listen, well, honestly, well, i understand that the press is free, it is very free, you have all the rights, but just now i see the running time limit that you put on the screen, where the russian forces can go next, that is the key question, yes , this is the key question now, no, this is not the key question, i'm sorry, but why do you ask this question, when in fact, after all, the first question is, will they pass pokrovsk at all, the second question, if they pass in how many months, exactly one month? how much is it for them, at what price will it cost them, the fourth question is what they have after this will remain, and then only the fifth question will become relevant, and you are already asking it, this is called reshuffle, this is called raising panic moods, excuse me, you are funded by the us congress, which of the two sides of this war are you working for, we are working for our audience. to

satisfy all her informational needs, in particular the need for panic, in particular the need for completely unfounded fears, and the need for the truth, including the need for the truth, evgeny, let me, i told some lie, well, catch me on this, show me, you speak, you and i are talking about analytics, you are now voicing forecasts, so of course, and i am voicing issues that are currently worrying many ukrainians when... reports appear, including in the western press, and are reprinted by the ukrainian press , and it says that the situation in the pokrovsk region is very, very difficult, and she, well, that's very good, you just finally used the correct wording, the situation in the pokrovsk region is really difficult, because so far the battles are not in the city, for now the battles are in in a clear field, and you know, you won’t believe it, but it is very difficult in earthen fortifications to withstand the blows of 500 kilogram bombs,

yes, russian cabs and fabs take out our fortifications, yes, it is very difficult in a clear field to hold back the enemy’s advance, when after the blows of the cabs and there are small groups of infantry going through the fabs in very large numbers, you know, like cockroaches, when you kick them like that with a slipper and you kill eight and two break through, it's really very difficult, but it has nothing to do with the questions whether pokrovsk will fall, as soon as he will fall and where will they go next... as you formulated in a straight line and where will the russian troops go next, we have formulated the question in this way, and we have been formulating it since the beginning of a full-scale war, where will they go next, well, our job is to formulate the question, you voiced five questions , can i give you a sixth one, let's go, okay, thank you, today in an interview with cnn, yesterday, to be more precise, oleksandr syrskyi said that the kursk operation helped to slow down the offensive in donbas, and he said that the last six days in the pokrov direction there was no promotion.

how would the kurdish operation be connected with the offensive in donbas, is it really connected, as syrskyi says? it is related only to my personal opinion, i emphasize, this is exclusively my private assessment, but it is related, unfortunately, somewhat differently, but i absolutely share the point of view that the kurdish operation is so far, at least very successful, i believe that this is actually the best thing that we have done since the fall of 22, after we liberated kharkiv oblast and kherson, in fact, after that we had no comparable successes, this is the best thing that we have done so far succeeded over the past year and a half, but there is a nuance here: if someone hoped that with our offensive on kurshchyna we would immediately draw the enemy's forces away from the donbass, in particular from the pokrovsky direction, this is precisely the calculation, he did not succeed, and it did not work, well, for completely understandable reasons reasons for me personally, the fact is that if... the russian command, in

the first place, proceeded from such a purely linear military logic: they attacked our territory, we, well, theirs, in the russian sense , they need, first of all, accordingly, they need to first of all, accordingly, somehow protect this territory and throw out the enemy from there, then it would work, they really have no other directions except donetsk, but at the moment pokrovsky is the first priority. so, where can you transfer sufficiently combat-ready units, where there is both a sufficient number and a sufficient quality of their troops, who could really, well, seriously oppose us on the course in the kursk region, maybe even really throw us back on the territory of ukraine. they do not have such parts, but they have chosen a different strategy, they have decided for now just don't give a damn about what is happening in the chicken coop, that is, to pretend that it is not important at all, although in fact it is absolutely not so.

but here in this case they are making a very risky bet, they are just effectively giving us the chicken for the time being, all they have been able to do so far is to slow us down. not even to stop, just to slow down for the time being, instead, on the contrary, they are speeding up their attack on pokrovsk as much as possible, and this includes all their very powerful propaganda machine, to pretend that what is happening in kurshchyna is some kind of trifle, it's some kind of border incident, almost a border skirmish, or , in the worst case for them, some kind of raid, as you remember, maybe basayev went to budonovsk in his time, that's what they are... that's what they are, by the way, they communicate very competently, but unlike their army, which copes with its task very well, their information troops worked brilliantly, but unfortunately, i have to admit it, they built a very cool and competent structure, which kurshkini someone in the cities

