they somewhat imposed weather conditions on the direction of the enemy's combat operations, he reduced the number of assaults however, they could not be calm if they did not experience or create some new conditions there for the continuation of aggression, therefore they are trying, for example, now more eh-e remotely mine by special means e approaches to their positions where our troops can operate uh, well, however, we are watching this and trying to counter it as well. well, of course, they continue to strike the barrel and rocket artillery and carry out airstrikes, however, they suffer losses every day, and well, a little bit in connection with the fact that they have reduced the number of assault actions to a little less, but about that every day, and that's all the main thing is that you have two main conclusions that they cannot systematically break through our defenses and go into back to continue

the occupation of the donetsk region and the fact that they are experiencing constant uh-huh losses in personnel, first of all, serhiu. please tell me what the current situation is in the bakhmat bakhmut direction, is this direction the hottest now it remains as it is, it is the hottest direction there, and they continue to concentrate their main efforts, both in terms of the dynamics of shelling and efforts to break through our defenses, and for 5 months they have not been able to do this and are simply systematically changing the personnel, which is causing losses and step by step they just do one and the same thing every day and also mr. serhiy, yesterday we also talked about the fact that the white house is

thinking about whether to give us cluster munitions, cnn reported on this tell me please, how can these munitions change the situation in the eastern direction, exactly why are they needed, because well, let’s put it this way, the americans believe that they are not quite conventional, that is, they are not exactly damaging , the munitions affect a large area, they can affect not only the military, but also civilians, the americans have fears as far as we can we convince them and how much do we need it, please? unlike the russians, they are we are trying to use commercial means, we are trying to adhere to the rules of war approved by all international organizations and all international treaties and conventions, and i think that this entry

is not on here, we still need to research the sources very, very well, it is very, very clear because everyone is now they want uh, dear lyumedia, any mass media , he wants us to have a bigger audience to go out and sell his information, that's why i would really research the sources and doubt this victory because that we have much more things that we need than these cluster munitions, it is much better, we need more, we need unmanned systems , including protective munitions, more artillery, which we have already studied, we know very well and already know the latest western artillery, which helps us a lot, but the quantity if we increased it, we would be able to significantly inflict more significant damage to the enemy and advance faster. there are also rockets, rockets, offensive weapons

such as leopard-2 tanks, so i would i would i would very much more checked the sources and talked to serious people because i don’t think that this is a priority for us and just for russian propaganda itself. this is a wonderful gift . what to say that the ukrainians are asking for cluster munitions, do you think that this information can be fake that ukraine is asking the americans to supply us with cluster munitions i would be very careful about it, but in general, what is your position regarding the provision of aid? you just listed what we really lack and it would significantly strengthen us, minimize losses and give there are more opportunities, but this is not because they can’t give more, they can’t give us everything , or because, after all, as some analysts say, they can’t allow us to give strategic independence. well, there are a lot of factors and

factors, uh, starting with each the country released its own separate track, even look at the retrospect, and from germany came the evolution, yes , from several thousand helmets of unclear quality to the newest mr. zergabets, who is simply the best now, the best folk in the world and up to mars mars systems, etc. and now the possibilities of other weapons are being considered, there are talks about it, it is still too early to say the same, france, for example, and many other countries that do not advertise very much, but i want to help, this is hard work every day, which is done by the military and political the state leadership, the same minister reznikov, talks about some system almost every week, and you understand, we always look at it from the ukrainian point of view, we are in trouble now, help us, but

many of these countries look at it systematically because why didn't you do it for 30 years, having received the greatest potential from the soviet union, the best , not even in another russia, it was precisely the aviation, tanks, everything else that you did for 30 years for your safety , so here you have to be grateful and persistent and you know , i think so here, the president is pursuing a policy that is very powerful in terms of persistence in terms of getting us weapons, so its recipe for this requires systematicity and permanence, and i think that this is this cro- this is for you, this wheel is grinding slowly but surely and i think that we and yes, such a rearmament has already been completed in these nine months, which probably would not have been completed a few years earlier. but of course we are asking

