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We warmly welcome you to the world special on the war in Ukraine. A nice and good night. Ukraine's major offensive in the east of the country, which has been expected for weeks, has already begun. This happens for tactical reasons. While President Zelensky was silent here, the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister spoke by telegram in the afternoon and spoke of offensive actions in some sections of the front. Russia denied that Putin's soldiers had repelled large-scale attacks. Alleged videos were also used as evidence in the region, but a Russian field commander clearly contradicts Andreas Büttner's Kremlin statement on Ukraine in the form that Ukrainian troops destroyed a Russian position near Bakhmut and recaptured a settlement in the city captured. kyiv also confirms offensive actions in some sectors of the front.

But Ukraine does not want to say whether the attacks are already large-scale attacks against them. The attacks by the Ukrainians are so massive that one can hardly speak of skirmishes anymore. One commander said it very cautiously: These are improvements in tactical positions and there is still no concrete major offensive, but several Ukrainian and international sources speak of important combats for Bakhmut, which are now decreed and are already there on the Don. The Russian army wants to make the Ukrainian offensive obsolete and has published a video showing that, after yesterday's troops, the enemy unsuccessfully attempted a large-scale offensive in the south of Donetsk.

Up to 300 Ukrainian soldiers died there. In the last 24 hours the enemy did not achieve its objectives. Other Russian sources, on the contrary, speak of a difficult situation and for the first time German Leopard tanks were seen in their tactical zone. how strong the defenses are that could be broken through, but now they are quite clear in the sum of the individual activities, so the big offensive takes place where the focus is, we will find out as we go. Because Ukraine wants to reveal that. Of course, the video that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has now published does not fit.

The army's unofficial vow of silence will reveal nothing about the area. Talk to our Saporistia correspondent, Schwarzkopf, as you just said in. the article This breakthrough obviously wasn't the really big area offensive yet, it could be that the Ukrainian military is still testing where it could work best with the area offensive, so that's definitely one thing, that they could still be carrying out a It's just some test attacks, but that's what we're doing. What we have experienced, not in the last 24 but in the last 36 hours, was actually more than that because there were more massive attacks with more armored vehicles and, above all, in many different directions at the same time, there were also advances in the ground that Ukraine has now achieved.

At least what we read on the relevant Telegram channels of military bloggers is that sometimes progress of up to 3 km has been achieved, I believe. Now we are not only trying to advance, we are seeing which defensive lines are not well defended by the Russians and the whole thing is also supported by artillery in the direction of Mariopol, for example, and rockets were launched. They also fired in the direction of Militopolen. There were also Russian positions there that were attacked with long-range rockets, so it is much more massive there than a simple test. Let's look across the border in the direction of Belgrade.

There have been fights there for days and it is not very clear who is participating in them. There is talk of autonomous struggles, but now there is also a report about supposed volunteers from Poland. What do you know about it? Not only in recent weeks but also in recent months I met many volunteer fighters from Poland not only in the north of Ukraine but also in the east, some of whom support battalions there in the north and northeast regions of Ukraine. Belgorod. For more than a week and a half these battalions, these legions of volunteers have been constantly advancing into Russian territory and simply tying up the Russian forces there.

Now Russian soldiers have also been taken prisoner and have ensured that civilians have to flee the region and. Russian troops can now also be ordered to the northeast to protect their own borders there, so in this sense this evidently favors the Ukrainians, who are not officially involved in these offensive actions, because this thins the Russian lines. in other places and gives them the opportunity. It may be easier to advance towards the occupied territory there, so in this respect it must be said that what is happening there in the northeast is, of course, also a distraction for the Russian troops to withdraw and therefore It is also an advantage for the attacking Ukrainian troops here in the southeast, where we are at the moment, Steffen, thank you very much.

Thank you very much for this current information from Ukraine and our correspondent in Moscow, Christoph Wanne, classifies the debate on a possible Ukrainian offensive as follows: No, it is not yet the big fight that you are currently talking about and that we have probably all been in for months now, but it is much more dynamic than it has been in recent weeks and days and a place that is particularly In the center of our attention is Ukleidar, which is not far from Steffen Schwarzkopf, who is located in SAP Parosa , all of this is in the neighboring province of Donetz, in the southern part of the province of Netz, and there is a small place. called novotanetzke, which is about 20 km west of ukleidar and which is currently the place where

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is attacking particularly and has also been attacking this place.

