[000:00:00;00] in the last 24 hours, the russians carried out airstrikes on ovdiivka, lyman , klishchiivka and spirn, in the direction of bakhmut, under artillery and mortar fire, more than 20 towns and villages, in the area of ​​avdiivka and maryinka, from tanks, artillery and rocket launchers , about 30 were injured settlements. in the luhansk region, dozens of aerial bombs level the remains of bilogorivka to the ground every day. in general, more than 50 settlements came under fire during the day , more than two dozen apartment buildings were destroyed, and the same number of administrative buildings and infrastructure facilities. as for civilian casualties, one person was killed during the shelling of avdiyivka this morning, three civilians were killed in the region the day before, and five more were injured. our film crew has just returned from the position of the artillerymen, who are currently covering the advancing infantry in the direction of bakhmut.

the day before, the fighters of the 30th separate mechanized brigade managed not only to destroy dozens of units of enemy equipment, but also to force the russian artillery to move away from the front line. in more detail in our next plot, now the enemy has an extremely large number of aerial reconnaissance means, these are bbilas, orlans, halls, superkams, as well as shock lancets, together with a soldier of the 30th separate mechanized brigade, oleg, we approach the 2s1 carnation self-propelled artillery. the russians are hunting her, because she is soviet, but hits well. than inflicts considerable losses on the enemy. that's why the ukrainian army always keeps sau disguised. we have to devote a lot of time to masking it. it is still good now, because there are leaves and it is possible camouflage the gun well. and already in a few

months. it will be winter, there will be a lot of snow, there will be no foliage, and it will be necessary to invent more tricks in order to mislead the enemy . our gunners often move from one place to another, so that the russians cannot establish a permanent location for our artillery, and it is precisely this tactic of introducing the war that forces the enemy to retreat. the direction is very difficult, there is a lot of artillery, a lot had to be done. to roll over, but thanks to the coordinated work of both our aerial scouts and our brothers from artillery brigades, we managed to suppress the enemy's artillery and force it to withdraw to larger boundaries, thus we removed villages that were not in the immediate

rear from under attack. it was possible to destroy the main part of the enemy artillery and force the military personnel to retreat thanks to a planned operation that lasted for several months, this saw in the bakhmut direction will work on the grid every day, during the day there are up to ten targets that need to be hit, during offensive actions, the number of targets can reach hundreds . it happens that we recently destroyed cannon with one shot, ugh, mostly two or three shells and they don't work anymore. military personnel say that during offensive operations, sau in this direction greatly helps our infantry. before our infantry storms, we dismantle their dugouts, and then the infantry comes in and we work on counterbattery fighting. for our defenders, every destroyed target is a step towards victory. morale rises immediately. when you tell them that you hit that target, the boys rejoice and try to work faster and more accurately. they have competition between appears by itself. what a better crew. after talking with the military, the gunners receive

a command. i fight, literally 5 minutes of preparation, where masking, aiming and shooting. after which there is even less time for masking, we mask in a shelter. this time, the gunners hit the target with only one shot. well, everything went well, right? sure. aerial reconnaissance result. from the front, vladyslav kruglov, yevhen tur, oleg tsimbalyuk. the only news. in the kherson region, a wounded policeman who was saving people died in the kherson hospital during shelling of the city. this was announced in the regional military administration. they did everything possible, but unfortunately it was not possible to save the 38-year-old patrolman. he is survived by his wife and an eight-year-old son. about the consequences of today's russian attacks on kherson. our special correspondent is olga chayko.

send shelling to kherson. now you hear that the air alarm is sounding again in the city, in principle the people of kherson do not pay much attention to it, although it is such a very unpleasant signal. the remnants of the artillery are streaming directly behind me. of a shell that fell into the ground and did not explode, it was today around 10 in the morning, the city was covered with artillery right from sunrise, so far about 40 hits were counted in kherson ova, that's about 400 shells, the humanitarian center, residential buildings were damaged , great-grandfather, but here at the center where cars were repaired renault and siitroen also flew at 10 in the morning, they destroyed nine cars, among which... an ambulance, the damage was not counted yet, there was an explosion so crazy that everything shook and we got a picture, we waited, there were about 15

