a solution for a country house, dormitory or rented apartment, it can be folded and easily transported, forget about crazy expenses for new furniture and mattresses, order an ortolight mattress for only uah 999, call. greetings, time of news is on tv channel. kateryna shirokpoyas works in the studio. the prosecutor general's office has launched an investigation into the shooting of two ukrainian prisoners of war by the russians in the donetsk region. the investigation will be conducted

based on the fact of violation of the laws and customs of war combined with intentional murder. execution of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the geneva conventions and qualifies as a grave international crime, the prosecutor's office noted. at the same time, the head of the avdiyiv city military administration, vitaly barabash, said that the defense forces had already stormed this position and probably eliminated the russians involved in the execution of ukrainian soldiers. the armed forces called on the international community to react and hold russia's military leadership accountable. yesterday, experts of the deeppstate project published a video of how the russians shot ukrainian soldiers who surrendered as prisoners. at night, the russians fired 12 warheads and

an kh-59 guided air missile over ukraine. the defenders destroyed 10 drones, and the missile did not reach its target - the air force reports. the enemy launched attack drones from primorskyi-akhtarska district. they attacked in several waves, entered the mykolaiv region through the occupied kherson region. there, most of the shaheds were destroyed by our defenders. resha were headed in the north-western direction and were shot down in the starokonyantinova district. that in khmelnytskyi region. the russians launched the kh-59 missile from bilgord airspace. in particular, in mykolaiv oblast , the air force destroyed eight enemy shaheds. also, the russians hit the berezan community with a salvo of rocket systems. residential buildings, a garage and a car were damaged. a fire broke out in one of the houses. this was announced by the head of the region, vitaliy. in

addition, the enemy shelled the kutsurub community with artillery, hitting open areas there. fortunately, there were no dead or injured. one person was injured by russian shelling kherson oblast, the enemy attacked the region 76 times a day, fired almost 400 shells, 27 of them at kherson, the enemy fired mortars and artillery. it was full of hail, tanks, aviation and drones. oleksandr prokudin, the head of the region, told about it. residential quarters, a factory, and the power grid were also damaged. the russians attacked the village of kupyansk-nodal in kharkiv oblast. a five-type multi-apartment building was damaged, windows were broken in the building. this was reported by the head of the region oleg synygubov. and during the day the enemy

shelled at least 16 settlements, in particular, udy, cossack lopan, vovchansk, dvorichna and synkivka were under enemy fire, there were no casualties or injuries. people's deputy oleksandr dubinsky, a suspect in the state council, was not beaten in sizo. such a statement was made by the kyiv police during the verification of the report of the defense attorney. he convinced that dubinsky was allegedly injured for two days. an investigative team worked on the spot. according to the results of the inspection and the conclusions of the forensic examination, there was no beating confirmed due to bad weather, 395 settlements remain without electricity in lviv region, 154 of them completely. most. in yavorivskyi,

zhivkivskyi and starosambirskyi districts, noted the head of the region maksym kozytskyi. more than 500 specialists are restoring the electricity supply where safety measures allowed them to work. at night, for today in the lviv oblast , forecasters are predicting blizzards and snowfall, ozheledytsy on the roads. near the ukrainian-slovak border, border guards of the chopsky detachment detained eight men. among them was the organizer of the illegal crossing the detainees were sent to the border unit in order to find out the circumstances of the offense. today , more than 2,500 trucks are waiting in line at the border between ukraine and poland. as you know, poland has strengthened control over ukrainian carriers, especially where the border blockade continues. according to microeconomics and the ministry of economics, due to

protests at the checkpoints with poland, ukrainian exports have already decreased by 40%. lukashenko flies to beijing during a working visit. then from december 3 to 4, the self-proclaimed president of belarus will meet with the chairman chinese people's republic of china. according to the press service of the dictator, issues of trade and economic, investment and international cooperation will be on the agenda of the negotiations. this time it is lukashenka's second trip to china. i will note that western sanctions against belarus and its complicity in the russian invasion of ukraine have been put under. doubt about the prospects of investment projects of the people's republic of china in belarus. a storm rages in europe. munich airport has canceled all flights due to the snowstorm. zurekha airport also reported flight delays.

