situation, they throw reserves there, use them quickly, on the other hand, it is so unexpected that it has started, so of course they are already withdrawing it, they will do it, but how will they implement it and will they succeed in something with that disorganization primarily informational, as it is, we will see here, i hope our defense forces will destroy them and everything will be fine, but regarding the use of missiles. as far as i understand, is this not the biggest obstacle that our forces are currently facing in kursk region? but it is not only kursk region, it is everywhere along the front line, first of all, they always had an advantage, and this is such a key, one of the main, or rather , means, it is aviation with their cabs, fabs, and if we talk there along the front line, it is now the pokrovsk region , there turkey, they started working very actively, in particular, when they had promotion. they still have, they concentrated

all this attention there and inflicting damage on populated areas, on the positions of the ukrainian military, and as they do, they simply erase everything to zero, and then already the infantry, and it is just there swarms, it continues to advance there, and in these uncomplicated conditions it is very difficult to somehow conduct battles, and nevertheless our defense forces are trying to contain all this pressure, so it is also possible that they will also use all this in the kursk region. this is what they did in the area of ​​kharkiv oblast on the northern borders, vovchansk was simply destroyed first of all by kabam and fabam, this is what they did in chasovomeier, mariintka, bakhmut, that is, this is now one of their main tactics, and this, on sorry, advantage, but now they will have to erasing the fusion of the land, their own settlements, which cannot help but please, er, not please, but it looks strange, because they... it's good that

there are military men, whom they throw for meat and they simply do not appreciate them, and these military people trust everything there, they go into battle, they don’t do stabbings and all that, but when they come after civilians, they are ready to demolish entire settlements of their own people, their own houses, it looks wild and strange, and that , that the population supports it all the same, it's already some kind of... i don't know madness and madness, it’s just some kind of illness, well, they too, of course they have some kind of division too, as always in russian, when there is a local government there, there are military personnel there, and they go out and film vladimir will do something to vladimir, that is, they have a king and god, this their ruler is one, and that's it, and they don't see anything anymore, although he is the one who approves it in the first place and gives the orders to bomb them there, so i understood you correctly that... that at the moment

there is no improvement in the situation for our forces in other directions? well, unfortunately not that there is no improvement, it is simply difficult, because the enemy has concentrated a large number of their forces, they are climbing continuously, moreover, they see some favorable moments, they see progress, and as i have already mentioned, one of their tactics, only they they see something, some opportunity, they immediately even... begin to develop this opportunity to put pressure there, and that is what they are doing, so now it is important to restrain this pressure, which is carried out, in particular, in the pokrovska, turetska districts, these are probably the most discussed such districts now, although we have there is also the novomykhaivka district, that is, it is somewhere from ugledar to kostyantynivka, the route along which they are trying to get out, in particular, then to ugledar, this is the krasnohorivka, georgiivka, maksym districts. where they

climb in the direction of korakhovo, and there are also quite such heavy battles, and this is also there in eastern kharkiv region, that is, there is the settlement of pishchane, everyone can see this ledge to the borova highway, kupyansk, puzzle kupyansk, so there are a lot of these difficult moments, very often exactly similar processes took place, when they accumulate their forces, just in the district avdiyivka, there is probably the largest group, now after they took it, then... they are now implementing all this there, plus they have pulled up reserves there, because they see an opportunity to go on the road, that is , pokrovsk, myrnograd, kostiantynivka, and on these settlements, which are extremely important and in fact one of the last already so large, that is why they concentrated a large number of forces and begin to press, storm, it was there in the area of ​​the temporal ravine, it was in the area of ​​limanu, now it was basically sleeping there pressure, it is in the area si'. maryinka, when she was still there, because her,

that is, all these processes, and if we sum up this question, most likely this is how it is brought up, is it appropriate for... to use these fresh forces that went to kurshchyna, and instead to go to toretsk and pokrovsk, on the one hand, this thesis is well-founded, and this is what the western partners, and the westerners, who are discussing on twitter, started to throw at us, this is what some representatives of our population started there , immediately present, and of course the muscovites took advantage of this, they immediately began to... the media space is there, what they said there, the military is rioting there, the people are rioting, no one agrees, why do we need to go there, if we have these settlements and the like, on the one hand yes, and this is a very big risk, this is just that wolf , which is backed into a corner, took

