the third in the marathon the only news, this is tsn week, the more you know, the better you are armed , i congratulate you, indomitable ukrainians, the spring of victory is tightened, the secret underground forge of ukrainian weapons, now you see it for the first time, the worst, the fiercest night terror and underground labyrinths of ukrainian defense , how our state is preparing to meet the enemy in the 24th, see in the exclusive report: andrii tsyplienko: why is the armed forces asking for 500,000 recruits? we went further, let's pull ourselves together, why mobilization is expensive, and what pleases or scares, the rumors surrounding the new law on mobilization, soldiers' wives, why mental wounds of soldiers' families should be treated in the same way as wounds on the front line. we don't even allow ourselves to rest once more. and who

is going to help? a course on the war economy, limiting the salaries of officials and employees of state structures. where will the military rails lead our wallets, rations, the dollar rate and the labor market? stop buying smartphones and cars, and how many drones can you buy with the savings? what is the menstrual police and why do tyrants get into bed with their citizens? like banning refrigerators and the hitchhiker became the end of the romanian dracula ceausescu, historical detective tsn weekly. one of the keys to a just end to the war. this is how president zelensky responded to the news, which became a kind of sensation in the current hostilities in ukraine. this week , in one day, our defenders shot down three russian su-34 fighter-bombers in the south of ukraine. here they are in the photo. do not fill the press. and rushed to check, because such losses

had not occurred in russia since the spring. the air force explained that they conducted a real special operation, the aircraft were intercepted when they tried to fly closer to hit our soldiers on the left bank of the kherson region. until now, these were unpunished departures. the russians are terribly nervous, they write about the patriot systems, which the ukrainians risked bringing all the way to the front. they count how many of them we have. well, we have a good reason to count how many more times. the armed forces of ukraine forced the enemy to go mad with rage, what reserve of strength do we have for the new year and what tactics will we choose after all. oksana radionova about it. 2023 started optimistically, wants under cannonade of enemy fire and in anticipation of a new breakthrough of the zsu. happy new year, ukraine. the euphoria from the successful counteroffensive in the kharkiv region has not yet faded. from

the liberation of kherson, the death of the enemy, we managed to de-occupy thousands of square kilometers of territories captured by russia, the fortress of bahmud was held. partners promised help, the whole country counted how many bradleys, abrams, leopards, and long-range missiles the west would give us. so everyone was in an illusion, they expected that when western equipment arrived in the 23rd year, it would look the same leopards, the russians will run away. they didn't run away. it became clear that crimea could not be reached quickly, i, you, everyone had a feeling of bitter failure, in the shadow of which the successes of 2023 hid. so, the passing year is the second year of the war. what was he like, what did he teach us and what did he remember? from a military point of view, the 23rd can be divided into several stages. from february to march, the armed forces were in passive defense. then in... february

, one of the most shameful defeats of the russians took place right here under ugledar, in just one battle they lost 30 units of armored vehicles, they were destroyed before they even reached the skirmish line. this battle was called the biggest one-time defeat of the russian army during the entire war in ukraine. then, in the battles for ughledar , the enemy lost the entire elite brigade of 5,000 marines and 130 bmps and tanks. it was... the most adrenaline-pumping fight of the year, remember that cam video of a 21-year-old fighter against a pseudo-predator? machine, machine, machine! contact battle with the occupiers, the distance to the enemy is only 5 m. the partner is charging, the pj himself epically fought off the group of occupiers, and also destroyed the weapons of the bmp. then this fight changed the consciousness of many ukrainians. then there were more and more trench battles. in the spring, the enemy... started frantic meat assaults near

bakhmut, wagner, these were the most unfrozen, in one day , 10-15 assault attempts were made on your position, codes, when you just sit like that... there are already corpses around you at the top , when your positions are simply littered with corpses, when you see how new ones climb over these piles of corpses all day long, it is real that zombies, these wagners, our guys mowed down the enemy by the thousands, the wagnerite cemeteries in russia grew in geometric progression, in fact bahmud was the end of prigozhin's pmk, and then for putin's cook himself, and this is the result of our guys, it was a strong dorica, they... performed hard tasks, and i believe that this battle led to their downfall. in the summer , the ukrainian defenders advanced on the flanks of bakhmut, released andriivka and klishchiivka, and these were also important victories. the enemy is now trying to seize the initiative, attacking

