there will be the wonderful iryna koval, who will tell you about what is happening in the world, because it is called news on espresso tv. it's freezing, mr. mykola, while you were talking, it's quite wintery outside, too, and we 're saving money in the studio, you see, they're calling for electricity. literally in a moment i will tell you about the most important events at this time, wait. 19:00 in ukraine, news time on the espresso tv channel. in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all

viewers. from now on, curfew violations will be charged. the verkhovna rada adopted the relevant draft law dated so the fine will be from uah 8.5 to uah 17,000. business will be punished more severely. entrepreneurs who dared to work during prohibited hours will pay from uah 51 to uah 102,000. and in case of repeated violation, the amount of the fine will increase twice. two women were killed as a result of enemy shelling in kupyansk, kharkiv region, and another 30-year-old man was wounded, said the head of the regional military administration, oleg sinigubov. as a result of the attack , a private house, a garage and a fence were damaged, and the occupiers were also swept away by the hurricane in the village of podoli, a local resident was injured there. the russians once again attacked the residential quarters of kherson.

one of the enemy projectiles hit a high-rise building, rescuers fought an elderly woman in a state of shock from the house, and later helped another resident, the state emergency service said. our anti-aircraft defense shot down an enemy missile in the kryvorizka district of the dnipropetrovsk region, serhiy lysak, the head of the regional military administration, said. the enemy also hit nikopol with two kamikad drones. damaged infrastructure facility, malt and a five-story building. fortunately, no one was hurt. 11 modular shelters have already been installed in the kharkiv region, the regional military administration reported on this. a total of 65 protective structures will be installed in the region in bogodukhiv, izyum, kupyan and kharkiv districts. the cost of one such shelter is about uah 2 million. ukraine again began to transport

electricity from romania and poland. currently , a shortage of generating capacity is recorded in our energy system, ukrenergo announced. during the day, a power unit at one of the thermal plants of power plants is under repair. a few more units of the ukrainian energy industry are being restored in the front-line region after shelling. ukrenergo urges people to consume electricity sparingly these days. 12 people were evacuated from the coconut chemical plant in avdiivka, among them nine men and three women. they came to the shelter of the enterprise of the first full-scale invasion and asked for shelter - reported the head of the donetsk city military administration vitaliy barabash. let me remind you that today there were explosions in the temporarily occupied makiivka. on a large-scale fire broke out in the city. the commander

of the armed forces of sweden visited the units that perform tasks in the eastern direction. general mikael buden spoke with the artillerymen and infantrymen and highly appreciated their combat work. it should be noted that these ukrainian military personnel were trained in sweden. germany will take on the additional burden of aid to ukraine if other members of the coalition cut it, chancellor nieme said. scholz of the social democratic party of germany. now , during the speech at the congress , germany is the largest supplier of europe arms for ukraine and the second after the united states. we will continue to support ukraine in its defense struggle. we do this through financial means and through the supply of weapons. and of course this is a big financial challenge for us as well. no,

this war probably won't end as quickly as we all hoped. that is why we must be able to continue doing what we are doing today, this year, next year, and the year after that. if others hesitate, we may have to increase our share. members of the european parliament, representatives of eu member states and experts of the european commission concluded a political agreement on the law on artificial intelligence on saturday. they negotiated, the negotiations lasted more than 36 hours. as a result of the discussions, the representatives of the three institutions reached an agreement on the projected use of face recognition and the use of objects. intelligence by law enforcement agencies. at the same time, the european commissioner for the internal market, thierry breton , noted on the ex social network that the eu will be the first to establish clear rules for the use artificial intelligence. from now on, they will bear

criminal responsibility. the verkhovna rada adopted a law on the criminalization of smuggling and excise goods, as well as for false declaration, it is about... raising the thresholds for commodity smuggling by five times, and for excise goods by two times. this law should regulate the payment of customs duties. the corresponding decision was supported by 248 deputies. buses and trolleybuses, which duplicate the traffic of the closed six metro stations of the capital, will be stopped during the air alert. the director told about it of the department of transport infrastructure of the kmda, ruslan kandybor. ground transport will be up to'. 77 buses and 20 trolleybuses were launched to transport passengers to the nearest shelter from lybitska metro station to teremky metro station. let me remind you that since yesterday, the movement of trains through the demiivska terymka metro section has been closed for the urgent

repair of the distillation tunnel. there is a decision of the kyiv defense council. this acceptance is collective. people who are responsible for the safety of kyiv residents. safety of tourists of kyiv, citizens who are in the city of kyiv, and that the transport should stop and people should be in shelter, this is clear, accordingly, such buses that will work on this branch, they will transport people to the nearest shelters, and people have to be in shelter. however , shuttle traffic can be started through the closed section of the metro, and they plan to organize train services through an undamaged tunnel on the section. lybitsk and terymka stations. the same train will travel in both directions on the same track. the movement interval can be from 30 minutes. the timing of the launch of such a movement is currently unknown.

