and kateryna nekrecha, i and our entire team wish you a peaceful day and see you soon. greetings, it's news time in the news. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. the prime minister of great britain will come to kyiv today. he will meet with president volodymyr zelenskyi. this is reported by the british publication sky news. during the visit, the prime minister will announce a new package of military aid. britain plans to provide 2.5 billion pounds of military aid to ukraine over the next two years. sunak is also expected to sign. cooperation agreement

in the field of security. as a result of russian shelling , nearly 16,000 subscribers remain without electricity in kharkiv oblast, informed the head of the regional military administration oleg synegubov. during the day , the occupiers covered more than 12 settlements with artillery and mortar fire. in particular , the villages of dvorichna, synkivka, and petropavlivka in the kupyan district. as well as vovchansk and bochkove in chuguyivskyi. the russians also dropped two guided aerial bombs at night between the city of vovchansk and the village of vilcha. fortunately, people survived. in the morning in the temporarily occupied explosions rang out in mariupol. this was reported by the mayor's advisor petro andryushchenko. explosions were heard in different areas of the city. according to the preliminary information of the epicenter. became

the left bank district. and at night, the enemy shelled two communities in sumy oblast. the sumy regional military administration reports on facebook that artillery fire in the residential sector. a fire broke out in one of the settlements of the okhtyr district. the fire broke out in the residential sector. firefighters extinguished the fire. ukrainian defenders destroyed 840 russians, and a total of since the beginning of the full-scale war, the armed forces of ukraine have eliminated more than 386,000 occupiers on our land, the general staff reports. also yesterday, the enemy lost 10 tanks, 16 armored fighting vehicles, the same number of tankers, 11 artillery systems and an anti-aircraft defense system. the data added at the general headquarters are indicative. and in order for the losses

of the enemy to grow even faster, the espresso tv channel calls on viewers to join the rally. the 14th brigade of the 61st battalion in the kupyan direction needs a car. to perform our defenders need a pick-up truck for combat missions and transporting the wounded. its peculiarity is that it can move through swampy terrain. it costs uah 250,000. you and i have already collected more than 63 hryvnias about... we ask you to join us and donate any amount you can afford. remember, every hryvnia of ours brings our victory closer. each day begins with a prayer for the soldiers. vasyl bezruchko from kirovohrad region. during the ato, he was a military chaplain, and then joined teroborona. currently, my father volunteers for a good cause army and unites dozens of people in this matter.

our journalists will tell the story of khotabych, as he was called in the army. lord jesus christ, son of god, bless and help all our soldiers of our ukraine, so that victory, peace, health and harmony may come sooner. in the blue and yellow church of oleksandrivka , a prayer for the soldiers is heard every day. father vasyl built this church in the village 15 years ago. at that time, it was the first ukrainian orthodox church of the kyiv patriarch in the area. then, the priest recalls, the service in ukrainian surprised people, and later parishioners it has increased so much that sometimes there is nowhere to cross, he jokes. at first, they came just to listen, as a rule , we speak in ukrainian, but then, realizing that this is our ukrainian church and this is our language, they began to come not only themselves, but at the moment they also bring their children and grandchildren. russia's invasion of ukraine changed people's attitude towards... says vasyl bezruchko. during

the ato, the priest was a military chaplain. he has a number of thanks and awards from the military and volunteers for his service. in the 15th year, he went in october. qualities of the military at that time chaplain to a city in the slavyansk-donetsk region, just to help the boys, to support them, to support our then soldiers, our defenders at that time, and all this instead i saw how people change their worldview. because of his long white beard, the military called him khotabych. i served in the 95th airmobile brigade, and when i first came to them, i was a lieutenant colonel, but the lieutenant colonel still does not know how they serve there, he said that the word is hotabych, and so i remained a hotabych to this day. at the beginning of the full-scale offensive of the enemy, vasyl from son joined the teroborona, although,