these risks, took these a-a such steps, a-a, that we are now realizing that more global and deeper goal. and it is worth it, if you think about it that way, and if there really are certain options that will be used now in the future, there from kursk, with the territory, we will someday need will use them, then it is worth it, the only question is whether it will be implemented, if it is implemented, well, i am sure, everyone will say it is great, it was clearly very well thought out, and no one will remember whether it was worth it or not, if it is not implemented, i'm 99% sure that everyone will remember torets. everyone will remember pokrovsk, that we screwed up here, screwed up there, nothing worked out, everything is emotional here, but here you have to think with a cold mind, understand the risks, because we have no other option, and also believe in the defense forces, believe in our defense forces, who is not i agree - join in, who agrees,

help, or keep quiet and say nothing, that's all, so now of course stabilization measures are being carried out, certain reserves are being pulled up, there are... many problems, but the most important thing is to contain this pressure in the pokrovsk region and turkish, to prevent it from advancing, and of course then, if it works out both here and there, it will be wonderful. pokrovsk, toretsk, ughledar, kupyansk, do i understand correctly that the enemy does not withdraw reserves from these hot spots, hot areas, in order to transfer them to the kursk region, so far this is not observed, and i again... as i mentioned earlier, even if they are there, if they pull something in the pokrupsk area, i doubt that the guys will feel it, because there are a lot of them there, just how many, which is real there are not enough resources to destroy them all, that's why it's again, and i doubt that they will give up

this particular direction, when they have such colossal opportunities, they would rather pull it from the south and kill for the implementation of the cutting there. robotic performance, what they also delivered, and it is more informational the task, it is tactical, strategic, absolutely not justified in any way and does not give them any advantage, ah, so i am sure that they are ready to withdraw some forces from there, but definitely not there from donetsk, i.e. pokrovska and turetska, because they are too large risks i would like to talk with you more about the processes of evacuation of the civilian population of the kursk region. if we talk about official statements, we see that everything is fine there, that all people are being evacuated, everyone is provided with everything, but nevertheless we constantly see the same statements, by the appeal of the local population, who simply

shout that the kremlin has abandoned and forgotten them. so, in your opinion, how catastrophic is the humanitarian situation in... maybe catastrophic, maybe not, because there are different videos, there are different situations, someone was given four buses, as there was one video, and they are there everyone is happy, someone left on their own, for someone there they organize some kind of humanitarian e-handouts so that people at least get something, someone was not taken out, there is this disorientation in the information space there. we didn't hear as soon as it all started, evacuate there, run away, there they helped, as we heard in the information post, everyone was beaten off, everyone was expelled, everything was fine, and it was at the level of official representatives of some authorities, so the civilian population was not paid attention to, they still they were served there,

that is, they started to bomb them, there were already certain moments, and of course, now it is precisely this disorientation of information that affects them. they complain about this process, that everything is bad, and so be it, but then again, this, this madness in the head, when it is necessary to turn to a higher level. what did they do, they gather in a circle, they record a video to vladimir vladimirovich, that help us here, the governor of kursk and the mayor, and everyone gave up, what should we do and everything, that's why they deserved it, let them drive everything that they they did to us themselves, i hope and sincerely wish them that they go through all the stages that we went through, that our population went through, not to receive humanitarian aid, to be bombed. so that they would be left with nothing, so that at least, at least somewhere they would move

thought, what could happen when you come to someone with the same thing, this is karma in action, in fact, it turns out that yes, mr. ruman, we talked about the enemy's readiness for similar actions, from our side, the bloomberg agency itself published information, that russian intelligence even two weeks before these... allegedly informed the command, the military command about a possible invasion, but the head of the russian general staff, known to us gerasimov, rejected this data and did not inform putin about it, so what do you think, this is a sign that that the russians underestimated us, or are they just now looking for an opportunity to justify themselves and looking for a goat from buvayov? there are two options: either bloomberg didn't know anything, i just wrote it and that's it, just under, well, because there were

no signs at all, on the other hand, the second, and maybe it was, given how now the same gerasimov and in general the military command of the russian federation in that area justify their actions, they provide disinformation, everything was repelled, everything is fine, there, now our units are working there and the like, maybe this was the situation. what are they now they don’t know what to do, although, well, we see, heads don’t fly to the public, everything is shown, everything is fine, everything is under control, it is not known how they are inside there, if it causes any conflicts, if it causes any troubles there, well, it’s just we are in a plus, everything, everything is absolutely negative, what is happening inside them now, everything is a plus, were they ready, were they not, this now shows the result, how things are progressing, how they react, or? they lied, if they lied, well, continue in the same spirit, we, we are only for it.

