a serious problem is when people want to go and fight in a specific unit, but for some reason it happens that they are not taken there, or someone prevents it. well, oksana vachanska and i are finishing our work for today, our colleagues will continue to work for you, stay for an espresso, and we will see you soon, good luck, have a peaceful and safe evening, take care. it's 5 p.m. in ukraine, to your attention a news release on the espresso tv channel. in the studio of iryna koval. greetings to all viewers. russian troops carried out an airstrike on civilians infrastructure of the city of sumy. this was reported in sumy. regional military

administration. according to preliminary information , no people were injured as a result of the airstrike. all necessary services are available on site. the consequences of the impact are being clarified. i would like to point out that the day before, russian troops hit the sumy tpp with guided aerial bombs. the russians killed one person in the kharkiv region, and wounded three others. the enemy shelled the village of kupyansk with artillery. a 64-year-old man died. got busy. caliber occupiers attacked the village of monachynivka, a 72-year-old man and a 76-year-old woman were injured woman. they refused hospitalization. residential buildings were damaged, the regional prosecutor's office reported. iran is preparing to attack israel today, american publication cbs news reports with reference to us officials. there for... that the attack will be

massive, we are talking about more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles, according to the media, iran has promised to take revenge for israel's killing of its commanders. let me remind you that on april 1, the israeli army struck the iranian embassy in the capital of syria. restless on the polish border. in two days, the polish border guards counted 613 attempts to break through the border of poland from the belarusian side. that is how many times illegal migrants who tried to get to the eu were detained and turned away. this was reported by the border service of poland. branches and stones were thrown in the direction of the patrols, foreigners also used gas. one employee was injured. also , six people were detained these days on suspicion of aiding migrants. four persons were given medical assistance. france will take part in...

a peace conference in switzerland, which will be held in this country on june 15 and 16, about said president emmanuel macron. he noted that his country will join all other countries that want lasting peace and respect international law and rules. according to macron, the peace conference is a very good initiative that will unite countries to prepare the conditions for peace. belgian prosecutors are investigating possible interference. russia in the upcoming elections to the european parliament, the prime minister of the country, alexander de cro, said. according to him, after the conclusions provided by the special services, the investigators discovered that they were russian groups promoted pro-russian candidates and thus tried to weaken european support for ukraine. in belgium we have a new national law that came into force last week and it is clear... this is what we

are doing at the belgian level, but i am convinced that we need to act at the eu level as well. we need more tools to combat russian propaganda and russian disinformation. russian orenburg continues to sink under water. sirens are wailing again in the city, an urgent evacuation has been announced. the authorities explained this by the fact that the situation the water level in the ura river has been critical for the last 10 hours as well. rose by 40 cm, exceeding 11 m. orenburg residents were urged to take documents, medicines and essential items with them and leave their homes immediately. the peak of the flood is expected tomorrow. let me remind you that on april 5 , a dam burst in the city of orsk, orenburg region. on april 9, great water came to the regional center. loud applause and tears in the eyes of the audience. khersonskyi. regional academic

music and drama theater named after mykola kulish visited the capital with the performance "will you will strike," as the witch would say. people's artist of ukraine olena galsavalska told about the occupation and constant shelling of... three in kakhovskaya hess during the play. our film crew also watched the production. leg of the lesya ukrainka theater is full, at the entrance to it a russian tricolor, on which all the spectators trample and do not miss the opportunity to wipe their feet. the indomitable kherson theater came on tour with a play based on the play by the writer olena malyarenko

, the anti-tank witch. the premiere took place in her hometown on december 2 last year. her brought to life by the chief director of the kherson theater serhiy pavlyuk. both the actress and... the director and the writer know from their own experience what the russian occupation is like. today , they live under shelling, but they do not lose faith in ukraine and share their feelings through creativity. but it was fundamental for us that the first premiere took place in kherson, and we organized everything. mr. roman marychko, the head of the minsk military administration, gave us an armored car, we brought elena ihorivna to kherson, there was just a stir, there we everything there about 100 seats, but they were full, it is about us, about kherson, about indomitable kherson, about the indomitable people of kherson, who have already been tested by fire and water, and there will be copper pipes ahead, and we want us to pass this test with honor you will be impressed by the solo performance brilliantly performed by the people's artist of ukraine,

olena galsavalska. the actress spent nine months in the occupation. in the production, her character eliminates the consequences of flooding her own apartment after the occupation was blown up. and already in kyiv you understand that maybe people did not meet like that, well anxieties, well, a siren, they understand that something is a siren, yes, as i say, i stand up, and you are worried that people will understand, you want to convey, this is a state of mind, you understand, because it is impossible. nine months of this madness, i don't know at all how i endured it, but the lord gave me strength and returned me to my profession, that's the most important thing. today , two/thirds of the team of the kherson theater has already returned to their hometown. so far, the actors are working on two

sites, in a shelter, however, they do not lose hope that they will soon be able to go to the big stage the scene well, you know, it is difficult to explain to people who have not been to kherson. who don't understand, haven't seen, haven't felt the trash in which we have to live, but we're used to it, but i 've been there since the liberation of kherson, there are no windows in the theater, there simply aren't, but out of 300 windows, if you live 20, then it's good, he 's under fire from all sides, but he's alive, he's working, we're waiting for the moment when the orcs are driven away from the left bank and we can go back and open all our scenes already.

