Transcripts For ESPRESO 20240703

Died in the war that was unleashed by russia. Hello everyone, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and further in this stream we talk about the following topics zsu was hit in the airfields near the occupied berdyansk and luhansk were targeted at helicopters and equipment of the Russian Occupation forces. This was reported in the center of Strategic Communications of the armed forces of ukraine. Russian departments are still silent. We will tell you all the details. North korea probably supplies ammunition to russia. The new route was recorded at the royal joint institute for Defense Research and dozens of satellite images of cargo ships were analyzed. Meanwhile, the head of the Russian Foreign ministry. Plans putins visit to north korea, how this relationship strengthens russian army and what does kimchenin trade this help for. The number of ukrainians who believe that the ukrainian authorities are ready to make territorial concessions in exchange for achieving peace and maintaining independence has increased. In general, ukrainians began to believe russian narratives more. This is stated in the results of a new study by the kmiz sociological group. What do these trends indicate and how do societal sentiments influence decisions . Authorities i would like to remind you that on the youtube platform, on the Radio Liberty channel, you can watch us, in order to support our project, put your likes, be sure to write comments and your questions, also to the speakers of this broadcast. We will ask interesting questions live. At night, the armed forces of ukraine struck helicopters and airfield equipment of Russian Troops located near the temporarily occupied berdyansk. And luhansk in the zaporizhia and luhansk regions, this information was officially confirmed by the Strategic Communications department of the armed forces of ukraine. They did not tell the details of how everything happened. Instead, in telegram channels, in particular, the Legal Advisor of the mayor of mariupol andryushchenko, there is a video, allegedly with sounds of flights arriving in berdyansk. I would like to point out that the Russian Ministry of defense has not yet commented on the information about the airfield hits, but i hope we will learn more details now on our broadcast, yuriy ignat, the spokesman for the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, joined our broadcast, i congratulate you, mr. Yuriy, good morning , i congratulate you, the Strategic Committee of the armed forces of ukraine reported on attacks this night on airfields in the occupied cities of berdyansk, zaporizhia region and luhansk, can we assume. What was on these airfields that could potentially be a target for the armed forces of ukraine . Well, i also read the message of our colleagues from the tradcom of the armed forces, so there it was reported that bartolith equipment, equipment accompanying it, it is clear that aviation, both airplanes and helicopters, need special equipment for maintenance and service, and accordingly, maintenance, that is to say, refueling aircraft, charging batteries , etc. , and small repairs are insignificant, so you need to understand that for the enemy, if this information will be confirmed, in the end, what and how was hit, i dont have the opportunity to tell you about it now, i think maybe someone will tell about it later, but in the end, defeat by such equipment as enemy helicopters, which he uses, such like the k52, mi24 and others, well, it is definitely still good for us, because helicopters, together with tactical aviation, constantly. Work at the front on the front line, we remember the famous chornobayivka, as they already said 2 0, 3 00, its already 10 00 and so on, the enemy is trying to keep the helicopters closer to the line because. A collision, as it was in chornobayivka, actually, well, here luhansk , berdyansk, it is directly not far from the front line, helicopters are not airplanes, they fly slowly, 200 km, 300 km, the higher, the higher the speed, it is clear that the 300 with a hook will not fly at a height where it can hit power lines, trees or some highrise buildings and so on, so the helicopter needs to be quickly lifted from the air, cover a certain distance, and apply its weapons against the enemy, yes, this is how our fighters work, this is how the occupiers work, unfortunately, the occupiers have more modern helicopter equipment, more modern weapons, there are antitank guided missiles, with a long range of use, and helicopters are constantly working directly, 10 plus kilometers from the line of combat, so the defeat of such equipment is quite real. Is important for us, and while airplanes, i emphasize once again, can fly from distant airfields, helicopters need to be closer to the center of hostilities. That is, such strikes can potentially move these helicopters, russia will have to redeploy them somewhere away, do i understand correctly . Well, we will have to redeploy, in principle, the helicopters are already scattered at different airfields, now in the conditions. Actions, this is how the ukrainian aviation