with me and we will now ask him questions that concern not only me, but concern all of us. the week was not easy, we lost a marinka, then we did not lose a marinka , in the kherson region putin said that he had already defeated everyone, ours are holding on, krynyk and so on, and avdiyivka, all this is worth discussing, but putin said, yesterday he spoke to the population , i will always say the population, because it is not the people, the people do not behave like that, it is the population, then he spoke before the population and said that the plans for war have not changed in russia, bild, a german tabloid from own logs. but we understand that these are russian sources who wrote that putin wants to continue the war until the 26th year and seize kharkiv, dnipro and zaporizhzhia, but seems to be ready to give up odessa, how to evaluate these plans, this is manilovshchyna in putin's style, build a bridge from manilovki to moscow, are these any real, real prospects? well, of course, these are not realistic prospects, but first of all, we understand that putin and the russian federation have not given up on plans to completely take over ukraine, and this is like ... just what

they are trying to broadcast to their population, as you say, and now this publication in bild is in some way, well , in a certain way, in unison with putin's statements that we say everything is fine, let's say so, we will advance, the goals of our special operation there have not changed , everything is going well with us there, but in fact these are the theses that have not changed, we actually understand that the goal of putin and the russian federation is destruction. ukraine, and that is why they divided the dnipro or other things there, this is only conventionally speaking, such a partial solution to the issue, we understand that these are not aspirations of the russian federation and we must first of all defend ourselves and draw conclusions from all these statements by putin, by the way, putin himself repeatedly lied in the course of his direct line, when he also talked about how many troops are in ukraine and the losses of our equipment and so on . by the way, today on

the defense express website we calculated these indicators that putin talks about regarding the number of the russian army, of course, it is difficult to remember the numbers from the screen, but if you add up all these indicators that putin said, then relatively speaking, there 360 00 na na the period of the invasion, then 3,000 of those mobilized, then 486,000 contract workers, then in total it amounts to... 1,128,000 personnel, and at the same time putin says that there are 617,000 in ukraine, the question arises, where are the remaining 511,000 russians going? soldiers, well, they will probably be destroyed then, at the same time, we understand that the main intelligence agency today corrected these theses of putin, said that there are about 443,000 plus 30,000 russians in ukraine. troops

of the russian guard, these are the numbers that are real, and what putin calls much more, 620, he said, 617, that's right, that's right, so that in fact, well, to intimidate additionally, here is our publication, which precisely details all these indicators, yes, and by the way, regarding the losses, the us intelligence has submitted data to congress and where it says that since the beginning of the invasion. russia lost 315,000 personnel killed or wounded, that is, in fact, why this figure is called, because it correlates very closely with the information of the general staff regarding the losses of the russian federation, so we can see that the data of the general staff is quite close to to reality, by the way, now i 'm going to break away for a second, because you 're talking about putin, and there was also an interesting clip like this, filmed somewhere on motzfilm, probably , so there are such white people...

that is, it shows the caricature of this situation, but i wanted to say something, well, it's just not about the topic at all, but about the topic of putin. in the usa, another reason has appeared why trump may not be allowed to run for the elections, it turned out that in the last days of trump's presidency, documents from the white house disappeared, a folder, by the way, 25 cm thick, it is somewhere okay, with secret information about russian interference in the 16th election, since then the special services have been unsuccessfully trying to return it and find it, they can’t find it at all, i think that this person who loves volodymyr putin very much is playing along, and by the way, why with reference to our conversation, volodymyr putin is more than convinced, as he said, that neither...

will stand up, will die down, help will dry up, it is already drying up, it is very important and waiting, but here it is important to say, here i want you also said that, because maybe our viewers will be there somewhere. presenting your arguments will be important understand these arguments. putin says that ukraine does not produce any weapons now, they give them, but now they give less, but i, for example, know that ukraine produces bohdan, bohdan sau 6, units per month, plus we have such a wonderful development as the sniper rifle, as it is called, the owner of the aubrey, that's right, with which the world record was set, so what do we make, well, in fact, we make. we make anti-tank guided missiles, we make long-range missiles that sank the cruiser moscow, we we manufacture radar systems that are needed for our anti-aircraft defense, we actually now manufacture semi-drones, but of course all this is not enough in general

