Transcripts For ESPRESO 20240702

My greetings, this is the freedom of mornings project, my name is oleg galiv, and further on in our broadcast, you will be able to see the following. In the temporarily occupied berdyansk, four were blown up. Occupiers and all of them were allegedly representatives of the russian fsb, about it declare in ukrainian intelligence. How the occupied city lives, the russian authorities there are behaving the way they are, i will tell later. At least 125 units of Armored Vehicles and military equipment for more than a battle. This is how the us assesses the losses of Russian Forces near avdiivka, however , the Russian Forces probably will not refuse to storm the city, the white house says. We are talking with the ukrainian troops about the situation on this part of the front. Radio dictation of national unity, the annual tradition of joint dictation writing in ukraine has changed the date, at 11 a. M. Kyiv time, today, theater and film actor oleksiy hnatkovsky, who played ivan dovbush in the film dovbush, will read to ukrainians the lines of the text of the poet and translator Kateryna Kalytko of roads of ukraine. We spoke with oleksiy about his participation in radictant, so stay tuned for that conversation. Your subscription to radio svobodas Youtube Channel is important, as are yours. Comments, share your thoughts about what you saw, and also write from where you watch us in this broadcast, and about the Youtube Channel of Radio Liberty, there is an interesting video about how Indigenous Peoples actually fight on the side of ukraine, the Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation against russia, so be sure to watch it as well. Total searches were carried out in the temporarily occupied berdyansk, the local website novyn berdyansk24 reported this the day before. There they say that the Russian Military surrounded the neighborhood of the repair and technical station and searched every yard looking for a suspect in the rape and murder of the family. Berdyansk24 journalists write that local residents associate this situation with the bombing of the car of the russian fsb employees, which occurred in city ​​on monday evening, october 23. Russian media reported that a 33yearold russian soldier was killed as a result of the explosion of a vaz car in berdyansk. The drivers seat was allegedly planted in the explosives. Ukrainian intelligence said the day before that there were as many as four workers in the blownup car. Of the russian fsb and that among the dead is a war criminal who, i quote, committed brutal torture of local citizens of ukraine. In the main intelligence office, they say that the detonation was carried out by members of the Resistance Movement, and after the incident, representatives of the Russian Special services immediately left the hotel in berdyansk, where, according to the main intelligence directorate, was their hideout and near which the car was actually blown up. I must note that the Main Intelligence Agency is the only source of information in this case, and we cannot quickly check it in the conditions of war. But we have the opportunity to add victoria galitsina to our broadcast, this is the head of the Berdyansk City Military Administration, victoria, i congratulate you, i congratulate you. Gur says that the detonation of the occupiers in berdyansk, which took place, were representatives of russia fsb please tell me how the occupying authorities of the city reacted to this and to what extent the information that is spreading through telegram channels, in particular about intensified local checks, corresponds to reality. Yes, indeed, on october 23 from we received information about the detonation of a car in the kolonia microran near the jasmink hotel, but, as you said before, it is very difficult to either deny or confirm this information one hundred percent, so we waited. What is known today, in fact, according to the information of the general directorate of intelligence, at avtotivka there were four fsb employees who were liquidated. There are also testimonies from the townspeople that, indeed, in that hotel. Called the jasmine, these soldiers really set up a socalled hideout or a place to stay. How many russian soldiers are currently in occupied berdyansk, is it noticeable . The movement of equipment, perhaps, which is thrown across the city in some other directions, but what is known in this context . There are a lot of military personnel, berdyansk, today, which was before that, it is a kind of rear base, both equipment and military personnel there are a lot of them, some of the military go by uniform, some by civilian election, thats why, but their places, they are visible, so to speak, with regard to equipment, there are also reports about the movement of heavy equipment, but this all happens at night, when berdyansk has curfew, thats why the townspeople cant see it and they only hear it, but according to the telegram channels, from november 1 , the curfew has allegedly been reduced, it will start at 9 p. M. , to what extent is this true and what do you associate it with, communicating in particular with the locals, why this one the curfew could be reduced to exactly this time, so it is true , the occupiers that it will be from 9 pm to 5 am the next day, what is this connected with, well, in our opinion, you know, life in the occupation is a limitation of everything , and this once again shows that the people who stayed there suffer, constantly suffer and are abused in various ways, one of which is the restriction of movement around the city. Ms. Victoria, can it be assumed, at least, or perhaps. Because in the message in the volume that will be distributed by telegram channels about the curfew, some routes, traffic will be allowed on these routes, could this be related to the fact that the Russian Forces will continue to transfer, perhaps, i do not know, heavy