this really has never happened in the entire full-scale war, we knew every step, we knew which one we had to go through, we entered so successfully, god led us, secured us, there are officers, soldiers, we also encountered a group of drg, which we successfully crushed , so that they took two prisoners, i watched the entrance to... "watched the entrance of the troops from one side, from the other side, and understood that, in principle, soon the ring should close, and we will be surrounded, surrender, you will live, surrender, you can already say they came up, i asked: "whose are you, friend, silence", i raised my head and i saw blue tape on the helmet, men, men, let's get out, surrender if you want to live... let's go, they filled their pockets and

left, the goats abandoned us. damn how many guys. we took part in this column, so my guys shouted, we need to hit, we need to stop this column, because it was moving towards us. therefore, it was very beautiful and a very, i would say yes, successful hunt. in almost a month of the offensive in the kursk region, the armed forces of ukraine, according to the general staff, took control of almost 1,300 km of russian territory and more than 100 settlements. russia does not officially confirm these figures. meanwhile, ukrainian troops continue to advance. in this issue of donbas-reality , we will talk about the course and significance of this military operation with its direct participants, and also show what...

is happening now in the russian city of suja, which is now under the control of the armed forces. my name is igor loginov, congratulations. in the district center of suja , you will hardly meet locals on the streets, most have left, those who remain, mostly pensioners, are sitting in basements. slept well tonight, tonight was the only night i got some sleep today there were no such baboons, except that there was only one night and that was it.

russian troops regularly bombard the city and the settlements around it with mortars and artillery, and many local residents, for whom the russian authorities have not created a humanitarian corridor, are being asked to evacuate them to the territory of ukraine. they lined their pockets.

the enemy has already begun to apply both artillery fire and kabs, but kabs at night, again, on the enterprises that remained, respectively, with the aim that we could not use them in the future, places where they try to find us, or they think we are there, respectively, so it is applied to the population. point and every day, unfortunately, more and more destruction. the offensive of the armed forces of ukraine in kursk region began on august 6 and proceeded rapidly. according to western osin analysts, ukrainian troops captured the suja border crossing in two days and broke through two defense lines of the russian army, taking the first prisoners. the main

measures of preparation for covert movement of units were carried out, accordingly, first of all, this the organization was a transfer. of information, a limited circle of people, access, of course, the same, also a limited circle, and accordingly, the purpose of the move was already proven by the unit in fact, before already completing the task, no, why did the units move here, for what operation and in general, what is planned next, due to this, we managed to hide an additional one from the enemy. disinformation worked in the same way, the enemy thought until the end that we would restore the position along the state border in the kharkiv area, we knew every step, we knew which tree we had to pass by, we we understood where our equipment would go, we understood

how the barrier would pass, we understood how we would fill the ditches, we understood everything, we guided. oh, ours, suja to the right, sumy to the left. i was personally shocked that we would go there, but with our heads held high, we sat on the bmp, with a group of our brothers, we were already ready to go there. in the first days of the offensive, experienced units of the armed forces of ukraine were opposed mainly by conscript soldiers. the exception was drg groups, which previously... organized sabotage in in the sumy region, we also encountered a group of the drg, which we successfully crushed, so that two were taken prisoners, the last of them, you understand

who the drg group is, the drg are well -trained soldiers, regardless of whether they are ukrainians there or, well, here the distance was between there are 100 meters across the pond and they didn’t know that we were there, that’s why we got in so successfully, he led us in a godly way, secured us, the first group gave me a report that they saw a group that was moving without identification marks, with good equipment, we fixed them, they let me get closer, i shot with rpg, immediately 5200, the rest. one was unharmed, three were, well, wounded in the legs, that is, they were also immobilized, and then, after sitting on the bmp, we moved across the lake, there we went around the lake, well, we captured russian soldiers surrendered both individually and

en masse, later the commander-in-chief of the armed forces oleksandr syrsky announced the figure: the exchange fund was replenished by 594 people. men, men. well, they understand that they can kill there, roughly speaking, the first people who came to them, but then they can't get out of there, well there were cases when one or two soldiers surrounded 5-10 or more soldiers, there were cases when one officer came out and said, "i have a lot of people there, we are ready to surrender, well... don't kill, and they surrendered, and secondly, well, they understood that the car is coming, it's not just an event there to show off, but the army is already coming, which is coming with

tanks, which is coming with field kitchens and fuel, a sergeant or someone said don't go out, ours took the conscripts prisoner, the major, two ensigns, the major took them all out himself. himself all well, he understands that they won't enter the battle like that, they can lose, and everyone dies like that, so they don't want to, even the contract workers we hired, many of them are already completely surrendered, we heard over the radio, some of them are surrendering, there others surrender, that is, no one wants to fight, not to die, or rather, it is strange, surrender, surrender, you will live.

