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00:00:00Poland does not allow for it to be the threat from Lyman was repelled, then here it brought to any other European
00:00:03exhibition, so there is also a certain problem with
00:00:07imports, and the fact that mock-ups are presented, a mock-up is much easier
00:00:11to export than some sample weapon, because there are also
00:00:14certain restrictions, but
00:00:17at the same time, we need to talk about the key
00:00:21request. Recently, Valeriy Zaluzhny appealed about
00:00:24the need to combine efforts to create quality
00:00:27solutions, and here I... support
00:00:31him, because again we saw at the exhibition in
00:00:34MSVO, again I saw at the exhibition
00:00:37Dalo in Denmark Dalo
00:00:40Day Industrial Day, I saw the fragmentation
00:00:44of the European agricultural market, most manufacturers seek
00:00:47to get expertise from Ukraine, to put
00:00:50a "Battleproof in Ukraine" sticker, but
00:00:53at the same time to work exclusively in the direction
00:00:56of monetizing their capabilities.
00:00:59Let's remember the experience of the Second World War, when
00:01:02the allies combined their efforts and how much
00:01:06and what kind of weapons to produce
00:01:09was decided not by separate ministries of separate states, but by a single
00:01:13body. So we have something like that,
00:01:16but at the same time, we need to talk about the fact that Ramstein is the distribution
00:01:20of available resources and their transfer to Ukraine. It is not
00:01:23the creation of a common strategy, where there are
00:01:27a number of European
00:01:34create a modern system that is capable of overcoming the ballistic threat.
00:01:38Let's solve the problem of reducing the cost of countering ballistic missiles,
00:01:42that is, further the European defense industry remains
00:01:46fragmented, ununified, and
00:01:48accordingly, most companies do not foresee
00:01:52rapid scaling in RD, they see
00:01:55the possibility of selling existing means directly to the state, which
00:01:59they... are ready to buy, so this is a global problem, perhaps, this is a request
00:02:03to Europe, this is a request to our diplomacy so that we can
00:02:07still unite our efforts. There is a promising proposal
00:02:10from the side of uniting efforts around Freya, because there
00:02:14is a proposal to unite efforts that exist in European countries, there
00:02:17are opportunities to produce solid fuel in Denmark, there are opportunities
00:02:20to produce guidance heads in Germany, radars,
00:02:24all these systems should be combined into a single complex, into
00:02:27a single network that will allow prototyping.
00:02:33By the way, here we should remember again that now the United States is considering the possibility
00:02:37of reducing the cost of Pact 3rd MSA missiles for the
00:02:40Patriot system, and missiles for the
00:02:43THAT systems (this is missile defense), accordingly, we need to say that
00:02:47most manufacturers are starting to look at
00:02:50cost reduction, but at the same time, most manufacturers say that funding
00:02:54is needed, because they are used to living in peacetime,
00:02:57where the deadline
00:03:00is set not by the battle line, but by the appropriate
00:03:03manager. Mr. Anatoliy, you literally anticipated my question
00:03:07about Freya, because just the other day President
00:03:11Zelensky mentioned her again, how seriously should we take this
00:03:14project? We just know that Europeans had more than one
00:03:17project in various
00:03:20defense sectors that they eventually didn't bring to
00:03:24fruition, precisely because there are many countries, many
00:03:27manufacturers, and a certain, excuse me... collective farm
00:03:31was formed. Will the same happen with Freya? How serious is
00:03:35the situation here?
00:03:38Let's start with the fact that Ukraine was not involved in those other
00:03:41projects. Perhaps this is Europe's main problem, that they couldn't
00:03:45unite.
00:03:48They couldn't unite, because one can recall the project
00:03:51of creating a joint aircraft, and
00:03:54let's remember even now, the beginning
00:03:57of the full-scale invasion, the creation of the "Sky Shield" of
00:04:01Europe, where the Europeans argued about what they would use as the main
00:04:04system, oh, the Patriot system or the
00:04:07SAMP/T system. Let's remember the drone wall,
00:04:10which still does not have this wall. Perhaps
00:04:14such a wall on the border with the Russian Federation. Accordingly, we need to
00:04:18say that the main task here is to overcome certain
00:04:22bureaucratic obstacles, and precisely bureaucratic obstacles
00:04:25in Europe, and at the same time bureaucratic obstacles in Ukraine, because
00:04:29again, according to the experience of the Second World War, there were no
00:04:32restrictions on technology transfer between states,
00:04:36allies, they quickly exchanged. Now,
00:04:39hypothetically, we have
00:04:42"open" arms exports, which have not yet
00:04:46started working, because there are a lot of memorandums and intentions, but there are no
00:04:49arms exports, and we have a ban on
00:04:52technology exports, and technology export is what is needed
00:04:56right now to quickly optimize in order to...