he says, the church forbids taking up weapons, so they were assigned to guard the facilities. since the local teroboron was disbanded, the priest has been collecting donations for the army. because, by the way, we also have many fellow villagers who serve, there are even three who have already died, one of them is a classmate of my son, and now father vasyl actively volunteers, collects money for drones, for humanitarian aid, and his daughter and his wife crackers, apple pastille, fruit, warm socks are sent to the front, the priest urges people not to get used to war, everyone should help the army. in daily prayers, he turns to michael, because the saint is considered the protector of soldiers, as well as to nicholas the miracle worker, the patron of all who are on the road. from kropyvnytskyi for the espresso tv channel. leave in custody. such a decision

was made by the court of appeal of kyiv regarding ex-intelligence officer roman chervinskyi. the judges upheld the decision of the shevchenkiv district court, which was issued without the presence of the military's lawyers. defenders are considered violation of their client's rights to a fair trial and plan to file a complaint with the supreme council of justice. the next meeting in this case will be held on january 25. let me remind you that chervinsky is accused of self-government and the failed operation to recruit a russian pilot, which allegedly led to the shelling of the kanetove airfield. however, the ex-intelligencer considers the case to be political persecution because of his involvement in wagnergate. the blockade continues, three checkpoints on the border of ukraine and poland remain closed, where 800 trucks are waiting in queues, he said spokesman of the state border service andriy demchenko. according to him, the shegyni point, which

was previously unblocked by polish farmers, is working, but there are also about a thousand trucks waiting to pass there, because many drivers went there in search of an open route. let me remind you, polish carriers are on strike. at the border since the beginning of november last year, they demand to cancel benefits for ukrainian trucks, local farmers also joined them, however, the government fulfilled their demands and they suspended the process. aid to ukraine from the united states has been suspended pending approval new funding by congress, confirmed the coordinator of the us national security council , john kirby. he noted that in december the white house provided the last military aid package for which there was enough money. at the same time , he noted that russian attacks on ukraine are only intensifying, so congress must act. kirby added that negotiations are currently underway in washington on an agreement that would renew the possibility of helping kyiv. it is critical that

congress meet this additional national security request and that we receive more funding. the help we provided has now stopped, and the russian strikes are only intensifying. we have already said that they are using north korean ballistic missiles to do their dirty work, so ukraine is in dire need of help right now, especially during these winter months. the united states and great britain struck houthi bases in yemen. these are the first strikes against the rebel group it supports. the president of the united states, joe biden, said that the operation took place on his instructions and is a direct response to the unprecedented attacks by the houthis on international sea vessels. hits several cities were attacked at once from the sea and air, the military hit warehouses and facilities and launch sites for drones and

ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as coastal radars. i mentioned that after a series of terrorist acts, the houthis have more than 2,000 boats in the red sea. were forced to reroute thousands of miles. crews from more than 20 countries have been threatened or taken hostage by pirates. a snowstorm at night in kyiv during the winter storm a thunderstorm passed. this rare natural phenomenon quite frightened the townspeople, who mistook thunder for sounds explosions however, ukrainian forecaster natalka didenko reassured the residents of the capital. such a natural phenomenon occurs in winter, although it is extremely rare. she explained that the atmosphere was filled with cold northern air that collided with moist currents. this is what caused the thunder. usually, such a phenomenon is called a snow storm. for now, this is all

the news for this hour, you can find more interesting and relevant information on our website espresso.tv, as well as on our social networks. join, put your preferences. then mine are waiting for you on the air colleagues lesya vakulyuk and andriy sayachuk. don't switch. dear friends, we are back on the air, we will continue our marathon, lesya okuliuk, andriy saichuk, we are working for you in this studio for the next two hours, i want to remind you that we are still collecting and i just have some deja vu about yesterday, now, as of this hour, we managed to collect together with you 5802 uah 70 kopecks. to... those we already had, it's a bit small, dear friends, but i know that if