held out for a long time compared to other positions held by the russians, so it is not right to say that everyone surrendered. the largest surrender, which we already know officially, is about a hundred military personnel surrendered, accordingly, this really did not happen during the entire... in fact, a full-scale war. donbass reality managed to communicate with russian prisoners of war. from the conversation it became clear that they were poorly armed, disoriented, and their command ignored the signals about the upcoming zasu offensive. they began to bombard us with mortars of a larger caliber,

they began to bombard us with mortars of a larger caliber, they dismantled our support with a thermobar, the support was large, and they cut us off from the second part, they reduced and one position where he was supposed to enter the outfit was closed, at night it became more difficult, there the babayaga constantly flew in and it was as if they were throwing, we went to the officer's office to find out what to expect, what our further actions are, will anyone come? or what should we do, they haven't been told anything yet, they haven't said anything, it's the sixth number, when the entrance began, it was exactly that massed, well, first there was preparation, on the sixth day, when the entrance began, it was just so massed, well , first there was preparation, somewhere more massive shelling began on the fourth, began to use more aircraft from ukraine, and fpv drones, and began to drop more. that is, if by the 6th we did not have contact with the command, and at that time we ourselves understood,

based on the situation, from what was happening on the right side, we also had a bird, this mavik, we were raising it , observed, observed the entry of troops from one side, from the other side and understood that, in principle , the ring should close soon, and we will be surrounded, did you have weapons, is there a radio? chaos and panic among the russian military led to the fact that they simply abandoned their positions, most, according to the soldiers of the armed forces, surrendered. there are officers, soldiers, they found our position with a rapier mine, they found our position, a mortar, a rapier, they came there, decided to look for water and... food there, found some water and a can of stew, ate, drank and decided somewhere

to lie down for an hour and then go, then we heard a sensation that someone was working with our rapier, the sergeant ordered us to go and check, well, a comrade noticed the people, we decided to hide, then, when they began to come closer, they could already be said to have come, i asked: whose are you, my friend, be quiet, i raised my head and saw a blue tape on the fairy tale, i understood that it was not ours, which at this moment was somewhere around. .. 100-120 m from the left side and from the right side , two mortars were working, we were surrounded, so there was no sense in the three of us to fight some kind of battle, we were surrounded, it was pointless to fight some kind of battle in three, they went from the right side to the left through here they went from the right side and from the left through the settlement nikoladarna, and then already in the evening they united, and there is only one road from the checkpoint in biksudja, and it was already blocked, and they already, well, how much... at three o'clock, they probably already started to approach the checkpoint, again, all this was under the fire

of artillery and tanks, there were about 20 of us at the checkpoint, and from the nearest strongholds that were there, those who managed survived, somehow they all got to us and were already trying to organize something like a defense, well, with automatic weapons, how to organize a defense against tanks and artillery, when to organize a defense against tanks and... serhiy is an anti-tanker, he is the only one of the prisoners of war interviewed by us who has experience of fighting in the donbass, the rest, according to them, stood at the border during the entire time of russia's full-scale war against ukraine and did not participate in battles. serhiy was brought to kursk oblast for reinforcement, as he claims, on the day of the ukrainian offensive. they gave me a machine gun, one horn and gave me an installation. they gave me a submachine gun, one rifle and gave me an installation, i ask if there will be rockets, they say rockets

they will give you a ride, and the shelling started, i tried something, i wanted to shoot back, the machine gun jerked, i wanted to shoot, i fired two shots, my machine jammed, that’s it, neither there nor back, and i can’t remove the horn, nothing, i dropped the machine and i ran, thought i would ask someone there, they were already shouting anyway, there were three hundred, two hundred, i thought... that i would take someone's machine gun, there were two resets, a fragment hit me in one hand and in the other shoulder, my arms immediately refused, blood was pouring out of this hand in a fountain, i was dragged. who was very heavy, then another car left, then two cars were driven by those who were not so badly injured, and here we were driving along the road, two cars and a quad bike, from the bushes from the forest plantation , all the cars that were driving were fired upon, from

