time to better train fighters and get more weapons. offensive operations were planned in three directions at once, in the south and in the area of ​​bakhmut. while the partners advised to focus on one powerful blow in the southern direction. for some reason, western military teams forgot about the main thing when evaluating the results. what was promised and not done for... the first thing from which any offensive action begins is to gain air dominance, this is the first thing, if there is no air dominance, no attack operation is started, none the nato general would not have dared to fight with russia without aviation. the former commander of the us army in europe, a retired general, confirms the fact of the week that the allies did not provide a sufficient number of tools to resist the russian onslaught in an exclusive interview. i think that this is something

that will still be sorted out, whether ukraine should focus on one direction, or go on two or three? i would believe in the opinion of the ukrainian general staff, they worked well throughout this war, and you know, people will guess, but the bottom line is that we did not give ukraine everything that was necessary to achieve the success that was possible at the beginning of the year. american ones were also on the list of what was needed. tetakams, with the help of which ukrainian forces could massively hit russian headquarters and logistics centers, and which kyiv did not receive at that time. the washington post also writes about large losses of western equipment in the first days of the ukrainian offensive, but our military analysts deny this. not much western equipment was lost, about 10% was lost, for example, leopard 2 tanks and some were restored. ukrainian forces kept armored fists,

which was given to us. an important factor that broke the initial plan of the ukrainian command was the enemy's undermining of the kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam. it happened just before the beginning of the counteroffensive, which the russians knew about for some reason, and in this way they then prevented our marines from forcing the dnieper. however, as it turned out, for a short time, it still happened. but the most important thing is that what was achieved during the counteroffensive and were the efforts not in vain? the main achievement was the undermining of the combat capability of the black sea fleet of the russian federation. what we have done during this time, during this summer with by the black sea fleet of the russian federation, it is in general, well, not only in the textbooks, it is also in the guinness book of records. forced the russian

fleet to withdraw from the positions they occupied in the crimea, now all of them, there remained a small number of ships in the crimean ports, all the missile carriers were withdrawn to novorossiya. you can ask the commander of the black sea fleet what he thought of the counteroffensive, i think he would tell you that it was very effective. another undoubted achievement is the landing of our marines on the left bank and creating a bridgehead there. this is of great importance for further promotion. in the south, forcing became one of the most difficult and risky operations. the operation of the marine corps is simple, as a rule, it is on the verge, on the verge of fiction. our marine corps is one of the best in the world. after all, the fact that the plans of russia, which has a huge numerical advantage at the front, were thwarted, is already a success. the minimum task set by putin is to capture the donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson regions, and the enemy will fulfill it. failed,

we, being in protected positions, on protected borders and fortifications, have the opportunity to carry out an attack by the enemy, who actually has considerable resources, with less effort, and the key question is what will happen next, how will the arrival of the armed forces of ukraine in strategic defense affect the events at the front, will there be in winter large-scale operations? the military answers, yes... offensive actions in certain directions will continue, in the direction of tekmak, well , the enemy is going to counterattack, there are very heavy battles there, near the work station, but the plans to advance to the railway, let's say, to takmak, they are not have changed, we have overcome two lines of enemy defense, there is a third left, we will also overcome them in the winter, we will not reveal more details, let it be a surprise for the enemy, but one thing is clear, attacks on enemy forces will not be only at the front. and in

the deep rear, very deep. i think we could foresee new attacks on russian logistical bases and bases in crimea. i guess we'll see more of the diva. versions inside russia, it is probably important for ukraine to think about what will happen next. i'm sure that's what the general staff does. they are going to continue to put pressure on the russians to prevent them from strengthening their defenses, and continue to look for weak points. and strategic defense with the strengthening of positions will enable the armed forces to repel massive enemy attacks, and most importantly - to protect the lives of our soldiers. alla chish, facts of the week, actv, only news. before moving on, i want to thank all the subscribers of the facts of the week channel, we are already almost a quarter of a million, it is extremely honorable and cool, i want to ask you for sure leave comments under our videos, it

