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[00:00:22] Zaporizhzhia, that's about 700,000 people, living
[00:00:26] 25-30 km from the front line, it's...
[00:00:30] Daily attacks of aerial bombs, Shaheds, and
[00:00:33] recently, FPV drones. I am Yaroslav Krechko, this is
[00:00:36] Donbas Realia, and today we will tell you how much
[00:00:39] is flying towards the city, which, despite everything, tries to live
[00:00:43] a normal life. We will show Khortytsia Island
[00:00:46] and ponder what awaits Zaporizhzhia in
[00:00:49] the future.
[00:00:56] Maximum speed and concentration - that's the movement of everyone.
[00:01:36] We are going to the village of Lysagorka,
[00:01:40] we are going to the village of Lysagorka, on the way we met a car about half an hour
[00:01:44] ago, it probably got hit by an FPV, but we are moving on.
[00:02:09] You saw how at first, here on the roadside, you saw the drone, they were
[00:02:13] probably chasing all three of them, here, then over there, one finally
[00:02:17] hit the hood, but we stopped, we seem to be alive, we got all our things
[00:02:20] out,
[00:02:29] and so...
[00:04:05] part of Lysagorka is without power due to Russian attacks, despite this, there are quite a lot of
[00:04:09] people in the village and there is even a small
[00:04:12] market. I've been coming here like this, I've been coming here like this for about
[00:04:15] four months now by back roads, with glasses,
[00:04:18] with glasses like this, and what, people are coming
[00:04:21] a little, there is a little bit,
[00:04:24] there is a little bit, there is, whatever there is, well, I'm still
[00:04:27] going, how many times have they chased me.
[00:04:42] who else will bring such fish here, look, they don't bring us bread now, and why don't they bring it? Because the car
[00:04:45] was smashed, who will agree to drive through
[00:04:49] such conditions to bring bread to people? I bought
[00:04:52] water, I bought sweets, I bought
[00:04:55] water, I bought sweets, I bought what I needed, yes, that's all, but
[00:04:59] there's a little bit.
[00:06:19] The smell of burning is very often felt in Zaporizhzhia
[00:06:21] itself. Besides drones, the Russian army
[00:06:25] shells settlements to the south of the city several times a day
[00:06:28] with guided aerial bombs. During one
[00:06:32] of the recent attacks, soldiers of the 23rd Khortytsia Brigade
[00:06:36] rescued a pregnant
[00:06:37] woman.
[00:08:42] 17:00 Shaheds and FPVs, 8 p.m.
[00:08:46] FPVs, 10 p.m. FPVs and
[00:08:48] IKABs. If in that year, if in that year
[00:08:52] the brigade destroyed about 800 air targets,
[00:08:56] then this year we have a different trend, we haven't
[00:08:59] destroyed less than a thousand per month yet. We had a brigade
[00:09:02] record, we destroyed 85 air targets in
[00:09:06] 24 hours. They flew precisely in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, most
[00:09:09] of them were about 65 missiles, 10 FPVs. All the others
[00:09:13] were Shaheds, and at the same time, people, in principle, don't even know
[00:09:16] what quantity and mass of this enemy scrap metal actually flew
[00:09:20] to Zaporizhzhia. A very large number are destroyed, our
[00:09:23] brigade, directly all the defense forces that work in the general
[00:09:27] air defense system, are trying to ensure that no
[00:09:31] enemy weapons reach the city, but
[00:09:35] one must consider not only the quantity, but also that they are using new
[00:09:38] tactics, trying to launch a very large number at once.
[00:10:12] but that doesn't mean they're not there. One example of
[00:10:16] how unexpected danger can be is this
[00:10:19] strike on
[00:10:20] the minibus.
[00:10:25] it's falling now, holy moly, oh
[00:10:28] my god, a woman fell.
[00:11:47] He wasn't exactly chasing us, but it seems he was somewhere
[00:11:50] up high, he was probably waiting
[00:11:54] for what. Exactly, exactly for a minibus full of people, he was waiting,
[00:11:57] right? Well, fascists, what can I
[00:12:00] say, Hitler didn't do
[00:12:03] that, even though he was a brute, but this is even
[00:12:06] worse.
[00:12:12] We're driving through Zaporizhzhia, we're driving through
[00:12:15] Zaporizhzhia, you see how many cars there are and my gut feeling worked,
[00:12:18] my gut feeling, and not much, by
[00:12:21] the way, it's not that late hour, by the way.
[00:12:25] it's not that late, 8:30 in the evening, many
[00:12:28] cars in the city and somewhere there's an FPV.
[00:12:41] On the same day, a few hours earlier, a Russian drone reached
[00:12:44] the city center and struck a truck on Freedom
[00:12:47] Square.
