of independence on carsil tablets 10% in psarynsky bam and ochad pharmacies, there are discounts until independence day on magne b6 10% in psarynsky bam and ochad pharmacies. news time on the espresso tv channel. kateryna shiropoyas works in the studio. at night, explosions rang out in ternopil. the russians hit an industrial facility. a fire broke out on the spot, the state emergency service reported. fortunately, no one was hurt. local authorities urged people to close their windows tightly due to the strong smell of burning. around three in the morning, we received a report about the fire. on

one of the enterprises of the city of ternopil, upon arrival at the scene of the fire, it was established that the fire had started as a result of an enemy object hitting one of the bones, where combustible and bridging materials were stored, as a result of which the fire broke out. to eliminate this fire, the rescuers of the ternopil garrison were involved, as well as from other cities. the russians attacked kyiv region with missiles and drones. our air defense forces were destroyed on mayahosil. as a result of falling debris, four private houses and an outbuilding were damaged. this was announced by the head of the regional military administration ruslan kravchenko. grass has also grown in one of the districts. previously, people were not injured. a 47-year-old man was injured as a result of a night strike in kupiansk. and in the morning, the occupiers attacked kupyansk-nodal. information about the victims is currently available. - said

oleg synogubov, the head of the region. the russians also shelled the village of borova, residential buildings were damaged there, people were not injured. five people died as a result of shelling in donetsk region, seven more were seriously injured. this was reported in the regional office police the russians covered siversk and zarichne with enemy fire. they also hit turkey and time ravine. that night, the occupiers once again attacked pokrovsk and. as a result of the shelling, 18 residential buildings, an enterprise and an educational institution were destroyed, as well as a cultural center and a cafe. ukrainian defenders destroyed the underground control point of the russians in the kurdish direction. air force commander mykola olyschuk showed a video of the successful work of our aviation. the video shows how a ukrainian fighter jet hit a guided air bomb on the underground base of the occupiers. it has been burning for

the third day, 22 tanks with fuel are already burning at the kavkaz oil depot in the rostov region, the fire has covered more than 10,000 m2, the fire still cannot be extinguished, the flames are spreading, russian media reports. to fight the fire, the russians brought in specialized fire engines, according to the local authorities , at least 40 local rescuers in proletarst were injured in the fire. is the state of emergency. let me remind you that the general staff confirmed the attack on the kavkaz plant, where oil and petroleum products supplied for the needs of the russian army. and our border guards attacked the enemy in the direction of vovchan, night bombers destroyed engineering equipment and an armored vehicle of the occupiers. also , the air reconnaissance of the border guards disabled the tank and hit the positions of the invaders. prepared

strikes on odeshchyna. the security service detained felsher of the local emergency medical station . according to the investigation materials, the 39-year-old man cooperated with the occupiers and coordinated strikes in the region. he used shvydka's car for cover. by car toured the coastal areas and fixed fire positions of ukrainian air defense. he also tried to get the coordinates of the bases of the ships and personnel of the maritime security. traitor faces life imprisonment. motor accident in kyiv region. the car hit a moped driven by a 62-year-old woman. the driver was seriously injured. she was hospitalized, the regional police reported. the 78-year-old driver of a passenger car was overtaking, disregarding traffic rules. the driver was detained. the church will be deprived. russian influence.

people's elected representatives and officials promise that today in the parliament they will consider a bill on banning the russian orthodox church in ukraine as a threat to national security. so let's recall what initiatives in the council have already tried to do this and what to expect from the final version i am documenting, the bell is floating-floating over russia, such a prayer sounded in the kyiv-pocharsk lavra in the fall of 2022 and... this became another signal to the understanding of society, that the moscow church is moscow, not only in name. then the people elected officials began work on draft laws to ban the uoc-mp in ukraine. in total, the verkhovna rada registered 11

