the armed forces of ukraine left ughledar, so another city in donbas was captured by russia. what's next, will the defense of the region hold up? we are talking about this today, as well as about the elections. yes, it is precisely about the elections that are being talked about and probably even being prepared on the political sidelines during the war, will volodymyr zelensky decide to take this step and is it worth it? this is svoboda live, my name is vlasta lazur. the ukrainian army left the coal mine. the reasons are the threat of the environment. the exit from the city was officially confirmed today by the defense forces of ukraine, although about the fact that ughledar is almost surrounded and the withdrawal of the armed forces from the city is imminent, military observers have been reporting since mid-september. in the armed forces of ukraine, they realized that the russian troops, in an attempt

to take control of the city at any cost, sent reserves to carry out flanking strikes, which actually exhausted the defense of ukrainian units. these are the photos that we are showing now, they have now appeared on the social media pages of the 72nd brigade, which has been defending ughledar all this time, these are very difficult days, the post of the brigade says. according to some ukrainian military observers, the loss of the coal miner could strengthen the russian army's logistical routes, which run. along the northern coast of the sea of ​​azov and lead to the zaporizhzhia region. is there a threat to such cities as zaporizhzhia and dnipro after the fall of ughledar? we will talk about it, if not today, then in the next broadcasts. i will only add that the washington post , with reference to the ukrainian military, writes that in august and september, russian troops advanced in donetsk at a record pace that had not been seen since 2022. analysts interviewed by the authors of the publication state that... the largest territorial

losses of donbas occurred from mid-august to mid-september, which coincided with the ukrainian offensive in the kursk region of russia. the surprise offensive on kursk in august, involving 30,000 ukrainian soldiers, was in part an attempt to dislodge enemy forces from their positions on the eastern front. according to some analysts, this gambit has not paid off so far, and although it boosted ukrainian morale, it probably caused the loss of up to... since it involved experienced units that received priority replenishment and fresh troops, which otherwise would have been sent east. well, the film crew, our colleagues from the tv channel nastoyastchee vremya had the opportunity to go with the rescuers to the call in the pokrovsky direction, there was another russian shelling of civilians, and look what is happening there, this, let me remind you, is another very difficult and very important direction in donbass as soon as we met with

the rescuers of the pokrovsky district, we didn't even have time to talk, as an urgent call, we went after them. over thick black smoke can be seen on the horizon, towards which the firefighters are rushing, they do not report, only on the spot it is possible to learn about what happened. pokrovsky district, hit by russian ammunition in a store, are there any casualties? firefighters quickly set to work, cars are on fire, plastic is melting, fragments of wooden structures crackle in the fire, everything is in smoke, it is not clear that it was all cotton, there was a strong explosion, yes, it was just an ordinary store, yes, just a store, rescuers continue to fight the fire and gradually the scale of the tragedy becomes visible, for ethical reasons for reasons we cannot show it, but it is real. because

there are fragments of human bodies lying here along with the debris, according to local residents, there was an ordinary roadside shop, next to which people stopped to buy water or food, my friend, this shop was run by a son and daughter-in-law, a human tragedy. the father is sitting next to the body of his daughter, wrapped in a blanket, my daughter worked in a shop, he killed her and that's all, a good daughter, my son was left for an hour and two months, i don't want to live, i live in another village, i came here on monday, i thought, i will come on sunday and not sang i wanted to go yesterday, i didn't go, i didn't

make it, i didn't sleep, i'll see. this elderly man found another body on the fire, he's raking the hot ashes with his hands and crying. look, at the moment, precisely in the city of pokrovsk and the surrounding territories, that is, villages in the pokrovsk district, shelling by the russian occupiers almost every day is aimed at residential buildings on... on ordinary residential buildings, on administrative buildings, for the russian invaders who came on our land, there is no difference, whether it is military or civilian population, they target, beat, kill, maim. vladyslav says that on some days he has to