arrivals, whether we were shot at or were the main target, we do not understand, fortunately the employees managed to hide in the shelter, but actually there was a person who was crawling and had his leg torn off, now you will see traces of blood that still remain , on the asphalt, this person was rescued from the explosions by kordu special forces, a police patrol car also came under fire today, pierced the armor, one law enforcement officer was injured, one could not be saved, he died right in the hospital, today was really terrible, a terrible morning, they were flying the shells are endless, probably the fact that they are now, as they say, very worried about a counterattack against them and they are already... well, around where it is impossible to intimidate people, in general , the russians erase the city, they are so cynical that they hit in the residential areas, but even today they hit near the cathedral, you can see now

the holes that remained almost on its walls, and despite numerous shellings, the city lives, but now behind me you can see that the people of kherson are putting plywood instead of windows, people only dream of that to the war is rather over from kherson olga chayko, volodymyr kovalenko and yuriy ostapchuk, actv facts, the only news, a historic meeting, a meeting of the european council is taking place in kyiv, eu foreign ministers gathered outside the union for the first time to demonstrate to ukraine in such a symbolic way your support the delegation is headed by the head of european diplomacy josep borel, the main topic of the meeting is further support for ukraine. in the war against russia. an informal topic is how to bring our membership to the eu closer. president volodymyr zelenskyi is optimistic. ukraine will implement the seven recommendations of the european commission and will be ready to start negotiations on membership in

the european union this year. a historic and unprecedented, powerful diplomatic landing in kyiv, the eu foreign ministers gathered in ukraine, with which they stand side by side and promise to preserve this relationship, for the first time in the history of the eu council of ministers is holding a meeting outside the bloc, but within the future borders, top diplomats in one voice emphasizes ukraine's place in the european union. we conduct european union to the place where the heart of europe is beating most strongly now to kyiv. the future of ukraine is in the european union, in our community of freedom, and soon it will expand, from lisbon to luhansk. ukraine is liberating its own land meter by meter and at the same time paving its way to the eu. european ministers emphasize that ukraine is successfully carrying out reforms despite russian aggression and promise that on the way to the eu, kyiv can rely on the support of its partners, and the meeting in kyiv is a significant manifestation of solidarity with ukraine and a new step to strengthen europe, which adds to it

leadership - said president volodymyr zelenskyi. constantly new defense and diplomatic, political and integration economic and sanctions steps are needed, which will make our common ones stronger. position, the greater our activity, our leadership, our initiatives, the less chance russia will have to adapt to our joint pressure, the ministers emphasize that the country remains a priority for the european union, and these are not empty words, on the agenda of the symbolic meeting of increasing aid kyiv, this is a replenishment of the european peace fund, from which the eu states are reimbursed for the costs of military aid, which is transferred to our defense forces. as well as providing new weapons, increasing the production of ammunition, further macro-financial assistance and new, more powerful sanctions against russia, in short , everything that the european union can do to support us in the fight against the aggressor. europe has already provided

substantial assistance, but we must be prepared to do even more, primarily to support ukraine, but also to send a strong transatlantic signal that we must take great responsibility for what is happening on our... own european soil. the is ministers are determined, germany has already announced, brussels will help ukraine create a protective umbrella and air defense means, is ready to provide generators and to strengthen the energy supply as much as possible to get through the winter. in romania, they promise to increase grain transit, and denmark will open a representative office in mykolaiv and help with the recovery of the affected region. diplomats emphasize that for europeans, russian aggression is a threat their existence, and therefore the eu is ready to support ukraine as long as necessary. this war has profound consequences for the whole world , but for us europeans it is an existential threat, and that is why we must continue to support... and discuss it with our allies and friends so that they also

continue to help you. in the eu , the united states will continue to support ukraine, despite the fact that it approved a temporary budget without aid to ukraine to prevent a government shutdown. brussels expects washington to agree in the near future support package. in the meantime, the yez ministers emphasize that the future determination of the event depends on whether new foci of instability will appear in the world, and they promise that the meeting in kyiv will help. dispel doubts and clearly confirm that the european union sees ukraine as its future member and is determined to support us to victory. veronika boyko, ictv facts, edyni news. ukraine has strong bipartisan support in both houses of the us congress, the senate and the house of representatives. leaders of the senate majority and minority, a as well as representatives of key committees, jointly confirmed their commitment to ukraine in defense against putin's aggression. president biden. on september 19, in a speech before the un general assembly