00:05:00gain experience from European countries, provide our
00:05:03capabilities and exchange this experience and create a joint
00:05:06product, and this is the main problem, because
00:05:09of course it's cool when we are given the opportunity to produce.
00:05:13But how much does this missile cost and how many can we produce and when will we start
00:05:17producing them? The same applies to missiles for Patriots.
00:05:21How long will it take for us to start producing them? Accordingly, we need to
00:05:25say that the cost and prime cost of these
00:05:28means are also much higher than what we need to counter
00:05:32the enemy threat. Because the enemy, for example, changes the tactics
00:05:35of air attack. He starts to use strategic aviation less,
00:05:39because the sortie of six strategic bombers.
00:05:43This is without the cost of missiles. Accordingly, it is
00:05:46easier to launch for this cost in addition to
00:05:50the reduced cost of missiles, reactive drones, which cost from 100 to there
00:05:53to 150,000 $. And significantly more. Although by
00:05:57profile, it is the same aerial target as a cruise missile for us. Therefore, in
00:06:01principle, here I would say that we need to look for solutions
00:06:04to reduce costs, interaction with European companies through
00:06:08the opening of technology transfer. This is a very important issue that
00:06:12is becoming the main obstacle to interaction
00:06:15between companies in the desire
00:06:18of investors to invest money in Ukraine, because let's
00:06:22compare some European companies that
00:06:25received about 600 million euros in investments last year. This
00:06:29year, Thales systems received billions of euros
00:06:32in investments because it has battle-proven solutions in Ukraine,
00:06:36while Ukrainian companies, last year, received only 125 million
00:06:40in investments. What does this tell you? It tells you that you need to
00:06:43attract investors. An investor can come in for what? When he can be guaranteed
00:06:47to receive IP of the product, if he invests, he will be able
00:06:51to produce this product in his country, or at least
00:06:54he will be protected by the state within the framework
00:06:58of the existing law of state-private partnership, but
00:07:01which does not work, his investments will be protected, that is, the state
00:07:05guarantees, because if we give an example,
00:07:08when the state guarantees, quality products appear, it is enough
00:07:11to recall. SpaceX with its
00:07:15Starlink. The state guaranteed that this product would be of high quality,
00:07:18and investors started to invest money. And when Musk's
00:07:22rockets fell, investors didn't ask, they waited for it to work.
00:07:25Well, we are so demanding. When something doesn't fly, we immediately start
00:07:29to criticize it. But at the same time, we need to say that precisely
00:07:33the quality interaction of state conditions that will allow
00:07:36Ukrainian manufacturers to attract European investors, to exchange
00:07:40technologies with Europeans. Europeans. this also
00:07:43entails certain opportunities, let's recall how Poland demanded drones from us for
00:07:47old MiG-29s, that is, when there are frameworks
00:07:50of interaction on equal terms, then it will be
00:07:53better for the Ukrainian manufacturer. It is clear that European
00:07:57manufacturers are afraid of Ukrainian manufacturers, because we offer many cheap
00:08:00solutions, let's recall Pepenger's interview, when he said
00:08:04that in order to create some element for us, we separate a separate
00:08:08enterprise, and Ukrainians take Jetson,
00:08:11NVIDIA, they take some... there Raspberry, and they make it. We need to say that
00:08:15we need to unite efforts between countries in order
00:08:18to create a unified system, where decisions
00:08:21of strategic importance will be made, because
00:08:24again, let's go back to the experience of the Second World War,
00:08:27when the decision of how much weapons were needed was made by a separate
00:08:31body, and not by some state ministry. Everything revolves around
00:08:35money, you yourselves in this conversation said several times about cheap solutions,
00:08:38that is, they must not just be some unique ones, they can be... they
00:08:42need to be scaled up for small costs, yes, with
00:08:45the Russians, this seems to be working out, we are currently shooting down
00:08:49in the conditions of this missile-drone terror, we are
00:08:53shooting it down with planes, this is an expensive solution, yes, this is
00:08:56an emergency solution, this is what we can do now,
00:09:00but in fact, this cannot be a strategic solution. Please tell
00:09:04me, what can close now this issue
00:09:08of this missile-drone terror, because Kyiv, in fact, well,
00:09:11this week. it's somehow a little calmer, probably,
00:09:14they are accumulating missile drones, but well, it feels
00:09:17like it was in 2022, when we had no Patriots and
00:09:21nothing, these must be
00:09:23reactive interceptors, these must be air defense systems, this must be
00:09:27a complex, what it must be, because there are different opinions and different
00:09:31discussions on how to build this new, actually,
00:09:33air defense.
