to themselves, well, they also dream of capturing kharkiv , but i will remind you again that kharkiv could not be captured thanks to the legendary brigades, territorial defense forces, other units of the national guard, many, many others, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion, now i think such - the enemy's options are very minimal, now we will talk with srgiy sgorts , the director of the defensepress agency and the host of the military summaries of the day column, i congratulate sergey, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers , you and i have agreed on what i will ask, i i forgot, i was so excited today because of this kivu that, but i, you know, i will ask, i have a question, because i was also thinking about him, they write about the fact that he shows himself very effectively at the front, a very big trouble for the enemy, there is also help for the armed forces of ukraine, such an artillery installation from the usa, which is called paladin, do we have enough of them and how can we get more of them, is it really such a hot fire for the occupiers, well, i don’t know , how did you find out about this, we really have paladins, they supplied earlier, we received...

' just recently another batch of these paladins, they , in particular, effectively steal, destroying the enemy near bakhmut, very accurate, reliable systems and our military has already learned to repair them in combat conditions, although there in it is written in the manual, call the master there , yes, that is, relatively speaking, our military has adopted this system, they are very happy from the point of view of accuracy and especially under conditions when there is enough ammunition of various types... such as there are cluster bombs, there is also remote mining, there and smoky, so all this works effectively, well, it protects our infantry, so there really are such systems , we need more of them, the americans also have them, and i think that we will encounter even more, and then really, we will be in our guilty column today we are talking 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 just beginning, and further we will talk about weapons for ukraine from the equipment of our soldiers reliable bulletproof vests, to new bmps and to joint ones projects with defense industrial companies of the united states, more on that in a moment, i would like to start our column with... happy day to our defenders and defenders of the armed forces, who are now holding back enemy attacks along the entire front line. each of us has a specific person there in the family, a relative or a friend, who is currently on the front line, and who is fighting in conditions, to be honest, which are much tougher and scarier than we tell publicly, and the fronts are just kept at the expense of their resilience, resilience, courage, learning, and sometimes, to be honest... well, there are also injuries and

losses, but we understand that this is extremely important, we wanted to congratulate them on armed forces day, which people really provide peace in the rear, but in addition to their 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, is of great importance. ranging from body armor to drones, from ammunition to small arms, from tools reb to long-range missile systems , it can be done independently, as well as in cooperation 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 ministry of commerce,

usa , 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 from 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 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 what is with on the one hand risk. and on the other

hand, there is a need for a qualitatively new interaction, and by the way , this meeting in washington is a continuation of the conference that was held somewhere... in september in kyiv, at which there were representatives from 270 companies from different countries, then 20 different memoranda were adopted and there were a number of projects have been announced, which are still confidential, although some projects have already become public, but now we see in the video, bmp, links, this is actually bmp from rain metal, and this bmp is offered for production in ukraine. together with the betters fuxs, the head of the rend metal company announced this literally the day before yesterday, the ukrainian government supports it, and by the way, if a contract is signed with the ministry of defense for the purchase of these bmps and armored personnel carriers fuxs, then in fact

the armored personnel carriers can be manufactured already next year, oh, these bmp links , which are actually, well , new and advanced enough that they could be in production for the military in 2025, so we 'll know what washington will come up with a bit later, i'm sure i'll find people who have been to washington and who in our broadcasts will be told 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 is the line of defense of our fighters, it... comes, goes where a soldier is protected by a body armor, the quality and quantity of which depends, relatively speaking, on the life of our soldiers on the front line. let me remind you, in the 14th year there was a situation when we had one, one flak jacket for 100 soldiers, then we

were looking for flak jackets all over the world, then the story of the 22nd year begins, and we again feel that because we have not enough, because the army has increased, there is a need for systematic protection, they were not there, and we also purchased, searched for these body armor all over the world, but in addition to the number, of course, quality is also needed, and therefore about the important aspects of this balancing between quantity and quality, we will talk with our guest, serhiy minyaluk joins us, he is the founder and head of the well-known company welmed, this is a khmelnytskyi... company, people who use bronzes 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, i also congratulate you and, first of all, i would like to congratulate the boys and girls on the holiday, defender's day, and i sincerely

