you understand that this is how it is, this is life, this is reality, not embellished, not with slogans, but this is reality, and here these issues need to be resolved, i hope that they will be resolved. now to your attention, to your attention the plot, now i will open it and invite you to watch. a full-scale war found him in the kherson region, far from his native home, when russian troops advanced on ukraine from the crimean side, our military was tasked with stopping the enemy, but there were forces. not equal then the car came under heavy artillery fire, where and bohdan was there. my colleagues talked with the mother of the fallen defender. my golden sunshine, mother is always with you, always. for more than two years, lyudmila has started her mornings like this. she prays for the repose of the dead son of bohdan rudkivskyi. who served in

the armed forces of ukraine from 2019, the woman recalls, from the fifth grade he was engaged in basketball and could not imagine life without it, later he transferred to the regional sports high school, where he received a certificate of complete secondary general education. in 2014, when the team in which the boy played broke up, he could not be found a place for himself, but he did not stop playing sports. bohdan also worked at various jobs, went to ... work in poland, but realized that it was not for him, so he joined the army, namely the bilotserk anti-aircraft missile regiment, but even there he did not leave the ball with a ring. he went to the post of mechanic-driver of missile installations, he had such a big car, 18 tons, on which there were missiles on top. in the 20th year, they went on a rotation near donbas. he told me: "mom, don't worry." "we are very far away, we

don't have hostilities here, but it was not true, we we only found out how he was after that , after this six months they were there on rotation, and he came and showed a participant in the hostilities, then i cried so much, bohdan stayed at home for a while and already in july 2021 he went to the kherson region, where the all-ukrainian training took place . in september, the soldier took a fifteen-day vacation, and that's when the woman saw her son for the last time. in the south of the country , bilotserkivets met a full-scale russian invasion, and as mom shares, on february 23, they talked on the phone, and on the 24th , he only wrote: we are going, but not where clarified at approximately 3:30 p.m., they were fired upon by enemy artillery, targeting the car in which 27-year-old rudkivskyi was. relatives did not know about this and hoped that he was not responding due to lack of communication. and how a little it quieted down. and this comrade

, who hid, began to respond, began to shout, well, to hear if someone else might be wounded or, and he says, i heard bohdan screaming, he says, i ran up to him, took him, he says, to pull him by the hands, and bohdan was 95 meters tall, i dragged him, he says, i dragged him, he says, after two minutes bohdan was released , volunteers found the body of the white churchman and buried it together with the priest near oleshky, these territories are currently... occupied by the russians, so the 62-year-old mother believes that she will live until the days when her son is reburied in the white church, because that's how it will be for her calmer, remembers bohdan and his friend yaroslav, says their childhood was spent together and has a lot of good memories, the boys continued to communicate even when they became adults, but because of the service, meetings became less frequent, a person who was always ready put your shoulder up. if needed

, at any time, day or night, that is , regardless of the time of day, he was ready to come to the rescue, he even had a nickname in some companies, such as golden, because of his hair color, uh, what he our ruddy, he was like that little sun, radiating kindness, giving his mood to people, support, recently a basketball tournament was held in the church in memory of the fallen defenseman, which will become a good tradition from now on. yaroslav hopatsa, oleksandr kuga, espresso, bila church. strong respect and memory of the fallen hero bohdan. of course, you know, here i am looking, he is buried in temporarily occupied ashlars, and here is the question, someone may think.

well, we can not recapture these already occupied territories, we understand that this will also have to be paid at the price of the lives of the military, and here and this is ukraine, but now there is... the enemy, and here you can think and say a lot, but you look at your mother, another young woman who lost her son, and you understand that for her these ashes are not just some territory, there lies her son, who received the enemy's blow in the kherson region, when the forces were not only unequal, they were altogether unequal, enemy aviation, enemy artillery, columns that came in, heroic ukrainian soldiers who retook the antoniv bridge, allowed our troops to pass through the bridge. will cross to the right bank, actually saving the huge ukrainian convoys that were also there at that time, there were also battles there, that is, the enemy did not pass all this so easily, but simply the prevailing enemy aviation and and and and strength and means, you know, i read posts

of military personnel who were at that time on the people of kherson region were told that when the enemy went to the ata, well, they advanced there, well, there are steppes, sands, i say, it seemed that they were pushing at you, such sand dunes were pushing at you, were there so many of them? and here he was there, and he died from an enemy attack, so eternal memory, honor, and we understand how many such heroes still lie somewhere in the temporarily occupied territories, the memory of their soul and feat, and we believe that this mother with a capital letter, this is the general image of mothers who have lost their sons, daughters, she will find peace, conditional peace, of course, but peace of your soul. coming to the grave of my son, i pay my respects and thanks to all these people who donate, and now we will add to the conversation serhii zgurets, the director of the defenseexpress agency, the leader of the military summaries of the day column. serhiy, congratulations, i would like to speak to you. greetings to you, vasyl , greetings to our viewers, today we will talk about the 20th ramstein, its

