[000:00:00;00] fet who approached the may 9 battle for the donbass front, why the donbass was of strategic importance for the germans a conversation with a program expert, he bombed berlin in forty-second twice a hero at 20 with a little the further we move away from the may days of the forty-fifth year, the more obvious it becomes without big and small victories in different years. the great patriotic war would not have been the main victory, and along with the largest battles near stalingrad and on the kursk bulge , the donbass offensive operation was of great importance for maya forty-fifth autumn, 43 victory, carried out on the lands of the current novorossiya. the germans called the don region in the eastern level before the war. he gave

more than 60% of the total allied coal production. here, 40% of iron was smelted and 23% of steel produced almost a quarter of all rolled products in the country. donbass was the most important center of heavy and medium engineering in the soviet union. in 1941, hitler believed that a quick capture of this region would greatly increase his sha. become the winner in october 41 german and italian troops entered stalin's current donetsk occupation of donbass lasted for almost 2 years for a long 700 days forty-one to forty-three. more than 220,000 civilians were killed here. including 30,000 jews, the germans shot 150,000 soviet prisoners of war over 250,000 inhabitants. donbass were taken to germany and turned. there, in

the stew of the german film marshal manstein in the winter of 1943, at a meeting in zaporozhye , hitler declared that it was absolutely impossible to give to the enemy. donbass even time, if we lose this area, we will not be able to provide raw materials for their war industry of liberation. donbass were with the soviet team. already in may forty-second, however, the failure of the kharkov operation that year put an end to them, in the winter of forty-third the red army went on the offensive again, was liberated, now voroshilovgrad, lugansk then managed to recapture slavyansk and kramatorsk, however, the germans launched a counteroffensive, our troops managed to hold, lugansk but had to leave the already liberated cities of the donetsk region, kramatorsk and slomyansky in july august forty-third and on the kursk bulge and

the successful offensive on the belgorod kharkov direction created new conditions for liberation. donbass, the task was not easy; the germans built strong fortified here. three lines. defense. they were called the mius front, hitler considered it the eastern border of germany, which the soviet troops were not supposed to overcome, but our soldiers. you still did it says anna efimova the city that has retained not only the soviet name but also, like no one else, honors the memory of the events that took place here during the years of the great the national history of the young guard is known, perhaps, to everyone here they grew up generations. the young guard is, of course, a symbol. well, not only for the lugansk region, but for our entire russia, this is a symbol of courage. uh, loyalty and love for the motherland, and of course, the

younger generation now, which defends the lugansk people's republic, is fighting against ukrainian non-fascism. of course, they were brought up on the feat of the hero of the young guard , because many of these guys. they were at the museum of the young guard, when they studied in schools, many of them were once accepted here in pioneers accepted someone into the komsomol. uh, now uh, youth. we accept the yunarmiya. today this memorial. the main, memorable landmark of the city of shura, the abandoned mine number five, became a mass grave for the krasnodon young guard in january 1943, less than a month was left before our arrival on the granite slabs of ali and the memory of those who died at the hands of the nazis and those who managed to survive the occupation, and then reach berlin in the winning roll, which started for them exactly. here in the donbass land victory in stalingrad, inherited by the sweat and blood of soviet soldiers, allowed the headquarters to make

new plans. breaking further to the west, general vatutin is developing a jump operation during this winter offensive of 1943, the northern part of the donbass , the matchmaker of rovenki krasny liman rubizhnoye kremennaya, and of course, the germans themselves, voroshilovgrad, the current luhansk, were not going to retreat, they carried out a series of counterattacks. and the trouble was that our troops had reached stalingrad for, well, already 3 months in continuous battles. so yes it has been increased delivery, again, it was winter, snow cover, yes, that is, there were not enough resources , there was no replenishment, and here are our units weakened, including during the offensive. they were gradually knocked out by fresh german rubber ones and we had to leave kharkov. this is just march 43, but the district entered the council, we kept it, and now the front line passed at that time. well, 20 kilometers from the city.

