in the very pleasant company of iryna koval, who will accurately tell you the latest news prepared by the espresso tv news service. good bye. it's 8 p.m. in ukraine, and to your attention is a news broadcast on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers. the analysis of debris at the sites of russian strikes in the pokrovsky district of donetsk region continues. today, rescuers recovered the bodies of three people, including a three-year-old child. previously , 11 people died, including five children. however , the final number of victims will be confirmed by the examination. policeman. collected more than fifty

fragments of bodies for identification of the dead. ten more people were injured. rescuers dismantled more than 100 tons of destroyed elements of buildings at the impact sites. yesterday, the enemy launched eight s-300 missiles at populated areas. they hit houses in pokrovsk and rivne. more than 200 private homes and 15 high-rise buildings were damaged. immediately after. groups were created, which went directly to the site of the shelling, by employees of the emergency department, which is currently underway examination of the scene of the incident on the mobile dna laboratory will work with the aim of establishing and identifying all the bodies of the dead citizens as quickly as possible, directly at the site of the shelling. the occupiers have released 63 daggers across ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war. these missiles... they

were considered completely invulnerable until recently. 25 of them were shot down by our defenders of the sky - air force spokesman yuriy ignat said. for the first time , the air defense forces destroyed ballistics in may of last year, when they received the patriot system from western partners. the other day in in one of the districts of kyiv, sappers neutralized a part of such a rocket that did not explode during the russian attack on january 2. minister minister of foreign affairs of japan yoko kamikawa, who arrived today on an official visit to kyiv, visited the memorial to the victims of the russian occupation in buchi, and then the irpinsky bridge, which the defenders of the capital were forced to blow up for defensive purposes. during the talks with the head of ukrainian diplomacy , dmytro kuleba, ms. kamikawa reported that , to help ukrainians survive the winter, japan provided five mobile generators and seven transformers. the joint briefing of the ministers took place in... because at that

time an air alert was announced in kyiv. i informed my colleague today about the other side of the war, namely about ukraine's need not only for airplanes, but primarily for air defense equipment. i once again wanted to express my respect for the courage of the ukrainian people, who have been defending themselves against russian aggression for so long. to the nato trust fund to provide an unmanned aerial vehicle detection system. with the minister of foreign affairs of japan, yoko head of state volodymyr zelenskyi, who also met kamikava, called the established relations one of our best international results. precisely with japan,

the president thanked for the support that japan provided to our state and joint leadership in the group of seven, and in general in international politics, economic support and humanitarian strengthening of ukraine. russian aggression can be curbed, but for this it is necessary to unite the efforts of the entire civilized world - said volodymyr zelenskyi during a video address to the participants of the annual society conference and defense. which takes place in sweden, the event was attended by king carl gustav and crown princess victoria. in turn, the minister of foreign affairs, tobias björström, said that supporting ukraine will remain sweden's main foreign policy priority. in order to create an arsenal for the defense of freedom, europe needs joint production of weapons on a much larger scale than it does now. we see that

russia's aggressive ambitions can only be stopped where there is enough power to stop them, and we will only get that power together. our military, political and economic... and support to ukraine will remain, as our prime minister said, the main foreign policy task in the coming years. ukrainian soldiers are also fighting for our security and our values. strong, predictable and sustained support for ukraine is also our main opportunity to limit russia's ability to act. but the minister of foreign affairs of italy has his own plan to save europe. anthony taianiza. said that the european union should form its own joint army that could play a role in maintaining peace and preventing armed conflicts, closer european cooperation in the field of defense is a priority for the force italy party led by him. tajani also stated

