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and we are back to you, good morning everyone this saturday morning, if you joined our broadcast, then you will know more and hear more, because we are with us directly, for example, the deputy commander of the third separate assault brigade of the armed forces, major kudryashov, is with us, thank you to ukraine, mr. major, glory to the heroes, i wish health to you and the audience, please share with us how the situation around bakhmut looks like as of this morning? well, first of all, i would like to say that the weather conditions are changing, now autumn is in full swing, right in the donetsk region , the rains are starting, the weather is starting to make it very difficult for any actions of the armed forces of ukraine, and the actions of the enemy, too number, so i think that there will be a pause for a certain period of time due to these weather conditions, on my subjective opinion, but dark.

now the situation in the entire bakhmut direction remains tense, the enemy is trying to restore its lost positions, recently, yes, at the beginning of autumn, to this day, it is trying to carry out assault actions in this direction, but there is no success, also the enemy is trying to work on to take the initiative away from the armed forces of ukraine, namely control of the advance... edge, control over the movement of reserves, control over artillery weapons, and these actions are also inconclusive on the part of the enemy, therefore, in general , the situation now remains tense, but fully controlled armed, mr. rodion, but on the part of the enemy yesterday they talked about the need to retake andriivka, andriivka, this is to the south, actually from bakhmut, what is there now happens, it's theirs. in words, are they really trying

to do something on the ground ? all in order to erase from the face of the earth, there are three streets that were in this andriivka, now andriivka is exactly so that you perceive andriivka exactly as that area where, there are... very important logistical junctions directly on the flank of bakhmut, to the flank of the city of bakhmut. the enemy would really, really prefer to seize these very territories, these very fortifications of the armed forces of ukraine, in order to open up a flank for themselves, but today all their actions are unsuccessful, moreover, the enemy is dry from the andriivka area and they repeat once again that

there is no success, well, mr. rodion, tell me please, one moment, these are logistical routes, well, in a normal situation, these should have been logistical routes, but in fact now they are such defensive, convenient boundaries, those embankments on which tracks in ukraine are built, what is the situation with them in the district bakhmut, because there was quite encouraging news. about the fact that the enemy manages to be knocked out, although it is extremely difficult, because it is very convenient to defend on this embankment, in fact, and what does this give us in the future? well, first of all, regarding prospects, yes, i'll start with this, we can have more advantageous positions in order to receive defense, just like natural , unnatural terrain will help in this , so the key, let's say, goal is

coverage, there the primary thing we did was along the siverskyi-donetsk canal , and secondly - it is on the iron track, which greatly increases the probability of successful completion of the task, namely stable defense on the part of the armed forces of ukraine. the enemy in general is, of course, resisting, but i will tell you frankly that the enemy is gradually leaving these positions, thanks to the successful actions of our military directly parts in this direction. mister major, you yourself said that the rainy autumn makes quite serious adjustments, does that prevent them from more...flying when it rains, er, er, of course, in terms of, in terms of weather conditions, they adjust, adjust as well as observations, as well as fire damage, so in this period of time there is, indeed, a reduction, yes, observation both from

the air, yes, both tactical and operational situation, but on the other hand , sabotage groups begin to work, infantry units begin to work, which use exactly and including these these runaways, that is, we use this time both the armed forces of ukraine and the enemy in our own way, but it should be noted that there are no ordinary days due to bad weather conditions and a certain, let's say , silence on the front line, if there are weather conditions, then we will certainly take advantage of even these bad conditions to inflict damage, well, bad conditions and does this mean a decrease in such direct contacts, some shooting, collisions in your direction, which tightens, as you know,

such a medium-static portrait looks, the russian who is advancing now in your direction, well, we understand that in different eh , episodes of large-scale invasion, these were different portraits, once it was, the wagnerites worked to a greater extent in the bakhmut direction, there stormzet relatively recently appeared, and who is it now as for the portraits, the face of an orc, yes, if you can say so, it does not change, here recently , again, another one, the servicemen of the terrorist russian federation got caught and... absolutely the same, khabarivsk, omsk, zek, nezek , has a small child, had no instruction, arrived, did not know where, no money is paid, there is no uniform and equipment, but we are sitting here, well, here is such a story,

which in principle does not change, they are in my subjective opinion, but i think that she is absolutely right, they are doing it in order to... i want to somehow improve my legal situation and be exchanged, that's why they say such nonsense, i am 100% sure that after already a year and a half of war , every serviceman of terrorist russia understands that he here he does, understands that he here he violates the law, all the conventions that are possible, and simply, under, let's say so, propaganda, yes, and blowing into their brains that there are bad people here and they need to be killed, they are doing their so-called work. mr. rodion, yesterday we paid attention to a large number of videos specifically from the donetsk section of the front, as they say, on both sides

of the contact line, they post a large number of videos about invasions and attacks, mass attacks of mice, we paid attention to this, and then began to look more carefully . not so much on the mouse as on these holes in which the russian infantry climbs, well, since the weather is getting worse , the rains, plus the cold, the dugout is still a dry place where you can warm up, these holes that they crawl through, and our infantry has to smoke them out like mice, or even attack these holes with these fpv drones, but they really won't work anymore in the near future, i mean these holes for the russian infantry, how does it look at the front, you know, i tell you i must not answer from experience, what i observed and what is really very surprising, yes, and in some cases, maybe even shocking, but according to the example

