statistics that russia actually, of course , not globally, not by tens of thousands, but a rather large number of fighters who were mobilized, who arrived at the front line, are killed without the participation of the ukrainian army, and here it is worth saying that well, globally, this is a problem, globally, this problem is not new and it clear to all of us - this is alcoholism, that is, excessive alcohol consumption by russian soldiers and commanders, it leads to one or another degree in one or other situations , due to one or another actions, leads to death there are some acquaintances. well, let's say they sit and, so to speak, drink something. well, this is what i happened to do recently at one of the russian airports, and at one of the strategic airfields of the military, they were drinking, drinking, drinking. so to speak, not at the front, but it is a fact that they quarreled over something, so they die at the front precisely because of alcoholism. but if we speak more objectively, the so-called friendly fire is a big problem for russians

let's say there's intelligence there, or some uh group is on the offensive, or there or somewhere is advancing some territory, someone is pulling, let's say, and here they are coming from their own because they thought it was the ukrainians, or they just didn't think anything, or they were just fooling around, or, let's say, hostilities are going on and it is necessary to cover, so to speak, the enemy's positions, well, for them, the enemy is these ukrainians, but they did not aim well and heard the drones, so they recorded and hit their own, here is the last story that i have not yet read: the interception of a conversation of a russian military officer who tells about the fact that a russian tank twice shot at the positions of the russians, and as a result of these two shots, a russian tank was killed, according to this military conversation, which was intercepted by 20 russian servicemen, 20 soldiers of the aggressor country. well, in addition to drinking and friendly fire, russians are killed by russian fire the negligence of the commanders,

who i would send on some incomprehensible task or simply give incomprehensible commands that lead to the mass death of russians. well , also the inability to use military equipment, i don’t know here, well, they write about what quite often they just don't take off, they don't, er, they put the fuses on the automatic machines there, or, well , the pistols are smaller than the automatic machines, they just put the fuses on there in the kalashnikov assault rifle. there is such a hook, you press it and the machine is on the fuse . then they start jokingly shooting well, it turns out that what should not have been shot, it shoots, so here is the story that in fact the russians die not only from the ukrainian army from the actions of the ukrainian army and from our fire, they also die from of many reasons that are traditional for the russian army, it is alcoholism, as they say , and recklessness, and by the way, the ministry of health of the aggressor country of the federation admitted, as they say, that it was forced to admit that during this year 2022, which is already coming to an end, we have 10 days left to

the end of this year, the beginning of a great war, is a big one, because the war in our country continues in 2014, in principle, it is not a small one either. as they say, you know the big war and the little war, the war . it is just a war, it affects the whole society regardless of how many regions and regions this war continues. therefore, it is just a war, but it is such a full-scale invasion. let's say that it is recognized that during this year 2022 in the russian federation, the facts of the death of russians from alcoholism have increased significantly, and they have increased by 7%. if someone thinks that this is not enough, then it is not enough, despite the fact that in russia this problem was already quite serious. putin is already talking about it there, that is, why are they? well , because russia is waging an unjust war, because people did not see their prospects in any way in in their lives, they continue not to see her, but if, but, if at least some perspective was illusory before, now they don’t have this perspective, for the simple reason that ani

cannot go anywhere from russia due to sanctions, ani, in principle, can arrange her life apart is it just how to go to the front i will now offer to your attention uh the plot we will look and then we will continue our conversation impregnable and we have a guest on the line now there is no guest on the line we will establish a connection therefore now or we we are waiting or we are giving the material now i am being told because of course i want to be a guest right now, but let me tell you one more story then and we will establish a connection with our guest and continue and continue our communication , now there is one more interesting story well, it is already today somehow it was just abundant with these stories, somehow russia opens up as they say in their secrets it means in the tyumen region in the tyumen region far away in russia there where they cooked cold on december 22, that is, the day after tomorrow the celebration of the reunification of russia and belarus, an order from e-e from moscow from the ministry of information there is something else like it is said that it arrived in this

