[000:00:00;00] another and that is why this conflict is the reality of our western partners who are tired of talking about war, and we who demand more every day under massive missile strikes and now we have to talk about the heating season and preparation for winter and in fact we are entering a much weaker state when 30% of our energy stability is destroyed thank you very much for these points hanna hopko people's deputy of the previous convocation head of the verkhovna rada committee on foreign affairs 8 calls and chairman

of the board of the national protection network interests of the national security agency was in touch with us news time on the espresso tv channel and we are glad to see and hear and welcome khrystyna parubiy thank you, colleagues, the issue will tell you how volodymyr zelensky reacted to the night attack in odessa and about the losses of the enemy in a moment it is ten on the clock, it is time to find out what is happening in ukraine and the world at this time khrystyna parubiy works in the studio scrapers do not work during the attack on odessa , the russians destroyed the salvation and transfiguration cathedral of the uoc mp this is the most and the orthodox church in the region was dedicated in 1808 in 1936, by order of stalin, it was completely destroyed by the soviet authorities during the independence period, the shrine was rebuilt in 2010 to consecrate the restored cathedral, patriarch kirill gundyaev personally came today, today a rashest rocket hit exactly there, according to the minister of the temple, from zavaly, it was possible to get the kasperian icon of the mother of god, who is the patroness of odessa - the colossal half of the cathedral remained faster

than the damaged central the foundation piles blew out the moon on all the windows, the whole stucco was a fire with a loud part of the church caught fire for sale, e-e, candles, icons, it all burned very much, the sixth mass attack on odesa, a security guard of a private institution was killed, 22 people were injured, among them four children, fifteen of whom were hospitalized, but the head of the public council of odesa uva, serhiy bratchuk, told eteria espresso that at night, the occupiers hit the city with at least five types of onyx-calibre rockets, x-22 missiles from skandark, as well as ballistic and skandar missiles, causing significant damage . the boulevard

of the zhvanetsky district suffered today we have hit the very center of odesa, the cathedral of the transfiguration, the ukrainian orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate, we have the inclusion of a structure that at least residential buildings are damaged, it is like private buildings and these tops are much lower than cars and actually, the rescuer of the central nervous system managed to unblock them . to the terrorists, the answer is tangible

another large-scale attack on the city, he noted that all the victims of odesa are currently receiving the necessary help and thanked those who provide it, one person died as a result of shelling in the kherson region, the head of the regional military administration, oleksandr prokudin, reported that the russians fired 332 shells in the region, targeting the residential areas , the farming area of ​​the boryslav district, and the administrative building of the kherson life support facility. at night, the russians attacked the surroundings with four rockets these zaporozhye people were fortunately not injured, he informed the head of the region, yuriy malashko, in total, during the day, the enemy has struck almost 70 attacks on twenty populated areas of the region , is preparing from the artillery of the aviation and rocket systems of salvo fire, 12 civilian objects have been damaged, two people have died, two more have been injured in the past day . the premises

of the pig complex were destroyed, there was a fire in the izyum in the area, a private house, a club and cars were mutilated. 19 missiles of various types were used against ukraine this night. russian terrorists of the 22-caliber workshop with canders m taka and onyx from the coastal missile complex bastion in the command of the air force reported that the defenders of the sky destroyed nine enemy targets after the deoccupation of crimea. the status of sevastopol is likely to change

. he was assigned one because of his stay there, the black sea fleet of russia is discussing the status of the peninsula itself after the expulsion of the occupiers. let me remind you that this requires changes to the constitution and more than 300 votes of people's deputies. we are under martial law and, accordingly, we cannot make any changes to the constitution of ukraine. we cannot change the status of autonomy there , i don't know, or change the status of autonomy to the crimean republic with the right of the crimean tatar people. i have a special status all of this requires changes to the constitution according to ukrainian legislation. finally, a maintenance and repair center for leopards, which ukraine received , has

been agreed upon in the polish city of gliwice. the minister of defense of poland, mario blaszczak, spoke about this. he noted that the first two tanks had already arrived at the factory in umerla-bende. with sub-russian birch trees in packages, and at the beginning of a full-scale russian invasion, our soldiers destroyed almost 242,000 occupiers, also last day, 11 tanks, nine armored fighting vehicles and 29 artillery systems flew into the air, and four rocket salvo systems, three air defense systems - 13 vehicles and sister vehicles and 5 units of special equipment flew forever in the sky 14 drones in the general staff remind you that all the data are indicative of such pleasant numbers. i am finishing this issue,

