direction, the railway, what is the situation there now and what are the positions of the ukrainian and russian forces. perhaps you will already inform us that the armed forces of ukraine managed to take over the railroad. i will not tell you anything directly about this area, since our battalion is conducting combat operations tasks are in a slightly different direction, but the operational situation is in the area of ​​responsibility.

of our battalion remains difficult, the enemy continues to exert a fire influence on our positions using all available weapons, the entrance is artillery. mortars, grenade launchers, aviation, all the means the enemy is trying to use for, well, in his interests, well, also, against continuously continues the reconnaissance of the front edge, both with small-scale devices and larger ones of the orlan type, if we are talking about the one, well, about bakhmut direction, and it is clear that now according to the data, in particular of the ukrainian armed forces, the fiercest battles are taking place in the district. specifically the railways in order to gain full control, please tell me how important is the advancement of the armed forces of ukraine in this particular direction and what opportunities does the control over the railways give, it is the exit to the following sections, in fact, the routes that can provide and provide state now logistical routes

for russian forces? i can't say directly about the railway, but i can definitely point out that any advancement of the ukrainians forces is very important. but every, every meter, every centimeter of land is given with a lot of work, sweat and blood of the defense forces, and from the reports of the general staff, it is clear from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine that the russian forces are trying to restore their lost positions, in that area, specifically, where are you at the moment, how often do such attempts take place, how successful or unsuccessful are they, and whether it is possible that you have already had the opportunity to cross paths with those... wagnerites, who, according to data, again the ukrainian side returned to the front, but already as part of the ministry of defense of russia, having signed contracts? you know, i won't say so directly to the wagnerites or not to the wagnerites, but i must note that the motivation

of the enemy is very essence, which is the result of very, very great work of russian propaganda, which is carried out simply without stopping. and this is a very important question in general regarding the motivation of military personnel, how well is this work going now, how well are the clarifications of these lessons of history, which, to put it bluntly, were rewritten once the russian federation, because we have a colossal motivation of our personnel, because we are waging a struggle now on our land and we are waging a struggle today. for what we will have tomorrow, that is directly the defense force and directly the battalion of the freedom force, all military personnel understand why they are here, what they are here for, such questions, well, we simply do not have them, here we are at any moment destroy the enemy, and

finally the question will concern the fortifications of the russian forces in the bakhmut direction, those battles in which you directly participate, is it only about the fact that there are ordinary... trenches there, a line of ordinary trenches on the part of the russian, actually, the russian forces, or are the russian forces somehow much more powerfully entrenched and where you are now, you have the opportunity to see it and can to talk about what exactly these fortifications are, if they are there, directly in front of us, and in general along the entire front line, the enemy is powerful, the enemy is big, the enemy is equipping its positions in different ways, it can also be industrial zones, this there may be... and trenches, but that does not interfere, directly to our battalion to carry out the assigned combat tasks, that is, to steadily carry out combat tasks for the defense of our country. thank you for this enablement. pavlo romanyuk, call-sign producer, commander

of the 11th company of the 4th battalion of the freedom force of the national guard of ukraine, guest of our broadcast about the situation in the bakhmut region, according to the ukrainian side, it remains difficult there. since the beginning of 2023, the russian military has captured a territory in ukraine smaller than the square of kyiv. this is the conclusion reached by new york journalists the times analyzed data from the american institute for the study of war. and besides, this year russia planned to seize the entire donbas. at the same time, american journalists note that the ukrainian counteroffensive, which began in the summer, has so far shown little results, but almost every day there is a message in the general staff about new occupied positions and boundaries. about the work of the 59th brigade of the armed forces of ukraine in the donetsk direction, see the video of the radio liberty project, the present time, this is a story by borys sachalka. maxim from generation young successful ukrainian commanders. ah, that is, after all, you filled them up? he is not a military personnel, a historian, graduated from the institute and entered the armed forces. since its existence,