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and caring people, espresso in the evening. premium the sponsor of the national team represents. united by football. stronger welcome to the espresso channel. today, in our military program , we will talk about how ukraine can and wants to strengthen its air defense system. ukraine's need to increase air defense funds has become so obvious that, for example, the european parliament this week refused to vote for budget funds. council of the eu, until ukraine receives additional patriot systems, because

the meps themselves believe that there are as many as 100 patriot systems in europe and transfer it is quite possible and quite logical for ukraine to have at least seven to protect our cities, but these are the words of politicians, and it does not really mean that the governments of european countries are about to make a decision to share patriots with ukraine, so what is the reality and what ukraine can do to really strengthen its anti-aircraft capabilities both on the battlefield and in the skies above ours. civilian cities in view of the russian threats, which still do not decrease. we will talk about this in the next issue of our military program "war and weapons". my name is serhiy sgurets, i am the director of the defense express information and consulting company, which is currently working together with the espresso channel to highlight the most relevant trends in the life of our defense-industrial complex and our

armed forces. and now we're joined by valentin badrak, director of the army conversion research center. and disarmament, military analyst and writer, mr. valentino, i congratulate you, glad to see and hear, congratulations, mr. serhiy, as always very glad for the invitation. you and i discussed literally before the program that that now the war is changing, and each of the sides is trying to use the advantages of technology in one way or another, and the one who adapts faster, in principle, he really, well, has a certain opportunity to overtake the opponents. nyka and the one who does faster work on mistakes, also, well, has a profit from this work, but i would like you to now so generally assess the modern battlefield, which is of decisive importance on it and as an additional issue with our air defense , is this pursuit of technologies taking place in the same way, where each

each side is trying to find the weak sides of the other, well, i’ll probably start with the general one... the battlefield, yes, somewhere from september, the military actually signaled from the front that the war of drones had begun, and this was caused, on the one hand, by insufficiency both in ukraine and in to the country itself, the aggressors in russia, specifically the artillery systems of modern and very... i would say those smart ammunitions that could be used very actively, and actually speaking, immediately there was a competition in how these drones would be modernized, and we have seen very serious things which took place, that is, the dynamics of technological

changes increased from september 23rd, well , just a few times... we also saw the creation of drones, fpv drones by self-capture of targets, targets, we also saw drones with thermal imagers, which did not happen before, but in mass now, we can see, just yesterday there was an interesting report that in russia they seem to have developed a communication system and are switching from pprc to dynamic. frequency changes, and it seems to make the situation with drones very difficult, but at the same time, at the same time, the effectiveness of fpv drones military estimate around 10 to 40% and say it takes somewhere around 10 drones

to destroy eg a tank and a lot of drones get lost, rap is very active. and this is in new, even old, new technologies, for example, from hunting rifles that shoot down small drones, to, for example , rebov rifles, very diverse technologies, interceptors are now being developed very actively, the americans have already purchased as many as 600 coyotes, yes, such interceptors, and that's all... this prompts experts to talk about certain changes. now there are opinions that firstly, rap will influence more. secondly, there will be changes in the sense that, for example, ground operations will make up, well, the main, or core, of capabilities on the battlefield, and already at

the beginning of january, the ukrainians demonstrated several... those interesting things, well, in particular, the kamikaze drone passed as much as 4 km to the enemy and destroyed the bridge, this is very such a trend, very interesting, the deminers showed that they can clear mines literally in front of the enemy 100 m and to the enemy, and these are unmanned platforms, these are very serious things, further the development of underwater drones mini, even mini submarines, these are all points, and of course the development of air systems, for example, china created, interestingly, created... a drone, it was literally reported in march, a drone that can be divided into three, on six, other drones and create a swarm of drones, controlled,

that is, these are very powerful ideas, powerful systems, but mainly what we have, what conclusion we have to draw, the conclusion is this, we are waging a combined war, in a combined war - this is when very expensive things collide with very cheap ones. but massive technologies, and we see that, we see that cheap mass technologies, in the war of attrition are beginning to dominate, we see the exhaustion of the ukrainian air defense system, we see the exhaustion of the russian artillery, in fact, when drones surpass and increase the effect of work efficiency and perform, well , of course they perform... the full range, but only about 30-40% of the artillery functions, but due to dynamics, due to cheapness, one projectile, well, certainly on the russian market