oil-rich region of tyumen, it only needs oil and gas for another 12 more, on december 12, that is, on december 12, an order came that it was necessary to prepare . it turns out that on december 12, an agreement on the reunification of russia and belarus was supposed to be signed, but something did not work out between them and vladimir putin flew to lukashenka only on december 19, that is, yesterday, but as far as i understand , we did not see any official acts of signing agreements on reunification yesterday. maybe in the residence after the conversation in that to their presidential palace, where they gave a joint press conference. maybe someone signed something in the rez, but you see, they already planned in advance that we would celebrate the reunification, but nothing until they celebrate serhiy cherevaty, the spokesman for the eastern group of troops, serhiy i congratulate you good evening, glad to see you and listen. first of all, i will ask, well, this is important, in fact, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, and the supreme

commander-in-chief of the armed forces of ukraine today visited bakhmut, the eastern direction of donetsk region. i will simply ask how much it is important in general for the army to hear to see the president receive all these awards support in this very difficult time precisely for the war in this direction it is incredibly important i was present at the same time until the last nobody knew about this, it is clear from security issues and this it was necessary to see how we all reacted. when they saw that the supreme commander entered absolutely freely without a piece of paper, he said the necessary inspiring words to the village officials, uh, they were penetrated by such a word when there were cassette breaks in the background a hail of rocket shells, and despite this, he spoke calmly, uh, he took a picture, wished each of them, handed state

awards to the thieves, he showed what he what he, what is important to him, and that when he makes daily appeals there, and this arrival and this factor showed that this is not just a conversation for him, but also for him, like the majority of all ukrainian patriots, bakhmut is a landmark in the ukrainian language. the commander who is on the international front and everywhere is trying to do something for the country and to the officers of the soldiers who were present there today and for them it was a surprise but pleasant. what a system supported them and gave them. they multiply this support in their units. when they arrive there, i now i will ask for you about the situation in the direction of bakhmut, and there are not only bakhmut, but also several other settlements , specifically donetsk region. let's start with donetsk region.

the situation is unusual, a difficult situation, the enemy is mad, the enemy is trying to do anything to break through our defenses, is lining up weak points, is constantly ramming it with all types of artillery, primarily large-caliber today, even bakhmut is such a fiefdom now, where weapons are first of all wagner's chbk and today prigozhin well there is no need to find out and verify whether it was there, but he showed that they also use hyacinths, the largest artillery barrels to hit ours. well, we already knew this and other types of artillery, rocket systems they use aviation whenever possible to break through our defenses but despite all this, in the bakhmut region, the ticks of other settlements are in solidarity with our soldiers, all of whom from these units were present today,

representatives of the president, they hold the defense thanks to their courage, heroism, indomitability, training , ingenuity, they repel the enemy every time and the main thing is that they do not allow him to break through our defenses and force him to bear heavy losses. how many kilometers are left, and i know what they told me before that, the military, you don't need to tell me what is happening near the flintlock and the matchmaker, the ukrainian army is working in that area. they know what to do, so i don't ask who is there, how many kilometers from where are the key points in general luhansk region, what is the situation there, please? well , in luhansk region, the enemy is also sending his armed formations there, we are sending the mobilized and, despite the systemic pressure from the ukrainian side, from time to time he also tries er, to counterattack in the area of ​​belogorivka or khrednopopovka, srebynivka, other settlements.

however, we see these intentions of the enemy. they always meet decent resistance, and as a rule, the enemy suffers heavy losses and is thrown back and thrown back, plus our artillerymen and missile troops are constantly working there systematically. of their infrastructure which they are trying to create an impression of field warehouses there which they are also constantly trying to arrange logistics for the accumulation of military equipment and weapons which also system, even they themselves expose it to the public when their barracks or some other ryabu is attacked, some other points where they hide personnel well, we are trying to attack the enemy because it is restless there and the servicemen are doing everything possible and

it is impossible that at the moment they can do taking into account the presence of the forces of the impression of our available personnel prepared at the moment all reserves and and uh weather possibilities i can very briefly literally for 30 seconds if it is possible a question you will provide yourself with a sufficient number of borzh as other means of heating the ukrainian troops . well, of course, at all levels, but the most important thing is at the pre- war ones, because we understand how important it is for a person to be in normal, at least physical condition, at the moment when he has to conduct almost non -stop combat operations, please they provided at a certain level of provision but this process continues and both the state and volunteer structures are doing everything to provide for the troops thank you very much thank you for the conversation for the comments e-e take care serhii thank you for your service serhiy cherevaty spokesman for the eastern group of troops about the situation in donetsk region about the situation in luhansk region kharkiv region understands that

