the car came under heavy fire, almost without windows, with bullet holes, but luckily everyone's stomach. kostiantyn melnikov modestly does not want to talk about it in detail. he is now in direct contact with us from donbas and is ready to tell us about the situation kostiantyn, i am very glad to see you alive, i know that it is difficult to tell what the current situation is on the front lines. greetings elena. well, we can traditionally say that the east remains the hottest point on the map of hostilities in ukraine and the ukrainian military today there were really not enough loud celebrations, but even in spite of this , they did not remain without surprises today, as you already said in the studio today to congratulate them - the president came to donetsk and together with the commander of the armed forces, they honored the most heroic fighters, the president presented state awards, thanked them for their courage and emphasized who believes that the next meeting will take place

in the ukrainian donetsk or luhansk and is sure that even in the ukrainian crimea in the meantime , fighters were awarded in the hottest direction of bakhmut, in particular, with an award for saving life from the commander of the armed forces of ukraine valery zaluzhnyi was awarded to the medic of the 24th brigade of the royal infantry, oleksandra, the girl saves the lives of our defenders who received head injuries every day. despite oleksandr's considerable track record, nowadays the speaker says that she does not have time to give interviews, because she has no work there are many offers to listen to what she says, the most difficult is when, well, you know this person and then comes to pack this in a bag, this is probably the most difficult, this is the type of work. there is work, i don't do it for an award and even if they didn't give me anything, and they didn't give me, that is, i wouldn't even be upset. well, it wouldn't

be such a thing that they didn't give me something. i won't do anything anymore. one of the defenders of the award was now caught in the middle of nowhere, once again stressed the city constantly is under enemy fire , the occupying forces simply erase it from the face of the earth, so here also the army men comment on their awards quite modestly, please listen to the great joy, great responsibility, our country, the state, as we can see, all the awards are the majority the awards were reflected in the shelters and here is what our soldiers are talking about now about the very situation around the bakhmut direction, let's listen to their main task - it is to get out of the settlement of

bakhmut . where are you going ? the front line and the enemy's line of defense are not worth underestimating them, they are cunning and wise, but we will work more cunningly and wisely on them at a much better point, so that this evil spirit will be removed from our land a little and it will return to the house sooner. well, we learned how difficult the situation is in the direction of bakhmut the day before, during our work at the positions of the e-e royal infantry of the 24th brigade, the enemy simply fired at

self-propelled artillery installations 2s1, thanks to our defenders, our film crew and not only ours survived and how it all happened, what were the consequences of this shelling, we will definitely tell you, but a little later in this issue elena, as of this hour, i have everything. so , thank you very much for your word. take care and convey to all our defenders our congratulations from on armed forces day, konstantin melnikov joined from the front line, a real media front on the front line works every day, correspondents of almost all ukrainian and many foreign channels keep an information guard, often under bullets, often in the trenches under shelling on the front lines, competition everyone has only one desire to win as soon as possible and it doesn't matter who will be the first to say about the victory on the air oleksandr motor military correspondent of channel 1+1 at the front since the first days of russian aggression, since february 14, from february 24, he is at the

front constantly and apparently will join the ictv broadcast for the first time with his news from the front line, not a single hour of complete silence, this is exactly what and how our soldiers on the front lines of the donetsk region celebrated the day of the armed forces of ukraine, in particular, near bakhmut, primarily on its southern and in the north-eastern outskirts of the canadian artillery and intense shooting battles do not stop talking at all, in order to understand the intensity of the enemy's attacks, how frantically the rosnik is storming the ukrainian defense line, it is enough to say that the occupiers fire about 20,000 heavy shells in the direction of the ukrainians per day, this is, of course, in general about the entire front and about tank artillery jet enemy shells and mines, when describing the situation around bakhmut, our military uses the phrase street fighting and says that elsewhere, beatings are being conducted on

the distance is less than 0.5 m, roughly speaking, almost not close, but it is very difficult nowadays, not only near bahmut, the section of the front from ugledar to maryinka , around the sands of vodyanyi opitny and avdiivka, is burning, it is in the shelter of temporarily occupied donetsk, there is also no silence at the same time, and this perhaps the most important thing is that wherever possible , ukrainian soldiers counterattack at the first opportunity, reliably hold the front and effectively and systematically destroy manual 12 when the child sits, i say well, i can do it . the mechanics of the driver of an infantry fighting vehicle from the 24th

royal brigade, in my opinion, they very accurately convey the reasoning of our soldiers despite all the difficulties, do not get tired of beating the hands of families, children are free, the motherland and the fighting brotherhood . combat fraternity, our soldiers managed to win in specific battles and battles, not dozens, probably hundreds, and to wish our soldiers this day of the armed forces of ukraine. the accuracy of our arti and the responsibility of everyone, without exception, in the rear for what is happening at the front. the same applies to the battle of the calm information. we probably stopped considering each other as competitors in the 14th year with our colleagues and do everything possible to hear about the situation on the front line firsthand as quickly as you can, as accurately and truthfully as possible, as many ukrainians as possible learned about it, here we stand with it and step towards