equipment in Different Directions through these routes, and actually so that the locals could not to report conditionally there, the legitimate ukrainian authorities in these territories, about what is happening in the city and so on, so most likely this is done precisely for the sake of places. Couldnt tell anything further, thats why internet providers are blocked, people are forced to somehow contact their relatives on controlled territory, to set up vipins, you understand that it is almost impossible for elderly people, one more question will be related to the Resistance Movement in occupied berdyansk, how big is this Resistance Movement, i immediately understand that you will not name the number for security reasons and in general, this number is probably not known to anyone, but still on. Only those who oppose the Russian Occupation authorities in berdyansk are active today . You know, the actions of the ukrainian underground, as it seems to me , shows the events of recent weeks very well, this and the successful work of the attacks on the airfield in berdyansk and the detonation of both the occupiers and the collaborators, it is there, no one will tell you the exact number, and why, but it is there, it is quite powerful, and in our opinion it is already time for the occupiers to collect things and to go home, but also about the airfield itself, which was attacked , as reported by the special Operations Forces of the armed forces of ukraine, what is the situation there now , absolutely all aircraft that were there have been driven away, what is being housed there, nothing is being housed there , maybe you know if i dont know, they strengthened the defense of this section of berdyansk, heres what the locals say, with whom i manage to communicate, the locals say that it was very difficult to get to these, to these rockets, to the airfield and to get close to somehow see something there, what do they say on today, there are almost no rotorcraft flying around the city, so we hope that they have been completely destroyed, and one more question will be related to the Russian Forces, how they are behaving, you said that some of them, i have she goes to the attention of russian soldiers in military uniform, some walk in civilian uniforms, and how do they place equipment. Military in the city, they place it possibly between civilian buildings in order to use human shield tactics, as is often the case, and actually defend themselves with residential buildings, or after all, they keep the equipment on military bases, military units, in this direction, what can you tell there is both so and so, there is equipment that is hidden, that is, at which factories, at which factories and so on, and there is equipment that is located precisely in the densely populated microregions of the city for to overlap with it. The living shield of our people. Mrs. Victoria, you said that it is high time for the Russian Forces to leave berdyansk, they should understand this, but do they understand this, what kind of mood prevails among the Russian Occupation authorities in general, conditionally a recent incident, the one we talked about about the detonation , as the Main Intelligence Agency says, four representatives of the actual russian fsb. To what extent does this increase panic among the occupation authorities in berdyansk, or on the contrary, they do not send berdyanska, as you said, do they feel protected in such a rear area . I hope that, i am almost sure that they do not feel that way, this is again shown by the events of the last weeks, and the successful work of the zsu regarding, you understand that the people with whom we communicate, they do not communicate with the occupation by the authorities, that is why it is very difficult to hear what they are thinking there, but as some people say who hear the conversations in our market, where everyone buys products for themselves, uh, even these russian soldiers among themselves communicate and say that they already want to go home. And one more question about the civilians in particular, whether they might have problems in the humanitarian sphere, whether there is still enough medicine for civilians in berdyansk , and enough food in stores and everything that is necessary to simply live, products food, household chemicals, all this is available almost in full, as it was before the military aggression of the Russian Federation, but the prices are very high, very, that is, very important to people. Buy all this from yourself, and what concerns medicine is a little different here situation, they are the same, but they are also expensive, but they are exclusively russian made and almost do not work, that is, they are either fake or of poor quality, this is such a problem, that is, the quality of these drugs is questionable, accordingly, you can put your life at risk those, conditionally, who buy them from civilians there in pharmacies controlled by Russian Forces, right . Yes yes. Thank you for this activation, for telling what is happening in occupied berdyansk. Victoria galitsyna, head of the Berdyansk City Military Administration and our guest broadcasting Russian Forces lost far more equipment under the avidivka than under the ugledar earlier this year. This is stated in the report of the institute for the study of war. According to analysts, significant losses of russian equipment near avdiivka will likely undermine russian offensive capabilities in the long term. However, the russian command, the institute for the study of war notes, will probably try to compensate for the loss of russian equipment, especially Armored Vehicles. Lack of russian equipment, analysts write, in the first year of a full scale invasion severely limited russias ability to conduct effective maneuverable mechanized warfare during the Russian Military offensive in the winter and spring of 2023, leading to further losses during the