in the kursk region of russia, the armed forces of ukraine are starting a battle for another large village, the loss of which will be even worse for putin than the loss of suja. in suja, meanwhile... there were rfe/rl correspondents, we will show you an exclusive report, but we will start with donetsk region, where russian troops are advancing very rapidly, and it seems that between kurshchyna and donbas, putin chooses donbas. this is svoboda live, my name is vlasta lazur. russian troops continue their offensive in the donetsk region, and according to the autumn data of the deep state project, they have advanced in the area settlements of severny and druzhba. this is the direction of turkey. dipstate claims that it also prod'. battles in the village of new york, although

on the map itself, you can see it now, the village is marked in red, which means that it is occupied. on the eve of the complete capture of new york, the ministry of defense of russia also announced, however, according to deepstate, over the past few days, russian troops have been bypassing the positions of the armed forces of ukraine in new york and trying to concentrate on nelipivka. on the other hand, the stay of russian troops in the rear does not end well either, they state analysts dibstate. and on the pokrovsky direction. the russian army approached novogrodivka, from here to pokrovsk in a straight line about 10 km. even closer, russian troops approached the city of mirnograd. if people from pokrovsk are asked to leave for a week or two, myrnograd does not have these weeks, the local authorities say. the city is on the verge of occupation, shops and pharmacies are closing there. 20 hours a day, there is a curfew. radio liberty correspondent serhii horbatenko visited the city today. take a look.

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need you alive, marquis, go, handsome, bloody, oh, my god, oh, oh, come, choose the best cities, oops, serhii horbatenko, a correspondent of radio liberty, joins our broadcast. sergey, i congratulate you. good day. today, we just showed a segment that you filmed in myrnograd. what else is going on? in town? what are the moods of the people there and how do you feel the approach of the occupation? russian troops are currently located less than 5 km from mirnograd, work is constantly heard. to

the artillery, the head of the military administration told me from time to time that russian planes were already arriving, fortunately i did not meet them, but he said that it was the artillery fire that was causing the school, fortunately, when i was there, there were no arrivals, but such black smoke could be seen from the direction of novogorod, where the russian troops had already entered there on the outermost street, that can be felt in myrnograd, already at the entrance to the city you can see... cars that are in the cabin, on the roof, in trailers, carrying property from there, that is , it is visible that people are leaving, also in the city itself, in some places i saw people loading possessions, beads, one of the high-rise buildings, i saw a truck where they loaded not only some personal belongings, but also furniture, which is just about the people on the streets, the vast majority of people with whom i spoke. they are talking about the fact that they are either going

to leave or are about to leave, but there is only one the woman complained to me that she says she receives a pension of uah 2,500, and at the same time... in order to leave myrnograd to kamianske, this district of the dnipro, you have to pay a little more than uah 1,400, and people need another uah 200 on top of that for them to load the truck, load it, that is, about 2000 hryvnias for such a move, he says, despite the fact that i have a pension of 2500 hryvnias, it is very difficult to find money, but there is free evacuation from the state as well. and various humanitarian organizations, today i traveled a little around the city with a humanitarian organization to the foundation charity house of law, they take people away for free, in particular lonely people who have no one to rely on, then they take them to dnipro and distribute them there, there is

free housing, and free food, and free legal support, but there are people who they do not intend to leave, as she said. a grandmother told me today that my son was missing in the war, and she says that i would rather die here in my excess than leave somewhere, that is, the moods are different, but fortunately the vast majority of people decide to leave, and that i still have to go there today reported that about 400 children remain in myrnograd and their parents are evading, avoiding evacuation, trying to move from place to place, and the officials assured me that such families... and the police will take care of them, serhiu, but tell me, please and the city as a whole is ready for defense, the people, the civilians who live there, or maybe the officials with whom you spoke, somehow have an idea of ​​what will happen, what they expect there in a week or two? well, i didn't

ask the officials about it, and i wouldn't want to talk about it there whether the place is ready for defense or not, i think that it is preparing for defense, but as for the people, those who... don't want to evacuate, they say, well, somehow he says, we'll either sit out or die, i'm trying to to speak with them, he said that following the example of bakhmut, if you want or the same avdiyivka, everything will simply be destroyed, but people have the impression that, of course, they are a minority, but it seems that they have already come to terms. sergey, and one more question, i understand that you did not make it to pokrovsk, but pokrovsk is actually close to myrnograd, and there are also people there. call to evacuation, from what you know, and if you spoke again with officials or local people, they will have enough time to evacuate all the people in this week or two from mirnograd and from pokrovsk? i didn't talk about that, well, it's non-forced, which means it's enough,

