it's 2 p.m. in ukraine, news time on the espresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers, and now to the most important events. the russians killed one person in nikopol and wounded two others. according to serhiy lyska, the head of the dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, the enemy is the morning.

hit the city with artillery. a 45-year-old man died, a 16-year-old girl and a man were also injured. more than a dozen private houses and several farm buildings were also damaged in nikopol. the car, power lines and gas pipeline were affected. russia keeps six warships at sea, five in the black sea and one in the azov sea. due to bad weather. the enemy has established bases of surface-to-surface missile carriers, but the level of threat remains, the defense forces of southern ukraine emphasize. as early as this morning, the russian occupiers kept four warships in the black sea . the cannons of the 45th artillery brigade of the armed forces of ukraine successfully struck a concentration of enemy personnel. according to the general staff, the russian occupiers lost another 1,279 soldiers in the morning. also ukrainian

gunners conduct a successful counter-battery fight, in which, in particular, american m-777 howitzers help. the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine, valery zaluzhnyi , published videos of our gunners. as the general noted, bad weather does not interfere with the calculation of destroying the enemy and supporting the infantry on the front line. in the armed forces of ukraine, three sevens are used to destroy village headquarters. bk and fuel accumulations of the enemy's equipment and artillery. the armed forces of ukraine hit the saka airfield in the occupied crimea - said air force commander mykola olyschuk. he wrote that it was possible to destroy the enemy's control post. in telegram, the public published videos of explosions. as nataliya humenyuk, spokeswoman for the southern command, noted, this had a powerful impact on the defense system of the peninsula. the russians are trying to quickly

reformat their forces. also, local residents reported that they heard at least five explosions at night near yevpatoria, they say that the walls in the houses shook from the sounds. at the same time , the russian ministry of defense reported that it shot down five drones over the western part waters of the black sea, as usual, without victims and consequences. we are being liquidated. missile strikes on kyiv region. starting tomorrow in vyshnevo , windows will be installed en masse instead of broken ones. international volunteer funds help. homes have already been supplied with light, heat and water. the gas supply will be restored in the near future, said the head of the region , ruslan kravchenko. during the last attack , 14 high-rise buildings, 50 private buildings, more than 90 cars, two schools, a church, and warehouses were damaged in the kyiv region. in general there is destruction. in five districts, repair

work is ongoing. since the beginning of the full-scale invasion , more than 28,000 objects have been damaged and destroyed in kyiv region. the main part is private and apartment buildings. that is why this year the main attention will be focused on the completion of capital repairs and construction of facilities from scratch, which were started last year. caring for... furries, the police brought food for dogs and cats to avdiivka. 750 kg of animal feed was delivered to the destroyed city by shelling. it was handed over by volunteers, told in donetsk police. there are many abandoned pets in avdiivka. some of the residents, leaving the city, left their animals with their neighbors. one of the local residents sheltered 18 cats and three dogs. and such cases are not uncommon. police officers help feed this army. tailed

and deliver food to each quarter. every week we have food, we bring it to the city every week. this is bread, fresh bread from the military-civilian administration, and also volunteers help us with food for the animals, which we are too we transport around the city, as there are many homeless animals in the city, that's how hungry we are, the verkhovna rada has a draft resolution on the recall of people's deputy maryana bezuglai from the position of deputy head of the pita committee. of national security, defense and intelligence. the initiators of the resolution are 11 people's deputies, including the head of the committee oleksandr zavitnevich. i would like to add that yesterday the defense committee decided to recall maryana bezuglai from the position of deputy chairman of the committee. the polish government

will sign an agreement with the blockading farmers border with ukraine, rech-pospolita writes about it. czeslaw syk, minister of agriculture of poland. today he has to agree on a document with the protesters in ryashev, he will help unblock the border crossing point of doctor shegyn. the official will give a guarantee to meet the three demands of the farmers, namely maize subsidies, cheap loans and no tax increase. sekerskyi confirmed that the embargo on ukrainian products will continue to apply. ukraine. this year, for the first time, officially celebrates baptism according to the new julian calendar, 6 january our correspondent, ivan haruk, who is with us now live, will tell how they celebrate in hutsulska kryvorivna. ivan, i congratulate you, tell me, please, what is the atmosphere like in

