to hand over the floor to our colleague anieva melnyk, it is already 16 on the clock, which means that it is time for news. friend, we give you the floor and please share with us what you will talk about. congratulations, thank you for your work, the news editor will tell you about the main thing for this hour, and i will start with what is happening in the russian federation. and the following is happening there: russian telegram channels are panicking and claiming that the court is apparently under the control of the zso. meanwhile , putin reacted to the event in the border zone almost a day later. kremlin dictator convened an emergency meeting of the security council, at which he described everything that was happening. a large-scale

provocation by the so-called kyiv regime, meanwhile, russian military personnel continue to panic, they claim that the city of sudja is already under the full control of the ukrainian army, and in general, the armed forces have allegedly advanced 15 km deep and already control more than a dozen settlements. let me remind you that the ukrainian side does not comment on the so-called breakthrough in the kursk region. appeared in the network. three consequences of the ukrainian operation in the rostov region, there the armed forces together with on august 3, ukrainian intelligence and the sbu destroyed an enemy su-34 at the russian morozovsk airfield, two more aircraft of the same type probably damaged the wreckage, and ammunition depots were also hit, gur reported. the espresso tv channel and the vesna charitable fund have launched a fundraiser for the purchase of modern drones and systems. radio-electronic

warfare for the third separate assault brigade of the 110th and 47th brigades of the central military commission. the defenders in the donetsk direction every day hold back enemy attacks, defend our freedom and future. it was these soldiers who stood to the last and defended avdiiv direction in the spring. the brigades urgently need drones and modern means of countering enemy drones. our goal is uah 3.5 million. remember, each of your donations brings our victory closer. and you see all the details on the screen. good health, dear ukrainians, we are fighters of the first assault battalion of the third separate assault brigade, who defend our native land on the front lines, we urgently need your help, we need means of radio-electronic warfare against the enemy's small arms and drones of komikatsi, very pro we ask for your help, glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes, glory, the military in the zaporozhye direction received 10 vehicles for the evacuation of the council. on them and the transportation of goods,

said the head of the military administration of the zaporizhia region, ivan fedorov, the buggies allow you to move quickly over any terrain, have two passenger seats and a large cargo compartment. the machines are not afraid of mud or washed-out soil, so they are able to overcome obstacles on damaged roads, they were purchased at the expense of local budgets of the region. he defrauded the military and their families for more than half a million a 26-year-old fraudster was detained in the capital. he found announcements on social networks about the intention to purchase military equipment and, under the guise of a volunteer, offered goods at a favorable price. however, buyers received empty parcels at the post office. the man himself quickly changed his phone number and did not get in touch. currently, the law enforcement officers are aware of almost two dozen victims of the swindler's actions. accounts were hacked and data was sold

to criminals. kharkiv law enforcement officers exposed a criminal group engaged in cyber fraud. three different residents oblasts developed a scheme for unauthorized access to the accounts of users of social networks, in particular instagram. they obtained user data with the help of special software . private information was sold to other scammers. such who used this information for their own purposes, the men face up to 15 years in prison. illegal producers of liquid for hookahs and electronic cigarettes were kidnapped in kyiv. consumers have been poisoned by the product more than once, the bureau of economic security reports. counterfeit criminals were sold on the territory of the capital in an illegal business. about three dozen

people worked. during the searches , more than 20,000 liquid packages and more than 200 disposable electronic cigarettes were seized from the organizers. fleeing from ukraine in the body of a kamaz in odesa, law enforcement officers detained 48 men of military age who tried to illegally cross the border with moldova, the truck with conscripts was stopped 3 km from the state border. the organizers of the crossing charged uah 150,000 for the service and found customers through social networks , admin-protocols were drawn up on men who took advantage of the pro... position. the names of the organizers are set. the men were briefed, the method of payment for the illegal services rendered was discussed, and the place and day of the upcoming gathering were announced. as a rule,