that the eu should have a single president, rather than the current structure consisting of the president of the european council and the president of the european commission. if we want to be peacekeepers in the world, we need a european army, and this is a fundamental prerequisite for having an effective european foreign policy. in a world with such powerful players as the usa, china, india, russia with crises from the middle east to the indo-pacific region, citizens of italy, germany, france or slovenia can only be protected by what already exists, namely the european union. meanwhile , the head of the hungarian government, viktor orban, may become the new president of the european council. this will happen if the current president , charles michel, is elected to the european parliament in the summer. if the eu leaders do not promptly agree on a new candidate for this position. after all, the case

is unique, since charles michel plans to be elected to the european parliament and leave his seat position early. i have worked hard and will continue to do so until the last day of my european role, this summer after the european parliament elections, it will be time for a democratic transition, the european commission will also have a chance to pass the baton to a new team, so it is right that during this democratic transition those people who took on the duties, as i was nominated by 27 heads of state and government, will face a dilemma because of universal suffrage, so it is not an easy choice, it is a responsible moment. the court in chelyabinsk remanded him for two months a 16-year-old teenager from dagestan was accused of trying to set fire to an su-34 military aircraft at the shagol airfield. the boy was detained on january 5. the fsb claims that

the teenager was also involved in arson in november-december 2023 on the railway in dagestan. the court chose a preventive measure for him in closed mode. the boy faces up to... 20 years in the colony, as you know, ukrainian military intelligence reported that on january 4 , an su-34 bomber burned down in chelyabinsk and released the corresponding video. a tornado raged in fort lauderdale, florida. surveillance cameras recorded the ominous scene. the tornado damaged several boats, the roof of a house and power lines. information. no information about the victims has been received yet. and as of tomorrow, the weather will worsen almost throughout the territory of ukraine. on january 8, in the southern regions, there will be wet snow in odesa region, during the day a gust of wind from 15 to 20 m/s.

in the central and eastern regions, there is significant snow and blizzard on the tent roads. road workers have already brought almost a thousand units of equipment to the highways. however, the rescuers strongly ask not to go into the distance travel and, if possible, stay at home for two days. and baby boom penguins are waiting for baby boom near the vernatskyi station. currently , there are more than 750 chicks on galindes island. there are very tiny ones, and there are those that have grown up and are catching up with their parents in size. biologists taras peretyatko and vadimka. they shot a video, it shows an interesting moment of a penguin feeding its babies, the real baby boom will be in january, the number of babies will increase rapidly, because there are still many laid eggs. this was the news for this time, as always, you

can read more on our website espresso tv, a short summary of the main ones on our social networks, and also watch us on youtube. i am zhiryna koval, i say goodbye to you, i wish you. evening and see you tomorrow. greetings, friends, the politclub program is on the air, i'm vitaliy portnikov, we will talk with you about the most important events of this week, about trends, about what has already happened and what should happen, we start our evening with a conversation with dmytro. spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, captain of the third rank. congratulations, mr.

dmytro. greetings, mr. vitaly, greetings to the audience. well, first of all, i want to congratulate you on the new attack of the armed forces of ukraine on the saky airfield. i think this is very important, both from the point of view of the capabilities of the russian army as such, and from the point of view of the capabilities of the black sea fleet of the russian federation. however , the most important thing is that i would like to understand what happens as a result. attacks on crimean airfields, how far they affect russian potential both from the point of view of general operations at the front and from the point of view of opportunities in the black sea, please tell us, but it should be noted that in any in combat operations, in any theater, all the components are interconnected, and when you knock out one of these components, of course, the load either has to be taken by other components, or... one of the elements starts to fall, and of course that aviation

that is part of either the black sea fleet or aviation that is generally based in crimea, temporarily occupied, it fulfills its role it plays some role that is assigned to it in these hostilities, and of course when any of the elements fall, for example , as the same bdk novocherkassky, which actually was floating with... the stock of a bull, of course, someone somewhere will not get something, of course, some plan will not be fulfilled, and therefore, accordingly, all these operations that are taking place in the crimea, they are all designed to fulfill one general plan, one big plan, and of course, something may not work out, but for the most part, all operations that are planned are carried out in crimea, and we do not see all the results, a lot of things... the enemy of course tries to hide and this is normal in the conditions of any war, especially considering