our common general ukrainian victory, colleague oleksandra motorna, a military correspondent of the inter games channel, the lioness actually got into the war from the maidan on february 24, 2014, went to the crimea, there they filmed stories about our marines when they were stormed in bakhchysarai from april to may 2014 , was in luhansk, then hundreds of reports from the hottest dots today he will congratulate the military on armed forces day on our broadcast. i am igor levinok, military correspondent of the inter tv channel. i congratulate my native army of our defenders on the holiday. i know how difficult it is for you now to resist the russian invaders who are under fire in avdiivka maryinka and in other directions they are constantly throwing their cannon fodder into the attacks, the enemy does not observe any rules of war . today we were in ugledar, it was a cozy

mining town. and now the russian invaders are mercilessly destroying it . on the approaches to the city, they reliably hold the boundaries and do not let the occupiers continue to bring ruin and death, i know how difficult it was in 2014, when the army rose from its knees and at the same time had to face the onslaught of russian mercenaries and other unclean ones, then and now we were by your side and we will be with you until victory and it doesn’t matter who is among us which channel will be the first to announce this good news, we have one enemy and one military and information front, so together to victory i congratulate the armed forces of ukraine on the holiday since the first days of the full-scale war, international support for ukraine has been constantly strengthened, the event has already provided kyiv with military aid worth billions of dollars

, more than 20 countries of the world have delivered weapons from the first anti-tank systems, javelins and ufos to portable anti-aircraft missile systems stinger, which played a decisive role in the first days of the russian invasion, american howitzers e m-77 helped our armed forces in the eastern direction, and also opened the door for nato long-range artillery, successfully using american weapons, our defenders also received dozens of other artillery systems, in particular, french caesar howitzers in the summer combined tripods for the first time provided ukraine with high-precision volley fire systems; mars, this weapon became the determining factor for dozens of ammunition warehouses of military bases and command posts of the occupiers were destroyed and continue to be destroyed ukraine also received help from nato armored vehicles, even australia gave its bushmasters, every schoolchild knows from germany , the armed forces received self-propelled anti-aircraft guns

cheetah, noting defeats on the battlefield, the kremlin resorted to missile terror of ukrainians to protect critical infrastructure, the west provided air defense systems from the soviet -300 from the countries of eastern europe to the german airiste norwegian pump spanish hawk at the meeting of nato foreign ministers in bucharest the alliance promised to increase military aid to kyiv , to provide even more air defense equipment, in particular, a substantive conversation began about the transfer of patriot systems to ukraine, in addition, for military aid to ukraine, more than fifty countries of the world have united and have already held seven meetings in the rammstein format, this is a meeting of defense ministers during the last agreed to strengthen the defense of the ukrainian sky for the past nine years ukraine is alive without exaggeration thanks to their courage and indomitability 9 years in a row our armed forces are doing incredible things repulse the so-called second army of the world and mercilessly

chase the enemy from ukrainian land, although for the sake of the truth it should be said that in 2014 the country was held by volunteers, the army was only on paper for 20 years of independence, the armed forces totally reduced weapons, destroyed them and sold them off, if at the beginning of our independence the army numbered up to a million soldiers, at the time of the beginning of the russian aggression, 50,000, in fact, over the past 9 years, the armed forces have been revived from scratch, so not everything is perfect, and volunteers still help the army, but already in the first months of war, our armed forces have shown russia that they can not only defend themselves, but also attack. this is a completely different army than the one that was in 2014. about the decline and fall of the armed forces of ukraine. oleg kornienko's report with yaroslav. we meet in kyiv on mykhailivska square between his rotations . combat experience of the anti-terrorist operation, the great war, the

enemy's equipment was destroyed, he does not feel admiration, well, i just understand how she got to such a state, i understand a little what was inside and outside, but in principle, i don't know her i don’t want to touch and recognize that in 2014, the ukrainian army definitely had a lot of such successes . it’s not that there was no equipment to destroy. elementary automation of uniforms with orders was difficult, it was difficult with equipment, but well, as always, volunteers helped so much thanks to volunteers during 20 years of independence from one of the largest armies the world has almost nothing left after the usa and russia after gaining independence ukraine, under pressure from washington and moscow, gave up nuclear weapons with europe signed an agreement and agreed to reduce

a country that positioned itself as a non-aligned country actively destroyed its arsenal of ammunition and sent heavy equipment for scrap. the tank hull is cut. part of the equipment is adapted to the needs of our national economy. where there is an opportunity, of course , we offer and implement such equipment. aviation, the last here 22nd in ukraine has already been liquidated as museum exhibits in ukraine there are three heavy bombers here 22 and seven models of aviation cruise missiles x22 the personnel for the state also decreased, the armed forces became a financial burden, and the military profession lost its prestige in the first 10 years, the ukrainian army decreased from one million to 200,000. well, they did everything for that. very valuable personnel were lost, i.e.

