[000:00:00;00] uh, a lot of important things happened this week, of course, we didn't discuss everything here, but the final news release will really contain all the most important events of this week, so the market, please, we will pass the word to you. good evening. congratulations. in just a few moments , we will tell you about the most important events of this week so don't miss when to wait for f16 and how it can change the situation at the front. kirill budanov is lagging behind the schedule, but the defenders still entered the crimea. what happened on the peninsula about this and many other things today in the release of f16s, finally significant progress regarding the transfer of these planes to ukraine, what is still waiting for us on this path and will there be enough of the promised fighters, russian scrap metal is again in the center of kyiv, and the motherland is now with

a trident instead of the hammer and sickle it used to be independence day in the capital and on this day we say thank you to these defenders who allowed us to walk along khreshchatyk today . it was not without surprises for the occupiers . his daughter was 7 months old. the next time the family saw each other only in 7 years, the story of the prisoner of the kremlin, let's see when they wanted to throw me out of a helicopter into the sea, we flew to rostov, and when i found my grave in the cemetery, let's remember this i congratulate you on life, i'm iryna koval and this is the news. the results of the week on the espresso tv channel. the united states will quickly grant permission to other countries to transfer

their f-16s after the exercises are over. independence needs 128 fighters to replace the old ukrainian air fleet, this number is prescribed in the vision of the air force - said the spokesman of the air force, yuriy ignat, the countries hesitated for a long time and finally agreed to hand over their fighter jets to us, or how many of them are willing, and in which countries our pilots will be trained, we are looking forward to in the fall of 2022, the transfer of f16 to ukraine seemed almost impossible. in september, the general commander of the air force in europe and africa, james hacker, said that we

would receive the aircraft in 2-3 years after the adoption of the corresponding political decision, the statements of the us president joseph biden in the winter of 2023 were also not optimistic. at that time , he ruled out the possibility of supplying the latest american fighter jets to protect ukraine in the war against the russian federation. do you think that ukraine does not need f16 now? they don’t need f16 now, that means never. listen , first of all, we do not know exactly what will be needed in two or three years, however, there are no grounds on which, in the opinion of our military, it would be possible to justify the need to provide the f-16, however already in may of this year, key decisions began. biden approved the training of ukrainians on the f16. and a few days later, on may 25, after the 12th meeting in the rammstein format, it was announced that the air coalition for the training of the armed forces of ukraine on fighter jets will be led by denmark and the netherlands, however , only on august 8, the united states gave official permission allied countries to train ukrainian

pilots. and how do you know about the training of ukrainian pilots? denmark and the netherlands are leading customs. president biden gave the green light to make this possible, as well as supported the training process itself, but at the moment i do not have information about the specific pilots who will be trained on august 20. the netherlands announced that they will provide ukraine with 42 f16 fighters , some of them will go to training. the need for denmark to give 19 more planes to the so-called aviation coalition greece has also joined the country will train ukrainian pilots later pentagon spokesman patrick ryder confirmed information that ukrainian pilots will first take an english language course in texas and then begin multi-month flight training in the arena, and on the day of independence, president

volodymyr zelenskyi announced that portugal will also train our aviators to join this, and norway will also transfer the fighters themselves 6-7 months this is the minimum term which must be consciously evaluated, but if he is a little bit less disappointed, because our pilots have demonstrated their ability to be ready in six months, but the technicians, engineers, we are not yet we know that the maintenance and repair system is very complex, according to the minister, the instructors will inform about the completion of the training when they see how quickly the process is going and whether the engineers and pilots are working poorly . it is known that the advantage in the selection was combat experience and good english. the training will take place without translators according to the classic scheme, first the theory and only then the practice of training engineers and technicians may take more time than pilots, because it is important

to master the technical systems of the plane, minister of the canadian netherlands also emphasized that it is impossible to train one team of pilots and to stop the process must be continuous, currently it is known that eight pilots and 65 technicians have already arrived at the danish military airbase for training kateryna galko tv channel espresso and now we will talk with ivan kyrychevsk military expert defense express mr. ivan good evening good evening in the evening, ukrainian pilots master f-16 fighters in great britain and sweden, the commander of the air force of the armed forces of ukraine, mykola, said this oleschuk he made a decision that the pilots of this year's graduation flew to great britain for training, as for sweden, young pilots of 2016 with sufficient combat experience went there, the training system is flexible , the instructors test each pilot for what he

is capable of, oleschuk told the commander of the air forces of the armed forces of ukraine noted that after according to the relevant tests, two of our pilots showed that they are ready to master the f-16 in four months and not in 32, as previously stated, that is, it is not known now that the training will take place in several waves, but taking into account that the first we need not only pilots, but also technical personnel, because aviation is a team, and also knowledge of the english language, so will we have enough people in the future? well, i think that at least that criterion will be enough, because last year, the air force, you know, very actively promoted hmm training in their specialized educational institutions called on what you already know with a sight not just to fight on old systems, but to train young specialists for the domination of western air defense systems