this is from lybitska station to teryamky station, a shuttle option. it will be somewhere up to half an hour, the interval of movement of such a train will be up to half an hour. we, that... even if it were all wrong, you know that people hope that the subway runs every half hour and can take a huge volume of people, we have to work it out, a certain schedule, and we will definitely do it. the dismantling of the monument to mykola shchors was completed in the capital. specialists of kyiv public works were working on dismantling seven-ton structure for six hours. we had to partially block traffic on taras shevchenko boulevard. the monument will be kept in the state aviation museum. named after antonov. the monument was erected in 1954. according to legend, leonid makarovych kravchuk posed for the sculptors. more than 60 monuments related to the history and culture of russia and the ussr have already been removed from the capital. in poltava, fifty

citizens rallied against the christmas tree in the center of the city. previously, the regional defense council allowed the installation of festive trees for conditions that budget funds will not be deducted for this, lighting will not be connected to the general power grid, and there will be shelters nearby. in the regional center , uah 400,000 was financed for installation and dismantling, business representatives agreed. poltava does not want a christmas tree, poltava does not want a christmas tree. people now, well, they don't think about that, now there's no need to celebrate new year's holidays and... put christmas trees in the center of the city, when we have a war there, and for some reason people say there, not here, now thousands of boys are in captivity, thousands are missing , the boys are sitting in cold trenches, and people are celebrating, now is not the time, money should not

be spent on christmas trees, not on paving stones or something else, money should be spent on boys, buying drones so that we win, the biggest holiday for me will of course be the return of my husband and all other... military personnel who are currently there alive, healthy , go home, and then this long-awaited holiday will really come. i believe that such christmas trees, and... well, even though it is justified there by the economy and everything, it is immoral. and i want to remind you that tv channel spresso, together with the public organization baza ua, we are collecting funds for atvs to transport the wounded and other needs of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of ukraine kholodny yar. in extremely difficult conditions, the ukrainian military fights for victory every day, not leaving wounded comrades on the battlefield. evacuation will be quick with atvs. and easier, and therefore the chances of saving the wounded are much greater. our goal is

uah 800,000. so you see all the details on the screen. such were the news at that time. i am iryna koval, i'll say goodbye to you until 9 p.m. see you in the news at the end of the week, and in a moment, meet my colleague vitaly portnikov. and the saturday politclub, on the air the saturday politclub, khrystyna yatskiv, vitaly portnikov, welcome you, and we will talk in... in this issue, of course, about the situation at the front, about the development of the situation in the middle east, about the last meetings

of vladimir putin and his statements, we will not ignore the prospect that another hot spot may appear on the world map: are the main players ready for this, but above all to the situation on the fronts, oleksandr kovalenko, a military-political observer of the information resistance group, is in touch with us. mr. oleksandr, congratulations, glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes, good evening. congratulations, mr. oleksandr. so, let's start with the situation around avdiivka, this is now the most important hot moment in the war. how do you assess this situation? well, i'll say this, it's a pretty tense situation right now, why? because, first of all, mainly the russian occupiers will use the infantry component near avdiivka. this infantry component, it consists of... units of the first army corps. the first army corps is the formation

of an illegal military formation, the so-called dnro, from exactly those mobilized, which they mobilize in the temporarily occupied donetsk region, that is, in almost all the main directions, they use them in the first echelon at a time when most of russia's most combat-capable ... divisions from the second general military army, the 41st general army, they avoid any serious combat, i.e. the most combat-capable there are the 15th, 21st, 30th, separate motorized rifle brigades, the same, they are mainly located somewhere along the second line, the 55th and 74th, yes, they are near the water brigade, they operate there, but in the first line of action, the first separate one prevails. motorized rifle brigade, then all of the same first army corps,

all this indicates that the regulars are now engaged in regrouping and accumulating resources, as well as restoring the combat capability of their units after the unsuccessful and first and second waves of assaults on the widow, that is, they are preparing for more powerful third wave, which may occur before the new year in the coming weeks, and this... the situation, it is quite stressful and threatening precisely because of this, regarding avdiyivka, the american analysts of the institute for the study of war are of the opinion that its capture is also kupyansk, well, by the way, putin wants to do it even before the elections in march 2024, if the situation around avdiyivka suggests that there are still such possibilities, what do you think about the account? kupyanska, is such a promotion possible in this direction? not even a question here

