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today is exactly one month since ukrainian forces crossed the border with russia and began the kursk operation. now oleksandr syr'. claims that thanks to the kurdish operation it was possible to stop the offensive in donbas, but is this really the case, for example, from today there are no more evacuation trains from pokrovsk, the war has come close to the city. what will happen if russia completely captures donbas and does the kurdish operation make sense under such circumstances? this is svoboda live, my name is vlasta lazur. part of the peace plan, yes operations. on

kurshchyna was called by president zelensky, it started exactly one month ago, on august 6. the sudden offensive of the armed forces on the territory of russia was accompanied by complete informational silence. in the first few days, the ukrainian authorities did not officially comment on the reports of russian officials and military bloggers about the breakthrough of the border by ukrainian troops in the kursk region, and the activity of ukrainian forces in the region was evidenced by videos and photos that began to appear on social networks. health, from the city of suja. and a day later, august 7, the ministry of defense russia announced the halting of the enemy's advance deep into the territory in the direction of kurdistan, and vladimir putin called the events in kurdistan a provocation. kyiv the kyiv regime carried out another large-scale provocation. the american institute for the study of war already published a report on august 8, according to which, on the second day of operations, the armed forces of ukraine had already advanced deep into russian territory by... 10 km. this is how

the map of the captured territory of the kursk region looked on august 8, according to the russian edition of the agency. on this day, volodymyr zelenskyy praised the ukrainian army for the ability to surprise. ukrainians know how to achieve their goals, and we did not choose to achieve goals in the war. russia brought war to our land and must feel what it has done. ukrainian officials have repeatedly stated. that ukraine is not interested in taking the territory of the kurdish region, so the main reason for the start of the kurdish operation was the threat of repeated occupation by the russian army of kharkiv oblast, sumy oblast and chernihiv oblast. in parallel with how the ukrainian military advanced through kursk, they captured army servicemen of russia among them, according to the ukrainian authorities, were later soldiers of the chechen akhmat battalion and russian conscripts. it is the replenishment of the exchange fund. will explain

later, ukraine, this is another goal of the kurshchyna operation. the russian ministry of defense also published a video allegedly of captured ukrainian military personnel in the kursk region. the exact number of prisoners. was not announced on both sides. another goal of the operation is the withdrawal of russian troops from other areas of the front to kurshchyna. however, the situation in the pokrov direction remained tense. shot! in a month, russian forces managed to capture several settlements. the president of ukraine explained this by the fact that donbas is a strategic goal for putin. the most capable units of the russian army are involved in the expansion of the occupation zone. this is moscow's unequivocal choice. putin wants to occupy more ukraine than security for russia. according to the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, the armed forces currently control 1,300 km in the kursk region, russia's losses, according

to him, amount to approximately 6,000 soldiers, killed and wounded. on today, the ukrainian command is working in the territory of the kursk region controlled by ukraine. olga armyanishyna radio. if you watch us on the internet, like this broadcast, this way you will support our work. we continue to see if the kursk operation really saved donbas. thanks to the kursk operation, the offensive in the pokrovsk direction has stopped, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine said. oleksandr syrskyi gave his first television interview to the american publication cnn. among other things, he said that in the last six days russian the forces in the pokrovsky direction... allegedly did not advance a single meter. over the past six days , the enemy has not advanced a single meter in the pokrovsky direction. in other words, our strategy is working. we have deprived them of their ability to maneuver and deploy their reinforcements from other directions, and this weakening is certainly

felt in other areas. we note that the number of artillery fire, as well as the intensity of the offensive, decreased. so, syrskyi says that over the past six days , the offensive... has been in the pokrovsky direction slowed down the deep state map allows you to track the dynamics of the offensive literally by day, and if you look at the dynamics of the last six days, then the progress is really not significant. but why only six days? let's look at the map in the perspective of one month, well, that's exactly as long as the exchange rate operation lasts. see how the front in the pokrov direction has changed since then. the day before , the head of the kremlin, vladimir putin, once again repeated that the capture of donbas is a priority goal for the russian army, putin, at least verbally, makes it clear that kurshchina is not his is interested

the enemy's objective was to make us nervous, to cower, to shift troops from one area to another and to stop our advance on key areas, primarily on... russian troops advanced to pokrovsk, as you can watch all the analysts for the last week. the enemy was stopped at the border between novogrodivka and selidovo memryk and still does not advance, is held back, and does not manage to overcome the lines of our defense in this direction. you they mentioned novohorodivka and selidove, let's clarify right away, novohorodivka is captured,

