disk channel, where he categorically spoke against this bill, that it is bad, that it is that the democrats came up with this bill, that it is a trap they have created for the republicans, he called on the republicans not to approve the bill, moreover, he implied that republican senator lankfort , who was the chief negotiator, the negotiator on the republican side, when the bill was being drafted that... he, it's going to be bad for his political future, i mean, trump hinted that he would put somebody in the primaries when he will move against him, so, well, and the second event, this happened yesterday, so, the meeting of the republican faction in the senate was closed, and all the media reported yesterday, late at night, referring to some senators...

who participated in this, that the leader of the republicans in the senate mccone said that it is not necessary to support this bill, if the democrats do not allow that further changes can be made to it, that is, in fact , he, although he did not say that it is necessary to vote against it, but he did not poke very it is clear that this draft law is not desirable to support, there will be a vote in the senate. on wednesday, and it's supposed to be a few votes there on any bill, but the first vote for it to be considered, it needs to get 60 votes, what is known at this point is that there are three democratic senators who do not want to vote for this bill , but not because of aid to ukraine, there are three democrats with more left-wing views, for example, senator sanders, he...

opposes unconditional aid to israel, and there is also senator padilla and the same senator sandes. who don't like the concessions that the democrats have made on immigration legislation, and so we have 48 democrats who are going to vote to support this bill, in order for it to be considered... there must be at least 12 republicans from 49 people who support it, whether those votes will be there or not, it's hard to say, i was of the opinion that if the senate voted for this bill, it would have an effect, at least on the moderate republicans in the house of representatives, there is a provision in the house of representatives of the regulation, which allows, in principle , to put a bill on the agenda by bypassing the speaker, even if the speaker does not want

to consider it, you can collect 218 signatures, and then the bill will be forcibly included on the agenda and can be considered, but it would make sense if the senate voted in favor, but i don't know how the senate will vote at the moment, i still hoped that yesterday was the day that the senate would be able to support this bill, but now i can't say that i 'm sure of it, because of the news . about which i told, well i remind our viewers, that we are waiting for the appeal of joseph biden, the president of the united states of america, to congress with a call to pass a draft law on strengthening security on the border between the united states and mexico and providing assistance to ukraine. it is important here that a very small amount of those 60 billion will go directly to ukraine, and most of the money there, more than 40 billion, will remain in the united states of america precisely for the manufacture of weapons, or the sale of weapons there, that is, there is an opinion that, in principle, for this the short time left. well, no one

canceled phone conversations, meetings short, can affect that part of the congress, well, you just split the congress even more, there, in principle, johnson may not put it to the vote, which again , it is possible to bypass his will to put his ad hoc there, that is, but it is the representatives, the powerful representatives of the military of the industrial complex who will say, listen, people , it's jobs, it's money, it's taxes, and actually, it's an opportunity to destroy the military capabilities of russia, which is a... recognized, recognized threat to the united states of america, can it have an impact? you understand the problem is that that the far-right republicans, that part of the republican party that is the far-right, it does not consider russia an enemy at all, it does not consider russia an enemy of the united states of america, as the far-right propagandist, tucker carlson, says, he is, he is in moscow now, by the way , he is...

many times, russia is not our enemy, and ukraine is not our friend, and this, this is the position of such far-right republicans regarding the military-industrial complex, but... you are absolutely right, because these same money, much more of this 60 billion, she it will simply go to the american economy, namely the military-industrial complex, because if, if weapons or ammunition are transferred to ukraine from pentagon bases, then the administration orders weapons and ammunition with this money in order to restore stocks at pentagon bases, if ordered new weapons, ah, which are manufactured specially... for ukraine, well, it means that once again the money goes to the military-industrial complex and new jobs are created, that is, from the point of view of even the american economy, it is profitable, i early this morning, when i was going to work there, i was watching tv when i had breakfast,