helps us a lot, firstly, to develop the channel, and secondly, to hear your real interests. it began: russia resumed missile attacks on ukraine from tu-95 bombers. for almost 80 days, the aggressor did not use these planes, giving preference to the shaheds. on the morning of december 8, seven carcasses fired two dozen cruise missiles. our anti-aircraft defense intercepted 14. obviously, this is only the beginning, not for nothing, the aggressor kept the missiles for several months. it is just as obvious that there will be an answer. russian carcasses more than once beautifully burned at their airfields, so the russians should not feel safe. and this is confirmed once again by another story, which the air force command reported on december 5, when ukrainian air defense reached a russian bomber in the black sea. the su-24m flew to mine our

grain corridor, but suddenly got tired and drowned together with the pilots in the area of ​​snake island. how exactly did ours reach the enemy, history. teaches, the russians are sure that it was a patriot, which, by the way, the air force has already used several times not only for repelling missile attacks. however, this is not the only long arm of ukraine. deputy minister of defense ivan gavrylyuk said that the modification of missiles for the neptune complex is currently underway. where can the god of the sea reach with his updated trident in ukrainian unity. serhiy kostysh together with experts assessed the possibilities of the new ukraine. some rockets new neptune. what to expect from the latest version of the legendary rocket? quite deep strikes on the enemy's territory. what does a long arm mean? the rocket carried out its

main shock phase of flight at ultra-low height and where she can get it. in principle , we can reach koluska. at least. august. in 2023 , another cotton harvest is taking place in crimea. unknown rockets, having traveled hundreds of kilometers, attack the enemy's airborne radar and the launchers of the s-400 triumf anti-aircraft missile system on cape tarkhankut. the occupiers are shocked, is this the same american atakams? less than a month passes, and already in september, near yevpatoria, after reconnaissance by drones, unknown missiles target another s-400 complex of the russian army. as it turned out. it was modernized the ukrainian neptun, an anti-ship missile produced by the kyiv design bureau luch, which has now begun to fly at ground targets, and we recently learned that ukrainian designers have gone even further. the other day , in an interview with army information, deputy minister of defense ivan gavrylyuk said that

another, newer version of the neptune is waiting for the occupiers soon. currently, work is underway to create the so-called long neptune, it is a new modification of the rocket for the neptune complex. but what does that mean? previously, neptune was purely anti-ship missile, had a flight range of 280 km and a warhead weighing 150 kg. it was these two missiles that sank the cruiser moscow in the spring of 2022. but now this missile is not just land-based, but also long-range. and turning it into a full-fledged earth-earth complex is not an easy task. there were some problems with the fact that the missile itself, it carried out its main impact phase of flight at ultra-low altitude, and this ultra-low altitude, it did not allow bypassing

the terrain, due to the fact that it lacked the necessary high-tech equipment, but these are not all the problems, the second aspect is navigation, when we talk about pro... a ship missile, we understand that the enemy, well, will not deploy electronic warfare equipment on the bases only on the ship, and the destruction of the ship is carried out at the expense of the homing radar head. works actively, that is, the rocket makes a slide at a certain distance from the target, surveys the entire space in front of it with a radar station, fixes where the ship is, in other words, it looks for a target in the sea precisely because of the presence of means of radio-electronic warfare, on land everything is different, there are many means of countermeasures, the terrain is heterogeneous and uneven, so the missile needs to be additionally spied on, but with what? we receive from our partners not only... modern weapons and equipment, as well as, accordingly , technologies, i do not exclude the fact that it was possible

to make the necessary changes to the p3-160, and after its characteristics were improved, precisely those that concern inflicting damage on this or that object, on this or that terrain, surface object or other, and now they have taken it upon themselves to increase the flight range. and rockets. according to foreign publications, the new neptune will have a significantly increased range of up to 400 km. this is 30% more than his marine father has. military expert denys popovych says that this distance is quite enough to control any corner of the occupied territory and all enemy logistics, including the crimean bridge. moreover, he is from there, well, in principle, it is obviously from there. in fact, we can even be outside the enemy's range of action artillery here, 120 kilometers from the front line to the coast of the sea of ​​azov and another 150 here, we can actually beat zaporozhye, but

