[000:00:00;00] that's why with er with these heroic soldiers who actually tells what is happening to whom in bahmut and understands how each of the fighters in bahmut how important it is historically important to hold this city and destroy the enemy and then we will move on to another topic - it is about the ministry of defense, that is, from the trenches to the ministry of defense with an attempt to understand whether our defense department is capable of doing work on mistakes, i will remind you that in january of this year, deputy minister of defense vyacheslav shapovalov and the director the state procurement department of bohdan khmelnytskyi, with the approval of the dbr, accuses them of acting in violation of the existing rights and regulations and , relatively speaking, they made it so that poor-quality body armor, fairy tales, clothing

, helmets and other items for ukrainian servicemen in the total amount of more than uah 1 billion, this case is currently under investigation, but we will talk about other components related to this story with our next guest - this is yuriy fedorov, the director of mr. yuriy's kharkiv factory of personal protective equipment greetings. good day. it seems that we had a conversation in january, and it was then that you took such an active position and insisted that the ministry of defense should correct its conscious or unconscious mistakes when the ministry of defense refused to control the quality of products. which are purchased for the ministry of defense , a long enough time has already passed and i would like to hear from you whether there have been

qualitative changes in the ministry of defense. and if not, why? well, we must state that in the contracts that concluded this year, in 2023, there is already such an item as quality control for physical support. of course, this is not the same level of quality control as it was before the great invasion , but this is due to a number of factors. and this is the impossibility of conducting operational laboratory tests because not all laboratories are working in full mode yes, not all laboratories have recovered at all. that is, we can say that there is probably now that ideal minimum quality control that should be

in such a mode that it is now, that is, now eh all the equipment, all the clothes must already be approved, the working sample must meet the standards, it must meet the technical documentation of the ministry of defense, that is, i can state the fact that the quality has increased significantly, but i can definitely say this only according to the contracts that were signed with ukrainian manufacturers. the information that there were also contracts with foreign manufacturers is missing. companies , i can't say yes or no, but those conditions. i can't comment either, but i can say that ukrainian companies are already switching to a new stage of quality control and this is progress. this is the right decision of the ministry of defense, and by the way, now there is a decision about the new deputy minister of defense, in particular, whether there is an official who took shapovalov's place, and whether, relatively speaking, there is a new director of the state procurement department because we can tell him there, we know that there are two new deputy ministers

of defense, one is responsible for automation and the other is responsible for international relations, but who came instead of shapovalov , instead of shapovalov, there is no deputy minister currently, his functions have been transferred to another deputy minister, mr. sharapov, regarding the director of the state procurement department, bohdan khmelnytskyi, they were removed even before the egg scandal, how did he become known to everyone under this name, that is, this person was already in his and now such a temporary acting duty "jazki signs contracts from e-e from the department of state procurement and this is the fact that this person is temporary and there is no deputy minister of the profile, this somehow affects the efficiency of procurement because young people

there were scandals, there were complaints, officials were appointed, but they were not appointed to the areas from which the predecessors were shot , which were criticized, understand i have full information about the financial component of the state's ability to conclude contracts, but i can say that it looks like they delayed a little, even greatly delayed the signing of agreements, because currently contracts have been concluded for a very small number of items, for example, they did not conclude contracts for equipment there for some positions, i cannot say whether it is due to the lack of a profile deputy or due to other components. but we can present that there is a delay, but let's say that there are such questions about quality control that i didn't say

it, as always, something arises in a new way after that since there was no quality control last year, many ukrainian enterprises began to supply equipment and clothing for the ministry of defense. it was fast, it was necessary, but at the moment these companies have not yet understood what strict requirements there are for the quality of equipment and clothing for the military and now they already see that there are some violations of their rights in the fact that there is a lot of quality control, there is a question about colors and so on . although i think that we understand that the ukrainian army is not only a professional one, but i think that we all want to see it but also the one about which yaka looks beautifully stern, and we have all