historical knowledge on film black-and-white newsreel and here within the walls of the luhansk museum of local lore 80 years ago, immediately after the germans withdrew, it was loaded over the pedestal destroyed monument. lenin today. it occupies a central place in the exposition over the past years. the red flag faded in memory, the human one did not die. the main task of liberating the donbass fell, of course, to the southwestern and southern fronts. and the troops of the southwestern front carried out the barvenkovsky raisin attack in july of the forty-third year, the troops of the southern front, carried out the mius attack on the operation, these operations were of a much planned nature. there it was not only about the liberation of donbass and in general, the eastern part of ukraine, but it was necessary to make sure that the enemy could not delay. uh, from this sector of the front, our troops to the kursk bulge, because after all,

the operation on the kursk bulge. it was of strategic importance and, in general, the outcome of the entire military campaign of 43 years after the defeat of the wehrmacht near kursk and belgorod, the headquarters of the supreme high command concentrated on the liberation or coastal ukraine, primarily donbass, depended on the outcome of this operation, a large-scale offensive began on august 13 1943 about the length of the front was almost 1,000 km. imagine, four fronts, in fact, they attacked simultaneously even now, if you carefully study these events , it is not entirely clear where the main blow was and whether it was at all. that is, it was makhina in the aggregate of 2,700,000 people. this is a huge army, and the donbass itself a little more than a million people. here we had a superiority in forces two to three times compared with the germans and a plus. we already had superiority at that time

in artillery mortars, therefore, despite the fact that the germans thought that they had created some kind of serious shaft there, that the russians would not pass hmm everyone laughed, it’s literally in 2 weeks at the beginning of september whether slavyansk artyomovsk will now be liberated now bakhmut, kramatorsk on september 8, soviet troops will enter stalin, he is not, donetsk in parallel. in the southern direction , the troops of colonel-general tolbukhin will take possession of taganrog, after which the enemy grouping of the army, the south will be under the threat of dismemberment and destruction, and only then will hitler be allowed to move back the main forces of our southern front, meanwhile they took up the liberation of mariupol under this impressive cover of operational reports and orders to the 4th cavalry corps, the chief of staff of the southern front conveys stalin's demands to find weaknesses in the enemy's defense and capture mariupol on the calendar of september 2, 1943, in order to surround the enemy grouping,

it was necessary to go to mariupol simultaneously from different directions. how to listen and from the sea, it was the actions of the amphibious assault, in fact, prepared the ground for the land offensive, his task was capture and hold the port of mariupol until the 44th army units approach. one of the heroes of those battles. became marine marine nikolai kozhevnikov here is his award list in the column. nationality is written by ukrainian kozhevnikov , who first jumped into the water, was taken to the gangway from the boat and held it on his shoulders until the landing command was completely disembarked after disembarkation. he immediately returned to his combat post and in wet clothes suppressed it. the enemy from the machine at the end of the day on september 10 , the report reported that the southern front was pursuing and eliminating the retreating units of the enemy after the nazis didn’t leave anything behind themselves, they used the scorched earth tactics, when everything that had

any practical value was destroyed - food, residential buildings, infrastructure, livestock and, of course, the people themselves during this offensive, the red army liberated 123 settlements, including the city of mariupol and waves, that is, by the evening i say, mariupol was completely liberated quite right, and the hostilities began in the early morning, and at about 5:00 in the morning again 30 and by evening the city was completely liberated from historians assess the enemy's donbass offensive as one of the most successful, the vast territory of donbass and all of the or coastal ukraine was cleared of the germans. in just 40 days. pursuing the enemy, the troops of the southwestern front, already on september 22, threw back the nazis beyond the dnieper , so the donbass offensive operation ended, so far back in 1943 on the hardened donbass land. finally , the long-awaited silence reigned. anna efimova lisaveliev

anastasia popova is a typical new russia. about the events of the forty-third year and the battle for donbass, we are talking with our permanent expert historian rostislav ishchenko rostislav good afternoon. good afternoon rostislav donbass was in occupation for almost two years. did the germans manage to turn it into their own resource base during this time? well, partially yes, it means, although they could not restore somewhere around 30-40% of the industry. uh, those who worked here, but the fact is that they were not faced with the task of turning it into a fully resource base. for them, it was important to exclude the donbass as a resource base of the soviet union preparation of the barbarossa plan, hitler demanded to concentrate.

