hello, this is svoboda ranok, an informational project of radio svoboda. top guests every day. this is the shipping district, kherson. turn on live. we are somewhere in the vicinity of bakhmut. we tell the main thing. on weekdays at 9:00. my name is andrii, i am 33 years old, i am from kherson. in september of this year, i went to the army, and i immediately said that if there is an opportunity, if there is a posting somewhere, then i am ready to go. immediately before mobilization, he was a regenologist on computer tomography. even before that , he was an infectious disease doctor, and even earlier a paramedic ambulance during the registration of documents here at the kmb, i was asked the question, who do i

want to be... and a list of military specialties , and in addition to everything else, there was a specialty of combat medic, well, of course , i chose my specialty, as many have their personal lives, and there are some fear, there is a war there, you can die here, it happens like that, and you get captured, eh, but i have solved all my affairs, and at some point i just think that i have to prepare there for a month... three or four, well i adjusted myself to a little physical training and read and watched special e-e videos, and so i decided, as i decided in september, i came in september, everyone is afraid, because everyone understands that this is a war, in the war they die, but this is the situation, this is what happened, and the war will continue until then , until this fear is overcome.

well, not that it is insurmountable, but until each person learns to fight this fear, because it remains, it is always here, even in training, and there are special corresponding training exercises in order to get used to and learn to fight your fear, and when the desire to end the just war for us, for ukraine, with our victory and de-occupation of our entire territory. then this is probably the only goal and the only way to end this war justly, but we talked when we first arrived, several people really, just as i myself came, many by summons, and there was a lot of talk about the fact that i was taken away, i have a family there, i have a family, why do i need it, i can't, i don't know, i'm disabled, there's something else like that. er, but probably communication with

sergeants, communication with each other, and learning and understanding that it is possible to learn, even though i have never held a machine gun in my hands before, it is possible, it can be learned, and you understand how it is done, and now we were communicating with each other, and i remember people , what about the guys who said, why am i here, i don't want to be here, now they... themselves start talking about how we, we will win soon, we will do everything to win. events, events that are happening right now and affect our lives. of course, the news feed reports about them, however, it is not enough to know what is happening, it is necessary to understand. antin borkovskii and invited experts soberly evaluate events, and... them,

modeling our future, every saturday at 1:10 p.m., with a repeat on sunday at 10:10 a.m. studio zahid with anton borkovsky at espresso. this year, thanks to western aid, ukrainian air defense was significantly strengthened, american patriots appeared, the number of german arst systems increased, together with the united states , it was possible to adapt soviet anti-aircraft missile systems, which is still the basis of defense. of the ukrainian sky under western missiles, after all soviet stocks are almost exhausted, all this gives reason for optimism, as the president said during the online summit of the group of seven countries. this winter, we have a chance to win the energy battle. last year, russia tried to hit ukraine with a blackout. its missiles and iranian shahedis, which became weapons of russian terror, tried to destroy our energy industry. now we will settle the air force, particularly with your support. and if we continue to do this, if we endure this

winter energetically, russian terror will suffer one of the biggest losses. this year last year ukraine has already survived six massive enemy attacks, each with 50-100 missiles, and a number more. raids of shaheds. in november , there was even a blackout in the country. as a result of another attack, all nuclear units in the controlled territory were disabled, and the power system lost its integrity. millions of ukrainians were left without electricity. we had to adapt to life with emergency shutdown schedules, a new characteristic sound appeared on the streets of cities: the noise of an on generator. for... 50% of the ministry of energy suffered from shelling energy infrastructure, thermal power plant turbines, distribution networks and deficit transformers. in the spring and summer , the energy industry carried out a large-scale repair campaign, but the energy system met this winter in a much worse condition than last year.

