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my greetings, this is the svoboda ranok project, my name is oleg galliv, and further on in our broadcast, don't miss it. the army began an assault on avdiivka from two more directions - reported the head of the city's military administration. british intelligence , meanwhile, is reporting one of the highest casualty rates in the past month and a half among personnel in the army of the russian federation during the entire war in ukraine. are the armed forces strong enough to defend the city and what are the forecasts for the near future? people's deputies will initiate the recall of maryana bezuglai from the national security and defense committee. all because of her position as a head. of the armed

forces of ukraine, zaluzhnyi should resign. how real it is, all the details of this story, see. the armed forces of ukraine need younger soldiers, because the current average age of the military is too high. this is stated by western experts on the pages financial times newspaper. whether the authorities in kyiv understand this and what steps they are ready to take in this direction, as well as what will happen if the military at the front do not get younger, we will talk about this in our broadcast, below. if you still haven't subscribed to radio liberty's youtube channel, now is a good opportunity to do so, in addition, write your impressions of what you saw in the comments, and also share this video with your friends. russian troops began to advance on avdiivka from two more directions. this is what the head of the avdiiv city military says administration, vitaly barabash. we are talking about the direction from donetsk through the village of spartak, as well as from the side of the so-called promka. according to barabash, intense fighting near avdiivka confirms that the third wave.

the storming of the city did begin. despite the deteriorating weather, the russian forces use a lot of aviation and artillery to capture the city. oleksandr shtupun, spokesman for the united press center of the defense forces of tavria, says that due to the weather conditions near avdiyivka , a decrease in the number of drones is recorded, but airstrikes are still very many. russian soldiers are attacking ukrainian positions in groups of 1,020 people - says shtupun. and in general, they are coming from six directions. i will remind you that a new large-scale offensive. on avdiivka, the russian army began on october 10 this year, later on october 20 , the ukrainian army announced the second wave of the offensive, and last week, the commander of the tavria direction oleksandr tarnavskyi said that the beginning of the new third wave of the assault on avdiivka has already begun. the armed forces are holding the defense of the city - the general staff says. meanwhile, over the past six weeks, the russian army will suffer the largest losses since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of ukraine, and to a large extent they are caused precisely by the performance on avdiyivka. this is what

british intelligence says, citing data from the ukrainian general staff. in particular, during november, the russian army lost an average of 931 soldiers per day, which is more than the losses of the russian army at the height of the fighting for bahmud in march of this year, when approximately 776 russian soldiers died every day. the british ministry of defense explains that they cannot verify the methodology of this calculation, however, they say the numbers are quite plausible. the russian ministry of defense has lost its soldiers. they don't mention it, and they don't officially talk about the losses of ukrainian forces in ukraine either. serhii tsyhotskyi of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handyuk of the armed forces of ukraine joins our broadcast, i congratulate you. good morning, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, there is an attack on adiivka from six sides, this is the last data we have from the head of the local military administration, how far these assaults are now strong and threatening, tell me, please.

when an enemy with weapons in his hands comes to our land, to ours, let's say, destroys our cities and towns and everything else, it is always a threat, no matter how strong or weak he is, but weapons shoot, and therefore it carries danger , but with regard to their offensive, that means, yes, the third wave went more intensively, this is evident from all the signs of their actions, that is, it never ended, in general, there was not a day when certain actions were not carried out by them hand, but now the intensity increased, it means that they have something on fire, something is there, deadlines are visible, they are waiting, squeezed and so on, and you can tell us from which direction from your point of view, you already said that it is always threatening , but still there is the greatest danger and from which direction the situation is the most difficult, namely, if we are talking about attempts to storm avdiivka

