and semi-civilian ones, well, i won't take it personally, but this is a really interesting country, a strange one that can surprise both in good and in bad ways. iryna koval will now appear before your bright eyes with the news, and i will say goodbye to you, thank you for your attention, all the best. 20:00 in ukraine, news time on the spresso tv channel, in the studio of iryna koval, greetings to all viewers, i will start with the news that became known just a few minutes ago, this year at the eurovision song contest in sweden, ukraine will be represented by a duo.

the audience itself became decisive for them voting, according to its results, they have the highest 11 points. according to ukrainians, the second place was taken by the performer, so-so, and only in third place, the favorite of the members of the professional jury, the band cisferblat. let me remind you that a record number of ukrainians, 1,160,000, voted for their favorite in the eurovision song contest this year . 718, which is one million more than last year. due to this, the application failed, so the organizers of the national selection decided to extend the audience voting for almost a day. well, to the main news: a trip to the front. the president visited the positions on the front line, as well as in the frontline regions. in the morning, he visited the work station in the zaporozhye direction. volodymyr zelenskyi.

soldiers and awarded five of the best, those who distinguished themselves in battles these weeks, also held a meeting with the military leadership in zaporizhzhia itself, there were reports, in particular , about the situation in avdiivka, later the president met with the eastern air command. the conversation concerned the protection of the sky over dnipropetrovsk region, because russia considers this region as one of the main targets for terrorist attacks. the head of state is also on... it is our businesses, our economic potential, this region, we are working to add capabilities to shoot down missiles, shoot down drones, and our air force warriors, mobile fire teams, everyone who is fighting precisely against russian aerial terror, deserve our gratitude and further strengthening, including... we are preparing new

negotiations with partners in this regard. russian troops entered the northern outskirts of avdiyivka and entrenched themselves on one of the streets. this was reported by military correspondent yuriy butusov. according to him, they are currently being held there street fighting, and the situation is critical for the armed forces of ukraine. the defense is held by the 110th mechanized brigade, but the enemy's forces are several times greater. at the same time, the military points out. that the situation is not hopeless yet, because there are our infantry reserves in avdiivka, who have experience of fighting in urban areas. there is no official information from the general staff yet. nato forces, in agreement with kyiv, must shoot down russian missiles on the territory of ukraine, which are headed towards poland. the alliance should also warn the kremlin about this. this opinion was expressed by the ex-team. terrestrial

polish troops waldemar skipczak. he added that poland has the right to defend its territory, taking into account the experience with three missiles that had previously flown into the territory of ukraine. also, 70% of poles hold the same opinion according to the voting results. meanwhile, poland issued a navigation warning about the possibility of unplanned military activity along the border with russia and belarus. do not be silent, captivity kills, at least 14 cities of ukraine held actions in support of prisoners of war, in particular defenders mariupol and azovstal, which have been in russian captivity for over a year and a half. among the participants of the event are mostly relatives and relatives of ukrainian prisoners. they say that they are waiting for information about the downing of the russian il-76 plane, because they are very afraid that this situation will not be similar to the one that...

happened in olenivka, according to the organizers, about 2 thousand defenders of mariupol are now in russian captivity, including about 700 azov fighters. the world champion from europe and the world champion and oleksandr bilokon of europe in powerlifting. this was announced by the honorary president of the federation of greco-roman wrestling of ukraine, vadym kysil. he said that oleksandr was one of the strongest people in ukraine. back in 2017, in the center of odesa, he set a ukrainian record for moving a tractor with a trailer filled with people. oleksandr was born in church in kyiv region, he was 32 years old. and in chernihiv oblast, they said goodbye to the pilot who died protecting the ukrainian skies at the beginning of the full-scale invasion. lotchika 299 tactical aviation brigades of the air force buried andriy antihovich in his native

bahmachi. the hero's body could not be returned home for almost two years, because he died while performing a task in the occupied kherson region. when the enemy the missile hit the fighter, the pilot did not eject, but directed the board into a column of russian military equipment. andrii was 25 years old at the time of his death. in april 2022 , president volodymyr zelenskyy posthumously awarded him with the order of bohdan khmelnytskyi , third degree. ukrainian cynologists state emergency services successfully completed a three-week training course in france. on the final... day, they were ceremoniously presented with certificates, they were told in the state service for emergency situations. our emergency workers were also presented with five belgian malinois sheepdogs, a specialized car with a trailer and other necessary equipment. thanks to such help

