[000:00:00;00] the new tactics of the kremlin terrorists this week, russia again hit our civilian infrastructure. it was the most massive shelling this year, 81 missiles, but its main difference from the previous ones is that, not for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the russians used everything they have at their disposal, firing them over ukraine at the same time as many as eight different types of missiles . unfortunately, our anti-aircraft defense cannot shoot down three of them yet. we are talking about modified s-300s that fly along a ballistic trajectory. russia launched 13 of them . soviet kh-22 supersonic cruise missiles. six hypersonic x-47 daggers during one attack, this is also the first time in the last year that the russians used to protect them with a shield against daggers , it could be the american patriot complex , the financial times

reported this week that kyiv has already received the first installation, which, to be honest, has not yet been put on duty, however the air force of ukraine denied this information, while the patriots are on the way, the russians are in a hurry to cause us as much trouble as possible, not sparing such scarce and expensive daggers, besides , this is at least an opportunity for the kremlin to feed the russians are saying with victorious propaganda look at our missiles, which have no analogues, penetrated the ukrainian air defense and defeated the electric resistance in the odesa region or the boiler house in the kyiv region, because moscow cannot boast of military victories on the battlefield, but it really wants to, and it fills the approaches to bahmut with the corpses of its soldiers, and in such quantities that not only western analysts, but also, for example, the secretary general of nato, this week began to predict that the armed forces of ukraine will soon leave the fortress city, which has become a true symbol

of the resilience and courage of ukrainian soldiers. the military leadership of ukraine decided to keep the defense and what is behind this decision, can the russians surround the city, pavlo vasiliev analyzed the scenario of hell on earth, what is happening in bakhmut, why is this fortress so important for ukraine , it is the hot spot of the planet earth and what is the plan for the russians, the city of bakhmut this week appeared on the front pages of the whole world in six months , the russian occupiers practically wiped it off the face of the earth in bakhmut. unfortunately, the morning begins with joy. in recent weeks , the intensity of fighting in bakhmut has intensified

the wagnerites are pressuring them, reinforcing them with specialist russian units, the level of tension has increased so much that nato secretary general jen stoltenberg has assumed the departure of ukrainian defenders from bachmut, this is the hottest spot on the planet. why is it so important and what actually depends on bakhmutka this week the defenders of the fortress blew up the bridge over the bakhmutka river now the front line passes there, although it is not wide, but a water obstacle in front of the russian forces going on the offensive, it divides bakhmut into two halves, the western and the eastern . the blowing up of the bridge can be evidence that our forces decided to gain a foothold on the western bank

, actually leaving the eastern part of the city and precisely the western the bank of bakhmutka began our new lines of defense yevhen, a wild ex-serviceman, is constantly in touch with his comrades who defend bakhmut and at the cost of superior forces and heavy losses they try to hold the defense, as one of my aidarov jokes friends. the only short thing is missing. he also says that they didn’t go to hand-to-hand combat with bayonets. well, in fact, that is, they are very close. contact combat is almost hand-to-hand. in principle, it is extremely difficult. no technical advantage will save you here, that is, you will not call art here when it is already in the middle of the day. ours with here is one of such battles in bakhmut, the enemy is literally around the corner, but still the clashes cost the occupiers dearly in the city battles they lose more than they can afford bakhmut himself is still holding on, but the situation around him is getting

worse and worse, they have started breakthrough tactics ticks and actually speaking, because of the weather conditions, because of their significant advantage, they managed it much better well, we see that we already have a horseshoe there, in fact, 5 km, according to data from open sources, north of bakhmut under russian control, podgorodne berkhivka and yagidne . yansk to the south of the city, russian forces are trying to advance from kleschivka opitnogo and ivangrad under the threat of the times of the ravine and the only more or less suitable in the conditions of the spring roadlessness is the city, the route to kostyantynivka from south to north it is being shot at even by infantry weapons, i.e. there are currently no safe access routes to bakhmut, everyone is already being shot at, but they are being used , the route leading to slavyansk has been completely cut off by the enemy, but the route to kostiantynivka is still

