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The Pentagon has asked civilian drone manufacturers to develop and provide inexpensive disposable drones with a range of up to 300 km for testing as early as December this year. The US Army intends to have a fleet of such drones based on the experience of our war. 7 13213 War
VUHLEDAR. EXECUTION OF POWS
The fall of the city of Vuhledar, a real bastion in Donbas, for which Ukrainian soldiers heroically fought for two and a half years of war. 18 37622
What difference does it make to me who destroys my business - ruscist missile or Ukrainian prosecutor with judge? They are all my enemies, - Yurii Zozulia, founder of X-Park
Since the summer of 2022, the owners of the X-Park amusement and water sports park in Kyiv have been claiming an attempted raid by the state. Censor.NET talked to the main investor of the park, Yurii Zozulia, about the details and the scandalous plot. 12 98331
Why should military be judged by military?
In addition to the military police, Ukraine may also have specialized judges who would hear cases involving the military. MPs are currently discussing a bill and, as an alternative, the idea of creating separate military courts. Moreover, such courts existed in Ukraine until 2010, when Yanukovych decided to liquidate them. 5 94816
Combat medic Sofiia Pomohaibo: "I’m ashamed when it is said that artists are "not cut out for war"
If not for the war, the artist Sofiia Pomohaibo would have continued to promote her vision of Ukrainian cubism to the masses, exhibiting her work in Ukraine and abroad. Instead, she joined the Kyiv TDF, and then, after numerous trials, made her way from rifle shooter to combat medics. 8 1506
Milliardth arms flows: why they want to dismantle DPA and dismiss Maryna Bezrukova
The Ministry of Defense is going to dismantle the Defense Procurement Agency (DPA) and transfer its functions to the State Logistics Operator. This idea is now being presented to the public as a NATO requirement, although it is not, and the point is that the head of the Defense Procurement Agency, Maryna Bezrukova, has proved to be out of line for the stakeholders. 82 63948
Call sign Scout: "No one said: "Oh, there are more of them, so that’s it, guys, let’s make deal and give something back." No! Everyone is in their place."
Denys, with the call sign Scout, joined the army at the age of 19, before the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2009. That was when he signed his first contract. To this day, he still renews them because, as he admits, he likes what he does. Today he is the chief sergeant of the 2nd division of the 1039th anti-aircraft missile regiment. He is fighting in the Pokrovsk sector. 6 5921 War
"You create organism that has to work as whole." How "Charter" relies on sergeants
As a result of the assault, the 13th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine "Charter" killed 34 occupants and wounded 23, cleared 7 infantry positions and an ATGM firing position, destroyed a howitzer and pushed the enemy to the next line of defense. 4 1231
Volodymyr Fokin, Commander of 1st Assault Battalion of 3rd SAB of AFU: State should have thought about what to do with war veterans two years ago
How long does it take to train an assaultman? Are men getting on in years needed in the army? Why does the war not end and who benefits from it? Volodymyr Fokin, the Commander of the 1st Assault Battalion of the 3rd SAB of the AFU, told Anna Miroshnychenko about these and other issues. In the program "Who is with Miroshnychenko?" he shared his thoughts on the Azov phenomenon and what Ukraine can learn from Russia. 9 2197 War
Pokrovsk-Myrnohrad, Oskol front, threat of losing Vuhledar. Answers to questions
The stream is dedicated to answering questions. 10 8882
Combat medic Ivan Kutsyn: "Engineers, sappers, medics and snipers are priority targets for Russians because so many lives depend on them. They are trying to destroy us"
He is one of those who had to visit the most difficult areas of the frontline. That’s why I don’t ask him about war fatigue, but only about what helps him to keep going. What prevents a combat medic from losing his humanity towards the enemy, because he also has to provide medical care to prisoners of war. 4 3863
