Country, svoboda live is not the only thing we talk about, my name is sashko shevchenko, we are starting. Against the background of the aggravation of the military situation in the Kharkiv Region, the president of ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi held an outing of the Supreme Commander in kharkiv. According to the president , in general, the situation in Kharkiv Region is under control, but this direction remains extremely difficult. Zelenskyi said that threats were analyzed at the pond, in particular. Days and weeks, as well as ukrainian opportunities to resist the offensive plans of the Russian Federation. Next, a quote. They analyzed in detail the prospects of the combat situation, the threats in the coming days and weeks, and our ukrainian capabilities to counter russian offensive plans. As of today, the situation in the Kharkiv Region is generally under control, our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupier, but the direction remains extremely difficult, we are strengthening our units. According to the institute for the study of war. The russian army managed to advance no more than 8 km deep into the territory of ukraine and now they intend to create a buffer zone, not advance deep into Kharkiv Region. The fact that the Russian Military was able to capture more than 10 settlements on the border with russia too quickly, without encountering serious obstacles on their way, has been reported since may 10. In an interview with the bbc, the head of the Kharkiv Regional state administration oleg synygubov explained why this happened. Of. Apparently, there are several lines of defense. They are divided among themselves by their proximity either to the state border or to the contact line. We were building a third line of defense, sometimes a second. It all depends on the mileage to the contact line or border. The first line and the main part of the second is the direct responsibility of the armed forces and those military units that enter these positions. When we actually built the second or third line, which is 10, 15, 20 and even 30 km away from the border or front line, then the enemy. Beat and destroyed our equipment. Well , analysts from deep state write that the Ukrainian Defense forces may have problems with fortifications even at a distance of 10 km from the border of the Russian Federation. The Monitoring Group published a photo of what they claim were poorly prepared engineering and fortification structures. A quote follows. It seems very strange that 10 km from the state border during 2023 and 2024, they were able to carry out only the first one there. Construction stage. Such a negligent approach to the work process played an evil joke in the ochereteny district. End of quote. I would like to add that the deep state did not specify on which part of the front these photos were taken. And about the general situation on the fronts, as well as the reasons for such a rapid advance of the russian army, in particular in the Kharkiv Region, reuters asked the peoples deputy from the voice serhiy rehmanin, who was in the donetsk region. Lets listen. I think that the next three months will be the most critical for ukraine, for the russians now is actually a window of opportunity. The capabilities of the Ukrainian Armed forces have decreased. The russians feel it, they have accumulated a sufficiently large amount of resources. And in the form of weapons, and in the form of ammunition and in the form of manpower. And they are now trying to use the maximum number of reserves. And what they re doing now, theyre trying to stretch our forces across the front line. Help of the United States is critical, so. The pause, which unfortunately was in supplies, it had a substantial impact on the situation at the front, and we are all obvious, eyewitnesses to that, its absolutely obvious that it had an effect, so the pause was critical, and that , that the front line is moving faster than we would like, this is also a direct consequence of the fact that the supply system has been put on hold. As far as i understand, the process of receiving weapons and armaments is complete, it will start in the summer, unfortunately, not now. The United States is not yet. Able to satisfy ours needs and because of its own problems, because of the limited opportunity, the capacity of the american militaryindustrial complex is limited in order for it to reach the numbers we need, it needs time, time and money, money is available, even officially and ukraine recognizes it, and western analysts, this proves that the percentage of interception of russian missiles at the front has significantly decreased. This means that the Russian Aviation can afford to work much more defiantly, and with the help of guided air bombs, it simply demolishes our positions, and after this infantry is squeezing us, after there is nothing left there, this also applies to the direction of the temporary ravine and, for the first time , to the direction of vivcha, where the russians quickly passed the first line of our defense, it is clear that the distance from the border is small enough, it is clear that the russians have absolutely. An advantage in artillery and aviation, this simplified their advance, but there is a lack of ammunition, a lack of reserves, so far today there are no real threats, for example, to the encirclement, or even more so the capture of kharkov, objectively such a threat no, but the situation is difficult enough, if the russians are not able to create a significant threat now, to lead to the collapse of the front line somewhere, it is not. Incredible, but it is possible, unfortunately, if this does not succeed, then there will be a certain stabilization of the front line, i think that somewhere inside, at