before the large-scale invasion, what comparison was there more then or more now? you see, i want to correct two uh, such charges, uh, someone put the word charge in the headlines, and everything went all over the country, and russia is charging, but there is no charge, it is as it was you are correct in saying that until the 24th, it remained approximately the same number. that is why the military experts in quotes, i would say that a lot of them got divorced. we need a little bit of them, well, also those who comment on what is not actually there. well, as of february 24, before invasion and during e before the invasion, the russian aviation had 450 aircraft and 250 helicopters of various types - these are the airfields of belarus, russia , the currently occupied crimea, this figure is despite the fact that more than 200 aircraft and about 200 hectares have already been destroyed, demilitarized, yes

, this is the number has even grown a little, there are now 420 helicopters, 360 of them, 150 of which are actually strike ones. well, as we can see, the enemy has the opportunity to pull up equipment that was stored in the country. we have actually strengthened our helicopter group. it is clear that he also had a lot of chernobysts, he had a lot of them, so dozens of those helicopters were destroyed there, and in this way he is strengthening this helicopter group in our country, so something is currently in the front-line zone in the zone, namely attack aircraft, su-25 attack aircraft and helicopters and they help to support the ground troops of the rashist so that no one is afraid. what else is someone, somewhere, charging someone? in the end, the figure remains stable, the only thing that will come today is the forces that control the airspace, which is under control, and the solution to which

our anti-aircraft defenses cover and the actual manned aviation does not fly into this space , only drones and cruise missiles remain in place. unfortunately, they are disturbed, but they are also destroyed to some extent. it is good that we explained it . i wanted to ask you the information that yesterday was the independence day of ukraine, and most of the russian planes that took off were simulating missile strikes . what they did was obviously to somehow demonstrate their strength, but how did it happen? we managed to investigate what it looked like in general, well, uh, at the command posts, there are uh, yes. big tablets, big screens, yes, on which we can see the entire air situation around ukraine. i want to say that er, constantly, if 200 airplane departures are per day, yes

, well, the airplane took off, it landed, and this is observed around ukraine, er, hmm, the russian aviation uses various types of aircraft 24/7, in particular, it patrols the air strafing by fighter jets but there are types of airplanes that uh, every sortie of which is a group of airplanes, let's say here 95 + 160 or uh, the remote group of sellers here is 22m3, it immediately when only threads take off are accompanied by an air alarm here 22m3 - these are carriers of x-22 missiles that actually were the 160-195 that were used yesterday are actually these khas-101 huts, these are 55 that can also fly far to the edge of europe. for that there will be starts, there will not be uh well we have no right to take risks, and that is why the owner

is announcing an air alert. actually, there were 22 rockets launched yesterday. however, only 8 strategic and long-range bombers took off. that is why the air alert sounded all over the country. they take off and practice a simulated missile attack on the territory of the country and sit down, well, actually. in this way, they kept our state in tension, kept the entire population of ukraine in a state of alarm. yuriy's question, very briefly, we know that literally it is one and a half minutes, how does air defense respond to aircraft that can be carriers of daggers ? the use of daggers specifically from mig 31 aircraft was observed, but other types of aircraft can also be carriers, the same ones that i named

can also be carriers of this missile, well, actually, currently mig 31 and even now when these aircraft are also eh will rise into the sky, what will be announced will go to the alarm well, since it is clear that this is a danger , that is, an air alarm is the native territory of ukraine, that's right, when only in the air, it is likely that there is a certain working algorithm, we will not fully disclose it, well, such and such yes, thank you regnat, the spokesman of the air force command of the armed forces of ukraine, mr. kovalchuk, you did not join us right away, the first minute of the broadcast, and accordingly, we did not talk about such a global topic today, the consequences celebration of independence day is not easy independence day and now mr. yuriy told us everything in great detail what was happening as russia tried to intimidate us at least well, it is probably time for them

to understand what to intimidate exactly will give everyone congratulations for the first time once again happy independence day it can be now for sure remember to victory every day, because we prove every day that we are an independent country, that we can stand up for ourselves at the cost of difficult losses, but we do it clearly, here we must thank the armed forces of ukraine and volunteers who they work in the rear, they help and drive to the front, they deliver to zero what the military needs. i think you are talking about the consequences of celebrating independence day, it is rather you know the consequences of the feeling of powerlessness from russia, when they have long exceeded the number of shelling of civilian targets, not military ones, we know that this has long prevailed in their strategy

