[000:00:00;00] sion bombs, su-35 and mainly in donetsk region, in general, in the operational zone of osovtavria, the invaders do not stop trying to encircle avdiivka, stormed unsuccessfully, east of novobakhmutivka, also in the areas of avdiivka, northern and pervomaisky, there were repulsed last day, 13 attacks, already today, the occupiers engaged, and for the attack, almost one and a half dozen armored vehicles marched in columns, and our soldiers destroyed two tanks, seven armored combat vehicles, and the enemy retreated, near maryinka and novomykhaylika , the enemy's activity also did not decrease, 18 attacks were repulsed during the day. oleksandr, is the russian military regrouping or receiving reinforcements, perhaps

from other directions? er, of course, well, suffering such losses, they are simply forced, well, to pull up some kind of reinforcements, to replenish their, assault units, which bear very significant losses, some of them, some of them have 10-15% of their original numbers left, well, those people who entered, let's say, the war zone. oleksandr, here i am not asking you to blame the russian side, but i will note that the russian side says that for by the russian army, the initiative on avdiivska around avdiivka, yes, around these battles, so i want to ask you, so that the audience really understands how serious the situation is, whether there have been losses of positions in certain areas on the part of the armed forces over the last week, and whether there are losses the position of the army of the russian federation, that is, what is the situation here, how can you

describe it, it is not possible. if there are losses of any positions, then they are temporary, that is, the front, well, the line of combat engagement, let's say, active, active battles continue and the line of combat engagement can to fluctuate here and there, well , to put it in simple words, therefore, to talk about some permanent successes no no no no let's say neither the enemy nor us at the moment, where is the situation more difficult for the armed forces? in the south or in the north of avdiivka? well, i will say, the situation is difficult everywhere, but it is under control. i would also like to ask you to explain what the avdiivska promka means , we have been hearing this name, this military name since the 14th year, it is an industrial zone near the avdiiv coke plant, is it about it, or is it another industrial zone? well,

if someone was in obadiah. then there are two in total industrial zones in the direct, so to speak, technical sense, that is, one, it can be assumed that this is a coke-chemical plant and one, a small one, it is located in the south of avdiivka, the one for which, well , we heard about it in 14-15 years, and the coke-chemical plant that you mentioned , is the military currently holding it, how much of an assault on the russian forces are they... the power in relation to the plant, is this plant really still a target for the russian troops, well, of course, not only the plant, but also the civilian infrastructure of the city of avdiyivka itself is a target, that is, for artillery, for mlrs for airstrikes, coke chemical plant under under our control, if we are talking about civilians, are they in the coke-chemical plant, because there a few weeks ago, there

last week, and we talked to the head of the vts and he said that there were people hiding in the basements, civilians, at the moment i have information there is no such thing, i think the head of the vtsa can answer this question, but can you tell us how the weather now affects the course of hostilities? uh, let's go because, well, first of all, it's quite difficult to disguise, uh, almost all the leaves from the trees have already fallen, and the enemy, the occupier, in under such conditions, they try to cheat, in particular, they pretend to be dead, or they cover themselves with the corpses of russian attack aircraft, liquidated earlier, how can you describe the situation in the tauriv area in general, now all the attention, and i understand, we understand, is focused on avdiivka, but we also heard, saw the statement that mr. ternavskyi's statement that the russian occupiers have reduced the number

of assaults, but continue at night. to ignore the laws and customs of the introduction of war. in general, what is the situation in the taurian direction, are all the forces of the russian forces concentrated now in avdiivka? no, activity, activity. manifests, say, also near marinka, also in the staromarsky area, and does not leave peace, let's say, although there are not such active actions, but it is both robotic and voluntary, that is, some, let's say, assault actions of low activity are also present there , i thank you, oleksandr, for joining our broadcast and informing our viewers about what is happening in the tavri region, oleksandr shtupun, the spokesman for the joint press center of the forces of the region, was a guest of svoboda ranok. in our broadcasts, we talk about important things about the main events of this morning. my name is kateryna nekrecha, and further on this broadcast we will talk about such topics. russia is a threat to

