now, according to my data, these works have already been completed there, they, there literally for several hours, calculated that they would work in peacetime. a few days ago, we spoke with the mykolaiv oblast, and preparations are already being made there for sowing, well, the south of ukraine, of course, everything starts a little earlier there, and before the great war in the south, everything bloomed and gave crops much earlier than in the rest of ukraine, but we we understand that now it is... a tory of war, and where there is not even a war, there are no actual hostilities, well, it is meant, a clash of armies, but this feedback remains war in the form of mines and ammunition, rockets that did not explode, and this is the news, just to assess the scale of the work of those people, sappers, who were engaged in demining, on the right bank they managed to demine 200,000 hectares of territory, we understand that this is a lot, and what at the cost of power?

funds, how much there was, and how much it gives , is it the cultivated area, is it some territory, where there are, say, populated areas, which is about 2000 hectares, well, these are general statistics, well , first of all, it is now, well, a little more there 50% of the territory that still needs to be checked and to make it safe, first of all, critical infrastructure objects and settlements were to be replaced. this is where there is the greatest threat to people's lives and health , as well as objects that are necessary to ensure the livelihood of communities, secondly, of course, the territories that are cultivated by land plots, including our farms, for for them, it is actually a difficult situation now, because, as you can see, there were a lot of cases in our country last year when agricultural machinery fell.

on mines, on explosives, on unexploded ammunition, it works, they worked on everything and in fact a lot of people from different organizations work, it works the military, it works the state emergency service, the police, demining groups and all over ukraine, and in non-governmental organizations as well is currently helping kherson oblast there within the right field, as well as making this territory safe, ugh, and i - i would like now, i will think, let's do this, i would like to ask about the help that is possible, whether it is provided now, i mean first for all western aid, so to speak for example, again about mykolaiv, the same mykolaiv oblast, a neighboring region, denmark at one time took it under its wing, the kingdom of denmark, and there is some work going on, i know, i have friends who work for the embassy, ​​the kingdom denmark is in mykolaiv, and there is certain work, certain projects, certain finances, or they are accumulating, or they will be... the formula, regarding the kherson region, are there

any partners, as they say, already registered with you, or is this a constant search for opportunities for humanitarian aid , there are some conditional investments in order to be able to was to continue life and develop the life that exists and will flourish even more in kherson region, although, of course, there is still a war going on there, there are such partners, there are such countries with which there are... there are already preliminary agreements, but it is a long process, and i think that there will be changes, because the volumes of its investments, aid, which will be needed for deoccupation, not even for deoccupation, but for the reconstruction of already occupied territories, they are very significant, because we have a lot destruction, and it is currently, and as we see, the enemy shelling continues, our process continues.

here we only have an increasing number of objects that will require restoration and reconstruction, so we still have to work on this and work on it, and when we are talking about the entire kherson region, it is very difficult to predict what state the de-occupied territory will be in, even that we we see, the occupation administration there, it does not invest many resources even in maintaining the infrastructure, which is also critical, there is only that... such propaganda, some separate steps, they make a picture and that's all, but as we saw in the henihiv district, when there was no electricity supply for a long time, this was due to hostilities, due to the fact that they did not properly maintain these objects and infrastructure, well, what damage russia caused, let's say, ecology of the kherson region, this is a separate topic , we understand that the oleshkiv sands and askania, but... there is the kinsbur spit, the tendriv

spit, well, we understand very well that the enemy will leave there, but today i read that the enemy destroys any such business, which remained in the occupied territory, this business is simply being squeezed out, i will say in this, her slang language, and what is still alive somehow, is simply getting its hands on, are there such facts, again, and what is the expression of hostile pressure on local people and citizens today, ordinary people and entrepreneurs, there is such pressure, and there are processes when, as you rightly said, they squeeze out there, because, well, i won't put it another way. there, in fact , there is no legal procedure in these processes, they simply recognize the property of ukrainians as immovable, they then transfer it to the so-called temporary use without any contests, there is actually no established procedure, it

