as well as ballistics is being attacked by some scandal m, which they already have a very serious deficit, that's actually why you need uh, these are these things. these things should also be taken into account. well, what they say there about its incredible range is another well , so to speak, the declared characteristics as iranian drones, kamikaze drones can fly there, as they say, up to two and a half thousand kilometers, it is clear that this is not a realistic such and such a figure of such a range well, but in the end there is a certain threat well, it is unlikely that they will use missiles in large numbers, as is done with the s300 in the south, in the east of the country, the s400 is compared to the new complexes, it is still intended to counter air threats from shooting down air targets, therefore it is not inherent in the use of these complexes on the ground if they can afford it with the three hundred that are in there is a surplus of them, yes, there is a large

surplus, and the s-400 is already here. well, it seems unlikely to me that they will be used in large numbers on the ground, so they hit the capital because you see that the capital is a priority target for the enemy. has always remained since the first days, since they began to take over the airfield, the fractions wanted to take the capital in rings, land landing forces there , and now they are hitting the capital from afar, these rocket attacks, attacks on critical infrastructure cannot do without attacks on this infrastructure around kyiv, and this is understandable and even inside kyiv itself, it is clear that they want to put pressure on the heart of the capital, and you see that they used the s400, including yuriy. well, i wanted to ask why ukraine does not use the s-300. well, it must be a domestic mother, and we have three here the military districts were near the border and the air defense system here is extensive and we

had to have enough shells. why don’t we use the s300 for ground attacks on the entire russians? well, do we have 400 times in order to rework them? look at the manufacturer of anti-flood means defense there are only russia there companies such as diamond and so on and so on and so on. actually they are a manufacturer of missiles and complexes eh we can afford it we can today russia, well, we had them a little bit, but how many months have we been fighting, so it’s already january, well , in fact, 11 months, so count how many bps of anti-aircraft missiles were used per day in the first days, how much was spent in intensive is spent in intensive shelling. sometimes for one aerial attack, all the target is flying two anti-aircraft missiles and i want to say that we are already frying this stock in

equipment and because there is a kit, it is good that we are being helped by countries that also have this equipment and these missiles in service because the western samples that we received today yes arrest there, sans, they can’t cover our needs, it’s clear that those are our needs, because the number of these means is very small, so actually, uh, shoot at the ground , uh, now, you understand, we can’t allow it with an anti-aircraft market, because we have to protect the airspace, what happens when russian aircraft fly in we have already seen it on our territory. therefore, this is not acceptable, we cannot afford it, the strength of the armed forces of ukraine, we are moving further towards the bakhmut direction pavlo dyachenko, communications inspector of the bakhmut district department pavel, congratulations to the police. good day. what

is the operational situation in your direction ? please tell us, well, the situation is unchanged. the daily shelling is dense, so they are hitting with. well, i, as always, with a variety of weapons , this mortar shelling. well, mostly artillery is destroyed, infrastructure is destroyed, civilian houses are destroyed. it is intense, the intensity does not increase, it does not decrease, and it remains so, what can be judged from this intensity about the supply of ammunition on the part of the enemy, the intensity does not decrease, that is, well, you know it as in one the channels, that is, they probably hit something there , before the dislocation, the enemies did it and then they continue to attack. and what can i emphasize,

no district of the city, no district of the city can be called relatively safe, that is, enemy shells fly in at any time, any time , well, you from you also work with the civilian population, yes, people stay in bakhmut itself, yes, our direct work is work with the local population, and people in bakhmut stay, well, you understand life in bakhmut, eh, mostly everyone lives in basements and someone in the private sector in the basements, many people have self-organized and live in the basements of apartment buildings , er, they are on the street, well, for a very short time, as an example, you can tell the situation literally a few there for a few seconds a couple of days ago, they evacuated a grandmother with her grandson, er, with her yes we looked for them for a long time and could not find them because, well, the bakhmuts have no connection, and as

it turned out, they had not gone outside for a long time, and because they had direct access directly to the yard, and therefore, well, they were very frightened and could not even reach the point of invincibility and fell. well, we spoke a few weeks ago with the head of the military administration of avdiivka, and he said that on the eve of the new year, about 500 people returned to avdiivka despite the shelling, despite the fact that this front-line town is already there there is nothing, no electricity, gas, or water for a long time. but there is uh, well, humanitarian aid that is constantly brought and, in principle, you can live peacefully, feed yourself, get all, well, not all the benefits of civilization, but well, you need all of them there for yourself, there, there, water and food, and there there is some kind of heating there and not to spend any money, that is why it encourages people to return to avdiyivka in bahmut and you are also in a similar situation

