, beat bakhmut, but so on .his is far from fake, we let's not stand still we're moving we're moving and we're moving let's go even a little bit at a time but we're going forward we're not going left we're not going right somewhere we broke off a piece we got stuck further we went bahutna we won't leave we'll go only forward and only forward while we're talking an enemy drone is spotted in the sky you need to hide in the morning works in the hall, we need a shelter, we need to go to the shelter , the better we shoot, the more they look for us, the more they worry about them in the dugout, they didn’t have time to drink a cup of coffee as the russian drone disappeared, and the fighters, having received the next coordinates of the targets, launch we already have our bird in the sky, we see where it is flying, we correct it and make accurate shots, you are ready plusplus we are waiting i am ready to work on the southern flank of the bakhmu direction combat work is going on around the clock right now ukrainian mortar

, while the russians declared that they captured the city of bakhmut, which is currently not covered by the russian federation, no two or of three interpretations, it cannot be a threat from china and russia's war against ukraine were the main topics at the g7 summit in japan, this club of the richest leading democracy and president zelenskyi was a key guest there, at first there was an intrigue whether he would fly or not, and having already arrived in hiroshima, president zelenskyi had the opportunity to talk with world leaders and once again call for support for ukraine to understand the level of the meeting, look at this family photo of the big seven representatives of the eu and the president of ukraine in in the center near the host of the japanese prime minister's summit in hiroshima, zelenskyi met with joe biden, other leaders , macron, scholz, trio, sunnik, he communicated with all of them and treated them like old friends and in addition, he spoke with some invited representatives of the countries of the global south, where ukraine's support is not as clear and unquestionab

let's talk about the situation in the bakhmut area, which was changing there .n some days, it changed very quickly and even very positively for us this week . why are the russians in such a panic? the most important blows were inflicted on enemy positions . well, actually, now we have a map in front of us where we are trying to find out what exactly happened on the front line, we understand that summer if the most positive changes took place on on the flanks of the city, it is precisely on the northern and southern sides, when we are talking about the northern direction, it is actually the military operations , with the support of the artillery of our units, which were aimed at repelling the enemy from the chrome, there were offensives in the bohdanivka area from the bohdans, which in and above, where the russian troops actually grazed, trying to control the route that runs along the yar river, and in fact this work was done with sufficient quality , the enemy troops moved somewhere, we are talking about 600 m, but in fact in the format uh, these areas and 600 m

and bakhmut itself and in the area of ​​bakhmut. during the winter russian offensive , bakhmut was heldtroops. these four cities have a population of hundreds, that is, they did not allow the russians to deliver to these cities army artillery communications and left almost 100,000 here. biden is entitled to 100,000 people. destroyed and bakhmut is there lunar landscape eh ukrainian troops are in the vicinity of bakhmut on the elevations of new heights bakhmut is in the lowlands and like an amphitheater surrounded by heights , here and on these heights our troops are now and we are advancing in order to close in the operational encirclement along these heights to the northeast, after that the operational encirclement will be closed , after that these troops who are in the part of bakhmut now they will be shot at by our e-e artillery units, as practically from three sides from the heights e- bakhmut will be in the hands of our troops at the moment where we are on the heights, some parts of these heights are part of the city line , that is , they are part of the city line of bakhmut. the t

the word bakhmut remains the epicenter of fighting for eight months. well , for now, the defense forces continue offensive actions on the slats near bakhmut and control the outskirts of the city, which was to enter it as soon as the operational situation at the front changes , this was announced by the commander of the ground forces of the ukrainian armed forces oleksandr syrsky, who visited the front line in the bakhmut direction. showed how our defenders work in the direction of bakhmut, posted the video on his page in a telegram, wrote that the excellent work of the defense forces made it possible to destroy 9 units of enemy equipment one tank, four armored combat vehicles and four cars well, meanwhile, the special operations forces showed how they continue to fight for bakhmut, in these shots, the soldiers go on a combat mission through the crushed but not from the roots of the city, and they wrote exactly this is how the path to victory is difficult and risky, he lost a limb after being blown up by an enemy mine , he warned about rehabilitation tr

in general, because in the bakhmut club and in the north, in the south, they report and they report not without reason about the successes of the third assault brigade and other units that are fighting and advancing the enemy, but the situation in the bahamut is tense, what can you say as of the evening of this day , again, what can you say , please, tense, that's putting it very mildly very hot, very tense on yoget, where the third assault brigade works, where the tera reconnaissance works, the guys are very cool and advance very hard, so do the wagners and the 72nd brigade. our unit, where the 57th brigade works, some other brigades , but i won't name them because they didn't talk about themselves . that is, i don't have such powers, but it's hot here. it's very difficult for us, but in bahmut itself, those who hold it are yuk and west e bahmuta there is a real hell there on their background in our resort is always honest, something is exploding, burning, burning, we raised a drone over bakhmut in that territory, what else is ours, it is completely destroyed, the fact that they ca