e. against ukraine, almost 40% of all e resources, at a certain stage from the end of august to the beginning of november , taking into account the fact that the second gadarian tank group was redirected to the ukrainian direction, and in its life interests, i cover its flan, the second field army acted almost 60% all german resources were directed in this direction. because absolutely correct. ukraine, how to live below the soviet union that is, where did the food for the army come from, but the most the main thing is that about 60% of the entire soviet industry was concentrated in ukraine , including what we now call the military-industrial complex and the main, uh, these sources of raw materials, well, plus, ukraine was the gate to the caucasus of the officialization of the soviet unions caucasian oil faces planned only in the year 402 he did not go there, and here and ukraine he set the task of occupying occupations up

to rostov yes, right away in the company of the forty-first year. first of all, i counted. this is very important and, as we understand it, not just ukraine is mainly these resources concentrated in the territory of novorossiya. and if we are talking about the large industry here in this territory of donbass, first of all. and now, well, then not only hitler yes, but even in the soviet union , not everyone could guess. it will be possible to withdraw, uh, the entire heavy industry from ukraine to move it to the urals and the saural, and that by the end of the forty-second year. she will earn full-scale there and already the end of the forty- second beginning of the fortieth anniversary of the year. it will begin to issue products in pre-war sizes. and it will even very quickly exceed military size, so it was fundamentally important for hitler to cut off the soviet union from the resources of donbass. hitler insisted that this was the very line of fortification created by donbaseront. this is the eastern border of germany

which must not be abandoned. uh, and this despite the fact that, in fact, uh, the germans used the scorched earth tactics in donbass, they left everything destroyed. why , then, did hitler hold back so much for this, as he called the eastern border of germany, for a minus. well, hitler said about almost everything that you can not leave, he forbade shooting, stalingrad for a long time forbade leaving. the caucasus then forbade retreat. e with a minus front. there, einstein simply writes from their memoirs. hitler told him that if we leave, er, the nikopol bridgehead, then we will be left without nickel and without manganese, and in this case you will demand from me there, i could not provide them to you. so, therefore, if you want to fight, then you need to fight where i tell you, because this is not political , and political considerations too, because let's say he was afraid that turkey might move to another camp. eh, so she didn’t fight on the side of germany, she maintained a favorable neutrality in relation to.

yes, i was afraid of betrayal, as it later happened to the allies of eastern europe, when you read the reports of the forty-third year, the soviet troops, liberated mariupol, went out to the poplar , fighting for artyomovsk, it is impossible to completely abandon the parallel. today, all this is very consonant, because now these parallels are happening by chance, or is there some kind of pattern, but the matter, including the ukrainian direction in well, at least in the wars of the 20th century, was, uh, critical both for russia and for its opponents, which means that, and therefore, in particular, the great patriotic war. yes, it mostly took place in ukraine in novorossia in the donbass and in the south of russia south of stalingrad in the caucasus, which means

that if he just remembers the configuration of the front, then near leningrad, and in karelia the front stabilized in the forty-first year and stood like that until 44 of the year. somewhere even up to 405, means in mm on the central direction the front. the first time it stabilized after the battle of moscow, which means please, almost until the forty-third year before the kursk bulge and the second time after the kursk bulge, the germans retreated a little there, but then they stood until the forty-fourth year before the start of the operation of bagration of belarus but on this very one in ukrainian the direction of the forty-second year is an attempt to take. and in kharkov, the kerch landing during the freya attempts of the offensive of the soviet troops, because, again, raw materials were needed base. what was needed was an industrial base. it was necessary to break through to food, and so, respectively, after that these territories of the germans were recaptured. first, they have largely exhausted their reserves

