believe that the united states will remain our greatest ally and everything will be fine. well, the politician's opinion is also interesting, because again, these scaremongers that are being spread that this can happen, people do not understand how it can legally happen, or it may not happen. charles michel, the head of the european council, can be elected as a member of the european parliament and thus leave the post of head of the european council, viktor orbán, the prime minister of hungary, can take his place, because hungary will preside over the european council. the eurocouncil says that we... somehow let's try to avoid this, how big a threat it can be, is this collegial body after all, it cannot depend only on the will of orbán alone, it does not depend, that is , if they all cannot agree among themselves, which is very unlikely, then some temporary period, until they agree , orban will fulfill these duties, but i think they will agree, i see no reason why they should not agree, i thank you very much for joining, thank you for your professional comments, mykola knyazhytskyi, people's deputy of ukraine, was in touch with us, and i was now i will propose to yours. attention to the plot, well

, after that i will pass the floor to serhii zgurka , by the way, a lot of very important and interesting information: amputation of the leg, numerous contusions, loss of vision and shrapnel wounds. our next article is about the infantryman andrii melnyk with the call sign drone. from the first day of the full-scale invasion, the man stood up for the defense of his homeland, defended the land in the vadiiv direction, and now he is undergoing rehabilitation and waiting for the decision of the military medical commission. he remembers the story of his own salvation every day. leg amputation. is torn right arm, fingers hanging off , everything there is gutted, broken, er, contusion , until now, almost a year already, soon, soon it will be a year after the wound, not once did i catch myself thinking that i was not hissing, does not ring andrii melnyk with the call sign drone, an infantryman of the 59th brigade, a man who, before the start of the full-scale invasion , repaired cars together with his brother, some of them were sent to the front. and on february 24, a 37-year-old man, without

waiting for a summons, went to the military in the morning, i went to fight for independence of my country, because i want prosperity for this country, i want my family to be happy here, for my son to plan his life here and not set goals for himself to leave somewhere, andrii together with his brother defended ukraine in the east in the avda. these and during the next departure on a combat mission in january of last year, the car of the man and his brothers was blown up by a mine. while waiting for evacuation, the boys lay in the middle of the field, and the rashists continued to fire at them and attack them with drones. we had 15 people, let's say just me i was the least lucky, because that mine literally exploded in my legs, it made such a big funnel, a hole in... in

the floor of our bmp, i fell in there, even the boys pulled me out, my comrade helped me, he reeled me in and said, lie down, we were all very badly burned, everything was burnt, clothes, hats, buffs. andriy recalls that he managed to save himself by a miracle, because at first neither his comrades nor doctors gave him a chance for life. i heard a roaring engine. i realized that we were being followed, two guys came up to me, one says, look at him, here there is nothing to take, and the other tells him, well, he is our brother, we will take him anyway. the military says that the russian army has great capabilities for a protracted war, so it is too early for the ukrainians to surrender. despite the difficulties, andriy has not lost his ability to dream even today. one of his goals is to climb to the top of the mountain together with his son and the ukrainian flag. but it will be after our

victory. anastasia holoshilets, victoria vorushchak for the espresso tv channel from vinnytsia. thanks to our indomitable warriors, eternal memory to those who died, thanks to those who continue fight and recovery to those who are currently in rehabilitation, who are being treated, of course , to those doctors who are rehabilitating and treating our soldiers and families who are waiting and supporting, only together, we are able to defeat such an enemy as the russian federation, so what is there on the fronts in the eyelashes? with the aggressor, with russia, we will be told by serhii sgurets, director of the defense express agency, the host of the military summary of the day. sergey, congratulations, please, two words, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today in our column we will talk about the peculiarities of the enemy's missile attack tonight, about finding asymmetric solutions on the front lines, and about the fact that the united states wants us to make more of our own weapons, but what it takes to do that, i'll get to that in a moment. on the night of january 8

, the russian federation carried out another missile attack on... the country, and the difference from the enemy attacks on december 29 and january 2 was a larger number of missiles flying along a ballistic trajectory. in total, the enemy used 25 ballistic or quasi-ballistic missiles this time. at the same time, such targets as daggers, kh-22 missiles, ballistic iskander m and missiles from the s-300 or s-400 complexes. our air defense can only shoot down. patriot or sumpty systems, which are not really enough to cover the entire territory of the country with the same density. therefore, this time the enemy tried not to hit the entire kyiv region, where the patriots are stationed, in particular, as was the case last time, but

