these are our long-time partners, from the first days they supported all the shelters where the displaced people lived, where the victims of the war lived. mr. stanislav denys with his wife maria and pets are among those who have been living in the modular town for more than a week. they do not complain about the conditions in the module, but they dream of returning to their apartment as soon as possible. there were commissions, well, the acts were recorded, so they said that they would supply windows, well... it will be somewhere, well, at least in a month and a half, for residents who lost their apartments due to an enemy attack and decided to rent housing, the city will compensate the rent. the relevant decision was taken by the executive committee of the lviv city council on september 5. we are talking about compensations in the amount of 10, 12 and 15 thousand, according to which apartment people had that was destroyed, one with two and four rooms. by the way, according to the same scheme , the lviv city council until... compensates for

housing rent from the city budget to those who lost their homes as a result of a rocket hitting a residential building on stryyskyi street on july 6 , 2023. ema stadnyk, nazar melnyk, espresso tv channel.

the united states is procrastinating, ukraine still hasn't received permission to use western missiles against targets in russia, and while there is no such agreement, ukraine remains in a hopeless situation, writes the western press and suggests that putin may use nuclear weapons on its own territory. well, meanwhile, in the kursk region

, the ukrainian side declares an advance, and the russian side declares an offensive. what is the situation there and what is the cost to the armed forces of kurshchyna for keeping kurshchyna, this will be discussed today in svoboda live. my name is vlasta lazur. both from russian and from ukrainian both sides declare the advance of their forces in kursk region. in particular, the russian ministry of defense reported that russian troops recaptured the settlements of uspenivka and borky from the armed forces of ukraine, which... were under the control of the armed forces of ukraine. radio liberty cannot independently verify the statement of the russian ministry of defense, but, for example, since yesterday, russian and telegram channels have been publishing videos of battles, in particular in the village of borky in kurshchyna. and here are the shots from there that we are showing you now. at the same time, at the end of last week, the armed forces crossed the border with kurdish region in a new area and started another offensive there. according to forbes, ukrainian troops with the support of tanks and aircraft broke through the russian defenses to the village. it's funny, what at first seemed like

a small ukrainian assault, actually turned into something much more dangerous for the russian side, the publication states. meanwhile, the ukrainian military who took part in the offensive in the kursk region told cnn about the heavy losses of the armed forces during the operation, communication problems, in particular due to the fact that the starling system does not work in russia. for example, one of the soldiers told journalists that his crew was sent to the kursk region from the district. yaru got lost due to lack of communication. several more soldiers said that due to the lack of a network, they could not contact their unit commanders for many hours. in total, according to cnn, journalists of the publication spoke with 14 military personnel from five different units, including soldiers of infantry units, fighters of the unmanned aerial vehicle unit, drivers of armored vehicles, and sappers. four of them were injured and were sent to hospitals on ukrainian territory, the other 10 at the time of the journalist's conversation. continued

to stay in the kursk region, and this is what they say. all 14 respondents noted that the kursk offensive operation was a difficult operation with the same level of casualties. as well as in other areas of the front. they noted that after five weeks the operation had become even more difficult, and some even questioned the decision to launch the invasion at a time when ukraine was trying to defend key cities in the east of the country. kurdish operation helped restore a certain faith in the offensive potential of ukraine, changing the narrative of the war, writes, for example, the financial times. but so far, ukraine has not achieved significant success and has not forced moscow to withdraw its forces away from eastern ukraine. where exhausted ukrainian troops are steadily losing ground, especially around the important pokrovsk railway junction, the publication states. our broadcast is joined by mykola melnyk, senior lieutenant of the armed forces of ukraine, expert of the levia fan analytical group. good evening. good evening. mykola, i'll start

from the cnn publication, the servicemen who spoke with the journalists, at the end of the conversation , questioned why they were there, or whether they were there? do you have such doubts? well , look, a serviceman who doesn't question something, well, then he just lurked, because well, this is a normal reaction when a person thinks, the only thing that should always be understood from a serviceman of the level you are communicating with, yes, that is, we mean mr. general , and who has an understanding of strategic planning in general, and a simple soldier, who is forced to storm another landing, i think they just have a completely different view of war. this is the first thing, and secondly, i do not think that the exchange rate operation is offensive, it was not necessary, i think that it was necessary from many points of view, but we have to divide it into three stages: first, it is the beginning, it was successful, the second, the deployment at a certain stage was again quite