holding these territories. just like now zelensky is exhausted to keep the gay marinka bang there or there is no gift, and secondly, it makes no sense for e for lvov to hold on to the same extent. in which it makes sense to hold on to donetsk zaporozhye dnepropetrovsk odessa therefore the main events are actually a means of german front. they developed in the ukrainian direction in particular. in novorossiya. these are all the main battles of the forty-second forty- third and the first half of 44. thank you very much for an interesting story. look into the face of this young man, a native of the city of luhansk, donetsk province, was like this from 20 to 25 43. namely, then it was done. he was only 23 years old in this photo, a long-range aviation pilot and already twice hero of the soviet union

, his name is alexander molodchiy. the first star of the hero. he received in the fourth month of the war, the second in december forty-two, then he became the first twice hero of the soviet union among long-range aviation pilots in just the years of the war. the title of twice hero of the soviet union was given to 107 people, more than half of them combat pilots. according to the russian ministry of defense in 1991, by the time of the collapse of the ussr, there were almost 13,000 heroes of the soviet union in the country, of which more than 11,000 received their gold stars during the great patriotic war, including 227 natives of donbass, two of them became

heroes twice people of completely different military men professions and ranks gunners and tankers pilots and paratroopers soldiers and sergeants officers and generals united without about courage and high representation of military duty to their homeland about the fate of the twice hero of the soviet union alexander molochivogo in the story of olga mokhova 600.000 km, and in the sky 311 sorties for the most part in at night , more than 200 tons of bombs dropped on enemy targets, contemporaries spoke of alexander the young, that he was a pilot from god , a born pilot and an exceptional person. he knew how to imagine due to what the plane is in the air, he remembered this saying of zhukovsky in the air, support is everywhere and therefore he was, of course, uh, a cutting man, very organized, clear and honest. well, gifted as a pilot. i never lied, which is very

characteristic of a rare hatch. usually they embellish their achievements. alexander filled up the sky from a young age, however, like all soviet youth, in the thirties of the last century only forward and only upwards was the motto of that time in parallel with studying at school number 13 was engaged in flying club was fond of aeromodelling. already at the age of 16, that is , the thirty-sixth year, he made the first flights on a flamer in 1938 with the rank of second lieutenant. oleksandr molochay graduated from the voroshilovgrad military pilot school named after the proletariat of donbass, famous throughout the country , forge of flight personnel, during the years of the great patriotic dairy mastered three types of ep-2, il-4 aircraft and the american b-25 received under lend-lease on his own initiative. he began to fly with the increased bomb load of most of the crews. so didn’t fly, but he took off even with two and a half tons, he imagines and even made a special device, but removed

the limiter from the elevators in order to undermine the plane more sharply, he changed a little there due to some internal reserves and its centering. even the most lyushin lay down to them, the regiment examined. it's so restrained. he had a negative attitude towards the overload of the aircraft, but he did not say anything so restrained in 194. in the 2nd year of long-range aircraft, at first , the bombers flew during the day, being attacked by german air defense fighters, young one of the first mastered night flights. this is the most difficult time for aviation , because you are flying according to instruments, in fact, the weather , it happens that there are no various landmarks, and therefore reaching the target, and in flight it takes several hours. again, clearly find the target by coordinates to somehow navigate. it was in this, just the skill of the pilot and navigator, that his crew was trusted. the most, of course, in order to

destroy the german troops besieging leningrad and which they guarded, like the apple of the eye, special bombs were used with meter-long hooks and slowing down the explosion on the night of august 27, soviet aircraft bombarded the military-industrial facilities of nazi germany, the first plane to appear over berlin was the plane of the hero of the soviet union guard captain alexander molochnichev. this is a newspaper. true, on august 28, 1942 , they wrote in an article that they sent a radiogram directly from the milkweed to the name of stalin, but they kept silent about the task. it is true that in this case the crew necessarily violated the regime of complete radio silence in such cases. and that even before landing, the pilots received an answer. all, thank you very much and have a safe return. in the crew of the milkman and navigators, the gunners were older than their commander, but they trusted him entirely, as