, the canine department will be able to autonomously carry out search and rescue operations, the department noted. ukraine can sign guarantees. of security with germany in munich, pro this is written by the german publication. according to the source , a draft version of the agreement is already ready. no details of the document have been disclosed yet. the german government does not comment on information about the conclusion of the agreement. the document can be created within the framework of the declaration on security guarantees for ukraine, which was adopted at the nato summit last year. it provides for cooperation in the defense sphere. in january, great britain became the first country. which signed such an agreement. the yemeni houthis threaten the united states and britain with retaliatory strikes. the rebels said that recent attacks will not stop their intentions. the day before, the american and british

military hit the bases of the houthis, hitting 36 targets in yemen. this was the reaction to the attacks carried out by the rebels on ships in the black sea. tagons said the strikes were aimed at weakening the ability of the iran-backed houthis to seize and loot ships. at the same time, the coordinator of strategic communications of the us security council, john kirby , emphasized that the operation against the houthis was not the last. i certainly won't talk about potential future military operations, but what you saw friday night was just the first phase. additional retaliatory actions will be taken against the administration of the islamic revolutionary guard corps and the groups they support. in namibia, where president habe geingop died this morning , a new head of state has already been appointed. nangolo-

mbumba will hold this position until the end of the year, until the country officially holds elections. heingop died in hospital at the age of 82. he was previously diagnosed with cancer, he was an active supporter of putin and his regime, also criticized the west for their support of ukraine in the fight against the aggressor. he has ruled the west african country for the past eight years, and before that he was prime minister twice. the national artistic swimming team of ukraine won a silver medal at the world aquatics championship, which is held in kateri. athletes from... won an award in the acrobatic competition . this medal was the 25th medal won by our synchronized swimmers in the entire history of performances at the world championships, the federation of synchronized swimming of ukraine reported. female athletes after a full-scale invasion, they were

forced to move to germany for training because their pool in kharkiv was destroyed by russian missiles. a charity football match in support of ukraine took place in the capital of the czech republic. it was organized by slavia prague. they met on the field with the slovak club zlate. moratsve. the match ended with a victory for the home team with a score of 3:0. according to the press service of the czech team, all funds from this match will be used to help ukraine. they plan to purchase field ambulances and other medical equipment. and the collection of the tv channel of the intelligence unit of the third regiment of special operations forces is in progress , it is urgently necessary to replace the engine in the evacuation vehicles. car, and to successfully perform combat tasks, buy a quadcopter, a mavic and

an optical sight. we ask you to join the collection, because every donation helps to more effectively destroy the enemy of the eastern direction. our goal is uah 470,000. we already have more than 365,000 in our account . you can now see all the details on the screen. i thank everyone who helps the armed forces of ukraine and brings our victory closer. together we are a force. so far it was all of them news for now, you can see more on our website, also follow us on social networks and of course, watch us on youtube. i am iryna koval, i say goodbye to you and wish you a quiet and peaceful night.

greetings, friends, the politclub program is on the air on the espresa tv channel, with you is vitaliy portnikov. so, two hours of talking about the trends of this week, about what awaits us in the near future, our first guest, igor. foundation of the charity fund we will close the sky of ukraine, deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, lieutenant general. congratulations, mr. igor. congratulations. well , let's start with the situation that continues to be commented on all the time about the fact that there is allegedly a conflict between the president of ukraine, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine and that the situation is on pause, but all the world's media are writing about it. unfortunately, it is precisely in connection with this that we became again. appear on the front pages of the world press, and how do you understand this situation for yourself? the situation

is tense, has a negative impact on the situation in ukraine and, unfortunately, on related circumstances around the introduction of war, because the two officials, the highest political and the highest military, have contradictions that could not... probably not overcome in essence, but it really most likely happens during a pause, and the reasons for this are the issues that were raised , were not resolved, in my opinion, even last year, that is, for the organization of hostilities, the actions of the armed forces, the defense forces of ukraine, are absolutely necessary. which the commander-in-chief is responsible for their application, and is

to ensure the functions of the ministry of defense, which is subordinated to the supreme holocommand, well , the actions directly of the president himself, and for carrying out, for example, the point of offensive operations, conducting them. the issue is not only that the delivery of weapons and equipment was delayed, even those that were agreed upon during the year and all this was not ready by the time of application, but the issue was also where and how to apply it, and judging by , as it happened, a lot of things... were from the political side, not only from the military side, and