people leave by themselves, well, the vast majority of people leave by themselves, they just load things into cars, or vans or trucks and leave, that's me. saw a lot of such people on the streets, that is, it is a matter, well, it seems that half a day is enough to load your things, even furniture, even pets and leave, and i saw many such people, that is, those people who want to leave, a day or two days are enough for them, and those people who do not want to leave, who are hiding, as they told me with children, well , what to do, they will stay the same way people stay in the temporal abyss at the moment, and no matter what i say to them, no matter what i urge them to do, they will still not leave. thank you very much, serhiy horbatenko, radio liberty correspondent, works in donetsk region, visited myrnograd today. thank you, sergey. well and while the russian troops in donbas are rapidly advancing,

the battle for the large village of korenevu is beginning in the kursk region of russia. biltt analyst julian röbke writes about this. this village is located 19 km from the border with ukraine, and its loss is possible, as written. anobki will be even worse for putin than the loss of suja, because two weeks have passed since the beginning of the operation of the armed forces of ukraine in the kursk region, during which time the russian troops have been brought to combat readiness, and losing the battle for the village would be a terrible shame for the russian military leadership, states ryobke. therefore, ukraine has been advancing in kursk oblast for two weeks, among the goals of the operations, which are most often voiced by military and political experts, in particular on our airwaves: the first is to divert the forces of the russian army from other directions, in particular. from donetsk region, however, this has not happened so far, on the contrary, as we can see, russian troops are actively advancing, in particular in the turkish and pokrov directions. second, to improve ukraine's position in possible negotiations, this was previously discussed in the ukrainian president's office. however, it is currently unclear exactly how the offensive of the armed forces in the kursk region will affect

vladimir putin's desire to negotiate. well, for example, the new york times writes that the prospects for negotiations have become even more remote, saying that now putin wants revenge, not peace, the newspaper writes. with reference to sources in the kremlin. well, the third goal that ukraine can pursue by carrying out the kurdish offensive is to convince the west to increase military aid. ukraine asks the us to lift all restrictions. on the use of american weapons on russian territory, first of all long-range atakams missiles, but last week cnn wrote that washington is not ready for such a step, well, maybe the white house will change its position, we will talk about it in detail later today, but for now, watch the exclusive report of radio svoboda from suzha, kursk region, where our colleague roman pagulych visited the day before. suja is the most publicly known city. since the beginning of the operation of the ukrainian army in the kursk region on the territory of russia, although in fact,

if you look at the map, territorially on northwest, to the north, the ukrainian troops advanced much more strongly, but a lot is said about this city, after all , it is the district center, before the war, according to public data, about 500 people lived here, now there are obviously significantly fewer, well... they they came, today there were 10-15 people, they held a reception, they provided help, there was a woman today with a shrapnel wound, we will treat them here, i did surgery , cleaned the wounds and tomorrow will continue, when you were coming here, did you have any emotions , after all, this is the territory of another state, her emotions, let me speak up, i have been at war for 10 years and i will speak up.

it's good that the ukrainians brought us water, otherwise we've been without water, electricity and gas for a whole week, there's nothing. we asked several local residents about when the war started and most of them... perceive it as the events that began directly on august 6, that is, the events that

affected them, but do not mention the beginning of the full-scale war that has been going on since the 22 -th year, when when did the war start here, the sixth, the sixth, yes, they were acquitted, but what about what happened on the border before that, well somehow... something like an interpersonal conflict, some kind of conflict, but i am far from politics, since i retired, i am not interested in politics, only crossfords, i do not engage in politics only crossfords, with from the fifth to the sixth, and before that, and before that, it was not felt, before that, they just shot quietly, from the fifth to the sixth, the war began, as of august 19, according to the statements of the ukrainian authorities , the ukrainian... army controls 1,250 km of territory in kursk region and 92

settlements. the operation is still ongoing and the general public, just as we do not know its ultimate goals, and it is not too clear what its results will be. but what is already clear is that ukraine has achieved what the representatives of the authorities have been constantly talking about, namely the transfer of the war, hostilities to the territory of russia, and now. it is already clear that a border is not a border for war. petro kuzyk, callsign apostle, commander of the third battalion of the rubizh offensive brigade of the national guard, has already joined our broadcast. peter, i welcome you to our broadcast. congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes. peter, which one? your attitude to exchange rate operation? is this a positive phenomenon, a negative phenomenon? what do you say? of course, this is a positive phenomenon. frankly, now my unit is working in the donetsk direction, and therefore we do not have this

information, we are not involved in the process, and i can only comment on what lies on the surface, so far there are absolutely positive phenomena on the surface, this is the transfer of the war to the territory of the enemy , which should have been done a long time ago, is a crazy reputational update of gutler in general, as a person who can plan something. something it happened to you, it is possible, now it will stop, when the coverage of the potential of the russian army, when they work face to face and in parity conditions, and not like here in pokrovsky, donetsk, others, when they were there to bakhmut, other ukrainian cities , amassing a 1:10 advantage or

