to restore the munitions industry and how much money is needed for this, if they had started then , well, there would not be such a mess, of course, but now we need to convert all these, all these opportunities and, let's say, military-technical cooperation becomes even more important, here already nice about the government, let's say, it is very important that after the trip to the united states, the extreme, let's say so, the visit, zelenskyi's team brought... there were two large projects of very interesting, this is the franken project, this is the creation or adaptation of anti-aircraft missile systems of soviet production, primarily the buka s-300 for western missiles, this is an extremely important, important project that has worked and production actually exists, plus two american companies began to cooperate in the production of 155 mm...

ammunition, generally in ukraine to a large-scale the invasion, there were five enterprises that could have been involved, that is, they produced ammunition or their elements, and i am not even counting shostkin's impulse or the shostkin's star, the star in general was dead there because of the neglect of the state for a long time time but but enterprise. which produced and were in very good sports shape, let's say, i won't call them one state and four private, that is, in ukraine there are initial opportunities, there is something to be said, now ukraine created from scratch during an already large-scale war, a school of naval drones was created, this is a very big achievement, in fact, and it shows that the scientific base and... the capabilities

of ukrainian designers are extremely high, see general havrylyuk, deputy minister of defense in charge of armaments, during an interview on december 23 2018, reuters, the reuters agency noted that the ministry of defense is involved in the purchase of an anti-aircraft missile complex of its own production, he called it coral for some reason, but the coral was 30-40 km away, maybe he got confused, or maybe they changed the names somehow, because it is a different complex , he says about a range of 100 km, it’s very good, it’s very cool, and again, the only objection is that advanced projects existed in 2016, the corresponding kb protected three advanced projects, for the army close-range complex, for the complex ...

sea exactly coral it was called 30-40 km in range and a range of 100 km for the complex, for some reason no one was interested in it until the 23rd year, the question is why? well, unfortunately, we relied on western partners completely and in everything, and history testifies, and the history not only of the present... but the even greater history of today, that it is impossible to rely completely, it is necessary to diversify projects, and it is necessary to insist on joint productions now i want to say a little about vts and what our western partners provide us. look, it happened literally a few hours ago it is known from one of the deputies of the german bundestag, markus markus. markus fabber

that the german company flensburger far zeukbau started to build a service center for german equipment in ukraine already in ukraine, and this is very great strategic news, positive, why? because the partners would try to leave the country without military-technical assistance. or limit aid, they would not have entered ukraine at such a time and would not have built such complexes, and this proves that european aid will be 100%, it will be as i i think that the congress has started to work, and there are already the first results that the democrats and republicans have agreed on the views on the protection of the borders there, that is

, the issue of... so it's the same there, i think that the question will be unlocked, the question as... in this situation, we are all waiting for the decision of the congress of the united states of america and have to open this big funding of 61 billion dollars and we have a lot of questions for our western partners, and they obviously have we have these questions, but still, when we talk about the latest technologies, about how we... are we in time for the war, or are we not in time, because the russian federation in this situation is trying to quickly reorient all its capacities for production , well, russia, apart from weapons and fear , does not produce anything else in the world, that is

, well, let's say, it tries to generate this fear and a large number of weapons, information appeared about this shahed 238, which is... as if with a jet engine and speed its 500 km/h is already in the air force forces of ukraine do not confirm the downing of such a shaheed, although this was stated publicly by the communications officer serhii flesh, and this too, well , the question is how we can keep up with our needs, because it is clear that russia is a country with greater resources, it can produce more , it is not... under shelling, when you say that the germans built production facilities for the repair of military equipment, the question always arises, how to organize all this under constant shelling, under constant mass shelling of the military infrastructure that is in ukraine, that's how with

be it well, first of all, the germans have a huge experience in organizing such productions in the 42nd, 43rd... years of the last century, and in ukraine, by the way, there are, well, for example, in the dnipro there are enterprises that are four floors down from the ground , yes, there are such defense, well, defense, earlier, in general, they were integrated into the military industry, the ussr, therefore, the experience and opportunities are such, and they must be used, with regard to technologies, well, yes, it is clear that... the axis of evil has taken shape and north korea is already helping with missiles, and maybe iran will help even more new ones, they were already demonstrated to minister shaig of russia back in september, in september of the 23rd

