a one-hundred-day deadline for this humanitarian aid. the authorities agreed to certain concessions. on december 21 , 2023, the president signed the law on simplifying the rules for the import, accounting and distribution of humanitarian aid. the innovation concerns the importation of imported cars. from now on , servicemen can receive vehicles as well as individuals. from january 21, the law 91/11 and charitable funds, which are imported, enters into force. machines can transfer it not only to military units, as is currently the case, but also to individuals, military personnel who need this help. while the volunteers are registering in the automated system, the cabinet of ministers allowed the import of aid based on paper declarations. until april 1, 2024 , the electronic declaration procedure will remain voluntary. kateryna oliynyk, andriy polikovskyi, espresso tv channel.

news time on the espresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, i welcome all viewers to the most important events. just now 11 people died, including five children. another eight people were injured. these are the preliminary consequences of the russian shelling of the pokrovsky district daughters the enemy attacked the private sector with s-300 missiles. the main attack took place in pokrovsky and rivne, myrnograd communities, the regional military administration said. six houses were destroyed in pokrovsk, people were trapped under the rubble. a fire broke out in rivne. the rescue operation is ongoing. s-300 missiles, the necessary

rescue forces, and the equipment of the state emergency service of ukraine are involved, dismantling the rubble. the blow of the russians was simply on ordinary residential buildings, on private houses. all wounded are given the necessary assistance, and russia must always feel feel that none of these strikes will pass without consequences for the terrorist state. we have. to provide it. two children were injured in the kherson region due to russian shelling. the nine-year-old twins were driving with their parents in a car between the villages of darivka and fedorivka when the enemy opened fire. the boys were taken to the hospital, one with a foot injury, the other with soft tissues of the front abdominal wall. and nikopolshchyna in dnipropetrovsk region suffered 12 artillery shells and three strikes by kamikaze drones. under enemy fire with a rake.

mirivska, marganetska and pokrovska rural communities. one person died, a 16-year-old girl and a 66-year-old man received shrapnel injuries. they are in the hospital in a moderate condition, reported the head of the region, serhiy lysak. another four people needed the help of doctors due to severe stress. among them is a five-year-old boy. two industrial enterprises, 27 private houses and 13 commercial buildings were damaged. almost 200 families are without solar panels, gas stoves, power lines, without electricity. russia attacked ukraine north korean missiles. new evidence was provided by the prosecutor's office of the kharkiv region. this missile is one of several that hit kharkiv on january 2. it is somewhat different from the russian ones, both externally and technically. a slightly larger diameter than iskanders. distinct electronics, sop. and the aft part. as

you know, as a result of the russian missile attack on kharkiv, two people were killed and more than 60 others were injured. i should note that north korea is under a un arms embargo. security council resolutions were adopted with the support of russia. for those information that is available on the internet, those photos that were exhibited in north korean parades behind nozzles. behind the back of this missile, it is very similar, and indeed this missile is south, north korean, it was manufactured on the basis of iskander, so there is a great similarity, that is why we are inclined to the version that it is possible that this missile was provided by north korea. the countries of the european union should share with germany the burden of aid to ukraine, german finance minister christian lindner called for this. during a speech at the party congress

free democrats. according to the eu diplomatic service, germany is the largest supplier of military aid to ukraine, having provided weapons and equipment worth close to the threat exists for all of europe, so others must share the burden. it cannot be that germany does more for ukraine, while other strong european countries do less. now is the time to show that the european union is a community of values ​​that comes together in times like these. ukraine uses three times less at the front. shells than in the summer of last year, it is said in materials of the wall street journal. if during the counteroffensive they used up to 7,000 shells per day, now there are barely 2,000. the worst thing is that the ratio has swung in favor of the russians. frozen russian

assets abroad amount to approximately 300 billion dollars. they should be used to support ukraine. the former president announced this on the social network. according to the president, the decision to use frozen assets to support ukraine will be a fair and legal response to russia's aggression, as well as the right signal to potential aggressors in the world. the slovak company will supply ukraine with an improved bellarty-2 universal demining machine on the chassis of the t-55 tank. this version is able to work. in a full robotic gps model with artificial intelligence. with the help of a telescopic boom, it defuses mines even in hard-to-reach places, such as slopes and ditches. in addition, a full set of additional devices is provided for digging. in addition, it can also become

