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19:00 on the espresso tv channel for your attention news release in the studio of iryna koval greetings to all viewers, we start with a rather difficult sad news, an activist against the russian occupation of crimea and a former political prisoner of the kremlin, gennady ananz afanasyev, died at the front, the information was confirmed by the mother of the deceased, gennady has a wife and a small daughter, i will remind you in 2014 in the occupied in the crimea, the russians detained and convicted afanasyev in a premeditated case. only two years later, the activist managed to return home as a result of the exchange. immediately after the full-scale russian invasion, afanasyev enrolled in the ranks of the kyiv

teroborona and later went to the front, according to the information of the deputy head of the crimean tatar people's cholis, refat chubarov. gennady afanasyev fought in the 130th battalion tireo 241 bry gadi and died in the luhansk region near belorivka, a crime that has no excuses, that's what italian journalists called the russian shelling that they came under in the kherson region, they published the relevant video on social networks, the media emphasize that the fire came from the russian-occupied bank of the dnieper . at the same time, they are convinced that the shelling was intentional, because the car had corresponding press marks and there was no one else nearby, as a result of which two people were injured as well as fragments of shells damaged the car, the foreigners added that despite this criminal incident, they will continue to work on the resolution of the

war by russia, the armed forces of ukraine struck the at the airfield of the occupiers in the kherson region, there were about 31 artillery systems of various types, the general staff reports, our defenders also shot down enemy uavs of the forpost type, which costs about 6 million usd, in mariupol, a powerful explosion rang out, an explosive wave was heard in several areas of the city. immediately after that, they appeared over the city helicopters moving towards berdyansk at a high altitude, the adviser to the mayor of mariupol, petro andryushchenko, reported that the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyi, is visiting the usa on december 21. officially confirmed by the head of state himself and spoke about his plans to meet with his american colleague joe biden and speak at the congress on twitter. joe biden

wished zelensky a smooth flight and hinted that there was a lot to talk about. first, he arrived by train to przemyśl in poland, after which he flew to the usa from the airport zheshev meeting at the white house is scheduled for 21:00 kyiv time, treatment of ukrainian soldiers, military training, as well as the security situation and options for its development , such topics were discussed during the meeting commanders-in-chief of ukraine and poland valery zaluzhny thanked raymond, because i am waiting for the military assistance provided by his country, which includes weapons, military equipment and ammunition, also the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of ukraine drew attention to the professional training that ukrainian fighters undergo on polish territory, which, in the opinion of the commander-in -chief, helps to realize the strategic importance the decision regarding the transition of

ukraine to the heavy armament of nato member states in the capital region in the next 2-3 weeks there will be a significant shortage of electricity such forecasts from the energy research center, without taking into account the recovered critical infrastructure, the current deficit is about 60-65%. at the same time, the lack of light in houses is affected not only by accidents at large energy facilities, but also by a large number of small damages at local substations, so the people of kyiv should prepare for the fact that in the near future they will have light for 4-6 hours a day in real life there is a lot areas where people do not have e-e electricity for a longer period than even a day and one must understand that those accidents

which are caused directly by drones and missiles , this is if one aspect and there is another aspect, a large number of small damages of accidents that occur due to constant perturbations in the system ukraine has full information regarding the supply of drones to russia by iran, stated the secretary of the national security council, oleksiy danilov, moreover, it is known that the russian federation is conducting negotiations with iran about the supply of other weapons and the destruction of ukraine's energy system, danilov called it terrorism. unfortunately, the russian federation, as a terrorist country, chose such a path. unfortunately, they do not remove the agenda, the very simple question they ask is the destruction of us as a nation, but i am no longer sure that they are no different from the iter, and is it the one that was in the past village, or is it the

current, the same regime, but same letter light for ukraine in the world there will be an action in support of ukraine, during which the lights will be turned off for an hour, even ex-prime minister of britain boris johnson announced his participation in it, he noted that russia's barbaric and illegal invasion of ukraine led to the fact that millions of ukrainians have lost electricity, water and essentials, the council of europe will also join the action, the building of the institution will be darkened as a sign of solidarity with ukrainians, the european institution also noted that the lights will be turned off for an hour in many of the largest cities of lithuania and poland, and the local authorities of krakow have decided as a sign of solidarity with ukraine for 12 days turn off the lights for one minute in the most iconic tourist spots of the city center 277 soft loans

have already been issued as part of the mortgage lending program yuliya svirydenko, deputy prime minister of the economy, according to her, since the beginning of october , more than 24,000 applications have been submitted, and more than 7,000 program participants have already received a positive decision. also, starting today, you can apply for a soft loan in the application . can military personnel under contract, defenders of ukraine, law enforcement officers and their family members, as well as doctors, teachers and scientists working in the state and communal sectors. we plan that by the end of the year, the total number of traditions will be, i think up to 50. i think that due to the fact that we have the application of actions, there will be an extremely large number of e-e applicants and it will be possible to

