[000:00:00;00] in order for people to enter this territory, these ammunitions must be taken away, not all areas are yet accessible, work began immediately , as soon as the water began to recede, at first only lorries entered, it was impossible to enter with cars, now they enter in full volume utility workers, on all types of transport, first of all, this is a transport structure, we are clearing the road, and in the future. we will all the rest of the utilities, as soon as we finish the island, it will be fully open to the local population, they broke the dam, the water rose, it my little parking lot, i am a tenant, i came to see what is being done here, there are three cars and all kinds of human things and everything else, the work is carried out almost in

daylight, the work is complicated by constant shelling from enemy artillery, constant overflights of uavs, which are correcting these shellings, that is, they do not care whether it is the utility workers, whether it is the military, or whether it is medics, they are constantly shelling both checkpoints and the coastal zone, but despite this, we are carrying out work, almost the entire road infrastructure of the island is available for movement, in the future the entire growth structure will be available. well, gentlemen, let's go back to where i was, i already said today that oleg sintsov, a famous ukrainian director and a prisoner of conscience, a political prisoner, a russian, one might say, a prisoner, who was finally released as a result of an exchange and immediately went to fight, so yesterday he received, i don't know, the third wound, it seems, a shrapnel flew into his

chest, and this happened after very difficult ... because fights, in fact, what oleg himself wrote, i will quote now, i will quote very briefly, yesterday we repelled an important landing in the hottest direction at the moment. the first group, where i was, was able to get hold of the enemy's trench and immediately entered the battle in two directions. the second also went into another trench, destroyed the enemy, but was knocked out from there by the enemy's drawn-up reserves. the third group took a hard fight and almost completely died at the beginning of the operation. this is just a short quote, and actually further on he, oleg , writes about how the tanks with the landing party were coming at them, how they fought unevenly, how they ran out of grenade launchers, how they were then covered by two bradleys and they left, and actually he says that we were lucky many times during this day, today there are many videos

and statistics of enemy losses, a lot of advice that we have already been overwhelmed by the enemy again, but there are no statistics on the number of victims, writes oleg sentsov, wounded again, i already know oleksandr borodin, the press officer of the third separate assault brigade, mr. oleksandr, good morning to you, i congratulate you, i do not know if you also read oleg sintsov, actually this report of his because after yesterday's fight , it's very difficult, under the audio cover, it's hard to even imagine how... brutal these fights are and there are a lot of them, as far as i understand, just close contact fights, eh , what is happening now near avdiivka, uh, how difficult is the situation there, in your opinion, well, it is difficult for me to say, because we are still on the right flank of bakhmut, uh, about the fact that, well, if we compare, i understand that everything after all

, we have here, we have an enemy attacking... to get positions, and we still have more infantry battles, with less involvement of equipment , er, and aviation, artillery, and there they have an impact fist, so something like what we had in the winter, uh, well, actually , the fact that there are many contact battles, can this be avoided in principle, because well, we and the russians do not have parity here in terms of mobilization capacity, so to speak , or should they be avoided, try, see, yes, indeed, people need to understand that we have, for example, all these beautiful videos, which are close contacts, everything is different when you see the enemy there at a distance of 40-50 m, it's all very epic, but it indicates that, in fact, it indicates that an insufficient amount of firepower and means, heavy, is

meant. in order to reduce, well, not to make it impossible, it is unnecessary to make it impossible, but to reduce such a number of contacts, we just have a war, and it really brings out a lot of tricks. because the type, well, the western ones, conventionally , nato methods, they do not foresee such a large number of close contacts, because they have aviation forces and means, artillery and especially aviation, these are two such elements that if an infantryman enters the scorched earth, well, roughly speaking, and accordingly , people need to understand that a ukrainian infantryman, a ukrainian stormtrooper, he does much more... than he did similar assault actions would be our western colleague there with his weapons, ee, we also recently

saw the video that was shown, that was shown, it seems that the fighters, your fighters of the third separate assault brigade, if i am not mistaken, there is such an episode when they will gather some there, well took some, some some fortifications are russian, some are russian. the fighter does not surrender, but blows himself up with a grenade, and at the same time it also seems that one of the fighters died, as far as i can see, in fact, it was commented that way, and the russians picked up the story as a feat of a russian soldier and so on and so forth, i just want to say , what is really impressive about russians, in such stories , that we see their absolute readiness to die sometimes, and do you really repent with such a person, because this, this is also their strong point, probably what they are in principle when those those all a lot of videos where they blow themselves up with grenades, being wounded, not even hoping that they will be saved, how to interpret it all, are the russians further from the same dough that karl mannerheim wrote about, who

was also, who was equally impressed by the readiness the russians to go to an absolutely senseless, but ready death, as he wrote about the fact that sometimes they went to attack machine guns or artillery, just hold... by the hand, by the hands, even holding hands, not even, without firing back , look, after all, i think you can't compare when first of all, russians are collectivists, but we have already become individualists, thank god , this is the first moment, the second moment, it means that individualists as such in a democratic world are anti-democratic. it is much more difficult to give one's life, yes, than such a collectivist circle, but the second important point is the question of motivation, in most of what they do, i'm not saying that there aren't people who do it for some factor, well, heroic, well can't say so

