how to try to turn the situation to your side. mr. yehenniy, here is the news that appeared literally at the time when the broadcast had already started, the marines of the armed forces of ukraine announced that they had conducted a series of successful actions on the left bank of the dnieper in the kherson region and managed to gain a foothold on several bridgeheads, what do you know about this, maybe there is some understanding, in fact, how the occupation authorities on the left bank will react to this, whether the russian forces are preparing some additional overturning. taking into account the message of the ukrainian side, here's what about can you tell me about the left bank? well, we will not say anything specific about the left bank for now, i will say only one thing that of course , the occupiers will try to carry out some kind of reorganization, and the fact that they have built a rich echeloned defense system, and i

understand that they were preparing for such scenarios and predicted that they would have to retreat from the left bank. next, we will see how the situation will develop. but the ukrainian side has an understanding of how this defense, which was built on the left bank by the russian forces to break through, was already found there, not i know, have you felt the weak sides of this defense? of course, we carry out such actions regularly and have our own vision regarding that. how and in what way to liberate our territory. i thank you for enabling. yevgeny yerin, a representative of the main intelligence department of the ministry of defense of ukraine, is a guest of our broadcast. you are watching the svoboda ranok project - it is a project about important things. our broadcast is ongoing, so don't miss any more. after poland, a preliminary blockade was set up at the border for ukrainian carriers, as well as slovak carriers.

they threaten to completely block the border with ukraine if the european commission does not intervene in the situation, the main requirement is to introduce transportation permits for ukrainian vehicles, because european companies cannot compete with them, they say. what can such blockades lead to and how do they see the solution to the situation in kyiv. farion publicly reacted to the criminal proceedings opened against her by the sbu and explained her words in an interview with yanina sokolova about russian-speaking military personnel. in himself the administration of the lviv polytechnic university still refuses to comment on the decision to dismiss the linguist. i will tell more later in the broadcast. if you are not yet subscribed to radio svoboda's youtube channel, i suggest you do so, so that you and i can improve on youtube, and also subscribe to our telegram channel. the positional war between ukraine and russia is not a dead end, a consequence of the limits on the provision of weapons and technology imposed by the west on itself -

analysts of the american institute of war studies. citing frederick kagan, a researcher at the american enterprise institute and a former professor of military history at the us military academy, analysts note that the balance of power is actually very unstable and can easily be shifted in any direction by the decisions made by the combined force. they add that ukraine has proven its ability to hinder russian forces and actually lead a large-scale mechanism. maneuver warfare, but this ability remains absolute dependent on the continuation of western aid to ukraine. in this context, we will also talk about the situation at the front and how the west sees what is happening now in ukraine, what to expect next with our guest oleksandr kovalenko, a military observer of the information resistance group, joins the broadcast. i congratulate you, mr. alexander. good morning. do you agree with the statement that from help. the event

will really depend on both the development of events on the front and, in general, the final of this one large-scale war. yes, of course, because ukraine currently does not have a developed military-industrial complex that would be able to provide the defense forces of ukraine as the realities require, and again, even the help that comes from our partners, it, well, so to speak, not even par. with the possibilities that russia has to restore its resources, to restore its losses, that is , just one example, the most, the most blatant, is artillery, we talk a lot about the fact that we are destroying a lot of russian artillery, it is true, we have a much higher quality of counter-battery combat and more professional gunners, the gods of war, but russia is able, at the expense of its military-industrial complex, as well as at

the expense of its warehouses and storage centers, which were left over from the soviet union, and every month to restore only towed, barrel artillery from 300 to 350 units per month, and i have a question, how much do our partners transfer to us per month exactly towed artillery of the towed type, well, i give an example, it is an m-777 howitzer, for example, and 100 though no, that's it the problem is that today these supplies do not even create quantitative parity and it complicates the situation, how to get out of this situation, because the measure is essentially also limited, at least if you listen to analysts, if you listen to experts, it is limited in the amount that it can supply, because the military-industrial complex was not prepared for the fact that there would be a full-scale

