all the residents of ukraine should not ignore the air warning signals and hide in the bomb shelter . at the moment, everything is not good. oleksia, we heard, we heard a very loud sound and an explosion. everyone lay down. he was just leaving the hospital. people who were and are. unfortunately, we have lost contact with our speaker who, as we can see now, is quite emotional describing the situation in vinnytsia, where there are enemies, hello, how did it recover yes yes yes yes yes yes yes continue to be kind that's why the area is now numb and police and military bicycles the area is being evacuated, the rescue of lives is in progress, those who remained under the rubble, and the situation in the

city is under control, the situation in the city is under control, but once again i call on all residents of ukraine not to ignore the air alarm signals, to hide in the storage room, so to you, mr. oleksiy oleksiiev furman, a volunteer of the legion of freedom from vinnytsia about the latest missile attack on the russian federation , so our colleagues are picking up the air relay and newsmen and analysts are already planning news on espresso in a few moments stay with us to stay up to date with all the most important things, the war in ukraine is the main topic for ukrainians, victories and losses, analysis and forecasts , politics and geopolitics, serhii rudenko and the guests of his program will talk about all this, people who have information and shape public opinion , people who defend ukraine and create the future right

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and maria gurska will discuss on saturday the most important thing is to draw proper conclusions, you want to know how what is happening today will affect our tomorrow, watch saturday's political club, that saturday on expresso continues 141 days of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian invaders, to your attention, news on espresso, anzhelika sesinuko is working in the studio, another terrorist act , razshisti, kissed in vinnytsia the city was previously hit with three rockets, so far it is known about two dead and six injured, said the head of the national police of ukraine, ihor klymenko the attackers targeted the civilian infrastructure, also fifty cars are on fire in the parking lot, now

we have the opportunity to add to our direct broadcast a journalist from vinnytsia anastasia holoshevets anastasia glory to ukraine please tell us the consequences of the rocket attacks, what is known as of now glory to the heroes today vinnytsia was shaken by the explosion, the people of vinnytsia were quite loyal to because we didn't have any alarms for a long time, and there weren't any explosions, so today at 11 o'clock three loud explosions started, they sounded in fact, in the center of the city, where the fans were hit, this is the main one, in fact, one of the main intersections of the city. it leads in three directions. it is known that they targeted the office premises near the officers' house , on the officers' house, or to orientate, it is a cultural institution where they usually conduct us

concerts were also held next to it, according to the information, it was apparently signed next to the other side with a rocket e-e in the office premises, and therefore it caught fire, which then spread to the parking lot, now , according to the information of the national police, it is really burning 50 the cars are injured, unfortunately, the information was confirmed under od's head, he noted that two people were injured, more precisely, two people were killed, among them a child and six people were injured. in the city, those who are scared, traffic is blocked to get to the scene of the tragedy. it is now impossible to get to the place of the tragedy. did the law enforcement officers block the traffic? they only let rescue cars with

law enforcement officers and, in particular, an ambulance. traffic is prohibited. it is worth saying what eyewitnesses say . the explosions were so large-scale, so loud that they gave birth, it was initially information about hitting the maternity hospital, but fortunately this information was not confirmed, people who repeat are scared and talk about the fact that they will not ignore now, er, blue air-crack, because they actually saw it on their own example that the war is ongoing and the war is not far away, it is here and even moderately . vinnytsia was a peaceful place until then.

from od's head, so that he could provide more clear information , i will only say that the alarm is still present in our country, people have lowered their roofs or are simply standing on the street because they are afraid of tall buildings going up and are waiting for the end of the alarm, uh, and once again we ask you not to publish photos and videos there is still no official information from the head of the otaxt, anastasia. thank you very much for the details . anastasia holoshivets from vinnytsia joined our live broadcast and told about the consequences of the rocket attack by rocket launchers in the city. we will monitor the situation, and for now, nine rockets arrived in other regions of mykolaiv this morning. this massive attack was carried out from the s-300 anti-aircraft missile system.