year, when he went there, that is why the issue is so difficult for ukraine, but look, ukraine is ahead of the curve on some issues, it was reported just a few days ago , that in russia for the first time they started using fpv drones with self-capture of the target. so, it immediately turned out that ukraine already uses such drones, and there are already, and they even showed how intelligence, military intelligence of ukraine destroyed two shells, these are such modern military anti-aircraft anti-aircraft missiles complexes. and that is why somewhere , somewhere, we will be in time, somewhere we will not be in time, we must insist on the quality of military-technical cooperation, come on, let me give an example so that it is clear where i am leaning, so to speak, yes, let's say it goes to

ukraine and offers us to first produce the old fuchs machines, and then move to the tank, and then ... it is already possible to jointly produce modern air defense systems, such as sky ne, we received one from well recently one in the latest version, and before that, she worked several times in ukraine, and at the same time, look at rhein metal, we all scold the orbán government and hungary for such a destructive position, and rheinmetal concluded in the 23rd year in... two huge contracts with hungary for joint production the production of the newest tank and for the joint production of the newest anti-aircraft missile complex, the kind we dream of, and at the skynext base there and so on, as well as ours, our

strategic partner the united states, well, frankensem also supplies us with projects, that ’s all there very good, but look, in the 23rd year began began to develop in india the production of stryker combat vehicles, and one of these projects is a super-powerful, ultra-modern anti-aircraft missile system based on the stryker. er, where er will there be laser systems, reb means, well, and gun systems, of course, er, then, then, here it is very important that we use all available opportunities, and buy the best, and ask to take, at least is there for rent or something. let me remind you that in september of last year, the united states and great britain simultaneously adopted laser weapons. resistance complexes drones, and the united states has already equipped one battalion with such and such systems, so in

this sense we need to work to ensure that we can get the latest technologies so that we, thank you, mr. valentin, it was valentin badrak, military expert, friends , we work live on the espresso tv channel, as well as on our youtube and facebook platforms, for those who are currently watching us live. please like our video, and also write a comment under this video, and take part in our vote, today we ask you about so, does ukraine need a new holiday, a day of thanksgiving to god? yes no please vote on youtube if you watch us on tv pick up the phone and vote if you support the introduction of such a holiday 0800 211 381 no 0800-211-382. call, all calls to these numbers are free. people's deputy

of ukraine oleksiy kucherenko is in contact with our studio. mr. oleksiy, i congratulate you and thank you for being with us today. greetings, good evening. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. mr. oleksiu, during the last two weeks we have been witnesses and actually participants of what is happening in ukraine of massive shelling by participants. well, i mean the goals for the russian federation. last year, russia concentrated on critical infrastructure facilities. they attacked thermal power plants, they visited all energy-generating companies. this year, thank god, so far it has been done without, does that mean that we have changed and... tactics of preservation or security around these facilities,

or the russian federation has simply changed its tactics and is now shelling military facilities infrastructure, as well as the military-industrial complex? thank you, you know, this is certainly not all that we are talking about today, we, you and i have access to information, i am convinced that there is a significant part... truth, special information that even the deputies do not know, this is exclusively it is very secretive there, but i still have the feeling that the russians pragmatically, the enemy , calculated the effectiveness of their strikes, you see, for the past few months i have been tracking the statistics on the shooting down of drones, their missiles and so on, well agree that the air defense forces of the country have become an order of magnitude more effective than

last year . continued throughout december, january and so on , today is january 9 on the calendar, the frosts are not bad and attacks should be expected, because of course, if you aim at objects, then at... frosty temperatures, the consequences could be more negative for you and me would be, but nevertheless we see that in this case the shelling does not reach the goal of the energy facilities in particular, and the majority of the civilian population suffers, i would say that the real terror is being done in kharkiv directly in the kharkiv region, clearly, we see that they are breaking through , what a massive blow to kyiv. what were the consequences, but nevertheless, it is for the energy industry that there

are no catastrophic consequences, so far, thank god, the only thing is that during this time objective and subjective problems have accumulated in the energy industry of ukraine, of course, i will remind you that in first of all, this is connected with the loss of generation at six units of the most powerful nuclear power plant energodar zaporizhzhia, these are the affected units of e-e thermal generation. both in western, central, and eastern ukraine, and before that, the networks, but they have been restored, and today we see that even if there are some problems. then they are repaired quickly enough, and today the main problems for the energy industry in the last two or three days were a gusty wind, this storm is literally a hurricane of water, well, half in the south, odesa region, and it is traditional for them there, the grid company is doing everything to restore

