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Gentlemen, we are coming back, now we will talk a little about the operational situation at the front, and it will be with us Ivan Shevtsov, head of the press service of the 15th mobile border detachment of the steel border. Mr. Ivan, good morning to you, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, mr. Ivan, can you tell which direction you are in, if so, what is your situation there . Our steel border brigade continues to conduct active combat operations in the limanokupin direction, now the situation here is slow, the intensity of enemy attacks, i would say that it is decreasing little by little, during the past day in the limanokupin direction, the enemy has made five attempts to storm the positions of the Defense Forces , two of them in the kupyan direction near the village of senkivka were unsuccessful, and three attacks were carried out by the enemy in the liman direction, also unsuccessful, but the. Continues to actively shell border settlements, both on the state border in the Kharkiv Region and on contact lines in the kupinsky and lymansky directions. Over the past 24 hours, almost 700 attacks have been carried out, and the enemy is currently actively using airstrikes and rocket attacks. They suffer the most settlements near kupin. And near vovchansk, and what are the enemys targets in your direction right now . Well, the enemys goal was to capture kupin by march 15. In march before the president ial elections of the russian federation, but they did not have any success, and now, in principle , their goal, the goal remains the same, but they are not currently conducting active hostilities, this is related, may be related to , that the elections actually took place and if this deadline was behind me, as i understand it correctly, the elections took place, but before the elections they carried out active steering wheel. The actions lost a lot of personnel, practically every day in the lymankupen direction the enemy lost from 250 to 300 servicemen, i. E. 10 days and minus 3000 servicemen in the combat zone is quite a lot, the enemy was constantly replenishing and restoring personnel, but as you can see, however, our Defense Forces have had enough time to establish themselves, so that. You are good fortifications, and this has helped us to hold our positions, or are there a lot of riflemen now skirmishes in your direction, or is the enemy using these infantry assaults . If we talk about infantry assaults, there are not many of them now, i already said that during the past day there were five of them, if a week or two weeks ago there were about 20, then for the past day there were only five, but still he conducts, it is. Assaults by small groups of up to 20 servicemen, usually with the support of armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers, bmps, but nevertheless these assaults seem to be able to be destroyed, and enemy equipment is also managed to be destroyed, during the past day on the enemy lost 152 of his soldiers and about 90 units of his equipment in the lemanokopinsky direction, the head of the cia passed away. Mod stavridis, not stavridis, but stavridis, thats how the generals said that the question of whether ukraine will be able to hold the front line now during this year depends to a large extent on whether the mobilization will be successfully carried out, whether there will be a solution to the issue of involving new men in first of all to the front, and we also see how the mobilization of the departure is taking place now, in lviv, for example, cadres have appeared, how about. Last night they just packed up a person again in the city center, and it is obvious that this is not the kind of mobilization that can fulfill the task of attracting half a million new military personnel who will fight well and at the same time the economy will work, you actually you represent a military formation , which, as i understand it, is mostly formed from recruits, i. E. From people who voluntarily went to fight, so how. What is your position regarding mobilization and the fact that the law has not yet been adopted . My personal position is as follows i i believe that every normal, sane citizen of ukraine, a man who is healthy in terms of health, should take up arms and go to the army on his own, and not wait for representatives of the Central Committee to come to him. In general, for ukraine, this is a terrible phenomenon, when people are afraid, when people run away, for everyone normal. A man should be honored to defend his state, so the question here is not with the representatives of the Central Committee, who use such methods to take away so called men who evade their public duty, the question is in the mind of our citizens, thats why we have, yes, we really have a brigade, it is formed by the vast majority of servicemen who came here independently. Because our main goal was motivational, motivated people who know what they are going for, what they are going for , and our main goal is, after all , the liberation of the territory of ukraine, but it is everyones choice, i think that now everyone is needed as part of the army , and in the economy in order to support our army. And what is the average age in your brigade, if this is unclassified information . This is nonclassified information, the average age of our brigade is 40 years. Yes , there are people who left at 18, there are people who left at 50, yes, age is quite important, if we talk about an assault unit, in assault units the guys are usually young, but in addition to the assault units, we have many positions in which men who are both 50 and 55 years old feel confident and well, for example, being a driver at 50 years old is not a problem. Mr. Ivan, i would also like to ask, what are the current needs in the front line . Well, in principle , our brigade is fully provided by the state everything necessary. But yes , if there are more weapons, if there are more ammunition, we will be able to destroy enemy equipment more, we will come sooner to the day when we can celebrate our victory, we need more weapons, thanks for the conversation, chief of the press service of the 15th mobile border detachment Ivan Shevtsov of the steel border was with us, but i want to remind you, dear friends, that we are collecting. For cars for our military, we want to collect for a powerful land cruiser for the air Reconnaissance Group of the main intelligence department, in addition, we want to collect for a pickup truck for the 43rd separate Artillery Brigade and we want to collect for a refrigerator for the removal and transportation of fallen heroes, these are the three positions for which we are collecting money, we need to collect 900 00 hryvnias in total, and already you and i managed to generate. Well, this is to replace those cars that you see, that is, this is what is there now, which is already crumbling, as we know, the cars on the front line are consumables, they, the life of this car there may be very short, but nevertheless , this car protects the lives of our soldiers, and in particular, the cars are also there to transport the fallen heroes, so that their relatives can. 