[00:13:01] The drone threat has already forced the installation of
[00:13:05] nets in the city to protect against drones, with particular danger in
[00:13:08] the southeastern districts, despite this, public
[00:13:11] transport continues to operate.
[00:13:35] it hits, but you see,
[00:13:38] I'm used to it.
[00:13:41] Well, drones, they are such a nasty thing that you can't hear
[00:13:44] them, can't see them, yes,
[00:13:47] we run, we run, you can see, you fly,
[00:13:51] how many times did we drive past gas stations on these routes.
[00:15:25] I think that any ordinary person here has a pain threshold, and
[00:15:29] also any person has a safety threshold, a threshold
[00:15:33] of feeling safe, and of course, in any frontline
[00:15:36] city it... differs from the state of people in cities of central or western
[00:15:40] Ukraine. This applies to all frontline cities, starting from
[00:15:44] Kherson, ending with Sumy, including Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and so
[00:15:48] on. Therefore, we live in a mode of 20 hours a day
[00:15:51] air raid alerts, we live in a mode where the enemy constantly
[00:15:54] tries to find our weak spots and launch another
[00:15:58] attack. But on the other hand, people here have homes,
[00:16:01] relatives, loved ones, their social circle, work,
[00:16:05] so there's nowhere much to go. Therefore, today we are
[00:16:08] adapting. On the one hand, we, as the authorities, are developing active
[00:16:12] defense, on the other hand, people are beginning to react more to
[00:16:15] air raid alerts and danger signals, so we are
[00:16:19] adapting to the challenges of the time. The new challenge
[00:16:22] is precisely FPVs, which cover ever greater
[00:16:25] distances and more often fly precisely towards
[00:16:28] the city. In August alone, soldiers of the 23rd Brigade
[00:16:32] shot down over 200 FPVs on the approaches to
[00:16:35] Zaporizhzhia. They.
[00:16:42] They work with a very large number of crews, they try to launch a very large number of missiles simultaneously, they use
[00:16:46] different tactics, they approach at high speeds, a group of FPVs approaches
[00:16:49] for a strike from different directions in order to
[00:16:53] create such a disorganization in our air defense
[00:16:57] system, but we study all these tactics,
[00:17:00] analyze them, and draw certain conclusions on
[00:17:03] the use of our means. The difficulty of intercepting FPVs lies
[00:17:07] in...
[00:17:39] children. The construction of underground kindergartens is also being completed.
[00:17:42] One of them is here, at a depth of 7 meters, 120
[00:17:46] children will be able to stay there.
[00:17:59] This is one of the large children's
[00:18:01] rooms where children will
[00:18:04] sleep, eat -
[00:19:31] almost the only combination in Ukraine of industrial landscape, historical
[00:19:35] landscape, natural landscape.
[00:19:39] To organically combine nature, history and industry in one place is almost
[00:19:42] impossible, here it succeeded. Behind me is
[00:19:46] DniproHES, another landmark of the Zaporizhzhia region, and behind
[00:19:49] DniproHES there were once rapids, these rocks are
[00:19:53] also geologically remnants of rapids, outcrops of the Ukrainian
[00:19:56] crystalline shield, which essentially gave our region its name.
[00:20:00] Zaporizhzhia region - the city of Zaporizhzhia and Zaporizhzhian
[00:20:02] Cossacks.
[00:20:07] Currently, archaeological excavations
[00:20:10] continue on Khortytsia. Russia's undermining of the Kakhovka
[00:20:13] HPP significantly lowered the water level in the Dnieper and opened
[00:20:17] researchers access to new artifacts.
[00:20:31] This is our Slavic, most likely, and it's pottery
[00:20:34] based.
[00:21:50] the goal is to get as close to Zaporizhzhia as possible, but
[00:21:53] at the moment, the plans of the Russian army are apparently
[00:21:56] blocked. The enemy constantly tries to conduct
[00:22:00] so. The enemy constantly tries to carry out its
[00:22:03] counterattacks, but the general plan for advancing precisely in the direction of
[00:22:06] Zaporizhzhia was broken precisely by our defense
[00:22:10] forces, some additional units that
[00:22:13] successfully carried out counterattacks were included in the process
[00:22:16] of our small, so-called counteroffensive. And
[00:22:20] now I can confidently say that the enemy has been repulsed,
[00:22:23] certainly on this day he does not yet dream of
[00:22:26] approaching Zaporizhzhia. As for our brigade, another
[00:22:30] of our main tasks is the preparation of the city of Zaporizhzhia
[00:22:34] for defense. We have now included all available
[00:22:37] resources, all forces and means, plus additional units
[00:22:40] have been connected in order to make the city of Zaporizhzhia
[00:22:44] an impregnable fortress for the enemy. And they
[00:22:47] see this, they understand this, they understand that...