did not see through, and accordingly something so small, some incident happened, well, there the khokhlys felt the slack and went on a raid, and in the meantime... there is supposedly a strategically important offensive on pokrovsk, which almost decides the fate of this war, although in fact, i am very i'm sorry, but nothing is happening in donbas right now that hasn't been happening there for 2.5 years in a row, and the raicenter pokrovsk, which they haven't even reached yet, and the raicenter is under our control, but, but they try to present it like this , some trifle on the chicken coop and supposedly strategically important events in pokrovsky. suja, suja is a small town, there are 500, there is no comparison with pokrovsky, but allow me one last clarification, if possible , briefly, what do you think, thank you for another support for russian propaganda, okay, give your clarification, this is a comparison, just novogorodivka 12 00, well, that is, objectively, yes, in principle, donbass is more populated than

the kursk region, and if you look at the area, how much they occupied during their pokrovsky offensive, the difference is very big, i agree, but for some reason you... and i believe that our audience is primarily interested in us winning this war, you are - i believe the same, of course, well that's what you're working against now, no, i 'm working for our audience. it's a lie, because you see, both what you say is true and what i say is true, you didn't catch me in a lie, but for some reason, from the big array of rules, the array of truth, you and i choose different aspects, and think at your leisure , why do you choose these in particular, evgeny,

one last clarification, if you may, you said that tough battles for pokrovsk are ahead, do you think it makes sense to hold kurshchyna for as long as ukraine can at this very time? to hold, unequivocally, i believe that kurshchyna should be held and, by the way, if possible, we should further expand our territory there, because this potential has not yet been exhausted, once again, they have not stopped our offensive yet, they have only slowed it down so far, it is necessary to increase area, then dig in and hold as long as possible, because if we leave soon, it will really work, well, they will be able to cover it up as if coincidence, as if it were a raid, a raid, something like that. they will still have to assemble a strike group and try to knock us out of there, and it will not be easy to say the least, then it will finally become clear that this is not about chance, but when, excuse me, we will be there for months, when it is precisely about regularity, about the weakness

of russia, about the weakness of the kremlin regime, namely weakness - this is the only thing that the russians do not forgive their tsars. thank you very much, yevhen dyka, international expert, scientist and veteran of the aidar battalion. talked about the situation on donbas and talked about the kurdish operation. thank you very much. well, today is not only a month since the start of the kurdish operation, but also a year since rostem mayor took over as the head of the ministry of defense. he came to replace oleksiy reznikov against the background of high-profile corruption scandals, which alone were worth 17 eggs each. merov also had to restore trust in the ministry of defense, not to mention that the ministry needed reforms. today is the anniversary of umirov's tenure in office. who congratulated him on his appointment a year ago, stated that they were wrong, well, for example, the executive director of the anti-corruption center, daria kalyniuk, the head of the air intelligence support center, maria berlinska, and the director of the new europe center , alyona hetmanchuk, wrote an article in the pages of ukrainian pravda, where, among other things, they stated

that administrative chaos in the key for warring country's ministry only deepened in a year and became a systemic problem, they call the defense department itself the ministry of chaos. why so today we will also talk about it, daria has already joined the broadcast kalynyuk, executive director of the anti -corruption center, daria, i congratulate you, good afternoon, you had a great publication there, obviously we won't have time to retell it. but i would like you to voice the claims you have against rustem umyerov point by point, well, it is also possible to voice the strengths, because they also exist, and you also mention them in your publication? yes, of course, in fact, before the publication, we spent a year trying to convey privately through various analysts, various meetings, various beliefs to the very the minister, what should be improved, improved in the ministry of... after all, we publicly supported him and there were high expectations from rustem omierov, first of all, in building

a strong institution, because former minister reznikov, although he spoke well at various public meetings, especially abroad, did little within his department, did not manage, did not manage the ministry, therefore zelenskyi positioned omirov as a very powerful manager and it was expected from him that the work of the institution would actually be improved, but unfortunately, for this whole year, we we do not see anything more than chaos in management, because the structure of the ministry has changed several times, deputies are fired, then appointed, it is not known, even between the deputies themselves, where the responsibility and authority of one deputy begins, where the responsibility and authority of another deputy begins, and this is very has a negative impact on our ability ... to do serious complex projects that our, our army, our armed forces need, and that are necessary in

order to maintain the trust of our international partners and a high level of international aid, but the most striking failure, in my opinion, in zaonmirov's ministry of defense was a failure precisely in the international community, in international cooperation, because, first of all, we did not have a specialized deputy minister for eight months who would be responsible for .. military assistance and cooperation with our international partners, this affected the fact that various fragments of the ministry of defense and various parts of our armed forces communicated chaotically with our partners, the partners did not have a permanent so-called point of contact, that is, the main person who would coordinate this technical work and cooperation with ours at a high level, you have heard such complaints from partners, yes. yes, i have heard such complaints more than once, and i will not name these partners, but these are the partners who provide

