bear with you to fight for as long as it takes, a year, two, three, more, it doesn't matter, what is important is some clarity and perspective, and during this time you will be replaced by, well, other guys, demobilization, it is important, as you can call it there, whatever you want to call it, but it depends significantly on mobilization, because someone to replace us or others must still... come and here is who will come, what quality of training these fighters will be, this is also a big question, because believe me, the guys are not i really want to, well, let's put it this way, hold a position so that someone else can do it later came, weaker , unfired, unprepared there, and surrendered these positions, it ’s a nightmare, let’s put it this way, for us, moreover, frankly, i’ll tell you conditionally, conditionally, conditionally, if... tomorrow there to ensure this

demobilization and say the boys are there who want to go home, i'll tell you frankly, i don't think a huge number of soldiers will go, i think a large number of the boys, a large number of the boys, at least that i serve with, in spite of everything, but you know, but they will remain in the armed forces of ukraine, i don't know, well to the extent that this is news to some, but nevertheless they... found themselves, they became professional soldiers, they receive a good salary, and many other factors, that's why, but of course this issue is very, very important, nevertheless after all, we would like that, you know, we were not used in such a way that here you volunteers came, especially volunteers, well done, fight there until the end, we would still like some clarity, a state strategy. and how will we

behave tomorrow after a year there and further? thank you, mr. yehor, for the conversation and for including the espresso tv channel on the air, it was a serviceman of the armed forces of ukraine, yehor firsov. 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 on youtube and facebook, please subscribe to our pages on those platforms. be sure to like this video in order for it to be promoted in the trends of these platforms, and vote in our poll, today we ask you and about this, does ukraine need a new holiday, a day of thanksgiving to god? yes, no, please vote on youtube with the appropriate buttons, if you are sitting in front of the tv and watching our telecast, be sure to pick up your smartphones and vote if you think such a holiday is necessary, 0800 211 381, no 0800

211 382 call, vote, it is important for us to know your opinion. at the end of the program, we will sum up the results of this vote. next , we have valentyn badrak, military expert, director of the army research center conversions and disarmament. mr. valentin, i congratulate you and i am glad to see you on our air. mr. sergey, very glad to join the broadcast, as always. thank you for the invitation. volodymyr zelenskyi held a meeting of the supreme commander-in-chief, and what volodymyr zelenskyi reported that the commanders of the main directions and operations were present in person, together with them, the general staff of the ministry of defense , the ministry of strategy, industry, and the ministry of information, discussed in detail the topic of providing the front with shells and drones, actual costs, daily need, distribution between units, systematized current and future...

contracts, help from partners, own production, in particular the opening of new lines, we are doing everything to provide the soldiers with everything they need to perform tasks, another important air defense issue: analyzed the latest russian strikes and the effectiveness of the air force agreed on our next steps to strengthen the protection of cities, communities, enterprises and critical infrastructure facilities. mr. valentin, we see that the military command... the political command of ukraine is raising questions about the future of the military-industrial complex complex, we are talking about shells and drones. i know that you have been studying the work of the military-industrial complex of ukraine for several dozen years, you know the situation in the military industry in detail, let's start with what ukraine currently has, so that we don't reveal secrets on the air, after all, what...

capabilities do we have now, do we have such capabilities, we used to be a country with a large missile potential, we created missiles, and most of the missiles of the soviet union, it seems, were... produced after all in dnipro and our designers, has it been preserved, can it be restored and in what perspective? well, first of all, it is very important , it is extremely important that the supreme commander-in-chief takes care of these issues, this is a very, very important situation, and in fact now the stake has taken place in the form in which we proposed six months ago to create a military-industrial commission, in which the president there would be two... deputies, one is the chief military officer, that is , the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the other is the chief industrialist, and now we see well, in fact, for the first time, there is such a situation, when, well , the military-industrial commission can create it, it can not create it, but it is not created, well, such a case, but