is simply a decision of individual officials who will use these facilities, and the number of enterprises that were simply destroyed, their production base was taken to the territory of the russian federation. in general, it is very difficult to take into account now, but there were a lot of such messages from owners, from managers of enterprises who refused to re-register this business under russian jurisdiction, they simply either destroyed it in this way they simply took out for scrap metal, modern equipment, i don’t know what happened to the places where these lakes were salty, they also mined there, i don’t even want to ask what is happening there, but i understand perfectly well that... perfectly i understand that what the enemy can do there, well, plus he conducts his propaganda among especially young people, children, and this is very unfortunate, then we will have to work quite seriously with children, first of all, they can be the most favorable to the enemy propaganda, thank you very much for being down, and yes, please, yes, you absolutely are

rights, this is their priority, they have now focused a lot of effort on zambogizing the youth, so the integration, reintegration of our, our children, our teenagers, there should also be psychological rehabilitation, because they really know how to brainwash, thank you very much for comments, thank you for your work, first of all, yuriy sobolevskyi, the first deputy chairman of the kherson regional council, was in touch with us, and three people were injured as a result of the latest shelling in kherson, today, and there is a 14- year-old boy who in dire straits, let's believe that the doctors will be able to... stabilize him, stabilize his condition, about the front, about the war and around the war, my colleague serhiy ezhorets, the director of the defensespress agency and the host of the military summaries of the day column, will talk more. sergey, good evening , please, i congratulate you, vasyl, i congratulate our viewers, today we will talk, of course , about the destruction of the enemy ship caesar

kudnikov, about ramstein and about the strengthening of our air forces, or f-16s, or even french mirage planes, and about the fact that ukraine seems to have finally... got its eyes long-awaited missile bombs from the united states with a range of 150 km, because there is a video from the enemy side, where we see the wreckage and that these munitions are already working on the enemies, about all this in a moment. so, the main news of today is that on the night of february 14, the large amphibious assault ship caesar kunnikov of the russian black sea fleet was struck and sunk in... it happened to the south of alupka in the still-occupied crimea as a result of joint actions of the naval forces of ukraine and the main intelligence agency. according to information from the inhabitants of the peninsula

the ship was attacked in such a way that a number of explosions were heard, it is clear that the ship was transporting equipment, let us know about it. the main intelligence department and maybe even ammunition or even shahedis, because usually quite often these bdc eyes are used to relocate drones from novorossiysk to sevastopol, there are areas nearby where these drone eyes are then released around ukraine, but now this bdc is carrying out this mission of supplying technical equipment or drones , of course, did not execute, the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine emphasized that the enemy ship was in the territorial waters of ukraine. and the attack took place using kamikaze surface drones. the general directorate of intelligence has submitted a video where you can see , in fact, all the stages of this attack, actually, they were attacks with the gray, that is, when several attack drones with a certain frequency

carried out strikes on different components of this ship from different directions, and there is even a video, when these russian sailors try to fight off the attacking magura 5 drones with the help of automatic weapons, of course it did not have any result, because caesar kunnikov was sunk and... in fact, it's a pretty good decision to use drones, and in fact we can say that this is the fourth large amphibious assault ship that has been destroyed by the navy, the central intelligence agency, or the air force, because actually before at this time, several such large landing ships were destroyed, i repeat, this is the fourth, and in fact it will significantly change. there are opportunities to use these ships for certain missions, because usually at one time they

posed a threat to the landings there under odesa and mykolaiv, then, when we had anti-ship missiles, it became a suicide mission for the enemy, these ships were used to deliver ammunition there to the occupied territory, and now it is precisely the use of naval drones that demonstrates what... is an effective, realistic, asymmetric, technological concept of combating the enemy, using precisely marine robotic platforms, and there is a great expectation that such a concept, already with a bet on land or air platforms, will scaled across the front line, and uh, when we talk about drones, of course, we don't forget about conventional planes, now. the ramstein