the border crossing took place in groups of several dozen people, the channel organizers carefully selected a person who transported men to the territory of unrecognized transnistria for the role of truck driver. of the republic of moldova along the previously defined route. waste on the purchase of drones in the poltava city council. the suspicion was announced to the former director and chief specialist of the defense department. the bureau of economic security reports. detectives of the department also searched the premises of the city council. according to the investigation, in december of that year, officials carried out a procedure for public procurement of quadcopters for military units. more than 30.7 million uah were paid for them, which is 5.5 million more expensive than the market value of such drones, bep analysts believe. extras face up to eight years of imprisonment. law enforcement officers are conducting massive searches in the dnipro city council,

ukrainian media reports citing their own sources. according to preliminary data, investigations are ongoing among local government officials in the context of the case of misappropriation of funds for... repairs. the prime minister of romania, marcelo cholaku , will boycott the closing ceremony of the 2024 olympics. he stated that the award was unfairly taken from the romanian gymnast. let me remind you that on august 5 , the final of the women's freestyle competition took place. romanian anna barboso already started to celebrate the bronze when the us coaches appealed, in the end... the americans added 1/10 of a point, which was enough to overtake barbosa for third place. immediately, two ukrainians made it to the semi-finals of greco-roman wrestling at the olympics in paris, the olympic champion

of tokyo, zhann beleniuk, confidently defeated the representative of kazakhstan in the quarter-finals, and in the second one he will face an athlete from iran. also, a couple of visas to sibov were fought for the semi-finals, where he will meet with a representative azerbaijan. in addition, our wrestler, oksana livach, will compete for bronze in a duel with a japanese athlete. the capital met the gymnasts who completed their participation in the 2024 olympic games . oleg virnyaev, nazar chapurny and their coaches returned home. as part of the team, the boys took fifth place in the men's final. for oleg virniaev, this olympiad was the third in his career. nazar chepurny made his debut this year, however, the athlete has the title of champion of the youth olympic games 2018. i believe that the team did everything they could, all the guys

well done, and so we are not empty-handed. we have silver on bars. i congratulate ilyut, trainer. returning home is always cool, cool. because i don't even know, you know, time is getting lost so little, we haven't been here for two or three weeks, that's why we wanted to go home, we wanted to go faster, taking into account the circumstances under which we are preparing and living, the boys ' performance i think it's pretty good, why, because we did as a team, got a decent result, and the guys should have had nine finals, that's... and of all the teams, that's the highest score. and look for more interesting videos on the espress youtube channel. be sure to subscribe, because there are live ether broadcasts. all news releases, programs and special projects that can only be seen here. also a short video on hot topics in the shorts section. share them, comment, be around.

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mr. ivan, we congratulate you, good day, why historical, what is historical, because no one has ever shot down a helicopter with a drone, somehow yes, you know, it didn't work out, there were attempts, even last fall, there were shots of our operators in half-buckets trying to catch up with the k-52, well, you can see it turned up under the arm, flying. an enemy k-52 is flying, but they couldn’t catch up, and here’s another thing that turns out, maybe they hit with a modified fividron, or maybe it was just luck, but that mi-28, as far as you can tell from the footage, is russian the attack helicopter managed to catch up in general, you know, on a catch-up course, that is , the helicopter’s flight speed is about 300 km and the speed the flight of the semi-drone generally coincided, especially since this one... the local episode of the test tpvdrone, which quite successfully shot down a russian helicopter, is not only

a logical continuation of experiments on how to shoot down russian reconnaissance uavs with fpv drones, but in general it is part of a wider such the concepts of how to find a cheap, expendable means of short-range air defense in our conditions, when short-range anti-aircraft missiles are in dire shortage for the whole world, are insanely expensive, because if there now stinger costs 800 thousand dollars for one missile. the polish poron manpads can cost 2 million euros per unit, and this price is so temping, so consider that, just in such a broad context, our small local example of how an fpv drone shot down a russian mi-28 has a very huge meaning, so there the hysterical epithet will even be few, there will be followers from this historical moment, will any more russian equipment be destroyed, you know, i think that it should... first of all, the pilots of the russian vks, what about it everything will bump into each other, and

