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[00:00:00] an attack on Zaporizhzhia, meanwhile, defense forces conducted raids on their
[00:00:04] rear areas and cleared them of infiltration mini-assault
[00:00:07] groups. The last third imaginary encirclement
[00:00:10] the Russian army drew around Dobropillia. Here they allegedly
[00:00:14] approached Bilozerske, and in Dobropillia they are conducting street
[00:00:17] battles, capturing house after house. Indeed, on
[00:00:21] the Dobropillia front, the enemy has a constant creeping advance. Over
[00:00:25] the summer, they captured the town of Rodynske, surrounded Biletske from the flanks, and entered
[00:00:29] the village of Shevchenko. The grey zone spread to the village of Matyashove,
[00:00:33] which is 3 km from Dobropillia. On average,
[00:00:36] the enemy advanced 6 km from the former front beyond
[00:00:39] Pokrovsk. This is not surprising, because the Azov Corps, which has now
[00:00:42] expanded to a group of troops, is opposed by as many as three
[00:00:46] combined arms armies of the Russian Federation, with a ratio of
[00:00:50] forces of one to six not in our favor. However, there is no talk
[00:00:54] of any encirclement. Moreover, Azov, together with
[00:00:57] assault troops, thwarted a flanking attack... bypassing
[00:01:00] Dobropillia, aimed at Druzhkivka. Our military in
[00:01:03] September cleared about 75
[00:01:07] square kilometers of infiltrators and pushed the enemy back to their initial positions in
[00:01:11] Sofiivka. All summer on the Sloviansk and Kramatorsk
[00:01:15] directions, the Russians had a gradual advance. It was here that they
[00:01:18] occupied the most territories. But in September, there was a turning point
[00:01:21] on this front and the initiative was seized by our
[00:01:25] military under the new command of Andriy Biletsky,
[00:01:28] who headed the Vis-Center group.
[00:01:30] Practices used in the counteroffensive on the Lyman front spread to
[00:01:34] the neighboring sector, and at the end of September, we learned about the clearing
[00:01:38] of villages from Russian assault troops along the entire
[00:01:41] line of engagement. In particular, in part of Rai Oleksandrivka, Yurkivtsi,
[00:01:45] Tykhonivtsi, and Malynivka. While Putin believes that his troops
[00:01:49] captured more than 1300
[00:01:52] km in September, which is even twice as much as the figures in
[00:01:55] the most consistent Z-channel war bloggers, the defense
[00:01:59] forces continue
[00:02:02] counter-offensive measures, which have already exceeded the results of
[00:02:06] the counter-offensive in 2023. In 2025,
[00:02:08] the greatest advances of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were made in five
[00:02:12] areas: Kupyansk, Lyman, Toretsk, which turned into
[00:02:16] Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, and the most dynamic
[00:02:19] South Donetsk, where the enemy advanced 80 km from Kurakhove
[00:02:22] and penetrated into Dnipropetrovsk region and
[00:02:25] captured Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia. In the same year, in three of the five
[00:02:29] areas... our military seized the initiative:
[00:02:33] we are clearing the Kupyansk direction so that the occupiers cannot
[00:02:36] enter the city again, liberated 98%
[00:02:39] of occupied Dnipropetrovsk region, and organized a Vivaldi concert on
[00:02:43] the approaches to Lyman. At the beginning of summer, a window of opportunity
[00:02:47] opened for us, and we began to use it,
[00:02:50] given the increase in our capabilities, so Vivaldi's music
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[00:08:18] Today, Europe, Poland, Ukraine found themselves at the center
[00:08:22] of geopolitical challenges. The Kremlin attacks Ukraine with drones and
[00:08:25] missiles, tanks, and in Europe - with fakes and sabotage, to sow
[00:08:29] fear and divide Europeans. This can be called a decisive moment in our
[00:08:33] common history, on how we will react to it, how we
[00:08:36] comprehend it, depends our victory, our development, our
[00:08:39] survival. And it is Ukraine, today - the Center
[00:08:43] of Europe, and together with our partners, among whom Poland occupies a key
[00:08:46] place, we will restrain the Kremlin's invasion. We must
[00:08:50] say no to dictatorship, violence, authoritarianism.