being driven, but in some places you have to drive literally 200-300 m from the advanced enemy positions, at the same time bakhmut in itself , although important, is only one of the many elements of our defense in this area, but the fortified area is not only bakhmut and this in particular, the entire territory to the west, in particular, the ravine. where are our positions, that is, this is our old training ground , our artillery units are located there, the range of damage there is 15 km, well, i am talking about the general and thus they also do not manage to pass this area, accordingly, the fate of bakhmut is decided mostly not in the city itself, but around it, the loss of the route to kostyantynivka , experts suggest, may force the zsu to leave the city, one of the key positions near the klyshchevka highway and the heights next to it. a few

days ago, messages appeared. what's up again? hot, the status of those positions that are behind it, well, it is not entirely clear, if the enemy goes to or goes up to these heights, then we lose a serious line of defense there. but can bakhmut be surrounded and why, despite the insane losses, the russians continue the assault. the city itself does not have a large military significance for the russians, but it is the key to entering the administrative borders of the donetsk region if the russians manage to capture it or force the ukrainian defense forces to withdraw, the next step of the occupiers is easy to predict, this is an offensive to the north, slavyansk-kramatorsk, kostiantynivka, that is why the defense of the city is so important, it can be said that bakhmut is currently held in order for the next three large cities to remain

close to the front and not become the front line. for us, this is a significant factor. bakhmut came twice, the commander of the ground forces, alexander the syrian, the real hero now is the defenders who hold the eastern front on their shoulders, and without sparing either themselves or the enemies, they inflict maximum losses on them, it is necessary to win time for the accumulation of reserves and the beginning of the spring counteroffensive, which is not far off, actually the time now plays in favor of the occupying armed forces is one of the decisive factors, not only both for bakhmut, but also for the future development of the war , they actually have about a month, that is, until the middle of spring, when we are already at we will feel it at the front. we will already really feel the western aid, all the equipment that continues to go to us today, and we have parallel equipping of our units, and

therefore ukrainian reserves are a headache for the question of the occupiers, the economist writes, the russian general staff had the goal of dragging as many forces of the armed forces as possible into the bahamian chaos, but it seems that our command managed to unravel this plan and decided to maintain a balance between the forces needed in the city and the completion of new brigades. zaluzhny expects to create three new army corps with a total number of about 60,000 people, so far only russian reserves are burning in the infernal fire of bahmut , the current number one task for the armed forces is to weaken the enemy as much as possible, to knock out his most capable units and after that strike back. but how exactly can events develop, we are now talking more about the south , of course our best positions are there, but it is clear that it will be a surprise for the russians in any case in order to proceed to the offensive we must first shoot down this is the offensive

potential, the sooner we defeat this wave of russians, the sooner we can actually move to a counteroffensive, all these factors explain why there is such a fierce fight, the bloodiest in this war. a big door for an offensive either for us or for them pavlo vasiliev facts of the week ictv the only news the bakhmut fortress is protected not by mythical giants but by real people of blood and flesh however, every day they do unreal deeds as one of the youngest heroes of ukraine dmytro kotsyubailo with the call sign da vinci who died this week he was only 27 years old, and he spent nine of them in the war, without exaggeration, becoming a legend of the ukrainian resistance, and it was not for nothing

that the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and generals and ministers in the person of da vinci, president zelenskyi paid tribute to the whole generation of young ukrainians who were robbed of everything by the war, as well as father and son oleg and mykyta hamakik, who fought in the terrodefense of the armed forces of ukraine and died together for bakhmut, this week was full of very heavy losses, which together with they became new symbols of ukrainian indomitability as a review here is this man who was shot by the invaders for our slogan glory to ukraine, now we already know his name is oleksandr matievsky, he was a sniper of the teroborona battalion from nizhyn video of the execution the russians themselves poured into the network , hoping to scare us, but the courage and dignity with which this soldier looked into the eyes of death impressed millions of people. glory to the heroes. ukraine will take revenge for each of its sons and daughters, because