for further perfection of these weapons, and we will. administration he said that at the end of winter the defense forces in luhansk region will be able to go to the demarcation line of the 14th year and during the next year to liberate the entire region. the matchmaking crime, the armed forces keep the route under their fire control, well, the advance in luhansk region, tell me about it, when can we expect good news from the general staff, please well, we already seem to have even said on your broadcast that, unlike the russians, we have two two essential differences first of all, we take strategic planning very seriously. many of our general officers have already had experience in western headquarters, and that is, we carefully consider every operation, and the example of this kharkiv liman operation, secondly, we keep personnel and we do not try to go into frontal

attacks, the third factor is the weather conditions oh, we take all this into account well, of course, the presence of fresh reserves of untrained and er new means of fire with which you can look at the enemy before and all the more so that luhansk the region they were able to significantly strengthen in many directions, that is, it is necessary to systematically and powerfully find weak points and then go there to go for some more serious offensive actions. the message has been sent to you. well, another part of kharkiv oblast remains. unfortunately, it is not yet under occupation . what is the situation in the kharkiv region? well, it is insignificant there, literally one and a half percent of kharkiv oblast , and this is also connected, well, that is, it is connected with systematic, that is, when it will be carried out, god bless us, there will be all reserves or operation - it

will simply be a component of a wider operation of the armed forces of ukraine, we will return to the bakhmut direction, which remains the most critical and hot, but there are some changes are taking place in terms of provisioning on their part , uh, what is the composition of the manpower changing in any way? due to the fact that there is a great dynamic of hostilities and since the attacking party a in any battle suffers losses from three to five more than the defending ones, and in such a sloppy battle as they do there are even more losses . they are constantly dynamic personnel changes in connection with large

losses uh, since the main actor there is dude wagner, then first of all there is a replacement from former prisoners, well, in fact, they become ex-prisoners only when they get there already at the fronts and not for long uh, but this is their main strike force behind them, they are more professional, the skeleton of the old wagner still remains, some will actually be well prepared as fighters, because, as a rule, special forces went to them, the former and who after that were in many hot spots of the world, such as sirichi africa and that's why. well, it is also being replaced by mobilized ones, because the main task was mobilization to replenish what was lost in the mechanized tank landings there in the units of the armed forces of the

russian federation. of the day and thank you for your comments on our live broadcast. the occupiers have arrived at the ambulance station and are unfortunately injured. they continue to fire on the south. they continue to fire on the south . kherson oblast unfortunately, we have a summary of the general staff there, all the complete information is operative, let's see it together glory to ukraine, the 289th day of the russian large-scale invasion has begun, in the past day, units of the village of borony repelled the attacks of the russian invaders in the areas of belorovka in the luhansk oblast and klishivka and maryinka in the donetsk oblast at the same time, the enemy carried out five missile and three air strikes, as well as carried out 54 attacks from rocket salvo systems, and the threat of missile strikes on objects remains in the future

of the energy system and critical infrastructure throughout the territory of ukraine in the siversk direction, the enemy fired mortars at the settlements of hodene, sosnivka, kindrativka, and zapsillia of the sumy region , in the slobojan direction , the areas of the settlements of ternova, staritsa , ohirtseve, and kupyansk, in the kharkiv region, were hit by fire from mortars and barrel artillery. in the kupyan direction, the enemy is defending , machine guns and various types of artillery fire were recorded in the areas of sinkivka settlements pishchane and pershotravneve in the kharkiv region and novoselivsk and stelmakhivka in the luhansk oblast in the liman direction, the enemy carried out artillery shelling in the areas of grekivka, makiivka, nevsky square and khrodnopopivka in the luhansk oblast, tavtorsky and grigorivka in the donetsk region, in the bakhmut and avdiiv