in the kharkiv, dnipropetrovsk, zaporizhzhya and khmelnytskyi regions, that is, where there is no cover by the patriots. so the enemy ballistic missiles were not shot down, though. as reported to the air force command, no all enemy missiles that failed to shoot down reached their targets. as for the kha-101 cruise missiles, this time the enemy launched fewer of them than in the previous attacks, only 24. 18 of these dwarf missiles were destroyed, as well as all eight shahed-136 anti-aircraft missiles. it can be assumed that the enemy will continue to combine different approaches to... striking and in the air space there will continue to be a confrontation between means of attack and means of defense, and the success of our air forces will depend on the most effective combination of forces, means and the skills of sam calculations using

the most optimal countermeasure algorithms, and these algorithms need to be improved in order to fight already against ballistic... missile carriers and on the territory of the russian federation, this can actually strengthen our capabilities so that fewer ballistic missiles reach our cities on ukrainian territory. these are actually the algorithms or tactics of countering the enemy, they are currently being worked out in the sky, at sea and on land, and now, when we talk about combat operations on the ground, this is the line of contact somewhere in 850 km, here the enemy bets, first of all, on a quantitative advantage. in manpower and we in response talk about the need for mobilization, that is true, but mobilization is not so much an increase in the number of infantry or attack aircraft in the trenches, because it is a way to exchange manpower, when for the cheapest resources

of the russian federation we have to pay for the most expensive of our people , then this is not our scenario at all. we need to think about how to prevent the enemy from... benefiting from numerical superiority on the battlefield, and now we're going to talk about how our military offers to improve these asymmetric approaches from the ukrainian side in order to eliminate the advantage of the enemy, now we are waiting for our guest, and in the meantime i will remind about other important things that concern the situation on the front line, rather an understanding of whether there really is. this impasse, a deadlock situation, which valery zaluzhnyi once spoke about, commenting on the development of the fact that the two sides have reached the maximum technological level on both sides, and

just a couple of days ago there was such a large publication in the policy magazine, which evaluated these scenarios and where one of the authors , representing the british institute of russia, which is engaged in researching the problems of the ukrainian-russian war, made several important conclusions, and they are that, first of all, there is no deadlock now, because both moscow and kyiv are now in such a corresponding pursuit of offensive combat power recovery, and in a conflict of this magnitude, time is of the essence and, in fact, everything will depend. from the one, in the first half of the 24th year, who will now provide more material accumulation means, who will prepare reserves better and more and who will inflict more damage on the enemy on the front line, these three factors will determine the situation on

the front line in a certain way, and when we talk about what the most likely scenarios there can be, then in particular experts the russians assume that, on the one hand, one version is that ros-ukraine will have all the opportunities to resume offensive operations, which will ensure the degradation of the russian military force and powerfully. to such a level that it will be possible to talk about some negotiations there with better leverage influence on russia to impose a truly durable peace, and the other option is when delays in the delivery of weapons and training of personnel will occur slowly enough, and this will actually negatively affect ukraine's ability to operate in a war of attrition. based on these two scenarios was from the side. first of all, the main directions of strengthening ukrainian military

power, which can affect the situation on the battlefield, are highlighted. first of all, it is an improvement in personnel training, because the 23rd campaign showed that the time for training personnel was insufficient, the main emphasis was placed on training, first of all , at the individual level, while there was simply no time left for the coordination of brigades, so it is proposed that... an important component of attention to reserve training should also be directed to improving the effectiveness of interaction and in the brigades themselves and between the brigades . the second component, of course, concerns the increase in the supply of the necessary types of weapons and, first of all, ammunition, because the situation with, first of all, ammunition for artillery will be of decisive importance, therefore that such examples are given that during. e-e hostilities in the south during our counteroffensive actions, due to the supply

of a significant amount of ammunition, the ratio was such that ukrainian units fired about 700 rounds of ammunition per day, while the russians could use up to 500, and it was this certain quantitative the skirmish gave the ukrainian side the opportunity , firstly, to carry out offensive actions, and secondly... to destroy a significant number of both the enemy's enemy force and the actual personnel who, on the enemy's side, tried to hold defense, it was during offensive operations, and now the situation is somewhat different, when our military leaders there talk about the fact that we have a certain lack of ammunition, so what does this mean in practice, according to the data provided by representatives of the british institute of russia, in fact, the situation now is such that the ratio of times... we have 200 shots from the ukrainian side per day to