[00:08:53] Watch the Center of Europe program every Friday at 13:10 on
[00:08:57] Espreso.
[00:15:04] This is already actually the second almost week
[00:15:08] of daily and nightly terror, and it is about
[00:15:12] this terror that we will be talking about
[00:15:15] at the beginning of our broadcast. Volodymyr Bondarenko, Kyiv City Council deputy,
[00:15:19] we are waiting for his appearance
[00:15:22] on our broadcast. Let's ask him about the
[00:15:25] current situation in Kyiv right now,
[00:15:28] and about all these attacks. Good
[00:15:31] day.
[00:15:33] Good day, Mr. Roman, Ms. Lesia, esteemed viewers.
[00:15:37] Good day. The attack on Kyiv continues.
[00:15:41] I hope that all of us are safe now, as
[00:15:45] Vitali Klitschko has just announced another, unfortunately,
[00:15:49] hit on an administrative building in the Holosiivskyi
[00:15:52] district. As of now, at least before this
[00:15:56] hit, we had four
[00:15:59] injured and three of them hospitalized. As of now,
[00:16:02] all special services are moving to the site of the UAV crash in
[00:16:06] Holosiivskyi district. Therefore, unfortunately, we will be waiting
[00:16:09] for the next information. We saw over the last
[00:16:13] few days, there were strikes on schools and kindergartens,
[00:16:17] meaning that
[00:16:20] currently in Kyiv, how many such facilities
[00:16:23] have actually been put out of action?
[00:16:26] Well, Roman, if we talk about educational institutions, we can say
[00:16:30] that every third educational institution in Kyiv
[00:16:33] has suffered from Russian air attacks, starting from...
[00:16:38] from the beginning of the full-scale invasion, unfortunately,
[00:16:41] in recent days we see that this again emphasizes
[00:16:45] only attacks on civilian infrastructure, these are
[00:16:48] administrative buildings, these are business centers, these are
[00:16:51] data centers, these are shopping centers, these are educational institutions, these are
[00:16:55] residential buildings, these are transport
[00:16:58] infrastructure facilities, as today we had to
[00:17:01] change the movement of transport, including
[00:17:04] trolleybuses, due to damage to the contact
[00:17:07] network, but I emphasize again that this is exclusively
[00:17:11] civilian infrastructure, and no matter how much the Russians try to
[00:17:14] explain it, unfortunately, the facts do not change from this, this
[00:17:18] constant strike on internet providers
[00:17:21] and their data centers, where
[00:17:24] data centers, how catastrophic does this already look,
[00:17:28] that is, we remember, after the first and second
[00:17:32] strikes, a sufficiently large number of subscribers suddenly
[00:17:35] lost internet. As of now, what is
[00:17:39] the situation with the internet in Kyiv?
[00:17:43] Well, there are certain difficulties with mobile internet,
[00:17:45] first of all, today, in particular,
[00:17:48] the central Kyivstar administrative building was
[00:17:52] attacked, so there are indeed difficulties
[00:17:56] in Kyiv, this affects the quality of mobile
[00:17:58] internet, this affects probably
[00:18:01] the operation of geolocation, particularly in the city
[00:18:04] of Kyiv. At the same time, phone communication
[00:18:08] works and according to the conviction
[00:18:11] of city services responsible, in particular, for
[00:18:14] information security,
[00:18:17] information and communication, they
[00:18:19] say that phone communication will
[00:18:23] work normally, even in
[00:18:25] cases of continued attacks,
[00:18:29] as for, but we saw that some of our colleagues who work on
[00:18:33] streaming TV channels, such as
[00:18:36] YouTube channels, simply stopped broadcasting, at least
[00:18:40] yesterday, there are problems, as the Russians
[00:18:43] are disabling the largest data centers in the capital, so
[00:18:47] there are problems and mobile internet outages are expected
[00:18:50] in the near future, Mr. Volodymyr, we see the ставка ставка
[00:18:54] of the supreme, there among the issues, besides drones,
[00:18:57] interceptors were also about data centers, probably the capital's
[00:19:01] small parliament also has something to decide, specialists told
[00:19:05] us that it is necessary to disperse. each provider
[00:19:19] will solve
[00:19:20] this
[00:19:26] issue independently regarding decentralization, in fact, they are already
[00:19:30] decentralized, that is, there are large data centers, there are smaller
[00:19:33] data centers in terms of volume, at the same time, over the last...
