on the air of the tv channel, we talk about important topical topics, join in, have a good day, see you soon. welcome to espresso, news time. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. polish prime minister donald tusk arrived in kyiv. this is his first visit to ukraine since his appointment as the head of the government. it is planned, in particular, to discuss poland's embargo on the import of ukrainian agricultural products and the blockade of the border by polish carriers. today, ukraine celebrates the day of cathedral unity. more than a century ago. announced in kyiv on sofia square

the unification of ukrainian lands into an independent , cathedral state, the famous living chain became a manifestation of the unity of our people from east to west, now ukraine has taken up arms again and continues to steadfastly win back its borders and the right to be free and independent, the president said in his congratulatory speech volodymyr zelenskyi of ukraine. we will force russia to leave, and the words of the act of unity about the unification of parts of ukraine separated from each other will be heard again, will become a reality, because today every ukrainian is fighting for everyone ukrainian, proving that when all ukrainians hold hands, they will not raise them to the mountain to surrender, we are all fighting, and today this applies not only to both banks of the dnieper.

today, the unity of ukrainians covers both hemispheres of the earth, in every corner of which february 24 resounded. i am ukrainian. in southwestern china, in yunnan province, as a result of a large-scale landslide, 47 people were buried under rubble, and more than 200 residents were evacuated to safe places. the disaster happened this morning in one of the rural areas near the city. chautun, where 18 households were covered with earth and stones. a search operation was launched at the site of the disaster, involving more than 200 rescuers. and to operational information from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine: 68 combat clashes took place at the front. over the

course of a day, defense forces repelled five attacks near terni and yampolivka, and six more near beilohorivka. the russians do not stop trying to blackmail avdiivka. there, our defenders repelled more than 17 assaults. ukrainian defenders in the direction of bakhmut seven russian attacks were stopped, and the same number were repulsed on zaporozhye near verbovoy and robotyn. in the kherson direction, the russians tried to attack ours six times. positions our aviation made nine strikes on the concentration area of ​​the occupiers, and rocket launchers and artillerymen hit the area of ​​concentration of personnel, three artillery pieces and destroyed the muscovites' control post. at night, the enemy attacked ukraine with eight shaheds. our defenders of the sky destroyed all drones within mykolaiv, kherson, dnipropetrovsk and kirovohrad regions.

this was announced in the air force, the enemy launched drones from the primorye-akhtar region. the enemy has 13 ships in the black sea, including two carriers of kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to 14 missiles, the naval forces said. there is also one ship each in the sea of ​​azov and the mediterranean sea, they do not have missile carriers. its commander died on board the damaged russian il-22. viktor klimov. this was stated by the russian pilot, tester oleksandr harnaev. this information was also confirmed by an officer of the armed forces of ukraine anatoly stefan. let me remind you that on january 14, our military destroyed enemy a-50 and il-22 aircraft over the sea of ​​azov. the armed forces of ukraine rejected the accusations. of russia, our military

did not attack the market in donetsk, this was announced in the press center of the defense of the tavria direction. yesterday, the occupying authorities of donetsk reported shelling of the city in a micro-district. textile worker. according to their information, 28 people died and many others were injured. the enemy blamed ukrainian fighters for the attack. kyiv will be able to attract much more funds from other donors, if the american congress approves the financing of ukraine. this was stated by the special representative for the economic recovery of ukraine at the us state department, peni pritzker. in particular, prisker called the economic support of ukraine from the us a force multiplier. if the congress allocates the requested 11 billion 800 million dollars, then other donors, in particular the international monetary fund, will triple the total financial support of ukraine. the ukrainian triumph continues on the courts

of the australian open championship. from tennis , dayana yastremska reached the 1/4 final stage. she defeated the top-ranked belarusian victoria azarenka, who previously won the astralian open twice. dayana lost the first two games, but gathered herself and pressed her opponent. traditionally, she refused to shake the hand of the representative of belarus after the match. this is a historic maximum in yastremska's career at grand slam tournaments. marta kostyuk also continues to perform, and elina svitolina continues to perform. due to an injury, she was forced to withdraw from the tournament. ukrainian evening in girona, the team of artem dovbek and viktor tsygankov met in the spanish championship with sevilla. and even missed the first one. however, artem dovbek soon completed a hat trick in just 6 minutes.

