somewhere according to calculations kharkiv-oblener , you understand, yes, that more than half of the district is completely without electricity supply, water supply and other things are also tied to this, the difficulty was that in some settlements the electricity grid was completely destroyed, that is, there was not a single whole one left pillars, not a single meter of cable there, yes, that is why, of course, our power engineers worked on all this, all this... during these months was restored, but in particular recently, well, literally today, yes, they reported that the power supply had been restored in seli topolsky on izyum oblast, but now about 5% of the population centers of this area, which suffered a lot, still remain without electricity, so people there, in principle, there is not much population left, but people get out of the situation differently, with gas... with the help of generators,

with the help of solid fuel boilers and so on, that is, they somehow try to support themselves, as for other things, there is food and so on, in principle there are no big problems with this, and you understand that the economic situation is quite difficult, in de-occupied settlements, especially border areas, where regular shelling takes place and those nearby, well , this is actually the front line, so you understand, this is the entire russian-ukrainian border in the kharkiv region, and the fact that the south of kupyansk is actually the front line even after deoccupation the war did not go anywhere from these places, just as kharkiv does not forget about it, and that is why just a few days ago, i apologize, our volunteers, there was a volunteer initiative, for one, they collected funds, collected gifts and visited children,

for example, in the same kupny district, gifts from st. nicholas were delivered to them, well, the little one will always direct it positively , i think that when the war ends, with the victory, well, first of all, of the armed forces of ukraine and the ukrainian people in general, some part of the territory of the border should definitely be allocated for construction, i don’t i know, walls, ramparts, with water, mine barriers, well, russia must be behind the wall for quite a long time. and i, it won’t save from missiles, anyway, yes, but in any case, well, then we need to develop air defense, but you know, missiles are one thing here, but when so that they do not push it here in any way , evacuation is a very important topic, we return to it from time to time, there is an evacuation procedure from certain populated areas, forced evacuation, how dynamic is this process today and is this need increasing given the fact that winter, it's cold and plus the enemy continues to roam the territory of kharkiv region, well, look,

the problem is constantly relevant , again, i mentioned that children still remain in these dangerous places, so there is a certain plan, the police are connected to the emergency services, from some settlements of the same kupchinsky district, families with children are being evacuated, a large part of people are evacuating on their own, but such mass evacuations as happened a few months ago, as far as i know... such operations are currently not being carried out, although again, the regional administration, at least, is talking about something that keeps a hand on the hip and , in the first instance, a signal from the military, and they are ready to intensify work in this direction. thank you very much for participating, thank you for your comments, serhiy zhukov, deputy of the kharkiv regional council, was in touch with us about the situation in slobozhan oblast, the enemy continues to fire, the enemy is trying to advance in one or another area, regain their dreams and

capture kharkiv, but again, let me remind you that it was not possible to capture kharkiv thanks to the legendary brigades, territorial defense forces and other units of the national guard and many, many others , at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, now i think that the enemy has very minimal options, now we will talk with segy sgorts, the director of the defense press agency and the host of the military summaries of the day column, sergey, congratulations, congratulations to you, vasyl, congratulations to our viewers, you and i have agreed on what i will ask, i forgot, i was so excited about it today. what , but i, you know, i will ask, i have a question, because i was also thinking about it, they write about the fact that it shows itself very effectively at the front, a very big trouble for the enemy is help for the armed forces of ukraine, such an artillery installation from usa, which is called paladin, do we have enough of them, how can we get more of them, is it really that hot fire for for the occupiers, well i don't know where you got that from, we do have paladins, they were supplied before, we literally got nothing more than another batch of these paladins, they are

particularly effective at stealing, destroying the enemy near bohmuth, very accurate reliable systems and our military even wanted to repair them in combat conditions, although it is written in the manual there, call a master there, yes, that is, relatively speaking, our military appreciated this system, they are very happy from the point of view of accuracy and especially under the conditions, when there is enough ammunition of various types , there are cluster ones, there are also remote mines , there are smoke ones, so all this works effectively, well, it protects our infantry, so there really are such systems, we need more of them, they also exist and i think that we will be supplied with even more. and then, indeed, in our military column today we will talk more about weapons, and not about the fronts, although the situation at the front is difficult, 97 clashes in the past day, this is the largest indicator of this place, which is still only beginning, and so on we will talk