at all, there are, but most of these undermining is, the motivation is that their political tricks and their entourage in general, i think it was the same in the second world war , says that there is a prisoner, a prisoner, it is not at all, you will have your balls cut off, sorry, they will cut off your 5, ten and all that stuff, they are in they believe that, uh, they are very afraid to even go back, sometimes there are buffaloes, well, that is not heard now, but earlier, when wagner was attacked, there were these squad fences and everything else, and that is why the fear, well, in my opinion, the majority such actions are due to fear, because people are in fact trapped between our positions and their russian positions, and they understand that neither there nor here, they don't live in the womb, they don't live there, well, after all, they were told so, and that's why they do it, i think , that fear was the motive for many things and not only in this war

, and this, well, we must understand, fear is not the motive to somehow make some kind of factors out of it, in your opinion, what should we actually expect? autumn is ending one way or another, the front line is roughly plus or minus unchanged for many months, i know that forecasts are a thankless thing, nevertheless, what are we we are entering the winter, it will change a little, already the battles, especially during the period that will be between when everything stabilizes, it will just be cold, it will be covered, and when the rains come, it is clear that everything will dry up. however, it should be noted that the number of forces and means, which, well, you have to look, are not always , sometimes more important on the territory, but now, they are storming, but they are being eroded very much, i mean from a military point of view, not from

the point of view of love there to the state, but to the military, specifically tactical operational situation, and here the number of forces and means which we destroyed during this time, not just a simple brigade , i mean in general, artillery, rap people, missile systems, it is, well, in several positions, it is even more than during the entire other part of the war, the first, and it is very much. it is important, just people, often civilians, they referred to, well, counteroffensive actions, as in their head, as what happened in kharkiv region or kherson region, and one must understand that this is a difficult war, and treat it a little differently, but i would like to point out that with all these possibly incorrect expectations, there is an important element, indeed everything works, so there are successes.

it's just that they are more military than media, let's say, well, than those that are nice to show in the media, and there is a big difference here, but the main thing is that there are military successes and not those that are nice to show, the task, first of all, is to destroy the maximum number of living the forces of the enemy and his, his own equipment and so on, that is, this is this task and it gives some, some opportunities for the future, i understand correctly. eh, well, it’s, well, of course, the liberation of the land, it’s primarily one’s own territories, but it’s, well, let’s put it this way, it, it are equal to each other, forces and means, not so much manpower they have infinitely, but forces and means and qualified force, it is already possible to say that they do not have a professional army, i mean about the infantry almost, that is, it all consists of non-professionals in number , and the further, the worse, but apart from that, the officer corps is also very important, that is, air defense, missile

systems, aviation, and just on these points, well, the artillery is a thing, very good successes during this period of time, six months, right , well , they, i'll repeat, some of them positions more than during the entire part of the war, during the whole and the beginning of the war, it is meant, well, mr. alexander, thank you very much, well, the very end, is there any rite of this war , in your opinion, from your position, you know , i would like to say that at the moment it is noticeable, only one thing is that now, well, this is subjectively my opinion, now the question is who, as we say, in the mouths of storms, will pull out on character, that is, it is meant who will be able to clearly understand that this is a big war and just do what is necessary for today

today, then what is needed tomorrow, and so on, and so on, and so on, and here is this element, it even frees your hands a little, because you understand that it is possible, everything is okay, but you just have to work without conditional moments, when you will be there, when it will end, when the rest will come, and then the victory will come, that's all, that is, there is no need to guess and everything will be okay, we have too much, too much forecast. we wonder, it’s not quite, it relaxes, of course, thank you very much, mr. oleksandr, oleksandr borodin, press officer of the third assault brigade, brigade, silavetny third assault brigade, and we wish success to our military, and this week i have already said it more than once and i repeat it today, the words of another officer, also absolutely glorious, of the davincha battalion, who, oleksandr yapchanka, who told me

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wonder what the situation will be in diivkuya, you have definitely also seen these maps published by the institute of war research, it looks like the russians, despite huge losses , manage to advance, in particular from the north, and there they have already advanced a long way and it looks quite threatening, that is, in fact, in fact, such a semi-encirclement on the map, it looks like this, and the avdiivka has already pulled so deep inside, actually, this bag that we see on the map, it existed from the very beginning, since last year, this is one of the reasons why the russians for the offensive they chose the avdiivka offensive, but the attempts of offensive actions on the northern front are even more dangerous because the only road that feeds our group in avdiivka passes here, it is also a logistical route, it is also a route for evacuating

the wounded, well, in general the only more or less suitable road for provision. of our entire garrison, if they cut it, it will put the avdiiv groups in a very difficult situation, and the russians understand this , and we understand, well, during the war, this is the third such story in my memory, it was first, severodonetsk, you remember, then there was bahmud, and now the situation is somehow developing in avdiivka, so as for the storming of the enemy bahmut, when they were very eager to cut the road through...' the situation was somewhat better there,

