it means that for many people it is possible that the weather will give us some optimism ms. natalka didenko is ready to tell us and we will also have distinguished guests of the studio today volodymyr hryshko if everything goes well the events of the day in two hours vasyl's big broadcast in winter a project for smart and caring people in the evening nayspresso dobrogo evening. we are from ukraine. i am iryna koval, mother, wife, presenter of the espresso tv channel. i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces. forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this, now i go to strangers in lviv, and not in kyiv, i go to an unfamiliar coffee shop and drink delicious lviv coffee, everything alive and everyone alive in

ukraine owes the army to the miracle of life and the army these words are synonymous in ukraine, because without the army there is no life, to help the army is to help life , help the ukrainian army and life will conquer death. everyone of you can. wow, even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer. news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio of iryna koval, so just now i will tell you about the latest events at this time in ukraine and in the world. in the morning, russian inhumans fired at the point of delivery of humanitarian aid in the city of orihiv, zaporizhzhia region, the

head of the region, oleksandr the old woman, abandoned the social worker, two more women were wounded . a larger number of victims was avoided because the work in the center was organized so that people did not gather, in addition, shelters were equipped nearby and four civilians of donetsk region became victims of the russian nazis in the past day, four more people were injured and reported to the regional military administration. at night, the russians launched a rocket attack on the industrial zone of kramatorsk . enemy troops were also in the settlements of the soledar svetodar-turke-maryansk and ocheretyn communities. in the morning, shelling was recorded in the avdiyivka area, information about the victims clarify the mine danger in the izyum district of the kharkiv region, a man was blown up by a mine and died on the spot, the head of the region, oleg synogub, meanwhile, said the russians

continue to strike the populated areas of the front-line areas, hostile forces from the cities of vovchansk hit the residential sector, resulting in the complete destruction of a house with injuries , two people were hospitalized, the occupiers also hit pochugueva with s-300 rockets, a private house was damaged, a garage was destroyed, commercial buildings and several cars were not injured there also, russian troops shelled kupyansk, private houses were damaged there, regional prosecutors started a pre-trial investigation in proceedings for facts of violation of the laws and customs of war, law enforcement officers are currently investigating the bodies of 33 dead heroes returned home, the ministry of reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories reported that since the beginning of the work of the commissioner's office, it was possible to return 696 bodies of

fallen heroes. carry out counterintelligence measures, they are carried out as part of the work to counter the ancient activities of the russian special services in ukraine near the lavra, our correspondent dmytro didora works with us on to dmytro's direct message i congratulate you i tell you did the law enforcement officers or representatives of the temple ever comment on such actions congratulation iro congratulation to all the viewers of the espresso tv channel we continue to chat near the pochaiv lavra in kyiv and to our request, the press service of the sbu replied that they would comment only after the completion of the counterintelligence measures, and these are the counterintelligence measures, not the searches in the lavra, they asked to emphasize this, and in general, the situation here is now near one of the stairs. she is

calm, the law enforcement officers are checking the believers and they let them into the territory of the lavra if they need it, also the national police e is on duty here and checks the cars that try to pass into the territory of the lavra a-a i also want to remind you that recently a video appeared on the internet where exactly on the territory of the kyiv-pechers lavra the faithful sang a prayer you know a song like this, where they glorified the aggressor state of russia, and ah, such a song was sung there about the ringing of bells over the territory of russia, eh, and i also want to note that the security service of ukraine is checking here today for ah, preventing the use of the lavra as a center of the russian measure as well they are checking the premises of the ukrainian orthodox church so that subversive intelligence groups or

foreign citizens are not hiding there, and it is also possible that they are looking for weapons or some other prohibited items and i also want to note that we tried to interview the priests and let's hear what they answered to the questions of journalists, do you know what is happening on the territory of the lavra , to what extent? this has never happened here, if you don't

know how long the counterintelligence measures will last, it is still unknown, they have been going on since the morning for about 3 hours and i want to note that the situation is calm now, everyone who wants to can get to the lavra, but so far no journalists they are not allowed on the territory, arguing that there are ongoing security measures and after they are over, my colleagues and i will be able to go to the territory and see what is happening there at the moment, this is all the information iro has, we will continue to follow what will happen here it is possible that the representatives of the uoc will come out and we will be able to

communicate with them. security measures are also carried out by law enforcement officers in three churches of the rivne region , namely on the territory of the korean holy trinity monastery, the women's monastery in honor of the volyn icon of the mother of god, and in the premises of the sarne of the polish diocese of the ukrainian orthodox church, the reasons for such checks are the same as in the kyiv-pechersk lavra, namely due to the growing risks of, in particular, terrorist attacks and sabotage in places of mass gatherings of people, the security service emphasizes that all actions take place within the limits of current legislation, emergency power cuts began in odesa, schedules there dtek odesa electric grid noted that they are currently not in effect, however, the department emphasized that these restrictions will not be massive, as there was a need to balance the power system by only 10% power more than expected, there