that it is being conducted in this form, it just shows that, well, the approach is absolutely correct now is being built, but unfortunately, it is being built on... negative lessons , so to speak, including all the physical protection of enterprises and what we know, sometimes, well, let's say this, not in detail, and it's good that not in detail, yes, but it shows that in relation to the physical the protection of enterprises was done, well, there were a lot of shortcomings in this, and especially not even in physical, even in the protection of digging in there, yes under there... i dare to do, in the fact that a lot of information was walking freely, and because of this, well, let’s say , the information got to the traitors, or to those who played along with the traitors, and this information was simply exposed, well, i want to remind you that the missile

enterprises, that is, our missile enterprises have been preserved and the missile capabilities have developed very much, ukraine has mastered such programs that no one ... did not perform, let’s say, never developed and did not produce anti-aircraft missile systems , now it is being done, created a school of drones of all types, and aviation, and land, and sea, very powerful, but, but again, again, this is the situation, well , missile capabilities, they were demonstrated, back in the 14th year, kbluch prodemo. neptune and only in the 16th year did the poroshenko government at the nsdc approve the missile program, there were also delays, unfortunately, since when the government changed, well, i can give an example, you remembered that i communicated with the defense complex, yes, yes,

yes, let's say, from the 18th year i tried to start, i gathered all aviation manufacturers at that time to the expert council. complexes, that is, unmanned aircraft complexes and unmanned ground complexes, then there were six main aviation ones, three main ones on the ground. today, information appeared from fedorov, the vice-prime minister and minister of digital transformation, that the nrk was contracted for the first time, that is, the ground robotic complex sabla, and i ask myself, i am glad, of course, that our army will also have. .. what the robots will be the first to come, and then the people, but i am asking the saber, the hunter, and various others there, many of them were already up to more than one and a half dozen were ready in the 18th year, i came to the deputy minister of defense

myronyuk, he seemed to said that it was interesting, but did nothing, the ukroboronprom of abramavichyus and then gusev came, and nothing was done, no one wanted to do anything about it, although about... interesting projects were planned, to combine the efforts of the state and private structures to make such strike complexes, speed up their creation and production, well it's good that even in the 24th we came to this, regarding the ammunition industry, well, in general, the situation is strange, but it was strange for a very long time, i remember when at one of the weapons exhibitions. idex, it scares me to remember, idex 2001, and then, unfortunately, the director of the company impuls shostkinsky, evgeny chernov, one of the best specialists in the ammunition industry, told me for two hours how to restore the ammunition

industry and how much money is needed for this , if they had started then, well, there would not have been such a mess b, of course, but now it is necessary to catch up with all these, all these... opportunities and, let's say, military-technical cooperation becomes even more important, here it is already nice about the authorities, let's say, it is very important that after the trip... the united states, an extreme , let’s say, visit, zelenskyi’s team brought two big projects, very interesting, this is the franken project, this is the creation or adaptation of soviet -made anti-aircraft missile systems, primarily the buki s-300, for western missiles, this is an extremely important, important project , which has already worked in fact, production exists, plus two american companies. began to cooperate in the production of 155-millimeter

ammunition. in total, in ukraine before the large-scale invasion, there were five enterprises that could be involved in, well , that is, they produced ammunition or their components. and i'm not even counting the shostkin impulse or the shostkin star here. the star was dead because of inattention. state for a long time, but, but the enterprises that produced and were in very good, athletic shape, let ’s say, i won’t name them, one state, four private ones, that is , there are initial opportunities in ukraine, there is something to say about it, now ukraine has created from scratch during an already large-scale war, created a school of naval drones. this is a very big achievement, in fact, and it shows that the scientific base and capabilities

of ukrainian designers are extremely high, see general havrylyuk, deputy minister of defense in charge of armaments, during an interview in december 23rd , in reuters, agency reuters noted that the ministry of defense is involved in the procurement. uh complex of an anti-aircraft missile system of its own production, he called it a 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, this is very good, this very cool, and again, the only objection that advance projects existed in 2016 was defended by the relevant kb. three advance projects for the close-range army complex, for

the naval complex, exactly coral, it was called 30-40 km in range and for the complex 100 km in range, but until the 23rd year, for some reason, it was nobody’s i was interested in the question of why, unfortunately , we relied on western partners completely and in everything, but history shows that the history of not only the present, but even more so the history of today, that it is impossible to rely completely, it is necessary to diversify projects and it is necessary insist on joint productions. now i want to say a little about vts and what our western partners provide us. look, just a few hours ago it became known from. one of the deputies of the german bundestag, marcus, marcus, marcus fabber

