that we honor the memory of those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression and we honor them with a moment of silence, so let's remember. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

my greetings to everyone who is with us, this is the svoboda ranok project, my name is oleg galiv, and don't miss the broadcast. russian president putin assured his chinese counterpart xi jinping during his visit to moscow in march about the war against russia of ukraine may last 5 years, nikei eizhan writes about this. how do you feel about such statements, will russia have enough resources for you to implement these plans, and will ukraine have enough resources? you will hear answers to these questions from experts below. the prosecutor general's office is investigating the alleged shooting of ukrainian prisoners of war by russian forces. we are talking about the fighting in december of this year near the village of robotyne, zaporizhzhia region. then, they say in the prosecutor general's office.

ukrainian soldiers were captured and allegedly shot an hour later, as is known as of now and at what stage of the investigation. long-range drones have begun to be mass-produced in ukraine and are working on their modernization. oleksandr kamyshyn, minister of strategic industry, told about this during the briefing. so, according to him, kyiv has more than five analogues of shahed-13. in addition, kamyshyn announced a new version of a ukrainian-made drone that flies at a distance of 1,100 km. are there hopes that... ukraine will surpass russia in the production of uavs, we will also ask the experts. each one is important to popularize this video your favorite and also share. also, subscribe to rfe/rl's youtube channel if you haven't already. representatives of the indigenous peoples of russia are brought to the temporarily occupied territories of the luhansk region in whole families. this was announced by the ex-head of the luhansk regional military administration, serhii gaidai. according

to him, people come from distant russian territories, most often they are yakuts and buryats. in this way, the occupation authorities are trying to replenish the number of the working population. gaidai says that the majority men who were mobilized in the temporarily occupied territories of luhansk region, who were sent to the front or died, or returned injured, so they cannot work fully. russians from the hinterlands come to the temporarily occupied luhansk region to carry out repair work. and all recovery by the so-called local authorities is reduced to banal embezzlement of the budget, those people who did not receive a russian passport in the temporarily occupied territory of luhansk region will have their fingerprints taken. zhechinny told about it artem lysuhor, head of the regional military administration. according to him, such a means of control of those who did not receive a russian passport is used by the occupation authorities. those ukrainians who did not receive a passport in the temporarily occupied territories are considered foreigners and are forcibly issued documents of foreign citizens or people.

stateless such a document will be valid only during 2024. the procedure involves taking a photo and taking fingerprints. artem lysohor, the head of the luhansk regional military administration, in these seconds joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. good morning. mr. artem, in fact, the day before, you stated that the russian forces had become more active in the srebyansky forest. please tell us about the situation there as of now and why the russian army is pushing in this direction, what can it give... conditional control in this area, well, the situation has not changed in our country for a month, there are constant attacks, constant air raids, how by settlements and by the civilian population that still remains, as well as by our defenders, but the enemy does not manage to break through our defense line, we thank our defenders for holding forestry, and belogorovka, and all our settlements and the entire strip of luhansk region, for which it is generally understandable, because the enemy was assigned a task by their general headquarters ...

of the troops to cross the borders of luhansk and donetsk regions, and he is trying to do it with all his might, regardless of casualties or the destruction of equipment. but regarding this complete occupation of the luhansk region, for example, is it possible that things have changed deadlines in the russian army, given that the situation on the front line is as it is now? their deadlines are constantly changing, first until the end of summer, then it was supposed to be before the new year, now before the elections, well , the deadline does not change, because the enemy understands that it cannot push through, and will change the deadlines as well, i hope their deadline will be after all, on the border of 1991, on the border of russia, as you can note, at the end of the year or since... the number of shelling increased, actually in populated areas, and in the region as a whole, taking into account the fact that the year is coming to an end, and some victories must be sold to the russian population itself, of course, the number has increased, as i already said, during the last month we have thrown another whole army