the forest plantation, all the cars were fired upon completely , who were driving, so let's go... a young guy came up, said: wait, i'm a doctor, take my hand, there was no blood, he said he would bandage it. so, friends, i will make a short report, we have climbed almost the entire suja, we are almost in the very center, we have just come from there. on the third day of the operation ukrainian troops, according to the institute for the study of war, broke through 35 km deep into russian territory in some areas. and controlled the western part of sudji. the area occupied by zaisu reached the mark of 350 km. the main such task of my brigade was the taking of the suja itself, the entire city and the suburbs, which are near the suja. the brigade completed the task, i.e. without massive

destruction, respectively of houses and the rest, i.e. civilian. in the same way, we were allowed to go out as much as possible, accordingly, this is for us also created positive conditions that a large number of civilian vehicles filled the roads and it was more difficult for the enemy to advance with his reserve. the army of the russian federation did not immediately begin to pull up reserves to the kursk region. at first , the russian military leadership declared that the situation was under control and the armed forces had been pushed to the state border. a group to strengthen the protection of the state border was deployed, which consisted of conscripts and battalions, which were withdrawn to restore combat capability in a relatively quiet and peaceful places such as kursk, belgorod, and bryansk regions for replenishment, re-formation,

provision, treatment there and such other things, people came there to bring. themselves in order, by no means to fight, so let's add to what has already been said a moral unpreparedness for conducting intensive combat operations against an enemy who knows, knows how and wants to fulfill its combat task, their group turned out to be completely unprepared, now the territory is saturated according to the chechen model in that that came to hand. they are trying to create something like a military one from this motley kolkhoz group, but this is handled by the head of the federal security service, appointed from moscow, and colonel-general dyumin, who made a career in the state security of the russian federation, is the coordinator. i don't know at all what they are counting on. the russian federation,

servicemen of the russian federation, your command has abandoned you. ukrainian intelligence, according to the participants of the operation, tried to identify the routes of movement of reserve units in advance and break them up on the approach, for example, like this column in the area of ​​the village of zhovtneve. according to various western estimates experts, in this case the losses of the russian army ranged from 200 to 500 people. damn, guys, how many, how many? we were taking part in this column, so my boys were shouting: we must, we must hit, we must stop this column, because it was moving towards us, so it would be very beautiful and very, i would say yes, good hunting, i would not

said that we understood that there was a lot of infantry, we saw vehicles that were moving in a column at night, and we stopped them. we already saw what was there in the morning. only on the sixth day of the ukrainian offensive the russian military managed to more or less stabilize the situation. at that time, according to the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces oleksandr syrskyi, the ukrainian army already controlled more than 1,000 km of the territory of the kursk region. i think that on the eve of this operation , the ukrainian government assessed... the trajectory of the war. the government saw that nato was not changing its strategy, sticking to the position of helping ukraine stay afloat, but no more. the us administration probably wasn't going to make any major... changes until next year, they don't have a strategy, russia's strategy remains the subjugation of ukraine, so i think that president zelensky and his advisers believed that only

ukraine could change the status quo of the war, change the trajectory of the war, and the course operation became the means by which they tried to achieve this. now i think the strategic objective is correct, whether the kurdish campaign will achieve it in due time remains to be seen. the enemy has no fresh strategic reserves, they formed two armies last year, both of which are already involved in hostilities and do not rest at all, operational the enemy lacked reserves even to increase its efforts in the pokrov direction, therefore, in order to somehow respond to our... invasion of the kursk region, the enemy took combat units from the front, from those that had already reached the kursk region, i see two brigades

of marines, 155-810, remote assault brigade 11, which went there from podklyshchivka, under klivshchivka russian paratroopers were replaced by three mobilization rifle battalions. several military units from combat divisions went there, pulled out of separate brigades, battalion tactical groups, all this now, who has arrived, who is still arriving, is being deployed there, an operational structure is being created in order to, if not stop our troops, at least limit their opportunities for maneuvering and advancing in depth. ugh, somewhere the enemy has up to six or eight brigades today, it ’s no longer possible to make big leaps, but

we are still advancing, so we are not stopped, we can say that the enemy is not entrenched, for the units that arrive here , it still is new terrain, they are still not very oriented, so accordingly we... have the advantage of dealing more damage fire. i don't think we will see too many territories occupied by ukrainians. i think, at least in the short to medium term, they will identify an area that is easier for them to defend, that they can support logistically, that they can cover with air defenses , and that they can use to destroy as many russian forces as possible that will be thrown against them in the coming weeks. from a military point of view, we have already achieved the creation of a certain sanitary border, and the number of artillery fire on the territory

