to regulate the flow of people in the subway and near the city celebrations. well, so that there are no large gatherings and there are no certain threats to these people, please. well, let me start with the christmas tree, that's how it was installed . security issues on sofiyivska square will not be located as usual, well, maybe, as people would like, these turnouts with food and drinks, that is, these christmas and new year fairs will not be, well, accordingly, i think that during, well, i don't think, i'm sure that during the air weed there will be police working there who will ask people to shelter under that well, you said that the khreshchatyk metro station and independence square will work from tomorrow, if i'm not mistaken, and i

think that in no way well, that is, how previously they worked in this metro station, except for these two , as a shelter, as a metro station, just like khreshchatyk with the maidan, they will work as a metro station, as a station transfer well, accordingly, as a shelter, by the way, i would also like to mention about you don't have a home there electricity, heat, god forbid, all of the capital works 430 stationary points of invincibility and a certain 60 km of the state emergency service where you can recharge your mobile phone where you can warm up in the end, it is warm there, we also inspected the stationary such points and one of the tents of the state emergency service in friday night , by the way, there were people there, children were playing there, you know, there is a normal mood, people

understand that there is a war in the country and you have to. well, i'm sorry, but you have to be a little patient, there is internet, uh, there you can drink hot drinks, right, or tea, that's all i definitely need advice the case is to look on the site unbreakable gov.ua where is your unbreakable point nearby and in case of what, if you do not have heat or electricity, you can visit there to recharge your phone, chat, get to know your neighbors in the end, you know , no one has canceled live communication yet and there it was witnessing the fact that, for example, in this point, the atmosphere was wonderful, the atmosphere was quite friendly, people began to get to know each other, communicate with each other, some came with children, some came with pets . thank you very much, mykhailo. well, the first time. how you see a very good colleague in such a responsible

position. i wish you success. thank you for the thorough comments to the experts. mykhailo shamanov, the spokesman of the kyiv city military administration , was in touch with us and told us about the situation in the capital . stationary heating points, they also remind everyone , i will remind you once again that throughout ukraine, there are district police stations, there are city police stations. if necessary, they can be points of invincibility , so you can enter without fear. well, in principle, you can enter without fear, but you know that the police department is also a point of invincibility if there are no other options. andriy kovalev, press officer of the 120th brigade of the territorial defense of the armed forces of ukraine, candidate of political sciences, religion again these storik mr. andrii, glad to see you, congratulations to vasyl, glory to ukraine, you know, i would like to ask first, here is a large-scale attack by drones on the capital at night , it is clear that a drone is not a missile and it is possible that

it is more difficult to see it was possible to shoot down 18 missiles from those that were flying at certain targets in ukraine, what can be said about how these attacks were repelled, because it is important to understand, without revealing secrets , again at what cost, what skills of our fighters and whether, over time, the skill increases in the elimination of such threats, please vasyl, i tell you sincerely and frankly that our boys and well, in fact , these shellings are only improving the skills of our boys and girls of russian junk flying to kyiv the other day, obviously you heard our er fighter of one of the er units with a simple hand machine gun . by the way, let me say a trophy russian er shot down a missile in the sky over kiev, and shooting down a missile, believe me, is much harder than shooting down for example

, to shoot down with a machine gun and something incredible, that's why it's even clear that the russian occupiers are trying to beat them with shaheds in the middle of the night because they're trying to hide the shachens under the darkness, because it's much easier to shoot them down during the day, so really at night the sound of their engine can be heard from afar. well, it’s no longer a secret. it’s like a broken moped, but despite everything, it’s very difficult to follow it at night, but our guys , in particular, and the fighters of our 112th territorial defense brigade, some units of our brigade are now guarding kyiv, in particular, and the capital sky is effectively shot down by those drones

