the state, thank you, konstantin zhivago, investor , entrepreneur, philanthropist was in touch with us, they actually talked about important things, how we will experience the whole next year and how we will end this year, now antin and i have to say goodbye to you, today our work with antin is coming to an end, but our television channel's animation studio is entering the battle, and anna yevamelnik will now present all the most important events of the day, and today we say goodbye to you, tomorrow we will see you in... at the same time in the same studio, all the best, greetings to everyone from espresso, time'. to know about

the most current events at the moment, and i will start this issue with this: the prosecutor's office has started an investigation into the fact of the shooting of ukrainian prisoners of war near zaporizhzhia. according to the investigation, in december 2023, during a combat clash with ukrainian defense forces near the village of robotyne in the zaporizhzhia region, the russian military captured three ukrainian defenders. after an hour of violation of the geneva convention, the occupiers shot them. in 2023 in 2018, our armed forces and special units of the security service of ukraine destroyed more than 500 russian tanks, among them the newest models of the aggressor country, the t-90 and t-90m. the cost of which is almost 5 million dollars each, for maximum damage to russian armored vehicles, a powerful arsenal of anti-tank weapons and modern drones were used. volodymyr zelenskyy honored

employees of the defense-industrial complex with awards. currently, 3,000 workers are involved in the production of weapons in ukraine . these are people who work around the clock on restoring the defense capacity of our country - the president noted. this year alone , thanks to you and everyone who works in our defense sector, it was possible. already three times more weapons and equipment than last year, there is a very significant growth in the production of ammunition, in particular for artillery, ukraine is systematically expanding the production of such extremely necessary things as ammunition for our domestic drones, important results are the production of our missiles, the number and quality indicators for rockets are already significantly higher and...

even more. delay of pensions and salaries. millions of ukrainians will wait for money for a long time if the measure does not provide financial assistance at the beginning of 2024, - said the minister of economy yuliya sverdenko. we are talking about half a million civil servants, almost one and a half million teachers and 10 million pensioners. according to the government official, next year ukraine needs financial support from partners in the amount of 30. the second day in europe - there was a rush at the specialized centers, queues of men who wanted to issue documents formed. queues can be observed in the cities of germany, poland, the czech republic and other european union countries. i would like to remind you that in the new bill on mobilization , foreign passports will not be issued to ukrainians abroad who have not entered the military register and bank transactions will be restricted. kyiv

received help from german sister cities. five fire-rescue vehicles were handed over by the city to the sister city of leipzig. this was announced by mayor vitalii klitschko from berlin, who will equip three more modern garbage trucks with an ecological garbage collection system. military aid party ministry of defense japan handed over suvs to ukrainian defenders. this was reported in the embassy of japan. the exact amount of transport is not disclosed, however, the partners assured that they will support ukraine in the next year as well. the mykolayiv region received four powerful excavators from korean partners, the head of the military, military-civilian administration vitaly kim said. this was the result of a memorandum of cooperation signed back in september. excavators are characterized by high productivity due to the combination of large.

working weight and advanced technologies. technique are received by the rescuers of the municipal services of mykolaiv and koblivsk community. in transcarpathia at border guards stopped a car in which as many as eight evaders were crammed, they were trying to illegally cross the border with slovakia. the driver of the car, who organized such a tour, ran away, but did not manage to run far. border guards detained 16 border violators in total last day. without the right to appeal , the court once again kept people's deputy oleksandr dubinsky in custody. his lawyers about... the force about house arrest allegedly due to the deterioration of the defendant's health. earlier, dobinskyi stated that he was beaten and had his ribs broken in kyiv sizo. however, the national police could not confirm this after the inspection. let me remind you that the people's deputy is suspected of organizing a scheme for illegal departure

of men of draft age abroad. take away the roof over your head. a shelter for displaced persons may close in the lviv region. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia , 450 ukrainians have used this shelter. my colleagues will tell you the details. we are outside in winter, like our residents. kateryna terasenko is a farmer from auchevsk, who settled in lviv region in 2015. after the start of the full-scale invasion of russia, the woman rented an unfinished restaurant complex and converted it. he was in a shelter for displaced persons, this place was symbolically called a roof over his head, i came here with my husband on february 26, 2022, and on february 28 , friends from kyiv called me, because kyiv began to be shelled, it was one call, then