, let's say, russian, which has also taken the direction and is attacking, of course it increased, if there was an average bro, even when it was powerful in the summer, there were 450, 470 shellings now. about 600 shells arrive and 150, 160, 170 shellings per day, including aviation, including mortar calculations, including artillery, which is constantly working and in including in populated areas, every day five or 15 shells or mines or aerial bombs are flying over our populated areas, and this greatly destroys the remaining infrastructure, in fact, all the populated areas have already been badly damaged, some populated areas are almost still destroyed, so that the enemy simply strikes without sorting. where, and these additional forces from the russian side that were thrown, about which you speak, they were professional soldiers, specialists, there were those who had already taken part in hostilities, maybe they were thrown from other directions, or they were newly mobilized, i would like to understand what additional forces russia used to meet the deadline that was set? the forces

are completely different, these are both their territorial troops and paratroopers, as well as the formed groups storm b, storm z, which they are the first to ... meat assaults, that's why the units are completely different, with the support of the aviation, the aviation works very powerfully, because it is very difficult for our clubs to experience, let's say, airstrikes, airstrikes are going on constantly, because they take off from dispersal, drop cabs, both on the settlement and on the positions of our guys. another issue that i would like to dwell on is the actual information from the regional military administration that the occupation authorities began to forcibly... issue documents of foreign citizens or stateless people in certain territories, what is the threat of such documents and what is the level of passporting in general as of now in the occupied territories, that is, what is the percentage of those ukrainians who have not yet agreed to take a russian passport? well you understand that this is also one of the methods to

, let's say, push a russian passport into the hands of our citizens, making, in my opinion, a screen for the fact that here we are going to give you passports of foreign citizens, i have... just a question arises, where they will be, let's say, evicted, if even the passport is not a citizen, it is clear that this is another step for the passporting of citizens and another step for control over citizens, because now movement and mobile communication are controlled by roadblocks suppressed, put some eight payphones there to monitor conversations, and again, these are all methods of passporting, what they have prescribed in the law, they will only... select those people who did not receive passports in order to then receive them again passportize and once again mobilize the men who remained, and those, by the way, people who did not receive a russian passport, but have these documents of a foreign conditional citizen, will they be allowed to participate in the so-called elections, for which the russian authorities are preparing? you know me

i wouldn't be at all surprised if they allowed it, as i already said, we wrote on the page that even the dead will probably vote, because this time they even allowed the use of soviet-style passports for the elections. therefore, i think that this is also one of the methods, which i will repeat again and again, that they will simply rewrite people who are not citizens, as they, let's say, discovered, and then forcibly passport them, through children, through husbands, through something else. i thank you very much for turning on to clarify the situation. artem lesogohor, head of luhansk of the regional military administration, a guest of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in the region. more than five analogues of iranian shaheds are mass-produced by ukraine. all these... the long-range and defense industry is constantly working on their improvement, minister of strategic industry oleksandr kamyshchin said at the briefing. according to him , next year the defense forces will also receive more than a thousand long-range drones that can fly over 1,000 km. when we talk about what is called

ukrainian chess, we have more than five mass-produced analogues of shakht-131, and there is one product that... shakht-136 in this regard , you can choose any position there, and all of these are mass-produced products that are both mass-produced and improved. in addition, according to the words. of the minister of ukraine, together with the united states, ukraine has developed hybrid solutions for air defense. five projects united under the common brand franken strengthen ukrainian air defense. kamychyn said that it was possible to integrate parts of the western air defense systems into the old soviet systems. the first such complexes are already working in ukraine and new ones will appear in the coming months. strengthening of the armed forces of ukraine was also promised in the united states, where a new and last package of military aid this year was announced. therefore, $250 million will provide ammunition for nasams and hymers, cartridges for

small arms, artillery shells and anti-aircraft missiles. but putin told cizinpin that he would fight against ukraine for another five years, he said this, apparently, back in march, when the chinese leader visited moscow, the japanese publication nikkei age writes about it. journalists write that such a statement by putin was an attempt to generalize the situation, which at that time was unfavorable for russia. sort of. putin even said that russia will win in the end, this is a direct quote from the material. he said that in this way putin wanted to convince xi not to change his position on russia. in particular , international pressure from western countries may increase on china due to extensive military cooperation with russia. therefore, the publication concludes that putin's statement about readiness for negotiations or a ceasefire should not be taken seriously. journalists of the publication believe that putin wants to create such an illusion before the elections, so that it will play into his hand during the voting for the post of president. of the russian federation in march. ivan stupak, a military analyst, a former employee