ukraine, china is a threat to the usa, and the union china, russia iran is a challenge to the whole world. oleksiy danilov, secretary of the nsdc of ukraine, believes so. he says that in 10-15 years , not only north korea, but also some european countries may join such an alliance. country about the role of china in world processes and whether the position of this country has changed in relation to ukraine, we will talk further. ukrainian carriers held a rally in response to blocking the border on the part of poland, but farmers should also join the polish transporters. meanwhile , there is no progress in the tripartite negotiations between ukraine, the eu and poland, but they should try this week. when will the border be unblocked and what damage has ukraine suffered? let's talk further. live news, statements, exclusive comments, i think that our viewers have already seen this, all this is in our morning broadcast, morning freedom with you every weekday from 9:00 on youtube, on the radio

liberty channel and also on the air of the tv channel . follow up polish truckers, slovak carriers also began to block the border with ukraine. the day before, they began a blockade at the vyshny nemetske uzhgo checkpoint. vs. the state border service reported that 300 trucks were stuck in the direction of ukraine. how long such a blockade will last is unknown. the state customs service of ukraine warned that slovak carriers plan to let only one truck out of ukraine per hour, and four trucks per hour in the return direction to ukraine. ot cars and buses should be allowed to pass as usual. in addition, in addition, every hour, one car with humanitarian aid is let out of the queue. aid or fuel and lubricants for the ministry of defense. this is what they say in the transcarpathian customs. it is known that the blockade of the border is organized by the slovakian transporters' union, which earlier this month already held such a warning action at

the border. then, as the slovak news agency tasr reported, they demanded that the european commission introduce permits for ukrainian carriers for transportation by eu countries, because under the current conditions they cannot compete with them. and this morning , during our broadcast , the state border service informed that the movement of trucks through the vyshne-nemetsky crossing point has already been temporarily unblocked, there are about 350 trucks headed for ukraine. by these actions , the slovak carriers expressed their support for the polish ones, which since november 6, let me remind you, have been blocking three checkpoints with ukraine, because of which on the ukrainian-polish border queues of several thousand trucks formed, they say almost 3 thousand. the publication bloomberg writes that from thursday, that is, from tomorrow , polish farmers should also join the blockade of the border, they are supposed to hold a three-day action at

the medicani checkpoint, the only one that has not yet been blocked for the passage of trucks. and at the same time , the day before, ukrainian carriers also conducted such a warning campaign on the border with poland, reports the ukrinform agency. approximately 30 trucks plastered with posters stood on checkpoints. kraków's korchova and they did not block the border, did not hinder the work of the checkpoint, instead, they only tried to divert the attention of the polish blockaders to the situation in this way. one of the slogans of ukrainian carriers was, if ukraine loses, poland will lose. the deputy minister of economy of ukraine, taras kachka, said that this week ukraine, poland and the european commission will hold new tripartite negotiations to settle the situation at the border, but he did not specify when exactly they would take place. the previous ones. negotiations, i remind you, are not successful had, that kyiv and brussels signed an agreement on freight transportation by road in june 2022, i will remind you that this document also cancels the need for ukrainian

carriers to obtain permits for bilateral and transit transportation to eu countries. the agreement was concluded then to save ukrainian exports and prevent a food crisis caused by russia's blockade of ukraine's roads. polish and slovak carriers advocate the return of the practice of obtaining these permits by the ukrainian side, and in our ethers, we pay a lot of attention to this topic, and so do i. i would like to note that our correspondents are also monitoring this situation at the border, and it should also be said that for these ukrainian truck drivers who are stuck, we are talking about 2,900 loads, i.e. almost 300, and the state of ukraine is now trying to provide them with assistance, they are delivered food, water, however, the drivers say that they are in dire need of fuel, and i will remind you that this is the freedom of the morning, now we will discuss in more detail this situation that

has developed at the border, and there is also important information that the movement of trucks through the vyshne-niemetske crossing point has already been temporarily unlocked , and as of this morning there are almost 350 freight vehicles on the territory of slovakia in front of this crossing point in the direction of ukraine, the passage of passenger cars, motor vehicles and buses for entry and exit at the checkpoint continues to be carried out as usual , as reported by the state border service of ukraine, nevertheless, i would like to remind you that the other day, slovakia for one hour joined such an action, from the polish side, and in slovakia, slovak carriers said that in this way express solidarity with the polish demonstrators, and that if the european union does not listen, then slovak carriers will also join the blockade of the ukrainian border.