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american military pilot volunteer and military instructor congratulate you dear mr. peter thank you very nicely how much f16 can change the situation on the battlefield well and just ask you to tell you that they represent you as a person who spent more than one hundred hours on the f-16 aircraft. you know the shell wings, engines, these things are part of a larger system, it includes sensors, weapons, radars, and even more importantly, the entire system that supports the 16, including the intelligence and surveillance system, which in itself includes a lot of things. i think that the main thing for the f-16 is when they will work successfully in ukraine is that they will in a certain way add to the defense of ukraine, they will protect both the urban infrastructure and the civilian population, and i think that they will help ukrainian soldiers on

the battlefield, the f16 is not a mechanical system electronic system and it is a human controlled machine and although it has been well updated over the years and in some cases has very modern advanced technology it is still the same generation as well as russian aircraft and in fact even older generation than the latest russian surface to air missiles it would be natoptimistic to think that f -16s even a significant number of them could just swoop in and then clear everything of enemy surface to air missiles and clear the sky of enemy aircraft so this is a very complex and difficult problem on the solution of which the western troops of the nato troops spent huge sums of money, efforts, tactics, weapons and technologies, not all of these technologies will arrive in ukraine, this is the point, it is quite likely that a small number of f-16 pilots will arrive in ukraine , by definition, they will be novices on their planes, so i would expect a very gradual and, unfortunately, very slow integration of the f-16 into the general system, the general picture of the war, in order to understand

. place and of course ukrainians monitor the defense of their nation from air attacks, but in fact you know the details of where the enemy systems are and what their capabilities are. i don't know these details, so i have very limited knowledge of the situation. what can i tell you? so it is that it would be a mistake to assume that the f-16 will be used by the ukrainian military in the same way as the western military would use them, and i think that for many people this was one of the wrong assumptions of people in the west and also here in ukraine. is needed or will not be useful, but it does not end like that, the f16 will be an addition to the military efforts that are already taking place. therefore, now ukrainian pilots are boldly flying the planes they have and doing an incredible job with them. thus, giving them more advanced tools and more perfect only increases the opportunities they have, for example, the f16 can have a huge impact on the battlefield even without

approaching the battlefield, because the west has invested heavily in high-precision, long -range weapons, and these weapons are even being improved after i stopped flying more than five years ago so the idea that the f16s are just going to swoop in and solve all the problems is nice but it's false what we know is that this is good news for ukraine and very bad news for russia the use of the f16 will hinder the enemy in his work i agree the russians are not just going to war against ukraine they are killing our civilians they are hitting civilian objects this is another war crime by russia n because they know about which

coordinates they work on the other side we understand what we are talking about f16 and we understand that this preparation must be comprehensive and it is in the channels of only pilots not only our aviators we understand that this is one story the second story is protected airfields this is an air defense system and the third is general communication all these directions are important training of battlefield control teams radar intelligence analysts search and identification of targets is a whole system this is not like, say, in boxing boxers give their opponent the appropriate conditions surrounding the rules of the referee and understanding the beginning and ending is everything not at all faster, it is like a fight in a bar where any techniques are used, there are no rules . i am sure from what i know that many of the latest systems have already been integrated into the ukrainian defense and i am sure that the capabilities of the f-16 will be successfully used in the broader context of the defense of the nation

. non-scale of the russian invasion, in your opinion, how long should it take to properly train a ukrainian pilot who, for example, worked on the mig 29 before that, that's all that's worth seeing, pilot training is complicated, first of all, you need to understand that pilot training is only part of the problem, you also need to solve the problems of supply logistics , and the technicians who repair airplanes must learn

how to do this. last not weeks, but not years, but months, it will take several months to train ukrainian mig-29 pilots so that they can fly f and to master what i tell them in 16, they will love this plane, it is easy to fly, it is extremely computerized, digitized, and we already know that mig-29 uses a certain set of western weapons, for example, harm missiles to suppress the enemy's system, they drop gps-guided ammunition and other missiles of the stop schedov type, other special weapons and i'll tell you, i don't know the details of how it was possible to integrate this weapon now, but this it is definitely much more difficult to use and was able to 29 smart weapons have their requirements first of all they need more information because that is why they are smart almost the same as you and me so to get such a weapon in the right city at the right time at the right speeds and conditions and make all these things happen it is very difficult on an aircraft that was not designed for this many, many of these problems have already been solved on the f16 even the fact that the f-16 is older than most of these weapons all this is already

