and the state of martial law, the contract for the lease of churches on the territory of the lavra is automatically extended until the end of the war, and they even threatened criminal liability for the admission of the head of the orthodox church of ukraine, metropolitan epiphanius, to the territory of the shrine . ukrainian citizen believers cannot enter the territory of the kyiv-pechersk lavra simply because it is the metropolitan of, let's say, another church, which is very strange and not very christian in my opinion history, but god is with us, uh, in the end, the end of this story is over and done , but still there will be a christmas service. the agreement is reported by bbc news ukraine from the post of acting

general director of the national reserve kyiv-pechersk lavra of oleksandr rudnyka, so everything is agreed, the service will be held , we will broadcast it don't forget watch thank you now for the broadcast. thank you too. well, now the main issues are security, but for this there is a security service, the national police, and other power structures that have to provide this security for ukrainian citizens the day after tomorrow . thank you for the broadcast. for your work i tell you see you tomorrow about the most important thing in a few moments be with us another tragic day for the kherson region in the city of boryslav russian terrorists killed a 12-year-old boy and his parents four more residents of the kherson region

received injuries of varying degrees of severity , the invaders also fired 58 times at the de-occupied regions of the region, fired all types of artillery and tanks another 14 times , attacked the regional center, targeted private apartment buildings and the fire station, a total of six people died from enemy fire, he noted that the evacuation of citizens is ongoing in kherson, so everyone can leave in total during the full-scale invasion, russian terror claimed the lives of at least 453 children, such terrible data is provided by the office of the attorney general, almost 900 more children were injured of varying degrees of severity, the numbers are incomplete, because the work to establish crimes in the places of hostilities and in the temporarily occupied territories of ukraine in the nikopol district of the dnipropetrovsk region is another tense night, the

russian invaders struck twice with heavy artillery, the regional military administration reports about ten enemy shells damaged private buildings, power lines and gas pipelines of the victims arrived in the two communities of manganetsk and krasnogo grigorivsk none died, one more was injured during the missile attack on the capital on december 29, the capital's head, vitaliy klitschko, reported . a 40-year-old woman was in the hospital in a serious condition. this is the third victim of a barbaric attack by russians. on the eve of the new year, the armed forces of ukraine took 15th place in the ranking of the world's most powerful armies among 145 countries. such data is provided by the international organization global file power. last year, in january, ukraine ranked 22nd . it is noteworthy that despite the numerous losses and the

debunking of myths about the high-tech army, the russian federation is still in second place. the united states of america remains the unchanging leader in this ranking. more than 3,000 ukrainian soldiers have been trained in the united states since april last year, pentagon representative patrick ryder said. about 500 people will be trained every month, according to the rider, this will ensure the improvement of the qualifications of our defenders, will allow us to act better at the battalion level and combined forces that will give them an advantage on the battlefield the so-called christmas truce on the part of the russians is an information operation in this belief of the institute

for the study of war thus, putin wants to damage the reputation of ukraine, say american analysts the kremlin could have sought to provide a 36-hour pause for its troops to to give them the opportunity to regain strength for the offensive, meanwhile, british foreign minister james cleverley - stated that the suspension of russian attacks will not lead to peace and stressed that russia should finally withdraw his troops and put an end to the attack on civilians , and president volodymyr zelenskyi in an address to the russians said that putin wants to use christmas as a cover to stop the advance of the armed forces of ukraine in the east, use christmas as a cover to stop the advance of our guys in donbass for a long time and catch up closer to our positions of ammunition and mobilized equipment , this will give only another increase in the account

, everyone in the world knows how the kremlin uses respite from the war to continue the war with with new force, the security service completed searches at the facilities of the uoc of the moscow patriarchate in the kherson, kirovohrad, dnipropetrovsk , rivne regions, in churches and monasteries they discovered libraries with pro-kremlin literature, campaign leaflets from political parties banned in ukraine, and russian symbols, in addition to that on the territory of the church of st. john the righteous in kronstadt on in the kherson region, they found a former warehouse with the property of the occupying groups of the russian federation. the leadership of the occupation administration and was in direct contact with representatives of the fsb. today, believers of the eastern rite traditionally