there was a whole hour on msnbc, the host of the morning program, josh carbour, a former republican congressman, by the way, and he and the guests who were there... they were talking , that republicans who do not support aid to ukraine, they support putin, they support a dictator, they are going against american values, against fundamental american values, that senator king, an independent senator who is a member of the democratic caucus, also spoke there, he says that this is if there is no kind of aid to ukraine, it will be a very big historical mistake. of the united states as a state, that this will absolutely undermine the trust in the united states as an ally on the part of all allies in all countries, and nevertheless, as the first ukrainian president said, we have what we have. well, by the way, about kalsan

tucker, he is now in russia, he went to the bolshoi theater, i think he also went to the pro-russian showman pavel volitko's show on the pro-russian channel gazpromivskyi tnt, as far as i understand it. was, and his invited to join the union of journalists of russia, which is headed by this vladimir silaviov , their propagandist, he almost said otherwise, the propagandist, well, i wonder if carson will join the russian union of journalists or not, but in any case, well, that’s it it looks completely idiotic, that is, people in the states should understand that the person trump saw as his vice president means carson tucker, the ex-host of fox news, who is now in russia, he is actually in the lair of a terrorist, an enemy. the murderer of the bandit is sitting, and that's it and his boss, let's say, trump, well today actually blocks aid to ukraine, isn't it, as this kiselyov said, that dmitry, a coincidence, i don't think so, please, well,

he said, and he repeated it many times, that russia is not our enemy , and ukraine is not our friend, and therefore there is no need to support ukraine, in general he, for what only he did not accuse ukraine, imagine. just heard myself how he, he, he was fired from fox, he now has his own program, just on former twitter, he was given a platform by elon musk, and he accused ukraine, for example, of persecution of christians, that is any - any actions, so very mild, i would say, actions against the moscow patriarchate in ukraine, taxon interprets for the americans who listen to him, that this is the persecution of christians in ukraine. so what can we expect from him? the problem , the problem, you see, is that the republican party, well , absolutely, it is under trump, even that part of it, let's say, the same mitch mccone, the leader of the republicans in the senate, a classic conservative politician, very

experienced, and who, to things, supported ukraine constantly, he, what he says, that he supported this law yesterday, the day before yesterday. the draft yesterday already after trump said no, he says, there should still be some changes there so that it can be made there, and otherwise it should not be supported, this, i would say that it is a shame, it is a shame , i don't know, i'm just ashamed, you know, i'm ashamed of the united states, although, you know, you know, these stories are the worst, if i say the end, i thought so to myself, looking at the opponents. multi-year, multi-decade inter the usa and russia, as two antagonistic systems of life and politics, it is a pity that russia has its own people, in fact, well, people who sympathize, maybe not their own, who actually play into its hands at the top of the us government, and the usa has none of those , who could influence

putin's policy, well, who is winning here, the question is very, well, everything is obvious, everything is absolutely obvious, despite the fact that, let's say, the usa is now helping to circumvent sanctions and money for... you for dprk, we cannot be helped by the banal things that, well, in one word, we believe that they can, what will happen, let's hear biden's address, i have to put a full stop, thank you very much for joining, thank you for your comments, a professor from new york university has been in touch with us, we are waiting for, again, biden's address to congress, you will hear it on our airwaves, and there will be a translation, of course. well , now you will hear and see serhiy zgurets, the director of the defense express agency and the host of the military summary of the day. sergey, congratulations, please. greetings vasyl. greetings to our viewers. today in our column, while waiting for biden's speech, we will talk about the supply of ammunition to and for ukraine against the background of the visit to kyiv of the representative of the european union on matters of security and foreign policy. and yes... also about the situation in certain areas of the front, in a conversation with our military, about that in a moment. today

, the high representative of the european union for foreign policy and security policy, jose borel, arrived in kyiv for a visit. so i will start our military column with european history about shells for ukraine, more precisely about... the fate of shells, because we remember that european countries promised to transfer 1 million shells of 155 mm caliber to ukraine, but by march at best they will be able to deliver only half, so just before arriving in kyiv, the representative of the european union , josep borel, said that the eu is not fulfilling its own plans to supply ammunition to ukraine, not because the country has the eu lacks production capacity, business. otherwise, in what he says, we can produce, but an important