. somewhere there are possibly problematic areas of the territory in the region. maybe it is easier somewhere with this, please, vasyl, be frank and the region is also observing certain difficulties, but in no case can we comment. is there a lack of energy supply somewhere, or is it not in in our interests, the most important thing that needs to be said now is that a huge number of defense forces of ukraine are concentrated in the kyiv region and in kyiv, our boys and girls are not sitting idly by and honing their combat skills a machine gun to shoot down a rocket is an almost unbelievable thing, it is proof that kyiv is in safe

hands and we are ready for any development of events and for any development of events. they are fighting against russia, against lukashenka, and for ukraine at the same time. now, the great russians are at war against ukraine. they even say that, unfortunately, there is a high probability that the common enemy of russia and belarus can do this on the ground. an operation aggressively against ukraine, er, after trying to enter ukraine again. well, in russia they say that this is also possible, and the leadership of the russian army will simply observe whether they will succeed or not. no, we remember that you were certain, well, big problems for the local population that remained in certain territories when russia invaded, if something could happen again, or at least some conversations and informing the population are currently planned so as not to repeat, god forbid, what happened in february

24th in march. also there, please vasyl , first of all, very often as the spokesman of the general staff as i inform you that the republic of belarus really supports the russian military aggression against ukraine in the future, and where is its air space, its territory , its infrastructure, in particular, and the military infrastructure, i want to remind you that this is exactly how many airfields russian strategic bombers and missile carriers take off from the airspace of the republic of belarus they are hitting ukraine in particular and kiev with these russian deadly missiles and cruise missiles. therefore, it is obviously not a secret for anyone that the republic of belarus will support russian aggression as regards the joint belarusian russian group which is militarily located on the territory of the republic of belarus. it is indeed present, but our intelligence and the armed forces of ukraine do not record that this

group became a shock group in order for them to really go on the offensive, it must be a shock group in order to reformat it groups are not even needed. minutes, not hours, but in fact days and weeks can be spent on this, so it is clear that uh, we are observing, we are monitoring the situation secondly, uh, uh, the armed forces of ukraine have very well learned the lessons of uh, uh, the russian offensive from the territory of belarus february, march-april, etc. believe me, they are very well prepared in the direction of kyiv, and in particular, on the northern border of ukraine , large forces of the defense forces of ukraine are concentrated, and the engineering units of the armed forces of ukraine on the northern border of ukraine have created a huge the number of defensive engineering facilities, therefore, the armed forces are not sitting idly by, but are working in all directions to

strengthen the defense on the belarusian border, the same thing i want to say, there is now a lot of talk about the offensive from belarus, but practically the same grouping, for example is now standing in the belgorod region, it is concentrated and really, now it seems that the armed forces of the russian federation are even on the territory of belarus, on the territory of the belgorod region, this group is rather for the purpose of intimidation. in such a way that we could not have the number of units that we need, for example, the eastern front, the front in the east of ukraine or the front in the south of ukraine, and we are forced to keep here large units of the armed forces of ukraine, so that while waiting of the probable offensive of the russian occupiers i thank you very much andriy thank you for your comments take care andrii kovalev press officer of the 112th territorial defense brigade of the armed forces of ukraine candidate of political sciences and

an expert historian well, let's join the conversation andrii illenko, officers of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, a politician of the people's deputy of ukraine of the sixth and eighth convocations. andrii, i congratulate you. good evening. i'm just asking. i just know that you are in the east now booking ukraine. on the one hand, some kind of victory is breaking through , on the other hand, on the contrary, vigilance and well, they did not betray something so negative, i would like to know the situation in reality, again, from what can be said from what can be reported witer, please, well, look, the situation of course continues to be difficult, it’s impossible to say that it is very positive, but the main positive is that the enemy is not succeeding. in fact, there is no freedom battalion and our brigade, the fourth brigade, the operational assignment of the national guard and all other units of the armed forces . the forces of the national guard and other forces of defense who are here now,