draft laws banning or restricting the activities of the uoc mp. among them are initiatives numbered 8221, 8262. and 83-71. in november 2022, more than 30 people's deputies from various factions, led by mykola knyazhetskyi , submitted bill 8221. it provided for a ban on the activities of the russian orthodox church and its divisions on the territory of ukraine. early termination of all transactions related to the use of property and established the peculiarities of naming religious organizations, in particular. it was about the orthodox prefix. the document was rejected by a monomajority. in december 2022, the initiative was registered 82-62 by more than 20 deputies of various factions, headed by iryna konstankevych. they suggested speeding up the procedure for confiscating property of the uoc and facilitating the transition

of communities to the ocu. servants of the people did not support such an initiative either. and on january 19, 2023, from... the entire document number 8371. it was initiated by the cabinet of ministers to implement the decision of the national security council. it predicts that the russian orthodox church will be banned as religious organization. all religious organizations affiliated with it will be shut down following a clear procedure that will include an investigation, an injunction , and an injunction. roc and affiliated structures will not be able to use. state and communal property and simplifying the transition of communities to the ukrainian local orthodox church. bill 8371 has had a bumpy road. it passed the first reading only in october 2023, and until the second

, the committee worked on it for a long time and scrupulously. july 23 became the apogee. the monomajority refused to put the bill to a vote. so theses. the session of the parliament ended with the tribune being blocked, first, today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, if they do not pass, they do not pass the law on the church, there will be no meetings of the verkhovna rada. and so it happened, from that day on the draft law was again worked on in the committee. on august 16, yevgenia kravchuk, deputy head of the vru committee on humanitarian and information policy , reported that there were amendments to the draft law. unanimously and finally approved. among important changes, the draft law now has a new name on the protection of the constitutional order in the sphere of activities of religious organizations. it enters into force 30 days after publication and has a clause that allows you to apply to the court for the termination of the activities

of a religious organization that has a connection with the russian orthodox church and the aggressor country. this norm enters into force 9 months after its publication. in the committee. emphasize that the state does not limit freedom of religion, but excludes any ties with russia and its churches. espresso tv channel and vesna charity fund opened fundraising for the purchase of modern drones and electronic warfare systems for the third separate assault brigade of the 110th and 47th brigades of the armed forces of ukraine. the defenders in the donetsk direction every day hold back enemy attacks, defend our freedom and future. exactly. all the soldiers stood to the last and defended the avdiiv direction in the spring. the brigades urgently need flying weapons and modern means of countering enemy drones. our goal is uah 3.5 million. remember that every donation you make is important, so get involved. you can now see all the details on your screens.

to find out more interesting and relevant information, follow the updates on our website espresso.tv. i will say goodbye to you already until tomorrow. a new week, new analytics, new topics and new forecasts. greetings to everyone on the espresso tv channel, my name is andriy smoliy, and we are starting our "new week" program. as a rule, there are two of us here, and khrystyna yatskiv should still be here, but today, so to speak, we switched places, and i will be in the studio, and we will definitely have it from 21:15. will join us on skype, and we will talk in the second part, we will

discuss and analyze the current events and events of this week. and now, in the first part, we will traditionally have experts, as i already predicted, but before that, of course, i will remind you, or rather, i will start with our survey, and today it sounds as follows : do you hope that the authorities will ensure the transparency of the reconstruction of ohmadite? you can take your phones or your smartphones and vote yes or no for absolutely free. if you think so, call 0800 211 381, if you think not, call 0800-211382. again i emphasize, all calls are absolutely free, and at the end of the next... hour we will sum up and see what

you think, and we will start with our first guest, we already have ivan stupak, a military expert, on the phone , a former employee of the security service of ukraine. mr. ivan, we are glad to welcome you to the studio of the tv channel, thank you for the invitation. mr. ivan, of course i wanted to talk to you about kurdish. the operation of the actual creation of a buffer zone by ukraine on the territory of the occupying state, well, in particular, according to deep state data, which were made public yesterday at the end of the day, the armed forces took control of several more settlements, and also advanced in another populated settlement, which is called olhivka, also, if we add one more piece of information like this, on... the map, by the way, our tv viewers can to see, in fact, the armed forces of ukraine