part of our products is exported to third countries - said boreli, therefore it is better to let the eu countries negotiate with their customers and redirecting these products to ukraine, that's how i see two conclusions in this story: first, why the eu did not do it earlier, and because in fact the eu leadership does not really have effective mechanisms of influence on defense. industry of their countries. the threat of a war with russia for europe, in my opinion, has not yet become such a sufficient factor for a radical reformatting of the work of the european defense industry, and it is, by the way, private and operates according to market mechanisms and rather focuses on already paid contracts. and the second conclusion. borel is still wrong about the assessment of the capacity of european countries to produce enough goods. the amount of ammunition to meet the real needs of the ukrainian army, how much is needed and how much

can these european countries produce? last year, during the counteroffensive, ukraine used up to 7,000 ammunition per day, and this was ukraine's actual fire peak. and now, as i recently wrote to european partners. the minister of defense died, ukraine is experiencing a critical shortage of artillery and the armed forces can fire not more than 2,000 shells per day, which is three times less than russia uses, and now the ministry of defense of ukraine has asked its partners to supply volumes of about 200,000 shells per month, or 2.4 million per year, that is, to reach a daily fire rate of about 6,500 b. supplies, but now russia's own production, together with the supply of shells from

north korea, amounts to somewhere up to 4 million shells per year, that is, in fact, 11 thousand per day, so the enemy still has a certain numerical advantage. now regarding the manufacture of tempos, regarding the manufacture of ammunition in countries of the usa, the european union. in fact, at the end of this year according to optimistic indicators. the united states will produce about 1.2 million shells, while the european countries have the following indicators: rain metal will make 800,000, the leading french ammunition company will make 100,000, and about 80 thousand per year will be made by the namo concern, which connects three countries there, france, sweden, the netherlands and finland. they will make 80 thousand, that is, in general, we should expect the production to

two 2,500 rounds of ammunition, but it will still be at the end of this year according to the most optimistic indicators, so some countries of the european union, in particular the baltic countries, are talking about the need to purchase shells in other countries, and not only in the countries of the european union, which can there are options, well, in particular, we can talk about the purchase of s... in south korea, australia, japan, india, pakistan and the actual supply of cluster munitions from the united states, all this can be done, i really hope, that these steps will be done in order to minimize the advantage of the enemy on the battlefield, because now, as we can see, our artillerymen are forced to make changes in their combat tactics , use shells extremely sparingly, sometimes they even have to ignore these russian attacks in small groups, because they will no longer release there is one projectile there or several projectiles of three, three of these russian

attack aircraft, the enemy actually uses it, so that it affects, in principle, the course of hostilities, and now we are forced to bring to the fore the use of fpv drones, which can only partially compensate for the lack of full-fledged artillery. and then we will move on to a more detailed consideration of the situation on certain areas of the front, because the intensity, by the way, over the past day was extremely high, 126 combat clashes, in fact, in my opinion, the highest figure since october. last year, when russia began its next offensive actions there on almost all sections of the front, and now there are many such sections of the front that are hot, there tsevdiyivka and maryanka, and actually the kupina-lyman direction, which is there is happening, now we will learn more details, ivan shevtsov is joining us just now, he is the head of the press service of the 15th

mobile border detachment of the state border service of ukraine, more precisely and briefly, the steel border assault brigade. mr. ivan, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. glory to ukraine. glory to heroes. i would like to ask you what the current situation is in the area of ​​responsibility of your brigade, because one way or another it has a tangent right there to the area of ​​kupyansk. a lot of information that the enemy is trying to attack sinkivka, this is me i understand somewhere near you, and there was information that the enemy is trying to bypass sinkivka. or cannot do this, what is the latest information from this section of the front where your brigade is? in general, the situation remains tense on the liman in the kupyan direction, the enemy continues to attempt to attack the positions of the defense forces, if we talk directly about the kupyan direction, then the hottest spot there is the area of ​​the sinkivka settlement, it was