i push you a little, then you will actively collect, collect much bigger sumy. yesterday, you and i collected 60,000 uah, for that i want to thank you, for the fact that you, just all together and sent money to private or mono, now you see card numbers on the screens and qr codes as well, which is more convenient for whom . in such and such a way and transfer the money. in total, we already have 595,802 uah 70 kopecks. well, but you see on the screen now, what is our goal? our goal is uah 5 million. and we don't even have 1 million yet. therefore, it is necessary to actively act in order not to stretch this collection for months in advance, but at least for a few weeks everything can be done. for it to be closed , i believe in you, i know that you can, i know that

you and i collected 100, and under 100, under 2000 hryvnias per day, you can do it, so please join us, make it possible for this collection to move, we have very little left until we had 600 hryvnias, and where there are 600, there are 700, and where there are 700, there is a million, so please transfer your funds for our army , we are collecting on kamikaze drones for... the 103rd separate mechanized brigade of the cold ravine, which defends ukraine even since 2014. i think our guys, these guys, are worth your donations. well, we already have ihor romanenko, lieutenant general, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010 and the founder of the charity fund we will close the sky of ukraine. mr. igor, we say good morning to you. good morning to you too. first of all, let's take a step back today. from the usual tradition and we will start not even from the ukrainian front, but from the fact that the american and

british forces carried out airstrikes on the bases of the usites in yemen, very powerful strikes, and many who says that it is possible, if the answer is this , then another war may start in the east, which we can see in these strikes, but lesya, for example, said why they won't give us these tomahawks, why not strike russian bases like that? well, maybe this is a naive question, nevertheless, we see that our allies have enormous capabilities, and so we observe that i support lesi's views in every way, here are great allies, i want to say why, because on the one hand it is clear that if more it looks like such terrorist structures, the houthis attacks on ships in the black sea, it must... be stopped, there were global projects on this matter, they took part, by the way, there

were somali ones, when pirates were active, including ukraine at one time, but we should have a different view to be, well, from the point of view that a big war will start here, there is a probability, but it is small in my opinion, in view of the political situation around it, this is such a prize... from the fact that tomohawks are powerful missile weapons hundreds of kilometers and there are opportunities there depending on the type of these missiles. were applied there, perhaps hundreds of kilometers, but there is capacity for thousands, for ukraine so far it looks like insider information from miraslava gangaz, who is not an official representative of the white house of the american politician, about a month ago she said that at the beginning of this year,

the anti-destructive weapons will arrive, and now other means have been pulled up, which say , well, most likely... really so, that is, two years of such a war is necessary, let's say, last year's failure from a military point of view in sukhadol, one of the reasons is that such a a kind of weapon, and here there is a need, of course , but they decided, they struck, if that was all there was to it, and they had enough determination for it, but on the issue of ukraine in... they did not succeed, and here is our slesenei, apparently similar views on these furnishings, one more mr. igor, but where did these yemeni rebels get their weapons in general, what is the role of russia in supporting them? russia perceives in every possible way, that is, the situation here is different, at the global level, the more

sources of military tension, with the participation of terrorist organizations, the less attention help will be determined for ukraine: firstly, secondly, they not only have, so to speak, a political view and encourage their satellites, allies, so-called, to perceive and promote this kind of approach, but they train specialists, their specialists take part in terrorist camps, where they prepare, that is , they put weapons and so on, that is, in a fairly broad spectrum, such and such assistance takes place, and we see that according to the events that are already taking place, the war is more powerful in israel, there are all these traces, they are iranian well, iranian from the point of view of helping hamas