i also want to talk to you, we mentioned this a little at the beginning, about the reaction of our western partners to the situation, but actually we have statements, in particular the spokesman of the us state department , matthew miller, who said that ukraine's actions in the kursk region do not contradict us policy, but also chapters. of the defense committee of the german bundestag, markus fabber, who does not consider the use of german weapons in the territory of the kursk region to be a problem, is this not proof that these actions were either coordinated with our western partners, or they simply now we are told that you can invade russian, the territory of the russian federation, where to decide for yourself? either it was agreed, or they have no other choice now, and this is the genius, again

, of the military-political leadership, i will not name the name, there, so that they do not say that i am praising someone there, something else, and i will call it as just a state, some place, structure, institution, military-political leadership, which faced the fact, or did not inform, did, and now no one will show publicly that we have any separation, no one will say: turn everything around, we forbid you from everything, tomorrow we will not give help, well, this is a very big and significant plus, then in the hands of the muscovites there, who will see that this cannot be done, but we see in the public space absolutely absolutely otherwise, our partners can no longer do anything, if this is a pre-agreed position, then this is a very excellent trolling of the muscovites, if it is not agreed purely on the fact, well, thanks to them for their understanding and... and thanks again to our military and political leadership, what is it all realized, was not afraid, and we finally

showed strength, we finally realized what to some extent had been expected and asked for a long time, and why don't we do something similar, we did, well, let's hope that this is only the beginning, mr. roman, thank you for a great conversation, that's all for now, i wish the viewers of espresso all the best, we'll have an ad next, stay tuned. today, i am visiting a person who is extremely dedicated to her work, this is oleksandra balyasna, she is the head of the board of the association of parents of premature babies, early birds, and more she is a member of the advisory board

of the european foundation for the health of newborn children. sasha, i congratulate you today. here in this studio, hello, thank you very much for the invitation, it is a great honor for me to be on the air, on your program, look, i want to talk to you today about your experience in the war, we understand that from february 24 , 2022, although the war has been going on for more than 10 years in our country, but it was this date that changed the lives of many ukrainians, and here... today i want to hear your experience, because it is very important, because it was the same during the war children continue to be born, and even more so , children in a hurry, who do not ask anyone and are also born, and they need even more such, let's say, specific medical care, so i want you to share your experience today, tell all

this to our viewers, and let's start exactly from this date: what did you do on this day? where was your family and how did this date change your life? for me, february 24, as well as for all ukrainians, was quite a shocking change, we in our family did not prepare for it, of course, there were many conversations about it, many there was such a contextual informational space, but at the same time , suitcases were not collected, because they did not believe that this could happen in the center of the city, in the center of the country, and in any case , crisis decisions had to be made. on this day, and for the whole team to ensure safety, security first of all, so that everyone moved to a safer place, for each family it was the right decision for someone, for someone not so much, and they ended up in more noisy areas near kyiv, but in any case, it took some time, a few days, a few weeks for everyone they felt more stable, they were very

worried about our colleagues in mariupol, when the green window did not light up for a very long time until... march, they were very worried about our colleagues in dnipro, those who had not been contacted for a long time, they tried to settle down, find they have plan b, where they can feel safer, protect themselves and their children. actually, for the first time, they were engaged in this chaotic process of moving people and at the same time tried to rake out all the messages that poured in completely different, as they say, private the character lacked drugs from somewhere. somewhere there was a lack of some kind of vaccine, somewhere it was necessary to help with logistics, that is, the requests were of absolutely different calibers, and this on the one hand made us more united, i tried to do it around the clock, on the other hand it was very discouraging, because when you run in different directions at the same time, then it also doesn't help you orient yourself, but i think that's what