the end of summer. The professor of the department of humanities of the National Academy of land forces named after hetman peter sagaidachny, andriy kharuk, joins our broadcast, congratulations, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, lets start our conversation with the situation in kharkiv oblast, today again this Volodymyr Zelenskyi, who is currently in kharkiv himself, commented on the situation. He says that the units in the Kharkiv Region will strengthen, obviously, in preparation for the intensified continuation of the offensive of the russian army. In your opinion, what is the worst scenario that should be prepared for in the kharkiv direction itself, so in my opinion opinion, er, we have to prepare for the scenario of what kyiv sometimes presented in three days, and what it poured into. And now we have vovchansk in two days, and their scenario, we see that from may 10 the russians are actually on the offensive, and in in conclusion, two bridgeheads, up to eight, well, 10 km deep, are all they have managed to achieve at the moment, for almost a week of fighting, so there are unpleasant moments, there are questions about the same fortification, there are questions about e organizations and the management of the troops was not in vain replaced by the head commander in the kharkiv direction, but whether the russians will be able to break through to kharkiv, it is very unlikely, they will be able to get to a distance from where they can, well, theoretically it will be possible to shell kharkiv with ground artillery, this it is unpleasant, this should not be allowed, will they be able to significantly expand. Their bridgeheads, i think not, given that now the main attention of our command is still focused on this direction, because this is a question, well, not only a militarystrategic one , but the question is also largely political, gaining a position and repelling the enemy along the state border on this, in this direction i am running a little ahead, maybe it is not worth talking about any prospects of an offensive yet. Actions or counteroffensive, but it will be necessary to do to restore the status quo, but it is another matter that there may be workers there in the areas of the temporary ravine, now the russians can take advantage of the fact that the ukrainian command will be forced to throw reserves to the north, that is, to summarize briefly, the main danger, after all from these actions of the russians, it is not in the kharkiv direction, but in other. Directions for which we may at one moment have insufficient reserves, well , it turns out that with this advance in the north of Kharkiv Region, the russian army is trying to stretch what actually spoke Serhii Rakhmanin in our story, to stretch the forces of the armed forces of ukraine in order to try to push through the defense in other places, thus undoubtedly to expand the line on which active combat operations and torture are conducted. Accordingly, it is possible to expose other areas. I wanted to ask you about the potential of a russian offensive in the north of Kharkiv Region, we have been talking about this since the 10th. Of may and here i would like to recall the words of the secretary of the rbo lytvynenko that 30,000 out of 50, which were formed for a possible such offensive, have so far been involved in the offensive, and will they be able to, or can they now the military of the Russian Federation to draw up more reserves and increase, to increase this shock fist, at least quantitatively, quantitatively, so far qualitatively there is nothing, why, because they have parts that are either newly formed, or. Which have already been sufficiently worn, the same ones, well, there are two airborne divisions that they transferred, they, they without a recovery period, they went from one battle to another, and they are not the elite winged infantry, yes, as they said on the eve of 2022, they are a significant somewhat shabby, filled with far from the best personnel, that is, no in. They will succeed in strengthening their grouping here to the extent that they can set themselves strategic tasks like, well, if not capturing, then at least the encirclement of kharkiv, well, no, no, i dont see where they can get such forces, but here to try to push by expanding the bridgeheads and, so to speak, further push our troops away from the border, yes, it is possible, lets talk about fortifications. They have also been talked about for a week, as a matter of fact, this is what Serhii Rakhmanin, peoples deputy and member of the Verkhovna Rada committee on defense, mentioned about the fact that, although it is unlikely, there is still a possibility that the russian army may succeed in breaking through the first line of defense, and here it makes sense to talk about the second and third, in this context it is also worth mentioning that a certain part of these fortifications was the responsibility of civil authorities, in particular, in response. Activities of the Kharkiv Regional state administration and i would like to ask you to comment on these very pictures published by the deep state Monitoring Group, they say, they claim that in these photos, which they say are in 10 km from the border of the Russian Federation, poorly prepared fortifications, i wanted to ask you, if we are talking about such a distance of 10 km from the border, then whose responsibility it is to build these fortifications, and whether it is really possible to say from these photos that they were poorly prepared, i have it. And these photos, well, they raise more questions than than answers, but im not ready to evaluate in any way, because what was taken from the air does not mean, well, you should look, so to speak, closer, 10 km is the second line of defense, which