the risks of interference of the presidential office in the operational activities of the military have increased significantly, after all, the supreme president is the commander-in-chief, and appointing and dismissing the head of the armed forces of ukraine is his constitutional right, as well as personal responsibility. greetings, my name is vlasta lazur, this is svoboda live and we start with the situation at the front. russian troops built a 30-kilometer-long barrier in... part of donetsk region, which is called the tsar-train, and which will probably serve as a defensive line against future ukrainian attacked this is what the american institute for the study of war writes in its new report. analysts refer to satellite images dated may 10 of that year and february 6 and 10 of this year. these pictures show that russian troops have been constructing a long line of wagons from the occupied area for the past nine months. olenivky to volnovakha. according to

deep state, russian troops have collected more than 2,100 freight cars. it is reported that the russian forces began to assemble this train in july of that year and used stolen from the occupied wagons of ukrainian territories. more precisely, how effective and efficient can such an engineering structure be? we'll talk about that in just a minute. meanwhile, the well-known german newspaper bild states that ukraine is in the biggest military crisis since the russian offensive. to kyiv. bild deputy editor-in-chief paul ronsheimer visited ukraine last week and shared his observations. according to rons heimer. in ukraine , the political struggle between president volodymyr zelenskyi and the former leader continues valery zaluzhny of the armed forces of ukraine, who was replaced by oleksandr syrskyi by zelenskyi. to return the occupied territories, there are not enough weapons, soldiers, technologies, but most importantly - reliable support from the usa, the publication says. one thing is clear: the russians have an advantage

, the author notes, and although the russian troops themselves are exhausted, they are still regaining positions meter by meter, the number of victims is huge, sometimes up to a thousand per day, but vladimir putin does not care about his soldiers anyway, he wants to fight no matter what - at what price, - writes rons heimermer. according to him, much at the front depends on how well washington, berlin, and paris understand what is actually happening there. a journey from... kyiv to slavyansk in the east resembles a journey to another country. while people in kyiv can once again enjoy life in restaurants, at least until they close at midnight, no one in the dark donbass knows which city may fall next. a year ago, there were battles for bahmud, tens of thousands of people died, today there are battles during the time of yar or avdiivka. well, that's it sometimes ukraine strengthens avdiivka - writes forbes. according to the publication , ukraine probably sent one of its best teams to try. to save avdiivka,

it is about the third assault brigade. the brigade itself did not comment on this, ukrainian forces decided to stay and fight for avdiivka, taking a huge risk, according to the forbes publication. the publication reminds that volodymyr zelensky removed his popular general valery zaluzhny and replaced him with the less popular oleksandr syrskyi. zaluzhnyi - writes forbes, advocated for a mobile phone defense, but syrsky is willing to suffer heavy losses in stubborn and static battles, he writes. publication, perhaps by promoting styrskyi to the position, zelenskyi signaled his intention to fight for avdiivka, the publication says. well , serhii tsehotskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handziuk, is joining our broadcast. i am glad to welcome you. good evening. congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. you traditionally tell what the situation is in the east, in the avdiiv direction. the situation in avdiivka, near avdiivka, is rather complicated. with

what we read in publications and hear from the military, some commentators write that the city is semi-encircled, how true is this? well, i won't say that it's semi-encircled, let's not say that it's happening in reality, it's better not to say it on the air, but the situation is really difficult, the situation is difficult, the enemy has already started using armored vehicles in... last week , which, well, is mostly destroyed, despite this, he throws forces again, and in some there, in some positions, more mobile these infantry groups, there were even groups of 20 people, so i will repeat that all equipment is practically destroyed, today there are a lot of infantry groups without equipment.

since the weather does not really allow them to use it, but the tension is constantly present, and so is the enemy. uses rockets on positions and along lines against civilians and civilian infrastructure and in this way is probably trying to sow panic, to show its activity, but you correctly said that the enemy's threshold is exhausted, this should be understood and not succumb to any panic. command knows all this, observes and does everything possible so that, let's say. make it impossible to fulfill the tasks of their fuehrer on this part of the front. i also quoted the forbes publication, they report that a third assault brigade was sent to reinforce avdiivka. do you know anything about it?