a real leader, in addition to the deadly cargo dropped on enemy targets. they managed to shoot down five more enemy planes. even for fighter pilots. this would be a major success. he was a man. eh, by nature very such a groovy impudent. and perhaps that is why he did not become a four-time hero, because already after the second star he was served twice more for numerous combat successful sorties at the assignment of his title of hero of the soviet union, but were limited only to the order of lenin, he returned from assignments more than once. as the song says, on parole and on one wing, well, never left the plane in the air , fought according to the recollections of colleagues with great passion , boldly entered the enemy air defense zone, skillfully moved away from enemy fighters, sharply losing altitude by the end of the war, the commanders tried to save it . keep on the ground, but milk was torn into the sky, passed around to protect such experiments pilots, because they were in all long-range

aviation throughout the war. i find it difficult, but in my opinion, no more than seven young people participated. in almost all key battles and operations of the great patriotic war , he ended the war as a squadron commander and assistant to the corps commander. in his native lugansk, already in 1948, he, as a twice hero of the soviet union, was given a bronze bust. and after some time, another one next to his native school, named after him. this year, the school has become the base for holding a forum of schools of heroes of the all-russian level and passed. this is on the basis of our school museum. they talked about our hero, they talked about his exploits, so now the guys from all over russia know that there is such a school after the victory, alexander molodchiy, he served in long-range aviation for another 20 years. he was the first. who took off on a 3m strategic bomber with a full combat load of the airfield trace in the arctic first. who lifted the heavy tu-16 from the unpaved airfield olga mokhova anastasia popova savelyev is a typical

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in turkey, the last minutes of the general elections in the country today were determined by who will become president of the main intrigue. whether to be the second round. and today they voted for the composition new parliament. where 36 parties want to go the elections were held against the backdrop of searches and political persecution. this is in gagauz, an autonomous region. moldova chose a new head there. why did zelensky go around europe to ask for money, and at the same time, as the washington post found out, to incite us to joint sabotage before the end of this hour, see arkady mamontov’s author’s project, the american method. well, let's start with the messages of the ministry of defense. they told about attacks on enemy military facilities in the ternopil region and in the dnipropetrovsk region they were hit with high-precision long-range air and sea-based weapons. among

the goals are the deployment points in the place of storage of ammunition in the armament of military equipment of foreign production. it was noted that all the designated targets were hit. in addition , the military department was told about the actions of our units in the solidar direction of artyomovsk, assault detachments, with the support of units of the airborne troops. they continued to fight for possession of the western quarters, the cities of artyomovsk to the north and south artyomovsk. over the past 24 hours , the enemy has made massive attempts to break through the defense of our troops, all attacks by units of the armed forces of ukraine have been repelled. breakthrough of the defense of the russian troops are not allowed. repelling the attacks of opponents of courage, heroism was shown by the military units of the 4th 200th motorized rifle brigades and the 6th motorized division of the russian armed forces, a unit of the 4th motorized brigade south of the red settlement in the donetsk people's republic , attacks were repelled battalions of the tactical group

armed forces of ukraine, as a result of which the enemy lost about 200 servicemen killed. also, our military department reported that during the battles near artyomovsk , two russian colonels were killed on the front line. one of them, the deputy commander of the army corps , yevgeny brovka, also died heroically as the commander of the 4th motorized rifle brigade. colonel vyacheslav makarov, the soldiers under his leadership destroyed three enemy tanks, as well as infantry fighting vehicles and two armored vehicles. during the battle makarov was mortally wounded. but now turkey has literally just closed there, the polling stations and the counting of votes began in the country, they voted immediately in the parliamentary and presidential elections, if it’s already possible to find out the first results and uh, we’ll ask our correspondents from leyla diamondarova elizaveta khramtsova, and elizaveta is at the building electoral commission leyla near one of the polling stations in