want to thank you for what you are doing, you are really creating history and i am very glad that i breathe the same air with you and from myself , i will help you as much as i can, well really your products for...' protects those who protect us now, i wanted would like you to tell our viewers in a little more detail that right now the velmet company supplies our armed forces and what is the top product right now from your production, well, look, i would , well, first of all, on such a day, well, in principle , this is my position in life, i would not like to do a little self-promotion, i would like to tell you about... an important thing, not in terms of our work, but in general about what is happening with the supply of body armor at the moment, the fact is that due to a number, a number, let's say, problems, we have

what we partly resemble, sorry, the aggressor and have the same a structure that is not very capable in principle. to achieve, to help achieve victory at the lowest cost, here we work for ourselves, we make something, but, in fact, we do not supply it to the ministry of defense, if we are talking about the ministry of defense itself, that is, you make, relatively speaking, the lightest life jacket that i know , that is, as i understand it , up to 8 kg, this body armor is in principle in demand among our... security forces, but due to the requirements of the ministry of defense for the so-called modular body armor, your sample does not meet their requirements falls, although it suits our soldiers quite well, we are talking about this, yes, yes, well, here you are, i spoke a little more widely, but

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 , it is very large... which does not provide an opportunity to communicate and qualitatively assess needs, and needs in our situation, in the conditions of a full-scale war, it is, well, it is life, it is the health of the boys . and here is this story , it is very unfortunate that we are almost two years away a full-scale war, well, in principle, before that , during the years of independence, they could not 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 it is also not what you want to believe, i will try to make an effort to make it happen, because i understand that this is an absolute condition for achieving the fastest victory, that's it. yes, we work, we produce, we provide guys somewhere, at the level of parts, at the level of purchasing

guys with personal funds, i am sincerely very it is difficult for us to realize that the people who protect my image take money from them, even some minimal money for those bulletproof vests, but to perform their tasks they need exactly what they have, and now there is no such thing, as they once told me in the ministry of defense , that this is an infantry type, 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, in principle the analysis should be, if there was communication from the bottom to the top, then there would be a greater analysis of the needs , even in terms of threats that exist, not conditionally what bullets are there are used or what debris, in general, what are the combat tasks and what equipment and the means of protection are needed to perform these combat tasks, what mobilization fund do we have, what do we have his physical condition, is it possible a person... conditionally a driver who has no physical form, quickly prepare so that he can wear heavy

body armor, whether it will give him protection or on the contrary reduce his survivability, in principle, it is a shame that the price of this question of life. that is, we are talking about the fact that we actually have the technological capabilities to provide weapons forces really, let's say this, with universal body armor or body armor that has the appropriate weight, minimum weight and the appropriate level of protection, theoretically we have: there are practically requirements from the ministry of defense for a 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 about it yet, but now, against the background of changes in the ministry of defense, personnel changes may be taking place there in the departments, in these bodies that carry out procurement, development of these individual means of protection, or is there some dynamic of positive changes, which, to put it bluntly... gave an opportunity for such dialogue in the right direction? look

, well, there is a declaration of changes, yes, if the declaration really corresponds to what will happen, i think that there will be changes, but there is one question, the availability of specialists, well, that is , the availability of a person, conditionally, who can conduct an analysis of ballistic resistance, analysis threats, analysis, first of all there are wreckages that receive, well , all this and reduce it to some kind of dock. which will really work, which will do, will make possible the situation that the military will receive exactly the protection they need, that is, i have doubts about this issue, because in the last years of my communication with certain structures, i see a critical reduction of people , who can do it qualitatively, say it beautifully, write yes, practically apply it and conduct some kind of story no no. i haven’t seen it and i want to see it in the near future, uh, i understand that, i

’m talking about, this is a country at war, and it’s probably some kind of story, that is, a little panicky, but i really want victory, i want it to be the least expensive, and i realize that if we don't go this way, we won't change anything, so uh, the price of this victory will be great, and it may be that it is too great, and and and this is our reality. this is our reality, we need critical, radical changes in this history, so that we do not make any, as if, there is a way, yes, by which our aggressors, let's say, neighbors, with a small letter, follow the example, and we want to the same way to overtake them, but we, having a difference in potential, and financial and mobilization, we should not play ahead on this path, we should follow a path that... will be as effective as possible, and if we cannot develop a procurement system in a year and a half, then in almost two years,