successful, then we rested on the enemy's defensive position and there began the good old, good old assaults that did not bring nothing but losses and demoralization of units. then this is a fact, anyone will tell us about it. and now there is a third stage, the third stage is a counteroffensive of the russians, before it, it was expected, everyone, including me, noted that the russians would counterattack with such effort that pokrovsk would seem like a resort, but despite all assurances, that everything is predicted, we expect, we are ready, we see that on the fifth day of the russian counteroffensive in the kurdish direction, we in... lost a significant part of the population, well not a significant part, lost part of the settlements and allowed the russians to connect with the group of troops they found, which we considered to be trapped between the border of ukraine and the seim river, that is, the russians achieved the tasks

they set for themselves at the initial stage of the counteroffensive, and you probably heard the statement of volodymyr a few days ago zelensky, he said when it became known that the russian troops had left. counterattack, he said that it was all planned, when i heard this thesis, i understood that ukraine was still preparing for this russian counteroffensive, and somehow they we planned it ourselves, and how did you understand the words of the president, well, look, it is adequate that any offensive ends in defense, that is , we realized at a certain stage that we do not have all the strength to launch an offensive, which means that we are waiting for a russian counteroffensive, the more so the russians... calmly collected reserves and were able to create a multi-level system of reserves for the offensive in certain areas, then in the area, it seems that around september 7-8, they created bridgehead near the village of korenovo,

that is, on the eastern bank of the seim river and then they attacked the city of snagost with armor-piercing burglaries and succeeded. wedge into our defensive formations, again they were supported by an offensive and the so-called pinned down group of the russian federation also launched a mass attack, that is, they went somewhere, they carried out a reconnaissance of the perimeter, but they struck the main blow in the most likely direction of the attack and succeeded, therefore there are two the question, did we expect, did we expect, the question is how we prepared, do you have any doubts about how and who prepared? i have no doubt, but from those videos that we we see, again, they are completely one-sided, because let's say this, the defense forces do not show videos from the official videos from the kurdish direction, accordingly, we all have

to use what the russian mind bloggers give us, so their data is what they give, they are one-sided, but from what i saw, the attack would be swift, well, there were no wide minefields, which we saw, for example, which i personally stormed in the zaporizhzhia direction, and therefore i of course have a question about the defense system that was built around a key population center. because it was it is clear that the russians will try to connect with their grouping of troops, which will squeeze, well , 3,000 russians will not surrender, that is, that is why i say, this was the most likely direction of the attack, and they succeeded, and the question is already bigger, the question is not of a ukrainian soldier, ukrainian soldiers continued to fight because several units were pinned down, it seems that on october 1st, in cherry, they are a unit, which is located... it is actually surrounded and they continued the battle, questions to the parents of the commanders, which is possible somewhere

miscalculated the construction of the defense system, i have no answer, that is, i was in no way involved in that planning, i in no way have the knowledge that our generals have, i have in no way ever been involved in strategic planning, but from what i have seen , questions arise, mykola, and this question is, you said that, if i... heard you, that such battles could start there, that in kurshchyna it is implied that pokrovsk will seem like a resort, you said so, so please tell me, and now, from the information that is publicly available, what we can say about the losses of the armed forces in kurshchyna, they can be large and is there a prospect that they will increase in both this and that, if this happens, then what are the remaining options in ukraine, do you get out of there? again, i cannot comment on the losses of the armed forces of ukraine, because i do not have the information, the information

that i have from certain soldiers who are in certain certain brigades, i still do not consider it necessary to spread it, so i apologize for that i cannot answer the question, of course there are losses, as in any war, now they will be stabilized, because the front line itself in kurshchyna was stabilized, because there were several rather difficult days when we had to counterattack the russians in... well, in the direction of the settlement of snagos and obukhovka, so of course when you counterattack, you have losses , and answering your question, whether we will leave kursheny, everything will depend on what the strategic plan is, if the strategic plan is still to bind forces the enemy, and there are now about 4,000 groups of troops of the russian federation, hide them in battles, in forests and swamps, this is a good idea, the only question is how it will be... implemented, i will only say that we, as radio liberty, sent a request to the general staff, we asked if they are ready