19 meeting is taking place with the participation of a number of countries that provide assistance to ukraine, and of course ukraine is looking forward to when our air force will receive multi-role f-16 aircraft, because on the eve of the ramstein meeting it was said that at this event there will be until... lead the coalition on the training of f-16 fighters for the air force of ukraine. this was reported by the head of the mission of ukraine to nato. nataliya glibarenko during a conversation with journalists in brussels. so far , the ramshtein meeting is still ongoing and we do not yet know the details related to the fighter jets, but we understand that such a decision has already been made and the issue of implementing these measures. now we will talk about this with our guest, we are joined by valery romanenko, an aviation

expert and a leading researcher of nau, mr. valery, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you on the air of espresso channel. mutual, good evening, but i would still like to start our conversation about the situation about the f-16s, because what are the general expectations and training now, because on the one hand our representatives are saying that we are getting these planes sometime in the spring, and these are realistic terms, that's exactly what it says our representative in nato, and some nato officials say that the terms may be postponed there until the end of the 24th year, and on the other hand, there are optimistic photos, even when the f-16 with our distinctive ukrainian signs on the wings. and this is so optimistic expectations, what are your current assessments,

expectations, finally with aircraft for the air force of ukraine? well, first of all, it is necessary to prepare the flight crew for their operation, to receive planes for which there are no pilots and engineering staff, it somehow, you know, does not fit in my head, yes, i think that as soon as there is some information that our ... are ready to operate these planes, are ready to fight on them, they will arrive, the only thing is that you and i will be the last to learn about it, well, from those who have some, so to speak, relationship with there, some special relationship with the military, yes , because usually it will be a surprise for the russians the appearance of these planes, but the only thing is that you mentioned the photos, i was very pleased that now this plane... was in a configuration, so to speak, for combat training, that is, there

were a lot of dimensional models on at the ends of the wings were ram rockets, and under the wings there were such red simulators of the launch of sainder missiles, well, the main weapons of these planes, which means that the actual training is already at the last stage , either combat training, or even tactical training, that is, take-off there and... and execution of separate training combat tasks such as air combat in a pair or single air combat or breakthrough of the enemy there. air defense systems , although the latter is unlikely, yes, it will happen, well, maybe the interception of some enemy targets, here is the preparation of the infrastructure, well , as far as we know, as far as was reported in the media, it is in full swing, we are preparing a navigation system so that these planes can navigate over our territory, and

the aircraft maintenance infrastructure is being prepared, i.e. flow. at airfields where they are planned to deploy, real and fake shelters are being prepared for the real ones to really hide the planes, the fake ones to distract the enemy missiles in case they manage to, somehow penetrate, fly through our anti-aircraft defenses in order to strike at the airfields, well, sort of situation , but for now i don't expect... how many of these planes, well, because we are preparing for one or two squadrons as much as possible, well, for us, they are preparing for one or two squadrons, flight and technical staff, well, hope that it will be fast , relatively quickly, and then it will still be scaled with an increase in the number and personnel and aircraft, but when we talk about aircraft, there is also new

information, and i am very interested to hear your estimates, at first there was apparently a month ago : air force command , that it is possible that our arsenals will strengthen the french mirage 2000 aircraft, then there were two publications in the french press that this is perhaps the main issue that will be raised during the visit of president macron to kyiv, he was just supposed to arrive on the 14th numbers, i.e today, then there it was delayed by security measures, but this question about mirage 2000, it appeared in the information space. hovered and you want to understand where it will develop, appropriate, inappropriate, what kind of aircraft are these, why do we need them, or can it really be a strengthening of our air arsenal? well, this is generally one of the last models of the french mirage 2000, the ones we are counting on, i really