will be emergency power outages in the kyiv region as well, the cause is significant wet snow and rain, experts continue to eliminate the consequences of the bad weather, the regional military administration reported that 57 settlements and 102 partially remain without power. but in other regions of ukraine, there will be no electricity according to the schedules of ukrenergo noted that they do not cut off specific houses of the street or city, but only provide oblenergo with volumes by which consumption should be reduced. meanwhile, germany must be ready before a possible attack, the minister of defense of germany, kristina lambrecht, said this. she noted that the country could be drawn into a war, but according to her, the bundeswehr can provide defense if necessary. at the same time, lambrecht emphasized that her country will always be helped by its nato partners. the

official also expressed her satisfaction with the fact that the armed the german forces receive 100 billion euros from the bundestag, which will be used to purchase equipment and implement various projects in the military sphere , and you were officially re-elected as the president of kazakhstan the results were announced by the central election commission , more than eight million people cast their votes in the early presidential elections, that is, the turnout was almost 70%. the current president won more than 80% of the votes, i will remind you that the leader of kazakhstan, kasim zhomar tokariv, has repeatedly stated that he supports ukraine, in particular. once, in the presence of russian president putin, he said that he would not recognize the quasi - state entities in donbas under the control of the kremlin.

to ukraine and to football topics and international scandals, this does not contribute to the development of ukrainian -hungarian relations in the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine commented on yesterday's incident with hungarian prime minister viktor orbán, he came to a football match with a scarf depicting hungary with a part of ukrainian territory in our foreign policy department they have already summoned the hungarian ambassador to clarify the situation, i note that on that scarf there was a map of the so-called great hungary with parts of neighboring states in its composition in particular, with some territories of austria, slovakia , romania and croatia, as well as with the regions of today's serbia and ukraine, which belong to the kingdom of hungary only until the end of the first world war and continues. the world cup in qatar

is today. in the first round, there will be four matches right now. argentina is playing against saudi arabia and lionel messi scored the first penalty goal there, that is, argentina is currently leading, and in the 18th place in the group, mexico will play against poland in the group where denmark will face tunisia and france and australia there, the matches start at 3:00 p.m. and at 9:00 p.m., respectively, that was all the news at that time. i am iryna koval. i am saying goodbye to you for today . my journalist colleagues are already preparing the updated issue. you will see it at 2 p.m. you can read on our espresso tv website a brief summary of the main points on the espresso tv telegram channel and on youtube. i am iryna koval, mother, wife, host

of the espresso tv channel. i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why part of my life today is helping the armed forces. to the forces of ukraine and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this sport during the war. what is it like? empty stadiums without fans in the stands, deserted sports halls, and destroyed sports facilities. our athletes lost the opportunity to train at home because of the war and had to flee abroad to prepare for of future starts, those who remained with weapons in their hands heroically defend ukraine in this war. ukraine's second place will not suit us. we need victory. each of

you supports the troops, saves the lives of our soldiers and approaching our victory. greetings, dear viewers. my name is vasyl zima. this is a worldview program on the espresso tv channel until 1:00 p.m. my guests and i will talk about important things, and i decided to start a series of programs. it is about five, six, maybe seven programs that i united by the general name of the battles that saved ukraine, we will talk in detail, involving experts, involving participants in these battles, about the most important battles of the first period of the war, which actually saved ukraine, preserved its independence, subjectivity, yes not territorial integrity yet, but we are regaining this territorial integrity, but we have preserved the administration and the civil society as such has also been preserved actually these victories allowed ukraine to continue this battle under the gostomel this battle for chernihiv this battle for the sums

for the okhtirka this battle for mykolaiv it is also the battle for irpin battle for vasilki there are many of these battles which are the battle for him, these are many battles which maybe somewhere less somewhere more but they were decisive because relatively speaking if we say february 25 in demidov not they blew up the dams in kazarovychy and did not flood their demids, maybe the russian convoys would have already been in kyiv via vyshhorod via lyutizh vyshhorod there was not far to go there, there were many moments when you know people somewhere someone went abroad, someone went to where their work was, someone moved to settlements in the center or the west of our country, everyone was in their own worries, someone signed up for the defense at that time, the army of the teter defense, which was already on the front of volunteers. but the heroism of individual units is happening, the heroism of individual fighters, the heroism of individual brigades, the heroism of even politicians, some diplomats who also worked helped, they then determined the future

