who also could not resist and commented on the liquidation of three russian su-34s. the secretary of the national security and defense council noted that the hunt for russian fighter-bombers, which created problems for the force struggle in the southern direction, was conducted for a long time, and we actually understand that this entire operation gave a positive result, which may or may not, or rather, does not please us . we are already giving the floor to iryna koval, who is ready to share relevant information with us, so... what will you tell in this issue? i will to tell marto and about what you said, i will also tell you about the f-16 planes, when they will appear in the ukrainian sky and in general about the support and assistance to ukraine, wait literally in a moment for the most important thing.

4:00 p.m. in ukraine, for your attention , a news release on the espresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers, soon they will be in the sky of ukraine, the netherlands is starting to prepare the first 18 f-16 aircraft for ukraine. this was announced by president volodymyr zelenskyi. he said that during the phone conversation he thanked the dutch prime minister mark rutte for such a decision. the ukrainian leader also thanked the netherlands for its active support since the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to the eu and emphasized the importance of providing our country with long-term eu aid in the amount of 50 billion euros as soon as possible. god loves the trinity. at noon , the defense forces eliminated three russian su-34 fighters in the southern direction. this

was reported by air force commander mykola oleschuk. from these bombers, the occupiers launched guided aerial bombs on the southern regions of ukraine. wasteland of guided aerial bombs, which they considered to be remote, that is , the planes did not come close to the air defense hit zone, but did damage by sending these guided aerial bombs. today, they received a powerful signal that this distance of 50-60 km, from which the kabis were launched, is no longer safe for them. muscovites attacked kurakhove in donetsk region, two cars caught fire near the houses due to shelling. firefighters promptly went to the scene and extinguished the fire, the state emergency service reported. previously, people did not suffered the occupiers fired artillery at

the residential quarters of kherson. an 85-year-old woman was injured in the attack, the head of the regional military administration oleksandr prokudin said. houses have broken windows, cut facades and walls. ukraine returned the bodies of another 66 fallen defenders. this was announced in the coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war. repatriated bodies and remains will then be transported to state specialized institutions, where they will be handed over to representatives of law enforcement agencies and forensic medical experts for identification of the dead. finally, in ukraine , a 12-year-old boy was returned home from russia. this was reported by ukrainian shoemaker dmytro lubinets. the child spent 18 months under occupation in luhansk region with his father and another four months in the territory. the boy's mother

is a soldier, so she could not take the child by herself, and finally the family met at home. a 35-year-old man received a mine-explosive injury as a result of the detonation of ammunition in the mykolaiv region. this was reported in the emergency service, the emergency service situations. during earthworks , the tractor driver ran into an unknown explosive object. the man was hospitalized. to the hospital japan has approved a record defense budget to counter china and north korea, reuters reports. it is about 54 billion 250 million dollars. the budget envisages an increase of approximately 17% compared to the previous year's expenditure. a significant part of the funds will be allocated for strengthening the cyber potential, as well as for financing the construction of warships. anti-missile defense with

combat systems. in addition, it became known that japan lifted the ban and will send patriot missiles to the united states. this will help the pentagon continue. ukraine by substituting ammunition. 10 demining vehicles and 100 pickup trucks. the republic of korea handed over equipment for ukrainian rescuers. this was reported in the ministry of internal affairs. the machines will be handed over to pyrotechnic units for safe inspection and demining of de-occupied settlements. the main network of tunnels. in hamas in the gaza strip was destroyed by the israeli military, this was announced by tsahal press service. top hamas officials are said to have been hiding in this network of tunnels during the october 7 attack on israel. the tunnel was connected to the houses, offices and apartments of senior hamas officials.

the israeli military has scanned the tunnels and obtained intelligence from them in recent days. the assassination of pmk leader wagner yevgeny prigozhin was prepared for two months and was approved by putin. nikolai patrushev, the secretary of the atbez of russia, was probably involved in this. wall street writes about this journal citing western intelligence officials and a former russian intelligence officer. it is noted that patrushev has long emphasized to putin that moscow's alleged dependence on wagner's pmc in ukraine leads to too much. political and military influence of prigozhin, which in turn became an increasing threat to the kremlin. she traded drugs. the police detained a 66-year-old resident of umani. according to the version of the investigation, the woman sold methadone to the townspeople.

