which direction remains tense in the area of ​​responsibility of the 15th brigade of the national guard of ukraine karadakh, which is in the direction of the city of selidovo and holds the defense lines, the situation is stably controlled, but tense. the enemy does not stop trying to carry out attacks on our positions, carries out deep breakthroughs at the expense of a small group of infantry, but is successfully destroyed on ambushes. it has been increasing in recent days. armored vehicles, there were cases of the use of tanks, mtlb, er, infantry fighting vehicles, which moved south of the city and tried, it was most likely reconnaissance by battle, therefore the enemy was destroyed, not allowed, the counter-battery struggle is felt significantly, the enemy has pulled the artillery systems closer to the line of combat engagement, is using a larger one. after

the loss of the ugledara, what do you think the situation will be in your direction now? the enemy partially changed tactics, after trying to actively advance with a wide front, was stopped at the beginning of september in the first decade, that is, the line was slightly stabilized by the defense forces of ukraine, so... er, parts of the reserve transferred to more responsible areas, we can see that we have a more or less stable situation in the direction of solodov, the hollow blow was a little more difficult, so the enemy reduced the number of manpower and is now trying to advance in the areas most responsible for him, that is, it is purposeful. directing reserves to some

separate sections of the front, but at the same time he does not leave behind attempts and pushes in other directions. yesterday, president zelenskyi, commenting on the loss of the ughledar, said that saving the lives of people, soldiers, is is more important than maintaining some structures or buildings, or is it... the principle is there and felt in your direction as well? well, first of all, the life and health of the personnel is a priority for all units, so if there are no personnel, then no one will pilot the pilots and drones, and no one will use the artillery, therefore, first of all, it is the personnel, therefore in those parts of the terrain where the enemy is creating, there

are no places left for conducting high-quality defense, therefore a decision is made, the following decision was made precisely according to ugledar, the preservation of life first of all, according to pokrovsk, were there in principle several messages, starting from maryana, a well-known ukrainian woman with no corners. deputies to continue to other former deputies, politicians such as yury lutsenko, for example, who is in the defense forces, about the fact that there is not a very good line of defense in pokrovsk and what is the situation there, can you somehow comment on this, first of all the zone of responsibility of the defense lines is located in us. pokrovsk and the main goal of the

defense forces, this is not the admission to pokrovsk and the advance in donetsk region. the thing that is observed in our area of ​​responsibility, engineering, fortification structures and the defense line continue to increase. therefore, reserve positions are being prepared in the interests of units to prevent the enemy from advancing further. now on... in the pokrovsky direction, what, what is the ratio of losses, if you can talk about it? the enemy is suffering significant losses and increasingly continues to use manpower in the form of infantry assaults, that is, this is a multiple, well, a much multiple ratio, so unfortunately, the enemy has a resource and potential in manpower lot. higher than us, we cannot afford

such losses, the ministry of defense, the government allowed the brigades directly. to mobilize future military personnel, is this good news for the 15th brigade, and i know that the military wishes were that the brigades could also recruit under contract, but so far there is no such permission, can you explain what is the difference here and why it is so important to recruit on your own for the contract for the brigades, it is for the contract that we... we were able to call for this directly with the rights of the brigade commander and with the mobilization of a little others, yes as we are in the operational subordination of the ministry of defense of the armed forces, that is why mobilization goes through the military commissariat of the ccc, through the ccc, i.e.