hope that these are mi-2000d aircraft, that is, carriers of cruise missiles. and the scalp, stormshadow, well, it's one and the same rocket, yes maybe if we get taurus from germany. these planes, in total, the french now have 65 such planes in four squadrons, but they are still going to decommission them , well gradually, yes, and that is why they are looking for a place to install them. you yourself understand that if they transfer it to us, it will be transferred within the framework of, well, some kind of financial framework. financial tranche, yes, that is, it seems to be transferred for free, but it will be taken into account, and maybe, rather than receiving these aircraft, it would be more profitable for us, for example, to receive some anti-aircraft, the latest anti-aircraft missile systems, well, the same sumpte, yes, because the planes are generally quite old, according to their capabilities, they

are interesting to us only once more, as carriers of cruise missiles, and no more, because we have them. there are not so many of the 24 that are now the carriers of these missiles left, here are the a-16s that we are waiting for, whether they will succeed or not, i researched this question there, in general, two root pylons on the f-16 , they are able to withstand the weight, scalp or stormshadow, but after receiving these planes, won’t it also be necessary to convert them under the nose for these missiles, that is, there is some additional work. well, it should be carried out, that is, in general, if we, well , to sum up, if we get one squadron of these planes, there are 12-15 machines as spares, yes, then it would be good in general, although the best option is the gripen, which is and modern, and it is a real fighter with

long-range missiles, because on the mirage 2000 it has missiles with a maximum... range there of 60 km, although they are modern, but russian fighters shoot at 120, and our migs, missiles x27, they also at 120 km, that is, as fighters, mirages, well, let's say, not very will be useful to us, well, that is, in fact , we need to approach this proposal with enough restraint and caution, because i see that we are getting a number of logistical problems there. with low efficiency and we provide ourselves with disruption of efforts, as i understand so well, but there are a lot of problems that i would like the experts to sort out, how useful these machines will be for us. especially with sweden , there were talks about gripen, absolutely, and then there were problems of another level, the same with the european manufacturer, it is about

helicopters, you probably know this in detail history, our readers and viewers have repeatedly asked about these australian combat helicopters nh90 in the taipan version for australia, that it seems a significant number of these helicopters are, like... modern, they are being disassembled there in australia, and let's transfer them to ukraine. i spoke with various specialists, i will be honest, not everyone wants such helicopters to appear in ukraine, precisely because of a number of technological problems that accompany these helicopters. what is your vision, should our diplomats fight there for these australian taipans? well, again, you know, the devil is in the details, right? indeed, a number of countries refused to use these helicopters, and the first was not australia, the first, as i recall , was portugal in 12, then they

were refused in 22 by norway from the use of these aircraft, and it planned to purchase 10 machines, but made a bet on american blackhawks there, but australia also bought blackhawks instead of these helicopters. sweden announced that it also plans to replace the nh90 with american, well, modernized black-hawks. ot. but in general, well, we have to look , we will really have even more problems with the maintenance of these planes, if even countries in which the conditions are calm, with the possibility of a quick enough supply of spare parts, there are a lot of problems with this helicopter, and we have them. these problems will have to be multiplied by 10, well, i don’t know , experts should evaluate here, in my opinion, i would still bet on the american

black hawks, then, i absolutely support you with such an approach, but here interestingly, the united states now supplies to ecuador blackhawks, and ecuador seems to be handing over there to us... decommissioned mi-17s there , the question arises, should we bet on it there, that this is a cool decision, that we will get these mi-17s, and why, according to your assessment, we we cannot provide such direct contact with the americans, so that we can definitely get these blackhawks on a direct line and finally get rid of these long options for obtaining equipment by exchange instead of going directly. of course, the supply of the same blehoks, well, probably the stopper here is not from ours the parties in such a direct decision, yes, as for

the ecuadorian machines, there they are, well, i was not too lazy to translate this message, they write that there is only one helicopter, and there are not even six in total that we were promised, five helicopters, there are two models. 171 is such a really military helicopter, and there are three more civilian variants, these are mi mi 17v1, yes, in general, civilian helicopters, and they were exploited by the equatorians, so to speak, so, well, we can, considering the cost of transporting them to of ukraine, and we can only get compli. very expensive spare parts for our existing helicopters, if there are, well, we should also send specialists to see the condition of the blades, gearboxes, engines there, but if in this