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There are discounts on healpex anticolt 20 in pharmacies, plantain, you and savings. There are 10 discounts on zzilor in psarynskyk, pam and oskad pharmacies. The premium sponsor of the National Team represents. United by football, stronger together. Well, dear friends, while we are were on a short break, we have already added some hryvnias to our account, and for this morning, in general, plus 11 00 was added, we already have 160 00 of the required 900. Thank you to everyone who will join, you see the qr code, while we will talk with serhii zgurets. Military expert and director of the defense express company, you can become one of the benefactors for three cars for our military that we want to buy and give them to the front line. Well, serhiy zgorets is already with us, mr. Serhiy, good morning, good good morning, greetings to you, greetings to our viewers, mr. Serhiy, there were many predictions that the russians would try to seize something before the president ial election, well, but its as if they didnt seize anything, and now. They will say that the intensity of the assaults has decreased a little , yes, putin received all the full power, he now has all the opportunities, well, here it is and he had this fullness, well, it means that he is now officially, i think, the saparmorat, the new russian, uh, all the cards are in him on the table, which he will choose, well, actually, what are we are we trying to predict whether there will be a largescale mobilization in russia . And how did it affect the situation on the front line . This question still remains, frankly , unanswered, because if we now look at the front lines and the hopes of the russian army for this offensive, the enemys offensive has been going on since october of last year, in fact it is going on there in seven directions, and the only the result of this success is the capture of avdiivka and an attempt to develop an offensive to the west of avdiivka. To enter a certain operational space, we see that this the enemy is not succeeding, our line of defense is there to the west of avdiyivka, there is berdychi, orlivka and further to the south, it is holding in principle, and it is holding on rather inconvenient lines, i think that the enemy is now trying somehow to push this area further defense, but in any case, this is not the result that the russian side was counting on, so in any case, and in other directions, there is maryanka, there is also the situation around the robot, and there matchmaker kremina, kupyansk, i. E. In fact in all these seven directions, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses, accumulated forces and means, in fact , the enemy has no particular success, and now the question arises, what policy will putin follow now, or . Part of the experts, the left part of the experts says that putin will announce a largescale mobilization, on the other hand, a part of the experts is of the opinion that in fact the enemy will try to continue to act according to the old scheme, this cryptomobilization, which is currently ongoing with the enemy, which is primarily built on monetary stimulation of lumponized russians layers, it currently provides about 30, some experts say 45 thousand personnel. Enemy for a month, and this seems to be quite enough to maintain the intensity of the hostilities that are ongoing now. If the enemy announced mobilization, then the formation of new forces and means would require at least three to four months, and this is only at the beginning of autumn, we can talk about the fact that there will be formed some more less combatready. Strength of the enemy, so in any case , now is such an extremely interesting and important moment with points of strategy evaluation, and in any case , i think the ukrainian side is now calculating these risks in interaction with partners, lets recall the recent visit there of the british minister of defense and the head of the British Armed forces radakin, who talked about the need to sit down there, relatively speaking in defense well, in certain areas, primarily the north and east, and to pay more attention, conditionally speaking , to the destruction of facilities there in the black sea, strikes on the crimea, i would fully support such a strategy, if the same britain, well, more ensured our there cruise missiles, and regarding the measures regarding the transition to defense, well , this is actually the assessment and competences of our general staff and commanderinchief for the means and reserves that we have, for now, this is actually a secret and that is good, but. In any case, when we talk about certain directions, in particular there, well, about the avdiiv direction, the western part, we see that reserves appear there when necessary, general david petraeus, former head of the central. Intelligence agency of the United States emphasized that it is critically important for ukraine to conduct successful mobilization this year, otherwise it will be very difficult to hold the front line on the lines where they are now, yes, but we understand that we are talking about mobilization and we are also talking about certain foreign officials, but the mobilization, in principle, is now ongoing in the format, as it relies on the old law on mobilization. Petraeus also says there that the left part of the personnel has an age center of 40 there, this affects the effectiveness of the units actions, but we understand that not only the number of personnel now decides the situation on the battlefield , the means are no less, or even the most important , that is, first of all, ammunition, artillery, missiles and so on, so in any case. When petraeus talks about mobilization, he should also talk about , that his friends in the pentagon should, relatively speaking, now somehow look for ways to help ukraine, so that ukraine defends its borders, not only with manpower. I hope, i really hope, first of all, that there will be some change in the United States, and if not, then then help from European Countries will also be extremely important, well, plus our own efforts, which. Are aimed at optimizing the line of defense, finally we started there to engage in fortification, optimization, in relation to the armed forces themselves, in relation to certain structures, and sometimes the search internal, internal reserves in order for this defense to be most effective. This