even, because we had two roads, let's say, the northern direction and the northwestern and southwestern direction, so, we believe in our guys, they are in a very difficult position and are conducting a heroic defense, really there, very fortified positions, very under ... all sectors have been targeted for a long time, and tightly, but it is necessary to understand that defense is not only the heroism of the military, but also logistics, it is also the rear, the rear ensures success, on the front line, on the frontline, yuriy butusov, wrote with a certain lag, so to speak, with a delay, will publish data from ... wrote from near avdiyivka that on the 19th, that is, the day before yesterday, the russians tried, after a very massive

artillery strike and airstrikes, to carry out a powerful assault also from the north, and they literally lost 70 units of armored vehicles during the day during this assault, that is, very much, very powerful storm, very huge losses are caused by russia. to us, our fighters, fighters, i understand that somewhere back then, oleg sentsov was wounded , in particular, oleg sentsov, who described his situation, and that there are losses, and they have the same, well, every time when it comes, well, just that we talked about this with oleksandr borodyan, an officer of the third assault brigade, every time it comes to the point that the infantry restrains armored vehicles, it means that we lack the ability to restrain in another way, not just a difficult

situation, it is a difficult situation , but for avdiivka is important, avdiivka is important, first of all, well, again, why do the russians want to push us away from the avdiiv direction, well , on the one hand, on the one hand, it can be considered as such a half-bag, on the other hand , the avdiiv protrusion is such a finger pointed at donetsk , the most vulnerable to enemies. and sensitive areas of the occupied territory, and therefore the dream of pushing our units away from this direction, this is an ancient, ancient idea and an ancient dream of the russians, which concerns the possible development of the enemy's success from the avdiy direction, then here

also, in the case of capturing the city and breaking through the defenses on, i emphasize, only if they not only advance, but also can break through our defenses, then the enemy can advance in two directions, which are quite important, either to the northwest, with the aim of from purchase with the kolyman group to surround our group in the luhansk and donetsk direction, and report to putin that luhansk region and donetsk region have been liberated in quotation marks , er, or to the southwest direction, where there is another hot spot, this is the ughledar

protrusion, er, which one... between southern and by our northern fronts such a rectangular actually wedged into the enemy's line of defense, or the threat of an offensive from our armed forces in the mariupol direction, in the volnovatsy-mariupol direction, or this threat , they also wanted to get rid of this last winter, or the previous battle for ugledar, or perhaps the avdiivsk battles now is a precursor, an attempt, to move from the tactical to the operational level in this direction. we talked a little about pessimistic estimates, you definitely need to keep them in your head, now about slightly optimistic ones moments, too, well, in fact, in 10 days , according to the calculations of our headquarters, the russians lost somewhere around four motorized rifle regiments and one tank regiment, these are

huge losses in 10 days, i am not small at all, at all. quite a lot, and here you say, referring to butusov on the 19th, today it is possible to look at the 20th from the management of the general staff, and it must be understood that somewhere around 60-70% of the losses in armored fighting vehicles and tanks are enemy losses in the avdiiv direction . how long will the russians endure such colossal losses under at the time of this offensive, whether there is any bottom in them can already be seen. well, it is difficult to say, everything will depend on the reserves that they can pull up in this direction, but it is necessary to look more broadly, and they need reserves in the kupyan direction, and they are needed to strengthen the defense in the bakhmut direction, south of bakhmut, where

our troops are advancing gradually, and here they need to strengthen their defenses, they have no other way out, because this is the road to horlivka, there is also such a very sensitive area, and about the south we should not forget, therefore, to say that they have such a wide spectrum for maneuvering reserves, well, that would be too much, and the fact that they involve in equal parts, very, very actively use aviation, indicates that the means of fire damage. .. they already don’t have enough ground forces for the operations they have planned, well, it’s from the other side once again, it ’s not enough to fulfill their plans, because as the guys say, there directly from the order there says the day before yesterday, we started counting

the shelling , because they simply couldn't do that it was impossible to do the process, because the whole day and night, one solid, one solid artillery preparation, a massive rocket and artillery attack of the enemy, well, in your opinion, after all, this avdiiv offensive is the last such and such a big operation this year or not ? the year is ending, but you see, all the western analysts there are winter or summer, when autumn is spring, it is not before the offensive, well , our war demonstrates that the activity of hostilities, the autumn, spring period, it may change somewhat

depending on the weather conditions, tactics, but tension, it does not disappear, i do not think that there will be any lull on the front, no, not avdiyivka, maryenka, again, we speak avdiyivka , and marinka is also very afraid there, exactly on the same part of the front, kupyanka direction, well, we have to advance, and our military continues to put pressure on the enemy in the zaporizhia direction, and there very interesting events are taking place in the kherson region, in the kherson region, we are watching, we are also monitoring their development. thank you very much, mr. pavle, pavlo lekeychuk, head of the center's business programs globalists strategy 21 was with us, and we, as always, at this hour, at 9:00, observe a moment of silence for all those who died in the struggle for the independence of ukraine.

so, a moment of silence for all fallen heroes. let's honor the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war