to publicize the losses in kurshchyna, i do n't know, for you, as a military serviceman, i know that there is a consensus among the ukrainian authorities and command not to talk about losses during the war, although volodymyr zelenskyi during one of the press conferences voiced such losses, they maybe there were intermediate ones, now they have changed, but what do you think, and can this rule be broken, if it's about... kurshchyna, after all, it's not ukrainian territory, does it not matter, because the front is a front everywhere? what do we call ukrainian territory or non -ukrainian territory? if we are talking about the borders within the constitution of 1996, then it is not our territory, if we speak factually, the ukrainian flag is the majority there, and i do not think that the rule that was established on february 24, 22, will be violated, therefore that... it will not bring any useful information to our beautiful population, i

apologize, but where is the ukrainian flag flying, over kurshchyna, over individual settlements of the kursk region, well, if this is happening, it is not serious, ukraine said that it is not ready for occupation and there are no such plans, again, i only commented on your answer, i have no understanding of what plans of our military-political leadership for... e given to this territory, again, ukraine acts within the limits and non-fulfillment of the current legislation and those international agreements that are part of the ukrainian legislation, so it is currently the territory is controlled by the armed forces of ukraine, according to which the laws of ukraine apply there, and still i will return to your previous question, i do not think that there will be any other approach in the issues of this kurshchyna, because now that is all... the goal of which is to stop aggression of the russian federation. one more

clarification about the losses, forgive us, because we also learn this information, you know, as it is called, outsourced from the western press. again, when cnn was talking, talking with ukrainian servicemen, one of them told them that the losses in kurshchyna, they may be commensurate with the losses on any other part of the front, without specifying which one, but do you share such assessments? i completely agree, and you also think that no matter how difficult the situation is in kurshchyna, the front should be held there as long as possible, for example, like in others. areas of the front? i will note that i keep saying simple things, there is no point in keeping a simple landing there and destroying whole battalions there. it should be based on the existing strategic or tactical-operational plan. that is, if we consider that by defending this territory, we will destroy the forces and means of the enemy there 1:10 we must hold on,

if there is no significance in this, except to fly... well, of course, we must get out of there, because politics and political decisions cannot dominate a decision of military expediency, because now we have only one component left in ukraine that keeps us from defeat, this is the ukrainian soldier, and the ukrainian soldier must be protected, because you perfectly understand what is happening, happens, and you perfectly understand how difficult it is to cook replenishment of those who can no longer... be in the army, yes, the military very often tell us about this on our broadcasts, about the difficulty, i also want to discuss with you one statement of volodymyr zelenskyi, he also gave an interview to cnn, by the way, where he said that due to the lack of weapons, ukraine cannot equip even four brigades out of the required 14, let's listen to it, and i still have a number of questions for you. firstly, everything goes very

slowly, secondly. we need 14 brigades to be ready, so far we have not had any brigades from this package, we have not equipped even four. so you wanted to equip 14 brigades? we wanted, and we couldn't even four? no no, it's too much, so we need domestic production of drones, it's not enough, but we've done it and it's ongoing. as i told you, this is after an eight-month pause pending a positive decision by the us congress. and what did we do during those eight months? everyone must understand, we used everything we could, we transferred what we have in the reserves and what we have in the warehouses or in the reserve brigades that we need now, everything that they had, we took away all their weapons. mykola, i have a question for you, explain, including to people who

are not related to the military, what it means that ukraine has not been able to do, as the president says, for such a long time. even four of the required 14 brigades, what does that indicate? about the fact that we have insufficient equipment, forces and means, that is, it was created, as i understand it, a decision was made to create new brigades, let's call them conditionally 14, of these conditionally 14 were able to arm normally 30% there, that's all, that is, we didn't we know, that is, these are tank brigades, this the brigades are mechanized, or are they just assault light infantry, that is, that's enough. but to say why, what we specifically lack, but if we proceed from general practice, what is lacking in the brigades, as combat operations are currently conducted, then the answer is quite simple: everything is lacking, of course, we can tell for a long time that we need our own production, this is all absolutely correct and absolutely true, of course we can