., , ., , , ., , bakhmut? it matters for the russians oliticall bakhmut? politically and you _ bakhmut? it matters for the russians politically and you mentioned - bakhmut? it matters for the russians politically and you mentioned the - politically and you mentioned the head of the wagner group and he wanted to show that his forces could do what the russian military could not do and he has hailed this as a victory for his forces now he's trying to save them and withdraw them from bakhmut. and it all —— also is important for the ukrainians because they wanted to tie down the russian forces and make them sustain as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal— as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal does _ as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal does take _ as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal does take place - as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal does take place and i as many losses as possible. if the withdrawal does take place and we don't yet have final confirmation yet, but if the mercenary soldiers are out and russian soldie

better shelling the two main routes that provided bakhmut.the most difficult period in march . when there was a situation when she says that everyone advised us to retreat from bakhmut, and even then there was a story about what , zelensky, i will emphasize it is necessary to stay, and the military, as it were, told him that it is not necessary to keep bakhmut, then everything actually fell into place, and then the villager repeatedly went to bakhmut, we are conducting military operations and said that we need first of all, to destroy the enemy's most incapable troops, it was precisely wagner's forces, because precisely because of this new tactic, when these mo- use of both criminals and trained wagnerites in the city, it precisely gave the enemy the opportunity to advance in bakhmut, and then to have just the presconst, zelenskyi's ference seems 29 march, when he said that in fact we would not give the enemy any chance to win, just then, after the end of march , we actually held our troops in bakhmut for two months, even though the enemy was

greetings to everyone from espresso, this is news and we are starting this issue, this is how the bakhmut harrow performs its military tasks , the offensive potential of the enemy has been significantly reduced, the enemy has suffered huge losses , deputy minister of defense hanna malyar said yesterday, the situation in the bakhmut direction has not changed significantly , our troops are in the city control certain objects and the private sector in the area , the enemy is carrying out sweeps in the areas of the city that the enemy has taken control of, the enemy is charging additional forces, we have won time for certain actions about which it will be possible to tell later, said the painter, the general on the front line. the head of the state border service, serhii deineko, visited the positions of the border guards in the bakhmut and liman directions, he checked the fortifications and reliability of the shelters, and also listened to the reports of the commanders about the situation and the actions of the occupiers in these directions, in addition, deineko handed over military state aw

well, we didn't invent the bakhmut fortress.didn't invent this endless narrative about heroism and so on. well, that is this is not without excluding this heroism and not including this confrontation for eight or so months. well, but we did not come up with this. that is, this is a narrative that is, in principle , formulated by the state propaganda machine of ukraine, including definitely. well, here we do not absolutize the ukrainian strategic communication and our information policy, so that is, well, here , if it were also a-a in the same way as with the questions counteroffensive yes, here, uh , well, uh, there were actually no unanimous assessments yes, both official and unofficial because of what is happening in bakhmut and why this confrontation is needed, what it gives from the point of view of strategic strategy and, as it were , strategic value, but in general, well, if what the russians, well, if they practically entered these ruins that they left behind and -e on these months and endless shelling of civilian quarter

the situation in bakhmut?e battle for the city ongoing? and was the _ the battle for the city ongoing? and was the defence of bakhmut worth all the effort _ was the defence of bakhmut worth all the effort and all their lives that have _ the effort and all their lives that have been lost?— the effort and all their lives that have been lost? thank you for the cuestion. have been lost? thank you for the question- we _ have been lost? thank you for the question. we do _ have been lost? thank you for the question. we do not _ have been lost? thank you for the question. we do not have - have been lost? thank you for the question. we do not have simple. question. we do not have simple questions any more, as well as we don't have simple answers. because we have a very complicated neighbour who a criminaland we have a very complicated neighbour who a criminal and terrorist complicated enemy, but we are fighting, thanks to the courage of our people and warriors. and thanks to our cleverness or stop we are not throwing p

bakhmut, the russian occupation garrison of bakhmut , will be in an operational-tactical environmentey will then have problems with logistics prigozhin somehow announced the evacuation of bakhmut and the transfer of bakhmut to the russian armed forces. before that, he handed over the flanks because he understood that the flanks would not hold back, so that later they would blame the generals of the general staff and so on, and now he is starting to say exactly the same that he wants to get out of bakhmut to patch up the wounds, as he says, and the city will be handed over to the control of the armed forces . he understands the risks of this encirclement, and for wagner to be encircled, well, that's what they have there, and there is already 10 percent at most 20 percent of the personnel whose personnel prigozhina was today the prisoners are not very caught in this unit and the entrance is not a particular problem. in this context, therefore, he wants to jump out, so to speak , to the winners who took the transfer with their armed forces there, and then all the responsibility will onc

she saves paratroopers in bakhmut under bullets a few hundred meters from the enemy. a combat asset . olga signed a contract in the army before the start of a full-scale invasion. although she is a medic by education, she decided that her help would be more needed at the front when you go out on combat missions, you begin to understand why you are being taught by name, my task is first of all to stop the bleeding, to choose who i will 1 fight with. i understood this only when i left the first time on a combat mission, everything is a little different there, there is no time for that, and it can be like this more often, you just like that what advice from them, several at once, you need to take a lot in the work of a combat medic, olga had to study during hostilities, because civilian medicine is different from combat medicine in well, in her free time, she loved grief, extreme sports , explored caves, and also had her own business with her husband. she wanted to go to war in 2014, but then she gave birth to a son and could not go. she waited until she grew up and went