, it costs about 600-700 dollars for itself there, but we now have one munition costing up to 8 thousand dollars, recently the namo company reported that it had increased up to 800 dollars, at the beginning of the year... nato signed a contract, which was already 5.5 thousand dollars for one munition, i already i am not talking about smart ammunition, which costs more than 60 thousand dollars, one ammunition, yes, and a drone alone costs 600 dollars, there, if it is more technological, it will still cost no more than 2-3 dollars, but how does this dynamic affect just in the face of anti-aircraft systems? you mentioned that ukrainian air defense is slowly depleting, probably due to the fact that the enemy uses shaheds or cheaper missiles there, more

expensive missiles are used for strikes for such important targets, as this dynamic affects the formation of the russian offensive strategy there, our defense, when it comes to air defense systems? a very important point is connected with the creation of echelon. anti-aircraft defense and the creation, so to speak, of a sequence of goals, literally today we read such and such an insider's report about yesterday and the fact that a ukrainian s-300 was shot down in odesa, hit by a drone, and according to the ukrainian military, this happened because they were not allowed to shoot down a drone that was... above them, formally, everything is correct, this reflects the essence of the problem itself, but now ukraine has focused on the fact that the world is looking for the patriots, the patriot systems, we

know that the patriot missile costs from two to 4 million dollars, and now i will return to the madness, if it were possible to take a significant one amount, accumulate and collect a significant amount. systems, say, the same skyranger, skynex with programmable ammunition, then in fact they would take over all issues of enemy drones and a significant part of missiles, and then only ballistics would be dealt with, say, by the same patriots, and for example, aircraft on long distances there at 50, 70 km from the front line, this is such a moment... important, the second important moment, that you need to look more broadly at the market than only at the market of patriots, well, for example, let me remind you that saudi arabia in february

this year, during the exhibition, signed a new contract with south korea for 10 batteries of a new, well, not exactly the same new system, but a medium-range system, what is it called ... gung da, which can reliably shoot down missiles at a distance of 40 km, and such a system would also take on part of the tasks, if, for example, the european union could be bought off by europe, but the main issue with the patriots and with other issues, with other systems, is that we faced a great, great egoism of the european countries because they are now each of the countries thinks that they need to defend themselves, and ukraine, well, so be it, yes, it is indicative that, er,

the president, er... moldova was called by the leadership of the netherlands, yesterday, yes, there was this information, to hand over its batteries to ukraine , they have three batteries of patriots, and not so, really, not so, vulnerable now, right now, today and now ukraine must be protected, i am not talking about such countries as greece, yes, which are under the great influence of moscow, and they hardly need their batteries. will be transferred, but, let's say, the same germany out of ten of their batteries, well, i could hand over a couple or three, the same poland or romania, which just bought patriot systems, could well share the queue, and become, so to speak, second in line, why, why is it important to prove to europe, that is why that otherwise they themselves will have to use these systems to fight

against hostile russia. when it attacks the attacks on the european nato countries, of course, and of course, the purchase of patriot systems outside the european union, outside europe, it can also happen, and again yesterday, yesterday's speech by the prime minister of japan, mr. kishida in the congress of the united states of america, where he called for guidance. from the leadership of the united states, and apparently he hinted that the united states could also sell to the europeans, let's say 5-10 batteries out of its 60 patriot batteries, but it is indicative that this is a very bold performance by the japanese, who are becoming now, well, very strongly, so to speak, they are pushing for ukraine, yes, i understand that they have 24

batteries there. they are unlikely to share theirs , primarily due to the very powerful danger from china, which has now increased many times, but to influence partners, but now in the world there is such a regrouping of forces, and indeed, whichever side regroups faster, that side will have the advantages, and actually speaking, all strategic matters will probably be resolved by september. 24th year, maybe until october, and this requires, well, very dynamic changes in decision-making and in their implementation, that is, the supply of these systems, which we are talking about now, so the conclusion is to divide not only patriot, but also other systems, and the second is to persuade, to convey not only what is there somewhere in... in warehouses,

conditionally, warehouses, but to transfer what is currently in the troops, to share, then there is one more proposal for discussion, when russia struck gas warehouses, daggers, other systems, then this gave rise to such an idea, perhaps somehow to integrate interaction of our air defense system and the defense system of poland, maybe this can be another such step to make... the air defense shield over our country more powerful, what do you think about such initiatives, decisions, proposals? the idea is definitely interesting but i do not believe that nato will agree to such a move, because in fact, if we are talking about the use of polish patriot systems, directly from the territory of poland, then this will create a situation when in russia. will name

what general mili, the former, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who is still listened to very strongly, warned about, he said, first of all, to prevent a kinetic collision between the nato systems and the russian ones, this is exactly what will happen here say a violation of this, this, this situation, and de facto it will be... to assume that poland entered the war, it would probably be much better if a certain number of patriot systems were quickly transferred to the territory of ukraine, and then this would avoid such a threat to nato, although i say this from the position of the general panorama war, of course.