a serviceman or a recruit or a citizen applies to the brigade and then we direct the request to our brigade specifically. cska and further , after the start of mobilization, he goes directly to the training centers of the national guard, where, after passing the basic course of military training, he goes to the brigade that he chose, and then directly to the brigade continues coordination with the instructors of the unit precisely according to the specifics of the actions of this unit. what is the quality of the last mobilized ee now? are there any complaints? everyone goes through a basic course of military training, some more, some had military experience, some did military service, some were on contract, some did not. the effort is worth it, the main priority is the use

of all the skills acquired by a citizen or a serviceman before joining the ranks of the defense forces, that is, the effort for... all his skills to the maximum, well, plus an additional one the training is already directly by the instructors, in any case, the person goes through coordination and training, and does not immediately step into combat positions there on his own, it is part of a unit that already has experience with comrades who have combat achievements, the combat path is long, so he is located and adapts precisely in the combat unit. and his stay becomes longer? we know, we understand, we hear it from the military, from experts, from those who are on the front lines, that the greatest need and shortage right now is precisely the infantry, that is, these are the people who hold positions,

it is precisely the lack of infantry, well-trained, motivated, that allows the enemy to advance, as now by infantry, as if indeed, well, we also heard about the fact that... there is an order not to mobilize men, for example, over 50 years of age, however , in order to strengthen the physical condition, first of all , of the infantrymen, but on the other hand, we have a prohibited mobilization under the age of 25, i.e. just the physically healthiest men, how does all this affect the infantry at this moment of scarcity. well, if technologies did not develop, in which channel it would flow war, then infantry is the basis of war, without an infantryman, without a warrior who stands on the front lines and directly engages in contact combat, close combat, shooting combat, heavy combat, which under any conditions must

be very, very difficult, a good trained infantryman is the basis of defense, so there is some shortage in the infantry. for infantry positions, we also have a smaller number of people on the territory of our country in terms of age restrictions, 50 plus, we must state the fact that an infantryman who, if he is already of such a respectable age, then physical readiness already plays a very big role, what is related to... by the age of 25, we must understand that we need to continue to live, we need to continue to build the country, the gene pool, we have, we can see what the demographic crisis is now approaching, so we must also remember that. well, this is a good idea, mr.

vitaly, vitaly milovidov, major, press officer of the 15th brigade of operational assignment of the national guard of ukraine karadakh from the pokrovsky direction joined us, thank you very much. you for this conversation and for the opportunity to communicate directly with the front. thank you for everything. next, we will have a conversation with serhiy zgurets, a military expert and director. of the information-consensus company defense express, let's also talk about the angler and the general situation at the front. please stay with us friends, we will be back after a short break. tired of the mess in the kitchen, constantly having to sort through a bunch of pans to find the right one. you need the sejvory pro kit, unzip the tv. savory pro pans fold into each other and take up space so little space, and the price of everything from. uah 599 the sejory pro set is 5 pans from one to 9 liters with lids for any

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us, mr. serhiy, welcome to you, the audience, mr. serhiy. now, one way or another, many ukrainians argue about ughledar, someone says that there are losses and it is understandable when leaving, because it is a war, someone says that such losses could have been avoided, but we really do not know, that is, it is some kind of speculation, people, people say, somewhere someone heard something, someone has a relative who is in the 72nd brigade, on the eve, when the withdrawal was just beginning or they were gathering from... because before the last one was told that there was no order to retreat, the guys who came out and gave an interview to the bbc said that they themselves began to retreat so as not to stay there, an austrian analyst wrote a material, and i want to quote a few paragraphs from this material, the tone is quite

you know, sharp, and he has a lot of such questions. this is at the time, at the time when the 72nd brigade was still there, on the ukrainian side, no one thought of introducing at least one fresh battalion there, conducting some kind of counterattack, in order to help pull out the 72nd brigade why do this when they are running out of food, medical supplies and fuel, and it seems that they are forced to leave behind a large number of wounded who need evacuation, but what is the ukrainian general staff doing in all this chaos, replacing the brigade commander with colonel oleksandr. krymenko, perhaps, in the best traditions of the armed forces in rozpol, typical ukrainian quarrels. for example, the officers of the 72nd brigade may complain that it was maryana bezugla who incorrectly reported the rotation of this brigade as a withdrawal. she did it publicly and thus gave it to the russians understand that this is a good moment. then the russian troops deployed reinforcements and attacked, and therefore the ruined city is now one