, he says they have captured bakhmut, and president platoon has congratulated about them taking bakhmute case and we should remember the russians haven't exactly been very truthful throughout this war, even just a couple of days before invading, they said were not going to invade so we have to be able bit careful in believing what they say about bakhmut but what we do know is there has been incredibly intense fighting and that the ukrainians were surrounded essentially, even before this news. so it is a very difficult situation for the ukrainians there. �* , situation for the ukrainians there. r situation for the ukrainians there. ., , there. as you say, caution must abound, explained _ there. as you say, caution must abound, explained to _ there. as you say, caution must abound, explained to us - there. as you say, caution must abound, explained to us the - abound, explained to us the significance of bakhmut and the significance of bakhmut and the significance of bakhmut and the significance of russia capturing bakhmut would be because we are at a point in the war where we are hearing

the soldiers in bakhmut. , ., . , ., bakhmut.hmut. given therefore what you have said. why _ bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, why doesn't _ bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, why doesn't russia - bakhmut. given therefore what you have said, why doesn't russia justl have said, why doesn't russia just simply say it is not worth the cost in resources, human lives and pull out, and even hearing from ukraine saying the whole point of bakhmut is to keep the enemy there. um? saying the whole point of bakhmut is to keep the enemy there.— to keep the enemy there. why are the still to keep the enemy there. why are they still there? _ to keep the enemy there. why are they still there? you _ to keep the enemy there. why are they still there? you have - to keep the enemy there. why are they still there? you have put - to keep the enemy there. why are | they still there? you have put your finger right on the biggest vulnerability the russians are suffering, from which the russians are suffering. it is the total incoherenc

and on the south with access to the water bakhmut tracks, in fact, the bakhmut garrison, the russianng bakhmut garrison, will find themselves in an operational-tactical environment, and they will then have trouble with logistics, which is why prigozhyn announced the dump of bakhmut and the transfer of bakhmut to the russian armed forces . before that, he handed over the flanks because he understood that the flanks they can't resist blaming the generals of the general staff there and so on, and now he is starting to tell exactly the same way that he wants to get out of the mess , to lick the wounds, as he says, and he will hand over the city to the control of the armed forces. understands the risks of this encirclement, and for wagner to get encircled, well, that’s what they already have, 10 at most 20 percent of the personnel of which prigozhyna was today, prisoners are not very caught in this unit and the hallway is not a certain problem. in this context, therefore, he wants to jump out, so to speak, to the winners who took over with their armed forces there, and then all the respon

bakhmut direction. american institute for the study of war reports that russian forces in bakhmut are vulnerable to ukrainian counterattacks. what is happening in the direction of bakhmut , we say and exclusively show in a minute , the cnn channel, referring to two high-ranking western soldiers , reports that ukrainian troops have begun the so-called forming operations on the eve of the expected counteroffensive, what does this mean, let's talk soon. well, turkey, two days before the presidential election, this race can be the biggest test in the last 20 years for the current president, raja perdogan , he can lose his seat, what can ukraine expect from these elections, about it today svoboda life the armed forces of ukraine have advanced 2 km in the direction of bakhmut, this was announced today by the deputy minister of defense of ukraine hanna malyar russian forces in bakhmut vulnerable to ukrainian counterattacks, the american institute for the study of war reports in its current report, the deployme

of the city of bakhmut over the past week, the defense forces managed to advance almost 2 km in someg the enemy away, improving their position and knocking out the enemy's pronoun position, i.e., the vise is squeezed, the initiative on the flanks, the defense force has been completely captured on its side, as far as the city of bakhmut is concerned, extremely difficult and brutal battles are going on, because the enemy has no intention of maneuvering or retreating instead from other directions that are less priority for the enemy, the reserve of manpower is withdrawn and as well as equipment that is sent to the city of bakhmut despite the fact that the enemy bombarded the city of bakhmut at the expense of aviation despite the use of prohibited types of ammunition of the phosphorous type the forces of the incendiary defense managed to withstand the onslaught and now systematic systematic work is being carried out both to repel attacks and to improve its position in the very place in this defense also managed to knock out the enemy in some sections and occupy other positions that were