a crane that lifts up to 7 tons. the crew consists of two people. according to the government, 174,000 square meters remain potentially replaceable in ukraine. improves the treatment of soldiers and facilitates the work of medics. the netherlands handed over eight field hospitals to ukraine, they are already being used for the needs of the national guard. hospitals are equipped with autonomous power supply and can operate on a diesel generator. water supply and drainage are connected, the ministry of internal affairs said. the mobile medical hospital is designed for 26-50 beds in different. complete set, each equipped with the necessary a stock of medicines and consumables. the polish government will sign an agreement with farmers who are blocking the border with ukraine, rech-pospolita writes, the minister

of agriculture of poland, czeslaw sekerski , is to agree on the document with the protesters in ryaszew today. he will help to unblock the sheghini border checkpoint. official will provide guarantees to meet the three demands of farmers, namely , corn subsidies, cheap loans and not to exceed taxes. sekerskyi confirmed that the embargo on ukrainian products will remain in effect in the future the polish prosecutor's office is checking the tv channel. republic on the air of which it was stated that migrants should be resettled in auschwitz or. to chip, the first controversial comment was given by satirist and actor jan piedstak. 3 days later, former editor marek krupel added that migrants should be chipped or tattooed, because it is, they say, cheaper.

polish prime minister donald tusk condemned the outbursts of xenophobia, and noted that it was the result of the encouragement of the previous government. as a result. the channel was followed by advertisers, the first being ikea, it was joined by kerofo and mastercard. for the first time in ukraine , a unique liver transplant with one-time correction of a heart defect was performed. in the metropolitan ahmadiyya. the operation lasted almost a day. in this way, doctors saved a nine-month-old girl. tatyanka was born in ternopil with a congenital heart defect. also in babies. also a disease that causes mental insufficiency. without surgery , the girl had no chance of life. specialists calculated all possible options and decided to combine two operations. the mother became the donor of the liver, the ministry of defense said health. the little patient is already preparing to

return home. a month of performances dedicated to vasyl stus began in kyiv. today it could be fulfilled. every year on the poet's birthday, events dedicated to his work are organized around the world, this year for the first time a whole festival was organized. stust fest is currently an international festival that gathers around itself and under its auspices all projects that are related to vasyl stus in one way or another, whether it is based on his work, whether it is based on his biography, or it is inspired by his work. after all, it is about stus in one month, it is january of vasyl stus. this year, for the first time, ukraine officially celebrates baptism according to the new julian calendar on january 6. today, churches celebrate water, which is considered healing. traditionally, on this day believers and just

thrill-seekers take a dip in cold water. the orthodox church of ukraine assures that this is not a church tradition. however , the rescuers adjusted to the situation, only in the capital equipped 18 places for persuasion. such were the news at that time. you can read more on... our website expresso tv, also subscribe to us on social networks and of course watch on youtube, well then meet politklub with vitaly portnikov, we will see you at 21 o'clock in the news, at the end of the week. the saturday politclub program is on the air, i welcome

you, dear viewers, khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov, as always we talk about the main events of this week, and we begin our conversation with the security situation, we remind you that ukraine is defending itself against the russian federation on a front of insane length and is aggravation in several points. literally the last week was marked by shalen. shelling by the russian federation, one of them is recognized as the largest combined shelling with the use of aeroballistic weapons, almost there for some faint period of military history. in addition, today you and i are in this program, and it is at this time that rubble is being dismantled in pokrovsk, a building in which it is already known that 11 people, including five children, died. russia continues. to terrorize the civilian population, about all this, and not only, of course, with taras zhovtenko, an expert on international