celebrate holy vespers. this year, the orthodox church of ukraine allowed to celebrate christmas on december 25 according to the gregorian calendar or january 7 according to the old style. epiphany churches of ukraine plan to create a joint working group on the reform of the church calendar, if in our country they will officially celebrate christmas according to the new style, then they will move it the dates of other church holidays will come almost two weeks earlier in the fight against the enemy, in addition to weapons, the military needs clothes, generators, thermal imagers and much more. they drive and why cars have become an urgent need, we are looking at very large

all-wheel drive vehicles to go everywhere on the front , such military cars are extremely necessary for the army to carry out combat missions in ukraine has long since exhausted the resource of used cars that could be converted to double the needs, so volunteers from bila tserkva found an opportunity to purchase them in italy, as the vice president of the volunteer organization tells, important actions oleksandr abroad, the cargo goes in 3-4 days, the priority is to purchase cars that were previously used by italians the military begins the journey from italy, it is our italian partners who help us find this vehicle, buy it at an auction and deliver it here by truck we deliver them by assembly car to bila tserkva to ukraine, people also collect funds, drop them off for needs, collection takes place, donating more than anything, these are our entrepreneurs,

their employees, requests come in, and we also have a lot of our friends who are fighting, here in such a workshop the guys take on the reincarnation of machines, the repair of one can to last a week, they do not spare any effort, time or money, because they know that their comrades are there on the front lines. almost 40 cars have received a new life from the hands of the bila tserkva headquarters alone. the man is one of those who devotes all his free time to bila tserkva in the summer together with his wife. he moved from zhytomyr oblast after changing his job at his own company to volunteering. first of all, when the car arrives, we check it on its condition, in what condition is it in good condition, uh, we change the oil, all the filters, if necessary, we definitely paint

new rubber, awnings, salons, everything is new, we install it so that our soldiers are comfortable, most often it is jeeps are iveco wm 90 and iveco achm 90 and what is the difference iveco-vm 90 is a small jeep for mainly for infantry it is for 10 people and iveco achm 90 is a truck well how to say so that people will understand at the base there on the 66th lawn and why but 100 times cooler and bigger cars , we are handing it over for the transportation of bc there for the transportation of personnel, that week we handed over an armored car in general, which will be equipped with an anti-aircraft installation, you are such cars what guys converted to install a grenade launcher only in this headquarters 17 belarusians work for them, for whom a canteen was recently arranged. in total, the organization

has more than 200 volunteers throughout ukraine , and now it accepts and processes applications from the ukrainian military. i send them e.e. parcels, i.e. clothes, also if on request they need typical visors e.e. radio stations generators we also send all this, they ask for diesel and gas heaters devices, you, uh, there is not as much smoke as from gas stoves, on request, warm things, radio stations, gas stoves, generators, there is a very big need for guys, summaries , body armor, also drones, mavik, the third is a very popular request in our country, i want them all to return alive, i want, we want

as much as possible close all their requests so that they, uh, so that they have everything, and while some cars are leaving europe, others are being repaired, others are already being handed over to the defenders along the entire front line, and the next ones are being bought at auctions, this and the ceaseless process of important actions will continue until until zesu wins victory, we do this in order to be independent, independent from russian aggressors ukraine is our very beautiful country, it should be independent with its borders we have a very beautiful and strong nation that will not be broken either physically or morally darya ruban oleksandr kuga mykola dikhtyar espret here's what 's going on at the moment read more about important events on our website espresso tv also i encourage you to subscribe to our channels in social networks put favorites be

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support me in this, of course, for a tv host, the main job is to inform people as disgustingly as possible, as truthfully as possible, now it is mainly information about the war, the war has entered the lives of each of us and we want one victory we will do our best to win it, we will donate it, we will buy walkie-talkies, copters, pick-ups, bronics , and fairy tales. and it also has nets for payment, this is a special help, this is what you do with your own hands, and it will go to the front line, it will save lives of our soldiers, each of you can help even a small contribution to support the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer welcome to the espresso channel today in our military program we will talk about what the latest combat aircraft and

helicopters are needed by our armed forces and how we should develop our unmanned and military transport aviation, where we have certain competencies in our defense and industrial companies. and actually, what we have been taught for more than 300 days of the war with russia in the hot phase. precisely through the prism of front-line unmanned and military transport aviation, my name is serhiy zgorets, i am the director of the information consulting company defense express, which , together with the espresso channel, strives to highlight the most relevant trends in the life of our armed forces. my interlocutors today are oleksandr los, ex-director of the antonov concern, doctor of technical sciences, and now captain of the armed forces, which takes care of the promising directions of the development of the ukrainian army, mr. oleksandr, i congratulate you. i congratulate mr. serhiy gyurem slava, as well as valery romanenko, an expert in of military and civil aviation, senior researcher of the state