about weapons for ukraine, from equipping our soldiers with reliable body armor, to new bmps , and to joint projects with defense industrial companies of the united states. more on that in a moment. i would like to start our column by congratulating our defenders on the day of the armed forces, who are now holding back enemy attacks along the entire front line. each of us has a specific person in the family, a relative or a friend, who is currently on the front line. battle and who fights in conditions, to be honest, which are much tougher and scarier than we tell publicly, and the front just is kept at the expense of their stability , resilience, courage, training, and sometimes , to be honest, there are also injuries and losses,

but we understand that this is extremely important, we wanted to congratulate them on the day of the armed forces, people who really ensure peace in the rear , but besides: courage, resilience, training , of course we also need weapons, so we can count on supplies from our partners, but the deployment of our own defense industry, which can scale in time what is needed, from bulletproof vests to drones, is of great importance from ammunition for small arms, from weapons of mass destruction to long-range missile systems, it can be done independently, as well as work with our partners, just today, december 6 , the first such ukrainian-american conference on arms production began in the united states, the event is held with the support of the pentagon and the us department of commerce, and the conference, it was said, will look for

ways in which american defense companies can help their counterparts in ukraine, and on the eve of it, penny pritzker is the special representative of the united states on issues of economic recovery of ukraine stated that, especially now, ukraine has a lot to offer western defense companies as a defense market both in the short term and in the future. our government officials are now in washington, but the main thing is that there are already representatives of a number of our defense companies, both public and private, and one of our... representatives said that it will definitely be about joint ventures, the possibility of licensed production of weapons and financing for these projects, and in fact, everyone understands that on the one hand there are risks, and on the other hand, well, the need for qualitatively new

interaction, and by the way, this meeting in washington is a continuation of the conference that will be held sometime in september. in kyiv , which was attended by representatives from 270 companies from different countries, then 20 different memoranda were adopted and a number of projects were announced, which are still classified, although some projects have already become public, now we can see on video, ee bmp, links, this is actually bmp from rain metal, and this one the bmp is proposed for production in ukraine together with the fuxs bmps, the head of the rendmetal company announced this literally the day before yesterday, the ukrainian government supports this, and by the way, if a contract is signed with the ministry of defense for the purchase of these bmps and btr fucks, then in fact the bmps can

already be manufactured next year, well, these bmp links, which are actually, well, new and advanced enough, can be produced for the armed forces in 2025, so what will be agreed in washington, we will know a little later, i'm sure that i will find people who were in washington and who will tell us on our broadcast what exactly will be done with the american side, well, of course , within the limits of not saying too much, and then about another line of defense, about the closest line of defense, this the line of defense of our soldiers , it comes and passes where the soldier is protected by a bulletproof vest, the quality and quantity of which depends, relatively speaking, on the life of our soldiers on the front line, let me remind you that in the 14th year there was a situation when we had one one bulletproof vest for 100 soldiers, then we

were looking for armored jackets all over the world, then the story of the 22nd year begins, and we again feel that we don’t have enough armored jackets, because the army has increased, there is a need for individual protection systems, they were not there and we also purchased them, we looked for these armored jackets by to the whole world, but in addition to quantity... and of course , quality is also needed, and therefore we will talk with our guest about the important aspects of this balancing between quantity and quality. serhii minyaluk, the founder and head of the well-known company welmet, is joining us khmelnytskyi company, people who use bronzettes from this company are satisfied, because in extreme conditions this product really protects them. mr. sergey, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. to each other as well. i congratulate you and first of all i would like to congratulate the boys and girls on the saint defender's day and i sincerely want to thank you for