00:09:37And let's start with the fact that there is no single solution that will save us from any
00:09:40threats, and therefore... we constantly, I constantly emphasize that
00:09:44we need to build a layered system with different
00:09:47types
00:09:50of detection, meaning we must detect in any weather conditions and
00:09:54any threats, detect an aerial
00:09:58target at different altitudes, regardless of the speed of flight,
00:10:02accordingly, already receiving information
00:10:06about the characteristics of the target, at what altitude, at what speed, then
00:10:09we can talk about the choice of weapons that we will use
00:10:13against this drone. And accordingly, this can only be said when we
00:10:17can saturate our capabilities with different
00:10:19tools. At one time, mobile fire groups
00:10:23used Brownings, then they
00:10:25got, uh, MANPADS systems, then they got
00:10:28interceptor drones, similarly, one can say that
00:10:32what could be used now,
00:10:35in fact, we are not only shooting down aircraft, and in recent
00:10:38times it should be noted that some capabilities for
00:10:42interception have improved, I won't say what
00:10:45tools, but they are very strange, but they
00:10:49help, and well, no one
00:10:53... to whom, well, we
00:10:56have been saying for a long time that it can be used, but again, this requires
00:10:59a good understanding of the aerial target, so here I would
00:11:03say that in any case we must build a system that
00:11:07will be capable of responding even to future
00:11:10challenges, because now the enemy uses reactive
00:11:14speed, then he adapts mesh communication
00:11:17more efficiently, that is, the possibility, we have already seen
00:11:21the use of mesh communication along the western border
00:11:27accordingly, it must be said that this is the next direction, where
00:11:30it is moving, the main problem, one must understand that the enemy
00:11:34has most of the air attack means that he is currently using, instead
00:11:38of cruise missiles, these are unified tools,
00:11:42because if you look at the GPS antenna,
00:11:45which discards any deviations and
00:11:49receives navigation data, a unified system that can work
00:11:52on banderole, which can work on... which works on the
00:11:56MPK cabo module, communication system,
00:12:00navigation, cameras, all this is
00:12:03cheap Chinese, which is supplied by wagons,
00:12:06in containers from China, and
00:12:09accordingly, this allowed Russia to scale up the volume of such
00:12:13production and quickly modernize, because, for example, Geranium 3
00:12:17was a regular, regular Geranium
00:12:20with a WSO, but they put a jet engine on it, so they couldn't accelerate.
00:12:25So they strengthened the body and accordingly, now the form factor
00:12:28is changing, that is, there is a carpet
00:12:31or a banderole or
00:12:34a shahed or a karar 5, a karar drone
00:12:37Serany 5, this is a drone-missile, accordingly, we need to
00:12:41say that they did what was constantly unified,
00:12:45elements that can be used to assemble various tools
00:12:48and use them at the station without raising
00:12:51expensive strategic aviation, without raising expensive.
00:12:56And I understand that forecasts are always a thankless task, but I have heard
00:13:00that Ukraine will receive full protection against missile
00:13:03drones in about two months, and against
00:13:06ballistic missiles in about six months. Do you agree with this statement, or is it
00:13:10too optimistic, or too pessimistic? How are
00:13:14things progressing here?
00:13:17To receive, this means to receive from our Western companies, when there
00:13:21is an air-to-air missile, and they are modernizing nine of them.