[00:19:38] Why am I saying that this is a trend, and there will indeed be problems,
[00:19:41] because in recent days we have seen quite targeted
[00:19:45] strikes aimed specifically at objects
[00:19:48] that are data centers, and I'm
[00:19:52] not sure that it will be possible for internet providers
[00:19:55] to quickly decentralize these
[00:19:58] objects across the territory of Kyiv and the region,
[00:20:01] accordingly. Mr. Volodymyr, how does movement around Kyiv
[00:20:05] look in general now, we saw this attack in broad daylight
[00:20:09] on a parking lot, what about mobile shelters now, can they
[00:20:13] really solve the
[00:20:16] safety of people in broad daylight, because the Russians
[00:20:19] no longer terrorize the residents
[00:20:22] and guests of the capital only
[00:20:25] at night? Lesia, in any case, we are installing mobile
[00:20:29] shelters, Kyiv Pastramp is now doing this at public
[00:20:32] transport stops, where there are no stationary
[00:20:35] objects nearby. At the same time, well, categorically,
[00:20:39] let's be honest, they won't solve it categorically, a mobile
[00:20:42] shelter is probably the worst, simplest type of shelter that
[00:20:46] will protect us exclusively from fragments and...
[00:20:50] only a small number of people, but they still need
[00:20:53] to be installed, the first 50 of them will appear in the near
[00:20:57] future, then by the end of the year, how many the city manages to put up,
[00:21:00] despite the fact that, unfortunately, the
[00:21:03] district administrations, the districts failed this task
[00:21:07] throughout the year, now the city is taking it over and the city
[00:21:10] will do it on its own, we also do not see any other choice, and
[00:21:14] they still have to appear, despite the fact that, I emphasize again,
[00:21:17] they are such - the worst, perhaps,
[00:21:21] from the points of view, but the pace,
[00:21:24] the increase in the number of people who in one second
[00:21:28] lose their house, apartment, we see,
[00:21:31] there are private buildings, and apartment buildings, it has grown
[00:21:35] geometrically,
[00:21:38] in addition to local authorities and volunteers helping people
[00:21:41] there, well, to cover, let's say, broken
[00:21:44] windows, or something else, here we are talking
[00:21:47] about a more serious thing ahead... winter, you lose your
[00:21:51] house, I don't know how fast it works, there is
[00:21:54] compensation, and the number of people is growing, this
[00:21:58] means a geometric increase in money,
[00:22:01] which would have to be issued simultaneously every day
[00:22:05] to new portions of Kyiv residents, how
[00:22:07] is this, well, at least for this
[00:22:11] week, there were no interruptions in funding for its
[00:22:14] recovery program in Kyiv, of course, the number is growing,
[00:22:17] the only thing we can say for now is that
[00:22:20] mostly it is still damaged, not destroyed
[00:22:24] housing, that is, people will receive compensation much
[00:22:28] faster than if it is complete destruction. At the same time, there are indeed
[00:22:31] private houses that were completely destroyed, and a number
[00:22:35] of apartments, which today, this issue is being resolved a little differently,
[00:22:38] because the local authorities are indeed involved and even
[00:22:42] offer an alternative for temporary residence while these houses or
[00:22:46] apartments are being rebuilt, simultaneously, corresponding compensation
[00:22:50] from the state and compensation payments
[00:22:53] from the city are processed. I repeat, for this week,
[00:22:57] at least, there were no interruptions, we are also concerned and also
[00:23:00] follow the statements, in particular, of the government and the Prime Minister
[00:23:04] regarding the large hole in the state budget,
[00:23:08] but in case of anything, the city will in any case perform