russia in various formations, the russian empire, muscovy. we have always fought with this state. once. said that russia is worthless without ukraine, it will not be able to simply exist, two years as a soldier, then leadership courses and maxim as a stavic of the 59th brigade, currently commands a unit in the... direction, he is rarely mentioned in military summaries, but the war - says maksym, it is not conducted only in a few settlements. we must also help those forces that are carrying out a counteroffensive, help to draw some of the enemy's reserves to us. over the past few months, we have liberated, well, in my opinion, about a kilometer, we have moved forward, that is, about five to seven enemy positions have been captured. the aggravation of the situation in donetsk is well felt by the residents of the front-line towns and villages, this is krasnogovka, and the locals say that it has been like

the last few days, and even several weeks, they don't remember for a long time. gali's house was destroyed a long time ago, and she goes from apartment to apartment, from flight to arrival, this is my fifth house, i 'm changing houses for the fifth time, i've moved in with someone, i do n't know what to do, guys, these are terrible explosions, in general, everything is already pounding because of it. on the local streets. now they rarely go, in the morning several shells fell near the store, everyone is here, here is my mother buried, she managed to die during the small war, although they managed to bury her in a humane way, in the small war, well, there was a small war, that’s what you call it, small a war and a big war, yes, this big one has started, and it was like this, at least for a month of truce, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, the russian army pushed the armed forces of ukraine a little away from the occupied positions, the locals understand that, at the moment, the ukrainian army is trying to win back what it lost.

it used to be so loud, oh, it hasn't been for a long time, a counter-offensive, probably a counter-offensive, just now in this direction we are approaching, just to the line of the 14th year, exactly where our trenches were, those at the beginning, shall we say , of a full-scale , we lost, now we we approach this line, we know how much it is there, qualitatively, let's say it is made, equipped, did not expect, did not think, to survive like this in old age. krasnogohororov has been saying for a long, long time, but it didn’t happen like that, after all, it wasn’t like that, and now it’s unbearable , what was going on here, you didn’t see how it was cut down there, tseglaban, this is valentin talking about the apartment on the second floor, a shell flew in there the other day , it's yours, you can, so go through, oh, nothing. one shell hit, it's further there, so go on there, do you live there all the time, or are you here

always in the basement, and what are you saying so quietly in the basement all the time, scary, scary, very scary, what do you think, what's next? i don't know, on the one hand, i don't want to renegotiate with russia , there's nothing to talk about with this enemy, but on the other hand , well, every day this war takes away, well, it's really better guys, sooner or later, well, whatever we didn't want to, no matter how much we thought we would win there, we wouldn't, russia is a much bigger country than us, and sooner or later we will have to talk to them, but... well, another question, about what and on what terms? a historian and now a commander

maksym is sure that the negotiations should be conducted on ukrainian terms, we must not lose the initiative, he believes that the cities will be rebuilt, people will return, the main thing now is not to stop, but i am the historical struggle of russia and ukraine, it often proved that ukraine was defeated, well, ukraine was defeated precisely , in more political terms, we could never, uh , defend ourselves politically, militarily, we always let people smoke, borys echalko, serhii dykun, radio svoboda. at night, russian forces attacked ukraine with strike drones of the shachet type south direction. the air force reported that the forces of the russian federation launched 29 unmanned aerial vehicles, 24 drones, and shot down ukrainian air defense forces. these strike drones were destroyed within odesa, mykolaiv and kirovohrad. regions the public reports that

explosions were heard in myrhorod, poltava region, and in kropyvnytskyi, kirovohrad region. no one has reported the details yet. and there is no light in the kursk region of russia because of the drone attack. this was reported by the regional governor roman starovoytov. he says that allegedly ukrainian drones at night attacked infrastructure facilities in three districts of the region. as a result, there was a power outage. in addition, starovoytov writes that the border town of riylsk, allegedly. were fired from the side of ukraine with cluster shells. one woman received shrapnel wounds, and houses, outbuildings and cars were damaged in various parts of the city, he said. ukraine did not comment on these incidents in russian regions. and in the united states of america, they confirmed that they handed over weapons confiscated from iran to ukraine. this is how it officially became known that the government of the united states handed ukraine more than a million rounds of caliber 762. all these weapons were confiscated from the iranian guards corps of the islamic revolution during transportation to yemen, according to the central command of the armed

