greetings, dear tv viewers, it is time to learn about important events and let's start with the situation in kherson region. miraculously, no one was hurt. the russians shelled kherson with incendiary shells , targeting the tavri district of the city, the head of the regional military administration, yaroslav yanushevich, also said that there was no destruction of civilian infrastructure . 12 mortar attacks were recorded in the border region, the operational command of the north reports that there were no casualties among personnel and equipment there was no information about casualties among civilians or the destruction of infrastructure, and again several loud explosions rang out in occupied melitopol, this was announced by the mayor of melitopol

, ivan fedorov, the explosions were heard not far from the captured hydromash plant at the same enterprise, loud sounds rang out all night there, the invaders placed another military base there told fedorov where it darkened for several hours and one above the plant was visible even in the morning in the houses neighboring the plant, windows were broken donetsk salutes according to the information of journalist andrii tsaplienko in the temporarily occupied city, explosions and detonation on the territory of the metallurgical plant . on christmas, the russians again shelled a critical infrastructure object, this is one of the thermal power plants of the dtek company. fortunately, no one was injured, and as a result of the shelling, the equipment of the tpp was damaged immediately after the attack . was subjected to terrorist attacks. and in general,

the russians are attacking the energy infrastructure of dtek for the 25th time. for the sake of security , only those employees are at the enterprises without whom it will not work in in the sky in the dnipropetrovsk region, the ukrainian defenders shot down a russian drone , the intelligence officer reported the head of the region valentin reznichenko, an enemy drone destroyed the military from the eastern air command, none of the history has absolute control over the kinburg spit and the islands near kherson, combat work continues on this information , the spokeswoman for the southern defense forces nataliya humenyuk informs her adds that the situation in the region remains difficult and the weather does not favor the completion of this operation on the kinberg spit, which is part of the enemy is still present in the mykolaiv region and continues to attack the opposite bank. in general,

there are no critical changes on the southern front. the ukrainian military is working against the occupiers. in particular, there are no missile carriers on the left bank of the dnieper in the black and azov seas, but there are two enemy ships each in the mediterranean sea. nine are informing the naval forces of the armed forces of ukraine five are counting calibers with a total salvo of 72 missiles the italian government is finalizing the sixth package of defense aid to ukraine the minister informed about this of foreign affairs in italy, antonio et al. he added that rome, in cooperation with paris, is trying to improve this aid package by adding air defense systems to it. according to the opinion, there are currently no real manifestations of openness on the part of the russian side to establish peace. earlier in the media it was reported that the us is calling on italy to hand over to ukraine as soon as possible santi anti-aircraft system of italian

, french production, grim has already promised to provide these mirrors to ukraine, but the italian government has not yet approved the decision of russia to arm armenia with such slogans, the armenian protests continue of the national democrats near the russian military base in the city of gyuri, the picketers are outraged by the fact that the russian federation betrayed armenia and the actions in the region are in the interests of azerbaijan and turkey . we are talking about blocking the lachyn corridor. well, the so-called nagorno-karabakh corridor has been under siege by azerbaijani eco-activists since december 12, according to some armenian politicians this is happening with the support of the russian army. at the moment, the armenian police were able to push the protesters away from the central gate of the russian base, among them there are detainees, in addition to the fact that those on victory square installed knocked out by russian t-72 military tanks

the trophy our fighters won during the slobojan counteroffensive in september last year, in general, during the liberation of kharkiv region, the ukrainian army captured and destroyed hundreds of units of russian equipment , the place immediately became a popular photo area among the citizens and guests of kremenchuk, according to the military, such exhibitions raise the combat spirit and prove once again that we are invincible, look at the back , there goes the engine compartment, it is completely damaged , it has a broken highway, the first, the second , in the initial, that is, it practically goes a direct hit to him is bearable but this is the work of arty plus as you can see the barrel is covered with fragments, that is, this indicates that a large-caliber gun was working. yes, it just started burning if it was run away. well, it is elementary

. what is happening ? our correspondent ulyana hryschuk is currently there in the program of the christmas nativity event and congratulations. she is telling me my congratulations. what have you already seen and heard at the festival, my colleague ? viewers of the espresso tv channel, despite the gloomy and cold weather in lviv today, the townspeople decided to continue the christmas holidays and please not only themselves, but also the guests of the city, here behind me you can see about a hundred people who went to watch the christmas procession of christmas stars, i want to say that they are not only these stars are from lviv and from the entire lviv region, and i ask you to listen to the participants of the event in more detail. today, the procession of stars is a little smaller because of the war. it is usually like this. well, i have been participating for five years and for five years, there were so many stars this year. i'm a little smaller. of course , they were afraid of anxiety, but we have to maintain