ivano-frankivsk region now? christ was born, christ was baptized in the jordan river, that is what they say today here in hutsul oblast, and in ukraine in general, as you can see, the end of today's solemn holiday service is approaching, and today our carolers, who here in the gosushchyna go from house to house the house from christmas and baptism will also have its own a direct role, the carolers will sing carols, trumpet their horns and tremble here in the yard of the church and near the river already near black chermesh, later father ivan will consecrate the water, and so do many carolers today, both young and old, and older. who were able, because a lot of guys who can't now are at war, join, thus supporting this such a lively tradition, because it is directly a lot of work, you have to spend your time, you have to carol from house to house , so that every house was not left without carolers, and

now one of the old carolers of kryvorivna, mr. ivan zelenchuk, is next to me, so mr. ivan, tell me about your participation, about your role, about your experience in this kind of caroling, which you take from year to year in... christ is baptizing, i am flying already this year for the 33rd year and i am very happy that, as mr. ivan already said, many pilots are fighting, but young people have joined us, which i am very glad that these traditions are not dying, botsulska christmas especially. i want to say, there are no analogues of it anywhere very ancient, very old, we have it from pagan times, and they redid the carols, because there were such carols that did not fit into

christianity, but the priests even in their time forbade it, because they said that it was satanic, but they redid it even now we used to play the old carols, we updated them. and so we go around congratulating people, announcing the birth of jesus christ, standing up to one of the carols , you can remember literally a few, well, such a small one, we won’t sound like that in the band, but nothing, but we brothers stand up in the row, and we congratulate the born cross, because the news of the earth has come. holy, if we were to wear the traditional costumes, and if we were to go and tell people that in bethlehem there is the mother of god, she gives birth to a child and swaddles it, thank you, mr. ivan,

now the carolers will go directly from the church to the black chermash river, which is nearby , and everyone will also carol together according to... tradition from year to year precisely on epiphany, the whole village that carols, also sings the anthem of ukraine right next to christ, next to the river that will be consecrated. colleagues, irina, you have a word. thank you ivan, so everyone now our viewers will know how to say hello today. christ is baptized in the mouth of the jordan. and we congratulate you, ivan, on the holiday. so we move on to the following information. i only have to add that we are collecting funds for a front-line car for the tankmen of the offensive guard, who protect the eastern flank of the struggle for our independence. a front-line vehicle fights and rescues in off-road conditions and constant shelling, time of service. the number of front-line cars is short, we need a lot of cars and they are needed quickly, so we encourage you to join

gathering, we put victory on the wheels together. our goal is uah 250,000. and we have already collected more than half, so join our collection. that was the news at this time, we will see you at 3:00 p.m., more news. read espresso tv on our website, also subscribe to us on social networks and watch on youtube, we are picking up the information relay, judge marta oliyarnyk, oksana. sochanska, and now we will continue to talk about what,

probably, all of ukraine is talking about today, about crimea, akhtem chigoz, people's deputy of ukraine joins our airwaves, and now we will ask him what made us so happy this night and this morning. glory to ukraine, mr. artem. glory to the heroes, i congratulate you all on the holidays. thank you and we hope you share too. this is a somewhat festive mood of ukrainians, despite the war, if only because of the fact that today there were such beautiful fireworks in crimea, and we actually expect a little more detailed information from you, because the russians usually shout that they have lost everything, that everything is fine with them there , we already want to know what really happened in the sakas, and we want to know that this airfield was located, we know that the 40th fighter aviation regiment was stationed there, that there could be planes there, that there could also be pilots

studying and training there, please tell me, of course, the novofedorivskyi airfield, it is a little like that, away from the city, but you know, these days there was a lot of such information, and the most important thing is that we know.

how much was damaged there or what we destroyed, it will be a little later, but you know what is important, that despite the terror that these occupiers are trying to do there, especially collaborators, they are the most nervous because they themselves are from crimea, i... if yes, but now they are forced to constantly think about where to go to russia, so, despite these actions on their part against the civilian population, you you see, everything is getting more and more encouraging, they send us all these pictures, they throw them on social networks, that is, there is such a thing, but when i talk to crimea, i feel that... everything is enough, yes, that is, everyone sees the inability

of the tsar himself , that is, he is naked, and that's the panic, besides, such a small island, yes territory, there where, who, with whom he communicates, how he behaves , what they say, not only facebook users know this, we also know this, yes, and in these conversations there is more and more such panic and... most importantly , disappointment, yes , that is, they no longer believe in this and that back in the 14th year in...