directions, the enemy does not stop attempts to attack tanks, mortars, and barrel reactive artillery regions of 25 settlements were affected , among them berdichi-andriyivka verkhnokamyanske berestov belogorivka vesele soledar bakhmut-opytne avdiivka, first may, marinka and novomykhailivka, donetsk region, in the direction of novopavlivka, the enemy is defending, vugledar, the cleaning station of golden niva and the large novosilka in donetsk region, in the zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy fired machine tools and artillery in the areas of 14 settlements , in particular, vremyvka, the great novosilka and new field, donetsk region, and dorozhnyanka, gulyaipol, novodanilivka and steppe zaporizhzhya regions in the kherson direction, the enemy is conducting defensive actions, tank and artillery fire recorded in the areas of the settlements of borislav

kozatske, antonivka, komysany, dnipro and veletensk, kherson oblast, and the outskirts of the city of kherson, the enemy continues to suffer losses on december 7 of this year as a result of fire damage to the areas where the occupiers are concentrated in the areas of the cities of berdyansk, tokmak, melitopol, energodar , dniprorudne, and vasylka, zaporizhia oblast , enemy losses amounted to about 240 people were injured , three ammunition warehouses were destroyed, and about 21 military equipment of various types were deployed on at the base of the tokmak anti-tuberculosis dispensary, the hospital is completely filled with wounded servicemen of the russian occupation forces , a unit of missile forces and artillery, a village of the defense of ukraine, hit eight control points, 11 areas of concentration of personnel of weapons and

military equipment and two warehouses of ammunition of the invaders, support the armed forces, together we will win glory to ukraine, glory to heroes well, the last one information from a overseas the united states will provide ukraine with a new package of military aid in the amount 275 million dollars is reported by the british agency router from a military aid package worth 275 million dollars, which offers new opportunities to fight drones and strengthen air defense, the package can be announced as early as friday , that is, today it is expected that the pentagon has missiles for launchers it will include rockets for launchers of high mobility artillery rocket systems himers 155 mm ammunition hamview military vehicles and generators i think the data of this package serhiy zgurets already knows and he is in touch with us, a military expert, director of the information and consulting company defense express p serhiu good morning good morning i greet

you, do you know anything about this new package, what to expect and when it is actually here, the details of the package will probably be announced in p this is just a preliminary report from reuters, but we understand that there is stable support from the united states for the main needs of the armed forces, which are used in weapons in the field or there is indeed mention of ammunition for heimers and mobile vehicles, habi, and ammunition for artillery, i.e., the largest expendable consumables currently needed by the armed forces in general, and those that the new defense budget of the united states foresees, we will increase aid to ukraine along the lines of the pentagon, as well as in other directions, in particular lines of this uh direct presidential aid which provides for the use of us military reserves for rapid supply to the armed forces i think that this

package that the raider mentions is about schemes of when the reserves of the ministry of defense will be transferred to the armament of the equipment for the armed forces. please tell us about the ammunition and poland . what does this show or will it reduce for us they help actually when we talk about ammunition the challenge is related to the beautiful famine now all european countries are aware because no one expected such a great intensity of hostilities, if they say, were there periods when er, from the russian side , 40,000 munitions were fired in the direction of ukraine per day, then this was the maximum indicator of what really, er , sometimes the defense industry of wild countries

produces in a year, so i will remember thanks to selected states of the united states, they can now produce only 15,000 e-e ammunition per year, they have a plan for next year to increase this figure to 23,000 ammunition per year, and in 2025 to reach 40,000 caliber 155 ammunition with annual capacities, they have now signed contracts with the pentagon to expand production capacities precisely to triple the amount of ammunition production, the situation in germany and in france is even more difficult, let's say, because according to the estimates of the experts there, based on these military plans, the military games resulted in the fact that both germany and france actually have reserves of ammunition per week, judging by the intensity of hostilities currently taking place between ukraine and the russian federation, the situation in poland is not much better and

