As mad as he is rushing like that i dont know, im not a military expert on this plan i cant understand if its necessary yes, they have to fight for these areas, but obviously there is some political will that does not allow them to, uh, retreat, well, but ours are pressing, ours are pressing, our fighters hold the defense when it is necessary, they continue to perform all combat tasks. Lost positions because there are a lot of videos now circulating on the telegram channel that the occupiers are allegedly fleeing from the position and leaving. They just throw their equipment there. Can you confirm or deny what concerns staro mayovsky, including and you know there is no hard rule here, if do you remember . Everyone said that they were building up such positions and all that. And when our fighters break through such clysmic fields and reach a position behind them, there is no hero, you, and they dont try. To keep there at any cost, to put ones life on the line is a different matter, uh, when it comes to the place where they can get stuck, and there was, because it happened that they stubbornly fought when they were released, for example, the same thing is not boring very, very tough battles. Ugh, our units were released, and they released the marines, the battles lasted not only a day or two , but they lasted a week. They simply threw their eee wounded they threw a bunch of weapons, which they had, a bunch of grenade launchers, machine guns with ammunition, and ours then took them and they actually beat the enemy with oleksandr s trophy ammunition. About what is happening there, the last message i heard from the excellent defense is that the deoccupation of the cropland continues, this is verbatim. We are waiting for official confirmation. And what is the strategic or tactical value . From the Military Point of view of this geographical area of this landscape, you can say about it well, you know how the main goal of the army in the war is to destroy the army of the enemy literally in the sense that the main goal of liberation is the liberation of every village of every meter, and here, even more so, the crops this is our village that needs to be liberated when we all expect and have been waiting for when the counteroffensive or offensive will begin, then this is precisely the liberation of our territories and in this sense any village is important for any forest strip it is important because it is ours, well, in addition, this village is located in the shelter of the old majorskoe. It is very close. And for example , when our soldiers and the marines were freed from the sta old majorskoye, they were very fierce battles, there was one of the units that friendly to us units of Ground Defense and e. E. Marines, they released and all the time they were under fire precisely with the crop. That is why there are two meanings, the meaning is because this is our land, our territory, the second meaning is that these forces are very close, if they do not release the crop, they will ee use what they have a lot of extra ammunition and they will shoot back these ammunition as the name suggests, so the logic is quite practical oleksandr well, what i wanted to ask about the weather conditions , did the heat somehow affect the activity of the russians , maybe their tactics have somehow changed in recent days or weeks. Well, they tried to heat by the way, we had such a heat that in some places the phones overheated, mobile phones refused to work even in our pockets, and they generally tried to turn the whole earth around us into a natural hell. This is also correct, well the truth is they were shooting, they were firing. Well, the last time someone there thought that these are the last reserves, not the last, these are the reserves , well, you know, a year ago they maintained such and such a density of fire along the entire front line, and considering the fact that they, uh, now they can only keep such the density of fire, which is concentrated only in small areas, well, there are obviously differences from last year, and in general, i think that the military should not think of counting on the fact that somewhere there will be the last or not the last reserves, but count on the fact that you have to survive this day repulse this attack, end this battle and then a new day or a new night will begin and a new attack, a new battle, and this is exactly what we should count on, because we should not hope for some miracle that everything will end with them, and no, they have a lot more. Another question what if you carefully look at the information from the president of tavria, who regularly informs that enemy artillery is regularly destroyed , warehouses are regularly destroyed, including warehouses with shells, and this is actually destroyed by their logistics and lack of logistics without proper they are everything this technique definitely loses its effectiveness. They have some kind of operational supply, but life is not so fun. When you dont have a 20fold advantage in the number of shells, as they had aa during the last year, yes, they thought that everything was fine. And now, apparently, they have a tenfold advantage and they already feel very insecure because, well, our fighters are our artillery. Well, it works. Very super professional and qualified oleksandr, thank you very much for taking the time to join the broadcast Oleksandr Kurbatov , head of the Public Relations service of a separate brigade of the Territorial Defense of the city of dnipro, thank you for the bohdan selfpropelled artillery installation it is a Ukrainian Development that was recently adopted by the armed forces of ukraine, the fighters confirm that the gun is