of ukraine denied that our military left bakhmut, today they are in bakhmut, i will not share what pointsbut this indicates that bakhmut is not currently covered by the russian federation , there can be no two or three interpretations of this in the general staff for the forces from the south-western part of the city, heavy fighting continues battles according to the estimates of the american institute for the study of war ukrainian forces control access to two routes, because of this the russians cannot carry out further offensive actions, but the situation in bakhmut does not affect the ability of the armed forces of ukraine to counterattack north and south of the city the analysts of the rota 50 m brew institute summarize our forces in the bakhmut area during the last week have been reported to the general staff of the armed forces, and the deputy minister of defense hanna malyar stated that the city is semi-surrounded and that is why the people of bagne are in a hurry to leave bakhmut , experts say, we are destroying the russians and knocking them out of the surrounding heights bakhmu

they were created in order to surround bakhmut.understand that the enemy is trying to act in the same way is trying to carry out our offensive is clear is clear it is clear i flew joyfully broke off maybe stopped to get out of the car i realized that my job was not working the guys stopped on the principle of helping me, i was overwhelmed by the way they brought and the purchase ambulances continuously run between the positions and the stabilization point. the wounded go in a stream. doctors work around the clock. they sleep and live right there . where we can provide professional medical care. that is, we will help him to stabilize the patient because he is brought in with a severe case of wing loss with hemorrhagic shock for frequencies, here he is stabilized, here is an examination. as you can see, we have ultrasound, x-ray, first surgical aid is provided, and in order to make him stable, we often tied him up to answer the next stage of evacuation already at the hospital, we went from the bank to the position about to the fourth

, bakhmut, now a line of defense is held along the tracks of the chrome track to bakhmut, the route from konstantinovka to bakhmut, approximately in the area of ​​the center, they cross a little in the west, and here is this western pocket, which consists of these tracks and the tracks themselves are now held by our troops. at some points, we go into counterattacks, restore our positions, improve defensive bakhmut, the russians will not be able to take it, as it has already dried up for a day or two, and heavy equipment will approach the bakhmut itself, and so on. tank carousels that we turn a little west of konstantinovka, they are not afraid to spend, these same carousels will start already in bakhmut itself, then we will be able to, from the side of the city, from the side of the west , heavy equipment approaches and dismantle the molecules of the russian parts that go nowhere the city itself won't have to work , that is, uh , they won't be able to work with the technology. units in the bakhmuta district, syrsky knows what to do, what to do, the general in his place knows what to do,

70,000 of our citizens lived in bakhmut.a year. during this time, the russian army lost a huge amount of equipment and manpower here. the exhaustion of the enemy on this part of the front allowed the armed forces of ukraine to carry out successful assault operations, and they continue even in the case of the full occupation of bakhmut, more precisely , since he is left to the army of the russian federation it will be difficult to advance further, these were the donbas realities , see you, let's summarize the 457th day of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine as of the 19th , news on espresso in the studio of anzhelika sezonenko the number of victims as a result of today's shelling by the russians on the dnipro has increased

are having some success and likewise as for this track of times, the ravine bakhmut is also eh there the battles are going on, uh, well, there are constant permanent battles, and this is complicated by the fact that there are very large trenches, and the battles are taking place right in the trenches. projectiles directly into the trenches, and this also complicates the defense and attempts to break through the enemy, and because of this, the situation is very dynamic and very extremely difficult, on the one hand, the russians constantly regret that they have prigozhyn in this direction, in particular , i emphasize that even the front is ready to speak and to withdraw their units from bakhmut due to the fact that there are no shells, again emphasizing the shortage of shells, but on the other hand , experts and observers, in particular, who see the picture not from the outside but from the inside, through our military , directly report that they mercilessly destroy what is still left in bakhmut precisely for this reason in order to destroy what was left of the building through artille

before, it really was bakhmut. well, let's do it.now believe that the city of bakhmut currently does not exist as a place anymore , it is the ruins that the russians showed to the whole planet, that's how they they release there, or what do they do there, this is what they leave behind, and who among the russians there is not beautiful now - they told me that they go there, they do not touch civilians, that they go there , they release someone there to wave, a marker of what russians really look like without a mask it's not even mariupol's face, it's exactly the marker that the whole planet should know that the whole planet should know that the entire powerful russian army is there, there's a powerful criminal group there, what's invincible there, for nine and a half months, we 've already taken a small town for 10 and in order to take it, they had to destroy it to its foundations. this is another indicator of the gloves of the invincible friend of the world army . yes, indeed, the third one. you must understand that every 10 meters

they are now in bakhmut.t it witnesses that bakhmut is not occupied by russian federation, as of today. joining me now from kyiv is colonel richard kemp, a retired british army officer and defence commentator. good to have you with us. first of all, can i get your immediate reaction to the comments from president zelensky that bakhmut is very much in ukraine's hands. i was very much in ukraine's hands. i was down in that— very much in ukraine's hands. i was down in that area _ very much in ukraine's hands. i was down in that area myself _ very much in ukraine's hands. i was down in that area myself a - very much in ukraine's hands. i was down in that area myself a day - very much in ukraine's hands. laws down in that area myself a day or very much in ukraine's hands. iii-033 down in that area myself a day or so ago and i spoke to many ukrainian commanders and soldiers who have been fighting in bakhmut and in some cases for many months. the reality is that the vast majority of the city, the city itself has bee