00:13:25Or it is modernized under a ground platform and
00:13:28certain technical capabilities are being improved in order to be
00:13:31able to intercept airborne targets. It must be
00:13:34said that I will not correct it,
00:13:37only someone mistakenly said that it can intercept ballistic missiles, it
00:13:41cannot intercept ballistic missiles, because the speed does not allow it and the guidance systems do not
00:13:45allow it. This is exclusively
00:13:47a tactical air defense system that will work against
00:13:51cruise missiles, against planes, against jet drones.
00:13:55Uh, therefore, I would say that we now need not
00:13:58to wait again for our Western partners to provide something, but to do
00:14:02our own. A good example of capability regarding strikes
00:14:05deep into the territory of the Russian Federation. When we started producing our
00:14:09own means, Russia is now striving to gain
00:14:12energy dominance. Therefore, it must be said that when we
00:14:16are able to independently create means to counter such
00:14:19a threat, this will be the best solution. Of course,
00:14:23we won't be able to do it independently, but... when we combine efforts with
00:14:27our Western partners at the level of partnership and
00:14:30technology transfer, then we will have more
00:14:34opportunities. We logically came to the conversation about deep strikes,
00:14:37you mentioned long-range strikes on
00:14:40Russia, you know, there is no longer that feeling in
00:14:44society, as it was, for example, in May, in June, after another
00:14:47arrival, there is no such euphoria, on the one hand, people
00:14:51have probably gotten used to it, on the other hand, arrivals in Kyiv. in
00:14:55Ukraine also do not add much optimism, but here
00:14:58rather it is about Eric Schmidt, yes, about the former
00:15:02head of Google, who wrote a column, you obviously
00:15:05read it, about the fact that Ukraine
00:15:08is losing its advantage in the drone war with
00:15:11Russia, how objective is such
00:15:14an assessment?
00:15:18And this, in my opinion, is an assessment that forces
00:15:22us to again address a number of questions, what are we... or me
00:15:25like that, uh, here
00:15:28there is, uh, correct, such, correct, high-quality feedback
00:15:32from a person who works with drones, and there, accordingly,
00:15:35it must be said that his advice should be listened to,
00:15:39and you are again pushing me towards the topic
00:15:42of interaction with Western partners about accelerating our
00:15:46technologies, because we are significantly dependent on Chinese
00:15:49components. In order to start producing our own components, we
00:15:52need millions of investments to create factories that will
00:15:56produce flight controllers, produce
00:15:59engines. Well, we produce engines, but we still buy magnets
00:16:03from China. Accordingly, it must be said that we need
00:16:07a unified strategy for the development of the defense industry, which will fit into the strategy
00:16:11of the European Union, at least the countries that help
00:16:14us and actively help, not express their
00:16:18concern, but actually help us with weapons, help us
00:16:21with money. Accordingly, we need to talk about uniting efforts, creating
00:16:25a single communication center that will make decisions
00:16:28about what weapons, what companies start to make,
00:16:32develop, and where we get invest...
00:16:34investments, money from frozen accounts
00:16:38of the Russian Federation. Mr. Anatoliy, I thank you for the conversation, for sharing
00:16:41your impressions from the Polish exhibition and for such
00:16:44a certain strategic vision, such a contour you have drawn, what needs
00:16:48to be done, in particular in partnership with Europeans, because if Russia has
00:16:51its rear - it's China, then we obviously have our rear - it's Europe, and
00:16:54in particular those same component factories that you
00:16:58are talking about, we probably need to place them somewhere there, in order
00:17:01to protect them from Russian attacks, which will obviously
00:17:05intensify. Thank you, all the best. The peculiarity
00:17:08of this war is that it is the first such lightning-fast technological
00:17:12race. Between the invention of the submarine and
00:17:15sonar, 140 years passed. Between the use
00:17:19of poisonous gases and gas masks - 110, and between mines and
00:17:22mine detectors - 80. In this war,
00:17:26between the invention of offensive and defensive weapons,
00:17:29only a few months can pass. That is why
00:17:32today's engineers are also a bit of strategists who must
00:17:36understand where the war will go. At one of the
00:17:39largest European defense exhibitions in Kielce,
00:17:42the stands of Ukrainian manufacturers were at the top. Now we hope
00:17:46for conveyor production, which will make it easier
00:17:50for us, more painful
00:17:51for the enemy.