during the search, law enforcement officers found drug paraphernalia and mobile phones in the suspect's possession telephones and money received from the sale of durman. the woman was informed about the suspicion. the radiation therapy center has started working in lviv, it will treat patients with oncological diseases, 60 million hryvnias were spent on the construction of the center from the city budget. how much money was spent on the purchase of modern equipment? see further details in the material of my colleagues. nadiya kondratyuk is fighting breast cancer of the first stage, the woman learned. radiation therapy ahead. nadia is the first patient of the radiation therapy center that was opened at the base

the first medical association of lviv. the need for such specialized medical facilities is growing, as the number of oncology patients increases every year, says radiologist nataliya motrynets. unfortunately. we have disappointing oncology statistics, because over the last two years, an increase of 8% occurred only in the lviv region, from three to eight, this is a large number. in less than a year , a radiation therapy center with an underground bunker was built at st. pantoleymon's hospital, inside it was equipped an examination room, a resident room and a room for radiotherapy. previously these her patients received diagnosis, surgical treatment, and chemotherapy in us. they had to look for radiation therapy in ukraine, now they will receive the entire service in a closed cycle in one medical institution, and we are fully responsible for them and control these patients. a linear accelerator was purchased and installed for the new center, this is a special device for radiation therapy. the procedure is considered one of

the most effective in the treatment of cancer and malignant tumors. quality of treatment on this device very high painless treatment. the session itself is about me. therapy takes 10 minutes on this device , patients do not undergo radiation therapy at once, but are treated in cycles of 10-15-20 days. irradiation sessions will be free of charge for lviv residents under the medical guarantee program. in the first weeks, doctors will receive up to 30 patients a day, and to help more people they are designing another radiation therapy center at the saint's hospital. luky kateryna oliynyk, roman kovalyuk, espresso tv channel. the black forest needs a separate artillery reconnaissance brigade repair of special vehicles. a faulty car at the front can cost health or even life. when performing combat tasks, transport has an important function, but it quickly breaks

down and requires timely repair. people hold on, but technology cannot. we ask you to join the collection of uah 100,000 in order to return the special vehicle. into working condition and continue work on adjusting artillery fire. together with you, we have already collected more than 70,000 hryvnias. you can donate using the details you see on the screen now. thank you for your donations and for supporting the armed forces of ukraine. you can read more news on our website espresso tv, also follow us on social networks and watch on youtube. antin borkovskyi, marta oliyarnyk continue the broadcast of the espresso tv channel, and we will see you at 5 p.m. thank you, irina koval, thank

you to the news editor, well, we are picking up the baton, informing about all the most important things, but now it is a ritual pre-holiday request, christmas is in a couple of days, and we understand that our soldiers need additional support. yes and we remind you about the gathering at the wellstrum station with solar panels for the 108th dnipropetrovsk territorial defense brigade of the armed forces of ukraine and our task with you to provide them and. station, this is the velstroom station, and we need to collect uah 1,220,00 for it, and now with joint efforts we have already managed to collect more than uah 960,000, so please, we are asking you, let 's do a good deed on the eve of christmas, everyone donates as much as possible maybe, of course, everyone has different opportunities, but nevertheless, i think 10 or 20 or 50 hryvnias can be dropped everyone, so let's raise together and collect this collection, the card on the screen is an option, if it's more convenient for you, or a qr code in monobank, if it's more convenient for you, then scan and go in a few clicks, you can

make your donation, and we we also add oleg katkov, the editor-in-chief of defense express, to our conversation. glory to ukraine, mr. editor, congratulations, ravyslav, thank you for the invitation. well, we ask you to comment on the statement of the prime minister of the netherlands markarute, who gave an extremely optimistic signal today. i'll repeat it now i will quote, i will quote rütte. today, i informed president zelensky about our government's decision to prepare the first 18 f-16 fighter jets for delivery to ukraine. in addition to an export permit , a number of other criteria must be met, including requirements for personnel and infrastructure. if we talk about clean dates and clean numbers, when can we expect what was promised to us? very complex. question, because there are two factors: firstly, the main factor is that sometimes certain messages from

officials, they already come with a certain a delay from an already real fact, well, this is the first point, the second - obtaining permission from the usa is exclusively, well, let's say this, a bureaucratic process, and it is quite, if it has not yet been accepted, the holidays in the united states of america fall under it, and this can be certain lens yes, even an official notification about the transfer, because after that they can