a certain effect of operational suddenness must be maintained on our side, let them, with their great-power arrogance, think that this is a single episode, that it happened, and then, well, and then, god forbid, it will happen again, that, for example, from of our drones, they will receive the annual production volume of helicopters there, let the effect of suddenness be better, operational suddenness happened in the kursk region, putin is being bombed, because... that today he even held a meeting of the security council, addressed, commented on the situation, said about the fact that the kyiv regime has carried out another, large-scale provocation, well, we know his story with the kyiv regime and so on, in a word, what he says there, he says that he conducts indiscriminate shooting with various types of weapons, in particular rockets at civilian buildings , residential buildings, ambulances, that's all they do in our civilian cities, he decided to... come right here, and he says that he will hold a meeting with fsb security forces,

representatives of the ministry of defense and the general staff, but you know, i would like us to focused our attention on the fact that in the kursk region, what we know about from some public means of information is that there is some, you know, very competent and , i would say, consistent work, and what is involved there rockets, for us it is of course a pleasure, because, you know, we have gotten used to them constantly hitting us over the past two years, we cannot normally, adequately fight them back, and this story is on the horizon, it instills in us a certain hope and expectation that we are already getting stronger, we are becoming stronger, and we can provide an adequate response to the enemy, how do you assess all these events now, we have enough information, our ukrainian authorities and military command try not to say much about it, but what is happening there in your opinion, mr. ivan and for what? it is happening, i would like to just joke with the phrase "fallen down, the essence is satisfied", but

this will clearly not be enough. to be specific, i propose to take a look at such a deep retrospective, and i want not to recall one moment here: in october 2023, one of our there research defense institutes, apparently with, let's say, high current approval, published one scientifically popular note, where the then commander-in-chief of the zsu zaluzhnyi was quoted three times, that is, this is an example... the level of height of the work at which it took place, the work was devoted to experience various offensive operations, during the breakthrough of fortified lines, there are different chronological periods, water conditions, but there was one thing in common there, he believes. almost a red line was underlined, any such successful operations, they took place in the first place exactly due to the information silence, apparently from the fall of 2023, the officers of the defense forces of ukraine involved in this kind of operational suddenness, or as the russians say now , the indiscriminate shootings began

to be prepared then, and maybe now some such the factors that could allow this to begin... here, i think, it is also necessary to pay fair attention to the fact that just a day has passed, and if this is really a general military operation, and there are all the signs, then usually the general staff does nothing officially does not comment so early yet, after all, any operations of this kind still have, let's call it, a cognitive, informational effect, when it is necessary to put the enemy in a state of such entanglement, cognitive dissonance, that he does not know how to interpret everything, so in some way here is the official silence on the part of the military leadership, in my opinion it is justified, but from what we can appreciate tangentially, even if there we can rely only on the personnel from the russian side. apparently, one of the important components that managed to work there to the defense forces of ukraine, preparing this operational surprise, this is generally the format of actions of small assault groups with the support of armored vehicles,

and when breaking through the enemy's fortified line, because you know, we probably haven't tested it yet. this fact, which comes out in less than a day, the armed forces of ukraine were able to overcome the security line and reach the first and second lines of the enemy's defense in less than a day, it turns out, and the result of the counteroffensive, you know, was described somewhere like this in two months, even if, of course, we are talking about a smaller one the density of fortifications, in the south there was a supply lane of 30 km, in kurshchyna it was only 10, but nevertheless, somehow, imperceptibly , such a thing happened to our troops... a sudden operational effect, and it turns out, in principle, the moment that the nato generals will have to study again, because especially after the summer of 2023, everyone had this doctrinal effect, which is described as follows: how to advance in modern conditions, if the whole world rushed to help ukraine, but to put it mildly not it worked out, now consider the gestalts to be closed and

now they will again study how ukraine managed to advance effectively, we can even rely on russian assertions regarding that, because who but the russians know to what depth and width they are being driven, whether there has already been a breakthrough was 15 km in depth and 11 km in width, so you know that, somehow they managed to disperse their troops, excuse me, and have them transfer their forces there, because yesterday there were reports that some young guys were driven there by conscripts, well, this is certainly not what we would like to see, we would... like to see them send some of their more serious units, which are currently attacking the toretsky, pokrovsky, kurakhivskyi directions, possibly to some other areas and that there, well, it was a little easier for us i'm afraid that you are now voicing overly inflated, you know, insanely inflated expectations for this level of operation, give it at least a few days to develop, because for the sake of