capable of firing at a distance of more than 40 km, on par with modern western art systems, therefore, among the goals of the installation, in particular, the artillery of the Russian Troops and roman pagulych communicated with the military at the advanced positions in Donetsk Region according to the rules of the infantry and combat units of their selfpropelled guns, ordinary guns, you shoot a lot the range is 40 by 40 kilometers, the maximum we shot was even 4,900 there with something incomplete, for sure the district and there were hits, we need to prepare two and then during the work , because then we can shoot in case of something, we can continue work in case of something, so we prepare minimally if we shoot quickly, just we help and leave, there is a lot of work. How to call you, the children are called dad, they are all young, and i am the oldest among them, well, thats how they called me here, get out of the city , they fought. Well, how did they show themselves . 48 shells, in my opinion, the first day, seven, the second day, all the others well, they shot well, the results were excellent , you know of course i know, we watch tv, we also know, but then we didnt know that at all everything was a strange task for you to drive and shoot around the island, it was strange to sail on a ship on the danube and its normal to shoot like that. Thats already passed. That used to be euphoria. Weve been there now. We ve been to many places. Weve been in all directions so that we wouldnt be in luhansk oblast. Thats donetsk, but we havent been there yet. Come to us when were already in luhansk itself is already used to the installation. Yes, yes, i have been for a year and a half, then if the car had changed, the gun would also be more comfortable. Tatra was sold a little better than the kraz , not a little directly, but directly, much better and more reliable, for sure, and for now, yes, so far, it shows reliability, we will see the car itself, the base, the base is gorgeous the installation is a little raw, but there are not global such problems bohdan this is a ukrainian selfpropelled art installation that takes an active part in combat operations here , a ukrainian gun aa chassis in this case czech is already tatra and in professional circles eh this bohdan is called 3 0 because the first experimental one was for Something Like once further , and there were also installations on the chassis of the mazu well, now the installation has moved, if you can say so on the czech chassis, a drawback that the developers promise to fix in the future is the automatic charger , it is not here, that is for the projectiles to be fed into the barrel by the system automatically and not to be engaged in feeding projectiles weighing 40 kg plus or minus 155 caliber so that the fighters do not load them manually there are disadvantages there are pluses about pluses well, in principle, faster decomposition well, we used to there were mortar batteries at all, well, the equipment, you can see the difference from the mortar, the firing range is very long, well, any equipment can be repaired, it is still possible to get a new car , of course, repair it, it was repaired quickly, everything can continue to work, everything that is at hand for everything , everything is ready, i will deposit it in the institute of war studies they write about the advance of Ukrainian Forces on two areas of the front, in addition to the western donetsk and eastern zaporizhia regions, which i mentioned earlier, it is also about the western part of the zaporizhia region of analytics point out that this became possible thanks to the counteroffensive operations that the Ukrainian Military carried out the day before in the general staff also confirmed partial successes in the area of the working area. Zaporizhzhia in order to keep the bridgeheads on the left bank under kherson, analysts add that despite the priority for the Russian Military command of this direction, it is forced to look for ways to reinforce the left bank of the dnieper in connection with the activation of the Ukrainian Army in this territory, i will add that the ministry of defense of ukraine also confirmed that the military successfully completed the task on the left bank of the dnieper in the sumy oblast, but in the western countries they are starting to prepare for a new counteroffensive by the armed forces of ukraine already in the spring of next year such material appeared on the fly, as the publication notes, such plans show that the west realizes that without a great breakthrough, within the framework of the current counteroffensive, combat operations in ukraine will continue for a long time, they say successful a counteroffensive bolt could help start peace negotiations before winter. However , according to experts, the probability of this is low. At the same time, according to the publication, ukraines goal now is to make the current offensive end quite successfully, including in order to demonstrate to supporters in the west that military support was not in vain. But it is needed in the future pavlo lakichuk head of security programs of the center for global studies strategy 21 join our broadcast ee my greetings good evening glory to ukraine heroes glory aa lets start with the last one, from this article by wall street jordal regarding the preparation of the event for the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine in the spring of next year aa , it is about the fact that they were counting on a quick war, taking into account the rapid movements on the battlefield last year and examples of others of conflicts since the cold war. Does this mean that western analysts, western officials , including the military, counted on greater successes of the armed forces during the counteroffensive that they have now drawn some conclusions. What do you think . I think so. Slow, quite slow, yes, from outside the oil armed forces of ukraine, it is due to the fact that we do not have the capabilities that the armies of western countries have. Against the wellprepared mined positions of the enemy, no western army would have been able to in such conditions, and in general, their strategy and application in their concept of the use of forces does not have such a variant of the use of troops and we are forced not to defend our motherland to liberate our motherland because of what the moment, therefore, the pace and style of offensive actions differs from the way western armies act and the criticism of our european and american partners. Not very wellgrounded, but what the institute of war Research Says about the tactical successes of the armed forces in the south. Well, this is already quite a high estimate, because tactical successes in the understanding of the institute of war research in general stratagem ee strategy and concepts of the concept of the event are already according to our operational of success, that is, seriously, the armed forces of ukraine are showing serious successes, dont be too optimistic and exaggerate, but our guys are doing incredibly well, and observers note that wars last on average from three to seven years, despite the fact that they supposedly expected a faster result with several seasons of military companies, do you agree that the scenario of the previous he after the cold war, as they say , can be compared to the scenario of the russianukrainian war, i do not think that it is appropriate to compare our war with the First World War with the Second World War or even with a conflict with local conflicts, er, in the interwar period, well, it will not be quite right and wrong, because the technology of conducting hostilities changes and weapons change , only the soldier remains in our soldier , courage, brave, motivated by the motivation of soldiers, it is possible well, to somehow compare Everything Else is completely er canceled, and i think that after our victory, god grant that it will happen sooner , the sooner the better, there will be many er evaluations , reevaluations of the er state of the armed forces of various states, well, remember a year ago, we were given three days, yes, three days there or two weeks , which was based on operational and tactical calculations that were made after the Second World War, and for one and a half years now, we have been fighting with the overwhelming forces of the enemy and already in the world, it is a very dubious term when they talk about our enemy as the second army in the world , they do not evaluate the nonmobilization potential there and the amount of equipment declared, or looking at other criteria, the same also applies to the tactics of the use of troops we for the first time in the world, they used sea drones, not just used them, but developed tactics for their use, this is actually a new weapon , uh, the principles of using uh , aerial drones are also changing, to a large extent, well , our partners do not really understand uh, the principles when uh, uh the drone works from, well, right away to the unit, it often causes them surprise, all this will be reconsidered with experience, taking into account the experience of our invincible Ukrainian Army. Lets get to the events at the front. Where is the occupation going on, are the battles for urozhayna and what is the Strategic Value of the harvest and which opens the way to the settlement, the cherished desire, why did the retreat of russian units from there provoke a wave, dude among the russian soldiers, as the institute for the study of war writes as you can see in the picture, just eh it is fertile on the left flank of the liberated twoweek old starmajorskoe point, this is the direction on the old mlynivskyi fortified area of the enemy , a powerful defense node, and it was impossible to continue the advance without strengthening it the flanks, because from the flanks the enemy is just a show over our forces, now there is no such threat and to advance to a settlement with such a good name, the covenant desire, uh, it will be somewhat easier, our covenant desire to liberate our entire state, but it consists of such small tactical successes that are given a very difficult job, mr. Pavla, this is the transfer by the Russian Troops of the units of zaporizhzhia to kherson, which, according to british intelligence, will be forced to think through in the russian army, and whether they will resort to such steps in your opinion, taking into account again the priority of the zaporizhzhia direction and why it is actually about transferring and not attracting new resources. Well , it is very difficult for them to attract new resources because, well , the enemys Strategic Reserves on the southern flank on the Southern Front are quite limited. And besides well, to a large extent, they were knocked out by our artillerymen , and by our advancing troops, so they often have to transfer what they have at their disposal between directions there, from work, she began to throw the major of mallorca to work. This is evidence that the enemy does not have enough reserves, and this forced them to transfer reserves from the kherson direction, from the left dnieper, to the zaporizhzhia direction, with the expectation that after the explosion of the kakhovsky eu, after the watershed as a result of which our offensive capabilities have arisen there are time limitations the ground is drying up there our special conference