first get to a repair aircraft somewhere in europe and after that they will already be transferred directly to the armed forces of ukraine and will begin to protect the ukrainian sky, so predictions of the exact date there are quite difficult, because on the one hand there is such a factor as the fact that first the event takes place, and then it is publicly announced, in the end there is an appropriate, well, let's say, bureaucratic and technical procedure eh... but here the important factor is that , which is transferred 18, that is, it is announced that preparations for the transfer of 18 multipurpose f-16 fighters have begun, and this number is objectively greater than could be optimistically expected in the first batch of aircraft from the netherlands, the fact is that according to such public information in of the netherlands there were 12 f16s in a high degree of restoration readiness, because they wanted to start a full-scale... sell to a private company draken international, there was just information that these aircraft just went through

restoration work somewhere in the 22nd year, this information is not official, but the western media reported about it, but we are talking about 18 machines, that is, this is an extremely positive aspect, because it was more than possible to expect objectively the first batches, and objectively we are talking about more than one, one and a half full-fledged ones, well one and a half. airplanes mr. olezh, today the ukrainians had to go into shelter because of the air raid signal, because the occupiers were raising 31k dagger bearers and fixers. fired , including our air defenses , possible launches, we don't know if they were real missiles, or if they were some kind of decoys like that, can you share with us, maybe you have information, you can analyze based on how they informed about the direction , let's say, these goals, and then there was information that they ceased to exist, this suggests that their

either destroyed or they just weren't there and it was kind of, you know, a toss up in terms of it being like... like a rocket, but not really a rocket. can you explain this to our viewers in more detail? well , in fact, objectively, the information in the public space is quite limited, but when we are talking about a false target like a high-speed missile of the kenjal type, then we are talking about targeting the radar observation means with the relevant interference, which allows emulating the target on the rls screens, that is, to find out about the fact that... it is real or unreal, it is possible only there according to individual factors, but this analysis, which is carried out during the calculation of the time, the fact that the flight for the time of the kenzhal is measured in seconds, when we are talking about 3-4 minutes, then it is quite difficult, that is, at the realization station , the operator sees the corresponding mark and only there in a while due to the way it changed this figure on the one hand, on the other hand

there is already an approach, well, a certain so-and-so is coming, i won’t say criticism until... but they say it’s not enough, for example, ihor lutsenko on the air nv said that a million drones a year would help to maintain the situation at the front, but in order to move forward, it is necessary to double and triple the quantity and quality. as with the realities of production. well, with regard to the reality of production, we are talking about the basic parameters that have been officially announced, that is, an increase from 50 to 83 thousand per month, that is, an increase not twofold, not twofold, there threefold, not by orders of magnitude. not a multiple, we are talking about + 60%, that is, objectively , in possible real plans, it is really possible to do it this way, because, well, this is not a short-term increase, again, at the same time, it is necessary to understand that the creation of fividron, that is, its final production, it's really just soldering, it's micro-soldering of finished

components that are ordered from china, and it's about this resource of the same motors, when we talk about 1 million drones for fpv, we're talking about the need for 4 million, in fact, a little more, due to the lack of it, about 1 million cameras, about 1 million sets of microcircuits, batteries, etc., and in fact this is quite a significant figure, and it must be understood that the russian federation is also extremely actively producing from the same components, assembling fp drones, and ukraine, zrf, well, they are fighting for that one resource of components produced in china. therefore, it is really possible to talk about the fact that we need more, we need 1 million, we need two, three, and even more, in fact, it is quite possible, but then we need to solve several tasks at once, the first is the transition from manual assembly of these drones to more productive ones specialized capacities, well, that is, of course , fantastic, that is, objectively talking about

some kind of drone factory, but if we are talking about a multiple increase in the production of these things, then the only such logical... way in my opinion, there is just a certain other production industrial base, and not manual manual work, because while the russian federation collects them by hand, ukraine collects them by hand, unfortunately, the kremlin has much greater human and financial resources than ukraine. the second aspect is definitely, well, let's say this, leveling the threat that there may be a shortage of components for fpvons, especially since it was quite critical, why? against the background of the fact that the ministry of defense already has hovalyuk at the level of deputy minister of defense, he reported that the fpv drone it can be seen directly that this removal of a certain burden from the artillery, at the expense of this, well , the imposition of a certain shortage in artillery ammunition, and therefore to the issue of the production of semi-drones, the issue of the complete set

of production, the issue even of the fact that this one million drones are not... first of all , but it must be understood that all its use depends exclusively on the skill, personal skill of each operator, because he controls this device with his hands, that is, he guides it in his hands, he has to compensate with our hands through the remote control things like wind, like rap, how it all happens. there is still a certain delay in the transmission of the signal, well, that is, there is really for each video image of the equipment, we plan to produce 1 million fiva drones per year, yes, according to the forecast. or with the desire to increase them , as much as our enemies can roughly produce, and we understand, well, they also set some production goals for themselves, and we understand that they have already adjusted

their production to a certain level, i just don't know how much they can produce drones, there are two approaches here, the first was voiced in the publication ukrainianx, one of the producers of ukrainian drones fpv camikadze, and he said: that the capabilities of the russian federation are six times greater than those of ukraine, that is, they can collect 300,000 per month and a person who is directly engaged in the production of opivodrones in ukraine, and there is also just another empirical approach, if ukraine and the russian federation will make the same amount of effort, i.e. in relation to the relative percentage of funds spent on this task, in the percentage of persons engaged in this, then objectively due to greater resources. the kremlin has both human and financial, he has the opportunity to produce more fronts, that is, ukraine should not just do more and not just run faster, but

do it together and simply understanding the advantage of the enemy in financial and vast resources. mr. oleg, what about cruise missiles, we know that next year russia plans to produce 700 cruise missiles of various types and another 215,000 aerial bombs. but we also know that in order to manufacture a cruise missile, they also need to have foreign components, and it turns out that they somehow it is possible to circumvent the sanctions and, accordingly, they can import certain parts for these cruise missiles, what is the analysis of this situation, in particular, in defense express. and here it's just a question, if we're talking about the information that appeared on the counter, that is, this, then we 're not talking about an order, we're talking about it. it is about the allocation of ammunition to the military units of the so-called air and space forces of the russian federation, it is not about ordering, it is about distribution, and it objectively

affects far from all combat units and supply warehouses, there we are talking about 19 positions that are distributed among 14 military units, more of which will be stored directly, there is no mention of 700 cruise missiles, there are 125 kh101 cruise missiles and 404 guided missiles of various types, including the kh-59s are also anti-radar, and for the sake of understanding, there is even an kh-29 td, which has a rather limited range, it is not a cruise missile, and it is already such a short-range tactical weapon, in fact with a range of up to several tens of kilometers, and again, this is not the whole array, there is... there is actually more threatening information, it concerns the position regarding the transfer of 10 thousand new unguided rockets s-8kl, this is

a new type of nurs, which is used by such aircraft as 25 and attack aircraft, as attack helicopters, we are talking about cluster unguided projectile in 80 mm caliber, which is the s8 version, it was only demonstrated this year. work on it was completed on the 22nd, it was reported that there was an order, and precisely the indication of s8 kl should be taken into account, because that out of a batch of 10,000, 500 are transferred to the army aviation training center, and another 500 are transferred to dzhanka, while crimea is occupied, where the active combat airbase of the russian federation is located, and why the aspect, it is cassette. an unguided rocket produced from standard blocks of the b8 type , its range is not declared, it is indicated that it is only more than 4 km, the weight of the warhead is

7.7 kg, it is declared, and it contains about two dozen separate fragment-cumulative sub-elements, and the fact is that it is precisely in the question of use the enemy of such guided missiles, as we see him using them, that is, that is ... launching these missiles from a hijacking, where a plane or a helicopter puts the nose up and releases them at a significant distance in order to increase their range and not enter the zone air defense, the accuracy is actually very low there, but the use of cluster such guided projectiles achieves, well, let’s say, the leveling of low accuracy, simply by the area affected by the cluster munition, and here success is also important for the 24th year there it is appointed that for example, 500 such unguided s8 kl rockets are transferred to dzhankoy. to understand this, taking into account the standard load in the form of two blocks of 20 each of such projectiles, it is 120.

but the fact is that this is a new development, which was literally only demonstrated this year. thank you for your comprehensive answer, oleg katkov, the editor-in-chief of defense express, was in touch with us, now we will take a short break, after that we will have the adviser of the mayor of mariupol, petro andryushchenko, we will ask him about the situation in the occupied territories, so stay with us for a few minutes and we will return. a special performance of the legendary group mertvyi piyen with an orchestra at the lviv opera with the christmas and selected program. early lyrical songs, new christmas compositions and favorite super hits. on january 8 , tickets to the stage of the lviv opera are available on the website of the organizer big show.ua. information partners

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