seen many videos from the ukrainian and russian military about our army , about the fact that we have a cosmonaut, our ukrainian soldiers, and we want it to continue to be so so here is the question to ukrainian enterprises that work for the ministry of defense, let's also work on improving quality because it is necessary. if i understood your words correctly, you are talking about the fact that during a certain period of time when there was no quality control, a group of ukrainian enterprises was formed that will now talk about what quality control actually is is not needed, and our products are quite suitable for our soldiers, and now we will have a situation when some companies will say that quality control is needed, another will say that no, we will have such an internal confrontation between our manufacturers, we are talking about it, yes, it already exists. i already hear about such situations that some suppliers, manufacturers are not

satisfied with quality control. to come back to consider it too difficult, too high, but i am not a single professional manufacturer working with by the ministry of defense for many years, i have not heard that anyone had any er complications regarding quality control, it is actually much easier than a couple of years ago , but those companies who worked for the civilian market are er rain well, from my point of view, not yet it is clear how important quality control is specifically for military equipment. and does this story apply to the production of body armor ? because i want you to explain one story to me, they told me such things that , relatively speaking, if a soldier is wounded , god forbid he died and if he was wearing a body armor that was not certified that's why they say whether the insurance payments for him

personally or for his family can be canceled precisely because of the inconsistency of the bulletproof vest that he bought there on his own , are such stories true or are there any the nuances that we need to know. and i can't confirm or deny this thesis now . but i know for sure that it is dangerous to buy body armor because there is no state certificate or we saw last year many companies that also started to produce body armor, they didn't, uh, didn't strengthen the entire spectrum internal quality control, i.e. multiple selections for testing, they could slip poor-quality armor steel because either the manufacturers did not know what armor materials should be used, and we saw a large number of bulletproof vests that were

sent to the army for various purposes, they were volunteers, they were even, unfortunately, on contract, you make money. well, not only the ministry of defense, but also there are direct pyramids, say that they were arranged by the city councils of the districts . that is, we saw the situation that body armor was supplied. well, no, not according to quality or unstable quality, so i can say that certification is very important in general, all companies that produce vests in ukraine are very important. it seems that this is more. now it concerns some of the goods that were purchased from companies that do not have an e-e license, and here it seems to me that it is generally dangerous, for sure yuri. thank you for your explanations. i hope that we will further clarify certain nuances with our military. i would like to remind our viewers that

yuriy fedorov , director of the kharkiv factory of personal protective equipment, was on the air of the espresso channel. these were the most important accents in the military summaries of this day, and more economic and more international news from my colleagues on the big air, especially its results of the day and serhiy zgurtsem. thank you to him and his guests . well, we have a lot of interesting things. i think you did not miss my announcement of the world about ukraine program. i myself am interested in hearing about everything that i yuriy fizer told you - he will tell us in detail and show us more yuriy good evening please say good evening to your home good evening to everyone who joined our broadcast today, there is really a lot of interesting news, in particular, i will tell you about what russia is preparing another provocation south korea could give us lethal weapons but a strange phenomenon in the sky over alaska but that's not all about it and

much more in a moment in robert's world about ukraine well, but i'll start today with this china did not give weapons to ukraine of russia and will not do it in the future , this is the statement made in an interview with the russian tas agency by the special representative of the heavenly kingdom for the affairs of the korean peninsula, liu yaomin, he once again, as a chinese mantra, repeated the thesis that beijing did not start the crisis in ukraine so-so he called it and at the same time reprimanded it as a connecting state of america, saying that official washington should not now dictate to the chinese leadership what it should do and what it should not do well , even more so, it should not be blackmailed beijing well, by the way, completing the chinese topic, beijing

supports the european the proposal and the party in its desire to end the russian war in ukraine peacefully as soon as possible and start peace negotiations between ukraine and russia in the process today during the briefing, said the official representative of the ministry of foreign affairs of the heavenly kingdom wang wen, he commented on the initiative of french president emmanuel macron, according to which paris and beijing could try to prepare a peace plan and eventually sit the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi and putin at the negotiating table, and it can be done according to the plans of the elysee palace even in the summer . well vasyl, we just talked about everything with you yesterday, well, i'm just curious to imagine this moment when volodymyr zelenskyi and putin sit down somewhere far away , but what kind of business are they sitting down, but let's imagine and these negotiations are called by macron and cd. can you imagine, by the way, i saw