, to train on western aircraft , apparently, a combination of young graduates may also be sent to cadets, and it is possible that pilots who have relevant combat experience there are told in 2016, but right here. in the context of the gripen in sweden. well, at the same time, pilots who directly know how to fight in the air can appreciate whether this aircraft will really help us in air combat, or maybe it will be needed for strike missions. or maybe it is not at all the thing for it would be worth clinging to, it would be better to concentrate some resources there on obtaining europeans or on with whom yes on the scaling of f16 supplies, i can transfer to ukraine at least 5 to express serhiy

zgurets he noted that norway was the third to announce the provision of f16 to ukraine before it there were more than 50 fighters in a modern modification norwegian f16s are the most combat-ready and best serviced compared to other countries according to preliminary estimates despite the reserve of 50 aircraft, part of which norway plans to transfer to romania at least 5 to 12 f-16 aircraft can be provided to ukraine, what are the characteristics of the f-16 aircraft that ukraine will receive? well, if we talk about norway , there is such an interesting point that should be explained, so norway said that where do we have ict missiles for use from the german embryos of the sls airstay type, this is

it differs from the usual us in that, um, there are two chassis, it is leaning towards ours on this crawler court, there is a 10-year-old, and there are so many open graduations. for the beginning or in norway is given to us precisely for the use of anti-aircraft missiles, or is it possible that norway thus demonstrates that it is ready to give us here and now an estimate of five to 12 aircraft here, i think that, after all, in any estimates that will relate to the transfer in 16 take into account two indicators. by the way, the first number of planes that are in a state of disrepair and that can be lifted will be in the air in the case of norway. it is obvious that the same range has been sent, but there will be something else , which is already clearly manifested even in the example of the netherlands. will be transferred and defective decommissioned planes that will be used as a source of components, in fact, it is normal, for example, the american air force - this is their famous davis montan base, where they seem to stand. there are three

such beautiful rows, well, the americans are not there for that, saving them, not deconstructing, the right moment, the americans keep them there, well, consider such a huge warehouse of spare parts. well , so that it was not necessary to produce, but the necessary part was simply removed from the non-working board , that's why they handed in what kind of account those in 16, what hmm we will receive from norway, they do not differ in principle from well, in terms of their characteristics, in particular, the anti-aircraft equipment from those that we have, it is possible that the detail is that hmm, we will receive the planes for free, we will receive them in a very short period of time, because it's been a few months, they're worth the weight of platinum, not the same as gold , but on the other hand, we have slovakia, bulgaria, what kind of things have they paid in advance for their 16 at least 1 billion dollars per squadron, and they receive several late years ago i personally do not think that it is so necessary and important in our conditions

to go through in detail, here we are given 16 of this modification, is it good or bad, are they giving another one, is it good or bad, is it good that they finally give us 16, let’s say, a tool which will be necessary for the continued protection of our skies against the background of the fact that the resource of soviet fighters is generally running out. ivan well, regarding the number of aircraft, there are discussions that there will be a certain number of two-seater aircraft that will be used for training purposes, a certain number for replacement of losses and for spare parts. as you have already said earlier, is it possible to name the number of fighters that will perform combat missions, if we take into account all the known data, er, there are data about norway and the netherlands, then we can estimate that the number of aircraft that will be ready to perform combat tasks. this is 43-51 minimum, the netherlands has announced the possibility of giving all its planes except for those that will be used for training

. well, there can also roughly be about 40 or a little less aircraft. well, there are actually not many two-seater f16 props, but especially with the netherlands, there will be a story that some of these aircraft will be transferred as a source of components to that. but what will happen , by the way? let's say that up to the number of 16 that will literally perform combat missions there what exactly is such a very specific challenge for our aviation technicians, the gold standard for 16 is considered when you can raise the air for combat at the same time 63-70%, uh, of this indicator there those indicators can withstand the gdp of the united states and the polish air force and even the russian air force, which use 9 out of 9, well, it is considered that there is no point in squeezing out more. and we are in such a situation. when we have to organize service at a high level in 16 years so that all 100% can perform combat tasks at the same time well, that is, these

mentioned in the range of 43-50 aircraft, that is why , actually, even the minister of defense varshikov spoke about the option that the pilots there are ready to learn quickly, but the question is open, how will it be possible to quickly train the technicians well, because will the equipment have to do the same for such a specific program , where it is necessary to keep all 100% of the aircraft with ammunition? do we have a place to place them on our territory, on our airfields, on other improvised sites, i understand where these can arise now, but where are the other questions, well, can we remember the first such concept that we have there was still a small place at the beginning of a full-scale war, if they were to put planes on the platforms, well, in nato , then it means that the russians will definitely not get them, the problem is that any nato country that is our neighbor