are already a lot of my acquaintances, whom i personally knew in the last month, two died under the bakhmut , so i understand what you are saying, but i just don't know i'm just sharing as a person from the rear, how should we perceive what we are learning more and more about such sad news in our country where there is a full-scale war and unfortunately it is a war, it has surely entered every house and every ukrainian family we have understand what there is still a long road ahead, which will have to be covered, unfortunately, it will be associated with losses, and each of us does not know whether we will see the apparatus of victory, but each of us clearly understands that there are tasks that must be rationally completed here and today, and that is why i emphasize this the price that we are now paying for the ban on the city of bakhmut. if compared with the potential assault-assault actions to retake the city of bakhmut, it is lower, and thus we will lose more personnel in the future if we leave these positions because what will happen the domino principle, what we talked about with you,

i call it bakhmut. when it is small the town affects everything that happens throughout the war zone for tens of tens of thousands of square kilometers, that is, the russian occupiers, they are currently the russian command, it is not able to fully provide, for example, equipment or personnel by the composition, material and technical support is meant, for example , in the left bank of kherson region of its group or in the zaporizhzhia region. they have a shortage there. technical support, all these forces and means , they are sent precisely to that group of troops that takes part in the assault on bakhmut, everything is concentrated on, first of all, on the bakhmut bridgehead, everything else is already secondary, tertiary, bakhmut number one is haiti, and this caused this imbalance when, for example, in their combat zone there is a heterogeneous group of troops. it has a different level both in terms of equipment and in the quality of even a professional component, and the worst is the left bank khers

congratulations yuriy, you are now, i understand, in the bakhmut area. right there greetings, comrades, yes, our formation is located in the city and its surroundings. first of all, it is a great pleasure to see you in person. please tell us in more detail what the situation is there now, what exactly is happening, because of course there are various actions taking place. we saw that there is a breakthrough in the very place of the russians. so unpleasant enough, but what can you tell us now from what you know, they are opening very difficult battles for bakhmut, uh, they continue non-stop in such a very acute phase after the loss of the soledar. unfortunately, they continue, the russians, unfortunately, have no limit the use of artillery and further mindlessly throwing on the meat assaults of chvk wagner in the city in the vicinity we managed to stabilize the situation and drive the enemy away from the road that led for a while through chromova . in the area of ​​the village of ivanivsk district, the canal has somewhere moved 2.5 km forward, now the ene

bakhmut is not strategically _ in bakhmut? bakhmut is not strategically important. - in bakhmut?lly important. it i in bakhmut? bakhmut is not strategically important. it is| in bakhmut? bakhmut is not - strategically important. it is more of a symbolic town because it has been the longest bloodiest battle since world war ii on european soil. thousands on both sides have died, ukrainian say it suits us because we drained a lot of russian forces but they also lost a lot of their best fighters too, it has been an absolute bloodbath. you could technically say it is a stepping stone to taking nearby towns to the west but that will be a very difficult battle for russia if they try to do that so it is a bit of period victory, russia now rules over a city that was once 70,000 people and is now empty and is an absolute ruins. it was sadly once famous for its salt mines and its champagne, it was the home of russia or soviet champagne but no longer. it has been a really expensive victory for russia, it will be interesting to see if ukraine tried to now use it to surround the russian forces

apartment buildings were damaged, the russians continue to conduct offensive actions in the area of ​​bakhmutr maryinka, the defenders repelled numerous enemy attacks without success , the offensive of the invaders near belogorivka in the luhansk region and krasnogorivka in the donetsk region, in the kupyan direction, the invaders did not stop trying to improve the tactical position a total of 22 combat clashes took place in one day. in five directions of the front, ukrainian aviation struck five strikes against muscovites in the general headquarters were also told about other successes of our defenders ukrainian rocket launchers tertilorists hit a control post an anti-aircraft missile complex two manpower concentration areas one ammunition depot one radar station and two artillery units at the firing positions of the court stanislav kravchenko was voted for by 100 eight judges out of 148 present during session, a dispute began between the judges regarding whether the head of the ukrainian armed forces should be elected now, i will remind you that the previous head, vsevolod knyazev, was remo

now everyone is watching what is happening in bakhmut.s the situation look now through your eyes? communicating with your brothers. because how do i know where you are on this part of the front? well, you know, i am our unit. is on the front line in the bakhmut district, but i will tell you frankly that if you compare our front line, then our resort is really a resort in comparison with what is happening in bakhmut , because this is how we conduct combat operations , skirmishes, etc. we we are trying to pour more into the enemy's positions because we see that they are entrenched, but with our eyes what is happening in bakhmut well, there is a real battle for every meter, including, of course , for the premises, i have already said many times that there are battles when our guys sit in one entrance, the enemy is sitting in another entrance, this is the nature of hostilities, because it is mostly there, hmm, these urban battles, but there are a lot of contusions, of course, like injuries, because any attack immediately causes a contusion, t

