Situation at front as of 24.10.2024
The stream of October 24 is dedicated to the situation at the front. In particular, Censor.NET Editor-in-Chief Yurii Butusov comments on the situation in 11 frontline areas where the enemy has intensified its actions and is advancing.
The situation in the Kursk region
The sanitary zone in the Kursk region was created by Ukrainian troops. The main operational reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated here. According to Ukrainian news, there are several airborne brigades here: 80th, 95th, 82nd. The units of the 36th Marine Brigade are here. The 47th Mechanized Brigade with Bradley IFVs and American Abrams tanks is here. That is, there are large forces here. And there are many other units - more than 10 brigades. This is only from official reports. Let's look at the map to see what is happening there.
The enemy is advancing. And the foothold that was one strike away in August is now occupied. And the enemy is beginning to reduce it. We can see that the Russians are trying to cut off the entire sanitary zone that the Ukrainian soldiers managed to establish with strikes from the flanks. And the yellow area is what our troops took control of in August this year. Literally in a week. And this yellow area is what the enemy has already managed to recapture, where the fighting is ongoing. The enemy is advancing and trying to completely cut off this entire bridgehead. It has already been significantly reduced in size. The Russian command has concentrated significant forces here. Here are their operational reserves, Russian elite units, Marine Brigades 810-155, the 11th Air Assault Brigade, units of the 76th Airborne Division and the 7th Mountain Air Assault Division, as well as a large number of individual motorized rifle regiments, formations, that is, the enemy has also created a superiority in forces here and is making every effort to completely destroy and capture this bridgehead.
There are heavy battles going on, and of course, all our soldiers have a big question whether this land is worth it - apart from Sudzha and a few villages, it's just forests and fields - whether this area is worth using our operational reserves there, whether there is any point in these maneuver battles, because, as we understand it, the defense lines there have not been prepared and organized in any way. And the question arises as to whether it is advisable to concentrate reserves there, which are acutely lacking on the main front, which is of strategic importance in the Ukrainian Donbas, in the Kharkiv region, in that small part of Luhansk region that remains under our control and which we are defending. So this is a big question, and I want to say that I have not yet heard a single military officer who would say that this has any justifiable logic from a strategic and tactical point of view.
I believe that the operation in the Kursk region was successful during the entrance, when we inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, took prisoners, captured equipment, and captured 1200 square kilometers of territory there. We took it with a fight and created a sanitary zone. But a sanitary zone is not a zone where you have to stand to the death. This is a zone that should be used for maneuvering battles with the Russians, to use the time and set up minefields and barriers along the border to prevent the enemy from quickly being driven back. And this zone is used for maneuver battles. For us, this zone should be a shooting range, a kill zone, in order to inflict maximum losses on the enemy. It is not for every single birch forest and birch grove there until the end. It makes no sense. And if we waste our forces in a battle for a territory that has no strategic or tactical significance for us from a military point of view, it will be a mistake for us. I hope that what the enemy is managing to achieve, that we will not have continuous fighting there while the enemy is storming and advancing in the Donbas, so that we continue to spend our forces there and do not strengthen Donbas.
Let's see the situation in other parts of the front.
Kruhliakivka-Pishchane district
In fact, in this area, the enemy reached the Oskil River, which means that in this place they achieved their operational goal in this direction. And this yellow territory is what they captured starting from August 1 of this year, taking advantage of the diversion of our forces to the Kursk region. The yellow is what is definitely under the control of the enemy, the shaded area is the area where the fighting is going on, but in fact, the enemy is there, almost the entire area is already under Russian control. The situation is very difficult, and as soon as the enemy gains a foothold in this area, they will start to disassemble our front, to turn it both down to the south and up to the north in order to reach Kupiansk, and in fact Kupiansk is very close by. The enemy will try to reach the entire frontier. There are heavy battles here, but of course, the main problem that we had on this front was the problem of organization management, not the number of people, but the organization of the procedure. Unfortunately, so far our command is not able to cope with this task, and there are still quite disorganized actions taking place here, which lead to the enemy's advance.
