if you want to understand how our today will affect our tomorrow, watch the saturday politics club, every saturday on espresso. greetings to all espresso viewers, it's time to catch up on the top news of the hour. yanava melnyk. and i will start with this: mykhailo drapaty became the new commander of the kharkiv troop group. he took office instead of yuriy galushkin against the backdrop of the russian offensive, the operational-strategic grouping of the khortyts troops reported. drapati also remains in the position of deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. it's temporary.

occupied sorokino in luhansk region , a warehouse with ammunition exploded, the regional military administration reported, this is the third emergency situation in the enemy's body within a week. from now on, the occupiers have a limited supply of ammunition in this area, and their shortage should affect the offensive actions of the russians, - the regional military administration added. this night, the drones of the security service of ukraine successfully targeted the enemy. in the belgorod and lipetsk regions of russia, ukrainian media reports citing sources in the sbu. it is known that the russians are among the locals the public all night complained about a series of loud explosions in the area of ​​the oil depot in the belgorod region, the authorities of the lipov region confirmed the fire at the yeletska electric substation. minus another alligator, soldiers of the 47th separate mechanized brigade destroyed a russian combat helicopter k-52. this was reported in the ground

forces. the helicopter was shot down by fighters of the anti-aircraft missile artillery division. let me remind you that the cost of one such helicopter is more than 16 million dollars. missing twins were found in volyn. this was reported to the regional police. three-year-old children were walking on yards of their own house, after which they disappeared from sight. the parents tried to find the child on their own, but eventually called the police. half a thousand people joined the search, a three-year-old girl was found in the bushes, she was scared, her brother was found only in the morning. the boy was a few kilometers from home, he was very cold. the children are currently in the hospital. a large-scale fire broke out in the kharkiv region in the village of vasishchevo, and a warehouse building caught fire. the fire covered an area of ​​1,500 km, the state agency reported service with extremely. situations. a few

hours later, firefighters extinguished the fire. fortunately, no one was hurt. the causes of ignition are established. they cooperated with the occupation authorities. in the kherson region , three local residents are suspected of collaboration. extras during the occupation held management positions in the kherson regional center for disease control and prevention. at the same time, the organization was renamed the regional center. hyenas and epidemiology, the husband became the deputy chief physician, and his wife became the head of human resources. there arranged a girlfriend. during the searches , a large amount of money in various currencies, in particular rubles, was found on the suspects , and a pre-trial investigation is currently being conducted. an illegal exchange point in the lviv region was stolen from a financial company that converted virtual funds into... and then withdrew cash,

the bureau of economic security reported about this, applications for the exchange of cryptocurrency into cash were received by those involved in social networks, assets were withdrawn through a sanctioned russian platform. during the searches, the law enforcement officers seized more than 13 million hryvnias in cash, and also five keys to crypto wallets. more than 28 million hryvnias were blocked on virtual assets. the perpetrators were detained, a pre-trial investigation is underway. in the center of lviv , a man was detained with an unknown substance, this was reported to the regional police, the law enforcement officers found 46 red and yellow rolls with substances of unknown origin and four more bags with a crystal-like substance. experts are currently investigating the substances. delivered drugs to the prison. police. detained a 48-year-old

man in vinnytsia region, according to the materials case, the suspect hid the narcotic substances in the package and tried to give it to an acquaintance. during the searches, he was found to be psychotic. tropes, electronic scales and cold weapons. the court chose a preventive measure for the man in the form of detention, he faces up to 10 years in prison. president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi will soon visit madrid. he writes about this, there, there he will sign a bilateral security agreement with spain. this will happen during a meeting with prime minister pedro sanchez - reports the spanish veda. according to journalists, this agreement will be similar to those that kyiv has already signed with great britain, germany, france, italy, denmark and canada. negotiations on signing an agreement with spain began at the beginning of march this year.