invasion and so much aid would have to be allocated? output, or increase in the number, of the corresponding nomenclature of the transfer of weapons, if we are talking about artillery, then again to increase, to find opportunities to increase this number, or to expand the general nomenclature in order to comprehensively influence the a russian troops , because we are now talking exclusively about the limits of artillery, but on the other hand, artillery can be destroyed not only at the expense of counterbattery fighting, that is, if we do not have any bureaucratic or other... obstacles to obtaining a new nomenclature that we did not receive before, but which we can effectively use also to fight against russian equipment, then comprehensively, we will be able to compensate for the lack of this quantitative partet, that is, i am talking about the fact that, for example, the same

missiles for attacks, so that there are no bureaucratic obstacles in obtaining them, other weapons, taurus missiles, other, and other technical means, mechanized means, aviation, nomenclature for aviation, let it be missiles, not only air, air, air, surface, air, surface objects, and so on, and the like, please tell me, but in russia they claim to have taken measures to in order to protect critical infrastructure and to strengthen the air defense of moskovskiy and 16 other regions, how should it be perceived... the message coming from the russian federation, is russia really preparing to repel attacks on its critical infrastructure in the winter? i don't know what russia is afraid of this winter, why it is there , increasing the presence of the air force at some objects, apparently they have some such fears, but

again, another interesting thing, they are generally limited in terms of opportunities to increase the presence of their air force, create in pppo, and if they increase something somewhere, well, for example, in the moscow region, then somewhere it should become less, they increase it at the expense of other federal districts, regions, other cities and also important objects, by the way, so i don’t know if they will even manage to create a full-fledged crazy popo that could guarantee safety in all respects projects, no, exclusively on some separate, and that is a question of technical possibilities , creation of this pppo appropriate safety of such an umbrella, because we know very well that such zrgk panzers-1 is generally a shame for modern russia, the construction

of anti-aircraft weapons and even themselves the russians, the expert environment, constantly say that the panzers are one with the rgk. and this is a defective air defense complex, but in russia they continue to emphasize it and place it near every city and every critical infrastructure facility. mr. oleksandr, but if we are talking about russian missiles, then there is information from the main intelligence agency of ukraine that their production is ongoing, if we talk about pppo systems, there is little information about this, in general, about pppo systems, which the russian federation currently owns also put on the horse. they somehow continue to produce it in order to conditionally protect the occupied crimea, i don't know, or is this a very complicated procedure and they are not working on it in russia? yes, they have the production of anti-aircraft defenses, they continue them, but this is a very complicated process, even in peacetime, and when russia was provided with all

the elements, electronics, electronics and so on, all the equipment, because elements of western origin are also used there, and they are now producing anti-aircraft defenses as well using contraband, but this process, it is very slow, even if it has been accelerated. still, even accelerated, it is slow in comparison, for example, with tank construction or with the restoration of artillery or with the construction of missiles, and the amount of anti-aircraft defense that is destroyed by the defense forces of ukraine in the combat zone, and they cannot compensate in any way at the expense of production, even if we are talking about removal from conservation and preservation, i.e. restoration of an already ready,

some kind of starter that was there on preservation, it is also quite such a long time, for example, they tried the tunguska battery, this is an anti-aircraft missile-gun complex from soviet times, and they restored, repaired the vtongusak battery, it took them six months. for half a year they were engaged in this restoration, and when they received this battery of tongusaks, russian units in the combat zone, it turned out that only two could fully perform their combat tasks, because in one of them the guidance system did not work, in the second, and the highway constantly wedges, it cannot fully move, move on its own without additional repairs and so on and so forth, that is, even after repairs and maintenance, they were not able to put full-fledged tools in there is one more question, i know that experts do not really like

to comment on what is written about often the western press, because often there the western press refers to some anonymous sources, but this is in fact, it seems to me an important point, the vol street journal writes that the russian leader is ready to use everything at his disposal to win the war in ukraine, and here a logical question arises, what does putin have at his disposal in order to win the war in ukraine, nuclear weapons, which remain essentially such an element of deterrence until now, or what? nuclear weapons, they will not be used by russia, we, we must understand this, it will be the end of russia itself if she uses them, besides, in what format will she use them, and strategic nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons, well, tactical nuclear weapons, for example, they still lost some of their effectiveness in the combat zone, where modern