The big problem, I don't know when it will be finally resolved, is that we have to talk about it to explain that not everything in war is decided solely by numbers, not everything in war is decided by the amount of ammunition and equipment. Everything, first of all, depends on the management of the organisation.
Siversk
Although the map shows a small advance, there are still daily attacks here, and the enemy cannot advance for one reason only: there are our units here that simply up there with, that are effectively fighting. Here, in the area of Bilohorivka and Verkhnokamianske, the K-2 battalion is fighting very effectively, in the area of Spirne village, the Freedom (Svoboda) battalion of the 4th National Guard Brigade, the 54th Mechanized Brigade. Siversk, in the area of Bilohorivka - the 81st Air Assault Brigade. And only because there is competent management and organization at the tactical level, which is critically lacking in other areas. If the experience of K-2 and the Freedom (Svoboda) battalion were scaled up, the enemy would not be able to advance anywhere, not just in this area. Well, there are really heroic battles going on there with full intensity, Siversk is holding on, the key height for controlling Siversk, which is defended by our soldiers, Hill 194, is in our hands, our soldiers are fighting on the outskirts of this hill. And as long as this hill is in our hands, and we have the radio range for our drones to operate, we can continue to defend Siversk. So we are grateful to the soldiers of the 54th Mechanized Brigade, their neighbors, and all the attached units. There are no breakthroughs or huge crises here, only because people are doing their job. First of all, I thank the best commanders who are turning the tide in our favor.
Chasiv Yar
The situation in Chasiv Yar is getting very serious. The map shows shaded areas that have been captured by the Russians. The enemy has already penetrated deep into the town of Chasiv Yar. The enemy crossed the canal, which was a very favorable defense line, and the Russians have crossed the canal both north and south of Chasiv Yar, in Chasiv Yar itself. So the situation here is extremely difficult. The enemy is advancing, and so far we have not been able to stop it. We see a threat to Kostiantynivka. And Chasiv Yar is under a real threat that we will have to lose it.
Situation in Toretsk
The enemy is advancing to Toretsk, and more than half of the city is under the control of the occupiers. The Russians are also suffering huge losses in this place, and they are also being beaten. However, the enemy manages to advance, albeit gradually. What is marked in yellow is what has changed since August 1 this year. The situation here is also very critical, and the enemy is advancing to hold the city.
Situation in the Myrnohrad-Pokrovsk area
The situation here is deteriorating very slowly, but it is getting worse. And now there are big battles in the area of Novohrodivka, at the entrance to Novohrodivka, in the area of Krutyi Yar. Our soldiers are holding back the Russian offensive there, unfortunately, in maneuver battles, there is no defense line there, as usual, just empty plantations under fire, someone has to dig in somehow. It's the usual situation on the frontline, all the talk that our government tells us that someone is building something, some defense lines, is a lie. They are digging something, but since they are also digging illiterately, most of these structures are simply not even used by the troops. And there is a complete lack of coordination between the civil-military administrations that are given money. For some reason, the government gives money not to the army, not to the engineer troops, but to civil-military administrations. Because it is more convenient to register companies that the authorities like through their own people. There is support from the President's Office, there is supervision. If there is no support, it doesn't matter what is happening at the front. So the situation in this regard is very difficult. In fact, we are fighting encounter battles in these plantations, and the enemy continues to advance.
The enemy has actually already approached one and a half kilometers to Myrnohrad, they are actually on the outskirts of the city. I want to tell you that as soon as they enter Myrnohrad itself, it will be as usual. The enemy will get accumulation points, basements. It will be better for them to maneuver, and they will advance. Of course, they will move from Myrnohrad to Pokrovsk.
The situation here is also critical. Even the entire area they seized on August 1 is invisible here. But look how much progress has been made. Previously, there were battles for each village for months. Now the enemy is just passing through one village after another. They have passed several villages in the Pokrovsk direction. The time was not used by the military command, civil-military administrations to prepare the defense, to deploy the military lines. Nothing was planned properly. And now the enemy is approaching these important cities. Myrnohrad and Pokrovsk were important mining towns for Ukraine, producing large amounts of coal. And the situation absolutely shows the irresponsibility of the authorities. It's an indifferent attitude to what is happening to Donbas.