to completely restore everything, of course, it is impossible, and unfortunately, there are damages and destructions that are not recoverable at all, and in... conditionally, something happens there that does not make it possible to generate the necessary amount of electricity, for this there is import. thanks to the import of electricity from in the european union, in particular romania and slovakia, ukrainians have not yet had to remember how to use the light according to the schedule, and such a risk exists, and even without massive attacks. a slight decrease in temperature to -4-5°, or an unscheduled repair of a power unit, and a shortage occurs in the damaged electrical system, it goes through the winter without capacity reserves, so any russian blow can become particularly painful, partners understand this and help not not only air defense systems, but also the corresponding equipment. one of the vectors of our efforts is giving of spare equipment and spare

materials to ukraine, these are high-voltage transformers, industrial gas generators and mobile autonomous equipment, which will increase resilience and prevent heat and electricity losses. another area of ​​assistance is the physical protection of critical infrastructure. this, in particular, is taken care of by the state agency for reconstruction and development of infrastructure. the agency assures that, together with ukrenergo , they have developed a three-level system for the protection of power facilities, gabions and big bags, special structures filled with loose materials that should protect against the debris of drones and missiles, concrete structures against the explosion of shaheds, the third level of protection. from a direct missile hit, the americans provide special protective equipment, including nets and reinforcement. how effective it will be will become clear in the near future. the morning attack on december 8 may indicate the beginning of russia's winter campaign to destroy the ukrainian energy system. the relatively small

number of missiles, some of which, according to defense express, lacked an actual warhead, speaks in favor of version that the invaders are still only probing the ukrainian air defense system. if... there will be many times more, there will be a serious disadvantage on the street: a return to emergency shutdowns is a very real scenario, experts say. the ministry of energy has already prepared the corresponding schedules. every day, every hour, every minute we receive a large amount of information. the most anticipated event of the year, which is actually happening on the front. what are the losses of personnel and equipment on the battlefield? how do you evaluate our success? people's community, and what moscow is lying about. from the flow of news that is flowing from here, we single out the most important ones. the tweet is closely monitoring whether there will be weapons for ukraine and what kind, and what are the russian occupiers whispering about behind the commanders' backs? news, summaries of the week - this is a review of only important

events, significant and reliable events. these are analytics, fact-checking, professional comments. about this and much more, today in the issue. about important things, in simple language, accessible to everyone. greetings, iryna koval is in the studio and this is the summary of the week on the espresso tv channel. news, summaries of the week. every day at 21:00 at espresso. more than half a century in the heart of the capital on the corner a tall monument on shevchenko boulevard and khreshchatyk street. lenin, there were several attempts to demolish it, but it was finally brought down exactly 10 years ago .

people rejoiced, people took hammers, well, when they knocked him down with a crowbar, when they already knocked him down, people... they led round dances, collected pebbles as a memory, took pictures, well, that was really what lenin was for, he was a symbol of the ussr. an almost four-meter pedestal of ilyich in basarabka in 2013 they tried to demolish it at least three times, the first two times the law enforcement officers resisted, but the third time they simply watched. lenin in the center of kyiv dragged everyone else along with him. only in december 2013, three more of these were demolished in ukraine. they overthrew lenin and felt everything, now let's overthrow yanukovych. indeed, viktor yanukovych fled in two months. and since then, the process accelerated, and monuments to soviet figures began to be torn down in the southern

and southeastern regions. in particular, in 2014, kharkiv saw the second highest fall lenin in ukraine, decommunization officially began already in 2015. thanks to the package of laws, it was possible to remove thousands of soviet toponyms, names, memorial signs and monuments. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, deradinization has been joined by i... sification, so we finally got rid of not only lenins and stalins, but also pushkins and chkalovs. after the full-scale invasion, it became clear to everyone that there should be nothing russian in the capital of ukraine, there should be no russian propaganda, there should be no russian symbols, we have enough of our own heroes. the capital is 98% colonial-free as of the end of 2023. and activists. in particular , several high-profile and long-awaited demolitions took place this year. motherland