of the security service of ukraine, is currently joining our broadcast. good morning. yes, welcome, welcome to the studio, thank you for the invitation. thank you for joining. mr. ivan, here are the statements about analogues of serial production of shaheds in ukraine, and actually similar to shaheds, let’s say, drones, and new drones that can fly at more than 100 km how much will this strengthen the position of the armed forces of ukraine and kyiv in the russian-ukrainian war and is there a chance that ukraine can. conditionally break ahead in this so-called race of drones, so look, let ’s talk about the unpleasant thing about these drones 100 km, we heard at the end of 22nd year, we were also promised, because everything is 100% here, now there will be drones, thousands of kilometers, now the end 23rd year, the same announcement, maybe i’m missing it, if the story doesn’t take off, maybe ukraine doesn’t need thousand-kilometer drones, maybe we need them thousands but let there be a radius of action of 200 km, i.e. conditionally 10 drones for each target,

eight out of 10 are destroyed by air defense, but two arrive and there is no helicopter, no strategic bomber of any kind, that is, maybe a little, well, we have to lower the bar, because there are already almost two the years of the war, and we only have an announcement about a thousand-kilometer drone, by the way, we only saw how our jet drone got stuck in the roof and that's basically all, they... don't carry a big, big load, they take exactly the amount, we thousands and thousands of such thousand-kilometer drones are needed, if we speak for them, then in principle it is possible to do it, we have many enterprises and institutions that are engaged in this, but the great enemy is the bureaucracy, unfortunately , those people who encountered they say it's crazy, it's simple , it's the circles of hell, you go through it every time, if you improve your drone even a little bit, you have to go through all these circles of hell in order to legitimize your improvement, that is, it has to be done here

serious work right here. mr. ivan, that's from regarding the statements of the newspaper eizh, saying that putin wants to fight with ukraine for 5 years, and regarding this material that was published, i do not know if you have read it, but the main theses are actually already circulating on the internet, the main theses are already in the ukrainian media , it is said that putin allegedly told the chinese leader that he was ready to fight in ukraine for 5 years, it turns out, there are still about three or four years left. or when this statement was actually made, whether russia has the resources for such a long-term war conduct and whether there is a resource in ukraine , let's compare, oh, this is a really big question, let's again it's unpleasant, unfortunately, russia is more, there are physically more people, more opportunities to manufacture equipment, tanks, the same shaheds, unfortunately, for a long, long distance from the borders of ukraine, there are such capabilities to bypass sanctions, yes. there are capabilities, so it cost the russians three times more and it takes three times longer, but look at the

nuance, it is a sanction, no matter how much these sanctions criticize them, they do not work, russia does not circumvent, they spend on the purchase of one part, much more, time and money than it was 2.5 years ago, or even 10 years ago, it was generally problem-free, now with great great restrictions, we see how the countries of western europe have already begun... to put even more pressure, especially on the oil industry of the russian federation, approximately five, under six russian tankers with russian oil are stuck near india, they cannot. unload, the banks of the united arab emirates refused to open accounts in dirhams in order to carry out calculations later in these, my lord, in indian rupees, that is , now the russian economy is starting to freeze, we see how it is languishing, not at the pace we would like, but we see that the refrigerator is gradually starting, well if not to beat the tv of the russian

federation, then at least equalize in importance, that is, people pay attention, there are no eggs, there are some problems with supply. goods, here we see that the prerequisites for a five-year war in the russian federation are not so bright. now we return to of ukraine. here, well, well, we have to admit that the situation is a little worse, we are smaller in area, our territory is fired by shaheds, every, every night we see messages: shahed group one, group two, group 3, south, east, north direction, ballistic missiles, we cannot make production safe from russian attacks, unfortunately, we have. limited, wrong to say, human resource, we have limited people, we don't have enough people to send to war, we have a limited economy, we are very dependent on western funding, so we really hope for our western friends, and this help will be able to help us, i apologize for the taftology, to get out of this war and not lose the country, mr. ivan, but the year is 2023

