we thank you, we have to finish, because at 9:00 a minute of silence, thank you, ivan tymochko, a serviceman and head of the reservist council of the land forces of the armed forces of ukraine, was with us, and now a moment of remembrance for those who were killed by russia. let's honor the memory of ukrainians with a moment of silence. military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.

became a testing ground for weapons, a historic ukrainian-british agreement on security cooperation. the first foreign trip of the president this year and how get a job in the armed forces. about this and much more in today's issue. massive air attacks on ukraine. the russians intensified their shelling again. north korea and iran provide the russian federation with weapons for... the civilian

population of our country. the world is deeply concerned about such cooperation, and ukrainian skies are still not sufficiently protected from enemy attacks. if seven systems were given today, people in kharkiv, kherson, and odesa would not die. historical, defensive, political and diplomatic results. summary of ukraine's agreements with the baltic countries and great britain. there is restoration, ukrainian families are drawing up certificates to receive compensation for the housing destroyed by the russians, how is the reconstruction of houses in the kyiv region and kharkiv progressing, i want a warm house, i want a warm house, and for the house to be one's own, and not to live somewhere with someone, congratulations, in the studio iryna koval and this news, results of the week on

the espresso tv channel. a new stage in the war has begun. ukraine has become a testing ground for carriers capable of carrying a nuclear charge. this was discussed this week both in ukraine and in the world. we are talking about rockets short-range, known as kn-23 or kim skander. it was north korea that provided them to russia, and the terrorist country launched this weapon across ukraine in december and january. destroy more of ukraine's civilian infrastructure and kill civilians. this is what russia will use missiles from north korea for, the us believes. and their opinion is not unfounded, because after researching this missile, it was already found out that they can be used to hit unfortified surface targets, for example, such as residential buildings. these missiles are point targets unable to impress. on wednesday, at the meeting of the

security council of the united nations, a lot of attention was paid to north korea and iran, which continue to supply the russian federation with missiles and drones. in addition, the us state department published a statement by the leaders of 47 countries of the world, who called on the democratic people's republic of korea and russia to comply with the relevant un resolutions and immediately stop any activities. that violates them. in addition, us secretary of state anthony blinken announced on january 11 the introduction of sanctions against three russian organizations and one individual involved in the transfer and testing of north korean ballistic missiles for use by russia against ukraine. it is difficult to say whether it will give results. but here is what is known for sure, mrs. us ambassador to nato, julian. stated that they have information,

confirmed by satellite images , that the dprk delivered more than a thousand containers of military equipment to the russian federation. and ammunition, but we still do not have comprehensive defense of the sky, the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy once again emphasized this, and there is not enough, in particular, systems capable of knocking down ballistics. so, a detailed analysis of the level of protection of the ukrainian sky. about 300 missiles of various types, cruise, ballistic. hypersonic, plus hundreds of drones. after a long pause, the russians resumed massive air attacks on ukraine. as of the end of december, there were already four of them. unlike last year, the occupiers are not hitting energy facilities in tyla. they are looking for other targets: military production,

airfields and air defense systems. but it also flies for civilians. the enemy is actively using ballistics in kharkiv oblast, donetsk oblast, zaporozhye and kherson region. this is an imprecise weapon, its purpose is to terrorize the civilian population. about a hundred people died in just two weeks. according to president volodymyr zelenskyi, the defense forces destroyed about 70% of the targets, including 10 air -ballistic dagger missiles intercepted over kyiv on january 2. the capital is covered by the patriot anti-aircraft missile complex, capable of ... knocking down ballistics, but there are few such systems in ukraine. according to official patriot data, only three batteries, one from the united states and two from germany, plus several launchers from the netherlands. presumably, important objects are protected by another system - sampti -

the european analogue of patriot, transferred by italy and france. but such powerful systems are not enough even to protect large cities. what zelensky once again reprimanded the event during. and how to live peacefully and sleep, if you understand that you have dozens of such systems, and in ukraine, if you were to give seven systems today, then people in kharkiv, kherson, odessa did not die, can you live with this normally, or are there dozens of air defense systems in the west? yes, in the united states the states have 15... battalions, patriots, on duty, that's about 60 systems. for the entire territory of the united states, plus foreign military bases, quite a few. germany has 11 batteries, some of them are used in other countries to cover nato airspace. their transfer to ukraine will significantly weaken