lost the soviet coat of arms from its shield, and pushkin finally disappeared from bagryany park. they even dropped the rider shchors, for whom leonid kravchuk once posed. they promise not to stop there. miss patona, a few more that need a long time there. and we have several dozen more memorial plaques that will be removed. just a few days after the decision of the city council. to leave a memory they planned to create a museum of monumental propaganda about the atrocities and colonial policy of russian figures. however, later he was forgotten, but not forever. each, even a fallen pedestal, has its owner. these are mostly local authorities. so the dismantled workers, stakhanivites, soldiers and poets are in temporary storage, after the victory they still plan to implement a museum or total. tarism or the soviet regime. today , there is no such museum of totalitarianism there or under any other name.

there were indeed thoughts of creating it on the territory former vdnkh. but this is the site i mentioned, namely the aviation museum in the zhulyan district, it was also considered as a possible place for the organization of such a space, and it is possible that after completion. war, it will be organized there. for 10 years after the fall of the soviet granite leader in the center of the capital, his so-called greatness finally dissipated. during this decade, ukraine gained new, real heroes, who now have to fight with the new russian leader. kateryna galko, oleksandr purlevich, andriy verstyuk, espresso tv channel. friends, we are working. live from the shelter, now an air alert has been declared in ukraine, this

31k took off, so please stay in safe places, because it is not clear what to expect from the russians. friends, we continue our conversation with our expert, military expert valentin badrak. mr. valentin, we have already started a conversation about how the military-industrial complex of ukraine, which may appear in the 24th year, can change. at the press conference, president zelenskyi said that 1 million ukrainian drones will be produced in the 24th year. tell me, according to the scale and the tasks facing the armed forces of ukraine, is it a lot or little, or does it seem that 1 million is a lot, in fact, maybe it is not enough for the tasks of our army. this is quite a lot, especially in the context of the accusations

made against the president, well, let's put it this way, those observers who have a close connection with the front, i mean yuri butusov first of all, and the comparison of what was in the key brigade less than 800 fpv drones have been delivered there. censornet, whose editor-in-chief is yuriy butusov, deployed 1,100 drones through volunteer efforts, i think that... er, the president named such a number as an answer to this objection, and of course it is his, well, so be it say, the desire now, uh, from a positive, from a positive point of view, it is very important that there is an understanding that it is necessary to increase dramatically, defense express has already calculated that

it is necessary to increase production by 67%, and uh... the main thing, the main thing is money, yes, nothing does not happen without finance, without money, and it turns out that if we consider that the same fpv drones cost somewhere up to 500 dollars, then only for them, for a million of these drones, 500 million dollars will be obtained, not to mention 10 00 medium-range drones , which at least... cost 2,000 dollars each and about 100 drones that will fly at a range of 1,000 km, this is 15 - 15 - 30 thousand dollars per unit, so the amount turns out to be very large, and we have 43 billion hryvnias pledged, so ,

in fact, how will the authorities find a way out? well i will remember that during the second world war , great britain used internal loans and borrowed, including from its own businessmen, maybe that is why, maybe that is also why mr. butusov asked the president in a post that why not use the funds of the same tatarov, yes, who built a villa in konchizaspinova during the war, why not... become the funds of, say, rostislav shurma, who trades, whose family trades with russia, electricity, and, for example, i can't help but say this, he turned to protelemarathon, absolutely correctly addressed, i haven't watched the telethon since april 22nd, because it's just

stupid to watch the telethon, and he pointed out absolutely rightly. that the financing of the telethon is 120 times more than , say, the purchase of drones in avdiivka, yes, for the provision of units in avdiivka, that is why this is a very important issue, money, where to find the money , it is necessary to redistribute sharply, sharply across the board, and this is exactly what he hinted at butusov and many other people who said that this is an example, butusov is an example of one of many people who emphasize that it is necessary to focus on the war only on the war, and to provide for ukraine, because the 24th year is the year whether ukraine will survive or not , yes, in the end, if there is no uh help from the united states, and i