destroyed all three bridges over the seim river, which de facto allows this hlushkiv district to isolate, so to speak, and either squeeze out the occupiers from there, or take them into a tight ring, at the same time, there is information that informs about the fact that... the occupier could set up pontoon bridges for the evacuation of the armed forces of the russian federation, well, if we are talking about the kurdish operation in general, if we actually already have, how many almost two weeks of how the operation continues on the territory of russia, how you are now assessing, is it actually, as we say, the creation of a buffer zone in order to... make it impossible for russia to attack the territory of sumy oblast, or does it have some more far-sighted,

strategic plans from a military point of view, so to speak? let's do it, every time i'm talking about the kurdish, kurdish offensive operation, i always say this: we have two weeks of iferia, we are happy, we are studying the geography of the kursk region, the river si. what areas do they have there, what bridges are there, it’s all cool, it’s all great, but we have such a spoonful of breath that we have in the east of ukraine, where at the same time we are gradually losing territory every day, i just really want your honorable the audience not only perceived it from the point of view of hey, hey, we are cutting down the russians here, but how are we going to go to the kurdish as, or something else, the russians are already standing almost close to the city of pokrovsk, this is to understand that... that the hostilities there are not dying down, that is, i am saying this for balance, to understand how much

the situation on the one hand is inspiring, on the other hand it is very, very difficult, and so regarding your question, i i don't think that we are talking about some kind of buffer zone there, because let's face it, modern weapons, modern ballistic missiles, well, they transform any zone, or rather, for a buffer zone to be a modern ballistic weapon, it must pass somewhere conditionally in the area the second... dova's ring in moscow, this is for understanding, because 500 km iskander tactical complexes are not a question at all. i am looking more into this story, but the operation took place in order to... make new, let's say, conditions from the ukrainian side for the start of peace talks. please remember the russian federation immediately, when there is talk of some theoretical peace talks there, they say this: taking into account the current realities on the ground, which means, where the foot of a russian serviceman lies, they want to recognize as

the russian federation, in a similar way ukraine decided to break this situation, okay, where is ukraine. it turns out that there is also, well , the territory remains with us, that is, this is an attempt to once again knock out the foundations from under russia, to somehow reduce the initial peaceful demands that russia puts forward to us, to harm them on their side, to harm their infrastructure, to create a large number of internally displaced persons people, theirs, let them and by the way, they intuitively russians run to the north. the north of the kursk region, kursk, the city of orel, tula, and tula is already under the ivy, perhaps, so to speak, of moscow, near moscow oblast already, and this is already true, these are not bad, bad talks, bad conjuncture for moscow, talks are once again bad for those who live in the moscow region, that the war is

near, by the way, the last thing i will tell you, those russians , who were not interrogated, but... your fellow journalists from our various ukrainian publications and from the american ones were hanging out with them, they tell them that we lived all the time, well, not with hope, but with such a dream that the war is somewhere there, there, somewhere, somewhere , our boys have gone somewhere, and we have this there is no and they are shocked, they are horrified and as they say, they leave their places, well, the city completely with empty eyes mr. ivan, i absolutely agree with you about the pokrovsky direction about the occasion. mirnograd, pokrovska, toretska, we are all watching now all over ukraine, we are worried, and we understand that the occupiers do not stop pressing in this direction. but there is one more question regarding the kurdish operation, what should we expect during the new week. and the second

question, do you expect in the coming weeks that... that the russians, and maybe for months, that the russians will still try to conduct some kind of counteroperation with new forces, yes look, it's a great question, i understand, personally i expect, well, again, this is my subjective opinion, well, as of last week, this is what i have formed for myself, that i assume, i assume that it is possible by the end of this week in we, or rather the ukrainian armed forces of ukraine, have the opportunity... to seize, advance, let's say, in the kursk region, well, as much as possible, and perhaps by the end of the week the russians will still be able to collect, move, equip their military forces formation to stop the ukrainian advance, but judging by this, as of monday, i see that somehow it is happening slowly in them,