one person was injured. two educational institutions , a hotel, a shopping and entertainment center, and the object of transport infrastructure, rescuers dismantle the rubble, the occupiers also hotels in the city of bashtanka in the region, one person will die there, i destroyed residential buildings in the shrykiv community , grain fields burned due to enemy fire in in berezneguvatska, the shelling of villages on the demarcation line continues. debris in a high-rise building in a temporary ravine has been completed. search operations there lasted five days. more than 300 rescuers were involved. this was announced by the head of donetsk region , pavlo kyrylenko. according to him , 48 civilians were killed as a result of a rocket attack, including one the child of nine more people was saved, let me remind you that on july 9, the occupiers shelled the ravine with rocket launchers,

a hurricane of rockets destroyed two entrances in a five-story residential building, it just appeared operative information from the office of the president, tymoshenko's wing said that in vinnytsia the death toll has increased to eight, we are following up. as a result of the inhuman terrorist acts committed by the russian federation on the territory of ukraine, russia does not leave civilians alone, and two civilians were wounded in slovyansk as a result of evening and night shelling residents this was announced by the mayor of vadimlyam, at the same time he once again called on people to leave to safer regions. i remind you that the evacuation continues, we also sincerely opened the new direction where the residents of our community can leave is the city of korosten. thank you to the korosten community. thank you to the mayor of

the city, volodymyr moskalenko, for accepting our residents. we stick together. take care, although the three old men will no longer be able to take up arms, they were eliminated by ukrainian fighters, in general, our defenders forever stopped more than 37,800 invaders also burned another 18 tanks, 20 armored fighting vehicles and 16 vehicles of the invaders, and the enemy was also left without one artillery system of three of drones and two planes, the attacker suffered the most losses in the direction of kramatorsk , the general staff reminds that the numbers are not final. this is where i put a full stop for today. more news members of our website espresso.tv, a brief summary of the main things on our telegram channel, news of espresso.tv, the most interesting information and videos on our youtube channel espresso.tv subscribe

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demand and the troops for high-quality defense systems, my name is serhii zhorits and the director of the defense-express company, which, together with the espresso channel, aims to cover the most relevant events in the life of our army and the defense industrial complex, and my interlocutor - this is maksym plekhov , the chairman of the board of the association of volunteers and enterprises of the defense sector of the lviv defense cluster, the basis of this cluster is the kharkiv plant of personal protective equipment which produced body armor for eight years, now this factory has been evacuated to western ukraine, maksym . i welcome you to the espresso channel. good day. i will start by saying that in the 14th year, when the first war for the russian federation began, we had a situation when there were actually very few body armor per soldier one bulletproof vest was for 100 soldiers, now is a new stage of the war and again we are talking about the fact that we

need bulletproof vests, what is the general situation today with the provision of personal protective equipment for our soldiers on the battlefield if we let's say for the situation that arose at the beginning of the war , in fact, in ukraine, the ukrainian army did not actually have any body armor. because starting in 2018, the state did not purchase body armor at all , some units of the national police, the security service, and others, in the ministry of defense , the national guard or the independent did not purchase, there were some questions regarding the technical documentation , so the bidding was not successful. armored vests were not purchased. therefore, the hotel at the beginning of the war actually did not have vests. there was no situation. similarly, what was in the 14th year. today, if we are talking about the situation that has already developed thanks to the volunteers thanks to the state orders, well, from my

personal data, the provision of non-vests is about 45%, and at the end of the 17th year, the state came to the point that the body armor which was in service, this is the beauty of the corsair m3s, it was necessary to rework and make a new bulletproof vest. the ministry of defense created a working group, which included representatives of four ukrainian companies, in order to make a new bulletproof vest. conducting an experimental sock, which passed , a vest was accepted, which was used as the basis for a new simulator for the ukrainian army,

the documentation was drawn up in exact order, which had to be approved, and then go to the department of state procurement to carry out the purchase, but all these years, the documentation was not approved i.e. some companies tried to make changes to this documentation and did some uh-uh incomprehensible actions in order to actually the situation that i have with the metallization of the market and its save, therefore, the documentation was not accepted, and therefore the state procurement department cannot carry out the purchase and buy because you live well, we will come to this topic a little later, but then tell you directly about your enterprise and the lviv defense cluster, what is this association currently doing or does it manufacture bulletproof vests or other means of personal protection in the lviv defense cluster was actually formed in the first days of the war after the beginning of armed aggression, and a number

of specialists of the kharkiv long equipment plant in of individual protection with the documentation, i left for lviv, the question arose regarding the activities of uh, me personally, my partners, acquaintances, what we will do, uh , understanding regarding state orders. to withdraw from business management, to create a voluntary association that could give wider opportunities for the production of non-vests , so if we are talking about commerce, then in fact we could produce maybe 100% of water there at that time when we came to the volunteer project and united near us lviv enterprises, lviv business clubs that helped us, we were able to actually come out with 1,500 so that you don't have vests per day at the same time eh considering that everything was done