coalfield assaults in january and february of this year. Also, the American Institute for the study of war adds that the Russian Federation has gradually mobilized its defenseindustrial base to overcome the shortage of equipment. However, this did not happen on a scale, i quote, even remotely sufficient to compensate for the total losses of the russian equipment in ukraine. Russian forces, let me remind you, became more active near avdiivka on october 10. The positions of the armed forces of ukraine and the city itself were attacked by a large number of equipment, tanks and other Armored Vehicles with the support of aviation and artillery , which russia suffered significant losses in the avdiivsk direction, the coordinator for Strategic Communications of the White House National Security Council said the day before , john kirby. Since october 11, russia has suffered significant losses during the attempted offensive, including at least 125 Armored Vehicles around more than a battalion of antiaircraft guns and military equipment. As for the situation on the battlefield, according to the latest data from deepstate analysts, Russian Forces are taking advantage of worsening weather conditions and fog. They conducted a rotation, and also began to strengthen their positions on the territory and are trying to fortify themselves close to the avdiiv coke chemical plant. It is his loss, not terekon , that will create Serious Problems for the entire garrison of the city analysts assume. In the morning summary of the ukrainian general staff , it is reported that the army is in the avdiyiv direction russia does not stop trying to encircle avdiyivka, actively uses aviation, but ukrainian soldiers firmly hold the defense and inflict significant losses on the occupiers. It was a quote. In the Russian Ministry of defense, meanwhile, avdiivka itself is not mentioned at all in several recent reports. Serhii tsekhotskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized Infantry Brigade named after yakov handyuk, joins our broadcast. I welcome you. Congratulations, glory to ukraine. Glory to heroes. Thank you very much, mr. Serhiy, for finding the opportunity to join the broadcast. Analysts say that the russian army is taking advantage of worsening weather conditions and fog in the liiv region. He said, the weather is not in favor of ukraine. What can this indicate and how can the rains on the battlefield complicate the work of both the ukrainian forces, and whether it ultimately complicates russia. For example, well, our weather is our weather , it will always help us, we will use it, everything happens on our land, but weather conditions, for example, such as fog, prevent us from seeing the enemy, where he is is in that well, on the battlefield, so it makes it a little more difficult, but we are all standing in our places, ready for any development. On the part of the enemy, this is the situation, tell me, please, for the last day, what is the situation, actually in the avdiyiv direction, what can you tell us about . Well, we do not observe active assault actions on the part of the enemy in our area, while they are conducting artillery fire, volley fire systems, and they are accumulating forces, as far as we know, where and how much, we will not talk about it on the air, but for opponent very, very carefully we are following, regarding the accumulation of forces, earlier there were reports from the Ukrainian Military about the transfer of additional Russian Federation troops to this direction, did these new reinforcements that came show themselves, perhaps already in battle, is anything known about them, who are they , regular army, stormz detachments, who are these people with whom the Russian Forces want to reinforce the positions in the avdiiv direction , so look, we know a lot, but now the situation is the same, probably it is now and must always be until we finish with this occupier, informational silence must be maintained. As much as possible, not to give the enemy, with the help of ukrainian and world mass media, to get this or that information, we know, there will be results, everyone will hear, and we will gladly share this, but for now, for now, we are keeping quiet and such, you know, tolerance in relations, we have Great Respect for our democratic communities, for those of the world, who really help to highlight their work, especially about the acts committed by the occupier of our land, but with regard to information on the enemy, on his movement, accumulation, and so on , we do not cover it, so that they do not guess even about what we know, mr. Sergey, and still there is one point on which we would like to dwell, they are analysts who study the topic of the russianukrainian war, they analyze literally all the events on the battlefield , they say that the Russian Forces have probably begun to strengthen their positions on terekon and are trying to gain a foothold already close to the plant, and that its loss, namely not terekone can create Serious Problems for the whole garrison of the city. So, why is this plant so important, how important is terekon, and what in general can you tell in this context, of course, for security purposes, and without disclosing information that should not be disclosed . Well terekon that it is high, it is convenient to fire from there, to observe, to conduct observations there, but we have not said anything about it anywhere yet, but the situation in absolutely the entire area is under the control of the command of the armed forces of ukraine, that is why those maneuvers and those tactical actions, which strategic actions, which planned, they are not announced anywhere, it is the general staff, and the general staff, and the commanderinchief, he knows what he is doing, and i think that in the future, the very near future, we will see the results of this work, tell me, please, about the losses of the Russian