right? yes, selidove, today we just talked with selidove, it is completely under the control of the defense forces. are there no russian troops there even on the outskirts? no, not even on the outskirts. tell me , please, what will happen in theory for now, if russian troops capture pokrovsk, you can correct me, they are standing 80 km from the city, well, they are approximately at that distance, yes. what will happen if russian troops capture pokrovsk? well, there is pokrovsk a very important logistic direction that covers the direction of traffic to konstantinivka and kramatorsk is ours. large e-e don city of donbas, therefore it will be much more difficult to carry out logistical support of units located there. this week, several publications in the western press were devoted to pokrovsk, and there military analysts assumed that if russia

captures pokrovsk, then in the spring of 2025 , it may get the opportunity to launch an offensive on the dnipro or the dnipropetrovsk region. does that sound for are you realistic? these are very far-sighted perspectives, that is why we are here and now and carry out the tasks that have been set for us, the enemy is restrained, therefore... we do not pay attention to such a deep perspective at all. and how did you say that in recent days, the russian army stopped in the novogorodivska, novogorodivka selidove area, thanks to which this became possible? what do you think, because before that, we just showed the map, the russian troops were very actively advancing in the direction of pokrov. they did not stop, they continue to be active assault actions, they were stopped by the defense forces. the enemy has not decreased, but its more careful movement is already observed, because

there at the beginning of august, in the first days of august , they felt very free and moved in large groups and managed to hit them, now they move covertly, concentrate two or three soldiers, form small units of up to 30 servicemen, and with such forces they are trying... but much more carefully, already slower, but their number does not decrease, and still, thanks to what they are so quickly approached pokrovsk, due to the number, probably due to the number, in a huge number, so very large forces are thrown in this direction, do you see the goal of capturing donbass, that they are now moving towards this goal, is it possible that these plans are changing due to the kurdish operation , i... i think that the defense forces have put in their best efforts, they have taken important

lines, and the strategic plan, for sure, that the dictator, the dictator will not change, so they will continue to try to try to advance, and please tell me how much pokrovsk strengthened, because we very often had to hear on our broadcasts, and even from the deputies from the defense committee, that things are very bad in donbas. fortifications, or they are lacking, or they are of poor quality, and that is why the russian troops advanced very quickly through donbas during the last month, or they were not too stopped, not too restrained, in particular, on the example of novogrodivka, but there were such assumptions that maybe pokrovsk is sufficiently high-quality fortified, and this was the strategy of the armed forces of ukraine. how much you are you sure that pokrovsk will stand? i will say that moving between. units that are in the area of ​​​​responsibility of the brigade, i observe its well-prepared positions

against tanks, and dragon's teeth, and fortifications, and concrete, and communication with the march, therefore, the fortification measures are powerful, and you and we will talk about this in more detail later, but for example, yesterday i went from pokrovsk... on the last evacuation train, and - please explain what this means that the war will be in the city today or tomorrow, are street battles expected, this in particular and it is important to know for those people who were left there, they remained, because they remained, but imagine, more than 20, about 25 thousand people are now in pokrovsk, and there is no evacuation by train from there, and look at the street fights , so far things are not at all eh... we don’t speak, the enemy stopped at the border and starts using the tactics of using kabos,

covering them with kabos, filling it with enough ballistic missiles, that is why pokrovsk is regularly subjected to missile and air strikes, they are applied to er objects of critical infrastructure, pokrovsk , therefore on the life of the city, it is a very small city, it affects a lot, and the last question, there were also such criticisms from the representatives, from the deputies of the specialized committee that the front is approaching the city so quickly, because there are some problems with coordination between units, with management and including with rotations, they are carried out untimely or unprofessionally, or somehow uncoordinated, and this is also, well, among military experts there is a point of view that... that this is also the reason why russian troops are rapidly advancing through donbas, that, what can you say to that? well

the last week has shown that everything is good with planning, organization, so everything is holding and everything is controlled, stable, controlled, hard, but stable controlled. the situation is difficult, but under control, it's already a meme , you know, yes, i see you laughing, it's already... a joke, of course, but i would really like to hear realistic forecasts, including for those people who remain there, thank you very much, vitaliy milovidov, officer of the 15th operational brigade of the national guard, we... talked about the operational situation in the pokrovsky direction, and thank you very much, vitaly. the pressing of russian forces in the pokrovsky direction, as well as the ukrainian breakthrough in the kursk region, was commented on by the us special representative for ukraine, or rather former representative kurt volker. he noted that the presence of ukrainian forces on the territory of russia affects the conditions of any future negotiations, and

the situation at the front, i quote, is now more and more similar to bargaining. listen to what he said. the breakthrough into the kurdish region is strategically important for a number of reasons. he demonstrated that russian troops are on the limits of their capabilities. they cannot attack ukraine and defend russia at the same time. they will have to choose. the russians will have to withdraw some of their forces from eastern ukraine if they are going to retake kursk or try to do so. and evacuation trains from pokrovsk, donetsk region. trains are no longer running, russian forces are 8-10 km from the city, you could have heard this from our interlocutor just now, and i will also remind you that pokrovsk is one of the largest transport hubs in the region, which makes it an important target for russian forces, to at the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, the city was home to about 60,000 people, the last evacuation train