this is just now forcing all european countries to revise their capacities today, but this is not such a fast process because yesterday it was announced that slovakia is ready to launch the production of ammunition, including the soviet 152 mm caliber for ukraine, but this topic has already been raised for two months, as i think the discussion it is difficult enough between the defense enterprises of one or another country and customers, because businessmen want to have certain guarantees that if they start production, it will be purchased a er, the officials want it to be done quickly enough, this dilemma is now the basis for all european countries from the united states, as well as these cluster shells that explain to us serhiy cherevaty that we will buy on our air he says that there are and we need more things that would be more useful to us useful well, i mean this information cnn uh, they

wrote about it about the fact that ukraine is asking for it to be fake or not, because we had doubts about the veracity of this information, uh, in fact, no, no, no, it's not fake, it's already the second side, in principle, it's talking about that that such a loss would be needed in the summer, the first proposal to the united states. because in fact these ammunitions are used in many armies that have not joined the convention on the ban of cluster munitions, in particular there and uh, south korea and poland and other countries- the balts, who face the threat of a mass army offensive, which includes the russian army itself, are seriously approaching the possibility of these pocket bpps, which can supplement artillery shells, because, to put it conventionally, we now had such ammunition

the situation regarding the destruction of manpower would be much more effective and i understand that it is difficult for me to talk about what the economy further explained about the ban, but the repeated comedy about the only applies to the fact that these munitions have to be liquidated after a certain time and there are nuances when exactly which the number of words without ammunition should be precisely eliminated, a certain discussion took place around this, the ukrainian side is interested in how i can get these ammunition in addition to high-altitude ammunition, because it expands the capabilities of our artillery. when we don't have enough guns, cluster munitions multiply the power of our artillery many times over. i think that means late. we have these munitions, we will receive political support for this process regardless of any circumstances. sergey well, about yesterday's statements, you mentioned the meeting of the ukrainian minister of foreign affairs dmytro kuleba, as well as his polish colleague oh, now i will open the information of the minister of foreign affairs of

slovakia, who promised well, he did not promise, they promised to consider the issue of the restoration of production and his name is rostyslav kucher and the chairman mfa of slovakia he said that he is in the photo from this meeting that his ukraine plans to resume the production of shells for artillery, he said, we are now talking about how to launch our production facilities, we produced large-caliber shells . we have facilities for these calibers, partly state and partly private . it is likely that we are talking about projectiles. as you said, 122 and 150 2 mm are the soviet standard, that is, the slovak military , as i understand it, does not need these projectiles, it has been producing them since the time when it was a member according to the warsaw pact, slovakia alone can meet our production needs or not . in fact, at a meeting of the defense ministers of the nato countries on weapons issues 2 months ago

, a task was already set for three countries. this is the point of poland, slovakia and bulgaria to intensify measures for the manufacture of soviet caliber, it was rising, i repeat several months ago, because these countries have the capacity to do it this way, because the supply turns out to be wrong, who continues for several months, as i understand it, there is a discussion between the governments of these countries and the manufacturers themselves, i repeat , because this is a dilemma for american manufacturers, they have guaranteed orders so far, these statements, which i understand, lie in the political plane and have not passed into the financial component, so in any case we understand that europe is getting confused with the production of military equipment , but it is enough slowly and not directly, the question is whether these words will be powerful enough for the production of ammunition to satisfy the demand of the ukrainian army, i think that no, in any case, it will only be

a partial addition to the natliv caliber ammunition and will allow us to use soviet-caliber guns for some time, which dominate the battlefield today, but the ammunition for which is already much less, and now the amount of ammunition for the guns is supplied 155 times more than we, er, have reserves before , that is, after two millimeters. now we have already received about one million 155 mm caliber ammunition from the united states and other countries. this million, i think that many countries need to produce several years to renew such a volume that was supplied to ukraine well, russia demanded the convening of the un security council to discuss the supply of weapons to ukraine by western countries, yes, yes, it sounds surreal, but it is true, and this meeting will take place today at 15:00 kyiv time 22 well, if the west