, because in principle, the three main days from which this war began could actually become either fatal or heroic, in any case, they became decisive today we will start the first program, we will talk in general about this invasion, the first strikes, how we took the first strikes, the first decisions, the first reaction and what they were, so to speak initial positions both in russia and in ukraine who had more chances to lose who had more chances to win i am including in the conversation my guests with whom we will talk today i invited ihor lapin, an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, mr. ihor i congratulate you i wish you health, a participant in the war of ukraine against russia, ivan krychevskyi, expert , editor of the defense express agency, greetings, ivan , i congratulate you. good day, let's let you know what we will begin. we will begin by listening to the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi

. and we will now show them to our viewers. president volodymyr zelenskyi said those words on february 16, in fact exactly one week before the start of a full-scale invasion. of all our defenders from our people, this is a bit of a wrong video. now we will choose another video, but in any case, let's start talking. talked about what this invasion would be like, you talked about the fact that the enemy would hit the mobile phone towers, that the communication would disappear, there would be a massive blow, and you said that it could be

much more than expected. let's listen to zelenskyi and continue this morning president putin announced a special military operation in donbass russia carried out strikes on our military infrastructure and on our border guards , an explosion was heard in many cities of ukraine, we are launching a military operation the situation in the entire territory of our country is without panic, we are strong, we are ready for anything, this is actually a video of his words when the invasion began, we will start with this, mr. igor, the question for you is, according to your assessment, what you predicted, what you talked about and what it happened in the early morning of february 24. how different was it? what was unexpected and unexpected for you? what was the first reaction? what were the first

expectations? of the blow, especially the blow that concerned the capital of ukraine from the territory of belarus, in the direction of ivankiv, in the direction of the teteriv river, and so on, that is, in the direction of kyiv, and it was this blow that he was not worried about, because at that moment the day before, many very of the military units that were on this part of the front in connection with the preparation, i don't know about any barbecue celebrations there, uh, about which the president talked about on the eve of the invasion, that that video that you, unfortunately , you can't find, but i think that you will be found, that is, against this background, when we were freeing parts of the troops, they were transferred to the donetsk region on the eastern border , thereby exposing kyiv from the north, it all happened

. the work of the special operations forces, which in the event of a threat of invasion , were supposed to place weapons in places of possible occupation so that the partisan movement in the occupied territory does not seek to burn the russians, rather than to pour water on their tanks, it was not on the contrary, it was done on the eve of the invasion . literally, within a few days, representatives of the surrender resistance movement met with representatives of the special operations forces and said that there would be an invasion overnight. they told us that we were paranoid. come on monday. the territory of ukraine was the headquarters of all the special operations of the city of berdychiv, you understand, that's why you know. to be honest, there was not enough evil.

against the background of large regiments, some of them at the same time, uh, another part of the armed forces of ukraine held this invasion, let's say, on the move , deployed in battle formations, i am now talking about our valiant, heroic 72nd brigade , five of whom joined the volunteers well, if not memory betrays about 300 people, they poured in right on the move from the wheels. as they say, you began to carry out the commands of the 72nd volunteer brigade under the leadership of, well, we had such a call sign, er, hedgehog , he was called, well, we were also volunteers on ours boys, more accurately, the yozhiks said, this is exactly this. this is the first day of the war. i remember very well how we ran around looking for where our thighs were. i remember very well how we looked for rockets, how we carried them, i in my own car, even just in a private car and the same tetyana chornovol, if everyone knows very

well, in the same small electric car on a red zhuzhyk, she drove long with the missiles there on the northern border of the country, that's why she disappeared actually on the eve of the invasion, the sense of reality on the part of many people is missing, i say it again not all but very, very many people who should have made the decision. it was catastrophic. i won't be anymore. well, you know, this is the format of the program. you can only speak now. the first impression is that we will now turn to mr. ivan, but mr. ivan, you know , well, everyone. understood that there would be a war, it turned out that my colleague wouldn't talk, who told me in a week that it would happen, and well, actually the day before, well, that is, on wednesday afternoon , my colleague also passed by and said that for his information, it would start in the morning. that is somewhere there was an understanding but there was no understanding to the end of what exactly would begin. i would like you, mr. ivan, to

tell us more about what exactly invaded ukraine in all directions, south, east , and north, because again, the numbers vary from a hundred to 20-130 thousand to 200,000 and they say that if you take even with these reserves that were standing, then in total 220,000 special forces were involved, all this is the figure of 220,000 , it is the most, in principle, now used by various stickers by experts who speak of a full-scale invasion and in addition these 220,000, what exactly would it be like to cross the border with pistols, that's one story, you don't cross the border with anything, what kind of troops were they, what kind of special forces were they, i.e. what happened to us, for many, it was expected, for many it was unexpected, uh, there at three o'clock in the morning or even in luhansk oblast, the first e-columns crossed the border, it was still one in the morning when the invasion actually began, please ask me to find out what