leave six times a day to eliminate the consequences of shelling. a week ago, our brother, our colleague, artem, his name, died while fighting a fire. they left to put out dry grass in an open area and there was a repeated shelling, as a result of which artem, unfortunately, died. rescuers say that sometimes russian troops attack them specifically, all wearing helmets and body armor. i think the opponent it doesn't matter what car it is, any, green, red, pink, it doesn't matter, the same as in the military, the same in red. they are hunting, there were cases, there were cases, drones, drones flew into our car, but the worst thing is not even that, - the rescuers say, it is scary to see a tragedy like now. the scariest part of the job is finding, well, two hundred, well, for

me it’s the scariest thing, a second arrival, you also think about it later, a second arrival, i... adrenaline and i don’t think for myself, i have to save, criminal investigators are already working on the spot, due to four people were killed in this shelling. after putting out the fire, the rescuers collect their hoses, taps, wash their sooty faces and get ready. the next departure can be at any moment. andriy kuzakov, vasyl martyshchenko, oleksiy palii. radio svoboda. what is behind the rapid advancement of russia? in donbas and, in particular, how the loss of a coal plant will affect the defense of other cities and even the region, and how much the taking of a coal plant will help russia improve, or can help improve its logistics in further regions. myroslav joins our broadcast guy, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine. myroslava,

i congratulate you. good day how would you now describe the scenarios that can be realized after the russian troops captured ugledar. well, look, it's difficult to say, because it depends on many things, firstly, we see that now our foreign partners have decided on a new package of weapons for the armed forces of ukraine, which includes air defense and f-16 missiles, maybe there will be i hope air to air if it gives us the opportunity to destroy their tactical aircraft in order to make it impossible to use cables along the line. bz, i think this will make it very difficult for the russians to move in any way, because their first tactics are meat assaults, they use their superiority in artillery, in artillery fire and superiority in the air, because on

unfortunately, they dominate it in aviation, in the use of guided and unguided aerial bombs, you saw today how an aerial bomb landed in ovchansk. there was such a powerful explosion, the same with ugliadarom, with other places, they just destroy the front edge, houses, buildings, trenches, and make it impossible to keep them, so i think that the command did absolutely right, they restrained the onslaught of the enemy for as long as possible and gave him the opportunity to destroy his reserves, manpower, equipment, gigantic. simply burned all this time by coal miners, as soon as there was a threat that our units could be surrounded, that there is no way to effectively hold these positions, in order to save

personnel, they were simply taken to more convenient positions, myroslav, and you mentioned about bombs and about the kaby, now the kaby are already flying to zaporizhzhia, which was not the case some time ago, if russia has gone now. captured the ugledar, if we continue to talk about scenarios, do you allow that in some perspective, maybe not a very short, longer perspective, russia will find strength and develop an offensive against... other regions, such as zaporozhye, for example, or dnipro. look, the russian federation, well, we can do this from the open sources of the statements of the same military and political leaders of russia, sets itself political goals, that is, or military-political, as we can call it, it is first of all the seizure of donetsk luhansk region within their administrative borders, experts have repeatedly said this. and directly by these kremlin elders , putin, etc. it is clear that in a strategic

perspective, they would generally like to completely destroy ukraine as a state and completely capture it, to nullify our independence, but the nearest goals that they announce are the exit to the borders of the donetsk-luhansk region. at the rate of their progress, i think that it is almost impossible. there is only one question here: if we and... can achieve parity at least in terms of artillery fire at the expense of their purchase by the ministry of defense and at the expense of supplies from our partners, if we can thanks to the air defense, which the partners are now promising to give us, and weapons for f -16, as i told you, air-to-air missiles that can reach 180 km, and we can neutralize uh... their, their aviation, yes, the use of their aviation, then i think

the advance of the russians is very quickly will slow down, and maybe even stall, all the more so why the russians are in a hurry, because there are several factors, the first is the aid that they promise to deliver to ukraine as soon as possible, the second is the weather conditions, soon we will see that we are entering the rainy season, when it will be difficult to apply the technique for promotion, it will be difficult at all. to storm the fields, because the ground will get wet, and we always know that in the autumn the nature of hostilities changes, and plus they are in a hurry for the election of the president of the united states, well that it's just obvious, well, we 'll talk about the elections today too, but let's talk about the other elections, let me tell you, if we manage to hold on, to hold on... to hold out during this period, then i think that the nature of the hostilities soon we will see, it will change quickly,