remember how we failed defense budgets in 2000 there, as far as i remember 2019-2020. but the fact is quite simple: without western weapons we cannot continue combat operations with the intensity with which the enemy has offered us, or in the end we will simply switch to combat operations with the usual infantry units there, because we do not produce tanks, because we can restore bmps and, sorry to bmp ptr, we can restore, but our capacity will be limited. we don’t have ammunition factories for missiles, we don’t have ammunition factories either, we produce drones , business and volunteers really contributed a lot to this, that is, we all see how easily the whole country got involved in this, but again the russians have more, and if america does not help us on a higher level than in 2024,

then the consequences may not be predictable, because yes ... the ukrainian soldier, he will continue to fight, the ukrainian nation will continue to fight, but on it is a great pity, heroes die, and when we are at war, when we have two or three soldiers holding observation posts, and they are stormed by an enemy platoon, supported by bmp and sometimes tanks, well , you know, of course the boys will fight, and their fight will be heroic, and so will death, but... the key here is death, so we really need to put all our efforts into explaining to the western world that we need weapons and very, very many of them. we will talk on the air today about the prospect of ukraine obtaining permits to strike russian targets, targets in russia. since you and i are talking about the kurdish operation and its

significance, i have one last question, how would you describe and comment on the role of the kurdish operation for the donbass, because as far as i remember, one of the military objectives was, at least discussed, or hinted at ukrainian officials, it was precisely the withdrawal of troops from donbas, it did not come true to the end. i understand, if not, correct me, and in the future, what, what do you expect in donbas? well, it did not come true at all , there were several days when the russians regrouped, that is, several units of the russian federation from the neutralization line, located in ukraine, were transferred to the course in order to stabilize the situation, it happened, but after an operational pause, the enemy left further on the offensive and showed. problems in our system defense, what are the prospects on the kurshchyna, everything will depend on what forces and means we will have and whether we will stop making those

mistakes that we make constantly, that is, when , let's say, the order to prepare for defense, there it remains only an order and not is always carried out on the ground, again due to a lack, and a lack of some forces and means, because we have a very strong... very often they like to give an order and not think about how this battalion commander or that commander will carry it out mouth, which is possible elementary, well, there is nothing but a struggle to carry out this order, so once again everything rests on weapons, everything rests on forces and means, and we can hold on there, this is a fact, and it is you who are talking about kurshchyna now, yes, yes, yes, yes, i'm sorry, yes, you asked about pokrovsk, so in korshchyna, yes, we can hold on, in pokrovsk, again, we have to... understand that we will retreat in the gap between richka vovche and mitailove, because it is already too late for a decision, and we cannot, we do not

have the strength to hold on there, will we be able to to stabilize the situation later, this is a very big question, at the moment it is very important to hold the miner, at the moment it is very important to prevent the enemy from launching an offensive near selidov, and as i understand it, there is a stabilization of the situation near pokrovsk, but it is necessary to see what will happen after that , how the russians will still eliminate the ledge between rychka seim and netaylov and where they will then send the reserves that they have expressed, it could be kurakho, it could be pokrovsk, we will watch. mykola, thank you very much, you are on our air for the first time, we will be glad to see you in the future, mykola melnyk, senior lieutenant of the armed forces of ukraine, expert of the analytical group levia fan, we talked about the situation in kurshchyna and also touched on donbass, thank you very much, and now about donbass, the kurakhiv direction, which in... donetsk region is the heaviest in terms of the number of attacks by russian forces, at least this is what the ukrainian general staff claims. this direction is important for russia, because it leads to two large cities of donbas. our colleagues from

the present time visited this part of the front, and here's a look at what they filmed there. this is a holiday from the saints artillery division, fire control point. from here, we control the application of fire by our units to the target... the enemy is commanded here by vladyslav, he is an officer of the 148th airborne assault artillery brigade, fighting in the kurakiv direction. this direction may soon become no less difficult for the ukrainian army than near pokrovsk. the russian army managed to advance at once in several areas of the front, the most dangerous situation in the garrison of the city of ugledar. vladyslav says, the opponent quickly learns from his mistakes. during our conversation is interrupted by a walkie-talkie. enemy equipment is moving, assault actions will be tried again. vogledar is a city on which connected defense of the entire south-eastern edge of the ukrainian front, thanks to the maintenance of the uglodar in the cities, he managed to preserve civilian life. for several months, the russian troops unsuccessfully tried to take