Events at front: 23.09.2024
Yurii Butusov, Editor-in-Chief of Censor.NET, talks live about the latest developments at the front as of September 23, 2024. 9 6640 War
Will Ukrainian army be left without potatoes
The Ukrainian army may be left without potatoes. And this is not hype, but rather a warning. Because the price of potatoes included in the current contracts is currently categorically out of line with market trends. 7 64015
Oleksii Sokil: "When it is shouted that military needs rehabilitation, I say: society needs it, which must be taught to accept veterans and people with disabilities"
Oleksii Sokil is a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war. He started his military career as a volunteer fighter in 2014. He was a paramedic and an anti-tank platoon commander. In the summer of 2016, near Marinka, he was seriously wounded - a bullet went through his heart. After long treatment and difficult rehabilitation, he decided to become a palliative care chaplain for war veterans. 8 06915
Last interview with Mayor Oleksandr Tsebrii
This video was recorded on the day of the death of Ukrainian hero Oleksandr Tsebrii, mayor of Uman (2015-2020), platoon commander of the 58th Motorized Infantry Brigade. In a conversation with Censor.NET Editor-in-Chief Yurii Butusov, Oleksandr Tsebrii spoke about the difficult military everyday life, the conflict with the authorities when he was mayor, and the dirty information campaign waged against him by People’s Deputy Anton Yatsenko. 12 67210 War
From Derkach to Odarchenko: how Ukrainian officials run away from punishment
On 18 September, it became known that MP Andrii Odarchenko, suspected by anti-corruption authorities of bribing officials of the Ministry of Infrastructure, had disappeared from Ukraine. 8 21521
How much Ukrainian territory did Russia seize after Zaluzhnyi’s dismissal?
Yurii Butusov, editor-in-chief of Censor.NET, analysed how the change of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine affected the course of the war. How much territory did Russia occupy after the dismissal of Valerii Zaluzhnyi? 22 50722 War
Why is army not given Mavics?
The stream is dedicated to an operational topic that has become a scandal today. This is the supply of tactical intelligence assets to the army, namely the main tactical intelligence drones, the main reconnaissance and attack drones of the army - Mavic and Autel drones - Chinese commercial quadcopters, which are the most affordable, balanced for intelligence, and easy to operate. 13 40218
Secretary of Chernihiv City Council Oleksandr Lomako: While authorities were engaged in political persecution, they literally slept through tonnes of "shit" from Russia
The confrontation between the central government and the local government of Chernihiv has been going on for two years. Despite the fact that the President’s Office succeeded in getting the mayor of Chernihiv, Vladyslav Atroshenko, dismissed, the presidential vertical has not gained full control of the city. And the confrontation continues to this day, harming the life of the city that defended Kyiv from the Russian invasion in March 2022. 14 38231
Butusov on his meeting with Blinken: Americans are interested in war, situation in energy sector and fight against corruption
During his visit to Kyiv on September 11, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with representatives of independent media and civil society. Yurii Butusov, Editor-in-Chief of Censor.NET, shared the details of the meeting. 17 76314 War
Russian captured UAV operator: They gave me only armour and helmet, told me to find assault rifle on spot
Roman Zhuravlev, a private in the Russian army, was captured near the village of Lyptsi when he was fetching water at 6am. It took only a week from the moment his unit arrived at the Kharkiv frontline to his capture. 6 82915
#SU30Leaks: Kazakhstani specialists maintain Russian Su-30SM aircraft using French equipment from Thales and Safran