security of the democratic initiatives fund , a candidate of political sciences and a member of the public council at the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine. congratulations , glory to ukraine. i congratulate you, glory to the heroes. congratulations, mr. taras. so, let's start with what the real security situation looks like in the country. moreover, today there was a rather important message, in my opinion , in the new york times, that the number of missiles that we receive from the united ... for patriot batteries may be significantly reduced, but i do not understand whether because there are no missiles or because that they are so expensive, it is also necessary to find out yet, but in any case, to what extent it will create real problems for ukrainian air defense, if we consider that the patriot is not standing everywhere, and ballistic missiles are flying everywhere, but in fact, in the medium term, it will not create any tangible problems for us , due to the fact that part of the deliveries are still continuing from the connected side. of the united states of america, plus the white house still has about 4 billion dollars in special funds, which requires

a separate authorization from congress to get this money. this is not a question of those 60 billion for of ukraine for the 24th year, which was discussed at the end of last year, and it is obvious that this discussion will also be continued in the near future, because the situation there is now such that the issue of financing military aid to both ukraine and israel, in addition to the fact that it a matter of strategy. strategic american foreign policy, they are also tied by the administration of president biden to the issue of the annual budget of the united states in general, and since the united states now lives on a temporary budget, the deadline which expires on january 19, then by january 19, well, at least there should be several rounds of negotiations on the already serious normal annual budget, because this is the second interim budget since ... december of the 23rd year that the united states continues to live by in order to avoid a shutdown, that is, in the coming weeks, i

think that american lawmakers and the white house will definitely return to the issue of such a serious strategic financing of ukraine, these issues, they will be forced to solve, since this issue annual budget, and regarding the patriot systems, there is another interesting fact here, back in november, the end of november, the beginning of december of the 23rd year , washington to... all from tokyo, with japanese allies about what japan would sell to the united states of america , well, this is enough for a decent batch of interceptor missiles and patriot systems. and these missiles will be intended for ukraine, that is, it is obvious that the white house predicted that this winter , russian terrorists will try to attack ukrainian civilians as much as possible and energy infrastructure, and ukrainian defenders need to have a certain margin of safety, first of all, what concerns interceptor missiles for these ee anti-aircraft missile complexes, and accordingly

an agreement was reached with japan that these missiles will be supplied first. the united states of america, and then to ukraine, well, because there are certain internal mechanisms that do not yet allow the japanese government to directly sell weapons to ukraine, which is in a state of war, but these agreements have been reached and it is obvious that already there are mechanisms for how they will be implemented. ugh. mr. taras, during the entire year of 2023, when ukraine was preparing its offensive, in particular in the south, and we appealed to our partners to provide us with the necessary for... this, in particular , weapons, remember this long catavasia with the provision of tanks and so on and so on, our partners constantly emphasized that the help we will give you will be concentrated around your capabilities, the capabilities to protect the sky, shoot down russian missiles that attack your infrastructure and so on and so on. then many people got the impression that our partners,

let's say, want to provide us with a system. air defense instead of providing us with offensive weapons . now, once again, new york times analysts emphasize basically the same thing. these attacks, which have occurred in recent weeks, have even more acutely emphasized ukraine's urgent need for air defense. this means that for the time being, we are putting a full stop on offensive weapons, i hope, not a full stop. well, we see that ours american partners still put three dots. considering the fact that they have a discussion about providing ukraine with offensive weapons, well, it will now be maximally electrified by this presidential election campaign, which is about to start, and it is clear that against this background, well , for the biden administration, especially considering the fact that in general the issue of strategic financing of ukraine in 2024 is still suspended, but let's say some,

some maximally specific things about the fact that the white house is taking another step forward and... in addition to defensive weapons, makes a strategic decision that the supply of offensive weapons to ukraine should be increased , well, these are also additional domestic political risks, which i think president biden's administration will not take yet, but in this contrast, very interesting statements from our european partners, as well as from the european allies of the united states, well , i'll start with the statement of the ministry of foreign affairs of france, which sparked a very strong fire in the swamps, and the foreign ministry of france about the situation in belgorod. the situation in belgorod, and the current one was commented on as follows , that it is the absolute right of ukraine to strike on the territory of russia in self-defense and to neutralize the russian military potential on the territory of the russian federation, which russia uses in order to continue waging an aggressive war on the territory of ukraine, that is , we see that such statement and then