avdiivka, where it is currently the most difficult, and the front line has hardly changed in a year. it was a difficult year on the battlefield, but the ukrainians did what they did no one... thought possible, they were up against one of the greatest armies in the world. the counteroffensive of the armed forces began in the summer. all actions were examined under a microscope. there was a leak of information about our plans in the usa. even before the breakthrough, commander-in-chief ju valery zaluzhnyi said: "i need 300 tanks, 600-700 bmps, 500 howitzers." then, i think, it is quite possible to reach the border on february 23, but i will not be able to do it with two brigades. but the rhythm of the military. with the help of the allies turned the plan of a lightning counteroffensive into protracted tactical battles. factories in the west were not ready to the scale of world war ii battles. we are still waiting for the f-16. they received such teaspoons, small batches of leopards,

small batches of abrams, that's 30 pieces. the british got about the same number of challengers, although in the grand scheme of things we need 130 instead of 30. managed to build the largest defense line in the world, so british intelligence said. they dug ditches, built concrete bunkers, surrounded themselves with hectares of mines. if anyone thinks there is some pill out there to jump over all these lines of defense, there isn't. we broke through the first one line of defense, several villages were liberated, the armed forces were wedged in for 30 km, and the counteroffensive stopped, as it were... surprisingly, the real victory calculations begin here. we practically destroyed the most powerful tank army of the russians in the world, eliminated a large number of enemies, the regular russian army of the 22nd model no longer exists. and we have an understanding of what we are doing next, but it is secret. i

can't tell you about the goals. we had difficulties in the south because everyone around, everyone around said what our goals were. well, i'll tell you honestly, well, to be honest, all the months are all talked about where we were going, and most likely everyone considered in detail how we would get there, well, it doesn't take off at all with the russian federation, which has more weapons, i can't tell you a single detail of our counter-offensive and defensive actions next year , mother. this is how russian minsk burned. for the first time, a russian submarine was damaged. this is a very serious success of the armed forces of ukraine, which can be compared with the successful attack of the pokraiser moscow. they captured olenihorskyi gornyak, they even reached the headquarters

of the black sea fleet of russia and his commander volodymyr sokolov. an unprecedented case. the decision-making center was hit. we fought on the crimean bridge, sevastopol. kerch and western crimea, reached the target with both air and sea drones, hit stormsheds with long-range ones, and successfully tested their own long-range missile for the first time. our forces have proven that the russian s-400 triumph, which has been publicized, can go like this, and most importantly, without our own fleet and without superiority in the air, we drove the russian fleet from crimea all the way to novorossiysk. ukraine without a fleet. then turns russia from a hunter into a victim, now they are forced to hide. we called for the creation of a naval coalition with great britain, it should help with the fleet and the protection of the grain corridor. russia in 2023 has become a battlefield. russians fighting on

our side this year showed their teeth in bryansk region, and ukrainian drones this year began to fly not only to red square. but also far behind enemy lines, as far as pskov, where the base of the elite pskov paratroopers was successfully attacked, an explosion occurred on the russian railway in siberia. airplanes and warehouses burned, at least 2.5 dozen planes were destroyed or damaged at russian airfields. in february, with the help of quadcopters , they tried to blow up a50 at the machulyshchi military airfield. it produced results. russian missile carriers fled far from the borders with ukraine. in may , a hypersonic dagger missile, promoted by the russians, was destroyed for the first time near kyiv . this is the work of patriots. their. this year, they have already received several, they promise more, during this year the ukrainian air defense has made a hyperbole in

the efficiency of its work. if at the beginning of the year the key word was when, now everyone is realized that the war will not end tomorrow. we stopped talking about counteroffensive and started talking about strategic defense, and here it is important to develop the production of our own weapons. in the 24th year, ukraine will highlight an unprecedented. on the development of defense production. there will be more weapons. drones, which began to play both on the front and in the body, also played one of the key roles. we will produce a million drones next year. the year has shown that you cannot underestimate the enemy. the russians have an advantage in the sky, more weapons, equipment, there is no shortage of shells and more mobilization resource the enemy threw everything he had at us, so what i'm talking to you now, and you... listen, this is already an achievement. putin wanted to be the master of our destinies, and now nice

