well, on the morning of october 1, the head of ovo donetsk, filashko, said that there was fighting almost in the center of the city of ugledar, and we know that he said that there are 107 civilians left in the city , there are no children, and that is out of several thousand residents who were there , this is the question, well, and therefore, if, well, that is, we heard these explanations, but if so... to look at it more broadly, why were the defense forces forced to leave the coalfield in a broader plan, that is, how did it turn out this situation, well, in general, in principle, as it turned out, there are many factors, but one of the main factors was, is and will remain in the further advance of the russian occupying forces, not only in the bogledar area, but this also applies to... the pokrovsky

direction, and the kurakhiv direction and many others along which the russians will try to advance, this is their domain of dominance in the air, er, this is precisely the use of a large number of tactical aircraft, primarily corrected air bombs, because their movement, which actually began from the village of solodke, so to speak roughly. that's how it happened, he was almost always accompanied precisely by the attacks of the kabs on all lines of defense, on all positions, ah, in fact, from the moment they began to move and continued with the very assault actions in the corner, almost all lines of defense, almost all lines, all positions on this way, they opened up kabami, and the ugledar himself, he did not stand either. because the hypertrophied

number of corrected air bombs that were used only in the last two weeks, well, such a number was not used even in the pokrovsk-kurakhov direction during this period, and that is why it is the main problem, both now and in the future, will be the main problem in holding any position, and no line of defense will stand if it is constantly under... such pressure, well, for two years our fighters held ugledar, well, ugledar himself is located so high up, he allows you to control enough, well, he allowed you to control a sufficiently large part of the front line, but it is interesting now , actually, that the russians, like them, will have such an opportunity, that is, or the reverse story works, well... they, i will say this, they will not

stop, we understand that, their main goal is to capture the territory of ukraine, and here regardless of whether they will have some advantage in terms of heights or not, in principle to the north there are also heights, which will be used by the defense forces of ukraine, to the north of the coal mine there is a corresponding line of defense, this is the novoukrainka bogoyavlenka line, these are actually our borders. and the russians will try to storm them, but the loss of a coal miner is not even so much about future defense breakthroughs, the use of relief and landscape features, precisely within the boundaries of offensive companies, offensive actions of some kind, and this is even more about logistics, because it was the ugledar due to the fact that it was such a platform of controlling height. he allowed

to control the railway from the east to the south through volnovakha and it was fired upon, well it was, this railway was under full fire control, now we can not talk about full fire control, not mention it, the only thing that we will be able to influence in this direction more long-range means, well, for example, or them 142. or the same missiles, long-range missiles, which we can use singly to break this connection, and the russians will try to restore precisely this logistics due to gravity, and this will already happen in the near future on these attempts, well, in principle, this will allow them to be sufficiently maneuverable in this place, so how far from the coal mine will they be able to finish, well, on our territory? interestingly, it somehow improves

their situation, if we talk about the application, for example, adjusted aviation... the bomb , as of today, actually has a flight range of 80 km for the fab-250, fab-500 bombs, but we will not talk about the fact that they use the line of engagement directly, ah, and with it is launched by these bombs, no, they have a suitable security buffer for their aircraft there, approximately 20 km from the line of hostilities, so according to... the characteristics of the kabu, yes, according to the kabu, they can launch deep into the territory of ukraine from the line of hostilities, we calculate, by 40 by 50 km, we can count approximately like this, taking into account security buffer, even a little deeper, so from

this section it will be like this if they pull up the artta and use it, again deep into the territory away from the line of unity. deep in the territory of ukraine, it will be somewhere + 20 in an average kilometer, they will have such an opportunity. well, again, that's an average. what does this mean? it means that novoukrayinka, bogoyavlenka, trudove, ah, maksimivka there, for example, will be shelled in this way , that is, they fall under this radius actions well, in principle, it really expands the capabilities of the russians. of the occupiers by fire impact and by terror of the civilian population and the near rear zone. well, this is such an unpleasant phenomenon that appeared not so long ago, the russians began to be cabals in zaporozhye. the first strike