forces are conducting quite active work so far there will be no talk there i agree with the spokesperson ok south about the fact that it is too early to talk about the formation of bridgeheads there, but the work of our military there is quite active in preparation and the new horn is straining, he must now look for reserves in the zaporizhzhia direction, where there is not enough of them , and transfer them to the opposite direction in the kherson region. Programs, the center for global studies of strategy 21 was in direct contact with us, thank you, the ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to russias provocations in the black sea and condemned its actions regarding the turkish ship sucrookan accordingly, the Diplomatic Department published a statement on the website of the ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing that the actions of the Russian Naval forces are a gross violation of the un charter, the Un Convention on the law of the sea and other norms of international law, diplomats expressed support and solidarity with turkey, and called on International Partners to take the necessary measures that prevented the blockade by Russia International routes in the black sea, i would like to remind you that the day before the ministry of defense of the Russian Federation announced that the russian patrol ship Vasiliy Bykov opened warning fire in the black sea of the sea, demanding that a dry cargo ship under the flag of palau stop, and the American Institute for the study of war stated that a russian warship forcibly stopped and searched a civilian cargo ship that was heading to the port of izmail in the odesa region, as is known , ukraine opened corridors for civilian merchant ships in the black sea, however, the military warns about the threat from the Russian Federation igor semegolov, director of the center for middle eastern studies, joins our broadcast igor my greetings good evening good evening good evening. And in your opinion, how predictable is the incident itself . Does this mean that such a civilian or cargo ship is now in the waters of the black sea . Well, if there is no strong response from turkey or the european union, nato, and other countries that are interested in preserving the grain corridor, then most likely, the russians will continue a similar practice and will continue to stop dry cargo heading to ukrainian ports, the only reason why they will not be able to do this is that there will already be opposition from the ukrainian maritime fleet to one degree or another, we will talk more about the appropriate reaction you are talking about, but i wanted to ask your opinion why russia did this to a turkish ship in the first place. Well , the turkish media are reporting that putins visit to the donkaras will take place in the near future. Well, i think they are this flag, the ship was turkish, the flag was not turkish, that is, from this point of view, the russians can explain that the ships belonging to the turkish turkish is not obvious, but it seems to me that this is not some uh special purpose, its just they needed to start the mechanism that they warned about, that is, in this case, it happened with this ship , but i dont think that it is special, and they emphasized the fact that it is a turkish dry cargo. And thats right, i know you i understood that the meeting will be reprimanded if it takes place. Putin will explain to erdogan oh, what was a mistake that they accidentally stopped a turkish ship, i dont think he will explain this and say that it was a mistake, he can refer to previous statements of the same thing by a military officer of the Russian Armed forces and can also refer to the procedures that were during the existence of the grain corridor, when russian inspectors still checked these vessels that were already moving from ukrainian ports and ukrainian ports in accordance with the agreements that were reached, that is , of course, this is an unpleasant situation, it is obvious for ertugan, but it is will not seriously affect , lets say, the tone of the conversation and the agenda. Well, in general, the incident itself took place in or near the territorial waters of turkey , according to analysts of the Monitoring Group of the institute of black sea strategic of research or in general, they say in the waters of nato countries, eh, this is from a reference to the sources of stanker olvia, the Information Community reports. And why do you think turkey is in no hurry to make statements, because the investigation is currently ongoing , this is the official position of turkey, and should we actually expect a statement from nato . I dont know. It is unlikely that we will hear statements from nato , i think they will soon, most likely, they will simply take it into account and will observe the same. Yes, in the best case, of course, there will be deep concern, but so far we do not see it with regard to turkey, there is no doubt that they will not be in a hurry either. Now, uh, they are very interested in putins visit and they understand or assume that it could be. Well, in fact , it could be a provocation, yes, that is, it was specifically done specifically in relation to the turkish. Although i would like to refute my previous statement here statement, but we are talking about the way of thinking , yes, that is, including the turkish side, so they will not make any sharp statements somewhere closer to the visit, maybe it will sound somehow in skolsi and uh, so as not to attract attention because putins visit is important, erdogan expects that thanks to this visit, thanks to his diplomatic skills, he will be able to achieve the necessary condition of putin for