therefore, the collected resource, which is very difficult to carry out this kind of action in one direction, tried to distribute it to three, i.e. bakhmudskyi, berdyanskyi, melitopolskyi, and even later khersonskyi was added, and this led to the non-fulfillment of code-stepping tasks, that is, in general. campaign last year, and it was necessary to determine what the reasons are, who is responsible, and this would have exacerbated this situation even more. and in this sense, it is not resolved, unfortunately. and tell me, mr. igor, i wanted to discuss with you today's information about the fact that the ukrainian troops managed to expel from the territory of the sumy region a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the armed forces of russia. but this means, in principle, that the russians are ready to act not at all in the east and south, but also in the northern direction. it might seem that

after they withdrew their troops from the territory of the northern regions of ukraine, they focused on capturing the territory. in the east and south, but now it is clear that they are ready to act in the sumy region as well, which means that they can be found in chernihiv oblast and kyiv oblast, that they continue their aggressive plans to nurture the northern regions, and then how should we behave in this situation? well, in sumy oblast, in general , they actually did not stop this kind of action, there are probably fewer of them in the north. it is quite widespread in other areas, but this does not mean that they are going to conduct larger-scale combat operations here, therefore , the principle of constant influence on the enemy, which for them is ukraine and the defense forces

of ukraine, is implemented. and where they believe that... it most relevant at the present time, they are doing it, we see, including , that civilians are dying, recently they hit a car driven by a civilian, they actually killed him, and so on, that is, it does not reflect the fact that in this direction the intelligence is expected to work, in order for something significant to be carried out by the required grouping. and in modern conditions it is very difficult to keep it a secret of the formation of a more or less powerful news group in order to carry out an appropriate level of operations. and tell me, if you look in the eastern direction, is it even possible to assume that the russians have

opportunities for further advancement? unfortunately, this is not the only case. to the east, in general, to the east and to the south for almost the entire 1,500 kilometers, where hostilities are taking place, they concentrated the appropriate reserves there, and in the east, in general, from the end of january, they formed groups and in fact all this time conducted such a slow offensive operation, where they advanced on tactical . levels, and now due to the fact that we are a resource that was collected there on a counteroffensive, spent in fact, because a decision had to be made somewhere in the middle of summer, it is clear that the goal had not been achieved, and it was necessary to switch to strategic

defense in the entire eastern and southern sections, sections, and thus save it... at least some reserves in order to, well, counter this now already their strategic offensive along this front line, and since we do not have large forces in this regard, because the internal task was not completed, the task in relation to replenishing the losses of the brigades, who are fighting actions in the east and in the south, first of all, that is, no mobilization was carried out and no actions were put into action, or any actions , whatever you call them, but it had to be done and it has not been done yet, er, it is in such conditions unacceptable, if it is predicted that it will be very difficult and slow to become a law, then

at least that part of it should be adopted, which would ensure supply, we have a lot of it there. that he was brought up and primarily deals with issues of demobilization in conditions when the enemy is advancing, in my opinion, this is nonsense. and tell me, mr. igor, in principle, here you are can you imagine what moscow's tactical goals are in the eastern and southern directions, if after all, in any case , the battles for each small town have been going on for months, what does putin want to achieve as a result? well, in general, he approached this on a large scale and still does not leave it - let's say the approaches are related to the fact that it is necessary. beat donetsk, luhansk regions, expand as much as possible the captured part, kharkiv, kherson, kharkiv small, but still

zaporizhia regions, and thus approach to those negotiations somewhere there, in a state where he stops after an offensive, and that is, a strong position, such. in this way, to try to limit all these captured lands, to pause, well, for the time being and forever , he explains this by the fact that it is necessary to form a demilitarized zone that would allow us to move our troops to a distance so that our artillery could not reach their objects there , well, he explained these actions in this way... in this way, that is, they changed there, but it is not significant, everything is exactly from these strategic tasks of his special operation

has been achieved, but in the near future, as you know, still with the approaches of bandages from soviet times, by some date, in this case, by march, before the elections, it is necessary to show some results and shape them ideologically and... the president of russia talks about complex the situation at the front in connection with the use of drones, but on the other hand, ukraine also uses drones against russia, russia uses drones against ukraine, and it can be said that in russia it is more massive, now it has adopted such a scaling application, and there is such a the question of how much, in principle, it is possible to talk about difficult problems on the front for the russians in connection with drones, and how difficult. problems on the front for ukrainians in connection with drones, who has the initiative now? the initiative passed last year, well, in terms of numbers, it was precisely to

