[000:00:00;00] and general oleksiy almazov, join the gathering, let's get closer to victory together. glory to ukraine. it's almost 2 p.m. in ukraine. news time on the espresso tv channel in the studio . iryna koval welcomes all viewers and talks about the most important events right now in ukraine. the day of the raids . the security service visited the officials of the ministry of defense . went to the former director of the department of state procurement bohdan khmelnytskyi and deputy minister of defense vyacheslav shapovalov, both involved in

the food procurement scandal for the military, in addition, according to the investigation, ex-official khmelnytskyi bought almost 3,000 low-quality bulletproof vests for the ukrainian army for more than 100 million hryvnias, the sbu handed over a suspect and the house of ihor kolomoiskyi was searched, the security service and the economic security bureau are conducting investigations; the case concerns fraud around ukrtatnafta and ukrnafta we are talking about the embezzlement of oil products worth uah 40 billion and the evasion of customs payments arsen avakov was also visited by law enforcement officers regarding the plane crash in brovary during which the leadership of the ministry of internal affairs was killed, the ex-minister himself told the journalists of the babel publication that during the searches, the dbr employees looked at six-year-old contracts with the french company airbus helicopter, which supplied the department, in particular

, with helicopters. avakov added that the contracts were approved by the government and the parliament. searches are conducted not only in avakov, but also other managers of that time who participated in the purchase of rotorcraft, the media note new details of criminal activity, the security service revealed the facts of the cooperation of the ex-president motor siche with the terrorists of the so-called dpr, we are talking about vyacheslav boguslaev, who was previously detained by law enforcement officers. he is suspected of working for the aggressor. also, the sbu found out that boguslaev financed a terrorist organization, in particular , paid taxes there, in addition, he cooperated with a ukrainian enterprise that was under the control of the quasi dnr since 2014. supplied aircraft products to the aggressor country through the obrudation, the budget of the pseudo-formation was replenished by more than 290 million

russian rubles, the received funds are the heads of the occupation administration of donetsk directed to the needs of the russian troops, and during new searches , the security forces discovered more than two dozen medals, diplomas and honorary awards to president sich from representatives of the military and political leadership of the russian federation. seemingly unprofitable for the state transactions in favor of the company associated with the oligarch dmitry firtash in the amount of one and a half billion hryvnias, the commander of the combined forces

serhiy nayev visited the wounded defenders in the northern operational zone , the lieutenant general talked with the hospital staff and wounded fighters, and also presented departmental awards. in the east of ukraine , vitaliy shumey, who was defending kyiv region, chernihiv region, and then the east of the country , was wounded and took care of his subordinates, and the same applies to those brothers who received wounded, he concluded that the hospital is expanding its medical base, receives modern medical equipment, medical preparations and medicines , is provided with food at a decent level , after talking with military personnel, they confirmed this, government officials, deputies, judges and prosecutors will not enter the route into the system

when traveling abroad, from now on they will be able to cross the state border only for the purpose of an official business trip , at the same time, the government also provided for a number of exceptions to the rules, in particular, this would apply to treatment outside the state, the death of a family member abroad and others, all officials have the right to leave only for the purpose of a business trip, all the rest of the changes that took place after that ambassadors, this is unchanged, excluding any kind of accompaniment of minors and children for the purpose of going abroad or visiting these children abroad with the availability of supporting documents within the walls of the lviv polytechnic university , industrial production of hydrogel bandages for the military was launched, they are intended for the treatment

of burns and wounds in the chemical laboratory of scientists our correspondents also visited, we have a bandage with fixation, that is, there is no need to use additional materials for fixation, such as bandages on this side, and we fix it. that is, she will hold herself by herself , a student of the registry office. alyona demonstrates the invention of the lviv polytechnic university, a medical bandage for healing wounds and burns, now they are made up to one and a half thousand per day, they are ordinary sterile or a combination of a medicinal preparation, the bandage consists of half of water and has a cooling effect, this is what we have a standard bandage of the usual size 10x10 mostly. we make these bandages in larger quantities. at the moment, we have three sizes