, are there people who have returned there for the winter ? there is such a thing that we did not record a mass return. well, maybe some isolated cases are present, but we are like the evacuation crew of the white angel, we did not notice that. where does the water get to them from? well, here it must be said that the military administration works very powerfully, the volunteer movement works very powerfully, literally yesterday volunteers turned to us and handed us humanitarian food kits, but today we will have the opportunity to deliver, we will pay attention to the elderly - and they are also heated with stoves, firewood is given to people, fuel briquettes are given to people, well, that is, there is an elementary

survival kit, that is, there are also hygiene products, but well, you yourself understand, well, what is this life in the basement when we were taking out a family with three children well, even the conditions in the basement were unacceptable for life, there was dust, dirt, and dust from the old house itself, well, that is, people even have black hands, fingers under the nails, even a little fungus, and only later when they saw that they were already the territory of kyiv region by evacuation, it is not mandatory now, it is not possible to evacuate all these people, the administration of evacuation is of a mandatory nature.

when people don't even understand, well, it's their lack of awareness of a very powerful local population. they, er, have information booklets. they have constant contact with people . information leaflets about a significant number of shelters on the territory of the state where people can be accepted by families even with pets , this is not discussed at all, well , animals do not need to be abandoned, that is, there are people who are informed. if you say so, well, well they are literally leaving too. a couple of days ago, we were driving around the city. we saw an elderly man, about 80 years old. he was standing in such a state of

despair . the sector is wiped out , well, there is still no target house there, he somehow managed to get out of the basement quickly, we quickly packed things, grabbed them, brought him to the point, contacted the volunteers, handed them over, and thank god, grandfather is more or less there relative safety thank you pavlo dyachenko inspector of communications of the bakhmut district police department we are in direct contact with the studio thank you for your participation and serhiy zgurets director of the information consulting company defense express as always serhii good morning mr. serhii greetings mr. serhii well let's talk about the military help will start with this and why am i here in the press, our colleagues report that the cost of new american military aid to ukraine may reach 2.6 billion us dollars, they are already completing the development of a full-scale package

for this amount, and among them, it will include almost 100 stryker combat vehicles, well, this is such an armored personnel carrier, it reminds me, well, of its appearance, and at least 50 armored vehicles, and at the same time, we are talking about the tanks that ukraine asked for, so far, the officials have said that the numbers can change after the jubelin administration finishes discussing the package, how do you rate it, these uh, armored personnel carriers and bradley fighting vehicles? and why are there no tanks , please? well, we are really talking about a fairly large package of american aid there, amounting to almost three billion dollars, about it should be loud already by the end of the week, i think just in the format of a meeting in the city of defense, uh, rammstein is such a basic platform for understanding the scale of aid in ukraine, and uh, this package, well, for the first time, includes combat vehicles , infantry, brands that we need. actually, they are also provided for the implementation of offensive

defense tasks, it will be the most technological machine that has ever been used by the personnel of the ukrainian army, and what's more, it surpasses any samples of weapons that the russians have in this segment, it is capable of fighting russian tanks, so i think that this brands will be the first step, and then the scale of supply of these types of weapons can always be increased to the fact that in the reserves of the american army there are about three thousand of these machines that can be transferred, and when we talk about other directions about the apc striker , it is actually quite a good modern used e-e pron transporter which has also passed the tests of many conflicts it is e-e absolutely adequate for our needs it is more powerful as if the armored personnel carrier - the 80th in terms of firepower, the main thing is in terms of passability for armored protection so this well, a very good direction for strengthening

our mechanized e-e brigades. but in this package there are no really long-range attack systems . but at the same time there is a mention of these long-range and small-diameter guided bombs that can be launched from himars and malarise launchers. this was written by a politician and we have already repeatedly mentioned that this is a type of weapon developed by the swedish company saab together with american partners, which has a range of 150 km and is actually a gps-guided weapon that can destroy enemy targets twice more range than the himers missiles that we have today, but this supply, if it is really included in this package, i think it will be implemented sometime within this year, because they promised that these first samples have already passed the tests, but they have not yet started serial production, they predicted

that these are the first medium samples should appear in the spring of this year, perhaps at this time isaab and the pentagon were actively working to really transfer not enough of the all-level sample, so this will be an addition to our capabilities regarding tanks, so we see the situation it is still intriguing enough because scholz insists that the lady when the delivery of abra abrams will take place - this is evidenced by certain publications that appeared in the foreign press if this discussion that the leopard where is with the abras continues but i think that towards rammstein after all, there will somehow be pressure on germany so that the germans, in particular, are already in shock to stop the supply and ensure the supply, but in the party it is more precise to unblock the supply of leopards from other countries that are ready to do it in the interests of ukraine well, he said the president of poland duda of england about the fact that there