Federations, specifically in technology, in this direction, both the American Institute for the study of war and the white house declare that this is a huge amount of technology, why the Russian Federation does not take care of the technology and why it is so actively losing it now precisely on audio. Direction, this is an incorrectly constructed battle tactic, thats what the problem is, is there so much equipment that you cant spare it, but as ill tell you, now they have already begun to protect equipment and, as always, not to protect personnel, well, how should i say, of these, the socalled living force, about five, more than 500 died in the avdiiv direction , only their orcs died, if we take the total, but to date, according to information. Confirmed information, there are more than 298 dead occupants in our entire war 298,000, imagine how many are wounded, those who will not be able to return and so on, and to them, well, as always, as it was 100 years ago, never people, well, in general, well, people, their citizens did not have any importance, did not have any, well, no one worried about them, these strong assaults when zukav once did and so on, that is, it is constantly repeated, i dont know what their mothers are looking at there, if you can call them that, what they do, to come to a foreign land, that is, to rob, rape and so on accompany them with music, well, like the second world war, you see, these accordions and so on, they pretend that they are going to protect someone from someone, well, the truth is always on our side, god is on our side, so everything will be fine, one more question in conclusion, you already said about these meat assaults, how do you military, how do you assess their effectiveness , in particular from what you could observe yourself, it is a really effective tool in the issue of conducting hostilities there, as it is happening in the avdiiv direction, or not . So, this, this is hard work, and i will say now from our side, it is hard work, to destroy the enemy at such an intensity, it is really hard work, it is not training in the gym, there is climbing mountains, dumbbells and so on, it is not some other exercises where someone likes to perform, it is constant, and it is all work that poses a threat to your and thats why every soldier, every soldier, sergeant, officer knows his place, where, where he is, and they perform it very efficiently, thats why efficiency, well , you know, how efficiency, we, we all saw the result of this avdiiv offensive, thats why saw a large number of dead, we simply could not count them from quadcopters, there was such a situation that we count and get lost, count again and so on. Further, that is, its scary, if its humanly honest, its scary, what theyre doing, these are actually the losses that are now in the vdiiv region, which you already mentioned, well, i ll say, more than 5,000 , thank you, thank you, mr. Serhiy, take care, serhiy tsekhotskyi, officer of the 59th separate motorized Infantry Brigade named after yakov handziuk, a guest of our broadcast, we talked about the situation in the vdyiv direction, this is the Svoboda Ranok project and further into ours. Do not miss the broadcast. In brussels the summit of the leaders of the Member States of the European Union has ended, did they manage to certify stable military support for ukraine, in particular regarding the urgent military needs in the confrontation with russia. We will ask the european correspondent of Radio Liberty about this. Radio dictation of national unity, an annual tradition of joint writing of dictation in ukraine, will take place today at 11 a. M. Kyiv time. Theater and film actor oleksiy gnatkovskyi, who played ivan dovbush in the film dovbush read. For ukrainians, the lines of the poetess and translator Kateryna Kalytko. The name of the road of ukraine. We spoke with oleksiy about his participation in radictant, so stay tuned for that conversation. Dont forget to share and like this video with your friends, its important to promote Quality Content to the largest possible audience. The commanderinchief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhnyi, met with the Supreme Commander inchief of natos combined armed forces in europe and the commander of the Us Armed Forces in europe, christopher kavoli, and the chief of the British Defense staff , tony radakin. As reported by zaluzhnyi himself, he informed them about the situation on the battlefield, and also discussed with american and british officials offensive and defensive operations, the situation in the most difficult directions and the probable plans of the Russian Forces. In addition, says zaluzhny, they also discussed the need to strengthen antiaircraft defense and cover in the autumnwinter period. Critical infrastructure facilities in ukraine. And here is john kirby, whom we already mentioned today, the coordinator for Strategic Communications of the National Security council of the white house, at a briefing the other day he also stated that they have information that the Russian Military executes their comrades in the service when they refuse to follow orders. An american official says that russian commanders are threatening to shoot entire units if they try to retreat from artillery fire in ukraine. That was it. Dad oleksandr musienko, head of the center for military legal studies, joins our broadcast. Mr. Alexander, i congratulate you. I congratulate you. As for avdiivka, it is clear that for now the general the headquarters of ukraine will not publish data on promotions there, confirmation of new positions, and so on. They dont dare to talk about it, but deepstate analysts say that the Russian Forces are trying to get to the coke plant itself. How important is this plant in the context of knowledge itself. Combat operations and what can give control over it, so how can you evaluate . Well, control over it in itself does not