, and it is in bakhmut that such a situation is most critical , in fact, the battles that take placere close contact battles, well, sometimes at a distance, well literally 20 m of heavy artillery shelling well, the last thing that is happening is of course the bombing of ukraine has intensified and we feel it with various types of weapons and in areas far from the front, also in more detail, let 's look at the map of the hostilities and then we will talk about all these new ones, is it with our by experts, the map of hostilities for the period from april 27 to may 2, 2023, the russians have a new plan to take bakhmut, but if i make it in a week, there were constant counterattacks in bakhmut , and the occupiers had minimal progress, the level of fighting on the entire front line significantly slowed down due to the rains, the armed forces of ukraine and the russian federation are preparing for counteroffensive actions bakhmut, the 275th day continues the defense of the city of fortresses, our soldiers hold approximately 10-15%, or about two and a half square kilometers of the city are

they are defending in bakhmut.ussians and the wagner group seem to be operating from two different sheets of music. ben: we will talk again about this, i'm sure. really grateful for your insight. thank you for being with us. that is retired colonel brendan kearney, who spent 30 years in the u.s. marines. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, ben. ben: police in london have arrested a man after a car crashed into the gates of downing street. the home of the u.k. prime minister. the man was detained on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. there are no reports of any injuries. short while ago, police at the instance was not being treated as terror related. let's show you what happened. what you can see here is a white car. you can see it crossing, approaching the entrance to downing street. the car does appear to slowdown before hitting the gates. they are staffed around-the-clock by armed and unarmed police officers. we can see here the car being taken away. that happened a short while ago. the prime

in the bakhmut direction. during the last three months , they are talking about tens of thousands of dead and probably hundreds of thousands of wounded and for russia, bakhmut was supposed to be the place from which they talked about their successes, or at least about the completion of some intermediate e-e of their history special military operation. obviously, all of this was planned until the ninth of may, because putin needs to talk about something, what can we talk about, judging by those data, and judging by the current situation around bakhmut as of may 3? well, they really have now set the goal of capturing bakhmut on may 9, before that , they still had about 15 deadlines, half of them wanted to capture, then they refused to give deadlines directly, they decided to capture bakhmut, as they wrote before the start of our offensive actions, well now again, they set the date of may 9, uh, this smells good to the russians, well, most likely, it is not so much military, because it has a political significanc

let's start a conversation with the situation in bakhmut and around bakhmut. fact is that the russians continue to spread information today that bakhmut has completely come under the control of the russian army, no matter how it is. they called it the bagrysi or regular troops or some other formations, it doesn’t matter, on the other hand, the president said ambiguous phrases, ambiguous interpretations regarding the fact that bakhmut is in our heart well, after that there was also a statement from the general staff of the ministry of defense of ukraine about the fact that bakhmut was taken in half the encirclement and the enemy did not achieve a tactical tactical victory there, from what you know as a military man, what could you say today about the situation in bakhmut and the perspective, well, first of all, we are talking about this semi-encirclement. what to expect in the future future events, please, good question. i think that it would be best. what would the one who is in charge of this in our country, the supreme command, or, but somehow he uh or avoid

they are now in bakhmut.where exactly but it witnesses that bakhmut is not occupied by russian federation, as of today. colonel richard kemp is a retired british army commander and defence analyst. speaking to me from kyiv, he explained that ukrainian troops were still fighting on the outskirts of bakhmut. i was down in that area myself a day or so ago and i spoke to many ukrainian commanders and soldiers who have been fighting in bakhmut and in some cases for many months. the reality is that the vast majority of the city, the city itself has been captured by the russians but the ukrainian forces are still fighting and in some cases they are taking ground back from the russians on the flanks, on the external parts of the city. so i think while the russians, as far as i can work out, appear to be in main control of the city, that doesn't mean to say that they are now in a position to launch a further operation from their and they are still being tied down by the ukrainian forces in the area. some mixed narrati

week, in the middle of may ukrainian troops launched offensive actions to the north and south of bakhmut with the aim of recapturing strategic heights and aligning the front line successfully, at the same time the russian army is advancing in the same place, but at the expense of which it was possible to break through the russian defenses. we talked with the direct participants in the assaults and also visited the artillerymen without with the support of which there is no attack on the enemy's positions, this is the reality of donbas, congratulations, you opened the device, run away . the fighters who took part in the assaults or the last role played a certain effect of surprise from the constitution when we flew the m113 castle . at first we thought that there would be quite a lot of enemy there, but before we got there , the tanks worked out enemy positions. there is a video of them on the field without anything weapons without armor simply fled in the direction of their own well, of course, they did not know about this, we worked with grenades , cleaned up, entered enemy positions, i