the informational component of this war , ago accordingly, we will draw conclusions later, when more obituaries begin to appear in russian factories, nevertheless, each and every one of these operations has some purpose, and what is happening to the capabilities of the russian black sea fleet in general, but against the background of all those attacks, which ones were there already? against the background of the destruction of several large ships of the russian black sea fleet, what are russia's capabilities at sea? you know, most of all, for example, i am personally surprised by the fact that a superpower in quotation marks is not able to build a sufficient mooring front, well it's moorings, can't calculate such potential opportunities, maybe because of his self-confidence, or maybe it's just peculiarities. combat planning

, as a result of which they are faced with a lack of this mooring front, and i am even more surprised that they cannot solve the problems of the logistical gap, in fact, all the actions of the black sea fleet of the so-called russian federation, now in the black sea, are reduced to the use of sea platforms, carriers of cruise missiles. in fact, it is these 10 units, four of which are submarines that perform fighting the task of inflicting fire damage on our territory, and in fact this, this main element of the black sea fleet, they cannot provide a sufficient number of cranes that will simply banally load these missiles onto missile carriers, underwater or surface. of course, i think so, they should try to solve this problem, because, for example, transport missiles at least to crimea, at least to novorossiysk. it is theoretically possible and practically i think so too, but they can only load them on a ship in

sevastopol, and sevastopol will be for now as a result of the actions of the armed forces of ukraine, other components of the defense security forces are not actually available to them at the moment, there is one small missile ship of the karakurt project, which is a carrier, but for some reason was never used as a carrier, it is there under the cover of air defense, the rest of the ships are ships. .. they can shoot with calibers, they are standing in the novorossian in fact without calibers, there is, of course, some stock, but not in the amount that would allow them to inflict mass. er hit, as they usually like it in their tactics, i correctly understand that they can strike with calibers from other directions, or from other locations, so is the black sea the main location for calibers? no, in fact , the nasiya missile of calibers is in service - it is a standard missile for

the navy of the so -called russian federation, and accordingly, in other... locations, they have four fleets and the caspian flotilla, four are black sea, baltic, northern, northern and atlanta, and i’m sorry, and in the pacific ocean, and the pacific ocean, and accordingly they have them in their arsenal, they are everywhere, but here the question is in the range and in the air space, the range is up to 2000, well, in reality it is considered to be somewhere around a thousand, that is, of course , they can hit ukraine only from the black and azov seas, well, mostly from the black sea. in the mediterranean, for example, there are also groups , there are also carriers there, but the airspace of the republic of turkey is a nato country, you cannot launch missiles through it, therefore, accordingly, from the black sea, but tell me whether the appearance of this base changes the situation in ochomchir in the self-shaved republic of afkhazia, what can change at all,

if they build a base there, or maybe they will build berths there, nothing will change. theoretically, again, they can't now load novorossiysk caliber, and chamchiri is a completely different country, and i don't know what the logistical capabilities are, but i doubt that more than novorossiysk, given that novorossiysk is, yes the naval base itself, which was not created yesterday, they just tied up all the logistics to sevastopol, and they were sure that nothing would threaten them there, but as they say in our country, no it happened as predicted. and going to abkhazia is more about desperation than anything, it's more about finding a base that can allow them to relax, where they won't constantly feel in such danger, because the distance is already quite far from our ports, respectively the response time is longer, and on the other hand, it also

increases the response time for us, but also they can go out to sea and launch in principle from any... point of the black sea, they can launch. explain the situation with turkey and minesweepers, which great britain transferred to our country, because the naval forces of ukraine said, it was your information, that ukraine did not ask turkey to send submarines to the black sea, in accordance with the montreux convention, but turkey itself emphasized that it refused to transport these ships in their passage across the straits, if there was no request, what was the refusal on the part of turkey? you know, it's probably some kind of translation difficulty, i saw this source on reuters, and to be honest, it's as much news to me as it is to everyone, which it turns out, we someone does not allow something, the naval forces did not leave any applications for the passage of the bosphorus for these anti-mine ships at all,

