let's continue, next will be our colleagues from radio svoboda svoboda ranok, and traditionally, every day at 9 a.m. throughout the country, we honor the memory of those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression. we will observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war. that it was unleashed by russia.

the third day of fighting in the kurdish region, the kremlin promises to defeat the enemy and leave its own state border, and the media count the settlements over which russia has probably lost control. capture is reported gas distribution station and about strengthening air defense near the kursk nuclear power plant. ukraine continues to be silent, will the authors of this breakthrough succeed in creating a bridgehead in the kurdish region and holding the territories? can the plan reach the kurdistan autonomous region? we will understand and watch a video from the kursk region. join us, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and we 're starting. but in sumy oblast, because of the fighting in the border zone, they announced the obligation.

evacuation from 23 settlements, these are five communities bordering russia in the sumy district, the head of the sumy district told about it volodymyr artyukh of the regional military administration said on the air of the telethon that about 600 people need to be evacuated, including 425 children, he says. sumshchyna is now under daily attack with winged aerial bombs, fpv drones, mortars and artillery. the day before, the air alert there lasted a whole day. people will be evacuated from the krasnopil, mykolaiv, pil, yunakiiv and khotyn communities of the sumy district, these are communities bordering russia near the area where the border breach occurred. the youth community is one of those where they must evacuate the population, just like in other border villages where shelling continues, there is no electricity, the day before the bus service there was completely suspended, but now there are approximately 200 residents in this area, there are those who refuse to leave their homes, but there are also those who leave on their own.

by transport our colleague iryna ostrovska spoke the day before with the head of the youth community, olena sima. let's listen to what is happening in sumy region now? now, over the last two days, the situation is very bad worsened yesterday, 20 cabs flew to our community. we were beaten by a lot of the private sector, we were beaten by the kindergarten, we were beaten by the social protection of the premises. our police officer. our communities were harmed very well by our neighbors, our enemies, every day they began to slowly evacuate a ten-kilometer zone, it is not forced in our country, but people are slowly evacuating, those who leave on their own in their own transport were brought to our point where refugees are accepted, we registered them as evacuated people , they received all due, due the help that the government recommends to us

today, who went to live with their relatives, whom we will tomorrow morning, they will stay here for the night, tomorrow morning they will be resettled, our community was already ready for evacuation, we had an evacuation plan written communities, we have agreements with neighboring communities, how much should be evacuated or how many people remain there now, i want to tell you that i think there are probably 200 people left in a ten-kilometer zone or something? yes, yes, yes, in a ten-kilometer zone, for example, for how many left today, at least roughly, right? well, for example, today we evacuated, we started evacuation at three o'clock, we evacuated 20 people, but people also evacuated 20 or 30 themselves, we arrive in the city of sumy, and then we resettle them where they want, or stay in the place of sumy , whether they travel a little further in the region, people are provided. with this, people

are provided in the center where we bring them help, there they are, they can eat there, they can rest there, who have nowhere to go, or will not pass yet. were living, that's when people they are already starting to arrive, they are given material aid, money, they also give food kits, hygiene kits are given, and they give bedding, and they give sheets, and they give blankets, and they give everything, they give everything, tomorrow the evacuation will be continued, it will definitely be continued until then, even if there is only one person for one day, we will also evacuate him, but what is going on? in kursk region, what are the consequences of this operation? only a day after the breakthrough of the russian border in the kursk region, a state of emergency was declared there. battles in the border area zones continue. there is no official confirmation that the breakthrough was made by the armed forces. the ukrainian authorities and the ukrainian general staff

maintain a regime of silence. the russian ministry of defense writes modestly about the breakthrough in the kursk region only about the territories where, according to them, they inflicted fire damage on the enemy. the head of the russian general staff, valery gerasimov, generally says that the advance of troops in the kursk region has been stopped. the main source of information now is the russian pro-war telegram channels, the so-called war veterans and local publics who publish videos eyewitnesses with the consequences of battles in settlements near the russian-ukrainian border, as, for example, here. machine guns, soldiers lying around. radio liberty's russian service was able to geolocate this video, it is a roadblock near