, establish a connection with mr. serhii, there is, there is , so you understand what the issue is, so we, we have a threat, there are threats everywhere, they are now adopting such tactics, that means actions on they hit one point, and here literally there, without weakening the blow here, they hit another , that is, such attempts, you know, precise blows, that's what they are practicing now, they have such a new thing, where exactly and what exactly, well, for now, it is better not to talk about it on the air, but the command of the armed forces controls this situation, sees what the enemy is doing and his intentions and does everything to make their actions and intentions impossible. the head of the city's military administration, mr. barabash, stated in an interview with the media that it is currently impossible to say that the russian

the army controls the industrial zone in avdiivka, what is known about the situation there, how intense the fighting is in that part of the industrial zone, and maybe we can talk about some kind of control there, which it already has... the russian army may or may not be leaked, what are you ready to tell us, what kind of information to share, here i am ready to tell you that practically all intentions, we first see theirs, we see their intentions, their actions and so on, and also, even if they have some certain advances there, it does not mean that they have success , success will be, is also on our side, the situation is fully controlled by the command of the armed forces of ukraine, that's all, we need to put an end to this, because i have already said on the air more than once, the enemy closely monitors our mass media, they know that there is either the truth here, or we are not telling anything, that is, there are no lies, then and the enemy uses this a lot, so i really ask you and all journalists

, including all experts who talk about certain actions on the air, not to say that the more contagion, the better for us. mr. serhiu, that's the job of journalists, to ask questions. with respect to you, i say, you are doing a very good job, this is a very important job, it is really a weapon, if for them it is propaganda and constant deception of their listeners or viewers, then we have it , mass media, and it responds, well, in most reality, and this is our advantage over them , we will keep our order, we will...' the norms and rules that are established today are like this, you know, well, not that it is a ban, but recommendations, we say, we keep quiet, that's all, we won't tell you the details, mr. serhiy, you can't tell the details to the end, but what you can to say, let's stop at this, because actually

ukrainians also have a lot of questions about the coke and chemical plant , what is the situation there now, how frequent and intense shelling is taking place on the territory of the plant, and here's what you can say in this context. , airstrikes are constantly going on this place, that is, they are destroying everything possible, this is their tactic, but the situation is absolutely under our control, and everything will be fine, in any case, the tasks that the command sets before us, will be fulfilled, but the task that the kremlin sets as an example for the russian army, as military experts and the ukrainian command have repeatedly said, that the russian forces will try to occupy avdiivka before the end of the year. how do you feel about these statements and is it really the case that the russian army is doing everything possible to conditionally fulfill this task? well, according to their intentions, according to their actions, or rather, it can be seen that this is so, yes, but they, we

all know, the whole world knows that they repeatedly set certain goals, deadlines and so on, and never once, it has not been carried out and will not be carried out, that is why we are here , in order to prevent... from fulfilling the tasks set before them by their political command. mr. serhiy, and in conclusion, one more question, the bad weather has come to ukraine, we see what is happening in odesa, on the front , the weather is also worsening, it is clear that, for example, it has become more difficult for drones to fly, and this is what experts say, which made actions even more difficult in fact , the armed forces of ukraine and the russian army, in particular on that the direction you are in, which has become more difficult to do given the weather conditions? i will say that the weather conditions do not really hinder us, on the contrary, they help us, because i will repeat it, maybe it is our weather conditions, it is our ukrainian weather and our nature, oh, well, today, for example, the sun has already come out, that is, yesterday it was, the wind was strong, the sun is still there today and there is a slight frost,

that is, there is minus three, and there are no swamps anymore, it is already easier, but with heavy equipment, armored vehicles, it is necessary to leave early, so if they are not going in our direction, there with heavy weapons, there using heavy weapons, it turned out, it became warmer, the number of drones in the sky increased from what is possible, yes, more drones, they drop constantly, and they even began to use it at night, in the dark , we are also observing this, so we must all be obere, it applies to all of ukraine in general , you see what our cities are doing, they are buzzing , that is why here too, but i am saying, comprehensively, absolutely all units, brigades and our comrades, neighbors on the left, on the right are ready to fulfillment of their tasks, mr. serhiy, i thank you for enabling, take care, serhiy tsyhotskyi, officer of the 59th separate motorized

