[000:00:00;00] 5:45 p.m. the program of collaborators with olena kononenko on the espresso tv channel continues 503 days of heroic action by ukrainians against the russian invaders news on espresso in the studio anzhelika sezonenko the long-awaited decision that shortens the path to nato at the summit they announced an aid package and changed the requirements for us to join

of the alliance, however, some allied countries are still inhibiting our exchange rate about what is currently happening at the summit in vilnius, our correspondent natalya knows the old law natalya, congratulations again, so tell me more about what you managed to learn at events as of now greetings to anzhelika greetings to the studio right now, at this very moment, the fate and history of ukraine may be decided, because the negotiations on the communique, which was previously voiced by nato secretary general stoltenberg, are ongoing. regarding the fate of ukraine in nato, he did not announce any specific steps , such as the direct accession of ukraine, but let's listen to the speech of jens stolton sto-stoltenberg, what he said, what he means, what

is happening now in the communiqués, you will hear important words in a few hours we are now finalizing the comedians different elements will be in it then you can read what is there and be sure there will be a positive and very strong message for ukraine in particular about the path to membership antoniuk andriykcio yes we hear about the path to membership but still we also expect other steps that precede direct membership. in particular, i mentioned the attractive aid package for ukraine, it is about the creation of the ukraine nato e-e council, which provides for the direct participation and cooperation of this program ukraine and the countries of the alliance and of course, ukraine's allies have agreed to cancel the requirements for ukraine to cancel a certain list

of certain points and the schedule that ukraine should adhere to in order to join nato , now this path will be easier, in addition , some countries are still inhibiting ukraine's direct entry into nato and we are talking about the united states of america and germany, other countries like natalya believe that such an entity as the council of ukraine nato is a good start, a good way for ukraine to gradually speed up its entry into nato is not such a drastic step, but instead what the usa and germany are saying is that it is not yet time for ukraine to be a full-fledged member because of what is happening in the country due to one or another reason in their opinion . the secretary general and jens toltenberg announced this today at the opening, and earlier

the president of ukraine mentioned that he may not come to vilnius for the summit if he does not see clear steps that ukraine will join nato we hope for good news for ukraine, we are currently at the summit , we are monitoring what is happening here, about an interesting and relevant issue, we will inform you later, i will pass the word to the studio. thank you, natalya. of the state, as always, we will be the first to inform you, our dear viewers. well, while we are moving on to other news, the head of the makarov court, oleksiy tandyr, was drunk and committed a fatal road accident, the last alcoholic drunkenness was confirmed by the forensic medical examination, the dbr also established that the judge was driving a car

at a speed of 100 km/h. let me remind you that on may 26 at midnight, a tandir hit a national guard soldier at a checkpoint in kyiv. vadym bondarenko died on the spot. he was survived by three children. the terrorist continues to block food for the world since the beginning of july , only six ships left the black sea ports with a total of 215,000 tons of agricultural products , the ministry of infrastructure of ukraine reported also there noted that the loading of 85,000 tons of grain for egypt is now being completed at the port of odesa, these are the last two bulkers that were admitted by russia from june 26, the russians refuse to carry out inspections of vessels heading to ukrainian ports under loading, so 29 bulkers that were supposed to deliver one and a half million tons of agricultural products for countries of asia and africa

are currently blocked in the territorial waters of turkey, let me remind you that the last time the grain agreement was extended until july 18, two enemy drones targeted the administrative building at the port facility in odesa, the regional military administration also said that due to the fall of the wreckage of the downed uav, two port terminals were occupied, one of which was a grain fire, and there were no casualties or critical destruction. before such an attack, the power itself and more than 21 and which were launched in several waves in the direction of the black sea water area indicates that the enemy was preparing for it carefully and

i planned it precisely for the relevant events in view of what is happening in the world today and the information just appeared that the russian army hit sofiyivka in the stanislav community in the kherson region with hailstones, according to preliminary information, a woman was killed, another man was wounded, the regional military administration reported that they are working on the spot rescuer, ukrainian defenders shot down 26 out of 28 shaheds this night, the air force of ukraine informs the occupiers attacked ukraine from the south-eastern direction, in addition, during the past day, the defenders destroyed three-strike bplanes and five reconnaissance drones, our aviation hit enemy positions more than 20 times. new evidence against the russian agency . the security service revealed another fact of subversive activity by fsb agents, who were neutralized by counter-intelligence agents in zaporozhye in may