there are no trains or trams in munich. metro and suburban trains operate with interruptions. many thousands of people across bavaria were left without electricity. it was also canceled. football match between bayern and union in switzerland and austria warned of the threat of an avalanche. austrian railway workers announced the closure of several sections. at the same time, the movement of trains and public transport was suspended in the czech republic. 1,500 households were left without electricity. the occupiers predictably intensified their shelling of ukraine in the winter period. almost every night fighters of the air defense forces have to defend our skies from russian terror. the espresso film crew managed to communicate with such a unit that works in sumy oblast, near the border with the enemy, and even see with their own eyes how

air defense works. talented warriors not only shoot down enemy drones, but also assemble their drones from their parts. artem lagotenko will tell you more. now a signal has arrived that the martyrs are flying across the border, we are going to be destroyed. this mobile air defense group, professional destroyers enemy shaheds. after a year and a half of the war , people had already gotten used to working for pashehids, more or less. the principle of operation is simple. the soldiers receive a message about the shaheds, load the car with ammunition and a machine gun, go to the firing position and within 15 minutes they are hitting the target, this is our machine gun that got tired of a russian friend, a bad

one, a 12.7 kord machine gun, anti-aircraft, well, even armed with us dshk, an anti-aircraft installation, fighters are working in sumy oblast, the very border with the russian federation, the target is illuminated with powerful searchlights even on approach, enough for such a distance as the mine flies, as far as this machine gun can work. how many kilometers? not only the machine gun won trophies in practice wars, the fighters collect their drones from the downed shaheds. for more than a year, they have accumulated a lot of details. a little bit. we just took a little bit of spare parts , this is how we collect the parts to make our own birds , so that they fulfill our tasks, since, so to speak, we are not very rich people, everyone, now

the occupiers have become more active, we have to catch enemy birds of iranian origin almost every night, in order to effectively shoot the shaheds, these soldiers lack... cars, so please go to the link you see now and support their gathering, because it is these soldiers who defend our sky. i wish everyone good health, we have been standing in defense of our country since the first days of a full-scale invasion, we lack an suv car to cover the airspace, i am asking all caring people to help us in this matter. glory to ukraine! glory to the heroes. artem lagutenko, oleksiy kutsuk from sumy region for espresso. now this is all the news for this hour,

you can find more interesting and relevant information on our website spresso.tv, as well as on our social networks, join, set your preferences, stay with the ukrainian view of news and the world. take care, we still have victory to meet, but i say goodbye to you. greetings, friends, the saturday political club program on the espresso tv channel, khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov, as always , for the next two hours we will talk about the main events of the current week, the focus of our attention is the situation at the front, the russian-ukrainian war, the situation in the international arena, and the middle east, that 's a must, and the second conversation and reflection of vitaly portnikov, we'll start with

the situation at the front, with us roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on national security, defense and intelligence, colonel of the security service of ukraine. mr. roman, glory to ukraine , congratulations, good day, geranium, glory, mr. roman, let's start, i congratulate you, let 's start with maryinka, anyway , what's going on, well, the situation there is difficult, i i think everyone is used to these theses, and it is really true now, in general, the east is now our hottest point, regarding where the enemy has concentrated its forces, and there for the last time, they said there in a week, but a little longer , ours, well, the enemy has quite seriously moved our troops away from us, i recently literally talked to people who are there, and the situation there is that the enemy is constantly almost every... days now it is using assaults, a lot of equipment and fpv

drones and the number fp buckets unfortunately the number of fp buckets that we have prevails, we restrain all assaults due to fp buckets, but the enemy can afford them, but as they say, there are 30, 40 pieces just for our position, i see where our position is and just monotonously, constantly going there, until our defenders are no longer left without... shelters and forced to leave, and in this way the enemy has pushed almost all of maryanka, leaving us, well, objectively dry, so the situation there is difficult, along with avdiivka, as well as with maryanka, in general, that's avdiivka, maryanka, i think it's me i liked the phrase spoken by the commander-in-chief, muzhenko, for russia, these cities are symbols that are quite prominent in that. society includes them, they have recognizable names, strategically they do not have any

significance there, but for the russians they are important, that is why they throw away very large resources there, suffer great losses there, but still try to push these cities in order to report, that they occupied them, but we say it, maryanka, i think i was there probably a month ago, and what was left there it's already difficult to name... this is a city, a place where mariyanka used to be. mr. roman, we understand that in the military sense, our settlements can mean completely different things. when we talk about bakhmud as a settlement and about the district, bakhmut, two different things. when we talk about avdiivka settlement and avdiivka district, well, it actually coincides here. and so there is, there is a certain drama in the future. for example, for example, the abandonment by our defense forces of the territory

