My greetings, this is svoboda ranok, my name is oleg galiv and we are starting. Telegram channels say that in the direction of bakhmut , Ukrainian Forces have already crossed the railway, which the russian Army Supplies itself with. There are no confirmations in this information, so lets find out the details and tell the most important ones news from the front. The separatist nagornokarabakh republic will cease to exist on january 1. The relevant decree was signed by the unrecognized authority of the region. Meanwhile, azerbaijan detained the former head of the government of karabakh while trying to enter armenia. What will happen to the Ethnic Armenians inhabiting the region is also the topic we are currently discussing in the broadcast. And 41 of ukrainians who are currently abroad because of the great war. Definitely plan to return home, this is evidenced by survey data from the center for Economic Strategy, as far as these numbers are concerned have changed compared to last year, and how it will affect the ukrainian economy, we will also talk. Do not forget to subscribe to our youtube channel, and also like this video, if it is interesting for you, as well as a traditional request, write in the comments where you are watching us from, so that we understand the geography of our viewers. Russian troops carried out a missile attack on the city of mykolaiv tonight, the head of the Regional Military administration, vitaly kim, announced. The attack took place after 4 oclock in the morning, according to the data of the Regional Military administration , an infrastructure facility on the outskirts of the city was hit. It is also reported that dry grass caught fire, which was extinguished by firefighters in local mykolaiv telegram channels. Residents of the city reported that the explosions took place even before the air raid sirens sounded. Oleksandr hinkevich, the mayor of mykolaiv is already with us on i greet you, good afternoon , please tell us about the morning attack, what is known, are there any possible victims, what are its consequences, well, actually, as you said, the attack took place at 4 13 a. M. , and it was, again, at an infrastructure object that has been actively attacked by the russians for the past week, i dont know what they are looking for there or who, because in fact this object was destroyed back on the beginning of the war, but they have been targeting this object for the second day in a row, so he did not resume his work, so in fact, the attack took place before the siren went off, this past week, well, the week is still passing, there have been three of these attacks, and all three, first there were explosions, then a siren, so currently unknown the type of rockets that were fired, but it is known that after them there is great destruction , and fires are burning, the fire was extinguished for more than two hours, patrolmen were on duty at the site, restricting traffic, all so that all services could work promptly, we clarify the information from specialists , so i cant report Something Like that in addition, i can say that there are no victims at the moment. Mr. Oleksandr, please tell me. Regarding the object we are talking about now, it is closed information, what kind of object it is, if it was already destroyed all the more, or can you clarify somehow . Well, this is an object of transport infrastructure. Well, please tell me, you said that there have already been several such attacks in the past week, in particular, what do you associate their activity with, perhaps the fact that the armed forces of ukraine are having success at the front in terms of advancement and the Russian Forces react in this way, is this a constant tactic of the Russian Forces, they shell the city, but there are no weapons, they do it more, when they have fewer missiles, they do it, they do it less. Mykolayiv is being shelled with some periodically, after the liberation of kherson, systematic attacks stopped interfering with the functioning of the city, but in any case, now they frighten the residents even more, because they happen unexpectedly, we do not have the movement of military equipment on the territory of the city or the abrams, who are so often loved tell the russians that they are destroying them, it is more or less calm in our city, only these last few days have alarmed people a little, eh, i dont think that this is some kind of attack directed there, i think that there is some intelligence data, or data people, lets say yes, they cooperate with the russians, to whom something is possible, perhaps it seemed to them, perhaps they saw something, perhaps they thought that something was happening there, and that is why they transmit this information, but the russians use it to attack, because the sbu, just recently again captured collaborators who cooperated with russia. And these people are not some special agents, they are people who work on the territory of the city of mykolaiv, at some factories, in lyceums, and in other services. Mr. Oleksandr, two more questions, literally short, about why air the alarm starts sounding after there is already an explosion, its some other type of weapon , maybe i dont know, theres the area from which they are shelling, its closer, why does this happen, dont you like it, im sure im not a military person gunner, but from what ive been told, it could be. With the fact that theres an attack with ballistic shells, that is , ballistictype shells, and that gives our air defense units the opportunity to find them, or detect them in time, so actually were left when they ask me if it is possible to return, people of mykolaiv, me i tell them that i cannot take responsibility for your decision, but take into account these recent events and the fact that today in the city of mykolaiv schools are still working online, because we are still in the zone of impact of these ballistic