they are not in heavy battles, and all this is achieved at great cost, but the enemy cannot advance against the enemy, there are no strategic or tactical successes. and although he he throws here, well, in fact, everything that he has and now, yes, in fact, everything that is combat-ready is being charged to donbas for today. well, first of all, it is in the direction of bakhmut that you are going to very difficult battles, extremely difficult, honor and praise to the ukrainian infantry, which endures very difficult battles in such conditions, to the glory of the ukrainian artillery, which hits the enemy ukrainian tankmen very accurately. i just saw familiar places in your video. but i can say that despite everything it's a-a situation

announced today that the enemy has started t-62 tanks, which were massively thrown to the front during deconservation since the time of the soviet union, and now they are allegedly appearing again, well, a large number of modern t-90 tanks, i will later ask serhii zgurets where they got these tanks suddenly, but i will ask you now is this really the case or are these new tanks much more effective and more dangerous in battle than these khrushchev t-62s? please, don’t think that they don’t have any modern equipment left, of course, and much less than it was on february 24, because it’s already these are almost 10 months of a full-scale war, their losses were huge and they lost their equipment huge. but if we are talking about tanks, well, in fact, the tank is certainly modernized , where there is modern equipment,

modern aiming devices, modern optics, night vision devices, and so on, it will come significantly modernized soviet tank but even this old not modernized soviet tank if it is used correctly believe me this is a serious force on the battlefield and this is not a computer game where you just clicked on a button serious battles in who are there to destroy even this old soviet tank, you have to try very hard and actually the ukrainian army is doing it here, here i always do everything accent, that is, the enemy must be despised, he must be hated, he must not be feared in any case, but the enemy must not be underestimated that the ukrainian army is achieving success today, it is not because our enemy is weak, it is because the ukrainian army is very strong, but the enemy is using,

well, in fact, everything that he has, that is, and this . they will throw into the battle everything they find , they will er crawl further and our task is simply to destroy them until it is not all over with them, there is no other way, thank you very much, andriyu take care andriy illenko officer of the freedom battalion freedom of the national guard a politician of ukraine, a people's deputy of ukraine of the seventh and eighth convocations was in touch with us from the complicated, hot bakhmut district. where today is happening every day, every night, hot battles are taking place, the enemy is trying to capture bakhmut, break through further and push back. ukrainian troops away from donetsk well, also to enter the operational space in order to advance beyond the donetsk region, which he wants to seize, well, in fact, for many months , uh, at least somewhere there is an advance, then somewhere there is a counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine at a minimum. that's all, we understand that it's not dozens kilometers, it’s somewhere there, 150 m there are kilometers, but this is how it has been happening for

quite a long time, and the enemy throws there and temporarily mobilized russians who are brought there untrained in this direction they throw the same thing there, and among them there are prisoners who agreed to fight for money in the private city company of wagner. well, also the russian military, if, again, mr. andriy already correctly said that you should not underestimate the enemy, then you must understand that even these temporarily mobilized, they are not super signals by themselves, but thanks to them, you can identify, say, ukrainian positions by sacrificing these people and then hit these positions with trained military forces serhii zgurets , director of the defense express agency, columnist military results of the day serhii congratulations congratulations to you vasyl congratulations to our viewers i have not yet asked andriy illinka briefly about these t-90 tanks, but now i will ask you also as an expert , new tanks and 90 appeared at the front unexpectedly because the enemy dragged them to the front unconserved well already the old armored vehicles, in your

opinion, where did they come from? did it fall into place, did it work like this, or did putin get it? is it something else, please? well, about these new tanks, the representative of poland, the former commander of the polish army, said that the russians had tanks t-90 information is important in principle. we tried to understand where these tanks could be from, in which area, so far it is difficult to confirm and find such confirmations in areas of the front, but we can make a certain assumption that it is about a contract with india that has not yet been fulfilled, where the 21st year was a contract has been concluded for about 450 tanks, and it is possible that a part of this e-e contract has not been fulfilled so far, the enemy is trying to remelt it and send it directly to the front line, maybe these are the tanks, but we will look for more and additional information on this an important topic somehow serhiy, well, what will be discussed today, well, in view of our limited time, first of all, i will talk about the individual details of the attack by martyrs on the capital