A scheme that allows Russia to continue servicing its military aircraft using French equipment, spare parts, and technology despite international sanctions. Volunteers of international intelligence community InformNapalm collected documents and testimonies exposing a scheme where the Kazakh company ARC Group collaborates with the Russian military to provide maintenance of Russian Su-30SM aircraft equipped with French avionics from Thales and Safran. 850 EU sanctions
Ballet dancer who mastered grenade launcher: in memory of Oleksandr Shapoval
Two years ago, on September 12, 2022, Oleksandr Shapoval (pseudonym Shapik) was killed near Maiorsk in the Donetsk region. He died while performing a task he volunteered for. The ballet soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine went as a volunteer fighter to defend his homeland on February 25, 2022. 5 8617 War
"Most often I tell all my subordinates "don’t lie". This is most important command," Oleksandr Bukatar, Battalion Commander of Spartan Brigade of NGU
Oleksandr Bukatar, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Spartan Brigade of the NGU, spoke about competition among the military, "meat assaults," women in the army, and much more in an interview with Anna Miroshnychenko. In the program "Who is with Miroshnychenko?" there was a talk about the beginning and development of the Great War, the liberation of Kharkiv region and the operation in Kursk region. 6 75114 War
Events at front: 09.09.2024
This stream will be in a slightly different format. At the frontline, it is requested to speak briefly and provide information on different areas so that the military can navigate the situation. Therefore, the format will be shortened - 20 minutes to briefly go through the main 12 areas of combat operations and then 10 minutes to answer questions. 11 1396 War
Call sign Typhoon: Captured Russian had papers - where our brigades were. 38th Brigade hadn’t even arrived in Shakhtarske yet, and it had already been written down by him that they would be there in 3 weeks
Oleksandr, call sign Typhoon, is a tattoo artist from Odesa. In the summer of 2022, he put down his tattoo machine, took up arms and went to war. He served in the 37th Separate Marine Brigade. 36 76723
"Ten years ago we were tortured in Donetsk RSA, and in 2017 I identified our kidnapper when he was receiving... award in Verkhovna Rada"
The kidnapper was finally arrested for treason and terrorism in 2021. But the case has not yet been brought to court. 63 193130
Problem of human resources in army is bigger than slowdown in aid from Western allies - Warrior-Historian Myroslav Borysenko
History professor Myroslav Borysenko has been defending Ukraine since the very beginning of Russia’s attack in 2014 and has been fighting again since 2022. However, he has gained a kind of publicity through his Facebook posts - ironic and sarcastic forays into history with an unexpected twist into the present. 25 161145
Rifleman and UAV pilot Maks Rohachevskyi: "It was said that f***ers were shouting: "Allahu Akbar, for motherland!". But I was shooting from machine gun, from assault rifle, and I didn’t hear their shouts..."
..They came to the military commissariat together: 50-year-old Yevhen Rohachevskyi and his 19-year-old son Maks. They stood in line for a day - yes, back in February 2022, there were lines for the war, and people were ready to give bribes to go fight the occupiers... 14 0705
Big reshuffle of beds in Cabinet of Ministers: How Surkis saved Kuleba from resignation
A few weeks ago, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced major personnel changes in the Cabinet of Ministers. The fact that the president did not use the word reboot of the government, many people guessed that Denys Shmyhal managed to hold on to the prime minister’s post. 22 35229
RUSSIA’S OFFENSIVE HAS INTENSIFIED: 8 UKRAINIAN CITIES IN DONBAS ARE UNDER ATTACK
The situation in Donbas continues to deteriorate. Russia is not scaling back its offensive, but is trying to expand it. The Russian command is throwing all its forces into the battle and trying to use the situation at the front to maximize the strain on our defense and our troops along the entire armed struggle. 10 0632
How to save Pokrovsk when enemy is 8 km away?