the almost similar statement of mr. borel, a top diplomat of the european union and our other unions, was also relevant. in europe , the eastern european flank of nato, yes, our northern european allies too voiced almost the same thoughts. we can see that against this background, our european allies can actually be a little bit ahead of the united states of america, after all, they have been doing this since '22, because if you look, for example, at the weapons that great britain has provided us with, then we will see that britain was the first to give very serious samples of weapons that were such game-changers, and on the battlefield, those that... change the rules. the british were the first to give us tanks, the british were the first to give us storm shadow cruise missiles, and after all the french then gave us the scalps right? and the americans with the atakams still can't decide yes or no, so to speak. therefore, i think that the european allies will now use this impasse in the middle of the united states of america in order to, well,

let's say, to have additional leadership positions in support of ukraine, and in the end to implement this ... that vision that is shared by a lot of people in fact, european countries that european security should primarily depend on european states and that this is such a difficult dependence of europe on the states in terms of ensuring security , something must be done about it, and europe in this context should be more autonomous, well, this is a chance for our european allies to demonstrate this not only with statements, but also in practice, well, in the end let's see, i think that our european allies have every chance to prove their... greater autonomy in terms of ensuring their own security and in terms of supporting ukraine in countering the russian threat, without the more proactive position of the states that everyone is used to. well, with on the other hand, i don't know. mr. taras, how sensational can you consider the reaction of western countries to the strikes on belgorod, because they kept saying: well, you can hit the territory of russia, just not with our missiles,

just not with our weapons. the question arises: if this position will ever change, do you expect such a position to change at all? and this position may gradually change, but we see that our european allies, they are making it so that it is not a position that changes, but a situation that changes, because well, we... we even see it not only in of our european allies, but also in washington, so are the statements that are made that ukraine should establish its own weapons production, and it is obvious that it will be weapons production that will be based on western technologies, on western licenses, and it will eventually the same western weapons, only produced in ukraine, and it is obvious that for these weapons, which will already be produced in ukraine, and will not be delivered from factories there in germany, in the united states of america, or in france or in britain, here are these ... restrictions, they will no longer be distributed, that is, the west in this way, it will simply maintain its position and will have the opportunity to speak from this position further and say: well, you see that

western-made weapons do not hit the territory of russia, but that ukraine has learned to produce the same weapons at home , well, these are already ukrainian weapons, we cannot regulate these issues here, because ukraine is a sovereign state, it is fighting for its own independence for its own survival, and therefore the weapons that they produce, they can use them absolutely how do they... consider it necessary, and the fact that our western partners are aiming precisely at the fact that , in order to develop the ukrainian military industry in the first place, it is clear that this is not some short-term perspective, but nevertheless, well, if only, the more we build up our own the ability to even simply collect some western samples of weapons on the territory of ukraine, here the germans are already helping us with zavodal, so it was announced that it will be launched in the near future, it is clear that there will be a minimum of open information there, but nevertheless, here are these weapons, it will already be ukrainian weapons, and well it is obvious that, for example, the same marders or leopards are potentially gathered on the territory of ukraine, according to our capabilities, yes,

capacities, they can absolutely cross the border of the russian federation, our western partners will only welcome it, and while we are talking about our capabilities to shoot down russian missiles, we cannot ignore the latest features of the attacks, some of the missiles used. russia were produced literally in the last quarter of 2023, also the russians used weapons kindly given to them by the evil message, such as they say that north korea, which supposedly now also has something to do, they are shelling the sea and the border areas with south korea. in a word, what are the prospects that we will see shooting down more often, and unfortunately, weapons of this origin, not russian, will also arrive on the territory of our country. well, the practice of how moscow agreed with tigran, unfortunately, shows that, with all the possibilities , it is also possible to agree with pyongyang that

north korea supplies its weapons samples to the russian terrorist army, on alas, this is the reality that we have to deal with, that is, we understand that on the one hand, the russian military and political leadership is doing this, as they say, not from an easy life, yes, that is, it is obvious that their military-industrial complex does not cope with that level of expenditure...passes and missiles, and losses of equipment on the battlefield, yes, but nevertheless, and they are forced to run with an outstretched hand, and to north korea, and to iran, but none the less, the fact that these countries agree to help russia, and the fact that russia will receive weapons samples and well an appropriate amount, of course, not such that could satisfy the full range of russian generals, yes, because otherwise, well, they simply begged all this from someone, but nevertheless, it will significantly help the russian command to stay afloat and continue to fight the way they used to fight, primarily based on quantity and not on quality, well, if