said at the beginning of our conversation that my insider sources give no more. 30% that this $61.4 billion will appear, yes, they will be voted for, because the republicans do not want, they want trump, and trump is a disaster for ukraine, including, and uh, biden now, well fights as much as possible not to surrender his own positions, in fact it means that in order to receive this money, biden must surrender his own political positions. and well, give all possible things to trump, and let no one be in rose-colored glasses when , say, one of the states there, yes, banned trump from participating in the prairies, then this is still a positive signal, but it still does not mean anything, so that

the republicans have great advantages in the supreme court, so the conclusion is positive. there is a government solution, there is an understanding of the problem, now it remains to implement this problem and attract internal resources, that's it there is a huge problem, let's see if we can all cope, thank you mr. valentin, it was valentin badrak, a military expert, friends, we are working live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, the air is currently underway. vuga all over ukraine are writing about the fact that several mig 31k planes have taken off and there is a threat of using dagger missiles, so we... are monitoring the situation that is now in ukraine, we are working in ukritta, in our studio in ukritta, further in our people's deputy of ukraine and our guest, who is quite, are in touch with us

we often have on air the former head of the security service of ukraine, valentin nalyvaichenko, mr. valentin, i congratulate you, thank you for joining our conversation today, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, well, mr. valentin, first of all, first of all, how to a professional, i will ask you a question about the service of a conscript, because you understand exactly what in this story raises the most questions and what the answers may be regarding these eavesdropping devices that were found in the premises where the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine was supposed to work, because yesterday, unfortunately, during zelensky's press conference. who didn't hear this question about the servant , they talked about the president's relationship with zaluzhny, and about what

actually happens with the one who commands the front, the one who commands the armed forces of ukraine, what do you say about this story, because it is important for me to know it is your opinion, i will say the most important thing, this cannot be, it is implied that the maid is or is. in those premises where the general staff of ukraine works, where the commanders-in-chief work, in fact, managing the troops of ukraine, managing defense of ukraine, offensive or counteroffensive operations, this cannot be, this is the first and most important thing i want to say, secondly, in order to prevent this from happening in the future, i clearly understand as a professional that military counterintelligence, and there are such specialists high-ranking officials in ukraine, military counterintelligence should be transferred to the ministry. of defense to the general staff and to directly obey and work together with the entire military organization of ukraine, ukraine. military counterintelligence must be transferred just for

in order to secure and protect military commanders, commanders, both in kyiv, and not only in kyiv, we also have headquarters in the east, center, south and others, which i will not name, but which have strategic military importance, they must protect and the first... the most important line of defense is military counterintelligence together with equipment, together with professional knowledge, together with other specialists who know how to do it so that wiretapping does not happen, whoever from the eavesdroppers does not want to eavesdrop or steal the information of the military command of ukraine. and third, it is very important, especially now during the alarm , it will be clearer to our viewers that any device, mobile phone, computer. or listening to the device can serve as a signal to which terrorist missiles of russia are directed, well, this should be clear, it is clear to specialists, so

i believe that this is an additional reason that no eavesdropping device or other device that emits a signal from any ukrainian military headquarters, they have no place there and this cannot be allowed, now during the war there is no greater and more serious priority than. defend the stake, defend the military commanders. and lastly, any information that leaks or can leak through a wiretapping device or through an agency is a risk to the lives of our soldiers, our defenders, and unfortunately, our defenders pay with their lives for such leaks from headquarters. word is coming out, friends, that the air force is reporting several. shahediv, moving from the kursk region of the russian federation to the sumy region and the attack of several groups of enemy strike drones from the south, the direction of movement from kherson region to kryvyi rih, this is in addition to the confluence