more, and then they flaunted some success, and now it's slow. to their places, this is about the positive, but as a military man, you know, i am very careful, well, i treat all processes, and here i really like the cossacks, i like that our ukrainian cossacks are beautiful they are walking, yes, the only thing, i am very worried, so that this is a strategic, serious planned action, and which does not... well, let's put it this way, no, does not turn into there, so that it does not come under political influence, if necessary and if it is advisable to leave, then it would be better if we left, if necessary, do not delay there, i am very worried about our boys who are there, god bless them, they are all healthy, and despite this good news, i have

a lot of experience in the third year of fighting , i understand that it is very, very difficult for them there, they are just... well done, working, and, god forbid, that it be a successful operation that will start the domino mechanisms that will lead to the victory of ukraine, i pray for it, i really want it, well, it is if very much, it is if we talk about some, perhaps, long-term goals, if we talk about short-term goals or a short-term goal, the absolute majority of experts , the observers we spoke with say that after all, one of the main... goals was to try to induce russia to withdraw its troops from donbas, and now we see that this did not happen, well, it turns out that, that the russian , that russia, well, not that it failed, but did not live up to ukraine's plan then, so far, you know, i don't agree with you, i don't think that there was even a plan to transfer

part of the troops from the donetsk direction to... on that, the operation was simply planned very well, if on such analytical work and planning were going on at the same level, well, these are obvious things, these are different groups of troops, these are different, well, there are conditional directions, i will tell you more, it would be quite surprising that if russia, unfortunately, has certain successes in offensive actions in the pokrovsky direction, and some, well, here and there where we work, they... have accumulated it and have an advantage in artillery, in personnel, and from a military point of view, it is to be hoped that, having problems there, they will give up the areas where they have at least some success, where potential offensive potential remains, this is not so, i believe that if we are talking from a short

perspective, that is, a period of time, then this... an event, this, let's say, an action, an offensive, as it is called, it has fulfilled all its tasks, it actualized morale and fighting spirit along the entire line of the army, she encouraged everyone, without the exclusion of our partners, she showed that russia can be defeated on its territory, moreover, she has already dispelled the extreme myth about some red lines there, which... try to go somewhere, you will see, that is, in the short term, we achieved tremendous success, and now it is necessary to cement it and think, well, i am sure, i say, i believe in our team, in our analysts and so on, i am sure that they have plan b, plan c, that is, ee i am very

worried that, well, let's say... this is the perspective that this offensive gave, so that she i didn't rub off on some forced downtime there and so on, i am in this case, i understand you, in this case, allow me to quote the western press, because in the context of kurshchyna there were a lot of reports about how the war will develop further , and for example, the publication bloomberg writes that both ukraine and russia now... have enough resources to conduct some very large operations against each other and that they write that, in principle, the war is moving to a dead end, despite the fact that ukraine seized more russian... territory in kurshchyna and continues to capture, and that russia is waging some battles there in donbas, after all , there is not enough force for major operations, and from your point of view, does it look like that both

sides are running out of strength and means to carry out major operations operations, are you still inclined to believe that this operation on kurshchyna, it was a large-scale and very large operation that could change the course of the war, i repeat, working here in very difficult conditions in donetsk region, we, unfortunately, i am not exaggerating and that's not where i draw attention, unfortunately, it's a fact that we work in our country in difficult conditions, i concentrate on my area, but i can only comment on what is obvious, what for me lies on the surface of this operation, i would very much like it to be the beginning of a global story that will change the situation at the front and will in the long run lead to the victory of ukraine, i am not inclined to talk about the fact that all sides

are exhausted there, well, the war is going on, we were already exhausted a long time ago, and i said about the shortage of all ammunition there and so on, but we we protect our land, we have there is no way out, we are forced to fight until victory, and the ukrainian victory will come sooner or later, this action... it already makes it clear, perhaps, perhaps, it can be assumed that there is some timing agreed upon through negotiations with the occupier, agreed upon by all partners, and under this time, in order to strengthen the negotiating position, we, we are additionally there, an additional stream of influence, to strengthen the negotiating position, for a possible exchange on ukrainian territory. it can be assumed, well , that is what lies on the surface, but to say that we are exhausted, that russia exhaustion, i wouldn't say so, because