on a volunteer basis, it is worth the cost price because on a vest was much less than any commercial line today. the lviv defense cluster has in fact already invented 80,000 vests, 60,000 of them have already been handed over to the defense forces of ukraine, 20,000 are at the stage of assembly and transfers, and in fact, the remaining materials allow for another 20,000 non-vest vests, that is, the first goal of the lviv defense cluster regarding the production of 100,000 non-vest vests is actually already being fulfilled. that is, if we are talking about body armor, and the main difference is of the european union of lviv about a classmate - this is what in fact, this is professional volunteering, that is, if we say that the basic activity of a volunteer organization that collects funds and buys some products is this it has experience of high cost of production. if a charitable fund bought me vests

abroad, they spent about uah 15,000. the lviv defense class is thanks to the professionals who joined it. today , it supplies a bulletproof vest. the internal cost is about uah 5,000 for this, the first goal of the lviv defense cluster was the same, and the cluster itself is far away today. and he also started several important projects, this is bena vests for medical workers, where ambulance crews for mega a-a military medics, and then there is the issue of modernizing the vehicles that are going to the front today, and also a large humanitarian exchange project, this is such a general project of what class for today. will meet the requirements of the ministry of defense if such requirements for pro-anazats exist at all today if we are talking about a bulletproof vest here, first of all it is necessary to

distinguish a general military-type bulletproof vest which includes a ballistic package made of laryng or polyethylene, armor of the fourth class of protection and a bulletproof vest of the led card type . with a plaster, uh. as for its quality, what does the bulletproof vest itself consist of, and what can we say about the quality , well, first of all, it is actually the armor elements themselves, and the fourth protection, which is made from armor materials about the production of european companies are actually for the manufacture of steel armor, well, there are no opportunities today in ukraine, all of them are manufacturers of vests, both in the halantechniv organization and a commercial company purchases its honosteel in europe, it can be ssab or other

second companies that manufacture an armored start in terms of quality for tailoring or a non-vest cover not only a vest, but also for sewing any military equipment, you need to use materials that have the appropriate properties, i.e., first of all, it is a fabric in any case - it is high- capacity nylon fabric from the field with an ethane coating plus, in most cases, this fabric is known under the corridor trade mark or its analogues, in fact today the body armor produced by the cluster and most manufacturers are made of a similar fabric, which has very high load-bearing characteristics and has a polyurethane coating, then there are slings which are used today, it is also a high-strength nylon string that actually meets all the requirements for equipment hangers, that is, if we are talking about the quality of the vest that is produced there today by authentic associations, in fact they satisfy all requirements for military equipment. well, here

we need such a small assumption that this is not a plate-carrying vest, it does not have ballistic packages in it. general military must vest with additional soft protection this is a much more labor-intensive process requires much more money for its manufacture and a-a purchase and reservation of elastic materials in advance it is there two or three months ago to buy fabric today we can with the delivery time there 30-40 days abroad if we need ballistic body material or polyethylene here the delivery time was already 3-4 months ago in fact it is already very different projects what we are doing today is medical blond vests that are completely made of ballistic materials and there was already an additional order of fabric that gives us the opportunity to politely leave the state and such bulletproof vests p maxim then if i understand when

you are talking about 100,000 body armor per month, what does your association do? you are talking about plate carriers , i.e., a non-vest that protects the main organs of a fighter, at the same time when we talk about the current situation on the battlefield, where the influence of artillery is increasing, and i had a conversation with one of the doctors who said that in fact he no longer encountered injuries that were caused directly there by small arms, he says that now our soldiers are suffering directly from artillery and this is a fragmentary impression and limbs of the neck of the groin means that the need for military body armor becomes more urgent than the need for plate carriers, or am i wrong here, in fact, it must be said that any body armor is sometimes a compromise between the weight of the protection class and its use, the convenience of wearing it, if we say for body armor of the type plate carriers or others here, first of all, it

should be said that protection is not only against small arms and also vests, which provides protection of the flight zone, which provides or non-vest of the plattery class , it provides protection of the lethal zone. and this the zone of actually instant death, that is, if, as usual, this zone is either a bullet or a lamp, a person will actually leave it without providing medical assistance , that is, the bulletproof vest itself also protects against debris in the lethal zone, if we are talking about a general military bulletproof vest and further it is necessary, then, our war today is, first of all, an artillery war, and if we say for what we need to do next, it is necessary already at the state level to order, so to complete the existing models of planet-vests to the model of which side print of the 18th year which will include all ballistic protection and an area of ​​approximately 60 dm². yes,