to meet all our needs, and here in any case we emphasize the help of our partners, there were many this week. on the one hand, this is a package of american aid for 200 million dollars in anticipation of more funding from next year, and there were many messages from germany, in particular, this is the transfer of the third patriot complex, a number of ammunition from germany, so that in any case european countries provide support for our armed forces, although we understand that now there is a certain feeling that there is such a certain pause, we need more weapons, more, let's say, unity among . our european partners , in order to remove that component that putin is now counting on, first of all, that the west will get tired of the war in ukraine, but when putin gave a press conference, there was a press conference of gentsek of nato, who said that, relatively speaking, if putin will win in ukraine, then

there is a real risk that his aggression will not end there, and he thus made a call to all nato countries to be more active, i think this is absolutely the right direction. in order to ensure a greater consolidation of europe in opposition to the russian federation, as a country that in fact, well , in any case, will not stop in ukraine, if we do not stop it ourselves, and will try to use its aggressive actions against the baltic countries as well and against other nato countries. indeed, summing up the press conference putin, it can really be said that he did not say anything new, and this indicates that the opinion does not work collectively in the russian general staff, the russian... kremlin, because nothing new was proposed, and here is the old song of the leaders, which we heard, well , actually, it was a re-sing of his hits from 2022, when he scared the whole world. let 's go to the fronts now, the massive assaults of the russian federation on donetsk region, maryinka novomykhaivka, the victory of nevelske, will

the enemy go to ugledars, today there is again a threat that he may go to kurakhovy, although i i read specialists who say that the enemy will not break through to kurakhovy, please, well, really, we are talking about the most hotly now. direction, although this week i believe has been the most difficult for a considerable period of time because there has been a significant number of combat engagements each day, over 100 each day for the last few days, and the enemy is just now trying to take advantage of his primarily manpower in many areas to press on our defense, and now really the most difficult directions are maryanka-avdiivka, which should be perceived as in such a... in one package, bakhmud, kupyansk, these directions, where the enemy is trying to put pressure on our defense. and if a certain stabilization takes place around avdiyivka, although i think it is temporary, regarding maryanka, there are now many reports that, relatively speaking, ukrainian troops now control about 92% of this

settlement, which has already been completely destroyed. and conditionally speaking, there is a certain advance of the enemy to the north. in the western part of meryanka, it is precisely that which is higher than this reservoir, which, relatively speaking, is divides this settlement in half, and relatively speaking, now the enemy, after there is a certain advance in the northwest, is now trying to act in the south as well, in particular to move towards the settlement of pobeda, and there they are trying to expand ... the zone of pressure on our defense line, and just where the victory is located, there is the settlement of novomykhaivka even lower, and this is actually an attempt by the enemy to expand the front line right in the direction

of the coal mine, and there our brigades are acting effectively enough to counter the enemy, was i saw it today the video is from novomykhaivka, where our 90th... 79th airborne assault brigade destroys several enemy tanks, this is exactly the video, where our paratroopers are right near novomykhaivka. destroy a significant amount of armored vehicles, there are about 20 examples in total, and tanks and bmps, if you look at this video, and this is exactly, well, the direction that our military is currently holding, and the enemy, i think, will now try to still operate not in the direction of kurakhovoy from maryanka, after all, in the direction of victory, in the direction of the charcoal burner, so that in a way, well, to provide just, well... bypassing the coal mine, in order to create conditions for the safer functioning of this

volnovakha station, which is used, not yet used, but important for the enemy, as one of the elements of logistical support, so maryanka really it is not such a difficult section now, it will be held by our troops, but we understand that under the pressure of the enemy, looking at certain circumstances, it probably makes sense to move to other defensive positions, and now the battles for avdiivka, here is the latest such activation, in fact two not months, but we know that fighting has actually been going on for avdiivka since 2014, it's just that now there is much more force in a full-scale war there, much more, and this avdiivka coke plant has always been such a symbol of struggle and closeness to the enemy even during the anti-terrorist operation , but now, of course, the enemy is on the attack, he needs avdiyivka, they wanted to... december 14 they didn't take putin's speech, now they obviously have a new date on their red

calendar, that the enemy's advance has changed and where the key points are now concentrated opposition? well, if we look at the map now, we can see that the dynamics over the last day or two there have become somewhat smaller, because relatively speaking, the enemy's advance in those directions, where the enemy wanted to achieve success first of all, is just... to ensure advance from there, from the steppe to the north, to close this encirclement, this scheme does not work at all, and we understand that within two months avdiivka has already reached such a record level, because, in particular, american intelligence or british intelligence i remember doing it analysis of what the russians lost under avdiyev in these two months. more personnel than even in the first two months of the invasion of

