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a social legal state, the sovereignty of ukraine extends to its entire territory, ukraine is a unitary state, the territory of ukraine within the existing border is integral and inviolable. today, the armed forces of ukraine, all ukrainians, stood up to defend the state and the constitution. we know what we are fighting for, what we stand to lose, and what we will never allow to be taken from us. happy constitution day. glory to ukraine. please, we are already here, we are on the air. eh is with us, there is already a guest with us, tell me, eh, now a guest will be with us, and there are a few, so feedback from our viewers, someone says that there is nothing to donate or transfer their contributions, because because the money has run out, and i say, people, i understand, i understand that we have pensioners who receive ridiculous pensions, and this, how to live a month on this pension, is some kind of simple... tricks

must be arranged, for sure, some ways of survival, our pensioners know, but i urge those people who have the opportunity not to i say that if you have nothing to live on there, then you should throw in the last hryvnia, someone writes that as much as you can use the word damn, you should use some ukrainian equivalents, especially if they exist, they say that we should be ukrainians and then they will help us, dear friends, or donations or contributions? or a few hryvnias, whatever you want, call it, but, transfer that money, then no, not because we are not there, not because we don’t speak like that, and i don’t think that using the word donat will make us less ukrainians, but we must support ours, but, but you can to say donation or ofira, because we basically give ofira, maybe let's say ofira, for example, well, i don't mind, we recently had a discussion, by the way, and i. well, it is from

latin, i have no problem with latin, you have any problems with latin, i have no problem with latin, because latin latin is a part of western civilization, it is closely related to greek civilization and in general to throughout european civilization, i don't see how those donats send us anywhere. we have a different country, we have cossack trousers, for example, nothing comes from the turkic language, and quiver and so on, nothing, we somehow live with it, but if something comes from latin, from latin, from tradition, then that is also great, there is nothing wrong with that, because we are, we are part of western civilization, i don't have a problem with victims of the ofiri, it goes for our guys, for our defenders, and that means it will be. long

live moskals, dear friends, now we will talk with one of our defenders, who has been defending the country since 2014, andriy our father, the commander of the drone crew of flying machines kara nebesna of the fourth brigade of the operational line of the national guard of ukraine is already with us, mr. andriy, we congratulate you, or you just want to somehow help the goal of 3 million uah also for mavics for fpv drones, 3 million uah, i remember. that you have been gathering this for quite some time, mr. andriy, it is a bit difficult, how, how do you come up with, how to involve people so that they do not forget to support our army. actually, this is a very large amount, and it is thanks to every broadcast there or thanks to communication with various brothers, with friends from social networks, with various bloggers, etc. trying to somehow spread it around and collect it, and really every penny is important and every penny is on... us to the final number, unfortunately,

things like copters, they are permanent on an absolute basis, and probably, well it's almost impossible, just to be constantly supplied with copters because of... and the enemy is finding new methods to shoot down these birds, and obviously a normal small copter, at the moment it covers an extremely large area of ​​operation, on the line of combat, for example, one bird will work exclusively for reconnaissance in order to give information, the second bird will work to adjust the artillery, the third bird will work to destroy the enemy, so actually you need a lot of them all the time, and they are always in the sky, so unfortunately they are lost, that’s it metal and... which, thanks to the correct and correct actions of the pilot, allows you to actually save a huge number of lives, uh, eh, you know, british intelligence writes and so on that during the kharkiv offensive, the russians lost up to 37 thousand killed and wounded, this died every day

a thousand with a tail, and this was the bloodiest month in the 27 months of the war, and this... these are some incredible numbers, they lost more than in the entire operation of the russian war in afghanistan in 10 years, twice as much, in one month, as it , you, you saw it, you witnessed it, in fact, i am generally surprised how the russian military, how the russian command uses its personnel, very often in assault operations, we see that they and they to me... it seems sometimes are more afraid of going back than storming our positions because of what we already are we obviously know that they have various firing squads, etc., we know that some servicemen of the russian federation who refused the assault were even tied to the equipment, that is, they