where did this story come from, who pulled it out and why, this is not a question for me, but... the fact itself, from the position of the navy , i can point out that there was no application for passage, and accordingly the montreux convention, these things are effectively prohibited, both by us and by the russians, so accordingly this whole story is a little strange, and again, apart from the fact that there are problems with the passage, there are still problems with the application, therefore that anti-mine operations, they are quite complex, quite... voluminous in terms of the number of measures and in terms of time, and therefore, accordingly, to start them now in the water area of ​​the azov-black sea region, so that, accordingly, this information is actually nothing but a surprise causes, but tell me, then explain why bulgaria, romania and turkey are now

agreeing on changing the black sea against the background of the fact that you say that this is not an easy operation, and because it is, first of all, permanent. the problem is, secondly, they are responsible for their own territorial waters and mine, mine safety in them, and accordingly, they are still forced to carry out these measures, and they, unlike us , are not, in fact, threatened by fire damage, for example, yes, from the side of the same aviation or anti-ship complexes, so of course , they now understand, feel and solve this problem in their territorial waters in the first place, respectively. because, as you know, there have already been such cases of dropping mines on the coast of romania, er, there have been cases, unfortunately, with damage to ships, and all this the situation is excellent, excellent, excellent. understand and try to counter it, and it's normal and it's right. the presidents of ukraine and turkey recently talked, and in both reports there were words about the need

to restore the agreement on the grain corridor, but we always say that we can, in principle, ensure the safety of the passage of its grain carriers through the black sea. to what extent is this realistic, if we are serious about it, how much can ukraine provide transportation. grain through the black sea in a situation where russia opposes it, i.e there are such technical conditions, if, if we are not talking about one, there are two ships for three months, but if it were a hundred established such trade routes, well, in fact, if we turn exclusively to facts and speak exclusively in the language of numbers, then now we are already approaching five hundred ships that used our... this trade route, the sea communication route, and accordingly the volume has long exceeded 10 million tons, this is already a pre-war

indicator for these ports, our problem is that we have the rest ports do not work, there are mykolayiv and kherson ports, respectively, because navigation there is now quite difficult due to the fact that those present said, please, mr. dmytro, for these ports, you include odesa in them, right? yes, of course, that is, these ports are working , in fact, in a fairly stable mode, so, i don’t know why you are talking about this, in the future, this process is already happening, and i say, the corridor that has been used is already approaching 5 hundred ships, therefore, the volumes there are already quite serious, and somehow we provide this security, various components of the defense security forces, of course. but we have a mine threat, there is a mine danger, unfortunately, we have the presence of russian black sea aviation, but

periodically someone falls there, periodically we clear something, and during this period, from the moment when the so-called grain agreement ceased to exist, the benefits of which are also quite dubious, given how the russians were involved, how their care team was forcing. sorry, to loosen the nuts of ships that were not loosened there from the first day, when this ship even went to sea there for 30-40 years, you see, and they tried to delay this process technically, i not ready to comment on international politics, i can note from our side of the naval forces that this process is already taking place, and these ships, they are already using, are passing and it is difficult to overestimate the importance of this case, in fact. and it can be assumed that russia has not yet carried out any active strikes on these routes, after there was a strike on novorossiysk, that russia may be afraid, so to speak, of a

retaliatory strike, because novorossiysk is, as i said, even more important for russia, than odessa for ukraine, if we mention the oil routes, yes, by the way, you are absolutely right about the fact that novorossiysk transships quite serious volumes, it seems a third of russian oil, if i am not mistaken. and ukraine, in turn , exported through the sea before the full-scale invasion. 90% of ukrainian exports fell on sea communication routes, so it is impossible to overestimate the importance of sea exports for us, as well as imports , in fact, as far as how much the russians are ready to strike, they always hit as much as they have the strength, and again, count on what they hold back. in some way, i wouldn't do it either, russia always strikes, just to the extent that they are capable, if it does not strike , then either there is some holding factor, and