i know a lot, but we will not comment on it, in the sense that i say that the enemy is very carefully watching all our news, he knows that we either tell ... the truth or we do not tell the truth, and this truth in these pieces of truth he sucks and it is used, therefore it is better to talk about such reshuffles, redeployments, replenishment there and so on, it is better not to tell anything on the air, and what do you think, are ukraine, the ukrainian troops and the ukrainian command really ready to keep the audio machine at any price, well at any cost, i think we will never be ready. before that, but when it will allow it and the tactical operational situation has allowed it so far, then we will hold it, if you see, yes with such an overwhelming enemy force, with these mountains corpses, despite all this, and the constant

artillery shelling, which today does not allow us, let's say, yes, we hear you, we hear you, you can speak, yes, so... if so or so, so eh, then constant uh , these fugitive aerial bombs, and so on, this is really, it's very, very difficult, but we're already used to it, we're used to constant, uh, those, um, let's say, from the enemy's side , all kinds of surprises, both day and night, and therefore us and secondly, it is our duty to protect the... country, the duty of all men and women, who are with us today, also, our beautiful women, who today perform certain tasks for each in their place, i still want to clarify about the third assault brigade, you refused to answer this

question, you did not deny it, but you did not confirm it either , i understand that for now it is a mystery whether the reinforcements really went to avdiivka, but nevertheless, i want to ask you, look, forbes, who reports on this reinforcement, he states that you decide, deciding to stay and fight for ukrainian forces are advancing on avdiivka quite a risk, a huge risk, writes the publication. tell me, please, what is the biggest risk of the battle for avdiivka now. well, if you understand what they say, then it is, say, the surroundings of the garrison, which is located in ardiivka itself. because, because on the flanks, well, the situation is more or less stable, it,... holds the position, directly, i will say for our brigade, all the positions are under our control, the territory as well, which, for which we are responsible, well and we also know the neighbors, but the enemy, you know, the goal is this a political step in order to say that

we have achieved such and such success, there is also our destroyed auditorium, oh, that's why you don't need to see any there, if there are 100, 200, 300 m, they are somewhere... "yes, this, it's very bad, it's inconvenient, but we must never panic, on the contrary, we must unite and everyone, absolutely everyone, i say, i 'm addressing the citizens, must also participate in helping all the defense forces, all the armed forces of ukraine , but in order to repel this rush, they suffocate, this must be understood , no matter how many of them there are, how many in they didn't have this iron, but they... " they are suffocating, and we cannot under any circumstances fall under what they are up to, we, we are stronger, we are in any case, and the truth is on our side. my last question, i quoted today, the american institute for the study of war, they analyzed a number of satellite images there and state

that the russian troops built a 30-kilometer barrier with wagons on the occupied part, they call it the tsar train, please tell me , well... how effective it is maybe this is an engineering structure, and it seems to be something so new, i don't remember such defense structures before, well, since they are building something like that, you know? so they are afraid, that's the question, yes, so they know that sooner or later we will go on the offensive and we will still be free in our territory, this is not propaganda and agitation on my part, this is what i say as it will be in fact, they are building it together, and as for what they put there, yes, it can slow down our offensive there for a while, breakthrough and so on then, let it be, they also sat near kherson, eh... there are very good fortifications along the canal, it was very difficult to knock them out there, but they left, and they will leave

the whole territory anyway, they need it for themselves, well, let's put it this way, let them understand and speak more in their own language, so that they can hear us, show these corpses of theirs, these bodies that are lying around, nobody needs them, that's how we will get there together. until the moment when we can say the word victory. i have one last very short question if i may. sergey, how did your comrades and you react to such a serious personnel rotation in the army, as in the army, as a replacement of the commander? well, as we stand, we carry out the tasks that are assigned to us in our places, that is, it is the prerogative of the supreme commander to appoint and remove from positions. therefore get into some kind of controversy, one is good, the other is not good