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

mexico, which prevented us from going to the vote on aid for ukraine and for israel, so it is the same there, i think that the question, the question of quality, the quality of aid will be unblocked, literally again a few hours ago appeared, mr. valentin, it is clear that in this situation we are all waiting for the decision of the congress. of the united states of america and have to open this large financing 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... still , when we talk about the latest technologies, about how we are in time for the war, or not in time, because the russian federation in this situation is trying to quickly reorient all its capacity for production, well, russia does not produce anything else in the world except weapons and fear, that is

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

to deal with it, well, first of all, the germans have... huge experience in organizing such productions in the 1942s, 1943s, 1944s of the last century, and in ukraine, by the way, there are, well, for example, in dnipro there are enterprises that are four floors down, from the ground, yes, there are such defense, well, defense ones, before they were generally integrated into the military industry, the ussr, so the experience and opportunities are such, they... must be used, regarding 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, and these shaheds are newer, they were already demonstrated to russian minister shaig back in september, in september 23

, when he went there, that is why the issue is so difficult for ukraine, but... look, everything is fine, on some issues, ukraine is ahead of the curve, just a few days ago it was reported 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 already has, and even showed how military intelligence intelligence of ukraine destroyed two shells, this is a military one. we are in time, somewhere we will not be in time, we must insist on the quality of military-technical cooperation, let me give an example so that it is clear where i am leaning, yes, let's say motal

enters ukraine and offers us to produce first . old fuxs machines, and then go to a tank, and then it is already possible to the joint production of modern air defense systems, such as skynext, yes, we got one of, well, recently one in the last, last version, and before that there were several, worked in ukraine, and at the same time, look , rheinmetall, we all scold the orban government and hungary for such a destructive position, and rheinmetall signed two huge contracts with hungary in the fall of 2023 for the production, joint production of the newest tank and the joint production of the latest anti-aircraft missile complex, the kind we dream of, and at the skynex base there and so on, as well as our strategic partner

the united states, well, it also supplies us with the frankensem flank... everything is very good there, but look, in the 23rd year it started the production of stryker combat vehicles will be launched in india, and one of these projects is a super-powerful, ultra-modern anti-aircraft missile complex based on the stryker, which will include laser systems, anti-aircraft weapons, and gun systems, of course, it is very important here that we all the available... opportunities were applied, and the best were bought, and asked to rent at least there or something like that. let me remind you that in september of last year, the united states... and great britain simultaneously adopted laser anti-drone systems, and the united states we have already equipped one battalion with such and such

systems, but in this sense we must work to ensure that we can get the latest technologies so that we can thank you, mr. valentin, it was valentin badrak, a military expert, friends, we are working live espresso tv channel, as well as... on our platforms in youtube and facebook, for those who are watching us live now, please like our video, and also write a comment under this video, and take part in our vote, we are today we ask you about this, 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 your 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. oleksiy, during the last two weeks we are witnesses and actually participants of what he. mass shelling is taking place in ukraine by the participants, well , i mean targets for the russian federation, last year russia concentrated on critical infrastructure objects, they were on thermal power plants, they were on all power generating companies, this year, thank god, so far it has been done without this does this mean that we have changed our conservation or security tactics around these sites, or has the russian

federation simply changed its tactics and is now shelling the objects of the military infrastructure, as well as the military-industrial complex. thank you, you know, this is definitely not everything we talk about. today, we , you and i, have access to information, i am convinced that there is a significant part of special information that even the deputies do not know, it is highly classified only there, but i still have the feeling that the russians are pragmatic , the enemy has calculated the effectiveness of his strikes, you see, i have been monitoring the statistics on the shooting down for the last several months where... drones, their missiles and so on , well, agree that the air defense forces of ukraine, well, have become an order of magnitude more effective than they were last year, i