a third , the fifth, people asked: kateryna, are you? in the west, where you can go, i say, but go here. in the first days of the great war , the shelter was equipped with rooms. household items were brought by fellow villagers, people fleeing from russian shelling began to gather here, they organized themselves and collected money for food, there are four showers, there are five toilets, and from the very first day we organized centralized food, we cook ourselves, clean ourselves, we do everything ourselves, in addition, we grew a vegetable garden on the land of the cooperative farm. themselves, bought 100 chickens, which they fed themselves. in september of this year the cabinet of ministers of ukraine approved the procedure for the functioning of temporary residences. members of the special commission inspected gudashavi's hideout. living conditions were found

to be unsatisfactory for a place of compact living. and then the lady called, unfortunately i don't remember her last name, who was the deputy head of the commission. this one, which was created by the lviv administration, and said that the shelter should be closed within two weeks. therefore, for 18 residents of the shelter , the question arose of finding another home. allamyslovska, a migrant from the zaporizhzhia region, found accommodation in drohobych. everything was normal, so yes, the products were brought right away, the humanitarian woman was cooking, the girls here, well , they are the same as us immigrants. treated normally when needed to help. six residents of the shelter need new housing precisely in the stryi district, because they constantly attend hemodialysis sessions. i explained that our people cannot move anywhere,

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part of history. greetings, i'm olga len, these are the chronicles of the war, and today we will sum up the results of 2023, look a little into the future, and start, as always, from the map. results of the war in 2023. the war during 2023 was much bloodier than the previous one. the russian army of occupation lost more than 220,000 soldiers, only killed, destroyed the offensive potential, lost most of the battle and was forced to retreat to the black sea. losses of the occupiers during 2023,

the armed forces of ukraine destroyed fewer tanks and infantry fighting vehicles than in the 22nd by 10% and 20%. in accordance. the enemy has not only stopped moving in columns, but also does not have time to restore the previously lost armored fleet. at the same time, our soldiers eliminated almost twice as many invaders, bringing the total number to 350 thousand destroyed, at least as many wounded russians. there are no official statistics on the losses of the armed forces, however, representatives of the general staff have repeatedly stated that they are 5-7 times smaller than the enemy. this year, the defense forces opened a real safari for artillery. and anti-aircraft missiles, whose destruction rates tripled to 6,390 units, respectively. we also shot down 4,300 tactical drones, which is twice as many as the previous year. these figures give a real picture of the nature of the fighting in the 23rd year, less armored vehicles, more drones and shells. change of the front line and the biggest

battles of 2023 two significant changes took place on the front line: the russians managed to occupy. muty territory east of the city, i.e. almost 530 km, instead, the zso punched two large holes in the defense of the rashists on the southern front with a total area of ​​almost 270 km, and also repelled another 43 km during the counteroffensive near bakhmut. russia lost the battle in luhansk region. throughout 2023, the russians tried to launch a large-scale offensive in luhansk oblast, in order to get... the armed forces beyond the oskil river and beyond the borders of luhansk oblast, as well as to return the lost city of leman, which is strategically important for the battle for donetsk oblast. battles were fought on the entire hundred-kilometer front line with the largest with emphasis on the direction of kupyansk, borova and leman. each of these cities is located at a distance of more than 10 km from the front line, but the russians managed

to advance by 1-5 km in separate and very limited areas during the year. in addition, the anti-aircraft defense forces of the counterattackers returned a part. lost positions, as it was in the summer in the area of ​​the villages of novoyehorivka and nadiya, and also now occurs regularly near the may day and berry festivals. a landmark event in the luhansk region was the return to the front of the azov brigade, which took up positions in the silver forest on kreminsk direction. the historical battle for bakhmut. the complete occupation of donetsk remains russia's priority goal, and the offensive on bakhmud has started a new stage of the implementation of this plan. the battle began on august 22nd and continues. however, the most dramatic events took place in january-may 2023. first, we lost several villages near soledar, and two weeks later , soledar itself, which became a threat not only to bakhmut, but also to our bridgehead near siversk. however, the armed forces managed to eliminate the threat of a russian offensive north of bakhmut. street battles were fought by the enemy along the way total destruction of urban buildings, in addition to