ukraine. in general, the losses of the enemy there now amount to about 13 thousand personnel killed and wounded, this is not given by the general staff, this is precisely the data of british intelligence and more than 200 samples of various armored vehicles, that is, in fact , for the 11 square kilometers captured around avdiyivka, the losses of the enemy amounted to 13. personnel, these are actually colossal losses, but we see that the enemy does not count on losses and further is trying to secure the encirclement of this settlement, but what happened during this week, they advanced a little to the north of the steppe, expanding this advance along the railway, the situation around the line where they pushed there a week ago, it has not systematically changed there. and in fact, unless one more direction was added there, which concerns neevelskyi,

it is a little to the east, to the west of avdiivka, where the enemy is trying to expand the zone of influence on our defense line as well, given the fact that avdiivka has been held for a long time, there both artillery and additional measures have been deployed , we see that the ukrainian command does not... want to leave, let's say, this section of the front, realizing that in this way it receives a significant grouping of the enemy's forces and causes significant losses, and in this section, as i will remind you that there are about 40,000 enemy personnel somewhere, and the ratio there in terms of number was given that there is even one to five from the point of view that the enemy personnel outnumber those units that are currently defending avdiivka by five , well and bakhmut is an enemy. is trying to recapture the positions it lost during, well , the summer-autumn counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine,

we recaptured some settlements, were able to advance south of bakhmut, in particular in the south, and the enemy is now trying, as far as i understand, to return the lost, as far as he cares it works, it doesn’t work , please, well, the situation near bakhmut remains difficult, because relatively speaking, there are two directions there, it’s precisely the north, where the enemy is... i took this line of defense, starting from ivanivsky khromovoga khromovoy to bohdanivka, it became so more even, because he managed, relatively speaking, to outplay. part of the results that were achieved in the ukrainian army , now due to the transfer of reserves to this area, there is just such a constant rotation that paratroopers exchange with units of the first corps, and such a certain constant rotation, which due to a significant number of personnel ensures , conditionally speaking, well, it ensured advancement to a certain

distance deep into our territory, and so on difficult around. shiivki, because there is active, despite the active work of artillery, our artillery, the enemy also uses a significant number of personnel, and today i had a conversation with my comrade, he says that in fact we have enough artillery, but the enemy has much more mortars, i.e. they are trying to influence our defense line precisely at the expense of mortars and fpv drones, although regarding artillery, why did the question arise, today there was an interview with... one of the officers of the 92nd brigade, which is fighting there, and this officer said that, relatively speaking, if during the offensive there two months ago we had a one -to-one ratio of artillery there in all sections, now near makhmutov the enemy has, as it were , five to one in terms of ammunition, although i repeat, such information, well, my friend does not confirm it, although it is also related

to the artillery tasks in this area, well , in fact, we are again moving into this winter, when we have to endure that... during that winter, they were stationed in bakhmut, in fact, not near bakhmut , in bakhmut, now around bakhmut, avdiyivka, marinka, zaporizhzhia region also understood that now we are waiting for shells, we are waiting for help, well, by the way, germany decided to give 67 00 ammunition, well, still a certain certain amount, maybe there is a lot that we do not know about , but in any case, we understand that this winter will surely drag on the veins of the ukrainian army, volunteers and all those people who contribute. well, first of all, the ukrainian army, of course, well, now, in fact, we are moving on to the fact that we are forming a new war strategy on next year, these publications in the foreign press, which related to the negotiations with the americans that we should form either a defense strategy or an offensive strategy, rather now we are talking about the fact that we are preparing an active defense strategy with a focus on the creation of fortifications, although with this it was necessary to hurry a little earlier, but it is better late

than never, and the reformation of the front line, the creation of new brigades, they are being created even now. well, and the actual increase in the efficiency of the use of personnel, this applies to both commanders and infantrymen, and because, relatively speaking, now the enemy is trying to impose military tactics on us , when for their cheapest resource, we are forced to pay with the most expensive resource in personnel, and this is exactly the paradox from which we have to get out in order to impose it on the enemy our tactics and strategy of conducting hostilities, we literally have a minute, but i still... two questions, i chose one, because after the missile strikes , we don’t know if they will be massed or not , well, they survived rocket fire, glory god, let it work, and the left banker of the kherson oblast teplinsky can be removed from his post, he is the general responsible for the dnipro grouping, russian, the new positions of the armed forces of ukraine on the island of veliky potemkin and the battles near krynyk, if possible, briefly describe the situation there, well, i will start with anyway from this