left the city yesterday, and the video of this evacuation was filmed by journalists from the local tv company orbit, but people in the... city remained, meaning civilians, many of them, according to the local almost 25 thousand authorities. we are leaving on the 30th, we were leaving with my husband on the 30th, he did not make it to pokrovsk for intensive care, he died, today is the sixth day, and i went on, buried him and went on, and i went on to bury him and i'm going further. there is absolutely nothing for us at home , houses are burning, but they are burning, no matter where the front line is going, directly on houses, on living houses, they are burning in one night, they demolished three

streets, all houses.

we just showed the evacuation from pokrovsk , and i would like to remind you that... from today , the evacuation trains from the city will not run, the local authorities announced this, and what is interesting, now the local authorities are offering people to leave pokrovsk, the first station from where to be evacuated, this is pavlograd, for understanding, pavlograd is already dnipropetrovsk region, and it is approximately 110-11 km from pokrovsk itself. the local authorities do not specify, at least publicly on their website, how people should cover the distance from pokrovsk to pavlograd. perhaps this is not public information, it is distributed among people directly in pokrovsk, but of course we tried to contact the local authorities and, if possible, we will immediately add them to the air today or in the following days to clarify everything. well , yevhen dyky, an international expert, joins our broadcast. scientist and veteran of the aidar battalion. i greet you, good evening. good evening, glory to ukraine. glory as a hero. how do you see

the situation in donbas, how threatening is it, and first of all, of course, it worries us. well, let's start with the fact that the pokrovskoe direction is not the most important, but it is the only direction, i emphasize this word, the only direction in which russia still really continues sufficiently serious and sufficiently successful offensive actions, this is the first of which it is necessary to start, it is not that it is very bad everywhere, pokrovsk is the worst. the pokrovsky direction is the only direction for which... russia has enough strength. this is very important to emphasize at this moment. in all other directions, russia, or, let's say, is fighting positional battles without any real active advancement. or as on the time ravine, as on the ughledar direction, as on the kurakhiv direction, he is trying to advance, but these attempts, fortunately for us, are unsuccessful so far.

so, the pokrovsky direction is not that there is some most important direction among the general bad picture, but it is the only one the direction for which russia really has enough forces, the largest number of them, both soldiers and equipment, are concentrated here and there, and they are also gathered there. their more combat-ready units, those who have been fighting this war for a long time, many of them since the 22nd year, and that is why he emphasizes this on one city, the russians still have strength, they still have enough strength to advance, and how threatening it is for us , of course we are very sorry, it is very unpleasant for us, well, it is sad that we are losing pokrovsk as a rear city, well, in fact, unfortunately, as a rear peaceful city, we have already lost pokrovsk. the front came closer to the city by 8 km, which means that mortars are not yet available, but anything more serious than mortars, i.e. barrel artillery, hailstones and everything, but it’s all already

close to the city, unfortunately, i.e. pokrovsk, as a peaceful rear town, unfortunately, is lost, does this mean that we lose pokrovsk, as, let's say, from the point of view of self-defense, and in no way, but first of all, the russians still have a long way to go to the city itself... 8 km, and we in civilian life can think that 8 km is that which can be driven in a couple of minutes by car, during the war , the geography is completely different, the arithmetic is completely different, the fact is that in order to approach pokrovsk by 8 km, the russians had to cover the previous 20 km, so they covered these 20 km with in the fall of last year, this is to understand the speed with which it is happening in general. voting at the front. and the second point, in fact, is even much more important, because i honestly suspect that they will overcome about 8 km here, well, in

a fairly short period of time, for example, the term, i ask because there are forecasts in the western press, they say that pokrovsk can be captured by the middle of september, about these forecasts in the western press, well, i would very much advise the people who write these forecasts to be a little simple... rewatch the history of this war, this is to be very delicate, i absolutely agree that by the middle of september they can go to the outskirts of pokrovsk, that is , they can reach pokrovsk, in my opinion, unfortunately, in a week or two, this is really real perspective, but what strikes me is that in the 24th year after 2.5 years of this war, these highly respected western experts put an equation between going... to pokrovsk and taking pokrovsk, and this is a fundamental difference. let's recall some things, and quite recently, the times of the ravine. unfortunately, as we