process it quickly. applications, no christmas holidays are complete without the ukrainian folk carol, known to the whole world, just today a unique christmas exhibition opened in kyiv on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the performance of shchedrik in the usa , our journalist valeriya also visited it pashkova is in direct contact with us, lero, i congratulate you, so she tells about the main exhibits of the exhibition and all the details. shchedryk is a ukrainian folk carol, the words to which were written by the famous musician mykola leontovych. by the way, this year is the 145th anniversary of his birth, and the main exhibits of

today's exhibition are the authentic manuscript of mr. leontovych, and with the same shchedryk, this the notes are written by his hand, in addition, here is a letter written by the head of the directory of the ukrainian people's republic by all petlyura to the head of the choir of the ukrainian national choir, which mr. košytsia criticized, in this letter, petlyura tells košytsia that it is necessary to somehow implement cultural diplomacy in ukraine, to send the choir on tours everywhere the world and show actual ukrainian songs and the same petliura says when you will give an interview for foreign changes you must say that we are from ukraine what is it that we have the culture is very different from others, the culture is very interesting and we have our own interesting songs, he always talked about the fact that our country is independent and also this choir collected money for the ukrainian army

, they managed to collect 160 dollars, which by the standards of 1922 were quite higher now please show the posters of these concerts. by the way , we did not go on tour to america at first, but to europe. here, for example, you can see a blue-yellow poster that was posted in the city of lesch in belgium , and the next poster you can see that it was in the city of bern in switzerland. in total, in 45 cities the ukrainian choir managed to perform before they got to america and it was there in the contra-school in 1922 that the famous premiere of shchedryka took place already in 1936 this song was actually translated into english, it sounds like karls of bells and you can hear it now in the well-known films harry potter home alone and also in the cartoon series the simpsons

, that is, now this song is popular all over the world, in addition, during his concerts, for example, in london, the audience could receive such a book, here is a painted ukrainian three a inside there is a wonderful map of ukraine, by the way, with the crimea, of course, and also with some regions of belarus and russia, in addition, the history of ukraine from 988, when kyiv rus was baptized, is also indicated here. this is such a great history of our thousand-year-old state. be sure to come. until january 31, you can see this exhibition in the studio, thank you valeria, this was our journalist valeria pashko, who was currently at a unique christmas exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the performance of charity in the united states of america, and these were all news for now, i will say goodbye to you until tomorrow

and literally in a moment, meet my colleague vasyl zima, who will start his big broadcast, we will listen to people suffering from rheumatism . but arthritic is impossible to get used to, it does not allow to move. i tried everything. and at the pharmacy, i bought a yellow cream dolgit it saves me from pain in rheumatism, reduces swelling and improves mobility dolgit is the only yellow cream for joint and back pain join the community with a ukrainian view of the world become a sponsor of the youtube channel espresso and this access to exclusive content, personal thanks, pinned comments, special icons there, the possibility of personal communication with

the espresso team, click to sponsor and become part of the community with a ukrainian perspective, watch this week in the judicial program, control with tetyana shustrova, the pro-russian mafia in the judicial system of ukraine, who should have disrupted the reboot of the supreme council of justice, disrupt this congress, having appointed a couple of controlled members of the supreme council of justice, is about those controlled by the judicial mafia , a large ukrainian, about what the owner of the russian passports bohdan lviv has agreed with the authorities to deprive bohdan lviv of ukrainian citizenship no one is in a hurry and the loudest scandals of the liquidated oazk and its leader pavlo vovka watch on thursday, december 22 at 4:40 p.m. the judicial control program with tetyana shustrova on the espresso tv channel, we will listen to people suffering from rheumatism and

arthrosis it is impossible to get used to it, it does not allow me to move. i tried everything. and at the pharmacy, i bought a yellow dolgit cream. it saves me from the pain of nature, relieves pain, reduces swelling and improves the mobility of joints in and crimea pain in the joints and back good evening we are from ukraine greetings dear tv viewers my name is vasyl zima tsevlecter on the espresso tv channel mykola and i are colleagues with you until the 21st we will talk about what happened and we will report on everything what will happen during our broadcast today on the 301st day of the great war of the ukrainian people against the russian invaders, the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, has already arrived in the united states of america. biden promises ukraine even more military aid in the fight against the enemy. today there will also be a conversation and after the conversation a press conference between the presidents

