whether the christmas tree should be with a hat or without a hat or one way or the other or such lights or such how much money did you spend on lighting and toys who stole what but in spite of everything uh, it seems to me that in recent years uh, people liked it somehow more i understand that there won't be a fair this year. there won't be a fair this year. again, in order to avoid large crowds of people, there is a christmas tree here. it is also smaller than it used to be. it is usually 12 m high. it is painted with yellow and blue toys. it is on the mountain after as you mentioned the hat was discussed this year on the mountain of the trident. and the christmas tree is still decorated with garlands. they glow, they glow from the generator, and at the same time you can charge your batteries from this generator while you are near my thoughts and around the christmas tree. this is

a circular decoration . - these are the flags of those countries that are helping ukraine to survive this war, of course we understand that the festive mood is not the same as it always was, but still the christmas tree is installed. therefore, it is the one who wants to celebrate, at least the children, they should to understand that this is a holiday, that the new year is coming and i hope that this year will be a victorious one for ukraine, that's why it is very important to keep the mood for victory, and actually somewhere some kind of mental state because we understand that here in such difficult times, it is still not necessary to have some kind of positivity and faith that will help everyone to persevere to victory. and you, personally, where would you like the christmas tree to stand on the maidan or

on sofia square, for me personally , after all, it was sofia square with the fair and it was kind of pleasant for me, and i understood that it corresponds to european traditions, because before, while poland was still on the maidan, i really liked going somewhere to visit such a fair, because it is such an absolute mood and absolutely some kind of atmosphere, closeness between people that there are really holidays there and i am very glad that we were able to do it in kyiv in recent years and not really. these are the ones with elements of ukrainian traditions. to this year, the christmas tree will again be on sofiyivska square, a big, beautiful holiday with a lot of entertainment for children, and then they will say that

it is the most beautiful in the world, according to some ratings, according to which the most beautiful is determined every year, this year they were recognized as the most beautiful christmas tree in warsaw, we are happy for our polish neighbors for all that, we thank them for all that, how they supported us in this difficult year. thank you, ms. zori zoya yarosh, a deputy of the kyiv city council, was with us. well, we are moving on, on, on, what is the mood, festive or not, the head of the avdiyiv of the military-civilian administration is in touch with us vitaliy barabash p vitaliy good morning to you glory to ukraine congratulations to the heroes glory to you have already gone somewhere on the road for people's affairs she

was like that yesterday morning, how did she get started, i don't know what they're even called. well, yesterday, you know, before new year's day, but it's very, very difficult, very tense , very hot. spoiler artillery and tank bombardment and rpzvgrad and cartel and flash guns and incendiary elements and you already know how it is. sorry for such a word, but the hell of it was around 1:00 p.m. yesterday they hit 75 in the city, well, it was very, so hot, the day was very difficult, uh, a lot yesterday's assault was like uh-huh, well, thank you, because the guys

repelled everything uh-uh, i don't know, there was such a miracle before new year's, you know that not a single civilian was hurt in our country, well, most of it was very hot yesterday, really thank god because well, it was very difficult yesterday, well, they spanked me even well, you know how there was not even a hand in the city yesterday, not a single person walked, did not move with water, no one walked with you in the wrong way and no one walked because well, they beat, uh, in a day more than 30 shellings, yesterday there was a night in the city, so more- came less calmly, there were some solitary arrivals. this morning we talked with the commanders who defend our city, it’s fine, the guys were poured over there yesterday and the equipment was squeezed and beaten by manpower. even yesterday, they were liquidated . confirmation of this well, we'll see what in the morning

after all, today also they are gathering with strength and thoughts, most likely today will also be very hot this is how they celebrate the beginning or end of 2022, the beginning of 2023 and this is the case when i do not know my tongue will not return to ask if you have before the new year's mood, it was already understood, obviously yesterday i was very impressed by the news, yesterday we spoke with the spokesperson from the ukrainian railways and he said that now one of the most popular destinations is very busy, it is bukovel, another ski resort where they go there from kyiv in particular well, ukrainians go there to go skiing and that's me, i understand everything, but i don't understand this, i don't understand how it is possible to live in such a parallel reality when at one end of the country the sun is beating down on the city with heat and on other people

rent skis. i understand that there are a lot of people in bukovel, there is also a good friend of ours, to whom we used to go every year in the winter until this year, and i understand that these people live off those tourists, this is important for the region, but on the other hand andriy, i thought it was possible he is staying, perhaps from the front, he should be this weekend in the winter with his family somewhere on skis , eh, and do we have the right to condemn these people when they want to rest and a little bit of this normality of normal life, if only to return to it, as if to somehow ground ourselves and understand what it is it 's difficult for me to formulate for myself. congratulations, what do you think about this? how do you see it from there? well, you know, my personal opinion is that i understand what it is, well, it's a little bit subjective , i guess it's an impression. well, it seems to me that it should be so and can be it's er here the guys are holding a can