the main thing is that from now on we can attack deep into russian territory and reach almost half the distance to moscow, as well as control russian regions bordering the occupied donbass, well, in a straight line to koluiska, in principle, we can shoot at least to tula, then to lipetsk, and this will give us the opportunity to obviously hit the reserves that they are concentrating for to follow. for example, in the kharkiv direction, in kupinsky, they concentrate here, here first of all, that is, we get the opportunity to strike already in advance, to strike directly at concentrations of troops on the territory of the russian federation, on logistics on the territory of the russian federation, on camps on the territory of the russian federation, that is, these are actually very broad opportunities that we did not have until this missile appeared, and the matter is not only that now the russian troops... technical equipment and repair the forces will be forced to move back even further, which will create major problems in

planning operations, as well as the fact that it is in this strip that the multi-army rear potential of the russian federation is concentrated. these are completely different possibilities for hitting critical strategic military-industrial facilities on the territory of the russian federation. the fact is that a large number of enterprises that work are located at quite small distances from the border of ukraine. which is extremely critical for the military-industrial complex of the russian federation. and the main thing - it will be our missile, that is, strikes against russia with ukrainian weapons will not raise questions among the allies. we know that one of the conditions for our partners to provide us with missile weapons, including scalps, storm shadows, and atakams, of various modifications, is the impossibility of firing them at the territory of the russian federation, meaning their territory. however, will not mean an increase. the complexity of the missile and stuffing it with more complex electronics, deterioration of other components of the missile, for example, warheads, because

the missile is not rubber after all, you cannot fit everything there. the problem with modernizing any missile is that it is limited to a closed space, that is, a body, and has a single total mass, in other words, to increase one of its characteristics, you have to decrease another. for example, you want the rocket to fly further and you want to increase the amount of fuel in its body. and you start adding, adding, adding this fuel, but then you have to reduce another characteristic for balance, for example, reduce the weight of the warhead itself, but there is a way out, use, for example, new, lighter and modern materials of the missile body, which will save you both mass and space, this will allow you to keep the warhead at the old level, and add fuel from... much, much, much, much more, much more than before, just like that

method, says oleksandr kovalenko, and neptune will be modernized, because the expected combat mass of the missile should not simply decrease, but even increase, the only question is by how much, using, for example, some kind of equipment, spare part, device, more modern, which generally reduces the weight of the missile by 50 kg, you can beat. per 50 kg, i.e. per 50 l volume of the fuel tank, or warhead, when it was once sent. to japan, the soviet mig, then most of its balance, most of its weight, it was cables, analog soviet analog cables, and this is just an example of how you can manipulate weight without reducing, for example, the warhead. according to its characteristics,

neptune can be quite similar to those missiles that we have, and the attacks of the storm shadow and the expected taurus. but it will be our rocket and its deliveries will not depend on the political discussions of the allies, so the new neptune will be able to impress the invaders in every way. but miracles should not be expected from such a rocket, at least not immediately. first, it is a cruise missile, not a ballistic missile. so the russians will be able to shoot them down just like we do with their missiles. and secondly, ukraine is unlikely to be able to produce dozens of such missiles a month, even in wartime conditions. but it is important that the enemy knows that ukraine also has the possibility of long-range missile strikes, and from... now to this game will play together. the new neptune will greatly complicate the life of russian logistics and the russian military industry. and therefore it will become more difficult for the enemy to plan and conduct full-scale military operations in the new year 2024. serhiy kostesh, facts of the week ictv single news. the surprise of the week

