military operation, we don't know anything about its nature, we understand that they are trying to somehow smoke out the occupiers from there, nevertheless, it is the report that the ochakiv coast is regularly shelled, for example, how the development of events there might look now very briefly. well, in fact, if it is shelled, it means that we have not completely smoked in this area, the counter-battery fight must continue as they understand it and further so that this area is completely safe due to the use of our artillery, to identify the enemy there is a difficult, seemingly simple area but there everything is on one side as in the palm of your hand, and then we rest on such and such a cut by water there it becomes more and more complicated and more confusing so that in any case the artillery is somehow more powerful there and there was a complication thank you sergey zgurets expert express effect was in touch with us now there is a national minute of silence we will honor with a minute of silence

the memory of ukrainian soldiers and peaceful citizens of ukraine who died in the war that was unleashed by russia

, the 299th day of heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian invaders continues until for your attention news anzhelika sezonenko works on espresso in the studio instead of a gift russia sent 35 shaheds to our country at night iranian drones were launched from the eastern coast of the sea of ​​azov 30 of them destroyed the air defense forces of ukraine for this the anti-aircraft missile forces fighter aircraft and mobile fire groups with drones worked fruitfully the russians attacked in the morning, in particular, kyiv region, previously two people were injured, they were under the supervision of doctors, infrastructure objects and private houses were damaged, part of the uav was shot down but the regional military

administration did not clarify how many reached the capital several explosions were heard in the solomyanskyi and shevchenkivskyi districts, the invaders also hit critical infrastructure emergency services are eliminating the consequences, the kyiv military city administration noted that there were no deaths and injuries in the airspace of the capital, more than 20 martyrs , fifteen of them shot down, but the invaders attacked the dnipropetrovsk region not only with drones, but also with heavy artillery and hail the head of the region, valentyna reznichenko, said that in particular, the attackers fired more than 60 shells at nikopol region, there were no casualties in the chervonogrigoriv community , 11 private houses were destroyed, six outbuildings, cars, a gas pipeline and a power transmission line were cut off due to shelling, a water supply pumping station was cut off due to shelling, there is no water in several villages, emergency crews are working in

marganka, russian shells more than 20 private houses and farm buildings were beaten, a children's and youth sports school-lyceum, an art school and an administration building were damaged, and several a fire broke out in the power grid in a private neighborhood , rescuers have already put out the fire under the fire of the invaders and the border settlements in the kharkiv region are suffering the most , the head of the regional military administration, oleg synogub, noted that the head of the regional military administration, oleg synogub, said that a 31-year-old paramedic received a shrapnel wound while on duty, a man was hospitalized doctors assess his condition as light in the village of dvorichna, a private house and outbuildings were damaged victims also came under enemy fire in vovchansk in the chuguyiv district and shooting and deep in kharkiv due to the cold weather

today, december 19, the shortage of electricity will be significant, ukrenergo warned at the same time that the shortage will decrease in the future, as the system is gradually being restored after the last shelling, and in addition, it is getting warmer on the streets , the company added on december 18, ukrainian nuclear power plants reached the maximum possible capacity in conditions of damage to the energy infrastructure, with the exception of the temporarily occupied zaporizhzhya npp which continues to be in the block stop mode, 15 enemy attacks were repulsed by the ukrainian army over the past day at the front, reports the general headquarters of the zsun, in particular near stelmakhivka makiyivka and biloghirivka in the luhansk region and the upper kamensk bachmut, krasnohorivka maryinka and novomykhailivka in donetsk region during the day russian the occupiers launched four rocket and

seven air strikes, and more than 50 times they were fired from multiple rocket systems, affected settlements, civilian infrastructure and the civilian population of the forces ukrainian aviation responded powerfully. during the past day, it carried out nine strikes on regional concentrations of personnel and military equipment and three strikes on the positions of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems. at the same time, our defenders shot down 7 uavs of the shahed 136 unit of missile troops and artillery. defense forces of ukraine hit the command post, the manpower concentration area, two enemy ammunition depots, as well as the counter-battery radar station, the zoo, russia is preparing for a new offensive on ukraine in the coming months, the institute for the study of war believes that, american experts

cite a number of factors that can testify to such plans of the kremlin. regarding another large-scale invasion in february next year, first of all, the russian military leadership is trying to change public opinion about the failures of the russian federation in its war against ukraine, military officials pretend to be actively involved to the planning and control of military actions, in addition, today's scheduled meeting between putin and lukashenko also demonstrates the activity and creation of information conditions for of the new stage of the war against our country, instead, i will note that according to the main intelligence agency, russia is not ready for a new offensive, they added that if there is such a threat, we will have information about another 520 russians who did not find a gift from nicholas under the pillow, because there are no longer any of them. the forces of ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in the enemy's army has decreased by 98,800 fighters, the