the israel defense forces advanced to jabalia in the north of the gaza strip. this is reported by the israeli media. according to local residents. currently tanks. moving towards the center of the largest of the eight refugee camps in the gaza strip. it is reported that tank shells fell in the center of the camp, which was destroyed by airstrikes several houses. in rafah, heavy shelling and airstrikes were reported in the eastern part of the city. about 60,000 ukrainian families got a chance to rebuild their own. all thanks to the national compensation program there is a recovery. initiative. a year ago, whether the innovation managed to live up to expectations and what goals are set for the future, let's see. irpin is a city that was 70% destroyed by the russians, but now life is raging here, because irpin has become a leader in reconstruction under

the restoration program. the amount of compensation here reached 2 billion hryvnias. in irpinsk territorial community for year, 6,514 applications were considered, and in the end, almost 400 applicants received funds to rebuild their homes. 92% of everything has already been processed by various programs, 82% has been processed by certificate programs, of course there is, because people return and are usually added, because every day one, two, three appeals are added to us. there is recovery as a separate action service. became operational in may 2023. it all started with a service for receiving financial assistance for repairs of damaged housing. first of all, the urgent cost up to uah 2,000. the next step was compensation for destroyed homes. these are housing certificates that can be exchanged for a new home

in any corner of ukraine. over time , payments for capital repairs became possible, and soon compensations will also come to those who did not wait and completed the work at their own expense. the already developed checklists are appropriate, there is a possibility of a technical one developed by the ministry of digital transformation, i hope that it will happen, sources of funding will be found, and the start of this component, which is currently the maximum prepared for its implementation. the majority of appeals were recorded from residents of kharkiv, donetsk, mykolaiv and kyiv regions. kharkiv oblast and kyiv oblast became the leaders among requests for restoration. itself. first began to be actively used, we created commissions in each community that inspected, that helped people implement this program, receive funds, inspect their destroyed, damaged property, and why we created it in each community, because unfortunately, the enemy continues to shell and

the developers promise to add more soon several functions to support as many ukrainians as possible in the difficult process of rebuilding their own homes. now the team is working on a compensation program for rebuilding on their own land and compensation for those who lost their homes in the temporarily occupied territories, this is not for nothing, we are showing the city of melitopol a pilot project that took place, it was successful, that is, we are absolutely sure that this experience now it is possible to spread to other cities, which are located in the temporarily occupied territories, programs similar to the restoration currently does not exist in the world, for a year the sum of paid compensations exceeds... 11 billion hryvnias for the repair or purchase of new housing instead of the one destroyed as a result of hostilities. and i urge espresso viewers to join the collection for the repair of heavy armored vehicles in

the combat zone in the solodarsk and zaporizhzhia directions, the repair and reconnaissance regiment works mainly on the contact line or in the gray zone. clear sky in any weather day and night. so for... emergency recovery and return to the battlefield of the damaged military equipment, in particular tanks, bmps, armored personnel carriers, a minibus is needed to deliver mobile repair teams and equipment to the combat zone. as well as pneumo-hydraulic jacks for prompt repair of foreign equipment. our goal is uah 63,000. with your help, we already have 165 00 in our accounts . you can see all the details on the screen, join our dispute. these are the things for the moment, i'll see you at 3:00 p.m., read more about the important things on our "espresso tv" website. also subscribe to our channels at social networks and support our youtube channel. my colleagues, marta olyarnyk and antin borkovskii, are working for you next.

glory to ukraine, dear tv viewers, what is going on with the information day of the tv channel, an extremely difficult situation in kharkiv oblast and in general. fierce, extremely complex battles are ongoing on the front line, but we will inform you about all the most important events of this day, marta oliyarnyk and antin borkovsky live in the espresso studio, in a few minutes we will add dmytro snigirov, a military expert and co-chairman, to the air of the public initiative rights of matter, in order to talk with him in more detail about the situation in kharkiv region, there is operational information from sinyohobov, he is the head of the regional military administration, he says that the gray zone in kharkiv region has increased, they are trying to decide... to involve the defense of the armed forces of ukraine, our soldiers are holding back the enemy in these directions, says sinyohobov

, about 15 enemy attacks have been repulsed recently, the situation is quite difficult, but absolutely all enemy attacks are being repelled, there is an increase in the gray zone, an increase in the front line, because the enemy is trying to deliberately stretch them, attacking in small groups in new directions, according to sinyohobov, the situation is difficult, but fully controlled by the soldiers of the armed forces of ukraine. well, in any case, it has already arrived... the announcement has arrived about the replacement of the commander of the operational-tactical group of the kharkiv troops, yuriy galushkin. mykhailo drapaty replaced him in this position. i am quoting now the operational-strategic grouping of khortyts troops. according to the decision of the military leadership, from may 11, brigadier general drapatovy was appointed to the post of commander operational tactical grouping of kharkiv troops. however, as noted, drapata also remains at... the position of deputy general staff of the armed forces of ukraine. this is evidence of the seriousness of the situation in