there that the enemy tried to cross eight times during the past day. in attack, but all attacks were repulsed, the other day, literally two or three days ago, the enemy tried to bypass senkivka and enter from the direction of ivanivka, but suffered a loss there too, so now sinkivka still remains the hottest spot in the kupinsky direction. and regarding the accumulation of enemy forces, all of us there remember the information there two days ago, when force wrote there, everyone started commenting there in fright. that there are 4,000 personnel, 500 tanks and such and such accumulated there, as i understand it, in fact, this information is slightly incorrect, because the de facto enemy still received a significant amount of personnel and equipment in this area, realizing that it is very easy to supply weapons to equipment from the russian federation, is there actually an accumulation of some additional force now

compared to what was, well, there was a gap there a couple of weeks before that. everything is true, the enemy is really accumulating both personnel and equipment, but i want to note that this is in accordance with the planned rotation of it, that this situation occurs periodically, since the enemy suffers quite large losses during the implementation assaults, then accordingly it must be replenished, and this number of both tanks and personnel, it comes precisely to replenish those resources that the enemy... lost, for example, only during the past day in the lamano-kupinsky direction, the enemy lost wounded and killed almost 300 servicemen 279, and also suffered heavy losses in equipment, that is, if we said that 500-600 tanks arrived a week ago, then only in the past day the enemy lost 88 units of equipment, including 12 tanks and

34 bmps, that is, this recovery of those losses which he carries mr. ivan. when we spoke with you two weeks ago, you said then that the enemy in principle does not use armored vehicles much and mainly acts, well, with ground assault groups, now, if there is such a significant number of losses of tanks in bmp, does that mean that in your area as well did the enemy start using armored vehicles during offensive operations? the number of damaged equipment depends primarily on the number of enemy attacks, if... two weeks ago there were six or eight attacks, then during the past day it was 28 combat clashes. the more the enemy storms, the more he uses his equipment, and therefore manages to hit. more tanks, more bmps, that is, the enemy basically does not change tactics, he conducts assault operations, and when there are favorable weather conditions, and now they are more or less favorable, then accordingly

he uses heavy equipment. if i ask you a little bit about the other direction, there the story is starchy, how far it is from us, do you know what is happening there, what is there from the point of view of deterring the enemy? for now, well it was starchy. uh, there the defense forces retreated literally 200-300 m in order to save lives and occupy more advantageous firing positions, everything remains there as it was, the enemy has not carried out any offensive actions on tabaivka recently, it is under complete control control of the armed forces of ukraine. and i would like to ask in more detail about the enemy's use of aviation. artillery and drones, as these three components are now used by the enemy, what is the relationship with our capabilities in these three components, and aviation, and drones

the enemy is using, using actively, uh, again, it depends on the weather conditions, when it's snowing or it's raining heavily, then the use is decreasing accordingly, in the last day we had one air strike and 23 uses. fpv of drones, in principle , it is not much, there are more, there are 50 and 60 uses of drones, as far as we are concerned, we are also not standing still, he is just now you see, uh, one of the defeats of the equipment that was used by the enemy to arrangement of engineering facilities, this is the work of border guards of the steel border, we constantly we conduct aerial reconnaissance and in case of detection of any... new positions, we carry out, take measures to destroy enemy positions and equipment, well, that is, in fact, the enemy, as always , tries to dig in at any

opportunity, and as we can see, the border guards are fighting this, but the question arises of our fortification, i hope that we are also now taking measures aimed at strengthening our own fortifications? in war, fortification is the first priority before sending a fighter. to the position, this position must be equipped with equipment, equip in terms of engineering, that is why we have fortifications , we have had quite a lot of time, we have been in this area since the summer, we opened quite deep, good fortifications, and now our servicemen are all safe, and this is the most important thing, new positions are really also with... we are working out, we are making new positions and we are also mining the terrain, currently mining the terrain allows to prevent the penetration of the drg. and if we

remember a little about the fact that the use of vevidrons, as i understood, is now the weather worsened, and on both sides the use of these means decreased the impression, and then the artillery comes to the fore again , do we have a certain ... whether we still have to save ammunition, because before your inclusion, i tried analyze what is happening with the amount of ammunition, that in a certain way we have less opportunity than the enemy, maybe the situation is a little different in your area, i will not speak for the units that are in us and other units of the armed forces, i can only say by units of the steel border, we have our own artillery. i will not say that we do not have ammunition, we do have them, we use them, but we have a very big difference from the armed forces of the russian federation, and it