How can you play with such things? If there are any successful offensive actions, you have to start with the defense. Why hasn't anyone here been engaged in defense? And when will this end, when will they start doing something other than just talking in the president's evening video addresses? The task of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is to control and be responsible for the defense of Ukraine, not to prepare texts for the president's evening speech, which is full of lies and misunderstandings of the situation. Why is this so? The enemy is already approaching Myrnohrad-Pokrovsk, there are no borders, no reserves are being concentrated, who is responsible for this? And they report that mobilization is underway, and there are successes, well, a complete breakdown of consciousness. We have a sufficient number of people, but we do not have a normal, adequate system of using these people to stop the enemy at the borders, to kill them methodically, and to stop them, well, the way K-2 does, Freedom (Svoboda) in Siversk: with small forces in general, not like here. There were a few reserve brigades concentrated here, but the way they are organized, the way they are trained by the Army Command, these 150th Brigades and 140th Brigades, they cannot, of course, become combat-ready. Instead of replenishing the experienced parts of the team in time, they create established structures that simply do not have time to learn. Why is this being done? And the reason for the failure is not the number of people, not the number of shells in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad directions, but irresponsible, erroneous actions on the part of the military leadership. Well, there is a complete lack of control by the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. They do not look at the situation at all. The President, by the way, has even stopped going to the front. Previously, he used to visit some battalions, where he could visit a command and observation post usually a brigade one. He would stop at the brigade headquarters, take photos of him presenting an order to someone there once a month and then drive back. He doesn't even do that here anymore. He doesn't even go to the front anymore. He no longer wants to, he is not interested. During the war, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief is drawing up some kind of victory plan, just a fantasy project that is not tied to life at all.
In general, the main catastrophe at the front is not a catastrophe on the battlefield, it is a catastrophe in Kyiv, in the top leadership, which does not really know what it is doing. This is, frankly, shocking. And then the consequence of this is the advance of the enemy in every direction, these yellow large pieces of Ukrainian land that the enemy is seizing, has seized literally over the last two months.
Selydove
The enemy managed to break into Selydove three days ago. Already, the enemy has advanced much further than even on this map. Selydove is deeply besieged from both the south and the north. Now the enemy is gobbling up the city's buildings and its advance is unstoppable. Unfortunately, we can say that Selydove is under a great threat of being captured soon...
Hirnyk
So much yellow. It was all lost in two months. About 70 percent of it is shaded. We should especially note what is not on the map here - the enemy has entered the town of Hirnyk. The fighting is going on in Hirnyk itself. For us, this is such a dramatic story. In fact, Hirnyk is the only town where we could organize a defense. The Ukrainske-Hirnyk-Kurakhove border is where we could build a defense. Hirnyk is the highest elevated plain in Donbas. It is the highest. What does it offer in modern warfare? It provides radio horizons. It makes it possible to organize the work of drones, the interaction of different types of forces and means. And after Hirnyk, it's decline, decline, and decline. Whoever controls Hirnyk controls the surrounding area. This town was like Vuhledar. It had an exceptionally favorable tactical operational position. Now the enemy is under it, there is no power to drive him out, and the enemy has already entered the residential area, unfortunately. It is not clear who will drive them out. The situation is critical, because the loss of Hirnyk will unfortunately allow the enemy to strike at our railroad lines near Kurakhove. And in fact, after Kurakhove, the enemy will attack from both the south and the north. Unfortunately, the defense of Kurakhove, which is being heroically held by a group led by the military command of the 79th Air Assault Brigade, will be extremely difficult. And it will be extremely difficult, unprofitable and inconvenient to hold the city in such conditions. We understand what this means.
The enemy's entry into Hirnyk is simply a failure. This is not a soldier's failure. Because, of course, they will now say that some TDF battalion did not enter or leave. This is a typical general's lie. The TDF battalion is not clear what kind of equipment, it is not clear how it was used anywhere. But, of course, a TDF battalion is not enough to defend a town like Hirnyk, to put it mildly. And that's why we need a command to create troop groups in such areas in time to fulfill the task. And not just for show. It's not like there is some battalion of unknown size. What kind of battalion is it? Is it a complete battalion? Is it 700 soldiers, or maybe it's 100? Unfortunately, there is also a lot of irresponsibility here. And the enemy's entry into Hirnyk is such irresponsibility and indifference to what is happening in Donbas. This is an inability to respond to changes in the situation. It's just saddening.