direct line of the aggressor putin, where he mentioned the krynks six times, yes, that is... we took our guys there deep into the territory, so that , like, well, we only have a sanitary loss, yes, that means that in krynok zone, the situation is extremely difficult for ours military, but it is even more difficult for the enemy, because at the expense of half-bucket artillery, we ensure the acquisition of this bridgehead, first of all, we tie down a significant amount of the enemy's force, although during this time the enemy did transfer additional units, in general, if we look there at the ... shore if we count the personnel of the enemy in the kherson region, there are about 65,000 russian aggressors there, despite the fact that these bridgeheads, which are held by our marines, i do not think that we have more than a thousand soldiers there, i think between 600 and 1,000 this is the maximum those indicators that can characterize the number of our marines and other

military personnel, that is, in fact, a certain group receives such a significant number of russian forces. we didn't have time to discuss everything, but the key, key points were discussed, thanks to serhii zgurets. thank you, hopefully next week will be a little easier than this one because it's been a really tough week for our defense forces. well, i have a plot for your attention, poltava said goodbye to another defender. the junior lieutenant of 116 returned to his hometown on a shield. our correspondent anna morozova spoke with the hero's siblings. jesus is always with us, so the brothers said. andrii kovalenko was nicknamed jesus, both during his life and after his death. the junior lieutenant defended ukraine, being the commander of the rifle platoon in the first full-scale invasion. andrii died

on december 7 during an enemy assault in donetsk region. on this day, relatives, friends and brothers came to see jesus into eternity. we still pray for the conquest of the soul of the rested servant of god, andrii. thanks to people like him, we and... them are still defending this country, great honor like him to the heroes, he died saving his brothers, the orcs got in, he was the first to take the fight on himself. andriy twice joined the defense of the homeland. for the first time in the anti-terrorist operation as a part of the 110th separate security brigade of the general staff of the armed forces. the second time, after a full-scale invasion of tro, the warrior received the call sign jesus. on the very last one. shelling, i was not far from him, but not right next to him, but i know that he was doing everything possible, everything possible to get the boys out, to help the boys through force, under fire,

practically semi-surrounded, andriy led the battle, led the battle, as if he was standing with an army, he was standing practically alone, shortly before february 24 , 2022.' they could see andriy's face in the city lights as part of a campaign to popularize the city's ground defense, then service in the hottest areas of donetsk region. he had his own crown phrase on character, that is, on character we go there, on character we do this, and on character that he went to this position. in civilian life, jesus worked in that area and on...

well, i want to say about this plot, in his time i was approached by the fighters of the 116th brigade and we , well, together with you, our viewers collected money for a car for the anti-aircraft missile platoon of the 116th brigade of teroborona, and now i am also trying to collect money for the boys through facebook, so i feel the loss of the fighter 116 more 1st brigade of the poltava teroborona, sincere condolences and thanks to the hero for his... feat, and now about the most pressing news, as of this hour, i will tell you in detail: 52 russians suddenly became good, in the temporarily occupied mariupol, as a result of the strike,

the very so many occupiers. more than 20 more the occupiers were wounded, the losses were announced by the russian media, rockets hit the location of the muscovites in the area of ​​the port city shopping center. together with the occupiers, almost 10 pieces of equipment were destroyed , and now the city is looking for the so-called enemies, who were allegedly gunners. this is reported by the adviser of the mariupol city mayor, petro andryushchenko, russian terrorists came to the shopping center a few days ago, among them were special forces, some were supposed to go to ugledar, some to avdiyivskyi direction, but they will go home in truny. disguise sick man from the front line, the police evacuated a man who needed urgent medical assistance. a resident of zarichny in donetsk region had... a stroke. his condition was serious, the village where he lives is located several kilometers from the front line. there are no doctors there. under fire, the bilyanga unit took the 53-year-old man to