aviation museum of mr. valery i greet you good day and i would like to start our conversation with a question to mr. valery about your vision of why it happened that until now russian aviation has not been able to ensure dominance in the air and this prospect for them, and it becomes even more directly important in view of both the loss and the gain of air defense systems, why the enemy did not manage to do this in the first phase of the war. well, because they did not expect such resistance and did not know what to do with the frantic air defense, they did not prepare for the fact that such defenses would need to be broken through, they did not prepare either special units or special aircraft, and when they encountered our anti-aircraft missile systems , it was easier for them with aircraft, because their aircraft after all despite the heroism of our pilots, their

planes are much more modern, have longer-range weapons and have, let's say, weapons that operate according to more modern principles, but still , they were preparing to march over ukraine and were not prepared, so that means what happened, their aviation is now afraid to fly into our territory at all. and after we also received several anti-aircraft systems from the west, it means that for her, in general, it means death , like flying deeper than there is 2-3 km to our territory, oleksandr, i would like to ask you, but you can, we usually mention air defense systems as the main method of protection against enemy aircraft, but more than once, from our programs, you and i discussed the situation related to the transition to new aircraft, which are extremely necessary for the armed

forces of ukraine, and that is why there is this balance between the means of air defense and aircraft, which we should now pay the most attention to in order to build an optimal scheme of protection against enemy attacks, two levels of issues about which we can talk, the first plane is purely political, and the second is the logistical availability of certain types of aircraft, and there is one more feature directly in ukraine, which i want to remind everyone of the kidnapping the mig-25 plane that was hijacked by a soviet pilot with the ukrainian surname bilenko was investigated by american specialists in japan. what was uh, 70 years have passed? well, the same thoughts about the fact that if a single-seater plane is transferred to ukraine, then a pilot with the word black at the root of his surname can also use

this plane and drive it to russia or the satellites of belarus. is there still such an aspect? that is, this is the so -called confidence-building. i am building confidence with this , that is, from building trust bumped into bumped into in antonov all the years. while i was the head of various links and communication with western, mostly american partners, they didn't trust us in america even in the 17th year, i personally heard it to myself, the insertion that ukraine sekan is better, it's the other russia and that's the opinion of course, it has already evaporated, but there is still such a review, which is somewhat suspicious, not to all of ukraine, not to all ukrainians, but to individual people who can do such a thing, and no one takes this aspect out of the accounts, so for example, getting a two-seater f15 is much easier and faster than getting a single-seat r16 because it

is probably more difficult for a two-man crew of hnat in a square than to hijack a plane with one pilot, they may not even have time to shoot it down, this is what concerns combat aircraft, namely fighter aircraft. according to information from defense express about the fact that everyone 's favorite griffin, by the way, can also fly an airplane, it's just that the pace of its production is so low that it is not possible to satisfy the demand of peacetime, not to mention the military rails, that's what it consists of the picture of the destructive reaction to the attack aircraft is approximately the same picture, it’s just the lack of attack aircraft, even the 10 tenderbolts standing in the deserts of the united states, well, this was known before. they are assembled together. they are simply unsuitable for transfer. there is no hi-tech which one should be worried that it will be stolen and transferred to russia or belarus. this is just a flying cannon, a volcano

, there is no high-tech there, but they are simply not available. to get to and be studied by the russians, unfortunately, it will not get to ukraine , just like the abrams tanks, but something simpler like the august westland 129 and 139. one could count on this to have some uh, tangible prospects, no one says that that it will happen today or tomorrow, but let's say in about six months, we could already hope for it, valerii, then if we started from such a paradoxical approach that the plane contains one or two seats, which is better, a two-seater so that it is not overrun to the russian federation, then what is your vision of from the point of view of the choice of aircraft for the armed forces, when we say f16 and f15 f18 gripen, what is

your vision, what are the limitations and opportunities for obtaining this or that type of weapon ? the fear that the plane will be captured by the russian side is easily compensated by the installation of 20 g of explosives on particularly important devices after this detonation in case of crossing the border. it is easy to compensate for the types of aircraft, you know the main thing, well, i guess oleksandr knows the main thing very well about the technical problem with which the americans do not let us, they say that their f-16 and f-15 planes will not be able to operate from our airfields because we have runways made of slabs with gaps and