forces of the united states of america. the right of ownership is stated in the notification for these cartridges received in july of this year. despite the resolution of the united nations, iran was shipping weapons to yemen to support the houthis, but the cnn channel previously reported that the biden administration still is considering how to transfer these weapons to ukraine, because it is not known how it will be processed legally, because the un demands that the captured weapons be destroyed or stored, cnn says , citing unnamed officials. however, the transfer of confiscated stockpiles could alleviate the weapons shortages faced by ukrainian forces awaiting additional supplies. and equipment from the united states and allies - reports cnn. ivan stupak, an expert of the ukrainian institute of the future, is with us in the broadcast right now. i welcome you. yes, dear studio, welcome, thank you for inviting me. thank you for joining. actually, ivan, how high-quality can the confiscated iranian weapons be, what exactly is the need of the ukrainian side, that is, the need for what is the most, could it cover on the front?

yes, well, look, well, we are primarily dealing there, a small amount, if i am not mistaken, of charges for... volley fire systems, everything else is small arms and cartridges for them in millions of pieces there, in principle, it is well really important, never have too many weapons, i think it will go some ways to improve not that our situation, but rather the feeling of the military that they have ammunition , that they have certain reserves, we are not talking about something high-tech, some, for example, a tank captured, which were handed over to ukraine, no, these are all small arms , but regarding... quality, there is really a question here, no one really knows, at least i have not seen such studies, nor have i seen reviews, for example , from our military, who have already used this weapon, they said that it is of high quality, or that well , i'm begging you, there's nothing cool there, it is doesn't work, well, let's wait, if there are reviews of some kind of low-quality weapons, complaints, then in principle you can

relax a little bit from the point of view there, if , for example, iran will hand over to the russian federation. that is, it can then be indirectly assumed that the weapons will not be of the best quality, not the best freshness, and this will affect the effectiveness of russian military operations. ivan, one question will concern kursk, where the local authorities report that there is apparently no electricity in more than 60 settlements, if i am not mistaken, and blames it on the drones allegedly launched by ukraine, such stories, such incidents that are happening, to what extent they will mobilize even more russian society in the context of becoming favorable. of a full-scale war against ukraine, svo, as it is called in them, and thereby actually playing this war for a long time. oh, listen, you know, here i am, they regularly sneak out of my feed, well, i’m subscribed, they have such a weakness for these russian pubs, well, at least officially, it’s like that, it’s clear that you can’t enter without a vpn, but the headlines you can read, and there every day, well, in extreme cases, every other day, the ukrainian country

was shelled, well, the impression seems to be in recent weeks that they simply... translate it to ukraine, it’s simple, well, it must be said that ukraine shelled, it was, it didn’t make any difference, the main thing is to say, and there will be a certain wasp of russians staying there, but as far as we can see now after, for example , the raid of the rdkion of freedom of russia, yes, which took place in the summer, the situation has not changed, we did not see any mood there, and there in social networks, at least, that's all of us rallied, we will all go, but no, there is no such thing, the russians continue to be, and it’s everyone for themselves, but there’s no way dartanya and the musketeers, but everyone for themselves, and this war, as they call it, it’s not became the cement of russian society. let's go to biden's statements, there will be two of them. first, i will ask a question, and then we can listen to him, so what do you think biden's statement can mean, to which he says, even if it is brief, but still, as i quote, we have worked out everything that zelensky asked for. that is, if

ukraine conditionally asked for long-range missiles, or this means that they may appear in ukraine in the near future. well, indirectly, we believe that yes, well, i wonder how, if, for example, mr. biden came to the conclusion that no, guys, well, you don’t need this, there will be red lines, there are some different lines, he would he said so, we worked on it, well, we decided that it’s not the right time, maybe next year, the whole issue is closed, but here is such a phrase, very so very so flattering, so diplomatic, well, it convinces me, maybe i’m extremely like that an optimist, assures that there really will be a case, that they will transfer, perhaps, a small amount again, especially since insiders said that, in total, there are 400 units of these attacks, well, plus or minus a small amount, it's about five. 10% for us, this is already wow, it will be very, very good, especially if they are cassettes, so i believe that we should, after all, positively solve this issue for ukraine, and joe biden will soon