is trying to save itself. oksana radionova, daniel kosakovsky, tsn week, single news marathon 1+1. a million drones for the front and 500,000 recruits for the army. president zelenskyi said this at the final press conference of the year this week. we will talk about mobilization separately later. and regarding drones in the ministry of strategy and planning. clarified, it is said only about fpv, although, as oleksandr kamyshyn said, next year our country will be able to produce quite a few attack drones capable of flying to moscow. as for our general military strategy, it has not changed, the president says, this is the exit to the borders of 1991, but the tactics may change, as the president did not reveal and denied any negotiations with russia, because in the kremlin's rhetoric, the head of the ukrainian state sees only, i quote: arrogance. killings, zelenskyi denied, and the possible entry of ukraine into nato in parts, he called it

delusional, although he admitted that the process of providing security guarantees to ukraine is going slower than he expected. at the same time, the president of ukraine is certain that the united states and europe will not betray and will continue to support ukraine. we are talking about money here. president zelensky commented on the rumors about the conflict with the head of the armed forces valery zaluzhny. he called his relations with him working, noting that he is primarily waiting for "results and emphasized: defense against the enemy requires fortification, as an example for others the president named kharkiv oblast, where the military, business and local government were able to unite and build a strong defense. well , what are protective fortifications in ukrainian, rtsn soldier of the week andrii seplienko saw with his own eyes, although the case is special there, because she built this fortification, it is only its beginning, for herself. brigade, i understood you correctly, andriy. alas, i would not call this case special, what

the steel border brigade did in the kharkiv region, any ukrainian brigade should do now, only one of the divisions of this brigade has done more 12 km of underground labyrinths for several lines of defense, with cubicles, showers, dining rooms, even a sauna, but most importantly - tunnels through which shooters go to firing points and even with underground positions for armored vehicles. if we want to hold the front line,... we really have to build such fortified areas everywhere along the front line, along the border with russia, in terms of defense, the factor of fortifications becomes the main one, but we will not build it without the help of local authorities, we need them to join finance, technology, materials wherever it is necessary you know, many of my acquaintances, due to the slow counterattack and the lack of help from their partners, the mood at the end of the 23rd is the same, although our oksana radionova has given us how much our defenders have succeeded this year, and you, i know, have seen for yourself

eyes are one of the military secrets, can you tell me? yes, at sea we have a strategic victory and we drove russian ships away from our shores thanks to ukrainian weapons, i am talking about naval drones, only the security service of ukraine, the leader in combat work with sea kamikaze this year pavel himself hit the rocket launchers. olenihorskyi harnyak, military boxer mykola muttsu, the newest reconnaissance ship, thanks to this ukrainian ports are coming to life, the export of ukrainian grain continues, and i am probably one of the first journalists who visited the secret production of naval drones, and we will certainly be the first to show some non-secret properties of one of

the kamikaze, which our special services have not shown to the press until today. why is the crimean bridge tired? did we hit the bridge on july 17 with sea baby drones? what to reach for novorossiysk? the lenihorsk miner most likely suffered losses. how to expel the black sea fleet from crimea? two landing craft were sunk. difficult for the front, the 23rd year at sea was victorious for ukraine. the grain corridors have started working again, and the missile frigates in... vka are still afraid to go to sea, and this means a strategic victory. it was brought by these unmanned hunter boats that hunt russian ships throughout the black sea. no one expected that the ukrainian strategy would be so effective, neither friends, nor even more enemies no one has ever done this. and we are

now writing history. nowhere can you read how to apply them. a country that actually does not exist. fleet in a year in a relatively cheap way hit eight enemy ships and blew up the crimean bridge, and this is only part of the combat potential of surface drones, that is, what we did, we actually turned the philosophy, the very approach in naval operations. we know about three main projects of ukrainian naval drones, one of them called magura is managed by the main intelligence department, two services security of ukraine, they have different speeds. parameters differ in the mass of the warhead and detonation mechanisms, but have a lot in common in the design, because their designers work for one task - the destruction of the enemy. here on the left we see the key and activation keys of the combat part of the drone. the drone can

be detonated as a result of the impact sensors being triggered, or... manually, all three types of drones are already mass-produced in ukraine. by the way, this production is located on the territory of ukraine, on one of underground plants. one of the serial drones of the sbu, the cbaby drone, set off fireworks under the crimean bridge on july 17, delivering almost a ton of explosives under it. traffic across the bridge is still complicated and has not been fully restored. this is the task of the supreme commander-in-chief of the president of ukraine. cut the corresponding enemy logistical artery. i emphasize that this is a completely legitimate goal for us. in accordance with the norms of the geneva convention, other norms of international law, current legislation, customs, traditions of waging war, this is a completely legal goal. this is an illegal construction, in fact, on the territory of ukraine. the sbu has not