infantry brigade named after yakov handyuk, armed forces of ukraine, a guest of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in the avdiyiv direction, it remains difficult there, for according to local authorities, the russian army is storming the city and is trying to storm it from six sides. the use of khpiv drones in the avdiyiv direction by the ukrainian military became one of the main types of weapons that stopped the russian columns during the offensive. currently, the russian military does not use equipment during its attacks in this direction, only a live resource, but the russian infantry storms daily. how the operators of strike drones work near avdiyivka, see in yevgenia kitaeva's material, the full version of this material will soon be available on radio liberty's youtube channel. thank you, thank you, thank you very much, and you have a lot of work, stay alert

, look, you already have identified targets, do you have to find them, there are so many that you just fly in with a mavik, i saw kanekal rising behind and go ahead, you have to warm up. that means the infantry will still be approaching today, we find targets, it could be the enemy’s manpower , it could be equipment, there could be some kind of fortification, artillery, ages, a machine gun, everything that could interfere with our infantry, we find it and after that we send drones to destroy it, so yesterday there were six here, he is bald, i see a red one, yes, yes, in that area it was sitting, a red armband, yes

, a red armband, a red armband, there are helmets with red armbands, everything is a plus , the cartoon is ready, everything is as it should be, yes, there is a place need. the head disappeared.

here they crawl and crawl, crawl and crawl, they have new fresh strength every day, every day, despite the weather conditions, despite nothing at all, the losses, their losses here are simply very huge, but still they crawl and crawl, literally go by their corpses, simply by the wounded by corpses, they don't pay attention to it, they grinded one brigade, they grinded the second brigade, they launched the third one, they have... a lot of reserves, they have a very large resource. people in the army, a challenge for ukraine in the war with russia, the american publication financial times writes about it. at the same time, the issue is not only the number of people. in the army, but also as their training. analysts referred to by journalists claim that the average age in the process of mobilization in ukraine has increased and is 30-40 years old on average. instead , the armed forces of ukraine need rejuvenation, they say, they need hardy fighters aged 18-24. by the way, the british ex-minister of defense, ben wallace, also spoke about this earlier.

financial times analysts indicate that the ukrainian army needs infantry in the best physical form. because the war is now concentrated in the trenches and trenches. in addition, due to the fact that ukraine has less manpower than russia , well-trained and durable troops will help fight against russian aggression for longer, but even so, analysts believe that ukraine will not be able to accept the russian option of waging a war of attrition. the russian federation, as indicated in the article, will be able to surpass both in military production and in the specified losses at the expense of a larger number of people. mobilization in ukraine in 2023 started to fail, according to roman kostenko, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security. according to him, this happened after the military was changed in ukraine, and to change the situation, a decision of the country's political leadership is needed. the problems with mobilization are bigger than the problems with shells - said kostenko in an interview with nv. i will add that the topic of mobilization was raised publicly by president zelensky a few days ago. he

said that the government is preparing a comprehensive mobilization plan. according to him, future fighters. should know what awaits them in the army, i will also note that the law on lowering the age for mobilization remains unsigned, it was sent to the president's office in june, this law provides for mobilization from the age of 25, we have a guest, this is pavlo lekiychuk , head of security programs at the strategy 21 global studies center, i greet you, good morning, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, thank you for joining, but the armed forces of ukraine need... younger soldiers, because the current average age of the military is too high, writes american edition, this is not the first statement of this kind, how kyiv can and should start working in this direction, what do you think, mobilizing the younger people, of course, and there are all prerequisites for this, just mentioned that in june the verkhovna rada

the council adopted the law, which is, is still under signature, not signed... what is its essence, that men as potential military men are divided into two categories, these are conscripts and conscripts, military obligations are all , citizens who served in the armed forces country or in other power structures, or, if they have not served, then from 27 years of age. that is, when the age, the conscription age, from 20 to 27 years, ends, people are conscripts, and must be called up for conscription, conscription with the beginning of large-scale aggression and martial law in ukraine,

