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greetings to all viewers of radio svoboda, this is svoboda morning, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about the following topics: six employees of nova poshta were killed due to a russian attack on the terminal in kharkiv region, 17 people were injured, the building was destroyed of the terminal and equipment, previously russian forces hit with two s-300 missiles. in his address, president zelenskyi stated, i quote: we will certainly respond to russia's every manifestation of its terror, and to this strike as well. details of this attack will be described later. the state border service named the area where russian drgs are most often found, what danger they pose to civilians and whether it is possible to identify them. the us

has been pressuring israel to postpone a ground invasion of the gaza strip to free more hostages and provide humanitarian aid. public assistance, cnn reports. two days ago, 20 humanitarian trucks drove to gaza, but after that the crossing was closed, so what is the humanitarian situation in gaza at the moment, when is the evacuation of ukrainian citizens from there planned and what does it depend on, we will talk with the ambassador of ukraine to the state of israel. we are here talking about what is happening in what is the situation at the front, watch us every weekday morning from 9:00 on the radio liberty channel on youtube, as well as on the air of the tv channel, write your comments and questions to the speakers of this air under this video. two alexanders, dmytro, artem, vladyslav and oleksiy. the youngest is 21 years old, the oldest is 31. these names and ages of six are the names and ages of the six victims who died as a result of the russian attack on the nova poshta warehouse in kharkiv oblast. data about them

were published in the company the day before. describing the first hours after the strike, they noted, i quote: there are dead and wounded, in particular seriously, they did not have a chance to run to the shelter in time, because the sirens sounded seconds before. russian troops launched a rocket attack on the terminal of the new post office in the village of korotych in the evening of the 21st october, according to the kharkiv regional prosecutor's office, six people died and 17 were injured as a result of the attack. they are all employees of the company. according to the head of the kha regional military administration, two of the victims are in extremely serious condition, six are in serious condition, the rest are in medium and light condition , and the terminus is also almost completely destroyed and trucks are damaged. according to preliminary data from the kharkiv prosecutor's office , the shelling was carried out by two s-300 type missiles from the territory of the belhor region of russia. the agency launched an investigation into the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war combined with intentional murder. ukraine.

will respond to the russian army's missile attack on the novaya poshta terminal near kharkiv, the president stated this in his address to the evening , i will quote him, we will definitely respond to russia's every manifestation of its terror and to this attack as well, this was a direct quote from zelenskyi. the russian ministry of defense did not comment on the shelling of the new post office, there is no information about it in the official reports of the department. i will point out that despite a large amount of evidence, moscow since the beginning of the full-scale invasion... has denied a targeted attack on civilian objects, but russian telegram channels supporting russia's war against ukraine immediately after this attack began to justify the attack on the novaya poshta terminal, arguing that , i quote, dry rations, medicines and military equipment are being transported there, the telegram channel notes of a veteran writes about this in particular. olena barannyk, spokeswoman for the police of the kharkiv region, joins our broadcast. i congratulate you, madam elena thanks for reaching out.

i would like to hear from you what are the consequences of the russian attack on kharkiv oblast, as of this moment , tell me what you can about the details, whether the use of the s-300 missile has been confirmed and what the examination of the wreckage is currently at, i congratulate you, indeed, that according to the new mail, in the village of novy korotych, c300 rockets exploded, it has already been confirmed, in principle, our explosives and technical management specialists had no doubts, and directly during the first inspection of the scene, they found debris, that's it... c300 rockets, which are already hundreds times flew to kharkiv region, they destroyed and killed our people. to date, as you said, six people have indeed died, these are the latest numbers, 17 people have been injured, two of the dead have been identified

through dna testing, because the bodies were very, very badly bruised, we... we never tire of thanking howard buffett, who provided we have these laboratories, if these studies were not available, then both the bodies in the village of groza in the kupyan region, and the bodies that we found during the raid on the new mail, we would have identified them not in weeks, but in months, it really is very substantial help, exactly help just during such military operations, when the work of the investigators, the criminologists is very, very much, the fragments, indeed the fragments of the rocket have been sent for research, but i say, these are procedural moments, today no one