of last year, according to the example of the entire escort yes in the combat zone, precisely in the vicinity of the line... the encounter with the enemy survives even in such conditions 24.7 . , they have such behavior, it is commonplace, and in my subjective opinion, once again opinion, yes, i emphasize that even the weather conditions will not force these rats to leave these burrows that they have dug, so we will and we are determined to work in order to inflict damage on them. and ee to do everything so that they, either as two hundred or as prisoners, leave these

burrows. finally, very briefly, mr. rodion, a little about the capabilities of aviation, both on the one hand and on the other hand, to work in your direction, firstly, how intensively it works at the moment, and secondly, how saturated the front line is with air defense systems from the enemy's side, or we managed to thin out, as they say, the entire history and theirs, well, let's say, our aviation got a little more opportunities, i'll tell you something, let's say, minimal information, because even little knowledge, and we don't have an enemy among aviation, for me, as in the ground forces, and as a ground commander, i will say that the enemy uses aviation, uses it very quickly, if you can say so, it is guided air munitions that he drops from his medical devices, and in

addition, he uses army aviation , in large enough quantities, you should to understand that the enemy has quite a lot of means, a lot of heritage left over from the soviet union, and a lot of personnel, including pilots, who are in large... numbers trying to inflict fire damage on us. mr. major, thank you for your comment, dion kodryashov, deputy commander of the third separate assault brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, and thank you for your service, well, this is what it looks like, the autumn front around bakhmut. yes, we will take a short break and then we will talk about heaven, that is exactly what we are talking about were finishing, but it was tactical aviation, here we will talk about the sky over which everything flies. drones, cruise missiles, ballistics and everything else, we will talk about this with ihor romanenko, stay with espresso. there are

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, 2022, that's how it began, to close the sky, that's how philanthropist, the founder of the charitable foundation , we will close no. or ukraine ihor romanenko in contact with us, he is a general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces from the sixth to the 10th year, mr. igor, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, i congratulate you, and you know, even now, while we have a small there was a pause, we remembered again how our combat pilots, in particular, told us on the air, if we already had several f-16 squadrons, if they had not bombarded the cities with guided air bombs from the depths of their captured along the dnieper, they would not have inflicted such damage exactly along the front line, because our fighters, on the f-16, simply destroyed them in mid-flights, what do you say? i will say that they know

what they are talking about, and this possibility could be realized, and here you can recall the beginning of the discussion of the issue regarding aviation... the coalition, when it started, and then there were talks about the fact that the first ones could appear in the fall of the 23rd year, but unfortunately, thanks to the policy of inhibitions, the policy of fear of escalation, fear of an attack by russia, mass media destruction, all this, was carried out according to the terms, then it was explained that one document was needed, then a decision was needed, then, uh, the alphabet must be learned in english, and so on, according to the algorithm, and it was slowly transferred to the end of the year, this

, the next, the beginning, spring and further there, now there were informational, some data regarding what is needed there for years, not just months, unfortunately, although, in fact, it could be decided in these terms, as they began, but after -anyone, at the beginning, at the end of this beginning next to the squadron though to collect, it is possible, especially since for the americans, it seems to the majority that they provide such opportunities directly, both aircraft and training, well, the truth is that they included in the training of an american. at this stage, the europeans provide different, and not necessarily in 16 there may be gripens and other aircraft, but we see what we see, and for us, if we look at the nature of the conduct of hostilities, it is certainly fundamentally important to provide these new capabilities of the forces defense of ukraine, have appeared, we are already seeing attacks by amsi,

now the question of the germans is in scholz's mind, and certainly a powerful application. regarding aircraft, will fundamentally not solve this issue, we need, and we must be under no illusions, a system of providing our defense forces of ukraine with modern weapons, but for this to significantly increase our capabilities to launch combat operations, including in such approaches, which you are talking about they said, it’s clear, well, in fact, when these air-to-air missiles appeared in ukraine, yes side winner, if i’m not mistaken, they are called, that is, they are missiles that can use f16 for direct strikes, i thought so, well, it is unlikely that someone would demonstratively

show us, i don't know, transmission across the border of the f16 aircraft, no, at some point, i think they will just appear, and we will notice how it changes the situation on the contact line and in general in our sky, but mr. igor, i would like to draw your attention to the fact that for a very long time, as for the entire period of a large-scale invasion, there was no massive attack of air- based guided missiles from the russian federation, everything what they run for their 195th 160s, if i'm not mistaken, can we afford cautious optimism here, on the one hand , because they may have realized that it is costly for them, because their last attacks were crowned with very effective ukrainian anti-aircraft work. defense, that is, almost everything was destroyed, or maybe there is another reason, maybe their guns , which they used, excuse me, are quite active,