. conversations were recorded as those involved discuss the preparation of a series of explosions in places where units are deployed . the security service of the armed forces of ukraine and the national police planned to deliver to its agents a parcel with ten kilograms of plastid to carry out terrorist attacks . the complex is not a cover for the human battle brigade. history 540 more russians our defenders have joined the dead alliance in total 235 thousand 20 invaders are already united there the defenders powerfully destroy and the equipment of the attackers permanently landed an enemy helicopter as well as 29

cars and tankers 17 armored combat vehicles 14 artillery systems eight units of special equipment four tanks and the same number of rocket salvo systems in the general staff add that the data is approximate, so to speak, in russia , the commander of the krasnodar submarine, stanislav rzytskyi, was shot, according to the data ukrainian intelligence officers killed a military man around six o'clock in the morning while he was jogging. an unknown person fired seven bullets at him from makarov's pistol , after which rzhytskyi ran away and died on the spot due to heavy rain. the park was deserted, so witnesses to the incident have not yet been found . earlier, the ukrainian media reported that it was on the orders of the murdered man that it had been almost a year. that's why they launched cruise missiles caliber at vinnytsia, then 27 people died in the city, including three children , the liquidated rzhytskyi was also the deputy chief for mobilization work in

krasnodar, on this i have for today all of us with you see you tomorrow next program verdict with serhiy rudenko glory to ukraine is a program verdict my name is serhiy rudenko greetings everyone and i wish everyone good health minister of foreign affairs of ukraine dmytro kuleba confirmed that nato will cancel the membership action plan for ukraine at will a meeting with representatives of the north atlantic alliance countries and volodymyr zelenskyi is going, for the past week - it is not the defense of ukraine that liberated more than 14 m²

of ukrainian territory, 10 m² to the north, four square kilometers in the east of ukraine, that sometimes in sumy oblast they evacuate all residents of the five-kilometer zone of the border there quite often the russians shell the sumy bilopolskyi district shostkynskyi district therefore in principle the right decision regarding the forced resettlement of people who lived under shelling is all about this and not only about this we will talk about today during the next program with terrodefense fighter yehor firsov , former head of the security service of ukraine valentyn nalyvaichenko and journalist roman tsymbalyuk, i will traditionally start with statistics on the losses of the occupiers in ukraine. so since the beginning of the great war in ukraine, 234,000,480 russians have already died in the last day alone, the armed forces of ukraine have destroyed 440 people since the beginning of the great war, the russians have already lost in

ukraine 485 tanks, 7,966 armored combat vehicles, 4,371 artillery systems, 668 rocket launcher systems, 414 air defense systems, 315 airplanes 309 helicopters - 6937 units of automotive equipment 18 ships d-boats 1271 cruise missiles 3 686 drones 632 units of special equipment and i want to present today's our first guest is yehor firsov, a territorial defense fighter, a paramedic, a man who fights on the eastern front, mr. igor, i congratulate you and thank you for joining our broadcast . i congratulate you

. as always, i wish health in this country. but i would like to talk with you about the situation that is developing, first of all, on the eastern front , because i already talked about the fact that according to official data, over the past week , the defense forces released more than 14 m² of ukrainian territory 10 m² in the south and four square meters in the east of ukraine anna the painter says that the ukrainian army was able to capture the main commanding heights near bakhmut and for several days they have been holding the fortress city under fire control syrian writes that bakhmut and the enemy are in the apiary, the city is fighting, fighting, coming under the fire control of the defense forces. what are you watching now on the eastern front, because it is

very important in the context of the fact that the russians are constantly pumping weapons during the summit now the commanders of the azov regiment have been released. therefore, their stupidity and limitlessness in how to use weapons seems to have no end. it’s hot right now on the front in the east . well, you know, mr. serhiy. probably every fighter sees all this through the prism of his unit. here you live in your bushes with their lines in these trenches with their dugouts , they become native to you and you surely know everything about your direction as much as possible.

are growing, but as for our direction under the neck, a little above bakhmut and avdiyivka, of course, the enemy is doing everything in order to somehow, well, let's say so, preserve the initiative and at least some kind of because, in general, in all these directions, the initiative of the strategic initiative is behind us. i want to give an example of such a story. for example, if the enemy used aviation earlier, they worked for themselves on the territory. and then they released aerial bombs of the faba, and then their plane immediately landed on the occupied territory, and now they are flying towards us. and this in fact, it shows that they even take such risks and understand that , you know, from kamikaze drones, they are actually kamikaze pilots, that is, they chase their infantry like meat and, in principle, even with airplanes