we will talk about the situation further and whether there is a chance to restore relations here. serhiy derkach, deputy minister of community development, territories and infrastructure of ukraine, joined our broadcast. i congratulate you. good morning. let's start with slovakia for sure, the slovak border, because we're getting news that there's been a blockade again, it's like they unlocked the border, there are about 350 cars. is the situation there now critical, or can it be the same as words. the border, the carriers will also block it, just like the polish one, well, we have today with slovakia , at the uzhgorod checkpoint , the border has already been unblocked, at night, at midnight, in fact, the police removed the car that was standing and blocking traffic, in the grand scheme of things, we are this action, which was, it was not quite official and did not represent any carriers of slovakia, we communicate: now through our colleagues from

the embassy of slovakia with possible, how so, i b so said by the protesters, with the organization of transporters of slovakia, which says that it may block the border, but it has confirmed that they have not planned this strike until now, because they are waiting for a response from the european union and from the government of slovakia to their request, which they sent them, it was such a single action , absolutely without any documents, the police drew up a report on the offender, but could not remove him, because they were checking information to see if there were any documents regarding the conduct of some official strike, such is this initiator, mr. sergiu, and who is this initiator, who did it, and look, as our colleagues from slovakia told us, he is one of the actual carriers, but he is not, let's say, a member of any big association there, so now, we

we are finding out on what grounds, he refused to comment on anything, he said that he simply supports polish carriers, and by and large, we have not received any additional information, we have no official requests, no official demands , actually from this person, so no information yet no, we are working now with the local, with the local authorities in slovakia, which is near the border, we are working... with our embassy , ​​so that such cases do not happen, i mean arbitrary such e blocking of borders, ee well, but for today the situation has stabilized, cars are moving in normal traffic, the queue is moving, everything is in principle, well, mr. sergey, if there are arbitrary ones, well, you say you agree, there will be no blockages, but can the blockage be organized according to the documents officially from slovak carriers, are there such threats, anything can happen, we really had information and there is information from one of the associations

of carriers in slovakia, they call for the same return of the permit system with slovakia, but in our opinion, this is some rather unclear story , since slovak carriers, quite a lot of them go to ukraine and the ratio, for example, of slovak ukrainian carriers, it is not very different, let's say, so there are some big problems... our colleagues from slovakia are not should feel, it seems to me that this is a bigger issue, the influence of the protesters from poland, who went to slovakia and led some. unspoken, so perhaps this is just their influence, be it political, be it some kind of finance, be it another, on people who want to block the border, but of course we are doing everything to prevent this from happening, today i have a meeting with the deputy minister of transport , slovakia, in addition to this, we

will have an official call with the euro commission and the polish government this afternoon, in order to resolve the polish situation, and i think that the issue of slovakia will also be raised there, so we are working on it in such a diplomatic field in order to prevent any border blockages. mr. serhiy, that is, if i understand you correctly, the slovak carriers really do not have any economic reasons to block the border, it can be either political or solidarity with their polish colleagues. on thursday , it was announced that polish farmers would also join the polish protest at the border, and that in this way it could be that all checkpoints will be blocked, can it be corrected here, what are the prospects in general, we also know that a tripartite meeting between ukraine, poland and the european union is planned, do you know if there is a date, you may not name it, but is it there, and are there any prospects for that week, somehow this issue can be resolved, or will this rally simply be even bigger? yes

, look, on the issue of farmers, they received permission for literally three days of blocking the border, or rather, not even that, such a strike on foot on the road, but only during the day, that is at night they do not block the traffic, how much they will block the traffic, we will see, because it is simply a matter of the fact that they received permission to conduct a strike during the day on a specific section of the road to the medical checkpoint, this is shigenni on our part, but so far we don't know exactly how it will happen, because there have been such... cases where, under such conditions, the road was blocked, and under other conditions, the road was not blocked, so we will see how this situation will develop, but it is like this very short-term strike, we we hope that he will have absolutely no influence on the situation that has developed, now