the village of zeleny shlyach in the suzhan district, 9 km from the border with ukraine. the russian publication vjorstka, which calls itself independent, collected data for the previous day from pro-war telegram channels and calculated that the battles took place in at least 19 settlements of the kursk region. telegram channel rybar wrote, that the armed forces of ukraine said that they established control over the villages of darine, mykolayevo, darine, sverdlikove, obukhivka, pokrovske, tovstilukh, lyubimivka, horna, lguyevo, and kurylivka. russian channel two majors writes that they say the presence of the armed forces was noticed in the villages of zeleny shlyah, nizhny klin, lebedivka and. the channels also wrote about the battles in korynovo, honcharivka, oleshna and leonidivka. and about the military channel , colonel cassad writes that the ukrainian military allegedly captured the suja gas distribution station, through which gas is transited to europe via

territory of ukraine, although the reuters agency, with reference to the ukrainian transit operator, reports that despite the circumstances, gas is being pumped as usual. and the russian opposition edition, which is important to history in general, writes that the russian forces have transferred additional c1 anti-aircraft systems to the kurdish military base near the russian city of kurchatov, and the station itself is guarded by women, because the men were allegedly taken to the place where the fighting is going on, from the approximate location of the fighting in near the kursk as, more than 70 km. in the very city of suja, kursk region, there is no electricity, water, etc communication, the publication writes about it. vorstka, who spoke with local residents, besides, people there complain that the authorities do not evacuate them, although there was a public promise to evacuate the population from dangerous areas, and those who managed to leave cannot contact their relatives. at the same time , the acting governor of the kurt region

oleksiy smirnov calls the situation under control, says that the people were taken out and provided with everything necessary. oleksandr kovalenko joins our broadcast. military observer of the information resistance group, mr oleksandr, congratulations, thank you for joining, good morning, i want to start our conversation with the possible probable purpose of this operation, and there is information about suja, can suja be chosen as a target precisely because of the gas pipeline? well, it is quite possible that it is located there, it is really true, but if we consider it not exclusively from this position, because we ... see that now , according to the latest reports , the connection with such settlements as green shlyach, lyubimovka, tolstelukh, pokrovsky, and very interesting news comes from the vicinity of koreniv, and all this

a little, to put it mildly, to the northwest of suzha, almost 30-35 km, but what is this about? says, this suggests that the court could be considered as the first point of support for maintaining this, relatively speaking, sanitary zone, because really the court... it is quite a good, not bad location, because the r-200 highway goes to it and not only p-200, and suja itself, it is divided into two parts, precisely by the suja river, which can be considered as a natural barrier, that is, there is no need to build any fortifications there to keep the defenses in this locality from several weeks to several months, because it is a thing in itself. it is a temporary fortification structure that does not allow a frontal assault,

and therefore we consider it exclusively as a kind of small fortified area, a fortified location, and on the other hand, if the information is indeed confirmed during today , that there will be confirmation of information about the roots, well, that radically changes the situation, i... what can i say, because earlier there was information about, even such conspiratorial, it is fantastic that it is about the kurdish au, but if there really will be such a precedent from the root, then the realization of this scenario becomes more realistic than fantastic. let's judge further, i will clarify whether this location can still be chosen because, in fact, because of the importance of this gas pipeline there, russian forces will not be able to attack

ukrainian forces there or other forces that are there, for example, aviation, they can't use artillery there, well, there are other heavy weapons, well, what is a state pipeline, it's actually 2 meters to the left, to the right, 2 meters to the left and that's it, all the rest of the territory, hit as much as you like. leagues, so no, not because of this, you have to look at the landscape, at the topography, what can be protected more effectively, in general, what can we say, first of all, logistics, logistics there are not bad, first of all, it is a direct route without populated areas p-200, that is, which allows you to reach suzha very quickly, well, for example, from the territory of ukraine, as an option. and the second option, the second point, is the rynsk suja highway,