of avdiyivka, some of the military analysts say, the situation there is quite difficult, but the defense forces, as of today, allegedly even resort to counterattacks and repulse positions previously occupied by the enemy, how do you see this situation? well, if we are talking about again, the most important thing: what i see now is really ours, well, a day ago, talking to the defenders of avdiyivka, they told me yes, now the situation has been stabilized, but the enemy is still pressing. er , they have already occupied, let's say, some key settlements there, the steppe, including this one, these ticks, they with each, well, let's say, period time everything is narrowing, narrowing, if we do not take measures now, then we will have to make decisions, and this is a fact, and i say it again, of some strategic importance, well, objectively

on the maps, there is no avdiyivka, we are talking with you in a military sense, of course, this is our land and our people, and here it is a different issue, but we are now talking about war and military operations, and the main thing is that it should be like on bakhmut, when we left and we moved to better positions, to the heights, and we see that after the enemy took bakhmut, they practically did not advanced, and we also had the opportunity, we won back some, let's say, some territories, there are more northerly than that more southerly . bahmu, it’s the same here, the main thing is that there should be positions, let’s say, we can’t brag about opening positions and lines of defense until now, here we need to learn, learn, no matter how it sounds , the enemy’s ugly, here they are they know how to build positions, they know how to defend the occupied territories, unfortunately we have a problem with this and it

needs to be done, no matter what happened there, well, at least today, of course, for a long time we lost, but it must be done, if the defense system is built correctly, then even if we have to withdraw from avdiyivka under the pressure of the enemy, nothing terrible of such a global nature will happen from a military point of view, if we miss there and do not complete it, there may be serious consequences, and by the way about fortifications, maybe we didn’t build them because there was such a stereotype that we have to liberate our territories from the enemy, and that we are an army on the offensive, that there cannot be any fortifications on ukrainian territories between in one part of the donetsk region and another, and this is more likely not even a lack of some military training, but an absolutely stereotypical political thinking, not unwillingness to face reality, including, including, i think, everyone thought that some kind of a new war, that defensive positions are not important, but we see what happened in

zaporizhzhia, including when the enemy, simply due to their positions, those they dug, during the period when we were accumulating strength and resources, the enemy was building his line, as they called it, surrovikina, and this is the line that we actually broke our teeth and could not cross, it is a fact, and it is a fact that there was nothing there that was not there during the first world war, so opponent of any technology. he did not enter there, he simply built defensive positions, which we could not pass with modern leopards, t-702 tanks, and some means of demining, because once again in this war that was imposed on us, the way russia went, that is , it matters, it makes sense, we know which ones the main er, mm, the main tasks of the defense, er

, who knows, there is such an abbreviation there, first, repel the enemy’s attack, inflict maximum maximum losses on him, hold positions, this is what we need to build a defense for now , and the fourth is to create the conditions for a further offensive , so in order to hold positions, defense lines are needed, but when these defense lines are in place, we hold positions, knock down the offensive potential of the enemy, what should we do, in effect, the conditions are now being created for further offensive, we need to do it, and i probably a few months ago, when i described the counteroffensives in january , including that there are various counteroffensives , including unsuccessful ones, many of us thought that a counteroffensive is equal to victory, and somehow they did not perceive it differently,

because now the main task is to protect what we already have, which was not allowed to be captured by the enemy, to fully secure it, to build positions so that the enemy would break its teeth against it, and then from this to go into counterattacks and that resource , which we have additionally to use for the reconquest of our territories, because now we have a counteroffensive, let's say, ours stopped, and we looked, but there are no fortifications, we need to build them, and now this is the situation. it's really complicated, i hope we can fix it in time. mr. roman, a brief clarification, do you think that the counteroffensive has really stopped, given the situation on the left bank of the kherson river. which still continues to develop, again we do not know how it will all end, but less so, the actions of the defense forces continue there, well, it's just that we

we mean, well, what were the tasks of the counterattack? the tasks of the counteroffensive were strategic, it was to go to the sea of ​​azov , we cut through brysh for 10 km, on the maps of those who set such tasks, the counteroffensive, if you look at their maps, this front line is not even visible and these shifts are not even visible, so if are we talking strategically or tactically, at the tactical level active actions are taking place, but if we are talking strategically about the counteroffensive, then i want to tell you, i don't know, everyone should see it, but many people are surprised when i say that we have a positional war since november 11, 2022, it is already positional, strategic, we have positionally , what zaluzhny wrote recently, we have had it for a year, he simply described it, because there was hope that we are somewhere about but we have had a positional for a year already war and at the moment it can either continue, or the enemy can move us, if we don't, we will take action, because