integrated on the platform in the electronics what i can say for sure that if the ukrainian pilots are already doing what they are doing and quite successfully, they will do it even more successfully with new modern equipment. in your opinion, it would be necessary in ukraine to firmly say that we are now dominating the air in the south of ukraine or in the east of ukraine. i don't know the answers because i don't know the situation. i also don't know what weapons and equipment will arrive on those f-16s to achieve aerial planning despite the enormous resistance of the russian military. they have good equipment. their planes are not bad i have i mean that there are good technologies used there and they have been working on their improvement for years, i believe that they still lag behind western technologies, but still i do not know how much it takes to gain air supremacy, but i know that the defense of ukraine will seriously gain on the way to obtaining

air supremacy, air superiority is extremely important for the american or nadiv doctrine. this is just part of how we conduct operations. and in in many places it was thrown back, this means that even without local air superiority - is it still possible to do a lot on wider areas, for example, f16 can work quite far behind, they can defend the airspace of cities, this will not have a direct effect on the front line, but will have an indirect effect, the more f16 can defend cities and infrastructure, the more other systems can be used closer to the front line, this effect is adaptive, having the f16 , the ukrainians can successfully use other systems and will have the opportunity to move them

to obtain a greater effect, one should also not forget about the long-range systems that have the f16 , this is the weapon that ukraine already has, not even on the front line, but being outside the radio range of enemy systems or aircraft , the latest fighters such as the f-16 have an intensive effect on the battlefield . ukrainian as well the enemy will not feel safe with western weapons. when ukraine gets the opportunity to actually deliver a long-range strike, at least the occupiers will either retreat or die . they will not be able to move forward, so they will most likely move back. i make promises and only say that the weapons that will become possible for use will destroy the army that

has frozen in position. combat aircraft and then psychological readiness for combat, i am impressed by what your pilots are doing now, based on very old information about how ukrainian pilots acted years ago, in fact, now a lot of new tactics and weapons have appeared, based on old knowledge, i can say that the main thing is that western aircraft provide the pilot with much more information and opportunities for well, they have it, they give the opportunity to conduct operations more freely and make decisions already in the air in real time, which is not available now on those old ones planes simply because the pilot will have more information western military aircraft over the last 20 or 30 years their production and design have advanced tremendously the delivery of information to the pilot providing a complete picture of what is around him gives the opportunity to make the best possible decision in real time

so the first problem may be a certain overload of information. show that it is not only about accuracy and clarity, but about the possibilities of innovation and finding new ways of using new technologies and using old technologies. in this case, they will feel the difference in 16. this is the quality of the old button on the phone. switch to a modern smartphone. it is computerized, digitalized and made easy to use. may you be interested in allies from friendly planes, enemy forces and means, there is a lot to learn, but i am sure that ukrainian pilots will not be surprised by western tactics and the current way, as nato uses in 16, but still there are many different ways to achieve the goal and i am sure that they will find them roads peter well, if you were general eisenhower, in which

way would you be able to address president biden, well, in historical parallels to president roosevelt , and you would you should voice your needs this is what you would say dear mr. president, in order to do or achieve extremely specific results on the battlefield for - in particular, for example, in the south of our states in the south of ukraine, i need, i don't know, 50 or 100 f16 - 20 patriot batteries and 150 storm shadow, or i don't know scalp missiles, and so on. approximately how do you estimate the number of this complex that could significantly change the situation on the battlefield? this is a great question to answer

. i could only fantasize about the ukrainian genstadt, but ukrainian reality shows a number of factors, how difficult it is for you to defend yourself. ukraine is a large european country and you are surrounded by enemy forces on three sides , even in eastern moldova, plus the black sea, the east, the southeast and belarus in the north . only the general staff can tell you, but to know this it is necessary to take into account a lot of information, not only information about the capabilities and numbers of the enemy, but also what are the ukrainian capabilities from the location and use of various systems, on the other hand, we hear a lot that airports, infrastructure and so on are needed, but it should be remembered that western aircraft were already in ukraine in peacetime, military exercises were held in 2011 and 2009 , and then ef-16 and f-15 were here and worked from ukrainian airbases, so this is a very complex