, because it is a strategy of intimidation, trying to make the ukrainians simply leave and stop defending, so that the military does not see civilians behind their backs, they do not see towns, villages, etc. it is possible one of them suddenly became disappointed that there was no one to protect and began to retreat, but this does not happen, therefore, because of this disappointment, russia continues to fire all these attacks, because of these disappointments, they are now already trying to steal something small and something big, but in fact, again , military statistics are armed forces of ukraine are returning more territory, they are returning it faster than the russians manage to occupy or capture some hills or parts there, we have n't seen any loud words for a long time about what some large settlements are captured there and so

on. i am not talking about large regional cities here. history has been forgotten for a long time. and i think that russia has already succeeded. that is why they are trying to capture and establish themselves wherever they are. that is why they scare with referendums. that is why they scare with explosions and equipment on zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and today's fact of disconnection of several units speaks of the seriousness of their intentions as a thief of an international terrorist who will do whatever they want, whatever they want, if they are not beaten teeth if they don't show their responsibility and when i mentioned the sanctions, the story has really quieted down, but this is not the end. the next package of sanctions is being prepared. they are ready even faster to reduce

gas consumption by 15-20% in general, not only russian , that is, the world in general is rethinking its approaches to spending and its approaches to setting priorities and every day of independence for me is like the birthday of every person, it is certainly worth more than once a year, but at least once a year to look at the priorities that the state has always set during this time, during the 31 years of this independence alone, because i believe that ukraine was independent and we regained our independence in 1991 and we have to rethink the priorities of what result every time. what we want to have in the long term is that we started to strengthen the army more since 2014, this is great and we have to continue to do it even after the victory over russia we have to do this

even after we clear every square centimeter regarding the duration of the war er i would maybe take my time with positive scenarios because we really don't know how to fully and correctly militarily if it is possible to take crimea for several reasons, first, we are there, we are not terrorists and murderers who shoot directly at civilians . the situation is that we do not have a fleet yet we are waiting for those ships in the distance - these are the two and the third - in our country, i may be wrong, but let it even be a military secret. we do not have submarines in the black sea, and as far as i know, there are no submarines in russia with missiles, they are. therefore, we need to come up with what kind of weapons, exactly when, and how to do it so that

the civilian population is not harmed, the ukrainians are not harmed, and we took this crimea, so will it be possible to do it by the end of the year, er, i personally have doubts, in addition, if in general look at the strategy of war, we have discussed it many times but i will repeat the war and it will continue even after our victory, because we must condemn russia in full, everyone responsible for this through the international tribunal and other instruments, we must return everything we can take from russian funds from all countries where the funds have already been seized or will still be found and we must internally continue the war with hidden collaborators or overt collaborators who either continue to work for the fsb in russia or somewhere will try to undermine it further and we must work and to have our own internal war so that the values ​​that

we now find within ourselves, the forces that we now find within ourselves, we do not forget about them, continue to develop, develop our authenticity, develop this uh solidarity and mutual assistance that has now been born on an even larger scale and to develop the cooperation in the economy that we can now ensure from the grassroots, and then we will pull ourselves together and the entire ukrainian economy will start to move forward, and also not to forget that the chance that ukraine has now received at the international arena as the loudest voice as a voice that can show the new rules of international cooperation and international security take advantage of this chance and become a world leader who will be invited not

only to j7 but also will be invited or will be the founder of any new security or economic goals in the future for decades and maybe even for the century. so, yesterday, to celebrate independence day, the united states of america announced a new aid package worth 3 billion dollars, it is significant that six in particular, e-e against e-e air defense is effective, they say that it stands in washington and protects, including the white house, medium range e-e 245,000 shells for 155 mm artillery 65,000 outfits for 20 mm mortars caliber 24 counter-battery radars drones puma against

empire unmanned systems and missile systems with laser guidance well, as always, there is information about some kind of weapon that is provided to us, and very often in these packages there is something more that we are told about in our studio, i am located on prykhodko, a member of the presidium of the ukrainian foundation together you feel from the inside how the united states of america supports our state, after all, all experts say that the support of any other countries depends to a large extent on how the usa behaves, because the usa asks tons, everyone understands this, and even there to those countries that do not would like to somehow be created with putin if they are in this western coalition, it is necessary to work as the united states of america does, on the other hand, some analysts say that it will be difficult, including for europe, to survive this winter and somehow the united states of america should continue to