such an interesting story today in lviv, well, there were two chinese men walking in the market, i would later know that in chinese they look like her, because they are not chinese and they say to women glory to ukraine they are such a hero glory will be given glory to ukraine, they say they are heroes glory to the woman, they asked where she said she was from china, then i saw that the chinese really say glory to ukraine by the way, it is important here that the most important thing is that the chinese, if only in their thoughts, say this word , then it is possible for him to say is such an approach to you hear of negotiations that will be beneficial to ukraine, but in no way to the aggressor. can you imagine how bandera once said that such a time will come when one will say glory to ukraine and millions will respond to the heroes, glory will also come , perhaps such a time will come when one will say glory to ukraine and millions of chinese will say to the heroes glory, we will wait for this, russia is preparing sabotage in the seas near the coast of northern european countries, in particular denmark , this is stated in the investigation, which wrote the data

and made public the danish publications, etc., according to according to published information, russian spies use a number of vessels for their purposes, which are disguised as fishing vessels, in places with transponders turned off, they float near marine objects of critical energy infrastructure, in particular , near marine power plants and cable laying routes, norwegian intelligence commented that in this way the russians are preparing various options for sabotage on these objects in case of the beginning of an escalation with the countries of the west, in more detail, this is exactly what i would like to discuss with vasyl and our guest, this is taras zhovtenko, expert on national and international security issues, democratic initiatives named after ilka kucheriv foundation, mr. taras, i congratulate you, glory to ukraine, i congratulate you as a hero , thank you, mr. taras, today, when i read this information, i really became interested in the most interesting questions. but first and foremost

, what were the russians trying to do in this way? would achieve because i honestly don't understand even if it 's an aggravation it might happen someday well, we can say so, i could say so well, okay , well, they'll cut the power cable , the light will disappear somewhere, they'll cut the telephone the cable will stop working somewhere, the phone will stop working, but in the west and in nato, there are many different other options that they would really like to achieve in this way, well, first of all, the country is a terrorist and thinks like a terrorist, and putin's terrorist regime, in principle, has shown himself to be one that is ready to use any terrorist methods, unfortunately, we saw this in ukraine, uh, the placement of civilian infrastructure, starting with critical infrastructure , energy infrastructure, communication facilities there and so on . do you remember all those missiles on television there? towers even at the beginning of the war, although it would seem that the 21st year is the age and well, if hmm tv

is relevant only perhaps in the russian reality it is so and we, while he, the whole civilized world lives in the age of the internet but nevertheless the russian regime and the russian military - the political leadership always demonstrates that it remains in the bucket both mentally and in terms of some internal philosophy. well, in the end, it is worldview, and if we return to this particular situation with this threat to the international infrastructure, it is also critical. well, we are in in principle, we must understand that, first of all, the russians have already done this. well, if we talk about the most recent examples, then it is the undermining of the northern streams, and what if the investigation continues, and at the same time, the russian regime is pointing fingers at the fact that it is almost biden himself personally dived behind the wall and planted explosives there, er, we understand that this is all actually a smoke screen, because in this case it was primarily in the interests of the russian federation , and they acted here in the logic of their hybrid

strategy, that is, they understood very well that europe actually at that moment had already started active actions, and effective actions . yes. after recovering from russian gas and therefore very soon . to give europe time to more comfortably jump off the russian gas needle or do it in its own way and at the same time blame the states and create the most uncomfortable situation well, this is ultimately laid out in the russian strategy to create a problem to create a crisis and then heroically to say that let's help you solve it. and in fact, this is how the russians continue to act. but again , the most important thing is to say that in this case the putin regime did not invent anything , this is a strategy that was written back in the soviet union in the mid-1960s. x years, that is, when they were preparing for war with nato . they also perfectly understood that an additional factor of pressure on the enemy, since

the potentials are not equal, and even then there was a threat of terrorist attacks on critical infrastructure, and a valuable a special such a small underwater seam, as they called the ags and the nuclear deep-sea station. that is, these are small submarines that could be launched there. well , as it was stated there, up to 6 km deep. and they could remove information from the communication line, damage these communication lines, disable the hydroacoustic battles for the detection of submarines in the atlantic and so on, that is, even in the sixties, all this strategy was actually prescribed in russia and , well, the russians began to restore it, the putin regime, somewhere in the middle in the 2000s, when the truth, as always, had time, it all worked out in the best traditions , in july 2019, one of their submarines , the losharik, burned out almost completely , and a lot of high-ranking russian submariners died there