step closer to falling. actually, it was the day before. gentlemen, what planet did you live on for a week? therefore, well, there is a lot of criticism of our military leadership, by the way, and also one more for the sub-question, who is our military leadership? and the question, why, why didn't all this happen earlier, and when you read, you think, well, maybe this is a person who lives in ukraine, but this is an austrian analyst, and even he already knows about some quarrels and all kinds of peculiarities of our politics, for example, about maryana bezuglai's posts, mr. serhiy, here i am, how should we deal with all this? what lessons should be learned from the history of bugadarska, and if this is the moment when we finally have to reveal the truth, how should we do it? well, actually the situation of the owner

is not easy, because linguistically speaking, we know about objective things. that the enemy is advancing on all areas of the front, the enemy has a numerical advantage, and relatively speaking, none of the areas where the enemy is trying to advance, it very, well, it is not one where you can substantially build up our reserves in exactly one area, i think that it is exactly this large-scale offensive that limits the maneuvers of reserves for the ukrainian armed forces, when we are talking about the use of reserves that can be directed to reinforcements , but in any case... we know that indeed ughledar was on the defensive for more than two years, the 72nd brigade was just standing there, for a long time, and when we move away from the strategic level, we go down to the information level, or what our military, we see that our soldiers are really saying that the brigade was exhausted, a small

number of our soldiers were defending on a wide section of the front, they will indeed make attempts at flank reinforcements. but they were carried out by terror defense battalions, which did not always perform, coped with their capabilities, the replacement of the brigade commander during hostilities, there were also different assessments, some of the commander said that he just ineffectively uses the added units that are given on reinforcement, others said that actually the commander brigades are much better compared to other brigades that are conducting combat operations, so relatively speaking, the truth can also be determined here. it is quite complicated, but the flavor of the story is that the withdrawal took place, well , almost at the moment when the flank encirclement and operational control of the enemy over the routes from which the withdrawal of our troops was carried out, of course, caused losses, this made it difficult to evacuate

the wounded who remained on the battlefield, and, of course, this is extremely, well, painfully perceived, when you evaluate this story and this battle, and when we see the president's words after a certain time that the withdrawal took place, it was necessary to save lives, then the command of the khortyts military academy says that the withdrawal really took place, there was an order , but somehow it already happened because the most tragic events took place in the vogledar zone, but we will also give credit to our troops, in these conditions they ensured a gradual retreat, and before that the enemy force was destroyed as much as possible and the defense was directed at that, well, as much as possible... to inflict a lot of damage on the enemy, and this was done by the 72nd brigade for two years. if this withdrawal order was late, how did it happen, who

gives such orders in this case? well, well, we are now interfering in the zone, when the order was given, who gave the order, the order is given, relatively speaking, by the brigade commander, if who receives the order from above on what he can leave for... which he defends, if he does not have such an order and arbitrarily gives the order, he is subject to the actions of e-e of our codes on failure to carry out a combat order, and actually these are the things, this delicate balance between carrying out a combat order and preserving the lives of soldiers, which we talk about just as often, it is decided by each commander, well... based on his own assessment of the situation, understanding that the commander a brigade cannot withdraw a brigade from the area it guards, defends without a decision from above, and decisions from above sometimes,

perhaps, do not fully assess the situation on the battlefield, do not have all the data on the state of those brigades that are defending, or relatively speaking, well, they don’t have the opportunity to strengthen these brigades on the front line, it all adds up to such a painful such... combination of these decisions that we see in the end that, basically, the brigade is withdrawn, but withdrawn by executions, but we do not know to what extent the order to withdraw was given in time, and this order to withdraw is whose prerogative, it is president zelensky, as the supreme commander should say, yes, okay, you can withdraw, absolutely, i think that this is actually the command of the operational-tactical group, which keeps in today. because otto is responsible for the situation along the length of the front, which is in the area of ​​competence. well, if we talk now about other directions, now the russians