the russians, uh, that is, we had it at the end of the year before last, at the beginning of last year, but due to the fact that the russians transferred their enterprises of the military-industrial complex well, not only the economy, but also the military. rails, then they caught up with us and at the end of last year they overtook us twice in terms of quantity, it is probably very difficult to chase the quantitative indicators of a resource state, but we know that for this year the task of millions of pv drones is before us, and the way is basically mine the point of view is that it is necessary to fight for quality, quality... drinking devices for production and use is that it is necessary to develop additional means that would affect

the enemy's unmanned devices, that is, means of electronic warfare, suppression, respectively, and produce our unmanned aerial vehicles are resistant to the influence of appropriate means of radio-electronic suppression by the russians, such developments exist. and such weapons are a question of quantity and a question of scaling these processes, but according to the way in which they are used, the plansets, the hall, and our other defenders on the front line know that this is a very dangerous weapon and the number is growing, they there they try to use a lancet. as if it were artificial intelligence, it is not quite there, but it allows everything, even to a poorly prepared person camera operators, drone

operators to use these weapons, set up tvs to work at night and so on, that is, they are fighting for efficiency, well, they succeed in this, the situation for us here is not very good, because they are increasing their quantity and quality, that's why.. .. that's why you see it, and commander-in-chief zaluzhnyi says that if you plan appropriate actions, then in six months, then fundamentally change the work of the military industry to the qualitative indicators of modern weapons. thank you, thank you, mr. igor, igor romanenko, founder of the charity fund we will close the sky of ukraine, the deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine in 2006-2010 was in touch with us, and now... let's talk with a diplomat, the minister of foreign affairs of ukraine in 2007-2009, volodymyr ogrytskyi, who currently heads the russia research center. congratulations, mr. volodymyr. greetings, mr. vitaly, good evening. let

's try. to find out with you what this story is about with signatures for the so-called anti-war candidate boris nadelshchyn, can we really say that there are people in russia who believe the war is over and on whom such conditions? well, mr. vitaly, is there hot ice? well, i think that this is the same as what we say about the democrat, nadezhdin, the liberal nadezhdin, or whatever. the one who wants to end the war, i watched his interview, well i watched a few, there is no point in doing it anymore, he is an emperor, he is the same as all the others, only a little tamed down, sprinkled with this pseudo-liberalism, and it seems to me that it's just a well-played combination, when

putin... sparring partners of an obviously losing candidate who promotes things, which are unacceptable in russian society, i.e. starting from this pseudo-liberalism and anti-war slogans, and putin, on the contrary, acts against this background, well, personified. strength, that is, what russia stands on, mother, and there are still 200,000 , well, some say, 300,000 who came to sign up for nadezhdin, well, in fact, this is a drop in the ocean, even if you consider what is in russia now not 146, as they say, but in reality there are 110, well, a maximum of 120 million, then... and

potentially someone who can scale them, so to speak, as it is now fashionable to say, then this is a drop in the bucket, this is something that will evaporate in one moment and simply give the fsb the opportunity to once again find out who is thinking a little wrong, it actually seems to me, but on the other hand, does russian propaganda need these... queues, you heard that volodymyr solovyov already accused nadezhda for betraying the motherland for these queues, no, of course, yes, i'm sorry, but where, but where, well, the intrigue is different, that is, what then, then give, give eyes, boring reports about what is at these points, where support putin, there are some activists gathering there who speak absolute nonsense and

so on and so forth, well, even... for an already retarded intellectual, i mean a russian viewer, and this is probably already well no no no not accepted, that is, it must some kind of intrigue, this guy is waving his hands, he is singing on the guitar, there is something like that, that is , some small drive, but in fact we understand that the numbers are determined by 70% of the participants, 85% of the support, they have already been approved. it's just that everything that is needed will be driven under it, and especially if we take into account that they allowed, on the one hand, electronic voting, and on the other hand, they closed all that to check how people vote at the polling stations and everything, that is, you can have two hopefuls, you can have three hopefuls, it doesn't matter, it's all the same, putin's self-reappointment to putin's position,

that is, actually. this is what is called an election in russia. you were not surprised by this petty persecution by the russians of their mass culture figures, who are now giving concerts in various countries of the world. here is this story with an attempt to get from thailand artists from group b2, or the ban i received upon entry, it seems to me to indonesia, yes to the island of bali. er, the russian humorist who now lives in israel, maxim galkin, what is it for russians to travel to different, i would say, countries of the world, or to give tasks to their consuls and harass people who want to give a concert there in huketi or in bali , apologizes, this is to the kremlin palace of congresses. well, uh, you see, i think that the answer, mr. vitaly, uh, you can read, in today's regular, well, i don't know how it's on...