[000:00:00;00] you have a chance to start life anew and with oksana sokolova and serhiy gudimov and unbreakable country i congratulate you invincible ukrainians today, for the first time in 11 months, we say these words not only on youtube, not only on social networks, but within the walls of our native studio from the first day of a full-scale war the facts of the week remained on the information front , we are extremely proud that we did not stop work for a day and today we are already fully

participating in the broadcast of the national marathon. to actually wait further so, the decisive period of the war has gone . we hear these words more and more often from the most influential people in the world. they call it two or three months. but no one doubts that decisive battles are ahead. actually , a new phase of the war has already begun to unfold , at least if you look at the current situation in the donetsk direction, british intelligence believes that russian propaganda greatly exaggerates the successes of the russians in the offensive there, but military commanders record the transfer of elite units of the russian marines to ugledar, and it is around this truly

strategic town that the fiercest new battles are unfolding. what path will putin take at this crucial time? makes a bet now oksana dvoretska was figuring out putin's new offensive on ukraine this means an escalation on the front that the russians have already started it with a dot on the map about which offensive they are warning in a few weeks western intelligence, the main blow will be delivered by the sumatra and kharkiv, and it is true that the kremlin dictator is planning to open a new front outside of ukraine, he is expecting aggressive russian tracks in relation to the baltic states, russian equipment has been blurred for almost a year, the exhibits of the capital museum and it seems that the kremlin is very annoyed, because talks about putin's revenge attempts are not they subside

and at a price, as we can see right now in the infernal battles in ugledar bakhmati, he will not stand, what is the bloody dictator's further plan, it is mutilated by the russians ugledar this week a particularly hot spot in donbas, artillery shelling does not abate , the city is of strategic importance for both the occupiers and the ukrainian defenders he realizes this, he needs to push us away from there, where the coal-fired mobs are attacking, and the russian elite units of the marines of the pacific fleet and this confirms

the seriousness of the enemy's intentions to capture the city and break through the front. if it is possible to break through the front front to break through the defense of ukraine in this area, they can count on going to the rear of those troops of the armed forces of ukraine who are operating on the donetsk front, in fact , the russians had similar plans to the donetsk front of the day about an offensive in the north of donetsk region, and the enemy has already taken up this scenario, but only in london they say their the russians are clearly exaggerating the successes here, trying to spread where and why their operation seems to be gaining momentum. this is what the city of petriv looks like now

. restraining the russians there, they break their other plans. well, in my opinion, the heroic defense of our troops in donbas broke the plans and schedules of the occupiers regarding the creation of some strike groups . one of these russians has been trying to assemble in the swat direction of the luhansk region for a long time, and they are forced to be distracted and constantly throw reinforcements to deter the counteroffensive of the armed forces of ukraine in the area of ​​the crime scene, it is critical to stop our offensive in this direction , firstly, and secondly, it is such a successful bridgehead for trying to advance in the direction of kupyansk, that's why we see such a group. in addition to these forces, the occupiers are forming a significant reserve that has not yet been deployed at the front . taking into account the mobilization that took place last year in october-november, they may number approximately 150,000 people, and the question, of course, is where these the forces will be used will be used, perhaps putin

will take revenge after the defeat of his army near kiev , the american-russian historian and political scientist yuriy felshtynskyi has no doubts about this, he is sure that the russian army will probably advance on the ukrainian one in the spring capital, and according to the scenario of february 24, we do not see any special ingenuity on the part of the russian federation. this is how in february and march they tried to create the direction of the main attack on kyiv from belarus, and now it will happen, we will see the transfer of russian troops to belarus and of course, an attack by belarus in direction of kiev ответственно а-а в такус странных белоруссии в дигрессиона киева скенарии сумнивается sergey grabskyi although he does not reject attempts at an offensive , but not a land offensive, in addition to a land offensive, there is also such a thing as an air attitude that

constant missile strikes are constant strikes possible aviation and we have already seen the enemy's attempts to attack us at the tactical level aviation who is with us maybe those exercises that are currently being conducted in the same belarus may be uh one of the stages of training the air strike group itself then our anti-aircraft forces of defense, work will simply be added, the direction they started talking about as a probable tofu for us, the russians can try a new invasion between sumy and kharkiv in order to move along the vorskla river to poltava and further to the dnipro before at the beginning of the military aggression, when we monitored the situation, it looked the most threatening to us. it was this direction, because the consequence of such an attack, if the enemy managed to break through to the dnipro , in fact, ukraine would be split into three parts, although in a year, in general , putin's