only for avdiyivka, in fact, and kupyansk, we see the activation of the russians in many directions at once, directly, this is near bakhmut, we see their activation both in the west of bakhmut, the western location, and the southern location, the direction of lishiivka and andriivka, we see their intensification... the sification of hostilities in the maryanka area, in the near future, i am sure of this, the intensification of hostilities near the ugledar will begin, that is, a rather wide front in some locations, he... has become more active, and it can be called such as a back-up plan, plan b for the russian command, if they cannot , for example, fulfill the task of capturing avdiyivka before the new year, or before the so-called elections in russia, they will have the opportunity to achieve some success in some of these directions, even if

we are talking about kupyansk, then they cannot start. offensive actions directly in the direction of kupyansk itself until they capture the village of senkivka, and even the capture of the village of senkivka - this will also in their propaganda context be some gain, that is, putin will be able, for example, either in the new year or during the elections there to declare, you see, we have already captured the very important village of senkivka, and we have almost a little left to do as they like. it is to say to liberate kupyansk, and if we liberate kupyansk, then it will already be liberated there and kharkiv itself will be liberated very soon, so he may have such a pre-election message, and it may concern not only senkivka, not only avdiyivka or kupyanska, they can also beat maryanka, klyshchivka, andriivka, and

definitely and the angler. please tell me, mr. oleksandr, in principle. if we talk about the strategic importance of all these efforts to capture avdiivka or melynka there, is it really a strategy, or is it just a necessity to have some symbolic victories on the ukrainian front, right there before these very presidential elections, let's say, well, if we are talking specifically about avdiivka, then this is really such political symbolism, it does not have any global tactical significance for the russians today, precisely in the position they were in before october 10. this year, yes, it is a fairly powerful fortified area, yes, it is a logistics hub, but it is not critical for the russians, some kind of critical threat for donetsk there, in general for the entire bridgestone, no, this, they were not bothered by the presence of avdiivka at all, except for one moment, there are commanding heights, but this is already such a moment, it does not

deserve such expenditure of resources, on the other hand, generally speaking. to carry out their plan b for some other purpose in a populated place, then the most important among all is not even klyshchivka, not andriivka, not avdiivka, not senkivka, but ugledar itself, this is a really tactically very important, important location for them today, ah, all the others, these are only these political moments. if we talk about the south, in a little more detail, mr. oleksandr, the defense forces continue their work on the left bank, we can see this from the reports of the general staff. at the same time , information leaked out this week that the evacuation of the civilian population from oleshki, possibly from novaya kakhovka, was being prepared. the legally elected mayor of nova kakhovka, volodymyr kovalenko, denies this information literally during the last few hours,

but less than that, we see quite interesting and symptomatic things in... crimea, for example , dzhankoy and helicopters no longer take off there, in fact, the logistics for the group, which is transferred from crimea to the kherson region , is being reworked on the go , does this mean that we are succeeding with those bridgeheads on the left bank, but i will say that there are some successes in terms of evacuation from olesha or nova. we already heard before that they are starting some kind of evacuation from oleshek, but let me tell you i will tell you that it is supposedly a demonstration of a gesture of goodwill, such a prerequisite, let me tell you what the prerequisites of a gesture of goodwill are, we can talk about the preparation of a gesture of goodwill not for the evacuation of collaborators there, documentation there and so on and so forth, but

we can talk colleagues, first of all , the medical personnel of the russian ... occupiers are withdrawn , their field hospitals are closed, and the medical staff are also withdrawn from the city or villages themselves, the wounded are withdrawn, the second phase is when the withdrawal of artillery begins, and the third phase is when the withdrawal begins their means of communication, all levels, all equals , all subdivisions, and even after that , we can say that these three main signs are true, they say that a gesture of good will is being prepared and they are preparing to flee, so far we are not following it we are observing, on the contrary, and in the left-bank kherson region, you can now observe how they have increased in the last two weeks. their presence from 65 to 68 thousand personnel of the dnipro troop group and increase further to almost 70,000, they are increasing this potential, that is, they

are preparing to really hold this area and oppose our units on the left bank, and the fact that they are reviewing logistics options, they are in some sense even far-sighted here, because the same thing that is happening now near avdiyivka is also far-sighted, they understand that they are unlikely to be able to in the short term prospects of capturing the city itself, so they are preparing plans b, so-called, and the same with logistics, as in the south. tell me, please, mr. oleksandr, in principle, if we talk about the offensive capabilities of the parties, it is realistic to assume that the russian army capable of some serious strategic offensives with the aim of occupying new ukrainian regions, in the future, i mean, not in the distant future, but in 2024. and the ukrainian army and the wall street journal said that the ukrainians may be capable of a new major offensive in 2025 if they survive 2024, but what are our opportunities

for an offensive in the future? the big offensive is such a concept, well, let's put it this way, it refers to the liberation of large territories, some large territory, let's remember what happened on the right bank of the kherson region, as gradually, step by step, conditions were created so that the presence of russians on the right bank would be critically suicidal for them, and at the same time there would be no global, large-scale hostilities with such global, ee with an offensive on a wide front and so on and so on, that is, these were point operations, i do not rule out that something very similar will happen on the left bank and there will be... the prospect for the 24th year, also the liberation of some territories on the left bank, if we are talking about the other part of our front, i.e. zaporizhzhia region