a safer area and handed him over to doctors. thanks to timely evacuation, his life was saved. well, now the topic will be very painfully voiced, at least for you to listen, and then we will draw some conclusions. an unacceptable case in the kyiv city military administration reacted. to the fact that the guard did not let two children, 12 and 13 years old, a boy and a girl, into the shelter. the sviatoshyn district prosecutor's office, because it happened in the sviatoshyn district of kyiv, opened criminal proceedings on december 14, when the russians launched daggers, a boy and a girl, 11 and 12 years old, so i 'll correct myself here, were heading to the shelter with a dog of the maltipu breed, allegedly because of her the man forbade them to enter the premises and left them on the street, and here i will make a brief one pause and... i will tell you that there are details of this story. therefore, the school director assured that the guard could not have acted differently, because other schoolchildren could have allergies to

the four-legged friend from other sources. yes, there is an order of the kyiv city department of education specifically not to let pets into school shelters, and it is not a question here, if we rescue pets and it is correct, they rescued in irpen, in kyiv, in sumy oblast, well, everywhere there was a war, kakhovska, when hess were blown up by the enemy, rescued animals, volunteers gave their lives for in order to save animals in erpin, they were shot, and now the question is that it is not possible, well , the issue of allergies should be considered separately, but such cases cannot happen for sure. kyiv was under attack by ballistic, ballistic missiles, they are shot down and debris can fall anywhere, we saw it, the shelters were made with budget funds, and all the townspeople should have a shelter there with their four-legged friends, well, plus, we saw the consequences when the family they didn't let her into the shelter in the desnya district of kyiv, unfortunately, people died there, she was there the situation is slightly different, but in any case the right to life is indisputable. a fire at

the construction site today in the darnytskyi district of kyiv caught an auxiliary structure on the territory of the construction site, the fire covered an area of ​​30 km, smoke was seen from different parts of the city in less than an hour. the rescuers tamed the flames, the state emergency service reported. fortunately, no one was injured. law enforcement agencies are establishing the causes of the incident. well, a bloody story happened in transcarpathia. clarifications appeared after the tragedy in the transcarpathian region, now one second, as far as transcarpathia is concerned, something must go wrong. details of the tragedy in transcarpathia appeared, according to the prosecutor general's office, a deputy of the karatsk village council detonated three grenades in the session hall. 26 people were injured, seven of them are in serious condition, doctors are fighting for the bomber's life, he is in intensive care.

emergency services and law enforcement officers are working at the scene. the event is being investigated as a terrorist act, the perpetrator faces up to 10 years behind bars, v the transcarpathian regional military administration was informed that an urgent meeting of the regional defense council was convened to adopt urgent operational decisions. for more information , you can read, find out the reasons and, by the way, before going and throwing these grenades, this deputy, he left at home for... a list in case he dies , and all these details are there, i will not spend time on it now. british defense companies will be involved in the production of weapons in ukraine. about this was stated by defense minister rostem umerov at the british-ukrainian conference in kyiv. western partners can use ukrainian conditions to test weapons in combat and get quick feedback on their quality from the military. therefore, cooperation with ukrainian manufacturers should be effective for britain

- assured the minister. merov. friends, always friends, will once again help destroy the enemy. lithuania repaired the first leopard-2 tanks for ukraine that were damaged during hostilities. the operation of the tanks after restoration was demonstrated at one of the training grounds of the lithuanian army, they will soon be returned to the front. vilnius consistently supports ukraine's struggle for independence and not only directs military support, but also helps with the repair of weapons, said defense minister arvida. annushkas, exactly how many appliances were repaired by the lithuanians , well, they don’t give clear reasons, preparing for the new year holidays, or for the christmas and new year holidays, not every family will decorate a christmas tree , some will choose an artificial one, some will choose a live one, how much is being asked for a green beauty in the kyiv region this year and which

the assortment is offered further in the material of my colleagues. from the white church. this year, the sale of christmas trees in the city officially started on december 1, as the chief forester of the bilotserkiv forest farm assures. this is due to the fact that for the first time in ukraine, all christmas and new year holidays are celebrated according to the new julian calendar. last year, more than half a thousand trees were sold, and it is hoped that this will be the case in 2023 as well. they are cut down legally on special plantations, where they grow from four to eight years. spruce and pine are expensive. almost 200 to over 500 hryvnias, it all depends on the height , but it will cost more for hungarians, but the price , says arena, has not changed at all, at our company we opened a christmas tree bazaar right here after the january breakthrough in bila tserkov, we also opened a christmas tree bazaar in fastov, skvira, the same...