with guards at the border to shegen, as for the meeting, then the meeting will take place, it is not a secret, the meeting will take place today, it will be there today closer to the end of work. day, we will talk with our colleagues from the government of poland, as well as with the european commission. the european commission organized this meeting, it is a meeting that usually takes place, only this time it will be devoted to the issue itself, the issue of blocking the border, we really hope that we will get answers to our letters, both from the polish side and from the european and european side, about the numerous violations by the protesters of the conditions they claimed and international standards, and it seems to me that these are already sufficient grounds for ending this strike, in addition to this, maybe there will be some other proposals from the european union , in order to unblock this border as soon as possible, serhiy, but the association of truck carriers of ukraine is preparing a lawsuit to establish whether

the polish protesters are legally blocking the border, or whether they were given permission only to rally at the border, do you know about this lawsuit, about this initiative, and whether such a lawsuit will harm these relations and negotiations with the polish side, but look, i don't know much about the lawsuit, i want to say that we are also working in the legal field and this is not only a question of one of the associations, i think this is a question of all carriers and even businesses, ukrainian, polish and european, in our opinion, and again, to give permission for - a strike that actually blocks the border, and creates a real danger today for the two countries, it is not quite right legally, so of course it is necessary to find out whether such possibilities exist at all, and taking into account the fact that we already have numerous violations, i think that

the main argument should be of all these lawsuits, it is precisely the protestors' violation of the conditions for conducting a strike, as well as international standards, which at the very least should lead to the immediate suspension and cancellation of these permits for conducting strikes, another question is how legitimate or illegitimate such permits are appeared ugh. mr. serhiy, thank you, please inform us about the course of events and the progress of the negotiations. serhii derkach, deputy minister of development of communities, territories and infrastructure of ukraine, and we talked about the pickets, the blocking of the polish-ukrainian border and the situation at the slovak border. thank you. this is svoboda ranok, later on the air we talk about china, but china can do more, so says ukrainian president zelensky, he said this in an interview with the above-mentioned publication the... and zelsky is sure that russia will press as long as the united states and china are together not they will tell her very seriously to leave

the occupied territories of ukraine. the president of ukraine believes that china is not interested in helping russia occupy ukraine, if russia is not stopped now, then in the future the world will deal with a full-fledged alliance of russia, iran, china, and some european countries may join this alliance. such a statement was already made by the secretary of the national security and defense council of ukraine, oleksiy danilo. he says that there is such an increase in the confrontation between beijing and washington. the official believes that western countries do not should be afraid of russia, and take an example from ukraine. danilo is sure that instead of fear , the democratic world should give a tough answer to russia. in a broader sense , it is about the struggle between democracy and tyranny. russia is a threat to ukraine, china is the main threat to the usa, and the union, china , russia-iran are a challenge for the whole world, as if there are no changes in the attitude of the west towards russia, changes in russia itself, then in 15-20 years the world a new axis of evil awaits, which

will include not only the dprk, china, iran and the russian federation, but also some european countries. i note that in in ukraine, the meeting of chinese leader xi jinping with us president biden and xi's first visit to america in six years was evaluated with such cautious optimism. mykhailo podolyak, adviser to the head of the president's office, wrote about it. he says that the meeting between the leaders of the us and china is a positive signal. to the whole world, dialogue instead of confrontation and a demonstration of who is influencing events in the world today, and this is what podolyak wrote despite the fact that china reacted sharply to the statement of biden, who, after meeting with everyone, once again confirmed that considers him a dictator. our next guest, yurii poita, head of the asia-pacific region section of the new geopolitics research network, joins our broadcast. i welcome you to our broadcast, thank you very much, you see, such important questions need to be clarified, but in general , do you agree with this thesis and danilov's vision of how events can develop? good afternoon, i think that

president zelensky's position is, in principle, justified, and it is a diplomatic position, because despite the fact that china is already quite seriously helping at the moment the russian federation and regarding the economy, technologies, regarding the provision of components for weapons, regarding the provision of, for example, semiconductors, chips, and so on. and there is evidence of this, but unfortunately, the ukrainian side does not have, does not have the tools to influence the people's republic of china, in order to force china to adopt a more pro-ukrainian position, therefore, of course, concentration on positive points, this is a diplomatic position of the ukrainian president, but from my point of view, it is unfortunately not realistic, and the position, and and the statement of the secretary of the nsdc secretary, danilov, from my point of view, it is absolutely justified, and we, for example, in our analytical center, we see such and such