kharkiv oblast. we understand that the enemy is trying to break through, and extremely difficult battles continue on the vovchansk line. so. well , the editor-in-chief of censornet butusov has already called on the mayors of large cities to provide assistance to the soldiers defending kharkiv oblast. well, if we are talking about the situation. on everyone fronts, according to the spokesman of the general staff, dmytro lykhovy, there were more than 830 combat clashes during the week, the largest number of attacks, 230 , were repulsed by the defenders of the pokrov direction, this is also a very, very difficult direction, as we know, the occupiers are trying to dislodge ukrainian troops, but are repulsed, he says lykhova that despite the loss, the occupiers are trying to push our troops out of their positions. if we talk by direction, then last week's enemy was in kharkiv. the border arrived and in the evening, as you know, he spent the 31st on sunday an attack in the direction of the settlements

of streche, krasny, morohovets, oliynikovtsi, deep, okhirtseve and many others. he also tells lekhova that defenders also repelled a large number of attacks on pokrovsky, 215 in the districts of alexandropol, kalinovo, novooleksandrivka, and so on. at orichivsk, the russians attacked the defenders' positions 27 times, that is, we understand that now the situation is difficult almost along the entire front line, but speaking of kharkiv and , in particular, of the battles for vovchansk, there is already an official communication from our general staff. so, the situation remains difficult in kharkiv oblast and is changing dynamically, i am quoting the general staff now. military operations are being conducted in the directions of pylna lukyantsi, pylna hlyboke, and pylna with an oil-bearing wall, bugruvatka. the enemy is carrying out assaults in the directions of strelech hlyboke. deep oleaginous tubers wall staritsa platenivka tyche. during the day

, the enemy carried out 22 assault actions in those directions. of them, 14 are still ongoing. well, there are battles for the border town of vovchansk. the enemy used significant forces to conduct the offensive in the composition of up to five battalions and does not count with his own losses at the moment, the enemy has tactical success - our general staff informs. well, there is already a reaction from the study institute. war regarding the events that are currently taking place in the north of kharkiv region, they say that the russians are trying to surround the city of vovchansk, approaching it from different sides, the offensive of the armed forces of the russian federation on... this city is called the result of the west's silent policy regarding the impossibility of using systems provided by the armed forces of ukraine for strikes on military targets in the russian federation. this is what the analysts are talking about reported in their daily report. to quote this report, it says that the russian offensive efforts to capture vovchansk are largely the result of the west's sheepish policy, that ukrainian forces

cannot use the systems provided by the west to strike legitimate military targets in russia. analysts noted that the enemy is trying to surround vovchansk. it approaches the city through bugruvatka, staritsa, and izbytske and through vovchanski khutory. in particular, in case of capture of any from these settlements, the enemy can cut ukrainian land lines of communication to vovchansk. well, there is also certain information from the military who are there and, in particular, from the journalist yuri butusov, that there are certain questions regarding the organization, repelling, yes, the enemy, and fortification, and we will... try to include in this the air of experts, with whom we will talk about things that need to be discussed, yes, because ukrainian society asks questions that need answers, but we will to inform you, and while we wait for the opportunity to include our first guest, i want to remind you that now, more than ever, we need to intensify our efforts to

help our armed forces, and it is known that now in the direction of kharkiv requires a fair amount of fp. drones, so be sure to support all the gatherings related to fpv drones, and at the right time i will also remind you about our important gathering, we invite you to join the project from scratch to life, it is a gathering for quad bikes for quick evacuating the wounded and transporting ammunition, support the soldiers of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade kholodny yar with a donation, our defenders win every day, not leaving the wounded and dead on the battlefield, unlike our enemies, so atvs are indispensable for evacuation. assistants, they also allow you to move as quickly as possible on off-road, which means to perform combat tasks more effectively, soldiers who have already passed more than one test at zero, are always ready to retaliate against the enemy, so for the sake of our peace, they always are standing guard, let's support them, let's raise 4 million to buy

these atvs to evacuate the wounded, it's important, every human life, every life of our warrior, it's... priceless, so we urge you to join this as much as you can collection thank you marta, well, dear viewers, the situation at the front is extremely serious. yes, we understand that it is necessary to support our fighters, especially if they ask for help. well, and about a larger initiative, writes yuriy butusov, editor-in-chief censornet. he appealed to the mayors of large ukrainian cities to help the ukrainian soldiers who are defending now. kharkiv region. i am now quoting yuri butusov. direct speech. i appeal to the mayors of the big cities of kyiv, lviv, odesa, dnipro, kharkiv and all other tergromad mayors. urgent critical situation. yes, you are not responsible for this and the military personal income tax was taken from you from the revenues of city budgets. yes, now there are large expenses, including for the life support of cities. but the threat to kharkiv