plan may now look like this the border of the donetsk region to the administrators outside the kursk region to create a threat in the direction of achieving negotiations to achieve the agreement of the leadership of ukraine to negotiations on russian terms i think that this is how they think separately, this is how they think kremlin doubts putin's desire for negotiations yury felshtynskyi because for him war is the only way to keep power and not for nothing russians are convinced that they are fighting with nato, but here putin is starting a war with ukraine despite the fact that putin plunged into the war in ukraine is, nevertheless, i expect aggressive steps by russia in relation to the baltic countries, this emphasizes that if the ukrainians cannot quickly and effectively defeat the russian federation in the coming months at the expense of weapons that

will quickly be delivered to ukraine, weapons that that's why photos and videos recently appeared on social networks of how high up around the kremlin and near the dictator's residence an air defense system is being installed, maybe the russians are being set up for the inevitable mobilization, and maybe putin is afraid that his aggression will not go unpunished in the end, some examples of russian equipment are still missing here yes the museum workers have prepared a place for them, so with the new offensive of the russians they are waiting for the replenishment of exhibits oksana dvoretska facts of the week ictv the only news how ukraine will respond to putin

with a powerful armada of western tanks this week olafsholtz surrendered and released the leopards, agreeing to send these unique german tanks to ukraine, for which we have to thank the white house, scholtz refused to do it without the americans, demanding that washington join the tank coalition with its abrams. and this week, after months of negotiations, pressure on berlin and of other countries' ultimatums - it happened first , joe biden's retribution ukraine will receive from the usa 31 abrams is talking about the latest, most intelligent version of this m1 a2 tank, writes an influential edition of the politician it is even more on the stove with super modern electronics than its predecessors, although it is true that when exactly these abrams will reach ukraine, the americans are not yet ready to say, but the key thing is not even that. after the decision of washington , the chancellor of germany no longer had any arguments against it for the armed forces of ukraine, this opens up

incredible prospects because the leopard -2 is in many european countries, that is, we have it by our side , and so, after the permission of berlin, the tank coalition that is ready to arm ukraine is growing like yeast, the more western tanks, the faster we will be able to liberate our lands from of the russian occupiers, because no matter how hard it spins these machines are two heads higher than enemy counterparts pavlo vasiliev compared the capabilities of leopard challengers and abrams with russian tanks and now you will understand why scholz's decision caused such hysteria in the kremlin future tank battles soviet and russian design school of anti-western concessions facts of the week simulated what will happen when they meet on the battlefield so far we have only seen them in pictures or on videos on

the internet, but in the near future ukraine will receive about a hundred leopards 31 abrams and 14 challengers that can radically change the course of the war, but at the expense of what and how they differ from russian tanks, let's start a tank battle with a mug of beer on the barrel of a gun and driving at almost maximum speed, it's called a beer test and it's not fun german designers prove the perfection of gun stabilization systems and , accordingly, the accuracy of eastern shots. and all western tanks can do this. western tanks are built according to the same concept, and this is their fundamental difference from the tank family of the soviet school, starting with the t-62 and ending with the t-90, so let's start comparing from the appearance, if you put

russian and western tanks next to each other, the russian one is significantly smaller and, accordingly, lighter . for example, the most modern russian t-90 weighs 46.5 tons, and it is the most common on the ukrainian front the t-72 tank is still 2 tons lighter 44.5 compared to western modern models, they are almost tiny, the latest modifications of the abrams and leopards weigh 67 tons , and the british challenger 64, such a difference , experts of the facts of the week say, arose because fundamental differences between western and soviet design schools, the t-72 was created as a mobilization tank, it should be as simple as possible so that the collective farm worker from the village who sat behind the tractor yesterday and put it in the t-72 literally learned to drive it in a day, and it should be simple to produce it at the same time , the dimensions of western tanks provide the crew with better

safety, all shells are in separate boxes, if they explode, the deadly wave is directed away from the crew, while in russian tanks, the crew actually sits on own projectiles and a well-hit shot tears off the tower at once. in terms of comfort, there is a significant difference here. if the western ones are equipped with climate control systems, then the russian ones are smaller due to their dimensions and weight . in the soviet union , short tankmen were always recruited precisely for these reasons, it is very inconvenient there, gassing of the tank, terrible devices, everything is very bad, one more parameter

, protection, russian and western tankmen are fighting on machines with combined metal-ceramic armor, only the exact composition of the armor is a military secret, no one really knows and what kind of armor is there, but in all parameters it is obviously, well, in any case, it is many times better because , well, let's say, there is experience, for example, operation desert storm and then there we were talking about penks back in the 90s, even before the 80s, in fact, and if i’m not mistaken, not a single western tank was destroyed in tank duels, so in principle, according to the indicators of protection and comfort for the crews , western equipment gets two russian points replaced tanks and the dimensions are one point, the engine is what it is. without that, even the best tank becomes a stationary target