the president was asked if the russians were telling the truth that they took bakhmut. to which zelenskyi replied, i think no . thus, the president denied the capture of the city, clarified nekiforov. meanwhile, deputy minister of defense hanna malyar stated that the ukrainian troops took bakhmut was semi-encircled, the enemy failed to encircle the city, the occupiers lost part of the dominant heights around, e-e hanna the painter reported the advance of ukrainian soldiers in the suburbs on the flanks make it very difficult for the enemy to be in bakhmut, our defense forces maintain control over industrial infrastructure facilities and the private sector of the city in the area of ​​the plane, we quietly but very effectively do our work, plus everything that the heroes of bakhmut did to destroy this group, then surrender with a hundred when our units that were trained abroad and in ukraine will acquire combat capabilities and throw this demoralized and with depleted combat potential enemy beyond our borders countries, the peace summit should be held in july, when a symb

the crew has been on the outskirts of bakhmut donbas for more than a month.e already met with him in this area in december. since then, the tanker has shaved his beard. well, i came from vacation this year, i was ready to go. well, next time i will shave when i am on vacation. i saw my relatives. and i even disappeared on memorial sunday. i was very lucky. to prepare and determine the coordinates and open fire there, ready to quickly ukrainian tankers from closed positions work on the advanced positions of the russian troops in the bakhmut direction, this is actually the usual work for tanks, part works with direct fire , part works in the mode of such quasi-artillery, but the main part of the battles are assigned at shorter distances when the enemy is 50-100-300 500 m from us. that is, it changed like this . as they shot , they shot. the infantry cover leaves, removes everything in front of it, and the infantry in this unit constantly use the t-64, which immediately after firing goes into the shelter of the tanks, an important element when help is needed on

the armed forces of ukraine advanced several hundred meters in various areas of the bakhmut direction. this was reported by the spokesman of the eastern group of the armed forces of ukraine , serhiy cherevaty. what is happening on the slopes to the city, we will talk about just now live with us yury fedorenko, commander of the company of the attack unmanned aircraft complexes achilles 92 of the separate mykhailonized brigade named after the basket chieftain ivan sirk, i congratulate you glory to ukraine glory to the heroes and i will just note that your unit performs tasks in two directions, these are the swativ and bakhmut well and let's talk now specifically about bakhmut a-a please tell us what the situation is in the place where you are, or whether the armed forces of ukraine are actually advancing and more the main thing that the defense forces managed to thwart the enemy's intentions to cut off the main communication routes, that is, the capture of the city of bakhmut, was to shine what exactly against them wanted to deprive the defense forces of the opportunity to establish the

, well, i understand that without the prospect of being in bakhmut, the danger of being in bakhmut, sinceer the closure of the operational encirclement , the russian troops will be destroyed by you can always come up with such a message in the information field that they have already completed their task . the language is translated, everything is very simple, nothing has been completed, there is no complete impossibility of completing the tasks ahead, we are running away from danger, because we are running away from the chaos of those who are frightened by the consequences of an alternative environment. they ask for the escape of the organized crime group beautiful from bahmut to submit as a great victory well, this is the russians with them, they have reasons of hereditary connection, the problem of meeting is hereditary, they are related to explain it impossible mr. colonel, thank you for the conversation. it was a novel, svitan, a military expert , a colonel of the armed forces of ukraine, a reserve military pilot-instructor, and we talked about providing ukraine with f16 planes . wel

, it performs combat missions in bakhmut direction on the slats. please tell me if you have any possible connections with the military , which theoretically , if you know about them, could be in bahmut or there are no such things there at the moment they are carrying out combat tasks in this area of ​​responsibility, one of them is in the city and outside the city. or two, the situation has changed there at the moment, i can say the following: that the defense forces are making titanic efforts and are also having success with regard to offensive actions, in which places it is also impossible to specify exactly, because right now the combat orders of the command are being carried out, as well as regarding not informing the enemy and - and our successes that the enemy does not have any successes now, the enemy is making maximum efforts, using all types of weapons as artillery, there are heavy jumping battles, and the use of rszu, but success says it doesn't have success now defense forces have literal actions but where exactly at the moment there is

let's start with the situation around bakhmut - the commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade kholodnyi yar, colonel pavlo palis said that the defense forces control the roads to bakhmut and defend city, he says that the battles in bakhmut go for every high-rise building, sometimes for every entrance, the colonel drew attention to the fact that if it helps to save sloviansk , kostiantynivka, kramatorsk and other cities, then his brigade should fight at the same time the commander of the land forces of the armed forces of ukraine, oleksandr syrsky, also visited the bakhmut direction and he reported that despite all threats, our soldiers are holding bakhmut, destroying the wagnerites and other units of the russian army. the most combat-ready units of the russian army we give opportunities to communicate with our and we are preparing ourselves for further actions i want to express our gratitude from the khortytsi command of the armed forces of the state leadership and write this gifts and signs the coordinator of the national security council of the united states of america john