which for some reason no one pays attention to, but this there is a main route of support for groups of troops such as kursk, bryansk, and bielgorod, that is, if we are talking about highways, the majority of support takes place through this particular route, which goes through suja a. if we talk about landscape, relief and landscape features, we have already mentioned the river suja, which is convincing, but not only it. a little south of p-200 are the settlements of oleshnya, gogolivka, and tarubanshchyna. and it is to the south of these settlements that the river flows oleshnya and it is a natural persuasion for the forces advancing along the p-200. which are stationed in oleshna, gogol in kytarubaenshchyna, they did not receive a flank attack from the south, i.e. from the left flank. on

the other hand, if we are talking about such settlements as nikolaevana, darya and nizhnii klin, which lead to this ryvsk, koriniva sudja highway, then to the north of these settlements there is a completely different river, this is the river. and it already covers these settlements with such a natural barrier from the north, that is, it does not give the possibility of striking from the right flank, that is, in my opinion, this direction was chosen precisely because of this, it is quite so good that you can form an offensive front without worrying about the flanks, since the flanks are covered by natural obstacles, and it is not only here, further, if we look ... further west, i.e. we are talking about the same korenivo, yesterday there was information that

communication with the settlements of zeleny shlyah, lyubimovka, tolstiy luk, pokrovsky and obukhivka was lost, and these are precisely the settlements that are from the north also covered by one of also by the snagast river. that is, and here we are talking about the fact that the control of these points is also ensured by the fact that the russian troops will not be able to somehow storm and retake them from the front, so here... two points, the movement of these forces, which are now in the kursk region, in in the suzhan district, partly already in the koreniv district, it is due to the relief and landscape, which allows you to use it for your safe further advancement, as well as logistics. mr. oleksandr, that is, this is not such a one-time action, it may be that it is a long-term plan, and

could it be that the kurt region, and the region and those borders... that you outlined, it could actually be a bridgehead for ukrainian forces or for those forces that entered this region, well, the thing is that these are not ukrainian forces, we no confirmation has yet been heard from the official representatives of ukraine, who are authorized to make such statements. the only thing i heard was that on august 6, the ministry of defense of the russian federation announced that 300 personnel of some units entered the territory of the kursk region, tried to enter... so i conditionally, on the third day i already call them 300 spartans, otgu, we will call them 300 spartans, it doesn’t matter how many there are now, because now their number has increased in the ministry of defense of the russian federation in their call, so to a thousand or more, but 300 athletes, so if you look in general

, how the control of the territories in the suzhan district is expanding, already partially... in the koreniv district, this is the expansion of control over the conditions of keeping these territories, if not in the short term, then in the medium term perspective, at least. oleksandr, what? may be the goal, taking into account the geography and still the distance from there, the kursk nuclear power plant, that the employees of this power plant will fear that the leadership of the as was not prepared in case of a possible attack by the armed forces, wrote the russian publication of an important... history, or could this place be a target? everything depends on how it will be, what will be the development of events in the future. and if we are talking about the root, then it can be an exit to rylsk in general, in principle, it is very ambitious, but if it will be an exit to rylsk, then this is a direct e-38 route to the kurdistan

nuclear power plant itself. if we are talking about suja and... there will be an advance beyond the borders of suja, then this is the p-200 route and it is also an exit, a direct exit , in fact, to the area where the kurdish nuclear power plant is located, that is, there are two ways here, which will be, how will this particular route move a group of 300 spartans, let's see in the near future, if this is a purely sanitary zone, then this group will not go beyond the depth of 15-20. a maximum of 30 km, that is, if we are again talking about roots, it is very interesting here, and what there will be further actions, koreniva is located, well , imagine that it is 20-25 km from the border with ukraine, depending on the location from which to measure, and so on, if these 300 spartans

start moving north beyond korinivo, or northeast of suzha , then it is possible... to talk about the kurdish nuclear power plant as one of these goals, although , again, i do not believe that this is the main goal of this operation, not the main one, but what the main goal is and what is needed for to implement such global plans in order to hold this bridgehead? well, relatively whole, at least this is the creation of a sanitary zone, as we can see from this... the spartans succeed much better than the russian occupation troops in kharkiv region, because in kharkiv region they have been fighting loba for the third month, for vavchanchansk and the small village of hlyboke, they have not even reached livtsiv, which is approximately 6-8 km from the border with ukraine. now we are already talking about the depth of immersion, almost 20-25 km