then viktor tsygankov also scored a goal. in general, a convincing victory for girona - 5:1 and the first step in la liga. team. every tenth soldier in the armed forces of ukraine wears a body armor from the lviv defense cluster. the ministry of defense of ukraine designated him as the main coordinator of the volunteer movement for the production of personal protective equipment. learned how to make domestic ekirovan. andriy demchushak holds a metal armor plate in his hands, it is the basis of a waterproof vest for the military. thanks to the plates of this model, we have the protection of the fighter in the lethal zone, that is , the heart and lungs, the most important zones on

the human body, and which remain protected, and an obstructive injury does not harm a person's health. the lviv defense cluster was born at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of russia before the mass production of bulletproof vests was organized almost from scratch. the team was coached by maksym plekhov from kharkiv. the very idea of ​​the lviv defense cluster. first of all, what led to this? that's us understood that in fact we do not have time to start production, because it will be 3-4 weeks. in 3-4 weeks, the country may not exist, we needed to produce tomorrow, being in another region, without money, without machines, without anything. that's how they started to produce. hundreds of bulletproof vests per day. the means of protection of this production fully meet the standards of dstu. body armor weighs from eight to 10 kg, depending on the type of steel, the cost is a little more than 500 uah. a military body armor, that is, it needs three main, non-common elements: this

the case of the body armor itself, it is soft armor, the military body armor must hold the bullet for the draganov sniper rifle, the kalashnikov assault rifle, and the assault rifle. kalashnikov, that is , it will already belong from the fourth grade and above, that is. in september 2022 , volunteers made half a thousand protective vests for the evacuation of children. enterprises also sew lightweight bulletproof vests for medics. this armor weighs 3-3.5 kg and completely protects the face, you can walk in it all day, came to work, put it on, left from work, removed the first state has already provided enough today, it is approximately, i think, well, official. that is, there are some problems, but the state has more or less already dealt with the problem. since the beginning of the great war, the lviv defense cluster has given 100,000 body armor to the defense forces for free. protective clothing is worn by soldiers, border guards, emergency workers and journalists along the entire

front line. currently, mass production has been suspended. volunteers close individual requests from our defenders. kateryna oliynyk, andriy polikovskyi, espresso tv channel. espresso is calling for donations for night vision binoculars for the 128th separate mountain assault brigade. the device is extremely necessary for our defenders. they perform combat tasks mainly at night, so good vision in the dark not only saves our soldiers, but also helps to destroy the enemy, one nation, one spirit, in a group to victory, our goal - 170 00 hryvnias. for now, that's all the news for this hour, for more up-to-the-minute information, stay tuned to our espresso.tv website, as well as our social networks join, like. more on you on the air. my colleagues lesya vakolyuk and andriy saichuk are waiting, don't switch.

dear friends, we are returning to ether, lesya vakulyuk, andriy saichuk, we are working in this studio for the next two hours, we will talk about war for you, of course, where would we go without this, we will talk about mobilization, we will talk about persecution. business or whatever the detention of mr. mazepa means, let's also talk about today, which is recorded in history as the day of destruction or the day sobrnosti, when the ukrainian people's republic was also united, when ukraine finally became united, after being divided for many centuries by two empires, one part was in the russian empire, the other in the austro-hungarian empire, this will also be on our airwaves today, well... i would also like to remind you that we are collecting money precisely so that neither the unity of ukraine, nor

the unity of ukraine, nor the existence of ukraine is violated, we are now defending our independence once again, and we must enlist your help, our dear viewers, we need to collect this time uah 5 million. that i i want to tell you that this morning you and i have already moved from the mark of 700 with a tail of thousands to the mark of 800 with a still small tail of 1000 hryvnias, and we are so confidently approaching 1 million, which will be a fifth of our big goal. now you see on your screens that we need uah 5 million for komikadze drones, that's what i calculated, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, mykhailo, well, this week we had three successful attacks by ukrainian drones on the infrastructure. of oil and gas in the russian federation, including a terminal burning near st. petersburg the company of putin's friend yesterday, in other words, serious

attacks, how do you comment on them? who told you that they are ukrainian drones? look, good question, after all, let's think about it, it could have been any drones, and whose drones could it have been? it's not ukrainian there, it could be anything, and what's more, ukraine here? it. this is the version, this is the version, this is the version of the reviewer julian ryobka, let ’s be honest, yes, so yes, we cannot consider wildo’s version that these were ukrainian drones, well, in that case, this version may have the right to exist, but whether were ukrainian drones or some others, we do not know about that, of course we would like it to be a ukrainian drone, but of course, such strikes are inflicted by them quite substantially... significant damage to the russian federation, because first of all this reputational damage, it

ceases to be a reliable supplier even for its unreliable partners, liquefied gas, oil, and blows were struck, well, at a rather sensitive place for the russian economy, russia, it has one and a blessing and a curse, definitely, at the same time, it is big, big territory, but it is also a curse, a logistical curse, because russia has to spend a lot of resources to do a lot of logistics for its cargo, for weapons, ammunition, including oil, gas, which they pump through the territory of russia, not only for border. and, when, for example, such an event occurs, which took place in the service. er, when it was attacked by someone, we don’t know who, maybe by aliens, there