the russians also have big problems with reserves, we saw this, in particular in the kursk region, by the way, i have a question that concerns the kursk region, i quoted from the washington post at the beginning, and they today published a long article about the situation in donbas, and they they write that in august and september, russian troops advanced at a very record pace in donetsk region, they can only be compared with the pace of 22, and they write that... the advance of russian troops in donbass coincided with the kurdish operation, is it a coincidence and how would you assess the impact of the kurdish operation on russia's rapid advance in donbas? i think that the cause-and-effect relationships are completely confused here. the course operation, initially, well, in my opinion, from what i see, from what i hear the statements of the command, it was precisely planned to to stop the advance of the russians on... in donbas by diverting their reserves to kurshchyna. ot. unfortunately, it did

not happen as quickly and to the extent as planned. this is obvious, our military leaders and analysts admit it. ot. the fact that the course operation is a political success of our politicians and the military-political leadership is clear. what she forced to revise in general, many things regarding russia, regarding its defense. ability regarding its availability of reserves not only of our western partners, but also of csto partners. this is a fact, what, well of russia's partners in the csto, the fact that we saw russia's inability to defend its borders due to the lack of sufficient reserves and weapons, we also saw it, but unfortunately, it did not manifest itself in the donbass, but we do not know how the situation in donbas was developing.

let's say, they don't value human life, the way they value the armed forces of ukraine and the defense forces, and they have an absolute advantage in aviation, in aviation components, these are all the reasons, myroslav heim, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, we talked about the situation in donbas and today i will remind you once again that the ukrainian troops left bogledar. thank you. well, despite the fact that a full-scale war is going on in ukraine, and russia continues to occupy populated areas, and it is not known where it will stop. the topic of elections in ukraine, both parliamentary and presidential, makes itself felt from time to time, and probably not without reason. president

volodymyr zelenskyy is considering the possibility of holding elections in 2025, according to the publication. which came out at the end of september. the authors cite data from the american national democratic institute, which show that ukrainians' trust in zelensky fell from 80% in may 23rd to 45% this year. and although all major political parties previously agreed to postpone the elections until the end of the war, such a memorandum was indeed signed. zelensky, writes the economist, is planning elections to strengthen his power, while his rating, although not as high as it was at the beginning of the invasion, is, frankly, not low. according to the kyiv international institute of sociology, as of may 24, 59% of ukrainians trust the president, and 36 do not trust him. how realistic it is to hold elections during the war and whether the presidential team is preparing for the elections, we will talk about it shortly, but first we will show you material that can theoretically indicate the preparation of the power team for the elections. this is a new project

of the office of the president of ukraine, dialogue of power, and this is the leading project. as well as the new ambassador of the congress of local and regional authorities, blogger with more than a million subscribers, alina shamanska. and i will definitely not praise such a warm bath. incredibly energetic, simply, madly loving person of his work and his life. your energy is cool and positive, but it feels like you told me the truth today. oh my god, have a good day. and you are right, we have come to that, you are oleksandr serhiyevich, you are right. well, i did not expect to see such a young, handsome man. the concept of the project is that the presenter will supposedly live for one day with the head of the region and realistically show how the cities of ukraine live today. however, how real is the life of the region reflected here? first the project's interview was with ivan fedorov, the head of the zaporizhia region, where shamanska was actively interested in the appearance and

weight of the head of the region. do you consider yourself beautiful, asexual? lord, i don't think about this question or this topic. as an athlete-runner, you can afford such a nightmare, although with your schedule you can afford it, i care about the figure, you care about the figure, you are serious, users expressed indignation in the comments, the question is like a swedish tv show, why they did not ask about the mass closing of schools in zaporizhzhia, about the lack of shelters in the city and those that are permanently closed, another illusion that everything is fine with us, the marathon is only on youtube, where it asks... about fortifications, about refugees. with oleg kiper, the head of the odesa military administration, the presenter went to the market of an inclusive beach and a popular restaurant, and the episode began with questions about what position the chief likes to sleep in and what household chores his wife makes the keeper do, however, the episode still raised important issues for the region, issues such as illegal actions of representatives of tsc regarding

