of water crimea so today, melitopol is really strategic, carries strategic importance both for the zaporizhzhia region and for the south of ukraine, and of course for the kherson region, which is one of the most important factors for the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located in energodar, because we understand that it is a single complex regarding the liberation of both melitopol and energodar, that is why today everyone understands this strategic importance, first of all, our military understands it, so our main task is to help the military and prepare to restore its vital activity for our residents, so the occupiers live in melitopol because there from time to time our partisans somehow minus them, of course, on er and there is extremely good news

for the last three last week, which passed especially over the weekend, and there is several things, first of all, the general staff of ukraine reported that the entire command post of the 58th army of the ossetian army was destroyed in the territory of the city of melitopol, and we will destroy it with crowns in the city of melitopol, so when we talk about the administrative logistics center the city of the city of melitopol, who carries it, we can say that the main russian forces will die in the city of melitopol, and our city and residents are also ready for this. we also see that the occupiers' losses are also just at the checkpoints, just among the whites, for destroying russia as at the checkpoints in the city melitopol we also see that yesterday and the day before yesterday mob patrols simply disappeared somewhere, they just walked, walked around the city and disappeared, there are no more of them. therefore, every day the military potential in the territory of the city of

melitopol and the melitopol district is being methodically destroyed, as well as one more an example of the panic and uncomfortable presence of the russians in the territory of the city of melitopol is that something happened to the bridge, which is one of the main land routes from the donbass region to our temporarily occupied crimea, and within a few hours, the russians had at least three versions. at first, they said that uh, this bridge was hit by chemical weapons, then they said saboteurs, then they said it doesn't matter, it's not needed anyway, so yes, yes, yes, and it was, but uh, what is an interesting fact is that 100 m from this bridge is precisely the checkpoint of the same ossetians whose command destroyed everything, so the big question is, did they do it themselves as a sign

of protest against the fact that their command was completely destroyed, so it is not difficult for the occupiers on the territory of our city and they definitely need to pack their bags a how are the people who remained in the occupation, or what does their daily life look like, or do the occupiers actually spoil that life too much, after every successful attempt to eliminate the occupiers or collaborators , another round of terror begins against our of the civilian population, uh. and for example, after the military command was destroyed, additional filtering began, additional people began to be taken prisoner, and so on. also, we see a trend that they are preparing for new repressions , for example, they announced that the rashists announced that from the first of january there will be a complete the circulation of hryvnias is prohibited, and those people who will keep hryvnias will be released to the enemies of their families. so we all understand that every resident of melitopol

will definitely have a hryvnia in his house, even any person will be able to take them prisoner and accuse them of treason, well, some nonsense. but this is how i try to show the terror of civilians in the temporarily occupied territories only intensifies. well, if you remember the footage from de-occupied kherson, when people showed how they hid blue and yellow flags there or some three-liter cans or somewhere they hid under uh sidewalk tiles uh so that they wouldn't be found because just for the flag could also um could have ended badly that's why here they already went to hryvnias, this is already some kind of massacres. and do people have the possibility of somehow leaving melitopol or are they not allowed out of the city at all, let's give an example in numbers and it is absolutely terrible if, for example, in september

, more than 1,000 cars left the four temporarily occupied regions of kherson, zaporozhye, don, and luhansk per day. so currently , 400 leave per week. it should also be noted that they do not release men of conscription age who are not exempted from military service. also, we see that it has become more difficult for our residents to leave through the crimea. today, the route from melitopol to georgia or from melitopol to the european union takes at least 5 days, so leave today. maybe we are calling our residents to leave, but it is quite difficult. it is becoming more and more difficult every day because the population remains in melitopol. see here. there is no definite answer. it must be divided into in two parts, the first of the population that is native to the city of melitopol remains a little less than half, about 60,000, but a large number of

people came from mariupol, donetsk, kherson oblasts have arrived and are now waiting in melitopol for de-occupation. well, that’s clear. thank you very much, mr. ivan, ivan fedorov, the mayor of melitopol joined us, and about the latest news from this city, which is really the key to the de-occupation of the entire ukrainian south. well, now we will show to you , the operational review of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine as of this morning, for today, december 15, and today is the 295th day of the invasion, so that the full-scale russian army in ukraine is already almost that army is not left for the most part mobs well, actually, not quite like that well, but of those who invaded, this is from this one. by the way, the british seem to have calculated that of those who invaded 10 months ago, almost none of them remained, either died or formed violations, and they are looking for people for work, and the work is such that it is necessary

