roman pagulych, radio correspondent freedom of the donbas realia project, joined our broadcast.congratulations. thank you for participating, i want, we want to ask you, of course, about what you saw, so what does the border between sumy region and russian kurshchyna look like today? good morning, katya, well, if we speak directly about the border line itself, then in fact the destruction is in no way different from what we see on the front line, well, if someone once traveled across the border with russia, then there used to be a checkpoint and ... quite a large road through which we passed by, it was completely destroyed, there is a pile of construction debris, some remnants of the sheds under which cars actually stopped there and drove through, and as for the suja checkpoint, that is, the one opposite the ukrainian one, there is also destruction, but not so much then there, well, after all, russia has always had an advantage in terms of artillery and the number of shells fired... it was and is, and that is why the destruction on the ukrainian side is significantly more, but at

our broadcast was joined by roman pagulych, a correspondent of the radio liberty project of donbas realiyan, my congratulations. i will say for ours audience, you visited kurshchyna today as part of the prestur. tell me, please, first of all, what do the ukrainian servicemen say about the probable cauldron or its prospects there near the banks of the seim river? it is probably worth starting with this, that communication with the military is very limited, and precisely within the framework of the prest. well, no one comments on the information that relates to the security of operations, and in general, the journalists who were with us, including us, were not given the opportunity to talk specifically with the military, that is, what happens next on the west, that is, the territory where active hostilities are currently taking place, unfortunately i cannot comment, because it is interesting to me, but no one has told us anything about it, so far they have not commented. well, then i say yes, so to speak, the fact is that along the route connecting ukraine, russia, that border, which is cur

now, watch the exclusive report of radio svoboda from suzha, kursk region, where our colleague roman pagulyche day before. suja is the most publicly known city. since the beginning of the operation of the ukrainian army in the kursk region on the territory of russia, although in fact, if you look at the map, territorially on northwest, to the north, the ukrainian troops advanced much more strongly, but a lot is said about this city, after all , it is the district center, before the war, according to public data, about 500 people lived here, now there are obviously significantly fewer, well... they they came, today there were 10-15 people, they held a reception, they provided help, there was a woman today with a shrapnel wound, we will treat them here, i did surgery , cleaned the wounds and tomorrow will continue, when you were coming here, did you have any emotions , after all, this is the territory of another state, her emotions, let me speak up, i have been at war for 10 years and i will speak up. it's good that the ukrainians brought us water, otherwise we've been without water, electricit

my colleague roman pagulych from the donbas-reality project was in this press room this week and there, and one of the locals there in the court, it was somewhere in the kurshchyna region, he said that i, in general, well, he was asked, and what is war anyway when for you? it obviously looks like not quite it's true, because the truth was told, it would be difficult in sumy oblast not to notice, not to hear what is happening in the neighboring russian region, well , people are definitely talking about it somewhere on the benches there, and that is, it is not enough that they... fellow students, well, this is not proven, ukraine must follow the observance of all international geneva conventions, and ukraine already, and the ukrainian military already show a huge difference between what is russian occupation and what is ukrainian occupation, we even in such terms already we are talking, and also a very, very important point, we must adhere to these norms, the military is also talking about this. in the interview , the military also told me how they literally share their food, what mrs. i

to the russians, who are accomplices of this war crime of putin against ukraine. my colleague roman pagulychproject was in this prestur this week and there in his report one of the locals was there in suzhi or somewhere in the kurshchyna region, he said. about the fact that i, well, he was asked, and what was the war in general, when the war began for you, well, for them it began on august 6, and, and besides, they, he says, and i decided the crossfords, i am not interested in politics , was engaged in crossfords and that's all, it obviously looks like it's not entirely true, because you told the truth, it would be difficult not to notice, not to hear in sumy oblast neighbors of the russian region, what is happening, well, people are definitely talking to each other somewhere on the benches there... that is what they say, that is, it is not enough, the fact that they are classmates, well, this is not proven, ukraine must monitor compliance with all of the international geneva conventions, and ukraine already, and the ukrainian military already show a huge difference between what russian occu

my colleague, roman pagulych from the donbas realia project, was in it. tour this week and there in hisort, and one of the locals there in the court, it was somewhere in the kurshchyna area, he said that i, in general, well, they asked him, what happened when the war started for you, well, for them it started on august 6, and besides, they, he says: but i decided crossfords, i am not interested in politics, i was engaged in crossfords and that's all, and it looks obvious as it is not entirely true, because... you said the truth, it would be difficult in sumy region not to notice, not to hear what is happening in the neighboring russian region, well , people are definitely talking about it somewhere on the benches there, but, that is, not enough yes, the fact that they are classmates, well, that is not proven, ukraine must follow the observance of all international geneva conventions, and ukraine already and the ukrainian military already show a huge difference between what... is russian occupation and what is ukrainian occupation, we even speak in such terms, and also very very this is