civilians, but kiper did not give a clear answer. if everything was as illegal as it is shown. they shine light in order to probably denigrate, yes, there is tck, i am not saying that all are saints there, we see many other videos, but this is also done by propaganda, and the interview ended with compliments to the goalkeeper, your energy is cool and positive , it feels like you told me the truth today and nothing but the truth, as you promised at the very beginning, and the interview with the head of the kherson ova oleksandr prokudin begins with them, well, i i did not expect to see such a young, beautiful face. oleksandr, it's nice to meet you, just from photos on the internet, you know, you are some kind of official, a very sporty and cool man here. prokudin's possible resignation became a separate topic that later affected viewers on social networks. we are talking about a petition that received the required number of votes, but prokudin was never released. you took on such an incredibly difficult,

responsible, life-threatening position, and you did everything you could to make things better, and here... people are writing a petition to president, you didn't find it offensive, you didn't want to, you know, it was, but go ahead, it was, users on social networks were also outraged by this interview, i was very happy that our kherson is finally being talked about, i watched the issue and questions, and the video about kherson or about prokudin, and the impression is that this is some kind of complimentary interview about prokudin. it's all great that you showed kherson, but where is the promised truth and sharp questions. issue detector. the media called this project not a warm bath, but a warm sea. the tone of the conversation with the officials was focused on positive aspects, but sharp issues of public concern were neglected. but the main question. who pays for it and how much, can it be financed with the money of ukrainian taxpayers. in the president's office , the investigative-info responded to the journalists' request that the presenter, a well-known blogger in social networks, works

for free. rfe/rl tried to find out from the blogger herself whether this is really the case. however, alina shamanska rejected the calls, and earlier on social networks she said that she did not know why she was chosen as the host of the project. the question will arise, how is your influencer alina shammanska village. here, i will say frankly and honestly, i do not know. in addition, radio svoboda turned to the deputy head of the office of the president of ukraine, oleksiy kuleba, to find out how much such money the state allocated for this project, because even if we assume that shamanska really works for free, then the question is how the drivers, operators, videographers are paid and other members of the film crew, remains open. anastasia potapenko, radio liberty. well, let's talk about the future. conducting elections to ours olena shulyak, people's deputy from the party of power, servants of the people, party chairman, and rostyslav pavlenko, people's deputy,

european solidarity faction, representative of the opposition, have already joined the broadcast, i congratulate you, good evening, olena, i'll start with you, or are there any, let's say, signs now, do you see any signs now not only from the outside, but inside the party that you lead, in the president's team, that the president is preparing for the elections, and this material that we... just showed, isn't he the same sign, well, let me i'll start with the material, if we started with it, of course, and the servant of the people party definitely does not involve any bloggers in cooperation today, we do not spend money, not on any advertising, not on any promotion of various things through social networks, through orders there is various such information that can be considered as advertising. or as you say, preparation for elections, i think that such things should be asked directly, questions should be asked directly to bloggers and heroes, let's say, of such and such stories.

since february 24, 2022, our party has made a decision that we will focus our work on three things: the first is assistance to the armed forces, the second is assistance to internally displaced persons in the veteran community, socially vulnerable sections of the population, and the third is to. .. assistance to businesses, especially relocated ones, and as of today, you know that all parliamentary parties receive state funding, for two years of full-scale invasion, we have transferred more than uah 340 million from these funds directly to the accounts of the national bank of ukraine, which is allocated for the ministry of defense, and the ministry of defense already spent this money, which was intended for party building, on the purchase of istugnep. of ukrainians, ukrainian rebbe, etc., so you claim that the servant of the people party is not preparing for the elections, as of today elections,

holding elections according to the constitution of ukraine is currently impossible, and by the way, all the parliamentary parties of the group still at the end of the 23rd year within the framework of the monet dialogues, which are held with the participation of ukrainian and european politicians, they concluded signed the corresponding memorandum, which clearly... it was stated that the first post-war elections in ukraine will be possible only when the war ends, when there is our victory, when martial law ends, six months will pass, and this will be the period when it will be possible to prepare directly for holding democratic elections in ukraine, if we are now talking about holding elections at all, we currently have more than 1 million military personnel, and it is very important for us to first of all ensure... their rights and be elected and directly elected while there is a war, while there is martial law, it is impossible to ensure such rights, that is why we