[00:23:11] its functions to the maximum, as there are funds in the city
[00:23:14] budget as of now, they are
[00:23:17] directed to liquidation... to those
[00:23:20] priority works that you, Roman, just spoke about, these are
[00:23:24] windows, and doors, and some quick temporary
[00:23:27] preservation of these objects, unfortunately, there is still no, now we
[00:23:31] literally see these shots, there is no compensation for
[00:23:35] movable vehicles, so we
[00:23:38] must remember that if there is no insurance, then
[00:23:41] damaged or destroyed vehicles are not
[00:23:44] compensated, for residential objects directly,
[00:23:48] compensation will continue, uh-huh. And one more small
[00:23:51] detail to conclude this topic. We
[00:23:55] saw the drone strikes,
[00:23:59] for example, on an apartment high-rise building, and
[00:24:02] we are told that the strike was at the level of the fourth floor,
[00:24:06] and the building is 25 stories high. In
[00:24:10] this case, well, of course, besides the residents of the apartments that
[00:24:13] were hit, usually the entire entrance is
[00:24:17] evacuated. What happens, for example, to those residents
[00:24:20] above the affected zone, and those below?
[00:24:23] What is the algorithm? In fact, depending on the building and
[00:24:27] depending on the engineering communications that
[00:24:31] pass through it, if the relevant specialists, and they arrive as
[00:24:35] soon as the rescuers and investigators finish their work,
[00:24:38] if the relevant specialists give permission for,
[00:24:42] well, let's say, it's gas and the gas
[00:24:44] can be supplied to the upper
[00:24:48] floors without...
[00:24:51] without the threat of leakage, if engineering networks can be quickly
[00:24:54] changed, or there, roughly speaking, the
[00:24:58] valve on the fourth floor can be shut off and launched in some
[00:25:02] alternative way, then accordingly
[00:25:05] all utility services will be available to residents
[00:25:08] of the upper floors as well. There are very rare situations,
[00:25:12] unfortunately, but they exist, when it is necessary to do this
[00:25:15] for the entire entrance, that is, the entire entrance will
[00:25:19] be put into temporary preservation until this
[00:25:22] apartment is restored, but most new residential buildings that were built
[00:25:26] after, roughly speaking, 1992, they
[00:25:29] allow, engineering networks allow
[00:25:32] utility services to be launched, with the exception of separate
[00:25:36] parts. Mr. Volodymyr, I already started
[00:25:40] our conversation with the fact that when you open the news feed,
[00:25:43] Kyiv is every other news item,
[00:25:47] and Kyiv was shelled. There was a hit in
[00:25:51] Kyiv, a warehouse was hit, in Kyiv the Kyivstar office was hit,
[00:25:53] I also spoke with an acquaintance who
[00:25:57] travels around Ukraine, who says that comparing Kyiv, for example,
[00:26:01] with Sumy or Kharkiv or Dnipropetrovsk region, that
[00:26:05] Kyiv, it seems, is now being shelled,
[00:26:09] or even more so, in connection with
[00:26:11] this, I also read that people on social media
[00:26:15] write, they held out for a long time, but decided to move anyway, because
[00:26:18] the child's safety is paramount, and we simply cannot
[00:26:22] endure such a rhythm, and shelling at night and during the day
[00:26:26] worrying about what to do, so they moved somewhere
[00:26:28] to the west of the country, someone says, perhaps, considering
[00:26:32] such an option, that maybe for the winter they will move somewhere to Lviv, or to
[00:26:35] Ivano-Frankivsk region, or to Ternopil region.
[00:26:39] If now, is there any statistics on how many
[00:26:42] people have recently decided to leave
[00:26:45] the capital due to these attacks, how many more can leave, or
[00:26:49] is it difficult to track, because again people are arriving who are leaving
[00:26:53] from frontline territories?