simply cannot stand happiness, that's why, in my opinion, it means that we need to somehow plan short-term planning, which planes we would like to get, which means, uh, i think that in the short term, we should turn to our allies with a request to give us f18 in it has a much stronger chassis than this plane and it would be able to operate from our airfields without rebuilding them. because it means asphalting the lanes and reworking our airfields during the war, we will not be able to do it after the war , we could get these planes according to the law passed by the american congress on lend-lease and after the war transfer them to return them to the americans, why else are we implementing the project because there are now

fifty f18 planes in arizona at the conservation bases in davismontana, with a certain number of two-seater options, and these are only fifty the last well, let's say the penultimate model of f18c aircraft, fa18c. after that, we could hand over and then agree with the allies on which type we should rearm our air force, but already after the war, f 16 f15, what can some other type do, but this is already within the framework that is to say, of the general air defense system of nato, we have to agree on this type with them. well, this is somehow my vision oleksandr, is it true that the state of the airfield will determine the type of aircraft that we have to choose for the period of hostilities in the period after the war or not it is too er simplified version of the assessment and approach to the selection well, as you know, it is within the limits of a lot

of vector optimization, so with the scientific term, of course, more than one parameter is present in the selection of an aircraft, but in our case, with a very limited range of these types of aircraft, it is correct when you said that there is another 18, i just didn’t want to put myself directly into the types, i also like the 18th precisely because of its strength, because it is a fuel-powered aircraft, but it is again simply about availability, political restrictions, and so on. and yes there is no more of the runway is the only factor that affects the choice of this or that aircraft. of course, it must be taken into account. well, for example, in the 16th, it will be a limitation not on the possibility of take-off as such, but simply on the limitation of its load. that is, you are under you don't connect two large bombs, just one. well, this is what i'm

saying for three years as an example, that is, its operating loads on the ground in the air may be limited, there are no problems, eh, you mentioned, eh, oleksandr, about these tenderbolts, and the ten which he asked me to visit him he said that it actually makes no sense to transfer these attack aircraft to ukraine because the enemy has manpads there, but air defense and thus risks are created that these and such will be actively shot down, on the other hand, our su-25s are actively are fighting along the length of the front and is there no point in returning to this topic? i would like mr. valeriu to comment on this situation in terms of tenths. well, in my opinion, the tenth is not needed there at all, because they will really be shot down instantly. this is a highly maneuverable aircraft, but it does not have such defense systems and will not be able to see what was

lost by the russian su-25s. well, ours too. by the way, we are suffering the biggest losses in this type of aircraft, so we really need now instead of these four types of aircraft which we have now and we need one main combat type of aircraft that will perform all these functions and by the way they perform successfully and i agree here that the f-15 and american it would be an ideal solution to this problem but unfortunately i want to say that yes, the problem with airfields means it is not the only but significant problem is this problem, which greatly limits the combat capabilities of aircraft. so, what can be said. you don't need to ask the allies for more than just airplanes, because a modern airplane is a system . this airplane must be saturated with information.

it must receive a lot of information about the situation in the air, otherwise it will not be possible to realize its high capabilities, therefore we still have to ask the allies a question to make a request to transfer together with them to us flying radars that are toxic provide for the russians. they work with the a50. how do they manage their aviation in our country? we can only work with our aviation from ground radars. this very, very limits the information provision of our aircraft flights. this is a topic that you and i have repeatedly discussed and discussed. we see that we are finding more and more accomplices. fields to talk about increasing the effectiveness of our air defense aviation it is almost impossible to find any optimal solutions for precisely creating such a merocentric or even just of the information field, even with the proposal of how

valery will offer to receive long- range professional detection aircraft in one or another format. i want to note that you and i have even joined our allies in the island of the magazine, if any , recently in the form of an article about the ukrainian network- centric war in particular which is built on the simplest commercially available devices, well, and with well-known combat management systems of the tactical operational level, etc., so this is a question. it is not mature anymore, it is already in the minds of not only narrow specialists in such states, it is already a broad policy that concerns air components, which last year you and i said that thanks to american partners, we have at least limited, but still, access to data from their avacs, well, that is, early warning planes