00:17:56If the Coral air defense system protects our sky, then
00:17:59the Ram-2X kamikaze drone has been attacking the enemy for two
00:18:02years, on the second line of the front and in
00:18:06Crimea. But... it was also presented for the first time,
00:18:09our troops fly into the second
00:18:13echelon
00:18:16of Russian troops, and there, finding
00:18:19the target, that is, either air defense, or radar,
00:18:23or other expensive equipment, they destroy it
00:18:26thanks to the Ram-2X product. Reactive
00:18:29drones, which currently terrorize Ukraine, will soon
00:18:32fly back to Russia as boomerangs. In Kielce,
00:18:36a turbojet engine for the Bars drone
00:18:39was presented, which successfully passed the final test. The drone
00:18:43itself has existed for more than a year, but previously it was assembled with imported
00:18:46engines, which is expensive, and there will always be a shortage of them.
00:18:50But now the localization level of the Bars exceeds
00:18:5374%. And this means that its own power
00:18:57plant will allow to scale up the production
00:19:00of jet drones many times faster, without waiting for
00:19:03permits or supplies from foreign partners.
00:19:07That is, the Russians should prepare to experience the
00:19:11same thing that Kyivans are now experiencing. Just
00:19:13a little more. And this is a development that could protect the sky over
00:19:17Ukraine, the Shershen air defense system. This is an air defense system that does not depend on
00:19:21one type of missile and can launch five
00:19:24different types of them at targets. And therefore, the military will not be deterred
00:19:28by a lack of supplies. The complex can use both
00:19:31Soviet missiles like R-60, R-73
00:19:35and R-27, as well as Western
00:19:38AIM9 and Aim-132.
00:19:41According to the capabilities of the missiles, the short-range complex is analogous to
00:19:44the German IRIS-T
00:19:47SLM or the Norwegian-American
00:19:50NASAMS. It takes six months to produce one complex,
00:19:54and to launch mass production -
00:19:57money. The Russians destroyed all the manufacturer's capacities in Ukraine,
00:20:01but cooperation abroad has already begun.
00:20:04At the exhibition in Kielce, the Poles unexpectedly
00:20:07learned that the fifth president of Ukraine, whom
00:20:11they know, but primarily for his company's sweets,
00:20:15is now also an arms baron. Petro Poroshenko
00:20:18personally visited the exhibition to present the Rep
00:20:21Aetry system, in which he has long invested. This
00:20:25complex is a serious problem for Russian cabins and
00:20:28drones. It operates in a wide range
00:20:31of frequencies, from 300 to 6000 MHz.
00:20:35It scans the space at 360
00:20:38and can rotate on a rotating platform. The complex
00:20:42is mobile, it is installed on a regular pickup truck, and
00:20:45a crew of two people can deploy the system in just
00:20:4910 minutes. About 400 such
00:20:52complexes are already working on the line of contact. Polish
00:20:56generals, who closely followed Ukrainian novelties,
00:20:59understand how much priorities have changed.
00:21:02No one will fight an old
00:21:05war. There is a change in thinking in Poland, we do not want
00:21:08to continue such purchases that are difficult to accept on the battlefield. Ukraine
00:21:12shows this, if we have to wait for ammunition that will be brought in within
00:21:16a few weeks, or maybe a month, then by the time it arrives, it may...
00:21:21New developments and their scaling require
00:21:24colossal funds and a reliable European
00:21:27rear. The Poles promise not to
00:21:30abandon us. 99% of donations that
00:21:33come to Ukraine pass through Poland. A whole logistics system was created
00:21:37in our country specifically to support Ukraine. I
00:21:41am absolutely convinced that Ukraine will win this
00:21:43war. Well, we have learned
00:21:47to create our own air defense, build jet engines, and
00:21:51close the sky with electronic warfare. Ukraine will definitely
00:21:54stand firm in the air war with Russia, for which this may
00:21:57be the last chance, because the news from
00:22:00the front certainly does not please the Kremlin. What happened
00:22:04last week? More in
00:22:06the review.