stopped supplying arms to ukraine, we have already defeated it. and since we can't win because you supply arms, let's convene a security council, we will regret that this west is fueling hostilities there again, there will be a lot of times again er, the logic is violated, it's the same as with the attempt to blame ukraine for teaching nuclear weapons made by the chemical preparation of these biological laboratories, it's the fact that when there is no possibility to rationally explain something , such measures are taken that are taking place at the same time connected with accusing the event of weapons training to ukraine, i think that this is just an eternal fake story using the security council of the russian federation, we really need to approach the reform of this completely russian organization federation with the un, whatever it is. so far, it

has not looked optimistic that sooner or later it will come to this. but nevertheless, the russians somehow try to influence diplomatically. is ukraine somehow able to influence diplomatically? well, on the armed use, for example, no, no, no, conventional weapons how are the cluster munitions because we are being questioned about ukraine in our village cherevaty spoke up, the spokesman for the east group of troops he says that this information will be very useful to the russians now , they will now question us for what we use non-conventional types of weapons, but they themselves use them. we can somehow influence , whether through diplomatic means, the certain use of certain types of weapons by the russians or not. well, we understand how much effort it took for the world community to put within the framework of the russian federation, which began to rumble with its nuclear tentacles, threatening the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons if there are defeats of russia, political pressure

really makes a certain sense when russia is faced with a clear enclosure, if you use tactical nuclear weapons or any option there, your army there will be completely destroyed within two weeks, such direct and hard arguments against the russian government are effective when we talk about other things, samples of ammunition there, cassettes there, or others, here there are many nuances where in fact we understand that there are certain restrictions on the use of such weapons systems, but it is quite difficult to influence the changes because there, in particular, ukraine and russia have not joined them and the restrictions that apply to those or other samples of it, conditionally speaking, blaming each other, there is no special meaning here. why do i now treat these american cluster munitions, because we now need to increase the effectiveness on the battlefield, save our lives, increase the number of losses of the aggressor, this is, uh, american cheap ammunition, even used by the american army there is no

novelty, there are still restrictions on the use of ammunition of the american army, so in any case, this direction will be useful for us to strengthen our artillery, and not because of that. appeal to the american side, thank you mr. serhiy, and also the us state department compared the actions of the russians in ukraine to the actions of the islamic state and it was also stated that 160,000 m² of the territory of ukraine should be checked for the presence of mines, in particular, michael tore, a representative of the us state department, said that russian soldiers they purposefully mine civilian houses, in particular children's toys, even the bodies of those killed, the terrible use of explosive devices by the russian military resembles the tactics of militants and terrorists in cancer and syria, they tried to kill as many civilians as possible so that people are afraid to return to their homes, the question of demining 160,000 m² of territory, how many

years do you think it will be enough for us to occupy this question for that, it was to change 160,000 m², well, let me remind you that the territory of kyiv region is 30,000 square kilometers, i.e., a huge plain there, colossal indicators of the mined territory. i think that this will be just after the end of the war. this will be one of the important such humanitarian programs that will be joined the organization of the united nations, all countries, because this is really an extremely important component of the post-war peace on the territory of ukraine, in any case, enough other countries say that such large and such large volumes, i think, have not encountered the same country, and i think that this it will take, relatively speaking, from 10 years or more, because it cannot be ensured quickly. we have some experience in demining, but in such volumes, we really have not encountered a large-scale problem with this system, so there is a solution, i

repeat. it will be implemented only at the expense of the joining of efforts of all european and other countries that can help us in this matter p . serhiy thank you very much for participating in our broadcast serhii zgurets is a military expert and director of the information consulting company defense express, on their website you can read professionally - they explain all military topics ammunition, help, and the ukrainian defense industry, everything is detailed and clear, we are moving until nine o'clock . i don't know if it's been almost 10 months or 8 years or 100 years of light memory to all ukrainians