the defense of the alliance, even if only from potential threats. and it's about money. the cost of one system is about a billion dollars, and the launch of one missile is 3 million. missiles for air defense systems are also a problem. publication of the american edition of the new york times about the fact that the stocks of missiles for the patriot systems in ukraine are running out, and the west will not be able to supply them in the future, stirred up an information wave. the command of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine stated that the situation is not as dramatic as american journalists portrayed. and during the meeting of the ukraine-nato council, which was urgently convened this week because of the russian masses. shelling, the allies confirmed that they will continue to supply ukraine with everything it needs to protect the sky, and to replenish their own stocks, the countries of the alliance will purchase up to a thousand missiles for the patriot air defense system. while moscow is stepping up its strikes on ukrainian cities and civilians, nato allies are beefing up

ukraine's air defenses. we will continue to support brave ukrainians and their resistance to russia's war of aggression. they are also trying to solve problems. missiles to the soviet s-300 and buk systems, which, despite the supply of the west, are still the main ukrainian air defense system. in the first year of the full-scale war, the allies transferred to ukraine almost all the stocks that were in the warehouses of the countries that were once part of the warsaw bloc. now they are also adapting soviet systems for western missiles. the project was named frankin , the zenith frankenstein, woven from various technologies. it is essential to strengthen the protection of the sky. have f-16 jets. the west promised to provide more than 60 fighter jets capable of intercepting enemy cruise missiles, but their delivery has been delayed. this week , the danish ministry of defense announced that the first f-16s will arrive in ukraine no earlier than the second quarter, and not at the beginning of the year, as

planned. the reason is related to the training schedule of ukrainian pilots and work related to infrastructure preparation. the enemy understands the risks of the appearance of the f-16, therefore... it constantly attacks ukrainian military airfields, in particular , shaheds, cruise missiles and aeroballistic daggers regularly fly to old constantine, and also buys weapons from its not... numerous allies, in particular, north korean dictator kim jong un putin's kn-23 ballistic missiles, with which the russians have already hit the center of kharkiv. because of this , the un security council met urgently, because north korea is under sanctions, and cooperation with it in the military sphere is taboo. exporting ammunition to russia, north korea uses ukraine as a test site for its missiles. carry nuclear weapons. these strikes on ukraine provide north korea with valuable military

information, which they use to further export ballistic missiles to other countries. according to the information of the western media , iran may provide its short-range ballistics to the russians already in the spring. and also, if you believe the sky news channel, the iranians have developed a new shahed-107 strike drone specifically for russia, capable of detecting and striking the west. rocket systems of salvo fire, which stand on armament of the armed forces of ukraine. the battle for the ukrainian sky continues. so oleksiy yezhak, an analyst at the national institute of strategic studies, is in touch with us. mr. oleksiy, i congratulate you. i congratulate you. so, according to british intelligence, north korea could become one of the biggest and most important. heads of arms of the russian federation. and it is already known that north korean ammunition

has entered russian warehouses, including short-range ballistic missiles. the head of south korea's defense department said that north korea could sell new ones to russia types of tactical guided missiles. so, mr. oleksiy, i want to ask you what unpleasant surprises we are still preparing for and can this cooperation change the course? war, well, if the weapons of the dprk could change something in this world, they would have already changed it, they have been threatening japan, south korea, and the united states for a long time, and they are shooting, they are trying to launch some kind of mobile phone into space, because many of them are not can bring out, but really the quantity can create a certain new quality, if there is not enough in russia, it will get in... dprk ammo, it's poor quality, it explodes right in the guns,

killing those who use it. now the rockets are gone, what rockets can there be? the fact is that the missiles that the dprk has a lot of are old, and these are the types that were destroyed in ukraine in the 90s without any regrets, because they were obsolete. those rockets that are more... clear in ukraine, there are not many of them, if we talk about old rockets, well, these are the types of so-called rockets, the soviet name was elbrus, and the international name is skada, they are called liquid rockets, propellant, they are not effective as such means, but they can be effective in order to saturate the ukrainian anti-missile defense, because they are additional. our most modern, these are ballistic targets, and therefore the most modern part of anti-missile

defense, such as the patriot, well , the european samti, it is stressful, not critical, but well, it is stressful, this is an additional additional tool, in addition, the dprk has a little missiles, they managed to make something similar to the russian iskander, a ballistic iskander. there, well, they at least demonstrated that they had something similar, the russians apparently handed them documentation, they created something, but they could not create many, if russia experiences a shortage of these missiles, does not have time to do with all its capacities, then the dprk moreover, it could not do much, and the dprk still has, well, at least in certain quantities, an analogue of the one that we have, the missile that we have called neptune, but they created... a similar missile, yes, in approximately the same time frame , that we also had neptune created, maybe they