that's why we have to be here, so that we're away from the mini-front. people, people, children, women could rest, they could see a little bit of this and a peaceful life, not like what 's really happening here. it's a little parallel to reality, but you know, so be it well, just so that people don't forget that the guys are in the trenches, the guys are in very difficult conditions here, just so that they don't forget, remember that not everyone is as weak as in bukovel, but my personal opinion is that it's normal, that's how it should be, and when they tell me that... well, you have a shoe there in 7byot even works there, but i don’t know even in the dnipro . restaurants work there and people go to restaurants there, rest, and let it be so, that’s why we have to defend ourselves here from, well

, squeeze out all ours, and that’s how it will be. it’s a very generous and noble position. thank you. for her, it's just that, that's what you have the right to say. that is, you are to those people who sit in coffee shops, go skiing, and so on to those people so that each of them remembers that a full-scale invasion is underway in our country, that many children were left without their parents about the fact that many people left without their homes, without a roof over their heads, about the fact that many people have lost their loved ones and continue to lose them and at this moment, when buying with one hand a ski pass to a ski resort with the other hand, also remember to donate and help in every way is it possible even then at such a moment well, it is probably also because if we all go crazy well, then we will not be able to have each other because the war is pressing on everyone

in any way, even those people who supposedly escaped the war and went somewhere abroad they still remain ukrainians, their heart and soul are still here and they are not in their place. and they still think about what is happening to their land, what is happening to their relatives, what is happening to their country, and they certainly want this country to be an independent war, so that there is somewhere to return to . in the end, mr. vitaly, how many people are still civilians in avdiivka, or do any of them still make a decision, even after that hellish day yesterday ? the absolute numbers are somewhere around 2,500. unfortunately , we saw a trend in november and december that some people even returned to the cities, and not a small part, well, it is actually somewhere under 500 people, the

behavior of the city. talking to them, well, you ask why what to go for why do we want to be at home, this is our land, well, you can’t condemn us for that because someone left somewhere, someone went somewhere, uh, he ran out of money, you know, it’s morally very difficult there somewhere, uh, but, well, our task as a local government representatives of local authorities to provide as much as we can of these conditions to provide some more or less uh-uh understandable at least yes a-uh you service services well, it is reduced to a minimum, of course it is to start a humanitarian, to start medicine uh-uh to establish some functioning of the hospital of the communal service, pumping water from wells, well, minimally clean the roads from debris

after the shelling, because now there are medical ones, and in general, everything will be complicated, unfortunately, it is even more correct to thank god that there is an opportunity for evacuation, but unfortunately, there are not many people who want to, in a week, we will grow only five people, and i am looking at the applications, not evacuation, something next week, there is no one yet. unfortunately , no one is waiting for them anywhere, and they will not be able to help themselves, including uh, who says that you survived 14-15 and she survived it, who says that we are not needed by anyone, who said that the ancients know such things eh but i already even understand them ah we will go and here is our real estate and how are we without them without these houses and all the apartments eh and

they are already broken and yet i am looking at what i'm looking, well, you know, if it's from the outside to listen to or communicate with such people it's like us. it's clear. well, i'll say it again, maybe we even understand such things, because it's difficult for people to just physically leave. all the more so , mostly these are elderly people. well, they say such things here. my parents are buried and i 'll be here too. well, even such things do you understand? for the most part, it seems to me that we are just such a nation of ukrainians, we are more like that, you know, we are domestic, we are used to being in one place, it is very difficult for us to move somewhere, they contain well, all the more, i will repeat myself for people of a more mature age there and even more so some there on in the 14th year, we already saw this war and it was there in the city, well, all these years there with less or more intensity, but it was

clear that the war as it is now is not the war that was in 14-15 on the 17th, when it was completed, it was because there was a fight, but people have such thoughts. well, those who are more active and who had more financial opportunities. that is, the middle class there has probably all already left the city . i suspect so for a long time. that is, that is all. there are not many low-income people there, uh, he told me that. but i will tell you that there are many opportunities to to go even well, with this vulnerable weight on the population, there are many options, eh, starting from uman, eh, now cherkasy oblast used to be, eh, it was kropyvnytskyi, after that it was ternopil, eh. there is even a regional program where you can go within the boundaries of the region, safer communities well, there are really

such places of compact living prepared, where there is water, light, heat, and there is even an alternative source of supplying the same water about self-education about heat. that is, it is a well, generators are solid fuel boilers , not gas. that is, there was a desire first of all, well, let's say the same process of evacuation, we are so tight with volunteers, well, we organize it, tasks, what are most needed by those people who still stubbornly hold on to the audio book, it remains there, first of all, this is now, uh, fuel, here is solid fuel this is either firewood or coal, for the most part , most of the locations where people live have already built

their own buildings. er, there are some common er groups accommodation is, of course, and help from the avdiiv professional plant, they also delivered small pots and firewood and coal , but we understand that this is not enough to matinka, and there is no physical possibility to get so much firewood there. the city, how many people need it? well, there is already a worked out option, when it is possible , our communal service will cut down trees that are emergency, which were eh before the beginning of this full-scale threat. trees are cut down and sprayed for the hell of it, so