make a speech devoted to how to resolve the issues regarding the allocation of aid to ukraine, and he himself stated this during briefing at the white house, the us president says that he is concerned about the fact that congress did not include money for ukraine in the interim budget, but at the same time, he knows that the american people and both parties. congress supports ukraine and i cannot allow them to block this aid. now i propose to listen to this very address of biden, his direct speech, and after that we will continue our communication with you. i am going to make the argument that the success of ukraine is overwhelmingly in the interests of the united states of america, and it is overwhelmingly in our interests i spent 2.5 years building a coalition that no one thought could be built, and they strengthened us in all directions, not only in relation to ukraine, but also in relation to japan and south korea, in relation to what is happening in europe itself , and so i think the vast majority of the foreign policy community, both left and right, understand

that for the united states of america, this has been a valuable exercise in strengthening the support that we have around the world. most experts agree that the topic of aid to ukraine is, after all, already the domestic political history of the united states, what do you think in the context of military... aid, what are the current attitudes of both republicans and democrats at all levels in the united states and to what extent this issue can drag on for a long time, so look, well, i am as optimistic as possible here, i look at it as positively as possible, now i will explain, it is not just such galtels, cheers, they will give us there, yes there, i do not consider it from the point of view of protecting democracy there, yes, that is clear this rhetoric, i consider the essence of from the point of view of numbers, yes, we know that the united states provided ukraine with enormous aid, tens of billions of dollars, but this money did not directly go to ukraine, the left part, it is more than 60 there,

it seems 5 billion dollars, it it went somewhere, in the middle of the united states, it went to the united states ministry of defense, somewhere around 9 billion went to the united states state department, that is, the money remained formally allocated in ukraine, but it remained in the united states and they went to the development of military-industrial of the complex of the united states, and these are additional jobs, these are new models of weapons, yes, these are weapons that will then be sold to other countries that will buy, for example, those hymers, and right now they are full with these hymers, the baltic countries are ordering, and the poles are ordering, and atakoms is being ordered, that is, in the military industry, the american ones are ramping up, this is once again new jobs, then these are new enterprises, i am more than sure that, for example, there is a senator from arizona, from alabama or from... some other state, on whose territory lockmart's military equipment is placed there, for example, i will say no, i vote against this war, it's money to his state, it

's jobs, it's the favor of his voters, i think that money will be allocated, maybe not in such a flow , maybe there are interruptions somewhere, but the americans themselves understand that this is an opportunity after the second world war to further accelerate their economy and become an even more influential country, not in the region, but in the whole world, with the disappearance of famines, the armed forces of ukraine will be forced to change tactics on the battlefield, about it the day before on the broadcast of freedom live, this is a radio liberty evening project, said the spokesman of the joint press center of the defense forces of the tavriiv region oleksandr shtupun, and here is the question before the change of seasonality, it is traditional, for whom late autumn is conditional and winter will be more beneficial to the counterattacking side, or after all to the side that is essentially trying to hold the defense, or with those weapons, for example, ukraine has already received and will receive... from the west, these changes in tactics will not be so fundamental that can influence there at the most, i don’t know how long it is, and so on, ugh, well, look, conceptually, it affects everyone, yes, who sits in the trenches,

defends, who advances, it’s heavy equipment, it moves, well, even the russians, okay, they don’t they just sit in the trenches, just like that, they are flooded with water there, they also have heavy equipment , which they drag into position, it can also get stuck in the mud, the same applies to ours, our equipment, the russians have this the topic of great hope. even these russian columnists, they they say that abrams is not suitable for ukrainian mud, it is polluted in the chernozems there, that is, they create such legends for themselves there, fables that someone somewhere there , a third cousin, heard that abrams got stuck somewhere, that’s all, western equipment, it will get stuck in ukrainian black soil, by the way, there are open videos, well, on the internet, where our ukrainian soldiers train in trenches, and this may have been somewhere abroad, but these trenches were at least knee-deep, at most waist-deep in... that is, i see that our military is training to storm russian trenches, no matter what, rain, hail, snow, the assaults will continue here, besides, don't