, they start to disperse in this way , but this is not well, it’s not for nothing that they suddenly act like that because they are in a certain state of hysteria and they can’t do anything, including politically. but on the military front, they constantly have problems, i don’t want to say that everything is cool there. the counteroffensive is underway we are winning, but believe me. right now, what is being done is a prerequisite for breakthroughs, and i have repeatedly said that the kharkiv success is why we. well, the society perceives it as if it happened in one day. in one day , the armed forces went on the offensive and recaptured this territory with more than a hundred inhabitants.

points, in fact, many, many months since may , we have been doing actions that made it possible to make this breakthrough. believe me, we are now working to make the breakthrough possible. ah, well, if we pour it into places where we know, where our intelligence knows where their ammunition storage is, and so on, that is , there are many such tactical actions that will allow us to penetrate the enemy's defenses, therefore , of course, the enemy, and they understand very, very well, maybe somewhere there conditionally, well, in our direction, that is, under the neck, and we actually have nothing to show off there in square kilometers. but they understand that we

have been working gradually every day, even today, and are very, very tired, but everyone day, we are doing everything so that then the attack aircraft will go on the offensive and gradually retake the positions, so i am sure that the command understands this. i know that the united states of america and britain understand this, because and where communication between intelligence is possible and possible, i think that it will be in including perhaps not essential, but in the end, the arguments are this, that's why ukraine, nato, yehor, just a few days ago, uh , such a symbolic date was 500 days since the beginning of the great war, although those who fought since 2014 say, well, what do you say about 500 days speak up if it's been nine years and 4 months. well, today is 20 days. how is russia's war against ukraine going on, but these 500 days were the most difficult for the whole country, not just for a few hundred or even a few million

people, but simply for the whole country from the first days, they became well, before the territorial defense, they fought in the kyiv region, they were in the kyiv region, then they transferred you to the eastern front. before your eyes, this powerful army is being born , which will become obvious. i believe that in the near future it will be a member of the north atlantic alliance as the army was changing, how did it change in the last 500 days, relatively speaking, from the moment you became a paramedic to the moment when you became a paramedic and were standing on the eastern front?

and i will probably start with the fact that of course it is easy for me to talk because how did i change yes and uh i changed why because i was a civilian and i saw very, very many civilians in the armed forces but now they have become real military and i can to say and you said about kyiv if in in kyiv, i sat somewhere on the third line of defense and frankly i was shaking a little, but now, at these hours, these days, we are not the first line of defense because of us, the enemy, and we, i think , do our job quite professionally, and with me the same with me, for example, there is an architect and shakhtar and so on. what kind of guys who were not in the military before? and how did the armed forces change ? probably with this aggression, they finally gradually began to be and be considered a small soviet army. many, many

civilians were brought into the armed forces. components, skills at all, not templates, even somewhere in the military, creative thinking what allowed the armed forces to really be a unique army, not just a small soviet army when we once were , but a unique world-class army. and i have the opportunity to communicate with some nato veterans, believe me when i tell them about the nature of the hostilities that are and are taking place in our country, they are sitting with open guns because they have not participated in such hostilities, this is a unique situation for them, they would not have encountered such a situation if they were, for example, nato soldiers have behaved for them, huge questions arise for ukraine, there is a great experience that we can already share and offer in general to such

nato organizations, their skills, their protocols , their principles, and so on. countries are accepted in nato, and besides the fact that we are brave, we went through the war in our country, well, if super special operations were practiced , countries are still accepted and the level of corruption, the level of openness, the level of professionalism of politicians and it went and went, yes, something formal, legal, something informal, behind the scenes. and here i think, of course, we have something to work on, that is, i am convinced that there is no contradiction among any of the nato officials, whether there are worthy armed forces to be a part of the nato club. i am convinced that it is possible that we now in many components