. and this was in fact the first case when the west found out about the latest stories that the russians had deconserved this program and in the end they were even preparing to blow up the same northern streams, so basically what they are using now are these civilians ships, too, soviet practice. yes, they had a lot of vessels that were supposedly engaged in marine research, but in fact they were floating uh, well, these are radio-electronic intelligence stations. in this way, the russians compensated for their lack of satellites, yes, that is, if the americans hung up this intelligence infrastructure in orbit, the uh, the soviet regime, the russian regime, there is no possibility to do so, he was translating, so to speak , the sea farms of taras p taras i want to tell our viewers that they just saw on the screen exactly the video of these researchers and this ship so that you understand the admiral vladimirsky research vessel. well, when the danish investigators approached

it, a man in a balaclava and with an assault rifle in his hands appeared on its deck . what can be the reaction of the west? it is clear that in the near future it will be difficult to see people with rifles. not in this country, let's say some other countries bordering russia norway or another country or in britain . plane, as a rule, these vessels, when they sail their course in international waters , they usually turn off the transponders and, well, in principle, in this way, they violate the rules of international shipping, and that's why

, taking into account the fact that, well, the situation is already so tense and taking into account the fact that in the same baltic sea there is an ongoing investigation into the undermining of these two strands of the northern stream, in principle , the countries of the west have absolutely all the legal possibilities, yes, in order to, well, let's say a little bit, drive these russian barks across the sea, yes, that is, well, in fact they can be accused of violating the safety of international shipping and deploying sea patrols at least at the level of the countries in nato today yes and yes considering that very soon the baltic sea will turn into an internal rinato i think what is for the russians, what they are planning now is such a swan song , that is, i think they want to be in time before me, this is a window of opportunity , sweden has not yet become a member of nato , to try somewhere else to harm the west, and then again, as they say, to offer their help, and let's go now

together we will investigate, mr. taras, i really liked your phrase to chase russian smoke, but the west is chasing russian troughs in the north sea now, and our ee brave guys of the armed forces of ukraine are chasing russian troughs in the east and in the south of ukraine and we will continue to pursue mr. taras. thank you very much for participating in our program for your professional opinions. this was taras zoftenko, an expert on national and international security issues of the ilka kuchereva democratic initiatives foundation . well, we talked with him about that. in the waters of the northern seas near the scandinavian countries well, as mr. taras says, in the end, what they did is nothing new, they just want to keep the west in constant tension, the west knows this, the west knows this, we can see them. they are not only tanks from the 60s they are returning to the battlefield its methods from the 60s of the last century, they are bringing back, so to speak, the all-ukrainian practices of continuing full support of ukraine both

financially and militarily until the complete victory over the russian aggressor, this was confirmed by the us defense minister during a meeting in washington lloyd austin and the head of the british ministry of defense, ben volleyles. the latter thanked his american colleague for the fact that the free house took on the main role in supporting ukraine, and at the same time assured that london would do everything possible. support any initiatives related to this. but about the russian war itself, we are listening to the british minister ben wallace in direct speech. i am optimistic and think that between this year and next year, ukraine will maintain momentum and a strong position. i also believe that we should be realistic russia won't fall apart after a wave of a magic wand , i'll take just one word and say that on april 21 , friday, that is, the day after tomorrow, there will be a meeting in the format of rammstein, another meeting