are now in the pokrov direction, we could not hold back the russians in a clean field. they went to chasiv yar 4.5 months ago, and for 4.5 months they have been trying to take chasiv yar, yes, they have reached it, what next? chasiv yar is... well, as one district of pokrovsk, it is much smaller small town. so, for 4.5 months, they cannot pass this town alone. they now control, well, according to my information anyway, well, honestly, it’s a little different from our official one, somewhere they control from half to 2/3 of the temporary i, but not even the whole city, they are not that there are not close to his admiration, they transferred him a little past the middle, plus or minus, this is for 4.5 months of very heavy fighting, so it's a short time, it's a tiny time actually. yes. turksk, if you remember, exactly one and a half months ago, a lot happened there one unpleasant story, it really happened there, just for one day, but there really was

a breakthrough of our front, during an unsuccessful rotation of two brigades, the russians were able to take advantage of this, and they went to the outskirts of turetsk, a month and a half passed, and they are still standing the eastern outskirts of turetsk, they didn't even enter the city, i'm not saying they didn't take it, they didn't enter it, but they did for a month and a half. exactly on the edge of the city, on its border, let's remember a little more ancient history, here bakhmud is comparable in size to pokrovsk, here pokrovsky is pre-war population 60 00, bahmud - 70 00. they took bahmud, but it took 10 months, and it took about 100 thousand of their losses, of which 40 thousand were only killed, if you remember, these losses were so painful for them that after this story the wagners rebelled in them. yes, i remember, i'm just here, you know, i want to clarify that in ukraine as well, well , it is generally accepted, i very often hear comments that

for... under coffee on the couch, the war is measured by who killed whom, it's generally about this is history, and when, excuse me, for each of our defenders and for each of our defenders in at the time of this, there were eight orcs in the bahmut, sorry, it is beneficial for us to fall out, yes , yes, this is absolutely terrible arithmetic, because each of our people, well, this is an irreversible loss, each of our people is a person, this is a person , but sorry, war is not a bit about humanism, war is precisely about arithmetic. you

admit that the battles for pokrovsk, they can resemble the battles for bahmud or for avdiivka, they are long, just like that, just like that, avdiivka has a population of 16,00, the orcs took it for four months, 20 thousand were killed, but the warriors were shooting when saw this picture, this is not an exaggeration in this case, in the literal sense, a warrior man shot himself when he saw them go into action, so now pokrovsk is in front of them, a city the size of bahamud and a city in which fortifications are already being bathed in residential areas, this is no secret. i am not revealing any secret information now, that is , apparently , our military command, which has much more information, came to the same conclusions that i reached, that most likely it will not be possible to stop the enemy in the field, he will reach pokrovsk really will arrive, but only then will the real battle begin. the battle for pokrovsk is not about reaching pokrovsk, the battle for pokrovsk is when these battles for every quarter begin, well, in reality it is for every house, and sometimes it happens for every entrance. i

know well, my friends fought in soledar, for example, well, it really happened when the same entrance changed hands several times and only then did some progress take place, it looks like this, but let me consider one more script sorry but i would like to clarify here and there, because when there was a battle for avdiyivka and bahmud, the circumstances were different, there were more soldiers, more trained soldiers, after that ukraine mobilized, there are complaints that even syrskyi admitted in an interview that the military was not sufficiently trained . or stop, stop, stop, you are claiming a lot of things now, where did you get them from? about the fact that the military does not go through enough training for them, well , they are the ones who went through enough, come on, in the 22nd year, in general, people went straight from the shopping center to front, and now we are saying that two months of preparation is really not enough, because we would like to do better and more, let's not overdo it, let's compare what was then and what is now,

not what now and what we would like. these are completely different comparisons. yes, good training of a soldier should take six months, but in the 22nd year, people did not have any training, they just went to the front with tsk. and now we think that yes, two months is a little too little. well, compare. well, you said that the ukrainian military is waiting the great battle for pokrovsk. a very hypothetical question, but nevertheless, because it is also discussed, i apologize, in the western press. if pokrovsk does not resist, how much. it is realistic that an offensive can begin on the dnipropetrovsk region, well, if pokrovsk can no longer hold out, and if after that the russians have reserves left, these are two very different things, if, let me remind you once again, bakhmut, the same size as pokrovsk, cost 100,000 casualties , well, well, listen, honestly, i understand that the press is free, it is very free, you have all the rights, but i just now see a runner.

the deadline you put on the screen, where the russian forces can go next, yes, this is a key question, yes, this is a key question, now, no, this is not a key question, i'm sorry, but why do you ask this question, when in fact, after all after all, the first question is whether they will pass the poprovskoe at all, the second question, if they pass in how many months, exactly months, this was the measure, the third question is how much it will cost them, at what price it will cost them, the fourth question is what will remain with them after that , and then only the fifth question will become relevant, and you put it on now, that's called swagger, that's panic mongering, excuse me, you're funded by the us congress, which side of this war do you work for? we work for our audience.