were tied to the equipment, sent to the assault, like you will survive, you will not survive, that is, in this way they simply intimidate the personnel, if one does not want to go on an assault, we will shoot him, and then everyone will want to go. to storm, that is, in fact, it is an absolutely imperialist country with an absolutely anti-human attitude, that is the power itself of the defense of ukraine and our brigade rubizh, we are actually working to ensure that such an attitude does not exist in the more occupied territories of ukraine, and of course we are working to liberate our temporarily occupied territories from this terrible oppression in the future, because we have even come across prisoners from...temporarily occupied territories who told us that they were simply offered three options: first, you either go to the front, second, or we shoot you, this is already directly somewhere here, and even threatened there families, etc., you you know, they say that in the days of historians they say

that they write that during the golden horde there was khan batu or batiya, who took and burned kyiv in the 13th century, their army was divided into hundreds there. dozens, thousands, and if out of ten, it seems, one person got scared and ran away from the battlefield, then they executed the whole dozen, this is how discipline was maintained during the time of these warriors of the golden pride, because they also chased them for hundreds, thousands of kilometers somewhere in unknown lands, with an unknown purpose, i see that little has changed in a thousand years, the same surrealistic war, it rarely changes, in fact, we see that russia does not want to ... conditionally seize territories and somehow develop them, we see that wherever russia is, it is absolute destruction and absolute contempt for our nation as a whole, that is, our the rubizhkovo brigade understands that this war is extremely important for us

in terms of the existence of both the state and the nation, and what are our hopes for this year? i don't know there are scenarios in your opinion of development, talk a lot about scenarios, etc., hope that there is some a huge, i don't know, a comet, a star will fall on russia and it will all burn, or they will accidentally explode a nuclear bomb inside the country, or my god, many dreams, many wishes, the main thing is that they come true, here we have a task, our task defend the country and we will... this means that we must simply hold this front line until the right hour comes, it will come sooner or later, that what else

do your brothers need, apart from what you are gathering now for maviks and for fpv drones. actually, if you look at it from the financial side, we have it permanent problems related to transport, related to the repair of transport, etc., for example, the last departure. at the position of our crew, the artillery worked very hard , cutting off our cable, cutting off our antennas, cutting off absolutely everything we could work with, and of course we will somehow find it all, buying these are additional expenses, if you look at it from the point of view from a metaphysical point of view, we really need to feel supported, that is, to see that our society is not a society of supporters of different nothings, cowards, dodgers, etc. and is a society that is a supporter of our army, the defense forces of ukraine, our brigade as a whole, who

do everything possible and impossible to hold the front and so that people in civilian cities can live peacefully, rest peacefully and continue to enjoy their life dear friends, i am telling our viewers that you have donated 27,000 to the collection that ispressu tv channel is helping the iryna koval charity fund to organize today, at least that is what i see on the monobank. you can also donate to offer a little to the kara neba crew of unmanned aerial vehicles, but you can, in principle, donate, it’s the same thing, and donate in the same way, listen, whatever it ’s called, transfer a few hryvnias and in this way support our military both financially and mentally and spiritually, they also have a large collection and they also collect it for a long time... for a long time, because, well, because there are many such collections now. mr. andrii, thank you for the conversation and for your

work, we wish you a peaceful day, as peaceful as it can be. andrii our father, commander of the drone crew of letter machines kara nebesna of the fourth operational brigade of the rubizh national guard of ukraine, was in touch with us. now we are going for a short break, then we will come back and talk about the front and about the war with our military expert, director of information consulting and defense express company serhii zgurets. stay with us, if you want to wake up as if you were a child with your grandmother, full of strength and energy, then the new product from mattress market is just for you, meet the perina dreamlight mattress. the perryina dreamlight mattress smooths out all irregularities old mattresses, sofas, folding beds, it can be laid for sleeping just on the floor, soft, comfortable, beautiful, and so profitable, only from 499 hryvnias, ordinary toppers cost one and a half, two and even 3,000 hryvnias, and we offer you a mattress -extra quality duvet cover