, one with the press will broadcast everything that will happen it is available for broadcast, and the foreword of the participants is the main ordinary head of the pentagon, eh, the new news, nato head jens stopenberg, and eh, if he will participate there . of the united states army, well, and also. after this meeting, you will hear the productive part of the meeting. well, i am continuing in south korea. for the first time since the beginning of the full-scale self-expulsion of the russian occupying forces to ukraine , they talked about the possibility of providing, if necessary, lethal weapons for ukraine this statement was made by the country's president, yeon sok yeol, in an interview with the reuters agency , according to him, in the event that russia commits a serious attack on ordinary people, if it commits mass murders or seriously violates the laws of warfare, then the official silol simply will not be able to sit on the sidelines. yes as if nothing had happened

, the leadership of south korea in this case will not be able to continue to provide ukraine with only humanitarian or financial support well, but then later in the administration of the president of south korea for some reason they said that this his own opinion was private, he just said what he wanted to say, and the position of south korea still remains as it was, and there were enough lethal weapons against ukraine, unfortunately, seoul is not yet ready to give, well, but the answer from moscow was more interesting, not even an answer and the reaction of dmitry medvedev is the one who managed to squeeze into the presidential chair in russia between two terms of putin, so today he was reborn as always, i don’t know. after that , i wonder what the residents of the north will say when the koreans will see the latest models of russian weapons from our partners from the dprk, the most interesting thing for vasyl is that these latest

, uh, the latest models of russian weapons do not have such an impression, only somewhere in the minds of belarus should be in north korea, where else should these latest models appear? well but you see, uh , look at medvedev, he has his own life. well, let him live very unique, specific, you talked about janson stoltenberg with an extension until 2023. china can get one and a half thousand nuclear warheads. therefore, it is necessary now to start preparing for a dangerous world order of the future, nato secretary general anne stoltenberg said this during a speech at the conference on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, according to the head of the north atlantic alliance, beijing is very rapidly increasing its nuclear potential and at the same time it does not demonstrate any transparency in this matter. that is why gensex-toltenberg is now saying that russia directly poses a threat to the alliance, but in the future we need to be

prepared for the fact that such a threat can to represent china in particular, it is interesting that in china they listened to stoltenbergsky, what did they think. by the way, i want to tell you about china now, it is accumulating, well, building up its nuclear potential, but uh, this year is already 2023, i won’t say exactly in which month and china will not be the most numerous people in the world, something here will intercept it, neighboring india, india will become the most populated country on the planet, this should happen according to the trends and the dynamics that we see today already in 2023 , the leadership of ukraine, he said, should send the landings are political towards india and well, not to establish but to develop relations with this country, iranian president ibrahim raisi threatened to wipe haifa and tel aviv off the face of the earth if the leadership of israel decides to start any even minor actions against his country. he said this during a speech with

on the occasion of the day of the armed forces of the islamic republic, the president of iran could not deny it to himself in the threat from the united states of america, he called on washington to immediately withdraw all its troops from the middle east. and also pandra isi warmly shook hands, obviously verbally to the representatives of all states and regions who are interested in him being safe. can you guess who he could be referring to? i am sure you can guess saudi arabia, with which a certain romance is emerging in tehran. well, an incredibly beautiful phenomenon was recorded in the sky over the american state of alaska two days ago. against the background of the aurora borealis, a strange, beautiful formation was recorded, the figure changed its shape and remained in the sky for several minutes, some conspiracists even managed to call it the beginning of an alien invasion, however, all

it turned out to be much simpler. a few minutes after the launch of the spacex cargo spacecraft from the spaceport in california, its engine threw unnecessary water into the atmosphere under the action of low temperatures. this water instantly froze miraculously and began to reflect the sun's rays like a mirror . and don't say it's beautiful, it's true, but there's nothing more beautiful than watching something burn in russia, it will be my scene information today someone carelessly smoked on warehouse with flammable materials in the city of dzerzhinsk, nizhny horota region, there is information that there was a fire at the plastics factory, possibly due to the black smoke, but the fact that something flammable was stored there is a fact that it burned on an area of ​​four and a half thousand square meters closer to the evening in the oblast the emergency department reported that the fire was contained, but still firefighters are afraid that the fire will not spread to neighboring buildings closer to