attackers and equipment are lost, namely one tank - six armored combat vehicles 13 cars and tankers 55 i apologize of artillery systems and one means of anti- aircraft defense in the general staff specify that the data is approximate. in childhood, she wanted to conquer the sky and became a soldier, a rifleman, olena with the call sign mara, joined the army after the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, defended kyiv, liberated kharkiv together with her comrades, reached the russian-ukrainian border border, the woman told her story of the war to khrystyna probie olena with the call sign mora, a serviceman of the 112th territorial defense brigade of the armed forces of ukraine in the army, the woman left immediately when the russian federation launched a full-scale invasion, at first the military guarded kyiv and later took part in the liberation of

kharkiv oblast, my view is that the army is during a war, especially during a full-scale war, it is the safest place in the country. yes, i understand that it sounds very strange, so in the army, especially the advanced ones can do you, but in the army you can defend yourself again, that is, the machine gun gives you confidence and gives you the understanding that you are in control of your life, not a rocket, or some stupid trick, or about this enemy, it is you who controls olena is not a professional soldier in her life. although she dreamed of military service since childhood, her father, an officer, instilled in her a love of military affairs. as a child, the woman dreamed of heaven, but it did not work out in civilian life . she worked as a lawyer. i wanted to protect ukraine. yes, i didn't want

to become a soldier. but to be honest, when russia started to invade, i didn't leave. i came to the military commissariat. there, near the military commissariat, i met a girl that we they told us that the territorial defense was located to the place where the territorial defense is based, uh, we were told that it is no longer here, it was carried out so far to the place where it was evacuated, nato met there in those who already wanted to, so in line to write a statement for the second half of the day we stood in queues to get weapons and began to defend the country from the enemy, the first combat task was to stand at the checkpoints in kyiv there around 11:00 in the center of the second to the weapons, then they were sent to rest, then at three o'clock in the morning they got up, they said that we should occupy well

in fact, it was so that there was probably no post, but a position in the center of kyiv to occupy the intersection, and we went to this intersection, and in fact we stood there for two days . more hellish points of the russian-ukrainian war, kharkiv region became a place where the military really felt active combat operations. we went to the river bank and took positions there, because we saw the river, the forest and the enemy, whose enemy is not visible, but what is he? made his presence known about the arrows of our villages with positions almost in those villages , they were not all, but even those that

were next to our positions were almost empty. olena admits that there was no fear then, but she felt a huge responsibility to her fellow citizens. it's really the first time you go out at zero, you understand that there is no one in front of you at all, that you are the first to worry, because he understands that he has the right to make a mistake, he simply does not have one. well, because we had well, not the positions from which the assault begins, to be honest it is absolutely not only us who give gold, because you observe, report and, if possible, do not express yourself. that is, you sit at night in absolute silence in the thermal imager and watch that coast if something happens , warn your own headquarters in time. elena together with her

comrades did not carry out assault actions, but advanced with all the brigades and took positions with the help of her unit for majors, the ukrainian flag on the russian-ukrainian border from the kharkiv region, the main thing is joyful in principle, although in fact i understand that they reached big, although it is probably because we performed our share of tasks, performed them well, but this is, well, this is joy because this is another liberated area, they are no longer here, now the military remains in positions but after the victory, the goal is to travel the world khrystyna parubiy espresso tv channel this is all the news for this hour, my colleagues andriy saichuk and khrystinoyatskiv continue the information broadcast espresso in a few moments, stay with us, we will listen to people suffering from

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defenders. i thank our defenders for the opportunity to feel alive and support them financially . we already have a christmas tree, as you can see. we were just talking about this , that we are under the christmas tree. we were discussing something a little different, gentlemen. by the way, i was planning, actually, we were thinking about planning for next year, so what kind of people do we have? and you know, it's hard to plan, but we don't know what will happen next year until the end