most people did at that moment in order to help as many people as possible. but it is good that this period has passed then into more organized processes, and where we can be more efficient, organize our work more systematically. i know that my next question will be so -so for you, because you don't really like to talk about it, because you love your country very much, and you understand how much you are needed here, but nevertheless, your help to your country is not decreased, but only increased, and this is a new experience that you got, because you are... now you live abroad with your daughter, and there are a lot of women like you public figures who were quite active in our country, when they found themselves there abroad, they suffer incredibly and talk about the fact that they do not have the opportunity to fully realize themselves, how do you feel about this, what do you feel and tell about this experience of yours,

for this is really a difficult topic for me, because i have always felt. and still feels very connected to his native country, but i am very grateful for the times that taught us to work remotely, almost the entire team, we have changed our place of residence, but this does not prevent us from having a call every week, every day to work with colleagues wherever they are, so the processes remain as active when necessary, i go home and try to do it as often as possible, and i build my, let's say, additional strength and advantages from my stay abroad in this way, that i... just learned the language, for example, at a level so that i could understand the local population, i am building social contacts and a bubble that helps to send aid, that is , a charity fund was opened this year, which we are engaged in. in order to send humanitarian aid to centers for helping refugees, we have several partners in ukraine, accordingly, i believe that this is such an additional mechanism

of assistance where we can be useful, where we can be helpful, and this is the building of international partnerships, this is the involvement of donors, this advocacy so that there are no questions, and you still have a war going on, when i hear these questions, i understand that we still have a lot to say so that other political processes in the arena are not interrupted. the voice of ukrainians, and for us this is an important topic of advocacy that is ours children, our doctors, hospitals, continue to work under sirens, under terrible challenges and at the risk of life every day, and it is important to me that this voice sounds truthfully, in the highest possible quality in the european arena, i try to do it as i can do it, bringing in partnerships and help, and we're going to need that help to rebuild when the war is over, we 're going to need that help for a long time, so i think it's my, you could say, maybe it wasn't always my choice to live where i there is, but i am trying to transform it into, let's say, positive channel and use it in

this way, well, if we are talking specifically about aid and difficulties, if they need to explain to europeans that the war is still going on in our country, this aid, it has somehow possibly decreased, we need to tell them more, need more loud to do it more often compared to when at the beginning it was in 2022, of course, of course the polemic changed a lot and it changed as expected, in principle dramatically, it changed somewhere around this first emotional period, when everyone helped, for everyone the question was that there was practically no control or there was no such, let's say , such strong verifications, then the process went on strongly and the aid was selectively chosen, where it goes. has already been monitored so that it is systematic, that it is transparent. i believe that, in principle, it is very correct that it should be controlled, but on the other hand, i would like

more support for important issues, especially on the topic of newborn children, because some processes are still not closed, i think that now every life of a newborn of the child is extremely important, i'm not saying that it wasn't important before, but now, considering that the birth rate has fallen by more than 30%, that there are many very negative ... consequences for the health of newborn children of every family, i i believe that it needs more publicity and support. when i go to international forms, i see that there is a block about the war, and there are no recent statistics, or there is no impact of the war on the health of newborn children in the future, if we are talking about the future, about the section, then i want to for it to be there, and we understood what generation we will get in 5, 10, 20 years, it is important to think about it today. sasha, well... you talk about the fact that the birth rate actually fell by 30%, and if we talk about children born prematurely due to the fact that there is a war in our country, have there been an increase in such families in which

children appear in a hurry , can you still say that compared to 2015-16, everything is the same as it was, it is difficult for me to rely on any statistics, because they must be official, so that i do not name any incorrect data, i know from various sources that the statistics are increasing. rare births, but somehow the ministry of health does not give a specific number, so it is difficult for me to rely on it, from conversations that i know from the medical category, well , let's say, when i talk to doctors, that i hear that the condition of pregnant women has greatly deteriorated , they do not get to the examination in time, sometimes they are in very bad conditions, there are not always logistical possibilities to get basically just to the hospitals, because, for example, the roads are broken, or it was some kind of, for example the occupied territory and... cannot receive this assistance in time, the child does not receive screenings in time, for example, during or during pregnancy, or already after the child was born, respectively, any such delay is precisely with our category, with our nosology ,