issue. if i could advise where the president is simple the guy is an ordinary citizen i would say that the generals sent to ukraine everything that they ask for if ukraine the ukrainian government asks for something then the basic answer should be yes and then investigate whether there are possible reasons why no i don't know all the decisions that are being made but in february 2022 i thought that they would need in 16 i'm ready to go it took some time to come true i could say for example what is needed for a table and so on but i will say that a lot of things are needed to get this plane into the air support for a lot of equipment, it is correct that it is necessary to make sure that there are landing sites and the location of these systems before they arrive in ukraine, but i am also disappointed, like many ukrainians, that it took so long to get really the best weapons to defend our country. we can imagine the front line and temporarily occupied cities that the russians have turned

into fortified areas . well, i don’t know. to an anonymous ukrainian pilot or there, i don’t know, to the squadron commander, a combat task, for example, a titanic column below the military field, yes, and accordingly, we understand that on the one hand our radars are working, russian radars are working, the satellite tracking system is working, we understand that the anti-air defense systems are already heated to the red color

. giving when you look at the tactical problems of such an operation, the main thing is to force the enemy to retreat correctly and if you use infantry forces without air superiority, then this is what you need to do if there are such opportunities, i can say how nato allies use air support if there is an opportunity and it is safe and not too close to their troops, then this also involves local control of the air space, because you need enough freedom of action to find such small targets as tanks, it is not easy and a very difficult task, even for such weapons, the smaller and more mobile the target, the closer you need to get to it. if you use weapons from a long distance, based on where the tanks were a few hours ago, they can simply be in another place. there are weapons that simply hit and explode. there are other options, but you need to evaluate

how to correctly solve these problems. to achieve the goal on the battlefield, we do not know how they will use 16 things that we imagine are different even from what the pilots imagine based on the experience of participating in combat actions or on films of history books, i am sure that ukraine will use the f-16 in such a way that it definitely surprises us and this includes the correct use of aircraft and it to the battlefield and appearing in the necessary place, but at the same time we understand that combat aviation is not only about attacks on the battlefield - it is also about protecting civilians objects so russians regularly they killed my fellow citizens with rockets, with the help of their aircraft, they took and killed ten lviv residents in one night, they took and killed several odessans or residents of mykolaiv, they use aviation to attack civilian objects and civilian cities

. russian aircraft attacking ukraine with a lot of these weapons that they really use to hit civilian infrastructure and commit war crimes are long-range weapons, in many cases they are not so accurate, we could talk about the accuracy of their use next to civilian objects, which in itself is already a crime in many cases .

to defend f-16s have an opportunity against drones, which are very difficult to defend against due to the fact that they are small and slow, they are difficult to detect, which is anything in this war, new equipment does not solve all problems at once, when petriv arrived, many people said that well, all the patriots are here , so it will not be like that anymore . they will be able to feel stronger, this will give an opportunity move the ground air defense systems somewhere else and protect another location in general, what is happening in the so-called market of combat pilots, are there any bans in these or other countries, for example, there is one or another, i don't know a veteran of the iraq war - a citizen of the united states or great britain, he is 50 years old, we understand how to fly, he can fly, he knows how, but the ukrainian state would say listen, dear john, we need you this is a difficult question, the power-power f16 in the world is possible 4,000 boards were produced over the

years, so of course there are a lot of f16 pilots we must not forget that the f-16 is a system that functions within a larger system, it is communication in real time, decision-making together with commanders, intelligence analysts, all these things must work together, and the simple presence of foreign pilots will not solve the problem, they can theoretically be from different countries and fly on different versions of the f16, because there are many of them, they can know and use different tactics, even a group of f16 pilots still need training and training to use the aircraft accordingly in these conditions another problem is that the training of pilots costs millions of dollars, as well as access to information, so if you imagine that a nato pilot just got off the plane and wants to come, there is simply no right to do this due to certain conditions, it will be illegal, so there are certain problems with ex-pilots, as well as problems with the legality of such actions, when you are an f-16 pilot, you have access to a huge combat power, you can be in another part of the country in a minute

, and it is a great responsibility of the leadership of ukraine to hand over foreign pilots iv a pilot can also die with such a weapon, he can be shot down and he will be captured, these are big threats, it does not solve their problems, so i think that ukraine will find a way to adopt world experience, there will be instructors and experts, but most likely it will be ukrainian pilots who will defend their country on the f16 there is close combat aircraft vs aircraft competition possible there are five or six guys left who remember what it's like to shoot down the enemy in close combat, i took part in operations in iraq and a little in afghanistan, i must say that in general i felt safe, i was in such conditions that did not threaten my personal safety, on the other hand, this danger was with the guys