Kurakhove district
Our soldiers are holding back the enemy. The enemy is trying to enter Kurakhove. The fighting here is very heavy. However, in the direction of Kurakhove, despite the enemy's enormous forces, they are sending a very large group here, which is not inferior in terms of the number of vehicles to the group that breached the front to Pokrovsk and went down to Hirnyk. But nevertheless, our soldiers, the 79th Brigade and a significant number of attached units, are here, doing everything possible and even impossible to defeat the enemy, to use their favorable position. Kurakhove is also located at an altitude and allows us to control the approaches with favorable radio horizons with our drones. And our soldiers are using these opportunities to the maximum. The losses of Russian troops are very high in this area, and the fact that they are advancing at such a slow pace and at such a cost is actually beneficial for us. We cannot concentrate so many forces here because our flanks are collapsing, but what our soldiers are doing in the Kurakhove region and the meat grinder they have made for the Russian strike groups deserves great respect and recognition.
Makiivka district
Some things on the map do not correspond to reality. The enemy's advance in the Terny-Nevske area is very dangerous. This is true, Novoliubivka. Unfortunately, the enemy has used this time, the last two and a half months, to make a big advance. But in Makiivka, the enemy's advance has been stopped. The Russians have been cut off and repelled there. The gray zone near Makiivka is under our control. And the heights above Makiivka are reliably controlled by our side, defended by Ukrainian soldiers. Why is that? The Third Separate Assault Brigade is operating here. That is a unit that has combat capability, organization and command. There is not a single career officer there, but there is just a team. People there think about leadership, combat capability, and it gives results. People maintain their combat capability and can respond to the situation even in other parts of the frontline. That's why Makiivka is now under the fire control of Ukrainian soldiers. The enemy cannot advance there anymore. The situation there is currently stable and under our control.
Vuhledar district
After capturing the city, the enemy pulls its units there, deploys and continues to advance, because the Russians need to use the capture of Vuhledar to capture Kurakhove. Kurakhove, for which there is such a heavy and long battle. The enemy has already approached the village of Bohoiavlenka near Vuhledar. The enemy is advancing further. Of course, it will be physically impossible to hold the Russians at these lines for a long time. The enemy controls Vuhledar. This is a very favorable height that dominates the entire area. It is a very favorable military line for the use of drones. Therefore, it is unprofitable for us to fight in this area. Our troops are withdrawing, and this is justified. Unfortunately, the occupiers have a tactical advantage in this area. Of course, our soldiers are doing everything possible to hold them back, and they are also inflicting strikes, and destructions here.
QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE
Do you think the president receives objective information about the front? Is it possible that the real state of affairs could come as a surprise to him, like the situation with the MSEC, prosecutors, and fugitive deputies?
The situation with the MSEC and the prosecutors could not be a surprise to the president. Everyone knows this because it's absolutely obvious things that the whole country is talking about, and it couldn't really be a surprise. This is official information that is easy to verify, and it was much easier for the president to find it than for me, a journalist. I think that Volodymyr Zelenskyy only reacts to things that are socially popular. He reacted to the situation with the MSEC and prosecutors not because he wanted to fight corruption or injustice. He can do that. He is not doing it. But there was a big media outcry, all Ukrainian media picked up this information. It caused a huge response on social media. And this is a very sensitive topic for Ukrainian society because now we have disabled soldiers standing in lines, receiving miserable pensions or having to beg the MSEC for a long time to get the disability group they need, a certificate. And they are assigned the third group, for example, most of them. And here, prosecutors, healthy, absolutely athletic people, with absolutely no injuries and no history of war, quietly draw a second group for themselves, so that they can draw a fake pension. Of course, this caused great indignation in society. And the president reacted only because of this.
