were you on the kharkiv route, has anything changed since then? uh, no, nothing has changed, this is currently the south of the kharkiv region, the districts, well borivskyi direction, borova district, what is the situation at your front there now? doesn't really change much in terms of continued enemy pressure, constant assaults and currently less enemy use. in terms of equipment, it is more about foot assaults with the use of artillery, but the equipment there, such as bmps, armored personnel carriers , is not particularly used at the moment. you know, this week the head of kharkiv ova fired his own the deputy who was responsible for the construction of defensive fortifications. so i ask, how are you doing with it, do you have enough? structures, because there is a lot of information from

journalists, in particular from the military, that they were often built in a hurry where it was convenient to build, for example, in the middle of a field, and such fortifications do not make much sense, because they are very easy to destroy and in fact it is like an invitation to enter on the target, on the place in the shooting range, well, they mostly build such fortifications. there on some third, fourth, fifth line, what is being built, let's say by some administrations, some private companies, what is on the first line is mostly engineering spords, which are made by the brigade, infantrymen, well, accordingly, they are disguised and made in those places where they are needed, plus they are made. there are special

camouflage measures in order to make it difficult to find out where exactly there is a conditional dugout in which the main squad is located, and where it is some kind of deception and the like, so let's say the fortifications that we have in the area of ​​​​responsibility on the front line, well there and in the artillerymen and in the colek for the village. teachers who are engaged in collective means of destruction, they approach this very scrupulously, because now there are a lot of eagles flying there, they often hit us, well, they try to hit us with artillery, scouting with eagles, so you need to disguise yourself very well and you need to have reliable shelters where you can quickly escape to if... there is shelling, that is

why they take this very seriously, if we compare what was there, let's say, during the defense of bakhmut, and the outskirts of bakhmut, then at the moment, in terms of fortifications , we, as a brigade, went to some - new the level is much higher than it was, what some private companies are doing there, it can already be criticized, but you need to analyze specific cases, i think that... it is not so difficult to do, it is just that some commander who understands this, some conventional politician is taken there and you go under the cameras and look, there would be a desire and will to understand, mr. viktor, i want to say for our viewers what is happening, what is happening is what you see now qr code, as well as there is also a card number, by the way, at the bottom for those who do not know how to use the qr code, or do not know, the phone is not adapted to that, and... and this is a collection for the nabla for the 77th

assault brigade of the dshv, actually viktor petrovych is from this brigade and you see now military serviceman, i ask, mr. viktor, this is what president zelenskyi said about the fact that over a million drones were contracted by ukraine, the state, the government of private manufacturers, a huge number is enough and, that is, well if 800 thousand say that russians are fighting in ukraine now. that's more than one drone for everyone, why anyway you also have to separately select those voronter funds to have your own drones, these are some specific drones, what is the need here? look at what our strength is, for example, in front of the enemy in terms of uavs, precisely in gathering and using small commercial offers, we are also supplied with...

drones by the state, we are also supplied with drones by volunteers, and the point is that volunteers can purchase and try drones of different manufactures, different... their commercial structures, respectively these commercial structures, they compete with each other, and when they begin to compete with each other, then the quality accordingly and the price falls, the quality increases because they choose the one who gives the best offer, and this is precisely our strength, in particular in the fight against the reb, because the reb is tuned to certain frequencies, that is, certain commercial companies, they, in cooperation... with the military, are trying to bypass this rap, that is , to give some kind of solution for the front, which will be optimal, which will be the most effective, and in this, well, our strength is, er, the strength of our, our defense against the enemy, because the enemy

there orders centrally, and accordingly, well what orders, then i ordered, and there is no such competition, yesterday, by the way, we also had anton petrivsky, a former, by the way, well-known ultra football fan from the lviv carpathians, he is a military man, has been fighting for the third year, and is also, in fact, in deals with drones, and he also said about this that this competition now between private and small companies, it allows us to advance technologically very quickly, and we are now even despite the fact that russia is scaling up the production of drones, we maintain... technological primacy , because this system, it is more flexible, the main thing is that it is not stifled, well, yes, you see, these market conditions, they play their role, it’s just that if someone is somewhere in the vicinity of the president’s office, people will decide that now it is also necessary to make money from drones, then it will just be trouble, well