-called and people will take it away themselves, then they will chop them there for themselves. well, first of all, it is solid fuel, well, secondly, it is clear that food products although they are plentiful, they put a little reserve there, well, for sure there is radar activity for two to two and a half months . we wish you to hold on. well, for the ukrainians who are watching us now, i hope someone has heard what the people in avdiyivka need, and together we can somehow help. in fact, these could be our gifts to the residents of avdiyivka for the new year for christmas well, in principle, not only for the holidays because their life is a constant bombardment of such and such their everyday life is now on the day when everyone summarizes the results of the year and of course and we also

ask about different results but you see the same like a new year's mood. well, when the fighters turn up somewhere under the bahmut, and yesterday, for example, yaroslav lysenko was with us. well, there is not much of a festive mood, but there is no despair, there is such a readiness, well , my good friend oleksii byk also said it very aptly, and he has also been fighting since the first days with on the 16th of the year he actually went and fought a road accident and uh, he is there himself on facebook uh, he posted a summary of the summaries, uh, he wrote these are my main summaries of this year, these are photos, a summation for grenades and cartridges. so, yes, yes, and a summary, yes. but now we will still try to sum up this year a little at war to think about what will happen next oleksiy hetman military analyst veteran of the russian-ukrainian war joins us oleksiy good morning good

morning oleksiy very different forecasts very different estimates of what will happen in 2023 year, but the majority agree on the fact that this will be a really decisive year, uh, not in the sense that ukraine is standing there, it is not standing, but whether ukraine will be able to win on its own terms if you think about it, what is it possible and what are the prerequisites for this? you know, when we make certain forecasts, we rely on the data that is available right now, i am analyzing the data that was there a few months before, six months ago, the forecasts that we will make right now, for example, with you, it will be true until it has changed situation due to 2-3 months and then this forecast will already become irrelevant, well, from the situation that exists today, we can be sure that next year, if we do not even end

this war with a victory on our terms, as we wish, but it will be a significant turning point is the transition to another phase of this war, when the russians will have to think how they, well, how should they sign the capitulation correctly, because i understand that the word surrender is they will not be able to sign, but some kind of peace agreement, which will largely determine the capitulation and we must release all our territories, that's it for today, if russia is already on them, well, mr. reznikov, the minister of defense, said that they plan to close the borders at the beginning of january, then they plan to declare martial law, when they will mobilize all the military personnel who are there and try to do some kind of - a new wave of attack on our country, which it planned for january, february, then already a conversation that for er, april, may ago, if it

will happen in this way and we will be shamefully mobilized, a large number of people of the russian federation, well, it is difficult to say how the event will develop on the front line, of course, these people, these border mobs, well , not only people are fighting, but also weapons, so according to all calculations, the american intelligence, the british intelligence institute for the study of war, they do not have enough equipment to provide according to their of staff schedules according to the new belongings of the price created there they divisions plan the institution create there motorcycle regiments they simply do not have such equipment even considering how you are on conservation that is why it there will be some kind of objective military units, but there will be a lot of them, how will they be , what can we do about it, but we have to stop them, but this does not mean that we will lose this war, it just can stop it for a certain time, because well you know, i don't even want to joke

like that, but it will take a long time to kill all these ill-armed, ill-trained people who will be thrown into the furnace of this war, just bundles of it. what is happening now, most likely we have today for our territory until the end of next year, if any water changes, new data are taken, then it will be necessary to sit down again to analyze something with those new data, how to predict it, but let's draw the main conclusion that they did not achieve their plans well, they don't even want to show about these three days, there are 10 days, they did not achieve their plans at all, they will be like a wounded animal. they will resist very strongly, as they say, but they will not succeed, and after all, or in the next year or in unfortunately, after another year, we will still

win all wars, well, we won a victory that will be final, not the end of the war, not the improvement of our positions somewhere, but the complete liberation of ukraine, so let's believe in the best, after all, before the new year holidays, i understand that i celebrated the mood who doesn't have it, but still welcome this new year with the belief that it will be the year of our victory. i also want to do it somehow . odds the war is not on their territory , the russian infrastructure does not suffer, in fact, they fought back better , passed the sanctions period this year than expected, they have some reason for optimism and it is no secret that putin believes that time is working against him from the other side