forget, well, drones, they work. there in extreme conditions, yes, okay, if there is a gusty wind there, and these drones may not fly, there are problems there, but when the weather normalizes there, plus or minus, they fly, they destroy the equipment in the same way, in the same way they drop ammunition on groups of russians, there are cluster munitions, in the end the americans handed them over to us there, it’s one and a half football fields covered, so i i think that it's okay, maybe it's a bit quieter in the promotion, but in the brutality of the fighting. i still don't see it. well, one more question, it will also be, you know, politically military, or about military, the minister of foreign affairs of austria, i expressed the hope that peace negotiations between ukraine and russia will take place very soon, the bilt publication writes about this in particular. in your opinion, will these attempts still push ukraine to these negotiations, and how should we react to such statements in general, this is being tested, i don't know, ukrainian society, western

society, western politicians, in order to incline ukraine to negotiations, does europe and ukraine's western partners understand that this war will not be beneficial to anyone for a long time and that it is better to really put kyiv and moscow at the transition table now or in the spring, they are looking for an agreement already who will be from which position at that time, well, well, look, this strategy is very interesting here, who will be the first to announce the negotiations and wait, and maybe someone else will join, for example, yes, someone was afraid after the first volunteered, about stressed the proposal of one, another line, for example, yes, yes, we think so too, then the third, such a domino effect, maybe there is such a calculation, but my belief is this, and negotiations are possible provided that there is a three-letter situation, and this is not the , what the majority of your viewers thought, this is the word stalemate, yes, a stalemate situation, when none of the torins can anymore, yes, one cannot advance, the others cannot advance either, they are tired, and then those, well, let's go negotiations, now there is no such thing,

ukraine has a res. in ukraine are prepared troops, okay, not as many as the russians, we have modern equipment, oh, by the way , look at the equipment, look, if you draw a graph, ukraine gets equipment and the russian federation gets equipment, only ukraine gets it sample, and after 2000 years, yes, 2010s , well, we still don't get super super modern ones, and the russians, on the contrary, they get equipment not even from the time of khrushchev, not even from the time of stalin, they are already considering the issue. conservation of technology of the times of the second world war, the great national one, and therefore i think that about there is no talk of negotiations so far, as long as we have an advantage and as long as there are results on the fronts, there are more results, there is more help to ukraine from the western allies, that is, it is all connected, you know, things are connected among ourselves. thank you for finding the opportunity, ivan stupak, expert of the ukrainian institute for the future, we talked about the events at the front and

around the front. those events, about what, in general, is happening in the context of the russian-ukrainian full-scale war. in the last three days, only on tavriyskyi direction , twenty russian soldiers surrendered to the ukrainian military. oleksandr ternavskyi, the commander of the operational-strategic grouping of tavria troops, announced this in his telegram channel. the head of the press service of the eastern group of troops, iliav llazh, informed about the capture of russian soldiers. he says they choose captivity over combat because of the punishment. for desertion. in the event of a retreat, they will be killed or severely punished by the fighters of the akhmat unit. he also complains about poor medical care assistance, untimely evacuation of the wounded and lack of rotation. and those military personnel who received leave, according to yevlash , are trying to avoid participating in the war and turn to the state project i want to live, which calls on the military personnel of the russian federation to surrender. the representatives of the project say that as of september of this year, more than 40.8 million

russians visited the project site, and out of 25,000 applications received by the structure, 216 people surrendered, and about a thousand more are waiting for their turn to conduct a special operation, which already happened more than 20. andriy yusov, a representative of the main intelligence department, previously said on our broadcast that after the successful capture of the russian pilot mim, the number of russian soldiers who want to surrender has increased by 70%. as a result of the last operation of the main intelligence agency, which became publicly known, the russian. the soldier surrendered and together with him convinced 11 more soldiers of the russian federation to join him. this operation was codenamed barenya. vitaly matvienko, an employee of the coordination headquarters on matters of treatment of prisoners of war and speaker of the state project on voluntary surrender for russian servicemen khachuzhit. it is already on our air. i welcome you. i congratulate you. thank you for joining us, we have a lot to talk about.