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your donations are the key, the key to the hope, dreams and support of those who have lost a loved one. after all, their parents went to defend our country. i really liked the trip to austria, i liked the museums we went to every day. it was amazing and i really enjoyed how we went out to restaurants. i visited the cities of sasburg, vienna, and linz. this trip had a positive effect on me became more cheerful. thank you so much for such an incredible trip, it will never be forgotten in my heart. let's give memories together that will warm hearts and help you survive these difficult and scary moments. just now there was the same iryna koval, whom we have already mentioned, who is our presenter, whose charity fund is currently running , in addition to everything, that wants to help children

whose parents have died, so that they can rest from the war and somehow distract themselves from what... what, what, that the moskalis were deprived of their parents, parental custody, she is still doing this collection for the 100th brigade of the armed forces of ukraine, so, dear friends, the qr code is here, the card number will now appear here, in the meantime, we will talk with serhiy zgurets, military expert and director of the information consulting company defense express. i will also add that 28,000 of our viewers have already donated today, thank you for responding to our call. mr. sergey, good morning. good morning, greetings to you, greetings to our viewers. mr. serhiy, they say that in may muscovites lost a thousand of their soldiers every day, and every may was the most hellish month for them, in principle during the entire great war in ukraine, if they continue at this rate, how many

will be enough? well, really, when we talk about the results. in may, if i am not mistaken, according to statistics, 29,800 enemy enemies were destroyed, what the general staff indicated, these data were indeed the largest during the period of the conflict with the russian federation, which suggests that, contagiously speaking, such approaches to the destruction of the occupiers have been established, but in in any case, it should be here count two parameters: one way or another , the enemy of measures of such covert mobilization, which is based primarily on the financial stimulation of these depressed regions, and it is believed that in general the enemy there collects 30-40 thousand personnel per month, but i have already repeatedly looked at the assessments of various experts, who actually question

such rates of russian mobilization , and indirectly that... the enemy wants to increase payments for these contractors who want to go to war in ukraine to solve their financial problems, and these financial payments have increased, as this is just an indirect confirmation that the enemy is not very successful in recruiting personnel in the format of this hidden mobilization, but in any case we know that the russian resource is quite significant, in general there... estimated at 20 million of that resource that can be used in hostilities, but this is still a long time and it will require, of course, the support of weapons, but in any case, we are now in the format of a war of attrition on both sides, and now the main thing, that we

found approaches to destroy the enemy, the enemy on a larger scale, to minimize all the enemy's attempts. to act along the entire front line. well, the same new york times writes that according to the forecasts of those and british intelligence and so on, the heaviest battles of this year are still ahead, despite the fact that may was called the bloodiest month in the 27 months of this war. well, when we talk about this year, we know that the armed forces, the defense forces are directed to carry out active defense, the main thing is to hold positions based on a rational assessment of this or that section of the front in comparison with the losses to the enemy and the losses of our military, which also ... of course exist, and now it seems that the enemy is just betting on the fact that he does not

count the executions, and in fact the stretching of the entire line front and not even the desire for operational breakthroughs, but the desire to get involved in such tactical battles, which are accompanied, primarily from the enemy's point of view, by the desire to exhaust our armed forces and inflict heavy losses on us. that's what's at the core now of the russian strategy along the entire front line, so now the enemy is betting on it, from the ukrainian side, we hope that we will find an answer to this, now this answer is precisely based on an increase in the supply of weapons and ammunition, we know that this disproportion is already decreasing, and even if we look at all the directions, there are 10 directions where the enemy is trying to put pressure on our defenses, even the most critical directions behind... for example, on the same pokrovsky, we see that the enemy's advance is slowing down, that is, despite concentration the enemy's forces in even narrow areas of the enemy cannot achieve even tactical

success, that is, we know that the russians, well, at least putin likes such poker strategies, not chess, and they are big bluffers, they like to bluff, well, how much power enough for the russians to raise the stakes. this year, well, now we know the history, tentatively speaking, that these statements by putin that you will hand over all the regions where the russian troops are stationed there and we will start negotiations after that are just a reflection of the permanent soviet there of the russian strategy, when, relatively speaking, not having the opportunity to ensure certain goals, it resorts to information pressure and political pressure by forceful means. and to the use of methods and approaches that sometimes influence our european partners when we talk about the use of nuclear weapons, that is, whether, the weaker, the weaker