it seems that either they still have not come out of such a state of shock and cannot gather themselves with... with thoughts, efforts, or they have come to terms somehow, well, okay, the ukrainians occupied something there, but we dug in everything there along the perimeter, they will not pass further, and so be it, but at least now there are two such opinions, i think, in time we will understand what is more important to them , or just let it stay, or they will really try to collect something big groups, by the way, there were already unconfirmed reports that the russians had apparently gathered around 10,000 people. authorities to carry out this counteroperation operation to expel the ukrainians, but western analysts say that, judging by the way the ukrainians came in, the russians will most likely have to use about 20,000 personnel to do something there, and here it is, speaking from the point of view in terms of numbers,

how many are 20-30 realistically and will they be able to collect such a number in... in principle, if we talk about the movement of troops, then they can, but we, once again, approaching the discussion of the pokrovsky direction, we understand that they do not want to transfer a large number of personnel either from the kharkiv direction, vovchansk, we see that the pressure continues there anyway, or from the actually kupyan direction , neither from siversky, nor from pokrovsky and. yes, that is, after all, they are, conditionally speaking, postponing this operation for later, as far as i understand, confirm or refute my subjective opinion, look, first in the first... messages came from the kharkiv region from our guys, that it seems to have become a little easier to breathe, that there are fewer russians, they started to take something away, they even mentioned the number, but

then literally in a few days they say new information, but no, guys, nothing got easier, on the contrary, they started to press even harder, and once again, these are not official statements from official representatives, that is, they are from the guys who are there and they subjectively feel either the pressure or the lack of this pressure there. now regarding the gathering of these people in general, well , come on, we must understand that in the russian general staff is not full of idiots, there are incomplete tra-and such people sit there, if there were complete idiots, then in march of the 22nd year, the war would have ended with our victory, they also realize that our ukraine is making this feint with their ears, here are the jumps in order to to distract the attention of the russian command, that's why they, as i see it, decided to take away thousands of people. composition from each direction, they so carefully pulled out where, as they say, there are too many, there are too many excess forces, plus in an emergency mode, they transfer to this section of the front in

kursk, and from kaliningrad, conscripts, from murmansk, leningrad, moscow military districts, plus, what was noticed in the castle, these are the space forces, these are the military and space forces of the russian federation, who join the infantry, pilots. flight mechanics and engineers were seen from the deer, or rather they were reported, leaving the airfields, they are leaving as stormtroopers, and again, referring to western analysts, they say that putin lacks approximately 15,000 personnel in order to to complete this operation successfully by the elimination of ukrainians, without removing people from the front. let's return to the issues of the territory of ukraine, because in my opinion, this is probably the most important thing right now, but we have already talked about the fact that, unfortunately,

there is a very strong pressure on our defense forces, in the pokrovsk direction, on direction, essentially from avdiivka, this pressure, it started at the beginning of the year, large-scale, and it continues, unfortunately, as you estimate that... we will have in the current week, at least in this most important direction of this pressure, and possibly in other directions, c we still have a rather difficult direction, this is the time, all the same, although there is no such great progress there, we have the direction of new york, which to a greater extent, if we turn to the maps again, restate under the control of the occupiers now. well, probably other directions, this is what we will have during the next seven days, and in general, what should we expect, will the russians take, for example, toretsk or

mirnograd or pokrovsk, how much time do they need for this, because i apologize, but ours, even officials are already talking about it en masse evacuation, ms. vereshchuk says, we see how the local... business is actually floundering on the ground, so in these cities, we see how people are leaving, so what should we expect from these difficult directions for our defenders? come on, i'll be very careful in these assumptions, i don't like to hang around there in any case, well, it's unacceptable, but if our authorities announced 14 days to evacuate the city of pokrovsk. well, here we have such a figure that for 14 days he will still be under the control of ukraine, then, well, maybe its gradual destruction by the russian

armed forces will begin, as they did in soledar, in bakhmut, in avdiyivka, maryanka, and hundreds of other cities and towns, villages and forces of ukraine in the east, and in the north, in the south, everything as they like , what they will do, i assume, i can't say the time frame, how much time they will... it will take, because there are many parameters, including, well, including, first of all, from our armed forces, the second is providing the russians with troops, equipment, people, now our military say yes, much worse than was in solidar 22-23, much worse, much more difficult, uh, they press incredibly, they press just incredibly again in the cube, ah, fabs, fabs - this is, well, most likely one of those key elements, in addition to infantry, infantry... these assaults, with which they make a result, the density of 200-250 m is thrown with these fabs and there is no escape from them, that is