We have a large number of hospitals, surgical and psychiatric, which also sell fake certificates that allow people to check out, avoid mobilization or go abroad. This is quietly allowed, all of this is happening, but there is no resonance and the president does not react. I do not yet have such an obvious evidence base to demonstrate this. Same here. The main issue is not that Zelenskyy does not want to ask the question. He can watch the stream, for example, which I am telling you now, and ask why we are losing so much territory and people and cannot stop the enemy. He can ask not only me, but also the best commanders of our best units. Why K-2s? Why do they have manageability, combat capability, control? He can ask the brigade commanders himself. Why does he even need to watch something? Do you have any questions? He asked. But he doesn't do it. Why doesn't he do it? Zelenskyy deals only with populism, only with popular socially resonant topics. I can't write about the problems of organizing the military so that the whole country would only talk about it. These are specific topics, people don't see them.
Zelenskyy has his own vision of the situation. He thinks that, for example, the fighting in Kursk is cool because you can say that, you know, we have the strength to fight in Russia itself. He is told that we don't have the strength for other directions. He says it doesn't matter. And don't tell me about the bad news. Because if there is bad news, he starts asking questions and making complaints to the generals who bring it, to the same Syrskyi. That's why Syrskyi has long since forgotten how to tell the president unpleasant information that is not in line with his vision of events and his worldview. Therefore, if the president likes the news that we are at war in Kursk, Syrskyi gives him the news he wants to hear. How much time do you think the Headquarters of the Supreme Command devote to the situation in the Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad directions? I can tell you for sure from my sources that reports on these issues never take more than five minutes. The president is not interested in this. There is no news about Kursk, he is asked questions by Western journalists, he is not interested in Ukrainian journalists, he has cut them off, and he is trying to discredit Ukrainian journalists by all means. He wants to discredit freedom of speech in this way in Ukraine. This is a Putin-like pattern of Zelenskyy's actions. His entire media team is from the Party of Regions. All of his Lytvyns and Podoliak are from the Party of Regions. Yermak, Tatarov - all of them are from the Party of Regions. So, of course, they are trying to discredit those who present an alternative point of view. And they want only the things that Zelenskyy himself likes to be popular. The fact that this is absurd, false-all of this is rejected. Only his enemies can criticize Zelenskyy. That's it.
In fact, the fact that there is no discussion at the level of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief about the feasibility of certain strategic decisions, the fact that the price of these strategic decisions is thousands of lives, the best patriots of Ukraine. And the fact that the 95th Quarter does not go to the front. Even Zelenskyy does not go there to take photos. That's what doesn't bother them. This is the problem. It's a lie. They want to consume lies at the Headquarters, and they do. This is the main problem in our war.
Is Ruslan Kravchenko really a possible next Prosecutor General?
I don't know, I have no clue.
What should we do with the AWOL? I understand that there is almost no replenishment for the army, people are going to the AWOL from the training grounds.
Deputies and President Zelenskyy decriminalized the responsibility for leaving the army? Isn't AWOL a crime anymore? Don't you like something? Go home or to the reserve battalion and stay there. In the reserve battalion, you can even receive a salary and sit there at the training ground. Why not? There is a problem with AWOL because there is no responsibility for breaking the law. There is another problem with AWOL because there is a big mess in the army, and commanders are not responsible for training people. It is very often of poor quality: management, use, provision. There is no leadership, no trust in commanders. There is a personnel charade. We have a brigade where Mr. Syrskyi replaced seven brigade commanders during the war. So just imagine, the brigade commander is constantly changing, followed by the entire staff leadership and constantly some new people. In battalions, it can change even more often. A constant charade, irresponsibility in general, which worsens the management of the troops. It worsens the organization. And people react to this with their feet.
