stay with us, we are now observing a minute of silence in honor of all those ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression, and our marathon, i remind you, continues, we will honor with a minute of silence the memory of the ukrainian military and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that started it cried russia.

the first meeting of the ukraine-nto council at the level of foreign ministers, the officials approved an ambitious program for the next year. and whether words will turn into real actions, the situation at the front is intensifying, where the russians have become more active. ukraine and poland some measures were taken to unblock the border, but thousands of trucks are still standing in line at the border. so about that and much more in today's issue. nato members have pledged to increase aid to ukraine, preventing war fatigue. results.

meeting of the ukraine-nato council at the level of ministers of foreign affairs. putin may very well win the war in ukraine. it was with this title that the publication in the economist magazine appeared. a foreign publication indicates that the head of the kremlin brought the entire political process in russia to a standstill, took the economy under strict control, produces more and more weapons and is ready to endure mass deaths of russians for a long time, and with the beginning of 2024, russia will have a stronger position to fight - the article notes. what else do the western media write about? the russian occupiers predictably intensified their shelling of ukraine in the autumn-winter period, but this year they are mass-attacking mainly with shaheds, as the defenders of the sky destroy enemy drones, exclusive material about the work of mobile air defense groups. congratulations. in the studio of iryna koval, this is

the news, the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. for the first time ever this week ukraine-nato meeting took place at the level of ministers of foreign affairs. all because of the war started by russia. the meeting was productive, high-ranking officials of the alliance made some statements about ukraine on condition of anonymity. in particular, they mentioned our commander-in-chief valery zaluzhny. one of the alliance generals emphasized that ukraine's partners. do not impose a specific approach in waging war on the armed forces of ukraine, as they believe that the armed forces determine planning more effectively on their own, and the task of the allies is to support ukraine by providing the necessary armament. and even nato knows that the hypotheses and assumptions of some ukrainian politicians that the leadership of the armed forces of ukraine does not have a plan to achieve military goals are incorrect - they are confident in

the north atlantic alliance. the main message of the ukraine-nato meeting is that a strong, independent ukraine is vital for the stability of the euro-atlantic region. that is why nato promises our country a long-term support program. the ukrainian army has shown itself to be a powerful force and power on the battlefield. only the equipment is missing nato standards. therefore, it is necessary to work on this - nato secretary general stoltenberg is confident, however, in order to guarantee the security and defense capability of nato countries, as well as to continue providing assistance to ukraine, it is necessary to create a euro-atlantic common space of the defense industry at a sufficient level, the head of the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs stated this at the meeting. dmytro kuleba. the minister of foreign affairs of germany, anna lena berbak, noted during her speech that attention to ukraine is disappearing from the field of view of communities. and

this is fatal, especially considering that russia continues shelling of civilian infrastructure. all those present expressed their understanding that this winter, more than ever, is needed. to strengthen the defense of the ukrainian sky. so, let's see what will be done for this and what else was discussed at the meeting. for the first time since the start of russia's full-scale war, the situation looks as if putin is winning, an article in the authoritative british magazine zeeconomist that came out this week should come as a cold shower to western elites. evenings after february 24. politicians have declared putin's strategic defeat dozens of times and willingness to support ukraine as long as necessary. their confidence was based on the economic power of the west, they say, the combined gdp of the usa, europe and japan is several times higher than that of russia. but

abstract gdp by itself does not turn into artillery shells, long-range guns, missiles and other types of weapons. then, as russia transferred its. on military tracks, the west froze in indecision, european military stocks are close to exhaustion, the military industry is nowhere near working at full capacity, in particular, instead of the promised a year of a million shells, the eu has so far managed to provide ukraine with only 3,000, while, if south korean intelligence is to be believed, the dictator of the dprk, kimchen, provided vladimir putin with exactly that number, a million shells. for the killing of ukrainians, the increase in the production of weapons became the key topic of the first -ever ukraine-nato council, which took place in brussels this week. according to zetelegraf, the newly appointed british foreign minister, ex-prime minister david

cameron, convinced his colleagues that the countries of the alliance should jointly increase production weapons, so that ukraine could defeat russia, emphasizing the combined economic power. 30 times higher than the russian one. two weeks ago i was in ukraine and promised: we will do everything in our power so that the ukrainians can stop putin's terrible aggression, and today i am here to reach an agreement on this matter within the framework of nato. it is not known whether cameron's colleagues heard. ukrainian foreign minister dmytro kuleba said after the meeting that there are positive signals. and kyiv is satisfied with the results of the council, however, there is an important detail: none agreements were not recorded in writing. the agreement was not put on paper, but which was very clearly heard in almost all