conscription is stopped, conscripts for conscription are stopped, i.e. people from 20 to 27 years old can simply, well, they are not potential military, that is, changes in this direction will be accepted by kyiv from your point of view, and yes, the transition proposed by the verkhovna rada reduction of the conscription age to 25 years, that is, from 25 to 27 years, a potential increase... of the conscription contingent of young people. mr. pavle, there are still points in another material already related to the woll street journal, there are several points that i would like to dwell on with you in more detail. in particular, the publication writes that zelskyi's military goal of full restoration of ukraine's international borders is considered unrealistic by the west. so how can you comment on such a statement by an influential media? well, if

you go back some two years ago, then a lot influential media said that the survival of ukraine in general is an unrealistic question, and actually speaking, they already buried ukraine in advance, three days, seven days, and eh, the defense of ukraine is an unrealistic question, we have been defending ourselves for two years, in fact we have been leading for 10 years ... a two-year defensive war is a large-scale, full-scale, by world standards. well, even one of the most terrible wars of the last 50 years, and we are holding on, so to talk about the plans of

the armed forces of ukraine, the defense forces of ukraine to liberate our territories, is something unrealistic, well, actually speaking, for this you need much more arguments than those offered by well-known analysts, in principle. authoritative western publications. if you read this article, in particular its translation into ukrainian, then in essence the authors of the material advise the official kyiv, the authorities of the ukrainian capital to abandon the offensive and strengthen their own lines of defense. do you agree with this statement? i do not agree with this statement, because the first thing we are talking about is what we are warned against and what we are being led to, to positional war, to positional defense. in fact, the most effective, the military, american, british, chinese, russian

, and ukrainian know this too, is maneuverable defense, active defense, it is a guarantee of the most effective use of force, we do not have so many, here are those american analysts , who write, write that we do not have so much... the power of means for positional defense and at the same time recommend that we really switch to positional defense, this is a wrong decision, in the conditions of a shortage of means of means act as much as possible due to maneuver, defensive maneuver, and active defense - this is just defense, which includes elements of the offensive, it is necessary to hit the enemy in all possible directions. wherever there is his weakness, there he must lose, lose people, lose territory, lose combat potential, but from

your point of view, for the entire time, since the counteroffensive has been officially underway, since kyiv announced it, the armed forces of ukraine already have a complete understanding , in particular the general staff, regarding where the weakest points in the defense of the russian army are, in particular in the occupied areas territories, and that the russian army is currently weak in order to strike at this, of course, strictly speaking, here... you don’t need to be such a brilliant strategist, according to the configuration of the front that we see, and the russians can literally see, they they see where they have strong points, and where they have weak points, and they try to concentrate the center of gravity of hostilities there, the enemy is more powerful in the east, why, because there is a short logistical shoulder, a wide rear from the russian federation, and an extensive network of roads, it allows them to concentrate in the east, and if they

there are active hostilities there, it is precisely to intercept the initiative, the initiative, to focus on this direction, the south is a difficult direction for the russians, why, there is a huge , long-winded logistics loop. it is through the crimea, through tamen, kuban, tamen, crimea, the south of ukraine, only logistics come out, narrow corridors, their transport capacity is limited, accordingly, weak, the enemy’s lines of communication, weak rear, and this is his weak point, and the russians know this and our command, that is why, for the 23rd year, and partly for the 22nd year, it was planned to hold

offensive actions in the southern direction, where the enemy is more uncomfortable, most uncomfortable. mr. pavle, i thank you for this inclusion, for your analysis, pavlo lekiychuk, head of security programs of the center for global studies strategy 21. people's deputy maryana beza. may be expelled from the servant of the people faction , the babel publication reports with reference to sources in the party, some of the deputies, journalists write, are outraged by the absurd statements and the fact that the commander-in-chief of the zsu, valery zaluzhnyi, should resign. deputies, as it were appealed to the head of the party, to the head of the faction davyd arahami, with the initiative of exclusion in early december. the council also registered a resolution on the exclusion of nardepka from the committee on national security, defense and intelligence. maryana bezugla, in the past... wrote several publications on facebook concerning general zaluzhnyi. lieut motive call for the commander-in-chief to resign. bezugla writes that the general has to do this because he could not provide a plan for