our traditions, especially in july . not the material and cultural heritage of ukraine. today we saw a star , military . and the colors are so saturated that because we are sure that this is victory and that we will rebuild the country, and the sphere is like the dome of the church, it is also united and we are also all forward together to victory at the top , such a symbol stork stork there it says gas behind

our native land because many of our of ukrainians were forced to leave ukraine, in addition, today's holiday event is also accompanied by holiday carols and also an excerpt of one of them, please listen to one unusual carol today, specially for the espresso kolya carols thank you, let's say to the orcs, the palyanitsa carols for you, it will carry us, it will save the village, today we also talked with the people and we hear the sentiments that despite the war, it is still necessary to organize these festive events in order not to forget the tradition, because it is really what unites us all of ukraine. thank you for the information. thank you for the pleasant holiday news

. this was our correspondent ulyana hryshchuk with details of the new joy has been festival, which is currently taking place in lviv. read important things on our website espresso tv also subscribe to our channels in social networks like and meet mykola later on the air september cinema television sport music education free people have a choice choose what you want on megogo join the community with a ukrainian view of the world become a sponsor of the youtube channel espresso

and this is access to exclusive content , personal thanks, pinned comments, special icons there, the possibility of personal communication with the espresso team, click sponsor and become part of the community with from the ukrainian point of view, i am iryna koval, mother , wife, host of the espresso tv channel. i am also a volunteer. our soldiers at the front need a lot of things every day, and that is why this is part of my life. today - this is help to the armed forces of ukraine, and i am very grateful to my colleagues for supporting me in this. the war caught me at home . in irpen, an alarming suitcase was packed, but this did not reduce the excitement, explosions every minute, the gostomel airfield is on fire , russian fighter jets, i have a cold basement in my window, then i leave under shelling from irpen

, a month of abandonment by relatives, and in the end, i i ended up in lviv, returned to the airwaves and started volunteering together with my colleagues. helping our military is now an integral part of life. we collect drones and thermal imagers, we weave nets, and on weekends we gather vitamin teas for our defenders at the front. we all cut fruit together , pick berries, whip everything and we pack it is always very gratifying to think that in a few days this tea will warm the ukrainian soldiers . each of you can help, even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer to the good hello, ladies and gentlemen. my name is mykola veresen. i understand that we will be with you until 5 p.m. at least i will be with you. and

i don't know if you will be with me because i can't see, so we will understand political science today and try to get into diplomacy well, we will definitely start with the war, experts and volunteers at the same time, that is, people who went to the army at the call, this is taras berezovets , a political technologist, an officer of the first separate brigade of special forces named after ivan bohun and pavlo bohuna, a military expert, also a volunteer and they are not there yet, they tell me that i have a secret secret eavesdropper, eavesdropper device, hooray, so i mean, pavlo was born, they say and taras is not there, mr. pavla. good health, if you see us, then we will see you too. good health again merry christmas, christ was born, let's celebrate him well, in short, there is a lot here, i am afraid that by the end of the

war we will greet each other for at least 1.5-2 minutes, because glory to ukraine is impossible not to mention, well, thank you, you already found time for us, mr. pavly see what yours is looking at the situation around us, we are all looking at soledar, where he is giving us salt. and they say that he wants to steal this salt, prigozhyn, so that we can have solidara, what was prigozhyn's gift , prigozhyn, solidar? sides say, well, the controversial ukrainians say that we sometimes oppress the russians, they say that they are capturing something there, what do you really think the situation is in those places. good day. well, i communicate with military personnel almost every day this is usually artillery that works directly in this direction, and what can be

said about the situation there, for example, it is difficult, well , that is, there are constant waves of attacks from that side , but we cannot say about any strategic loss, it is some kind of strategic difficulty and pressure from that side. about such a position today is wrong, you have the right to slander, i don't have the right to slander , so you can easily use any words, bad words, you have the right, well, the situation is really difficult there, that is, from that side, there are constant waves of attacks, constantly from our side side we hold them back, that is, but that’s all that’s happening there, it’s a positional war there, there is no strategic advantage for one of the two sides, that is, it can’t be said that the russians were able to throw this with their huge number of their fighters at their wagnerites,

and so on. i and some such strategic advantage in this direction, our artillery is working and this is the main thing, what is happening there, well, that is, this war, what is this war, the war of drones, artillery, and why is there such a non-standard situation in bakhmat, in the solitaires, the experienced major, well, that is, on all of this direction because there is shooting contact, well, that is, the infantry is coming, their infantry is reaching our cops and entering into a shooting battle, and this is very bad, well, because it is very difficult for our infantry, well, that is, the infantry there is constantly in shooting contact because of that, a huge number uh, losses from that side because they are constantly attacking and also a large number of losses from our side because ours is defending because they reach such a distance that they can throw , say, grenades into our trenches the situation, but taras berezovets appeared. thank you , political technologist, officer of the first separate brigade of special forces named after ivan bohun. good