, even poland, has an air defense that is an order of magnitude weaker than in us and here i am not wrong, even if poland can now boast that it has received the first of the four ordered patriot batteries, well, based on them 125 , which can only cover krakow and warsaw, and not aeroda, how can we talk about romania in general it's inconvenient, uh, slovakia itself, you can use the services of the nato air police now. if we talk about the second aspect , what is considered to be going there in 16 , a very complex infrastructure is needed, which seems to be due to the specific placement of the air intakes. it is possible to lift from the air routes. yes, there are nato countries that follow exactly the same operating regulations. well, for example, poland has a system , or romania, which for some reason has such a system. it turned out to be difficult for them, because they thought that at 16 it is not possible to lift air in the winter, especially

when the weather is unfavorable there, but there are other major operators, m.m. 16, taiwan, and it actually works only for a short time . in the event of a major war against china , it will raise to 16. f16 special formats do not need to be graduated. well, because our aviators already work in very specific conditions, in particular , for example. although there are still carriers for them for a long time, they are very effective in hiding, and by the way , they work so effectively that now the command of the ukrainian air force in europe decided that they should literally repeat our practice only in this will help, for example , in the event of a war, to get out of the enemy's attack, mr. ivan, it seems that i have not yet asked you whether we will have enough of these planes, because

we talked about what we need is 128, but as far as is clear, they will give us much less, well, the operations of the parents , there will not be many stories from 100%, therefore , of course, it is important to have such a picture , which is provided by the air force. training combat aircraft and support aircraft and radar surveillance aircraft and 128 is just such a core of combat aircraft. can we start with another number? what, for example, to wage war against us, the russian federation uses at least 450 aircraft from 11:00 a.m., despite the fact that at least we will not have many aircraft never, even if it suddenly happens. it is a wonder that they will give us the entire fleet available in europe in 16 plus, they will give us a certain number of eurofighter rips, here we will have to make up for the quantitative lag from the enemy at the expense of some quality

that's what concerns the f16, if a priori it is declared that this aircraft can conduct an air battle at a distance of more than 150 km, which in turn makes it possible to give the su-35 and other such aircraft grids that are held at long distances, but this opportunity will then be available on the 25th they welcome only if there is also a newer air-to-air missile of the type and they have 120 in the c8 modification , will they give these missiles or and in general how much are you , the weapons that will be given to us under 16, how much will it help in terms of quality to surpass the russians, you understand only after that rammstein, which should be this fall, which promises to be very long-lasting, up to seven days, mr. ivan, thank you , ivan krychevskyi , a military expert , defense express, was in touch with us during the consultation. strikes by the muscovites, today ukraine celebrates aviation day already one and a half years since the beginning

of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine , military pilots carry out operations near the front line and fence line of the rear occupied territories and during this time our resistance ukrainian forces destroyed 631 russian aircraft and helicopters in the air, 436 enemy aircraft are involved in fighting against ukraine, however, thanks to the last successful operations in the russian federation, 27 tu-22 missile carriers remained, two more are under repair. ukraine , our scouts recruited a russian pilot, the helicopter of the invaders landed in the kharkiv region, in addition to the pilot, there were two more people on board, they tried to escape, but

will return home already in the dominions for now the mi-8 helicopter is in kyiv, and the pilot has been provided with decent conditions, and the russians, even without the armed forces of ukraine, accurately shoot down their planes and helicopters, the offensive is bloody and slow, but day by day there is constant progress, the defense forces of ukraine are advancing 400-500 meters every day, and sometimes kilometer, the head of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states, general mark milley, announced that during two months of fierce fighting, the armed forces of ukraine were able to break through the enemy's defense line, our soldiers entered the village of robotine in zaporizhzhia and set up the ukrainian flag from the robot's main course to tokmak, but before that we still have to overcome the enemy's main line of defense, our fighters immediately started

to evacuate the locals from the robot's house, because the russians are shelling the village with artillery, they took people out on a bradley infantry fighting vehicle that can withstand mine explosions and direct enemy artillery hits in the area, the battles are still going on, our soldiers are getting entrenched. this was all in better conditions , not in such conditions, crying, we are already seven, already at home