, the un directly questioned russian propaganda about the possibility of the west getting tired of supporting ukraine , and today the republicans are ashamed of their politicking. i cannot believe that those who voted for the support of ukraine, which is the vast majority in the house of representatives and the senate, both democrats and republicans, that they will, for purely political reasons, allow that in ukraine lost even more in vain... however , the intra-party struggle in the usa and the approach of the presidential race are felt like this. the political publication writes that the united states has prepared a confidential version of the strategy for helping ukraine, which provides for further reforms, the fight against corruption, the development of the ukrainian defense industry, and a full transition to nato standards. earlier , a letter with a list of reforms was made public. someone says that this is almost an ultimatum to kyiv, but on the banking... they emphasize that these are proposals, and on reforms, even despite the war, kyiv is actively

works without external pressure, because changes are needed primarily by us, and not only by our international partners. all this is very serious, it will not be given simply because we are good, these are not conditions, no one set us any conditions, such different assessments of the letter from the states in which the reforms are written with clear terms, their partners expect from ukraine in the near future, more... not new, necessary for joining the eu, receiving imf loans, as well as those that ukrainians have been waiting for a long time. in the list, first of all, the requirements for anti-corruption reforms, launched on waves of the revolution of dignity, they became the driving force and managed to do a lot. we got open registers, prozoru system, mandatory declaration and anti-corruption triad. national anti-corruption bureau, specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office and higher anti-corruption court. there are institutions, but the question is about them. and from the fact that it is very timely and

critical to start doing, it is to strengthen the independence of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office. and in the demand from the united states, it is very clearly stated that they want that kind of target, which should be a separate legal entity. there is a lack of personnel, many detectives have been mobilized, new ones have not been recruited, and there are many corruption cases, there are also questions regarding the legislation, the investigation of corruption still has a statute of limitations, only two months are given by the authority. for pre-trial investigation and declaration of suspicion. it is necessary to make changes to the criminal procedural code, which will change the terms of criminal proceedings in corruption cases and top-cases. in general, we support the fact that deadlines will not flood corruption during martial law have to work items of judicial reform are also on the list. we rate the public integrity council, which monitors and advocates judicial reforms, at level four out of ten. for example, updating the constitutions.

court, here we halfway passed the law on competitive selection at the request of the european commission, but it has not yet been started, moreover, there is opposition from the old system, the commission that will select judges of the constitutional court has already included judge maidana, who left the decision to disband the maidan in force , mr. kuzmenko, as well as this one the unscrupulous judge in fact, the former judge, mr. romanyuk, who blessed the laws on january 16, hope for international representatives who will also influence the selection. another piece of homework is the renewal of the higher qualifications commission, which are recruiters of the judiciary and the supreme council of justice. the body that dismisses or promotes judges. here, too, the reboot was successful, but not completely. disciplinary inspectors should finally start working. these are the people on whom the dismissal of judges for misconduct will depend. these are so-called investigators of the supreme council of justice, who will be the first to respond when a complaint is received, for example, about a judge who is drunk

driving. their huge risk is that they can either merge cases with judges or, on the contrary, focus on... those judges who are unimportant. here, the public defended the procedure that the competition for these positions will be with a decisive vote of international representatives. a separate block of defense reform, transparent planning and procurement, modernization of personnel management and synchronization with nato standards. in addition, state enterprises should be strengthened by one more member in the supervisory board. in general, these reforms concern the economy, investment protection, and the rule of law, and ukraine itself is advocating these reforms, the president's office says. i am the first. both parts, everything related to military aid, does not in any way relate to the implementation of these or other reforms, there are economic, political, in this letter, these are advisory advice for that, which, by the way, correlates with what we are discussing and within the framework of our accession to the european union, and within the framework of our negotiation processes, regarding the economy, when

we are conducting negotiations with the international monetary fund, which should make ukraine more competitive from two components: the first is the economy, we have to choose certain priorities for ourselves, and the second is transparency . the head of the president's office andriy yermak says: they did not know about the letter in advance, they say, during the visit to the usa, they even came with their reform plan. these are not conditions, no one set us any conditions, this is reduced to a single document, proposal, recommendation, imf, world bank, g7, regarding their vision. how and how they are ready to help us carry out these reforms. there is not a single country in the world that, during such a terrible war , carries out, does not stop, carries out reforms that everyone can see, our country. at the same time, the public is reminded that reforms are needed