what you are doing, you are really making history and i am very glad that i breathe the same air with you and from myself, as much as i can, i will help you with that, well, really, your products protect those who protect us now, i would like to you told our viewers in a little more detail what the velmet company is currently supplying to our armed forces and what is the top product from your production right now? well, look, i would, well, on such a day myself, well, in principle, this is my position in life, i would not like to do a little self-promotion, i would tell you about an important thing, not in terms of our work, but generally about what is with the supply of bulletproof vests, at the moment, the fact is that due to a series of, shall we say , problems, we have the fact that we are partially

i remind you, i am sorry, we are aggressors and we have the same structure, which in principle is not very capable of achieving, well, helping to achieve victory at the lowest cost, here we work for ourselves, we make something, but we do not actually supply it to the ministry of defense, if we say so about the ministry of defense itself, that is, you make , relatively speaking, the lightest body armor that i know, that is, as i understand it, up to 8 km . modular body armor, your sample does not meet their requirements, although it suits our soldiers quite well, that's what we're talking about. yes, yes, well, here, here i would tell a little more, but

eh, i will try to be brief, the issue is that , in our country, there is a very large distance between the kyiv office of the ministry of defense and the conditional military unit in khmelnytskyi, yes, but it is very big, which does not give an opportunity to communicate and qualitatively assess needs, and needs in our situation, in the conditions of a full-scale war, this is, well, this is life, this is the health of the boys, and that's it. this story is very unfortunate, that in almost two years of a full-scale war, well, in principle, before that , during the years of independence, we were not able to build, and i want to believe that in the near future this path will be shortened and what is needed below will be heard above, but also not what you want to believe, i will try to make efforts to make this happen, because i understand that this is a complete condition for achieving the fastest victory, this is how we work, we produce, we provide boys somewhere at the level of parts, at the level

of purchasing boys with personal funds, it is sincerely very difficult for me, morion, to realize that the people who protect me, figuratively, take money from them, even some minimal money for those bulletproof vests, but to complete the task, it is necessary exactly what is there, and now there is no such thing , as i was once told in the ministry of defense that this is a type of infantry, and you work more there with... different special forces, now the tasks plus or minus are the same and in principle the needs are the same, well and in principle there should be an analysis if there was communication from the bottom to the top, there would be a greater need analysis. in terms of the threats that exist, not conditionally , what bullets are used or what debris , in general, what are the combat tasks and what are the equipment and means of protection needed to perform these combat tasks, what mobilization fund do we have, what do we have his physical condition, is it possible to quickly prepare a person, conditionally a driver who is not physically fit, so that he can wear

a heavy bulletproof vest, whether this will give him protection, or on the contrary reduce his survivability, in principle, it is a pity that above this question of life. that is, we are talking about the fact that we actually have the technological capabilities to provide the armed forces with, really, let's say this, universal body armor or body armor that have the appropriate weight, minimum weight and the appropriate level of protection, theoretically we have practically there are requirements from the ministry of defense to the modular body armor, but your position is that these requirements do not always correspond to reality, they need to be revised, and the ministry of... defense does not hear this yet, but now against the background of changes in the ministry of defense, perhaps personnel changes are taking place there in the departments, in these bodies, which carry out the procurement and development of these individual means of protection, or there are some dynamics of positive changes, what is the opportunity for such dialogue in the right direction, well , look, there is a declaration of changes, yes, if

indeed the pronouncement will correspond to what will happen, i think there will be changes, but there is one thing. question, the presence of specialists, well, that is, the presence of a person, conditionally, who can conduct an analysis of ballistic resistance, an analysis threats, analysis, first of all, of the wreckage that receives, well, all of this and reduce it to some kind of document that will really work, that will, well, make possible the situation that the military will receive exactly the protection that they need, i.e. i have doubts about this issue, because in the last years of my communication with certain structures, i see a critical decrease in the number of people who can do it qualitatively, say it beautifully, write it, yes, practically apply it and conduct some kind of story, i have not seen , and i want to see in the near future, uh, me i understand that probably, i am saying this in a warring