inside zero countries mentions their army and announces the course of nato and the armed forces of ukraine are again reduced to 120 needed not for defense but for participation in international peacekeeping missions i went to school i remember. i still watched it on television. yes, i remember when porters were canceled and the socks were big meetings . three years after this event, maksym entered the army. but apart from socks , there were no other nato standards, but when he went they told us that, well, you won't be there with a parachute, you won't be able to travel there on equipment, because there is no diesel fuel there. everything was out of date, even the irp was out of date, and

when we went out for some training there, they would give us a suhpai well, it was impossible to eat it with the arrival of yanukovych, the reforms were completely stopped, the equipment was even more actively written off and sold, so at the beginning of the russian aggression, the ukrainian army had only 50,000 soldiers and outdated weapons, so the volunteers in this class had to defend donbas, it was 2014, when this is the year when it all started, well, we are in the seventh year, great the leader, we sit and draw pictures and in the drawing class or there, well, they drew seriously, they sent the men to the anti-terrorist operation and now the children write to him, don’t be sad, glorious ukraine, you have a free year while ivan studied the armed forces not only repulsed enemy attacks in donbas, and the army, which had been looted and destroyed for decades, finally began to reform and implement nato standards, changed its shape, renovated the barracks, replaced the soviet sukhpai with modern canteens, switched to a new food system in

sour cream sauce or to choose from. we also have home-made stewed potatoes or buckwheat, fruits, bananas , apples for tomorrow, we have kiwis, the same army has increased many times, on the same level as men, women are also serving, and the decision-making vertical has changed now the commanders themselves manage the battle on the ground, the military-industrial complex has finally begun to modernize old tanks, armored personnel carriers, planes and manufacture new tanks, oplot, coastal missile systems, neptune and alder, anti-tank missiles, stugna and corsair , and aircraft construction has been revived, and we can see how now an air column is arriving, military planes, which are called flying tanks, are our strength and our indomitability, now all these weapons are at the front, thanks to the experience and skill of our defenders, they are actively destroying the enemy, at the same time, new models are being developed, and foreign weapons are appearing in the armed forces

and the most important and most valuable thing in the ukrainian army is not the weapon , but the people, their motivation. i'm abroad now, but i know that being here i protect them i protect others sami i protect my country this is my country for me to live live in it for my children my grandchildren great-grandchildren oleg kornienko ictv facts the only news on the occasion of the day of the armed forces today, the deputy minister of defense of ukraine hanna mahler, ms. hanna, is visiting us. i congratulate you on your holiday. by the way, according to the rating

of the novoe vremya edition, agana malyar was included in the list of the 25 most influential military personnel in ukraine, and by the way, she is the only woman in this rating with this i i also congratulate you, ms. hanna, it is not so easy to invite you on the air, you have very little time, but i can not resist asking you about the situation on the front lines, about the situation in our hot spots, we are reading different forecasts for each other, when winter slows down the offensive actions of our military, on the contrary , intensifies what we can expect in the coming week. well, the weather certainly makes its adjustments , because the weather depends on the extent to which certain equipment can be controlled, and the extent to which certain equipment can be used. at the same time, we should not make war forecasts based on the weather. it will definitely happen it is not correct that today the epicenter of hostilities in our country is the donetsk region and the enemy has concentrated most of its forces as of today exactly there

why well, it is obvious after their losses after they had to leave kherson and part of the kherson region. and after they shamefully and cowardly fled from the kharkiv region, it definitely demoralized the russian army. they definitely need some quick victories in order to raise this spirit, because weapons are weapons, but the morale of the troops is the first thing . it matters because a person uses a weapon. and apparently the russians think that the donetsk region and luhansk. this is a very simple task for them. in fact, they set themselves the task of reaching the borders of the donetsk region already on my memory is in the sixth and they are not able to do it, of course the battles are very hard and the price is very high for the fact that we defend our borders and here it is already important how

we treat the results of what is happening on the front, it is necessary to understand that when we liberate the temporarily occupied territories - it is a victory when we stand firm and do not let the enemy pass, it is also a victory and here it is important to simply compare the balance of forces because we do not hide it , the whole world knows that russia is superior in terms of the number of weapons they have been preparing for all 30 years of our the independents were preparing for this war, and they definitely prevail in the number of personnel , because the country is much larger. and if you compare this advantage and our ukrainian advantages, this is our motivation, first of all, it is the intelligence of our command, the professionalism of our military, then we are much stronger and stronger in this comparison and the fact that we have been holding on for nine months and the fact that we do not miss,