results, new aid packages for ukraine and how we use and repair foreign tanks, what mistakes we should correct together. more on that in a moment. so, today happened in the german city of ramstein the 20th meeting of the contact group on defense assistance to ukraine with the direct participation of defense ministers and military leaders from a total of 50 countries. the ukrainian delegation was headed by defense minister rustem umerov. took place in such harsh realities for ukraine, when the situation on the battlefield is partly held hostage by the electoral confrontation in the united states, ukraine, as we know, is waiting for the unblocking of significant military and military-technical assistance from the united states, and it is good that against the background

there are many positive decisions from european countries in our support. at the beginning, there was an opening speech by us defense secretary lloyd. austin, he said that the united states will not let ukraine lose, that the coalition will not let ukraine lose and the free world will not let ukraine lose, although, in my opinion, it is time to use the formula for ukraine to win in speeches. but here already a lot depends on us, if there are weapons. what do we know so far? at the ormstein meeting , it was primarily about air defense equipment, artillery, ammunition, here... he also said that it was also about drones, about the training of the military and the process of organizing the cooperation of the defense industry. here, let me remind you that parallel processes are underway in europe, because this monday the eu foreign ministers decided to allocate an additional 5

billion euros for the european peace fund. these funds are needed to purchase weapons. and it could, so to speak, be purchased outside the european union, however, if we go back to the ramstein meeting again, then defense minister lloyd austin, announcing certain packages, he said about , first of all, he mentioned that the united states had previously allocated 300 million dollars there, and he also named other countries that announced military aid, among them he mentioned the czech republic, germany, france, denmark, sweden. who promised to provide important and necessary packages of military aid, if we take the details, first of all, the czech republic, according to austin, promised to provide 600 00 art shells, but we know that in total the czech republic found 1.5 million

ammunition of various calibers, and is now contracting them in different countries for supply to our state, using funds from the same peace fund that i... spoke about earlier . germany: the head of the german defense ministry , pistorius, announced an aid package to ukraine worth up to 500 million euros. aid is quite difficult, because it will include 10,000 ammunition at once, which will be delivered there from germany, 100 units of armored vehicles and 100 units of automotive equipment, the types of which we do not yet know, and another 100,155 rounds will be purchased from our own manufacturers, and more germany additionally contracted 180,000 art shells within the limits of this czech initiative, so in any case the package, both short-term and long-term, from the side

of germany, is extremely powerful and large. yes , we are not talking about taurus, because before that pistoria said that ukraine first of all needs a sufficient amount of artillery ammunition, artillery and air defense means, and this is a basic priority for ukraine to be able to carry out effective defensive offensives. actions, another large package was announced by belgium, actually for belgium it is the largest package in the aid chain to ukraine, we are talking about as much as 412 million euros, of which more than 373 million euros, again for the supply of ukrainian artillery ammunition to ukraine, and these ammunition will be from the reserves of the ministry of defense of belgium, and will also be partially directed to purchase in other countries for delivery to ukraine.

also, belgium plans to hand over three ministry of neutrality officers to ukraine. these are actually ships that will be transferred to ukraine together with the netherlands. belgium is now organizing the training of our personnel on its territory, and belgium, too, belgium also. will ensure the maintenance of these ships, and belgium also announced the transfer of 280 ivekolinks light combat armored vehicles, these are actually quite high-class vehicles and a fairly significant number, if we recall the use of such a vehicle, it is used by a significant number of armies, has combat experience of applications . in various hot spots, but

the manufacturers of the italian company iveco did not have such experience of intensive use in hostilities, as is currently ongoing in ukraine, and i think that it will be just right, well, the first such a combat experience of using this quite effective light machine and now if we have an expert on ee na on the link, so far we are just waiting to be attached to ee on ours. the connection of a person with whom we can talk about the means of armored vehicles used by the ukrainian army, using the samples that will be transferred to us in ukraine, and here, first of all, i will mention that this time at ramstein there was less talk about armored vehicles, because as we can see, the main emphasis is really made first on e-e ammunition, on which the stability of our line of defense depends, and in particular... let me remind you that in addition to the announcement of the allocation of 5 billion euros for this