are oil and gas terminals in service, then this entire transport artery, it actually has to stop, because there is no way here oil and gas cannot go anywhere, it must stop all the way to the extraction zone, these are quite such sensitive blows not only on shipping. gas and liquefied gas and oil, but this is a blow at the same time to the industrial chain that supplies all this, there must be a constant flow. and in this case , they chose such a good target, someone chose it to attack the russian federation for financing , including the war. there are still many such moments that can be expected, where it can fly, it is not known from whom, because again , the dependence on the great length of these

highways, it makes russia quite... vulnerable, there are a lot of places where pipelines are just on the surface, gas pipelines where they cross each other, and all of this is not even underground, on the surface, it's very quite vulnerable to e such small disembodied aerial vehicles, and what about the russian air defense system, the institute for the study of war says that the air defense system in the leningrad region, in particular, is designed to cover it... and from nato, from strikes by western countries, but not from the south well, you know, i think it is it was simply not designed for such unmanned aerial vehicles that flew from an unknown place, it could also have been some internal competitors of putin who wanted to strike at his

financial empire, and we must say that they thought so, well, of course they flew. past the air defense system, well, in addition, the air defense system, putin dragged ukraine quite a lot, er , many systems are being destroyed, including the army, army link, tactical link in ukraine, and accordingly they need to be replenished somehow, for that they pull out specialists from the entire air defense of russia, that is, they cannot... lose specialists there, and you cannot hire air defense specialists, they are artificial people, they need to be taught for several years, especially those who have been fired upon, who had at least the experience of shooting with missiles on training grounds, not only on simulators, they have to be charged from this russia, accordingly it causes damage to the air defense system itself, such a thing as

the fatigue of the personnel sitting at the monitor... no one canceled it and it is also calculated, so well we see that the air defense system is degrading, russia becomes defenseless against a sudden attack from some unknown countries. today , president zelenskyi signed a decree on the population of ukrainians in the territory of russia, we do not know exactly what it is about, but because the document itself is not yet available on the website of the president's office. nevertheless, we know that here, this is on the day of the sobornost, the first thing is happening, and that this is the return of the truth about the historical past for the sake of the ukrainian future, such a comment is currently being made regarding the office of the president, let me remind you that last week the former russian president, and now their head

of the national security council, medvedev said that the war with ukraine will continue. how many years and decades and said that the conflict with a hundred percent probability could flare up again even after 50 years, since for the time being ukraine will exist as an independent state on, as he said, historical russian territories. well, it is difficult to argue with medvedev, because they themselves exist on the territories of ukraine, well, kyiv, which belonged to kyiv and were founded. to the kyiv princes, of course, one could make an answer here, so that klitschko signed the order about canceling the foundation of moscow, well, to make such an asymmetric answer, but what is in their heads, well, we understand that they have always come to us, are coming and will continue to come, and here it is difficult to disagree with medvedev, they

will always come to us for bread, because they do not want to do anything themselves, and this is their fate. that is why we can look there at the posters of a century ago, when they, the red army is coming , хлеба в москве и санкт-петербурге прибавляется, or they have on, that is, we have, we have their bread, well, this is, so to speak, ordinary the logic of the invaders, who cannot do anything themselves, but go where they can, well, this is their logic, and the fact that... zelensky signed it quite well, because in fact, these are historical facts, when we look, for example , there is a very interesting atlas of the soviet union. the school atlas, which was published on january 1, 1941, it is on the internet, atlas of the ussr, and there is such and such a section, such as

the nationalities of the ussr , and ukrainians during the stalin era are marked in orange, and ukrainians live not only in ukraine, but also in siberia, in the chelyabinsk region, scattered in pieces... all over the territory of the ussr, including in the kuban, krasnodar territory, and we should know that there were our territories, which were once the same as now the ldnr, occupied by russia, uh, well, this, this, this ethnic ukrainian by origin, i always remember here that the 1989 census also showed that there are approximately 20% ethnic russians in ukraine, so i don't know if we should really count on it. because we see that we can absolutely count, i'm sorry, only on one fact that medvedev has poltava roots, yes, yes, absolutely, that is, an absolutely huge number of ethnic russians who live now in