will remind you of last year, well, the year before last , on november 23, it was this first blackout, and the shelling started on october 10 and 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, the consequences are more negative at freezing temperatures for us and you could be, but nevertheless, we see that these shellings do not reach their goal in almost any way, especially on energy facilities, and the majority of the civilian population suffers, i would say that the real terror is being carried out in kharkiv directly in the kharkiv region. unequivocally, we can see that how they break through , what massive strikes and what the consequences were in kyiv, but nevertheless,

there are no catastrophic consequences for the energy industry, thank god, the only thing that has accumulated during this time is objective and subjective positive problems in the energy industry of ukraine, of course, let me remind you, 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 thermal generation, both in western, central, and eastern ukraine, and this and before this network, but they have been restored, and today we see that even if there is some damage, they are repaired quickly enough are being repaired, and today the main problems for the energy industry in the last two or three days were this, gale-force winds, this... the storm is literally there, a hurricane of water, well , halfway to the south of the odesa region, and this is traditional for them there, the network campaign is doing everything

in order to restore uh... power supply, and there are definitely problems, unfortunately, with the fact that they did not accumulate enough coal, so far no one has experienced this, but it is a specific a 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 they crumbling with... we on to this state-owned company, but nevertheless, it pulling the chain is not payments for coal with state mines, not the accumulation of coal , and as a result, today they are burning ukrainian gas, and here we may have certain problems with gas, traditionally there in the month of february, when all the volumes are already coming out of the undergrounds, and here may be limited, and i am graduating today, thank god, our

state company ukrenerga. made it possible to import enough electricity, relatively speaking, somewhere around 12-15% of everything we need, we can import, we are using it now, and it covers very seriously this generation deficit , which has been observed in the last, literally the last weeks due to the sub-zero temperature of winter , has almost passed, so we pray to god, god, we pray to our... armed forces, air defense forces, energy workers, utility workers, and for ourselves language too. ukrenergo reports a record level of consumption for this heating season, now, therefore, it is especially important to consume electricity sparingly, ukrenergo is calling for this, household consumers are asked to postpone home exercises with an iron, with an electric stove and a vacuum cleaner in the evening hours after 19 and, if possible, on

weekends, so our dear... tv viewers, listen to what ukrenergo says so that we do not have a power outage, so that you do not fall under this outage. another issue, mr. oleksiy, which is unfolding literally these days, is corruption in the ministry of defense, we see scandal after scandal, minister mierov says that during the four months of work of the internal audit of the ministry of defense, it was possible to identify previously admitted violations for more than 10 billion hryvnias, and the question logically arises whether, as we see, one person could have been taken into custody there, or two or three, or whether this company of two or three people could simply contribute to the fact that they would abuse tens of billions of hryvnias unhindered, and the control bodies did not see it, the internal audit did not see it, the internal

security i do not believe in it. "i don't believe in this, and the last case was with this colonel, who organized such a private car and for almost 400 million hryvnias, organized contracts with companies, with firms registered there for the wife, for the mother-in-law, for the 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, these are inflated by one and a half, two or three times, the prices for certain components, well, a vivid example, eggs for 17, you understand, yes, and this margin, it is taken out through all kinds of schemes, but i am sorry, i am not a naive person, i am convinced that it is shared among all those who are supposed to control it, and therefore, excuse me, i respectfully and to the security service of ukraine, but i am convinced

that they were... bound to control , first of all, they are obliged to control all purchases in 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 abuses in the last four months for 10 billion, he restored a new structure that will make purchases, i understand. him as, well, as a minister, yes, he needs it after this audit to cut off, so to speak, from my predecessors and start my life as a minister from a new letter, but i ask the questions to the politicians and the highest officials who should be responsible for the previous period, we understand.