disclosed its other successful project until today. on the night of august 5, a naval drone accurately attacked a large landing force. ship olenihorskyi girnyk in novorossiysk bay, and soon the same drone made this eight-meter hole in the side of the sig tanker, which is officially part of the logistics chain of the ministry of defense of russia. the tanker was standing in the kerch strait and was being prepared for loading in the interests of the occupying army. this, i tell you, was almost a surgical operation, because the task was not to damage the tanks, so that there would be no environmental disaster, so that there would be no oil spill, that was the impression of the collision between the engine room and the pumps. russians still cannot recover from the painful shock after these attacks. russian military sailors realized that there is no such place in the black sea where they would not be reached by ukrainian drones. now you see, this is the first time, the worst, the worst night terror of the russian

black sea fleet, the unmanned kamikaze drones that hit at least three russian ships. well, of course, not the same. such drones on the sea, as well as on the highway , got as close as possible to the russian ships olenigorsky girnyk and sig. they chose the right point and drove into the sides with this rolling mechanism, actually a trigger. and i am convinced that now the ukrainian security forces are already looking for the necessary russian target and for this an almost ready unmanned boat. mother cossack. this is the name of the sbu drone, the existence of which was not known by any mass media in the world until today. we're on one of those secret businesses i was talking about vasyl malyuk. several different boats are on the slipway. we can look at this drone from the outside, we won't climb inside, but let's look from the outside, and it's big enough

6 m, a surveillance camera is installed on the mountain, this box, what is it , it's a satellite antenna, we won't say what system you use alone from the same antennas, because there are also duplicating satellite communication channels, as of today cossack mamai is... the fastest object in the black sea, it can accelerate up to 110 km/h. the russians are actively working on that detect unmanned boats even before the start of the attack and destroy them on approach. one of the on-board videos shows russian bullets hitting mamai and allegedly bouncing off him. no, you don't think so, - says the developer and offers to hold in his hands the impenetrable material from which the boat is made. well, it's plastic. that's what everyone says, everyone says it's plastic, you can try to hit it with a hammer, yes, well, i won't break it,

break it, try it, i'm trying it, no, mr. andriy, return it with the sharp part, this part, come on, not a single scratch, and nothing will happen to him, this is the material from which they are made. plates for body armor. technical solutions are dictated by the tasks performed by the unmanned fleet, and they are different. the cossack mamai is designed to make a one-way flight and , maneuvering under heavy enemy fire, touch the enemy side with the trigger. see babybi is not only a kemikaze, but also a modular platform on which various types of remotely controlled weapons are mounted. this is not just a naval drone, it is a multi-purpose platform, which today is very very... it is used and not only in relation to the crimean bridge, the strong side of the unmanned military reconnaissance boat magura, the ability to effectively overcome the invisible wall

of the enemy's means of radio-electronic warfare. we found methods to deal with these problems, resulting in the sinking of two landing craft. two maguras sank on november 10 in the crimea, the akula- and sarna-class enemy amphibious assault boats, along with the btr-82 on board, and another hurivsky... exploded in the repair dock of a russian naval base, the attack forced the russians to rush from moving ships from crimea to novorossiysk, but ukrainian drones are capable of solving more strategic tasks that will ensure victory not only at sea, but also on land. this was a great economic effect, and after the tankers were affected, there were very big changes in the insurance market of transportation, cargo transportation on the black sea, on... them , the transportation of the heart of oil was almost halved, and this is a significant blow to economy of the russian federation. what will happen next confirms the fact of creation in the naval forces of ukraine

the world's first separate brigade of maritime drones. perhaps, right now, when you are watching this story, ukrainian military sailors are planning large-scale operations with the involvement of various special services and various types of naval drones, even those that we do not know about the existence of yet. and mobilization is a word that is on everyone's lips , and the process is accompanied by a lot of scandals, misunderstandings and questions, there are still more of them than answers, but there is also a bitter truth, it seems that we have reached the limit when the front is catastrophically short of defenders. this week is our first time heard about this ceiling. lack of the general staff stated that it needs an additional 500,000 recruits. this figure was announced by president zelensky at the final press conference. it follows from his words that general zaluzhnyi