health, mr. taras. i am glad to see you. and this replacement ? do you confirm this information or can it affect the course of events on the battlefield because well, maybe they are better at fighting these special forces or vice versa there is no big difference i can not this information i can’t confirm it, because in those areas under batam, where, for example , the green special forces of our brigade are located, we did not record in europe in the russian special forces everything that is located there, e. does not change approximately one-one to 4, that is, there is one part in english4 parts of the russian

mobilized can only confirm that the intensity of e-e battles recently has practically not changed, the enemy feels e-e projectile hunger - it is also true that reported this information by recording the corresponding video and on average let's say this today we are parity on most areas of the front, including on bahmut, before the enemy had the opportunity to fire during the summer and early autumn from 50 to 60,000 shots of barrel artillery per day, now they are limited to approximately 19 -20 thousand per day, but these are all areas of the front, this is not a specific bakhmut , but specifically under bakhmut, they really feel a decent hunger, and the same can be said of the shots from the grand mlrs, their number has decreased, not significantly, but it has decreased, but at the same time, we are recording more use

today of m-m e-e p trk, first of all, bassoons, first of all spg-ges, that is, the number of shelling today is increasing due to e-e, the so -called small artillery, which is actively used by both mercenaries and russian mobilized, one more question of mr. taras well , they say that the frosts have come for a very long time, they were all talking about this back in december, that the frosts will give some advantage to the ukrainian tanks and the ukrainian capabilities in general. do you think that , first of all, is it really cold there or is the ground really frozen or is it really possible to use tanks and does it really give any advantages to the ukrainian army , please, mr. taras well, the point is to have the opportunity to use heavy defense equipment in this way, the frosts should last at least 10-12 days during this period, let's say, if the temperature is kept at a mark of at least minus 10 so far

there is no such thing, that is, to date the land has not died enough so that heavy harrow equipment could actively maneuver today in these positions, it should not be forgotten that there are a large number of settlements around bakhmut also a large number of plantations of the so-called zelenka well, it’s not zelenka there anymore. it’s just forest plantations that make it difficult for any armored vehicles to move. in addition , the rivers there are swamped with a very serious, therefore, in principle, this is an area, it is not very suitable for the use of armored vehicles applies to us as well as the enemy. the enemy has an unquestionable advantage in armored vehicles, and under bakhmut, in particular, they have an absolute advantage in terms of the number of armored vehicles from the beginning, although they were destroyed by armed forces . the forces of ukraine are huge from this iron but nevertheless, specifically under bakhmut, they do not feel any defects in them. as a rule, tanks work in

pairs. russian tanks go to the position. if we are talking about a t-90 tank, a breakthrough can strike at a distance of 6 km. this distance is unattainable for those tanks that are stationed in the armory of the ukrainian army. that is, we do not have the opportunity to hit them with means of e-e, neither atgms, nor if they work at the maximum distance, nor with tanks. that is why they calmly leave in pairs, as a rule, they work with landings, one tank is shot down, moves away, enters another place, other russian tanks are constantly changing, that is, their displacement is difficult to calculate. they can strike in a similar way to the equipment , which can be said that under the bahmut , the number of flights of the enemy’s aircraft decreased. and the ukrainian aviation, on the contrary, is very active, that is, in this component of the aviation

we even have a specific advantage under bakhmut, mr. pavla, i have a question for you. look , the fact is that i am not at the scene of the event , i definitely do not see it, but the fact that rumors are reaching here in lviv, where i am, say that in the area of ​​bakhmut, ukrainians tell everyone strips or lines of defense, then the question arises what is there to fight with the forehead against the wall, what are the russians doing there what are they counting on, because in my opinion, the experience of all ten and a half months of war shows , firstly, that the ukrainians know how to fight, and secondly, what if there is an opportunity to defend and have seven stripes who, well, this really reminds me of my head against the wall, why is it so persistent there? they are trying to advance, please, sir , from a strategic or tactical point of view, bakhmut is interesting because it is relatively close to

severodnotsk, to lysychansk, after all, two logistical points are very serious, and there our artillery can to cover them and besides, the outskirts of donetsk are interesting. well, closer to donetsk. actually, closer to avdiyivka. there are also hostilities there. why are they attacking? well, my version is that they simply want, how to say, to destroy the maximum number of our the resources of our people, our equipment, and so on , that is, they are throwing the most, well, a number of valuable ones , you can say their infantry, these are the wagnerites , why are there bulls, what are they ready to recycle, i don't know, they will throw the maximum number into this meat grinder and at the same time exterminate the maximum the number of our subs. that is, you will have our army in this direction, well, i don’t have another version. why are they really attacking already, well, they already call the bakhmut fortress, that’s why. well, what else could there be, well, the version about the prigozhin mines seems to me not very realistic. why so? well, the number of people they