should be a whole unit of such leopards because there are up to 100 pieces and then it will be some shock fist how much what total number can we get these leopards p sergiu well when we talk about leo i already know the data what i mean, 11 countries in europe have these leopards, the total number in europe is 2,000 leopards, and the supply is there, if every one of them has tires, remove part of the leopards, so for this match, there are more than 100 cars without any risks for the combat capability of those armies that are handed over to us by the leopards, the manufacturer of the leopards himself, kraus mafia, wegaming, er, she says that and the rhythms of the fact that they are actually ready to put another batch of batches for their reserves. but it will be sometime during the year, so for now for us, it is more important

to supply leopards, the reserves of e-e countries and a lot of machines, this is quite realistic. now we are still waiting for the delivery of these 92 t-72 tanks, which have already been repaired and modernized, which is financed by the united states. in fact, 14 new challengers will be brought here, so in fact a short period of time, if the supply of leopards is unlocked, then i think that we can have up to 200 vehicles, which will include t-72 leopards and detection challengers, but it is possible and i said in an interview not so long ago that according to the icons, we need 300 tanks 600- 700bmp and 500 ha of monkeys to defeat russia well, jump out. these are completely free data, but they related only to conducting an operation in the south, these are the needs for one operation, so that later he explained the various ones, that is, if we are talking

about an offensive breakthrough in the south, then this is exactly it is just this theater of operations of tanks in the artillery that we will still need more and here. it is important that all the ways of supplying tanks from america and from germany from other countries are really unblocked. your assessment of the current situation, please, well, when we talk about the east, the situation around soletar and bahmut remains difficult, the enemy is trying to bypass now, turned such a soledar into a military hub is trying to expand the advance into our territory from the soledar to the north and south. there are also attempts, this direction is not so difficult. although it is blocked by the ukrainian army because of the

bachmut, the enemy's actions in the pincer zone should attract the most attention, because actually this is precisely the south the flank of bahmutu, where the enemy is trying to use this tick to get to this route between kostyantynivka , time yar and bahmutu, this is, in principle , enough of such an important trend that must be stopped, because it is just a significant threat for bakhmut, if the enemy succeeds in bringing this route under its control, conditionally speaking, but this is a theoretical assumption, i hope that all this is understood and such actions will not take place, and from the address of the general staff, it is stated that the enemy's attempts to attack in the zone of freedom of the orikhiv field are actually is already saying that the zaporizhia front has begun to revive and the saturation of this front with russian troops is now already turning into a naked attempt by the

enemy to probe our defenses. and this zaporizhia front is actually so tangential to flank to the donetsk front is a sign that the enemy may have attacked all the forces will try to act from the zaporizhia front in the front of the group that is now standing in the donetsk zone, that is, in this way, in this way, to put pressure on our defenses from the south and try somehow reduce the area controlled by our troops, improve the security of your logistical routes to the south of our country, where it lives through russian territories and the op- temporarily occupied crimea. and how do you assess the quality of the defense of this southern direction, we were talking about this russian offensive that was repulsed in the tokmak forests in gulyaipole how do you assess the quality of the fortification and defense capabilities of ukraine in the south, it

is not far from zaporizhzhia at all, 40 km, just 40 km, yes, the directions at the zzhya barrier, well, it is clear that actually it was one of the first, including in the list of those offensives against the enemy when they dominated, this offensive on february 24 and the actual advance on zaporizhzhia and the dnipro was in these plans of the operative, but of course we know that there was not enough strength and and and opportunities during this time, actually all these risks er, they were er taken into account, our line of defense there is sufficiently powerful and now, as i understand, it will primarily be supported at the expense of the strategy that is currently being implemented, this is the destruction, first of all, of logistical routes and er, the concentration of enemy forces and command posts, this strategy it has already been implemented for a long enough time within the limits of three extreme months, if not even more, i

think that this is one of the components of our defense, which is added to the power of far-partyization structures, but we understand that our approaches are connected with the fact that -is carrying out an offensive in the direction of the sea of ​​azov, in the direction of berdyansk, or melitopol, these are the challenges and the prospect that was not removed from the agenda, this means that we have a certain amount of forces that can implement these measures, but now, as we understand, the enemy is trying to prejudge our actions in this way or, er, to shake our strong defense, what we will see is that this is only the first sprout of activation on this part of the front, and we will follow it closely. thank you, serhiy , well, we have there are still a few minutes, so i wanted to ask about the belarusians and about the fact that russians are being transported to belarus in

tankers, nasha niva writes about this with reference to its sources. probably , in this way, russia tries to hide the transfer from satellite and visual surveillance and transports its soldiers to railway tanks. what do you know about this? how do you assess the threat from the side? i also see this message. it means that even if they are brought there in tanks or refrigerators or by any other option everything is fine, then space satellites allow us to determine the number of forces at certain training grounds. this is only an intermediate stage, if it is correct, it does not complicate the understanding of our intelligence, what is happening in this country, given the fact that now actually the vaktioni are working in this zone and e- etc. reconnaissance planes, i think that it will not be possible to hide the concentration of enemy forces, there are now 11,000 russian troops and about