do not currently consider the possibility of holding elections when there is no inclusive process, secondly, let's not forget about our overseas constituency, currently 20% of our the population is abroad, in germany, it is more than 1 million people, about 900 thousand are in poland, wait about abroad, it is... maybe i will interrupt you here, i understand, there are a lot of people abroad who, maybe ukraine can't provide elections, i want to let's go back to this material, we 're still showing it, yes, but who should i contact to ask if this is propaganda or not propaganda, well, we won't go to the blogger, she's not doing it herself, well, definitely not to me , i told you that the servant of the people party did not finance, did not order, is not involved, the president's office does it, i don't know, it is not written here that the president's office does it.

takes the initiative, so to speak, with integrity, in this matter, although all regional heads are vertical of the president. mr. rostislav, do you see any signs preparations for the elections, and you are a representative of the opposition, the opposition is sometimes not at a low start, have we put forward quite clear rational arguments as to why elections and not, why elections should be held now, the fashionable phrase is not the right time, but... here , as in the old joke about lawyers, it would be both illegal and illogical, because here it is impossible to talk about elections at all while there is a war, indeed the law prohibits the holding of any special elections, by the way, referendums, the constitution prohibits the holding of elections to verkhovna rada during the martial law, i don't know the attempts there to suspend the martial law or introduce changes in the relevant laws, they will have very serious and meaningful consequences,

because we have. now a lot of management processes are established on the vertical of military administrations, on special decision-making regimes , etc. more than 2/3 of the respondents say it is stable, and in contrast there of different ratings and such and such, consistently polled. ukrainians say that what are the elections, let's first let the war end and ukraine win, and then somehow we will have fun in the elections, so i really hope that this logic is shared not only by the leadership of the faction in the parliament, but also by the office of the president, because really rumors are flying, and indeed we are even seeing some, i really hope, just some routine things that the central election commission is doing there in terms of precinct inventories and things like that. i

hope they are just doing their job but against the background of these rumors, it can be perceived as a certain signal there about thoughts about the elections, so, to sum up, i really hope that the president's office does not want to do this, they do not want any adventures, and here is the last phrase, i wanted to b, so that the position of the president, perhaps the heads of his office, should be clearly stated, you know, the first and most important thing is that ukraine must win this war, well, then, of course, with... no one stands behind that, then all the political the ukrainian people will judge us, and then i have the following clarification for you, rostislav, and where does this information come from in the western press that the president and his team are allegedly preparing to hold elections in the 25th year, this was invented by american european journalists, well , look, they they refer to some sources, they are there, they don’t name names, but they say that there is a representative of the president’s office there or

representatives of ukrainian delegations there, well, maybe it’s worth it then, i don’t get the impression that the journalists have already asked the relevant questions there, requests for information and so on, i think that it would be worth doing and i repeat that it would be desirable for the president to place dots of hope here and say that you know, let's everyone do their own work now and not engage in drumming, in elena, this is a question for you, and would you support it if volodymyr zelenskyi expressed a desire after the war, as you said at the beginning, to go to the swamp for a second time, because he already promised to go for only one term. i think that of course, i would personally support if you are right say, when the war is over, when there will be victory, when we will prepare the first post-war democratic elections, which will be held in an inclusive way, then you would support his second swamping, i think

that now there are a lot of different... manipulations on the topic of elections, we see that sometimes our colleagues can write such a provocative post on social networks, etc., but today, it seems to me, the main task for ukraine and for every ukrainian is to do everything possible, each in his place in order to took place, there was a victory, in the parliament among all the parliamentary factions of the groups today there is an agreed position regarding the elections, we all very well understand what, for example, the cec is doing now... when it issues the relevant resolution there, as of today, more than 700 electoral precincts have been damaged, or they are destroyed in order even there to conduct a simple inventory there, to find out, to record in the relevant registers what is destroyed, what is damaged, the cec should do its job, and we would very much not like such simple things there technical ones made by the central election commission to be used by some...