power, and there are problems, of course, unfortunately, with the fact that there was not enough coal, no one has felt it yet, but this is a specific problem that will emerge in about a month, because today there is not enough coal at the state-owned company centerenergo, it is chronically unprofitable, it is chronically, sorry, unfortunately, corrupt, this is a separate conversation, i am ready to talk about it, why are the schemes at this state-owned company collapsing companies, but nevertheless, it pulls a chain of not calculations from... coal with state mines, not the accumulation of coal, and as a result they burn ukrainian gas today, and here we may have certain problems with gas, traditional there for the month of february, when already from the undergrounds, all volumes are obtained, and there may be limitations, and i will finish today, thank god, our state company ukrenergo

has made it possible to import sufficiently powerful electricity, conditionally... say, somewhere around 12-15% of everything we need, we can import, we are using now with this, and this very seriously covers this generation deficit, which has been observed in the last, or literally the last weeks , due to sub-zero temperatures, the winter months have almost passed, so we say to god, to god, we pray to our armed forces, air defense forces, energy , utility workers, and for myself too. ukrenergo reports a record level of consumption for this heating season now, therefore it is especially important to consume electricity sparingly, ukrenergo urges this, household consumers are asked move home exercises with a kettle, an electric stove and a vacuum cleaner to the evening hours after 19:00 and, if possible, to weekends,

so our dear tv viewers, listen to what ukrenergo says, so that we do not have... power outages , so as not to fall under this disconnection. another issue, mr. oleksiy, which is unfolding literally these days, is corruption in the ministry of defense, we see scandal after scandal, minister umerav says that in four months of work of the internal audit of the ministry of defense it was possible to detect previously committed violations for more than uah 10 billion. and the logical question arises, could they? if there, as we see, one person was taken into custody, or two or three, or if this company could have two or three people there, simply add to the fact that they would abuse tens of billions of hryvnias unhindered, and the control bodies would not they saw it, the internal audit didn't see it, internal security, i don't

believe in it, and the last case was with this colonel, who... organized such a car accident and organized for almost 400 million hryvnias kon contracts with companies with firms registered there for the wife, mother-in-law, son, and immediately the investigating law enforcement officers tracked how much margin was withdrawn through atms, you understand, yes, that is, the whole essence of corruption in the ministry of defense and in other state institutions, this overpriced by one and a half, two or three times, ee these. on one or other components, well , a vivid example, 17 eggs, you understand, yes, and the father’s margin, it is taken out through all kinds of schemes, but i, excuse me, am not a naive person, i am convinced that it is shared between everyone who had would control it, and therefore i'm sorry, i also respect the security service of ukraine, but i am convinced that they were

obliged to control, first of all, they are obliged to control all purchases. to the ministry of defense, related to both weapons and other ammunition, and so on. what umerov is doing today is basically right, he restored this internal audit-inspection , and it immediately showed him the increase of 10 billion in the last four months, he restored a new structure that will carry out purchases, i understand him as, well as a minister, yes, he needs after cut off this audit. so to speak, from my predecessors and start my life as a minister from a new letter, but i ask the questions of the politicians and the highest officials who... should bear responsibility for the previous period, we understand, it cannot be blamed so simply, someone appointed ministers

, deputies, watching these curators, yes, well, you can't abuse billions without anyone knowing, so i'm sorry, there's no need to fool around here, we 're not all naive people, it's very unfortunate to state that there were such people in the ministry of defense habituation, and today this is the mistrust that is appropriate in ukraine... there is, including the ministry of defense, it will have a very negative effect on the passage and adoption of the much-needed law, this difficult law on mobilization, you understand that to push such laws through the verkhovna rada, to constructively discuss everything, so to speak, with the dissatisfied , you need to be trusted, this is what we see now in the military sphere, unfortunately, we also see it in the energy sector. these, when the government adopts a resolution about the cancellation of the moratorium on pennies, fines and disconnections, i am not saying that this is a wrong norm, it is rather a correct norm, but there are

scandals constantly in the energy sector, so corrupt, and as a result, people express righteous indignation, dissatisfaction, you want to charge us fines, payments, but you cannot guarantee us fair, objective tariffs for energy. on energy and communal services, and agree, here you can also understand people and consumers, although i, as a profile deputy chairman of the committee, must definitely also about to take care of energy security, i.e. distrust is very binding, it does not give an opportunity to make adequate, not very popular, but extremely vital decisions for the country. mr. oleksiy, you mentioned this bill on mobilization, there are five of them now. four alternatives, and it is clear that there will not be one position, literally in one day or in one