the troops show themselves, the louder and scarier the kremlin's statements are, and it is so somewhere, absolutely yes, and now we have a situation where, relatively speaking, despite what russia has the advantage at the current stage in the number of troops located in our... occupied territories, but now we see what is repeated in all areas of the front, despite the enemy's efforts to achieve some operational successes, we have only limited directions where the enemy is trying to concentrate forces, this is the pokrovsky direction, the kurakhiv direction, where indeed the intensity of hostilities is increasing there, but we can see from the dynamics and time how much time the enemy spends in order to capture a few hundred meters there, at what cost. enemy for it pays, and i hope that such approaches to our flexible, active defense will continue to be strengthened due to the addition of certain types of weapons and, first of all

, the strengthening of anti-aircraft defense, which we now desperately need in order to minimize the advantage of the enemy in the air at the expense of the aviation of cabs, which are now such an important factor influencing our line of defense from the side of the enemy. mr. serhiy, how should we understand and react to the information that... night korea will send engineering, as if engineering troops to the occupied territories of ukraine to build fortifications there, when defense express, by the way, writes about it in the russians to build these fortifications, what will these koreans from north korea do then? well, in fact, the story with the korean military, it is already entering the second field, we remember that there were statements last year. that korea is about to send 100,000 of its troops to the war in ukraine, then it did not continue, although there were deliveries of korean ammunition and

korean missiles to the russian federation, this we know, and now the story about the possible replenishment of the russian army at the expense of north korean units, it appeared with reference to a number of sources, it was reported by the south korean... er chosun tv company, if i'm not mistaken, then indirectly er such a threat was confirmed by the pentagon spokesman that we, that they are monitoring changes and possible such risks, and then there was detail that, conditionally speaking, north korea wants to send engineering units there, one or more brigades that will deal with fortifications then yesterday there were certain, shall we say, denials or the fact that there is no definite confirmation of this information, but in any case we must understand that

one way or another the russian federation... can use and seeks, will seek to use the potential of north korea, possibly including using personnel or personnel from the north korean army if they appear in the form of engineer units first, because there have been reports that they have eight or nine engineer brigades there, and tentatively speaking, for several of these brigades, which will operate somewhere in donbas to restore some territories there. korea hopes to receive 115 million dollars every year, but this information also came only from south korean sources without further confirmation, but i repeat, the appearance of additional contingents there in our war with the enemy, north korean contingents, in any case speaks of that , that this is a risk that must be taken into account, both the american side thinks, and our side should draw

preliminary conclusions from this. and creating prerequisites for having the ability to destroy any living force of the enemy, regardless of nationality, who are fighting there on the enemy's side. oh, less than two minutes left, i wanted to ask something about the f-16 though, i don't know if we'll even have time to show it, there's a video of a french mig-29 dropping guided bombs, and attention was drawn to , which at low altitude does this, and again it's up to the... debate whether the f16 will be effective, because these bombs theoretically fly 70 km, but for this the plane needs to climb several kilometers, at least. well, for these bombs to fly 70 km, the plane must be at an altitude of at least 8-10 thousand m, then this will be the maximum range, now our mig-29s are demonstrating the use of these bombhammers, relatively speaking, from a low altitude, a quick attack.

yum, the launch of these guided missile bombs and a quick anti-missile maneuver to avoid capture by russian air defense means, in a certain way, the f-16 will have to operate from such air bases, but in close connection with the saab aircraft, the swedish, which we are to receive, and it exactly the tactic that needs to be perfected. we understand that... the enemy's s-400s remain, they cover up to 200-300 km there, our airspace and these risks exist, so relatively speaking, it will be difficult to counter the enemy, but in a combination of capabilities and f-16s and aircraft saab thinks that it will be possible to find an antidote against the russian air defense system. thank you, mr. sergey. serhii zurets, military expert, director of the defense express company was with us, dear friends, and we are approaching 9 in the morning, and that means. what

with a minute of silence we will honor the memory of all ukrainians whose lives were cut short by russian aggression. let's bow our heads before them. let's observe a moment of silence in memory of the ukrainian military and civilian citizens of ukraine who died in the war started by russia.