missiles, who can target, before even we can run and hide the children, before the children should have been my last question about the people, how often do they return to mykolaiv now, if such attacks occur, is there an outflow of people, that is, those who decides that it is still better to go to for some time, well, very little is said about mykolaiv in ukraine, but since april 12, 2022, mykolaiv has been without potable water, that is, we are still with technical water, people are still Walking Around the city with fiveliter plastic bottles in the cities of distribution of free Drinking Water , they raise it to the floors themselves and in general prepare food for themselves and drink exclusively this purified water, which is obtained on the streets of the city, as it was during the second world war. That is, we still have technical water in the pipeline, which has an increased level of salt, and how you understand, this does not make it possible to say that the people of mykolaiv will totally return, well, actually, the impossibility of teaching children offline, that is, to get an education in person, that is exclusively through the internet, also made its corrections and many people who planned to return already. From the month of september to the city, they changed their plans and left the city again in ukraine or abroad. Mr. Oleksandr, i thank you for the prompt activation that clarified the situation, oleksandr sinkevich, mayor of mykolaiv, which again succumbed to the russian attack. Defense forces of ukraine in klishchiivka, south of bakhmut, allegedly crossed the railway on one of the sections. Such messages come from the socalled Russian Military bloggers, in particular. Alexander kots. In his telegram channel, he writes that there is an active counterbattle near klishchiivka. The ukrainian side is using artillery and mortars, writes kots, referring to the Russian Military from the front. Officially, the ministry of defense of russia does not mention this, it only states that the Russian Forces the federations near klichivka allegedly defeated an Assault Group of the Ukrainian Military, as well as a group of equipment. Meanwhile, the ukrainian general Staff Reports that the Defense Forces are continuing their assault and offensive operations in the bakhmut direction. Russian forces, according to the general staff of ukraine, did not conduct assault operations in this direction. Meanwhile, analysts of the American Institute for the study of war noticed that Russian Forces have reduced the pace of their local offensive operations on the kupyansksvatovo kreminna line, on the border of the kharkiv and luhansk regions, analysts came to the conclusion that the ukrainian offensive diverts Russian Forces from this direction and significantly weakens russian offensive efforts on this line. According to a preliminary assessment by the American Institute for the study of war, the russian offensive operations on the kupiansi swatova cremina line were aimed at pressing ukrainian troops to this line and distracting them from more important areas of the front. And offers. Nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, who arrived on an unannounced visit to kyiv , also stated positive trends at the front for the Ukrainian Military on the eve. He stated that Ukrainian Forces are gradually gaining ground in their counteroffensive against Russian Troops. Today, your forces are advancing, they are fighting fiercely, but they are gradually gaining ground. Every meter returned by the Ukrainian Forces is a meter lost by russia. There is a sharp contrast here. Ukrainians are fighting for their families, their future, their freedom, moscow is fighting for an imperial delusion. Meanwhile , a new drone attack is being announced in kursk, russia. Governor of kursk oblast Roman Starovoytov reported that this morning drones allegedly dropped explosive devices on the substation, as a result of which power was cut off in populated areas. Russian telegram channels, for example, the border telegram channel, reports that two explosive shells fell on the vku substation. Oblast, one of the transformers allegedly caught fire, power was cut off in five settlements and a hospital, rescuers are working on the spot, meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of defense reported the successful downing of 11 drones, 10 unmanned aerial vehicles, allegedly shot down by russian air Defense Forces over kursk oblast, and one over kaluska. There are many topics for discussion, we analyze them with our guest, oleksiy hetman, a military expert, joins the broadcast of freedom mornings. I welcome you. Good morning. Sir oleksiy, lets go smoothly, i have already completed my briefing in kursk, and i will start with it. What do you think about this drone attack, or is it really, if it happened and as they say about it from the russian side, it was specifically aimed at substations, lets say energy infrastructure, and does this story start a playable game together, when ukrainian substations are attacked and russian ones can actually be attacked, and this is done either by the ukrainian side, or by the underground, or by those who launch these drones. Well, you know, the answer should be mirrored, ruslan, our minister of defense said that we will neutralize their energy structures, energy facilities, in order to weaken, including their defense enterprises, their repair bases, which repair their equipment, they are in general the armed forces of the Russian Federation, this is a completely normal practice, given that, excuse me, what they are doing not the first year, but the second, the same with our energy structure, how legitimate is it, how is it in line with the geneva conventions, what will be the reaction of world society, well, well see, but you know, there is a premonition that very large waves of indignation will rise now, that