us with the most help, we all know them, uh, and well, that is, when the minister tells her that all technical issues can to solve with me over the phone, and does not explain who is responsible in his department for solving daily technical issues, that is, you understand billions of dollars in aid, it's not... going to the supermarket, especially if it's armed aid. in america, for example, we advised the minister from the very beginning to create a powerful separate department or department that is only engaged in the analysis of all programs of international military aid from the united states, and that this department should account for every dollar of this aid. but here is an available example, today reuters published an article about the possible loss of $6.2 billion from one of the... programs of american aid to ukraine, the so-called presidential write-offs already on september 30 of this year, we knew about this

problem before, and a few weeks ago we informed the ministry of defense and our other senior leadership of the state that there was such a problem, there was no examination in the system within the ministry of defense to understand that some kind of crisis was brewing there , so that it needs to be saved, it needs to be worked out somehow at the diplomatic, political and military level. er, with our partners, that these funds should not be burned, but that they should be used, here, but in general, our main expectation was from the minister of defense and ministry of defense, in order to retain the help of partners, we, they must understand what they are investing in, there must be a war plan, a victory plan, i am glad that our president zelensky announced at a press conference the other day that he will bring a victory plan to america soon, but... this victory plan should be very detailed with different options

for our possible actions with those capabilities that need to be strengthened. that is, when we provide a huge list of weapons that our armed forces need, it is not enough to say that it is needed in order to equip 16 new brigades, it is necessary to explain that we need this weapon in order to strengthen our capabilities in order to shoot down. drones at the frontline or to strengthen the protection of our critical infrastructure facilities. this, unfortunately, is not done, and most importantly, there is no one main person inside. of the ministry that would coordinate it, be responsible for it, that would keep it all on, i understand that what you came out with this with this message in public space, it already happened after you could not reach the minister privately, what did he answer to you about these accusations about the chaos in his ministry? there was a lot of communication, we first voiced not

publicly to the minister with a detailed description of the problems that exist inside the department and what our partners asked us to repair back in september of last year, when the minister was just appointed, and we expected that a responsible person will be appointed in the ministry, a deputy from the international community, who will solve and develop these problems infrastructure to solve these problems, but the minister said: that's great, everything is needed, he promised, but nothing was done, that is, we are tired of such empty chatter and meetings where they seem to agree with us, but then operationally... at the operational level, everything warns , nothing else is done, so we, well, again, there were a lot of attempts and opportunities to talk, clarify, advise, then there were no people, then there was no expertise, then there was no time, and there are people, and there is expertise, and there is time to build institutions, no it was the desire of the minister himself, who did not take this situation seriously, so we went public,

i will only say that we appealed, radio freedom appealed to the ministry of defense, we also invited... the spokesperson to join the broadcast, but so far they have not agreed to us this communication, but we are open to invite, please, we will be happy to listen to the side of the ministry. thank you very much, daria kalyniuk, executive director of the anti-corruption center. that's all we have for today, i urge you to subscribe to the radio liberty page on the internet, put it on like this broadcast, in this way you will support our work, and svoboda live will return to the air on monday. the czech republic and ukraine are waiting for the league of nations, where they need to score as many points as possible. support our boys on september 10 at 21:45, exclusively on mego. in september, there are discounts on relief, 10% in

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your help it will be possible to find it. let's take a closer look at the photo of the missing child. jana just recently turned 17. she has long dark hair and an oval face. if suddenly someone saw a girl or knows at least one. information about her, immediately call us on the hotline of the magnolia children's search service at the short number 11630. calls from all ukrainian mobile operators are free, you can also contact us using the telegram bot of the children's search service. i also want to remind you that we are not stopping the search for 17-year-old serhiy samoilov, who also disappeared almost in the first days of the full-scale war, but already in mariupol. the boy's mother said that life in the city was unbearable, the situation worsened every hour. from the bombings. the family hid in the basement, but shelling was far from the only

problem of the residents of mariupol. there was no internet, electricity, water, we even drank technical water from a technical well. then the whole family was poisoned. he could neither drink nor eat. speaking, it was quite difficult, all the shops looted, there was no lift, we just sat and wanted to eat. despite all the horrors , the absence of the internet bothered 15-year-old serhiy samoilov the most. that is why the boy wanted to leave mariupol. he was very fond of computers, programs, studied, tried to develop them, created a server, that's why he left home, because at home... there was no communication, no internet, of course, there were also water and food problems, he was going to go in the direction of pokrovsk. serhiy was planning to go to his mother's acquaintance in pokrovsk, this

also the donetsk region, approximately 200 km from mariupol, and the boy's family did not dare to leave the house, so serhiy left alone. it happened on march 6, at four o'clock in the evening. my grandmother and i did not let him go, because we were shooting around a lot. and, to be honest, we didn't have anything to eat or drink even then. it was very scary. he took with him on his shoulder bag, there was a computer. dressed the way young people dress. i thought he was coming around the house and would come back. and serhiyko had already left the house, and when he had already left, i already understood what my grandmother and i did, we couldn't hold him back. so far, only one thing is known: serhiy never got to pokrovsk. the boy did not return home either, and no one knows where he is now. serhiy's mother still lives in mariupol and does not lose hope of finding her son.