of the territory of the russian federation, and this has only begun the third day. and this operation, so it can be the creation of a sanitary zone, and the second the moment is also a diversion of the attention of the forces and means of units, reserves of the russian occupation forces, one way or another the russians will try to stop all this and first of all they will do it using the reserves and resources that are nearby, that is, a group in... the bryansk troops and the belgorod troop group, which is directly focused on combat operations in the north of kharkiv region, livka and vovchansk, i don't think they will withdraw all of them. contingent, they will partially bring some units to reinforce, but that's it will weaken their pressure on vovchansk and in the direction of lipka, and in this way we will be able

to systematize counterattacks, and even i do not rule out that we will launch a counteroffensive to push them to the border of ukraine and russia, but it is unlikely that this resource will be enough for the russians to completely against... to act on the expansion of this sanitary zone in the kurt region, therefore , resources from other groups of troops can be used, of which this is the most interesting question, since all the others, they are almost at most one-to-one tied in hostilities, more likely than all it will be a group of troops from the dnieper, which controls the temporarily occupied part of the left bank kherson oblast, as well as the zaporizhzhia region, so the reports may be... withdraw some units, but from which direction, this question is also relevant, because it can be like the left bank kherson oblast, therefore

, their presence on the left bank, or the zaporizhzhia region, will be weakened and their pressure on the robotin ledge and not only will be weakened. what do you think of russia's reaction and in your opinion, will there be a certain revenge, here is medvedev in his telegram channel, this is the deputy chairman of the security of the russian federation, in principle wrote about revenge, about the fact that now the reasons and, well, that is what it is now, he already mentioned kyiv, other ukrainian cities, whether we should really expect revenge and whether now at this moment, in your opinion, it is clear for them, this was an unexpected turn, they could have expected that such a situation could happen and that they would not be able to keep control over this situation, it was unexpected , one hundred percent not... that is, russian counterintelligence, russian intelligence, they fell into a shunt, and this answer immediately to the last question, to the first question, what is

revenge, what do you think, what can be revenge, and what can be revenge, well , medvediv mentions kyiv, and other ukrainian cities, and odesa, and kharkiv, and dnipropetrovsk , do not know, more massive attacks, what can it be, how massive? i don't know, i'm not sitting there in the kremlin, i don't know, but you know that in the comments and everywhere, well , people expect that there will be revenge, this is not the first time, but will there be missile attacks, or are people afraid of revenge , on february 24 in ukraine, i am not saying that they are afraid, people are already ukrainians are used to it, in 2022 more than 200 missiles, of different types, of different nomenclature, were fired over ukraine, it was revenge or what it was, it was the beginning of a full-scale war, everything that followed is a fact... of war, i remind you that after 100 rockets were released in kyiv, ha-101555 kyiv, kyiv region, in 2022, energy

terror, one-off unitary strikes, exclusively by this nomenclature, and not only, for the new year 90 shaheds, all scored from the 23rd to the 24th year, oleksandr, here i will give a quote from medvedev, here i found it from this statement of his, what about this moment must acquire an openly extraterritorial character, this is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the nazis, it is possible and necessary to go on the land of the currently existing ukraine: odesa, kharkiv, dnipropetrovsk to mykolaiv, what is an extraterritorial character, i quoted this, once again i will remind you, medvedeva. i say once again, this is what medvedev says, what do we need to prepare for, not what revenge, there is no revenge, there is only terror, which has been happening for the third year, this is what i am talking about, if... what tomorrow in kharkiv 100,500 rockets will arrive, this is not because we are in the kurdistan region, not us, 300 spartans are operating in the kursk region, because