if we have at the end in 2023, the purchase of bulletproof vests by the ministry of defense is a tender for 100,000 and only 30 or 40 are bought there, and after that at a price of 24,000 uah, and later five more are purchased there, well, at a price of 30 or so, and we are at 50 % only this tender was closed, so 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, then we have to go some other way, but which will be as effective as possible, that is, if we cannot centrally supply, well let's beat any solutions 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 responsibility for this, that's why i as a producer, when i do the wrong training and on the tap a person will work and he receives some injuries, i receive responsibility, and when someone develops a bulletproof vest that does not respond or does not protect, or led to

the death of a certain number of people there, i already think that more than one fact would have happened in two years of war, where is this answer. well, if you don't realize all this objectively, we will simply have a very heavy price for this victory, and it 's not that it really hurts me, i want to live in this country and i want my children to live, and i want , so that i would not be ashamed in front of them boys who died, well, so that it is, well, it is really for me, let's say, this is the thought that i think about, always, but i want to believe that everything will be ok, there are opportunities, there is understanding, i would not talk about my the company, again , not not this one, did not engage in any kind of pr, there are, i see, developing companies appear in ukraine, not everything is smooth there, but plus or minus there is an understanding, if there was a proper market, competitive from that history, as it should be, he would give development, he would give investments,

especially since we are constantly negotiating there abroad from different countries, people contact each other. and they want, and they want, let's say, to invest , they ask, but immediately they ask how your system is going with state procurement, i say, well, for now we have to wait, it's not not not possible, because some things i i just won't be able to explain to europeans what the risks are, yes, that we can produce something and not be able to deliver it, mr. sergey, thank you very much for what you are doing. well, we will return to this topic, because in fact we did there are certain touches to the problem, the problem has not been delved into, 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 body armor, because if the audience understands, the solution directions will be used, i think that it is necessary to to return to this topic

again, but in more detail, thank you very much for the inclusion , i will remind our viewers that it was sergey meniluk, 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 , so that these bulletproof vests were 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 the purchase of arms, now the international arms exhibition aidex 2023 is taking place in ye, there are about hundreds of different countries that demonstrate their products , and ukrainian manufacturers also demonstrate their products there, in particular, the products of the national association of defense enterprises are presented there of the industry of ukraine, these are examples, and among them is the enterprise 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 ms. ukrainian armored vehicles , mr. vladyslav, i congratulate you, it's nice to see and hear you. good evening, thank you for the invitation to borrow. thank you for taking the time, and i would like to ask, first of all, what the ukrainian industry is demonstrating 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 already ours. the fourth exhibition of this year, at which the association for unification of enterprises is presented, and the purpose of our participation all this time is precisely the expansion of 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 the 18th year, in the 21st year and now in the 23rd year, one year was missed. because of covid and egypt is a country that was very strongly oriented towards the soviet union, there is a lot of equipment, so-called soviet, soviet types, eastern types, and in the region in this country there is a lot of production similar to our systems, and it was focused quite strongly on russia until 2009, but then there were such drastic changes in the direction of the western world, we know about the supply of ships, there was a french scandal, and so on, so now we as an association of entrepreneurs, we want to concentrate our attention on

involving the country in our orbit, let's 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 involve them in cooperative procurement communications. component parts in various directions, we are taking part this time, several companies are presenting their drones, this is what is interesting in foreign markets now, including this market, and we are also presenting armored vehicles, we are presenting radar systems, we are presenting products of the state vkkb we present just the first beam. after joining the kvertus company, system drone systems, that is why the wide range of products that are currently exhibited here is sufficient, well, but the main

goal, let's say, is the development of cooperation with this country, and in parallel with the exhibition in washington, a conference of the defense industry is taking place there, 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 the bmpod video there, which also relies on on cooperation with american companies, honorable companies, what is the current situation with this project and what do you need from the side of the same defense to speed up the implementation of this good idea, to provide the armed forces with a new mechanized infantry? sequence

and clarity of processes are needed, i would not like to reveal the details, since this is such an important project, from the point of view of defense capability, and the level of involvement of enterprises of different countries, the defense-industrial complex, ah, indeed, we, and ukraine, are currently conducting these are defense, uh, negotiations regarding the involvement of western companies in the defense sphere and are currently underway, i think they will be in the following press releases are appropriate, from the ministry of technology, 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 the problem will be for all of us and for our western partners, it