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congratulations, the program of the ukrainian service is on the air voice of america time time. me and the host oleksii. on september 6, us president joe biden announced an additional $250 million military aid package to ukraine, which included air defense missiles, ammunition for jet systems and artillery, armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons. the full list of american aid was published on the pentagon's website. among other things, the new aid package from the us includes the rome-7 anti-aircraft missile, the stinger missile, ammunition for haimars, 10.55 and 105 mm shells anti-tank missiles and systems, as well as combat vehicles of the bradley infantry. this announcement was made during another meeting in

the ramstein format. in general, the country is a coalition. have already provided ukraine with military aid worth more than 106 billion dollars, the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, announced this . my colleague ostap yarysh, who is joining our live broadcast today, followed all the updates of remstein, as well as the announcement of the pentagon. congratulations ostap. congratulations oleksya. ostape, today there was an actual announcement about the provision of a new aid package to ukraine. at the same time, in september, as we know, there may be a deadline for using about 6 billion dollars, which the usa has allocated for assistance to ukraine within the framework of the presidential powers program. what is the situation with this money? yes, indeed, oleksiy, at the end of september we know that the current fiscal year in the united states ends, and indeed, the powers that congress granted the president to provide arms to ukraine may expire by then, if they are not extended. i will explain what it is about. we are now talking about one of the support programs of ukraine, a program of presidential powers under which the united states provides weapons to ukraine

from its own stockpiles. and since we are talking about the provision of weapons, not money, we are not talking about cash that is conditionally lying somewhere in accounts and can potentially burn, but we are talking about the authority to provide weapons for a specific maximum amount, which can be exhausted if congress so it will not be approved, these powers are approved by the american congress, this is what we hear, so the situation is really what it is now, if the congress not in... does not take the necessary measures, then these six billion, we are talking about such an amount, may be drained at the end of september, in order for this not to happen, a request from the administration to the american congress is needed to extend these powers. we're actually working on a bigger piece on that right now, but in the meantime, we've directed questions to the pentagon, actually, what's going to happen to this amount, the $6 billion after september, is it going to run out, is this

authority going to extend it, in the pentagon for... what arms deliveries to ukraine will continue , they will not stop and that they will do everything necessary to use the entire available amount. let's listen to the comment of the deputy spokesperson of the pentagon, savrina sineh. as you know, we have been working very hard with congress to secure this additional assistance and provide money for ukraine for the pda and usai assistance packages. i don't have information for you on what that means for the amount that's left, but i can tell you, you've seen us continue to announce relief packages almost every day under the presidential powers program, they vary in size, but we continue to do that on an ongoing basis, and i have no doubt that we will use everything that is available to us to continue to provide ukraine with what it needs, both in the short term and and in the long

run. the president has said this before. the minister has said this, and you will hear him say it again: we are in this fight with ukraine for the long term, we support them in their needs on the battlefield, both in the long term and in the short term, so you see how we use these funds in any way possible. ostapa, for the first time at the ramshtein air base, where the meeting actually took place, the ukrainian president was personally present, what messages did you hear from him? yes, indeed, oleksiy, this is rather an unusual presence at'. at the meetings in the armstein format, it is not the first time he joins them, but the first time, as you rightly said, was at the armstein air base in germany, and indeed today he addressed the partners who gathered there with an opening speech, of course he thanked them for support was provided before that, but he said that ukraine needs more for victory, which he said in his speech, of course he mentioned to oleksiy about the situation on the battlefield and, in particular , about what is currently happening in the pokrovsky

direction, he also said that for ... the protection of the ukrainian sky requires more air defense systems and emphasized that the patriot systems promised by the partners, which we heard in july this year, have not all actually reached ukraine, so he called for more active actions and to speed up of these supplies. he also said that in order to shoot down russian missiles and drones, ukraine needs more f-16 aircraft, which ukraine already has in its arsenal. of course, he also raised the topic of long-range strikes on the territory of russia. volodymyr zelenskyi said that ukraine is efficient. uses long-range missiles of american production in attacks on the territory of crimea, and this helped to stabilize the security situation in the black sea, and ukraine needs to expand the permission to use such missiles on the territory of russia, as he said, for of how zelensky said to motivate russia towards peace. the president also mentioned that ukraine is increasing its own capacity and weapons production, in particular, when we talk about drones or other other

systems, but yes... he also called on allies to invest and to