understanding, the russians, when they were forming, well , conducting this partial mobilization, they specifically had two engineering units. .. formed which, excuse me, stupidly dug fortifications, the russians are coming out right there in kurshchyna, they were preparing strong fortifications there for two years, they constantly kept a contingent in order not to give our opportunities to move forward there, you know, the russians were constantly shelling sumyshchyna, constantly sending sabotage- reconnaissance group, that is, the russians there were constantly in good shape, even there it turns out that it was a simple miracle of our troops, a military miracle that our troops managed to move forward so quickly, do you understand? here simply because of the objective lack of public there official information, it is still possible to assess what has happened, but what has already happened is a miracle, but in order for the effect to arise, the russians need to stop and throw something of the pokrovsky in this direction, maybe it will take a week, but at least try to develop, well, we must let the effect of this miracle develop, because i will repeat,

after the problem arose in the summer of 2023 for everyone in the world, how to proceed in principle, you and i... today we are discussing the effect, when in a day, according to the enemy's claims , which usually if they were not complementary to us, yes, but to break through to a width of 12 km and a depth of 15 km, consider it, well, plus or minus the pace is similar to the kharkiv offensive, but at the same time the enemy was in much worse condition than now, we are already seeing the military a miracle, let's wait for this miracle to develop, and then the russians will have to accumulate problems, so that in order to localize this indiscriminate shooting, they will be forced to withdraw troops from somewhere. of course, there may even be such an option that the russians decide to sacrifice part of the territory, according to their version, russia is much bigger there, continue to advance in the pokrovsky direction, but hey, then it means kursk. will have to prepare for the reception of the ukrainian government at such a pace. we understand that behind the military miracle there are very specific people who sacrifice their lives and their

health, and we understand that we are sitting here and watching all the events that are developing in the kurt region, but all this is done by specific people who went to defend the country. if we talk about russian mobilization, here mr. budanov said that if the war drags on, then in the 25th year, in the summer, such a dilemma will arise in russia, and russia will think about what to do, whether to stop it all, or to announce a re-mobilization. we know that mr. budanov sometimes makes such predictions, we were already supposed to drink coffee in crimea, in yalta, but we still don't drink coffee there. how do you assess such prospects, which were voiced by kyrylo budanov, and in general. what do you say about russian mobilization, is there anyone else to mobilize and are there still reserves to entice russians to serve in the russian

army? well, for starters, it's just worth taking take into account the very fact that the head of the main intelligence department voiced such an assessment and not to make any far-reaching exhibitions there, especially since, as far as i remember, this coffee on the coast in crimea was promised by completely different people. a figure who for some reason is not presented with it, or it should be presented to him, and not to the head of any military department, especially since from a formal point of view , budanov found an argument to justify himself, saying, well, we- they were there, they said the main intelligence agency, but they said that he did not specify who exactly, i think what kind of actor promised coffee on the coast in yalta, its period, i think, can be found independently, but we are not talking about him, here we are talking about the russian potential, if we talk... about russians, now there are a lot of assessments and we can say, regarding capabilities of russia, this is a separate fog of war there, because you can find estimates for any taste now, as to what the russians really have there by the summer of 2025 and

the equipment will begin to run out, and some stage of depletion of tank reserves may begin there, you see , now there are still questions about personnel, but you know, it's even necessary here pay attention to what, in theory, the russians were supposed to face before this choice, i.e. there will be mobilization... or something else already this summer, perhaps the main intelligence agency knows something that the russians are planning to do to delay the adoption for a year this, you know, the border, to mobilize there or something else that we still don’t understand, maybe it was just such a hidden story about the wider recruitment of mercenaries, including from north korea, maybe they talked about it, regarding the possibility of attracting, there is no longer the question is in the demographic resource, perhaps the question is in the ideological one, because in a certain... noxious way it turns out that, for example, the russians now have even more people working at defense factories than are currently enlisting in the army, although the thing is that comes out for the production