it can also be transferred to russia, so far there are no signs of a large number, and there are no signs of a drastic change in quality, those attacks that were carried out in the last month, they still look similar, they are mainly russian modernizations, but... dprk weapons are used to strengthen, well , in about the same way as iranian drones, in order to saturate and create problems for air defense and pro. mr. oleksiyu, well, there is one more. a country that has been supporting the russian federation for a long time, iran, you actually started talking about iranians drones, this week tehran delivered a new cargo to moscow, according to the spokeswoman for the defense forces of southern ukraine nataliya humenyuk, there were probably shaheds or components for them on board. on tuesday, the russian federation launched a new uav with a night

vision camera during an attack on nikopol. these were usually used only at the front. beside this. it has already become known that a new drone, the shaket 107, has been developed by iran for the russian federation, and it is described as explosive and reconnaissance, and back in september 2023, iran presented this new jet-powered missile, and then there was information, which was not confirmed by the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, that such a rocket was allegedly shot down over ukraine. so, is there already a yes? regarding the use by the russians of shaheds with jet engines in the war against our country, these are the same shaheds, just an engine, an engine, well, maybe they just don’t have time to make the right amount, the right amount of gasoline, well, ordinary piston engines and create

simple jets, but this means that on such a drone... there will be less charge because the amount of kerosene, well , there is more fuel for a jet engine, this means that it carries a smaller charge, well, i can’t say how much faster it is, well, judging by those reports, there is no such a drastic increase in speed, well , it flies, let's say how there is really a moped there 100-200 km, well maybe 300. 400 there, i don't, it will require adaptation, adaptation of the means by which they meander, it will require adaptation of those mobile groups that hunt for such shaheds, well again, same as with missiles of the dprk, it cannot be a lot,

that is, all the weapons that russia receives, and in general all the weapons of low technology, which are both in russia and in the country... well, to put it conventionally, the axis of evil, it is either of low quality and large quantity, but in moderate such more or less high quality, but not a large quantity, because they cannot make a large number of high-quality weapons at the same time, ukraine is divided, this is exactly the expression that was on my lips this week after reading the magazine, and the whole point is , which the american magazine time made public. and top 10 global risks for 2024, and among other things, ukraine is divided in third place. according to the authors, ukraine will be de facto divided this year, and russia now has the initiative on the battlefield and a material advantage. 2024 is a turning point in the war, and unless ukraine solves its

personnel problems, increases its weapons production, and develops a realistic military strategy in the near future. its territorial losses may be permanent and may increase, writes time. and they also note that ukraine is strong has suffered from a decline in us political and material support, and the prospects for european aid are not much better. and we can already see it, because the military aid that the usa provided to ukraine has stopped for now. further aid depends on a decision by congress, which must approve additional. national security request for more funding. the last package from washington in the amount of 250 million dollars was on december 27. so, mr. oleksiy, in your opinion, how close is this scenario for us painted in time? i think, in the form

of the so-called minsk 3, it is impossible, no, no such stops or until... that ukraine somehow agrees with the annexation of these territories, this cannot be, there may be hostilities of varying intensity, but in any case, i would say the scenario is completely different, what is happening, the risk is there, but it is different, the risk is that, maybe it is not even a risk, there you can really say that next year is difficult to predict... wat big changes at the front, but it is already obvious that the front will expand towards russia, he, the war will be waged on a much deeper level. territory, and the regions of russia will be involved in this war, and although the troops at the front may not move except in the south, still in the south, i think this movement will continue

with the liberation of the de facto liberation of crimea and the liberation of sea routes through the black sea, that's what , that in the south and in the north and east, the front may not move there, but the depth of this front will increase towards russia, because... ukraine will receive weapons, and it will receive them guaranteed. the point is not only that, well, these packages, this is also a wrong assessment. the package is european, it is guaranteed, it will be there, there will be a veto, orban's veto has been bypassed, there are different mechanisms, and it will be resolved. regarding american aid, well, i would say, well, that a lot can be said, but in the package that is currently being voted on, there is only a fifth of it. these are direct supplies to ukraine, the rest is the restoration of the stocks of the united states and european countries, but this does not mean that these stocks are exhausted, there are still many

in reserves, what ukraine did not receive due to political restrictions, and the political restrictions were such that we were restricted from using weapons not only on the territory of russia, even against the occupied, against russian forces in the occupied territories, now this restriction is being removed. at the same time as dprk missiles are coming in and new, new, new iranian weapons, as soon as they come to the front, these restrictions are also being reduced, reduced, so i think there will be enough weapons so that, even if the front is not will move, the depth of this front to the side of russian forces, it will drastically increase , even hundreds of kilometers, so i think, well , this scenario would be relevant, within the framework of the feeling of the summer of last year, so they talked about it then, and now it is just such a belated assessment, i think it not relevant,