works, where there is no crowding at one radome, there is a lot of equipment, and planes and helicopters are all along the line of demarcation, all lines of combat reporting, and what they do with them next is their business, our business to destroy them every time, how many helicopters are in service with the Russian Forces in general, of what types, and now they are being designed, they are somehow being reconstructed with of soviet models, what types are there, which, well, i have already voiced something, yes, they have such helicopters as the mi8, it is a transport helicopter, for the most part, but it is also combat, it is also used by our Defense Forces, air forces, the Army Aviation of the ground forces, the occupiers also have such, can fire unguided weapons, er, socalled nurses, yes, which we often see in the videos published from the front, well, they also have fighters, such as mi 24, such as we have in various modifications, k52. There are also Newer Versions of the mi24, so unfortunately the enemy added this one park, modernized old soviet models, created some new ones, and not without the help of ukraine, he did it, we know the history of motorsich, with mr. Bogoslaev and so on, so actually, unfortunately, helicopters and airplanes, they develop and have good modernized models, not the same as they say there , dumbing down the analogue. Because we see alligators go down, even sometimes with simple small arms, well but, but they have them and the main thing is that this is the type of weapon and the range of use that ensures the lives of pilots, but as you can see, our Defense Forces are still destroying regularly , this indicates the destruction of even three su25 aircraft, as our comrades from the Defense Forces told the eastern direction, so we are moving towards, as they say, but in general, in the occupied territories, they are somehow protecting such objects, airfields, russian antiaircraft missiles, or how difficult it is to hit these targets in general, all objects are to one degree or another protected by certain means, another thing is that those means must be available in sufficient quantity to protect all objects that really want to protect, because there are many objects to protect, there are logistics centers, ammunition depots, military administration bodies, and also airfields and units where the military personnel are actually stationed. Thus, it is not always possible, and as we understand, the means of air attack are different, and dwarf missiles, and guided air bombs , and guided air missiles, as well as kamikaze drones, that is against the whole range of weapons that are used today as both our forces and the enemy need have, corresponding to the harrows, who can effectively destroy them, as you understand, it is not always possible, mr. Yuriy, i want to ask you about the results of the work of the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces, tonight the Russian Forces attacked the south again, what details can you tell us, today there are six bp shock type of mines, launched from chauda, ​​temporarily occupied crimea, all destroyed, on the territory of odesa and mykolaiv regions. I understand, sir, but we lost contact with mr. Yuri, but the main thing we told, let me remind you that yuri gnat, the spokesman of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine joined our broadcast and we talked about information from the stradkom of the armed forces of ukraine that at night the armed forces of ukraine struck helicopters and airfield equipment of Russian Troops located in occupied luhansk and berdyansk. The Russian Federation could begin a largescale supply of ammunition from north korea, opening a new route. At least dozens of satellite images of planet laps testify to this. It is in the analysis of the royal joint institute. Defense research, supplies are carried out by ships angara and maria, they write about it there, these cargo ships transported hundreds of containers at least five times between the city of fokine on the russian coast and the port in the north korean city of rasu, and trains that also carry cargo were recorded on satellite images in the institute explained that their destination could be the russian city of tikhoretsk, this is the krasnodar region of russia, the city is located 200 km from the ukrainian border. As analysts say, since august of this year, the territory there has rapidly expanded, to which stores ammunition. The institute of Defense Research also notes that both mentioned ships belong to companies associated with Russian Militarylogistics networks. Meanwhile, investigators from the center of the dossier on russian oppositionist mikhail khadarkokovsky write that among the ammunition and weapons transferred to russia by north korea could have been. Also missiles, they came to this conclusion, referring to the documents of the angara ship, which state that , which, i quote, was transported in the hold of a dry cargo ship more than 50 tons of rockets with a burst charge, and the destination is indicated as the bay of the shooter, the shooter in the coastal region, on the bank of which the