of the sumy region has radically decreased, the enemy is only able to use air weapons and missiles, because there is no physical possibility to shoot along the border of the sumy region, this is the first thing that we have already received, but the second. i think that the military command is working on creating a threat to the group of enemy troops sever, which is conducting combat operations in the kharkiv direction. the third goal can be considered the third achievement. the enemy has fallen into a situation of strategic uncertainty and is forced to shift available forces and means from other directions in order to counteract the new threat on the territory of the kurdish region. as stated by the head of zais oleksandr'. the russian army has already transferred about 30,000 people to the kursk region, including from the kharkiv and kherson directions of the front, but not from pokrovsky in donbas,

which the ukrainian military command was apparently counting on. it is there, no matter what, that russia throws all its main ones reserves these were donbas realities, my name is yehor loginov, see you soon. greetings, we are looking for this boy, his name is oleksiy koltsov, he is 15 years old and he disappeared without growth in the city of genichesk, kherson region, this happened on february 24, 2023. genichevsk is temporarily occupied, so there is currently no way to find out the details of oleksiy's disappearance, but we are very... we hope that we will be able to find the boy with your help. so please look carefully at the photo of oleksiy, look into his face. maybe you know something about him.

perhaps you know where he may be now, or if you have information about his relatives, acquaintances or friends, then do not delay and immediately notify us on the hotline of the child tracing service at the number 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free . it is also very important to share the video about the search for oleksiy on social networks. so please repost this program on your facebook. instagram is the least you can do to help find a boy. let's not be indifferent, and let's try together to find 15-year-old oleksiy. of course, it is possible that the boy may still remain in the temporarily occupied territory. and if it is really so, of course, the search process will be significantly complicated. but even in such a situation, we have hope that this video, at least on the internet, will be seen in

the occupied... part of the kherson region. we understand that it is problematic to call ukrainian-controlled territories from the occupation. moreover, people are afraid, and it is understandable. so if you are in occupation but if you know anything about oleksiy koltsov, please at least write to us on the website of the children's search service or to the chatbot of the children's search service in telegram. we guarantee your anonymity and encourage you not to remain indifferent. to the fate of the boy. we are also looking for this little girl, whose name is amina dorokhova. five-year-old amina also disappeared in the kherson region. it happened on november 17, 2022. the girl was last seen in the city of hola prystan. actually, just like in the first story, due to the fact that the child disappeared in the occupied territory, unfortunately, about almost nothing is known about the circumstances of the disappearance.

so in situations like this, it's very... great hope for witnesses, people who might have seen the missing child somewhere, or know about her or her family, at least some information, so i ask everyone who sees this video to look carefully at amina's face, please let us know any known information about the girl, you can do this by dialing the short number 11630, this is the magnolia children's tracing service hotline, which works 24 hours a day, you can also write to the children's tracing service chatbot in telegram. in general, after the full-scale invasion, we received a lot of missing persons and the vast majority of boys and girls disappeared precisely during the occupation. of course, for obvious reasons, the search process in territories not controlled by ukraine is extremely difficult. however, general advice if you have a missing child in the occupied territory is as follows. if possible, contact the police or

magnolia children's services by any means available and report the child's disappearance with any information you know that may assist in the search. collect data about the child, write down his full name, date of birth, circumstances and place of disappearance. of course, if possible, find photos of the child and inform about his special signs and circle of communication. in the future, follow the instructions of the police or child tracing service hotline consultants. magnolia. i also ask everyone who sees us to go to the website of the children's tracing service. if you recognize any of these boys and girls, please call our hotline immediately on 11630. calls from all mobile operators in ukraine are free. we have created a resource through which you can report any crime against a child. in any city, at

any time. just go to the site and report, and we will launch all possible mechanisms to punish the criminal. stop crime ua. greetings to all viewers of the espresso tv channel. we start the information day with news, khrystyna porubiy works in the studio. at night, the russians shelled kharkiv with guided aerial bombs, four private houses were damaged and a garage caught fire. no casualties so far - said the mayor of the city ihor terekhov. on the other hand, the number of injured people in dergachs in kharkiv region increased. so far, it is known about one dead person, this is a 76-year-old woman.