country, and probably with this kind of history, that is, a little p but i really want victory, i want it to be at the lowest price, and i realize that if we do not go this way, we we will not change anything, that is, the price of this victory will be great, and it may be that it is too great, and this is our reality, and this is our reality, we need critical, radical changes in this history, so that we do not make any, if there is a way, yes, by which our aggressors follow the example of, let's say, susits. with a lowercase letter, and we want na to overtake them on the same path, but we, having a difference in potential, both financial and mobilization, should not play games, to get ahead of ourselves on this path, we should follow a path that will be as effective as possible, and if we cannot in a year and a half, in almost two years to develop a procurement system, if

we have at the end of 2023 the purchase of body armor by the ministry of defense, a tender for 100,000, and only 30 or 40 are bought there, and after that, at a price of uah 24,000, and later five more are purchased there , well, the price is already 30 or so, and we are 50% only this tender closed, it means that the system did not work , it means that something needs to be done with it, well, quickly , not conditionally, when the personnel are recruited, we will build something, well, since it does not have the right to life, it means that we have to go some other way, but which will be as effective as possible, that is, if we cannot supply centrally, well, let some decisions be made. to change this procedure, because there are a lot of people, they work, get paid, make some stories, well, but in the end , there is no one responsible for it, so why do i as a producer, when i if i don't properly instruct and a person works on a crane and they get some kind of injury, i get the responsibility, and when someone has developed a bulletproof vest that doesn't respond or doesn't protect, or leads to the death of a certain number of people there, i already

think, not just one fact would be in two years of war, where there is this responsibility, well, if he does not realize all this, objectively, we will simply have a very heavy price for this victory, and it is not that there, it really hurts me, i want to live in this country and i want my children to live and i want me not to i'm ashamed of those guys who died , well, let's face it, it's really for me, let's say, this is the thought that i always think about, but... i want to believe that everything will be ok, there are opportunities , there is understanding, i i wouldn't talk about my company here, no again, no no not this one, i wasn't engaged in any kind of pr, yes, i'm looking. developing companies appear in ukraine, not everything is smooth there, but plus or minus there is an understanding, if there was a proper market, it should be competitive with that history, it would give development, it would give investments, especially

we constantly have negotiations abroad from different countries, people contact us and want, and want, let's say, to invest, they ask, but immediately they ask how your system with state procurement works there, i say, well, at the moment we we have to wait, it's not, it's not, it's not... it's possible, because some things i just won't be able to explain to the conventional europeans, no matter what, what the risks are, yes, that we can manufacture something and not be able to deliver it, eh , mr. sergey, thank you very much for what you are doing, we will come back to this topic, because in fact we did there are certain touches to the problem, we did not delve into the problem, i think that we will find time in the format of a longer conversation, then we will talk in more detail about the problems with armor. because if the audience understands, i think we should return to this topic again, but in more detail, thank you very much for the inclusion,

i will remind our audience that it was serhii miniluk, he is the head of the well-known company welmet, which develops body armor for our defense forces , which are in demand, but there are nuances from the point of view of these body armor being purchased by the armed forces, there are important things related to the fact that these body armor... are really effective, but there are nuances related to the fact that the procurement procedure itself is not flexible enough. and then we will talk about other aspects related to the manufacture and purchase of weapons, now the international arms exhibition edex 2023 is taking place in egypt, hundreds of different countries are present there, which demonstrate their products , and ukrainian manufacturers also demonstrate their products there, in particular there products of the national enterprise association. of the defense industry of ukraine, this is among them there is the company ukrainian armored vehicles, which is well known to our viewers, and now we

are joined from egypt by vyacheslav belbas, this is the general director of the company ukrainian armored vehicles, mr. vladyslav, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you, good evening, thank you for the mutual invitation, thank you for taking the time, and i would like to ask first of all what ukrainian art shows at the exhibition in egypt, why is this direction interesting and important, and what is the attitude towards ukrainian weapons? ah, well, first of all, this is our fourth exhibition this year, on which is presented by the association for the unification of enterprises, and the purpose of our participation all this time is precisely to expand cooperative ties, it should be noted that the exhibition in egypt is held only for the third time, it is held once every two years, it was held in 18- th year, in the 21st year and now in the 23rd year,