I am in contact with all our brigades in this area. In total, our aerial reconnaissance spots 250 to 500 enemy infantrymen on the frontline and in the immediate rear on a front up to 18 km wide. Some of them are moving forward, some are moving back, some are entrenched. 12 65818
Take wrecking ball to everything: how government dismissed Kudrytskyi, head of Ukrenergo, after three years of failed attempts
On Friday, it was decided at the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Headquarters to dismiss the chairman of the board of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi. The reason for this was the alleged shelling on August 26, which again damaged Ukraine’s power system. As a result of the vote, the commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, and Kudrytskyi were to resign. 13 68424
INTERVIEW WITH 19-YEAR-OLD CAPTURED RUSSIAN ASSAULTMAN WHO IS ONE TO SURVIVE FROM PLATOON
Soldiers of the 13th National Guard Brigade "Charter" repelled a massive attack by Russian troops during the week on one of our positions near the village of Lyptsi near Kharkiv. During one of the assaults, a wounded Russian assaultman was captured after being abandoned by his comrades. 19 04224
Glen Grant: We need to change ZSU management structure if we want to reform the ZSU and win
We are now at a vital stage of the war. One thing stands out in the Ukrainian Armed Forces above all others. It is not the outstanding combat actions of the soldiers on the front line, which rightly deserve worldwide praise, but the fact that the system itself is dysfunctional on many levels, from political to military. 13 72135
Why Pokrovsk is being surrendered: How Russia is waging offensive
The situation near Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk direction, is catastrophic without exaggeration, the enemy continues to advance and it is simply impossible to stop them. 22 94828
"We were digging our positions when "Lancet" hit, and in moment excavator was burning like candle, And they started to finish us off with SPGs." Who and how makes dugouts and trenches for our soldiers
Well, the guy who was operating the bucket survived, although he was wounded. A year ago, almost two million was raised for this excavator for the engineer platoon of the 3rd Battalion of the 72nd Brigade. The machine has done a lot of work, dug dozens of dugouts and trenches, saving the lives of our infantry. And then it "died" while performing another task. The guys were left without a faithful assistant, and now they are digging positions with shovels and picks at night. 33 80851
Serhii Prutskykh: "Russians who withdrew from their territories immediately cut off electricity, water, and all communications, leaving their people without anything"
"It needs to drive at one direction or the other because he’s literate - Putin, God forgive me, talking on TV. When you listen to him, oh! But in reality, he has abandoned his people," says a resident of the Kursk region to the Ukrainian military who brought her water. 10 93910
Zelenskyy’s press conference and RF’s breakthrough on Pokrovsk
Censor.NET Editor-in-Chief Yurii Butusov analyzes Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s press conference and talks about the situation in the Pokrovsk direction. 18 53632
Tetiana Koval, reformer of patient meals in hospitals: "Only 160 hospitals in Ukraine have switched to meals delivered to each patient’s room"
The founder of a company that has been operating in this market for nine years and currently feeds more than 8,000 patients across the country talks about reforming hospital food. She continues to do this despite the fact that her husband, with whom she started the business, has been at war since 2022. 4 23113
Transition to intramural attendance, importance of socialization of children, and advice for parents of first-graders
The start of the training in Ukraine is scheduled for September 2. The school year will last until June 30, 2025. The issues of safety of the educational process, advantages and disadvantages of the remote format, and simultaneous study in Ukrainian and foreign schools remain among the most pressing question for parents. 1 8594 Affiliate Material
Secret of Hlyniana’s trunk: carousel frauds, fronts, safe deposit boxes and Hrynkevych’s eggs
On August 9, officers of the Bureau of Economic Security detained an accountant of a company that supplies products to the Ministry of Defense. She was carrying 4.7 million euros in her trunk. She could not explain the origin of the money. 40 22217
National Guard soldier Oleksii Nazarov: "Residents of Izium who were favorable to occupation authorities had access to certain "benefits", water was one of them. Others had to go to streams 5-6 kms away to get water."
He falls in love so much with Donetsk region, where he worked and lived for many years. And to protect his native land, he twice voluntarily joined the Defense Forces. The first time was in 2015, and the second time was during the full-scale Russian offensive. 6 9086
How Telegram helps sellers of illegal cigarettes and why they can’t be stopped
Despite the shutdown of the largest producers of illegal cigarettes by law enforcement, counterfeit tobacco products continue to be freely sold through Telegram, the most popular messenger among Ukrainians. BusinessCensor checked whether law enforcement officers are able to close this channel of illegal trade and what prevents them from doing so. 520 Shadow economy
POKROVSK OFFENSIVE: KEY HUB IN SOUTH OF DONBAS
Live report on the situation at the front. The situation in Donbas. Critical situation in the area of Pokrovsk, Selydove, Myrnohrad. 13 10415