we are talking about the same north korea, then in the end it is ballistic missiles, this comrade supplied the russian federation with artillery projectiles and projectiles for rocket launcher systems , it is true that they said that the quality of these projectiles was so-so, and even there was a certain small batch of these projectiles, which... fell into the hands of the armed forces of ukraine, and we could also watch from our side for these products , north korean technological miracles, and to make sure that in fact there is no quality there, and somewhere around a third of these shells, well, they simply either break in the barrels, or fly to the wrong place, but at the same time , which is northern in total, korea delivered first a million and then another 5,000 of these shells, so even if you reject a third of these 500 thousand, it will still mean a million additional shells that i will receive. russian artillery, and this is the same million shells that we did not receive from the european union, which were also promised to us under a separate program until march 24th, so, unfortunately, the fact that...

the russians still manage to agree on the in principle, this will allow additional supplies of weapons from iran to north korea the russian command, well, somewhere at such an average minimum level, but to continue to conduct this aggressive military campaign, relying on quantitative indicators, not only in meat, and in personnel and in these meat assaults, but unfortunately also in those shock systems that the russians use both against our military and against our, unfortunately, civilian targets as well. thank you mr. tarasa, taras zhovtenko, international security expert of the democratic initiative foundation, candidate of political sciences, member of the public of the council at the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine, we were on the phone, we are going to break for a few minutes, but please don't switch. naobei feelf, you are the real one, and every

touch will be tender when... the world naobei opens up to you, loving yourself is very easy now, feelf, pamper yourself every day. now bay feel free - the real you! there are discounts on energy detox, 15% in psyllium, pam and oskad pharmacies. today at 9 p.m. on the espresso tv channel in... the news program, the results of the week. the russians changed the tactics of attacks on ukraine to overload our air defense system. in order to receive compensation for the damages caused by the war, people need to unite. in 2023, the ukrainian army received weapons that had a significant impact on the course of the war. after a half-year pause , the largest full-scale invasion

of russia took place. farmers and transporters are again blocking the polish border with captives, the country's authorities are again promising to settle this issue. so, watch the news, the results of the week on the espresso tv channel at 21. we continue the saturday program politclub, khrystyna yatskiv and vitaly portnikov. we immediately add ours. the next guest for the conversation is igor eisenberg, a professor at new york university, we are already in touch, mr. igor, congratulations, glory to ukraine, and glory to the heroes, i congratulate you, friends, i congratulate all the viewers, you know, lately, mr. igor , the discussion about the possibility of transferring russian assets to ukraine, which are currently frozen in the west, has intensified, and the question arises as to how realistic this conversation is at all, or whether it can simply be an element of pressure on moscow, well, based on

that... there is a report that this is already being discussed at the level of consultations between the g7 countries and the european union, i think it is serious. and by the way, in the united states one, at least one very well-known lawyer, professor of constitutional law and professor at harvard university, lawrence tribe, he made the case, he wrote several articles about it, and he made the case on television that it's possible because... because sovereign russian assets, they are not private property protected by, say, the united states by the constitution, and the state cannot confiscate without a court verdict, and since these are sovereign assets, it is justified in such a way that if russia is an aggressor state that carried out armed aggression, committed war crimes and does not want to compensate the victim of aggression, all

losses, and that is completely it is possible to confiscate these assets in favor of ukraine in this case, well, this is his point of view, you and i are not lawyers, but i think that this is serious, and this, and this is actually discussed, in general, if we are talking about the decision of the united states to provide aid to ukraine, israel and taiwan, actual negotiations for concessions are continuing in order to... bring this decision to a standstill, but at what stage are these negotiations now? i tried to find some news about this, the latest news, they date back to december, although it was said that the senators even during the holidays, during the vacations they went on, they continue consultations, there are eh.