Russian Military base of the danube is located, but there is no data that the ship was in north korea before that. The spokesman for the White House National security council, john kirby , also confirmed a few days ago that north korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and ammunition to russia for the war against ukraine. And even earlier, the analytical project of the American Center for strategic and international studies, boyon parallel, referring to satellite images of the north korean railway, the tumangang railway station, announced the increase in rail traffic between russia and north korea after the meeting between putin and kimchen. We will talk in more detail about the political aspect of these restoration of relations later, and we will talk about putins visit, which is planned to north korea, but now we will discuss military news. Oleksiy hetman, a military expert, joined our broadcast. I congratulate you, mr. Oleksiy. Good morning transports were recorded earlier something along the railroad, and satellite images showed an increase in such activity. Now we are talking about ships going from the dprk to russia, and you have doubts about what might be in those cars and on those bodies . Well, most likely, these are still projectiles for Russian Artillery systems, maybe artillery systems, barrels, at least for artillery systems, because the percentage of barrels that already need to be replaced in Russian Artillery is very high, they used them very actively, and each barrel has a certain the number of shots is calculated, then it becomes at least inaccurate. Disassembled, as they say, in the worst case, the projectile can explode directly in the barrel, well, and destroy the entire combat calculation that is nearby, as for the projectiles, well, in the dprk, ro makes a bet, including a bet on artillery, they have about 50 000 artillery barrels, this is a very large number, and of course, for this amount of artillery , a large number of shells are needed, why exactly the caliber that suits the russians, once the soviet union. Helped even in north korea, even in the korean wars, and precisely, with their weapons, precisely the soviet caliber, and that is why they continue to use it, they established a certain production of artillery systems, leaving these calibers, well, of course, shells for these , for these, for these artillery systems, did they bring missiles to the Russian Federation , well , i have a big doubt, because the missile itself, well, it cannot be used without answers. Launchers, which also need to be transported, if they saw something similar to rockets there, i think that it is there were barrels for artillery, because once again there, 70 of the artillery of the russians, they are already at the limit or beyond the limit, from the appropriate resource, to launch rockets without just like a firework, well, that will not work, it is necessary to transport serious launchers installations, each missile complex, it is designed for a certain, launcher basis , why early on there was a conversation about the supply of missiles, and then it stopped, because they have missiles, this is a zulficar photox ballistic missile, but there is not such a number of launchers that. What the russians need, thats why they stopped, including this the supply of missiles, i think, will be the same with north korea, well, its just that missiles are transported, well, you know, the big ones are sad, but the shells, yes, they really do not have enough russians, their militaryindustrial complex can produce, well, according to optimistic forecasts, 15 million shells per year, and realistically, well, more, more realistically, about a million 100,000, which means that they are able to fire 4,100 shots per day, if 5 well, this is less than they do, so they have to look for shells somewhere, those that they had at the beginning of the war, and it was approximate, well, there is a big difference, but the estimated number was 1520 million , by 5 million, this is a very big difference for shells, but they already used about 12 million, that is, with the same number of shots as they did with the beginning of the war, 80,000 shots, 60, 50,000 shots a day, that s a very large number of shots, well. Uh, feeling, not that they cant already do such intense fire attacks as they , ramparts of fire, as they did in north donetsk, in lysychansk, in papasna, in bakhmut, they desperately need shells, so i am sure that it was shells after all, these are the shells, mr. Oleksiy, how many of these shells are there in general, what are the capabilities of north korea, how many could be delivered to russia, well, for sure, that we hardly know this figure, even intelligence, because. It is a very, well, a very closed country there, but i am sure that in order to double it , that is, to 8,000 shots of the russians, if not less is needed, they are less, well then they will have them there very essentially, they are lose the artillery war, then they will lose completely, they still need somewhere around a million, i think that such and such capabilities, well, it is quite possible that north