This field command that you just talked about in your introduction, Alexander reports, but Dakowski is the commander of the Russian battalion, what Dr. Osten and he say, that the Ukrainians are putting a lot of pressure on him and have also achieved tactical successes, how strong everything is now I can't tell you everything, it seems that the Russian troops Of course, we are trying to eliminate Ukraine's successes with counterattacks, so there will probably be back and forth, there is a lot more happening than in the last few days, but I still don't see anything that big. Counteroffensive because, above all, it is important.

There is a lack of instruments that are part of said counteroffensive, such as the massive use of kamikaze drones, and Yuri at Laka called my attention to this in a post he just published, which is the most important for Russian bloggers and we say they do not have these drones. kamikazes in massive use and Ukraine would need them to cause uncertainty in the Russian defense lines, so again there is a lot of movement on it, but I think this is still a scan, a massive scan and that Ukraine is simply looking for the big gaps in the Russian defense lines and then deliver its main blow where the gaps are.

So let's take a look at the current fighting because several Ukrainian and international sources talk about major fighting today. in the surrounding area probably southwest of you now everywhere in these regions Ukraine maintains pressure on the attackers in Bakhmut they have managed to destroy a Russian position they say we are advancing further the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces is quoted We are receiving help with everything To analyze and classify, we are now joined by Professor Dr. Markus Kreuz from Zurich, he is a military economist, good evening, hello, good evening to Berlin. Since Sunday morning, Ukrainian combat units.

We have been testing Russian defense lines in the east and south of the country. We have just reported that they have partially penetrated the south up to 500 meters ahead. How do you evaluate this crucial question? Is this the beginning of the war? Ukrainian counteroffensive? Yes, I would sum it up like this: if all the stations have been shouting since early in the morning that the counteroffensive has started, then it definitely hasn't started yet. It is important that you try with all these reports. separating the propaganda from what is actually happening on the ground and this can be done better if you look at the geolocated sources and, um, if we just look at what actually happened on the ground, then you should look at everything a little more seriously now that See, for example, the Ukrainian propaganda video and I would also like, um, what the Russian said, said in the direction of the propaganda um also what our wonderful Russian information minister shows again, shows exactly one destroyed vehicle and said that the offensive failed wonderfully.

So what really happened, erm geolocated so far, is a small place name where Ukraine actually attacked, so that's the one in this Solidar area that his Moscow correspondent mentioned. What we were also able to observe relatively well are these smaller developments in the Zaporizia area. Your correspondent mentioned that these also took place and there was a smaller movement by Ukraine on the southwestern flank of Bakhmut, so these three movements that we know who tonight and that actually happened now, if you add them up, would be called the offensive elderly. I don't think so, I would say that at best they are preparatory actions or perhaps diversionary actions that you simply say that we are attacking at different points at the same time, including the operation in Belgorod.

We all know they are, of course. Russian patriots who have their equipment and uniforms in the next Bought in a supermarket, it is clear that at least we know that at the moment they are a little south and with a small folder called norbertochter which is still about 15 kilometers south of Belgorod but Of course, the question can also be asked there and your correspondent asked where the Russian border guard really is and now you have to know that the Russian FSB, the national secret service, is actually responsible for the border guard, so there is around 170,000 men. under his command with his own army general, Mr.

Kulischov, and are actually responsible for protecting the Russian external borders. He asks where are they currently in the Belgorod area or are they there and I think Ukraine is a bit like that? He said, "Okay, we don't want to go in there ourselves, but now we're encouraging these so-called free Russian courses or whatever you want to call them to just go to this corner and look at what's there," he remembers. a little bit of the 9/22 sell trade, we also moved a lot forward and just found out there was nothing there so we moved forward and then it leads to exactly what you said.

This makes the Russians nervous, especially the civilian governors who have not prepared the civilian population for this and because the FSB border guard battalions are apparently not there, the Russians now have to withdraw or move impressions from the area of front line and if such an operation is successful, I would say that this is already a preparatory act that causes confusion and prevents Russian forces from concentrating troops. Then I would like to pick up on the battles around Belgorod that you mentioned there, because apparently the Russian rebels used Western weapons there as well. Polish soldiers were deployed, not officers, but Polish fighters.

It must be said that the president of the United States told them both after the drone attacks on Moscow that he was not in favor of the use of Western weapons on Russian territory, how can that be. Then you get into it if it turns out that he used some kind of Western weapon, then support for the presidents might increase. I don't see it that way, so I think we have to be very critical of these videos that we have. now watching from Belgorod Look in the distance, so I have also seen the videos where these who now call themselves Russians Freischarler Patriotfrei, course and so on in the United States drive, it is difficult to judge which is the truth and which is not. but what we know anyway The people who are sitting in these vehicles are actually Russians, not Ukrainians, and now it is possible that I, maybe Poles or other citizens, will just voluntarily decide, okay, I will go there now and I will do that. on a non-regular basis, the compatriots of the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian army also deny any involvement in these operations, um, that means that I would say that the situation is still too confusing or too unclear that now I would say that one or the other is true , but it's worth noting.