are trying to advance near selidov and there they want to repeat this story, as far as i understand it, but on an even larger scale, how is the situation there now, can a similar bypassing from the flanks happen there too, too late that the enemy using the advantage of manpower, he is trying to continue to press on the pokrovsky direction, yesterday data from the general staff pokrovsky kurakhivskyi direction turkish in fact, there are half of the battles in this area from the total number, now there is really a situation around salidovo, when the enemy is again using this tried-and-tested maneuver of building up the forces of means on the flanks, and it is extremely important for the enemy to make a simple submission afterwards. to pokrovsky, but seridov, well, it is defended there by the karad national guard brigade, quite effectively, but these approaches with a flanking encirclement,

the enemy will try to implement on this part of the front as well, we will also see how it will act now the enemy after the capture of the coal farm, i think that now pakishtivka, bogoyalenivka will be, relatively speaking, a new line of defense for our troops, but defending in the field... of course, it is much more difficult than being prohibited in buildings, despite the fact that the hugadar is completely destroyed, yes that in any case now the enemy will try to continue to implement this strategy of exhaustion with the advantage of his manpower and artillery relative to our armed forces. mr. sergey, the institute for the study of war writes that the russian offensive, the russian military will reach a climax in their offensive during the nearest months, if not weeks, do we have the strength to resist this onslaught if it drags on for several months,

in fact. the enemy's offensive has already been going on since october of last year, it's been almost a year, the enemy's pressure is on the wide spaces of our country, along the entire front line, and this is exactly the strategy of the enemy, where he believes that he will be able to break us with the number of his personnel, i think that over the next few months, it is unlikely that the enemy's tactics... and approaches will change because he feels that he has the upper hand now and it will last for, well, at least the next two months in any case, because there's also a political factor here, because with the outcome of the election in the united states pending, the russians will try to, well, suppress as much as possible our defense, in order to create for ourselves the most receptive, acceptable ones. conditions for

some, relatively speaking, future negotiations between the americans themselves and the russians in the sense of the situation of the war in ukraine, so that it is also certainly important and the political factor in in this history, our capabilities currently do not allow us to hold back the enemy to the extent that it is happening, because despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, the potential of our armed forces is still sufficient to hold back. the enemy from some operational or strategic advantages in all areas of the front, we still have a few minutes left, kursk has disappeared from the news radars at the moment, but what is happening there, what is the news from there, now the enemy has increased the number of personnel there, up to 45 thousand, in fact there were attempts by the enemy there just a couple of days ago to carry out a counterattack or...

to break through to the route that provides koreneve and, i think, the route that is important for us, the enemy there advanced a little in this counterattack, but in any case, the situation in general looks like such that the main combat actions there are still ahead, because the enemy is still trying to ensure an advantage in manpower and equipment, if now there are fools who are talking about an advantage that is significant enough already for... today, the accumulation of strength is still taking place means, so what in any case, this section of the front will soon be, well, even hotter than it is now. well, forbes columnist david aks believes that ukraine has transferred all its best tanks to the kursk region, and that is why he connects the fall of the tank with this, well, i think that this is an exaggeration, in fact, the question of tanks in the coal mine from our side is that , well, they weren't used there

anyway, but really. a certain number of our well-trained units and brigades really operate in the kurdish direction, solving a number of tasks both military and of military and political importance. mr. serhiy, thank you. serhii zgurets, military expert, director of information consulting company defense express. we talked with him about ugledar, about how the 72nd brigade of black zaporozhets were withdrawn, we also talked about what happens next after volodar, where the russians will be sent, and we talked. about what is happening in the kurt region, dear friends, we are approaching 9 o'clock in the morning, at 9:00 in the morning, i would like to remind you that the whole country falls silent for a moment, in order to honor the memory of those ukrainians with a moment of silence who is no longer with us due to russian aggression, next on the espresso tv channel will be the project of our colleagues at radio svoboda freedom of the morning, and andrii and i will return at 10:10 and continue, please stay with the espresso tv channel, continue to report

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