, i hope that this thought will not come to anyone's head, because this way you can definitely bring everything to a terrible situation, competition is the key, it is actually everyone's decision about all issues, all problems. and this is what must be maintained, mr. viktor, we must move further, but i will still ask, after all, well , today we are all talking about the battles in the kursk region, if you are serving in the neighboring region, in the kharkiv region, i will ask this, the ministry of defense of the russian federation is informed that they are being sent there do you already have any reserves or something, has the number of russian occupiers decreased, yes, well, lately, well... to be honest, i will be able to tell you in a week or so, roughly speaking, maybe in two, how much the number of occupiers has changed russians, i will tell you that when there were sorties of the rdk in the belogrodsk people's

republic, then not a single cab fell in borova, now in fact , cabs fall here every day, when they... tried to break through there, they carried out some raids, then not a single cab fell, well, for a month somewhere not a single person on the sidelines, that's why i can comment, but how the situation will develop at the moment, i can't say that, because i don't know, but we understand, of course, we will definitely talk to you again in a week, i believe in it, we wish you a safe services, take care. myself viktor petrovych, a serviceman of the 77th separate airmobile brigade was in touch with us, a short pause and serhiy zgurets will join in, we will analyze the situation at the front more globally, don't switch. only now, buy

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good morning to those who have just joined us, the espresso tv channel continues its informational marathon at 8:42 on the clock, and this means that serhiy zgurets is joining us traditionally at this hour, we will analyze the situation at the front and beyond. mr. serhiy, good morning, good morning, i greet you, i greet our viewers, well, everyone is talking about the battles in the kursk region, the russian ministry of defense has already reported some information, ukrainian intelligence has not they comment, they also do not comment in the general staff, so far it is obvious, but meanwhile the air alert continues in sumy oblast, representatives of sumy oblast were included, they say that they are constantly flying to the border towns of bilopol'. malopllya and other cities in sumy oblast, yunakivka suffer in the same way.

please tell us, in your opinion, whether one is connected with the other, these battles in the kursk region and the escalation in the sumy region, of course, what we know at the moment, not about this operation in the kursk region? well, actually really, we now have a head of information from of the russian side, the general staff, the ministry of defense, there gur this story is not... mentioned, but objective data information, well, allows us to draw certain intermediate conclusions. what is kurshchyna, what is sumyshchyna? we remember that some time ago there was information that the enemy can carry out offensive actions there not only in the kharkiv region, which happened, but also can expand the front line and actually carry out offensive actions there in the sumy region, about this by the way , he says... the presidents of ukraine also spoke, and this direction to suzha from kursk

was considered as one of the probable ones, and actually it is interesting that it is this suzha where hostilities are currently ongoing, it is so uh, it is connected to kursk by only one road, and actually it is quite difficult for the enemy to secure this area there the front, where the hostilities are currently unfolding, why am i talking about the hostilities, because actually somewhere... about such a planned operation that began yesterday morning, where we had confirmation that the operations are taking place, that in particular, the captured russian captured, we saw destroyed russian equipment, there are t-62 tanks, which the enemy tried to pull up on trawls, we saw a video of a destroyed russian k-52 helicopter, that is, we saw there, well, the actions of our... units with new tactical signs, there are strikers, hummers, although these the videos were taken

right on the border of the sumy and mykur regions, and now, what we have this morning, based again on the statements of the russian side, which initially yesterday gave information that there were raids from the ukrainian side, they were the fsb , the border guards repelled them there, there is a meaning there. losses there on the ukrainian side and so on, then all the information on the website of the ministry of defense, it was corrected, there is no mention of significant losses on the ukrainian side, no mention of what was managed to be repelled there. the actions of ukrainian units, and today we know that in general the wedge is within 7 km, if we focus on the location of the destroyed russian equipment, we are talking about the fact that there are military operations in the suzhi area, there are videos that confirm this, also there are at least four

