human activity expert sports culture politics eight espresso presenters journalists experts opinion leaders in real time about the most current events through the prism of war every day author projects on espresso war in ukraine the main topic for ukrainians victory and losses analysis and forecasts politics and geopolitics serhiy rudenko will talk about all this and the guests of his program people who have information and shape public opinion people who defend ukraine and create the future right now the main and interesting thing in the program is the verdict by serhiy rudenko monday at thursday at 5:10 p.m. repeat at 9:30 p.m.

greetings dear tv viewers across ukraine, there is an air alert, including the temporarily occupied crimea, so don't be lazy to go down to safe places for shelter, also according to the information, the belarusian security forces are talking about what was blown up in belarus, so take care themselves and their relatives and the news team will tell about the most important thing at the moment , the electricity deficit in the system of ukraine has increased, the ukrenergo company reports, this is due to the shutdown of some units of the power plant's power plants due to shelling of gas infrastructure in the eastern region, at the same time thanks to the relatively warm weather , for the fourth day in a row at night, the lights have not been turned off, the

emergency service has been turned off in the entire donetsk region, the work of all gas boilers has been suspended. and carrying out restoration works, noted the head of the regional military administration, pavlo kyrylenko, but when will it be possible to return people are warm and gas is still unknown, it all depends on the nature of the damage and the extent of the damage, the russian invaders hit the poslaby district of kharkiv with rockets, it happened during the morning air alert, the rescuers went to the scene, and as a result of the shelling , a man received a shrapnel wound, he is in the hospital in a moderate condition, said the head of the regional of the military administration oleg sinogubov, in general, the kupyan

direction suffers the most in the region. private houses were damaged, in addition, in the izyum district, a young man blew himself up with an explosive device, he was taken to the hospital in a medium serious condition. the russians were also targeted in the last days, populated areas of the kharkiv and chuguyiv districts were attacked with artillery, tanks, mortars and other weapons. russian explosive surprises terrorize the residents of the kharkiv region . and a boy were blown up by a mine in the village of bugayivka, chuguyiv district, both in the hospital reported to the regional military administration, people are once again called not to visit the forests of the forest belt and do not go to the side of the roads. do not touch suspicious and incomprehensible objects, you must immediately contact the law enforcement officers or rescuers of the state emergency service.

donetsk region remains under enemy fire, the russians continue to terrorize bakhmut the most. the attackers also fired artillery at avdiyivka , maryanka-siverskyi-torske, there are damaged houses, there were no casualties it goes to the kherson region 50 times the russians shelled the region three people were wounded of varying degrees of severity peaceful settlements suffered from artillery attacks with rocket salvo fire systems, mortars and tanks it was noted in the regional military administration kherson itself was attacked by the enemy 23 times with brain shells hit a medical facility, a kindergarten, a bread factory, warehouses premises, private and multi-apartment buildings, the ukrainian army repelled 15 enemy attacks on the front during the past day near the

red poppy square in the luhansk region and the disputed bakhmut soledar of avdiyivka vodyanyi and maryinka in donetsk region, the general staff reports that the russians launched a missile attack and hit 33 times with rocket salvo fire systems, in particular, at civilian objects in the city of kherson, the occupiers continue offensive actions in the directions of bakhmut and avdiivka, the defenders strongly responded to the invaders on december 26 as a result of our fire damage to enemy positions in the chaplynka area of ​​the kherson region, the losses of the occupiers amounted to about 50 servicemen killed in in the temporarily occupied sevastopol, the invaders intensified their campaign to enter military service under a contract with the armed forces of the russian federation. ukrainian rocketry is artillerymen. over the past day, they hit the command post of seven areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, two

ammunition depots, as well as an important military object of the occupiers, another 550 russians. joined the come and die in ukraine campaign, they were sponsored by the armed forces of ukraine, and since the beginning of the full-scale invasion , 103,770 occupiers have joined the initiative in addition, our defense forces turned into scrap metal one tank, 13 armored combat vehicles, eight cars and a tank truck, as well as one art system of the attackers in the general headquarters. that the people's deputies made the corresponding submission back in 2019, said the acting chairman of the ksu - serhii golovatei, the judge in the case,

who has already resigned, did not submit it to agenda of meetings, the constitutional court recognized as constitutional the law that obliges religious associations whose management center is located abroad to indicate this in the name, and the priests of such organizations are not allowed to the place of deployment of the armed forces of ukraine in the uoc of the moscow patriarchate have already declared that they are not going to implement the law we, of course, only check for constitutionality or not, if we found it unconstitutional , it would have lost its validity from the day of our apparently decision. the espresso tv channel continues to help our fighters, the team produced a new batch of vitamin warming mixture, the volunteering process took a turn, let's see,

on the eve of the christmas holidays, the espresso office has turned into a volunteer kitchen again. there is such a great atmosphere here, everyone is singing, everyone is doing something, everyone is joining a common cause. this really unites the team and us we think about those who are now at the front, those who are unable to be there now, and we want to help them at least with something, the director of the tv channel kateryny yarmolovich rallied team for the charitable purpose of producing vitamin mixtures for the ukrainian military, because the previous batch flew out quickly and the guys tasted it in about a week, well, at least some of our cats who we sent our goodies wrote or called and asked. and when can you still get the recipe for the warming mixture? affected its useful properties this time we will make more cranberries and unfortunately we will not make sea buckthorn but i think that cranberries are also a useful berry for those guys

taste in the television team divided the responsibilities among themselves, someone cleans the ginger, other volunteers cut citrus fruits. mice and we have time to gossip, in particular, i work with cranberries and berries. first we sort them so that they are all whole, beautiful, suitable for consumption, we clean them of unnecessary garbage, then we put them in a blender and blend them so that it is easier to deal with burning and with sour ingredients, espresso people lift the spirit with a carol well, the world is so full of zajasna buzzing, the world of seeds also joined the process, i think it will be very useful for our guys, because the most important thing is that they

are healthy, our soldiers and bring us closer to victory as soon as possible. i came with my husband and with my son. we will always donate money whenever possible for our boys and to warm them in such weather and on the eve of such holidays. i think this is a very good idea. cleaned and chopped ingredients are volunteers. transfer to a blender, then add honey to a liquid consistency and pack in sealed containers, we can use them both for tea and just in principle to consume, make a batch will be sent to the front for different brigades, in particular to the donetsk direction on this i have everything. see you this week, see the list of collaborators miklushki, hundreds of traitors from all over the country, what did the traitors exchange the motherland for, who headed the occupation

administrations, and what punishment do the lackeys of the kremlin receive on ukrainian soil? see what wednesdays at 4:45 p.m., the best of the cycle, collaborators , the list of mitluzhki on the espresso tv channel, i am olga, i am lazy, this is the chronicle of hostilities, today we will not talk about the last week of hostilities, but we will try to review all 10 months of the large-scale offensive on ukraine in the course of hostilities, how

the situation developed and it will be done with me viktor kivylyuk expert of the center of defense strategies reserve colonel i congratulate mr. viktor good evening well, actually look at the last er well, in six months, a lot of different details became known about how it began the war, who did what, and it turned out, well, there are enough thorough materials of various contents regarding this, and the first question will be, in principle , this: what do you think was the key in the successful deterrence of the russian offensive, first of all, on kyiv, well, i don’t know what else you don't need to touch on it, but since kyiv is a key point, and actually the success was that the russians didn't take it, that's why i think it's very important in general that kyiv will be the main target of the russian offensive, it was clear a long time ago and at least since 2019

there were no command and staff exercises during which options for the development of the aggression of the russian federation against ukraine were not considered or worked out, its attempts to take kyiv, respectively, at the right time , in the right city, military leaders who spent many years training to defend the capital had quite a good training plans, how successfully was it possible to implement it with the existing set of means? maybe it is not possible to put 12 out of 12. still, the situation was quite difficult and tense, but in the entire armed forces, other military formations, volunteer formations of the territorial defense, which very massively joined the defense of the capital. everything

was successful. well, you know, i noticed in all kinds of materials, especially in the foreign media , that the main context was well, the russians were not ready for war, but they so unfortunate as the soldiers, they didn't know what they were doing , the commanders didn't know where to go, the army was ripped off, you know, i don't quite share these points of view because, after all, the russians were preparing for this offensive, preparing, preparing quite a lot of weapons, they stormed with much larger forces than in ukraine, if you say that the russian military was not ready to attack ukraine, then you know the people who took up arms for the first time here in the teroboron , they were not that they were not ready, they were even sometimes not ready at all to the point that, in principle, there may be some combat operations, and from this point of view, i wonder what the ukrainian armed forces did in which

city, if it is possible to localize it, where were the most important ones? well, it is possible battles that directly decided everything uh well, to answer your question, we need to remember uh questionable publications where they try to justify russia's failures or readiness for aggression if someone spends six months in field camps and trains for this by deploying 170 battalions of tactical groups of air and sea components and the plan of aggression is being worked out. well, presumably they should have been ready, and the ratni are ready , then there are too many saboteurs and incompetent leaders who have not fulfilled the tasks entrusted to them by their state, that's all, who is the first during the days of aggression in the west, he wrote that ukraine

held out for three days, now they explain why it was able not only to hold out and win, as for such defining stages of the struggle in the first stage of the war, which well, i define for myself as the retreat of the enemy from northern ukraine, this is the defense of chernihiv , definitely these are battles for gostomel airport for vasylkovsky airport, this is the action of units of the territorial defense forces that defended the trostyanets sum, the actions of the operational support regiment in okhtyrky - this is the defense of kharkiv, quite successful and the effective actions of the units that were supposed to defend the black sea coast between nikolaev odesa and karolina-bugaz to the south, the greatest achievement

of the first period of the war is the preservation of the air force, which still performs its tasks while maintaining a fairly high level of its combat capability and, at the same time, constantly maneuvering and evading from, well, from the most technologically backward enemy, i will say that the naval forces, which, in principle, do not have such impressive naval capabilities , are very great achievements. drowned in the flagship of the enemy fleet well, in general, units in the world are so powerful, we managed to do this , the special operations force showed themselves very well, uh, they found the command post of the 35th army of the enemy, from which this leadership of the offensive on kyiv was carried out, caused them

some damage, or by organizing in the commanding forces of mini means and sent the chief of the army staff on a well-deserved rest, this is also a very serious achievement, again, the actions of the special operations villages, which found and destroyed the rocket divisional launcher that inadvertently ended up on the terrain chernihiv region notes are not in the first stage, perhaps the most important are these events, it’s quite funny now to watch how russian airwaves are still saying, well, we destroyed everything about ukraine in the first week of the war, such and such an impression that people just didn’t even draw any conclusions from what was happening a-a and you know what else, in principle, i was struck by this, of course, i was struck by how sumyshchyna and chernihivshchyna defended themselves. i think it must have been for the russians. well

, they did not expect such a surprise at all, and such that's an interesting touch. when they talk about the fact that the russians first of all say that they didn't attack the infrastructure, only now they started to attack it, then let's remember that, for example, in okhtyrka and mariupol, they destroyed both the heat and the electricity literally, well, on the first day that is, the war. it was a completely directed action , despite that. the people there continued to resist, the garrisons resisted, that is, what was the resistance? a thing that could have been prevented and the ukrainian society for all 302 days of the war is looking for an answer to the topic of who demined chongar, er, in this direction, we unjustifiably lost

the territory quickly, and only the use of the very geographical physical conditions, which are very conducive to defense, was not used. why did this happen, well the dbr is conducting an investigation here yesterday. it seems that the deputy head of the security service commented on this situation. perhaps we know it. the second moment is a certain lag in the deployment of territorial defense forces. this should have been done. earlier, how earlier, well, i somehow set myself the task of figuring out next year. and what, what should have been done in full on the eve of the invasion, but in general, the maximum of what could be done was done yesterday. information that on the first day of the invasion caught my eye uh, russian cyber

troops intervened in the work of strategic military control systems, but hmm, ukraine responded adequately, deployed a backup system, and since then, nothing more western, sorry, eastern hackers have achieved in cyberspace against ukraine did not succeed , that is, problems with management, problems with communication, they somewhat reduced and continue to unfortunately reduce our capabilities, but in general, such big failures, failures and miscalculations, well, it is difficult to name the big ones of the strategic operational level, but tactically , well, without this it doesn't happen, it's a war well, this is actually a high assessment of the work of our general staff from you, uh, tell me, uh, uh, well, maybe you know such a question more by feeling. what do you think? and did the war break out ?

that there is also a lot of talk about this, in which someone says that the ukrainian army was able to, or could not, turn the tide of the war. how do you evaluate it for yourself? i believe that the armed forces of ukraine have intercepted the strategic initiative in the war, the general staff of the armed forces confidently directs combat operations and it depends solely on him, what step will be taken next, but we have not yet reached the moment when we can say that we have broken the enemy's neck and we will continue to move down the hill to our victory, so far we are close but they haven't achieved and it depends on why we have n't achieved parity in weapons we haven't achieved parity in ammunition, well , that is, what could this break mean from your point of view, the search for parity in some

types of weapons in the amount of ammunition is absolutely not are demonstrative in the modern war in ukraine there are no e-e airplanes e-e long-range bomber aircraft, but it struck wengeli airfields 700 km from the state border in dyagelev, 500 km away , regularly attacks targets in the crimea, ships were attacked in berdyansk, sevastopol, but we don't seem to have the means for such actions, i.e. the presence of the possibility, the presence of creative approaches and the awareness that asymmetric actions, well, david versus goliath, the old saying allows those who lose in quantitative indicators to be effective, well, a completely modern one that allows us to achieve high

results with limited resources as for how to characterize a break when we feel that the enemy's command has finally lost interest in offensive actions, then probably it will be considered a break several meetings were held, which were later held by the general staff of the russian federation in various places, publicly, not publicly, and in principle, they told him a lot of things and reported that they are trying to, on the contrary, increase the work of the anti-aircraft missile defense system and somehow consolidate the army er, to carry out some additional there, even mobilization, something else, well, that is, it is clear that the situation simply did not freeze, that is, they still made some conclusions, they will

do something, and that is actually this assessment of the meritorious who gave an interview for the economist when he said that in order for ukraine to be able to advance further, additional weapons are still needed and he named the numbers that are actually huge there, 500 tanks, in my opinion, 700 harmoz, 300-300 yes, that is well, in fact, they are big. you better know this and this in principle. well, they are commensurate with the armies of two or three european countries, that is, how realistic are these expectations . well for in order to have an idea of ​​what resources we need to carry out further operations, we need to know what goal we want to achieve , what forces and means we need for that, that is, the

need for resources is known to a rather limited circle of people, i kind of think that um this the need itself is brought to our allies and according to what we ask, they try to satisfy our request, but far from everything can be provided to us in the quantities we need and at the time we need, the armed forces of the allied states well, it does not look like a supermarket option i need 300 tanks, please , wrap it up well, firstly, not every country has that many in its armed forces , and secondly, those tanks that are in storage are partly needed by the state to ensure, first of all, its own defense capability, their technical condition is very often

requires quite long recovery and modernization measures, therefore the timing of the start of our active actions should coincide with the timing when the allies can supply us with new resources today we all saw that the president of the united states reported that in 2011 infantry fighting vehicles and tanks could be supplied to ukraine by public efforts, in what terms what kind of vehicles, what kind of weapons samples were not said, but the very fact that the possibility is declared is already a lot, this is serious progress. well, yes, there some new types of weapons that we didn't even dream about before, well, we dreamed about them, but we were very careful, this is also the patriot systems, etc.

maybe there will be some more interesting ones, in the end there will be a new ramstein in january, but here it is certainly interesting. do they support such a wish? put us already away from the modern system of other players this is of course a very serious question i think what do you think we can expect something and if well, what could we want rammstein is not a collegial body that decides to supply or not to supply behind the scenes rammstein work is done on a daily basis to find out surpluses of these or other weapons systems that can be transferred to ukraine is determined whether ukraine does not need them at all and what technical conditions and terms it can be submitted to us and accordingly rammstein summarizes supply opportunities with our needs and create delivery mechanisms, so to speak, from

point to point, that is basically everything that is happening, there is nothing for us to want, the commander in chief of the armed forces has exactly the right set according to wishes, i can share my personal vision. in my opinion , today we need means of long-range fire damage in order to e-e to cross out the russian possibilities of shelling the territory of ukraine with sea-based air-based cruise missiles that is, we need a long arm that will bury e-e bombers strategic of the russian federation and ships carrying cruise missiles, it will significantly facilitate our life, the life of civil society will provide an opportunity to restore the infrastructure to the level that provides at least our minimum needs in the second place,

eh . the formed military units, the previously formed motorized infantry brigades received the appropriate number of means of mobility, if we want to fight quickly and energetically, we cannot do it on foot, we need combat vehicles which firstly, they are capable of transporting personnel , secondly, they can support his girls a day ago, here are probably the three priorities, in the third place, there should probably be a conversation about receiving