. maybe we'll pump some champagne. in the meantime , what's the point of ukraine getting up again? as they say, it's hard work, because reconstruction is construction and all the new realities in which we will find ourselves are just as great. i envy people who already have very clear plans for the future. e games hirkin, a well-known military er-e raider here yes here is an interview where he basically said that he already has plans for the future, he has already planned everything like this, can we listen in principle, i don't know if we can listen, but we are listening here, we will lose this war i will just leave in afghanistan for life, and there after that they send me to kiev and hang him there, i have no doubts. well, that's

all. a man has a plan, so to speak, we need to hang the hill, what he thinks about himself , everything must be hung on the legal states -still we act according to all the conventions and according to the right of any person, no matter how much we want it for life, that's why the hague, hello special jumpers and everything that we will definitely create for such and such characters not only for what they did in the period of february 24, and since 2014, and everyone goes to the hills during this period , in extremely well recorded, i would, i would rather see. because you know there in the gas, first of all, there are all these nightingales of the world, you know all of them. i think that girkin really believes uh, there's some kind of person out there. he's the same there he was engaged in those historical ones, that is, he really misses that golden golden age of the golden age of russian empires

and empire. that is, but it is gone and it will not return . mostly of foreign origin, they were expelled , shot, trampled, and now only you descendants of the mongols are left, wild, unbridled and headless, that's really all that can be said, but a person has an aversion to drama and tragedy, at least i can somehow even impute to all of this. but when you look at this solovyov, at this habalka, i keep forgetting that skabeeva is there, and those who write then sign the same p- video with putin, what do they call him putska or what is pizzik? i don't remember anymore i wonder how it sounds in russian. well, in short, they don't call names themselves, they don't make fun of all this. they work for money, we move on to a conversation with our guest , a special-purpose officer or an officer of the armed forces of ukraine, a people's deputy of the previous

convocation, igor, we congratulate you. glory to ukraine i wish you good health. glory to ukraine. glory to the heroes . let's certainly start with today's unearthing meeting, which may happen between alexander lukashenko and vladimir putin . this will be putin's first trip to belarus in three years and one of the very few trips he has made abroad in recent years. of the russian federation in lukashenko's office reported that putin and luka will hold one-on- one negotiations as well as broader negotiations with ministers regarding integration. well, there is an opinion that putin may try to convince lukashenko to use of the belarusian military together with the russian forces for a joint attack on ukraine , some analysts and military officials believe that the general staff in our country so far maintains the e-e with such cautious

optimism . every time i hear about the lack of a shock fist, i remember the lack of a shock fist in the 21st and early 22nd year, the same thing was poured into us literally every day from every iron from every refrigerator and from every washing machine on tv , the russians don't have good fists on that side , remember, that's why i would be quite careful about it, and in this situation, the question is that i don't want to worry the ukrainians so that there is no panic, it already sounds a little wild-honest saying that panic among ukrainians is possible and absent, but those traffic jams on the zhytomyr highway from cars that were in february at the beginning of the war, peaceful civilian cars with children were shot down to me a little, well , they seem worse to me here, panic there putin, well, look, i think that he is going to say goodbye to lukashenko, i have the deepest

conviction, that is, either he absorbs belarus in the context of political us and lukashenko ceases to be the autocrat of all belarus, or he tells lukashenko what if lukashenko does not unquestioningly obey all his orders , including in the context of the future invasion of the territory of ukraine, he also says goodbye to lukashenka, because he will not live long, and we know that according to the legislation of belarus, if oleksandr grigorovich cannot for some reason for reasons to perform his duties due to his health, i don't know if he will fly to china after a stroke or if he will simply disappear, it's not important. it's not important anymore, then all the power of governing belarus is transferred to their nsdc, which is managed by volfovich. and this is put by putin and he can give the order to invade ukraine after lukashenko does not stand up or if he is overthrown. so, i think that this visit is

a gesture of goodwill on the part of putin to talk with him once again about the takeover and about further actions by russia, let's say so in the context of belarus and the war against ukraine, i have no opinions on this matter. there are absolutely none. i already said , uh, in the past, your, as they say, on your broadcast, about a month ago, i talked about february, about a possible counteroffensive against belarus, well, they at least need 40,000 plus, let's say, troops ready to go to both to ukraine in order to create a real threat to us. well, anything less will only disturb us. well, it will bother us anyway. in any case, nerves will be frayed and there may be some combat operations, of course, but i say that, well, today they have about 18 battalions of tactical groups. well it yes, there are about 20,000 of us