and so on, there is a commander, there is a commander-in-chief, there are commanders of directions and so on, we also have orders that we carry out, that’s all, thank you very much, and if we now let's argue, yes, well it will only benefit the enemy, i thank you for joining our broadcast, serhii tsehotskyi, an officer of the 59th separate motorized infantry brigade named after yakov handziuk, was on radio svoboda, thank you. scattered ukrainian grain on the polish-ukrainian border, you must have seen these photos, in ukraine they caused an extremely sharp reaction in the conditions of war, because in the conditions of war it is not only difficult to sow and harvest crops, and sometimes even deadly, because the fields are mined. this incident happened on the eve of february 11 in the polish village of doroguska, that on the border with ukraine, where polish farmers are currently protesting. according to the polish police. three trucks driven by ukrainian drivers entered poland, protesters blocked their movement, opened

the trailers, which caused part of the grain to spill onto the road, the drivers turned back towards ukraine. the protest actions of polish farmers and long-distance truckers, let me remind you, have been going on since the autumn of last year, the farmers partially stopped the action on the eve of christmas, but later resumed it, and on february 9 they even staged a general strike and shutdown roads throughout the country. the main requirements are as follows: refusal. implementation of the new environmental policy of the european union, a ban on the import of agricultural products from ukraine and support for animal husbandry. the minister of agriculture of poland, czeslaw sekerski , said that farmers' protests against the influx of goods from ukraine are justified. well, the state border service of ukraine reported that polish farmers actually blocked at least three crossing points with ukraine. well, returning to the scattered grain itself, which we have already shown, they claim center for combating disinformation at the nsdc, the organizer of this event is rafal mekler,

the leader of the lublin branch of the confederation party, which advocates poland's exit from the eu, criticizes the deployment of nato troops in the country , and campaigns for the improvement of polish-russian relations. mekler also actively covers the course of the protests on his facebook page, and, for example, he also reported on spilled ukrainian grain on his page. natalka volosatska, correspondent of radio america. radio liberty in poland joins our broadcast, i'm natalka, i slandered because the representative we also expect the voice of america on today's broadcast, you are in poland with us, please tell us what the situation is at the moment and, in principle, is there any reaction from the polish authorities and polish law enforcement officers to what we showed and saw today? greetings vlasto, the situation at the border has escalated, the protest has taken on more aggressive colors, polish farmers were smoking... car tires spilled manure so as not to get to the point, as the police became a living border between

farmers and ukrainian drivers, law enforcement officers had shields and gas in cylinders. as soon as i got on the phone, i managed to talk to one of the drivers, in which the grain was spilled the day before. this is what he tells. a group of 50 men ran in a car and started tearing those seals, er, pushing us away. in order to make it possible to close those hatches back, so that the grains fall out more often. at the moment, we are staying in poland, they say that they seem to be preparing documents for return, but it is not yet known whether everything is fine there. will be how the polish side will react to the crossings, how our side will react, because if this cargo had been loaded, cleared through customs and dumped, then i don't even know what awaits us regarding the grain dumped on the road, the police began to investigate the case, took statements from drivers and witnesses, and no one was detained in this case ,

in connection with the incident at the place of deposit . by chance, the police worked on the spot and secured evidence. in particular , an inspection was conducted, statements from drivers and trucks were taken, witnesses were also identified and heard. our task is to establish all the details of this case. the materials in this case will be handed over to the prosecutor's office for a legal and criminal assessment. the situation at the border, commented the ambassador of ukraine to poland, vasyl zvarych, he emphasized that the grain is spilled from the ukrainian threshes. which were sealed after the appropriate customs procedures and transited to lithuania. the ukrainian embassy demands that those responsible for this provocation be brought to justice. vasyl zvarych believes that the polish authorities should react more decisively in the legal field to this a shameful and offensive crime for ukrainians and not to allow similar actions in the future. it

was a quote. the day before, the polish prime minister also commented on the blockade of the border by polish farmers, donald. stressed that warsaw wants to help ukraine, but not at the cost of its farmers. also, several situations in ukraine, i will say brutally, the fact that several hundred or thousands of people in ukraine want to earn huge money is not our problem. we want to help ukraine as a state, ukrainians as a people in armed conflict with russia. undoubtedly, this is not our position does not change, but it cannot be that because of the war and because of our empathy and openness to ukraine, someone will take advantage of this for dishonesty. and unequal competition with our companies, our farmers. tusk added that if the eu acts imprudently, anti-ukrainian sentiments will appear not only in poland. poland's deputy minister of agriculture michal kolodziejczak said that he will soon show the lists of companies that imported ukrainian grain worth