this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine.e famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now — reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated, the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south—western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from site of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine. i was here in 2019 when the city was still full of life. this satellite image shows a street in bakhmut in may last year with civilian blocks of flats surrounding a school and two nurseries. and here they are now, after months of shelling. the bbc has been tracking the extent of this destruction. this used to be a famous site in sport — the rose garden. ukrainian�*s largest, with over 5,000 bushes. and here it is in april this year. 0n the eastern side of bakhmut is the winery, the world's deepest underground winery. bbc verify has seen footage showing it is now used by the russian mercenary group wagner. here is the milita

problems , is it really so and is the taking of bakhmut really ?how affect the moistening of donetsk previously, bakhmut was for them some kind of military strategic importance that would decide the entire course of the war, over time it became some kind of principle for them, as they already showed in their propaganda, today it is water, tomorrow it will probably be light, the day after tomorrow it will be salt in the soledar, it is just ordinary, some manipulative statements to justify their sacrifices which they ineptly gave to justify some of their actions and now we see the failures eh . now we see the loss of their territories that they occupied, the loss of some positions that we we fight back and return our land. that's why it's just propaganda, some kind of search, i don't know the reasons, and no more, a little more about bakhmut and the roads leading to it, but again , the occupiers are very active in declaring that they have completely occupied the city er, our er- the defenders and our military say that, in principle, we retain control

very afraid, but in reality the encirclement of bakhmut has intercepted the initiative. or no. because you understand capture bakhmut - it's one thing when you conduct offensive actions, and another story when you need to fix the front line because, uh , they can't conduct offensive actions anymore, but to fix the front line is to take some trench positions, you understand, and it's one thing when you you attack that we occupy defensive positions, and the other thing is that when they are fixed in some place, they become, you know, a target for our mortars, for our duke, and so on, so you can rather say that the initiative in the bakhmut district is rather intercepted or not, because i say they still as part of the fixation. and it is very difficult to do this when our very seriously trained units are also there. well, as for the e-e initiative and the new stage of the operation, the same american analysts say that the rotation the russians can give the initiative to start a new stage of the operation, since the wagners are coming out of bakhmut , the regular forces are

to concentrate the main efforts there , the general staff reports that milder battles continue for bakhmut and marianka, which the enemy is shelling constantly, and in the neighboring towns were hit by enemy shelling, in particular, orihova vasylivka , bohdanivka, during zalizne times, in the direction of avdiivka, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of ​​avdiivka, but all of them were repulsed by our defenders, as well as numerous attacks near maryinka in the coming months , the war will turn into a battle of quality and quantity, this was announced by the head of the nato military committee, admiral rob bauer, after the meeting of the highest military body of the alliance in brussels, commander-in-chief valery due to active preparation for the offensive, he refused to participate in the meeting instead of him about the front and the needs of the armed forces of ukraine, the representative of ukraine at nato reported , the head of the military committee of the alliance noted while russia is deploying t-54 tanks, the creation of shortly after the second world w

serhiy kostash, a counter-insurgent in bakhmut, what can we decide, you can kill, and the enemy panicshey are forbidden to communicate with each other, this is a fact right on the battlefield why will the russians leave when the performance or their own game behind prigozhin's attacks on putin and shoigu is similar to that of other field commanders and why did kadyrov wake up opponents, i tell you , this golden, this is what is happening in the east something incredible ukrainian troops are counterattacking in bakhmut, some russian units are fleeing the battlefield, and yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the largest private army of putin's russia , has been writing down angry appeals to the leadership of the russian army every day, and even allows himself to publicly humiliate even the dictator putin , when was the last time such a thing happened in putin's russia russia , what is this in general, a real split in the aggressor's troops or a cunning game of the kremlin's special services , what do the countries from the west have to do with the expectation of ukrainian offensive actions now

whose bakhmut?at the ukrainians got out of bakhmut because i even have such indirect data. well, just like everyone , british intelligence says that for two days the ukrainians stopped reporting to the ukrainian general staff about the situation around bakhmut. russians, on the other hand, know that ukrainian forces are concentrated around bakhmut, and some people say about a semi-encirclement, and some say such a bag of fire. tell me. comment on this. the seam is actually happening in bakhmut . they stopped at the height part of the height starts from the south-western part of bakhmut eh that is, here is the road from konstantinovke it goes eh goes to bakhmut this is eh there the so-called district by plane the plane used to be eh part the area was fortified and here is the upper part of it in the area of ​​the plane and it is located on the heights of the heights that we are now occupying because of that our troops in the southwestern part of they stopped moving because they rest on the heights an