peace fund for ukraine. it is also known that last week the european countries adopted another decision to speed up the production of ammunition and eliminate the bottlenecks that exist with the production of ammunition in european countries. the decision of the european union is to finance such a certain fund for 500 million euros, from which the funds will be directed primarily to the expansion of production in three directions, namely the production of shell casings, the expansion of tnt production and the expansion of powders, these are all the things that are currently slowing down the pace of ammunition production in european countries. mykola salamakha is now joining us, he is a retired lieutenant colonel,

a project manager at the national defense-industrial company "energy 2000", an expert in the field of anti-tank weapons. mr. mykola, i congratulate you, i am glad to see and hear you. good evening. well, at least the first question does not concern armored vehicles, but rather on armored vehicles because there is this good news about the supply of a significant. these machines are from an italian manufacturer, they are such a light armored machine, i would like to hear from you the place in the order of battle for such a machine and what is the price in general for... estimates of obtaining such a number of machines? armored vehicles, these are not infantry fighting vehicles, these are not armored personnel carriers, but for the protection of personnel from small-caliber small arms, this is 545 or 5.56, at

distances of more than half a kilometer, this and that... from caliber 7.62 mm, and also from artillery, from fragments of artillery shells, this is quite necessary equipment, and it will be used, first of all, as various special vehicles, these are command posts, these are mobile means of communication, it's... cars for various anti-tank guided missile systems, for air defense units, that 's basically where we're using pickup trucks now, that's an off-road vehicle , it's got a very good suspension, it's got a very reliable

engine, and actually it's going to increase very seriously the survivability of those units that will... use this technique, we really hope that this machine will help us on the battlefield, well, now to your native topic, to tanks, now the battlefield has changed radically and there with mining, and with the use of fp drones, now we see, well, the active destruction of tanks by the same drones, now we can even see videos there, does this mean that this war is already becoming such a real stalemate for tanks and ... the need for tanks will decrease, because they are quickly lost, and the very tactics of using units are changing, what is your forecast for tanks? well, there is nothing to replace an artillery installation that conducts combat operations directly or in the combat formations of the infantry

that defends or advances, or in the closest... distances, well there up to half a kilometer, at most up to a kilometer from the first soldier who is located, that is directly on the line of contact with the enemy, this is the defense, the most protected such an artillery system is a tank, but another thing is that the use of new types of weapons, this entails the use of new methods against. the actions of this new type of weaponry, this is also electronic warfare, that is, various

nets against e fpv drones, which will be physically subdivisions those means of struggle that will counteract, i.e. shoot, and now there are already examples when the same pump-action rifles or even hunting weapons of the 12th the caliber of equipment to fight fpv drones, this is the period when fiov drones own the battlefield, very seriously, it will pass smoothly in the near future, because both ways and means of fighting fpv drones will be found, and the further, the more difficult it will be to terrorize everything that is currently on the battlefield with an fpv drone, well, we hope that your prediction is correct, and now one of

the problems that ukraine is facing, whether it is our military, is the maintenance of western tanks produce i talked about it yesterday problems with spare parts for leopards 2.6, there were reports that our partners there are looking for blueprints to make tracks for old western equipment, this is what your friends say, among whom there are many who are engaged in the repair of western equipment, are there any urgent offers from the bottom or some decisions that must be made at the top in order to simplify... the acuteness of the issue regarding the repair of western equipment, so there are several stages that we are forced to go through, the first is receiving from us. of our western repair partners documentation, and if the western partners understood the whole situation that they

themselves would encounter with the release of spare parts in large quantities for and to the second leopards and to the first leopards and to the challengers, then they would probably have acted more vigorously at the stage. preparation for the transfer of its armored vehicles to the armed forces of ukraine , unfortunately, this was not done in a timely manner, and now, when the question arises that it is necessary to organize repairs, which can be organized in ukraine, there is a lack, firstly, of technical documentation, and the second, no there is enough experience, but state structures act very slowly, private... structures are ready to take on any work, but on the one hand, private structures do not have experience, although they learn much faster than state

structures, and on the other hand, there is no technical documentation, it is necessary to literally invent ways and methods of repair for many units of military equipment, and i am talking not only about tanks, but also about the same btr1. 13 in different variations about the same humvees, that is, where the number goes to a thousand units or more, that is we have to do very serious work for the private sector, which now cooperates with the armed forces of ukraine and power structures, and state structures, and unfortunately, we are lagging behind, but over time it will all level off, but the western partners have now clearly understood that the normative