way we can get the most necessary spare parts here, then maybe it makes sense, and if with of the helicopters, only one is in flight condition, and then you have to look at the remaining resource of this helicopter, so if the game is worth the candles, then you can take this helicopter alone and stock up on some spare parts for ours, because we have there are a number of bottlenecks with spare parts and helicopters, because they were all produced in russia, there in ulanude, kazan, but in our country we produced only some types of spare parts at some factories, so we have to approach again, get into the details, study the details of this process , in general... this deal, so to speak, which was concluded in january of this year, seems to me to be not very useful for ukraine. and i would like to ask. mr.

valery, your vision is related to the zircon rocket, because, relatively speaking, we wrote about it first, then there were confirmations there are a number of institutions that russia uses, for the first time it was used by the church in ukraine, and then i myself began to doubt the expediency of the enemy's use of zirconium and whether this missile is actually refined to the level that it is able to perform the tasks that... is declared, here is your vision of this story with zircons and strikes on ukraine, well, i take my hat off to the guys from defense express, who really identified one detail at a time, so they identified this 3m22 missile, i feel sarcasm in these assessments, well nor on the contrary, on the contrary, it is very qualified, so they, well, it is necessary to remember all the indices of grau, but it means that, well, it is simple

in fact. it's just yes, well, no, i don't know, my memory is worse, yes, that means, but after that there was a conclusion of our institute of forensic examination that it is real, there most of the details have similar, similar technological such, well, inscriptions, yes, there with the letter 22, there is m22, l22, yes, it seems that it is cerkon, and it is most likely that it is after all... a purely test launch, that was such a tradition in the ssr, military tests, they were called, yes, and single samples were used somewhere in the military, apparently, in this case, it was actually some kind of test launch, especially since the gur intelligence says that the launch was carried out from a land battery, and not from a ship, that is, a whole well... the point of using

this missile in ukraine, i don’t see it, because it didn’t hit anywhere, it fell, it fell there, if not in a field, then near a populated place, and it caused damage, well, a big chasm, somewhere it interrupted some local lines power supply, well, it's clearly a rocket for ten million dollars, it's not that the russians expected it, but this is empty. i don’t think, yes , it was launched from a land battery, and eh, i don’t understand how the russians hoped to use it with high precision, because if it is hypersonic, then the missile flies into a plasma such a shell that does not pass radio waves, and will it have time to target, so, where will it fly, where will it fly, and will it have time to target the target with high precision in this area, and which it was hoped to...

hit, that is, there are many technical questions here, i think that mass bombardment with zircons will simply not happen in the near future because the unproven nature of this rocket and the lack of such a real serial production. mr. valery, thank you very much for the time you found for our viewers, for your professional and extremely interesting comments, i would like to remind our viewers that this was valery romanenko, aviation expert, leading researcher of the state aviation museum. and finally, i will mention that today the facts have become known confirming that ukraine did receive these long-range rocket bombs in view of the wreckage that the russians themselves are currently showing there, that is, in fact, the exploitation of these has already begun new means of impressing the russian troops with ammunition with a range of 150 km , you can read more about it on our website defense express, and

you will hear more international... and economic news now on vasyl zima's broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. well, those were the military results of the day. i thank serhiy zgorets, and i thank his guest. good evening, we are from ukraine. well, the second big hour is ahead. a lot of interesting, important information awaits you, the world about ukraine with yuri fizer, there will also be a guest with whom we let's talk about the economic topic, as well as sports news, and the weather from natalka didenko. now about the most important news, as of this hour, i will tell you in detail. unfortunately, two women were killed as a result of the shelling of mykolaivka in donetsk region, another person was seriously injured, the head of the regional military administration vadym filashkin said. the russians hit the...