is a difficult question when there are not enough resources, but in any case, when we look at the front line in general, despite the superiority of the enemy there in numbers in weapons, we see that. That this whole line the defense holds and the enemy suffers losses, we understand that we also suffer losses, but in any case, that is the reality of the war at the current stage. Well, coming back to the topic of a possible largescale mobilization in russia, if russia does take this step, we know that putin, he likes to raise the stakes. Then, what should we expect, for example, in the fall, when Russian Troops will increase in number. Well, actually were talking. That if it says to announce a mobilization there, which is 300, there are 400 thousand, then we will actually see what this will be ensured by equipment, and we will have a certain amount of time to still bet on improving the line of defense, on fortification , on increasing the number of means of impression , in particular those same drones that compensate for the lack of artillery, to finally deal with mortars and increase the production of mines for mortars, because conditionally saying, we can produce mines, but i see that we are not in a big hurry in this direction. Of course, it is quite difficult to assess the full risks associated with russias readiness for another offensive. This the process in fact, well, it should be taken into account by our militarypolitical leadership, and the question of mobilization itself, which we said, should be so. Rely on increasing the defense capabilities of industry, the issue in general and all these components are extremely complex, but there is another way , we simply do not have a way to solve these problems, because we understand that either we will exist as a state, or the enemy will completely destroy us, these challenges are extremely serious, and of course there must be serious answers to them, and now this help with side, in particular at the initiative of president ch. And 800,000 shells, how far will it begin to solve our current problems in your opinion . Well, this is actually one of the most good news, which is now in our information field and affects on the battlefield, there have already been publications, information that it is not only about 800 thousand, even about 1. 5 million ammunition of various caliber, a total of 3. 3 billion dollars are needed there, already the first ammunition. I understand, supplied to our armed forces, this has largely stabilized the situation in many areas of the front, i think that this direction remains an extremely high priority, now we also yesterday or the day before yesterday received information from the European Commission regarding this asap initiative, i. E. Speeding up the production of components for ammunition in European Countries and cases and powders. Are stored then this is really now a significant support for our armed forces. We keep in mind that our minimum need for our ammunition is still less than 90,000 per month, 200,000 is the optimal requirement, so in any case, when we talk about this ammunition will be there with portions say, there are 150 thousand per month, then this is a completely acceptable option , which will allow, well, to significantly improve the situation on the front line and increase the losses of the enemy, because now, as we understand, the only way of our active military operations, which will affect the enemy, this is the maximization, the destruction of his manpower, and this, perhaps, is the only option to make the war unprofitable for the russian federation, as well as strikes on the enemys oil refineries, which undermine his possibility of economic capabilities, in in the future , to provide fuel for their forces on the battlefield. Well, in fact, putin, already giving a press conference based on the results of his socalled elections, actually assumed, did not rule out the possibility of a war with nato countries in the near future in his term of office, well, he also spoke about that, answering the question whether it is worth trying to capture kharkiv, he said that we need to create a certain sanitary zone around the already captured territories, how is that all . Well, when we talk about putins statements about the third world war, in my opinion, it can certainly have a positive effect, in part , because it will stimulate our partners, in particular there partners in nato countries, to act more actively to strengthen their own defense capabilities and provide support of ukraine. Now these processes are taking place within the alliance itself, there is a certain deployment of forces in the eastern directions on. Even taking into account the powerful maneuvers that are now being carried out in nato countries, these measures are related to the development of the defense industry, the activation of the baltic countries, there germanys support for the deployment of its forces in the baltic states, that is, this process is already underway, but if putin is trying to threaten the third world war there with the use of nuclear weapons, then we can actually mention here macrons initiative that, relatively speaking. There are no red lines, and when there is a global threat there, in fact , the appearance of nato troops on the territory of ukraine is also considered as one of the countermeasure options. We hope that all these impulses will, first of all, stir up europe more and more to be more combatready, and in partnership with ukraine to solve these global challenges, which are currently being produced by russian aggression. Federation mr. Sergey, thank you for the conversation. Serhii zgurets, military expert, director of the defense express company, was with us, we talked about the situation at the front, tried a little to predict what this year would be like and whether russia would announce largescale mobilization after putins victory. Did you know that the very end wanted to show something . Here, again, as always, we have a discussion, we have a discussion, they celebrate something, but now we have a discussion. They celebrate the oil festival or oil festival, whether it is an oil festival, ukrainian or non ukrainian. Moscow, meanwhile, in the center of new york, celebrated buttercup, and our activists had to counterlight, conditionally saying, to remind the world that this russian buttercup is bloody, very briefly. Dear friends, here i am, here is a video takaya ot masyalitsa, dear friends, russia is taking away our traditions. Their lives are taken away, i will remind you that at 9 oclock we will all observe a moment of silence in memory of those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression. Lets observe a moment of silence in memory of the Ukrainian Military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia