bakhmut, well, the situation is that we have swamps under bakhmut now, it is very, very difficult to drive through any equipment in order to get a foothold in order to take it into the ring, it is necessary to make a ring of at least 15 mm, well, on the outskirts, that is, if they come, for example, through the southern part, it is bright in the future, they need to go to klichchevka, after klichchevka, they will have to close the track that goes to konstantinovka and connects konstantinovka and bakhmut himself. for this, they need to come up with a lot of logistics and properly fix themselves to drive fuel to bring in new manpower to bring in ammunition. this will be a very difficult operation, since we have a very high concentration of troops in this direction, that is, manpower and means that can see all the enemy's movements from the sky, that is, i personally think that our battalion freedom as part of the

fourth brigade, the national guard was quickly assigned, we see it all, we see all the attempts of the enemy, how he tries, you know, to come from the side from the flank and crash into our defense, but all his attempts are leveled by their forces the defense of the ukrainian defenders. that is, i do not think that by the new year they will succeed in any special operations that they are planning there, that is, now everything they are trying is not a failure, it is only a failure , at the same time it is really very difficult for us, and at the same time, we have a lot, you know of our fallen comrades who gave their lives in this direction, who until the last defended the outskirts of bahmut, defended this direction . which you mentioned and there is enough, it is such a complex dynamic in more detail. maybe

you know a little about experience. it is very difficult for me to answer you in this direction, because i have my ninth company, yes, our battalion. well, a little lower and something is difficult for us to answer because we know that the whole range of attention is directed only to our direction, where we are standing. unfortunately, i cannot answer you , but do you have an understanding of how to break this chain, because in battles, wall to wall, when there are constant ba- close combat or it is possible to create some opportunities to push the enemy further - to use artillery to protect our soldiers as much as possible in such contact lines. how can this be done if they are against? number of those close-quarters battles, to somehow activate the work of artillery in order to

repel the enemy and prevent him from approaching our defense lines, it is accepted that it is possible for this precisely in my company in the svoboda battalion in the national guard has a fire support tower that is aimed at preventing the enemy infantry from coming into contact, that is, what does this mean? shoots connecting projectiles so that the enemy does not come as close as possible, that is, everything is done to save the lives of our boys, that is, the ags stands and as soon as 50 m starts working, that is, it stands at a certain angle so that fragments do not to attack our guys, we would really have more bull, we would have more artillery , we would have already seen and destroyed them on the approach, but unfortunately, they have much more means,

much more artillery, much more. well, tanks are still a complete question, but they have much more artillery than we do. in this direction, you mentioned earlier that rotation and replenishment of our units is needed in principle, because it remains such an urgent issue for our armed forces, uh, what changes are taking place with this . lies at the same level as it was there two or three days before that, no changes are taking place, in fact, well, we perfectly understand all this . well, you are forced to do your job, forced to work, because well, at the moment, there are no such people, there is no way to escape . i hope that in a month or two,

we can be replaced by our brothers who are currently studying there or in other directions i understand that many brigades are now defending and standing and waiting for a possible invasion of the aggressor into the territory of our country, but in this direction, well, we really need rotation . bronchitis a-and there are some there are just white legs and they are sitting in the trenches since there is no way to go out and warm up, mr. yevgeny well, thank you for the inclusion, i hope that the rotation will also help take care of yourself and take care of your subordinates i would like to remind our viewers that the film on espresso was yevhen ropai, lieutenant of the company commander of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine. so , these were the main results of this day with an understanding of what is happening, and

you saw such a difficult situation for our soldiers and what is happening deep in the enemy's territory where they are operating our drones these were the main results of the day and more international and economic news further from my colleagues on the espresso channel to his guests also for this conversation for an important information, well, in bahmat they really gained 28 more combat clashes, 225 artillery shellings, says the spokesman of the southern command , it is also very important. of course, ukrainians support the army, they support volunteers, of course, not 100% support, but the numbers that were given are somewhat inspiring. the numbers that testify that calculate people who don't donate to the army

don't donate to other needs, it's possible for internally displaced persons, for the sick, for the wounded. so, such an agency as active group conducted a sociological survey and it turned out that almost 60% of ukrainians support the volunteers, some more, some less, everyone does and does, according to their capabilities, 10% of the respondents did not support and do not support the volunteers. there is the rear well, yuri fizersha is already with us, yuri, congratulations, i want to ask if the hungarians are really there, the one that flew in last night, now it’s restless again, well, at least to vasyl. congratulations to everyone and everyone who joined our broadcast. at least our telegram channels write referring to someone i don't know who about what is being heard there again and even the footage