it is very important and it will later affect the quality of the whole life, therefore also the psychological state of the pregnant woman, this should not be forgotten either, the psychological state of the pregnant woman i would say that even childbirth, when there was no war, is premature, it is very stressful, just recalling your experience, or mine colleagues who found themselves... in various stories where children also got some difficulties after apologies, but now during a full-scale invasion, where there are also sirens and, for example, there is no partner nearby, if the partner had to go, the husband went to fight and did not there may be a partner birth, or god forbid, unfortunately, there are such situations when news comes that a woman is pregnant, and unfortunately, information comes that there is no partner near her, these cases are extremely difficult to manage such a pregnancy. and there are many such cases, i.e. requests for psychological support and for financial, for example, help, because this, let's say, has a strong impact on stress, these requests have become extremely

numerous. is there any psychological help in your organization, perhaps for women who live in ukraine, yes, perhaps in the de-occupied territories, perhaps somewhere in the front-line territories, who call and want advice, to be told what to do, where to go, and what words do you actually find, because it is probably very important and very difficult now in such conditions. i would say that she helped us a lot the international community, because here i would divide our women who went abroad, gave birth prematurely abroad, because this is such an additional emotional layer of problems, because in addition to the fact that a woman gives birth abroad without support, without understanding the language very often, without understanding the system, where to turn, what to do with such a newborn baby in any country of the world, for example there or in switzerland, whether it is poland or spain, very often

they turned to us from other countries. countries in order to receive information in their native language, and precisely because of this, we are very grateful to our international community, which acted as partners in this matter in order to promptly transfer this information or distribute booklets, as well as this informational and psychological assistance worked in ukraine and works in the same way, the only thing is that it is often not calls, but there are still messengers that are more convenient, also due to the fact that, firstly , such mothers do not always have the opportunity to speak by voice during the day, they are quite behind... in hospitals with various procedures, and this is traumatic experience, when it is difficult for mothers to express their emotions, because they are usually in a state of stress and at the stage when they need to talk about their particular situation, that she just gave birth to a child prematurely, then there is such a thing as the trauma of the feeling of guilt, that she did not carry the child to term, that the child has difficulties and our psychologist yuliya oleksandrivna works with this feeling of guilt and manages

the psychological service. we have our partner organizations that work with us and when we don't cope we refer to more professional help and when we need help with crisis communications, too we know where to turn, so i am very grateful to colleagues and partners who this pool will provide consultations with, and i will not name all of them now so as not to forget anyone, but in fact this pool of partners helps us cope with difficult situations when they arise, so for for us, informational psychological assistance is... the foundation of the foundations, because this is the layer where most problems can be solved at this level. sasha, well, actually speaking, about the impact of the war on families with prematurely born children, you and i are already on the air talked, and you told me such stories, what these families faced, what are the main problems, and we are talking now not only about medicine, because these families, there, a mother and a child return home

and in... they also have certain problems arise there, they have to somehow solve them during the war, can you tell about it and what do you advise in such a situation? in fact, we can advise you to be proactive, learn about your rights, and that is why this year is very important for us, we are releasing a lot of information products, because very often it is just parents do not know about their rights, for example, we recently conducted a survey, do parents know about guaranteed non-guaranteed services in the health care system? and we were a little shocked that 80% of parents do not know about their rights, that is, they marked, for example, from the category to mark from one to five how much you have information about services guaranteed by the state, then 80% marked one, that is, they do not know , or, for example, only 10% knew what to do in the event that rights are violated, what in this case case must be done, and when we say, we have a project called guaranteed with our partners, patients of ukraine, and when we

say... about what is important to do in this or that situation, it is important for us that parents know and where to turn, were proactive, had this clear position that it depends on me, how i will develop mine further, for example, there is a medical history, where i receive this service, to whom i can turn, not to be afraid to ask, so it is important, look, this topic, it is really very important, and that's why you can say exactly what rights you are talking about, so that women and men, families, in general, who will hear us now, can understand... what rights they really have, what are you talking about? when we conduct trainings, we even start with the following question: do you know what nszu is? and we very often have such answers that we do not know what nsu is, and since 2016 medical reform has been ongoing in ukraine, and there are 44 packages of medical guarantees, these packages, one might say, are classified by various diseases, by various problems, now i am not talking only about premature babies, or only about pregnant women, or about the topic of rebbe.