[00:26:55] In fact, there is no such statistics,
[00:26:59] we continue to track mobile
[00:27:02] traffic data, at least as of this week, there has been no critical
[00:27:06] decrease in the population of the capital.
[00:27:09] At the same time, I remind you that proposals
[00:27:13] for those who can leave
[00:27:16] Kyiv for some winter period, possibly
[00:27:20] leave, possibly in connection with the security situation,
[00:27:24] remained and remain relevant, this does not mean
[00:27:27] that we are, I don't know,
[00:27:31] abandoning the city or anything else, this means that, first
[00:27:34] of all, indeed, the life and health of people, and especially
[00:27:38] on the eve of the autumn-winter period, which we understood
[00:27:41] a long time ago, and now it is confirmed that it will be
[00:27:44] difficult, in fact, they still remain
[00:27:47] relevant. Uh, actually, all
[00:27:51] those warehouses, Az, and so on, where the Russians are targeting in
[00:27:55] Kyiv, is there again statistics on how
[00:27:58] people who worked in one or another facility, what they
[00:28:02] now... lost their jobs, for example, Fozi Group
[00:28:05] announced that they will have a large-scale
[00:28:09] reduction due to the fact that, again, they hit
[00:28:12] warehouses and there is no point in
[00:28:16] holding on, for example, besides Silpo, Auchan
[00:28:19] Tavria, accordingly, there may be the
[00:28:22] same algorithm, there is no, how is it now with unemployment of people because of these
[00:28:26] strikes? Unfortunately, it really
[00:28:29] begins, this week statements began. I think
[00:28:33] that from next week certain private networks, they will start
[00:28:36] reductions, layoffs of employees.
[00:28:39] This, of course, will affect
[00:28:42] people going, roughly speaking, to the labor exchange.
[00:28:46] Now, first of all, they will register,
[00:28:48] but, if we speak in terms of statistics,
[00:28:52] then, of course, it will not be critical, it will not be an increase of
[00:28:56] 10-20 percentage points, it will be around
[00:28:59] 1.5%, as far as cities are concerned here. The city
[00:29:03] is ready, first of all, to ensure where it
[00:29:06] directly ensures social payments by law, and funds for
[00:29:10] this are available in the local budget. As for some
[00:29:13] alternative places of employment,
[00:29:16] at least as of today, I want to
[00:29:19] emphasize again that there are quite a lot of vacancies in the communal
[00:29:22] economy, including in housing and communal services, in
[00:29:26] transport, meaning people who want to get a job
[00:29:30] in the communal sector or want... training in order to
[00:29:34] get a job in the communal sector, they will definitely find a job in the city.
[00:29:37] Of course, unfortunately, we will not be able
[00:29:40] to employ individual professional specialists, well,
[00:29:44] those who, in particular, worked in IT sectors of relevant
[00:29:46] companies. If such a reduction affects them,
[00:29:50] but I repeat, at least at the level of
[00:29:54] unemployment in the capital, such layoffs as of now, well,
[00:29:57] at least it is not predicted that this will critically affect it. And these
[00:30:01] salaries in the communal sector are they
[00:30:03] what? Well, Ms. Olesya, unfortunately, in the
[00:30:07] communal sector, as in the state sector, for the most part, they are not
[00:30:10] competitive with private business. At the same time, this is definitely
[00:30:14] stable employment with appropriate state and social
[00:30:18] guarantees.
[00:30:20] Well, maybe when there is nothing left, then this is also a way out. Thank you, Mr.
[00:30:24] Volodymyr, for the conversation. Volodymyr Bondarenko, Deputy of the Kyiv City Council, was with us on the line. We talked a little
[00:30:28] about the problems faced by Kyiv,
[00:30:31] residents of the capital, in connection with constant such targeted
[00:30:34] strikes by Russia. We have a lot
[00:30:38] of real cases that are present on all
[00:30:41] media platforms that world politicians read, and they came with
[00:30:45] all this and saw and heard
[00:30:48] Ukraine. How did all our
[00:30:52] position in support of
[00:30:55] the USA, how did it affect the advocacy of
[00:30:58] Macron and France?