give anything, the question is simply advancement, the goal is for the Russian Troops to encircle and capture avdiivka, so on there is a crux of this path, yes, which they want to go through, to actually establish control over it, well, strictly speaking, that is, it is to ensure the advance, the goal that is to go further, to try to surround the contingent of our troops, and on the way to this is kuksokhimot everything. In general, how do you assess the situation that we have today in the avdiiv region, taking into account the messages and official structures that are heard and what telegram channels and military analysts write about, and what even the same russian publics write about the situation we can state as of today. Very heavy battles are going on, difficult, the enemy is suffering heavy losses. Russian units have already suffered very large losses both in equipment and in manpower, but it is clear that the enemy is not giving up on its plans, and in the near future will be concentrated on conducting combat operations here in the avdiivka district in order to attempt to encircle and capture avdiivka directly. Our forces, i think, as long as there are all possibilities, will be concentrated on destroying as much as possible of the equipment, the strength of the enemys means, this is now i think the main thing a task that can be set in order to simply weaken, destroy and reduce the potential of the Russian Troops both under avdiyivka and in general. And it works out very well for the ukrainian defenders, i believe that it will continue to be so, well, but the fighting continues, i predict that the hostilities will continue, and the Russian Troops are not going to give up their intentions despite the loss. Question , now there will be another very important one, john kirby, who we mentioned on the air today, said in his briefing that the United States has information that the russian the military executes soldiers who do not follow orders related to the actual war in ukraine. What could this lead to, what do you think, if this information is true, it could lead to some kind of internal confrontation, maybe between Russian Forces, between specialist officers, between regular Russian Troops, or on the contrary, it would further increase the fear of russian soldiers , and they will go into battle even more faithfully, fearing that if they dont do this, they can be shot there, i dont know, on the spot, well, it will certainly lead to that is, it must be understood here that this situation of tension, it. Is permanent, and this information is not new, that repressions are taking place, that russian soldiers are being executed there, who refuse to carry out orders, it happened before, in fact, but for now that this did not lead to some kind of revolutionary situation in the russian army, unfortunately, but i want to remind you that when the russian army was in the First World War in the days of the russian empire, in the end , the lack of victories, significant losses and the difficult Economic Situation in russia at the time led to the bolshevik coup, and in the vanguard of this coup were precisely the soldiers and sailors. I do not rule out that this time we may observe a similar scenario and that the situation may repeat itself, in fact, it is simply a matter of when, for now it is clear that even from the intercepts disseminated by our special services, intelligence that from various directions the Russian Military they are fighting, that they are suffering losses, that they are being thrown to their deaths, but at the same time they are going and usually under pressure, in particular, under coercion, carrying out these orders, that is, they have not yet reached the point where when they may lay down their arms or turn against their commanders, but it is possible that this may happen in the future, it is just a matter of time, and it is very difficult to predict this moment, because it may come in a few days, it may be in a few months, it may be later, therefore here. It is very difficult and almost impossible to predict any revolutionary situation in general, this spark, but in any case to a certain extent on the demoralization of russian units, it will have an effect, albeit a significant, lets say, impact on conducting hostilities, directly, it is not worth expecting that it will have, lets say in the near term. There is one more topic that i would like to discuss with you china will not participate in the meeting of National Security advisers in malta, where more than 10 countries will discuss the ukrainian peace formula, according to bloomberg, citing its own sources. What does this indicate , do you think, china, it does not support this ukrainian peace formula, or is it possible that it is simply not fully understood by them and china is taking a break for that, i dont know, not to take the most clear position, maybe they dont want to talk, they have their own peace formula, i want to remind you, which china proposed. They are unlikely to be willing to discuss another that does not include their points. Well, i think this should be treated as such, in fact, in addition, you know that china, well, it is such a state that will not always and not everywhere go where they are invited, this must also be understood, that is why china proposed his plan and i think that if any peace plans that do not include or they dont foresee what china is proposing, well, they dont support it, but in general you have to understand that as long as active hostilities are going on, there is a war going on, well , it seems to me that it is a bit premature to talk about some formula for peace in these conditions. Er, there is another message , ukraine received from the United States in january whether it can receive new missiles that will have a range of 300 km and a warhead of 100 km, our colleague reports about this with reference to his own sources