the question is, the area is one component of determining the requirements for body armor, on the other hand, the weight that you mentioned. can we today ensure the creation of body armor with a weight that will be acceptable so that the soldier can be there for a long time, if not finished, the lion's share of the time with a bulletproof vest in the performance of a combat mission, weight if we talk about the weight of a bulletproof vest, it consists of three main components, firstly, it is the cover itself body armor in any case is the cover itself or will weigh from one to an accountant of kilograms from this we will not get anywhere in any way further this is the main one was not a plate the main one was not a plate depending on e the material used for its manufacture be it steel or ceramics, if we say according to them, the fourth class of weight will be from 3.1 to 3.7 kg. also, we can’t go further from this, and

there is nowhere to go. if we say for ballistic packages, then the weight of ballistic packages will be 4 kg, that is, there are some well, what kind of things we can't seem to follow them in any way, because if we say for the er-e vest of the type of plate toe class, the weight of the plate carrier is about 8 kg. if we talk about the general military armor, the weight of the general military armored vest will be approximately 12-13 kg, that's all well, we don’t have any technical solutions for today’s education to reduce this weight in a big way, the only thing i’m speculating on is when instead of a-a steel or ceramic plates, they use plates made of manipulative pressed polyethylene indeed, their weight can be about 1.5 kg, well, such armor pot is in no way able to protect against a 545-7.10 bullet or up to the fourth class of protection, which is today the main bullet of our enemy, that

is, we have two options for reducing water a-a the first option we made to order examples of 318, what kind of rapid response of the national guard when we made a high vest with a high area of ​​protection, the area of ​​protection is about 60-70 dm - the water was about 5 kg, well, it was equipped in the basic configuration of the stove that is, the plates went separately under them, there were separate rudders, and in this case, the guys, if they had no threat of direct fire contact, they actually went only anti-destructive, they are jelly, if you are so english of fire contact, they additionally have to have the tenant install the plates, this is the only possibility to reduce the attention to the vest, we are afraid of detailed details related to the body armor, but a simple question arises, you

said at the beginning that the needs of the armed forces in body armor are met - are met today by about 50 percent, how is the ministry of defense currently implementing the task of increasing this percentage, there is the purchase of armored vehicles abroad, orders by ukrainian enterprises, what decisions is the ministry of defense making now, because i know you communicate directly with the department that deals with this question well, if we say for any information first, he and all the information a-a has very high requirements, which is equal to the admission in fact yes, we communicate with the ministry of defense with the profile by the department or say officially that any comments and no one today does not give even a private conversation because in fact there are very high conditions, the preservation of military secrecy and the only information we can get this is either an official message from officials of the ministry of defense or you already there from some military

units, because the information about the availability of body armor, i understand that it is also classified as a military secret from what is currently known from the official reports of the ministry of defense that the state contracted a ukrainian manufacturer for about 130-140 thousand vests and a large number contracted abroad, as far as i know, it is the turkish toure, which or the chinese manufacturers who today are under the order of the state, it supplies official information on the number of body armor, there are no foreign suppliers, as far as i understand which according to the information that comes to us already from abroad, this is about 300-400, if it were not for the vests, the state probably already ordered from foreign manufacturers, yes, vests are possible because we see that they come to us through programs, but they come from our foreign partners because, uh, direct fighters contact us with consultations

about the stove, we actually see the stoves, there are sets that are in service with the american army , that is, well, i didn’t buy or sell any of them, it really can it was possible to get it only through the program, but english. is it possible to talk about the fact that there is some kind of hierarchy in the world about our vests, that there are the best american ones, then there are israeli ones , then there, i don’t know, there are german ones, then israeli ones and uh, there are turkish and french or some kind of hierarchy who makes the best bulletproof vests and how do the ukrainian defense companies look against the background of these best foreign samples, which companies also make bulletproof vests, if we talk about the quality of the non-vests here, you can point out the competition only in two points first of all, these are armored plates, because they are not plates, and it depends on the price, because if we say that it is really the best today, because it is not a plate that exists, it is an american plate, there are sites, it is made from the strength of selection, it

very has a very low weight yes well it has a very high cost such a plate costs about $ 400 per unit if we say for a standard aluminum oxide ceramic plate it will weigh around 3.5 kg it costs there $ 150 if we say for a metal plate a standard plate of the 4th class of protection. its cost fluctuates around 70 dollars, that is, there is actually competition in the cost of the vest and state budgets, that is, there is no problem today, even for ukrainian companies to supply non-vests made of ceramic armor only the budgetary ministry of defense is the first and secondly we can say for conditional competition you and some technological solutions for the manufacture of a cover it would live