speeches about the need to develop the defense-industrial complex, the eu and nato countries, as a whole. mechanism, no country by itself, if it works only with its own defense industries, is not able to solve and satisfy the needs of ukraine or its own state in weapons and ammunition. on the body of political turbulence in the usa, in the eu, it seems that they understand that their contribution is in defense support for ukraine should increase, despite the position of putin's few friends, hungarian prime minister viktor orbán and the slovenly robert fico, other leaders promise to increase support. germany plans to double spending on weapons for ukraine, up to 8 billion euros. the netherlands intends to provide 2 billion euros. romania has already opened a training center for

ukrainian f-16 pilots. france promises to increase supplies of ammunition. alliance members are sending more and more anti-aircraft weapons. of defense and ammunition to ukraine. 20 members formed a coalition with air defense. all this helps to save the lives of ukrainians and sends a signal to russia that our support will not stop. the ambitious plan of the european union is to go into production of one million projectiles per year already next year. this is an optimistic scenario, the implementation of which can change the situation on the battlefield, but already in 2025. in the next year, ukraine will have to defend itself with the means that the west has today, the main thing is that the allies provide them in time. so the historic meeting is the first meeting of the ukraine nato council, at the level of foreign ministers. it

essentially demonstrated that ukraine is moving closer to nato, and our foreign minister was on a par with all alliance members. so about podsu. meeting, we will talk with people's deputy, deputy head of the permanent delegation to the nato parliamentary assembly, solomia bobrovska. ms. solomia, i congratulate you, congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. and the memorandum based on the results of the meeting of the ukraine-nato council states that the alliance is developing a road map for ukraine's transition to full interoperability with nato. ot i want to ask you, what is this compatibility and what exactly is it about? it's a good question, in fact, you need to look at the document, unfortunately, i didn't hold it in my hands, but first of all, it was about the annual national one. the program, which we actually have every year since 2015, and they say that now there is a reduction of this thing in the national program

from 300 pages to about 10, that is, there is a compact document that follows the main reforms, in fact, which coincide by 70-80% , with the road to the european union, but i really wouldn't be so much either optimistic after this council, ukraine , nothing too much. maybe nothing happened there, except that we once again heard assurances that we will be with you as long as necessary, about some common history of upheavals, within the framework of the military-industrial complex and somewhere like that the unification of cooperation finally, well, of course , the rnp, but this is not an achievement, it is simply further technical work that ukraine must perform, but once again i want to emphasize that no matter how long we will talk about the fulfillment of technical... conditions , legal conditions, interoperability at the operational level,

for example, between troops, armed forces, and so on, still remains, a decision that will depend entirely on the political, individual approach to ukraine. accordingly, i do not quite welcome, once again, the phrase that ukraine is closer than ever to nato, we are very close. but nevertheless, we are once again standing in front of closed doors, and until the washington summit takes place, ukraine is not invited to nato, all this will remain at the level of distant conversations and chatter. and bilateral, our relations with countries, partners, friends, regarding the delivery of technical military assistance. mrs. solomi, and about this program, which was approved for next year, it includes energy security, innovation and cooperation. action, but apart from that, ukraine again received reform recommendations and jens stoltenberg said: all

allies agree that ukraine will become a member of nato, and now we need to discuss the way forward, reform efforts and how nato can support you in implementing these reforms, and now i want to ask you, what is the first and most important thing we need to do, and what can we have difficulties with? you know, it seems to me that the first thing, the most important thing, we need to remember, first of all, that in fact nato is a military union, but first of all it is a political union, an umbrella union, and as long as we have the rule of law will not become a priority, and we will clearly distinguish between our three branches of power, and we will start moving in the direction of reforms, not not military, not... only without the security and defense sector, and in particular and justice, and the economy, and there

are certain humanitarian things that they demand, they do not always satisfy us, and with the fact that there will be a separate struggle, there is also infrastructure, and so on, and so on, energy, so far, we can going in circles for a very long time, and why i emphasize that in fact the road to yeto, it actually combines 70-80% of things like reforms in the state, because few people want to deal with the country, which is actually inside, which is, which is unstable , unmanageable, unreliable and so on, that is, there is a front and a war, but that's not it less, all other institutions should work as a coordinated mechanism so that when we enter into these alliances, there will be no such problems, comments and such a huge problem for them, this is how we see a huge country with human resources, raw materials, and and which

in fact for them is so quite, scary from a bunch of heaps of internal problems, in particular such post-colonial, soviet, russian ones that we have left, accordingly, we have a lot of work, but once again, i would like these words of stolteng we felt in the document, not only in words, and already at the washington summit we received an invitation, and then... we will see that there really is some good and kind sign not only from the side of ukraine, which today is a human shield for the alliance, but also from the side of the alliance , which is ready to go beyond chatter, to make decisions more quickly. and don't be afraid to make history. ms. solomina, well, at least stoltenberg, he sees concrete steps of the ukrainian authorities in the fight against corruption decisions, and he said that this is ongoing, and what is in the process of implementation will brought to an end, these are his words. well, it is good that among the members of the alliance there is no feeling

