svoboda life radio station. we ask for your questions and suggestions on the pages of radio svoboda on facebook and youtube, as well as on the air of the espresso tv channel. leave in the comments, we will respond to them in the next programs, i also ask you to put lectures on the broadcast so that more people can see it, we start from luhansk region, the armed forces of ukraine did strike at the base of mercenaries from wagner's private military company for a long time, the ukrainian side did not comment on this, however, the strike confirmed the head of the luhansk ova, serhii gaidai , officially the position of the ukrainian general staff, although , so far, russian so-called warlords, in particular yuriy katyunok and several telegram channels, which, among other things, talked about the adventures of the wagnerites in the war in ukraine, according to their reports, the base was destroyed and the strike was carried out by the armed forces of ukraine from the highs rocket system of salvo fire, to deliver an accurate strike, probably the armed forces of ukraine to help another military commander, serhiy sereda, who published a week ago photos near the base of the wagnerians in popasnaya and so the ukrainian military could probably find out about its location, the location on them is identical to the place where the strike was carried out by the publication the the insider drew attention to the fact that after the publication of the news about the destruction of the base, serhiy sereda deleted from his telegram channel a post with photos of mercenaries, according to some media at the base at the time of the attack, businessman yevgeny prigozhin, who is believed to be a sponsor and one of the creators of the pvc , could have been close to vladimir putin watchman, however , there is no official confirmation of this information , currently it is not known for sure how many wagnerites or other military personnel fighting against ukraine died or were wounded as a result of shelling the ministry of defense of russia did not officially comment on the situation either, and we will talk about the details of this attack live with us, the editor -in-chief of the online publication tsenzor.net yuriy butusov, i congratulate you, i congratulate you , how do you comment on this alleged attack on the headquarters of the wagnerites ? which can be inferred from the photo that one of the so -called gates published on his telegram channel, it is quite possible that there is nothing so strange . the fact is that he published a photo with the inscription that this is him in the headquarters, er, in wagner's headquarters is also in this photo, where it is really clear that this is some location of mercenaries, they are photographed, the address of the pastor's house is clearly visible , even the address is recorded, so of course you should check this address with the coordinates, take it to intelligence and find out if there is any activity of the military there at all, and here it is in this photo which you show on the left, in the corner there is the address of the house, it seems to be myronivska 12 and here and there, yes, it is clearly visible, so i think that it is very simple for reconnaissance and the task of striking. i think that it is absolutely not hot absolutely real story that could have been mr. butusov just for understanding and for this you can tell the update on luhansk region popasna how far is it from e the conditional line of contact and the position of the ukrainian military now it is dangerous it is about 15-20 km from the position of the ukrainians e-e and this is actually the closest such the closest rear e-e the fact is that with popasna there just on may day, this was the initial base of wagner and the base of other e-e mercenary units of the so -called units of the barsky units of the pvk league, i.e. who is taken care of by the so-called yevgeny prigozhin, one of putin's closest confidants, he was in charge of the hostilities there from the very beginning. as we know, some mercenaries from the middle east were also employed, that is, all this was done there, they went from pervomaisky to popasna, that is, they moved forward a little. i think this is some advanced headquarters of theirs, and wagner's logistics center remains there in pervomaisky. well, there was already information about yevgeny prigozhina that he was allegedly present on the eve of this attack. i will remind you that it took place on august 14. but i understand that there is no information confirming that he was there at the time of the attack, which is true, i had to read in the media that they can't get in touch with him, it's already there, i don't think it's such important information, let's see, they hit me, i left it like that i don't think that anyone was specifically attached to staying there, the beauty of the beer, the value of the beer itself is reduced. well, he has no combat value, there is no such military value, and i think that they were at the headquarters after checking it with other intelligence data hmm. where is the beauty himself, let's see. there is simply information that he allegedly hires mercenaries for this private military company over there or not. that is, besides him, there is also someone to manage, as i understand it, all these companies work under the control of the russian special services, and there is no beauty by himself, there is such independence no, he is just a wallet, but one of putin’s wallets, through which such private military mercenaries are financed in order to fulfill some personal wishes, the wishes of putin himself and the russian leadership. earlier there were reports that russia lacks a reserve due to large losses of motorized rifle troops in particular, and that is why they say that the wagnerites are recruiting other mercenaries. troops i do not know the number of mercenaries themselves, since there are many different types of mercenaries in russia, russia uses all possible means to compensate for this absolute shortage of infantry in assault units er, it is possible to replenish the reserves , even if it is not funny, nationalist battalions appeared in the russian army, they said for many eight years that there are nationalists in ukraine, and here we see some bashkirs of kalmykia and other nationalist battalions went to the front, in my opinion, if we speak directly about the composition of private military companies that are part of prigozhin's system. that is, it is wagner or the league a. this is a relatively small number - it is approximately up to 5-7 thousand people so far, what i see on the a front, but this such troops, which are currently enjoying increasing influence in the russian leadership, they are now equipped with all types of weapons and tanks, their own artillery and the rssl, and even their own strike aircraft, that is, as you know, two su-25 attack aircraft from the wagner air force were shot down. therefore, it is now possible to say so that under such financing, a beauty was created, such an assault brigade is possible, a brigade of mercenaries, which is supposed to perform the most dangerous assault tasks, it is used in some narrow areas of the front currently, this is the district of bakhmut soledar. the direction in that direction is disputed in the area of the village of berestov. i have these wagners . they are also used now during assault operations in the area of the village of piesky. in particular, please tell me if they are formalized, if you know, of course legally as part of the russian army, or do they simply fight. well, how are the mercenaries there without documents, without a business trip, and so on, we have many dozens of stories specific ones that show that this is a component structure of the russian power structures, e.e. wagner, it is integrated into the russian military system and they enjoy the status of russian military personnel, they simply have a special social status, a special legal status, but the russians equate them with military personnel, they do not directly join the army they are somehow integrated with the army structures through the special services, but for example, when wagner's mercenaries die in battle, they are awarded state awards on the same grounds as the russian military servicemen, that is, this is the military, but simply with a different principle of staffing with a different organization and a different principle of management, it is such a fairly limited structure where there is a selection, although minimal. it is very minimal, the requirements are high, thank you very much yuriy butusov, the editor -in-chief of the online publication tsenzor.net, thanks for the comment e-e on radio svobodampt to attack the bahma where the russian federation used the already mentioned wagnerites is probably a priority for of russian troops in donbas, the institute for the study of war reports this, ukrainian artillery is trying to prevent this, in particular, it is delivering precise strikes precise strikes on the concentration of russian troops between seversk and bakhmut, how ukrainian artillery is fighting in donetsk region, see the report from the front line by maryan kushnir, you can have it it is possible like this every day. as it happens. well, now there is a shelling, but she just arrived. it is literally uninterrupted here. it is still close. now we are moving with the ukrainian artillerymen who they are simply performing a combat mission, we were coming, the gunners are giving interceptors, they unlocked it when they worked it out today. this was work on the enemy ’s manpower, the infantry was advancing accordingly, we pressed it down so that ours could direct their forces and