2024, this is a direct quote, she also seems to published the mobilization plan for the next year. this discussion was not public, but tensions were building, and now the situation is such that if the military leadership cannot provide any plan for 2024, all their proposals for mobilization are reduced to the fact that more people are needed without any proposal for changes to the system of the armed forces, then such leadership must go. bezugla also published critical posts concerning the head of state, and this happened against the background of materials from foreign media about an alleged conflict between the president's office and the military command of ukraine. these same public reproaches of the people's deputy caused a sharp reaction. military serviceman and leader of the democratic ax movement, yury gudymenko, in a statement to the sbu, asks to check the actions of bezugula for the disclosure of state secrets. fyodor venislavskyi, a colleague of nardepka in the party and committee, said on the air of нв that her stay in the faction could pose a threat

to national security. at least. such a statement was spread by the ukrainian media with reference to hb. a member of the national security committee, a deputy from european solidarity, iryna friz, wrote by the decision of the faction, an appeal to the head of the committee regarding the dismissal of bezuglya. oleksiy kucherenko, a deputy from the batkivshchyna faction , also writes that he has already appealed to the speaker of the parliament, ruslan stefanchuk, regarding the dismissal of bezuglla from the committee. the servant of the people party did not comment on this officially and in detail, the press service advised to contact the most direct. my colleague, leader of the svobodalai project. with marina bezugla and believes that the armed forces of ukraine need changes and reforms, which includes the call for the release of general zaluzhno, let's listen to a fragment of this conversations, and i did not write anything so special, the military knows this, well , directly in the system, i apologize, we do not have any ideal and imperfect generals, this is one single system, i call for changes in the armed forces, that is, we now have a moment, or we change, or we remain

a post-soviet small army. the parliamentary committee was not supposed to receive any plan from general zaluzhnyi, about which nardepka wrote and did not ask the head of the plan, roman said in a public comment kostenko, who works in the same committee as maryana bezugla. we have a guest on our broadcast, this is igor kryvosheev, people's deputy of ukraine, servant of the people faction. i congratulate you, mr. igor. good morning. actually, you are the author of the resolution which registered in the parliament the recall of marina bezuglai from the parliamentary committee on national defense and security, in fact she is your colleague from the faction, why and what prompted you to register such a resolution? well, look, there's a simple axiom, in times of war, politicians have to do their jobs, this ensuring the functions of the state, this is the search for international support, from ensuring this international support, the military must do its job, and it is absolutely

unacceptable. delaying military political processes and, conversely, the participation of politicians in military decision-making. so, for me, ms. maryana's behavior came as a surprise, and as we can see, this is not the first such attack on the military leadership, if you remember, there was criticism first from mr. ihor zhovkva, the deputy head of the president's office. .. yes, as far as i'm concerned, that's it there is an attempt to involve the military leadership in politics, which, well, will directly harm the defense capability. if some individual independent people's deputy does it, well, it might be his right, but if, if he does it, the deputy chairman of the national security committee, then... this is already something that

does not fit in my head, therefore, changes as part of our committees , resolutions are passed, that is why i registered such a resolution, well, i must say, i want to emphasize right away that you are the only one of the few from your servant of the people faction who comment on this topic at all, we also appealed to the leadership of the faction, in particular to the deputies, they are currently taking a break, they do not comment on this topic, what is the position of the faction on this matter in general, was there a discussion in internal chats, we know whether the deputies have such, whether there were backroom conversations about whether there is support from the faction to exclude maryana bezuglu from the committee and recall her from the committee on national security, defense and intelligence, or is this still also the position of you and individual colleagues, but the leadership of the faction does not support such a position? look, as for the faction leadership's position, that's a question to ask them, the discussion hasn't been clear in the chats so far, to say the least…