actually is small would be built already, as they say, by civilian organizations, but we, remember, we repeatedly had such reports about how our drones were destroyed there by russian excavators in the belgorod peoples republic , so the russians worked in the same way, and that, well , i said enough about it actually, oleg syniguba is in charge, yes, so really, when it was built here , here, here, i have a different question, if it was reported there that the plan for the construction of Defense Structures was 100 completed in 2023, then either it is not completely true or this plan was such that he, lets say so. Little related to the realities of defense, here i emphasize again, there are many more questions than than i can give answers. Yes, these questions are really asked by both the military and journalists, and those who answer them, in particular, say, well, im talking now about the representatives of the authorities, they say that these are any such doubts about what was carried out, carried out all fortifications are on time, this may be part of a russian and. Informational and psychological operation, well, we as Radio Liberty are continuing on this issue to follow and because this is a really important issue. Another reason, which is called, which became, well, actually, which led to the fact that the Russian Troops managed to advance quickly, both in the Kharkiv Region and in the eastern direction, ah, it is a lack of shells, the ukrainian military, the ukrainian analysts, representatives of the ukrainian authorities and us secretary of state Antony Blinken are talking about it, so really. Can we agree that until the need for shells is closed, the Russian Troops will be able to advance just as rapidly in the future, no, well how are we going to kill them without shells . And exits, how to predict what will happen in the months, so i do not yet know another way to destroy the russians, how to inflict significant physical damage on them, which would be accompanied by blood loss and so on, but what else. Would inflict such a degree, except how to hit them with powerful, longrange, artillery shells, well, so far, there are no phividrons, they are unable to er. Completely completely replace artillery, and artillery must play its role, and it makes no sense at all, i. E we are waiting, we are waiting for these deliveries, and actually it is about a period of 23 months, as serhiy arkhmanchy said, i understand correctly, and until then the Armed Forces Must hold out, so to speak, well , there is one more nuance here, because you know, i dont know there is no military that does not have. Excuse me for the vulgarity, a small stock, and such stocks are obviously intact stocks somewhere of the same projectiles at different levels, and the very signal of the decision to supply new batches of ammunition could serve as an incentive for that , to unlock these reserves and allow them to be used, that is , two or three months should not pass. For these projectiles to arrive, because at least a few days ago, maybe two weeks ago, there was a message from the 43rd separate Artillery Brigade on twitter or whatever it is called now, on other networks, which said that we actually started firing en masse, because shells appeared, it is not clear where they came from, mr. Andriy, i want to ask you at the very end, Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview with abc that in ukraine for more effective defense. Kharkiv two are needed, more precisely, two patriot systems will be enough, and what are the features of placing such an expensive, and as we can see, a rare system, so close to the front, and how their placement, if it happens, will be able to free up resources for the armed forces, in any case , well , a typical example is the japanese antiaircraft harrow organization, now the poles are going the same way, the patriots have to cover themselves with closerange antiaircraft defense. And which would allow to shoot down even the same cruise missiles, guided air bombs, well, of course, the maneuver, the maneuver is not to be in the same position and move, because, well, this is a very vulnerable area. Thank you very much for joining our broadcast and commenting on what is happening in kharkiv oblast and what we should expect in this part of the front, andriy kharuk, professor, was in touch with us. Department of humanities of the National Academy of land forces named after hetman petro sakhaydachny. The condition of slovak Prime Minister robert fico, who was shot yesterday, has stabilized, but remains very serious. It was reported in the hospital, where fizo underwent a fivehour operation. Slovakias defense minister Robert Kaliniak said that doctors managed to stabilize fitso overnight and are currently undergoing treatment. Procedures are aimed at its further improvement. Let me remind you that yurai centul confessed to the attempt to kill robert fitzo. He joked and threw the firecracker on the ground. That was my first reaction. How many shots did you hear . I heard three shots. It was quick, one after the other, like throwing a firecracker on the ground. Did you see the injury . Yes, i saw a scratch on the head, and then he fell near the barrier its like a nightmare. I think i wont wake up from it. This is impossible in slovakia. After. This physio was taken to the hospital in the Operational Center of the Emergency Medical Service of slovakia. They noted that they received a report about a man who had been shot after 2 30 p. M. A rescue helicopter was sent to him. Later , a message appeared on facebook that he was in a lifethreatening condition, and the next few hours would be decisive. Meanwhile, the slovak media wrote about fitsos wounds in the chest and abdomen. They operated on the Prime