[00:23:21] Zaporizhzhia has sheltered 200,000 displaced persons from
[00:23:24] occupied territories, people continue to arrive here from
[00:23:28] settlements located even closer to the front line. Despite
[00:23:32] the war, people in Zaporizhzhia work, relax, rejoice, and
[00:23:35] grieve, life is bubbling here, and to preserve it,
[00:23:38] the air defense factor is one of the main ones,
[00:23:42] because it's only 10 minutes' drive south of
[00:23:45] Zaporizhzhia, and life gradually
[00:23:48] fades. I am Yaroslav Krechko, this was
[00:23:51] Donbas Realia, see you soon.
[00:24:08] the grass was all gone here, sand is covering it from
[00:24:11] above, last year there was water, not much, but
[00:24:15] there was, this year, today we see
[00:24:19] that, but besides salt, we have nothing, the earth
[00:24:22] recovers, the grass will recover, you just need
[00:24:25] to give the earth a chance to rest, to
[00:24:29] recover.
[00:24:36] political persecution in my country has long become
[00:24:40] commonplace. commonplace.
[00:24:44] In the office there were two operational officers who
[00:24:47] beat him, in fact they...
[00:25:23] And doesn't that uncle understand, the one who throws rockets here,
[00:25:27] people are dying here, I say, I don't know you, I was very
[00:25:30] scared, little one, when it flew in and into the basement.
[00:25:48] What does exiting to the border of the Donetsk
[00:25:51] region mean for us? We will present this as a victory, well, let it not
[00:25:54] be an unconditional victory, but nevertheless a victory by points. Putin
[00:25:58] demands to seize Donbas by the end of this year. Such
[00:26:02] an order. Generals, according to sources of the agency "Vedomosti" in
[00:26:05] the Kremlin, he gave it a few days ago. By the end of the year,
[00:26:09] there is a high probability
[00:26:11] of complete control of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk
[00:26:14] defensive area, well, that is, reaching the
[00:26:18] Donetsk, the Donetsk administrative
[00:26:20] border. Moscow has postponed the deadlines for seizing Donbas
[00:26:24] at least 15 times, according to the American Institute
[00:26:28] for the Study of War. No one knows the deadlines for reaching the borders.
[00:27:02] with the pace of the Russian army's offensive, it will not
[00:27:06] be possible to seize Donbas until 2032.
[00:27:08] The ideologues of this war understand what is at
[00:27:11] stake, there will be no victory, his story will be crossed out, and for now,
[00:27:15] there are no big victories in Ukraine, small and even
[00:27:19] fabricated ones are being used, Kozacha Lopan has been liberated,
[00:27:22] yesterday the city of Sviatohirsk. After such
[00:27:26] a statement by Putin, from the allegedly captured city, refutations
[00:27:29] poured in from Ukrainian military, local residents,
[00:27:32] and journalists, but the Kremlin media continues to claim that
[00:27:36] Sviatohirsk has been taken. The same thing happened with Kupiansk in the Kharkiv
[00:27:40] region. Among turbo-patriots, the concept of "flag planting"
[00:27:43] has long been common, a staged video recording of
[00:27:46] planting a flag in a city that has not yet been captured.
[00:27:50] Such victories lead only to an increase in
[00:27:53] already high losses of the Russian army. Some
[00:27:56] social media users sarcastically offer their
[00:28:00] peaceful plan for ending the war. They suggested
[00:28:03] an excellent idea for a successful end to the conflict, couldn't
[00:28:07] we, in autumn, in October, for example, announce the capture of
[00:28:10] Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and reaching the borders of the DPR.
[00:28:13] Z-patriots habitually blame the military for everything and exonerate
[00:28:16] Putin, saying that incompetent generals deceive him and make
[00:28:20] him a clown. Publicly criticizing the president,
[00:28:24] supporters of the war still do
[00:28:26] not dare.
[00:28:29] Your dog counts steps every day.
[00:29:03] You've been living in war for the fifth year, how? How will
[00:29:06] you show
[00:29:08] a destroyed city?
[00:29:12] The city is empty, everything
[00:29:15] that used to be familiar to you, noisy, also
[00:29:18] becomes
[00:29:19] empty.
[00:29:27] persons who are not directly participating in hostilities,
[00:29:30] including those persons from the armed forces who
[00:29:34] have laid down their arms, as well as those who have ceased to participate
[00:29:38] in hostilities due to illness,
[00:29:41] injury, detention or for any other reason,
[00:29:45] must under all circumstances receive humane treatment.