dig graves now somewhere. and if you can show this ad a-a the ad sounds like the job of a gravedigger digs graves a-a eh they write that people are needed to work on the shchelba cemetery novorossk мне всё что нужно выкапывать новые ямы help the family it is possible and so the salary is 12,000 rubles for the guys at the front , not just their rear, reliable, ugh, reliable protection, we will bury them with honors, three requirements, no alcohol , this is an ad, no, an alcoholic, a work book, patriotic education, normal physical health, eh, in a word, the requirements are small, and the work is said to be honorable, to bury all those who came here to ukraine with the war with honors well, and then they are also mobilized those who dug these eyes

labor book patriotic education we will say everything but 12,000 rubles, well, it looks very tempting from 5,000 4 means they will dig these trenches well later, so let's probably listen to the report from the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine well, and then there will be a review by sergey zgurets, a military expert, and after that, come back glory to ukraine, the 295th day of the russian large-scale invasion has begun the enemy continues to concentrate the efforts of the offensive actions on the bakhmut and avdiiv directions, is trying to improve the tactical position on the kupyan , lyman and zaporizhzhia directions on other directions, the enemy is trying to restrain the actions of units of the defense forces of ukraine, over the past day

, our soldiers repelled the attacks of the russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of upper kamianske , yakovlivka, soledar, bakhmut, vesele and maryinka of the donetsk region, the enemy carried out 31 air strikes and eight missile strikes on the civil infrastructure of the donetsk region and also carried out 61 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in the future there is a threat of the occupiers carrying out air and missile strikes on civilian infrastructure objects throughout the territory of ukraine in the volyn and polis directions, the situation remains without significant changes, signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups were not detected in the siver direction, the enemy inflicted fire on the areas of lipivka and khrynivka of the chernihiv region, in the kupyan direction, they fired at the positions of our troops in the areas of populated areas, red dawn, red, old, two-year-old, and

novomlynsk in kharkiv oblast, in the liman direction, the enemy fired from tanks , mortars, and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of makiyivka ploshanka and khrodnopopivka, luhansk region, and yampolivka, torske and vedmezhe in donetsk region, in the direction of bakhmut, areas of 17 settlements were shelled, among them upper kamyansk, disputed, belohorivka, yakovlivka, soledar, hryhorivka, bakhmut, ozeryanivka , northern and opytne, donetsk region, the invaders also carried out an airstrike near the city of bakhmut , in the direction of avdiyiv, positions were damaged by fire of our troops in the areas of settlements of avdiivka, vodyane, nevelske, krasnohorivka , georgiivka, tamarinka near the latter, recorded and enemy air attack in the novopavlov direction, the occupiers fired at ugledar in prechystivka and

nezknouk of donetsk region, they carried out an airstrike in the area of ​​the city of vugledar in the zaporizhia and kherson directions, the enemy continues to shell the positions of our troops and civilian infrastructure along the right bank of the dnipro river , the areas of 19 settlements, in particular , vremivka and novopiv, donetsk of the trypilske region nuts small tokmachka in zaporizhzhia kherson region and the city of kherson, according to available information, the occupiers mined summer cottages on the banks of the konka and chaika rivers within the oleshkiv urban territorial community of the kherson region, the enemy forcibly evacuated ukrainian citizens who lived on the island of big potemkinsky near kherson to the territory still under the control of the

russian invaders, the occupation authorities are conducting works on switching the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the energy system of the russian federation ukrainian aviation during last day it struck 13 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel of weapons and military equipment and five strikes on the positions of enemy anti-aircraft missile systems units of missile forces and artillery in the village of boron of ukraine hit two control points, eight areas of concentration of enemy personnel and a warehouse of fuel and lubricants materials, support the armed forces, we will win together. glory to ukraine and glory to our heroes. we thank them for the fact that they protect our peace and allow us to be here today. veteri and you will be with us, and now we

will be with us serhiy zhoretsky, a military expert, the director of the information consulting company defense express, let's talk a little about military affairs, serhiy good morning good morning i congratulate you, such interesting news has appeared that er allies of ukraine the west is discussing ways to ensure a decisive advantage over the russian occupation forces and put an end to full-scale war, and for this the west allows the supply of new fighter jets to ukraine precisely to gain this decisive the victories that this means will be given to us by all the fighters. well, in fact, if this information is confirmed and further practical steps are somehow taken, then we will have such a certain logical connection because, relatively speaking, in the first row are the measures of associated with the acquisition of the patriot complex, which should provide cover for important

objects, including airfields, because when patriots are given, they are actually designed according to the alliance's concept to cover the airfield where the planes that actually carry the main burden is on air defense , this connection of patriots and fighters is actually standard for the countries of the alliance, if we have advances on patriots, then slowly, as i think, we are approaching the beginning of the discussion about receiving aircraft. although the command of the air force already mentioned the aircraft repeatedly in wishes to our partners, practically necessary fourth-generation aircraft were also repeatedly mentioned, plus the united states allocated about 100 million dollars in its budget for pilot training for of our aviation, but for now, as i understand the issue in the choice of types of aircraft and in the delivery format, because