was there on september 22, in the evening of september 23, seven kabama strikes on zaporizhzhia, literally, well, it seems that it was already today. when there are kherson and zaporizhzhia, somewhere else, eh, to what extent, well, first of all, why, why did these strikes appear, are these some new opportunities for the russians, or is it er, well, they just moved on, or are they just there, they somehow feel that the air defense is not really a threat to them, so, well, explain this story somehow, and, in the last two years from the moment when the first time... a free- fall bomb with a universal planning and correction module of the ompk was used, which made it possible to turn an ordinary bomb into a warhead, and they significantly improved their characteristics, precisely the ompk. bombs, they were as they were and remained, there

is nothing new there, it was they who improved the indicators of the ompk, ah, these, better aerodynamic indicators, general characteristics, ah, they have changed from... a little bit in general, and all this affected the fact that if in 2022 the russians launched cabs at a distance of up to 30 km, now it is an 80 km bomb fab-250, fab 500 . the characteristics will improve, that's the point, they continue to work on the ompk, i wouldn't be surprised that by the end of the year they can reach the level of the kabu flight range, and the most dangerous thing is that they are now trying to integrate into their bombs, jet, accelerators, that is, not the same jet engines for an aircraft bomb, which will allow them to increase the flight distance

to at least 150 km, that is, it is already a threat not only to the cities and settlements of the near rear zone, but in principle the rear zone is about the dnipro, it is about poltava, it is about odesa, well, that is, by and large , the only, the only against the countermeasure is to destroy the planes, to destroy the very storage places of these ammunitions, because there is no other way, well, somehow to protect against this, it is impossible to intercept, the bomb cannot be intercepted, there is no means of air defense, if a... could be guaranteed to intercept aerial bombs, this is the first moment, the second moment, in russia there are tens of thousands of them, tens of thousands as those they inherited from the soviet union, and ending with the teams that they produce now they have the production of aerial bombs, so

they have bombs will not run out, and at the same time, like the aviation bombs themselves, there are tens of thousands of them, and fewer carriers. the front-line bombers that use cabs most effectively are su-34s, they have fewer than a hundred combat-ready ones, so the hunt for su-34s is more... expedient and effective, rather than trying to shoot down or hunt cap there. ugh. well, in the end, there is one more thing, if we return to the coal mine, how the capture of the coal mine by the russians will affect the neighboring areas of the front. as i said, the main lines of defense, they pass further north, to the coal mine. of course, the russians will start storming them, they will try to advance to... north of the coal mine after some time, bogoyavlenka will be under threat first of all,

because there is a direct road leading there from the coal mine, and also novoukrayinka, these are exactly these villages, they are the first to be at risk, but again, the relief and landscape features, as well as the defense lines and borders, and suppress the advance of the russian invaders, and on the other hand, and... the russians will also continue to act with the intention further advancement and improvement of conditions for the expansion of the control zone near kurakh. for them, after the seizure of the coal mine, the pokrovsk-kurakhov direction actually becomes a priority. and they will direct their main efforts, firstly, to the formation of the southern flank in the pokrovsky direction, second. on the formation of conditions for the offensive on kurakho itself, accordingly, the ugledar

will also play its role in this, because let's not forget that from vodianet there is an exit to katerynivka and elizavetivka, this advance is already south of kurakhovo, and in itself the line of attack , which was the main goal for them, this is line 0532, this is... the route from mariyanka to ughledar, it is now becoming a base for advancing in the direction of kurakhovo under the southern flank, that is, we can expect that now the biggest battles will be transferred to the area kurakhovo, yes, in in the near future, maximum efforts will be concentrated on forming a fully controlled a... zone along the vovche river, the left and right banks, and also, accordingly,

preparing the conditions in such a way that it is possible to conduct a full-fledged offensive campaign on kuraha itself, ugh, it's clear , well, there is another question, well, actually, coming back, we talked a little about cabs, and there is another such threat from the sky, it's actually the shaheds, but in september, the russians attacked ukraine with the shaheds, well, almost every... day. in total , 1,339 drones were released in ukraine, 107 of them were shot down, part suppressed by reb, 44 shahedas were launched every day. the maximum number was 72 drones on september 14, and it also seems that this resource is not exhausted, and moreover, it seems to be increasing, it seems, is this expression correct and what is there? we can see and predict, well, actually, i would not rush