methods, combat operations, back in the late 70s, when the general tactics of conducting hostilities were radically changed, that is, in small groups, small units, it is not impossible to tactically send nuclear weapons to groups, like an army, which is compactly placed in some area, and can be completely destroyed this army, no, it is not effective, tactical nuclear weapons against the company , well, it is ... not at all ineffective, irrational, it will not give any result, to use it against a peaceful city, a rear city, it is terror of the highest level, and the world will react to this, the world, it will not go unnoticed, that is, this terror , it will be punished, the result for russia can be the most unfavorable, therefore nuclear weapons are not, but some other methods, they have already demonstrated what they are capable of and therefore apply

all efforts are only to mobilize, to continue mobilizing the population of the russian federation, but not so much for capture, as for restraining the offensive of the defense forces of ukraine and , moreover, braking, deterring, but not for offensive, they are already attacking, well, let's say yes, even in the second half of 2022, they could not carry out large-scale offensives on a wide front. thank you, mr. oleksandr, for your analysis, oleksandr kovalenko, a military observer of the information resistance group, a guest of our broadcast. the department of computational mathematics of the lviv polytechnic, following the department of the ukrainian language, came out in support of professor iryna farion and against her dismissal from the educational institution. corresponding posts appeared on the departments' facebook pages. release farion, they call it unfair and demand an independent investigation and analysis of all the circumstances of the incident. i would like to remind you that the order for the dismissal of linguist iryna farion appeared online the day before. farion herself said that she would

sue because of the illegality of such a decision and wrote, i quote, a dismissal without any signature, this is something new in labor law. radio liberty journalists went to the lviv polytechnic university to get acquainted with the original order for the release of iryna farion. the order was not shown to us at the educational institution, the rectorate refused comments rector yuriy bobalo himself, according to his secretary, is currently on vacation, acting rector lilia zhuk was not at her workplace and did not pick up the phone. the teachers with whom they wanted to talk, the journalists of radio svoboda, refused to comment on anything, saying that this was the decision. the administration of the university not to comment on the farion case, but the press service of the institution confirmed that the draft of the dismissal order was published on the internet, it is real, they decided not to comment on the socially significant event, what happened, someone leaked it to the network, it was a copy, copies

are not signed, iryna dmitrivna was to be contacted today, from the personnel department, from the personnel department and, since there is, well, there is, what is it called, a procedure, there is a procedure, and this procedure was foreseen , who leaked this information yesterday, i do not know, that is, i do not have information - i do not have data on who did it, this information should not have been on the network before the whole procedure was supposed to be figured out, and we should have put on the site after when irina dmitrivna had already talked about everything, everything information, that is, it had to be reported, and then... accordingly, we had to bet on ourselves. the students with whom the radio liberty correspondent spoke believe that the situation that has developed affects the image of the educational institution, this is what they said, how they answered the question, how they assess the situation with the dismissal of professor iryna farion, whether it is a punishment for her interview is it legal? in my opinion, the release of iryna farion is a good

decision, as she did not support our people who simply do not know how to... in the ukrainian language, i believe that iryna farion, she is right at the expense of the fact that the ukrainian language needs to be popularized, even in the army, it should be spoken, but in wartime you can't call military people names, you can't incite enmity and say such things as she said, and after the public excitement has already risen , she didn't apologize, so i don't know how deserved it is that she was kicked out of the university, but... well, does she deserve some kind of punishment? yes, she deserves some kind of punishment, but she's a pretty good teacher, so you could come up with some other punishment, something more loyal, she's in she did not teach us, we heard good reviews about her as a teacher , however, i support her position, but i am against such harsh

statements regarding military personnel, but i spoke with her personally, she is a very good person, she has a family of her own i, she has... she is very polite, very nice, but the fact that she overstepped the mark is a fact. meanwhile , farion herself reacted to the criminal proceedings opened against her by the security service of ukraine. movoznats believes that she did not violate the law, and her phrases in the interview were taken out of context, she also noted that - mandatory knowledge of the ukrainian language by ukrainians has been expressed for 20 years, that is, the topic about this, as she says, the attacks on her are... an order, not a protest of the students of the polytechnic, for her dismissal, she says, i quote, no one recognized the students who went to this rally. all these attacks on me are of an absolutely ordered nature and conducted by one hand, and this one hand, this conductor, has started absolutely all the instruments throughout the country, it does not matter