: vladimir putin will run for president of russia in... the fifth time you didn't expect it? well, actually, there is an intrigue here, because the official nomination was planned for december 14 during a big press conference, it was until this date that the task of taking our avdiivka, so to speak so to speak, to announce on the wave of victory, but thanks to our armed forces, something went wrong, and the scenario had to be urgently replayed. as a result, this kind of performance was played simply. in the kremlin corridor , one of the militants of the dnr suddenly approached putin and asked him to run for president of russia again, putin kept beating, he agreed, and everyone shouted: "please, please." well, all this entourage actually indicates that putin is going as a war president. and he feels confident,

let's not hide it, let's say directly that despite the sanctions, russia's economy will not fall, even with... it is growing, because new industries, weapons and new jobs have been opened en masse, of course, the russian defense industry lacks technology, lacks parts, spare parts, chips, but they are slowly getting all this through third parties countries, such as, for example, the united arab emirates, it is not for nothing that putin went there this week with an urgent visit, on the same day, having stopped by saudi arabia. they are talking about oil, from which, despite the sanctions, russia also receives huge profits and not only from oil. well, what can i say, if some european countries provide aid to ukraine with one hand, and quietly buy russian gas with the other. who is this? about the double standards that prevent putin from losing.

next, konstantin pavlov. europe and the gas needle of the kremlin, they do not know morality, it should be based on this, how brussels replenishes putin's military budget. we will not receive gas, prices will rise, we will pay for this gas, and how long will we have to suppress the russian economy. the suffocation of the russian economy is carried out by the anaconda method. germany continues to trade in russian gas. this year bought a record amount of kremlin blue fuel in the entire history. 40% of the gas imported to the czech republic comes from russia. the second year of the war, but the european union becomes the largest buyer of liquefied gas from russia in the first half of this year. this is what activists

of the anti-corruption group global witness say. it was europe that bought more than half of exports from the kremlin. only spain, there, and austria, italy, slovakia, they, they still buy gas. where did the european promises go? politicians that the european union will not replenish the russian budget? in principle, europe is stepping on the same rake. in order to understand why europe continues to sponsor the bloody war of the kremlin dictator against ukraine, and when it will end, it is necessary to remember that the sanctions against the gas sector of the russian federation are still in place. no, there were ideas to introduce a gas sanctions package in the european union, they were promoted by the baltic countries, poland, well... but the discussion did not go further, because a number of countries were simply blocked. conventionally, russian gas can be divided into two categories. the first is that gas that moscow sold and

sells to europe through pipelines. the second one, which we will talk about later, is the kremlin's new economic weapon, lng. liquefied natural gas. before the full-scale invasion of ukraine, the kremlin earned almost a billion dollars a day from the sale of energy resources. for help europe stopped buying russian oil, and the supply of gas through pipelines from russia fell by 75%. the gas transportation system of ukraine at its peak transported 130 billion, today it is 30, but it has been reduced by 100 billion only in ukraine, well, this is the main transport artery, there is no northern flow. but why won't european countries block the russian gas pipeline, they do. by the fact that pipeline gas supply contracts were signed even before the start of the great war, but firstly, they can be very long-term pipeline supplies - as a

rule, long-term contracts were signed there for 10-20 years earlier and for 30-odd years. secondly, some contracts are drawn up according to the rule that whether you take pipe gas or not, you still pay. as a rule, in these contracts have conditions. take or pay, if they didn't choose that gas, they paid for it, and that's a double loss. so, in essence, the europeans are telling us, nothing personal, only business, we will not fulfill our obligations to moscow, we will not be able to help kyiv, the losses are colossal, we will not receive gas, prices will rise, we will pay for this gas, and where are we shall we take money to help you? but not only pipeline gas goes to europe. russia urgently refocused on the supply of liquefied natural gas. european politicians are not interested in the shortage of blue

fuel, because their direct voters use it. so eu ports help sell more than 20% of lng from russia. a more convenient delivery arm. well , actually, a gas carrier from the jamaican peninsula. came out, went around the scandinavian peninsula and in europe, while from qatar, there or for the united states, well, a little more trouble. russians take not only a short way, but also at a price. they are just dumping, and buyers at this price, they do everything possible for to buy it. europeans are moving too slowly in adopting sanctions, experts say. it is forbidden. currently, oil is really in the first place among the revenues in the russian budget, when they will get their hands on pipeline or liquefied gas is unknown. the european commission says that member states must