korea has them, but the fact that it will quickly hand them over, or at all agree. To deliver such a large number of meals, well, there are big doubts, and how does it strengthen the russian army in general, in your opinion, they need it right now, or are they preparing for something and accumulating these shells for this purpose . They dont accumulate, they used them so that they dont have enough of them, they need them for to support what theyre doing, the artillery fire, which from their point of view gives them some kind of advantage or some kind of opportunity, and well, look again, theyve been firing, well, 2030 to 80,000, now they do 10 times less, well, what are they talking about, they say this not because they have become more humane, but because they will run out of shells, and they, they, they need them right now right now, well, why have they stopped now offensive actions near avdiyivka, because they say that they decided to do wave after wave where Nothing Happened they didnt decide, they dont have such tactics, to do some. They tried to make a powerful offensive, they made artillery preparation, socalled, a barrage of fire for 34 days, this did not give an opportunity to destroy the city in the way they would have liked, for to destroy it the way they destroyed other cities, you need three, two or three weeks of such constant shelling, then yes, the city can be turned into almost ruins, and then the infantry comes, they had enough for 34 days, thats all, more, they cant shoot like that, not because they have waves, they dont have shells any more, thats why they stopped the offensive, because they couldnt on. Were able to advance, will there be a second wave, yes, there will be a second wave, they are trying to bring shells and artillery and heavy equipment and people there again, but its not because they miscalculated, because they were simply stopped, they try to bark again, keep doing it, because its not, this city has as much military as political importance, because i understand, well, analysis. Research research war shows that even if they manage to capture avdiyka, then significantly, strategically, along the entire front line, in general, on the russian ukrainian war, it will not affect anything in essence, but they climb, they put a lot of people, because most likely there was one political roll, that there to some there, by the new year or by some date, by some date it is necessary to capture, capture not in order to gain some, some significant military advantage, so that propaganda channels inside the Russian Federation can talk about how they are successfully conducting military operations there that everything goes according to the plan and so on, most likely there. Mr. Oleksiy, i also want to ask you about such fresh news from this night, about the strike by the armed forces of ukraine on the helicopters and equipment of the Russian Occupation forces at the airfields near the occupied berdyansk and lughansk, how can the probable losses of the Russian Forces be estimated, in your opinion . Well, for now it is official, even yuriy gnat did not have time to tell you about it just now, there is no official information on how many helicopters were damaged, but this, it is significant. Well they use, unfortunately they still have an advantage in aviation, well, i think that soon we will get our planes after all, in the 16th, and then we will have at least parity, so we need to. Destroy their aviation, helicopter, assault, fighters, well, to where we can reach, with our, our means of impression, it is at such a distance, it is most likely, after all, our uav was hit, since it was destroyed, yes i want not destroyed, it is already, it is already very good, we are we destroy their resorts, their warehouses, we destroy every day, we, we do it constantly, and it, in itself, some day, today, for example, well or. Night , well, it may be a small loss for the russians, but these small losses happen almost every day, and in the end, in a week or two, they turn into big ones, because the little ones are accumulating and it turns out that a lot of planes, helicopters were destroyed, well, three hundred of these and those, there are 315, 316, this is even for more or less, there was a large number of russian planes, there were about 2000, even for them this is a substantial loss, yes, we are not always just officially informed about it in armed forces, yes, such details, but when they report, of course you want to get more details, yurii gnats said, wait, maybe during the day the relevant persons will comment on this information, thank you, two words about it, thats why sometimes people are offended, why not immediately information is given, it is not because our general staff or the militarypolitical leadership is hiding something, we do not have the right to act like the russians and Say Something wrong. And then pretend that we did not say it, it is necessary to check 10 times and already when there is official message any of our official structure, so to be sure that it is 100 true, 100 . Thank you, oleksiy hetman, a military expert joined our broadcast and