solodar and bakhmut, the rashists occupied another 24 villages in the winter. as part of the summer campaign of contranas. hundred returned klishchivka and andriivka to the south of bakhmut, and also came close to yagidny and berkhivka to the north of the city. however, during the new massive offensive launched in december, the occupiers managed to push our heroes back to the vicinity of bohdanivka and ivanivskyi. a large-scale offensive along the entire donetsk front and the battle for ughledar: the ughledar bridgehead is very troubling to the russians, because the operation of the mariupol , volnovakha, donetsk railways is threatened. on the 23rd , the rashists went on a second powerful assault on the city and were able to approach it at a distance of 2 km, however, in three weeks, the armed forces of ukraine destroyed half of their armored vehicles, more than 200 units. since then, the russians have made no serious attempt to attack vgledar again until they launched a broad front offensive across donetsk in december. as a result of this offensive, they

managed to complete the occupation of maryinka, as well as come close to the enclaves of sil pobeda and novomykhaivka, where it took place. the deepest breakthrough front since the battle of bakhmut, about 5 km. if these trends continue, the next enemy will be the ugladar again. battle for avdiivka. in just two months, the russians lost 1,300 soldiers and more than 210 units of armored vehicles. at the same time, the enemies are making their way hundreds of meters a week to the village of stepove. the invaders have been storming for almost 80 days and have only reached the middle of it. their advance on the approaches near. novokalynovy, novobakhmutivka, to the north of the city and near severny and pervomaisky in the south, are even more modest, although for cutting logistics to the semi-surrounding avdiyivka , the invaders had less than 10 km, but the armed forces of ukraine are building the second and third lines of defense here, and at such a pace , the rashists can break away and lose their offensive potential in 1-2 months.

the year 2023 began with the battle for bakhmut, and ends with the battle for audiivka. both will go down in history as the bloodiest, but during this time the zso managed to increase their firepower, if in january-february they destroyed an average of 740 russians per day, then in november-december 950. instead russia... which at the beginning of the war could advance along the entire front, now has the potential only in certain sections of a few kilometers. the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine on the southern front began on june 4-6 simultaneously in the melitopol, tokmat, and berdyan areas. in the first months of the offensive, overcoming minefields and defense lines, our military managed to capture three bridgeheads, the largest in the area of ​​velika novosilka, where they passed more than 10 km in depth, 25 km in width, and liberated seven. the defense forces were released in the tokmat direction 100 km around the village of robotyn, on melitopolsky, they managed to break through 2.5 km deep and liberated three villages. then the offensive

slowed down and in the end did not fulfill the initial goals of reaching the sea of ​​azov. however, he prepared a good foundation for a counteroffensive in 2024. in particular, it was possible to save the prepared skeleton of new brigades, as well as more than 80% of armored vehicles. to the left. along the coast of the kherson region with the ssu managed to gain a foothold, at least on two bridgeheads, near the antoniv bridge and the village of krynki. other promising areas are also being developed near the bare pier and oleshok. a thousand of our heroes are keeping the enemy's 65,000-strong army at bay. ukrainian victories in the air and on the black sea. in 2023, the defense forces were constantly increasing their range. our drones began to fly to moscow and beyond, having inflicted more than 20 strikes, probably causing damage. more russian planes on airfields than in the air. in addition, ukraine won this round of the battle for the black sea, not only forcing the russian ships to retreat from sevastopol to