the war has reached such a degree of confrontation that either the occupier will come to his senses and leave ukraine, or there will be a total confrontation in the future, despite the exhaustion of the world, us and so on, because we... there is nowhere to look, but we, well, we are in our own house, we, we defend exclusively our land, and the fact that we slightly rearranged the war on the territory of the enemy, and this is already a wonderful tactical move, maybe it is not only tactical, this is also a strategic move, well, there is some more global plan, yes, god willing, for it to be, but of course, this is the state for today, it is a great benefit for all processes, from international support. about international support, you know, peter, we will talk about international support today, because despite the compliments that ukraine receives from western partners, and

despite the agreement of the partners to support this operation politically, for now, at least in there is no information in the public space that the partners have given their consent to the use of long-range missiles, so we will still talk about it on the air today, i i will return to the fronts, you have already mentioned several times, you are in donbas, and as far as i understand, between kurshchyna and donbass , putin currently chooses donbass, maybe kurshchyna will somehow affect other directions? i don’t know, there was information that the number of assaults in the zaporozhye direction has decreased, or there are none at all now, maybe brigades will be transferred from there, but russian troops are not retreating from donbas, as they have been for the past two weeks, while the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine in kurshchyna continues, the situation has changed , do you feel any influence? what is happening in kurshchyna, do you feel it in donbas, because the western press also says that in donbas there is a lack of shells, there is a lack of reserves, all these reserves are currently engaged in kurshchyna, well, for sure,

there are no changes so far, we are not we feel, i will not say that the enemy lacks shells and lacks reserves, moreover, i am sure that they will not give up their offensive actions, they will. will be able to only if they suffer serious losses, as of today the situation is such that in defense we are trying to inflict maximum losses of the enemy, and i will tell you, from a positive point of view, well, it is on my small plot, where i work, those whom we take prisoner, first of all, more and more often began to surrender, and secondly.. . from the conversations with the prisoners, i emphasize, because there is someone to interrogate them, i will talk to him, i am interested in two or three questions, from the conversations with the kolonens, they

expressed. they also, that is, we received such a moral pressure that somewhere our cossacks are walking well, even in the puschina, and we are still holding our positions with superhuman efforts, but the enemy is also already crumbling and falling, and this it is necessary to understand that now in this situation it is very difficult in donbas, to put it mildly, very difficult, but the winner is the one who has more patience, who has more stamina and who has... nerves, well, here they are not old-fashioned, there are already granite and so on, that’s all, the war has already ended, well, what do you call a difficult situation in donbas, if you can be specific, as much as possible, for example, the local authorities of the pokrovsk community strongly urge people to leave, and on the basis of this we can make an assumption that the front is getting closer and closer to pokrovsk, as

can the situation there change in the near future? week, yes, it can change every degraza by three in the other direction, this is war, here, well, if it depends on the situation, it is not easy, because the enemy has an advantage in numbers, approximately from section to section, i won’t say, well, on average , one to ten of by our defenders, it is in manpower, the same situation with the artillery. bulls and the number of barrels, tanks and everything that impresses, even fpv systems of drones, where traditionally we prevailed, now there is already a minimum of parity, in most areas the enemy has more of these systems, the enemy prevails in rap defense, he defends his positions better with reb systems, constantly rams the position of the defenders, so far... we

are holding on in some areas, in some areas there are units that do not hold back and are forced to withdraw , there are no complaints against them, because in such conditions, well, they just fire them, the enemy attacks quite actively, he sensed the direction where he has prospects and focused his advantage on this direction. clearly understands, the way they have always worked, concentrating on in the direction of the breakthrough, they are now, well , rod, rod, and they, except for the cover direction there, they do not allow to relax along the entire line, because, well, so as not to pull up there, constantly trying to find yet another alternative place where they could intervene, from two to three to fifth per day,

we kill dozens of them, but this is obviously not enough, because there were more systems and bcs, we would have killed more, but they carry out lightning operations every day, and if our units are some exhausted, some are still motivated, but again, on this the enemy concentrated in the area advantages or how it organized a numerical advantage in everything. peter, please tell me , hypothetically, if pokrovsk becomes a front line, or if pokrovsk is captured by russian troops, what does this mean globally, strategically, concretely, does it mean that chasiv, for example, remains doomed, does it mean that under other cities in donetsk immediately fall under the threat, because

we remember that putin's goal, they absolutely... openly stated it, is to capture the entire donetsk region within its administrative borders, and it looks like even an offensive on kurshchyna does not stop them, what will happen if they capture pokrovsk? this complicates the situation along the entire line, all the cities that are part of the borders of donetsk and luhansk regions will be at risk, firstly, secondly, it is an economic effect, don't forget, i still have one in the world... that's why i i always count these options, those industrial enterprises, the giants that are standing there and they are made of coking coal and so on, it is somewhere around 5% of our gdp, so it is very serious, it should not even be allowed the enemy is under, but these are theories...