of migiiv, so please be careful, be careful and take care of your own safety. mr. valentin, you obviously saw what zelenskyi said yesterday and heard what he said about his relationship with zulazhny. and this whole story with maryana bezugla, how do you , as a professional, as a person who knows how the ukrainian government is structured and how it should act, especially during the war, how do you perceive all these explanations and what took place and takes place between the highest officials during the war. i will say at first, which i categorically do not accept. first there was pr. the same people 's deputies, including the one you mentioned, who went to the front, were hindered there, but did pr, took selfies and so on, i categorically did not accept it even then,

they were hindering our troops. they diverted forces and resources in order to protect them, and now i do not accept either this deputy or what she is doing, and most importantly, she is interfering with the commander-in-chief, who is diligent in further work and managing the troops, that is my position, and this is the most important thing i can say that now, in order to make it clear in reality, what should be the relationship between the commander-in-chief and the supreme commander-in-chief, it is a relationship of direct subordination and combat work in the headquarters of the supreme commander-in-chief. moreover, today the kmist seems to have published the last survey, where it became clear to everyone that the level of trust, for example, in general zaluzhnyi, is 72% of ukrainian citizens who do not perceive and are against his resignation or removal, and that someone

interferes with him perform combat tasks. and those orders given to him by the commander-in-chief, that is, the president. i am in favor of a clear, understandable, but such, you know, reinforced concrete vertical now during the war. yesterday, zelensky spoke about the need to mobilize about 500,000 military personnel. in your opinion, will this great mobilization, which zelensky said, take place. and is such a figure now necessary in order to cover all the needs of the armed forces of ukraine? the needs that ukraine has in the armed forces, the first is rotation, and for this we need really new ones trained brigades and units, but i emphasize, both new and trained, and therefore our brigades, and there were several of them that trained last year, that is, excuse me, during this year they trained both in britain and in the czech republic.

and in other countries, this is the help that is needed for the next year, and we agreed, it will be continued, that is, in order to train fresh, new forces and so that they can be used by the military command, the same general zaluzhny, the rate ours to replace for rotation those units that are really exhausted and have been on the front line for two years (the first point), the second point: we all need to understand and remove the discredit and in general... all this, you know, such a little psychedelic heat around mobilization, i would generally recommend to our command now not so much to scare mobilization with this word, but to clearly say , that we need and will attract and offer young people, military specialists to get involved and join the ranks of defenders through protection, and not through forced mobilization, this is the first thing, and the second thing is that we

will first... train each of our defenders in training centers of the military, secondly, we will give weapons, and thirdly, in real coordinated military units, such defenders get the honor and the opportunity to serve, and most importantly in the state, internally, and this task, i do not, do not cross out, on the contrary, i emphasize the verkhovna rada and the government, that respect, provision, salaries , social guarantees for them and family members, for such and new defenders, should be at the highest level, higher than that of a deputy, higher than that of a minister, that is, to raise the level and, you know, such respect for the military, for everyone defender, and so on in a way, please forgive the time of our program is coming to an end, sorry for the anxiety, unfortunately , we have released a slightly shortened edition, it was valentyn alevaychenko, former head of the security service of ukraine, people's deputy of ukraine, friends, during the program we are conducting a survey, we ask you about whether

peace is possible... with russia, so we are now looking at the poll results: 10% yes, 90% no, in 15 minutes we will return to our studio, we will have political scientists andriy smoliy, vitaliy kulyk and kyiv city council member viktoriya ptashnyk , following a bbc newscast, we let's go back to the studio, don't switch , it's a ceasefire in the region, we'll discuss it together in today's episode of bbc ukraine, i'm olga palomaryuk, israel is ready to make... concessions to free the hostages from hamas , they say they won't let anyone go as long as the fighting in the sector gas will not be stopped completely, or will they find a compromise? the israeli authorities, which are under increasing pressure, both from outside and inside the country, seem to allow the possibility of a suspension of hostilities in the gas sector. this would allow, on the one hand, to liberate the larger one the number of hostages currently being taken by

hamas militants, on the other hand. increase the delivery of humanitarian aid.