6 billion zlotys. according to the official, every pole will see who made money, in... this time when farmers had huge problems. we have a detailed list that shows at what time how many trucks entered poland. this is shocking information, it is more than 6 billion zlotys that left for ukraine, but were supposed to stay in poland. this is 330,000 tons of technical grain, rapeseed, corn, which entered our market and most likely these products have already been eaten. that's how the services worked, that's why we... now it's so difficult to fix all this, because they got used to this kind of activity. the cheapest ton of wheat from ukraine, which entered poland last year, cost 51 zlotys, which is 20 times lower than the cost price. the deputy minister said that someone should look into each truck entering poland and find out what is there, in order

to protect the interests of polish farmers and minimize ukrainian visas. agricultural goods to poland, the prime minister announced that he would defend the interests of eu farmers, and invited the entire ukrainian government to warsaw for negotiations. tusk said that if ukraine wants to be capable to mobilize the entire western world for its support in the confrontation with russia, it needs to respect the interests of individual members of this community, otherwise this enthusiasm and desire to help can easily, easily be broken. it was actually a quote. thank you very much, natalka volosatska from poland, a correspondent of radio svoboda, joined our broadcast, and andriy deshchytsia, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine to the republic of poland 14-22 years, is already joining the broadcast. good evening, good evening to you. mr. ambassador, look when, when these protests only started, then a year, then many people said that they were just part of

the pre-election campaign in poland. many said that the elections would end and the protests would die down. the new government and no one will play this card again, but the protests are not abating, on the contrary, it seems to me, they are intensifying, who and how should it be managed now? you see, many people also said that this is possible and that there is a russian trace in all these protests, and it is not at all excluded that it looks like this is the tension that is being created on the ukrainian-polish border, and between ukraine and poland, profitable. moscow benefits russia, and it can be further activated from time to time, so i think that it is necessary to solve these problems as soon as possible and, well, show them. polish farmers are now given a moment that these problems can be solved by the polish government in cooperation with the ukrainian government, because there is a ukrainian

interest here, and also in cooperation with brussels, because there is a single european agricultural policy here, because first of all these protests began with the fact that having two main, two main demands: stop the european union's new rural policy. economy and stop the export of ukrainian grain, er, that is why the new government needs to act as soon as possible, some of my polish colleagues, journalists draw attention to the fact that in fact russian grain also enters europe through and through latvia and through greece, but for some reason, they don't protest against him like they do against the ukrainian? well, you see, here you are absolutely right, because actually here and well if so... subconsciously it can be considered that russia is interested, being interested in in order to quarrel ukraine, poland, to

break the unity of the european union, focuses attention through its various channels, consciously, unconsciously, conscious protesters, unconscious on ukrainian agricultural products, at the same time russian agricultural products are belarusian, they enter the polish market and.. . and at this time, when the war is going on, well, and when the european union sanctions against russia are introduced, nevertheless the polish farmers are not protesting against it, so i think that we need to submit more as well information about what is really happening on the agricultural market in poland, who is to blame for it, and that ukraine is not quite... involved in what is happening, ukraine as a state is not at all involved in what is happening with the situation with polish farming , because polish farming is

against the rural, against the policy of the european union, agricultural, new policy, green policy of the european union, polish farming does not quite understand that the prices of ee... for agricultural products in poland fall due to the fact that not only ukrainian agricultural products come there, not only ukrainian grain, and polish farmers also do not fully understand where this grain is going, because what we have seen now are these, well, i would say so, criminal actions of protesters against of ukrainian... uh , they were crushed when they dumped ukrainian grain, uh , maybe not even ukrainian, because it was already under contract, and it was going to other buyers in lithuania, and it was destroyed in