how many rockets fall on us, it does not matter how many migs fly in the air, it does not matter , how many of our boys where are the lands today and defeated our enemy, the only thing that matters is how many ukrainians in the front line or in the rear were shot by farion with her own words, saying the unsaid. i would also like to add that the news about farion's dismissal was removed from the website and social networks of the lviv polytechnic before the dinner. under these posts, many people spoke in support of farion, the national council for television and radio broadcasting will unscheduledly check the fifth channel through the broadcast of yanina sokolova's interview. with a linguist. the national council noted that, according to the monitoring results, the program has signs violation of the law on the media, which prohibits the dissemination of discriminatory statements regarding nationality, age, gender, and other characteristics, asked the national council to check, ukrainian obutsman dmetro lubinets and the security service of ukraine appealed. if the polish authorities

do not solve the problem of blocking border crossings with ukraine, the european commission may start a disciplinary procedure. against poland, because brussels, they say, is losing patience, the polish media rfm-24 writes about this with reference to an unnamed spokesman in the european commission and adds that some in the european commission believes that the polish authorities are not doing everything possible to solve the problem and stop the protest of polish carriers. however , in an official comment to radio liberty, the representative of the european commission, albert janz, neither confirmed nor questioned the information about the alleged punitive measures from the european commission and refused to evaluate poland's efforts. we have no right to evaluate the efforts of the authorities, i would not be able to make such comments in any case. our role in this context is to facilitate, participate in discussions, assist the authorities and about and find solutions and conclusions, and these discussions are ongoing. the european commission also regrets that so far it has not been possible to find a solution to stop the protests of polish truckers, and

the tripartite negotiations between ukraine, poland and the eu took place the day before, they turned out to be fruitless - said a representative of the european commission. the european commissioners call the economic consequences of the protest of polish carriers on the border with ukraine very difficult, although the losses there have not yet been calculated. the spokesperson of the european commission, eric, said this. mamer during the visit of a high-ranking delegation european commission on the polish-ukrainian border. in the meantime, they decided to support poland in slovakia as well, the union of motor carriers of the country blocked the vyshny nimecke checkpoint on the slovak side for one hour. they said it was a warning. slovak truck carriers warn that if brussels does not resolve the situation, they will completely block the border with ukraine, following the example of poland. i will remind you that polish carriers have announced a strike due to excessive. competition after easing the rules of international transportation between ukraine and the european union. protesters demand the return of the procedure for obtaining permits for ukrainian drivers and demand the removal of polish cars

from the electronic queue, as well as the release of polish trucks from the territory of ukraine. the ukrainian side does not agree with these demands, none of the parties makes concessions and negotiations continue. the european commission reminds us that the existing transportation rules will be in effect at least until june 30 next year, yulia klymenko joins our broadcast, this is the first deputy chairman of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on transport and infrastructure, people's deputy of ukraine, voice fraction, if i'm not mistaken. yes, good morning. mrs. yuli, thank you for joining us, what could it lead to from your point of view, actually blocking these on the part of european carriers, including poland, and now we see the position of the slovak side, with ukraine, if their demands... won't do it, so what can happen next? well, then, actually speaking, polish truckers, they are going to strike at least until january

and then i think that they can continue their protest, unfortunately, this leads to serious logistical violations, violations of contracts, on the ukrainian side and actually complicates life for our business and carriers, because we cannot...' plan and to fulfill the contracts that the ukrainians concluded, because we do not understand when we can deliver ukrainian goods , especially it looks, let's say, so difficult due to the fact that the season for exporting agricultural products begins, and actually this significantly reduces the possibilities of exporting agricultural products and certainly increases the logistics cost, that is, we become not, well, uncompetitive on the agricultural market, on the transportation market, and no one wants to do business with ukrainians, since we cannot understand when we will fulfill our obligations.

unfortunately, this will significantly affect ukrainian business, the ukrainian economy, it's good that they let military and humanitarian cargo through, without queuing and without blocking, but all the rest of the business suffers from this, i think that while there for two weeks, it there is not such a big effect yet, but it will be in a month to have a significant effect on everything that you and i have lying around... on the shelves in the supermarket, namely on the price of the product, that is , we can expect an increase in the price of the product if the situation does not change, well, these are imported goods, we are talking about imported goods , yes, if the drivers who bring imported goods to ukraine stand for two or three weeks at the border, then this cost, well, it will not go anywhere, it will be included in the cost of the goods, unfortunately, and that's why, well, how can i she said, it is also significant, import, or rather export, too, is undermining ukrainian, since our ports are closed, we have no possibility to port by other means than land. ms. yuli, this is a very important point, in fact, this situation