is asking for the maximum, and the supreme commander wants to understand how to provide them, literally. the number is very serious, and above all it is a question of people, justice, defense capability and finances. but where to get them, how to teach them, what to provide? the president was counted. one military man should be supported by six civilians, and therefore it is necessary somewhere to find an additional 3.5 million new tax payers. the ministry of defense, which is another side of this military triangle, is betting on recruiting. there they offer to join the armed forces voluntarily, without waiting for mobilization or a summons, and offer a choice of specialties, because the army needs various specialists, from financiers to motorists, from drivers to doctors. however, ... mass mobilization cannot be avoided - said the country's chief intelligence officer kyrylo budanov, i quote: the total defense forces of ukraine currently have a conditional number of 1,100, no recruiting, such volumes

to cover can't, only mobilization , head commissar valery zaluzhnyi believes that mobilization should be returned to the framework that existed before, and when asked how the dismissal of regional military committees would affect its effectiveness, he noted that they were professionals, they knew how to do it , and there are none. therefore, the draft law being prepared in the verkhovna rada should clearly describe the country's new mobilization system. who, why, how, where will the apprentice be called. and guaranteed for all occasions. currently, the current process of mobilization and actions of the tsc overgrown with new scandals, when people are grabbed from the streets, gyms and restaurants. everything resembles a random selection of men, which the new law should have stopped. what exactly will be in the law is currently unknown, some theses that appeared in social networks are being heatedly discussed, while we know that the president will support the lowering of the conscription age, but will not support the mobilization

of women. plus he... insists that the law talks about demobilization: those who have been at the front for 2 years have the right to return, and those who will replace them must know for what period stand in for the expert environment is inclined to the fact that the draft law will be registered by the end of this year, it will be adopted already in january, president zelensky hinted at this during the press conference, when he first announced the economy of mobilization. 500 billion is needed to draft an additional half a million people into the army. hryvnias, colossal money, which is needed already in january, - the president said, that is , the number of mobilized people will directly depend on how much money the authorities manage to find. well, here is a word for our andrii orlyak, because he is the one tracked the latest news from, so to speak, the western front. what about the promised billions from the european union? did the new prime minister succeed in unblocking the polish border and

donald trump's sensation from the united states. excluded from the list of presidential candidates. what to expect next? watch now. let's start with the good news. trump is disqualified from the 2024 election. is this a fake? no, mr. orban, this is an unprecedented truth. but now by good news, i meant the polish border. optimism seems real here. new the government in... is perfectly aware that the problem has dragged on dangerously, but on friday there was a breakthrough at the border, at least diplomatically. kyiv hosted the new minister of foreign affairs of poland , sikorski. the parties reached an understanding regarding compromise solutions and their implementation. the next stage of negotiations is at the level of the ministry of infrastructure of poland and the protesters. by the way, the cancellation of the so-called

transport ban is not discussed among the compromises. for ukraine, and the organizer of the farmers' protests has already declared about suspending the blockade at least for the christmas holidays. meanwhile, slovakia, which was also noted for blocking ukrainian borders, was rocked by protests. prime minister fico is considering disbanding the special prosecutor's office, considering that he was already losing the prime minister's chair due to anti-government protests in 2018, which included corruption and the mafia. in parallel. with this, the attention of the eu is diverted by serbia and also by anti-government protests due to the election results. but no amount of fitso, and even more so, no uchich, does not affect the allocation ukraine received long-awaited aid from the eu in the amount of 50 billion euros. another surname appears here. today, orbán is a trojan horse that is intensively and, unfortunately, increasingly effective in destroying

european unity. is trying to show that we should ignore ukraine, says the minister of european affairs of the czech republic, martin dvorb. the thing is that this week the eu gave kyiv the last 1.5 billion in macro-financial aid, and by the end of the year the european union will no longer vote for the next 50 billion. it is likely that the eu will return again on february 1 at a special summit to this question. meanwhile, the hungarian prime minister is showing brussels confidence, even himself. confidence, for example, announcing in the assembly plans not just to chair the council of the european union in the second half of 2024, but to quote: to occupy brussels during the chair. this week , the hungarian prime minister hosted the turkish leader erdogan, and presented him with a skakun. and although the reason for the meeting is the business of their states, it is a reflex.