For me, it is much more than the few people who are actually dispersed, there are not even 400 men who advanced there when they entered the region through the border post, that is what they were taught. But they manage to unmask in such a lasting way Russian troops and also unnerve the civil governor, the gentle Corinna, who announced this afternoon that they had captured two Russian soldiers from the Russian army and that she would now negotiate with them and about them. Letting the soldiers go free is something of a mixed bag between troll operations, military operations and propaganda, and in that sense I would say that they should observe it a little more carefully.

When it comes to the word propaganda, I would like to. to add it again because the Russian army spokesman reports more than 900 Ukrainians dead, he also gave an exact number of tanks destroyed and it was so precise here that one wonders, in comparison with previous information or battles where such numbers were not even circulated, it is this? Propaganda reallyidentifiable if you look closely? Soldiers give more detailed information in places they know. I always think of the Iraqi Minister of Information in 2003, the Americans committing suicide at the gates of Baghdad and when I see the spokesman for the Russian army. , poor thing, these images always come to mind.

As I have said many times, when you receive news from Russia or from Russian news agencies, first assume that it is a lie and second, if it is even a little bit true. , is at least 200% exaggerated, so I can't take those numbers seriously. Don't take this statement either, said military economist Dr. Markus Kreube, speaking from Zurich, thank you very much for this information for the conversation, thank you Best regards, have a pleasant evening and we will move on, because the city of Bachmut, or at least it What remains of it is one of the most disputed regions of Russia, only in May Wagner played the drums in eastern Ukraine.

The mercenaries handed them over to the regular Russian army shortly after, but now the Ukrainians seem to be retaking them street by street. Our colleague Ibrahima was very close to the front for us and shows how dangerous the situation is: a scream and then a shot. continues Soldiers fire on Russian positions near Bakhmut In the spring, Putin's troops conquered the eastern Ukrainian city, but fighting continues fierce around us. We are here, in a kind of command center of the Ukrainian army, in a small town about 20 km away. On this screen you can see how the Russians move live in the trenches where they are hiding.

A Russian soldier is currently sitting in the trench that is near Bachmut or that is near Bachmuth. Look, now we will teach my lesson. o Better to attack Jaroslava from time to time, we have even attacked the tank movements with our fire, but we rarely manage to do that. Not Russian, that's American equipment that each side has lost recently. All this was still our position now that the enemy had taken a few hold of it. Minutes later you have discovered that the enemy on your screen gives the order to shoot oh wow look where that thing hit a soldier takes us to a secret position in a forest from here they shoot with a haubitze.de 30 at Russian positions in the region In principle We would like to pass close to Bachmut, but our job is to stop their attacks and destroy them.

We quickly realize how dangerous the work of the soldiers on the howitzer is. artillery system but they had to stop it because they said there is a Russian drone and they are still hiding. We enter quickly so as not to be a visible target and now we are inside, Private Sergei is already preparing to shoot the next one. objectives, we have a map of the region with the Russian positions of which we want to obtain the coordinates, then we calculate the final details and celebrate, look here yesterday we arrived at this position of the Russians, very gay, know the situation around Bakhmut and Few others have also done it since they have been in the region for eight months, yes, where the bombing was quite intense, but here there are also drones that observe us.

Mr. Funk is very happy to give the following orders for the bombing. In the middle of our interview and the other Ukrainian soldiers swear by them. Talk to us to continue fighting here from Vienna, Wolfgang Richter Oberst ad and military expert Mr. Richter, I greet you, good morning Mr. Simon, Ukraine is silent about the military situation on the Russian side, there is contradictory information from the Kremlin and also of the field commanders, first of all, the question for them again is how they assess the situation in eastern Ukraine, it is possible that the Ukrainian offensive has already begun, so these are at least harbingers of an offensive in the open sea , because you will be involved in such a wide area.

Many simultaneous tactical advances there already indicate that it is a larger company, but as your journalist from Ukraine said, this is not however the main attack or the main attack is being carried out, that will only be seen in the coming days and that also largely depends on the results that the reconnaissance presented to Ukraine will produce and they will surely find the weak point and then attack there, but I think that the offensive of the area as a whole with its at least omens has already begun, have an explanation for why kyiv is doing this, remain silent and of course it is always part of an offensive that you keep the plan secret for as long as possible, that you leave the enemy in the dark about where the focus and we still do not know if this front is really the strongest.