ukraine, they are patriots of this country and they are ukrainians, that is, there is no and a huge number of ukrainians of origin who live in russia , become patriots of russia, and fight in the russian army of occupation, lead there are whole armies there, we know that very well, well, after all, it is half of ukraine. shvegu , a half-ukrainian, their spokesman, this is how his, my god, spokesman, the spokesman of the ministry of defense of russia, konoshenko, konoshenko, konoshenko, and he, konoshenko, realized that he was konoshenko, the former, he is from somewhere in ukraine by origin, he is a military man from zhytomyr, he graduated from a higher military school, and theoretically, we have to conclude with you that moscow does not even have its own army, well, without ukrainians, we know that the russian army.. . was weak, because everyone says that the ensigns were ukrainians in the army, they were relied on, well, even now, by the way, gazprom, they, in gazprom all

the engineering and technical personnel are ukrainians, originally from ukraine, and they are in method traveled to tyumen from poltava, even to at the beginning of the invasion, a bus used to come there , because it was no longer possible to fly , a bus came from belarus, loaded the guard in... and in minsk, from there they flew to tyumen, and the bus left directly from the regional state administration, that is, it was practically before the invasion, this is how it happened , well, this is not surprising, because i once researched this issue, since the most oil and gas was produced, strangely enough, there during the time of stalin and the early khrushchev, precisely on the territory of ukraine, it was exactly like this, this is was frankivshchyna, well in short, it was mostly western ukraine, then poltava region. sumyshchyna and the largest number of specialists were trained precisely at the ivano-frankivsk institute of oil and gas, and were then mined first in lviv,

from there the underground gas storage facilities that exist today, and then on shabelinka naftogaz - this is the sumy region of poltava, a large storage facility that supplied gas to moscow, so industrialization, industrialization, yes industrialization. of russia largely occurred at the expense of liquefied gas and including oil from western ukraine. i apologize, this is also a small historical fact here: not only oil and gas, unfortunately, industrialization took place at the expense of ukrainian lives, because stalin paid for the industrialization of the ussr by selling a large amount of grain, ukrainian grain, which he took from our people, people later died of hunger. it's true. another topic i wanted to raise is what the sunday times is writing about, again touching on the topic: ageing, the agelessness of middle age, which is already very high in the armed forces

forces of ukraine, that is, according to sunday times calculations, it is at least 43 years, and it is interesting that if you take our current conscription age, that is, 27.60 and divide it by two, it will be 43.5%. well, that is, i don’t know if this is such an arithmetical story, but the sunday times writes that, for example, in the united states, the average age in the army is 28 years, and accordingly, especially in the assault brigades, this age is given as signs, which the commanders of these assault battalions, this question is ripe, in the united states a contract army that is not mobilized, as in ours? and they have an army which is constantly active, that's it , well, the situation is a little different, and our army is currently demobilized, that is, the army that

was recruited, not those who want to fight, everyone is fighting, if they want to be in their place, that's why it's a little different here structure, and you can’t compare our 28 and 43 there, well, of course, it is possible because a person at the age of 45-60 will not run, just as he runs at 23 or at 17, you will not get anywhere here, age gives his mr. mykhailo, president zelenskyi said that in principle we do not need as much as 500,000 newly mobilized, how to understand this statement of volodymyr zelenskyi, when it was previously stated that the military needed replenishment? well, the military continues to need replenishment, this is an objective fact, especially considering the fact that the russians have a large resource, a human resource. this is the only

resource they have that is infinite, and they will try to use this resource, this is an objective fact, because medvedev can drown the war with his citizens for an infinite time, this is their logic of action, and it is obvious, therefore , of course, in a certain moment we will need to somehow increase the number of armies in order to simply...

even weakly armed ones, who will be there with only automatic machines, duffel bags of the 1878 model, but still they will have to be stopped somehow, or the russians actually, which ones, there are a lot of possible speculations or predictions or scenarios for what this year will be like, but mostly everyone agrees that the russians will try to advance. at the same time, ukraine has a lot of reports that everyone advises and everyone agrees that ukraine will be in a state active defense, whatever that means. nevertheless, there is a statement by mr. yermak, the head of the president's office, that ukraine will not stand on the defensive, because that would mean freezing the conflict, which we will never go to, mr. yermak said, how to understand it, because that is

enough. it sounds contradictory to the fact that somewhere in america, meanwhile, biden's advisers are telling the us congress that if ukraine does not resume aid, it will collapse in weeks or months. well, i hope that ukraine will not fall in a week, a month, or a year 100 years. at this time, the bear can dream about it all they want, but the fact remains : they have no resource, they have... what a huge loss, almost 20,000 units of crushing equipment, this is a catastrophic loss, they cannot renew it, they cannot have their arttosystems, everything they do is one way or another, there is no conveyor serial production, this is not the culture of the russians, they have the accumulation of the soviet union and small supplies now, which they do with modern technology, so they only have one.