and what is behind putin's visit to belarus and certain aspects of the front-line situation, more on that in a moment so, on the night of monday , december 19, russia massively attacked kyiv and the kyiv region with iranian drones, a total of 34 martyrs were shot down, 30 were shot down. this is a sufficiently high number of enemies. resumed strikes on ukraine after receiving a new batch of drones in the morning, and according to volodymyr zelenskyi, 250 shaheds were delivered to this new batch, which shows that in today's attack, for the first time, the enemy moved the launch sites of these drones to

the territory of the krasnodar territory, they were launched from the eastern coast of the sea of ​​azov first of all how i i understand for my own safety, the second drone attack was primarily directed at kyiv, kyiv region, just like the previous mass cruise missile attack, when 40 out of 7 rockets were directly directed on the capital, i think that here remember the tactics of the enemy to achieve a complete blackout of our capital, but this is an obstacle, and the third point is that the shaheds were used primarily at night, because it is more difficult to detect them at night, and that is why we fought against them with systems that have ventilation means of detection - these are soviet anti-aircraft missiles, in particular the buk s300, as well as new ones, such as the samos and aristas, these are the planes of every aviation, of course,

it is irrational to shoot down the martyrs of the anti-aircraft missile system, because it depletes the stocks of missiles to the buk, which are currently the most scarce and forces to spend expensive missiles for foreign missile defense systems, sometimes up to one million dollars for one missile. but you can’t miss whatever is going on either, because the damage should be assessed not only by the cost of such a missile, which can cost only tens of thousands of dollars, a maximum of 50-70. the damage that this nobleman can cause, therefore, they really cannot be missed, even at the expense of the fact that we sometimes launch missiles at the martyrs, worth 1 million dollars, the most rational way to fight the martyrs turned out to be the german anti-aircraft missile tanks cheetah the cheetah sees targets at night thanks to its radar, and to destroy the shaheeds from the cheetah, a short burst of several

shots from a 35-mm cannon is enough, so when we talk about the fight against these shaheeds, such a clear tactic for countering enemy targets has actually been worked out, it is only being improved but we understand that we must continue to strengthen our air defense, here it is quite understandable the address of the president of ukraine zelensky that we need to speed up the process of obtaining complexes in patriot and samt te from france and patriot from the united states in view of the fact that in the wake of the iranian vagabonds , these iranian ballistic missiles may appear, which will pose a serious enough threat to our security, although our intelligence suggests that in reality now, due to political pressure on russia, this process of supplying these ballistic missiles may be significantly delayed, and now we will talk about

another important detail of this day, namely the visit of the president of the russian federation vladimir putin to belarus, what can be behind this, what consequences can this cause in the security environment, directly from the point of view of the consequences for ukraine itself, now we are on the phone, mykhailo, the head of the genetic organization, yugeopolitics, lesoch network , mykhailo, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, mr. serhiy would really like to start our conversation with putin's visit to belarus, because the left part of the expert evaluations says that putin actually came there to push lukashenka to war, although we understand that there is no purpose for that it is necessary to come directly to minsk , there are enough other factors, i think even a phone call is enough, given the format that has developed in the relations between minsk and moscow, what in your opinion are the reasons and

consequences of putin's visit to minsk? i think that these delegations will definitely discuss the issue of planning a possible offensive operation in the spring of next year. this is obvious because there is also a delegation of this kind there . the military is enough, so these issues will be discussed unequivocally, but on the other hand , in fact, putin is flying to minsk for the first time in the last three years. and here of course you can only guess, but this is exactly the level. he says that there is really something more here than just training or a military

component . on february 24, based on the fact that december of this year marks the 100th anniversary of the soviet union, he wanted to present the ussr-2.0, in fact, already in the composition of ukraine and belarus, and somewhere in this the same period had the intention to arrange it beautifully and rise up to become such a new , greatest emperor in the history of the russian empire, perhaps this is an echo of that plan, and he will now try to present that we will now sign some kind of protocol, they had several road maps - 20 or something it's true they are just right for the past three years, they have been in agreement, they cannot agree on the tax policy, customs , security and so on. it is possible that it will be announced