to such a conclusion, but about the increase in the kamikaze 136 drones, because in the nomenclature of these drones there was also the gerber drone, uh, and the gerber drones are used together with the shakeed 136, they are generally similar to shaheds, although they are smaller size and... they're cheap, they're made of very, very cheap materials, why? because their main function is distraction, distraction of air defense means, distraction of mobile interception groups, ah, to scatter attention, to disperse attention and to exhaust air defense means, so that they waste ammunition, sometimes even ... missiles here what is their main role as a distraction, and therefore, in the total

amount that you are talking about, there are also gerberas, and at the same time, they are 306 the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine give in their daily reports, but directly, how many gerbers, how many shaheds do not provide such reporting, then... well, i would not rush to claim that the russians used exactly 1327 or how many kamika drones per shahet . in a month, because again, among them there was a large number of gerbers, and by the way, this tactic was used by the russian occupiers at one time during massive missile strikes, only then they used the shaheds as a distraction to improve conditions

breakthrough of air defense means with their missiles, and they also supplemented their missiles with missiles. without combat units, for example, the x-55s, which went in the first wave, air defenses were scattered on them, ammunition was spent, and they were already followed by kha-101 and 555 directly with bo with the combat unit fully equipped, that is, they tried to distract attention, now they divert attention, and from directly the shaheds themselves, herver, and why these shahed attacks? every day, well, what do they want to achieve? maximum terror and total destruction of the main infrastructure, which they consider necessary for the destruction, that is, the energy infrastructure, other objects, substations

, etc. he can destroy the substation itself. it causes enough destruction to stop some larger object, for example, until some repair work is carried out, and of course there are some shaheds that are used according to the corresponding coordinates, exclusively for the terror of the civilian population, it is also an integral part of conducting any military campaign on the part of the russians, that is, it is... classic since the time of the soviet union to use this very element of terror of the civilian population in parallel with the conduct of military operations. well, i get the impression that these daily attacks are more like, you know, psychological exhaustion of the population. well, psychological exhaustion, psychological pressure and exhaustion of air defense means. constantly daily

diverting attention to both shahedis and gerberas. and in fact, this is the preparation of the conditions for a more massive strike, within the limits of which all types of missiles, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and so on will be used in combination, that is, they are also preparing for this, but i wonder how much of this game we can play together with them? but we can play, and once again we demonstrate high indicators on strikes on the territory of the russian federation, something that did not happen, for example, in the 22nd year and even in the 23rd. on the 24th, we have massive raids, mass airstrikes on the territory of the russian federation have already become more systematic, and we strike at such

objects that are really important for the russian occupying forces, that is, it is not... terror even of the civilian population, we launch a drone that, the cost of which is tens of thousands of dollars , not in order, for example, to ram a smelly khrushchevka somewhere in omsk, no, ah, the drone is more expensive than the khrushchevka, the drone is designed to destroy a warehouse in which there are millions, hundreds of millions and even billions dollars of ammunition. and he achieves its goal: oil refineries, oil, oil bases, the same air bases, airfields, the range of objects that were hit by our drones in the 24th year is quite large, well, by the way, i saw, well, this famous one a russian soldier-fisherman,

who noted that it's as if ukraine... now pays less attention to oil depots, more specifically to military warehouses, well, i don't know if you can evaluate it that way, but there were indeed strikes on military warehouses from our side, interestingly, are there any impressions that it has already somehow affected the the provision of the russians on the front line, literally briefly, had such an impact, certainly on the same day it could not have had an impact, because the question arises... of logistics and provision, especially at the level, at the tactical level of the depots that are in the combat zone actions, and not only that, but when they were already almost emptied, this and... there was a need for logistical and technical support with ammunition for the front line, that's when it already began to be felt that the largest warehouses had some problems a week, one and a half or two weeks