we know about all this, there is such and such a movement of all these institutions, or the military there, or some kind of equipment there, they dump information, earlier they did this, before this large-scale war, they dropped us, and then

i myself personally all these columns, and that the mood of the looters, how... in what way, why did i start calling it a skyscraper, because they frankly told our residents that they were going to loot on the territory of ukraine, now, and then we tried to make such a connection so that such information went directly our military, now they have a lot of opportunities to have direct communication, and that's why it 's not ee... just monitoring there, i don't know, for some episodes, it's direct information that is located both at the airfields and in belbeks, and novofedorivka, which is located there, is located in dzhankoya, where does it go, which one the complex is being relocated, all this is going

directly now, and there will be beasts. sometimes they ask, no, about it later, that is, there is such a clear understanding of what is happening on the territory of crimea, and that is why we have such opportunities to enter from different sides and achieve success, this is where the remote deoccupation of crimea is. thank you, thank you, mr. akhtem, artem, who is a people's deputy of ukraine, was with us and we are already attaching it. our next guest, denis popovych, a military commentator on the espresso tv channel. congratulations , mr. denis. good day. so, sir denis, information regarding a possible major offensive on kharkiv region is being actively discussed, although the ukrainian authorities say that this is impossible in the near future. according to western media sources, the russians are

planning a major offensive on january 15. well, the institute for the study of war considers everything. yes, that an attack is possible, but not from the north, for example, from belgorod, yes, but possible from the east, from the east, yes, from the eastern direction, on kupyansk, nodal, on kupyansk. what is your assessment as a military expert of those events and whether there is potential in russian occupiers, withdraw from the north and repeat the big offensive again? well, the enemy's offensive on kupinsk has actually been going on for six months, that is, it began in the summer, the first attempts were made, in general. they planned last year as part of the offensive then on bahmud carried out by wagner pmc, there they tried, tried, planned an offensive on kupinsk, then their second attempt was in the summer, and now we see that every day the lyman-kupin direction is one of the hottest point of the front, i.e. the offensive on kharkiv oblast, he is already on his way, that is, the enemy's attempts to advance on kharkiv

oblast, and this is precisely the broken kupyn direction, and there is no time frame here, if we say... about an attack on kharkiv from the belgorod side, it is obvious what these forecasts were about in foreign publications, as of today the enemy does not have enough forces to attack such a city as kharkiv, the belgorod troops are grouped there, there are about 12 thousand people, less than 100 tanks, there are a little more than 300 systems of various calibers, and this is absolutely not enough to storm such a city as kharkiv, city. let us compare, compare with other directions, the same lamano-kupin direction, the enemy group as of summer numbered about 100,000 people there. now there are about 50,000 people advancing on avdiivka, what are their gains, i.e. 100, 200, 300 m, they are trying to gnaw away at our territory,

it is clear that this is at a very high cost to us , such protection from the overwhelming enemy forces, but let's we will, as they say , calculate the price-price-quality ratio, if they attack like this on kupyansk, on avdiivka, on bahmud, after all, they attacked maryanka in this way, so... what success can they achieve by attacking kharkiv in this way, as of today there are not enough forces to attack kharkiv directly, and even more so now there are no signs that such forces will be greater there in this direction. mr. denys, we ask you to stay with us, we have to take a short break on our airwaves, then we will come back literally in a second and continue our conversation. want to wake up rested and full of strength, but from the old the mattress constantly hurts the whole body, you can't turn around on the sofa, you can't find a comfortable position, you need to improve your