even with the aircraft there, the f 16x is better, there are no extra ones, we also have to wait for the gripens to be transferred, they will not be transferred, and the question arises about the f-15 as a version and in any in any case, the positive of this news is that those things that previously seemed very far are actually very close, for example with the same petrio complex. well, but these fighters, if it is really confirmed for this one, they will be provided to us on them, we have to learn to learn a- and it is absolutely correct to use them correctly, but this discussion was already heard in the military environment, and the air force command actually spoke about the fact that our pilots, given their desire and need and experience, can actually provide during training there from six months and a little longer, but here the question is, what

level of training will you need about the fact that we have to reach a level that allows not only to take off and land, but to conduct, relatively speaking, effective air battles using western weapons and this can really have some effect on the timing of the acquisition of western equipment, and the second component is the preparation of aircraft to receive western aircraft, this is an equally difficult component, and the third component is the preparation of equipment, because it tells you that a squadron of 12 or 16 aircraft would be more than enough for us but in addition to these pilots, it is necessary to train 40 other technicians who will service these planes, and the issue of this third component is no less important than the training of pilots, all these factors are actually already taken into account in the concepts and approaches on the ukrainian side, the question of what will be the first step, because so far the first step is once again the publication of a discussion statement without a clear definition of when we will receive certain samples and

what exactly these samples will be, it is interesting now. by the way, always now from a certain distance in almost 10 months of this war, you can already draw the following conclusions about who was right at the very beginning when he made some predictions. and it is interesting that a british historian not in fermisom then came out with a sharp and very public criticism of the position of the biden administration that this very idea of ​​a war of attrition by the russian federation, did he consider it wrong, or is it now becoming clear that perhaps he was right in the first place, and that it is russia that is now imposing this war of attrition with its mobilization e-e resource and its such submissiveness of the population which is ready to tolerate literally anything er. that is, it is capable of waging this war in our country for years or weeks, this is

really suitable. at the same time, if we evaluate the approaches of other experts, in fact, we are talking about the fact that in view of the potential of the russian federation, both human and armed, we are talking about the fact that now they have secured the first wave of 300,000, the second wave can be 500,000, but then systemic problems begin because everything is just further, in fact, the movement potential that there is said to be 14 million, it is just that, it is nonsense, we are talking about the fact that the russian federation has this human potential. the use of manpower is now dominant on the battlefield when we talk about the strategy of the russian federation, now we are talking about the fact that we are now keeping these russian troops at the level of the front 500 km there january

february when talking about the fact that it is possible that there will be new attacks by the russian federation in view of the fact that those 100,000 will be prepared, which are actually not transferred to the battlefield, but all in all, this dynamic, in my opinion, will not affect the qualitative nature of the hostilities and the component related to the equipment in russia the same goes out when we speak there and about military supplies and about equipment. but why, in any case, is the issue of vienna at exhaustion, it seems more threatening for the russian federation itself, because, relatively speaking, we understand that our potential is our potential plus the potential of europe and the usa, and russia is actually russia and whose potential can we say whether, despite the talk of a war of attrition , this war of attrition can actually be a war of attrition? in order not to, well, make this war cheaper

and end it faster, well, this logic is actually already visible when we talk about the readiness to transfer patriots and other types of weapons, at least to a certain red, this limit is preserved when we talk about long-range weapons systems. i think that it is possible, but just winter will be the rubicon that will show that actually active support of ukraine is even more active, first of all, of the united states, can really significantly reduce the time of the russian army’s maneuvering, which will be the main prerequisite for the complete destruction of political the allies of the russian federation, who are still holding on to these decorative statements of putin and the readiness to introduce this war of attrition. we are simply now picking up on this thesis of the russian federation, a war of attrition . i am not interested in what strategy the

russian federation is going to introduce. well, for now there are discussions about these fighters for ukraine to belarus , so the monitoring group of the belarusian district informs that a russian plane has arrived that helps guide the e-e il-76 a 500 serhiy atayan what is this what is this plane here it is flying, someone took a video what year is it and is it worth fearing it in fact these planes are constantly patrolling the airspace from 2 to 4 of them can be located at the same time, they provide an overview of our airspace to a depth of 400 km. and in fact, these are, relatively speaking, intelligence command posts that combine the possibility of long- range recreational detection of aerial targets

i repeat, there is nothing new in this, they have been used by the russian federation before, in turn, we are also trying to help such and such avacs planes, which can track in the same detail what is happening on the borders with ukraine and the russian federation, and we receive a significant part of the data from avacs planes which are actually more perfect from the point of view of the range of detection and detailing of targets, the fact that in any case we have a certain intersection when we work in the variant with nato against those individual samples which russia is trying to keep them in the air or on the ground near our borders. well, there are many of these planes in russia, about eight, yes. and i also wanted to clarify the information about what, uh, they can transfer to ukraine such sets of joint direct, uh, menishin attacks, what is this? okay, guided air bombs with