preparations for this continue for a major counteroffensive on the training grounds of great britain . our soldiers are mastering the latest weapons. olena zorina visited the secret training grounds, and the training ground is written in english, so we perfectly understand the british military teach the ukrainian thread to the british challengers combined defense under the code dorchester and when ukraine will receive western fighter jets. facts of the week, prime minister ricci sunaka was asked about it by our exclusive from great britain, wrecking machines

, fragments of fences, remnants of barricades from roadblocks , melitopol, this is the city, according to the legend of the exercises , the ukrainian military is freed by shooting , a smoke screen and advancing, this is what here in great britain, every new recruit goes through it, because in the cities it is considered one of the most difficult, and therefore training in the most realistic circumstances, a building in which there are ambushes with the enemy, but now we can just see how there is a cleaning process in the role of bad guys british instructors they monitor the correct execution of actions the buildings here are not as tall as in the occupied territories of ukraine and nevertheless after training the trainers are convinced that the fighters will be ready for anything we try to give as much knowledge and skills as possible we teach the fighters how to react if the enemy opens fire on them how to clear a building how to approach it safely andriy

is an active military serviceman a guy in his 20s has already gained combat experience but training always discovers a lot of new details and skills, the main problem is that you don't know anyone, that you have a wall behind us , the front line is very wide and you will have to return the cities, you will have to clear the buildings, the streets in this rhythm, he, like all other ukrainian fighters, trains every day for 12 hours, and the gunners are already being trained for them at this training ground. here are the saushki as 90, these self-propelled artillery installations are one of the army, soon the ukrainians will receive three dozen of them, oleksandr, the future commander of this the sau in the middle says, unlike the soviet ones, as if everything is computerized in the space vehicle , it is a pleasure to control a smart machine. even if it is written in english, we perfectly understand the three buttons and that's enough, and the rest

is done by a british computer, so they can be replaced in the field battle-worn soviet acacias, and thanks to the computer control of the warhead, the self-propelled gun gunner valentin says the gunner shoots quite accurately, the automatics already take these errors into account, that is, they already give us the coordinates with an error, we just drive them, we don’t calculate, we sit there manually and not yes there to where everything is important - it is extremely important in the war, every second is important, the gun of these howitzers has a caliber of 155 and its range is more than 20 km, it is very fast, three shots in 10

seconds and this is an exact copy of this self-propelled gun, a huge simulator even simulates shaking during movement and shooting, and it is on it that ukrainian fighters learn to hit with aim. here, the hydraulic system is used, and when the fighters load the projectiles, they move forward, and it usually happens during shot, then the projectile goes along this conveyor and returns to the gun again in this way, i will maintain the rate of fire and you can practice even extremely difficult tasks, this is oil, let's look here, little window, i have 1.5 liters of oil here, i say, that is, all this must be seen in the past, the tractor driver and now a mechanic-driver of a tank in ukraine hryhoriy drove a t-80 and now he is learning to drive the legendary challenger here in the driver’s city, how is it going, well, where am i? he says he has to drive lying down, which is a little unusual, but

soviet british tanks are fine to compare, there are kettles, a microwave oven, it’s not like a soviet car of a foreign car in dina, it’s very easy, it’s a weapon that will significantly improve our chances of victory, this tank was developed specifically to fight the enemy’s armored vehicles, it went through combat operations in kosovo and iraq, it is extremely maneuverable, and at the same time that 60 t is quite heavy, what distinguishes this tank is heavy armor, and the tower and hull have combined protection under the code name dorchester, the components of which are strictly classified , similar to american abrams and german leopards, what makes these machines extremely reliable, the 120mm rifled gun adds to its reliability, its shells can