, in fact, the front line remains as it is, now there are literally a few states left days, experts do not predict significant ones. as they say, shifts on the front line. 2024 from your point of view, what will it be like in terms of war, because for example, general tornavskyi says that it will be more difficult, according to his forecasts, and according to your feeling, which this year will be and will it really be harder, or maybe on the contrary easier, because the states have breathed their last, both the ukrainian and the russian side, and in fact in 2023 there were many gains and losses in terms of the military, so look, well, mr. zaluzhin said no about, this is you from proternavsko, and mr. zaluzhyn said that he will be different. well, he didn’t say worse, better , he says, it will be different, he says that we took into account 90% of the mistakes that we made in the previous period, this is one time, secondly, remember the beginning of the fall of this year, when mr. kuleba, and everyone, everything, this winter will be just look, it's just us, we're going to have incredible attacks, we're just going to have

incredible blackouts, wait a second, our air defense has shown its ability, phew, thank god. how many three months of this period have already passed, there were november, december, well, the beginning of october, there were no such blackouts, well, at all, thank god, there were none, we have to hold out until the month of march, that is, another 2.5 months, that is, we don’t have to worsening this situation is not so easy, i think it will be in 2024, but there are great hopes that it will be a completely different situation, how it was in the 23rd, well, remember, we were all overheated, well, we must admit, we were all... full of expectations, the end of the 22nd, the kharkiv region was liberated, kherson was liberated, here we are promised a lot of help, and we are like that, that's all now the 23rd year will begin and the russians , how to cut salami, let's liberate takmak, melitopol, unfortunately, it didn't work out, everyone was overheated, now i see the situation on the contrary , that is, we already have cold, let's say, heads approach the understanding is correct,

absolutely correct, restrained optimism and we really believe that there will be gains in the next year mr. ivan, i thank you for this. thank you for your analysis, ivan stupak, military analyst, former employee of the security service of ukraine, guest of our broadcast. along the entire front line, russian troops are looking for weak points in the ukrainian defense and are trying to storm. intense fighting is taking place , in particular, in the serebryan forest, which we have already mentioned today. it is at the junction of luhansk region and donetsk region. a radio liberty camera crew witnessed one of the russian attacks. how the soldiers of the 67th separate mechanized brigade repelled the assault, see in the material evgenia kita. the direction is very fun, it’s called serebren forestry, here is the defense line of the 67th separate mechanized brigade, and now the guys there are holding back the enemy’s offensive, well , the conditions are quite difficult, the enemy is suffering colossal

losses, well, it doesn’t stop them very well, they began to introduce assault actions, prepare for assault . come on, i'm stuck for a bit, a bit for a day or two. to get to the ukrainian positions in the srebynsk forest, this is a real quest, after several days of rain, the road is completely washed out, the car we are trying to use to get to

the position is stuck, and now we are waiting for evacuation, okay, let's go. 10 shots at a frequency of 15-20 seconds , they adapt very well, they adjust very well, they take into account their mistakes very well, which in principle forces us

to become better and better invent our defense system, the boys hold their positions with all their might, the boys are normally motivated , as our american friends said, many say that this picture resembles... landscapes from the first world war where tree trunks are crushed, the earth is burnt, it's really difficult everywhere, well, the forest is just very specific section, it is there, roughly speaking, there it is not very forgiving of mistakes, but here the logistics, and movement, and the type of work, it is completely different from other sections, we observe the advancement of about four people. as they accepted, the total number, so six, what are you there, war, this, let's go to fight

, guys, what will you work with, minometer, this is a dugout, if anything, then we run here, but there are holes here. what you brought, what you have, are two pluses, guys, you understand what you will shoot at, is it fortifications or manpower, is it a dugout, a dugout, ugh our main task is to cover the infantry on the first line, because it is the most difficult for them, and actually we successfully

use the means we have to achieve this, but sometimes it happens that i think it is no secret for anyone that we lack now both artillery shells and mines, so we try to move very precisely and target the infantry advancing on our assault groups. plus a shot, tarik a shot, carefully , went, went, plus a stem, do you have an arrow, yes, went, went, how much more are we cooking, 10, 9, or 10, does not hear the woman, plus, now constantly. new assault groups are coming, waves are rolling in, we break the first one, the second approaches, break the second, the third approaches, and so on almost continuously, such a very strange tactic, but

they love to fight so much, our task as a mortar group is to break them physically and morally to put pressure on them with their capabilities, in principle for the infantry it is the most terrible enemy, it is artillery in all its manifestations, because without it it is simply powerless, if in shooting... the infantryman still decides something, well, it doesn’t solve anything against artillery, so we try to make sure that they don’t solve anything, and while you were watching, i ’m with you on this material, an air alert has spread across the country, pay attention to this, i remind you, you are watching the freedom of the mornings project and don't miss it further in the broadcast, the polish ulyat is approaching the end of the blockade on the polish-ukrainian border, the newly elected prime minister of poland donald tust made this statement. writes reuter, according to him, there is an option to reach the maximum that the truckers want and at the same time lift the blockade. what can be the way out of the situation and whether ukrainian carriers will lose from this.