is now taking on the form of a so-called relay race. at first there were polish carriers, they were joined by slovak ones, and other representatives of other countries bordering ukraine are incredibly agreeable. as you might imagine, the european commission is here now, it says that there is essentially no solution, and none of the parties is going to. concessions, on whose side will he still land there european law, let's call it that, and the european commission, if there are more states that will actually make demands on ukraine, regarding these transports and the return of what actually existed before those rules, if we take the law and concluded, the absence is actually not with poland and not with slovakia, but with the european union, that is, neither poland nor slovakia can block our border, exactly on our side, the question is that you all know very well that in order to prove it, it takes years, months, years and so on and so on

it will not be easier for the transporters, for the non-ukrainian citizens , because there are two of us... as long as we win the court in poland or in slovakia, so strictly speaking, the law is on our side, but unfortunately, the trucks are on the side of poland, which are blocking , and the polish government really now, since they, no, well, let's say the old government is going, and the new one is not appointed, and most likely won't be appointed for the next month, and then the christmas vacation starts, then an effective government in poland will emerge somewhere, in the middle of january, this is my prediction, and therefore, there will be someone to talk to only in the middle of january, at the moment i think that the government that is currently in poland, he understands that he will most likely lose his positions, and they do not want to solve any issues, because, well, you understand, there is a lot of support not only for the trucks that are blocking, but there is a lot of support in the transport industry for this very action and to go against one's own,

the voters, well, i think that there will be a question for the current government, let's say this, ms. yuli, if i you i understood correctly, by the middle of january, for according to your forecasts, until there is a new government in poland itself, with which it is possible to have a conversation, to conduct negotiations on this issue, the situation will not change and it will not be possible to find a solution there, but the european commission, conditionally there are not named diplomats, named officials are speaking about the fact that there may be certain punitive measures for poland, in particular, as you think , there may be these punitive measures, because the right is on the side of ukraine in this context, look, well, we must understand that all the procedures of the european union, they sufficiently bureaucratic and long, that is, the right is definitely on our side, it is definitely possible that the european union will be able to punish poland with fines and disciplinary measures, but for this, as they rightly say, a disciplinary investigation must be conducted, and disciplinary proceedings, it does not take one or two days,

it... has several weeks, so strictly speaking, well, i think it is not possible for several months, again, we must understand that europe from december 15th until january 15th, it actually, well, let's say this, works in such a calm mode, because a lot people go to christmas, go on christmas vacation, so i think that, come on, i think that our government needs to uh, well, a little bit... speed up its capabilities and maybe rise from the level of deputy minister to a higher level , for example, at the level of the prime minister or the president's office and start solving this problem, because, well, i think , at this rate, we will solve it for a long time the way it is going now, once every two weeks we go to the border, we are talking about something, it is clear that the protesters are not polish they don't want to talk about anything, because they have serious competition from the ukrainian side and they will, and they are losing

money, so for them it's a matter of preserving their business and they will stand there as long as they think necessary. i think that we are not making enough efforts to solve this problem both at the level of the european union, and at the level of the polish government, and at the level of slovakia, so we, thank you, thank you, unfortunately, limited air time, yulia klymenko, the first deputy head of the committee of the verkhovna rada of ukraine on issues of transport and infrastructure, a guest of our broadcast, there were explosions in sevastopol, local channels, after that the head of the occupying power of the city entertains, announced an air alert, this is the last message from the telegram channel of radio liberty, which i urge you to subscribe to, in addition , let's make friends with you on youtube, so that you can see our broadcasts constantly, and in this way you can receive important information, see you from monday, take care!

10 o'clock on the clock, time to find out what takes place in ukraine and the world at this time, khrystyna parubiy works in the studio. at night, the enemy attacked ukraine with ten shaheds, where... our defenders of the sky were shot down from them, the air force announced. ukrainian air defense forces worked against enemy targets within mykolaiv, odesa, zhytomyr and khmelnytskyi regions. the occupiers launched drones from the primorye-akhtar direction. at night , our air defense forces shot down a mine over the mykolaiv region - reported the head of the regional military administration, vitaly kim. the russians also

shelled the villages of solonchaky and dmytrivka. surup community, under an enemy attack on