, they say the same thing, they say the same thing, for example and washington that time is working the other way around for ukraine and our army will really strengthen their degradation it is it it is it is there are things that look sufficiently confirmed obvious but there is also awareness and this is what they talk about or sometimes keep silent but that's all ukrainian economists and ukrainian businessmen mean the same thing, this is that for the ukrainian economy, well, it is vitally important that the war ends next year, at least the phase of such active hostilities and destruction, in order for the ukrainian economy to function and economic growth to begin and begin actively because, well well, here we really have a weak position , so how can we win this war, and in such a way that this victory does not become a pyrrhic one, because

if ukraine cannot quickly restore the economy or if ukraine actually loses the impetus for democracy, which can also happen and if ukraine cannot return the millions of ukrainians who left, all this will become, well, we are very hmm, the consequences, when having won a victory , you can nevertheless lose. they said it correctly, it is not necessary to decipher , many people know what it means really she she we analyze the hostilities exclusively we analyze the hostilities that take place on the front line although it is necessary to analyze the state of our economy and in general everything that is happening from ukraine, because it is a complex, complex problem, and it is a hybrid one, it concerns not only the battles on the front line, it concerns our democracy, how is it

developing, will it start to turn to our economy, what will be the support for our people who have left and have to return, do you know about whether drag it all out, it will drag out, who else will it benefit? well, if you look at it directly on the line , on the front line, where the fighting is going on, then any pause is useful for the russian federation, because they will be able to regroup, they can strengthen their groups additionally. what is still left of the equipment of people that they mobilize and somehow prepare so that they fight on the other side, this can indicate, you can say that it is also beneficial to us, because during this time we can get additional weapons which was written to us in certain e-e protocols after the meeting of the presidents which promised us to provide and there are certain plans certain guaranteed results at least when it can be delivered so you know how to say unequivocally

that this pause will benefit the russian federation or ukraine. this pause will be both beneficial and harmful . that is, it is a difficult question and not, well, it is a pity that many people in our country have decided that there are very simple answers to difficult questions, what can a person who is especially in this these are people who don't understand something, so it always seems to him that such a problem can be solved very easily. no, such complex problems simply cannot be solved, and therefore we need to involve people who know how to do it, who know, who have studied for many years, who we even have some experience well, i said lenin about himself in the park, they can manage the state no, you can’t manage the state with a simple card well, i don’t want to say anything bad about the cook about democracy , yes, uh, president biden uh, he didn’t hint , he said in direct text that the obstacle to ukraine’s entry into nato is not just a war, it is not an obstacle like corruption, which has not yet given way in ukraine , so we are facing a very big challenge, because we can really defeat the

enemy and drive them away from our borders for a certain time, but in the village after that and the country that we would like it to be. for it to be democratic, for people to want. we cannot force people who left to return from this place, but if they see that the people here are turning democratically, some kind of thing will begin. leading channels that are not hostile, on the contrary, as well as pro-ukrainian, are closed, then people may simply not want to return to such a country, and then there will be a very big problem with the development of our economy, if our partners in the west see what we have appeals to democracy and freedom of speech, where all this is still valuable for all countries, i don't think there will be any mr. marshal. why should we give money to any product? they are also smart people and know how to calculate money very well, so let's have a war with the enemy and is on the foreign front and, unfortunately, we have a lot of enemies or just people who

are thieves among thieves and i am asking inside the country that is why we have to say that something is wrong there luckily it is all about time and war and inside from outside it is always luckily for us we all need to understand that it is very important if we it will be possible to defeat the russian federation in the complex and preserve the country, a democratic country, how can we move into eurosoy 17, because then it will be a victory. and when you were just on the field, there were a bunch of newly mobilized hillbillies. but that doesn't mean that we won, we saved our country, who in the form in which we would like it to exist. we are very brief if ukrainians are fighting on the battlefield and fiercely and this fascinates the entire decon and said that the country of the year is ukraine precisely because it is facing such a great enemy, but we understand that we are facing also at the expense and to a large extent thanks to the help we will receive from our western allies, if they see that

some processes are taking place in us here that cannot be called democratic, will we not lose this support very shortly, please , very shortly, because you understand they, they, our partners, help a country that dreams of becoming a member of nato, a member of the european union, what will democracy be if they see that ukraine has gone in a different direction, then in such a country they will not help to the extent that we would like it we longed for the marshal, we say they can glorify humanitarian aid so that we don't have people die from their heads, but support is a little cheaper there and half a day is needed for attacks no one imposed corruption on us from the outside, it is inside and we have to submit it together, we do not touch it together with you