is that every shot, our shot, it must be accurate, our servicemen, our gunners try not to carry out chaotic shelling, as is done by the military of the russian federation, but to carry out accurate shots directly at the given coordinates, that is, it works. aerial reconnaissance detects some object and it is this object that is being shelled, and the enemy carries out mainly chaotic shelling with the aim of scaring the local population, he is shelling not only the positions of the defense forces, but also the border settlements, both in the conflict zone and on the state border with by the russian federation. mr. ivan , i would also like to ask about mortars, because i have heard that in fact a significant part of the firework work there is done precisely by... mortars, how do you deal with that, is there a sufficient amount of ammunition specifically for mortars, are they used in struggle with opponent? yes, of course, we also

actively use the mortar, every subdivision. we are armed with mortars, but still, there is no possibility to use them constantly, in order, again, in order to save the lives of servicemen, two or three shots, servicemen hide in a dugout, discovered some position, discovered the movement of enemy servicemen, carried out two , two or three shots, hid in the dugout, all this is done so that our soldiers... remain alive and healthy, and what other restrictions does winter now impose on driving hostilities, are there any urgent needs that need to be met from the point of view of our military, are there any nuances related to winter, well, if we talk about everyday life, in principle, we do not have such difficult weather conditions now , there is no frost -20 ,

the servicemen are provided with everything they need, the state... our unit provides well, it is an offensive guard brigade , in principle, we do not need anything, but fpv drones are a constant need, because we use them most often and it is thanks to fpv that we have the most positive ones injuries, but now the combined military brigades, individual brigades are switching to the fact that their companies of unmanned strike systems are becoming battalions, with more... the number of personnel, which, they use, well, fpv drones for various purposes, does this trend extend to brigades of the state border service, as in the example of your brigade, this happens when our brigade was formed, all this was already taken into account, each unit that we have, it has in its composition the appropriate air reconnaissance department and the department of strike drones, in addition, we have a separate unit of combat

strike drones. which are used completely throughout the site, that is, we have foreseen this before and use all its potential as much as possible. perhaps then you have separate units that are directed to the use of electronic warfare means, that is , perhaps there is a branch or even a separate company within the brigade that performs this responsible task, there are also separate units that carry out... detection and the fight against drones, and besides that we have and trenches, and every soldier that is in position, he is trained to work with anti-drone guns, we have an echelon, echelon anti-drone system and we use every possible means that we have, and this allows , first of all, again to preserve life and health of our soldiers. mr. ivan, thank you very much

for your inclusion. for what you do for our country, for what your brothers do, i will remind our viewers that it was ivan shevtsov, the head of the press service of the 15th mobile border detachment, who is now actually by the assault brigade of the steel border , which is currently carrying out its task in the direction of kupyansk, because in fact now it is also one of the difficult directions, where the enemy, using a significant advantage in manpower and equipment, is trying... to our defense, but already for a long time it has no results except losses for the enemy. these were the main military results of this day, and more international and economic news later on vasyl zema's big broadcast, so stay tuned to espresso channel. thanks to serhiy zgorts, thanks to his guests, these were the military summaries

of the day. good evening, we are from ukraine, and we have the second hour of a big broadcast ahead of us and a lot of interesting and important information, the world during the war with yuri fizar, we are also waiting for the address of joseph biden, the president of the united states of america, to the us congress in order to motivate those who do not want today and are not motivated to provide support, including to ukraine for 60 billion dollars, you will see it directly. mother with a translation, and also money during the war with oleksandr morshivka, news culture with lina chechenina and the weather from natalka didenko, and now the news is brief. and again, unfortunately, the tragedy in uzhgorod was a seven-year-old child who was poisoned by carbon monoxide. the event took place in one of the apartment buildings. now the girl is in the hospital. doctors assess her state of health as satisfactory, the state emergency service said. well, the bodies of seven men were found in one of the houses in the zhytomyr region in

the semenivska community of berdychivskyi. five residents of the vinnytsia region rent.