10,000 shots from the enemy's side, that is, now we see that at will the enemy sometimes has a significant advantage in artillery, that is of course affects the nature of combat operations on the front line. occurs the question is what potential is there today in the united states, in european countries, to provide us with ammunition for at least the 24th year. here the statistics... are such that british experts provide data that, in general, ukraine needs at least 200,000 munitions per month, or relatively speaking, 2.4 million for the whole year, despite the fact that the enemy has the ability to produce within 1,500 , more than 1 million munitions per year and the industrial capacity of our european... american partners is so far such that they can produce only half of

what the russian federation can do now, while we remember that supplies from north korea can also be added to this, artillery shells, which also add a certain potential to the russian federation, so that in fact now we are in a situation, when the situation on the front line will depend to a large extent on the new level of military-technical cooperation on... speeding up the work of our partners, but at the same time, in particular, the american partners make statements that aid to ukraine this year and next year will less than in the 22nd and 23rd, because actually now the bid of our american partners is to... ensure more production of weapons on the territory of ukraine,

what exactly is it about, what statements are made by the spokesmen of the state department, we let's talk with our next guest, and now we're joined by pavlo verhnyatskyi, director and managing partner of the ukrainian company kosa, as well as co-coordinator of the working group on security and aerospace. of the american-ukrainian business council, mr. pavle, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. good afternoon, sergey. i would like to start with the statement that just a couple of days ago from... the spokesman for the us state department , matthew miller, said that the funding in the following years will be less, it was immediately perceived by a number of experts and journalists there as a betrayal, and then there was, shall we say, a more detailed reading of this statement, it was said that washington insists that

aid to ukraine, to kyiv, should contribute to the fact that ukrainian... it could independently finance, produce and purchase weapons, that is, in fact, it is about , in order to to give ukraine a fishing rod, and not the very fish that we see, we are mainly getting used to. the question arises whether this is already a reflection of the permanent policy of the united states towards ukraine and in what direction the relations between ukraine and the usa will develop further in this particular segment. well, if i had known how the relationship between the us and ukraine would develop in this segment, i think i would have shared this information with you in advance, but in all seriousness, yes, any statement, especially by top officials, and the official ones, including those of our partners, are worth reading

or listen in full, as you said, at first there was one, second information, the message was one and... support may decrease, but at the moment the states cannot afford it, ukraine cannot afford it, so the support will continue, but in parallel the ability of ukraine to produce its own weapons must be increased, and there was already a moment that, well, confirmation of the fact that we just... talked to you that 60 billion there is from the united states, which must be approved by congress, they must be approved, and events in recent days, they have also been talking about the fact that sooner than all this, this should happen, at the same time, the states and their policy towards us, well, in my

opinion, it does not change, that is, the support of the united states of ukraine should continue. er, and at least in the current administration and in the majority of a-a means top officials of the united states, there is a consensus here. moreover, if we speak more broadly, not only looking at what is happening in ukraine, in the world, in general, the military build-up. industrial base in ukraine should not only support us, in the future i will not be surprised that we will also support our partners if we look deeper and even further into a potential global war, i do not want to be some kind of

apocalyptic prophet here, because there are already such predictions there is enough from... well -known analytical centers, including, by the way , ukrainian ones, which predict major events there in the coming years, and how, if we see now, how much weapons and ammunition are enough for europe, for example, yes, the united states for the states, for major global events of some kind, this may not be enough, i will not be surprised if ukraine is one of the... players in this field, it may sound a little naive today, but, well, i would watch how events develop in in this direction, and much, of course, will depend on how things will unfold, of course, for us, as in ukraine, it is primarily important for us how the events in the war with russia will unfold, but that

's all well, it is worth looking a little wider, because if we talk about the politics of the united states in relation to us, we are not the only country for them that they care to support, then in continuation of this topic, is there not, relatively speaking, a contradiction between the political interests of the united states, which you have outlined, and the market reality in which , in which the american company is currently located, i will explain what i mean, mrs. pritzker, who is a specialist. the representative of the united states on issues of economic recovery of ukraine said that ukraine now has a lot to offer western defense companies as a market. defense there in in the near term, but american companies now, powerful companies, are now solving the challenge of scaling, they now have a lot of orders, and then the question arises that

they have a lot of work on their own territory, why should they take additional risks of creating joint ventures there or on other initiatives on the territory of ukraine, which is accompanied by new risks there for their companies themselves, how can these two realities be combined, can they be combined at all? well, after all, it depends on the scale and scope of the world's needs in general in weapons, unfortunately, unfortunately, the need for weapons is growing, yes, everyone would live well, if the money that could be distributed to weapons, would not be distributed to weapons, to something more peaceful, but the reality is, authoritarian regimes raise their heads, unfortunately, they spread their its own, its narratives, its power, the world, and the democratic

world must oppose this, so the scale of the scale of the need for weapons, it is growing, and american companies, which , of course, have, let's say, orders around the world and within their ... countries, if we are talking about the united states, and for them, as we have talked to you many times, the american market, the american government is the main customer, they have to meet the needs there, but it is already clear that the needs for large events will not be met, so far, even with this scaling, which is planned, because the calculations of this planning are also there, you can see them too, where... let's say, there are already calculations and an understanding that the scaling there can be, well, two times in some categories of goods there