gps guidance devices are actually a transformation of conventional air bombs, high-precision bombs, in fact, this is also partly additional evidence that we are moving towards the use of m-m or western aviation equipment or will now be implemented the strategy that was implemented with our planes when we under our such increased american harm missiles were suspended that destroyed russian air defense complexes at a distance of up to 100 km, now we will be able to understand how to understand there stormtroopers bombers to hang eyes on new american bombs that will provide greater hit accuracy will also increase the effectiveness of our aviation on the battlefield in those areas where we use attack bombers, that is, first of all, this

can improve even the same mig-29 and i understand that they haven't even reached us yet nikita since 9:00 planes have been using rockets harm and when we talk about these bombs, we are talking about bombers and attack aircraft of the su-25 type here or there 124 it is clear a-a in general if we talk about e-e directions in general if your assessment what is happening at the front lately can we say that there are no changes? well, i wouldn't say along the entire front line starting from kupyansk svatova criminal e-e bakhmut avdiivka maryanka ot pavlivka actually along the entire section of the front, which is now somewhere around 500 km, that's the last week of eva, there has been an increase in the art of shelling there, i'll try to ask somehow, especially when we're talking about

bakhmut there, maryinka and avdiivka, so now despite the fact that there is no of changes on the map, the tension along the entire front is very significant. here is our success there, a matchmaking zone of criminals there. because a few days ago it was better there, more or less cold. we were able to ensure progress along certain areas, the enemy tried to counterattack, if in fact the kindergarten of the crime is being fought on bakhmut, we don't even have to mention it, of course, first of all. there, the enemy in the east reached a certain area where there are residential buildings and drove from there, they are being knocked out. actually, the enemy is trying to surround bakhmut, moving there and from yakovlivka, this is what my mother says is further north and there from kuryumivka, it is south of baba-bakhmut. so, i

think that there is still an extremely difficult situation there. it is clear. i also wanted to ask about the latest information about the fact that now one a second about what's going on german super howitzers panzer howitzer 2000 turn out to fail very often, why am i such a problem and how to solve in general how much of a problem it is from the very beginning there was a lot of different nomenclature relatively speaking very different modifications as now the armed forces are doing well, but with this repair we really this is a question. it was predicted that there would be certain complications. now we really have a fleet of the most technologically advanced weapons when we talk about artillery that was manufactured by european companies and when we let's take as an example the german patsyk howitzers, are we

really? we received about three dozen of them from germany and in fact we use them with this efficiency from the system with the load as required by the conditions of the battlefield. a certain number of shots, which was normative for german howitzers, we exceed these indicators per day. as i understand it, by 3-4 times, which actually constitutes such an additional technical load on these types of weapons, and there were publications in the washington post in other foreign editions, if actually because of such hard work by german weapons, we actually have a third of these howitzers. and sometimes half of mine are under repair, this

repair is carried out in lithuania because poland partly wanted to receive a presentation on the repair of these howitzers . the repair of these howitzers is carried out in lithuania, so in any case, the construction of an optimal service system for these howitzers with the involvement of ukrainian enterprises, as well as other weapons systems that we receive from partners, will be such an important systemic task which should be decided in the defense industry already today so that as many howitzers as possible work on the battlefield and fewer are under repair. well, at the very end, i would like to ask that nato and the eu may soon call on russia to withdraw its troops, is this just part of diplomacy, or are there also any parallel things that, well, conventionally speaking, are transferred to the kremlin that we

can now increase the supply of weapons there and so on. well, i think that all this is a combination of diplomatic factors and actually military factors, because we understand that uh, one step at a time petrykiv is a certain response to the threat from the russian federation, the further stages actually require us heavy machinery as artillery because we have to conduct an operation to liberate our e-e lands and in fact i think that these statements from nato and the european union should also be prejudicial such a signal from the russian federation that, in any case, europe , nato, will support ukraine until our victory, and one way or another, putin should admit that he will not win in this war, draw conclusions sooner than before his army will be completely destroyed on the territory of ukraine, well, thank you very much

for these clarifications, serhiy svarets, military expert, director of the information platform company defense express, was with us, well, at the very end, the novelty is very fresh in the russian hangar , the hangar is on fire oil plant in irkutsk region , a big fire at the oil plant is already a video report, without knowing, we can show it. i think we don't have much time left, how did someone bring the flame of bethlehem and how the russians did it simply in relation to zelensky fat men were seen in the hangar brought after the lights of bethlehem peace, less russian oil, less russian diesel and more peace in the whole world, more ukrainian lives saved uh, well, now we will remember all those whose lives russia took