shows that it is already dark there, the air alarm sounds again is pleasing of course i wish it was also true well and uh, in particular today in the world about ukraine section, i will tell you about this iran threatens to make excuses when sweden, finland, and finland will become members of to well, in russia, it was burning and burning again, and i am not talking about engels, about this and other things in a moment in the world about ukraine column well, but i will start with such is the president of the czech republic, milos zeman revised his attitude to deepening relations with russia. he said this during the christmas greeting to the citizens of the country, mr. zeman, did you know that he used to be a supporter of establishing correct economic relations with moscow, as he called it first of all because the czech republic receives relatively cheap energy sources from russia but the aggressive actions of the

russian federation in ukraine became the most negative event of the year, which endangered security in europe in general and in the czech republic in particular, because and then the quote of mr. president miloshazeman situations arise when economic er economy must yield to security well, he added that his country fully supports the ukrainian people by providing all possible help so that we can resist russian aggression well, this is really a radical change, i remember how a few years ago when he was asked about russia about mutual relations with russia already after russia stole crimea from us. he said that we need to rebuild relations, we need to somehow establish this contact with the president of russia, and now you see. that's how he cuts down, and that's how it should be. but iran is threatening russia a representative of the ministry of foreign affairs of the islamic republic of iran on serka na ani said

that the ukrainian leadership should not call on the international community to attack the facilities where their iranian drones are being assembled. he said this today during a press conference . threatening and irresponsible, and more. he threatened that there could be political and legal consequences for such statements, which the spokesman did not specify, but at the same time concluded that official tehran would not participate in the russian the war in ukraine and that his country is ready to make maximum efforts in order to end this war, here is the truth about what the leadership of his countries was sending, about the leadership of his country sending drones that the russians launch against the objects of ukrainian critical infrastructure, for some reason the spokesman for canon did not say, but we all know very well that the wreckage of these drones

, even with the russian names of geraniums, we see on ukrainian soil when they are shot down or when, unfortunately, they hit targets for some reason, he does not want to talk about this speak well, let there be a martyred people . that is how pope francis called ukrainians today during his address to the faithful on the second day of the christmas holidays. at the same time, he asked for the fall of the roman catholic church around the world to offer prayers to god for ukraine. the pontiff also asked for peace for all peoples whose now the wars are exhausting, and seeing many blue and yellow flags, he called ukraine also dear and suffering a lot. i will also add that there are many ukrainian flags on the square in front of st. peter's cathedral in the vatican it was due to the fact that every year on december 26, ukrainians from all over italy make a christmas pilgrimage there

. well, the column about the world about ukraine would not be complete today without roaring from behind the ledge , it’s called that, according to the event, no one is going to talk about it today during a meeting with the heads of russian assets mass lack of information, said the minister of foreign affairs , to the great regret of our still northeastern neighbor, serhiy lavrov, according to him. well, from moscow to moscow there are many reliable partners with whom you can be sure to conclude agreements a with the west, according to the chief russian diplomat, it is impossible because it turns out to be a constant failure and it is not worth deepening cooperation with brussels now, because and then lavrov's enchanting quote , in the near future we will see a reduction in the west's ability to steer the world economy as it wants and wants this or not, but we will have to talk about this with russia, it would be interesting to just

ask one question to mr. lavrov if i ever, god forbid, have the opportunity to meet him, and maybe i won't have to negotiate with the west, because the west will not want to, but that's the way it is. finland and sweden will be able to become members of nato as early as 2024, the secretary general of the north atlantic alliance, ann stoltonberg, said today in an interview with the german agency deutsche presa agentur , according to him, both countries will become members of the alliance, despite the fact that while turkey is actively blocking this process, according to mr. stoltenberg, he is absolutely convinced that very soon the official ankara will withdraw all its claims to stockholm and helsinki and not will block their entry into this military-political community for a long time, but the united states of america appears to be dying, and

the reason for this is the bad policy of the current president of this country, joe biden, regarding the fight against the influx of illegal migrants. guess who said that? of course, this is the 45th owner of the white house, donald trump on his social network trumpsocial he decided to congratulate americans with christmas in an original way, and the originality is that trump again attacked joban, according to him, due to the actions of the current american government. dies from the middle and at the same time the 45th president could not refrain from praising himself further his quote look at what is happening now on our southern border with mexico and compare how everything was during my presidency he wrote well and added that then the border was safe a now there is a show going on there. well, i'll be honest with you, you can't take donald trump like that. it's his ability to make comparative accusations like that. well, he