: 10x8 and 6x8 . scientists created the first prototypes of medical bandages of synthetic material in 2012. later , the developers improved the recipe and switched to natural raw material that does not cause allergic reactions and irritations, it is created on sodium alginate, sodium alginate is a bioactive polymer, it is extracted from brown algae, and it has wound-healing and energetic properties with purchase raw materials and equipment are helped by state and volunteer organizations , we were funded by the so-called dbn . the ministry of education of ukraine constantly finances our such developments, understanding that we need help . the lviv regional military administrations supported us. there are several

chaplain organizations that support us quite strongly. scientists give free of charge to hospitals and for the military on the front lines, the front lines are used for peaks , and it also turned out that it is very profitable on the front lines in the treatment of the so-called trench disease feet, in some cases, to accelerate the healing of the wound by two times. the process of producing the professor's hydrogel cloth was automated. special installations mix the raw materials and pour them onto the conveyor in 10

minutes. after drying, the material is transferred to the chemical laboratory, where professional scientists work on it together with students. valeriya is a volunteer every day, mostly. -th group of students is responsible for the process of creating bags, which are then directly packed . bandage since we have and we had a desire and a certain small baggage of knowledge eh we gladly decided to be useful from march 2022 the chemical laboratory of the lviv polytechnic transferred about 80,000 bandages to the front, the developers plan to automate the drying and packaging processes to make even more aseptic means for our defenders kateryna oliynyk yury melnyk will lobby for the interests of ukraine especially for espresso ex-prime minister of great britain boris

johnson flew to the united states there he plans to meet with republicans and urge them to continue helping our country, reuters reports. johnson has already had a conversation with the speaker of the house of representatives , kevin mccarthy, in his office, and in the evening plans to speak at a private republican club. stop military and other aid to ukraine i want to convey to washington that there is no reason to delay aid, we must make sure that our ukrainian friends got everything they need to expel the russians from the entire territory of ukraine as soon as possible, so that it happens already this year, 2023. this is the best for ukraine , the west and russia. for now, this was all the news

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, so there is a lot about it and we will talk about it in the coming hours for a few hours , together with khrestina borkovsky, we welcome everyone . well, we will definitely announce that one of the topics of our broadcast today in the afternoon will be searches and suspicions of countless in fact, how for one day the number of officials and ex-officials in our country, eh, we will definitely give you summary information, we will talk about it with our online guests, but first of all, traditionally, the situation at the fronts, that's what we will concentrate on. yes, the situation at the fronts, the situation inside the country, we understand that the searches of kolomoisky, the searches of avakov, the searches of the leadership of the tax office in kyiv mean something well, of course , khrystyna is right, the key story is what is happening in the east of our country, where

fierce battles continue. well, first of all the information is fresh in the northern direction in belarus, the belarusian gain reports that belarus could receive one division of the iskander operational-tactical missile complex, the division includes four launchers for eight ballistic missiles e-e the ministry of defense of belarus has informed that the belarusian military has already begun full independent operation of the iskanders military personnel trained in russia and carried out practical training at the training grounds of the armed forces of belarus , the calculations are staffed exclusively by officers ensigns and military personnel serving under a contract well, in the meantime, the cabinet of ministers has already dismissed the leadership of the customs service of ukraine, here's the news, that is, by name, you are the head of the customs service vyacheslav demchenko , the first deputy head oleksandr shchutskyi and the deputy head ruslan cherkaskyi . this is reported by censor.net from a reference to

forbes, according to forbes, the cabinet of ministers dismissed the head of customs and two deputy heads , here are the news . announced that the entire head of the customs department will be dismissed. well, we will wait for clarification, and now we are in touch with yevhenii ropai, lieutenant of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, donetsk bakhmut direction , yevgenia, we congratulate e-e glory to ukraine glory to the heroes good day tv viewers good day studio well and the key questions from and on the outskirts of eh, we understand that the enemy is concentrating on the ways of eh, ways of life both for our group and for the civilian population , whether the enemy has successes or no small successes, after all, in this direction of the enemy

there is, namely, some shooting that we do not recommend along the konstantinovka-mahmut route, that is, now it is not advisable for civilians or military personnel to travel along this route because it is possible that it can shoot through the enemy itself, and some positions of our defense force were lost in this direction. this is a little to the north of makhmut and the enemy is still trying to storm the positions of the armed forces of ukraine and the defense forces on this stretch, that is , he is trying to take, you know, such an operational encirclement in the direction of bakhmut and precisely to take bakhmut himself into an operational encirclement on in our sector, where the svoboda battalion is stationed, and without any changes, we have, er, the last two or three days in this place, the monkeys have been exasperated, they are constantly climbing, er, they are trying to storm, their