not only by ukrainians, but also by our lawyers and supporters in the united states, where elections are starting, tensions between democrats and republicans, where there is a threat of a shutdown. where are a lot of their problems, against the background of which they should not forget about us. in order to keep the military economic support, to us it is necessary to give results, with which we will arm our friends in the congress, in the white house, that there are anti-abuse containment systems in ukraine, that american money is not stolen, that aid should be poured into ukraine, it is necessary to look for sleeves, sit down and do, oksana mykhaylova and olena frolyak, fakty ictv, single news. the ukrainian military in donbas has some success. according to the analysts of the american institute for the study of war, the defense forces have advanced near the robot, that is, on the border of the zaporizhia and donetsk regions. about offensive actions on

this direction was announced in the general staff, but no details were reported. just emphasized, the defense forces continue offensive operations in the melitopol direction. at the same time, there is a certain disappointment in part of the society regarding the pace of the offensive, they say, it is too slow. about such attitudes and how to prevent them, we will ask the former deputy minister of defense, hanna malyar, she is in direct contact with us. mrs. hanna, good evening to you, how to avoid disappointment, what you should know about the future of the armed forces of ukraine and what you should not know on the contrary to disclose or to do no harm? ah, we don't have any. reasons for disappointment, and if someone seems to have slowed down somewhere, the pace of hostilities, let's say, or the intensity of hostilities, it's only because our armed forces are doing their job very skillfully, let's say, if the east, if you're watching and watching according to the reports of the general staff, it

seems that there has been a decrease in activity in some directions, it decreased precisely because our armed forces destroyed the enemy there and destroyed his offensive potential, and the enemy is in a difficult situation, and they are there preparing what to do next, and likewise, if we talk about the south, there can be no disappointment either, our defenders are doing everything possible to implement their plans, and in particular the offensive, and the way they are acting now, in such conditions and under the circumstances that have arisen, it is possible to act exactly that way, that is, we must clearly understand that our defenders are acting... in the best way, and i want to support all ukrainians, i think that this is not due to any disappointment with the course of hostilities, it is simply due to the fact that in

the state is at war, and you just can’t take it easy, and it is this circumstance that upsets many, ms. hanna , please tell me, you have worked in the ministry of defense for almost two years, is it difficult to be a civilian among generals, what have you learned and what was most memorable? well , it is a nato standard that the ministry is a civilian structure and the minister and all deputies. according to the law must be civilians, and i won't tell you for a long time, but this is a very correct construction for for the ministry and the armed forces to function, and i learned a lot, first of all, from our military, because this is endurance, this is the discovery of new reserves in oneself, and this is probably due to devotion, well, you have no idea what kind of devotion they have to the state, this is

, that it is difficult to imagine for a civilian, loyalty to the oath, what the military has, that is why it is worth it, it is worth imitating it, and well, it is probably not so much about some kind of training here, yes, because all this experience, in general, especially the first months of the war, this is an invaluable experience, but now only with i remember all this with gratitude, and i sincerely wish for victory and, in fact, just as everyone will join in defeating the thief. ms. hanna, i also want to touch on the topic of sofa experts who know everything, criticize everything, and this video is now responding very well to them . to be honest, sofa experts have always been great. active and i can't even imagine if there is any solution or any person who could like everyone,

experts or all users of social networks, no matter what, there will always be a person who will say: oh, phew, how bad, ah, but this, well, i was calm about it professionally, until they started talking about the fact that our military somehow they are not advancing there. of course, what you want to answer, but don't worry, our military doesn't just advance as it should , our, our army is the best army in the world, so don't worry, patience, everything will be as it should be, thank you very much, thank you very much, mrs. hanna, and i will remind our viewers that our guest was hanna malyar, former deputy minister defense of the country. the following story is about one of the hundreds of thousands of defenders. who defend our country from the rashists. knight of the golden cross, 22-year-old bohdan shanikov, joined the ranks of the armed forces last year in march. he immediately got into

the dnipro 128th separate brigade of military personnel, from august 22, the soldier served in the ughledar region, then in october of the year, the young man received a serious wound. the shrapnel of the projectile damaged his spine. bohdan was partially paralyzed, then a difficult process of rehabilitation, physical recovery, and the fight against depression awaited him and after the front, our yehor romakhlo talked with the soldier, it was an ordinary life for an ordinary ukrainian , pt kindergarten school, then he went to the factory, he worked at the factory for a year and a half. bohdan summarizes his pre-war biography in just a few sentences, saying that he was an ordinary peasant from pavlograd, everything was changed by the attack of the rashists, the 21-year-old immediately went to the army, but because of the huge queues, he managed to get into the army only on march 14. march 14 train, i sent my relatives abroad,