, donetsk region, luhansk region, the border of luhansk region, the administrative border of luhansk region and kharkiv region, then mostly these will be defensive-type combat operations, and as for russia's ability to seize new territories of ukraine, it will only be able to do so if ... then, when it will have the opportunity to somehow make a pause, to accumulate resources, in the situation in which the military-industrial complex of russia is now, it can compensate for losses sometimes almost to zero, and compensation for losses in zero is not the accumulation of resources, i.e. not the creation of new units for large-scale offensive operations, because... let's see what is happening near avdiivka, near avdiivka, where several armies of combined forces, more than 40 thousand in number, are trying

to occupy a small town. if we are talking about a region, or a city such as kharkiv, the city of milyonnyk, then for its occupation, both the region and the city itself, they will need much more than for avdia. and this is a completely different resource, completely different potential, which the military-industrial complex will not be able to provide, of course, if there is no long-term pause in the war, in hostilities, and we understand that any liberation of our territories on any scale will be possible only in a situation, where we will have constant support from our partners and will develop our own capacity in this sense. on the other hand, in your opinion, can russia open a new direction, but even if it is not opened, because the resources currently available are not enough, simply resort to destabilization somewhere in sumy oblast,

let's say, well, they are constantly doing it along the border with sumy oblast and kharkiv oblast, they constantly expose the border strip of the border territory to shelling with 120-82 mm mortars, these are daily shellings, and sabotage and reconnaissance units are constantly operating there groups, russians, our counter-subversive units are hunting them, this is happening 24/7, so they are on the scale of these processes to such an extent that we are already small now both in terms of weapons and quantitatively in human resources we will be forced to simply stretch the power to an even longer front, but no. today, we have three conditionally dangerous tv stations throughout the territory of ukraine. this is the north, the border with belarus. it's midnight. but the eastern

location, the border with the russian federation, the sumy region, the kharkiv region, and this is the odesa region, from the border with the so-called transnistria, there is a concentrated number of units, forces and means necessary so that not those, which began to hold the defense, in the event that some unforeseen aggressive actions will take place, and this is in order... in order to carry out an invasion of the sumy region or the kharkiv region, it is necessary to accumulate forces and resources on the part of the russian federation, this is constantly being monitored and it is impossible to do it by surprise, imperceptibly, and today they do not have such an opportunity, to deliver such a large-scale strike with the aim of seizing sums, or with the aim of seizing kharkov, for this it is impossible to do even

today with those. conditions that have somehow imperceptibly developed, they need to save up for this, well at least somewhere around 30-40 thousand personnel near the border, and this, of course, corresponds to the movement of visas, their concentration, that is, it is not done very quickly and imperceptibly. thank you, thank you, mr. oleksandr, oleksandr kovalenko, the military-political observer of the information resistance group, we were on the phone, we will now take a break for literally two minutes, but don't switch, there will be many more interesting dialogues. ordinary things become unreal. heavy bags are not for my sore back. for back pain, try it long time cream long-acting cream relieves pain, reduces swelling and improves joint mobility. with the cream dolgit, whatever you want, i will lift. dolgit - the only yellow cream for joint and back pain. good tradition, teacher. of the christmas holidays,

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check. denis zasyp. the espresso channel and ukrainian pen present the self- titled project with myroslava barchuk. a series of conversations with ukrainian and western intellectuals who analyze and comment on the most relevant social debates. what news will be analyze the guests of the project this week and actually, who will be the guest of the studio? we will find out already this sunday. undoubtedly, the topics will be relevant. special guests, own names with myroslava barchuk. sunday, 17:10 at espresso. i knew there would be a war. evacuation trains were organized, and these trains traveled through kyiv to the west. many people went to the carpathians. everyone understood that the carpathians were far away, and there was a chance of missiles flying there. very

small, that's where we met maria for the first time, but you can't get out here with an ordinary car, the shelter is shelter, it's shelter from disaster , it's shelter from genocide, it's preservation , it's preservation of yourself, in order to preserve the future, it's preservation of others who will rebuild this future together with you, we must be strong, i say to myself every day, and so that we can help others. we continue the saturday political club on the espressa tv channel by khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov. in this part, we will talk about what is happening in the united states and the problems that ukraine has because of it. immediately, for sure, we will note that we there are innocents.