of ukraine volodymyr zelensky and the president of the united states of america joseph biden at approximately 11:30 p.m. the commander of the azov regiment, major of the armed forces of ukraine, maxime, i congratulate you, i congratulate you, i will ask, uh, before the teacher, a conversation about what direction you are coming from now that you can speak more often to understand which direction we will talk about in more detail at the moment we cannot tell you about the areas where we are carrying out combat tasks because now it does not even have a tactical value but a strategic one, but the chopped tasks that are now facing our unit are in two directions in principle, we can talk about almost all directions that are of interest. well, more about general questions for understanding the situation at the fund, for

understanding the perspective, we see these days a lot of talk about the prospects of war and the minister, what about his minister of the ministry of attack, the ministry of defense of the russian federation, the president of the aggressor country, vladimir putin, is talking about the fact that they are ready to continue the war, that they are ready to kill people again, that they will increase the size of the army to 1.5 million, that is, they are showing everyone with words and actions, well, with actions, so far less than with words, for sure that this war can drag on for a long time, and it is important for me to understand your opinion as a military man, it is to a greater extent that putin is saying now what can scare our partners the most, and in there are certain people in ukraine that this will be for a long time, or is this army really capable of carrying out such aggressive operations on the territory of ukraine for a long time, please a-a well, here is actually a complex the fact is that the russian government's favorite thing is to try to intimidate everyone around, threaten everyone around and this is exactly what they

are doing now, but apart from just words , it was already obvious for quite a long time that they were preparing for real actions, and the process was evidenced by the mobilization they were doing . this is evidenced by the fact that now of mobilized people, which are actually more than they say officially. they are preparing new units, the dynamics of events near the belarusian border also indicate this, well, that is, they are threatening what they always like to do. and they are actually preparing for a new base or a new wave of offensives on ukraine well, you say that you can talk in almost all directions, so i will put questions like these, not specific but general ones. well, reading about the situation in the kherson region, let 's say. came out about the holoprystan district about the kakhovsky district of the kherson region in other directions he is simply looting can we talk about what

and on the other hand, they say that the russians there, through the mouth of this traitor, say that they will try to recapture kherson, in your opinion , after all, the left bank of the kherson region is closer to the point that they will be looted and taken away with them. is it closer to the point that they will still gather their strength and try to fight for kherson again, although this time they will not fight like at the beginning of the war, although even then the armed forces ukraine fought back as much as they could. please understand that looting is, in principle, a normal business and even more so than that. of course, this is a military victory for the russian army. if we talk about and this is absolutely throughout the entire occupied territory, without exception, we can be absolutely sure of this. if we talk about kherson, then they have no chance to return to kherson, moreover, they have no

chance to hold the left bank, too. no, it just takes time for the ukrainian army to continue the liberation of our territories, so even though they talk about the fact that they will return, this should be done for their audience, but in reality they are preparing for a deep defense in this direction, we will now talk a little about the donetsk region here is the latest information, unfortunately , explosions are heard in kherson, the air map reports alarms. well, i also heard a powerful explosion in mariupol, so far i have little information on this matter, i only know that the enemy has been accumulating troops around mariupol during the last time, well, for what purpose they can or should go there or to schybyt or to the south or and i will ask about bakhmut, where was the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi yesterday. i receive various information, you know, very often. people want to see information that should be like this it is encouraging. they conducted a special operation there, repulsed the enemy, and others say it is not necessary to write it, do not interfere with our soldiers ' work, do not impersonate those who may now

be in the combat zone, how to speak correctly about bakhmut, even for those who know approximately what is happening and what is happening in reality, please, in bakhmut, in fact , the situation is very difficult and it is necessary to talk about it, it is necessary to understand that the situation is very difficult around bakhmut, uh, absolutely all units that perform combat tasks here, they well, in the literal sense, they are holding on to every meter of ukrainian land there, but the russian army has concentrated all its attention and all its forces here in order that at any cost, and in this case it is really at any cost, that sometimes they are there by a thousand people in they are killing er during their attempts to attack, but they don't care, they don't count their people. they die there every day in huge numbers, but this influx is simply overwhelming ukrainian positions with their corpses, and it becomes difficult to hold on there, this is objective. well, you have

to understand it however, it is also necessary to understand that the ukrainian army is holding on and will hold bakhmut, i will ask you as a person who has experience in war and what could change the situation in bakhmut, because before that i also asked a military officer who said that it would be very it would be good to get cluster munitions that could hit more of the enemy's manpower, which he throws there, as you say. not counting anything, but there are no such things. so far, there are no point strikes, they are effective when hitting a cluster of armored vehicles, let's say, or there machines with fuel and lubricant materials, and such a point strike would kill a lot of infantry, so to speak. well, you will not injure or destroy . and we understand that today the president of the united states may have gone with him and military experts who can