belarusian security forces ready. well, the fact is that lukashenko will not throw all the security forces into ukraine because he has power based on the bayonets of the security forces, and therefore, in this situation, he will not give the latter to the funeral, as they say therefore, this is also one nuance that the general staff probably takes into account, but let's say so in order to get on our nerves and in order to drag our logistics in order to drag our certain military groups to themselves, so they have such there are forces and means, and here the question is again in the case of such an invasion, how deep will they be able to go, yes, that is, it will be some kind of broad, wide- front invasion, there is an invasion from the side of brest, there is malaria, kobrin, er, if we are talking about the territory of ukraine from the side of the kovel gratna, er, sarny - equal, for example, yes, will it be an invasion kyiv direction, well , kyiv, i have big doubts at least

that kyiv is the capital after all and they all understand that the capital will be fought for and if we at one time crushed the grouping near kyiv in number there, how many were there, there were about 140,000? well, believe me, we will certainly grind all this, we will grind it, but again , it will be a withdrawal of forces from the east, and in the east we know now there is a very large concentration of russian troops, the main thing is of course they can use e the kherson group that they would have time to withdraw from kherson, which they are now concentrating there in the zaporizhia direction in the luhansk direction, they can use skazhem so for parallel actions and counterattack there, well, that is, once again that of course, the question of intelligence, the question of possible forces and means - this is not a question for me, we have specially trained people for this, who can either get information from western partners; to get information from my own

sources, of course, in this situation, i would still knock on the clarification of this topic if, after all, we assume that everything will develop according to your scenario and lukashenko will be forced to end his troops, but if ukraine is successful in this direction, will they also be pushed back, or will the ukrainian troops be needed? stop or should we then go to minsk and align the front line, relatively speaking, to the very baltic countries in the north, this is a political decision for me personally, i have said for a long time for me personally that the war will not end on the borders of ukraine because if entered the first world war and with their germany. just somehow bomb them there, reach certain borders, and sign agreements. the government's conditional hitler rivnensk that is, i am

speaking now in the context of russia and belarus , that is, on the border, this is the first stage for negotiations, well, the question of crossing the border should be political, but i know for sure that without destroying the threat from the occupiers, and the threat can be destroyed only by one completely eh how do they say that the threat of another option i do not know diplomatically by political-diplomatic means no matter where the russians stick their noses in will not be resolved anywhere and we know this very well that's why the collapse of the empire is one story - it's about russia, but with regard to belarus, is it worth entering or not? well, they say that there is a whole regiment named after kalinovsky. well, we need to reinforce the belarusian partisans with a regiment .

and if this is done well then yes then maybe the threat from belarus will be eliminated russia will not be able to fight on two fronts but ukraine will also be exhausted let's be frank, well the mobilization resource of the russian federation about 25 million. i don't want to scare anyone. let them even mobilize a million as they say. how much will we need to mobilize in order to go there and do something else? unfortunately, for these private prospects, we are still there with these people . the thing is, unfortunately, in our peaceful cities, a lot of people think that you know it's far away there, but in them, there is business and maybachs and they stand in traffic jams, you understand, well , that's the problem. the problem starts again in the 14-15th year that the war affects those who fight and all the others get tired of the war and this problem is quite serious. here i am, for example. i also say that the guys who are now in the trenches for nine

months, well, how much longer do they have to sit without a rotation of a full rotation of those who have 10 days of vacation, they do not solve the problem of exhaustion from the war and that's why we need to mobilize again so that we don't later , i'm sorry, let the bitch be and run to look for fairy tales , bulletproof vests, or where are we going to take to clothe a million-strong army at once? if it is necessary to replenish the holsters in the ministry of internal affairs, but to hand out weapons to people, not like we ran around looking for weapons in february, what the hell are they doing today in kherson, the main question is the head of the kherson region called on residents of the kherson region who may have weapons in their hands to actually hand them in he would go after a russian ship, we were running around looking for weapons in february. people were pouring molotov cocktails. do you remember how this was done, and they were ready to meet tanks with molotov cocktails ? they are martyrs for idiots if they gave out

weapons and you rely so much on the consciousness of the citizens. it’s just that if you buy like that, you are good people, you are conscious, bring them, surrender the weapons , legalize and register these weapons to those conscious citizens, we have martial law. it is not over. that’s all, because now the servants are presenting us the history is everywhere. well, it seems that everything is normal here too, when weapons were threatened, and we did that with territorial formations, voluntary formations of territorial communities gave out weapons, and then conscious citizens gave them back, well, those who i did not go further to finish off the russians, you understand 14 i emphasize that the war is one for all if one for all let’s let the citizens of ukraine be armed if you say so what is the need to do it why is there already peace in the kherson region there is no subversive movement everything is under control and if there is a counteroffensive not from the side to kyiv and from the side to kherson, what will he do next, he will look again, no, he will leave, and people will look for weapons