terrorist, let's say, that's why each side is leading. which participates here in this way, and they were definitely pushed by the corresponding reactionary forces of the houthis to use these weapons and distract the forces of our allies from their actions. by the way , this is not bad information, one of the european commissioners, who is actually responsible for production in the european union, said that in fact the european union still has a chance, absolutely has... a chance, he even said so, to fulfill its obligations about the delivery of a million 155 caliber rounds , by march, is actually a deadline, if we do manage to ramp up that production, and just now what we know, again mostly from publications like the wall street journal, which is now one to five actually such and such a ratio of shells from the side on the front and not

in our favor, in favor of the russians, that is, for five russian shells there is only one ukrainian record. here we hope, what are our hopes now for spring, well, here we really need to do mathematics or arithmetic about the fact that even if they supply a million, russia itself produces about one and a half in a year, the north koreans supply a million in a month, and so on, that's why they have advantages in ammunition, especially of large caliber. for them, the 152nd is still of soviet caliber, and the europeans, why does this happen, because they wanted the funds allocated for this million to be spent exclusively in europe, they may be spent, but then this promise will be realized years later several, i.e. here it is necessary, if

in my opinion, to help is to proceed from the interests of the one you help. and they have a slightly different position, i.e. mercantile approaches, that the funds are only here, and therefore they can fail, although in my opinion they really draw conclusions, because they see how they can turn out, despite the difficult situation, like the americans, so do the europeans, i think the europeans will definitely get these 50 billion there for four years and overcome, although orban will have a lot of everything... but still, this is european diplomacy, if, well, the americans are there will be knocked over, they will also be provided, the only question is when and how much. that is, the conditions are not easy for us , and therefore the orientation must be more and more on the domestic military industry, and here we must concentrate, and do it intensively

and quickly, and the people who actually monitor such an information flow, which in particular comes from russia, they surely they are paying attention to the striking dissonance between the confidence that putin, medvedev, and other spokesmen of the russian federation are trying to convey that we are invincible. we are everything this year we will capture, i don’t know, kiev, odesa, we will reach berlin and so on, but on the other hand , the russians did not even manage to make a serious advance near avdiivka, and in fact their winter offensive stalled, that’s how things are in reality in the russian army, and what do they have prospects for this year 2024, will they be able to avoid, for example, mobilization, if... they don't want to continue at least until the presidential elections in the united states? they are increasing their efforts, they do not announce by-elections in terms of personnel

and in general, so as not to violate any social the state that putin built in the country for more than 20 years, but they use it in violation of their own legislation, not with international legislation, it is not taken into account, but with... even more so, and therefore they achieve what they want by all means in terms of the number of conscripted and appointed soldiers, and therefore their citizens are four times more than ours , and there are quite a lot of soldiers, and each of us must, must not, but it so happens that a bud must be ready to fight with four of them, the question arises, how our military must be armed, equipped, prepared, provided for this to happen. and based on this delay in mobilization, which was supposed to be actively started and is being carried out a year ago, that is why it is a second question, how to call it, but these

actions should have led to the fact that our brigades, which are now fighting, were staffed , and there is a serious question about this, and if we take into account that the brigades still have to be there to conduct decoupling counter-offensive operations. these are additional people who must not only be called in, but also trained and made there again armed, equipping and so on, and this 500,000 is the minimum, if such a task is set, society has views on this kind of actions, that is, sitting on the sidelines, when someone decides something there, it will not go that way, because they are acting objective laws of war, and they are so very strict, and in connection with this... since january of last year, a group of troops of the russian federation in the east has been conducting a strategic offensive operation,

last year the trace of groups that operate in the south, that is, on the front, was added in 1,500 km they carry out this kind of actions, and us on at the present time, forces are needed to stop them, at least for the tactical advance that is to be made, that is, for a separate one. in their direction, and we know that, in addition to solidar, maryanka was added to bakhmut, and the difficult situation in avdiivka, and the difficult situation in the kherson direction, for this reason, in order to carry out a strategic defense operation by the defense forces of ukraine, forces are needed, forces are trained military personnel people, again equipment, weapons, equipment, everything else, that is, now this kind of task needs to be solved urgently, and time must be gained in order to... accumulate strength, if the allies will go to meet and help, do accordingly , we, at the expense of our work of the military industry, will be able to do this,