poland, so in fact it the question arises, why can't you enter poland in such a case? case, that is why i think that we need quite a few , these are quite serious signals, and it seems to me that they, under those economic ones... there are also quite serious political, political grounds or geopolitical grounds that affect the defense capability of poland and of ukraine and ukraine as well, this is what we are now, what we are seeing on the screen now, this is the grain that is being poured directly on the ground, on the asphalt, this is probably the biggest point of tension during all these protests, please tell me how much poland will be interested in this investigation now this incident, you yourself said that it looks like it is a crime, and if it is a crime, then they should be punished, do you see signs that poland is ready to punish, it turns out that its own citizens for

what they did, well, if these citizens broke the law, they made it a crime, and if it was deliberate, then... of course these citizens should be brought to justice, at least the polish government now declares that they want to find out what the problem is , and actually, the more the truth will be available both for polish farmers and for polish society, the better it will be, once again i return to the question that ukrainian grain came to poland, but it was bought by polish companies, so it is necessary to... understand who made money from it, that bought cheaper ukrainian grain and then tried it, it... then resold it on

the polish market or further. thank you very much for your comment. andriy deshchytsia, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of ukraine to the republic of poland 14-22 years we talked about protests polish farmers and this is the consequence they have led to today. former united states president donald trump, who is also running for the presidency in the future, said he would warn. of nato allies about his intentions to encourage russia to attack those countries, which, according to him, are violators and do not fulfill their financial obligations to the alliance. trump said this while speaking at a rally in the state of south carolina on february 10, nato was broken until i came - said trump, and then told a story that happened under during one meeting of nato leaders. one

of the presidents of a large country will insert. said, sir, if we don't pay and russia attacks us, will you protect us? i clarified, you haven't paid, you're in arrears, he says, yes , let's say that happened, i said, "no, i wouldn't defend you, in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever they want. you have to pay, you have to pay your bills and the money is gone. the white house has already responded to donald trump's remarks, calling them terrible and crazy. there also reminded about the efforts" of us president joe biden on strengthening nato. i will only add here that as the us president, donald trump repeatedly stated that the united states invests too much energy and money in nato and even threatened to withdraw the country from the alliance. well, how recently wrote the new york times, due to the possibility of trump's return to the post of us president, german politicians have already repeatedly informally discussed the prospects of nato without the united states in the role

of leader. in nato since the creation of the north atlantic alliance after the end of the second world war. joining our broadcast is myroslava gongadze, head of voice of america broadcasting in eastern europe. good evening. i congratulate you. look, myroslav, there is almost a year, nine months, until the presidential elections in the usa. and donald trump is already raising the level of tension not only in the usa, but also in the capitals of nato countries. so, look, he said that this is how being the president. he threatened nato allies with what would happen to encourage russia to do whatever it wants with those countries that do not pay their contributions to the alliance, and i have a very simple question for you here, tell me, he definitely meant the same thing he said, or is it his typical behavior is to say something provocative, make loud headlines for himself, cause indignation from opponents, applause from fans and that's it, how should you react to this?

you know, in different ways, i'll tell you how the republican party actually reacted, in the democratic party, i understand that you already explained this to their listeners, but it's very important to understand that within the republican party itself, even there, the votes were divided , some republicans, such as linzi graham, for example, he said, so to speak, that he may have been wrong about the wrong thing, what did he mean, for example, people like nikki haley completely criticized trump and said that you can't say such things at all, we have to be responsible, she said that really nato should pay, but that does not mean that we have to take sides on the side of the aggressors, which is supposed to mean russia, but there were voices in the republican party that actually said, and never mind, he didn't mean

to say that he... that's what he said, for example, rubio , senator rubio, so to speak, refuted these statements to some extent, that is , positions were divided in the republican party itself, but for example, a former opponent of trump during the election campaign, such as the former governor of new york, generally said that i said that he is not capable of being president, that he is not can be bogged down, that's what you have , that is, of course... that election rhetoric, it can be very aggressive and risky, but everyone must be responsible for their words, and here it is probably important to remind that the context matters, and for which on against what background did all this sound, and the context is such that, first of all, aid has not been approved for ukraine yet, this is what is happening, there has not even been a vote in the congress.