the resource is that he is stronger so far, so we have to do everything to strengthen our territories, and take it for granted that in we have been in a positional war for a year, we tried, but we didn't it turned out, there is no one to blame here, we have an enemy against us who outnumbers us several times , we do not have air support, we do not have long-range missiles, that is , you can list a lot here on your fingers, so before there were forecasts there crimea in may there for two or three weeks, it is necessary, well, i think, who do not understand the issues of military strategy in particular, but listen, mr. roman, but i remember that in the text of the generals of luzhniki and zaborodsky, which was, it seems to me, it was published just then, don't remember exactly what year ago, in the fall, there, in principle , a picture of a positional war was created. and it was said that this is a long positional war, well, i mean, it was exactly a military text, it was not about, it was just a specific such text, written by two generals in a proposal, they

outlined, they even showed the possible actions of the enemy, everything is true you say, what did they plan, that the enemy could one part from the north, yes one group, should have gone, one from the south and they had to drive such a wedge into our defense and well, coverage. they had to do, yes, they described it, everyone has already forgotten this article, but , well, they are possible actions, they described it, but then all this was lost and went away, the topic of, er, counteroffensive went away, and well, the enemy already , well i really knew about it, i knew in which direction, because this is the only direction that gave us in case of success, gave us strategic advantages, it was possible to go in the donetsk direction, because there are less mines there, of course, but success there did not give such strategic advantages benefits, look, now you can say anything, we're gone where we went and we have to admit that we

, the counteroffensive failed and for almost a year we are in a positional war, but in order to be in a positional war, you need to have good positions, uh, mr. roman, i can't help but ask, russian president vladimir putin signed a decree on increasing the number of personnel of the armed forces of the russian federation, with a hook of thousands, while 132,000 people from this number will be directly military for 170,000, well, i don't know if this is a lot or a little, please decipher it for us, except moreover, putin actually agreed to the increase budget for the war with ukraine, for the russian army, this is how their economy will work in the near future, and what are we doing? well, look, we have mobilization, so we have an unlimited number of troops, we can demobilize, as much as according to

the plans, there are ministries of defense and armed forces, we can mobilize, before that , the number of russian troops was smaller, it was their first time in a year back they increased there by 100 or something thousands. what is happening, they have a planned increase in troops, they now they are deploying, returning , they have, well, who remembers, among our tv viewers, that they had such a military district in leningrad as a cover from finland, then it was disbanded, there were separate units, now they are returning this district and at first they are creating it on the basis of ready-made parts, and then they will form its parts, for this... well, parts separately , so that they are precisely this leningrad military district, in order for it to protect from finland, which is a member of nato ,

then they...' the 104th airborne division, which is already partially assembled there at the base, i don't remember which separate airborne brigade, they and it are already mostly in the south, now here in the kherson region and transferred, because in they are not enough, then a couple of brigades of marine divisions of the marines, that is , the question is that they are increasing their armed forces, transferring them to a divisional system, i understand that the plans that they need in order to form them , they need an increase in the armed forces, an increase of the armed forces, as in our country, it is approved by the supreme council, in ours, in them, it is the state duma, that is why they are going in this way in order to be able to form a separate regular army, and then, when it is necessary to finish it mobilized, thank you, thank you mr. roman, roman kostenko, people's deputy of ukraine, secretary of the verkhovna rada committee on

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espresso. we continue the saturday polyclub program on spressa tv channel khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov, in fact, in this part of our conversation we will talk about the ukraine nato council, this meeting was held at the level of foreign ministers literally 29 november, some people call it an absolutely historic event, well, i don't know, now we will talk with mr., we must say, well, today we will sit together with the ministers for the first time on equal terms - said the head of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba, noting the difference between the former ukraine nato commission and the new council . in the council , ukraine has the same rights as members of the north atlantic alliance and the same opportunities for consultations. a short summary that i made of this event in particular. well, first of all, the support of ukraine on the way to nato,

that is, the program. forms described for us, for of our full operational interoperability with nato , is being shaped, being prepared, and it seems that right now we are even talking about the absence of any political demands for us, although when we talk about the north atlantic alliance, it is important not to forget that it is a political and military alliance, precisely in this version , it is an association, well, of course, all the representatives of our partner countries have agreed to continue helping our country as much as possible, there were several important statements about quite significant and generous financial assistance to us, in particular from from germany, from the netherlands, and this is only what i remember now from memory, they promise not to let everyone get tired of ukraine and not to get tired themselves,