has any doubts that they were it was the s300 rocket , 17, about which we learned, yesterday he applied: for medical assistance, but fortunately he does not need hospitalization, he received shrapnel injuries, and these injuries do not require that doctors constantly monitor him. mrs. elena, do you have a your colleagues' answer to the question, why did the russian forces target the novaya poshta terminal, what version does the investigation currently have? you know, well, when i read, well, because of my work, russian telegram channels. well, it seems to me that it is already difficult to surprise anyone at all, but cynicism is over the top, you remember why they did not say about the village of groza, about 59 dead civilians, the same thing, rhetoricians, the rhetoric does not change, the same thing ,

they write, they are looking for some bases there, they are looking for some medics for the military, they are looking for any reasons not to recognize that this is really the killing of civilians, and our task, as police officers, as investigators who document crimes, is to do everything so that there is no possibility - er, not to be responsible for these crimes, this crimes against humanity, these are crimes, these are violations of the laws of war, and we will do everything to prove the guilt. the russians are in the fact that they destroy the civilian population, they kill peaceful ukrainians. ms. elena, what is the situation in the region now, given the proximity to the russian border, how often have police officers gone to record war crimes committed by the army of the russian federation in recent days?

well, you know, it happens every day, because especially the border areas, you know, the kupliansky district, vovchansk there, they are constantly under fire, why, well, there is no system, it can be morning, afternoon, evening, night, and again , as you can see from the reports of the armed forces of ukraine, cases of shelling of kharkiv have become more frequent, and we understand that closer to the cold season, these shellings will indeed become more frequent, investigators are always leaving, for example, absolutely everyone... went to the new post office, we waited until it was sorted out, the emergency services specialists would sort it out, because there was a huge fire, they did it, after that the investigators, forensic experts, explosives technicians, that is, all

specialized services, immediately went to work. who usually go to document shelling, the same thing happens in the border areas , do they document everything, i mean, we understand our task, we understand what depends on us, how accurately we document everything, how thoroughly... we let's collect things evidence for russia to be held accountable for its crimes in international courts, and by the way , to bring to justice those military personnel who pressed the buttons of the missiles that destroy our infrastructure and most importantly, most terribly, kill our people, the direct executors of these orders, such a big responsibility, thank you ms. olena for joining in, spokeswoman... olena barannyk of the kharkiv region joined in and we talked about the consequences of the russian attack on the novaya poshta terminal.

the russian military is trying to hone in avdiivka during the last day, the armed forces of ukraine repelled more than 20 attacks on the district settlements around the city. this is reported in the general staff of ukraine. the day before , the spokesman of the joint press center of the defense forces of the tavria direction, oleksandr shtupun , said on the air of the telethon that the russian army is transferring additional forces. maid, this, as shtopun says, is due to the huge losses of russian forces on this part of the front. by the way, the russian side does not comment on what these losses are. about the transfer of additional forces to the avdiiv direction is also reported in the american institute for the study of war. they say that this is happening despite the constant problems of the russian army with frontal attacks and despite the failure of the offensive on october 19-20. according to geolocation data, on october 21, russian forces had little. advancing in the area of ​​the village of pervomaiske, so they say in the institute of war studies, it is

southwest of avdiyivka, but analysts of the deep state project reported that the russian army had partial success near vodyanyi, not far from the same pervomaiske, analysts meanwhile, it is noted that the battles for terykon near avdiyivka continue, and the russian military is also trying to approach and fortify near the railway in krasnogohorivka. the city of avdiivka is the gateway to donetsk. and to the entire donetsk region - andrii yusov, representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, said in an interview with espresso. according to him, the situation in the avdiyiv region is difficult, but the ukrainian military is holding back the attacking actions of the russian invaders. russian troops stepped up near avdiivka on october 10. the positions of the armed forces and the city itself were attacked by a large number of tanks and other armored vehicles with the support of aviation and artillery. in the briefings of the russian ministry of defense on this weekend, it was reported about the damage to ukrainian positions in the vodynoye area, as well