there are some countries, which i do not want to name, that still believe that the russian peace is something, that it is their everything, and that it must be supported, that they are well done there , will begin to tell that we are iceterrorist attacks. We do, well, but it will only be on the condition that, if it is proven, in fact, ukraine will take responsibility for what it is, even, well, even, if it does not take, they will talk about the fact that we are doing this we, and you know, maybe its even a good thing, because if they start to accuse us, well , they will, well, they will be found, well, listen, well, lets go, i dont want to list these strange, well, lets go whether i want to or not, you you think hungary wont say anything, you think iran wont say anything. That wont say anything there north korea, which will not say anything, well, you can list the people who are in the putler coalition, the putler anivants , well, they will start belarus, lukashenko, i will show you from which sides they tried, and so on, well, we understand everything, but here there is a certain positive in this, i think there is also a diplomatic and political positive, if they start to tell, well, those that we listed there, well, roughly conditionally, about attacks on russian infrastructure objects, well, you can immediately ask, and what keep silent when attacked ukrainian infrastructure facilities, if its so bad and its so unacceptable, well, lets stop it, as they say, no , its not us, its the partisans, we wont take responsibility, well, in fact, these are the same the words that you have already prepared, i think that these methods have already been prescribed and these people are already waiting when they will have to say them out loud, well , actually it is not russian, but what is the difference, it is the same thing, they do the same thing and you are silent , it s kind of selfexplanatory, as they say, nothing, they attack, yes, they destroy our infrastructure, our energy and heat systems are being destroyed, well, thats what it is, but if we do the same in russia, but that s okay, you cant do that, so wait, lets decide somehow, i think when they raise two, maybe its even such an idea, well, let two raise it, then it will definitely be possible to expand this water in exactly the same words, exactly in the other direction, well , lets see, but if we talk from a Military Point of view, then its not at all. It is necessary to do, because these stations feed, well, certain military structure, well, when we we attack, for example, russian lithuania, somewhere in kursk, then, of course, certain power plants, distribution stations or what is there are destroyed, of course, some part of the civilian population will be left without peace, i have to interrupt you, because we still have a lot questions, and not so much time, the bakhmut direction, the bakhmut direction, in fact , the information that is available, that is not, what is written about in telegram channels, confirmed, not confirmed, in your opinion, could the armed forces of ukraine really have already crossed such an important railway in this area, which the forces of the Russian Federation use to supply themselves with provisions, weapons, and so on, or is it still the case . Is it too early to talk about it now . Well, it is too early, the research institute, the war research institute, the american one usually makes such statements a little earlier than, this is happening, well, there is an official notification from our general staff, who have the right to indicate the official position of our, well, our military and political leadership, if well , they dont often make war mistakes, if that the truth is, it is very important, we, well, we have such narratives since the second world war, we. React very emotionally to, positively react to the liberation of some settlements , starting from the fact that the information that we provided is the information that is actually being spread the russian socalled warlords with reference to the Russian Military, and, that is, this is really not yet confirmed information from either side , meanwhile, the institute for the study of war, which you have already mentioned, gives us other information, which we would also like to discuss, about that last sometimes the Russian Forces lowered the topic of offensive actions on the kupyansk line, matchmaker, kremina, what could it be, you came to the newest directions, well, yes, yes, i will finish in a couple of seconds, the main thing, the main thing, after all, well, the population point, this is very important, but settlements, they must be tied to something , these settlements that we are liberating, this is exactly the railway, this is exactly the logistics, which supplies everything necessary for the armed forces of the Russian Federation, this very important, it is more important to destroy the railway on which everything is being picked up, rather than liberating some small settlement, well, it is important to vacate the settlement, but to disrupt the logistics , well, thats it, we wont fight, well, thats it, about the kupinskolimon direction, of course they weakened there, they are so actively offensive actions, they made Assault Groups, they tried to attack tanks, make tank attacks, which they had not done before, but we remember that it was from the kupinliman direction that their 76th Russian Airborne division was transferred and transferred transferred to south to takmak, in the same way that the seventh was removed from the kherson direction and transferred there, because there, once again , the war is not for takmak, it is the war for the railway that goes to volnovakha tankoy, and it is one of the two major arteries that supplies everything necessary from the temporarily occupied crimea to the Russian Troops and in general to the south in the kherson region, that is w