The Russian defense will ultimately be the focus of the area after the Of course, this may still be a diversionary tactic, it may still be reconnaissance advances and then possibly attack elsewhere, but it is surprising that they are now starting to work on such a broad line with parallel tactical advances. The Russians are trying to put pressure there and apparently Western equipment is also being used, so a lot of things are clearly pointing towards the offensive. What surprises me is that there is a focus there, possibly looking for where the Russians are very strong, and then what?

To look for the attack there was speculation about whether the attack should not be directed south to cut the corridor south of Saporisha now if it is really true and the Ukrainian army is gaining ground there near Bachmut the city was only taken by the Russians in May , first by Wagner's mercenaries and then by the Russian army, what strategic significance would the reconquest have now? Why is this piece of land so important for our time, not just symbolically? big losses there, concentrate them there and then be able to return to another place. From a defense point of view, it was of course also important not to give up too soon and then go west.

Yes, a. very open area and then the Russians could have come through with possibly existing bodies and Ukraine had to prevent this from coming online because otherwise they would have had some kind of face to face conversation where they were completely open in the area and then they attacked. and face the attack, that is not the case now and the Russians have also not taken advantage of this success, as we rarely see, and that is why we now have to wait and see where the main blow actually hits. I do not think it is possible to say so far in advance that fighting is supposedly taking place in Belgorod, that is, on the Russian side.

On the other hand, Western weapons are said to have been used. This is currently being tested. If this is true, how can it be done? Do you think the Kremlin would react? After all, Belgorod is located on Russian territory. Of course, a similar reaction would also be conceivable in the West. Because Western states have always said that our weapons can be used for defense inside Ukraine and for attack. , but not attack targets on Russian territory, but we have to wait and see if these reports are confirmed. Overall, I think the operation has a purpose. From the Ukrainian point of view, it is more about finding the Russian armed forces. somewhere else - there are no strong forces imaginable - but they force the Russians to establish defense forces there and that, of course, can be useful because forces as reserves elsewhere may be lacking where Ukraine wants to strike its main blow now that Russia has started maneuvers in the Baltic Sea a day after NATO, this is more than just routine - routine, of course, is nothing these days - everything has political and symbolic meaning and, ultimately , strategic - it is completely clear that NATO is trying to maintain combat readiness in the Baltic Sea and make it clear that there should be no attacks here.

On the other hand, NATO, of course, also exerts some pressure so that Russia has to be aware that it is no longer using reserves and can withdraw from there. area to then use them in Ukraine, their troops in Kaliningrad and the twenty other areas of the Baltic region are already used to it and I believe that they will no longer be allowed to withdraw more forces there and that is also a When signing NATO, we must be careful that incidents do not occur that escalate. I think that's the order of the day right now. The Chancellor's word remains valid and is also widely shared by the American President and other Heads of State.

NATO cannot be drawn into a conflict with Russia, but of course combat readiness will be maintained and a clear signal of deterrence will be sent, says ARD Colonel Wolfgang Richter, thank you very much for the conversation, thank you very much, President from Ukraine. Zelenskiy harshly criticized kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko for the so-called bunker. Paner criticized the incident in which two women and a child died on June 1. Selensky demanded that police authorities urgently investigate these cases after the attack. in kyiv it later went around the world. The nine-year-old girl stayed at the opera and sat next to the dead child for hours.

According to the husband of one of the women, he knocked in vain on the door of the bomb shelter. , which was closed from the inside. Then they died from the rubble. Ukrainian journalist Paul Ronsheimer met with the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, in exactly the same bunker they both had there. The mayor of kyiv spoke about the conflict with President Zelensky. About the bunkers in kyiv, some of them are closed. The background has been discussed for days, a very damaging factor when the alarm was raised and the security guard did not open them properly after 4 minutes. ballistic missiles and people died, that's why the government is now trying to verify everything and, uh, how many points, what state have we been doing for a year and a half since the beginning of the war, yes, and there are really so many bunkers that remain of the Cold War Why are politicians only now dealing with bunkers?

More than a year after the start of the war, I think that is why politics has come into play again and that from the beginning there was military service in our city and they are very much in favor of civilian support for the military and try to blame those who They are not guilty, that is, the responsibility for manufacturing ammunition is also paid as a power struggle between Michelleski the Ukrainian president and them the mayor who could possibly be a competitor for the presidency is that it gives the impression that one has so much pressure. But I would like, I have already said ten times that our unification in the country and the political games are now a war, which will be very detrimental to the whole. country, harmful to the people of the country and abroad.

In my opinion, unification is the key to success.