stocks of spare parts and repair kits that they had are completely inadequate for modern warfare, and they are now beginning to understand that they it will be necessary to expand the production of spare parts in... and units not only for the armed forces of ukraine, but also for their own needs. and you can't ask about simulators, because, relatively speaking, in order for there to be less, the tank broke down less, the bmp broke down less, so that people used these or other samples more effectively, they have to be prepared, usually we prepared them on simulators. now the situation has changed a bit, it is impossible to conduct training in training centers because there is a threat of a missile attack, and to drag simulators for military units, probably the teams are not... not very interested, how do you get out of this situation, which demonstrates the practice of your enterprise, which is quite well-known from the point of view of providing the armed forces with simulators of various levels, means

that the problem of simulators is primarily a problem of insufficient number of enterprises that produce simulators for various purposes , fully functional in the first place, that's why, because simulators there are different levels, there are those of training. which can, which provide knowledge about a certain type of weapon, a type of weapon, but on which you cannot practice skills, these are simulators, well, semi-functional, so there are simulators that now related to virtual reality , it's where either virtual reality glasses or glasses, virtual reality and programs that came mainly from different games, but there is no consideration of such phenomena as

weapon recoil, no consideration of such phenomena as ballistics, there is no consideration of such phenomena as the movement of a soldier on the battlefield, that is, such simulators are clearly tied to one point and calibration directly to this point took two steps. to the side, everything, the simulator stopped functioning, and full-function simulators, those that are directly dealt with by the company that works, where i work, but in ukraine, you can count such companies on the fingers of one hand, unfortunately, there are not enough of these simulators, first of all, in the training centers that we have developed in the last two years several where there are literally less than 10 simulators that are equipped to conduct basic training of

various specialists. directions, these are primarily mechanics, drivers, various combat vehicles, tanks, and secondly these are complex simulators for crews, combat vehicles , infantry, tanks, armored personnel carriers, and a very large and wide range of applications, these are atgm and manpads simulators, here in ukraine the picture is a little better, because there are several manufacturers, so... which in to one degree or another , they are still more or less adequate competition, but there is already a change in the attitude of the command of the armed forces there to the fact that simulators are needed, and perhaps this influenced the increase in orders, what really? but the increase in orders is possible and would be very serious if the ministry of defense had no money for it, why?

because... simulators are still quite expensive, full-function simulators, and secondly, the very process of manufacturing the simulator, starting with the fact that we have to purchase a lot of components abroad, is quite a serious time, from six months and sometimes more, unfortunately, in the armed forces of ukraine, as well as in the state in general, we have no planning. more than one fiscal year, on the one hand, and on the other hand, no one can clearly state how much, which type of simulators will be necessary next year and to plan some actions, why, because if they tell me that it is necessary to make a simulator for the leopard 2 a4 tank, then i need at least a year to develop all

the technical documentation, after that. .. to make it and then test it for at least six months, that is, the cycle of making a simulator from scratch is about two years, and then there will be a period of treatment for children's diseases. mr. mykola, thank you very much for the inclusion, for what you and your company do for of the armed forces, supplies a number of simulators that really help our armed forces and our military to master different types of weapons, ranging from ... anti-tank missile systems, to armored personnel carriers of various types, to ukrainian tanks and foreign tanks, all this really helps our military, then to effectively use real samples of weapons on the battlefield. let me remind you that my interlocutor was mykola salamakha, a retired lieutenant colonel and project manager at a domestic defense and industrial company energy 2000. these were the main ones.

emphasis in the military and military results of this day, then more international and economic news, then vasyl zema's big broadcast, so stay tuned to the espresso channel. thanks to serhii zgurets, thanks to his guest, these were the military results of the day. good evening, we are from ukraine. well, then the second hour of the great ether, a lot of interesting and important information is waiting for you. the world about ukraine , rammstein, what was agreed on, what was not agreed on, why putin decided to go to china, where will the leader of china go next, is there a conversation about some conditional, possibly negotiations, yuriy fizar, money will talk about this during the war with oleksandr morchivku, there are also important and relevant topics for our pockets,

cultural news dreamed up in chechnya. weather from natalka didenko, and now i will tell you in detail about the most important news. ukraine hopes that there will be enough ammunition until april. such a statement was made by the prime minister of ukraine denys shmehal during his working visit to luxembourg. he noted that due to the lack of artillery shells, the situation at the frontline becomes more difficult. shmyhal hopes that thanks to the czech initiative, to which luxembourg has joined, it will be possible to stabilize the situation on the front line. we also count on the supply of long- and medium-range missiles to reduce russian logistics in the occupied territories, this is also very important for us, as well as artillery shells, but from our side we are not standing still, we are moving forward with the production of ukrainian drones, with ukrainian artillery.