the armed forces of ukraine have actually released there, although the situation there is not easy, first of all with the fact that a lot of mine explosive devices remain on the territory of kharkiv region there is really a big trouble there , children and adults are killed and injured, it is a pity for now well, this is the story that exists because we are our land , our holy land, our ukrainian land. and the missiles that did not explode should be natalya humenyuk, the head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command south, found out what happened in the south , but unfortunately it did not happen, well, we understand that there are some other problems, and plus there are problems common to all of ukraine, this there is no connection, there is no electricity, there is no light, there is no connection. by the way, there was information about light, communication , heat, water supply. there was information about lviv oblast today . they talked about this area, so i will say

that emergency power outages will be introduced again in the near future, so be ready for that. well, 80% of kyiv region is still without electricity, now is the time to talk about the war in more detail. my colleague, serhiy zgurets, director of the defense express agency, is with us. the host of the column military summaries of the day serhiy congratulations i congratulate you vasyl i congratulate our viewers today i would like to ask what was the information about from the belarusian groves that the enemy is allegedly moving russian units to the southern borders of belarus and the northern of the borders of ukraine, is it true or false, what is enough for you to find out, please, in fact, this information is really spreading now , it is quite relevant, it is true, right now , training is going on between russia and belarus, and right now, this transfer of part of these e-e mobilized and military equipment to others is taking place the location of the base is us, here it shows on the diagram these new locations, it is somewhere 50-60 and 120 km from the border with ukraine, but everyone concludes, and it is quite

fair, that this amount of equipment is not enough for any offensive actions. rather, it is an echo of exactly these exercises. and now the number of russian personnel on the territory of belarus is somewhere around 12,000. let me remind you that during the invasion there were 40,000 of them and they were all destroyed out of 20,000 mobilized who had not yet received training. this is actually a small figure, but the commander of of the armed forces of ukraine, general serhiy naev stated that we are monitoring the accumulation of russian equipment, everything is under control and, in principle, the general staff evaluates these risks and ways of countering this threat, so that i think that the actual situation will not be a surprise for the ukrainian army. thank you serhii. well, what are you going to tell us about today? today, of course, i will talk about the 300 days of the war, the situation in bakhmut and what

russia will equip its 200,000 soldiers with. new mobilized about it in a moment so, bakhmut is really not the hottest point of the front already. the sixth month is trying to break through the defense line, but they are wasting their strength on the approaches to the city, because our defenders demonstrate courage, strength and skill, and today this hot spot unexpectedly visited the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, where he met and awarded awards to the ukrainian military who defend the city of bakhmut, according to zelenskyi, the east is holding on because bakhmut is fighting, it is the fortress of our spirit. in difficult battles and at the cost of many lives, freedom for all of us is being fought here, zelenskyi emphasized that it is extremely important, in my opinion, the moment when the commander-in -chief pays tribute to

our defenders and precisely in this way, when , not fearing all the risks, he comes to the area of ​​the front where, in fact, concentration and the enemy's efforts and the concentration of our strength in order to repulse these efforts of the opponents to gain our er positions, let me remind you that when we talk about why the enemy is so actively conducting combat operations around bakhmut, that is, actually there are several er explanations for this stubbornness, it is primarily the desire to reach the administrative borders of the donetsk region to gain the ability to control such an important elastic node for further attacks on kramatorsk and slovyansk well, finally, where the main units operate, this is a unit of wagner's army, this private prigozhin's company wants to demonstrate that

it fights better than the full-time russian army, however, having gathered significant resources of manpower and artillery in a narrow area and not counting the losses of criminals in the wagnerian technical units, the enemy has no resounding successes. if we now look at the map, then first of all we see a sufficiently wide section of the front where the enemy is now trying to carry out attacks with his assault units starting from yakovlivka and kurdyumivka; now, due to diseases of the enemy, move behind yakovlivka, they were actually repulsed there there is no advance, there is an attempt by the enemy to break through to the soldier there, there is also no success, and there was important information already when we descend directly to the south, where there is an accumulation of ticks, kay kurdyumivka, then there. an interesting story was that the ukrainian forces actually managed to repulse