trends, but i think that the time frames, they are much faster, not 15- 20 years, and it may be for the next 5-10 years, because for example, i recently personally participated in one of the conferences at the national defense university in taiwan, in which a number of american european representatives from various think tanks and platforms also participated , and one of conclusions, one of the conclusions and trends that we are currently observing was that the so-called autocratic regimes, they are consolidating, they are coalescing, the ukrainian, russian-ukrainian war has become a trigger to strengthen their coalescing, and unfortunately, these processes are taking place very, very quickly, even faster than the west can react. this is no longer a reverse process , mr. yuri, can something happen that such a scenario is somehow, well, i don't know, unnerving, but something

will happen and everything will not go according to the scenario described by danilov. well, if were there any realistic ways to slow down this process, seriously slow down the process, or prevent it, then i think that our european partners, american partners, who are not interested in this in any way, they... could stop it, but unfortunately, there is no tools even of the united states of america, including to prevent the russian-iranian rapprochement, to prevent the rapprochement between moscow and pyongyang, or the transfer, for example, by china of some technologies or semiconductors that are very intensively used in russian missiles, unfortunately, these tools, these tools in the united states of america are limited, and statements or sanctions, they still... have very serious such limitations, and at the moment we are also observing such a trend that china is preparing its economy

in such a way in order to make it the least vulnerable to sanctions, this is done using various approaches and reducing dependence on imports, for example, from the west and dependence on imports from other countries, accordingly, the so-called double strategy is applied cycle, which involves an increase in the share of domestic consumption in the economy and a decrease in dependence on foreign markets, and so on, and china is very intensively studying the experience of the russian-ukrainian war precisely in relation to the application of sanctions on russia and it is making this preparation, so i think that such serious any opportunities for us, for our partners, in order to prevent the strengthening of self-critical regimes, i think that there are practically none, and the mention that some eu countries can join such a coalition of forces, which

countries can these be? well, it's a little bit outside of my expertise, it's hard for me to say, let's say, reasoned and based on serious research, but even, let's say, from a superficial observation point of view, it's also visible, because nobody can predict how, what will be the position of european countries regarding the russian-ukrainian war, regarding aid to ukraine, for example, a year after the us presidential election, for example, after president trump comes to power, or after two years, no one can predict this and we see such a trend that after all the resources of the european union, they, they are being depleted, some countries, in some countries the voices are getting louder that we need to find compromises, we need to find a peaceful way, we need to carry out some negotiations of russia, ukraine and so on, we do not observe this as a dominant trend, so far these voices,

they are still marginal and so cautious, but they are heard and no one can predict how after a series of elections, for example, in europe, how is the balance of those who support ukraine and those who believe that ukraine needs to find compromises with russia, how will this balance be formed, and we see very negative trends in relation to hungary and in relation to slovakia, er, regarding support for ukraine and even openly anti-ukrainian actions , so i think that uh, the secretary of... national security, he is right about the fact that some european countries are also vulnerable to russian influence of hybrid influence, propaganda and so on. if possible very much briefly, but zelsky says that beijing is not interested in the escalation of tensions in various parts of the world and in russia occupying ukraine, in your opinion, is he right or wrong? well, i will repeat once again that the president of ukraine, if he says

that beijing is interested in this, he will certainly worsen the relationship between... statements, they can negatively affect china's position, and we see that china's position is actually already deteriorating, for a long time its called pro-russian neutrality, now we see that there is less neutrality, and more pro-russian actions, about 75-80% of the components and semiconductors used in russian missiles, they came from china, there is evidence about this, there are relevant publications about this, very serious , there are facts and there are statements, yes, that is, here, thank you, mr. yuri , unfortunately, the broadcast is ending, thank you for joining, yuriy poita, the head of the asian section of the research network, joined our broadcast, thank you, that was the broadcast of svoboda ranok, i will remind you that we are with you every weekday

from 9:00 here on youtube on the radio svoboda channel, my name is katya nekrech, our entire team wishes you a peaceful day and see you tomorrow. it's 10 o'clock on the clock, it's time to find out what 's happening in ukraine. and around this time khrystyna porubiy works in the studio. one person died, and seven were injured due to enemy shelling from the kherson region. the russians attacked the region 115 times per day, fired more than half a thousand shells from mortars, artillery, hail, tanks, drones and aircraft,