of this fatigue when it comes to helping ukraine. and in contrast to optimism, the secretary general of nato to the west. alarm bells are increasingly appearing in the media, in particular , in recent weeks, they have been writing that for the first time since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine, there is a possibility that putin will win this war. foreign journalists talk about the tense situation in ukraine between the political and military leadership. skynews with reference to european of the commissioner for budget affairs, johannes hana, note that the eu countries agreed on the proposal of the european commission to provide ukraine with eur 50 billion in loans and grants over the next four years. such a proposal is allegedly not contested by any of the eu countries. meanwhile, the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of hungary, péter szijártó, at the osce meeting in north macedonia called for an end to the supply of weapons to ukraine.

he complained about the flow of refugees and inflation. hungarian prime minister viktor orbán also stated that the negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu do not meet the interests of ukraine his countries, and therefore should not be put on the agenda. and while hungary is trying to confuse the european union, european commission president ursula fonderlein has made it clear that ukraine must be integrated into the eu's defense programs to help meet its needs. in the war against the russian invasion. so what news was in focus in the western media this week. let's see further. most of the funds that the united states allocates to help ukraine are used directly within the country, providing significant monetary infusion into american factories, because of the 68

billion dollars approved by the us congress, about 90% go to the americans. journalists of the washington post write about it. these funds are used for the production of new weapons, or replacement of already provided from american stocks. that is, from the production of weapons and the financing of ukraine, the americans remain in profit. as it turned out, the districts of congressmen who voted for the reduction or complete cancellation of aid to ukraine receive the most money. ukraine is not ready for accession vro union, and therefore negotiations about it should not even be started at the european union summit in brussels. this is the statement of the prime minister of hungary, viktor orbán, according to politiko. at the same time, he also added that official budapest will not promise negotiations between ukraine and the eu, because it does not correspond to the interests of hungary. before that, he demands to freeze

the entire political and financial process until european leaders agree to a complete review of support for kyiv. journalists write that such political games of orbán cause eu leaders a big headache, although hungary makes up only 2% of the eu's population, orbán can hold the bloc hostage because his vote is needed for unanimity on major strategic decisions. some eu diplomats believe that viktor orban's pressure is related to delaying the allocation of 13 billion euros from eu funds to hungary. and regarding the support of ukraine, the head of the hungarian foreign policy department said the following. we give money so that the ukrainian army wins on the battlefield, but it does not win. the european union believes that if we give more money, they will win. but i'm not sure about that at all. in my opinion, instead of war, a cease-fire is needed, and money should be allocated not for war, but for

a cease-fire and peace. the split between the military and political leadership in ukraine. the british publication called the relationship between zelskyi and zaluzhny simply terrible. for the first time , the media talked about the differences in their views in the fall, through an interview that general zaluzhnyi gave for the same british publication. then he declared that the war in ukraine had reached a dead end. after that, zelensky publicly reprimanded the general for the headlines and warned zaluzhny to engage in military affairs, not politics. in addition, trust in the president fell to 32%, while general zalushny's increased to 70% . journalists believe that if zelenskyi and zalushnyi met in the elections, zelenskyi would lose. at the same time, quarrels between ukrainian politicians and the military will only play into russia's hands. summarize in the publication. ms. solomia, so what

do such publications in the western media testify to, because all this gives the impression that the words and actions of the partners are somewhat different, and that's all more often they talk about a misunderstanding between the ukrainian military and political leadership. in fact, the words and actions of our partners differed before, and you know this delay with the supply of weapons, it has been going on, frankly, since the first days of the full-scale invasion, since last year on february 24, everyone expected how ukraine would behave, then we have to prove six months to a year, for why do we need tanks, why do we need airplanes, and why do we need long-range radar missiles and so on and so forth, and we see that in fact, what is happening today at the front, especially activation... in all directions, starting from kupyansk to, to the left bank of kherson, which, how active we are in both defense and offensive actions, at the time when the partners should have been

most active, we see how insignificant the aid is, but in fact it is far from the kind that would solve the issues at stake today, and very often we politicians, diplomats, ask at meetings of our colleagues, the following question, and you give us so much that we do not lost, or for us to win, that's why that, one story, a lot of problems for which we are responsible, this is definitely an internal political situation, and this is an absolutely destructive, demoralizing story between, political interference in the military command, leadership, quarrels, and i am very surprised and saddened that there is no courage and wisdom to go out, first of all to the supreme commander, together with the commander-in-chief to society , shake hands and leave everything behind closed doors, figure it out, sit down and direct all the efforts of the teams to the war, because