, so let's deal with it. british challengers are driven by a diesel engine with a capacity of 1,200 horsepower . 840 horsepower in the engine compartment , more modern t-90s, also diesel ones, were able to get close to the challengers, a thousand horsepower is not bad if you remember that they are 18 tons lighter, almost parity or not yet, the instructor from operation of tanks mykola solomakha reminds that all tank engines in russia have a common ancestor diesel v2 which was installed on the soviet tank during the second world war t-34, now they end with the v92sf2 engine with a capacity of 1,130 horsepower and with a warranty engine resource of 350 engine hours. well, this is funny in compared with the same e-e diesel engines of german production

mtu, where the guaranteed e-e motor resource reaches one and a half thousand engine hours and the engine power is 1,500 horsepower, as for the abrams, then there is a 1,500-horsepower gas-turbine engine like on an airplane, the advantage is the ability to pour almost anything that burns into the tank, but the payment for this is also small, if we take the memories of tankers who fought on the abrams at a certain time of the desert storm operation, the fuel consumption is eight hours of work of abrams, that is, in total, that is, he drove, stood, fought, uh, returned to the base, then in 8 hours he needed about 1,100 liters. russian tanks are more economical, and therefore the load on the logistics of tank

units will be less, therefore for a larger motor resources and greater power, western tanks get two points, and russian ones get one point for saving diesel, the score becomes 4:2 in that effectively used abrams and leopards have the same 120 mm smoothbore gun, also in calibers, but they already use the british separately in their challenges, modern russian tank guns have a larger caliber of 125 mm mykola solomakha says that more does not mean better because projectiles are also important and the difference in caliber is equalized by much greater kinetic energy, so energy

western barrels are just about 30% higher than the energy of soviet barrels. the second factor is the possibility, firstly, especially at night, on all russian tanks, it is a monochrome screen, that is, black and white with a size of 600 by 800 pixels, and you need to have absolutely unique training in order to a thermal imager at a distance of 5 km to detect a target and fire aimed fire at it. the range of a western tank’s cannon shot up to 5 km is half that of the russian ones , so what will happen if graduates of the western and russian languages ​​meet on the battlefield of tank schools, we simulate the simplest situation: a leopard and a t-72 are going to meet each other, the first shot will be 100% uh, well, with the maximum probability, it will be behind the leopards , the second, taking into account the accuracy of the community , the maximum probability that the first shot will hit the t-72 tanks.

the results of our tank battle for the accuracy of guns and sights on western tanks receive two points, the russians lose this round dryly with a total score of 6:2 in favor of the challenges of the abrams and leopards pavlo vasiliev facts of the week of ictv, the only news is that in order to get leopards, the ukrainians launched a whole flash mob around the world. well, i selected what i liked the most. well, now , let's count with you how many tanks ukraine can get in the framework of this western alliance. well, from what we really need. remember commander-in-chief zaluzhny said that he needed 300 tanks to go to the borders on february 23, in addition to other equipment, but this week , in an interview with sky news, president zelenskyi

already named 300,500 vehicles. well, let's count first of all leopards germany plans to send a tank company to ukraine about 14 units the same number poland the same number finland four more leopards portugal four more canada 8 more norway 18 netherlands prime minister rita said that his government can buy tanks from germany that it currently leases to ukraine how many this is already 76 plus leopards from spain , the spanish newspaper elmunda writes about 53 tanks , now we will add another 14 heavy challengers, two of which great britain is transferring to ukraine as part of a large-scale aid package, this is already 143 vehicles well, if we add the t-72s that the czech republic, poland and morocco give us, then it turns out to be almost 300 tanks, well, not a bad bunch. and the swedes decide on this. macron hesitates and we did not count the american abrams. the usa promises a whole tank battalion of 31 tanks, but the key

question is when it is the main one. the problem now is delivery terms, and president zelensky said this this week, thanking the western partners for the tank coalition, let 's listen, it will only get stronger and you, as united, we all work to strengthen freedom, to protect ukraine and europe, this the historical achievements of the leaders who are working now, the key is now the speed and volume, the speed of training of our military , the speed of supplying tanks to ukraine , the volume of tank support, we have to form such a tank fist, such a fist of freedom, after the blows of which tyranny will no longer rise, so there is still a lot of diplomatic work ahead regarding the tank coalition what the western press alliance writes about it and how it assesses the chances of the most interesting publications collected by maksym sokolov