, the strongest army in the world, starting from the use of kamikaze drones, in which i have something to be involved in military medicine , military surgery, artillery, etc., etc. , etc., many components where we are super leaders and as for the country, there are judges, the rule of law, and so on, which is very important for nato, here, for sure, certain issues may arise in nato, that's why we have a parliament, we have a government , we carry out our work on the front lines, it is the most difficult. perhaps even now it is the most difficult in the world in terms of infantry especially with regard to attack aircraft that gnaw out simply forged territories, but here the question is another for our government officials, to what extent they work through this homework so that nato members nato officials have a few questions for us

over the last few weeks there was a wide discussion in the world about whether it is necessary to hand over cluster munitions to the ukrainians or not, many different humanitarian organizations of different countries treat it differently because it is a rather serious weapon that has consequences for several years or several decades when territories are exchanged and the russians use these cluster munitions now the united states of america as part of the big package of 800 million dollars also provides us with these cluster munitions where do you think these are weapons that will arrive, cluster ammunition, to what extent will it allow unequals to fight with the russians, well, considering that we understand that they use everything that they can use everything that burns, everything that burns everything

that kills, this is a country that produces weapons by kilotons on some i don't know incredible scale this is a country that produces death and produces all the hatred that is around this russian federation or in the russian federation itself, how much is this weapon that we are waiting for, how much will it allow us to act as equals on the battlefield and they they will finally feel what cluster ammunition is like on their skin, just oh, well, i’ll say it’s probably a pity, but for equality it’s still far from the point of view, uh, from the point of view, let’s say so, of ammunition , ammunition, barrel barrels, and ibcs in our enemy, well, not even one to two, this applies in general of all components, i think that everyone understands what we win at the expense of, of course, courage

, intellectuality, accuracy, accuracy, and whether we are fighting, including with e-e, at the expense of western aid, for example, howitzers, three sevens , they just hit well as they say tyutya in exactly at the target exactly the same crabs and that’s it well, i’m already silent, please tell me about the newest tanks and so on, but until this certain parity , the enemy, listen, has been preparing for this war for dozens of years and dozens of years, and it’s a pity that cluster munitions do not equalize the situation regarding, well , regarding these weights, but they will of course strengthen very, very much, you correctly noted that the enemy is here, these organizations are against what if the provision and they and what they think about the enemy about the enemy , you use cassettes. here, i was directly

at e positions today, i constantly heard explosions of these cluster munitions, but even that is another matter. they use cluster munitions against the civilian population in general, i.e. look at the summaries. look at the statements of the military heads of military administrations there. cluster munitions are flying somewhere in kramatorsk, in pokrovsk, sloviansk, and so on. where are all these organizations that protest against it? that the states provided us with help, where and why do they not make releases , messages, speeches, when the enemy is against us, uh , what do they apply in general? well, in military doctrines, among the norms of international law, is well, it is completely prohibited. that's why they are silent, this is a question of course. and for us, cluster munitions . believe me, as i say, how can you say a professional military, they will help us a lot, especially in the context of a counterattack , because cluster munitions are mainly

used against a-a well, let's say enemy infantry in enemy positions to cover up these redoubts are defensive, and they paid off there during this time, wow, how many of them are dug with shovels , they drive them out very, very deep, in some moments they even concreted their position here to hide this defense, cluster munitions we will need them very, very much, today there was information that germany plans to announce at the nato summit about significant supplies of military equipment to ukraine , according to the links of e-e roters sources, it is said that these may be taurus cruise missiles with a firing range of up to 500 km which kyiv asked for back in may and maybe they will or maybe they won't be here until the end, these sources are uncertain, but

the german side is working on bilateral security guarantees for ukraine, and you and i talked more than once during the war about all of these security guarantees, what to do when such a neighbor is obsessed, do you have anything else well, i am convinced that ukraine very quickly, expertly, because i understood that they are withdrawing the action plan regarding nato membership, that is, this is the mandatory minimum that we have to meet, and kuleba at least says so that we will very quickly become members of nato, or is this civilian part that concerns the corruption of the legislation of the state management structure that it will always slow us down because our army, as you rightly said, is the strongest and

the military is the strongest, and when leaving, the entire civilian part will constantly slow down. well, as a sagittarius, of course, there are no guarantees, and despite the fact that they do their work for this, and every day in this world they prove er, er, er, i don’t have any guarantees. well a military correspondent came to us today. and he asks me in general. do you follow the situation in the country there regarding political vicissitudes? i say well, listen, you know , i consider myself the happiest person right now. happy from the fact that i don't follow this and i understand what it really is. well, there is a certain depth in this opinion because because officials have to do their job, political officials have to prove in this world that it's not just about