week, or in two weeks, or in a month, and it is not excluded that the government bill will be returned to the ministry of defense for revision again, well, at least that is what they say some members of the committee on issues of national security and defense, i know that the homeland has its own vision of what the mobilization law should be. what this mobilization should be, and yulia tymoshenko spoke about it publicly, if possible , please explain very briefly, i am the investigator, look, the first, well, the first, who spoke out and simply not against the law, yes the draft law, but against individual norms of the law was, well, it was tymoshenko, as an experienced politician, then on and all the other experienced people there, for today i state that if you have not seen it, you can see it in... i have it on page contains the six-page conclusion of the anti-corruption policy committee signed by the head of the committee, radina, which

defines the very serious corruption risks of the government draft law, i read it carefully, there is no time now for each one, i can say, i am ashamed that the government directed such a raw, unprofessional draft bill into verkhovna rada and what undermined this process. it also talks about corruption risks, it also talks about anti-unconstitutional norms, so in my opinion it would definitely be better for the government to withdraw its own, i am convinced that then it would made it possible to draw up a committee parliamentary draft law that would summarize all the comments, because i think that in terms of principled positions, we would still unite all patriotic forces, you understand, but here it seems to me that these are ambitions already, as the government will from... call and as a result, we have a crude, unprofessional, scandalous government bill that does not allow us to move in this process, god forbid that i be wrong, but

we will see that tomorrow the day after tomorrow it will be in the profile committee and in the hall of the verkhovna rada. and can it happen, mr. oleksiyu, that this one the draft law will be returned for revision, there will be a need for mobilized people, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine will have a question , and it is clear that... this issue will be relevant, and the longer the resolution of this issue is delayed, the more questions there will be for the verkhovna rada, they will say, well, the verkhovna rada doesn't want it, but tymoshenko doesn't want it, the motherland doesn't want it, i apologize, well, if the government gives a fuss, then its verkhovna rada is not obliged to adopt unconstitutional laws, so there's no need to shift responsibility here, i'm trying to be constructive, but the responsibility for the preparation of this draft law should be borne by the government and in general. i will tell you frankly that in my opinion, in order for the society to support this draft law, in my opinion it would be better if it were developed in the office of the supreme commander-in-chief and...

approved by the decision of the national security council, i would like to remind you that the president is also the subject of a legislative initiative, therefore there will be no blackmail, this bill must be corrected, and of course, the country needs it, and here the key thing, in my opinion, there are special regulations about registers, about age, about disability, you know everything, but for me, as a former government official and civil servant... the key claim to the government on the first morning is how can you submit such a bill and in the accompanying note it is written that he does not need additional budget funding, well, think about it, we understand by this law that we are increasing the amount of our mobilization reserve,

human , weapons, etc. and there is resources for them, yes, they need to be healed somewhere, they need to be paid for their salaries, they need to be trained, armed, clothed, and somehow this gap scares me very, very much, well, you understand, this law needs to be mobilized unequivocally, but we need to find out under what model of war and under what financial and economic resource, this is, in my opinion, one of the key tasks, because i am different in general. i don't understand anything then. another important issue, mr. oleksiy, for ukraine is the restoration of the military-industrial potential and the military-industrial complex, of course. that it is not clear how long the war will be, but that such factories and such capacities should be , if possible briefly, tell me what can be done, it is obvious that ukraine, unfortunately, lost, it is us, well, i i do not want to refer to the predecessors of... i state

that, unfortunately, we have lost very significantly our military-industrial potential, unfortunately, we are lagging behind in armaments today, we are lagging behind in personnel, i am convinced that there are not enough professionals there, as leaders, as well as people who can do something with their hands, can do it, and it is necessary it would have been already, well, two years ago to start , well, at least two years, well, at least, yes , in fact, if we were preparing for war, and the fact that... today everything is understood today in ukraine, and ukrainian top officials , and politicians, and that, this is what our partners are pushing us to do, look, they are already giving such hints very, well, transparently, yes, what guys, we will not be able to arm you all the time , do your military-industrial complex, go up, do that, what did you know how to do, we again state the problem with drones, we state the problem, well, with shells and with all types of weapons on...

cases and missiles by the same ones, including , and we understand how painful it is for us, how much it worsens our military situation and the tactics and strategy of actions of the possible armed forces of ukraine, well , the war would be completely different, agree, if it were different model of weapons, another model of our armed forces, and less died than many of ours . motherland, friends, we are working live on the tv channel, as well as on our youtube platforms and facebook. in the course of our program, we conduct a survey, we ask you whether ukraine needs a new holiday, the day of thanksgiving. let's see the results of the televoting 60 for, 40 against. intermediate are survey results. we will continue our survey following the news release from our colleagues at the bbc. in the second part of the program, we will have victoria syumar,

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