all the same. we were contacted by oleksiy yezhak, an analyst at the national institute of strategic studies. mr. oleksiu, i thank you. lithuania, latvia and estonia are among the most determined allies. kyiv, in the eu and nato, and there they know exactly what the soviet-russian yoke is like. january 10, the first this year volodymyr zelenskyi's foreign trip was a visit to the baltic countries, the president started from the capital of lithuania, vilnius. he spoke with president gitanas nauseda, prime minister ingrid šimonite, as well as speaker of the seimas viktoria chmelite nielsen. defense cooperation between. countries, as well as joint projects in the energy and infrastructure spheres. lithuanian president gitanas nauseda announced the approval

of additional military aid to ukraine in the amount of 200 million euros and announced on january-february new supplies of ammunition, generators and m-577 armored vehicles to ukraine. one of the key moments of the meeting was the agreement on the joint production of weapons and. means of combating drones. meanwhile, the lithuanian president noted that he is also preparing a coalition for demining the territory of ukraine. agreements between the ukrainian and lithuanian defense industries were signed today, which is another example of our close military cooperation. we must also ensure continuity of long-term support from allies and partners to help. the european defense industry as a whole must step up its game, accelerate and adequately respond to the complex security situation. on thursday morning, president

zelenskyi arrived in the estonian capital , tallinn. estonian president alar karis announced aid in the amount of 1,200,000 euros until 2027. karis also noted that ukraine needs more and better equipment, and the european union should increase the production of weapons so that our army can get everything it needs, not tomorrow, but today, and emphasized that in in the russian federation's war against ukraine , strikes on russian territory cannot be avoided, there should be no restrictions on weapons transferred to ukraine by partners. meanwhile, president zelenskyy during a joint press conference with the prime minister of estonia. kaya kalas urged to put pressure on eu leaders, namely on those who promised ukraine 1 million artillery shells. he noted that the ukrainian...

army still hasn't received the full package of promised aid, and that today estonia can politically give way to this initiative. volodymyr zelenskyy with his turkish countries completed in latvia. president edgars rinkevičes announced a new military aid package. it will include howitzers, nato standard ammunition, anti-tank weapons, missiles, all-terrain vehicles, grenades, helicopters, drones, and communication devices. generators and ekiring. rinkevičes reported that latvia has also undertaken to introduce a coalition of drones within the framework of ramstein, and will sign memoranda of cooperation in the military sphere with ukraine. in particular, we are talking about the production of drones. it's time to change the emphasis. we talked a lot we support ukraine and will support as long as it is necessary. but,

to be honest,... the main goal and the main political signal should be that we support and will support ukraine until the complete victory over russian imperialism. ukraine no longer has to ask for help and weapons, but will receive them automatically. as soon as volodymyr zelenskyy returned to kyiv, as the capital, british prime minister rishi sunak made an unannounced visit. this visit was a real manifestation of steadfastness support, because during the meeting zelenskyi and sunak concluded an unprecedented and historic agreement on cooperation in the field of security. this means that great britain has given us security guarantees that will be in effect until we join nato. they will exchange intelligence with us, help with cyber security, military training and strengthen defenses.

industrial cooperation. it is about the supply of long-range missiles, anti-aircraft and artillery shells. the agreement provides for annual financial support for at least 10 years and comprehensive assistance to the armed forces of ukraine for the transition to nato standards. the united kingdom will provide 2.5 billion pounds of military aid to ukraine in 2024.25 years, which is 200 million pounds more than in the previous two years. at least £200m will be spent on the procurement and production of reconnaissance, attack and maritime drones. this will be the largest uav delivery to ukraine. we have now agreed with britain on security in all areas: on land, in the air, at sea, in cyberspace, in

broad political. ukraine is not alone and will never be alone. putin may think that he worries about us, but he is wrong. we stand here today, tomorrow i will stand as long as it takes. war is a war for ukraine's right to defend itself, to defend itself, its future. she should. to prevent the destruction of democracy in the heart of europe. it was probably clear to the majority that the government draft law on the improvement of mobilization, which, by the way, caused heated discussions and disputes, in particular in the parliament, would be sent to finalization so, on january 11 , a closed meeting was held with the military leadership, heads of factions and committees, after a meeting of the conciliation council with the participation of

valery zaluzhny and... rustem umirov , they decided that a substantial revision was needed and returned the document. later, people's deputy yaroslav zhelezniak reported that the cabinet of ministers voted to withdraw its document. the chairman of the verkhovna rada noted on his facebook page that it was a joint decision, and meanwhile, defense minister rustem umyerov said on thursday evening that the team prepared a new version of the draft law. then taking into account all suggestions. in the near future, the updated document will be sent to the cabinet of ministers for approval, and he added: the issue of improving mobilization must be resolved as soon as possible, because our soldiers need rest, and with the new draft law they plan to establish a clear term of service. and while the epic.