Because a large number of people in the army are unmotivated. Or this motivation needs to be created. Not all people are really psychologically warriors who know what to do, who can teach and find their place in the army. All of this is mobilization. Mobilization in all countries of the world. There was the Second World War, the First World War. Mobilization was mandatory everywhere. It was not voluntary. First, there was a voluntary stage, and then there was compulsory mobilization. This is the case in the United States and Great Britain. In all European, democratic countries. Because when you need to defend the state and the nation, mass mobilization is carried out. But not in Ukraine. Everything is chaotic here. Zelenskyy is a populist. He does not want to take responsibility for anything bad. He only clings to his rating and his seat. And he does not want to organize defense. Why do we need coercion? He doesn't need coercion, he doesn't need military police, he doesn't need military courts, he doesn't need military investigation. AWOL can be decriminalized, and corruption has been decriminalized. What kind of corruption do we have? Do we have anyone imprisoned for corruption, at least one leader? No. How was Prosecutor General Kostin punished for this scandal with disabled prosecutors? Kostin was fired and sent as an ambassador to the Netherlands. A terrible punishment during the war. The former Minister of Defense Taran, a traitor who simply failed the entire organization to prepare for the war, is now an ambassador to Slovenia. Everything is fine with this caste of celestials. Everything is fine with them. And they are not responsible for anything. It is difficult to organize people. Let's let everyone go AWOL. Only volunteer fighters will fight. That is, we are talking about only those who are conscious and do it without the authorities and even despite the actions of the authorities. But they have to follow the orders of the authorities.
In your opinion, how should positions be prepared in today's realities? Choice of locations, landscape changes, length of communication routes, cover, tunnels, camouflage?
In fact, all this has already been invented. It is working. All you need to do is visit our best brigades and battalions that are holding the front, despite everything, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Everything is already working there. We need to scale up the successful experience. The fact that I am telling you that we need kill zones, that we must have an advantage in radio horizons, that is, an advantage in the heights from which you operate drones, are such obvious things for commanders who effectively conduct combat operations that there is no point in discussing them. Clearing plantings, arranging positions, manoeuvring in defence, digging a large number of shelters, manoeuvring between these shelters, massive use of different types of drones, and use of ground robots. All this is already working at the front. That's why this frontline is not crumbling in many places, but only in the areas I have told you about.
We are not scaling this up solely due to irresponsibility and indifference. First of all, Mr. Zelenskyy, a great PR man who is absolutely irresponsible for people's lives, and Mr. Syrskyi, who simply chose a convenient position: I do everything the president orders. And the fact that this president does not understand what is happening at the front, and Syrskyi pretends that he is not responsible for it. This is a convenient position. It is also really irresponsible and shameful for an officer and a general.
Can Russia sustain this level of losses for a long time?
Russia can sustain the level of losses that it is now. Russia has a forced mobilization system, a forced-voluntary mobilization. That is, all people who have problems with the authorities, who have a difficult financial situation, all Russian state bodies, any of them. The police, the FSB, border guards, the migration service, social insurance, enterprises. They even have a conscription plan for enterprises, so you understand. There is state control, coercion, and a punitive system. It is being implemented. I communicate with the prisoners. The plans are sent to the enterprises. The company has to hand over a certain number of people. It doesn't matter if it's their own employees, it doesn't even have to be their employees. But it has to find people according to its quota to the military commissariat. Even commercial enterprises, I'm not talking about the military. Of course, the enemy may have people for such a war. Yes, they don't want to die, but they can be kicked... Last month, Russia passed a new law that says they can mobilize even those who are under investigation. That is, there is no sentence, he is not yet a prisoner. But they are already telling him to go ahead and do it, don't delay, we need cannon fodder right now. You've got a serious article, you killed, robbed, raped someone. Go to the front. Even without a sentence. It works there.
Does Russia have a problem with AWOL? It does. But I want to tell you that the number of AWOLs in Russia is 100 times less than in Ukraine. Why? Because there, AWOL is punished with very cruel methods that we cannot even use. For example, execution on the spot, torture, illegal imprisonment in a basement. That is, all the authorities work there. In Russia, the way it works is that either the police and the FSB pass a certain norm for mobilization, a certain number of people per month in their region, or they go there themselves. And it works for them. It works because a rigid, repressive machine has been built, and state institutions work there. Yes, they work like in a punitive, totalitarian state, but they work. And Russia has a comprehensive law on controlling mobilization. Russia has an electronic register of those they are going to draft, and they follow this register. Migrants are added to it, whoever they can. There is systematic work to drive people to the front as cannon fodder. And they still have human resources. In order to kill them, Russia needs to inflict at least 30,000 casualties a month. But you really have to kill 30 thousand. On video, not according to reports. Otherwise, we have beautiful reports and reports of the General Staff. But how many do we actually kill? This is another story. How much evidence is there?