populated areas are controlled by units of the armed forces, and it is interesting: that the conclusions of the russian military commanders there, who claim that the ukrainian troops there are within the limits of the battalion there on russian territory, a certain number of reserves are kept on our ukrainian side, and that it is interesting that here the enemies claim that the ukrainian side uses a significant number of drones and skillfully uses air defense means. means of reb and the like, and here i will mention again the shelling of the enemy in the sumy region, because indeed, in the morning there were reports of significant efforts by the enemy to carry out strikes on our territory in the sumy region, although earlier the enemy actively carried out artillery fire and such other strikes on our peaceful settlements, but

there was information that two drones were destroyed, another russian was destroyed ... the helicopter is precisely in the sumy region, which is a confirmation of active hostilities, if only a ballistic missile was destroyed, this news about a ballistic missile in the sumy region allows us to make such a logistical and logical conclusion that, in fact, linguistically speaking, ballistic missiles can carry out sufficiently powerful air defense complexes, which are in the arsenal of the ukrainian army, and it can then be assumed that this operation is connected with the actions of our units. in the kursk region, it has the appropriate provision of air defense means, not only there with beechs, but also with more powerful systems that can shoot down ballistic missiles, so in any case we understand that the situation there is quite interesting and important, but it arises the question is the meaning of simulating the operation, if there is such a thing or not otherwise, we understand that it has to withdraw

the enemy's reserves and forces, but on the other hand , we understand that our forces too. and funds should be directed to the further implementation of this operation. we hope that the general staff is probably betting on the need to minimize, in particular there, a possible potential offensive of the russian federation, to completely level this threat, to withdraw reserves from other areas, but we understand that this is a delicate balance, given our reserves, we understand that the enemy, are the main ones the enemy's efforts are pokrovsky, there kurakhiv. in the direction of chasivyar and there are the main efforts of the enemy, where we also need reserves in these areas. i understand that i hope, rather, that our military leadership understands this balance of our reserves, how to force the enemy to transfer his forces to another area where they did not expect our active offensive actions and to preserve opportunities in order to

make it impossible for the enemy to advance on those directions where the enemy now has some progress. and it... should have, well, it might not just some kind of raid or maneuver, or could this be a promising line of attack? well, when we talk about a raid, it's a maneuver, it's actually categories that are not exactly military, we remember that in march, the russian volunteer corps, the legion of freedom of russia , carried out raid operations when they entered the territory of kursk, belgorod , bren region, these were indeed raiding actions, that is... efforts that last there for 3-5 days and rely primarily on the forces and means that the raiding group takes with it, well, during raiding actions, that is relies only on itself, here we see actions related to the work of our artillery, which initially destroyed certain strong points there, the enemy's equipment was destroyed, we are talking

about the work of our air defense system, the enemy uses aviation. which has not yet been destroyed, but we know that two helicopters were destroyed there, i think that the same fate will await the ta-25, which the enemy is currently using there in actions under the judge, but will this turn into some offensive actions of a larger scale, it is difficult for me to predict it now, i will say that suja is it the section of the front, which is now on russian territory, it is difficult for the enemy from the point of view of support, i have already said that, that is, there is only one... road from kursk, and if it is mined there or regular fire control is carried out, then the enemy does not have this section what to provide so densely enough, but to carry out... offensive actions, in particular on the same kursk, we must understand that most likely these are directions that require much greater forces,

i think that here precisely the bet of our side is directed at that the enemy will be forced to pull forces from other areas of the front , given that all these areas of the front, where the enemy is trying, trying to advance and advancing, are actually being replenished now... with marching battalions, that is , all the reserves that are there, that are being formed there, are immediately rushed into battle, and then the opening of another section of the front already on our initiative, and not on the initiative of the russian federation, of course, will force the enemy to think now and one way or another reduce the pressure on other sections of the front, but i repeat, the main emphasis of the enemy is that everything still the pokrovsky and turkish direction, all other directions look auxiliary, and we will see how they will react now. the russian side should respond to the hopes precisely on this , on this new section of the front. well, i

just want to say here that some even russian publics already assume that ukraine wants to capture the kurdish nuclear power plant in order to then exchange it for zaporizhzhia. in general, in military logic, does this make sense? well, actually the situation with the kursk nuclear power plant, i think that the russians will now artificially inflate it. and to create such an information fund precisely in order to create this perception that the ukrainians will attack the kursk nuclear power plant there, capture it, then blackmail us, that is, they will actually use this information effect, although we understand that it is more about the russian side and the actions nuclear power plants, which are currently controlled by the russian federation on the territory of... the country now, i think, and by the way, there have already been messages from the russian side that seem to be ukrainian drones there are attacking the kursk nuclear plant, then this is just now made up of