three times, but the reality is like this , which may require even more and space for a seat will be enough for all manufacturers, perhaps even unfortunately, then the question arises whether the ukrainian side is really. is clearly determined to expand cooperation with american partners, why such a strange question, the president really talks about the need to create joint ventures at a meeting there on december 6 in washington where joint projects were discussed, but literally a couple of days ago there appeared an interview of mr. podolyak, where he talks about what they say, why create enterprises, if we will create an enemy on our territory will definitely carry out missile attacks on these objects there, but we understand that in any case we will exist in conditions of war

for a long time, and the issue of creating a defense industry in any case requires attention and the creation of certain decisions, why do we with such statements sometimes blur the unambiguous basis for foreign companies entering here and there with their projects, their capacities, and their initiatives. well, as far as i understand, mr. podolyak works in the information space and manages, let's say, the information aspects, i will not undertake to comment , i will not undertake to comment, why this is done precisely in the information field, because i am not a specialist in information wars, but i see specific steps, specific... specific desire and the negotiation process for work on joint ventures to strengthen

existing ukrainian enterprises, and i see the steps that are being taken in this direction, so i would separate the information component, the disinformation component, i do not know, i repeat, i would not undertake to comment on this, but in the industry itself, in the most practical aspect, steps are being taken, and here the only thing you can talk about is american companies, you can talk about western ones in general, or, well, not the fact that there should already be the interest of large-scale large companies, but in therefore, to place production on our territory, it is possible, well, not possible, in some aspects even the same british companies are more flexible and are included in these processes faster, the regulations in all countries are different, we need to adapt less to some countries than to others, under the states, it is difficult to adapt, because in they have complicated legislation regarding technology

, but it is all being done, it is... well, at least steps are being taken in this regard and in the practical aspect there are some advances, those companies, by the way, i won't say the names, but these companies that a month ago , two months ago were not considered at all, ah, not that the placement of something, even upon arrival here in ukraine, is treated more flexibly, and this is a good... a good sign even against the background of massive shelling from the russian federation. mr. pavle, you are talking exactly about the american companies that are there after meetings on december 6 received a new vision of prospects with ukraine, they are really ready to enter the ukrainian market precisely in such risky conditions. so. and, by the way, are there any areas that, in your opinion, are the most

promising for cooperation now. with american companies, these are the directions that concern the already delivered american weapons, or those that will be delivered, or maybe even separate directions that do not intersect with the arsenal of equipment that the ukrainian armed forces already operate, well, in my opinion, it should be determined by the general staff and the ministry of defense, that is, there should be an assessment of what we generally need, what has proven itself well. which showed itself well in the conditions in which the armed forces of ukraine fight and in our landscape, in our climate and so on and so on, and it should follow from this that we need to select appropriate foreign partners for this, i.e. well, it's not chaotic to select projects that are low -hanging fruit, but what we need is

to select partners for this. then there will be logic for everyone in fact, well, i would approach it in this way, of course, there are projects that came out as if by themselves, well, you are currently working on the f16 video series, it is clear that something will need to be done in this aspect, or, for sure, to adjust the maintenance of these planes, and that too industry, yes, that is, even if it is not production, then service is also an industry, repair and so on, but... in the long run, there is some component, yes, to these air defense systems, which it is already clear that the western air defense systems are perfectly more perfect, than those that were there soviet systems, those that tried to develop, further develop in our country, and it is clear that there will be certain advances in this aspect, and there are more banal things, such as

fights... passes, which are constantly needed, and in this direction, of course, a lot is being done, and this will also be one of and is one of the priority components, well, you can go by each, each type of military equipment, weapons, but i repeat conceptually, we must proceed from what we need in a strategic plan, proceeding from evaluation of the equipment that is already available, and not to choose randomly projects namely systematically according to our needs. mr. pavle, thank you very much for the inclusion, for your professional comments. and i would like to remind our viewers that pavlo verhnyatskyi, the director and managing partner of the ukrainian company kosa, as well as the co-coordinator of the working group on security and aerospace issues of the american-ukrainian business council, was on the air of the spresso channel. these were the main results of this

wartime, and more international and... but mixed news on vasyl zima's big broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. good evening, we are from ukraine. thanks to serhiy zgurets, thanks to his guests, these were the military results of the day, then the big ter continues, the second hour is ahead and a lot of important information is waiting for you. well, but we're starting with... the major news that happened as of this hour. the number of wounded in kryvyi rih and the surrounding area has increased to six, the russians fired rockets there in the morning , novomoskovsk also reached, there are 27 injured, three and four of them are children, serhiy lysak, head of the dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said. in kryvyi rih 24 private houses, a shopping center, an enterprise, several schools, shops, medical and rehabilitation facilities and a child were damaged.