100,500 rockets arrived in kharkov in 2022 and north saltika was completely razed to the ground, in principle, but many people about it forgets that thanks to the fact that the defense forces of ukraine are on the front line, they are significantly exhausting the russians... they are now distributing their resources as much as possible, and therefore there will be no revenge, there will only be terror, but not the kind of terror that was in the 22nd or 23rd year, they really wear out, and what about them extraterritorial ambitions regarding odesa, mykolaiv, kyiv, dnipro, well, first of all, commenting on the alcoholic medvedev is disrespectful, because... his schizophrenia is so enchanting that it will go down in the annals of history, precisely in the annals of history, and in total, they are already

in their third month. they are fighting head on into a small settlement, no settlement, a village deep in the lybtsiv district. here are their possibilities. and now there is a lot of talk, now there is a lot of talk about suja, but again , the main topic for several months was the turkish-pokrov direction. that's right the turkish-pokrov direction of the most intense hostilities for the year of hostilities since 2023, that is, you can see on the map from look at the map a year ago and see that during the year the russians advanced 24 km right here in this location, tens of thousands of russian occupiers were lost, and thousands, even tens of thousands of pieces of equipment, only in this direction 24 km, thank you, mr. oleksandr , unfortunately, time is running out, but the logic is clear, what you are leading to, thank you for joining, analyzing the situation in

the kursk region with oleksandr. kovalenko military viewers of the information resistance group have a lot of comments, so i also encourage people to write more about what you think about what you just heard on the air. thank you alexander. only a day after the breakthrough across the russian state border, putin commented on it publicly. he convened a meeting with the government with the participation of chief of the general staff gerasimov, minister of defense bilousov and now secretary of the security council shoigu. breaking through the state border of his own country and advancing several kilometers, as well as capturing populated areas, putin called large-scale provocation. after the report on the situation in the kursk region, the head of the russian general staff, gerasimov, promised putin that the operation would end with the defeat of the enemy and the exit to the state borders. it was a quote. a day earlier, the russian ministry of defense announced about 400 soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine, who allegedly broke through the border of russia. gerasimov already reported on thousands and that 300 of them, they say, were liquidated. he

did not say anything about the losses of the russian army. and the representative of the ministry of foreign affairs of russia, maria zakharova , called for an international community, i quote: not to stand aside and strongly condemn the criminal actions of the kyiv regime, end of quote. and here is what the russian political scientist ivan preobrazhenskyi thinks about this reaction of the russian authorities and about the fighting in the kursk region. the main reaction, the main reaction, which is obvious and traditional for the russian authorities, is to try to pretend that everything is fine, that they actually tried... to beat in the kursk region, claiming that they allegedly evacuated everyone. no, there are some individual victims, but there is no big problem, and among them the so-called warmongers, that is, russian military media propagandists, tell that the city of sudja is surrounded, that there are ongoing battles, that the russian army is not coping, and so on. accordingly, this is an obvious, distinct breakthrough. the armed forces of ukraine managed to take control of the last working gas distribution

station. the injection of gas into the european union in transit through ukraine from russia, that is , an obvious military defeat, at least a temporary one. after that, when it becomes obvious that it is not possible to hide the problem, vladimir putin steps in, and here is a really interesting statement from putin's side about the provocation. what provocation means, it seems completely unclear here, why he uses this word: ordinary hostilities, that is... for the first time , ukrainian troops enter the internationally recognized territory of russia themselves, it is not about the fact that these are some russian corps, apparently but also everything that they are provoking in this way is completely unclear, we are clearly not in the context of the statement that putin makes, he has some kind of process going on there, within the framework of which this is a provocation, what can we assume, well, it is obvious that now there are constant attempts with the russian side to start some negotiation

process on russian terms. the largest exchange with western democracies has just taken place. russia received a certain number of its spies and killers, in return it gave the usa and germany several russian political prisoners who opposed russian aggression against ukraine. and there were rumors that russia is going to pick up on this topic, and from this proceed with negotiations with the west and with exchanges with ukraine, perhaps it is possible to exchange some collaborators who are in... in prison, who acted in the interests russia after the start of full-scale aggression, this is the direction we obviously have to look, here is a provocation, that is, something is happening, and it can be disrupted by an offensive in the kurdish region, because russia will obviously respond extremely brutally, it is already shouting and making it clear that she believes that strategic objects are under threat, it is not even about the gas distribution station.