you know about there, literally up to a hundred soldiers, we will be able to when we get certain documents there for years relevant and which is obvious. we will be able to read there after the war after the victory over the torshists, here i would ask a question about what else was able to pass because, again, why i will not bother to specify the numbers now, because 202, 20,000 you may well be or parts the provision of personnel in general by the army everywhere can include those first so-called and the first and second army corps eh for these fighters in the temporarily occupied donbas who were actually subordinate to the 58th army and the remaining 220,000 so we can even count it in this figure, obviously even these servicemen of the black sea fleet of the russian federation, who were, for example, on the moscow cruiser, who were sent to who knows where the snake island, here it is worth asking the question . our

great happiness with adequate intelligence, which was endlessly ahead of him and would have scouted the positions. of such a devastating effect that there what is it that missile strikes on air defense facilities on the objects of the military-political administration will achieve their goal that missile strikes on the deployment points of our military units will achieve their goal and that there is a landing of some special forces unit there? well, for example the same 45th special purpose brigade or let's say the landing of these units seems to be of the 76th airborne assault division. well, the numbers may get a little confused precisely in gostomel so that they make a bet that this is what our management system is here will really fall and you just know that even if they do n’t come from the agro-city as it was in the example of sumy that at first the column of the first

units of the first itanic army entered sumy, as if all of sumy had arrived and went on to carry out its operational plan to enter there on poltava oblast and further through boryspil to go to kyiv, then something went wrong with the russians and they decided to return directly to sumy, getting stuck there in street fights . the sumy was also forced to deploy its cargo defense literally from the wheels without significant state intervention, this is also a separate issue that is essential, uh, and another point, too, which is obviously the russians in order to break through their entrance, uh, to break through their way to the south. according to wild data, they our artillery positions were even hit by miskander missiles. well, what about paving the way for those troops of the so -called 22nd army corps of the black sea fleet, which friends will go to ?

for some reason, if you put aside the political moments that were obviously there for half a day, then our troops played a very fierce and prolonged sport, which the russians themselves did not expect, so well, let's say that hmm, for some reason, the intelligence of the russians works a little better than the radio technical intelligence and for some reason, we were saved by the fact that most of the strikes, for example, on russian air defense positions, missed, respectively, there were other bodies of military and political administration that did not fall under the missile attack, and the most important thing was that we had something to defend our places it is still worth outlining, despite the fact that there was a large army, 220,000 or 200,000 or 100,000 in total. the main thing is that our society was not frightened , the main thing is that there were people of good will who knew how to make difficult decisions literally on the fly and even for example, those who wrote just now, mr. igor,

who were even heroic women who, you know, had the courage to take out anti-tank missiles, count on their own to save them on these red cars and save what to bring in to burn russian tanks on the approach to kyiv, that’s how it is, mr. igor, we are now moving, well, actually, i will remind you just fresh in the memory for our viewers, let's say a column of 12 km entered kharkiv, if i am not mistaken, the column was somewhere around 8 km kilometers to kyiv, that's how it turned out, they somehow gathered there and went a column that stretched for 64 km and was visible from the satellite, and the western media wrote about it at the time that the 64 km was a mechanized armored column of the sunina kyiv and the twists and turns of waiting that kyiv would be taken, now we have a video there, so i will ask my colleagues to look for him there macron listens to volodymyr zelenskyi on february 24, what does volodymyr zelenskyy say, how does the president of

france react, not just the president of france, the president of a state that has nuclear weapons, that has an aircraft carrier, that, in principle, has a good army, how does he react to this? to kyiv well, actually it was all going to kyiv there, kharkiv is a separate story, but sumy chernihiv, er, turye also entered large forces, and also from er, on the other side of the dnieper, from the right bank of the dnieper , they went down there through chernobyl, all for that in order to close it around kyiv there somewhere in the belogorodka area from all sides exit to brovary boryspil from there through sumy well, in one word, kyiv is closed in a ring and here are the first moments that are worth knowing, the first feelings, the first impressions, you , as a manager, took part directly in these military operations, what was your calculation? i would now like to find out from your experience, perhaps from what was said, what was the calculation and whether there was an understanding of how big these forces were going and whether there was a belief that it would be possible to stop them in some way

look at the calculation. let's say it was for two moments. the first moment was to get on their nerves as much as possible and cut off their backs. i even wrote to myself on facebook knock down the signs from populated areas . the population actually started making these cocktails on the go. well, the memory of the burned armored personnel carrier on the maidan was still fresh. it is possible that a lot of people, by the way, died because they could not even run to those columns at the same time. when er, there were calls to defend the country at any cost. the whole country was looking for weapons. i will say it frankly. in the early days, we were all looking for weapons. well , who had something hunting? it was one story, but the whole country, all kinds of defense, all public formations, everyone was looking for weapons. so that in order to resist