and then we can have a conversation about plans, about conducting counteroffensive deoccupation actions, these are the objective laws of war, such requirements, and we must, based on this, organize our activities in this difficult, large-scale war. regarding mobilization, yesterday it was not possible to consider this draft law, we actually do not know all the details, since the citizens of ukraine are deprived of the opportunity to find out from journalists, at least from journalists, what is happening under the dome of the verkhovna rada, we can only hear something from deputies, although in reality, let me remind you , it is probably not deputies who are fighting and not even their children, for the most part, but precisely those who cannot be known are fighting , how these processes take place, well, that's another story, the question of justice, mobilization, it is very important, it is heard all the time now, and well, for example, even though they make fun of it. but there is an american

system that has been there for over 100 years, as far as i understand, that's when there is an independent one an agency independent from the government, from politicians and from rich people, and it, in the mode of open access, conducts a lottery from the register of all men, it seems, from 18 to 26 years old, they are considered the main mobilization reserve in this age group, this is strikingly different from , that we have, first of all, and secondly m... this gives some guarantees of impartiality, that is, the americans work with this system during the great wars in vietnam or during the second world war, and when mobilization was announced , this is it one of the examples, another example is let's say israel, but if you believe mr. yigal and levin, for example, netanyahu's youngest son, the son

of president isaac herzog, is currently serving in israel. two children of the minister of defense, defense in the army, three sons of beni gant, the main oppositionist, and who has now also joined the government, two sons of minister ayzenko, and the minister , the son of the minister of social security, the eldest daughter of the minister of transport, the daughter of the minister of economy, two children of the minister of integration , all the children of the minister of agriculture, the son of the minister noh, and so on and so forth, it's a huge list, i just don't know if they even have anyone in the government, yes. who does not have children now in the idf, and some of them are already wounded, this is another example of how you can show justice, but who will choose the rest of us, i am ready to answer, i am closer to the israeli approach, the israeli form of this not only because , that i have two sons who serve, and since i have such an understanding of justice. which was considered and

implemented, means our last revolutions of dignity and justice, and therefore, that someone will win for the money, whether he goes or not, this is an injustice, for the fact that roulette, if not american, then russian, will work depending on whether they go or not, this is not an approach, and in general , if in the matter of mobilizing teleg in front of the horse. horse, that is, to assume that let's have separate political parties there, first of all we will consider demobilization, and here they will speed it up, then the question of demobilization may not come up, because the people who are there, if they have homes that will have to be demobilized, will not will have time to do it, the enemy will do his job, we must come out of these events from the end, because now it is urgently necessary to equip

our troops, which... and are conducting combat operations at the front, where reserves are still to be formed, and because in two weeks not managed to consider, adopt the law, this says a lot, no matter how and no matter how one explains this situation, we have these, we have these two weeks of delay with mobilization, with the solution, i think that i have formed that it should have been done a year ago, due to the fact that it is not was done, we have big problems. were already last year and they are happening now, we just need to speak based on the assessment of the situation at the fronts, let's face it, if we don't do it, then the expectations will exceed what is happening, and there will be despair in our society about how a military campaign took place last year, this is a very serious responsibility for the mass media, for the actions of many people in

connection with this, and therefore it is definitely necessary to speak and show every day how many personnel, armed with equipment, we destroy the enemy, but it is necessary to speak and objectively show that due to the fact that they are losing much more of us, but they are moving forward, taking over our territory, at least in small steps, but it is happening, and thirdly, it must be stopped, to stop... if we don't have enough equipment, i also emphasize the objective law of war, we can use armed men, as many as we can collect, as quickly as possible, and who will defend and stop them at the front, and this must also be understood and objectively show people, our people to the society, so that the society would be more supportive of the issue of uh...