ugludar by storm, and now they are trying to bypass it from the flank in order to control the only approach to the destroyed settlement. the enemy has been trying to roll over since winter, but he has nothing it didn't work out, like a month, a second, a third. promotion. they were minimal, but they were there, the enemy used the following tactics, he tries to get to zero and until then, he succeeds in something, you can now see in korahov, behind the ukrainian defense line is the town of korahov, korahov was never a big city, in the last 10 years , it was quite a lively front-line city, which was always full of life, now, you see, the city is empty, life seems to have died out, people just in... left, i i understand that journalists cannot conduct such events parallels and comparisons, but now kurakhova resembles a kind of silent hill, or a town

from some horror movie, where... houses are supposedly still standing, but there are no people. near a huge high-rise building, where a few people are left to live, iryna examines the morning arrival, and at night it squealed, and lo and behold, i hid, so it closed, and then, when it stopped growling, well, i came out with a flashlight, as i looked, i have it all, recently from kurakhovo... most of the civil servants left, they left in a hurry, leaving dear cabinets, brand new cabinets, the firemen left the city the other day, part of them was broken, there is no electricity for the fourth day, the refrigerators are defrosted, everything is fixed, everything is taken to the trash, the day before one of the largest mobile operators left the city , but you can still find optimists in kurakhovo , someone is held by loved ones, someone by faith, we know nothing, i will be honest, i know one thing, jesus christ, the mother of god, all the saints.

40 units destroys our unit, you personally still have the strength to fight, that is psychological, moral, moral. chalko, serhiy dekun, for radio svoboda. it was donbas, but we are returning to kurshchyna again, the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine appealed to the un and the international committee of the red cross with a call to join the humanitarian response in the kursk region of russia. this, in particular, is stated in the current statement of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine.

ukraine is ready. to promote the work of international organizations in the kursk region, said the recently appointed minister of foreign affairs andriy sebiga. it is interesting that such a statement appeared two days after the relatives of the residents suji addressed an open letter to zelenskyi and putin. they asked to open a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians, the letter was published by the russian publication nova yagazeta. the publication claims that, according to unofficial data, thousands of people remain in the suzhan district, where the armed forces of ukraine are conducting a military operation. the authors of the letter. it is recalled that on august 15, iryna veryshchuk, who at that time held the position of deputy prime minister in the government of ukraine, said that kyiv is ready to open a humanitarian corridor for the residents of kurshchyna, both to ukraine and to russia. this letter appeared on friday, but today the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine published a statement in which ukraine invited the un and the red cross to the regions of kurshchyna under the control of the armed forces. in the kremlin , meanwhile, the invitation of international organizations to kurshchyna was called a provocation.

well, to ours. ivan lozovyi, an international lawyer, joins the broadcast. good afternoon, good evening. good day i will also say that just today, when this letter appeared and in general further news about military operations in kurshchyna, the evacuation was announced as early as two districts of kurshchyna, rila and khumutiv districts, it is 15 km from the border zone. ivan, i have a question . i was actually confident in the first week of the operation, by the way, we talked with you then, you told us how all these humanitarian moments in kurshchyna should proceed, and i was sure then that the red cross and the un would already have a plus- minus to be there since then, isn't it? not quite as far as the united nations is concerned, because it is a large body that operates by consensus, and that they have some mission sent, it will not be in days or even in

a week or two or three. a special, in fact, a special permission is required from the higher structures of the un, or at least even from the un security council, to actually send people from different countries to the zone, in fact, of hostilities. as for the red cross organization, they do not act under such restrictions, they act independently, and have a certain obligation to participate as well, to accept independently. travel to and participate in combat zones where their staff can be guaranteed a certain level of security and help people in the humanitarian missions they carry out. given that the russians are targeting the de facto red cross, a de facto red cross truck that was clearly marked as belonging to the red cross was recently destroyed. employees

of the red cross died, maybe... but everyone can understand all the reasons.