and vovchansk is a threat to all of ukraine and every big city. the enemy is in the 30s... no one but you will be able to quickly find funds for additional equipment for our soldiers. the commander-in-chief's bet won't produce drones, it won't be decided by those who are supposed to be responsible for it by office, and we all understand that only cities and their mayors can act quickly and allocate significant funds. well , butusov called on ukrainian mayors, mayors of large cities in particular , to react quickly and urgently. dmytro snigirov, in touch with us, is a military expert. co-chairman of the public initiative right right, glory to ukraine, mr. dmytro, to the heroes of the word, well, we would like to clarify the situation with the offensive in kharkiv oblast, what do you think, your reasoning, why is this situation happening these days, and how should we properly respond to it? let's start with the fact that,

first of all, the situation is not critical at the time of the breakthrough to kharkiv, the russian group is concentrated. directly, both on the territory of ukraine at the time of the offensive, and, accordingly , on the territory of the belgorod region, counts 35-50 thousand. this amount is not enough for carrying out a large-scale offensive operation on kharkiv. i explain. for example, during the battles for avdiivka, 70-80 thousand occupation troops were concentrated near this settlement. the total area of ​​avdiivka is 30 km. the total area of ​​kharkiv is approx. 300 km, ten times more. accordingly, if it is about the fact that the military contingent of russian troops is less than, even, which was concentrated in the avdeivka area, then... what a capture of kharkov, says mr. botusal. the task of the occupier at the moment is to divert attention of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine from the key

directions of the offensive of the occupiers, that is, respectively , the donetsk front, the uglydar direction, the pokrov direction and the bakhmut direction. this is a tactic of a thousand cuts, simultaneous strikes in several directions with the aim of distracting the efforts of the headquarters of the armed forces of ukraine. at the moment of the redeployment of operational reserves, this is the main thing that is happening in the kharkiv region, secondly, it is a corresponding attempt by the occupiers to reach kharkiv within the range of artillery fire, i.e. 10-15 km, this is their main task, rather than anything else, to turn the city of kharkiv into a settlement unsuitable for the civilian population, that is... and from this comes the third task - to provoke mass migration processes of the civilian population leaving kharkiv and the kharkiv region

deep of ukraine. kharkiv is currently home to 1,300,000 local residents plus the kharkiv region. that is, the main task of the occupiers is to provoke processes that will testify to chaos, panic and, accordingly, distrust in the actions of the central cities. authorities, well and additionally the burden on central local budgets at the time of evacuation measures, plus ukrainian logistics are actually blocked in parallel, i.e. railways and motor vehicles, which will provide the need for evacuation measures, and will not be involved in the majority of redeployment of operational reserves directly to the front line, if we talk about the tactics of actions occupiers... at the moment, the maximum advance into the depths of ukrainian territory is up to 7 km, so the fighting is going on in the vovchansk region, but it is worth looking at the map to understand the depth

the advance of the russian occupying forces, directly to the line of engineering and fortification structures, which will be, which, i hope, were being built, they have not yet left, the actions of the occupiers are the actions of the infantry units of the company and battalion... with the minimum amount of support of heavy armored vehicles, because they perfectly understand the degree of involvement and fpv of drones, respectively infection, this is how we understand it, whether the enemy has certain prospects regarding the expansion of his group, which has now started offensive operations in the north of kharkiv region, and what in your opinion can indicate replacement of the commander of the kharkiv, galushkin operational-tactical group of troops. on general drapatoy, well, general drapatoy has a correspondingly positive background, this is the strengthening of the management chain, i.e.