artillery is constantly working, and there are constantly some infantry assaults, and the last two days have been very difficult for us - very hot and we had seriously wounded guys er-er there are several guys who died well, the neighbors have a difficult situation , well, that is, we are standing, we are holding our position, no , we are leaving, well, that is, the situation is very difficult, very difficult, yevgeny, we would like to ask you if they are on the sidelines now they join the wagnerites regular units of their troops, how does it happen in our country? 8 5% of wagner has already been knocked out where the svoboda battalion stands. very, very many of them were destroyed by us and by our neighbors who are standing next to us and who can hold this direction. instead of these monkeys,

cheapskates have already been put in place. this is the last action. two weeks and the cheapskates are fighting little by little, they do not give such a colossal, i would say phenomenal number of their forces, that is , they do not simply send out manpower to both of them, you know, these suicide bombers who walk across the field , just storm in order to discover firepower with this, they work more effectively, that is, they lend their forces, they pour in as much firepower as possible, they pour in the most important means there , they try to work more, artillery tries to work with mortars , practice a-a our positions there, sgs boots and only then send their manpower a-a immediately it can be seen that these are more prepared soldiers who may have been given two or three months for training there, in which there are personnel soldiers, i.e.

personnel soldiers - these are officers of the armed forces of the russian federation who train these new arrivals, that is, it cannot be said that they are purely personnel soldiers, there are many mobilized soldiers who also do not fully understand what they are doing here, but on walkie -talkies it is precisely from interceptions that we hear that it is communicating by name of professional military personnel. that's why such wagnerians did not communicate like that, mr. evgeniy, it is clear that the enemy had certain successes in the area of ​​soledar, the defense forces of ukraine retreated somewhat or kept their personnel , took m.m. more advantageous positions and definitely as i understand it, the enemy's soledar is not sweet now, but it is equally important to understand whether they are trying to advance further, in particular in the direction of blagodatny and vasyukivka, that is, whether they have

the potential to move in this direction and form such an appearance in this direction, as far as i know, there are also wagner and also, they are trying very, very hard to press down there, they are trying to press down, and in some cases they still succeed in favoring us there, uh , the situation is very difficult now, what is happening in the direction of bakhmut, and everywhere in the south and in the north, that is, precisely on the flanks bahmuta eh, a difficult situation persists and in the mountains the enemy is trying to push through, but he already knows a little, that is, there is no such potential as there was a month two months ago , there is not such a manpower, there is not such a number of bc that was there two months ago before the new year, that is, before the new year year, they could jam for days, now they still jam, but they jam a little less, and this

is related to the fact that our artillery works well , that is, the strength of the defense is constantly burning enemy pcs, enemy ammunition that is brought up they do not give, without giving the opportunity for the sorks to accumulate a certain amount of this ammunition and practice the defense force in the exact positions, but at the same time they still do not shoot constantly, that is, now if you hear practice coming from the 80th or 120th mortar, remember how active it is the enemy uses heavy armored vehicles , those same tanks . and in our case, it’s just like

a taxi. recently, a lot of enemy equipment has been destroyed, therefore, in our opinion, everything is to use these boxes purely in order to bring up their own manpower and save up, or there the bull, they mainly try not to use themselves, clearly, they attack, they use pure manpower, the tank can leave to work, but it leaves and left works at a distance of 5-6 km, that is, without even approaching there. i don't say there already for a km, because there are 500 to 600 m to the position, that is , they do not go to the assault, the assault goes only to the living force, and this is due to the fact that really on it direction, a lot of the enemy's equipment was destroyed and they understand that they have to give away the final equipment that they have left , well, it's extremely unreasonable, how about the use of space in the air, their aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, there are some dynamics in this

direction a- and they are constantly flying, er, we are constantly watching them, they have my positions , er, their pilots, well, they are still a little clueless, that is , they are not like our pilots, well, they are more prepared. well, we can say that from the very beginning of the war, they used this the soviet e-e fought somehow according to the old principle, i.e. there were no changes with us, the guys who on the aircraft began to use resets earlier and ran to control and ask whether it has fossil fuel. that is, all this happened much more efficiently than the defense forces, but the enemy now i’m learning, i’ve repeated it and i repeat it, the enemy is now actively dropping it, using these skins that we started using there, so many grenades, gods, and it happens often, money lately, it’s