motivate european european countries to work for ukraine and for the sake of ukraine and another statement that in russia putin is preparing for a long-term war because he wants the return of trump and in the united states of america this is now being actively talked about by the leaders of many local media and they say that trump somewhere well, maybe he will not openly cancel it. there he will not directly say that we are stopping support for ukraine, but he will somehow take steps for this. how risky is it in general? and is it a deep society? yes, steak house will allow there, regardless of who is the president of the united states of america, to be so disappointed in the support of ukraine, how strong is the support not only of officials, but also of public opinion, taking into account that , after all, this is a democratic state and if the public opinion of the majority of americans is against ukraine against the help of ukraine, it will be very difficult for

american politicians to continue helping, how tightly everything is glued there and for ukraine. politics well, what am i doing now, and in fact, i will tell you right away that even if the president is prioritized, even if completely new representatives come to the american government, which will happen in november, but there will be elections, and this will not have a great effect on the support of -e ukraine from the usa because the support for ukraine from the usa is now in the national and security interests of the usa, this has already been stated many times and until february 24, so it is not worth worrying that something will change so radically and quickly in this regard and how is it looks

in fact, the congress gives the command of the administration and the president, regardless of who is the president, who works in the administration, what do they think and what is their opinion about ukraine and ukrainians, the support for ukraine will be the same as it is today as we see on the screen that an additional 3 billion dollars will be provided to ukraine and all these different systems and er different weapons will be provided it will continue because it is in the national interest of the usa and very often in resuscitation there is an advocacy team together i am also in this the team and us we are meeting precisely with representatives of er-e influential people er-e in the government and civil society in the usa who deal with the affairs of ukraine or are focused er-e on ukraine and we see this

, we have these conversations and we understand that er as an advocacy team we simply provide them with the tools to strengthen support for ukraine, and here it is a very important point that sometimes the ukrainian media or ukrainians think that our advocacy team and the advocacy team of various ukrainian and american organizations are engaged in lobbying for the interests of ukraine in the usa, but this is not entirely true. we lobby and support the interests of the usa in the usa, because now i will repeat once again that ukraine is in the national interests of the usa and this will not change, and the leadership in relation to the leadership of the usa is now absolutely true everyone is looking at the usa for the future path, everyone is watching and reading

the same news that the usa is giving to ukraine today or this week, and gradually they are making their decisions, and this is what happened historically, but it is in the interests of ukraine actually has such a system now in the world and among partners a-a and of course analysts are different people e experts e-e may sometimes worry about the fact that the european union does not support ukraine so much or makes its decisions too freely, but here we should not forget that poland is also in therefore, the union and estonia and latvia and lithuania and all our very good friends who have also been suffering from russian aggression for years and you. they have the same

interest as in the usa and they have this influence in the european union. therefore, no it is also worth expecting that support from the european union it will change, it will continue because we have such good partners, allies in the european union, and they also do not want to see the continuation of the war, the prolongation of the war, because they know and understand that one fine day if they give up, if the world forgets about the war about russian aggression in general, if something changes like this in the mental tet, then in russia, soldiers will come to the territory of poland and understand this perfectly. by the president of the united states, joe biden. and, quoting the president of ukraine, he had a wonderful conversation with joe

biden, thanked the ukrainian people for their unwavering security and financial support, and discussed the next steps that are right on the way in our struggle with the russian federation, and also another important statement that the actions of the russian federation at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant create a serious risk of a nuclear incident, according to the us deputy secretary of state for arms control and international security and well, we also understand that after all what is happening now at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant well, everything is focused on attention focused there and i want to believe that they will not resort to some simply ill-considered steps, although you can expect from our enemy there was nothing

summarizing there, it was hyper hot, we didn’t have a discussion, but you know, when we celebrate independence day in wartime, that’s how the airs should be, airs of like-minded people discussing how to reach the same goal together at the end of our journey, mr. knyazhytskyi gave the floor to everyone, an oar, then an announcement that they promised to let you go until 9:00 p.m. and the last such impromptu question was, uh, yesterday they celebrated the 31st anniversary of independence, and here is the 32nd year of independence of our state, which each of you is waiting for let's start with you, listen, we all would like it to at least be peaceful after our victory and that we could go to the ukrainian parade of the ukrainian army in mariupol, our friend artem or oleg and i invited him to bakhchysarai and after to visit bakhchisarai and i certainly believe that it