So, if we build a system where we kill at least 40,000 Russians a month on a front of 1,000 kilometers, they will quickly run out of army. 40,000 is realistic if we act systematically and efficiently. Russia will not be able to sustain this rate of losses for a long time. Even 30,000 killed per month is a loss for them that they will not be able to compensate for.
In your opinion, how do you motivate people and give them hope for victory?
In order to motivate the people, people need a victory plan that is concrete, that is being implemented, that is formulated by the authorities. A victory plan that works both at the level of the Headquarters and at the level of each state body, each brigade. People need to see the system of work. They need to see their place in the ranks. We need not only to fight, we need weapons for the army. If there are no weapons, how will the army shoot? We need to provide infrastructure because otherwise it will be impossible to fight or produce weapons. We need to provide for the social sector, children, and civilians. Planning is needed everywhere during a massive, total war. And this planning is the vision for most people of what awaits us tomorrow. When a person sees a clear plan, he or she will clearly go to victory. And our plan for victory is distorted by these lying tongues of Zelenskyy and his entourage. And there is nothing there but empty words.
Where is the implementation afterwards? Do you think there are any secret plans to reform the army? There is nothing like that. No drone tactics are being introduced. We have created the Unmanned Systems Forces. Has anything changed at the front since then? It's been almost a year since they were created? No. The way the commanders themselves plan the drone operations, the way they look for volunteers, that's how it goes. The state does finance some of the needs for drones. It does, but unfortunately, only a small part. The tactics do not change, the organization does not change. Small changes, unfortunately. There is no systemic change on the entire front. Unfortunately, this is our style. Well, you have created a structure, okay. What are you doing to achieve results? What is the technology for realizing your intentions? There are no such plans. They are not implemented, so you understand. And so it is in every sphere. There are promises, trading in expectations, trading in hopes, speculation on this. And there are zero real steps. If you want to do something, do it yourself. Volunteer, take the initiative, do it yourself. The state is not going to do anything systematically. Only videos
In addition to the disability of prosecutors, we also need to check how many such fake war veterans there are in the country. Please check it out.
I thank you for your trust. Unfortunately, in order to check such systemic things in the country, you need to have the authority and responsibility for fighting corruption in the country. I do not have such powers.
Is it possible to join the fpv army now without any special skills? Or do you have to have some experience in this area? S
You need to have the ability and desire to do this. And work hard. FPV requires the ability to work systematically. Of course, you can do this and go to FPV. You can test yourself for this right now. There is access, you can even find civilian training centers for FPV operators, simulators. If you have the desire and motivation, you can learn this technology. A huge number of people are doing it. It all depends on your perseverance, vestibular system, motor skills, and, in general, the ability to work with the screen. To navigate the terrain on the screen. All this is being developed.
How will the DPRK's intervention affect the situation?
It will not affect the situation.
For me, the main factor that I don't understand about the war is that I don't understand what is in the minds of our leadership, military and military-political, and what is the logic of their actions. It's complete chaos and emptiness in their heads. This is an obvious problem for me. And the fact that the DPRK is there, 10 or 20 thousand soldiers have arrived. This is critical for us if we are in a chaotic state, as we are now. But if we build a normal, adequate organization along the front, command and control, and use of troops based on the experience of our best units, we have much more shells and drones than soldiers in Russia and Korea. And we can kill them. But this requires the right actions, the right management, the right organization from the top.
Because if Zelenskyy and Syrskyi in Kyiv think that war means sending a soldier with assault rifles into a plantation, who must voluntarily shoot with assault rifles, grenade launchers, enemy infantry and tanks, then we do not have people for this model of war. But for the model of building defense lines, clearing plantations, mining, building a fire system to observe and defeat the enemy at long distances, massive drone strikes, we have people for this. And this is the only possible way to our victory. And many Ukrainian soldiers, Ukrainian commanders are doing it, and they are doing it brilliantly. And this is our hope and my personal confidence in our victory. Thank you for the broadcast and glory to Ukraine!