as the alleged destruction on october 19 of one of the control points of the armed forces of ukraine in this direction, but there is no mention of avdiivka itself in the latest briefings of the russian ministry of defense, vitaliy joins our broadcast barabash, head of the avdiiv city military administration. greetings, mr. vitaly, i want to ask you a question about the two components humanitarian and military, let's start with the fact that with civilians, what is the situation in the city as of now, how many people... remain in the city and how do they explain why they are not leaving, or is it impossible to leave? glory to ukraine, congratulations, at the expense of its civilian population , of course, a lot of people still remain in the city, as of this morning 1,601 people, the last three days there was no evacuation at all, and this is not related to any security risks . or in general the situation around the city, primarily with the reluctance of people to leave,

evacuation is planned for today, i hope that it will still take place and in the future people will still make decisions and leave the city little by little, and they will explain in different ways who, who by what, who does not want to go at all and will not go for under any circumstances, someone does not want to go, because they say that there is nowhere to go, well, of course, most of all, their answers are refusals, otherwise you cannot explain it, although, unfortunately, i am sure that there are people who are waiting something incomprehensible, they still haven't succeeded, something russia is only destroying, nothing at all, with her, after her nothing good can happen, and moreover nothing will be rebuilt either, it is difficult, very... difficult to organize this self-evacuation , to which people do not really agree, but

nevertheless, there is a desire, there is also an opportunity to take people out, the police are a white angel , volunteers who, risking their lives, from the first day of a full-scale war help us with evacuation, well, of course, representatives of the military administration, you know, uh, well , you have to understand the age, let's say, composition of people who stay in place, mostly it is after all, old people who uh, well they decided for themselves that they... were born here and they have to die here, and when talking to him about such very, very painful topics, very painful topics, it is still very difficult to convince them, and most of the time it does not work out , if such people decide for themselves that they will go , then it is only because of pressure, so to speak, not even ours,

but more of their relatives, loved ones, children, grandchildren, including, well, or if someone from their relatives is there, not in the city or remain under rubble, but then, unfortunately, only after such things do people make decisions and leave the city. how difficult is it now to move the necessary services around the city, in order to provide aid, in order to get humanitarian aid there, how difficult it is, and again, whether in the context of these conversations with people who don't want to leave, or you have such an argument that it may be that the necessary services there for rescue may not arrive at a certain moment, very difficult logistics, the 22 km road to the city is almost constantly under fire both day and night, respectively, it makes it very difficult and evacuation and delivery of humanitarian aid and the same aid, and in general, well, any logistics, it's all through one road,

of course, that the enemy is trying to cut it, the enemy is trying to hold it constantly. under fire, if they have the opportunity, weather conditions allow, they launch the eagle on drones, follow the road, any movement, this is a signal for them to open fire, communicating with people, of course, we these we explain things, and people know the experience, unfortunately, a very bitter experience, even in our community, this rural experience, which refers to our community, how it was there when it was, let's say, partially occupied and we did not have the opportunity to bring humanitarian aid there, well, in principle, to come in at all, there was no opportunity, and they are about, well, about that everyone knows that after the katsaps entered there , they were never given humanitarian aid there for almost a year, how the russians mocked them, even such things, and really the facts are