's really some kind of artist in this . by launching ballistic missiles today, at least five drones flew from the territory of the world's most closed country to south korea, the south korean military fired more than 100 shots at violators of its airspace and even raised aircraft to great regret, at the same time they lost one fighter, fortunately the pilots managed to eject the north korean drones could be in the airspace of their democratic and southern neighbor for 7 hours while conducting reconnaissance of the territory , while some turned back and failed they were shot down to do this. well, after that in seoul they even wanted to convene a meeting of the national security council, but then they changed their minds and in response launched several of their reconnaissance

drones into the territory of the dprk. about a hundred injured, this is the result of the snow storm that captured japan, according to local meteorologists, abnormal snowfalls were recorded in the north and west of the land of the rising sun, and in yamaga prefecture and in the north on the largest island of honshu, on monday, that is , this morning, 169 cm of snow fell, the bad weather also caused problems with electricity supply in thousands of households in ukraine, in addition , huge problems are recorded on the country's highways due to the fact that the road services simply do not have time to clear them , but dozens of flights were canceled at local airports. today is sunday, but i will finish my favorite column with a burning fire today in novosibirsk, well, it’s far,

you understand, far away, someone unsuccessfully and not in the place intended for this conquered warehouses where things could be stored for polygraphic printing according to the report of local russian mass media , the flame raged on an area of ​​more than 1,800 m² to extinguish it, reinforced brigades of firefighters were brought in and even according to certain reports, the fire train was able to extinguish the fire inside as one could imagine after seeing the fire, there was nothing left on the screen, at the same time, the residents who were near the warehouses reported that there was a smell of rubber and plastic burning in the air. agree well, that's it. i have everything in the column about ukraine. the world is already starting to prepare for tomorrow's broadcast to tell you more fresh information, but today you are not switching because we still have a lot of interesting things. across the field, through the

grove, mykola is hurrying in his bag brings guests, tanks, javelins, planes and mines , guns and cartridges, missiles and drones, mykola is in a hurry, pave the way for the ukrainians, give a complete victory, merry christmas, happy new year . you know that mcdonald's left there. well, lukashenko was very indignant and said that the time will come and they will build some kind of restaurant and still feed people. he said that we can't make a meat bun, well, in a word, they did a bun with meat and uh, they opened shops, restaurants, which are called that. it's very

interesting ksb victory restaurant, what does ksb mean , well, there is probably something related to belarus, it is connected to ksb, which means that they have buns with m yasom nobles are gentlemen's chicken grill eh tasty chicken grill but it's interesting that they don't have french fries, they call them fragrant potato fries, well, that's a story. by the way, lukashenko was responsible for the stolen names. you can sue lukashenko to pay back the copyrights for mcdonald's. well, i'll add yulia osmolovska to the conversation the director of the kyiv globsec office mrs. yulia greets you good day ah, we were just talking with yury about the fact that there is anxiety again in hungary. uh, russians, but there were strikes at night. please tell me what russia is letting uh, and so far into its territory, how does this change the attitude of the governments of the world towards russia and the attitude of their partners, perhaps

china and iran, and maybe belarus too to russia, which shows its weakness and vulnerability in this way, please. i think that it is really a complex issue of all international factors, based on the dynamics of the unprovoked war that the russian federation started in ukraine, and if we are, in principle, probably already since april uh, it was quite a lot the comments of our western partners and world leaders regarding the fact that the russian military machine turned out not to be as strong as it was believed to be at that time, but we talked there then and throughout this time about the offensive capabilities of the russian military machine, what we are observing now, with all these incidents at military airfields at critical infrastructure facilities of the russian federation and the

situation with its black sea fleet, it really says that the russian military machine is not only unable to advance, it is unable to even provide adequate protection, and here several points need to be distinguished. first, this indicates the weakness or absolute absence of the air defense system . indeed third, this speaks in general about the inability of the russian federation to carry out such large-scale military operations, or read the adventures it caused in ukraine regarding other countries that can look at this and have so far demonstrated a certain aloofness or neutrality in this conflict, you have already mentioned them, such as china or more actively

inclined to cooperate with russia, such as iran, and indeed for them these are also certain markers because the same the people's republic of china is counting on the extent to which russia can be a professional potential partner for it in any large-scale global projects. by the way, china has declared that it also considers ukraine to be russia. friends, and they are ready to cooperate with the russian federation, and please explain such a position of uh, with this is the first and second here at a glance. perhaps you have your own explanation for this soviet flag that hung next to the flag of the people's republic of china during the meeting with sizipinia and dmitry medvedev, who on the instructions of putin, he came to beijing for a second time, please, china's position regarding the war in ukraine is not new, and in this regard, we have been observing the russian invasion from the very beginning of military operations here