and from the station i immediately went to the military commissariat. then there was training, medicine, tactics, combat reconciliation, bohdan became an assistant grenade launcher, which is true, the boy says, he had to perform many other tasks directly at ground zero. when you arrive directly at the position, everything gets mixed up there. now you're needed as a grenade launcher, you're a grenade launcher, now you're needed as a machine gunner, you're a machine gunner, that is, you need to pull the grenades out there, you need to give help there, you will provide it. already in august last year, the soldier goes to the ugledarva direction, the first combat baptism takes place already on the fourth day after arriving at the position, immediately they started firing at us with everything that was there, there were mortars and tanks, lng and anti-aircraft guns, everything started to fly, at that moment

it was already literally half an hour. somewhere nine wounded, two of them seriously. in this battle, he says, he could have died, then he saved his brother from a fatal wreck. the cows flew to the side, the emu turned around in the back area, thank god, we took him out, saved him, put him down, if you look at the trajectory, then he saved me with his side, because my head was clearly at his level... then months of difficult battles, during this time, bohdan says, whoever did not storm his positions, and the buryats, and the altaians , and the so-called dpr militiamen, and in addition to skillfully using a machine gun and a grenade launcher, the boy was actively engaged in the provision of his own unit, made sure that all his comrades always had there were supplies. i went, the car is there, if anything,

i asked someone here in the neighboring battalion for a car, loaded it, everything was brought. guys are fed, guys with water, guys with grenades, with cartridges, everything is in order. fatal artillery attack, through which bohdan ended up in the army, happened in october. then the soldier's unit entered the position recently retaken from the russians, but came under heavy mortar fire. time seems to have stopped, a wave of fire, i am standing and i understand that in life it took less than a second, but for some reason i remembered it all so clearly. i'm standing, i understand that i can't stand, well, i'm tired. bohdan doesn't remember how long he lay in the trench, the first thing he felt was pain in his hand, it was cut by fragments, but it was the least trouble, and i can't feel my legs, i touched them, there is no blood, i'm asking to get up, but me, me i can't get up, i'm already in a panic. the fragment entered the spine and damaged

the spinal cord, the boy's legs and trunk were taken away, he was evacuated to the dnipro, difficult operations, the first six months after the injury, bohdan says, became hell. i didn't want to communicate with anyone, i didn't want to see anyone, i had conflicts with relatives, i broke down on everything, the feeling that you were abandoned, killed, took time, and psychologists did not help, there were as many as 12 of them in a year , pulled the soldier out of depression, relatives and brothers, the battalion helped a lot, all the guys from which i was, even... those who came new, that is, those who did not even see me in person, but heard about me, helped with everything, the chief sergeant of the brigade, who is in daily contact with bohdan, well, every day he sends me a photo, a video report of what he was doing, because i told him that if you don't go, i will arrest you, since i took him to my group, i am fully

responsible for him, well, that's right, we can't do our own... give up, we're not muscovites, now the guy is undergoing treatment in kyiv, actively does sports, works with spander , dumbbells, really wants to connect his life with weightlifting, dreams of performing at the games of the unconquered, it also helps a lot morally, plus you start to readjust to everything, that is, you already think less about the war, you already how - when you start in sports, socialization remains a considerable problem, society is poorly prepared. before the return of the wounded from the front, bohdan says, the biggest mistake people make is pity, and in principle, any military man, eh, has a very big problem with that, to show themselves weak, when they start to feel sorry for them, it humiliates them, they only become more introverted and start to hate everyone , well, elementary things, you see a soldier, treat

him to coffee, there, buy him chocolate, well, these are the little things, attention, yes, pay attention, but don't regret it, in any case, the young warrior has one more operation ahead of him, there are fragments left in the spine, there is still a chance to restore the spinal cord, well, there is always a chance, but the damage is quite deep, they told me, i have 10% chance that i will become, that is, we hold on for this 10%, bohdan believes in recovery and is already making plans for what to do next, yes, i think the treatment will end, i will go to study, take some courses there, there will be no problems with this, plus to everything, from my old place работы мне позвонили, they said that we have not forgotten you, yehor romakhlo, khrystyna vanglskaya and oleksiy yevchenko and denys sinegin, actv facts, the only news, someone is defending the native