penetrate three-layer armor at a distance of more than 6 km , how are future chargers for challengers being prepared? and safely load different types of projectiles and further complicate this exercise on the training ground these tanks look different training models without a gun and a turret specifically for training mechanics, drivers , because as many as four trainees can drive off-road training at the same time. the tracks are viscous clay, not

ukrainian chernozem, but sergeant mclachlan assures us that the tanks will cope with the mud even before, so i don't think it will be a particular problem, we drove them many times in other countries, the russians behaved well enough. london downing street 10 is the residence of the prime minister, over which, in addition to the british flag, the ukrainian flag also flies, and this is a sign that the country will not stop supporting ukraine, which is confirmed by rishi sunak himself, who decided to meet with us after the training ground most of the conversation is off-the-record, but still facts of the week could n't help but ask whether ukraine will receive western fighter jets. prime minister sunak answers in a purely british diplomatic way

. we are doing to support the defense of the airspace in ukraine from time to time, we need to adjust our support based on the conditions that ukraine is facing on the battlefield, and i consider the priority to be air defense , armored vehicles and artillery , the minister of the armed forces of great britain speaks more directly. i am afraid of the decision on the types of aircraft none to pass it is not just that you are asking about fighter jets but now you will have a long-range weapon that is what is needed for a large-scale offensive and that is why this is what we are focusing on now the launch of the attack the counteroffensive is what is focused on and on the training grounds during the training of ukrainian fighters here, as well as on the front line , enemy drones work, artillery, every time a new scenario, everything is like in a real war, we see how the nato military works, their

battle tactics, i see that it is different from ukrainian and we will have the opportunity to analyze and choose the best tactics for ourselves, they are also trying to change , taking into account the experience of those who returned from the front so that the fighters could give an even more powerful rebuff to the enemy when they stand on the battlefield in their great britain is definitely not going to stop helping ukraine. on the contrary, this year it has a more ambitious plan to train twice as many ukrainian soldiers from the united kingdom at its military bases. olena zorin. ictv facts of the week , the only news. to conduct such special operations that 0:07 nervously smokes on the sidelines about bond, i'm joking, although it sounds good to me

, but the rest is not funny at all, because the special operation in question is an undermining gas pipelines nord stream in september last year this week, the new york times published an article saying that some pro-ukrainian group was involved in this attack , the journalists do not provide any facts, referring only to intelligence received from anonymous american officials, however , there is no evidence that this group acted on the instructions of official kyiv the new york times picked up and the german editions dside and derspiegel, according to their data, this group consisted of five men and one woman, the german investigation even found the ship on which they went to the sea is the 15-meter yacht andromeda, you know how it was installed on the yacht, the investigators found traces of explosives because the saboteurs who carried out such a super complex and mega-challenging special operation

somehow forgot to clean up after themselves , all that was missing was yarosh's business card somewhere in the cabin , you will laugh, but they found it when traces of explosives were found they began to dig who chartered this yacht and found out about a polish company whose owners are ukrainians, this is a conspiracy so as not to look for a long time where the legs grow from, german journalists also share our doubts and suggest that it could be operation under a foreign flag, that is, the basis for ours does not believe in the involvement of ukraine official berlin but why did this leak about the pro-ukrainian group happen now? germany is one of the key european allies of ukraine, the blue dream of the kremlin to cause a split in this alliance. who also writes a lot in the european press, the most interesting of

the week was collected by maksym sokolov ukraine is building up forces for an attack this week the western press drew attention to the fact that the arms flow to of our country is gradually turning into a stream, publications predict that the counteroffensive of the ukrainian army can begin as early as april. of polish industry confirmed seoul's official agreement to supply we received this agreement for ukraine and we received it last year before signing the contract to sell to ukraine jacyk matuszczak, a representative of the polish state-owned group of companies, the polish arms group, the economist, told reporters, citing statistics from the us congress