00:22:11The commander of the Center Group of Forces, created to defend
00:22:14the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration of cities, as well as
00:22:18the entire territory of Donetsk region, which is under our control,
00:22:21began to partially unveil the curtain of secrecy about
00:22:25the counteroffensive campaign of the defense forces in the
00:22:28Lyman direction. The operation
00:22:31was named Vivaldi, hinting that
00:22:34it began in spring, it will not end even in autumn, and may even
00:22:38become cyclical. It is worth noting the uniqueness of
00:22:41Vivaldi, which took place in complete
00:22:44informational silence. Not only Ukrainian military
00:22:48analysts and observers kept silent about the
00:22:52course of the operation, but international OSINT analysts voluntarily
00:22:55joined and supported the secrecy regime, not
00:22:59telling the world about the successes
00:23:02of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The regime of informational silence allowed not only
00:23:05our military to operate successfully, but also provided
00:23:08cover for Russian generals, who could
00:23:11continue to lie to the top. Thus, at the time
00:23:15when Vivaldi was already hitting high notes, Putin
00:23:18was still saying that his troops were capturing
00:23:21Sviatohirsk, which even before the operation was
00:23:2413 km from the front. The first to sound the alarm were Russian
00:23:28war correspondents. They saw how much the official information from
00:23:32the General Staff differed from the realities on the ground.
00:23:35At first, these were cautious warnings, but already
00:23:39recently, even recently, even those who work very closely
00:23:42with the Russian Ministry of Defense began
00:23:45to draw maps on which a salient with an area of more than
00:23:48200 km,
00:23:50which hung over Lyman from the north, is almost
00:23:53completely cut off, and the occupying forces are trying
00:23:57to hold on to the western bank of the Zherebets River,
00:24:01and only after that did international OSINT analysts,
00:24:05such as, for example, Klement Molen, start talking about
00:24:08the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Lyman region. However,
00:24:11the Russian information space you can never believe,
00:24:15although it is a certain marker. Instead, officially,
00:24:19Andriy only informed about that section
00:24:22of the front that is no longer part of the operation zone
00:24:26and is safe for our military, and that is
00:24:2985 km on the western
00:24:33bank of the Netrius River, which the Russians tried
00:24:36to force crossing since December of last year. At the same time,
00:24:40the commander of the third corps noted that
00:24:4275 of them are clearing territories in the area
00:24:46of Oleksandrivka, Yarova and
00:24:49Korovy Yar, and thereby recognized the fact of enemy infiltration
00:24:53up to 9 km deep into our defense, which
00:24:56took place in the spring of this year. At the same time, the liberation of the villages
00:25:00Serednie and Novoselevka, as well as the advance into
00:25:02Shandrygolovovo, this is already de-occupation,
00:25:06which took place in May on both
00:25:09banks of the river. A devastating blow was dealt to
00:25:12the combat capability of the 20th and 25th armies
00:25:15of the Russian Federation, says Biletsky. Considering that as many as two...
00:25:20combined arms armies of the occupiers could not be located in several
00:25:24villages, the commander thus announces the following
00:25:27events that the Armed Forces of Ukraine implemented throughout
00:25:30the summer. In particular, they exerted active pressure on
00:25:34the Lyman salient from three sides, from the west to
00:25:37Zelena Dolyna, from the north to Katerynivka and Nove, and from
00:25:41the south in the area of the villages Kolodiazy and
00:25:43Bilohorivka. Simultaneously, our
00:25:46drones cut off logistics, hitting deep first
00:25:50by 50 km, and then further. This forced
00:25:53the occupiers to dismantle the built pipeline and move
00:25:57fuel supplies from Luhansk region outside Ukraine
00:26:00to Voronezh Oblast. Without going into details and
00:26:04specifics, one can only point to the general
00:26:07logic that the Vivaldi operation
00:26:10may have, in particular, to straighten the front along the Zherebets River. For this, the defense forces
00:26:14need not only to cut off the Lyman
00:26:18salient, but also to liberate Zarichne and advance east
00:26:21of Yampol, having previously also completely
00:26:24cleared this town, which has been under
00:26:28mutual control for six months. In open sources, there is now a lot of
00:26:31information that... The ultimate goal of the operation is to reach the bank
00:26:35of the Black Zherebets River, but our operation is called Vivaldi,
00:26:38and Vivaldi, as you know, has four seasons, and this is only
00:26:42the first of them, so follow our official announcements and
00:26:46do not rush with spoilers, good news will come. All this will allow
00:26:50not only to secure Lyman, but to completely eliminate the threat
00:26:54of Russians bypassing Sloviansk from the north. Thus, the enemy will have
00:26:58no other choice than to storm our
00:27:01most powerful fortifications in Donetsk region head-on,
00:27:04breaking through fields to the outskirts of Kramatorsk and
00:27:07Sloviansk, as well as through the urban jungle
00:27:10of Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka. And all
00:27:13the decisions of the new command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now aimed at
00:27:16strengthening the defense capabilities of these cities. After personnel
00:27:19decisions, reinforcements followed with assault regiments and
00:27:23drone systems. As a result, Kostiantynivka,
00:27:26which the occupiers, according to their official sources,
00:27:30captured back in July, firmly holds its defenses, and General
00:27:34Hrunis, who reported the capture of Kostiantynivka, was recently
00:27:37eliminated by the SBS Raroh brigade.