, one and a half tons of fabs arrive. it is a hundred, two hundred meters, and a contusion is guaranteed, if a three-ton fab, then in general even and, well, much less, a greater distance where you can get a contusion, so they will choose such indiscriminate weapons, imprecise, but due to the number, they destroy cities, my biggest, well, not a fear, and once again you don’t need to be a great analyst, just open the deepstate map, zoom out a little and look at the donetsk region, and you can see how the russians they are trying as if with a corporate knife... to cut the ukrainian defense, the donetsk region, in half, into a conditional half, a conditional north, a conditional south, and then, as a military matter, destroy the enemy from there, as we are the enemy for them piece by piece, you divide it in half , a then you finish, unfortunately, unfortunately, another topic about the axis of evil and about the partner of one of putin's key partners, lukashenka, who once again threatens with nuclear weapons.

lukashenko said a lot there, but in particular he said that by attacking kurshchyna, kyiv can actually provoke moscow to use nuclear weapons. let's listen and then discuss. such an escalation on the part of ukraine is an attempt to push russia to asymmetric actions, let's say, the use of nuclear weapons. i know, for sure, that in ukraine they would be very happy if russia has used, are we there, tactical nuclear weapons. that would be happiness. then we would hardly have any allies left, none at all, not even those countries that sympathize . so, mr. ivan, lukashenko said a lot during the last few days, he gave an interview there to the propagandist russia-1 and to his local media. mass

information, different opinions were heard from him, and about the fact that the denazification of ukraine has already been practically completed there, and in particular another scaremongering about nuclear weapons, like you do you appreciate the fact that lukashenka was released, he is for months, then he is silent for months, then he was released again, it is clear that on the command of the kremlin into the information space, what does this indicate, mr. ivan? yes, look, well, this is my personal opinion, but... you have to listen to this character in the original, because in the translation he is not very good, but when in the original, he is really there simply by intonations, i apologize, but he is blinded like that , but he burns down the office, he gives out certain secrets of what is happening in one relationship, relations between refia and belarus, and yes, in general, he says a lot regularly to his local channels, here this film crew really came to see him, this man

is like... the skabieva propagandists, they really are two such a couple, two propagandists - this is a couple, what is lukashenka's interest in? first of all, he stated that he, as i see it, is cautiously pushing his comrade in dictatorship, dictator putin, to the fact that, well , listen, these nazis have not ended there, well, because ieds need to be ended already, apparently, that is, he is pushing so carefully, it is not a fact that it will work, but carefully we see such messages from him, now about nuclear ... weapons, i actually heard the opposite of what you said about nuclear weapons again, here is my personal inner subjective feeling as of august 19, i see that he, dictator lukashenko and dictator putin are afraid to talk about nuclear weapons, are afraid to use them, that is, once again, it is possible to say yes, but not to use what he says, i looked at these in more detail his video, he says as follows:

there... speaking, in ukraine, in poland, in the west , they sleep and dream that russia and belarus will use nuclear weapons, and then it is such a gift for them, simply incredible, but - he says, we we will not give them this gift, even if they do not dream, that is, no one will give it to them again, it is about us, why, because if they use nuclear weapons, then they are quite consciously and adequately aware that they have allies... no more will be, neither china nor conditional india, and maybe even north korea will fall somewhere on the horizon, but here china is the most important ally, losing which they risk losing everything in such a short-term time perspective, so i think that now there is no question of nuclear blackmail or nuclear war at all, mr. ivan, we are sincerely grateful to you.