novorossiysk, returning control of the so-called boyka towers. this made it possible to control part of the water area to such an extent that gur made two raids on the western coast of crimea. missile strikes on the docks in sevastopol, the destruction of a submarine and repair docks in kirchy, just completed the defeat of the black sea fleet. of the russian federation , the crimean bridge is waiting for its turn in 2024. my guest is viktor kyvylyuk, a military expert of the center for defense strategies, a reserve colonel of the armed forces of ukraine, and we actually met with him at the end of the 22nd year, there were several such interesting insiders from him, now we will talk about it. greetings, mr. viktor. good afternoon, ms. olga. well, then you said that the russians would carry out some kind of local, limited offensive operation , and this was actually near bakhmut, we saw it,

then you told us that forces were concentrating in the aluyok regions, from there they had to advance somewhere, and indeed they were advancing on crimea, advancing on lyman, well, we saw all this, you and i didn't talk much about the south then, but you mentioned... that very serious fortifications are being built in the south, so we also attribute this to the fact that we, in principle, somehow saw it at that time, so even now they expect something so interesting from you, well, but first let's talk about, well, somehow so concentratedly, why it was actually not possible to carry out a large-scale counteroffensive, because there is a lot of talk around this, some say that it was necessary somewhere in one place those... but they scattered efforts, i also want to note that it is wrong to call the events in the azov direction a counteroffensive, is this a classic offensive

operation, an absolute textbook straight here all the canons of military science, why it failed, there are many opinions on this matter. in my opinion, the main reason was not to make three main strikes on three, it was necessary to choose one and concentrate all available efforts there, and the second point, the help that was supposed to be provided by our partners, came late, unconcentrated, and... something not in the volumes that were expected, and the most important thing, unfortunately, the issue of the supply of aircraft was not resolved, but to carry out... a large-scale operation

, especially in three directions at the same time, is quite difficult in the absence of not only dominance in the air, but at least under the conditions of the existing advantage, so it seems that these three factors played a decisive role. well, we still read a lot about how there were disputes between the american and ukrainian military regarding the defense of bakhmut and our command. they criticized that in this area they used shells and exhausted some units that could take part in the offensive in the south. in your opinion, was it worth defending bakhmut? there is no need to talk about disputes in headquarters the armed forces have no foreign advisers or consultants to argue with. our partners are the same spectators in the stands, as is the entire expert environment, which ...

is outside the defense forces today, these are the assessments of outside observers who are not familiar with our military plans, and let's put it this way, they see what they see , they look at it through the prism of their experience, their military science, their knowledge, and accordingly have, well, a different point of view from our point of view, regarding whether it is worth or not to defend batna, as soon as we started to... enter and quite successfully wedged into the enemy's first line of defense in the zaporizhzhia region, the enemy immediately made efforts and became more active in the bakhmut area, with the aim of drawing our reserves there, to make the intensity of fire support in the zaporizhzhia direction fall due to the need to support resources defense in the area of ​​bakhmut, and in principle it is absolutely expected

adequately. the actions of the enemy, which compensates with its activity in one direction for operational and tactical problems that began in another direction, this is logical, is it worth it it is not worth defending bakhmut, from the political point of view, the maintenance of any settlement is important, because this is our ukrainian land, and we have to defend it, from the military point of view, if you are going. to defend the settlement, you have to prepare it for defense, those who were in bakhmut, those who are in bakhmut now, do not tell about the presence of any defensive structures there, some lines, positions were prepared, the city was not prepared for defense, these are purely tactical local cells of the resistance that were organized

at the level of brigade battalions. and not at the level of the operational group of vy, personally , in my opinion, let's say this, it was worth immediately withdrawing to the lines advantageous for defense , giving the territory to the enemy, but preserving, first of all, human resources, no allies will give us infantry, and accordingly save a huge number the same fights. passes with the production of which the world defense industry does not cope well yet. i am personally inclined to the fact that it was worth retreating. well, but it would, for example, not work anywhere attacking the same wagner infantry, which would not have stopped after they captured bakhmut, but i think they would have tried to go further. of course, there would

be less enemy, but... let's compare the situation in a mirror, the one in the zaporizhzhia direction and the one in the bakhmutsky direction. the enemy built a huge number of defensive structures, trenches, explosive and non-explosive barriers, laid minefields 15 km deep, which we overcome in six months. something prevented us from doing the same in the bakhmut area, leveling the line front, shortening it.