that some kind of union is being formed after all, even though the union state exists. and it seems to me that nothing so drastic will be adopted. in some geopolitical games, and it will all end there, because well, somehow it looks sad. to be honest, even the propaganda plan to portray this meeting as a great triumph. well, i don't know, maybe they will somehow add some colors there. in the tv on the air, but well, it looks not very , not very cheerful from the point of view of achievements. well , by the way, about the sad colors, when yesterday i looked at the face of what was there through the porthole of the helicopter with such a lean face, to which they did not add pancakes yes, he is watching the front line of defense, which is passing through the trench, and then there is a meeting where putin and his

gerasim have gathered. there, putin went to belarus, there, there, he is flying in a helicopter, there, er, from bygovytskyi, these generals, it is determined by something, there, new measures to attack ukraine, in this picture, it somehow coincided in time, there are many such components, can it be explained by the fact that now he is somehow trying to raise the king up a little to show that he is powerful there, that he is responsible for everything , what is the vision of such a concentration of such unexpected mass actions on russian television? of course, what can you ask that that he flew to minsk on december 3 and there a large delegation before that, the delegation of the main operational management seems to have flown to belarus, and yesterday or the day before yesterday, putin also visited some of the control centers of the armed forces and so on

, the operational headquarters, i.e. is really created and this is all published, this is all demonstrated , that is, of course, this whole show is not flying over the cutting edge . which a-a b the administration of the president in the kremlin is trying to present that indeed putin is still quite strong, that he is no worse than zelensky , because it is obvious that some kind of copying of zelensky is going on, including that zelensky appeared on the front line, he talked to the military about her insert and putin basically starts copying the same thing. well, what is zelensky doing? it could be a kind of pr strategy that the kremlin is trying to implement to demonstrate that putin has everything going according to plan. what is it now?

some big plan is being prepared that will turn the whole situation around, because everyone understands that everything is not going according to plan, that russia will lose this war, but now putin will come up with something with the generals, now they will do something like that. maybe he will even go to minsk as part of this pr strategy arrived just to show that, well, you see , we will now sit down with lukashenka and make such a decision that will then simply radically change the course of the war, together with our belarusian friends, we will somehow advance there and so on , that is, create some kind of visibility because real decisions of any kind are still invisible , real movements of troops are also invisible, that is, the parallel movement of russian troops on the territory of belarus is also not visible on a massive scale, although there are some signs. there are several hospital vehicles, several trucks have moved and so on. there are some movements, but in reality there is no such movement

that would demonstrate preparation precisely to a specific operation, and is it possible to talk about the fact that now you are better off with russia entering such a way or rather that the russian leadership imposes such a new agreement on its own society by the government and society, which looks like a fortress there in defense, yes, that is, in fact, everyone is rallying there, under external pressure, they are beginning to form new relations between the government there and society, we do not criticize the government, but on the other hand, this is one form of such an agreement, and on the other hand, now in russia, as i see it, will slowly start to tighten the nuts and actually strengthen it with regard to those who will start. is there someone there who says such things that contradict the party line? isn't there a feeling that this is the fourth social contract that is now is being imposed, well, in russia, well, of course, it can be because the economic situation will worsen. it is obvious that the stage

has now come when these european sanctions finally began to be implemented in the 14th year, they will finally start working, they will become effective, precisely because they real sanctions have begun to be introduced, an oil embargo has actually been introduced, and now a gas ceiling has also been introduced, which will sharply limit the revenues of the russian budget, and this will obviously affect the general situation , the socio-economic situation in russia, i.e. the same refrigerator will begin to predominate over the tv and of course, putin is trying to portray himself as some kind of effective tsar, he is trying to propose another social contract, but