now they are not, unfit, as they say, to work so efficiently and often, or maybe they are accumulating it all , to slap the big one one day, now we'll ask mr. igor, well, that's all totality, but before that, an interesting topic in relation to the lander is an air-to-air missile, but they entered the last tranche from america there for 150 million dollars, as a ground-to-air missile, that is, they are 20 km old, if the lander 9 is used, they operate in the air on the ground, they operate at a range from anti-aircraft missile systems to an air target , they decrease at a range of up to 10 km, but we really need them, because they did ours. with foreign companies such know-how from anti-aircraft missile launchers buk and kub launch air-to-air missiles

the american sparrow and sidnder and this is an effective means of destroying low-altitude targets, which include cruise missiles, low-altitude helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, including such as shaheds, that is... in place this confrontation is not in the area of ​​anti-aircraft of defense, there is this kind of intelligence regarding the strikes, you raised the question, you partially answered it yourself, it is happening comprehensively, first of all, they are definitely preparing for winter, they want their strikes to be comprehensive and more effective, complex - this is the simultaneous use of different types of air attack means, that is, unmanned aerial vehicles. missiles are ballistic and winged, which means missiles like the kha-101, they don’t produce quickly, but they produce six daggers a month, for example, this

dagger is a modernized iskander missile that is used from airplanes, and besides, they looked at what if so will intensively use their strategic bombers, which you also talked about. which means that there are 95 mms here, and 160 here, so they don't have it there will be a resource for the fact that, all of a sudden, it will come directly with the americans, because there are various influences of the start of the war on israel, including seeing that the americans are determined here, and i am sending troops, and marines, and special forces, and means 20 anti-aircraft missile systems at once, just in case, that's why, if... to counter the americans, an appropriate resource is needed, and therefore for the time being, the russians will use unmanned aerial vehicles or, well, whatever they have more of, but this does not mean that it will not be, therefore

that they are saving and preparing for this kind of event, in relation to missiles directly, and they are also definitely saving their resources, bombers that they cannot produce , they are restoring everything that they have left , the spare parts that were there. but they cannot make, well, from scratch new in terms of state, the military-industrial complex of aviation. mr. igor, we are seeing yet another change, if earlier, mainly , an alcoholic known in russia, dmitry medvedev , threatened with a nuclear weapon, a bottle or a nuclear baton, now everything has changed, now they demonstratively covered their nuclear triad, all kinds of exercises , including dealing with powerful nuclear strikes, that is , not even tactical, but strategic nuclear weapons, and after that a lot of comments and

analysis flowed on the internet. to what extent is it, how effective are these nuclear forces in them, or do some military experts say that in fact up to 15% still retain their combat capability and soviet reserves that remained in russia, and the rest is not as reliable and effective as dmitry medvidev wants polish the world, what do you say? the results of these military exercises and testing of nuclear forces and, in general, the discussion about the state of russia's nuclear potential, which again returned to this rhetoric? well, they see that they still have an influence on the leadership, especially our allies, such messages regarding escalation and regarding the possibility of using means of mass destruction, have an influence, because we discussed with you that the terms, for example, of transferring aircraft to us by others, and this the topic in this regard is supported at the appropriate level, and the bears are there when it becomes clear

from his next indiscretion, he gives out... this kind of information, at the same time it is necessary to remind, they remind about the fact that this is the country that has the largest number of nuclear warheads in the world, they have a triad, and this in this training, that is, it is possible to conduct according to the terms, there is another training session, and you can focus more on the political, let's say, consequences of this kind of training, which is happening, that is, one instance at a time, somewhere in a mine launch pad, that is, a submarine shuttle, and there were several strategic ones, you see, assigned directly, it is in first of all, the technologies that we talked about with you are of strategic use, and therefore they will be used here, so that they do not forget, that they think, that they delay further the supply of the armed forces of ukraine and limit the support budget and

so on. there is a struggle and we need to clearly imagine that they will always behave like this, and the question is more how the leadership of military-political ukraine and our allies react to this, and here there is, so to speak, a transformation of stability to everything, especially our allies , although not yet well and not in full measures to be more proactive in supplying us with modern weapons, well, i would like to add a little. that oleksiy danilov, adviser, secretary of the national security and defense council, commented on the training, says that the kremlin continues to try to scare the world with its nuclear attempt, but not everything is so smooth, they really did a test, they were supposed to have three missiles, one failed near the place where it was supposed to start, one system did not open and only one of the three went, it must be understood that russia is technologically quite

a backward country compared to the west, but as far as i am concerned, and these tests are generally included in the concept of the election campaign, which has already started, i think that he will soon be resurrected and his jesus christ will appear in russia, hallelujah, i think so it seems that we have the last minute, mr. igor, if you can , comment on this for half a minute, almost, well, it is from the approach that the political is more than the professional, military one. putin always put politics ahead of everything and made many mistakes against this background, this since the beginning of the word game of a large-scale war, where politically he had one perception of ukraine, but in fact the situation was completely different, he overestimated his strengths, our shortcomings, and the actions of our allies, and therefore, we are used to this propaganda, our allies are used to it, but we already understand that

panegore, we have to say goodbye, we apologize for interrupting, the national moment of silence is just approaching, thank you, mr. igor, and now we will remember all those who died in the russian-ukrainian war. let's honor the memory of ukrainians with a moment of silence military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.