not what we tell them, but they between they communicate with each other, they know those people who were there at that moment in the interview, and such things do not even affect them very much, well, the answers are very simple, we hope that it will not come to that, that ours will drive them away now, as soon as they are away, it will be quieter in our place and everything will be fine, well, people are into these things until the end, or they don't want to believe, or they pretend that they don't believe in it, well, it's very difficult to communicate with them lately, but nevertheless, this is our job and we have to do it, what are yours in general, there are such assessments of what will happen next, but the analysts of the institute for the study of war believe that russia does not stop trying to advance on avdiivka , what do you notice, what can you say, are there more russian forces in this direction and how critical is the situation now and how quickly it can deteriorate? well, really, the enemy does not spare any attempts

or desire to surround the city, they are constantly prowling along the entire front line, including the city, of course, they are mostly concentrated in the south and in the north, in their assault actions, these assault actions they also do not stop day or night, they use a large number of techniques and personnel, well, what are the forecasts, i hope that it will still be successful, well, for now we will hold, yes , i am sure that it will continue to be so, we understand that even when we are already drawing conclusions from the actions of the enemy, well, they will not be able to press for long , this is clear, regardless of the crazy reserve they have of this meat there , well, it ends and it ends, even from the point of view, well, just meat - of course, they also do a lot of damage, but when they don't have

a bull, like when they don't have technical support and when they don't have aviation support. that's it it's just meat, well, it definitely can't do much damage, and the fact that our forces are working very well now and a lot in the rear, destroying their logistics and warehouses for storing bulls and equipment, which is dragged there, let's say so, a little further from the front line, then i hope that in the near future they will still breathe their last and ours , well, at least they will push it back a little, well , the ukrainian military points out that the intensity with which the russians, the russian military went on the offensive on avdiivka, there was never such a thing, around this city and such strikes on this city, and that... trained by the battles in bakhmut , there are also more experienced russian soldiers there, and ukrainian soldiers say that the russian forces have started using mole tactics, they

are digging trenches close to ukrainian positions, which is unusual what are the new russian forces doing during these waves of offensive on avdiivka? well, let's put it this way, this is new in our direction, but not in this war, they did such things both in the zaporizhzhia direction and in the kherson direction. they did such things, well to say that this is some kind of damage, some big thing, and it has some kind of threat, well, to be honest, i didn't say that, because first of all, you have to understand the soil that we have in the donbas, it's not that simple, it will do everything, and these mice, well all the same, there is no question of any serious tunnels there, because eh, well, it is simply very difficult to physically make this soil as well, it has to... go somewhere, these guys, even if they start doing such things, they see it, they will practice artillery, they will be overwhelmed there, well, i did not take such things very seriously, this

scheduled work, they have come up with something like that, well, let ours dig them at this time, cover them up, bombard them with artillery, negate them, well, they want to, let them dig, mr. vitaly, what is the question, what is the state of avdiivka now , how much damage is there housing stock, infrastructure as a percentage . or not, what can you say? infrastructure, well, it has already been destroyed by 100% , that’s for sure, at the expense of the housing stock, well , this figure is very close to 100%, we can definitely say that there is not a single surviving building, it i'm sure it's been nine months, that's for sure, there's not a single survivor, and as for the destruction, well, to be honest, we don't even have the ability to record the last week... all the destruction that is added every day in the city, thank you , who joined to inform radio liberty viewers, vitaliy barabash, head of the avdiiv city

military administration, we talked about the situation in the city. ukrainian border guards capture the largest number of russian drgs on the border of ukraine in the sumy region, the spokesman of the state andriy demchenko of the border service of ukraine, and according to him, the thing is: such cases occur on the border of kharkiv and chernihiv regions. russian subversive intelligence groups, says demchenko, are trying to expose the locations of the defense forces of ukraine, where units of the state border service, the armed forces of the national guard are located, and there is also a danger for civilians, because saboteurs open fire on cars moving along the border, mr. demchenko notes. we will talk about the situation on the ukrainian border further. andrew demchenko, spokesman of the state border service. of ukraine joined our broadcast. i congratulate you. congratulations. mr. andriy, how many russian sabotage and intelligence groups do you detect, and where and how do you actually manage to detect