a certain ideological support, which has not yet been formed on the russian side, but i think that by the end of the day we will see exactly what is connected with what russia and ukraine are creating there a threat to the nuclear power plant of the russian federation, but in any case i repeat myself, here... the history of these actions of the ukrainian side is related to actions in these regions, where in this region, where our units are currently operating, although we understand that so far that there were none official messages from the ukrainian side, after all, it is part of a strategy primarily related to balancing russian reserves and creating unexpected challenges for the russian side, which it actually did not count on at the current stage. mr. sergey, you rightly pointed out about... the main directions to which russia is directing its efforts are pokrovsky and turetsky, i am looking now at the map of your fellow analysts

from deep state, and they show that the advance is in new york, it is on turkish direction, and it turns out that the russians somehow went to nonsense from the south from the north, that such a thing happened there, that the front was there. in real estate there since 2014-15. well, yes, it was before the enemy carried out offensive actions towards new york, there the advance in a month in general took place within 6 km there, this is a significant dynamic in view of the previous changes on the front line there, where the enemy there, well, advanced quite slowly. there, rotations of our brigades took place, precisely these rotations caused the enemy to take advantage of the temporary... weakness and carry out these offensive actions, precisely from one side to new york, now we see the lower edge of this map, and a little to the west, where we

see, to the east, where we see the southern, northern iron, this is the second section, where the enemy is also trying to advance, and right here you see, such a pocket is forming with a non-singing area, and it's just... between new york and zalizny, there is now a distance of 4 km, if i'm not mistaken, and our military is really located there, there was information that something like this started yesterday the planned withdrawal of our troops from this pocket so as not to create the threat of a potential encirclement, which, by the way , you and i talked about yesterday, and further the enemy will try to push toretsk itself, first of all, to the border administrators there. within 100-200 m of the line, the group enters turetsk, we understand that now a number of our brigades are operating right there, holding this defense. the enemy

has a certain numerical advantage there , using, as usual, artillery and , above all, aviation, so we understand that this direction of turetsk together with pokrovsk remains the most difficult from the point of view of potential threats and the necessary resources, which we have to direct in these directions, and here again the question arises of skillful balancing between our reserves, which should act in the most acute areas and in those areas that we have now opened kursk. oblast, we still have a little time left, but still returning to this one of ours, i don't know if the word adventure in the kursk oblast is appropriate, what criteria will we have to understand whether it was a successful operation, or it is can it not bring a lot of losses, well, there is a story with the wells, for which well, in fact , general sodel bore some minimal responsibility, but we know

that... many brigade commanders have huge claims against him, and on an unofficial level, no one understands why i am an adventurer, because in any case we do not understand the full plan and the level of threats that exist on the border, if we assume there that russia was building up forces there for offensive actions on sums, and this threat was real after a certain time and pre-emptive actions were supposed to destroy russian plans, such a version. it is also quite probable, and relatively speaking, then the destruction of those plans and the creation of an opportunity for russia to throw reserves there, which we will have the ability to destroy or other systems that can do this, then it appears that this is not an adventure, strictly speaking, but a clearly planned operation, although indeed a low the military there believe that this is a rather difficult balance given the limited forces and means

we have. in view of such difficult areas as pokrovsky, relatively speaking, why throw two brigades there, relatively speaking, who will be fighting in this area, let's throw these brigades in a different direction, but let's rely on the fact that everyone considers himself a strategist, observing the battle from the side, not having the full amount of information and the level of challenges and risks in each area, then conditionally saying, well, we can only partially add certain colors to this or that story, which would not have the expert level of this or that specialist or expert commenting on the situation on the air. obviously. thank you, mr. sergey. serhiy zurets, director the information and employment company express was with us. he spoke in more detail about the battles in the kursk region of russia, what is known as of now, we will wait for the inclusion of mr. serhiy from gurts already in the evening broadcast with a merry winter. i'm sure there will be more details. mr.

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