, the western media called the decision to supply ukraine with heavy tanks leopard and abrams, the news caused a particularly lively discussion in germany, the leader of which for a long time refused to provide kiev with modern armored personnel carriers. spiegel magazine notes that many germans were afraid of the decision of chancellor olaf scholz, thinking that the war could spread even on the territory of germany. others hope that increased military pressure on putin will prompt him to peace negotiations after the announcement of the supply of leopards , spiegel published its own survey according to which 54% of germans approve of such a decision, 37% - no, it is interesting that earlier public opinion in germany was not in favor of arming ukraine with tanks, in the end something was decided, the right decision was made, what looks like an escalation of the war can become a decisive step towards its

end only when putin is threatened with defeat he will reconsider his position tanks do not prevent negotiations for them the decisive factor is the signal to russian president putin the west wants ukraine to win this war ralf neuker spiegel january 26, 2023 french lemonade picks up the phrase of german colleagues and calls its own editorial article, a political signal addressed to russia, the newspaper notes that the increase in military aid to kyiv is only a consequence of the escalation carried out by putin, in the opinion of the publication, the agreement on the tank coalition demonstrated the ability of the allies to overcome differences and hesitation, in particular, joe biden testified that unity with the europeans is a strategic priority that is more important than military expediency after all, at first the pentagon did not advise the us president to send

abrams tanks to ukraine due to difficulties in operation and logistics, a similar opinion is expressed in the columns of the publication liberation, a political scientist from the university of trier, markus linden. joe biden's concession is more political than military. it is a huge success for olaf schultz. he managed to promote the idea that he will never be alone in this conflict and, above all, that he will not take on himself the role of a leader in europe imposed by the americans this was his goal at the same time the deputy editor-in-chief of the polish publication, for some reason, the polish michal shulzynski writes that germany's positive decision regarding leopards also strengthens poland, not only from the point of view of security, but also from a political point of view. poland is strengthening its position as a country that has not only become an infrastructural hub for assistance to ukraine, but also strives for this assistance to come from different parts of the world, so the government has created various coalitions for the transfer of weapons from other countries states , perhaps the americans had the greatest influence on germany's decisions, but pressure

from poland also contributed to this, a colleague from the new york times agrees with a polish journalist in an article entitled the war in ukraine accelerates the shift of power in europe to the east is recognized that poland was the main lobbyist for the creation of the western tank coalition, the american publication quotes the historian from oxford, timothy garton ash, who believes that since the beginning of the war , the influence of eastern europeans has increased significantly , and the voices of the countries of central and eastern europe are more listened to and taken more seriously in the councils of europe, and there is a great deal on the table. the program of expansion to the east. the western press noted that ukraine also wants its voice to be heard immediately after the words of thanks for the tanks provided, kyiv called on

the allies to hand over combat aircraft and long-range missiles maksym sokolov specially for ictv facts of the week putin is changing the tactics of massive strikes on ukrainian cities, he no longer scatters missiles , apparently some of these are in short supply, so now iranian drones are being launched first for the reconnaissance of ukrainian air defenses, this was shown by the last shelling this week however, there are also hunters for the shaheds this week last week, the first six such complexes arrived in ukraine, these are modern defense technologies that currently protect strategic objects of the usa , they were purchased thanks to fundraising organized by igor oleg of kharkiv vladchenkov and youth 24 ukraine is trying to strengthen itself with new technologies, russia is using cannon fodder to recruit convicts, promising them free will and power, and crime is really turning into a new russian elite

. the main private army of russia rose to the position of putin's right-hand assistant yevgeny prigozhina, listen to the circumstances, i was sent to the office, and my position was tentatively called tactical situation assistant, well, i was compiling a report eh, he carried the situation tactically on the map . and then he presented it to the boss . they have not yet committed there, people are afraid marat khabidulin broke the lunch on this

silence and agreed to tell the whole truth about the private army. of a loud scandal in the midst of the war, the servant of the people disappeared from the parliament to emerge in sunny thailand, when the wave of indignation subsided, tyshchenko began to justify himself, saying that he did not go to the resorts to relax, but on an official parliamentary mission to establish relations with asian countries, but this version was quickly refuted by the speaker of the verkhovna rada, stating that no one agreed to tyshchenko's business trip, that is, the deputy is actually on his own, on the one hand , mykola tyshchenko formally did not violate the law, because he left

ukraine before the presidential ok, what prohibits officials from traveling abroad without official permission, but here it is already a question of moral responsibility . mykola tyshchenko lied about a business trip to spend a few weeks in warm regions for a state official of the army of ukraine - this is unacceptable , and the punishment flew by instantly, the scandalous elected official was expelled from the party and faction of the servant of the people, although he is a people's deputy. he will stay to form a mandate. tyshchenko must write a statement himself , as other high-ranking officials did , about high-profile scandals and resignations. the week will tell alla chyzh lost their positions in time, violated the standards of behavior during the war, will you be punished and will there be new resignations in high offices, the inspection of law enforcement agencies, they wave of loud resignations covered several power structures at once, the office of the president, the ministry of defense