of weapons, the kremlin regime is ready to pay manufacturers, well, an ordinary worker approximately 88 thousand rubles, well, under 100 00 rubles a month, here it turns out that he is ready to pay 200 thousand to a contractor, but if this had not been announced now, there are not so many fools among russians, and many of them choose a less lethal option for themselves, to make weapons for the war with estonia. rubles a month, why go to war for a minimum of 200,000 rubles of the contract, not counting, of course , the various payments promised there, that is why there is such a very slippery story, so i suggest here to think once again that it is possible that the main intelligence office became aware of something about , what allowed the russians there to push back the threshold of making such a decision for exactly one year, i.e. to mobilize directly or something else to accept what it could be, i still don't fully understand, but once again i will assume that it could be, for example, north korean mercenaries. mr. podolyak really talked about coffee in crimea, but mr. kyrylo budanov said last summer on july 28 that he had such a statement that

ukrainian troops would soon enter crimea, well, i don’t know what he means by soon, but it’s not soon yet took place, well, from a formal point of view, the units of the main directorate of intelligence, these are the same troops, our troops, well... i reasoned from everything, well, we will, you know, hope that it is a known fact that these words of theirs will one day become prophetic, but i think that this is a reason for our high officials to bite their tongues sometimes and not say what they cannot provide in the future and not give people too high expectations , in our country, people try to cling to those hopes and these inflated expectations, because it gives them this desire to live and think about the fact that we will live again someday. in a different way than we live now, but this is a bit of a philosophy on my part. i would still i wanted, mr. ivan, to finally discuss with you zelensky's statement regarding the increase in financing of our missile program. yesterday, with

your colleague... katkov, we briefly talked about this somewhere, we understand that our military budgets are completely disproportionate to the budgets that russia can afford, but we are pleased with the fact that our missile program exists at all, for so much time, we are trying to revive it, we have neptune, with which we are trying to hit targets already on the territory of the enemy, and this is additional funding, it gives hope that maybe we won't have to ask for help. partners to give us permission to use their weapons on the territory of the russian federation. do you think we will have such an opportunity in the near future? but you know, it is in the interests of our western partners that we ask them for missiles, if it does not sound paradoxical now, because the white house, with its desire not to escalate, played to the point that european countries decided what to order, for example, cruise missiles and gm-158, which in theory can be hung under

f-16, in the usa there is no ... sense, then you see how another war with russia will begin, here the next president in the white house will tell that certain missiles cannot be used, that is, consider that ukraine is saving its reputation in one way or another of these or other weapons manufacturers, because , well, we just managed to create such inflated, well, estimates for the iv-16s, so perhaps the reputation of this aircraft does not need to be saved here, but let's say so, the efficiency with which this aircraft was used in 90s and 2010s, these are two big ones differences and the second difference, well, it doesn’t really play out like that, so in this case, even regardless of which products within the framework of this rocket program can go up the mountain, well , because you know, for example, not only is there a lot of talk about the fact that neptune is not something that tries, but falls, where it is aimed now, well , if they are suspiciously silent about the peregrine, and i think that is exactly the right suspicious silence, why are they silent, because, well, the first review of any weapon should be given by the enemy, and then

we will analyze any public ones details but nevertheless, taking into account such an important factor as the insane volume of the use of missiles in this particular war, when the enemy used 7,500 long-range missiles of various types against us, not counting the missiles, you know, of such a short range, then you know, we still have to catch up . great happiness... still, well, somewhere in the world besides us, there are 10-15 countries that are engaged in their own programs, even in brazil, let's say, there is a whole rocket factory without work, because in brazil the position is strange, and these the workers at the avibrats plant must be fed with something. thank you, ivan krychevskyi, a military expert from defense express, was in touch with us, we thank him, we are moving forward with lesya, we will talk about our financial issues in a few minutes, we briefly talked about it somewhere, but we will be more specific about

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