00:27:41In the city itself, having not had significant
00:27:44success for a month, the enemy significantly reduced its activity and again shifted it
00:27:48more to the flanks. From the right flank in September
00:27:52they expanded their control zone to the north along the city by
00:27:55more than 2.5 km, and also
00:27:58directed the vector of their attack to the west, capturing
00:28:01part of the long beam and moving in
00:28:04the direction of Mykolaypillya, to meet them
00:28:07in a parallel course is another vector of attack aimed at
00:28:11Raiyski. The goal of both is not only to encircle Kostiantynivka, but
00:28:14also to get as close as possible to Druzhkivka, so that before winter
00:28:18they can start fighting for it, because wintering in the field is a
00:28:21deadly prospect for them. Already now in Druzhkivka, the defense
00:28:25forces are neutralizing lone infiltrators. From the left
00:28:28flank, the enemy almost occupied Chasiv Yar and advanced
00:28:32to Mykolaivka and Chervone. The 24th mechanized brigade,
00:28:36which held the defense of this sector for almost 2.5 years,
00:28:39is gradually being replaced by the 46th brigade
00:28:42of airborne assault troops, which will be forced to maintain circular
00:28:46defense, as Russian assault troops here are trying to
00:28:49repeat the right-flank maneuver and advance to
00:28:52the north along the city, attacking the village of
00:28:55Novodmytrivka and Yizhivka. Meanwhile,
00:28:59on the Sloviansk and Kramatorsk fronts, the
00:29:02negative trend of gradual advance towards the cities
00:29:05from the east continues. It was here in September that the Russians captured the most
00:29:09territory. Let's consider the most critical sections of the front.
00:29:12The advance in part of the village of Markovo allowed the enemy to firmly
00:29:16entrench themselves on the right bank of the Siversky Donets-Donbas
00:29:19canal, which is laid along the highest points of the
00:29:23heights that hang over the agglomeration. Control
00:29:26of the heights will give a great advantage in the battles for the cities. Therefore,
00:29:30the occupiers will continue to move north.
00:29:33Battles are currently underway for our positions in Malynivka and
00:29:37Tykhonivka. Further north, the Russian army occupied
00:29:40Fedorivka Druha and advanced towards Rai-Oleksandrivka, whose defenders
00:29:44found themselves squeezed from both
00:29:47flanks. And east of our fortified area, the enemy is gradually
00:29:50closing the last large pocket, thereby
00:29:53straightening the front and forming new vectors
00:29:56of attack. In particular, on the villages of Orikhuvatka,
00:29:59Zapovidne and, most importantly, on the city of Mykolaivka, where the
00:30:03Sloviansk TPP is located. In Mykolaivka itself, rifle battles
00:30:07are already regular. The enemy is breaking through here again from
00:30:11both flanks, from the south and north. Individual assault troops
00:30:14have already tried to entrench themselves on the territory of the TPP,
00:30:17where they were destroyed. The trends are alarming, as
00:30:20Mykolaivka is the gateway for an offensive on Sloviansk. If
00:30:24загрозу з боку Лиману вдалося відбити, то тут вона із
00:30:28becomes more and more obvious every week. Nevertheless, in a
00:30:31public speech, the head of the defense of Sloviansk
00:30:35and Kramatorsk, Andriy Biletsky, stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are able not
00:30:39only to hold.