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a series of conversations with ukrainian and western intellectuals who reflect and comment the most relevant public discussions. what news will be analyzed by the guests of the project this week and actually who will be the guest of the studio. we will find out already this sunday. undoubtedly, the topics will be relevant, especially the guests. proper names with myroslava barchuk. sunday: 17:10 at espresso. we are coming back. thank you for waiting. mr. denys, let's continue our conversation, and what everyone is really very afraid of: massive rocket attacks, such as happened on the eve of the new year, in the first days of the new year. well, there were predictions, some there, analysts said that on christmas, on christmas night, but we are talking about the old calendar, which the russians follow, they can renew it. all these shellings, experts also told us that in order to program the missiles and their flight trajectories, according to the technical characteristics, which the russians say, it takes two days, but in fact from four

days to two weeks. so, based on this, can or should we fear more shelling in the coming days? well, i think that the issue of new objects is a matter of time. not necessarily that it can be a weekday night, well for the old according to the calendar, as we used to celebrate there last year on january 7, but i think that in principle it is a matter of time, it’s just that they very much adhere to different dates, we understand that the russians there sometimes need it until the new year, then there some anniversary date, that's probably why they're talking about january 7, but please continue, well , it wasn't until the new year, they didn't fire anything there on december 31, they fired there on january 2 and fired on december 29, that's why they 're actually there for the new year on the sea. from fortunately, nothing special happened on new year's eve on the 23rd year, but, well, there is still an old new year, again, if

you think about it. er, as it was celebrated before, that is , on this and on this date, there may be some shelling, but again, i would not be tied to specific dates, i think that here the issue will be tied to another , that is , they will obviously gather some information, program their missiles, and based on this information, they will launch their missile attacks, again in the same pattern as these two incidents on december 29 and january 2, combo shots using multiple. types of missiles, with the use of attack drones , with the use of air-ballistic missiles , with the use of ballistic missiles and so on , that is, it is quite possible that it could be on january 7, well, i have certain doubts, but they know, on such a metaphysical level, that is, i believe or not, as they say, but in the coming days i think that something similar may happen, mr. denis, and in continuation of the topic, i would still like to discuss with you information

related to the possibility of... supply of ballistic missiles by russia from north korea , actually such a statement was made in the united states, our air force has not yet confirmed that russia is attacking ukraine with missiles from the dprk, but at the same time there is information from the kharkiv head of the kharkiv regional military administration oleg synigubov, who stated that that the russians struck the territory of the kharkiv region with foreign-made missiles, where the production numbers were erased so. and accordingly i would like to ask you, what do you think, whether it is precisely these rockets that fell on kharkiv oblast, or could these be some other foreign missiles that iran or other states could supply to russia? with regard to iran , there is no information that iran supplied ballistic missiles, precisely ballistic missiles at the disposal of the russian federation, with regard to north korean ballistic missiles, as you correctly noted, the air force is that.

not confirmed, but such a possibility exists, the supply of ballistic missiles from north korea to the russian federation, especially since earlier, when it was analyzed, say yes, the contents of these containers , which were transported to the russian federation, there were speculations that there could be ballistic missiles, there could be missiles for mlrs in general, or negotiations are underway for ballistic missiles, so i think it is quite possible, especially since, if you read more, read. these ballistic missiles that north korea has, then it becomes known that such a, you know, significant technological breakthrough has been made by north korea just starting in 2014, and from where could it make such a breakthrough if it is under sanctions, which are quite total from the international community, so it can be assumed who exactly helped north korea to make this breakthrough, either china or the russian federation, well, china also

denies the information. says he doesn't know anything about north korea supplying missiles, but i think it's more likely than not, it's quite possible, especially since the russian federation has something to offer north korea in order to pay, so to speak say, these supplies, here it is necessary to understand that in principle, the north korean missile program has its roots in the soviet union, has its roots in the modern russian federation, so obviously nothing like this will happen there. significant such, you know, significant novelty, well, but it is not easier for us, because a ballistic missile, it is in any case a difficult target to intercept, and we have few means to intercept such air targets, of course, mr. denis, the next question also concerns their aviation and our ukrainian south, two weeks ago minus three of their battle tanks, in one fell swoop our boys and girls organized

another minus one in chelyabinsk the other day. we understand that they have a lot left, but there was , i hope, that it was really their reaction to our actions, when the observers noted that the russians had calmed down a little, stopped using manned operations in the south, and assumed that it was then that they the operation, which was planned in the vicinity of the wells, was suspended, only now are they starting to renew their planes. strikes around the bridgehead, which still have combat power left in them planes, how many and can these events indicate that this is the right way for us, for our troops, for our armed forces? well, they have a lot of planes, well , about 50 planes of various types were evaluated there, and about the same number of army helicopters.