or another deviation from the general line that china took from the very beginning is that it advocates a peaceful settlement of the conflict for the unacceptable composition of this boomerang and positions itself as an equidistant country on the one hand if we see it in a positive way in a constructive sense, we could at least see china's attempts to play a certain mediating role in ensuring a dialogue between the two sides, and given that china's practice of international mediation is precisely what it says that china is quite good at supporting is the facilitation of dialogue rather than direct brokerage when the third party is equally active in the formation of negotiated solutions, but we see that china has not demonstrated its desire in this regard , moreover, we know that our president has

tried several times so far to talk with the leader of the people's republic of china , including in the context of russian aggression in ukraine, and so far we see that there is no serious result, so china's position has not yet undergone certain changes, you know kirilo general bohdanov, the head of the main directorate of intelligence of the armed forces of ukraine, said that according to his information, china did not transfer any type of weapons to the russian federation, so just as iran did not transfer ballistic missiles, they are monitoring this. well , china does not dare to transfer ballistic missiles to iran. in any case, the ira dares to pass on shahed e 136 and 131, which caused a lot of damage to the ukrainian population and infrastructure, and not only does he pass it on, he also blames ukraine, which you see, the whole world is talking about the fact that they are beating us with iranian shahedes, they

mean russia, and they are promising ukraine some kind of serious answer to see what are you accusing us of? explain it and tell me, please, who actually has the opportunity today iran, so that he at least does not behave like this, well, er, so brazenly and with the transfer of the martyrs, and then with criticism, etc. the ukrainian side has already extended them to the israeli side, because we know that recently the head of the political intelligence of the massat of israel spoke quite affirmatively about the participation of iran, including the supply of its military equipment to the russian federation, and that this evidence was from the israeli side transferred to our partners in the west, including on the ukrainian side, eh, the fact that iran periodically

resorts to such rhetoric, well, this is new, it is a certain cultural component of arab culture, when there are a lot of emotional statements that are not always subsequently transformed into concrete actions, therefore, the only thing that needs to be taken into account in this context is that now iran can, on the following example of russia, simply change the cause-and-effect relationships and actually explain its more an aggressive position and assistance to russia precisely because of otaki's seemingly groundless accusations from ukraine and the third component that is being sweated over, the third component that needs to be taken into account is that aggressive foreign rhetoric in this way it is intended to divert iran's attention more from the internal problems that are currently being observed

and have been going on since september with the murder of a journalist, and the fourth point is that it is now real and again, with the tone inherent in the eastern style, they are now trying to raise the stakes in their the negotiating position regarding the comprehensive agreement on the peaceful use of e-e nukes e-e nuclear component of which it now e-e continues to work out with western partners from europe and the united states, understanding that each country thinks here feeds a little on this war and first scare us with something and then say that we won't do it if you and you also have to do something to us, we understood that here everyone wants to play and here there are france , turkey and iran and china as one of our experts said in my opinion these, if i'm not mistaken , that it was igor eisenberg, that the united states does not want to finish off russia quickly, because then china will receive its bonuses, which you actually

know, it will gain a lot of territory, it can gain financial resources , and so on. it's not easy here, but here you are they said that president zelenskyi, well, his service is trying, our diplomatic service, and maybe his office is trying to organize talks with volodymyr zelenskyi and sisipnya , and so far there are no certain positive results in this matter, but there are positive results in the sense that volodymyr zelenskyi talked today with the prime india's minister of folk fashion well, who actually is and is in many respects an opponent of china, we know this right up to the skirmishes on the border and resource and technological confrontations well, and also the country which has a larger population of one billion, nuclear weapons and considerable resources, what does this conversation mean ? well, yes, psychologically, politically and globally, please, yes, this is a very important conversation. in fact, we are currently observing that our president is quite actively trying to build communication with the so-called

countries of the global south, whose position is e- regarding the russian invasion, our western partners are quite worried, who would not like to see this as a project of the west or a european problem, but they would like to see more supporters of this position. condemnation of the actions of the russian federation, including by such influential and large countries as india and china, as well as african countries, and with this dialogue, i think that it will be more likely to be qualified as successful than unsuccessful due to several reasons, the president in his speech, he referred to the peace plan proposed by him, which consists of these points, and it was this proposal that was heard at the most important 19th conference, in which india is now cleaning up, and this actually happened already, india actually became one of the first mouth received

we now know that ukrainian diplomacy, the office of the president, is quite actively promoted at the international level, and that is why it is precisely to get the support of the indian prime minister, the quote from the qualification of the current actions of the russian federation, which became one of the various sentences in the joint statement of the 19th the results of this summit concluded that today is not the era for military conflicts, so i think that there are certain reasons to expect a certain convergence of the positions of ukraine and india here, or rather a change in the position of india in a direction that is more corresponds to the interests of ukraine extremely four minutes, but according to your minutes, the first question is the summit of the heads of the cis countries in st. petersburg, or how would you rate it and whether putin really managed to force lukashenka to do at least something