possible capture. the russian marines in the donetsk region are cited as a limited tactical gain and do not predict any significant operational progress, that is, they will not become a springboard for the russian army for a further offensive. such conclusions were reached by the american institute for the study of war, so why does the kremlin have a destroyed city. well , before we go further on the broadcast, i suggest you write in the comments, there is such an opportunity, as it is more convenient for you, for for example, if we leave even earlier, not at 9 o'clock, as now, but at 8:00 in the morning. when in general it is convenient for you to watch the morning operational news and morning analytics, it is important for understanding, so that we know whether our views on this matter coincide, so write to us about it in the comments. the general prosecutor's office of ukraine has started an investigation into the probable execution of three military servicemen near the settlement of zaporizhzhya. this was announced in the prosecutor general's office. earlier, a video with footage of the alleged execution appeared on the telegram channel of the deepstate analytical project. according to

the investigation. it happened in december of this year , an hour after being captured. the events were recorded by a drone. the video shows three people in military uniforms, who are kneeling, being shot by other people in military uniforms. the prosecutor general's office is investigating this as a violation of the laws and customs of war. the russian side did not comment on these events. dmytro lubinets, the verkhovna rada commissioner for human rights, reacted to the execution. the ombudsman wrote in his telegram channel that the world community has facilitate the punishment of those who violate international humanitarian law. the enemy is cynical, cruel and merciless. it does not comply with any norms of international humanitarian law. for him, the geneva conventions are pieces of paper that mean nothing. such executions are not an isolated case that shook not only the all-ukrainian society, but also the international community. just being worried in such cases is insufficient and fruitless. this is the second incident that was reported in december, at the beginning of the month two ukrainian soldiers were executed near the village of stepovesch, on daughters a video was also published on the network.

then. russian soldiers entered the positions of the 45th rifle battalion, due to a lack of ammunition, two ukrainian defenders had to surrender. this information was confirmed by the ukrainian military command. yuriy bilousov, the head of the department of combating crimes in conditions of armed conflict of the prosecutor general's office, joins our broadcast. my greetings to you. good day. thank you, mr. yuri, for finding the opportunity to join. the first and most important question is whether the experts actually managed to verify it the video that spread on the network, is it true? at this time, we can confirm the authenticity of the video , we identified our servicemen who were brutally killed, and moreover, we are now identifying the persons involved in this crime, we have an assumption to believe that the 76th airborne division is involved in the commission of this crime of the russian federation, but we are currently checking this data, this division is already known.

war crimes committed in ukraine, in particular in the kyiv region. and what are the circumstances of this event, you also managed to find out, if you already you know, conditional on those who could be involved from the russian side, how did it happen, under what conditions, what does the investigation know about what can be disclosed? well, actually everything is on the video, you know, it's recorded, it's such a cynical, brutal war crime, the killing of prisoners of war, and unfortunately, he's not alone, he just demonstrates, well, the attitude of the russians in general. not only to civilians, to their own, for fulfilling their international obligations, and if i were to repeat it, if it were an isolated case, this is one example, brutal murders, yes, we can talk about a single case, but unfortunately, unfortunately, we have quite a large number of such examples, when the russians kill prisoners of war who are under their complete control, who do not offer any resistance, do not take part in hostilities , that is, this is a cynical violation, in particular of the geneva convention, which concerns... and

regarding the information of the ukrainian military, what the brigades themselves were, was it possible to establish this, because this is also a very important point, well, we have data about a specific brigade, about specific surnames, but we are checking, so that i don't want to leave it out loud now, but such data are available, they are checked in the near future , they will be known in the near future, that is, in fact , no matter what, the ukrainian side, actually the prosecutor's office already has enough reasons for that , to consider that it was really a war crime and to investigate all the details in this direction. 100%, here we have no doubt that this is a war crime, there are already repeated victims who we are checking, the question now is to establish who exactly did it, and about the actual bodies ukrainian soldiers who, according to your information , were shot and this crime was committed , where are these bodies now, is there anything known in this context, well, at this stage i would not comment on it, but you know, you know.