the front today is very difficult, and we have a plus in winter and unpleasant corruption stories in the rear , they also eat away at the society from the middle, but the partners see all this and understand that , well, such a story, how stable can they be, why if we are in the 20th month of the war, such strange things are already starting er, such external behavior inside the country is strange, well , and the third, it seems to me that instead of us talking about a revolution, some potential maidan, like three, here it is precisely the intelligence that should produce and transmit such things to the president and society, and cut off any, different, especially public, and such twisting of the situation, not ugly between the military, political leadership and military command, it is actually what destabilizes and divides society very much, i am already silent about those people who are serving today and in the trenches , who are surprised by such a story about revolutions and all other

things, because the task is to complete the task, to return home alive and rest in the warmth, and not to engage in banking kiev with someone's choices and ratings. ms. solomia, i fully support you and thank you for this conversation, thank you, solomiya bobrovska, people's deputy, representative, was with us. head of the permanent delegation in the nato parliamentary assembly, and we are moving on. and another international meeting this week, with obstacles, however , the minister of foreign affairs of russia, serhii lavrov did get to the meeting of the organization for security and cooperation in europe in north macedonia. bulgaria has banned the russian foreign minister from flying through its territory on the way to skopje. lavrov's plane made a stop in turkey and flew through the airspace greece they spoiled lavrov's mood even before

the speech. as soon as the russian official was invited to speak, the delegates began to leave the hall. but he, not betraying traditions, began his speech with accusations. lavrov said that the kyiv regime conducted a punitive operation in donbas, ukraine and the baltic states for eight years, a surge of nazi ideology, and complained that the eu wants to open the door to the european union for the kyiv regime even out of line, in an accelerated manner. there were also his statements and dissatisfaction with the policy regarding the ukrainian language in ukraine, and accusing the eu and the usa of not noticing the abuse of the basic law of ukraine. lavrov's invitation to the summit caused a negative reaction from some countries. so the representatives of ukraine, lithuania, latvia, estonia and poland in general. did not

show up for the meeting. the next speaker after lavov, the norwegian minister of foreign affairs, commented on his speech and called a number of theses deceptive. at that, the russian minister of foreign affairs simply left the meeting. and to the events at the front. on the kupyan direction extremely hot the russians are attacking with the aim of capturing sinkivka and entering the orlyandske, petropalivka road. the enemy will work in both directions in order to break through the defenses and reach kupyansk. also, after a pause , the invaders became more active in the direction of the liman, again starting offensive actions there. the invaders continue to attack north of bakhmut, using paratroopers and special forces to push forward. fierce battles continue for maryanka. in

the zaporozhye direction. wants to regain lost positions, tries to restore lost position in the areas of robotynoye and to the west of vervovoy, zaporizhzhia region. so , in fact, there are battles going on around the areas we liberated. a fierce duel continues on the left bank of the kherson region. the enemy is raising reserves and doing everything to restrain the movement of the armed forces of ukraine. the price of defense in all directions is high. but our defenders are doing everything possible to drive the russians out of ukrainian land. russia has accumulated approximately 900 missiles by winter. but this is actually half as much as muscovites had last year, at the same time - said the spokesman of the command of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy ignat. according to him, last year alone more than 1,000 tah-555 cruise missiles were launched against critical infrastructure facilities.

he added that the intensity of rocket attacks last heating season was very high. ignas noted that there will be more drones this time. according to the air force, during the week the rashists launched more than seven dozen shaheds. more than 80% of them were destroyed by our air force. almost every night, these soldiers have to defend our sky from russian terror. the espresso film crew managed to communicate with such a unit that works in sumy oblast, on the very border with the russian federation, and even see with their own eyes how air defense works. talented warriors not only shoot down enemy drones, but also assemble some drones from their parts. artem lagutenko will tell you more. now we have received a signal of a flight of shohids across the border,

we are going to. this mobile air defense group are professional destroyers of enemy shaheeds. after a year and a half of the war, as it were people more or less got used to working for the poor. the principle of operation is simple. the soldiers receive a message about the departure of the shaheds. they load the truck with ammunition and a machine gun, leave to fire. position and already in 15 minutes they hit the target, this is our machine gun otzhavysya from a russian friend of the bad 12.7 kord machine gun, anti-aircraft, well, for armament , we have a dshk anti-aircraft gun , the fighters are working in sumy region, on the samisin border with the russian federation, the target is illuminated with powerful searchlights while in flight.

enough for such a distance as it flies shahit, how long can this machine gun work , how many kilometers, km, skilful wars won trophies not only machine guns, fighters collect their drones from downed shahes, for more than a year they have accumulated a lot of parts, little by little they shot spare parts more often. so we collect the parts to make our own birds so that they fulfill our tasks, since, so to speak, we are all not very rich people, now the occupiers have become more active, we have to catch enemy birds of iranian origin almost every night, for effective shooting shahedov, these soldiers lack a car, so please go to the link, which in