an enemy group that crossed over through the channel, which is located near the border post, and repelled the enemy to the western bank, preventing him from advancing further; equally important, the dynamics are also taking place in the east of bakhmut itself, where the enemy is trying to squeeze into local buildings - this is exactly the eastern part of the city and this is actually the first attempt there to enter this urban area and there we have already seen an interesting video of yuriy butusov walking around a few days ago, which shows that the ukrainian assault troops actually interacting behind drones with artillery knocks out the enemy from the city buildings, but actually we understand that the enemy and the medal give strength and the situation actually resembles such a

swing where the enemy tries to carry out counterattacks, we carry out counterattacks and actually the entire section of this front remains extremely difficult and hot, as the spokesman for the southern command, serhiy cherevaty, actually spoke about. and in fact, what all the experts who are closely monitoring the situation around this city note. er, it is not possible to establish contact with our guest so far, i hope that we will succeed in this later, because now there are problems with communication throughout ukraine, and when we talk further about the situation around bakhmut , we understand that this section of the front from one side politically and ecologically looks important, but there are no prerequisites for success on this part of the enemy front, although additional enemy forces are indeed being thrown in. he

is using artillery. although, by the way, they are starting to talk about the fact that the enemy is beginning to suffer from shell hunger, this means that the reserves are at will of the russian federation are running out , and when we continue to talk about what to expect around this section of the front, i think that there are all the prerequisites for bakhmut to be received there, because it is actually a logistical a node that is important, we control all e-e supply routes to the city and actually i think that even if the enemy is able to push into the city buildings, actually it will only make it more difficult for the enemy to take further action and actually it will cause even more enemy losses on this part of the front and we can talk about the fact that right now the grouping of our troops, which undergoes a certain rotation there, is now performing the important function of destroying a significant

number of enemy personnel, and this has a significant impact on the situation in general on this part of the front and on others, and we are slowly moving to another topic. we remember that the enemy has announced mobilization and is now trying to prepare 200,000 mobilized soldiers who must solve these offensive operations predicted by the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine, realizing that the enemy he is trying to achieve his political goals even without having sufficient strength and sufficient capabilities for this, now we have oleg katkov in contact - this is a military expert and the editor-in-chief of defense express mr. belongs to vitay you are invited by the defense express agency, thanks to your efforts, the efforts of the

team made a detailed analysis of the capabilities of the russian federation to provide this group of 200,000 mobs with equipment and weapons, but first of all, i would like you to tell to our viewers, what is 200,000 in comparison with the ukrainian army or in comparison with the armies of europe itself? forces of the russian federation and theirs in other armed groups. that is, this is exactly the reserve, relatively speaking, which well, and about which, in particular, i wrote about, in order to understand what a mass of 200,000 personnel is, this is the composition of the armed forces of ukraine as of 21 years old, this is the current composition of all the armed forces of the bundessphere - this is the current composition of the armed forces of france. that is, we are talking about a

really huge horde and which if we are talking about the size of the army of 200,000, then they still need to be armed, because otherwise these are just infantry units that can give the maximum there are small arms and a complete set of weapons. if we take, for example , the first version of the mathematical model, we understand that 200,000 is 71% of the composition of the russian sabbat troops as of 21 years old, we can calculate how much equipment they need or take understanding that that such a composition is together with engineering units with heavy tank artillery brigades . where do we get everything else from there ? for example, we can take into account 95 motorized rifle regiments because the motorized rifle regiment is the most budgetary of from the point of view of filling with bmp tanks, and for understanding, there are only 31 tanks in one autostradian regiment and about a hundred

bmps or a little more battleships, eh, quite a small amount of artillery, 12 units of howitzers, up to 24 to 20 mm, and this is for 2100 people in any in which case, if you use any of these models, we arrive at the approximate figures that for 200,000 e-e military employees, it is necessary to collect 3,000 tanks somewhere in the russian federation and more than 9,000 bmp or armored personnel carriers e-e is also necessary for understanding, because in reality in any military the most widespread equipment there is a tank, not an armored personnel carrier, but ordinary trucks , and about 79,000 trucks are also needed. an important aspect here is that the russian federation says that they are increasing the release of defense military products, they declared that the defense industrial enterprise, well, they switched to a working schedule