is the regulatory framework 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, this is not something that is unacceptable, it is unacceptable, i.e no western business will come here when it knows that provided that the company makes a profit there, that it can be interpreted as a loss, this is the problem we have, one, common to all enterprises, another problem - this is 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, we will go beyond it, somehow it is decided, and then, if we have literally one and a half minutes left there, there is products that are manufactured by our enterprises, but are not purchased in to the full extent by the ministry of defense, can our private companies export products to external

consumers under such conditions, as is happening now? now it is not very clear how, since such a process is clearly , there is no clear agreement, let's say, but, correct, i think that, well, a little bit, i don't want to criticize, but what is said, that for example, we will buy everything , which can produce, on the one hand, it is right, on the other hand, it is a little wrong from the point of view of the general staff, because the general staff must form 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 is production capacity. which are not completely loaded with orders and really have the opportunity to supply for export, and at the same time such sales will generate

some income, some foreign exchange earnings and balance now and then the significant negative balance of foreign trade and also develop the defense-industrial complex, therefore, i really support the initiatives that were announced by the minister of defense umierov and minister of strategic industries kamyshin at a joint meeting held with suppliers, and the trend is correct, but here it is necessary... to work on the correct coordination mechanism for such implementation, on the one hand, and on the other, still work to ensure that the needs of the general staff are satisfied by what they need, not by what we can produce, because that too, after all , let's fight, and here it is precisely the military who determine what is needed for them, mr. vladyslav, thank you very much for including, for that work, which you do for ours defense capabilities, may you find more partners at the exhibition in egypt, and

i would like to remind our viewers that this is vladyslav belbas, the general director of the ukrainian armored vehicles company, which supplies our army with armored vehicles, mortars, and in the future , infantry fighting vehicles. these were the main results of the day, followed by more international and economic news in vasyl zima's broadcast. thank you serhiy zgorets, these were the military results of the day, thank you guests, many interesting things await you ahead, the world about ukraine, ukrainian delegation in the usa, have they agreed on monetary aid for ukraine, money during the war, what is happening, what are the threats, well, also the sports news today, and the weather , another cyclone is coming to ukraine, where you should prepare,

now about the most important thing. for this hour, i will tell you in detail, i will also have the inclusion of our correspondent from one very interesting location, from one very, from one very interesting event, but let's start with the event that took place in the suburbs of moscow near the village of soponiva, where kiva was killed. ex-deputy of ukraine, traitor ilyuka, found dead in russia as reported by the propaganda media, he was shot with an unknown weapon, the collaborator's body was found in a cottage town in the suburbs of moscow. according to the fact of the murder in the russian investigator. the committee has already opened a criminal case, the death of the traitor, confirmed in the ukrainian intelligence agency, at the same time a number of domestic media, citing their own sources, reports that the liquidation of ilya kiva is a special operation of our special services, after the start of a full-scale war, illakiv fled to russia, where he performed with the russians narratives, in ukraine he was convicted of treason. and one more minus in

temporarily occupied luhan. unknown people blew up a car with an occupant, the explosion occurred near the local avangard stadium. in the car was a former so-called deputy of the people's council of the so-called lnpr, oleg popov. according to the russian security forces, he died, although earlier, another collaborator, rogov, assured that he was only wounded. let me remind you that this is not the first attempt to blow up a traitor, and this time it was successful. the previous attempt on popov took place in september last year. excellent work calculation of the stugna anti-tank missile complex. our defenders struck a russian bmp in the direction of bakhmut. the corresponding video was released by the fighters of the first separate special brigade named after ivan bohun. that's how the video was supposed to be, well, anyway. in nepal, the police detained 10 men who were sending young people to russia for the war

in ukraine. according to the district police. kathmandu, detainees collected up to 9,000 dollars from locals and sent them to russia. the path was paved with tourist visas through arab emirates. after that, they were enrolled in the russian army and sent to the front. nepalese law enforcement called it people smuggling. we support each other. a peaceful action with that name took place near the sejm building in warsaw. all in order to remind politicians about the still unresolved situation. on the polish-ukrainian border. the event was organized by ukrainians engaged in international trade with the support of the association of automobile carriers of ukraine, emigrants and volunteers also joined. activists wrote a letter that was attributed to office of the polish sejm, the main theses outlined by the participants of the action are the unblocking of traffic on the border between our countries, improvement of export and import conditions , and strengthening of the countermeasures against propaganda in poland.