one year was missed due to covid. and, egypt is a country that was very strongly oriented towards the soviet union. there is a lot of equipment, let's call it, soviet, soviet types, types, and in the region in this country there is a lot of production of similar our systems, and it was focused quite strongly on russia until 2019, but then there were such drastic changes in the direction of the western world, we know about the supply of ships, remember, there was a scandal with the french, yes, and so on, so... right now, as an association of entrepreneurs, we want to focus our attention on the countries involved in our orbit, say, in cooperation, in the orbit

of cooperation with ukraine, since egypt does not supply directly to ukraine, its position is still neutral, but we are trying to , to involve in cooperative purchasing relations of components, by ee different. directions, we are taking part this time, several companies are presenting their drones, this is what is interesting in foreign markets as well, now, including in this market, we are also presenting armored vehicles, we are presenting radar systems, we are presenting the products of the state kkb luch, we are presenting just the first system after joining the kvertus company. system, that's why the wide range of products that are currently on display here is sufficient, but the main goal, let's say, is the development

of cooperation with this country. and in parallel, now, with the exhibition in washington, there is a conference of the defense industry, where a number of our companies are present, where there are american representatives, and there it is said that joint ventures are needed, american investments in the ukrainian defense industry are needed, licensed manufacturing is needed, and as i understand it, your company is already moving in this direction, but now we see. there is a video of bmpscod, which is also based on cooperation with american companies, czech companies, what is the current situation with this project and what do you need from the same side of the ministry of defense, in order to speed up the implementation of this good idea to provide the armed forces with new mechanized infantry, consistency and clarity of processes are needed, i would not

like to disclose... since this is such an important project from the point of view of defense capability and the level of involvement of enterprises of various countries in the defense of the industrial complex, yes, indeed , we, and ukraine, is currently conducting this defense, negotiations regarding the involvement of western companies in the defense sector are currently underway, i think that i will... in the following press release relevant from the ministry of strategy and industry, from the minister of defense, from the president's office, but what is important, it is important that they really move in the direction of this partnership, really move, not just in words and in press releases, but it will be a problem for all of us and for the west partners, these are the ones, the regulatory base and the regulatory base that we have, we all know about this scandal with the state audit service, by the way,

it has not yet been resolved and it has not gone anywhere, and for western companies, it is not that unacceptable, it is unacceptable, that is no western business will come here when it knows that if the company gets 3% profit there, that it can be interpreted as a loss, that's the problem we have, one, common to all enterprises, another problem is after all, the formation of the need for the equipment that we want to purchase, the sequence of this process, and so on, that is , but i think that we will pass it there, overcome it, somehow solve it, and then, if we have literally one and a half minutes left there, there are products that are manufactured by our enterprises, but are not purchased in in full by the ministry of defense, under such conditions, can our private companies export products to external, well , consumers, as is happening now? and now

it is not very clear how, since there is no such process, a clear, clear agreement, let's say, but the trend is correct, i think that a little bit, i don't want to criticize, but what is said, that for example, we we will buy everything they can produce, it is right on the one hand, on the other hand it is a little wrong. from the point of view of the general staff, because the general staff should form the need, and not take all that we can, yes, that is, the general staff should , on the contrary, say that it is necessary, on the one hand, on the other hand, there really are production capacities that are not fully loaded with orders, and really have the opportunity to supply for export, and at the same time about such and such a sale, it will generate some kind of

income, some kind of currency vortex. and to balance now that significant negative balance of foreign trade and to develop , including the defense-industrial complex, that is why i really support those initiatives that were were voiced by the minister of defense umyerov and the minister of strategic industries kamyshin at a joint meeting held with suppliers, and the trend is correct, but here we need to develop the right mechanism for coordinating such implementation. on the one hand and on the other, still work to ensure that the needs of the general staff are satisfied with what they need, and not with what we can produce, because this is also, after all, let's fight, and here precisely the military determines , what is needed for them, mr. vladyslav, thank you very much for inclusion, for that work.