6 days a week at 12 o'clock, there are still hours of work, but in any case, this is a factor of 1.8 relative to the standard schedule of a 40-hour work week, and if you look at their reports, which were separately published in the 21st year including in relation to the possibilities of the word of the defense industrial complex, then there the concepts go to, for example, for the entire 21st year, and by the way, it was a record 500 defense vehicles entered the army, half of which were tanks and the other armored personnel carriers and bmps and other armed vehicles in terms of repair, then in on average, over the past three years, they declared that the russian federation can repair and restore because it is not only a matter of graduating technicians, but also of the possibility of conditionally getting the 10,000 tanks that are supposedly standing behind the urals, of which there is an estimate of monatov intelligence, only a third can still be somehow restored, and they started

using this stock quite a long time ago, it’s been about a year there, up to three thousand units of cars and armored vehicles are subject to restoration in total, of which it is clear. er, it will take 200,000 new tanks to fully arm this mass for six years to produce bmps, they can be riveted somewhere for 20 years, if they were only restored, then it will also take years, that is, we are talking about the fact that in addition to it is necessary to call up the chmobikes themselves, they must be armed , and the pace of production in view of the fact that even extremely complementary indicators are not enough for the defense industry of the russian federation, but again, this does not mean that this will somehow affect the plan for their use, because with a high probability that these 200,000 they will simply be used in the form of infantry

units without the corresponding tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and other systems , even possibly without motor vehicles, so you will be talking about infantry units, that is, in fact, we are talking about the fact that january february the most alarming months of our expectation of an enemy offensive, in fact, by this period, to equip this additional contingent, russia simply does not keep up with the conclusions, not that it has been worked out for three months, it is about equipping with a full set of equipment in accordance with the states, for example motorized rifle units from the regiments will take years. that is, the fact is that in this case the calculations were completely carried out. of course, the russian federation is not some kind of higher mathematics. will equip the necessary amount of weapons and they will simply use them - exclusively as

infantry units by the intimidators of the first world war and what will this mean directly for the front line itself when such 200,000 e-e infantrymen appear there and if they will be used just like that well, the fact is that 200,000 infantrymen simply will not be placed on certain areas of the front, that is, of course, they will be divided into, well, into some infantry divisions into the same regiments, but most likely it will be what is now, given the fact that says the fighters who are now fighting for bakhmut, this is the case when the attack infantry goes, they are repulsed after 30 minutes, everything is repeated again and so 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it is simply filled with corpses, and in my opinion, those in the kremlin understand that that for each kilometer there is a certain coefficient of how many two hundred rashts they are ready

to spend on this and they behaved according to these coefficients, they have a formula 1 km of advancement costs so many corpses and they went for it, and can it somehow affect the approaches of the ukrainian parties in the choice of some other means of destroying the enemy's manpower, and it is possible to change certain, let's say, requests to our foreign partners or to obtain samples that allow us to grind such a mass of infantry more effectively. it is about nato countries that have existed throughout the entire cold war and fully understands what the tactics of using units in the soviet union, which were actively written off as much as possible, even without some specific changes in the russian army and all that methodology regarding the destruction

of an enemy that is significantly superior in manpower is worked out there. and of course, for this you need such things as, first of all, high-precision weapons and in quantity not e. which have already been discussed more than once, because they are extremely effective in combating precisely the prevailing manpower of the enemy, and it is also simply due to the fact that the level of management of units, because when we are actually here, such a thing when we are talking about about 200,000 why are we talking about bulls, well, in this case, we are talking only about equipment, but the point is that, in addition to equipment, it is necessary to equip these conditional 95,100 motorized rifle regiments, and also with professional officers and sergeants , that is, otherwise. really simple