get rid of russian fossil fuels by the year 27, but will the governments of the countries listen to them? business interests of large corporations and its great states, they do not know morality, it is necessary to proceed from this, despite all that there... in the european union are tired of sanctions, sometimes they claim that they have exhausted their sanctions potential, nothing like that, there are reserves, uses the cream for the export of energy resources and its southern partners, india and china, on which the sanctions of the european union do not extend, and for example oil, which was only yesterday russian , enters the european market already in the form of indian fuel, the volumes are small. and if in absolute numbers, it is a very small number, because china did not buy much, or india, india did not buy much either. experts have calculated unlike a billion dollars a day, as

it was before the start of the great war, russia now receives about 500-600 million. still, these are gigantic numbers. so, can we say that europe is actually sponsoring the war against ukraine and feeding the kremlin. feeds, i would say so, those seeds. there are no revenues, but all the same money is coming in a smaller amount, but it is coming, time and constant political pressure on european partners for the sake of sanctions, two things that ukraine desperately needs. a full-scale invasion, almost half gas in the eu was of russian origin, now it is 15%, but even this is not enough for the russians to feel on their own skin what an empty budget is, it is necessary. not one year, says the expert: with such an approach from the united states, the g7 countries, and the european union, it will probably take five years. the eu

is trying to balance between strengthening sanctions against the kremlin and fears that the ban on russian gas will lead to an increase in energy prices in europe. in this way, time is delayed, and the sanctions flywheel will still try to spin. no one has it illusions that if sanctions are adopted today, they will work tomorrow. absolutely not, because there are many, many loopholes, many things that are possible. bypass and so on. one of the leaders of the sanctions policy could be the united states. the state debt office has already announced sanctions against the new russian arctic lng-2 project. in fact, it prohibits european and asian countries from buying gas from this supplier. but the problem is that arctic lng-2 has not even started production yet. but the sanctions against the yamal lng plant, which supplies most of it of russian gas to europe were not introduced. so

we have to... wait, says ex-minister of fuel and energy ivan plachkov. the very algorithm and mechanism of sanctions, it, it is being improved, and we see that the united states, they are gradually, gradually, gradually, and already with every month there, it is more difficult to circumvent these sanctions. russia has lost the first world energy war against the whole world, experts are sure, and the kremlin is feeling these blows to the budget. in addition, the russians have everything . to keep the oil and gas complex in normal technical condition. the world is slow is tightening the noose around the kremlin's neck, but too slowly. the suffocation of the russian economy is carried out by the anaconda method. gradually, gradually, gradually. but this is what does not suit us. because we do not have such a resource of time. you can see how we are wasting time, and europe and the world are paying putin for gas and other minerals, on the center's website.

energy and clean air research - 30 00 € per minute, 2 million per hour, 50 million per day, each of these euros can be melted down into a bullet or projectile that will fly tomorrow not for spain or italy, but for ukraine, but for european money. konstantin pavlo, facts of the week, ictv, only news. be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel. facts of the week there is a lot of interesting stuff here, enough for the entire black sea fleet of russia. journalists of the influential british publication the times visited the secret base of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defense of ukraine, where our secret fleet is kept. kamikaze magura vi 5 marine drones, the same ones

that destroyed two small ones exactly a month ago. russian landing craft in occupied crimea. each drone has two cameras, infrared optics, the warhead of 250 kg of explosives accelerates to 83 km/h, that is, it can catch up with almost everything that flies under the russian flag. drones are controlled using satellite communication. it is more difficult to suppress it, but the russians are trying very hard. means of electronic warfare have become a very important component of this war. it was not for nothing that our head valery zaluzhnyi mentioned them in an article. unlike the mythical armat tanks, the russians made a lot of them. they are capable of shielding a missile from hymers and hide the ship in the bay of sevastopol. unique domestic developments showed how to break through this invisible shield and how effective our ukrainian artemmu kula is.

the war on the invisibles, they are now starting to migrate across frequencies, we are starting to overlap those frequencies. how did electronic warfare revolutionize the battlefield? some complexes are quite cunning, how can the armed forces of ukraine break through russia's radio-electronic shield? i once tried to count after... 60 types of reb, i was already lost. the facts of the week tested the newest developments of the ukrainian reb systems. we are already influencing the drone. our incredible exclusive from the testing ground. this is one of the bays of temporarily occupied sevastopol, an important maritime hub for...