the creation of a rigid vertical line of subordination, er, about the intentions of the occupiers, well, at the moment, there is no record of their own redeployment of personnel of heavy armored vehicles, including in the territory of the belgorod region , which would indicate an increase. er of this contingent, i emphasize once again, i do not rule out a simultaneous strengthening of the offensive of the occupiers on another part of the ukrainian-russian border, we are talking about the sumy region, that is , several tension zones will be created, and in the sumy direction, the occupiers will solve several issues for themselves at the same time: a) this is a diversion of the reserve of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, b utilization of kadyrov units, which are focused on subordinated to this direction. to colonel lapin, lapin has a personal conflict with kadyrov, therefore , in my opinion and on my conviction, the deployment of kadyrov's units precisely in the sumy direction of lapin's subordination

is not accidental, and most likely in the coming days we will see the possibility of aggravation in the sumy direction as well. uh, and in general, if we talk about those reserves and those efforts, then resources. the enemy has now accumulated in the northern direction, so what do you think this offensive might look like, a possible, yes, a possible offensive on the sumy oblast, will it be any attempts to break through their drg, or could it be some kind of infantry units that will with the help of armored vehicles, try to advance deep into the territories? i do not rule out that it is the same one tactics will be involved, infantry units supported by means of impression accordingly. and a limited amount of armored vehicles, but i will emphasize once again that the main task of the russian side is the disposal of the kadyrov detachments, during the conduct

of offensive operations of a similar nature, they will be decided once again... i emphasize two main tasks: local offensive operations and, accordingly , the neutralization of the detachments that subordinate to ramzan kadyrov. look, another key story, now the replacement of the enemy, minister of defense shoigu, has been promoted, yes, well, they installed a new technocrat. mr. dmitry, what does it mean if we talk about the logic of war in general. yes, gerasimov remained in office. we understand that the ministry of defense should first of all provide actions. of the same russian general staff, but, but, but, there is a certain specificity, how do you see the new phase now? well, it will have absolutely no effect on the course of the war, i.e. the main think tank gerasimov remained in his post, we are talking about the appropriate redistribution of control over financial flows between groups of influence, a group of kovalchuks, who are close to putin, took the top, and accordingly appointed their own person

who will control... the multibillion-dollar financial flows that are allocated from the russian budget for the needs of the military industry and , accordingly, the ministry of defense of the russian federation in general, that is, purely and exclusively financial issues. regarding shuigu, this is not a promotion. it is worth saying that until recently radbes really influenced decision-making, but here it is worth talking about personalities. we are talking about patroshego. shaygu will have limited opportunities to influence decision-making. that's why i... became quite skeptical about the promotion of the shoigu, it is said that it is somehow inconvenient to put him on the example of ivanov, he is a person close to putin, but they decided to remove him from the influence of the ministry of defense of the russian federation in this way, let's say. another question, here is the key one, where will patrushev be, because patrushev is a war hawk, he is the person who leads...

actually that power block that was responsible for the development and, accordingly, the direct implementation of the actions of the russian occupation army at the time of the war with ukraine, this is a key question, and shoigu, this is an intermediate one, uh, yes, mr. dmytro, what would we like to ask you about another and generally operational situation at the front, according to dibstate maps we see that... the situation in the novopavlovsk and pokrovsk directions very, very difficult, there is simply an unreal number of their units, i mean theirs , they are russian, eh, well, they are there and they are working and working, what do you think about the operational situation in these areas, can we now consider these as key areas russian offensive? yes, these are key directions russian offensive, but with your permission , i

would like to draw mr. yuri's attention to just a few words about butus' statements. actually the hope of the kharkiv military-civilian administration is talking about the construction of roads from kharkiv to the same vovchansk for uah 370 million, so let this topic be dealt with by this response to drones and other military equipment for the needs of the defense forces of ukraine, it will be more interesting, and the ukrainian people have to understand where the money goes during the corresponding escalation of military tensions in the kharkiv region. and worth it to note that these are not isolated cases, i already mentioned examples on the air of your program when the konstantinov city military administration, which is 10 km from the combat line , allocates uah 50 million for the construction of highways in this front-line location as well, that is, what is happening , i don’t have it in my head, well, i don’t understand this, maybe mr. yuriy will help, and it would be right on his part to draw attention to those to these...

processes, and we would immediately find the money and solve the issue, according to expediency stay of these officials in their positions. thank you, clear and understandable. dmytro snigerov was in touch with us, a military expert, co-chairman of the civil rights initiative, about the situation at the front and not only there. well, the fighting continues 30 km from kharkiv, meanwhile, the head of operations has now been changed. yuriy galushkin of the kharkiv tactical group to general drapatoy, and dmytro snighorev has just assessed this as an extremely positive decision. well, we are now going on a short break, after it we will include kharkiv, we will find out what is the current situation in kharkiv itself in the suburbs and so on, so stay with us, stay.