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there was another assault in the area of ​​responsibility of your brigade, as the situation is actually happening now, these assaults are being made more, less, what has changed during this time, they are neither more nor less, they are constantly, literally today it was around from ... 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. we are employed, our the lion infantry shoots them wherever they can, in particular the russians in places where they think... that we are not there, and they go forward and for some reason disappear in some bermuda triangle and with complete misunderstanding they go and go again and disappear and disappear again, in the end while the mines

are looking for some new ways of subterfuge and advance to the next assaults. actually, according to one of the commanders of our mechanized battalion, the most difficult period of living at the front is the preparatory period, when the russians they are demining barricades, destroying engineering fortifications in... shelters, they are trying to clear our positions, that is, active artillery mortar fire is ongoing, in particular , they are firing from rocket and salvo fire systems, cassettes are being used against us, the best period is precisely the assault, because it is precisely at this time time we simply destroy their units on the battlefield, and now in the fields of donetsk there are simply dozens of bmps, battleships, tanks, but by the way, old models, their new units... not that they have run out, but we have seen them recently, probably somewhere in the summer, but assaults on motorcycles and all kinds of things like that, how far

do you spread it? in your direction, because i see that, well, the russians advertise a lot among themselves, it’s all just a very successful tactic there, it was in the summertime, they usually used motorized vehicles, by the way, my comrades in the battalion of unmanned systems were joking , that the motorized infantry troops of the russian federation, they used them for logistics, supply of bk and food, er... sometimes they stopped by us there with some alleged machine guns, but mostly i say that it is purely logistics, we usually destroyed them with slingshots or drops, and so they burned beautifully, this is a fairly obvious target, but it is worth saying that it is fast and not easy, because after all , compared to a tank, it is a little more difficult to hit a motsik, they were not shot at by artillery, but i say that that worked on them perfectly, now with the onset of cold weather they have switched to

armored vehicles again. but it is worth noting that the russians are aware of the risks of armored offensives with armored vehicles, and therefore, where they can, try to run in small groups through the landings and accumulate in the reserve zones, precisely because it is so important to monitor the battlefield around the clock to destroy them either on the approaches or in places where they can accumulate, for this we have drops, grenades, slings, artillery and so on. well, i want to discuss with you, your video appeared here, i think it was on monday, so interesting, in your direction, you mentioned that in the area of ​​​​action of your brigade there , black-skinned people from the side of the occupiers, units with dark-skinned fighters, and in particular there was such a video, where such a dark-skinned

fighter ... well, at first he tried to hide there, then he tried to surrender, tell me if you know what was there in general, and what kind of people these are, did you manage to find out where these fighters are from, what kind of fighters they are, where they were recruited from, the actual fate of this fighter, his biography managed to find out, since we could not capture him, he had to be destroyed together with the occupier who intercepted him on the way... when we were leading him right to our positions. the racist obviously thought that it was a russian drone and did not quite understand why a soldier of the russian army, a native of another country, was going overboard in an open area and called him to return to the formation. well, actually, the man could have run forward, although it is very likely that he would have been shot by his own people, since the russians do not neglect such methods for ...

potential information leaks, since the prisoners give us a lot of useful information, which we pass on to the appropriate structures for damage and why, it was not possible to capture him, we tried, we could have saved his life, we were sincere and merciful, but the russians are the occupiers, the russians are the russians, and they took it from us again our catch and led him to the position, there were about three servicemen in that position, we cleared them all, but we had other foreigners, er, they don’t speak russian and english, er, we managed to talk with them there through a conditional a translator, er, a probable military serviceman who at least somehow knows foreign languages, and they say that they are usually recruited due to the fact that their visa expires, some other documents that legalize their stay in the territory of the russian swamp, and it comes... the big one

a brother with a big contract in russian, which, of course, a foreigner cannot read, simply signs a piece of paper, expecting that he will return home, but he returns in a bag, in a loaf and goes to fight against the ukrainian state, where he dies , and from which countries were these people, whom you managed to capture, i apologize, from which countries were these people from? you can say: sri lanka, africa, er, m, egypt, ah, i know that among the prisoners there are also citizens of serbia, er, norway, if i'm not mistaken. but i will not clarify the redundant list, since i do not know the information for sure. however, yes, we had africans and egyptians. and