and the us state department. according to these data, of all the military aid promised to the pentagon at the beginning of the war , 40% more than $8 billion came in the past three months, another important donor, germany, only in in january delivered 2 thirds of the total volume of weapons sent to ukraine for the whole of last year, at the same time the economist notes that the lack of ammunition can become a serious problem because the western allies are slowly ramping up production and an even bigger problem during the ukrainian offensive may be the lack of air superiority , and while western politicians hesitate to provide ukraine with fighter jets of its own production , american military specialists are considering how to install medium-range air-to-air missiles em-120 on ukrainian bellows , politico writes that in case of success

, the ukrainian aviation will receive additional firepower and means of air defense, but the pentagon has not yet commented on whether they will be able to combine missile and aircraft electronics, our attention will continue to be focused on providing ukraine with real combat capabilities for defense, but for security reasons, we will not tell what measures we are able to take and what not, the spokesperson of the us department of defense, lt. col. grune garn, also quotes the politician from the ministry of defense of canada they do not officially comment on the possibility of supplying ukraine with 300 sky ranger r70 drones worth 150 million dollars about a letter with such a request sent to ottawa by the ukrainian side as early as last year, a canadian newspaper writes

national post, we will determine various options for military support to help ukraine fight and win, quotes the publication of the press secretary of the minister of defense of canada, daniel minden, meanwhile, an anonymous source in the canadian ministry of defense confirmed to journalists the readiness to provide kyiv with these high-tech copters that have a thermal imager capable of intercepting radio signals and detecting signs of chemical weapons were not left aside this week, france and britain at a meeting in paris, president macron and prime minister sunak agreed on a joint the training of the ukrainian military and the supply of new weapons to ukraine maksym sokolov specially for ictv facts of the week freedom not to be stopped and not to be washed away with a water cannon these emotional shots are reminiscent of the euromaidan in kyiv but this is tbilisi this week tens of thousands

of georgians came out to protest for a very similar reason the authorities officially promised the country a move to of europe, but in fact the parliament launched a law on foreign agents, a completely pro-russian version of the suppression of freedom of speech, such a law canceled georgia's chance for candidacy for eu membership, and this is what moved people to in the streets in a few days, they managed to fulfill several demands, the parliament withdrew the scandalous draft law, the police released all the detained demonstrators, but the georgians who had silently tolerated the pro-russian government for a long time already wanted more early elections. and in the crowd they even started chanting sukhumi, hinting at the return of abkhazia, the propagandist simonyana choked on her saliva from hysterics and began to threaten to fire missiles near tbilisi if russia has to open a second

georgian front, what is unfolding in tbilisi serhii kostash found the participants of the georgian euromaidan events this time, this time young people took to the streets, they went out before, but compared to previous years , there were more than 70% of young people here, why was it not possible to impose the russian scenario on the georgians, did they want to please putin, can georgia become the second front for putin, the georgian government is under intense pressure from moscow and how all this could affect the war in ukraine molotov cocktails and overturned cars water cannons and tear gas this week downtown tbilisi resembled

ukrainian maidan, when a peaceful rally near the parliament building grew into a powerful action of the day, the action began at three o'clock in the afternoon and began with a women's march on march 8, then students joined them, everyone went to the parliament building , rustaveli avenue was blocked, there is a feeling that today's action will be more massive than yesterday local journalist khatiya khasaya broadcast live from the scene of the events that evening, so she saw with her own eyes the storming of the parliament, the fights and how the police tried to suppress the mass protests of the people with the use of force разница что compared to the protests of the past, the main difference with the protests of previous years was not so much in the number of people as in the quality of the composition, this time the youth took to the streets , they came out before, but compared to the previous years, there were more than 70% of the party's youth, the parties did not use their resources from the regions and at the same time, the protests gathered at their peak more than 50,000 people, this is a lot because the country is small