, i think yes, it is okay, i think that soon i'll see you, mitko, they taught you here, there were stops, there was water, then there was no water, then they ran between the shots, a little dripped potatoes. it was in the summer. well, how did they celebrate my birthday? i'll tell you , i'll have gorgeous gifts. a bouquet of roses and the best man brought a box of bagels that found the occupiers. so we had hopes that ours would come and everything would be fine. everything will be fine. well, you know. we waited so long that they came today. we didn't expect it. they couldn't even believe that it was ours, i read the armed forces of ukraine, these kabotanas. well, how are we fighting for our independence, despite the fact that 32 years ago, it

was allegedly managed to restore it during the great war, it is not for celebrations, and the enemy can resort to provocation, but what was independence day in the capital, further in our material, without a parade of mass events , pyrotechnics and concerts, ukraine celebrates independence day for the second year in the conditions of a full-scale russian invasion on khreshchatyk. the residents of mozkov planned to walk along the main street of the capital in three days, and in kyiv there were only local events to celebrate independence day. khreshchatyk is littered with broken russian equipment for the second year in a row. it is mostly a trophy of kyiv oblast . thank you to those defenders who allowed us to walk on khreshchatyk today. this

is probably the greatest holiday for a citizen of ukraine, and regardless . it should be like this from politics. the fact that there is a full-scale invasion of it somehow strengthens the desire to celebrate this day, and i personally feel the last two years more exalted, this is so much more unity, uh, you remember there once again what we fought for over the centuries, not only the last nine years, iconic things which belonged to the fighters for the freedom of ukraine were put on display in the national museum of history , the exhibition struggle for independence was opened there, the creators of the episodes presented 11 stories of famous ukrainians who sacrificed everything for the love of homeland, among the exhibits, the jacket of vasyl stus and the shirt of vyacheslav chornovol that he was wearing at the time of his death, the backpack of levko lukyanenko that was with him during 27 years of imprisonment, and the works of sixties artists galina sevruk

and opanas zalyvahy , we start the day with a song about stalin. we know songs on earth, this is how our childhood began , this is how we were taught that everything is only moscow, everything is only russia, you are nothing, we must remember, we must remember our history, we must remember these people who gained independence because independence this is still the greatest holiday. we have the highest monumental sculpture in europe, this is the motherland, and it is located in kyiv, and in 1981 it was opened with great fanfare and 2 million soviet rubles were spent on it at that time, but with the beginning of russia's aggression against ukraine the question of decommunization of the monument arose. and at the beginning of august, the soviet past was no longer on the shield of the motherland , our ukrainian trident was installed there, the majority of ukrainians approve of the replacement of the soviet symbol with the coat of arms

of ukraine, but they believe that this could wait by the end of the war in such 69%. these are the results of a survey by the democratic initiative fund, ilka kucheryava. i believe that we are all children of the modern age. we are now living in the modern stage. that is why we need to leave the past in the past and go forward to victory. i believe that it was written a long time ago that this should have been done, and war is not an indicator. we need to get rid of imperial symbols . this is an absolutely natural civilizational choice, the majority of ukrainians changed their opinion about independence with the onset of the great war, now for them it is freedom, it is such complete freedom when people are each other support, understand, and when there is no such external pressure, you know, when you just feel

that you can breathe freely, independence well , i think that it is connected with freedom. from no one perhaps for me it is freedom of choice, choice and ah and thoughts dmytro didora and oleksandr burlevych espresso tv channel in crimea occupies a moat blue-yellow flag that was brought from mainland ukraine such a gift to the occupiers on independence day, our scouts, with the support of the naval forces, special units on watercraft landed on the shore in the area of ​​the settlements of olenivka and mayak. during the execution of the task , the ukrainian defenders entered into battle with the units of the invaders . they returned without losses, the local residents

were worried about such events, but the occupation authorities did not notice anything, they only talked about the traditional planned destruction of ammunition, but the ukrainian defenders promised to continue to provide help to the occupiers in destroying ammunition, equipment and manpower, ukrainian crimea has been under russian control for more than nine years. this week, on the third crimean platform, they talked about what life and development of the peninsula could be like after liberation from russian occupation. at the summit, president zelenskyi noted that ukraine has already signed the first a document with companies that are ready to enter crimea and work immediately after the deoccupation , what is the main task of the crimean platform

to prepare the deoccupier, we understand how we will return to crimea, we understand how many steps we all need to take, we understand how difficult it is, it is an important task, but we see this path in the year that has passed since the previous meeting on our crimean platform , ukrainian soldiers have done extraordinary things glory to ukraine russia does not stop brutal repression and persecution of citizens 180 ukrainian political prisoners are illegally held in enemy prisons, because this week the occupiers detained six more crimeans on the peninsula, they are accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization for at least ten thousand prisoners of war are held by the russian federation, the courts of the occupation, we will learn further a-a, in

these shots, what a languid meeting of father and daughter after a long time of separation, the last time andriy saw