15,000 belarusian troops, which, according to the general staff, is not enough to carry out offensive operations, but we have take into account the illogical actions of the russian side, because sometimes illogical actions are the same. well, it is typical for the actions of the enemy, so our side must take into account all these risks. what should general pavlyuk say, who said that everything is ready for the defense of kyiv, the general said that all options for an offensive with belarus thank you p. serhiy will be allowed the director of the information consulting company defect express in connection with our studio well, today is the epiphany on january 19 and there will be a second historical service in the kyiv-pechersk lavra, the head of the orthodox of the church of ukraine, metropolitan epiphany will conduct it. we will remind you that the metropolitan conducted the christmas liturgy in the dormition cathedral of the kiev-pechersk lavra on january 7. this was the first historical service of the ukrainian orthodox church of the orthodox church of ukraine in the

lavra. we will show live on our television company our channel and now, before the start of this service , we will hear and see dmytro didor, our correspondent in kyiv, who is under the walls of the pechersk lavra, christ dmytro is baptized in the jordan river to anya and today, like on january 7, the orthodox church of ukraine will for the second time hold a service in the a-a walls of the kiev-pechersk lavra . at the entrance to the lavra, the faithful are checked. carefully, by the way , the faithful are checked for their bags with which they

came and asked not to bring food, water, dangerous objects or even umbrellas that can cause harm, because they are afraid of provocations from the of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, and today's feast of epiphany completes the cycle of christmas holidays, and thus we can state that this is the second time that the orthodox church of ukraine has held a divine service, and i want to remind you that on december 31, 2022, the indefinite lease of a-a cathedrals of the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate ended of the upper lavra and now they are located and er issues such orders for the holding of divine services a-and the ministry of culture has issued to the

orthodox church of ukraine for the second time and today it will be metropolitan epiphanius is serving here and a lot of people are still coming to the cathedral to hear the divine service to hear what metropolitan epiphanius will say today. now we can see. here , i ask the operator to show that today they are sanctifying water, and they brought such a huge tank of water so that the faithful could collect a - and there was a very long queue the day before, and we can see that now , minute by minute, the service will begin at nine o'clock in the metropolitan city, let's ask the people a little why did they come here today here we see people walking. greetings. good morning. we are live. please tell us why you came to the lavra today. people are rushing to the service. good morning. we are live. tell us why you came to the lavra

today . do you know that today the orthodox church of ukraine is serving here for the second time in many years, and you came today because our church is serving because it is our church? say something, i'll tell you i'm writing with her, thank god, let's try to ask people, perhaps. there is someone nearby, but we can see believers standing now even on the street. good morning, we are on the air. please tell us why exactly we came to the lavra today for worship. we tried to ask . believers, however, you can already see that people are waiting for the service to begin. and we will also follow what will happen today. lavria, you must be informed of everything. there are no mountains, dmytro. well, look

, we had another water baptism in recent years. this is not quite a christian tradition of freezing, well, freezing, it is called bathing in water in ice water, let me remind you that christ is in ice water in the jordan river, there is no ice and the temperature does not drop below 15°. well, the epiphany is not a walrus, yes. did you see ukrainian walruses today, or does this tradition continue now? here is the 11th month of full-scale war with russia, please, did you see walruses in yura? citizens that during the military martial law there is no need to gather for mass events and also the psu does not recommend ee-e to celebrate the epiphany

because it is not an orthodox tradition and does not cleanse sins as approved by the psu, so today we also did not see a positive temperature in kyiv and that is why we by the way, metropolitan epiphanius is entering the cathedral now, i want to show you. i'm sorry, i'm digressing from your question. and now, minute by minute, the divine liturgy will begin with water and the feast of epiphany . there is no ice in kyiv because the temperature has been above zero for several days in the capital , for example, yesterday it was plus 10°. that's why i think that people will listen to both the government and the orthodox church of ukraine and will not bathe today. thank you, dmytro didora , our correspondent for the speed wall of the kiev-pechersk lavra, where the solemn

divine liturgy will begin in a minute on the occasion of the epiphany of the baptism of our lord jesus christ, bring and the heads of the orthodox church of ukraine and the holy archimandrites of the assumption of the holy kiev-pechersk lavra metropolitan of kyiv of all ukraine is having an epiphany. we just saw him on the video. he is already entering the e temple of the e hmm temple of kyiv in the assumption church of the kyiv-pechersk lavra and literally in 30 seconds the service will start, but our plan is now at 9:00 as always, we are at this moment and at this time honoring the memory of those who died during this terrible war 9:00 well, then we will start the broadcast from the kyiv-pechersk lavra, be with us, to our colleagues in the public sector, we will also observe a moment of silence for now