pay attention there, bakhmut, we do not surrender a single centimeter of land. yes, there are some operative things here and there, this is such an operative defensive movement from both parties but we are not surrendering the territory, this speaks of the strength and power of the armed forces of ukraine and today is not just the day of the armed forces, today is the day of the best army in the world because i do not know another army that would hold so much and behind these, well, such pathetic things, the strongest army the army actually stands for not only the power of victory and indomitability, the blood of our dead is behind it, the difficult , very difficult living conditions of the front itself, there is no way to do with the inclusions, there is such a situation behind it is that our soldiers are no longer see their families are behind this well, what are the wounded and

behind this is the fact that our army, like not the only one in the world, quickly learned to master new types of weapons , that is, the way our soldiers learn, yes, this is unprecedented, and now you and i have entered the phase when before the big invasion we were taught how to fight, now we have reason to teach the armies of the other armies of the world ms. hanna i know that the ministry of defense has launched such an interesting social project, it is difficult but worth it please tell me what you want to convey with this project and what is its purpose of this project, and the ministry of defense is our society. yes, we also live together with our society. yes, the ministry of defense

is actually the frontline support. we must give credit to the fact that, despite the fact that, well, i will be honest, the state is also wounded, yes, this is a war . and a lot of processes today are complicated and war is a very expensive business in order to have two numbers so that, well, our people, the audience, understood in the 21st year, on the 22nd, we adopted the budget of the ministry of defense of the armed forces of the armed forces of 131 billion, so just remember the number 131 now per month we we pay monetary support to the military 70 more than 70 billion. that is, you understand that our budget was spent somewhere in the spring, but less, but the ministry of defense today fully provides monetary payments without delays, e.e. weapons, military equipment, certainly not without the help of the entire ukrainian people, and therefore this the company

that we are starting now is difficult but it is worth it for each of us because each of us is having a hard time now and we understand that it will be disingenuously wrong and even that will not be respectful if we are the other way around hide something calm down and say no everything is fine but don't worry tomorrow here it is all the important truth and it is important that we have grown up as a society in these 9 months and we are all ready to say it is difficult for us we each understand each other but what we are going through this for is so much the juice is an important goal for us, the preservation of our state, that all this is worth going through, please remind me of these main messages, i sometimes hear them on the radio. of radio stations. we are grateful to everyone, they

do it for free, they help us. today, the regional and military administrations helped us throughout ukraine, and the idea that it is so difficult, but it is worth going through it, it is worth going through it all together with the armed forces and the ministry of defense , is spreading. we are all with you and we are very grateful. we have a volunteer campaign, a creative agency, michurin, who helped lead the visual development. i want to mark the people who have been working with us for free throughout the war, helping, this is dmytro loginov from this agency, yes, this is dmytro lazynovsky - this is serhii mykhailov, this is yuliya anikieva, who helped to realize all this, well, our feelings, and our feelings - these are actually the feelings of each person here, about each of you, it is difficult to learn when the lessons are in the basement, well, now it is our mind children, well, everyone understands, but the ministry of defense assures you that it is

difficult, but it is worth doing, it is worth it, because what we endure it for is much more important . stops while composing it 12 part of our life with you is the winning part because we will definitely win but yes, we will get through it together now it is hard to work when our hands are clenched into fists i think that each of us felt anger when missile attacks each of us squeezes like this and spoke about himself that cannot be said on the air, we are the same as you, we all feel the same, but this is this is this is worth experiencing because it is for the sake of victory's advice. well, by the way, words are difficult but worth it there is even a song and now to us the band spiv brativ will join by the way, this is a musical group from cherkasy, the guys became mega-popular

thanks to songs about the military theme, especially on the theme of our victory, there are also songs about chernobaivka and about the mask-kava cruiser and now there is a song worth it, but it's difficult, but it's worth it sorry guys, it's hard to write songs to the war to be honest, this is probably the only thing that makes it easy because when some event happens you are so overwhelmed by emotions and sometimes the same rage, sometimes inspiration that songs are easy to write, everything else is of course difficult, but apart from the songs, please it's difficult for lovers when tomorrow the front is rocked by smoke, children can't be seen grief sleep is hard to study when the basement is a desk yes it's hard it's hard but parto your mind is hard

but parto it's hard but the paint it's hard to calm mashka when you're nervous yourself it's hard with taxes when the marcher is very when the moon is gray it's not for jokes at all yes, it's hard for everyone it 's hard but it's worth it it's hard but it's worth it it's hard but it's hard to fall but it's hard it's hard people are tired at home it's hard the difficulty of refuting

yours must be accepted people are tired at home it's hard the difficulty of not refuting yours must be accepted people tired but at home it's hard difficulty not to excuse difficulty must be accepted difficult difficult but cool difficult difficult difficult but worth it but worth it i love you very much