they understand perfectly well what the danger is, or they can't, two options, the rest is that they give some kind of head start or something, it's impossible, in principle, so of course , as you can see, they are not ready to strike directly at the ships. under foreign flags, these are countries of foreign states, so they use such the simplest for their way is the destruction of the port infrastructure and the destruction of cargo directly, well, there is hope for the air force and anti-aircraft defense, that 's all. thank you very much for these clarifications. dmytro platenchuk, the spokesman of the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine, a captain of the third rank was in touch with us. we will continue with the discussion. international topics, also with our next guest andrii vasylovsky, diplomat, extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of ukraine, adviser to the director of the national institute of strategic studies. good evening, andrii ivanovich, good evening, congratulations.

let's try to solve such a logical problem, which, it seems to me, can only be done by an experienced diplomat. on the one hand, we always say that joining nato is a guarantee of ukraine's security, that if we join nato, we will be able to stop the aggressor, that the west shows indecision when it does not give us the opportunity to join, because it is afraid of a conflict with by russia in the event that ukraine joins nato and... at the same time we say that if we are not accepted into nato and we are defeated in the war with russia, the next targets of the russian federation will be the nato member states, the baltic states, let's say the baltic states or poland, well, that is, that russia can in principle attack the nato countries, but then why are we looking for shelter where there is none, some national official may ask you, it is about the fact that aggression against nato countries

does not necessarily have to happen. as it is against ukraine, against ukraine, which is not a member of nato, and which was perceived as weak prey in the kremlin, putin launched a full-scale war and even spared a little effort, because he thought that everything will fall into his own hands, and let's imagine , let it be a black scenario, let it be incredible, but let's imagine that the russian federation seized ukraine. it came to the borders, to the current eastern borders of nato countries, that it must necessarily introduce its divisions into estonia or poland? no, it can carry out many other measures, launch sabotage groups there, send incomprehensible people from distant asian countries there in one form or another, it can. can

greatly strengthen its influence there through its own sympathizers who are there and who in this case will certainly grow in number and power, and even today there are those among nato countries who say that ukraine should immediately make peace with the russian federation, well , god be with him, with those territories, with crimea, with those regions, but... peace and let's imagine how the rhetoric of these countries will intensify when putin is on their borders. so, uh, let's not forget about the black sea. ukraine, then the russian federation will control the danube, europe's largest river. and, therefore, the entrance to germany inclusive. then the russian federation will practically block. not the sea with

romania, bulgaria, nato members, and it is not known whether turkey will raise its paws in this situation. so, speaking of the fact that ukraine's entry into nato will strengthen this organization, well , morally, in particular, uh, if we look at what the ukrainians are doing now in the face of aggression, and what the austrians are not doing, relatively speaking, and until recently ... the germans or someone else did not take time, and the existence of ukraine in nato, i repeat, will strengthen this organization both militarily and territorially, and the population, and morally, and the disappearance of independent ukraine is a disaster for nato and for the european union as well. and do you think that the west is aware of this, just in

the form in which you talk about it? and he realizes that we are warning him about this very thing, about the growth of russian influence, and we are not warning well, because it is necessary not to warn, but to explain, it is necessary to sit down at the table and lay brick by brick, this is so, and this is so, and this yes, and it is so, to prove historical examples, as it was conventional to say with georgia or with moldova, or as it would be, as it was in the past. times, because essentially nothing has changed since the soviet union in the russian federation, and this should be discussed with those who design and implement foreign policy and defense policy in european countries, primarily european, but also with the public that there is and which is influential, eh...