we talked about north korea, russias cooperation with north korea in particular, and we will continue this conversation. Fighters of the k254 battalion of a separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine showed rfe rl their night work in bopol, copters capable of lifting several kilograms of air cargo are used to drop ammunition. Targets are different, armored vehicles, infantry, various fortifications, depending on the type of targets, ammunition also changes. How night flights take place, see the report of my colleague roman pagulych. Yes, its going somewhere there, no, what about you, lets throw out the antenna first, then well be a booster all the way, i know, take away, theres a mess on the field somewhere, tonight the soldiers have a task to work out the enemys positions with the help of a drone, just like that he hears these drones, who go to work as soon as they hear these drones. Who go out to work, they are very afraid, because these drones inflict a very large amount damage, and our shells are placed there, near their fortifications, it is difficult to survive there, even if you survive, you are seriously injured. I made a broadcast, im taking off, how many 106 greens, tell me ill make 106, well, im a beginner, like a pilot, i had my first hit , im a beginner pilot, my first best such a good hit was the detonation of ammunition at the enemys positions, when they dropped an antitank mine and after that there were about four more such explosions, for me it was something that was memorable, well for me one thing is memorable, and so the other crews have a lot of damage, equipment and so on , there are many memorable moments, equipment is on fire, many damage to equipment, equipment is on fire, dugouts are on fire, everything is on fire, my task for the fortifications is to strike the dugouts. It doesnt fly, it just doesnt fly forward, the drone doesnt listen, in short, i drop it, theres an explosion. Most of all, the enemy turned on rap, there are chances to lose under such conditions, well, yesterday everything was fine, the targets were hit, the dugouts were blown up, everything was good, today it was a little bit unsuccessful, well, we will do it again try. No gap, nerd job, huh . Well, well, well, a little bit more, a little bit more. Yes, its great, i think theyre running there now, theyve got a little feeling, i love it when its on fire, its raining, everyones running around, nobodys running in my way anymore, its work. Thats it, the work is over for today, the target was not hit for the first time, well, once it was hit, it was clear , and then how, well, tomorrow morning there will be a flyby, targets, they will look at the targets where they were hit, and the next day, there will be an addition to the targets that still remained in enemy, we will destroy it to the end, yes what a glory to ukraine, later on our broadcast we will talk about the reconstruction of ukraine, i will quote the following quote, get used to seeing me here , because i have returned, this is how the us special representative for reconstruction, peni prinskire, summed up her visit to ukraine, she visited for the first time after being appointed to the position according to pritzkyr, the main. Task for ukraine in this position is to cooperate with the Ukrainian Government to open export markets, mobilize Foreign Direct Investments and accelerate economic recovery. Special representative met with representatives of anticorruption bodies, the Prime Minister and the president , next meeting with business representatives. According to ukrainian Prime Minister denys shmigal, in addition to discussing Economic Growth , the special representative also discussed sources of financing and recovery. In particular, about the seized russian assets. But at the meeting with president zelensky, in addition to the economy , the issue of reconstruction was also discussed, in particular the energy industry, which suffered from russian shelling and pppo. We work as much as possible, to give our soldiers more pppo, to give more protection to cities, so that life is preserved in them, in particular economic life, plus the development of our industries and in particular defense industries. All this together preserves our stability, all this together adds strength to ukraine. I am grateful to each of our partners, to everyone who helps. Prisker at the press conference, which took place at the cocacola plant in kyiv, announced a number of visits to ukraine already next year. She repeated the words of us President Joe Biden about washingtons readiness to support the people of ukraine and in the future. Ukrainians want to have a transparent and proeconomy integrated into europe, and for this they need to do many things. The European Union has identified what is necessary for you to move forward, and part of our work, and the Us Ambassador and i are working closely together, is to really help ukraine continue with reforms and policies that can allow us to attract more and more investment to ukraine. Severodonetsk or shchytsia in luhansk region, or volnovakha or ugledar in donetsk region. Like other