will be so, so i have no doubts about it . we will have to organize the month of independence in the 23rd year of pangolomsha to visit all the de-occupied cities. i want to wish that we will win and celebrate the 32nd anniversary war and i want to wish that the evil empire would fall because there is all the evidence for that and i am convinced that there will be problems in the middle of the russian federation. and no one advertises it because their nuclear information machine is directed only against of ukraine, but it is no longer a prize, because of this it does not work both inside ukraine and outside, everyone sees what is happening and all countries are aimed at preventing russia from gaining at least any

victory. i would like to wish our president that the president crosses any attempts by any officials who say that we have to return to the borders by february 24, because after the victory until february 24, we expect the same wars, first of all, secondly, there is no need to have any obligations the president's words to his own friends, we have all understood that when there is a question of choosing the interests of the state or comrades or comrades, the president is obliged to choose the interests of the state. today he has a lot of support and a corresponding rating among society and must care exclusively about the interests of the state that now he and does, but there are nuances that

must be used exclusively to strengthen our defense capability and trust in partners. if the derivative is god forbid trust, then we will become vulnerable as a state, therefore we do not have the right to trust to lose mr. tsymbalyuk, we would rather discuss this statement of the pope yesterday, because it also causes discussions. pope francis during the general audience, where he spoke of pro-russian aggression against ukraine, mentioned the death of pro-propagandist daria luhinaya, whom he called an innocent victim of the war, francis said that he thinks about the cruelty of the many wounded because of the war, as well as the ukrainian and russian children who became orphans, it is clear that there is nothing good in that, that children become orphans, and here is a quote directly speaking, it is the pope of rome, because war is

madness and no one in the war can say no, i am not mad, the madness of war, i am thinking about the poor girl who got up in moscow from a bomb planted under the seat of a car, the war is not paid for by the guilty, but actually in this context, if it is important that such institutions as the church say that we have such a common co-responsibility for these victims for the victims of the war, but we ukrainians remind you that we did not attack russia. we are defending ourselves, they came to our land, they came to kill our children, women and the military who defend our borders, so it is a little sad to hear this from sleep, summing up the word. if you want to react to this quote, please, well, it is difficult, as they say, to comment, but

i agree with the position of the ambassador of ukraine on the vatican, who strongly condemned this statement i know hundreds of priests. i know chaplains who today are on the front lines praying to support the spirit of our military, and i think it is a shame for those chaplains to hear such words. ukrainian greek-catholics of the eastern rite pray in churches during service for health the pope of rome. i think that uh, those uh, the pontificate of the pontiff, who is from ukraine, will find time to explain to him that ah, this is a war where ukraine is defending itself. and, uh, brainiacs who attacked us, and the church blesses them for murder. because i

personally, as a greek catholic, it is a shame to listen and hear such words. the year of the 32nd year of independence. i am sure that it will be a year of victory, a year of great victory. financial sphere and very it is important that the supreme commander, as the head of the state, which has unlimited powers during wartime, finally managed to unite the efforts of the elites and government officials, who should work to fulfill this task, so far we do not feel the transfer of the economy to military rails. and this is the task of the government, i believe that this year, in fact, when

the head of state succeeds in uniting the political elites, we have formed a nation, unlike russia, just the population and the nation, this 32nd year of our independence, is clearly capable of defeating such an enemy like russia. right now, we are still in our studio literally a few words at a time, we will continue to summarize, but already on our youtube we say goodbye to the viewers of the traditional thursday express at 7:15 p.m. the project says great lviv next week will summarize all the most important events that happened during this week, you know - we are now talking about six months of war and full-scale aggression of the russian federation, and i remember those first broadcasts in february when we said that we hope that next thursday we will be able to meet in our studio because in fact, i was worried about what will happen in a week, how will the tv channels function, in particular, and it is so

dark that in six months, in fact, there is absolute certainty that next thursday the project will definitely speak the great lviv on the espresso air, oleg senyuka, you have a word, i would like to return to the words of pope francis and you know , in fact, no one in ukraine probably felt or does not feel sympathy for this person who died from a bomb explosion, but we see that muscovites want to present this as a subversive work of the ukrainian of the special services and they are spreading hysteria all over the world around this and want to present ukraine as a terrorist state on bbc news ukraine. and olga palamaryuk works in the studio in london and today in the issue