their activities? well, in general, the situation on the border with a terrorist country remains as it is, well, not easy. because in addition to those shellings that russia carries out daily on the territory of ukraine, opening fire from its own, of course, we record them. they are also trying to use subversive intelligence groups, which are hidden under the cover of night the territory of russia are trying to enter the territory of ukraine, well, first of all, as i mentioned earlier, this is in order to expose the places where units of the defense forces of ukraine are located, and this is in general, first of all , the state border service, and the armed forces of ukraine and the national guards, who also strengthen these in... the direction, and we have recorded the most such cases recently in the direction of the sumy region, well, actually, this is not

surprising, because the length of the border within the sumy region is quite high, more than 500 km, in the chernihiv region , less, in kharkiv region as well, the length of the border with russia is somewhat shorter, but it is noteworthy that saboteurs have actually been working in sumy oblast recently, some time ago, saboteurs were also recorded in the direction of kharkiv oblast, in the direction of chernihiv oblast, but still mostly in the direction of sumy oblast regions, our defense forces, units located there, along the entire length of the border with the terrorist country, are doing everything possible to expose such groups, including using unmanned aerial vehicles that monitor and

the border line, and the border so that you know them in advance, and actually there are also observation posts, but saboteurs for that, and saboteurs in order to act secretly and try to inflict maximum damage during their actions, however, thanks to our soldiers , such groups, and they can be different, either a few people each, or about ten people, make up a subversive-reconnaissance group, about the fact that, as i say, our soldiers do their best to , to expose them, inflict damage on them, including units that are on the border with russia, undergo the necessary training, coordination of actions in order to act against the enemy's use of the drg.

there are also additional reserves, which, in case of exposure of subversive and reconnaissance groups, are immediately sent to the place , and mortars and artillery are also working, when such groups are detected in order to destroy them immediately, or to knock them out of our territory and later they leave for state border line. mr. andrii, what can you tell about in this context, if you can, how far in depth were the cases when the russian... drgs were held and how do you manage to fix them, you said about the long length of the border, we and the audience understand that, but nevertheless, how can you control this entire length of the border, by what means? well, look, for example, to build fortifications directly along the border line is quite difficult and dangerous for our people, since the enemy, who said , is shelling the territory of ukraine,

including the border line, every day, so it is open... fortifications along the border line does not conduct, but as much as possible proximity to the border, which is several hundred meters, somewhere around a kilometer, fortifications are being set up in the border area in order to maximally control the border line, well, including countering the enemy drg, and in different directions, it can be different. to what depth the saboteurs can go, but the nearest observation posts that are near the border, thanks again to the courage and vigilance of the guys, detect these drgs, so in fact they cannot advance to a significant distance from the state border line of ukraine. and when

russian drgs are revealed, what happens next and can you tell about cases when, for example, they were captured by ukrainian forces , while i have no information about saboteurs getting into convoys, but when such groups are revealed, once again they immediately open fire, there are also casualties among them, but they try to take away the bodies , the representatives who were composed, who were in the group of saboteurs, so that, of course, we do not conduct further analysis regarding their equipment, establishing persons, who, who exactly , despite the fact that, as i said, these can be small groups as well, they try to ambush, which poses a threat not only to ukrainian military personnel who are moving along the border, but

also to local people. because the saboteurs, in addition to exposing the locations of the defense forces of ukraine, they can, and this has been said before, open fire on various means of transport that move along the border, without distinguishing whether they are military or civilian people, and if we compare the activities of russian drgs, with the first months of the large-scale war and now, have such cases decreased. well, on the contrary, when the enemy was pushed beyond the borders of ukrainian territory, within the boundaries of chernihiv oblast, sumy oblast, later kharkiv oblast, there was no significant activity of saboteurs, later , when perhaps the enemy had already recovered from what had been inflicted, what losses had been inflicted, what actions taken by the armed forces: