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eter spress, glory to ukraine. herom glory, i congratulate you. well, the key story, of course, is currently unfolding on the front of the russian-ukrainian war, but we would like to ask you for some localization. in particular , you may have information about what is happening now in the corporate sector. well, in fact, the ughledar direction is a little dead, that there are certain actions going on there, but the russians are using the area, which... is in front of the ughledar on today in order to form reserves, in fact, well, if you can say so, we are saved, and our armed forces, holding marinka until now, it does not allow the russians to advance to voglodar, ready to start the uglodar offensive, because the russians are very want to move us away from the coal plant, this is primarily a matter of logistics, the plant itself is a large enough logistics node from the point of view of the railways they are looking at. well

, the main thing is that our presence in ugladal ensures what the russians cannot to fully use the railway branch between mariupol and volnovakha and actually cut it into the russian railway, and therefore buglodar is really the key for them, but again, i repeat, while we hold mariyinka, they cannot start buglodar, here the issue is both logistical and military , and the question of the availability of reserves, so they charge a continuation. collect certain reserves, what we record, first of all, directly from novoazovsk, bypassing mariupol, they collect them directly, form them in the volnovsky direction, but we do not see, there just a couple of weeks ago there were prerequisites, and we made such assumptions, such hypotheses that they will try to unpack the ugludar front very actively, as well as the avdiiv or marin direction, it is meant, but not yet, judging by everything, they do not have enough strength. and maryanka is a key point precisely for

this, well, let's now talk about this key point maryanka. mr. peter, what information do you have as of now? we understand that maryenka, avdiyivka, bakhmud and in general the lymano-kupinsk arc are among the enemy's priorities, yes. on the other hand we understand that our command understands the enemy's plan very well, but there is still the issue of additional resources that they transfer. in the mariinsky direction, well, in general, we do not know whether they will have equipment, manpower , etc. who are constantly breaking something for them, well, we understand, the stability of our fighters and certain resources for this are there, but maryanka - this is very serious, i agree with you, but, well, what do we see with their resources...

lately, it's not really good to pull up to marinki, because if there two weeks ago we saw that they were pulling in that direction from the zaporizhia direction, removing people and throwing them over. they went directly from russia and all this moved around the field, so today i can definitely tell you that , of course, certain reinforcements went there from near mariupol, so today we do not see that there was any movement in the direction of zaporozhye in the direction of mar 'inki, that is in the direction of the north of the donetsk region, we are recording certain movements about what i said directly from novoazovsk, in particular , the equipment is driving through the fields... however, so far it looks like they are still lacking, and again the biggest problem from marinkai as well as in the kherson direction and not only from maryanka, it will also be the same from avdiivka, this is enemy aircraft coming from primorsk-aktarsk, which is coming in a thick line, so if

we cover and manage to cover it with air defense systems, just as we have seen the result today around kherson along krynk, well, i think we have a lot. it will be easier for our soldiers directly in marinka, avdiivka, and bakhmut, because really, really, we see very active aviation all the time, sometimes from one side, then from the other, and it has recently ceased to be, well, afraid, let’s say yes, yes, if before that we saw that it made launches exclusively over mariupol, then today we see that it enters on the one hand closer to the border of the zaporizhzhia region, and on the other hand it enters much further north, which means... that they just stopped being afraid and well, this is not the order, let's hope that this example of the kherson region will help to hide this aviation again, a long way from azov, and it will be easier for our guys. mr. peter, what role does the railway play,

to what extent do they actively use the railway to provide logistics, and do we have the opportunity, let's say, to somehow interfere with this? in mind , there may be some kind of sabotage on the railway, and this will be a good moment that can be taken advantage of, if not given should they, at least , actively use the railway in order to provide the army with everything it needs? well , the mariupol-volnovakha railway junction is actually not working today, so if they needed that, including the uglodar, they wouldn't have moved anything. on the way from mariuppol to volnovakh, once again the port has already become winter, they do not use the port, therefore even the equipment, if they could have brought it through the port, is not there today, well , they never crashed into the russian railway, there is not much left, namely

the beginning of their offensive, and their offensive operation and the understanding of what a big risk it is actually stopped, again there is certain information that says that... with the construction of the railway, for example, it also it is said that they began to have certain problems with personnel due to mobilization and due to the fact that the salary, as the main motivation of russians to go to the army and fight, is much higher than the work, for example, in the construction of the railway, even with all its construction risks , so they have such a complex problem, on the one hand the front problem, on the other hand this marginal construction problem. going to war instead of building, it's basically a country for us, well the situation is as it is, i'd say it's not bad in principle, because it means that they won't finish this winter, bypass railway track bypass railway track

a reserve in case of the destruction of the crimean bridge, so we still have operational space there, well, let's hope that , firstly, they will not complete it, and secondly, that the crimean bridge is a little over there. will be tired already finally. mr. petar, we would also like to ask you about the trials that the occupiers are holding against our defenders, only on wednesday they wrongfully convicted nine heroes. what is the current situation and what do you know about the next possible trials of our defenders, how do these sessions generally take place, if you know, please share. well, in fact, the meeting, as such, is just a performance for which to attend. the prosecutor, who is attended by a person like medvedchuk, who is stus's lawyer, yes, what is the use of only being convicted as soon as possible, on her present, it is clear that our defenders, who are absolutely tortured there and broken, or so that they somehow shake their heads there, admitting whether the crimes are made up, and in fact

this conveyor works, it works non-stop, yesterday another verdict and for our information, the defenders of mariupol are getting another verdict today, regarding their number, we will not... say that yes, 15 there are more than 1,500 of our defenders - these are just mariupol people, i mean the mariupol defenders are located in polona and for some reason this is such a revenge for mariupol in fact... all these convictions, all these verdicts in these courts concern only the mariupol garrison, all the units that participated in the defense, we have seen the verdicts for the azov regiment, and for the border guards, and for the marines, and this is really a conveyor belt , and we are very worried about two things, well , first of all, it is clear that from the point of view of the russians , our defenders are changing from the status of prisoners of war, they are simply changing to the status of criminals, and this allows ... the russians to exclude them from the lists, relatively speaking , from the lists of prisoners of war for exchange, and

understandably we're worried about how we're going to get our heroes, our guys home, that's one risk, there's another risk that's being talked about behind the scenes that, our sources tell us, that when they decide, that they collected a sufficient number of these sentences, in particular, today was the last, well, extreme... of such victories, because bystrykin was there in mariupol, prosutin was handing out awards in all kinds of his investigators, who ensure these cases, by the way, about that, that they will be used this is on the international stage, and as soon as we start to mention mariupol again, they will begin to deliver the biggest crime of russia on the territory of ukraine, they will begin to deliver these sentences and say that the entire civilian population was killed by the armed forces of ukraine, as a confirmation, give these sentences . which they stamp both on the conveyor, yes, and finally, mr. peter, i would like to ask you in general about the use of the enemy

mariupol port and additional roads, including road transport, we understand that made certain fortifications, this applies to the areas north of mariupol and not only, but taking into account the so-called enemy plans, which we talked about at the beginning of our conversation, it would not be surprising if he tried to accumulate certain... offensive resources, perhaps armored vehicles and possibly not only it, if there is any non-secret information, then share it. well, first of all, the port is mothballed, judging by everything, it will not be operational until spring, the port for january we, oh, for january i say, for december we did not see a single vessel entering or leaving the port of the port, this means that they have preserved the port for the time being due to weather conditions, due to the complexity of the work. and we hope that the sea will freeze and it will be more difficult

to use it. as for the movement of military equipment, it has recently resumed, it cannot be said that we see a large accumulation, but it has resumed, the berdyan direction has resumed, mostly they go in that direction carrying battle kits, they carry a little manpower, but they reach the level of, say, october, it doesn't mean it's high, it's what we recorded as normal in october that... it will be further, let's see, so what can i say, we are again fixing new marks , those that were not present before in the form of an inverted triangle, well, let's see who it is, the last marks that were fixed, then we realized that we found them, this units that howl in the luhansk direction, in particular in kupyansk, what kind of new markings are these, well , let's establish what kind of units they are and for which direction they will be trained now. thank you, petro andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of mariupol, was with us, now we have a couple of minutes. pause and come back, so stay with us. the story of the rise of the legendary

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brought extremely important signals and let's hope that they will try together . unblock the polish-ukrainian border. serhiy vanat is in touch with us. volunteer at ucranian freedom force foundation. glory to ukraine, mr. serhiy. to the heroes. slava studio. yes, well, we see behind you , as it were, columns at the border. well, i am, just kidding, but in any case, we would like to ask you about the situation at the kraków-korchowo or shegyna medica checkpoints. what now, how intensively they block and in general, what they themselves talk about. testers from the polish side and what are our drivers talking about? the blockade continues, nothing changes, today we went with the guys to the medical checkpoint, the carpathian voivodeship came there, talked to the protesters at the medical center, there, well, there are no drivers, there are farmers, they stand by the fact that they

demand an increase in subsidies , financing from... from the polish side, from the polish authorities, and regarding unblocking the border, they they don’t even want to talk, because she asked them to unblock the holidays, and they don’t respond, there is no reaction to her words, that is, the blockade continues in this mode, mr. serhiy, do they keep their promises, to let a certain number of people through per hour , they promised that it was like an ex-product? and various strategic goods they will miss, how about that? no, this agreement has not existed for a long time, but there are food products, milk, yogurts, that is , for example, today even a person has 14 days before the expiration date and 10 days before the expiration date sale of yogurts, it has been standing for the fifth

day and no action has been taken regarding the fact that food products are passed. which deteriorate quickly, well, there is no such thing, they don’t observe , humanitarian convoys, they pass in what mode, the whole-treasury service comes, checks the documents and only then, maybe the protesters, decide that it is really a humanitarian convoy and they let it through, that is, understanding there is none at all, they have only their own goal, that ukraine should unilaterally refuse. in transport visa-free and all, that is, they do not want to talk about anything, they have their own financial interest in ukraine not traveling around europe and transporting goods, and if... they are accompanied by the gendarmerie, they do not go because of the protesters

, they go on a completely different road, that is, they do not go through the protesters, but those humanitarian cargoes, for example, as they are transferred from a charity organization to charity organizations, they do not go outside the queue , they come, they can stand still for a day, while it they will come. check or well even two days ago, that is, there were no problems in the family , that is, there were no problems before, for example, it was three weeks ago, that is, when i came here for the first time , that is, the humanitarian cargo arrived, they showed the papers, and the police took them away, and they went out of order. we thank mr. serhii for a long time, and serhiy vanat is a volunteer. ukranian freedom force foundation quickly and on the spot informed us about the situation, and we are already adding valery romanenko, aviation expert, leading researcher of the state

museum of aviation. mr. valery, glory to ukraine, welcome to espresso. good day, glory to the heroes. mr. valery, today our air force pleased us with successful work. three russian su-34 fighter jets will already be in perpetual flight, and ours will be very short. the air force and in particular the commander of the air force described the generally successful work like this, but i would still like to understand what means were possibly used by our air defense forces in order to land these dryers on the ground and actually achieve such a good job? well, yourself you see, i cannot know exactly how this outstanding, so to speak... result was achieved, to get an outstanding result, but it is known from the media that a few days ago we received the second german patriot anti-aircraft missile complex, the range of which reaches

aerodynamic targets 160 km. in addition, we still have such a complex as samtte, an italian-french one, which also has an aerodynamic range of about 150 km, but i think that one of these... complexes worked against russian planes, which brazenly tried again to throw wing bombs at our land and ground troops. well, on the other hand, we also understand that the court 34 is a fairly widespread model, as far as we understand that the russians even manage to equip them and form certain new units, yes, i do not know at what level they are being repaired now aircraft equipment, well, taking into account the fact that they had a serious supply breakdown there, but, but the story is quite widespread, how many

of such and such equipment do they have in general? well, to begin with during the war they had 140 such planes, last year they lost about a dozen, this year, that means they lost one shot down before that. today there are four, and they broke one more, well, that ’s the number, and as for the pace of construction, last year they built about 6,834 and exactly the same number this year, why are the numbers not so exact, because the russians are not showing how many the planes themselves, they show the actual transmission of those planes. journalists are invited, but the number is not made public, there as as a rule, they shoot planes without boarding numbers, without registration numbers, and it is difficult

to understand how many planes were actually transferred each time. mr. valery , today they also had an air alert due to a lit mig 31k, otherwise, how were the launches, we do not know whether there were real launches or simulated launches, why do they do it, can you explain why they do it... this is such a tactic, what does it go to, what do they need it for? well, this tactic is, as they say, the dream of any aviation general when he trains his own pilots, they get extra money there for departures, for every flight to the pilot and even the ground staff, there is an extra payment, well, at that time, it means that the state, which they consider an enemy, it stops its entire economy, there is transport, it costs everything, well this is the best way, you don't need either bombs or missiles to terrorize, so to speak, the enemy's economy, and now the metavi. to

disable the enemy's economy, this is how the russians achieve it, and with those fake conditional goals, well, we understand, when the power rises, the ukrainians go to shelter, but oh, we watched for a long time how they simply raised them, could fill them in the sky, the alarm could last there for up to four hours, but we see today and it happened earlier also that they report about what seems to be launches. well, anyway, four hours, we did not sit in the basements for four hours, but for four hours the transport was stopped and some enterprises were stopped, because now they are responsible, there may even be criminal liability, if the head of the enterprise did not ensure the safety of his employees, and that's it i want to say that we have to change the reaction to these events, you know, we have such a very

good... military analyst mr. kovalenko, yes, he is angry from odessa, uh, so he calculated that in total these missiles were there last year 10 or 12 were released, i don't remember the exact number, but i clearly remember the order, but the losses in our economy due to the stoppage of enterprises and transport are set at billions of dollars, no missiles are capable of such an amount of damage to ours. on our economy, mr. valery, look, well, i don't want to voice it in the format of a false false start, the statement of the prime minister of the netherlands, mark rutten. well, but i quote: direct speech. 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 the export permit, a number of other criteria must be met before delivery, including personnel and infrastructure requirements.

i would like to ask you to evaluate the readiness of the staff, infrastructure, well, because it is not as if on our side, although the staff was preparing, we understand in the countries in the partner countries, well, on 18 planes, we will definitely not have enough personnel, because in the same denmark eight pilots and 63 ground personnel were trained, one plane requires approximately 8-10 engineers, technicians, who trained it on the ground in the united states, a group of approximately similar composition, language up to a dozen pilots went there. in general, we can, i hope, can form one squadron. a squadron of c12 aircraft, which will be ready sometime in early spring, late winter, next year. and with air defense to cover

the airfield? the other, well, the enemy is not for nothing now it is actively pounding central ukraine, i will not name where, well, they hit starokostyantynov, there is the base of su-24 bombers, well, it is known, this, yes, there is information about this in wikipedia, and it was generally discussed, and there is one of such airfields, which is the most prepared to receive these aircraft, but i wonder, i think that a... how will air defense be provided? first, these aircraft will be spread out. the squadron will not sit entirely on one airfield. two or four planes will be at different airfields. and as for the preparation of the ground infrastructure, all our international airports are able to ensure the full operation of these planes, because they have smooth,

asphalt runways. thank you , mr. valery, forgive us, we have to finish with you already, because we have limited airtime, but we were glad to hear and see you, valery romanenko, aviation expert, leading researcher of the state aviation museum, was in touch with us, we with antin today we say to you, our viewers, goodbye, on monday we will see each other in the same same studio and we wish you a peaceful, peaceful christmas holidays, see you soon. it's 5 p.m. in ukraine, and we have a news release on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all viewers.

the netherlands will soon be in the ukrainian sky. start training the first 18.