tell us what we needed now for an effective battle for bakhmut in access today we have, however, three mandatory components that will change in general what events not only in the bakhmut direction in the entire war, this is air defense, which we need to provide it with modern artillery systems for defeating the enemy at a distance distance and this is an armored vehicle without which the following is possible. well, because you cannot liberate the territory with one artillery, this crack is the three components that the ukrainian army needs today in order to significantly change the situation and liberate our territory more quickly and dynamically. you are not there now, but this is what is being talked about, because

starting from yesterday and today , this topic has been very actively discussed, the possible invasion of russia, the tournament from the territory of belarus, according to certain data which were voiced by representatives of washington or the official official circles of washington that allegedly in moscow there is now a dispute whether to attack kyiv again or not to attack. well, relatively speaking, i don’t know from the north to kyiv or to lutsk or to rivne and some say to attack and others say that it is as if nothing we will not achieve it, we will only lose again, shame, shame, we will be obsessed and lose people , that's why the issue is supposedly not resolved yet, but in any case, i wrote today about the fact that the enemy can prepare a provocation with the forces and means of this so-called wagner pvk well, what the soviet troops once did in manila, in finland, they fired at themselves and then said that it was the finns, because it was as if they were preparing for it . er, i can also say with certainty that exactly one of the options

is being considered in russia for the second attempt to capture or encircle kyiv, but there is usually no logic there and there is a huge gap between the wishes of the russian authorities and the possibility by the russian army, even taking into account all the crazy prisoners from the chw in england that they recruited there, they can really try to do it to them, it will not give them anything, it will give them another shame, it will be a complicated story, there will be heavy battles, but they will not be able to buy kyiv i know exactly what they are preparing, they are considering several options for increasing the front line, that is, they are considering new directions of attack for themselves, and it really could be kyiv and it could be our more western territories, they may not have made a decision yet, but they are definitely preparing and

are considering these options, thank you very much for joining maksym zhorin, ex-commander of the azov regiment, major of the armed forces of ukraine. well, take care , i wish you a good evening. there are already guests, well, then i will talk later about what i would like to say now natalya gumenyuk , head of the press center of the security and defense forces of the operational command south ms. natalya i congratulate you i am glad to see and hear glory to ukraine i congratulate you as a hero glory understood i first i would like to ask in general about the security situation as of this evening. this day in those areas, uh, actually, for which you are responsible in your position, please, the situation remains quite difficult in the south of ukraine, but it is stably controlling everything by the defense forces, taking into account the fact that the enemy continues massive shelling territories already not under his control, in particular, where the occupied kherson region, as well as the

dnipropetrovsk region, where nikopol region is opposite the zaporozhye nuclear power plant, causing fire, they persistently continue this practice and continue to fire at civilians residents were also shelled today in the ochakiv community, where three people have already been injured, including a child . this indicates that, not having success at the front, the enemy usually resorts to such things, such shelling, when the civilian population is terrorized where jurisdiction has already been established of ukraine and the returned flags , the civilization of life is returning, the consequences of the russian measure are being eradicated.

occupation, or does the enemy continue provocations, leaving the kakhovsky e-e, the kakhovsky direction , they did not go anywhere, they go beyond the borders of populated areas, they fire mortars and artillery systems at the same populated areas, then they return and carry out their dirty explanatory work about what the defense forces did of ukraine from the right bank of the dnieper, we remember that the defense forces do not hit residential areas , do not destroy the infrastructure, we work precisely. that the russians are entrenched in the direction of zaporizhzhia and are waiting for an attack on melitopol . of course, i won't ask what the russians are waiting for, but these defensive fortifications that they are building can be called as uh, you know, temporary, or something so thorough is being built there, you know how they say

that citadels are something like that, you know, something that can stop well, not only the teeth of the dragon can stop some serious attacks, what does it look like , are there really reasons for the russians to panic in the direction of melitopol today and understand that this city will still be repelled from the enemy in one way or another, please, there since 2014, because they invaded someone else's territory and are trying to settle here, and we are still looking for ways and forces to recognize them from our territory, return ukraine to their native borders in 1991, and the fact that they are trying to set up different lines of defense is a common practice. they are really trying to pull their forces and security away in order to get it out of our fire control, which we are establishing over the left bank, because

the reach of our artillery allows us not to give them peace in very large territories and to destroy their logistics, in particular, so that they do not have mental and moral peace without support. even on the right bank during the liberation, and it has its results already on the left bank, they are nervous, they are looking for places for deployment. and this also unbalances the morale, including one question, i will ask it does not apply directly from hostilities, green refers to the occupation of the enemy in part of the territory of kherson region, refers to the moral aspect, in kherson region, a new mass burial of russian victims was discovered. this village is real

. seven victims were found there, one was a teenage girl.