put there is already in the tens of thousands, and i don’t think that those mines are worth such a huge amount to pay for taras’ couple. and your point of view is why it’s so hot under the bachmouth and the russians are trying to get a hold of it. soledar bakhmut, as far as we understand, it is there that they go on and on, we have the most tension. since we understand that there is competition at the level of the private military company wagner of the russian army, this is a personal war , he needs a concrete result , he needs to show that wagner's mercenaries are better and more effective than the regular russian army, and that's why he fights and puts so many mercenaries there from wagner and

the russian mobs, because the capture of bakhmut can become his personal victory, the victory and defeat, respectively, of the russian military generals specifically a-a what his specific gerasimo, and this in principle explains why the story of the soledar well, in principle, similarly, the soldier is just as important because their capture makes it possible for the enemy to cut the road and go directly to slavyansk well, bakhmut is traditionally called the gate of donbas, which works in both directions, the urban conglomerate starting with the word druzhkivka kostyantynivka kramatorsk is extremely important if the enemy manages to capture bakhmut , move the track in time to the ravine, a direct road to kostyantynivka opens up well, you know, in fact, there are open places in the area there is a steppe in some places only let's say so with forest plantations, but just like that, if russian armored vehicles break out, it will be very difficult to contain them because they, ah, then enter the operational space, and the bakhmut

is just like a river in it. they represent a natural obstacle very- it's very difficult. look, there are regular battles for this city starting from april, and since april, the russian army has already killed . to whom the russian troops are regular, including special forces, and it is important to keep them because russia lost a huge amount of defense equipment and personnel for us there. but the success of the ukrainian troops in that area is possible. well, if uh, from april or some say july there are really big clashes there, there are really 12-20 thousand dead. well , it means that it is bloodletting and then no

, even if they don't want to give birth, there must be some counteroffensive actions, it is possible, we can say what exactly well, let's say in january in february yes, such a development is likely, sir. well, i don't think it's likely that in order to have access, they have to gather a huge number of groups, well, that is, if i say concretely, i'm sorry, then there must be a group of 50-70,000 soldiers with heavy equipment. that is, here everything depends on the weather, what we discussed, that is, the weather should stand there for 10-12 days on frost -10 and so on, because at the moment we understand -5, but it's still porridge, that is, the equipment travels on the ground on clay and so on and besides, let's not forget what's behind the bahmut is located in lysichansk-yeverodonetsk and the ukrainian army has introduced the next criminal well , the criminal is interesting precisely because it can cut off the

supply of lysichansk-severodonetsk well, therefore, this is a theoretical group which currently does not exist, which must be gathered in order to advance for a breakthrough in the bakham direction, it will be very difficult very logistics will be difficult due to the fact that the ukrainian army is already in the essence of crime, well, control, god has new control over crime, so i do not think that in january and february, any of us here from from all the information available to russia, there is all the information that russia is preparing to defend itself and not to attack, and to defend itself not only in the donbas direction, but also in the zaporizhzhya direction, that is , melitopol and in the direction of kherson, well, that is, on mr. taras's first line, and the ukrainian army can be like that imagine any counter-offensive or offensive actions exactly where there are in donbas well, i will say so broadly so as not to specify in order to carry out offensive

actions we are buying that signature of assembled equipment that today we do not have in the first next time we are talking about tanks, we are talking about a heavy harrow, traffic control equipment, because the next one is not possible in a hurry. from zaluzha, we can see that this request was heard and that today the western governments have already announced their intention to transfer a certain number of wheeled tanks to ukraine, as france did, a light wheeled tank is fast and the mx10 rc is marders epards, 2 tanks, e-e koshu, other models of armored vehicles and they will enter the armed forces of ukraine no earlier than in a month or two, this is in principle, accordingly, your question, the moment when we will be ready, by the way, coincides in time with the forecast of the new ukrainian military intelligence general e. kirill budanov who

spoke about march, i would also say that around march, at the beginning, we will have an available amount of armor in order to carry out large-scale offensive actions, and not on one, but maybe even on two options for the front regarding the situation under bagnoz, i would say that the critical point of this battle has not been passed, it is obvious that it is actually a point ahead in the mountains, they will still try to capture the city of bakhmute, the city of soledar, and i think we will pass this peak point by this january after that, once again, when we receive the required number of e-e armored vehicles, we will be ready to conduct full-scale successful offensive operations and similar ones that were carried out in kharkiv oblast and kherson oblast. thank you, taras berezovets, political technologist, officer of the first separate