not as often as it used to be, that is, almost not they fly, they understand that the manpads in the air will work, and maybe there is just some crazy stinger out there , and their wallon migers or rotorcraft are just shot down, so they don’t try not to take risks. is the force so massive at the tactical level? are they preparing? in your opinion, it is also possible to work out the operational level, yes, in particular, we are talking about the accumulation of russian reserves . there is no accumulation. if it happens, then it is quite rare in is basically destroyed, i.e. if we find more pyatytins in some certain area, i will also say that it is for the battalion freedom for the way we worked, if we see more pyatytins there in one trench

or on one kilometer at one specific point, we we just practice there as much as possible with sks artillery and try to use drops from maya, which are vogi grenades and the like. that is, we try to prevent the enemy from concentrating their forces, we try not to let the enemy infantry to our infantrymen, that is, to practice a little at a distance so that the infantry was calmer, but the last few days we had a strong fog here and the enemy simply dug in through this fog and he works more tactically , or do you mean tactically, they no longer give such a colossal number of casualties already by the pronunciation of satan to this putin shoigu and all the others, they work with the correct interval from a distance, tactical, that is , fire support works first, it is the 120th, the 80th, the bmp can

go there and shoot, then the spgr pg works ags and only after that, the infantry immediately enters in small groups with the correct and correct fire means, that is, if there is a machine gun and an rpg, and sometimes it is quite difficult with them. that is, it is not wagner with the wagners, it was much easier. to be honest, thank you evgenia. thank you for your service and for being on the air . a-a hello brothers and sisters, great condolences for all the victims, we understand your losses yevgeny oropai, lieutenant of the freedom battalion of the national guard of ukraine, donetsk region, bakhmut region. well, we inform you about the most important events, two former top officials of the ministry of defense were suspected of embezzlement of state funds, in particular, it is about providing units of the armed forces of ukraine with low-quality body armor, ukrainian pravda reports this with references to sources in law enforcement agencies, therefore, according to the version

of ukrainian pravda, the prosecutor general's office reported the suspicion to the ex-deputy director of the state procurement department of the ministry of defense, bohdan khmelnytskyi, ex- to deputy minister of defense vyacheslav khapovalov and former deputy of the state enterprise promotion defense export volodymyr rutereshchenko, official information from the law enforcement officers has not been received yet, the information from ukrainian pravda is emphasized and they have made inquiries accordingly, they are waiting for answers, contact us, maksym verbovskyi, deputy mayor of the city of vugledar, this is also the donetsk region , a long-suffering city where heavy battles are currently being waged, maksym congratulations glory to ukraine , the occupiers continue to try to sharpen ugledar, block the road and seize the mine , south donbas reports about this institute for the study of war, the situation i in the area

of the settlement was very sharp, but we understand that the enemy did not achieve success, at least what they set for themselves . please tell us about the situation of the coal miners and the surrounding area . the situation has been stable until january 21. the enemy tried to break through the defenses and surround the city from the southeast, and this is precisely from selamikilsk . they occupied dachne selishche a little and wanted to attack from the southeast and tried to break through the defenses of the village of pavlivky , this is the western part, and for almost the ninth day the city has been under intense fire of all types of weapons, that is, artillery shelling, helicopters, hailstorms and solar peaks, the city is currently

destroyed, 100% of residential buildings are damaged, almost the entire infrastructure is destroyed , there are no public utilities in the city since mid-march that is, there was no communication. there was no heat, water, light, or communication. the situation in the city is complicated, but i say it is controlled by the armed forces of ukraine, who are trying to enter the operational space and come closer to kurakhov, and this is also connected with this. their promotion, mr. maxim, i would like to ask you about the level of intensity of the fighting and the level of the intensity of the shelling of the ughledar shelling 24

hours a day shelling 24 hours a day, 9 a.m. with the city there is no way to go there, it is impossible to help the people with anything , there are currently about 500 people left there because the enemy is trying to advance, the guys are holding the defense now, i’m saying that the situation is stable, your p maxim 500 people leaving this ugledari how many people lived there until the moment of the large-scale invasion, until the start of the war there were 15,000 , we know that there are still a certain number of ugledari children, er, white angels - this is a unit of the national police trying to somehow enter the city and they try to evacuate these people, but always there remains